skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
‘one’ is still an indefinite, rather than definite, article, and the USA are certainly one of the older, still-existing democracies (even though, of course, there are even older ones).
Do we have any evidence the US asked any corporations to spy? The only instances I am aware of of the US asking corporations for help was requesting/ordering access to data the the company was already collecting.
Florida's concealed carry license doesn't require instruction in legal use of lethal force, e.g. a hunter safety course will satisfy its training requirements; she had one or at least she claims to have had one.

Any reading or training you get on this subject will emphasize that you can only use lethal force when it is necessary to stop a threat of "grievous bodily harm" or the like including rape, or death, so by implication warning shots are not legitimate. (Texas is not surprisingly a special case, it uniquely allows the use of lethal force after a verbal warning to stop the theft of property, don't know how warning shots are treated by that state.)

As a non-gun owner this may strike you as extremely counterintuitive, but it's a general part of most any training you might get or relevant safety rules; you own every bullet you shoot, you're responsible for what they hit. E.g. see Jeff Cooper's 4 safety rules, which I consider to be the best set: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper#Firearms_safety Note rule 4: "Identify your target, and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified." A shot into the floor is not 100% safe, you're directing a lot of energy into it, you don't know what that might kick up. However, she shot a wall, and that's inherently dangerous unless your nearest neighbor is far, far away which I gather wasn't the case (Jacksonville has 1,100 people per square mile).

None of this would appear to be relevant to the case, the court determined she was guilty of attempted murder vs. lessor charges that I assume could have applied, like assault. If they'd believed her dodgy claim of self-defense it shouldn't have resulted in a judgement that she was actually trying to kill her husband.
True, they could have shipped a backdoor since day 1 but it's unclear what their incentive would be to do so and they run the risk of it being found with a reverse engineering attempt.

Is there any basis in law under which the government can force a company to distribute altered binaries? If the government can force you to add a backdoor in your own product, in effect they have the power to demand that you perform free labour for them.

That would seem to form a basis for also demanding that a person work as a spy for them etc.
No. It makes it easier for parsers.

Not even that. It's about making thing easiest for metaprogrammers.
The problem is Obama completely agreed with what the NSA was doing, and most likely even ordered everything to be done that way (that's why he so viciously defended the FISA Amendments Act last year, and why he tried to get lawsuits dismissed).

However, I agree that is what he should do anyway. Clapper and Alexander should get fired immediately, and so should Holder - but he's been bailing out Holder so many times, I'm starting to think it's a lost cause that he'd ever stop protecting him. If there was a video of Holder shooting a man in head, he'd probably still pardon him.

I disagree with your last part, though, that it would prevent other whistleblowers from coming out. Why would it? It would prove Snowden did a good thing, and more would come out later to fix the system (which is exactly what should happen).
Pay in installments, installments ends when big is found, whether reveled by creator or other.
How does Edward Snowden keep its emails private?
...total inflexibility of demand...

False. The RAND experiment shows that people's consumption of medicine is dependent on it's marginal cost to them. Higher levels of cost sharing induce people to reduce consumption of medicine by 30% (with no adverse health effects).

http://www.rand.org/health/projects/hie.html

The Oregon health study got similar results, although it demonstrated one adverse health effect of consuming less medicine, namely increased rates of depression.

http://oregonhealthstudy.org/for-participants/findings/
My only concern is that the ship doesn't prefer to shot the smaller asteroids. (I try to not break the big asteroids until all the debris of the previous asteroid are cleaned.)
If you are super paranoid, you'll need to find a hardware random generator which you've built yourself --- and hopefully you are competent enough to actually build a real HWRNG, and not something which is sampling 60 Hz hum (or 50 Hz hum if you are in Europe :-), and mix that into the entropy pool as well.

What do you propose as a low cost solution? I've seen some interesting suggestions, such as having a small fish bowl or tube or tank, having air pumped into the bottom, and sampling the patterns of bubbles with some CV solution. Sounds geeky, would make for a nice decoration on one's table, but building it seems like quite a job.
> The only difference is the lack of g-forces.

And the heat (racing cars become hot, to say nothing of the fireproof suit), the noise (they are very noisy) and the fact you are actually risking your life (or, at least, serious injury). The most damage Gran Turismo 4 can cause is an RSI...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970975

I'm very excited about this. I think Functional Programming is good at expressing parallelizable concepts (FP is inherently parallelizable since it avoids shared state) and always wondered why I had to C my way through parallelization.
It applies to /dev/random too - the same write() implementation is used kernel-side for both devices so it doesn't matter which one you write to.

