skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the stuff a prime-time television writer would crank out.

"Microsoft has one million internets, only second to Google."
Best UI decision would be slapping a touch display on microwave which should be smudge proof.
I would, once I'm there.
It wasn't even a link bait. I understood the difference only now. I am not an expert in the field, I agree, I didn't even thought it'd get this quickly in the top. Again, I didn't intend this to be a link bait, apologies!
You're -surprised- they don't mention, in an article about how to get a job -without network connections- a strategy that A) requires you to know the CEO of a company well enough that they will let you just turn up at their office, without an employment relationship, and make yourself indispensible, B) generates you zero income for some period of time, which in general might be considered contrary to the primary goal of 'finding a job', and C) is not a very common way of getting a job, to the extent that I'd be surprised if you could cite more than one or two examples of it ever having worked for anyone. You're 'surprised'.
IANAL, but as I understand the license, yes it would violate the license. Although, if I released something under a no-derivatives license on github, I'd be less worried about pull requests and more worried about derivatives made outside GitHub.
it's likely that the guardian or the times or the post still have stuff to leak and the "damage" he's been doing will keep coming for a few more weeks/months. therefore he can't abide by the condition until the leaks are over
Interesting. Apparently LUKS/dmcrypt on Linux is also protected from DMA attacks (firewire/thunderbolt devices).

> If you enable LUKS root, DMA attack mitigation is also enabled(boot.initrd.luks.mitigateDMAAttacks ). It consists of blacklisting firewire drivers.

Edit: still at risk of the "Evil Maid Attack" http://www.aspecrypt.com/evil_maid_attack.html
It also allows minifiers to minify that "undefined" variable. Not that i think it's good practice to use those kind of hacks that gzip compression makes obsolete :P
Staying on top of TLS attacks
Where is he hosting this stuff? What makes you think Linode/DigitalOcean et al would violate US law to protect a customer?
I appreciate Edward Snowden for having the courage to do what he did and what he did, but I feel like there is a disproportionate amount of coverage about him versus what he blew the whistle on.
The Grep Test
"Steve Ballmer: Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers in their Datacenters, Only Second to Google" is this correct?

again, apologies for the misleading title
Deus Ex: The Fall disables guns on jailbroken devices
One advantage of Switzerland is that the people have a much stronger voice in telling their politicians to do exactly that (and in some cases, voting on the issues themselves).
>The NSA stated, in 1975, that it's not bound or beholden the US Constitution or law.

They knew that was a lie when they said it. They had tried in the past to get Congress to amend the Communications Act of 1934.
I'm not even working full time as a programmer, and I find them somewhat useful in thinking about other kinds of problems.
This really feeds into npalli's point above. Comparing native vs. web by simply comparing JS execution performance is a red herring.

The average native app doesn't really do that much app logic. I'd wager you can take almost any app in the App Store, rip its non-UI code out and replace it with JavaScript equivalents, and no one would be any the wiser.

We're talking about software that needs to respond in human-time. Taking a couple dozen milliseconds is not the end of the world.

What is the end of the world for these apps is laggy, unresponsive UI, and that's where hybrid web apps fall apart. Users are very timing-sensitive when it comes to visual elements. When I touch a button it should visually respond immediately, within at most a few milliseconds. Most web apps can't reach this level of performance.

Which leads to something from the article itself:

> "many of the common, tough-to-program operations are carefully coded by top programmers who are devoting their careers to fine-tuning that operation"

The problem with the web, as it pertains to UI, is that this isn't true. Take the dreaded carousel - that things needs to animate and scroll smoothly, but the code to do this isn't natively built into the platform, so everyone ends up rolling their own (or using what someone else has rolled) non-natively. And now you have shitty, laggy scrolling performance.

This goes double for webapps that pretend to be native. Now they're basically reimplementing all of the platform's native UI widgets in Javascript without the benefit of the legion of native platform developers who've smoothed out all the kinks.
Interesting. That doesn't seem to square with this item from GitHub's ToS:

> By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories.

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service#f-c...
What if you clone the repo before the license was added? Then do you get code in the public domain?
On the bright side, the government might actually start taking the NSA concerns seriously if it starts having a detectable effect on the profitability of one of the country's most important growth industries. It seems like it's already becoming a reality in terms of foreign markets, but a reasonably large domestic boycott of a marquee next generation console would be bigger.
Can you say more about how you got the 600W number?
You don't seem to understand, so heres a whitepaper [1] from Rop Gonggrijp on how to play chess on a Nedap voting computer. And the Nedap machines are special-built and programmed to ensure the authenticity of the votes, using anything from printers to read only memory. Not fucking Python running on a loosely secured Linux box.

