skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"rather than the emotion of the criticism"

If one of his goals though is to gather support for what he did among regular people though he does have to deal with emotion as well. Think of people sitting on juries and the care that goes into selecting those people.
They don't.

Like I said: Lip service. They like to talk, but when it comes to action nothing happens.
I love Lessig, and completely it's stupid to attack him over this, or believe he's part of some conspiracy. He was primarily trying to bring up the incredibly fascinating, and important issue of: "Can, in the long run, purely technological means protect privacy?"

It is, however, entirely reasonable to question if a corporation that took part in "Team Themis" could/would actually develop such technology.
This is Jeff Erickson's free textbook (really a set of detailed lecture notes) on Algorithms, a course that Jeff teaches at UIUC and routinely wins teaching awards for. Definitely worth your time. Jeff is working on a similar set of notes for Computational Topology: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/teaching/comptop/schedule.html. These are not as developed yet. He's also written an interesting piece about getting into a graduate school with low grades: http://3dpancakes.typepad.com/ernie/2005/03/re_phd_with_low.....
You can also buy a GPS-based one on Amazon: http://amzn.com/B005X4QCAA
PGP encrypted text file is not very convenient. Give keepass a try http://keepass.info/. Its open source, cross platform and has a nice random password generator. Can't live without it.

I never understood why people would want to use a cloud-based password manager. I find the whole idea of giving your passwords to a 3rd party ridiculous, and doesn't matter if they are encrypted or not. Wasn't there a security breach with one of these services a few months ago?
I would hope there are many that don't spy on their own citizens with such regularity, but I find myself being less optimistic about spying on non-citizens...
> Now I understand the importance of this

Except that you've referred to it as 'crap'

Apathy and being willfully ignorant won't make this go away.

This script is equal to plugging your ears and yelling "NA NA NA NA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
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I assume the Russians want him to apply for asylum there? What I can't figure out: Why wouldn't the US prefer to have him in Ecuador rather than Russia (ie, by canceling his passport)? because it would be a helluva lot easier to apply pressure to Correa than Putin.
This has to end. As soon as possible.

And be replaced by what?
Fascinating BBC Radio programme about pornography
In the spirit of the OP, I did a similar thing, but using a tag to initiate writing the script file. https://github.com/thatjpk/bashtag-save

So, tagging a command line with "#save:scriptname" will save the command to ~/scripts/saved/scriptname.sh That way you can get the history search token and a script on disk in one fell swoop.
Because all you know about him is that he has a house big enough for his family and that he lives in the suburbs. Just because the suburbs vs city has a trend for energy use doesnt mean that he uses more energy than you or even the average city dweller. For all you know, his abode could be 100% solar power and his commute is to his back yard shop where he is pioneering new cellulosic ethanol production methods.
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It would be interesting to see his response to points 1 & 2, but I think we already got some idea of his answer.

IHMO I interpreted his original reference to Palantir to be "systems used for scanning databases, and datamining, should have an audit trail built into the core of that system"

Edit: Clarified that its my opinion, not a direct quote.
it's incredible there are people on HN like you. i'm a little shocked to be honest.

Yes, I was also sure this site was populated exclusively with ferrari-tweaking experts. I'm a little shocked, too, but there it is. ;)
Didn't Putin himself say he's there?

It's quite a stretch to think that the Russian government was blatantly lying about this. It would be a very strange move that gains them little or nothing.

I'm willing to entertain the theory that Snowden left Moscow in the past couple days, though. It is pretty strange that no one has seen him.
Sparse matrix multiplication using SQL was also a homework assignment in the latest coursera course "Introduction to Data Science" by Bill Howe
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One would think so, but from Keith's mouth, it seems like the solution is to do more of the same (of which has taken us to this point).
You're still making ground assumptions that this kind of technology turns out to ever make sense. If we invent transdimensional warpgates in 50 or 500 years, there may never be a faction left over that wants to play with steam-powered genetic plagues.

The idea that you can seed the universe with civilizations in the manner described is highly dubious. You're assuming someone advanced enough to do this yet primitive enough to want to do it and that "it" works at all. Suppose that the galaxy produces one star system in a thousand with a suitable planet, and the seed has a one in a thousand chance of actually producing a successful replication. (Both of these one in a thousands seem to me to be quite optimistic.) The equations look a lot less deterministic.
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Nevertheless, it is the very idea that you can strike a "balance" between privacy and law, that allows for the existence of the Utah data center. The existence of this architecture of surveillance poses a real existential threat to your privacy. It's a technological atomic bomb in the making. The more powerful the center becomes, the more likely it is to attract the unscrupulous.

