skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reasonable expectation one would have about statistics released by (say) Yahoo pursuant to this process is that they would capture every directive received by the provider, since providers don't get the certifications.

Furthermore, Google etc. didn't just provide the number of directives, warrants, etc. served on them (within a range), they also listed the total number of accounts affected (again within a range, of course). The latter numbers were higher, but not 10×+ higher.

> Just a quick reminder: the USG does not need and has never needed and probably will never need a warrant to spy on a foreign entity not on US soil

And again, it's not actually super-obvious to most people that this applies to US cloud data. The USG apparently (IANAL) can't search the empty New York bachelor pad of a Russian oligarch or Saudi oil prince without a warrant - that apparently it can nonetheless turn over their GMail account (basically) at will is therefore pretty surprising.

There's also the matter that US cloud-data firms have been making true-but-misleading statements apparently calculated to give their users the impression that they have the ability (as well as the willingness) to contest demands for individual users' data without a court finding of probable cause or something like it, when for a large majority of the PRISM-company users this is not the case.

Finally, US citizens might like to check out the FISA appeals court's opinion about a foreign-intelligence exception to the Fourth Amendment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5923606
Probably because those are the five participating nations in the UKUSA agreement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
I understand the argument. In my experience though, documentation and/or tests usually always makes type info redundant. But I'm well aware that people have different views on this. Each to his own.
I disagree that the US runs Germany.

I wouldn't use the word "runs", but Germany often does what the US tells it to do. For example, the German government gave in to US pressure and didn't pass warrants to Interpol for the 13 CIA agents who were responsible for the kidnapping and torture of an innocent German citizen.[1][2]

[1] http://wikileaks.org/cable/2007/02/07BERLIN242.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri
I can agree with that, but I don't see it so much as a "fresh" solution as it is an improved UX on top of the existing ones. Of course, the reality is likely that the actual complexities of the problem will make any good UX hard to do. That is, realize that for the vast majority of us, gmail and friends are this "fresh" program.
I think what you are forgetting is that in doing so, you would be heating the room up again.

So to keep the temperature where you want it, you'd need to cool the room even more.
Basically, the US never stopped spying on Germany after WW2. I'd guess they kept upgrading their hardware during the cold war, and apparently never stopped after its end.

Also, the occupation authorities were instrumental in establishing the German intelligence service from the get-go, liberally making use of the existing NS personnel (Wikipedia[1] lists Reinhard Gehlen, Klaus Barbie, Alois Brunner, Wilhelm Krichbaum, Franz Rademacher, Walther Rauff, Konrad Fiebig, Franz Alfred Six as prominent examples).

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesnachrichtendienst#Geschic...
Why cash transfers to the poor are not the next big thing
Sounds like an argument for single-payer public education, which is mostly what we had back up through the 70s.
I think the difference is that Python had a much more realistic plan for the backwards incompatible changes. The fact that the transition will likely take the better part of a decade is a _feature_, not an issue (and there will be supported versions of 2.x throughout that time).
The USA is not supposed to be a "Democracy," it's a "Constitutional Republic," and were the government, and its agents, to adhere to the letter, and intent, of the US Constitution we wouldn't be in the quagmire we're currently bogged down in.
But NSA leaks are TREASON, no matter how small. This isnt even military level treason, this is death in a cold ditch treason. To maintain operational discipline they have to kill him... Very horribly.

This only shows that the premiere spying organization has been ruined from reckless expansion and mission creep. They are hiring SPIES that are pretending to be police...

The NSA's charter is signals intelligence. If its a signal, they are EXPECTED to read it, if its encrypted, they are EXPECTED to crack it. Doesn't matter who it's from or to. Advances in computers gave generated more electronic personal communication, and more ability to spy and collect it. The problem comes back to the patriot act and the his guided idea that the NSA was supposed to SHARE its intel. The problem is that the NSA as spies are looking for things that are ILLEGAL for police to look for, they are looking for things that cause blackmail and treason... Bad gambling debts, family medical problems, cheating politicians and executives, religious extremists in people's families... The things that give terrorists and spies leverage over honest people that have access to the government and can be used for blackmailing them into illegal activities.

Regular police have no business with that kind of info, and they have no concept of using it with restraint, they just hurt people with it.
Surely "anonymous social network" is an oxymoron.
New PRISM slides say the program allows NSA to eavesdrop on live conversations
Weirdly, I had a situation years ago when I called a Counterstrike clanmate an "awp whore" (a pretty common term, not specific to gender), and because she was female she took a huge objection to it. I now realise this was because she had to deal with shit like this time and time again.
Are you serious? This is not wiretapping a single individual or group. They are spying on ALL people in Germany and violate the German constitution, and if the gov of Germany is involved (which is probably the case) this gets even worse.