The seed that is saved at shutdown and reloaded at startup will alter the internal state of the /dev/random pool, but it won't add to the entropy estimate (which makes sense). This means that the output will be more robust, but it could still block waiting for "real" entropy.
> Ruby has nothing that Perl doesn't have (at least that I've seen). Therefore no reason to switch

...such a "wrong" way to think! You can say that you'll stick to Perl because you know it better and it has the same feature set. But you can't say that you won't use some other language just because "it has no extra features".

The advantages of a programming a language over another are not its "features". All it matters is:

- "learnability" - how fast can you learn it (not "hello world", but how fast can you get to the level of writing "big" and maintainable projects in it)

- productivity - how productive are you coding in it once you know it well

- maintainability - how well can you maintain code written in that language

- security - how easy it is to write secure code in it

...because when it comes to features even assembler has all the features you need. And no, for a language to have a "productivity" feature (like features that make OOP possible), is not the same as actually benefiting from the possible productivity increases of that feature - for example, having an object system that is "too" complex and not in-tune with the language (eg. CLOS) or having multiple object systems (Perl), doesn't give you anything close to the benefits of a good and clean Smalltak-flavored object system like Ruby's. Or, having all the features required for functional programming (like Python, Perl, and even Ruby have), is nowhere near as useful as having them well thought and in a language that emphasizes this paradigm, like Clojure.
Honestly, if you already use powerline or familiar extension, you can look at the status bar for the absolute line. I find it's no need for changing between modes.

And if you use Mac OSX and latest vim version installed by homebrew, in relative line number mode of vim, instead of 0 it is the row line number.
Does Twitter have a business presence in France? If not, why did they bother to comply?
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Elop explains: why Nokia didn't choose Android to replace Symbian
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Those amazing efficiency innovations are also not doing any good to the women who are raped and murdered or the girl children who are malnourished.

See the logical fallacy? The fact that India has many problems (GDP/capita < 1 lakh/year, rampant horrible sexism) doesn't mean their medical system isn't highly efficient.
> Compared to the analog world, where it would take ages to copy hundreds of Tapes or CDs

I think you mean the `physical' world. CDs aren't a part of the analog world; they're digital. Analog has to do with the signal type, not the medium.</pedantry>
It's not really low-cost, but:

http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic
This is probably the future. Artists will learn to record on their own (they already are), and the good ones will end up with patrons, who will (as patrons do) pay for them to continue working.
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If hull and mesh together are strong enough, you may have something. But it seems a very difficult, if solvable, problem indeed.
Wouldn't it be great if...?
Some of these devices are wore (almost) all the time. The Jawbone UP is water-resistant for example. I wear it while showering.
Is it possible to pull bounding streets from Google Maps/Places API?
I see a huge value in political protest. It allows a society to figure out its problems. You suggest to sweep problems under the rug until they go real bad and even, in the competitive world, ruin the society's chances forever.

Why would people do what you describe? Because they are pure evil? What if they occassionally do have a point?
> However, an easily overlooked aspect of porn is that it canalizes and binds a lot of "useless" energy. A few years ago I heard this tongue-in-cheek hypothesis about male sexuality: Once they manage to reliably eliminate all porn, it will take two days before mobs with clubs and pitchforks roam the streets making political demands.

This implies that men are unable to control their sexual urges or that men are inherently rapists when porn is unavailable, both of those ideas are patently offensive to people in general. Please don't contribute to rape culture stereotypes about men.
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I'm not sure there is much proof to the latter. :)
I think the critical components to groupies is fame and/or fortune. Although the female gaming 'athletes' may be in to you.
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> I think nobody doubts that the porn industry is a very exploitative business.

Do you mean that factually, as in "every business is by nature exploitative, thus so is porn industry", or rhetorically, as in "porn industry is more exploitative than most other industries"?

If second, care to elaborate?
What kind of raid ?
Or you could... just take it off at night / whenever is convenient?
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"We do not have a threat model for the NSA, they are somewhere between a usual state level attacker and Cthulhu" just about made my day! Awesome description.
Too mechanical. I'm afraid I like my bubble idea more. Unless I get my hands on some suitable radioisotope, that is.
Your jealous lover might insist you wear it 24/7 when away
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All they have to do is arrest the and hold them pre-trial. Do you think any billionaire would tolerate the opportunity costs resulting from two or three years in pre-trial detention?
Well, but I know about what German courts require in cases of self-defense with a gun.

I'm sorry to hear that the US have not developed some sensible framework of self-defense.
Systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports
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Stop the press. Device designed to record all of your behavior reveals what you are doing all the time.
The solution of course is you buy it, you own it, you control it.

I made one of those my own, they are very simple to make, with an microarduino to store data.

