skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC once a minimum level of votes are cast for a party they are able to receive a certain amount of funding from the government to assist in future promotional activities.
60 Billion Alien Planets Could Support Life, Study Suggests
This sucks. Hitting RE in Alfred has become muscle memory by now.

I've switched to Feedly and it's pretty decent. Something feels a little off, but it does most of what I want.

Sigh.
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google reader had this feature where you could subscribe to an rss feeds filtered by label (or folders). I wish the old reader had it (i tried inoreader, and old reader, and neither has this feature unfortunately).
FF does not support any of three filters nor many others.
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iOS 7 Already Jailbroken on iPod touch
Come on. Everything on 4chan is made up. How can they even consider this to be true?
As a former British possession (sort of), British English is normal in Hong Kong.
I didn't downvote you but I'm not sure how the "editorial slant" of the Guardian is significant. Would you be happier if the revelations had come from a right-wing newspaper with a libertarian opposition to government surveillance? Or a 100% non-slanted media outlet? What difference would this make?

And since you used the word, what do you think the Guardian's "agenda" is?
I can't upvote, but seems that you just read my mind. Congrats and thanks!
Really? I've heard the charges. He held one plaintiff with his body weight and had rough, condom-less sex and he had sex with other plaintiff while she was asleep. In both cases the sexual encounters were consentual. He was originally charged by plaintiff one to take an STD test, rather than jail.

Not to mention that the translation (and gravity ) of the crime is closer to "sexual misdemeanor"/"sexual misconduct" rather than "rape".
Why does "underage" alochol purchasing require law enforcement officers to draw a gun?
Interesting, he says he is a US citizen in that letter, but didn't he say he was "stateless" recently?
Oh dear. It would appear that his defence lawyer doesn't really understand encryption at all, and is unfortunately likely to use specious arguments as a result.

“Some encryption effects erasure of the encrypted data (so it ceases to exist), in which case decryption constitutes re-creation of the data, rather than simply unlocking still-existing data,” Shellow wrote in a court filing.

I can't think of any way of interpreting this to make it true.
Absolutely. Glenn Greenwald is attacked from both the right and left constantly. The Republicans call him a socialist because he's spoken at the Socialism Conference a few times and because he was critical of the Bush administration. Democrats call him a libertarian because he's associated with the Cato Institute and has been critical of the Obama administration. Greenwald has written a really good paper on Portugal and drug decriminalization. [1] I'm assuming it's published by Cato because of the prominence it has on their website.[2], [3] are videos of Glenn Greenwald speaking at Cato conferences. [4] is a video of him doing an interview with Reason.

[1] http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/drug-decriminal...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPok-FIKGgc

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PabkB4RnGJQ

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjuvXdqKM0M

Here's some of his articles criticizing the use of the obama administration, use of drones, etc.

- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/27/obama-wa...

- http://www.salon.com/2012/04/19/americas_drone_sickness/

- http://www.salon.com/2012/04/20/obamas_dismal_civil_libertie...

- Here's a speech of him criticizing Obama's awful civil liberties record http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rN5Nl...

Without a doubt the Guardian is taking a specific approach to leaking the documents, but I think a big part of it is that they have a lot to process. That's something that Greenwald has continually said on his Twitter feed. I guess what made me so angry about your comment is that it's often used as a smear against Greenwald. Greenwald doesn't prescribe to the left/right paradigm. He is both vilified and exemplified by both the left and right wing media all the time.
You won’t bother to read this
No if you where a TLA why would you use job titles that gave anything away about what the persons job was.

And how does one go from "Infrastructure Analyst" to being a government hacker looking at job postings for Infrastructure Analysts seems to indicate that it is a posh word for systems administrator.
I have to admit I've been increasingly concerned that something about this is not adding up as well. I can't precisely put my finger on it. The link to wikileaks gives me pause and the more recent stuff about foreign spying which, while politically incorrect, is kind of the NSA's primary sigint job. The most recent PRISM slide release also seems to suggest a narrower and more targeted US role than was let on initially.
> It's great that Mozilla is experimenting with new tech like FF OS, but It takes a great deal more resources to turn an experiment into a shipping product. And it's clear from the state of their desktop browser that their focus in on FF OS.

Fortunately, despite our limited resources, we manage to improve the Firefox browser considerably, too.

- We finally beat Chrome in terms of performance: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-27-firefox-21-ope...
- We have recently added the so-called "Social API", which is a way for websites to extend the browser.
- We have recently added asm.js.
- We keep extending and improving the developer tools.
- We keep adding support for new HTML5 tags/objects including WebAudio, the Clipboard API, the Web notification API, etc.
- WebRTC has finally graduated.
- etc.

