skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You, as a non-US citizen, are not protected by our constitution.

This is a myth, recently revived by Republicans to justify "enhanced interrogation techniques" (ie, abominable torture methods that used to qualify as 'war crimes').

The most important articles of the Bill of Rights don't refer to "citizen" but to "people" in general. Here's the full text of the 4th Amendment, most relevant in this case

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I just type !sp + searchterm into my search bar and it searches via startpage.com, which uses googles search results without my IP address or searches being recorded, no identifying or tracking cookies are used and SSL encryption is set by default.
Actually, the 4th Amendment doesn't just apply to US persons - it's a blanket requirement. The restriction of the various agencies' activities to non-US persons is not because (directly, anyway) of any constitutional issue but rather to do with the division of labour between the various agencies - the NSA (et al) is meant to be doing foreign-focused stuff and the FBI to focus on domestic spying.
Also, this will turn on vi-style line editing in programs using GNU readline (things like mysql, psql, sqlite3):

echo "set editing-mode vi" > ~/.inputrc

For programs linked against libedit instead (as on OS X):

echo "bind -v" > ~/.editrc
Without wanting to sound alarmist, but I feel exactly the same way.

I've abandoned my intentions of living in the US, or even just visiting there solely because of this scandal. Not because of some deeply hurt morale or feeling, but because i simply wouldn't feel safe in the US anymore.

I've been on the web for a very long time now, have read all kinds of chemistry, pyrotechnics and bomb-making newsgroups and websites and contributed to them.

I've visited a school with over 50% muslim students and lots of my friends are muslim.

I consider myself close to a maker, loving 3D Printers and Arduinos, Quad-Copters and the like...

I post my political views openly on Google+ and Facebook and discus it via Twitter and Mail...

I'm afraid to the extent i'm targeted and what would happen if I tried to visit the US.
Not saying he is lying, but it seems like he is misrepresenting how much control or influence wikileaks has in being able to protect Snowden.
Sorry, but if people can't read and understand that description, I am not so sure they should be using a smartphone.
This outrage at American reactions is terribly hypocritical. Yes, people -- regardless of nationality -- should be upset when they realize their privacy is being grossly violated without cause, by any government.

However, people seem to think Americans should be more concerned about other people's rights than their own, when the real problem is the violation of everyone's rights. Despite this, all anyone is really interested is their own rights, which is quite obvious considering the central complaint here is that Americans are wrapped up in themselves while the rest of the world has the same issue. How is that rational? Your rights are being violated, and that's supposed to matter to me more than the fact that my rights are being violated by my government in the same way? Yes, it's selfish, but it's also self-preservation. If people don't stand up for themselves when they need to, they will not be around to stand up for anyone else later.

Many of us wring our hands at the various European financial crises; many of us worry about North Korea's potential to harm its neighbors; many of us anxiously watch for improvement in Middle Eastern politics. But just like anyone else, when we find out things where we live are worse than we thought, we look inwards to our own problems; that they effect others is terrible, but it's irrational and unreasonable to expect that to be our primary motivation.
> My conclusion is that at least 95% of US population are so bad in geography that they don't know that they represent only less than 5% of world population.

Uh-huh. You've been watching those candid videos where they interview stupid Americans haven't you? Of course you probably realized that they are always filmed in heavily populated areas and there is always a cut between every interview. You know why? Because you can find ignorant people in any crowded place anywhere in the world. It's just more funny when it's Americans.
I had no idea "qux" came before "quux". How embarrassing. It's like counting "one, two, three, five".
So human rights are unique feature only for US citizens in US constitution?
Thank you for that.

Can I just say, I wouldn't say the Enlightenment Ideal is all but gone. It's not even near death.

We, the people, chose leaders and were betrayed. That doesn't just apply to the US, but I'll start there. I believe the people were half-awake...but not completely unaware of who they were electing or what they would lose.

The idealist's battle against tyranny on one side and anarchy on the other is strewn all across the pages of history. Some idealists lost their way. But the ideals, "Safety and Happiness" – really, the entire Declaration of Independence or the UN Declaration of Human Rights – the ideals don't die.

They are self-evident. Like 3.14159 and 2.71828.
You are talking about matters of etiquette & consent. Consent can be granted, but it can also be revoked. The woman in question apparently ceased her attempts to leave when presented with two bouncers who intimidated her in some way. This in itself may be, in American legal parlance, 'assault', the threat of force, used instrumentally in order to accomplish kidnapping. But it begs another question: What exactly would have occurred if the woman had not taken 'no' for an answer? The men were there to tell her not to leave. The men were chosen for their physical characteristics that conveyed an implicit message of 'we are able to restrain you if we have to'.
Is there any way of saving the game like Candy Box?
FBI car-tracking device teardown (2011)
If you want it to look round, uppercase theta IMO is a much better option, especially some of its older forms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta. There may be some collisions with its use to denote 'an angle', but that must be a solvable problem given that there are 29 (sic) different theta-like Unicode code points (and that ignores the archaic variants)
Console.image - Images in Chrome Dev tools
> George Bush famously proclaimed: “You’re either with us, or against us”. He asked foreigners the world over to choose. The wholesale spying on “foreigners” says how we chose made little difference at all..