[1]: http://wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/images/9/91/Es3b-en...
Microsoft has a free program (for Law Enforcement) called COFFEE which, among other things, bypasses Bitlocker full-disk encryption.

You can find the Torrent at Wikileaks: https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Microsoft_COFEE_%28Computer_Onlin...
Jailed Qwest CEO claims NSA retaliated for his not participating in spy program
The Appeal of the Lift Web Framework
I have been contracting for about 8 years now and yes, it is quite easy to get started in the UK. You can find your own contracts or most likely you'll need to send your CV to head-hunters looking for contractors. Once you get a contract, you've got two options: a) setup a limited company to invoice your client/agency. Many accountants in the market that can help you with that. e.g http://www.sjdaccountancy.com/ or b) go with an umbrella company e.g. http://www.tarpon-uk.com
So many errors with that article. And a few spelling mistakes too. I think people are better off going straight to the source instead of reading a poorly written re-interpretation of the source: http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-million-server-datacenters-70...
The key that the wiki mentions isn't for spying, its for verifying digital signatures on third party cryptography service provider packages. It was named as such because CSP packages that are exported outside of USA have to receive export approval, something the NSA performed. So the NSAkey was named because it was a digital signature proving that a package had either received proper review or didn't need it (If it was for US only).

Not saying that NSA isn't spying, just that the key mentioned is not used for that purpose.
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Unless that particular farm is the US or North Korea. Both of which expect you to keep filing taxes on money you earn no matter where you earn it [1].

[1] Obviously there are exemptions for foreign earned income, but if you're in country with lower tax than the US (of which there are a fair amount) you could end up paying the US taxes on money that has literally nothing to do with them. Worse, if you're married to a native of that country and must file jointly in the new country then the US expects you to file jointly with them too and pay taxes on your spouses earning.
The fact that people are not prepared to stand alone doesn't mean they don't care about privacy.

Very few people are in a position to make a difference alone, and even fewer dare to act. There's only one Snowden.

The rest of us, we vote, support civil liberties organisations, sign petitions, and the most active amongst us lobby and demonstrate.

The notion that the way to change things is by individual sacrifice, and if we don't we obviously don't care enough, is an fundamentalist libertarian fantasy.

The real world doesn't work that way. Real people don't work that way. At least 99% of us don't.
Not to mention that after those three months are up you'll still have at least half that cash left and not feel like you've missed out on anything much back at home.
I used to contract in the UK a few years ago (since emigrated), and getting started for me was really as simple as sticking a CV on a few of the job boards and making sure it emphasised I was only looking for contract work. If your skills/experience are a match for open contracts the headhunters will find you.
I know what you mean. If it doesn't scream READ ME it doesn't get anywhere...

However that's just how our brains work.

Unlike ATLAS... we're only Human
The new Utah NSA facility is planning for zetabyte (million petabyte) bandwidths. We dont use this much yet, but may during the lifetime of that facility. Humankind has an insatiable appetite for digital storage.
I just love it how you folks always give it to the "zero spelling mistakes" website and all. You're simply giving no chance to other websites to evolve. I gave that source because they were first, not because they were exclusive.

and it wasn't a reinterpretation of that source only.
>>E.g. by saying "the Fourth Amendment does not apply to NSA's interception of Americans' international communications for foreign intelligence purposes" the NSA was implicitly also stating that Americans' communications that didn't meet those criteria were protected by the Fourth.

I might be missing something but just because X applies to Y doesn't mean X doesn't apply to Z.
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@Fargren: I would argue votes are easier to sell, with a secret ballot. The seller would be whoever is counting the votes. There could be a huge monetary gain for that one counter (Diebold for instance), as opposed to relatively small amounts for individual voters.

That being said, buying votes directly is illegal. If ballots were open, and someone bought votes, there would now be a paper trail.
I agree with you it is fun and educational.

However, unauthorized distillation in the US is considered a serious federal crime which is investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which tends to do everything with full force military raids that kill their targets and/or result in long prison terms.

A license to distill for fuel use only costs $3000 a year.

Home distillation is permitted in many countries. In the US it is unlikely as much of the country still believes that alcohol comes from the devil and anyone who drinks is not going to get to heaven. There are still dry counties in which sales of alcohol are not permitted at all, and there are still Sunday laws in place in many areas.
Emphasis on "short", the word limits on Wall Street Journal are infamous, "unless you're the Pope" as one author put it. As they put it (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126841622758561059.html): "We prefer that the submission be between 600 to 1,200 jargon-free words...."
It seems like you're still a bit confused. These might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacenter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)
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>Even when ostensibly not functioning, the Xbox One can run in a low-powered state, ready to be snapped on at a moment's notice.