It is very useful to me, but I won't give the data to any external person-entity.

PS:I can't understand connecting it to the cloud like some people do.
You're right. Those things are death traps, accidents just waiting to happen. And by "those things" I mean "cars".
We are talking about the same (or a sister) organization that created the viruses in Iran and the Middle East. Civilian search companies aren't as high on the agenda as rouge states' nuclear weapon programs, but still.
I recommend looking into joining Entrepreneur's Organization. It's an organization of business owners who own businesses with revenue > $1 mil/year (there's also an "accelerator" with owners whose revenue is > $250K/year). They will provide invaluable coaching, insight and network that will help you take your company to next level.

There's a chapter in SF: http://eoaccess.eonetwork.org/SanFrancisco/Pages/default.asp...
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The difference is that I can obtain music for free. Lamentably, I haven't ever seen a place offering free lasagne.

The point he is trying to make is to encourage musicians to skip the middle man, and make their music available on the internet by themselves. To make that possible we, consumers, need a change of mentality: "I can get music _now_ for free, but if I like it and want more, I should pay for it".

Also, regarding the mixing, I think it could be outsourced to some freelance producer, paid by song, or time, instead of being him the one that gives you cents on the dollar for your own creation.
"... it is somewhat unfair against DDG since the argument works against any internet company"

What other search engines are being suggested for use as a safer alternative to the major search engines? Did any of those companies respond by affirming their ability to protect your privacy in a way that is not technically possible?

The author's point is that you can't dodge the NSA's scrutiny, and if you think you can then you are either lying or uneducated about the NSA's capabilities.

UPDATE: What I'm trying to say is that the article doesn't really work when directed at Google or Yahoo because we already know that our privacy is compromised there.
I don't have a lot of engineering knowledge, but I believe they said when evacuated it is about as strong as styrofoam. The latter is able to withstand air pressure. Wouldn't that mean that if you put an airtight hull around it, this stuff would actually hold it up? But yes, probably it will be tricky to evacuate and expand it at the same time...
> I don't think China or Russia are for example.

We have an absolutely horrifying clerical renaissance here in Russia. Church gets a lot of media attention, a lot of general public attention, a lot of lawmakers' attention. By recent polls, 75% of Russians consider themselves orthodox christians.

Just two examples of how this influences everyday life:

1. There is a university called MIFI (aka National Research Nuclear University Moscow Engineering Physics Institute). For a long time there was a statue of a wayfarer on their campus with the following words "Дорогу осилит идущий" (I don't know English equivalent, literally: "The one who walks will overcome the path"). This statue, nicknamed "An Eternal Student", was considered an unofficial symbol and words an unofficial motto of MIFI students. However, right before patriarch Kirill visit to the institution, statue was replaced by a cross.

Before and after pic: http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/statixaos/16015392/2819/origi...

Also, later they announced they were opening a theological faculty there. In a nuclear research university.

2. A road accident happened in Moscow. Drunk hieromonk Ilia was driving a Mercedes G-wagon (!) at 140 kmph and crashed into a Skoda. Afterwards he crashed into three road workers, two of whom died. Putting aside how monk can own and drive expensive cars, mysterious things began to occur to this case. For some reason, no one bothered to take his blood sample or arrest the young monk, who was taken by (allegedly) unknown person home. In the court a person, who wasn't even present at the crash, told the judge that it was Skoda that crashed into and killed road workers. Video records from the case showing Mercedes were, wait for it, "destroyed by a computer virus". For no apparent reason, after all this Ilia decided to confess to everything.

Also, the case of pussy riot, who were given prison time for disorderly conduct and many, many different annoying things.
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I do not think (1) is solved with cryptography because you can spy on the traffic flow and the route and timing of the connections give extra information. To overcome this we need extra measures.
>> "Don’t even care to get on streaming platforms in the beginning. They are all more or less under the control of the labels and you would be the luckiest person in the world if you can buy a box of beer from the revenues after a year or two."

When you can get your music on iTunes, Amazon etc. and all the streaming platforms for $50 (CDBaby) there is no reason not to. I really don't understand the authors reasoning here. It seems to go against everything they said about making your music available legally because people will steal it otherwise. Why withhold from any platform?

Also the advice on recording yourself isn't great. Sure you can pick up a book or look on YouTube but recording and producing music well is difficult. Mixing is difficult, especially without high quality equipment. The only way to get good is through lots of experience I've found, there isn't a shortcut.

>> "Yes you will need some money for equipment"

You will need a lot of money for equipment if you want to sound good. I use an Apogee ONE (pretty basic I/O device/preamp) and that alone is £300. A Shure SM58 mic (for vocals) is £100. An AKG 451 for recording acoustic instruments is £300. All this not to mention the recording software, a decent computer, and your guitars, drums, etc.