Maybe we should just create the "terrorist party", as in, we are all terrorist in the eyes of the US, so we might just have to get comfortable with the label.
If you have a definition by which it's not a pest, I'd love to hear it, honestly.

Wikipedia:

Nationalism is a belief, creed or political ideology that involves a voluntary accepted or coercively imposed mode of identification with individual persons and a nation.

George Orwell:

http://www.george-orwell.org/Notes_on_Nationalism/0.html

I'd say identifying with anything other than oneself is even bigger a delusion than identifying with oneself, and since it's so widespread, calling it a pest is actually polite.
Oliver Stone and others, Urge President Correa to Grant Snowden Asylum
I find it odd that you haven't named the registrar already
Join Oliver Stone and Noam Chomsky in Urging Correa to Grant Snowden Asylum
We, the people, chose leaders and were betrayed. That doesn't just apply to the US...

Absolutely true. Unfortunately, in my opinion, one of the things that simply does not work in modern democracy is the election system, two-party death march or otherwise: Candidates play to emotion and often outright lie or intentionally overpromise solely for the purpose of attaining office. And it works, every damn time.

They then find themselves either predictably impotent or, worse, they settle in and show their real colors... and usually win re-election anyway.

If enough people continue to fail to understand this, the majority of the voting public will continue to actively subjugate everyone to the rule and whim of dangerously uninterested officials, and those who do understand will continue to find themselves without candidates worth voting for, as these races the world over are overwhelmingly choked with self-serving bureaucrats who have little if any interest in their constituents' (or anyone else's) well-being.
Hmm, I quite liked their term extraction API and used it in some hacks. If I recall they were planning to shut it down before, but didn't after many complaints. It seems I'll need to look into YQL now.
If you change the address in your browser to https:// it serves you the page using their CDN's (Akamai) certificate. HTTPS Everywhere and most browsers reject this because the extremetech.com site is not listed as one of the sites that the certificate covers.
Amazing! First time I saw Haskell-based website. But this is not free, I'm sad.
Common typo: there are no underscores in PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH

(and you should use PYTHONPATH in this case)

http://docs.python.org/2/using/cmdline.html#environment-vari...
Oh, and by the way, breaking moral rules is a hell of a good reason to raise outrage. I don’t understand why you seem to think that something being legal is reason to not be outraged.

IMHO something I deem immoral being legal and happening is actually worse than it "just" happening. It's adding insult to injury, if you will, and of course it makes it much more likely to happen again, or even more and more.
Not sure. Maybe the community behind it wasn't that big. The community behind this one keeps growing:

https://projectmeshnet.org/
Google Quietly Giving Aid To Marijuana Activists
Privacy? If only. We have no rights as human beings, let alone privacy. The worst part is that America claims to have rights over us, where ever we are. It is a disgusting abuse of humanity that American asserts that its laws apply to world citizens, while denying them even the few rights Americans think they have.

Few countries stand up to the US, and if they dare, they get threatened. How vile is it to say to a country that they are to co-operate or get bombed back tho the stone age, or deny them aid or trade, which America knows mean food and water? Might as well just bomb them. How vile is it to kidnap people and torture them, then hold them indefinitely with out open due process? How vile is it to send flying killer robots over foreign soil to blow up families in order to kill one single person? If that isn't terror, I don't know what is. Essentially Americans treat foreigners like slaves, subhumans with less rights than proper humans, or "Americans".

But most Americans think this is a justifiable fantastic demonstration of American supremacy and power. They absolutely love it when America "kicks ass". They love all the military power. They love that other countries bow to America, out of fear. Its all "USA, USA, USA".

(Which, BTW, sounds to many non Americans like "Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil". We even see the the fist punching the air, which again looks a bit like a Nazi salute. If Americans reading this can change one single thing, please stop that. It a very scary thing to see. Or do average Americans know this already, and like it as much as the Germans did?)

Of course, the US has abused the rest of the world so much, that it knows that it has literally zero god will. Note how even the UK is reaching out across the world to forge new alliances. America doesn't have allies at all. Its has lackeys who fear it. There is no respect or love, just fear.