I wonder about all those people which think its normal/not surprising. I bet you had not the slightest idea about the scale of NSA spying. NSA even compromised EU offices and there is probably more to come. This reminds me of Cold War and allies should not be treated like that.

By the way the German federal prosecution office has now stated its collecting data about the NSA spying (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundesanwaltschaft...). NSA spying gets lots of media coverage now, this might also turn the tides in the upcoming election. Good luck pirate party!
Maybe this is a good time to re-evaluate what sort of communities you want to be associated with. There is a solution for these problems; just segregate yourself from the abusive people. Public multiplayer is not just worth it.
According to http://stackoverflow.com/a/231284/116546 Dalvik does not allow runtime bytecode generation, which may prevent some languages (Jython in particular) from running on Android without some (presumably heavy) efforts.
Children are cruel. News at 11.
The way I see it, trash talking can happen but in a sort of ironic, sportsmanlike way, in which it's kinda known that it isn't real, sort of like prodding or banter. However, it's when you cross that line of respect that it becomes flat out abuse.
Hey doe88,

It's probably too late for you to read this, but I just wanted, as a fellow citizen, say that I totally agree with you.

I am fed up with every article posted here painting France as the worst country that ever was and ever will be for companies or for "bright minds". That's simply not true and I also want to fight against that stigma.

As a matter of fact, after living 6 years in the Netherlands, I am now back in France, and don't mind paying my taxes (I've seen such a comment here) and no, going away is not a solution.

Cheers.
The difference is, the Python developers had a realistic view of what this transition would look like, and it's very intentional that it will have taken the better part of a decade by the time all is said and done.
Hi Nate, this looks really useful, thanks for your work on this, and for releasing it.

I've got some questions, if you've got the time...

* Why YUI? When I think of YUI, I tend to think "overkill". Obviously you've done a ton of work on this since 2009; is there anything you couldn't have accomplished building this on top of jQuery (just as an example)?

* Does AlloyUI play well with others? For instance, if I wanted to incorporate one or two of your widgets in a UI built on top of Bootstrap or Foundation, would I run into trouble? What of MV* frameworks (Ember, Angular, etc.), or just plain-vanella jQuery?

* Testing this out on an iPad I found that some widgets seem to work well (calendar), but others (photo crop) not so much. Do you intend to target touch devices?

* You have a code editor, and a toolbar that seems intended for a rich text editor, but I don't see a rich text editor included. Do you have plans to add a rich text editor? Especially because YUI3's rich text editor is very limited out of the box, this would seem to be a great addition.
The article said it was based on her gamertag.
Making the case against Art School in general really needs to have better examples than RSID. Odds are, even if one dismisses the author's advice and enrolls in an art school, RISD will not grant admission. It is not only expensive, it is highly selective.

There are many other less expensive academic art programs ranging from community colleges through the land grant institutions and private colleges to enterprises as elite as RISD. None, some, many, or all may provide good cost benefit return to a particular person.

As someone trained in an academic studio environment - four years at graduate level for architecture - I strongly disagree with the author's suggestion that an online community can provide the equivalent to a shared studio. Talking to other makers is not a replacement from working alongside them 60 - 80 hours a week.

None of this is to suggest that higher education in the US is not grossly exploitive of young people, or that any art school has value for every individual or that an artist cannot further their education on their own.
How funny that one side going nuts is "Hey look at meeee !" and the other side is "I hope you get raped and killed and whatever, bitch".

Do you really think that those behaviors are equivalent ? Because they're not. Some female players may be behaving badly, but in terms of scale and gravity it doesn't match the abuse of male players towards female players.

Perhaps you didn't meant to, but your comment sounded like white people always bringing back anecdotal cases of anti-white racism to try to make up for the most common cases of racism. Or the male-rape vs female-rape issue.
I know, but that is the main point, we are forced to use a custom build toolchain, when gcc and clang already offer support for them
This seems to be the original story (HT Fefes Blog):

http://www.privacysurgeon.org/blog/incision/former-nsa-contr...
> But critics wonder, would it be so hard for Lego to develop — even market — toys for girls and boys to enjoy together?

The article cites that Lego itself has noticed, through empirical testing, that the two groups (statistically speaking), use the sets differently.

The critics, through virtue of their assumptions about how gender equality should work, seem to imply that this distinction isn't there and everyone should be happy with the same set.

So let me ask this: if there really is a difference in play styles (exterior versus interior focus on the set, for instance), why wouldn't you as a toy maker design two lines of sets - one with a focus on interior details and one with a focus on exterior ones?

If you try to combine it, for the price point, the toy is going to be slightly weaker for each segment of the population - effectively raising the price on both groups to have the toy they actually want by mandating we must have one toy in the name of "equality".

