skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a matter of opinion, but I think you mischaracterize the choices. There is legitimate debate about what kind of balances the Constitution strikes with respect to individual rights versus the executive's authority with regards to foreign affairs and war.

I think it is pure folly to look at the Constitution with libertarian-colored glasses. The Constitution pre-dates modern conceptions of libertarianism that place individual rights above all else. It was a document preoccupied with outlining a system of republican governments. Representative governance was the first principle, not individual rights. Individual rights are part of the scheme, but they are the exception to the general rule of power exercised by a representative government.

It was also a document that was a direct response to a previous document that was deemed to leave the federal government with insufficient powers in the areas of internal security and foreign relations. The failure of the federal government to put down an internal insurrection was a major motivation reason for the calling of the constitutional convention. That fact cannot be papered over or forgotten in the obscurity of history.

The NSA's interpretations are not inconsistent with its abiding by the law. For better or worse, the Constitution was designed to create an executive with extensive powers in the areas of war and security. It is not inconsistent with the Constitution for the NSA to assert that it does not need enabling Congressional legislation to function. At least, that's one perfectly reasonable interpretation of the Constitution.

Similarly, the 4th amendment has never applied to things that cross the border. One of the very first things that First Congress did was pass legislation creating a customs apparatus with warrantless border searches. It's not at all controversial, legally, for the NSA to assert that 4th amendment protections do not apply to communications that cross the border.
Back to work...
I would guess that it's not worth the effort, due to the risk of a physical process failing (lose painter's tape, need to make a copy for cutting, etc).

In modern practice, scan, bitmap paint 100% black, print?
This assumes there's a correlation between karma/age and the tendency to promote fairly (i.e. due to civility and positive contribution, rather than promoting what one agrees with).

I doubt there is. The problem is that no one judges the judges. That is, you don't lose karma points by making bad judgment calls. The same problem exists at my work. People become managers by being good engineers and by having been there a long time, but no one is judging their management skills.
They could start an errata series of tweets with the ones they missed when they finish.
>That strikes me as highly unlikely.

Why? Are you new here? Want to read some transcripts of Nixon ordering all kinds of shady things along a similar vein? http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ellsberg/nixon...

That said, it could just as easily be foreign intelligence operatives looking for material with which to extort US spies/diplomats.
What "massive public outrage?" A pitiful 400 people showed up to the San Francisco "Restore the 4th" protests.
Devil's advocate here (I happen to agree that the agency is clueless): what if they were concerned about cracked devices ... perhaps keyloggers, that sort of thing?

They claim to have been concerned about espionage, perhaps hardware destruction is a reasonable response.
If you haven't seen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares, it's well worth a view.
I'll see your point but raise you: the absolute soundness of an argument is distinct from our ability to determine that soundness.

This isn't just a technical incompleteness argument; the law is not written using a propositional calculus, but rather an imprecise semantic encoding (which we might refer to as "Legal English") that is subject to multiple interpretations.

So in the case of law it is possible/likely/inevitable that the argument is, by the use of natural language, itself ambiguous, so the soundness thereof is a vector state.

Or to put it in simpler terms: it is all a matter of opinion.
> Erm, so the US is a democracy, right?

It was supposed to be a Republic. It's now an oligarchy.
Boxee sells itself to Samsung at a loss
You've simply assumed that engaged users are less likely to vote up fatuous vitriol. That remains to be shown and I'm skeptical.
There's actually a workaround for this.

Most Java distributions have the ability to work with non-reparenting WM's, but they detect it based on the window manager name.

So the workaround ends up being impersonating another non-reparenting WM, for instance Sun's Looking Glass.

http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Problems_with_Java
Ember A/B Testing Suite
Ask HN: targeting stores that sell GPL-violating devices?
I'm becoming frustrated by the number of Android devices being sold in Australia without source being released as per the GPL.

It occurred to me that instead of dealing with each individual manufacturer, it may be more effective to seek an injunction against stores selling the services - essentially naming a list of violating devices and asking that the court prohibit them from selling them.

By making it the stores problem, that ought to create far more pressure on manufacturers than direct complaints.

I have several questions I hoped the HN folks might be able to shed some light on:

* Does the seller of a device have obligations under the GPL, if that device is manufactured by a third party? I think so, and in the past sellers (e.g. Telstra) have stepped up to pressure manufacturers into compliance.

* Has this approach been tried before, and with what results?

* Is there someone in Australia with a history of GPL litigation who might be able to provide some extra info?