Saddest of all, and I have tried to say this many times before, is that the good in America and Americans is fantastic. There is a baby in this bath water. Yeah, we will lap up America's blue jeans, music, movies, internet, (not the cars, they are crap!), porn, diet coke, burgers, hot dogs, space program, silicone women, etc, etc. Every American I have ever met has been decent. A bit annoying, but basically decent.

Please, Americans, sort your country out before it falls like every other empire. I don't want Chinese porn....
This problem is quite minor and obscure compared to many of the other inherent flaws (type coercion and the broken comparison operators, the lack of proper namespacing, broken scoping, semicolon insertion, hoisting, prototype-based OO, and so on) we see all throughout JavaScript.

If those problems weren't enough to convince certain developers that JavaScript is a bad idea, and unsuitable for use, then it's likely that nothing will. This is especially true for server-side usage of JavaScript, where there are so many far better alternatives.
The sad thing is, we don't have international law for these things. Thus, it is usually easier to ask a foreign intelligence agency if they could spy on a domestic suspect than to deal with it within the country.

And this hurts so much, because the internet is perceived to not be bound by countries and borders, while still residing mostly on US soil. But the rules for spying are most certainly governed by borders; This leads to this weird asymmetric situation where one particular domestic intelligence agency is able to collect almost all international data.

What we really would need is citizenship for data. In a way, it does not make sense that Facebook owns my data. My data should be my own, and thus be governed by whatever jurisdiction I happen to live in.

Or put differently, one way out of this is to host your own email, backup, syncing, etc. That way the data is yours, and governed by the same rules as you. This is what I am doing.

Or maybe, Google should split up into several legal entities that each are accountable for the data for one country. But clearly, that would just leave us all flocking to Iceland or the Vatican or something like that...
Keep Up With Your Quants
Rise of the machines, south of Milton Keynes
No, the ability to choose the outcome is still well and truly in our hands.

I didn't say when or where, but I do believe that the power to govern invariably flows from the people themselves.
gdocs still has a long way to go. It's a harmless toy compared to Office, and I'm very far from being a power user.
Honesty goes a long way.
Lifesaver - emergency gamified
The way the US talks about non-citizens has convinced me more and more of my (rather controversial) opinion that in order to have rule of law, we need one legal system for the whole world. I am skeptical of the idea of a world government, of course - it would have too much power, but I do think that governments need to be put on trial as frequently as citizens, in an international court system. I've blogged about this before[1], although I intend to rewrite much of what's on that old site since I don't think it's communicated very well.

I will (when time allows) be stopping my use of American cloud services one by one as a result of this scandal. Gmail, Dropbox, and so on. It will take a while for me to write/borrow my own implementations, and self host them, so that all my stuff works the same way (or similar enough). It was nice while it lasted, but I'm now going to have to start taking my skepticism of US law seriously, and avoid coming into contact with it where ever I can.

[1] http://politicomaniac.net/category/internationalism/
The Government’s Mass Spying Is An Affront To Democratic Values.
I'm not so sure. I'm 22 and most people in my generation wouldn't know what AltaVista is. As would most non-techie I believe. And for the people who know what it is, the brand has absolutely no value.
LLDB 3.3 and beyond
How Many Calories Should I Eat To Lose Weight?
Many people are interested in losing weight and this often results in people asking the question "How many calories should I eat to lose weight?." In short, the answer to this question is less than it expense. If you're eating more calories than you expend, creating a calorie deficit, which is essential for losing weight and time your body will adapt to the weight loss.

...How Many Calories Should I Eat To Lose Weight ?
The constitution was written for a world that lacked instant communication and had clearly defined jurisdictions that could be drawn on a map. It is time to extend the bill or rights to everyone.
You don’t have to agree with me. That was just an aside and certainly my personal opinion. It doesn’t really have anything to do with the main point I was making.

I do think, though, that nation states are a fundamentally bad model for governance and both too large and too small. I’m not sure what could replace them (and not a fan of pre-nation governance models), though something like the EU can provide some (tiny and obviously deeply flawed) hints at how to approach the “too small” problem, I’m not so sure what to do about the “too large” problem.
Ugh! I cringed reading that.

We wear blue jeans, drink Coke & eat McDonalds. We favor American companies (hands down) when we make purchases

Well, thanks, but as an American I'd rather if people didn't have this subservient attachment to the U.S.
I tried DuckDuckGo but didn't like the search results either. I'have had the exact same problems with the coding error searches the author had. The results were mostly useless. Then I tried startpage.com and never went back.
I have seen the similar doc for python and that seemed very interesting and would've been a great resource for any beginner, but I wonder if such a format would work for C programming. Being able to actually make up in C would take a lot more effort than just that I would say.