It seems that you care a lot about multi-processes and, sadly, we don't have that yet. Doing it right (i.e. much better than Chrome, we hope) takes time, but we are working hard on it.

Oh, and if you want to add yourself to our resources, don't hesitate to ping me :)
Yes I see it the same way. Still, I don't understand what the article wants to deduce or imply from that.
Pedantically, no. An encryption method can't depend on time, as you could just make up a date to send through the encryption/decryption function.

The encrypted volume handler could do this if you could guarantee it had an active agent running, and no-one powered down the system and/or copied the disk before the timeout. Which I guess is practically "no", as:

1. If someone arrests you and confiscate your equipment, they are going to switch it off immediately.

2. They would try to extract data directly from the disk instead of booting up your system.

3. I can't imagine a scenario in which you want the deadman switch to go off before you are arrested.
I know several small businesses (hairdressers etc) that have a wrong phone number or other data in Google's "zero click" information. One even has the number of another hairdresser by the same name.

Now while it's nice that people can in theory update their business information using that site (that I myself had never heard of before either), but the reality of the matter is that, even in the 21st century, the modal local business owner just isn't very good with computers and the Internet.

The difference?

The website they get from some (probably also local) webdev company comes with customer support. Google has none.

Wrong or outdated information? One phone-call with a human being and it's fixed.

Try that with Google. They'll be talking to a robot and filling out form after form after form, in no-time. Believe it or not, but "figuring out this Google stuff" probably takes them at least a whole afternoon.
Quite, Go 1.1 wasn't released 6 months ago. People were reporting 20-40% performance improvements[1] in 1.1 so maybe it would be faster now.

It is also certainly going to do with the fact I learn Java first some 13 years ago. C# some 8 years ago (I didn't care for it before it had generics / nullables, CamL 10 years ago etc.

Plus I can't find the tutorial I was using to let people tell me how bad it is.

The thing is, go back to something which was been hyped 6 months ago, as super-everything. You use it, and it isn't. Then 3 months later you see (unfairly!) the headline zomfg it's 40% faster, I can't help but feel 'meh', fool me once....

That said I will look at it again, its just today the tooling is certainly not as rich as I'd like, the libraries aren't there yet and I don't have the time to help make it better.

I do like learning new languages, even if you go back to the older one, it often helps shape new thought processes, and whilst I really do try to think in the manner fitting for it, it is very possible I went in with the whole when you only use a hammer, everything looks like a nail approach.

[1] - http://dave.cheney.net/2013/05/21/go-11-performance-improvem...
> “Some encryption effects erasure of the encrypted data (so it ceases to exist), in which case decryption constitutes re-creation of the data, rather than simply unlocking still-existing data,” Shellow wrote in a court filing. (.pdf)

If I understand this correctly, the claim is that without the password the data does not exist, so by entering the password the data is recreated.

This is an interesting argument I can imagine a lawyer making to a judge or jury that doesn't know any better, but it's totally bogus.

The data exists, it's just encrypted. Claiming that is doesn't exist and is recreated by the password is disingenuous.
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Usual stuff, she will have to plead guilty to get suspended sentence. Then permanent record and ruined life. Officers will get bonus points and salary increase. Justice always wins!

Update: apparently charges were dropped
Still no Love for Linux :(
I wonder if they will still support freebsd with blink based opera.
Where are the missing 90-year-olds?
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Greenwald has written for years about abusive government by both the Republicans and Democrats. He was the best person to pick, in my opinion. Lest us not forget that the Washington Post sat on the documents. So perhaps Snowden did contact other journalists and they weren't interested or just strung him along.
Riiiight... He'll get fair trial and ride a unicorn over happiness mountain. All life is delaying the inevitable. Let's hope he doesn't end his in a dark cell.
I didn't downvote you.

> Perhaps it's that the information is in the hands of a 'left wing' newspaper which has a specific agenda/editorial slant and is using the information for those purposes. It makes sense for The Guardian/Glenn Greenwald to put out just enough information to cause a ruckus while keeping everything else to themselves.

You say that this paragraph means "The Grauniad has some juicy information. They drip this out, because that keeps people buying their paper. It keeps the story alive."

I agree with that.

But reading the paragraph quoted it starts "the information is in the hands of a 'left wing' newspaper which has a specific agenda/editorial slant and is using the information for those purposes." - which makes it sound like the paper is drip-feeding the information to push a left-wing agenda, not to increase sales.
I guess what made me so angry about your comment is that it's often used as a smear against Greenwald.