The same is true for most phones and tablets, and for laptops including Macbooks and Chromebooks(which is worse in some aspects since it has paltry storage forcing you to store everything in the cloud).

Phones are worse since people carry them everywhere including bathrooms and bedrooms. Not to mention Google Glass. Not sure why they're not a big deal but the Xbox One is.
tarsnap (http://www.tarsnap.com/) handles encrypted database backups, but I've never had to restore. Production database is replicated to two other machines (different data centers) anyway so needing to fall back to a backup would require a huge disaster.

But other than that:
* everything is in source code control, with clones of the repository in a few places
* AMIs for the production machines (copied to multiple AWS regions for redundancy) Only taken every couple of months since they are just a pull & build away from being up to date.
* Google/Dropbox for email, documents, etc using TrueCrypt for sensitive stuff

I don't really see the need for a full traditional backup process. When I did use one, I never found the time to fully test the restore process frequently so would have to doubt how robust it was anyway!
...or use Facebook in a different browser (or Incognito), or specifically log out of Facebook when you're not using it.

Or only use it in the Facebook App on your phone, but never log your browser in to it.

"Logging in" is completely broken on the internet - no argument, there.
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As long as you control the device, there's nothing to fear.

Grab the source, build it and install it yourself. If your device doesn't support it, buy one that does. If you can't do it yourself, get used to be screwed in this brave new Orwelian world.
I would really like SQL to be database independent.
Whenever technology advances, industries based on the previous ways of doing things must die off, and the next generation of workers will work equally long and hard at new occupations. Horses vs. cars, domestic workers vs. washing machines, it has happened over and over.

It's inevitably hard on the disemployed workers, as many will be unable to retrain for whatever the new jobs demand. But this is only an argument for a "social safety net", not for resisting progress.

Unfortunately this is not the whole explanation of the shrinking of the middle class. The internet is only one factor and not the biggest. The main cause is corporate takeover of governments, leading to "financialization" (i.e., make money by trading things that are only indirectly based one real goods, without producing new value) [1], oligopolistic, rent-seeking industries [2] and lack of popular influence on governments.

1. e.g. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/financializatio...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Also note that slicing the data too many ways is also dangerous. Every time you slice the data a different way, you increase the chances that you will find a spurious correlation. It is very easy for a naive researcher to fail to adjust their p-values and mistake the spurious correlation for a real one. It is also very easy for a biased researcher to cherry-pick the correlations which match their expectations.
Me too! I ran into the same sort limitations, eventually hacked it into some sort of linux server. I've probably still got the pink guy at the bottom of some junk box somewhere.
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How Metadata Reveals More Than You Think
The difference is that the colonists had no recourse. "No taxation without representation" and all that. Without sending delegates to parliament, they had no channels to complain through, so rebellion was the only option. We could end the NSA completely by voting for candidates who support that.
As far as I've been able to determine, yes.
Even if it was in the same file, as long as it's in a different function it'll work.

If `undefined` is an argument name, it's only bound inside that function and nowhere else.
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He was was some might call an extremist in his views. It is slowly becoming common sense. I guess that's why we see him as a visionary. He discarded many chances at fortunes to do what he believed to be right.

Not many like that left. I know I sold out already.
I'm going to give it a try. I tried 500px but something about it seemed off. I use instagram and just started with flickr.
I have an old site that turned folders of photos into table based galleries which I coded up last century....
Amazon, Reddit and Yandex are also paying to Adblock Plus for whitelisting
Many of these "quirks" are just odd expectations on the author's part that were not fulfilled, but he does describe a few interesting odds and ends. And I agree completely about modules, importing, eggs, namespaces, and all that mess. One of the most refreshing things about learning Clojure after using Python for a while was the relative absence of confusion surrounding these issues, aided by Leiningen.
Warring Divisions: A lesson in company organization
How do you plan for a situation like this, and expect to know US' every step ahead of time?

I assume he didn't expect US would invalidate his passport that quickly, and get stuck in Russia. He wanted to flee to South America (Ecuador, most likely). But then he got stuck and Russia, and now he needs to adapt accordingly. Getting stuck in Russia wasn't in his plan, I believe.
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If you are willing to risk smuggling one in and are foolish enough to think they cannot detect the radio waves, then go for it.
There's already been a compelling story: the Stasi[1].

