skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure this will just further your impression of the general sentiment, but I want to try to explain it as a US citizen. The biggest problem many people have with what the NSA has been revealed to be doing is that it breaks laws regarding the US government's ability to invade the privacy of its citizens, and it does so in secret, precluding real democratic oversight. While spying on foreigners may be unsavory, it does not fundamentally break our government the way (secretly) spying on citizens does.
You're right. I can give you a fair share of personal anecdotes and general social lore related to rising unemployment for STEM-or-finance-educated people. I can point to first principles and proofs by enumeration. I can't provide examples of "elimination of an entire class of human skill and subsequent failure to move labour up the skill ladder" because this transformation is - I believe - underway, not yet finished.

Regarding the "skill class elimination", as far as I have read, basic manufacturing is already done; i.e. it's not completely automated only because robots are still a bit more expensive than low-wage workers. But even in China this seems to be changing (in favour of robots).
I risk the dangers of writing to a 10days old post..

You can use LLVM and CLANG to write the sensor tools, bypassing the entire "Stack of Software", could result in sub-millisecond reaction time.
You are rephrasing what I said in the wrong way. I didn't make a comment on the status quo, just on the notion that everybody has to work 40 hours.
Not just G+ buttons either. How many websites these days _arent_ running Google Analytics?
What, did you expect bitcoin to suddenly create an anonymous economy out of thin air? Unless you can create value, and then charge bitcoin anonymously for that value you have to convert previous holdings into bitcoin. You can do so anonymously via cash P2P. But if you would like to convert funds from the current system, you have to 1) use the current system 2) play by their rules.

This really doesn't even hurt the anonymity of bitcoin anyway, simply buy your bitcoins, run them through a tumbler, and voila, out comes anonymity.
True, so unless the quinoa is the same (flavor, texture, cooking, etc) across different varieties, people might prefer lower yield vars or nutritionally poorer varieties.
While I agree about Quinoa, there's a lot of variance in rice. Lately we buy the more expensive thai jasmine rice at the asian stores, and it's like night/day difference in quality vs. the cheap stuff.

And since you're using a cooker, do you have the cheapo one, or a high-end cooker that can do slow cooks? The slower it cooks the more flavor it tends to have, IMHO.

But yeah, unless you're doing say, basmati brown rice (lowest glycemic load), rice isn't exactly densely nutritious compared to it's calorie/glycemic load.
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Just to vouch, though not in Facebook's case, it is complicated.

Many sites use a CDN (Akamai, Limelight, Amazon's Cloudfront, etc.). The whole idea of a CDN is that it distributes content. Even if the origin goes away (your copy), the CDN may continue serving it for a long time. If someone has a specific item URL within that network, they can still access it. Working with CDN APIs to delete content (especially if, say, that content has various instances based on sizes, previews, etc.,) can be ... interesting.

And if third parties are presenting your content, they might also persist it, say as a Google preview or cache, or Archive.org, or other tools.

Even within your own systems, data can be replicated in ways which are difficult to access fully. Backups can exist which cannot be easily accessed for wiping. There are war stories of magically re-appearing data resulting from data recovery operations.

So, while it's possible to flag content as "don't present" pretty easily, actually rooting all of it out thoroughly can be a much more involved task.

Un-seeing is difficult.
Have you tried using the https://pushover.net/ action channel? There are quite a few recipes that rely on it for push notifications and it covers both iOS/Android.
I was thinking mostly about the remote vs local aspect. You are right that speculating on your motivation seems misguided. Although perhaps it's also not totally far fetched to assume that somebody with a family would want to spend some time with said family.
This could be "fixed" by holding USD for 6 months and then converting it to BTC, but it's still fairly pointless.
No pill can heal that wound. Imagine you're a Government worker with 15y of experience. You would automagically think about the public as "them". If you're an Admin or IT-Guy, you "already" do that, by separating you from the "Common User".

And guess what, there is nothing wrong with this. It doesn't produce bad habits or bad intentions, because this is totally dependant on the persons character.
Though that will result in a lot more calls to Count(). A let would fix that.
Ron Paul would have gotten rid of the one thing they think the government does do for them, as well as a number of things they don't notice.
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This is also called an "infinite loop"?

djb uses this a lot.
This makes a huge difference, and is how I prefer it as well.
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2005/03/thoroughly_m...