I imagine that the main problem would be paying for the lawyer(s). Crowdsourcing could help here, I imagine.
We can say that reality is a matter of opinion but we can't have that much useful discourse that way :) And in my comment I meant to refer to his statement "if you are in favor of..." which, even if soundness is subjective, doesn't have to do with soundness at all.
In a status quo versus change debate. An "I don't care" vote, is a vote for the status quo.
The DOJ's brief says on p. 16, footnote 5: "Sixteen members of the House of Representatives as amici curiae raise two concerns regarding information sharing between the Executive Branch and Congress: (1) that because much of the information they receive is classified, they cannot discuss it in congressional debate..."

I had thought that the Constitution guaranteed Congress the right to say anything when they are talking aboiut legislation ("...and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.", the Speech or Debate clause.) Any Constitutional lawyers here? How do these two things jibe?
I can't tell whether you're being completely clueless or hilariously sarcastic & witty.
uhhh, essentially we already have this service. It's called Lyft, and it is wildly popular. The only difference, is that the owner has to drive the car.
Same thoughts here. Autocomplete doesn't work for me and the input lag is noticeable. I'm on 13.04. An option to turn it off would be nice, other than that it looks great.
Fortunately you can embed other people's types within your own type, thereby extending it.
I actually have a hard time thinking of clones in this space (not counting general freelance sites like odesk and fiverr)...who was TaskRabbit's biggest competitor (not counting Zaarly, which also pivoted)
sup nick
Google's enterprise Apps SLA is 99.9%, and last year they hit 99.98%.
Didn't stop it from happening when I loaded the page :(
Too bad the point of the article is lost due to silly platform sniping.
Got my 3ds about 2 months ago and I absolutely love the 3d aspect. To my eyes the 3d view is beautiful to view/play and is oddly nostalgic (it reminds me of a Viewmaster).
First Courses for Georgia Tech & Udacity Online Masters
"too tweaked out and overpriced"

That's a perfect way to describe it...
Never in a million years would I have wrecked a place unless it was necessary.

Not only is it a huge compromise of operational security and adds nothing to your cover, it is just a dick thing to do. Some poor secretary is going to have to stay late a month from now, and I don't want her to be freaking out worrying that someone violent might be coming back.
Please indulge us on other next steps.
Neat. I like seeing people try new things with terminal emulators, even if a certain cluster of boo-birds shows up every time.

I noticed that the terminal does not work well with my zsh right-prompt (ends up printing on the left and getting overwritten by what I type), and has some issues with my prompt when my little Git status line appears when browsing inside a repo. But I will be keeping an eye on this project.
I'm just hoping I'll be able to drink in a driverless car before I can use electronics in an airplane. If the same safety-at-all-costs model applies to driving these cars, they won't be nearly as fun as we dream.
I tabbed over to http://austin.craigslist.org/ after reading it...
There is nothing I dislike more about big cities then the cars they are home to. Walking in the busy parts of town, waiting every 100 meters for my signal to pass, sometimes eight lanes wide roads, the never ending noise... I think how can people live right in the middle of this?

I welcome the day that driver-less cars make a mainstream entrance into my society, but it seems like this will just make the urban car drivers more indulgent in their car habits. "why take the subway, we can just drive right up to the avenue because parking is not a problem! We rule this land!" A very, very good taxi-like system, or very flexible car sharing might alleviate this.
"From your mouth to God's ears" as my grandmother would say.
As a former Pittsburgher (now Detroiter) The cities are culturally very different, even if economically their paths were similar.

Pittsburghers really believed in their city, even through the tough economic times. If anything I miss about Pittsburgh it would be that. An older generation of suburban Detroiters would simply have no second thoughts if the City of Detroit burned to the ground. That was one of the most jaw dropping things about moving here, the lackadaisical attitude towards the state of the city among the older generation.

Although IME it actually seems like the tech industry in Detroit is humming along quite nicely. The auto industry is back again and there's a resurgence of startup and entrepreneurial spirit around these parts. My company is hiring like mad.

However I feel like the local economy is struggling to find people who will actually move here. Even if there are perfectly livable areas in the region, very few people have a good mental image when you say "I'm moving to Detroit!"
>I've never understood this crazy, if not outright insane obsession with home ownership.

Where many people live you can buy a house that would cost well over a mil in SFO and have it paid off in 3-4 years. Imagine you could live in a very nice house and only pay 2-4k in property taxes a year-

Owning a home makes the post-work, part of your life much more economical too. I would argue that obsession with home ownership is only crazy if you live in many parts of CA, to apply that to the whole country is grossly wrong.
Good point. Gordon's is an old-school operation as well. One of the owners tried his hand in the startup business, so Drizly was a perfect match with Gordon's.
If laws are instituted to prevent Drizly from delivering alcohol with their app, how does that happen without also putting an end to the brick and mortar stores current delivery operations?
Right now Drizly is huge in Southie, which has liquor stores that will deliver to their local customers already.
How do they single out Drizly?
It is very much like the UBER/Cambridge standoff.
In the end, UBER won.
I've heard of Fisking, but I haven't read the original article that inspired the term until now.

