skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would seem to be demonstrably false given the large number of news sources stating that his passport was "revoked", and also given this language on the State Dept website:

Passport revocation may be effected when ... the person would not be entitled to a new passport under 22 CFR 51.70 (a) or (b)

When is a person not entitled to a new passport under 22 CFR 51.70 (a) or (b)?

A federal or state law enforcement agency may request the denial of a passport on several regulatory grounds under 22 CFR 51.70 and 51.72. The principal law enforcement reasons for passport denial are a federal warrant of arrest, a federal or state criminal court order, a condition of parole or probation forbidding departure from the United States (or the jurisdiction of the court), or a request for extradition. The HHS child support database and the Marshals Service WIN database are checked automatically for entitlement to a passport.

http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/info/info_870.html

It is also common for a passport to be revoked when a child is abducted or in custody cases (to prevent the minor from being taken out of the country), see http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/family/family_864.html under "Assistance to Law Enforcement Agencies in Abduction Cases", so the entire idea that it is not legal for the State Department to revoke a passport seems to be based on incomplete information.

Also see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_passport#Administ... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_passport#Applicat...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haig_v._Agee

What is your source that it is illegal for the State Department to revoke a passport?
I like the new control pad definitions.

One of the problems I have with GE microwaves is that the number pad isn't always for entering time - if you touch "2" in preparation for entering 20 seconds, you get programmed time #2. Unless you hit the "Time" button first... Bad design, General Electric.
He doesnt need to be interrogated. He is exposing an international fraud. If he is what he says he is, all he has to do is say Hi and the rest will follow.
Sadly our parent company uses HP to handle all security and computer support/installation. Around here they are known as Helpless People.
Very nice project.

One thing that it seems to miss (that all microwaves that I know miss) and that would probably be very easy to implement is a mute button for late night snacks.
Congratulations. That might be the creepiest suggestion I've ever heard on HN.
You have to build a culture where this is unacceptable through laws that are enforced with sufficient vigor. And as we've seen, you (the public) have to keep constant vigilance for oversteps and "correct" those oversteps through a process of holding government and private individuals accountable.
^ this. Please provide a migration tool.
I think you cannot trust anything that is not behind an air gap and powered by a source not connected in the general grid.
>NSA has their own factory in which they produce their own chips and computers

Citation or evidence?
You could just make ~/.ssh/config a symlink to your config file in your dropbox folder. No need to put private keys on dropbox.
Somebody "friends" me on LinkedIn, I accept. If I need to contact that person and I don't have their email, I go into LinkedIn and send them a message.

So it's essentially a backup in case my address book fails. I'll pop in there maybe a dozen times a year. That's not exactly using their service.
Latency and mission. If you don't have line of sight with the drone, you've got multisecond latency on input, that's not suitable for fighter aircraft, though is not deal breaking for recon and air-to-ground (bombs or missiles). So fighter drones require the pilots to have line of sight to be effective in combat, which means you need control of ground or sea assets within range of the air combat theater. That's not a given in war. Though, at present, this is probably a given for the current activities of the US DOD, you can't base future planning on current conditions.

That said, F-35 is a clusterfuck. Military contractors have had so little oversight, and are such terrible planners, (particularly of software) that most projects that depend on a significant software component are guaranteed to have cost and time overruns, with little repercussion except for the poor program manager that was thrown into the deep end and drowned.
And all of this is legal? Does this mean anyone can put up a camera on his dashboard, roof and capture these info?
i dont believe that for a second /hey kyle how about you send my bitcoins back to the adress they came from
It's powerline-shell
https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell
If you can just drug people to tell the truth why doesn't the FBI just drug the Guantanamo detainees or in fact why don't we just drug every suspected criminal arrested on probable cause?
Really? Larger aircraft have a larger cross-section for enemy radar and missiles, and are likely to have worse thrust/weight ratios and maneuverability (square-cube law). Combat range and ammo capacity scales with size up to a point, but if you can make a smaller drone with the same range and armament as a normal fighter then it would surely be more useful in most respects.
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Reminds me of The Onion's take on Modern Warfare franchise with "most true to life military game ever created with the majority of gameplay spent hauling equipment and filling out paperwork."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5tRNs2X5Q4
I can't say I harbor any great animosity towards road builders in Germany in the 1930s.
Seems that it's still a fine place for successful writers to sometimes publish, but it's not the road to success for anyone.
unless you can physically prove he has a valid US passport everything indicates it's been cancelled.