"In Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, a village of beleaguered peasants seeks to protect itself from marauding bandits by hiring a squad of samurai. To show their esteem, they offer up precious white rice to the warriors, saving only lowly millet for themselves. "
"the point"? no. More of a side effect, but something that alot of folks have clung to. In reality it's pseudo-anonymous, and depending on your interpretation, it's the opposite on anonymity: all transactions are conducted in the open. (the exchange of currency that is; not the underlying identity of item of value on the other side of the transaction)
Ahh ok, I misread what he was saying! Missed that > at the beginning.
I'm probably overly sensitive to this, being a "non-US person", but I'm constantly reading "with a court order" as "either with a court order, or with a 51% suspicion that one of the two parties to the communication is not a US citizen - in which case we can do what we like"
Sure but I see many repositories (and gists) with interesting things, with comments and other indicators saying thanks for the code, but with no license. This means people are taking things anyway, which the authors seem okay with. This is not okay, safe, stable, or sustainable.
Well I'm all for that outside of safety, transparency, and abuse regulations.
Thanks for the suggestions; I think I need to add a few zero's to keep two girls going ;)

More specifically, I am looking for an experience.
Like boot camp, new skill, new job, charity work or back packing. Something to broaden my horizons; I have never lived outside Ireland.

With limited time and money what is the best investment I can make?
The reason staples are staples is because they're cheapest per calorie. There probably are not replacements that are as cheap per calorie. Remember that subsistence farmers tend to be geographically isolated so you can't assume they have access to the same food products you do.
> Looks like somebody wants to nominate themselves for a government contract.

Interesting how when the news media baselessly questions the motives of whistleblowers it's a "smear campaign." When someone on HN does it to someone who's vaguely pro-NSA it's the top comment.
The purpose of bitcoin is that the user controls it. It's about trust. Do you trust a bank with your money? Cypriots sure found out the hard way when their bank accounts were suddenly frozen. Do you trust a government with your currency? Argentinians sure don't as they're experiencing 10-20% inflation rates. Bitcoin allows you to store your wealth without being fleeced by currency controls of parasitic central banks. It's refreshing and quite profitable.
I had a look at Haskell, but i wonder whether Haskell couldn't become an abstraction mess either once the project reaches a certain size.

Every time i have a look at Haskell snippets, i feel like i'm reading math. I'd like to read code like i read english...
At one company I worked for, everyone in the acquired group I worked with was Mormon. They were all chill, awesome people! My thought about it at the time was, "Damn, if Mormons are all like this, it might be awesome to join!" Not that I would, but they were all awesome folks.
No native development kit is a non-starter for me personally.

Apple tried to go the same route with the original iPhone and there's a very good reason why it wasn't successful -- and it wasn't just the state of JavaScript technology at the time.

If Apple can't do without a native SDK and Google can't, I don't know why Mozilla thinks it can.
I have an issue with Coinbase. I have an account that I opened a few months ago but didn't use. I'm trying to sign into it now, and it brings me to a screen asking for a code from "Authy" (whatever that is) or Google Authenticator.

Ok, so I grab GA again. GA wants me to setup an account using a key provided by Coinbase. Coinbase has never provided such a key to me, as I have never setup GA to work with them before.

Fine, click "Code not working" and they'll text the code to you. Why they don't do this to begin with, I have no idea. Anyway, its now been 15 minutes and no text has come through.

Exactly what is a user supposed to do when their entire login system is broken and offers no information on what to do?

Please, please, PLEASE test your systems BEFORE you go public and make big announcements.
I still don't understand. If a farmer produces 10 units of quinoa and sell 4 every year, they'll still produce 10 units no matter what the price is. They'll still be able to sell 4 units, and still be able to consume 6. The only difference would be that farmers will make more of a profit selling the 4 units.

The only possible explanation would be that the resources (farming equipment, seeds, fertilizer?) required to grow the crop go up in price as the price of the crop does - in which case, blame the suppliers of these resources.
Thanks!

The only detail I was interested in was the timing; the Wikipedia citation of 2006, which I will stop using, did strike me a bit recent.
Not particularly cool but one thing I use it for it saving photos I post to Instagram to my Dropbox. Another use case was posting Instagram photos to a Facebook page. I had the page under a separate account from my personal one which made using Instagram's native integration a pain (it kept trying to pair with my Facebook app which was logged into my personal account).
The second I hear "XMission", I remember Maddox's website (http://maddox.xmission.com/).

Maybe I spend too much time on the internet.
Here's a couple I've been playing with:

* RSS to email: Use this a lot for important but infrequently updated feeds

* Email me whenever someone posts something for free in my city on Craigslist (fun but had to disable this after a couple of days--useful for more specific searches)

* Push screenshots from my iPhone to Dropbox - no more emailing screenshots to myself

* Push photos from the "Flickr" album on my iPhone to my Flickr account

* Email Instagram photos to my mom
What stops identity thieves from using these records too?
I admire this man for his willingness to stand by his convictions.
41 megapixel camera would make quite big images, even compressed.
Just my humble opinion but for loops seem unnecessary in high level languages (the kind with GC). Vectors make more sense to me on this level (APL, J, etc.). I consider for loops as better fit for low level languages that don't automatically manage memory for the programmer (like C).
I also have recipes for my instagrams (and the instagrams of a few friends) to be put in a special folder in my Dropbox. Then (so I don't waste space on my Dropbox) I have a cron that periodically moves them into a local folder on my Mac. And I then occasionally load up that folder as the screen saver photos on my Apple TV. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to make that last step automatic.
There is no next step. ASIC is the end-all be-all.