> By the 1970s, the Stasi had decided that methods of overt persecution which had been employed up to that time, such as arrest and torture, were too crude and obvious. It was realised that psychological harassment was far less likely to be recognised for what it was, so its victims, and their supporters, were less likely to be provoked into active resistance, given that they would often not be aware of the source of their problems, or even its exact nature. Zersetzung was designed to side-track and "switch off" perceived enemies so that they would lose the will to continue any "inappropriate" activities.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Operations
Our future is small computers + high speed internet available everywhere + online storage and services. Not the other way around.

There's a massive backlash against this now that we find it's a recipe for Big Brother.
"It is small enough to succeed on embedded systems and Androids.'

Right. (In fact, it can succeed anywhere. And it does.) But my point is that it's not _presented to the user_ in a form that makes reducing it to embeddable size or porting it to ARM easy. I compile my BSD systems from source. And small modifications are (compared to Linux) easy.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) and Busybox were the closest I saw to what I was looking for. But when you look at the Linux ecosystem, LFS seems so obscure. And how many people create their own customized Busybox? To pursue these objectives with Linux feels like moving against the grain. No one aims to assist you by making the system easy to comprehend and modify.

The people I see modifying Linux at the level I would want to modify it are just too far beyond my comfort level with C and assembly. I can't do what they do and believe my system will still be reliable. Not only that, it would take forever to do it. I'm just not smart enough to use Linux. As I said above, it's just too much work.
Business Lessons from Ender’s Game
The part about the CFPB is the next unknown hammer to drop. Consumers assume the CFPB is on their side. The truth is far murkier. For instance, the CFPB has requested and was granted detailed financial transaction information on at least 10 million Americans. Of course, they are claiming that "personally identifiable" is "extremely limited", but like the phone meta-data issue, it is clear detailed spending habits could be associated with certain individuals. At least they promise to destroy the data after holding it for 10 years...
Source: http://blogs.marketwatch.com/capitolreport/2013/07/09/cfpb-c...
I still see "Microsoft now has more than one million datacenters" in the article. Haven't read the whole thing, either.
When something of value to this community I dare to say yes.

For instance http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsmw5vkyxT1qba239.png
In the article they don't say if it's a re-writable device.

Supposing it's not, it would be useful only for big archives : you want to use the full 360 Tb available, because the crystal can be expensive. An average user don't have 360 Tb to write everyday.

If the crystal was cheap, or if you could build smaller crystals that store less Tb , it would be different.

As lifeformed said, nothing is said about the reading speed.
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I have some happy idea about this. But it never happen.
Personally, I despise Gladwell for making me look like an idiot whenever I have quoted him.

I came here just to find a place to post my standard Gladwell disclaimer:

I can not anti-recommend Gladwell enough. He is anti-knowledge, convincing you that you know something when you actually understand it less well after reading than before.
A "balanced" computer system used to follow the "one second" heuristic. (Is this named after somebody?) That is you should be able to offload temporary memory (core) to permanent storage in one second. And it should be able to execute a computation on every element of memory in one second too. I know this has held up through the gigaword generation. Leading edge computers, like a supercomputer, may be unbalanced where one of these factors lags.
of course :). This seems to be the book to which the code belongs http://www.amazon.com/Climbing-Mount-Improbable-Richard-Dawk...
The problem with Ballmer has always been that the man has literally no vision. I saw him speak once and have questions afterwards. He was actually a very good speaker but when the questions came the whole thing fell apart. Someone asked him to tell us his future direction for MS and his answer was some vague sci-fi nonsense.

Who does a talk, allows questions and doesn't realize this question will be asked? Or maybe he did and thought what he described was some kind of vision. The difference is, if you had asked Steve Jobs what his vision was he would have told you things that you would realize he could achieve and probably have some idea of the steps. What Ballmer said was completely generic and there was no reason to imagine MS needed to be involved in any of it. Worse, there wasn't really a compelling argument to even have what he was talking about (some kind of shitty voice recognition software that sends anything I say to the person I referred to by first name. And this I should trust to the inventors of the blue screen? Right).
Agree except for recommending SJD. They are a good accountancy firm but when I was with them they would only do my accounts through a really horrid excel spreadsheet. This time round I've gone with http://www.nimblejackaccounting.co.uk/ who bundle an account with freeagent (which is probably the best contractor accounting package out there) AND the set up of your limited company in their monthly fee.

If you're going to go contracting don't bother with an umbrella company! It's absolutely ridiculous how tax efficient you can be as a limited company (especially if you can set up you significant other as a director). You're looking at just under £40k per director completely free of personal tax and NI if you set it up right. You still have to pay corporation tax and some VAT on that amount and there's all the overhead of managing the company, but it's seriously worth it - especially with a good accountant!