Then I apologize for that. I was not attempting to smear Greenwald. I was attempting to point out that the reason we don't have the 'full story' is that The Guardian/Greenwald are likely sitting on information for the reasons I've outlined elsewhere in this thread.
Ask HN: Why does the UK not have a Simple.com alternative?
What is it with the UK and Europe that prevents companies from being able to have awesome banking alternatives such as Simple.com?

Why are all bank websites rubbish? They're maintaining a high level of security but not paying attention to user interaction? Do they do it so that people are more likely to make mistakes and transfer money into wrong accounts, etc?
is it webkit based??..
Because the law enforcement officers have to protect their own lives. This is America, where anyone could be carrying an implement that requires two seconds to kill.
Yes, the battery is more dangerous than a bottle of water after all~
Or to the Nazi. I'm sure those guys are pretty cool.
We'll see how it takes off when more users will come. It works fine feature-wise for me, it's just noticeably slower than Google Reader was... they probably don't have a large enough infrastructure yet.
These slides are inspiring!
Who's building for the future?
Isn't that what all Americans do when they meet a stranger? I think Heinlein said something about it being good manners, or the polite thing to do, or something. Can't say the quote made much sense when I read it. I'm a Brit though, so maybe it lost something in translation from American. Over here we used to raise our hats, be we don't have those anymore either.
We'll see I guess.
Is it really likely that a 20 year old girl with one box of beer will try to shoot 6 police officers?
> hospital room confrontation with Ashcroft.

Good report on that here:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/12/13/now-we-know...
I've gotten a warning/notice almost every day the last months, that Google Reader is about to shut down. That's not "with almost no warning".

You can still export your feeds from Google Takeout until the 15th of July.
>So a regimented dullness is not optimal. Pure happiness for no work is not optimal. Evolution has chosen the perfect solution: happiness is dependent on productivity. This means the happier we are, the longer we will survive. And keep in mind, objectively, happiness is just the release of dopamine, so to the universe happiness is not a thing, but survival is.

You're begging the question. Why do you think survival is what we should optimize for? If you were a genetically engineered assassin species who gained happiness only from killing, would you say killing is what we should optimize for? If not, why treat evolution any differently from our hypothetical genetic engineer?

>Happiness is no longer dependent on productivity and advancement, and we could die off, depending on the whims of the universe. In exchange we'd get all the "happiness" we want, however short lived. We'd become irrelevant though, since we die off.

Again - why should we care about being "relevant"?
This story doesn't add up. Why would 7 undercover officers be staking out a local supermarket to take down 20 year old girls buying beer?
I didn't read the SEC filling. But there are 2 major kinds of ETFs: those which trying to accurately track the index and those which tracking daily movements (usually leveraged). Many ETFs tracking commodities are of the second type, so buy&hold investors will lose money by buying them.
I went to a presentation by DONG Energy [1] where they were discussing how, with their in-progress upgrade to remote-reporting, per-residence electric meters, they can soon infer all sorts of things about people's apartments and daily habits from the distinctive patterns of electric usage. Not just aggregate usage like inferring when someone's awake or asleep, but in much more detail based on the distinctive patterns different devices make.

They do seem sensitive to privacy fears (perhaps partly because the regulatory climate forces them to be), but the level of detail they were able to get out of the electric data in a prototype system was quite eye-opening. They had some ideas about using it for consumer self-education, e.g. feeding it back into a small display near the meter that would make energy-saving suggestions. But even that could get creepy, because it could make suggestions about specific devices you owned, when you never told the energy company that you owned them!

[1] An unfortunate acronym, from Danish Oil and Natural Gas
Speaking of slants and agendas, motherjones.com has all the subtlety of mises.org in theirs. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you can pretty much guess either one's opinion on any given topic without having to bother reading the actual article.

I'd prefer to see neither one here, but I suppose that ship has sailed - and the site holed below the waterline with all the politics and 'outrage stories' we're seeing lately.
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> Google does accept patches for Android from third parties, but they must go through a process that isn't exactly obvious to those third parties. I believe there is also a contributor license agreement required, but that is becoming standard practice for things including the Linux kernel.

I confirm that Mozilla has fixed a number of bugs and/or performance issues in Android. In fact, if my memory serves, Chrome for Android simply couldn't load without our patches :)

However, if my memory serves, getting these patches accepted has proved pretty difficult. I'm not the author of the patches, so I couldn't tell you why.

> As for FirefoxOS, is it possible for a user to install XPIs or XPCOM components on their own handset? I can understand why limitations would be placed on third-party applications obtained through a web service, but not why owners of devices could not install additional components.

Well, given that XPCOM components have 100% access to the file system, hardware, etc. and can easily brick a phone, we didn't really spend time making that footgun user-friendly. So you can easily add an XPCOM component, but only if you build an image of FirefoxOS yourself. Not too hard to do, just probably not the answer you hoped for.
"You don't know all the facts until you complete the investigation,".