(Not even quantum computing can help - there is no known algorithm to help find SHA256 preimages, which is what would be necessary for a Bitcoin mining breakthrough.)
I once volunteered at a hospital where they made use of a smart card security system - among other things, it would log you out if you removed your card from the reader. This closed all the programs you were running - and logging back in was a slow process.

Needless to say, the smart cards stayed in the users' PCs even when they weren't at their desks.
You need to ensure your OAuth tokens are revoked, or they might trigger a "re-login" (i.e., visit TechCrunch, forum uses OAuth token to log you into Facebook forums).

You can do this by changing your password right before you delete your FB account, as that is supposed to revoke OAuth tokens.
I'd just like to point out that `cryptography' is _not_ just about testing that `decrypt(encrypt(msg)) == msg`. memfrob'ing a region of memory does this, but would we consider that a 'secure' encryption scheme? I don't think so . . .

Even if it was -- how do you unit-test a PRNG to ensure the output is uniformly random? How do you ensure you don't have collisions in a hash function? How can you ensure that there's no replay attack on your protocol? How can you use unit-testing to demonstrate that there is no hole in your protocol like, say, when the Germans repeated the key twice at the beginning of the message while using Enigma?

These are all very real and valid cryptography concerns. Sorry if this sounds snarky, but in all seriousness -- I'm very curious as to how you would unit-test these.
"Protest. Lobby. Seek publicity. Take the government to court. Put up a fight."

I'll let you know how that goes from here in Sydney, Australia.

Yeah,I'm not a US citizen. None of the "with a valid court order" weasel-words apply to me.
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You might try Authy. It's been working well for me.
Here are my current favorite IFTTT recipes for my phone:

Screenshots to Dropbox - Add my iPhone screenshots to a Dropbox folder
Post Instagram pictures

Voicemail to Soundcloud - Leave a voicemail for IFTTT and post it to Soundcloud as a private track

Siri to Evernote - Create a Reminder list "Evernote". Use Siri to add a new reminder to the "Evernote" list. Append the reminder as a note to an Evernote notebook.
This doesn't compute.

1/2 work * 2x wages * 2x employment = 8 * cost per unit of work done.
You could travel southeast asia relatively cheaply. Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, India, etc, or stick to a couple countries for longer periods.
Yes, but Quinoa is farmed in countries ruled by populist left-wing democracies. If the poor subsistence farmers were somehow being screwed by this massive inflow of cash, do you really think Hero Of The People types like Morales or Maduro wouldn't find some way to protect them? It's not like we're talking about corporate dictators here.

I mean, there's a lot of faults in Latin American populist leftist politics, but this kind of thing is the sort of stuff they're supposed to excel at.
Non-farmers in Peru used to be able to afford food. In a sense, they were getting discount-priced quinoa.

Now, farmers are selling quinoa to foreigners, so the farmers are making more money, but everyone else is paying more for food.

One solution would be to impose some sort of tax, to share the windfall quinoa profits with the former customers, or cooperative community ownership of the farms. Or farmers spending their increased profits on the labors of other locals in the community.
I agree with your sentiment.

It's worthwhile to note that people have often stated that the Constitution is not a "suicide pact". We are free (as a people) do what needs to be done to preserve our union. Whatever your political persuasion, it cannot be denied that bad actors are trying to coordinate and plan attacks against "soft" targets inside the United States and abroad. This is not a theoretical problem. It's real.

What is extremely unsavory about this entire affair is that the entire citizenry has somehow become a suspect. Every snippet of our communiques, interests, and associations is now considered "fair game". This has been done without ANY meaningful discussion in the public sphere. We, as a people, have been misled and our desire to understand what our government has been doing has been ignored. This is wrong.

I don't agree with Snowden's actions. I think he handled it the wrong way if what he wanted was to bring attention to this state of affairs. There are many who feel like he might have done this for personal glory or with traitorous intent. I'm not convinced one way or another, but I'm not happy with how this has unfolded.

I'm glad that there are enough people paying attention to this devils bargain we've made in the pursuit of security and I hope we get some resolution before things go back to the status quo.

We need to have a national conversation about this. The sooner the better. If there is a silver lining in Snowden's actions, I hope this is it.
> brown rice tastes bad

To you, maybe. I prefer it, mainly because it has a taste, especially compared to white rice.

Also, trying to live on white rice can lead to beriberi because white rice, shorn of the husk, bran, and germ, is vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficient: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriberi

> has anti-nutrients that block absorption of B vitamins and minerals like magnesium

This is the first I've heard of this.