I don't think "factual errors" is a correct representation here, considering that the original article[1] made no accusations of factual impropriety. Nor was there question w.r.t. the facts as Fisk represented them.

The original rebuttal centered purely on alleged reverse racism on Fisk's part - that he received a beating at the hands of Afghan refugees and chose to blame their circumstances rather than the individuals. The event itself and the facts surrounding it were not questioned - only Fisk's stance on it.

The main thrust of the article does not dispute any facts, or representation of facts. Fisk's piece is criticized as "leftist pathology", and the opening of Fisk's article is described as "one of the defining quotes of the idiotic left".

This does not strike me as a "fact-based, point by point rebuttal". I'm familiar with the argument-form that fisking refers to, but the article that inspired the term seems to be a shockingly poor example of it.

Anyways, considering that Fisk is an unapologetic member of the far Left, and Sullivan an unapologetic member of the far Right, I'm not convinced that "fisking" is a credible criticism of Fisk himself. If anything, Sullivan's original article that criticizes Fisk shows that his facts are on the money, it's his stance on them that's problematic.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20040416224040/http://andrewsulli...
In another thread not long ago PG stated that this was exactly the case on a few comments he found vitriolic. If he measured the votes of only high-karma users, the comments would have been negative. You can search through his history to find his report on the subject (it was around three weeks ago, IIRC).
An interesting counterpoint, in being submitted on the same day as http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/07/03/1300018110 "Evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River policy" starts getting publicity:

> This paper's findings suggest that an arbitrary Chinese policy that greatly increases total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution is causing the 500 million residents of Northern China to lose more than 2.5 billion life years of life expectancy. The quasi-experimental empirical approach is based on China’s Huai River policy, which provided free winter heating via the provision of coal for boilers in cities north of the Huai River but denied heat to the south. Using a regression discontinuity design based on distance from the Huai River, we find that ambient concentrations of TSPs are about 184 μg/m3 [95% confidence interval (CI): 61, 307] or 55% higher in the north. Further, the results indicate that life expectancies are about 5.5 y (95% CI: 0.8, 10.2) lower in the north...
The government broke into Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office so that they could steal his patient files and use them to discredit him. Fortunately they couldn't find the files.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#Fielding_break-...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/30/opinion/30krogh.html
According to Bret in his "Inventing on Principle", a REPL is not enough interactivity :P
You just have to add multiple returns.

Just put two hard returns, and the text will appear on the next line.

However, you are limited to one break at a time (e.g. you can't put 20 returns in a row to move 10" down the page)
I don't think within-family-car-sharing would be a HUGE deal, certainly. But there are a lot of situations in which I end up chauffeuring my fiancée or vice versa because one of us needs to get to point A, but the other needs the car for the day. And there's lots of little friction points in terms of lining up our schedules there. It's not a huge pain point, but my car would be noticeably more valuable to me if it handled these situations for itself.

It might not be wildly convenient, but it's even less convenient for me to drive my fiancée to where she needs to go and then drive back.
You'd use failover to do a rolling upgrade.
Interesting that in your 123 days here, you've made a point of defending the government in almost all of your comments. What makes you so secure in your trust?
The problem of Taskrabbit is that they could not be associated with one clear repeatable need that people had, which lead to a sub par experience for almost all use cases.

Most marketplaces in this space are pretty "directed" by the Company (Postmates: deliver food, Instacart: delivery grocery, Lyft: deliver people with car, HomeJoy: deliver cleaning ladies).

Lyft is a good example of a P2P system that worked when everybody before them failed because Zimride "directed" the marketplace when all previous tentative where about "grab people on your way to work".
I don't understand why anyone thinks that driverless cars will reshape existing cities -- it seems to me much more likely that they'll just shape how cities are built in the future. (Judging by the way modern-day suburbs are built, I suspect that it won't be for the better -- at least, not at first.)
Heh, 65k ton carrier, how cute! :)

Edinburg sounds a lot like Hampton Roads, VA, where we build lots of defense stuff, including the 100k ton Gerald Ford class nuclear carriers, with the largest gantry crane in the western hemisphere - fun fact, they hoist the island of the carrier onto the flight deck. Amazing engineering work going on there!
If you are using Safari, just hit the "Reader" button, and the story comes up above the splash screen.
Low-frequency bus-based public transit in midsized cities (mostly provided as a last resort for the poor and elderly) might become outmoded, but there's nowhere near enough roadway space for cars, robotic or not, to replace subways, commuter trains, or even high-frequency buses in dense cities. Mass transit vehicles are, quite simply, much more efficient with space:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-933cKv6thVE/TtJfSd3u-JI/AAAAAAAAAx...
> Lots of people jump to the notion that if driverless cars are available, we will go to a dominantly short-term-hire model of car ownership. By why?