Seriously, can someone explain what's wrong with two lines of toys if Lego (through testing, no less) has found that there are two distinct groups of wants?

No one would suggest that if it were boys split in half in their interest of interior versus exterior, Lego would be remiss in offering two product lines, so it strikes me as incredibly... insecure about gender equality, to the point of pathologically insisting there be no differences, to say that we shouldn't have two lines because of the divide happening mostly along gender lines.
France calls for explanation from US about NSA spying
I was the same way, although I preferred NetBSD, but I eventually determined that it wasn't worth the effort to host my own email. That said, I still learned configure it for local only use. I grabbed incoming mail using Fetchmail and sorted it with Procmail.

By the way, I still feel that Sendmail has to have the worst configuration file I have ever seen.
Those people also spray male genitals and homosexual porn. They normally aim to be annoying (trolls, griefers, etc).

Those people also react aggressively without any humour to women who show confidence? Bullshit. And just because some people do sexist stuff for the purpose of trolling, doesn't mean it's not based on actual sexism, and that the actual sexism doesn't occur at the same time. I guess it just gives some people an opportunity to put their blinders on.

Your second answer goes off in a tangent so I won't bother with that.

Heh? Kindly scroll up: you asked, I answered. And if you think those terms are not based on physical dominance and how that attracts some men and rarely women, then I think you're even more unaware of the real world than of gaming.
What do you think of my proposal for “shadow organizations with reputation for verifying software for security holes”

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=114
Because of those issues, I learned long time ago (in the early 90's) to just use official SDK supported languages.

Too much time is spent on hacking an half working solution and in the end the vendor offers no support if the problem is to be found outside the SDK. Or even if it is in the SDK, non supported languages offer a nice excuse to avoid giving support.
Why? Something I've contemplated for a long time is why there isn't a social network catering specifically to peoples' online personas. After all, there's a lot of stuff a lot of us do that we'd rather others not know about, or groups of friends we like to keep online, and not pull into the offline world in any way.
Proposals for new stackexchange sites can be submitted through http://area51.stackexchange.com/ ;)
> As someone trained in an academic studio environment - four years at graduate level for architecture - I strongly disagree with the author's suggestion that an online community can provide the equivalent to a shared studio. Talking to other makers is not a replacement from working alongside them 60 - 80 hours a week.

As someone trained in a studio art background, I totally agree. This is also why I don't think online learning will ever truly replace university. People always discount the effect other people have on their personal/professional growth.
Not that this addresses your pain of not being an artist, but have you tried freelancing? I bet if you tried, you could get that debt paid off in 2-3 years. Email me if you want and I can help you think it through.
The real issue is not the similar domain name but if your use dilutes the value of their name. If a person thinks you are associated with Instagram and especially if you are in the same type of business. As an example Ritz
Hotels does not dilute the value of Ritz Crackers. They are clearly in distinct different businesses and one does not dilute the value of the other.
Countermail does this: https://countermail.com/
It's not so strange, because the core issues of the pirate parties are orthogonal to the classical left-right spectrum.

They're trying to form a party out of a fraction of a full platform, with the result that they will either need to find a way to agree to disagree about large swathes of politics, or they will drive away large parts of their potential supporters.
I haven't seen much AI/machine learning in lisp in long time. Mostly I see people use matlab, java, Python and C.
it's different to be on the receiving end when you're the threatened minority. It just is.

Only if you choose to make it so.

In my last job (not in the US), I was the minority. People made jokes about Americans (e.g. "no American jokes - they sue") along with many other groups. I chose not to make it a big deal (being the oppressed minority is boring to me) so it wasn't.
Yes, but in the Senate (and to some extent, House), you'd want existing black-sheep incumbents, particularly those in super-safe seats (like Wyden) to form a new congressional party.

There's not much hope of a third party in Presidential politics, but congress and state level could work out pretty well, with funding.
Spot on as an example of paranoid neo Nazi bullshit? Definitely. And you did a good job of adding then usual pathetic victim posturing sauce.
I found this http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/musings/JavaLang.html. Looks comprehensive.
That's the one I have no problems with. Whenever I rant on the phone about politics, I hope someone of those I actually mean by that, instead of just a friend who did me no harm, is listening to it. The same goes for any other medium (as phone conversations don't seem to be included in this)

Well, let's say I would have no problems with it, if I wouldn't worry about the chilling effects it would have on others.
The Heidelberg base is being abandoned by 2015. Lots of free space for student buildings! :)
> it's different to be on the receiving end when you're the threatened minority. It just is.

> Only if you choose to make it so.

The perfect demonstration of why HN is a hateful place to discuss sexism, racism, etc.

"See, women, it's your fault. Just get over it already."
I wouldn't blame them for cutting off the free tier that allows one dyno to run for no cost. They should charge at least $10/month for what is now the free tier, and not time out apps (requiring loading requests). Make the small customers real paying customers.