This source seems to contradict it:

http://web.mit.edu/athletics/sportsmedicine/wcrvitamins.html

> THIAMIN (B1)

> Food Sources

> Fortified breakfast cereal or wheat germ breakfast cereal, soybeans, peanuts, sunflower seeds, peanuts, brazil nuts, whole grains, pork, oatmeal, whole wheat, hazelnuts, brown rice, rye, pinto beans, red beans, millet, buckwheat, frozen peas, walnuts, garlic, pumpkin seeds, potatoes, chicken.

This source also doesn't mention it, and it's all about the nutritional deficiencies of rice, including brown rice:

http://www.ask.com/explore/negative-nutritional-value-rice-5...

The closest it comes is a warning about inhibiting the uptake of zinc and iron. In fact, it explicitly calls out the vitamin B content of brown rice as being very good, especially compared to white rice.

So, do you have any sources to share with us?
Ok, so admittedly that was a lesser circle joke.
Facebook uses CDNs; how is it not complicated in the way you describe for them too?
You're missing a lot more than the exciting part. You need to wake up yourself, go back and read it again then come back and tell us how to to all that with samba (of all things).
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MS has also focused a lot on security in its WebGL support. For example, it security audits the drivers.
See http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lawmakers-say-adminis... from the Washington Post.
See the following paragraph on the page 1: "“The national security state has grown so that any administration is now not upfront with Congress,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee. “It’s an imbalance that’s grown in our government, and one that we have to cleanse.”"
as well as the last 5 paragraphs:

(para 1) Clapper’s statement prompted some lawmakers to allege what Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) called a “double standard” in which a top official could deliver false testimony without fear of penalty.

(para 2) “If the administration has a policy to lie to Congress about classified materials in unclassified hearings, then you have to ask yourself what value the hearings have and whether or not anyone else is doing it,” said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.).

(para 3) Some are calling for a major overhaul of the current oversight system, including the intelligence committees and the surveillance court, which were created in the late 1970s amid growing concern about U.S. spy practices following Watergate, the Vietnam War and revelations about CIA efforts to overthrow foreign governments.

(para 4) Congress “tried to make agencies which have to operate in secret accountable nevertheless to the law,” said former vice president Walter F. Mondale, who as a senator was a member of the Church Committee, which led the efforts to overhaul the system.

(para 5) Now, Mondale said, “that system has totally collapsed.” He said Clapper’s willingness to mislead the public during Senate testimony “is what happens when there’s no accountability. . . . What is the consequence of fibbing to the American people?”

This seems to indicate to me that some congressmen are indeed interested in changing things around.
He's not even vaguely pro-NSA. He's pro-openness. The fact that this is the top comment is sad and its a testament to knee-jerk reactions in echo chambers around the world. There's a difference between the government as an entity and individuals who are employed by them. Feds attending DEF CON aren't really Feds, their security guys like everyone else there. Depending on the context one could be a fed first and other things second but at DEF CON that's not the case and barring a certain group of people turns it into a situation where you're labelled based on what you don't have in common with other attendees rather than being welcomed because of what everyone at the even shares.
Really? I find it tastes close-enough to rice that I can substitute it easily in my vegetarian cooking. For example, this recipe for quinoa-stuffed tomatoes I love:

http://cookieandkate.com/2011/stuffed-tomatoes-with-quinoa/
Buy quinoa, and find a way to support socialism in Peru.
My SMS code took a while because they didn't support Google Auth when I opened my account and trying to force Authy was just a stupid move. This is pretty standard two-auth fair though, I'm pretty sure you have to activate Authy to even open the account.
Couldn't that also be said when Microsoft started bundling Internet Explorer with Windows? Does it make it right? NO!

The truth is the tech industry politics is becoming as nasty as real politics. Smear campaigns by Microsoft against Google. Google trying to sabotage Windows mobile platform by actively excluding their core products. Apple and Samsung at copycat wars. Once the open world of computing is now turning into a war of ecosystems and we the consumers are the only ones standing to lose.
> If Apple can't do without a native SDK and Google can't, I don't know why Mozilla thinks it can.

Apple is a for-profit corporation that makes money off its market for native apps.

Google is a for-profit corporation that makes money off its market for native apps.

Mozilla is a non-profit organization whose mission to advance the open web.

Different goals, different requirements.
/me looks at his Nexus edition SGS4 sitting next to his VZW Galaxy Nexus.
Not only that, but every now and then Google Maps want to check something over the Internet and just locks itself with an undismissable spinner and "Loading" message until you find a connection.
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It's not very rare at all. It's rare if you compare it to grains, and while quinoa is not a grain, it is usually used instead of a grain. Many beans (e.g. white and black) and vegetables have a complete amino acid profile.