But yes, a great effort nevertheless.
Why bother with the hoop jumping?
To be accurate, the comic should represent the game overs you'd get from starving dwarves, etc... Losing to a bad-ass monster is an accomplishment in this game (:
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If it was open source it would, I'm reluctant to run tiny tiny rss because of my own anti-PHP bigotry.
Water was just listed as one of the items we need to survive as opposed to something we want, we pretty much already have it in abundance in the first world.

I'll admit I used to have the same view on this, where is the incentive? Why would someone do something without this immediate reward system? But it is this problem which I think would create the best (or at least most interesting) results. Without immediate reward the farmer will stop farming, why should he keep working for others? Agriculture then becomes a problem for society to solve in the most efficient way possible instead of a status quo job for a few individuals. In going back to the original point of this page, imagine the hacker community's response to that, a real, important problem to solve.

So to answer your last question, with the lack of currency/money there is no difference between them, the only form of advantage to be gained is in your social standing (interesting implications on leadership here), using your skills to help others and solve societies problems is your only way to gain any advantage over others.
I agree with you. If an updated version was available with a little better battery life and a bit more screen resolution then I would probably buy one. BTW, I suppose the unusual CPU might be some extra protection from viruses and Trojans.
It autosaves to cookies every now and then (it flashes "saving" in the top right corner when it does)
Living in Turkey, I can tell that Google returns way better search results to my queries about local stuff. DuckDuckGo in the other hand, has a lot of search tooling (goodies) and returns more relevant stuff when I search something more general or technical. My search engine defaults to DuckDuckGo, with the exception of local queries, which I dispatch to Google.
You seem to be overly focusing on certain parts of the article to make your point. The fact that DDG is terrible at searching for error messages (showing sites experiencing the errors rather than explanations of the errors) is a pretty non-trivial minus for developers.
Gomeboycolor - A Gameboy Color emulator, written in Go
Show HN: kouio, the Reader you've always wanted
Is this different than Numenta's nupic algo?
You can theme the sidebar already. Using the theme flatland dark, pretty awesome improvement from the default. https://github.com/thinkpixellab/flatland
I'll second the call to double check that your database backups are OK. You do not want to discover that your backups are broken when you go to recover (this happened to me once).
But this would foil what OP expects from google, a.k.a. to be geolocalized and tracked to be served personalized results.
> The Google bubble is a good thing in about, what, 1% of the cases. Don't fall in love with it.

You may not like it, but if Google is creating that bubble you can be sure that they have the numbers to prove that users generally like it this say.
UX Basics: Designing for your mom
3-step plan to speed up student learning: Column
> You're skipping about 1000 years of history there to make your point.

This varied by area. Some nation states developed early (England, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland), while other areas was dominated by city states much longer, like Italy and Germany that did not become a nation states before around 1870.
Also the US was trying to figure out if it was going to help South Vietnam.
As noted in the other thread on this story[1], this claim has already been debunked by other physicists[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5957232 - comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5957686

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4904
Be More Arrogant.
>What's worse, how many of them can even properly think about it? The "nothing to see here" stuff in the last weeks really made me wonder, and all the splitting hairs about individual puzzle pieces without ever looking up at the puzzle itself. When it comes to this on HN, there are many insightful comments, but also a lot of telling sophistry, and I think even more interesting are the patterns of silence.

That. In a community where several people have worked in such schemes and/or with the government, I guess that's to be expected. There's this notion that "tech guy == liberal" or at least against any kind of suppression of freedom of information and such, but real life doesn't work that way. There have been tons of tech guys and/or scientists that have willingly and cheerfully helped every rotten regime on the planet. It's a profession, after all, not an ideology.
Thanks.

The kind of non-technical people I work best with don't even usually know what product management means and I'm also doing the development, but that's a good lead. I'll check into it.
To emphasize what comex said: quantum cryptography is not an information theoretic defense against RSA-breaking quantum computers running Shor's algorithm. Not at all. It requires completely replacing the physical hardware connection between the two communicating parties.
An android mobile, and choose from an assortment of free GPS/location apps from Google Play, cobble the bigger battery, duct tape/magnets, and you've got it? And then some?
A two-pane file manager implemented in JS+XUL as a FF extension
Perhaps its because our rights (as foreigners) are not being recognised at all. One thing is to violate whilst recognising, the other is to just not recognise (in which case no violation exists).
The Future of Computing - An Interview with Yukihiro “Matz" Matsumoto
I've never even seen AOT compiled code. If it becomes common (maybe in proprietary projects?) then I would argee that its important to maintain binary compatability.
Facebook Removes Ads From Controversial Pages To Avoid Boycott