The thing is: I don't understand why a large company would use Heroku because of the costs. Heroku seems like the sweet spot for a 3 or 4 person company where they don't have the economy of scale to manage their own servers.
Piratenpartei now is at 3% instead of 2%. :-/

(You need 5% to enter the Bundestag.)
He probably could be, but he'd have a snowballs chance in hell of that happening.
>Throughout the year, use at least this much money to visit museums in your area. And not just art museums. All museums.

This is the most useful piece of advice in the article.
Nicer-formatted version: http://meowc.at/message/204
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has been pretty consistent, though.

If it weren't for their neo-liberal/laissez-faire approach to economics, I'd consider voting for them...
Gravity.com, Anybeat.com, Google+, Myspace, tumblr...
60% there then.
The Rise Of The Million Dollar, One-Person Business
Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent
Looks interesting. But, a similar solution exists with a similar name called PageKite (https://pagekite.net/). They do not deploy your application code to the cloud. With PageKite you run your environment locally and then create a tunnel from a public address to your local environment.

I think the only benefit to Kite is if you want your development application to be running from a public address for a long time.

The PageKite approach allows you to have whatever web environment you want and to bring it up/down at will. I have used PageKite for over a year and it has worked very well. It also seems safer, since I wouldn't want to deploy my development changes to a public web site with some unintended security flaw.
Why Living in a City Makes You More Innovative
As someone who might move there, I would appreciate to hear about your experiences. The cost of living in SF already worries me.
I wasn't aware emacs had a thriving plugins community.
Depending on whether the German government thinks it's worth the hassle, I think a reasonably good case could be made that he does indeed qualify for political asylum. Especially since this article suggests the US sees itself in the middle a cold war with the EU/Germany (...of all places. One would think that China is the enemy, but apparently one would be wrong).
Anatomy of a browser trick – meet “keyjacking”
Either that or somebody who doesn't have a HN account and is going around reposting this anywhere that this article is discussed.

Every "gender issues" thread on HN seems to attract new accounts that are here only for gender issues.
These protests have not been well organized. From the outside it looks like a handful of Redditors who are thinking of hanging out together - and there seems to have been no PR or outreach to folks beyond Reddit. Most of the nation does not use Reddit.

My page for my New England city has nothing except a link to a conversation with half a dozen folks planning a preliminary meeting, with no follow up info posted. I could drive to Boston, but what's the point: the Boston group is only predicting an attendance of 40. I doubt it will get media coverage, and at that size I honestly hope it doesn't.
> "Die Linke" could also profit from this.

That would be a bit ironic, given that Die Linke includes former PDS.

(for those not following German politics: PDS was "Party for Democratic Socialism", formed from the remains of the old "SED" - Socialist Unity Party, better known as the ruling party of DDR and originators of Stasi)
Because stolen is better than free.
Either way, this seems interesting and I am going to check out schemaverse as well. A friend of mine is working on a TSQL based adventure game with a similar theme, I will have to link it when he releases it.
Unfortunately it is not just media smear. In Germany we have at the moment roughly ten percent of the electorate who are deeply future shocked and are just random walking around the political landscape. ( They did push the FDP to 14% in the last parliament election, pushed the Greens to win the Baden Wuerttemberg election and voted the Berlin Pirates to 13% two years ago. ) And some of these guys did overrun the original pirate party.

For example, they did recreate a lot of the problems voting machines have with their 'liquid feedback' system, and when called out on that answered that they do not know, but since 1337 pirate party instead of evil(TM) Diebold suggested it, there is surely a way. ( And to rant a bit, at their last party convention they did petition that the parliament publishes their schedule on the INTERNET, which the parliament of course does. But there is no one left in the pirates who is able to google.)

So by now I tend to think of the German pirate party as the party of cargo cult modern, in the sense that modern does not mean a opinion informed by deep technical understanding, but modern in the sense of the latest Techcrunsh fad, independent if that is Instagram, Stasibook or Anonymous.
I totally agree with you. I run five "small" web apps on one leased large VPS. Really cost effective! However, I had to set up my own auto deployments whenever I do a git commit/push, and worry about backups, etc. None of these sites individually get over 1000 visits a day, but they are all important to me. If I could pay Heroku $15/month for a single "always on" dyno (avoid loading requests) per application I would run everything there, and they would get $75/month for handling relatively few requests. Except for one Meteor app, all my apps are Clojure == small memory footprint and efficient. Cheap to host.
Never underestimate the SQL injection! There is likely some function being called somewhere that has higher permissions than your initial query.

The Schemaverse has a SQL Injection trophy with no actual code path to win it. After 2 1/2 years, there are two people who have it.
Do you do OCR for text extraction?