The "bizarre insistence" is not on purity of political issues, but it's on the purity of information security. The surveillance state is a rather binary thing... the architecture exists, or it doesn't. No amount of internal audits can make it any safer.

Also, you should hear Russ Tice's (first NSA whistleblower) recent interview with the boiling frog where he claims to believe that politicians are being blackmailed after being spied on.
Yes, I find it much better to have my business meetings conducted with surprise strangers added.
No, purely technological means cannot protect privacy!
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I recommend David Nutt's Drugs Without the Hot Air [1] on the subject. Nutt, a British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist, headed up the U.K.'s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (a British DEA/FDA hybrid). He was canned when he suggested that alcohol may be more damaging than many controlled substances.

Amongst the goodies from the book are this chart [2], which plots dependence risk against toxicologists' ratings of physical harm for various psychoactive substances. Nutt memorably compared the "20 drugs considered in the ISCD’s 2010 report, ranked by overall harm" with their legal Class and "found a correlation of 0.04 – which means that there was effectively no relationship at all."

Also: "Francis Crick, who discovered the double helix structure of DNA with James Watson, and Kary Mullis, who invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), had both taken [LSD], and attributed some of their understanding and insights to it."

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Without-Hot-David-Nutt/dp/190686... Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimising the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs by David Nutt

[2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Rational_...
>It's great that we have diversity of opinions on here.

I agree that the last comment was overly snooty (I think it was in response to the implied snootiness of the original comment, but snootiness does not justify more snootiness).

That said, I think there's a bit of an indirection of the point when you go to celebrating "diversity of opinions". Yes, diversity of opinions is good, but there is a difference between "diversity" and "the space of all possibilities". Some opinions are just dumb, and having them doesn't improve the community.

More importantly, it is not merely the opinion that is being rejected - it is the attitude accompanying the opinion. If the original comment had been something along the lines of "I'm wary of trying psychoactive drugs because it seems like the brain is a very sensitive organ, and messing with its state could have subtle unintended consequences", then it would be expressing a very similar opinion, but the attitude would be completely different.

By the same token, if the original comment had said "You're wasting your life if you don't use psychoactives to broaden your horizons", then that would be a polar opposite opinion, expressed with a similarly unacceptable attitude.

I'm happy to see either of those opinions expressed on HN. But I'd happily do without either attitude.
> Didn't Putin himself say he's there?

Trusting the word of any politician or world leader is a risky biz.

> It is pretty strange that no one has seen him.

The most talked about man in the world was hanging around two major international airports and no one got a picture.

Color me skeptical.
You seem to have missed this key passage in the linked article, which makes it pretty clear Ecuador is backing away. They could issue another "letter of safe passage," but won't and are saying he should face U.S. authorities. The whole passport thing seems to be a fig leaf:

"An official at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London... had also issued a letter of safe passage for Snowden. But Snowden apparently did not use it for his trip to Moscow. And it doesn’t appear that the Ecuadoran government would make a similar gesture again.

"On Sunday, Correa told the AP that an Ecuadoran official at that embassy had committed 'a serious error' by issuing the first letter without consulting officials back home. Correa said the consul would be punished, although he didn’t specify how.

"Correa’s tone seemed to have shifted after a conversation with Vice President Biden on Friday. Where Correa had earlier been defiant, he now voiced respect for U.S. legal procedures.

“'If he really could have broken North American laws, I am very respectful of other countries and their laws, and I believe that someone who breaks the law must assume his responsibilities,' Correa said, according to the AP."
I think there is a misunderstanding here about what that means in practice. Thermodynamics still applies. Energy has to be harnessed across gradients. Even if they wanted to only collect visible light, they'd have to radiate the heat somewhere.
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People seems to think that ``social network'' was a term thought up in Silicon Valley 5 years ago to describe Facebook or any other place on the internet where people are social. In fact, it has nothing to do with either. It comes from sociology as a way to classify the relationships between individuals and groups in a society as well between societies themselves. It can be applied to ant colonies and bacteria cultures just as well as it is to humans. It's applied to what we call social networks online because they tend to be analogous, and perhaps the fact that the words have double meanings helped it catch on.