Man, that is blind faith in so many untrustworthy sources (remember '41 shots?') that I am trying to recover from the shock. Poor girl.

Seven people. I say: seven. One, two three, four, five, six, seven. They would have scared everything out of me.
It could possibly be worse. The typical response is something like yours, but there's the outside chance they'll pile on more charges for a longer prison sentence. That's good for the economy because the US has many privately run prisons to fill.
She was lucky she wasn't male and black. Because if she were, they'd probably shoot him, and then say "they thought he was drawing a weapon...as he fled".

Not like it hasn't happen exactly like that before. There was even a video of it online. I think if more tourists knew stuff like this is happening in America, they'd stay the hell away from it.
CCTV camera proves injured biker right, police wrong
Not sure if I completely understand what you mean, but the benefit of a sparse matrix is that zero-valued elements are made implicit by the absence of that (row, column) relation in the database. The drawback is that you need to store a (row, column) for every non-zero-value.

It would be wasteful to use this approach for non-sparse matrices, but it would still "work".
What about thinkmoney.co.uk?
According to the source article ( http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/bottled-water-purchase-lea... ), the prosecutor said that Ms. Daly's account was "factually consistent"; dropped the three felony charges; and defended the police's actions.

The fact that the prosecution isn't pushing harder suggests that the story here is essentially true — "a girl was assaulted by a disorderly armed mob on her way out of a grocery store and managed to escape them, but it turned out that they were plainclothes police who had mistaken her bottled water for beer and were trying to arrest her, so they put her in prison overnight and filed three felony charges (which have since been dropped)." Classy, guys.

You have to wonder whether anyone in the group who performed the arrest has any kind of remorse or has developed any sort of insight about whether they might have done things differently.
Just a guess, but I suspect that the FirefoxOS phones in developing countries will be priced ~60USD.
Are police even allowed to do this if they're not in uniform?

I completely understand their reaction to get away when a group of people suddenly draw their guns and try to force you to get out of the car...
Companies that want money talk a lot. Companies that don't... don't. This means you have probably heard more of companies raising money.

I know one giant company that does not have a website, or even an official logo. They don't need them, or the attention. They are an industry leader in one of the biggest economies.
> Because the law enforcement officers have to protect their own lives.

Against a teenage girl who may have gasp bought some beer?

How about:

"Excuse me, miss. We suspect you have illegaly purchased alcohol. May we inspect your car, please?"

Scenario 1: "Oh! Ok." Car is inspected. "Oh it's just water. Sorry about the trouble, have a good day!"

Scenario 2: Girl tries to escape and drives off. Note personalia and license number. File charges as usual.

There is no realistic scenario in which they need to threaten her on her life and assault her car because of a suspected 12-pack of beer.
Snowden is privacy conscious. I'm sure after seeing all the information regarding PRISM and other NSA spying initiatives, he wasn't too thrilled to make a Facebook profile and show off pictures of him drinking beers with his buddies and what not, haha. He's probably tried to keep as minimal a web shadow as possible.
Budget cuts? Police did weirder things for bonus pay.

Like cause a man a heart attack, by goading him to a bet a large sum (over some federal minimum). Heart attack was caused by SWAT members assaulting his house.

EDIT: Note it's not a heart attack they shot him through the heart. It's from this article
http://www.cracked.com/article_19450_6-laws-youve-broken-wit...
I've been doing that for ~6 months, without problem.
Indian Embassy in Moscow did receive a request for asylum From Snowden
Indian Embassy in Moscow did receive a request for asylum in a communication dated 30 June from Mr Edward Snowden. And the Indians carefully examined and found it not necessary to provide one.
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Sounds like the sort of problem the Mersenne Twister PRNG is good for.
Many times you have excellent articles come and go in your subscribed streams. Pugmarks indexes them and surfaces them again - in the right context, and increases the shelf life of good quality content. Hope its useful to you.
"My name is Scott Renfro, and I’m a software engineer at Facebook working on security and privacy. We’ve put a lot of work into making deletions permanent"

Had to LOL at this comment
Well for me, sharing my beliefs with friends makes me happy.
If someone does not share or respects my beliefs, then there is no sharing and understanding each other which is the essence of a friendship.

No matter how strange your beliefs are, you will always find people that think similar. The world is very diverse.

It seems that FB even changes the fundamental meaning of a friend. Which is a shame and a lack of social culture.
I'm not sure if you're being ironic because you answer your own question. A newspaper wants content that is different from its competitors. It takes little effort to "comb through the video" to grab another screenshot. I also find it odd that everyone is using the same still.
Happens only in US. The government gets more and more paranoid