I'm already part of a short-term-hire model of car ownership for cars that I drive myself. I don't own a car and have no desire to own one but I use small electric cars from a company called car2go whenever I need them. If the cars were driverless I'd be even happier to use them.

I have no affiliation with the company, just as a very satisfied customer.
It's a couple of years old... But at least Angular is taking off, which has the same declarative principle...
No slides from Apple’s decks were used in our article at Typographica. Don’t know how you got that misinformation. All the images were created from scratch using info that has been reported elsewhere.
Hmm. I'm not sure this recent trend of coming up with new symbols for currencies needs encouraging:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira_sign

From an IT perspective, even the euro sign, finalized in 1996, continues to cause pain. The newer symbols are even worse: I personally spent several hours earlier this year trying to get cross-browser rendering of the new Turkish lira sign without breaking everything in the process. Finally made it more or less work with this Google webfont, specified as the 2nd preference so it used the standard font for rendering everything except the lira sign.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14117547/browser-support-...
> Taxi medallions are licenses by the city for taxi companies, to prevent abuse.

Yeah thats why 'to prevent abuse' sure.

> - fewer deaths and injuries from accidents, or none at all. The organ transplant industry dies.

I have a solution for this, its called, it simply allow people to sell the rights to there organs or even better allow them to sell there organs outright.
Vodafone Ireland begin PirateBay censorship
> - in your driverless car, you can talk on your cell, use your laptop, read a book, not be stressed from driving. people may be willing to drive farther to work, increasing sprawl, and also dropping the quantity demanded for housing near the core, dropping prices.

You can't do too much if you're prone to motion sickness.
They have really “tightened up” beta 3 for iOS7. Feels much better.
Thanks for the clarification. It had rather sounded like you were trying to apply the rules of logic to human law, which is of course like trying to urinate in a hurricane.
I think this thread is a perfect example of why cloud apps are all the rage these days. The installation hassle is a big turn off.
Samsung Delays First Tizen Device Citing App Store Issues
Encryption algorithms are fraud filters are very very different (as you already mentioned). Most functions used are one way and the inverse is (to the best of our current knowledge) intractable (or to be more technical - their complexity class is unknown and widely thought to be intractable). So, it can be made public. Requesting fraud filters to be made public is like asking Google to make their spam detection public. This can (and probably will) defeat the purpose.
> I think it is pure folly to look at the Constitution with libertarian-colored glasses.

On the contrary. It's pure folly to exercise authoritarian powers while claiming it's all for our own good:

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."

-James Madison, author of the Constitution.

The Constitution was created to clearly delineate powers of government while preserving the liberty of citizens. It's obviously failed in that regard.

As said earlier, the entire point is moot anyway as the NSA doesn't consider itself beholden to the law or the Constitution.
Here's the link without the annoying popup:
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/07/cameras_c...
IIRC, the whole "99 cent pricing" paradigm originated not as a method to subtly reduce the apparent price of products, but as a way to force cashiers to give change for all purchases, and thus open the register so that all transactions could be recorded.

Of course, this practice is completely obsolete in online shopping, while the psychological pricing effect remains.
And there isn't really any technical reason why Glass (or successor technologies) couldn't just record constantly, eg. continually overwriting a buffer of the last 60 minutes, the same way dashboard cams do. If you happen to see something interesting, just look at it, and then afterwards instruct Glass not to delete it.
Here's the thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5936055

To be clear: what he's saying in this thread seems to support the idea of a karma-limited feature for showing comments. The score (not the content) on a comment would have been negative; the comment, in context, was a superficial negative comment that commanded the top spot on a thread.
IMO creating collateral damage just pisses people off so that they'll never listen to you in the future. What about getting the devices seized by customs?
Neue Haas Grotesk and Neue Helvetica (known as Helvetica Neue in iOS) are not the same typefaces. Neue Haas Grotesk is the original name for the typeface but it underwent many changes over the last 60 years before it became what we most commonly see today in digital form as Helvetica and Neue Helvetica. NHG would probably be a better choice for iOS due to its looser spacing and optimizations for text. See Font Bureau’s NHG site for more info: http://www.fontbureau.com/nhg/history/
Further details of the court order [0].

Seemed to come into effect at midnight IST, with no prior notice given. Though another ISP had 'voluntarily' blocked access, this is the first time access has been restricted based on the new Irish law.

[0]: http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/high-court-ord...
Let me guess, you work for Oracle?
Seems awfully considerate for somebody kicking in a wall and robbing a place.
Gawker does this.
Modern KDE4 isn't really bloated. In fact, I'm kind of tired of hearing new KDE users going "Oh wow, this is nothing like what I thought/heard/remember-from-8-years-ago.