Now whether you could call your favorite IRC channel a social network depends on how well you can classify the relationships between the groups and individuals in that room according to the model. If you compare an IRC channel where hackers collaborate on open source software to a corporate office, and of the server they share to community, then you could accurately describe Freenode as a social network. It would be difficult, however, to apply the term to IRC in general.

It's easy to call Facebook and Twitter social networks because such a large portion of individuals, governments, corporate entities and subcultures have a presence there that they're almost like a snapshot of human society, albeit two-dimensional. A place like 4chan where you can't detect individuals at all doesn't fit the model. Whether a marriage of the two extremes could be considered a social network would probably depend on whether individuals have any identity whatsoever (pseudonymous).
> Why is it objectively superior to have distributable binaries that have to be compiled or ported for each architecture and OS? What is the fundamental advantage here?

Speed of execution, and independence regarding what you can do with a browser, compared to what C/C++ offers you, especially libraries and access to the metal.

I'm not saying those are better ways to make games, but if you want real time stuff, like physics or animating several units at the same time, real time inputs, networking, a browser is not going to cut it. A browser is not an OS in itself, it just makes apps easier to make.

The web has been developing a lot since v8, it's really a good thing for developers who want to make things quickly, with pretty good performance, but I doubt it enables dev to do all sorts of applications imaginable. Games are mostly always resource intensive.

This game is really great, but remember, it's free, doesn't seem to run well on smartphone (when in fact v8 aimed to do just that), and it's not like it will be the most played game in your life. You can't make people buy this or play it at a game show. This game is a pearl, it's well done and I had a very good time with it (although short, and I doubt I'll come play it again), but it does not mean all game should be made using this platform.
I'm not trying to push my views on anyone. But people who avoid all mind altering drugs (legal or otherwise) are very few and far between.
"Like so much else that has been corrupted, we need to scratch the current architecture as too insecure, and build something truly secure for the future."

This is really the core technological issue that has enabled much of the recent mass spying: the Internet really was not designed with security, privacy, or anonymity in mind.

Remember that it started as a research network that was used primarily among academics. Academia is generally a very open and trusting environment. The last thing the inventors of the Internet though of was trying to protect their computers, data, or privacy. We are living with the consequences of that mistake.

The second major cause of this mess is the computer illiteracy and historical ignorance of much of the world's population. They don't understand how they are making themselves vulnerable by sharing so much information about themselves and trusting corporations that provide "free" web services to them. This is slowly changing for the better, as people become more technologically savvy and stories like the current spying scandals and various security breaches hit the news.

As for the technological and security minded among us, particularly those who are just now starting to think about running their own mail servers, what took you all so long? None of the recent revelations should have been unexpected.

The Internet needs a major privacy, security, and anonymity overhaul. If it's not rebuilt with those concerns at the core, they will all remain mostly illusory to the overwhelming majority of Internet users.
He's using the issue of copyright to condone the current direction of the surveillance state, and he is offering red herrings as "balancing" compromises.

Yes, I agree with you. I think it is because we are among the first to find it, sparked by that blog post. This seems to be the technical crux of the debate.
Not sure how art schools in the US work. A friend of mine who went to art school in Germany used it to build his network, which then enabled him to survive as an artist. For example there were lots of "students of year x" art exhibitions.
Try it sometime, in a safe environment with good people. You might be surprised what you learn.

Saying that is like saying "I'd never mess with Ruby-on-Rails; you can't do better than CGI and C."
And that's where HN readers come in:

We have more knowledge and therefor more responsibility.

It is up to each and everyone of us to educate our families and friends and to effectively migrate them towards complete encryption, on every level.

- OpenPGP for Email
- RetroShare for Chat/Messages/File sharing/etc.
- Hard drive encryption
- etc...
Hey Tom, this looks cool. Too bad you had to close. We have some users doing exactly that on http://www.feedsapi.org , would you consider adding it as a recommendation on your page? Thanks
Ask HN: Is there room for a Knuth-like work nowadays?
I do research in and teach computer science at all levels (BSc, MSc, PhD). My dream has always been working in academia, and to an extent, I've realized that dream, obviously. My absolute scientific north star has been Knuth's work, not only TAOCP, but his life's work, including literate programming. I've always dreamed of writing a magnus opus like that in my field.