If you record in a studio all this is provided (and they provide much higher quality stuff than you could ever afford). They also usually have an assortment of high quality musical equipment (amps, guitars etc.) which you are free to use.
I love this guy, very inspirational
Well, sure, but those are not determining factors in the definition of 'sport'.
Because replacing a PKI run by companies that the NSA can coerce with a PKI run by the US Government doesn't seem like a good plan? That, along with the litany of reasons why DNSSEC is a terrible design; that it doesn't secure queries from stub resolvers where the need is greatest; that it publishes internal zone names; that it breaks the resolver API and will inevitably create outages; I can go on.

(I doubt this is what's held up DANE; rather, the unreliability of DNS compared to hyper-optimized HTTPS/TLS connections is the issue there; browser vendors care about milliseconds.)
You appear to be confusing individual authority with collective authority. Of course you, personally, cannot get out of being arrested; if anyone could get out of being arrested by voting or saying that they are a member of the populace and thus are the ultimate authority, that would be pretty silly.

But rather, the people, collectively, are supposed to be the top level of authority. If the people want to vote out the current administration, they can. If they want to change the laws, they can vote for representatives who will do so. If they want to change the constitution, they can call a constitutional convention. Now sure, no individual can do this alone; they have to get a substantial fraction of the populace to do it along with them.

However, there are several factors that work against this. One major one is secrecy. If what the government is doing is hidden, then they cannot provide oversight (nor can their elected representatives, or the courts).
The underlying premise that labels are there solely to "promise" artists riches via hit albums is invalid. Perhaps for the mega labels that's the case, but there are a heck of alot of small labels who have honorable intentions and can and do provide quality assistance (of many different kinds) for artists.
It's perfectly possible to dislike the government and vigilantes simultaneously.
This guy references a very very long video about "why you shouldn't use TrueCrypt hidden volumes" - the relevant question and answer is about an hour in (57 mins will do it) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHoJ9pQ0cn8&t=57m
I was under the impression that Russia was very much atheist. I stand corrected!
I'll pay for music that I can get in FLAC or ALAC for a reasonable cost (say, $1 extra than the cost of the WAV). I'm trying hard not to buy physical CDs, but it's difficult.
"A compiler will compile your C code into assembly"

basically what I was looking for. I have to look more into gnu gcc etc.

Thanks

checker659, actually mechatronics/software engineering
I'll consider paying when the copyright lobby stops taking away my liberties (which is probably never).
Which fails to translate into a meaningful result beyond what every other socialized healthcare system already knows and has addressed: you bill for stuff at the low end to keep people from going to the doctor for every tiny complaint, but it's utterly nonsensical to say that charging people for setting bones, or performing needed surgery is somehow going to encourage them to consume less.
Tell that to my ISP. :(
Default configuration of rng-tools in Arch adds no real entropy to /dev/random
Judging from the LED they have on the underside they are using optical oximetry: basically you can see the blood flow dynamic based solely on the levels of oxygen under the skin.

That explains why it's not accurate when you move: once you move your arm your blood flow becomes so unstable that it's practically impossible to "see" the pulse there. This is a known problem.
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I've been looking around for a publicly accessible Twitter archive/dump. Anyone know of one?
Banned TED Talk: ‘Rich People Don’t Create Jobs’
Maybe they'll start building these into our mandatory Malthusian belts.
Once again, if you believe this is a real issue, you're logically enjoined from using practically any hardware cryptography, including the AES instructions or any HSM.

Moreover, if you're serious about having a problem with rdrand, you really can't be doing crypto on the x86 platform (putting you between a rock and a hard place, owing to that HSM injunction) --- that's because you don't actually know what the microarchitecture of the x86 platform is. It's far more complicated than the instruction set, or even what's documented in the PRM.

Aciicmez was able to recover keys from an Intel branch target buffer (the branch prediction cache). Did you know what the BTB was before I wrote this? Well, the BTB is public knowledge. How many microarchitectural features are there on the platform that aren't public knowledge? Probably lots. Not being a tinfoil hat type, I tend not to believe that any of these are malicious. But if you think rdrand is a plot by the NSA, you are a tinfoil hat type, and so let me help you be consistent: you need to stop using AWS right now, and stop using x86 platforms to run your encryption code. The NSA can pay $50 to get a VM on the same AWS box as runs your VMs, and then use local side channels to siphon out your secrets.

(Actually, so can the Slovak Mafia, which is a reason to be leery of doing any crypto on AWS.)

If you can't tell, I think this whole kerfluffle about Linux using rdrand is pretty silly.