But I can see that such comprehensive works, in the age of the internet, are impossible to write with an acceptable degree of generality: everything is in Wikipedia.

My question is: although I'm far from being Don Knuth, Do you think there is room for a book on any topic with the depth and breadth similar to Knuth's in this age?
I'm pretty fond of MCabber (http://mcabber.com/), a full featured XMPP client with proper Multi-User Chat (MUC) support. I use it inside a screen(1) session, next to irssi.
Why Big Publishers Think Genre Fiction Like Sci-Fi Is the Future of E-Books
Is the "developer community energized"?
someone has to be first

According to whom? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
'Citation needed' is essentially 'I can't be bothered to Google' however:

Ecuador:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/exclusive-documents-illumi...

China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/world/asia/with-snowden-go...

"Security experts and democracy proponents say that mainland China’s domestic surveillance operations in Hong Kong are far more extensive than the American effort. But those operations have largely disappeared from public discussion as attention has focused on the many details released by Mr. Snowden."
I agree, there can be a lot of negative externalities from drug use.

At the same time, there can be positive externalities. Everyone knows what these are.

I would like to see more nuanced drug policy. Let's try to discourage the kind of drug use that leads to negative externalities, without discouraging the kind of drug use that can lead to positive ones. For example, treatment instead of imprisonment. If we take a lot of the resources that we spend on imprisoning drug users and spend it on treatment and honest drug use education, I think we'd see a lot more progress.

Of course, it's hard to come up with campaign slogans or appeal to emotions by making cogent, nuanced arguments. So I have little faith anyone will actually do this anytime soon.
Speed up the cool down when gathering wood or checking traps. Paste this code into chrome console.

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Gastroenterology cam: do we really "digest" processed food?
Criminals that go to jail aren't rehabilitated, they just learn to be better criminals.

Governments that get busted doing shady shit don't rehabilitate themselves, they just learn to hide it better.
Privacy and Civil Liberties are in Palantir’s DNA
>It poses a real problem to (his) atheism

Theism hardly solves the problem of consciousness. It shuffles the question onto a deity without actually answering it.
Just because they are space separated events does not mean you cannot give assign them chronological order. Can't you just simply refer to a literal universal chronological reference point (i,e Big Bang) and then achieve successful ordering of events? For example: Civilization A achieved space flight x time units (whatever time units, such as Planck time unit) after Big Bang, and civilization B achieved space flight y time units after Big Bang?
Yes, and probably the biggest hole is simply mod'ing the surveillance software with backdoor unauditable access to the data, such that higher ups with "special secret privileges" can bypass the logs.

Who audits the software? etc.
As a consultant, there are three ways to raise your income: work more hours, raise your rate, or add leverage (i.e. hire). It pays to take a few walks and think about the structural differences between each option. For instance, working more hours is not sustainable, has a low ceiling, has painful non-monetary costs (especially with a family), and doesn't get easier as you progress in your career. But there may be things you can do to increase your billable hours without increasing your working hours, e.g. by selling retainer or support agreements. Even still, as you approach 100% utilization you're making asymptotic improvements.

Re raising your rate, I suspect that once you break through the ceiling for general-purpose skilled developers ($100-150/hr?) into the "specialist" range ($200-500/hr), your billable hours actually drop, because to justify that rate you need to spend more time giving talks, publishing papers, updating/promoting a blog, contributing to open source, prospecting for clients, etc. I'm personally contemplating making the jump to specialist work, but I don't have real experience there.

So I don't know if this helps you, but I feel like we're in a similar situation, and to me this line of thinking at least helps clarify the territory.
This man's writing is such a pleasure to read.
As far as I know, that's purely hypothetical.
That's unfair. Wikileaks got involved because they wanted to help. Things haven't worked out as planned.

HN readers are so fickle. The biggest wafflers on the internet. You will find no loyalty here.
Where current social media lacks
It would be interesting to get some data on typical profit margins among these firms. The few I know have quite low profit margins overall. An uncle of mine until recently ran a distribution business sourcing gift-shop items and selling them to gift shops, which would fall into the $1m-$2.5m-revenue category this article discusses. But his profit margins were typically ~5-10%, so he was basically netting a middle-class salary.
Actually not. In the US it's about $750,000 to get a green card and citizenship is just a matter of time after that.

I'm sure there are other places that are a lot cheaper.