Recent chatter suggests he's had a world passport issued:

https://twitter.com/worldcitizengov/status/35434221478205440...
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Because America never interrogates people at its airports or images their laptops under far less suspicious circumstances?
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I am pretty sure it doesn't work that way. :)
Not only that, but I told everyone who was interested (myself included) to apply for an invite, and we all got one a few days later, so it was definitely rather open to play.
While that may be a desirous outcome for the US, the fact is his passport completely valid is still in his physical possession and he may travel freely to any place that does not have extradition treaties with the US. And your comment only pertains to "felony arrest warrants" and not the reasons or probable cause for those warrants which are restricted by federal law when it comes to passport revocation.
Let's not equivocate on the term "restricted". My software is more restricted by your government if it doesn't recognize the public domain, but that is entirely different from (for example) saying that the GPL is more restricted than the MIT license.

I understand this distinction won't matter to someone in such a country who wants to use my code while remaining legally compliant. My own feeling is that in such a country, I would carry on writing software and stop worrying about legal compliance.
No, you don't have to pay to be competitive in LoL. But a lot of players don't want to be competitive, they just want to have all the options of the game available to them (which they never will unless they pay money).
Looks like the pilots were blinded: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6025618
Even if they aren't, this makes a good point that a country should make it safe to return, even give some incentive, to somebody who knows a lot of stuff you don't want other countries to know...
Installed. Nice little utility. As others probably do, I have ~/.ssh/config set up so that it's as easy as `ssh us1` to SSH into a server.
I think you do have to ask yourself what reasons the Russian government would have to not be interested in talking to Snowden as much as they possibly can, and the answer would be there are almost no reasons why it would not be in their self interest to do so - just as any other government would have extreme amounts of self-interest to talk to a self-confessed offensive hacker from another country's intelligence service.
Do you also delete their data from all your database backups?
It's not a bad argument, there's just better ones.

For example, while I oppose it on philosophical grounds, I don't see an NSA operator exploiting my email credential for any personal purpose.

It's perfectly possible to be crushed by a system without any of those operating the levers knowing or feeling anything personally about you. Systemic exploitation, a corrupt system if you will, is hardly better than corrupt individuals within a system, and the most horrific things in history all were rather apersonal, that's kinda what allowed them to reach an otherwise impossible scale, ferocity and longevity.

People distrusting people while trusting faceless agencies is the problem, not the solution.
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Because testifying under the influence of psycho altering substances won't hold up in court of probably any modern nation.
Having plenty of experience both with languages that do and do not allow "operators" in variable names, it's not actually confusing in practice. You quickly learn that whitespace is very significant in those languages, and then you read them differently. This isn't any different than indentation in Python, line breaks in Ruby, or sigils in C++.
I think it is highly disingenuous of Greenwald to be angry that a news organization is quoting anonymous sources for their opinion as 1) the original NYT article makes it very clear that it was just an opinion and 2) anonymous sources has very often been the bedrock of his own reporting (as in the original Verizon FISA story).
They've also got drones tested for mid-air refueling. Work is being done on both having the drones hook up to be refueled, and for drone refuelers. IIRC, the last test got them flying in formation correctly, but they didn't actually connect the hose.
(http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/print/volume-9/iss...)
Can guides be viewed offline? Perhaps allowing users to export them as PDFs?

I'd hate to put in weeks of work only to find my work lost when I need it due to network issues, the site closing, ect.
Because those drugs don't really work. It's like getting someone drunk and then asking them questions. It makes it harder to lie effectively because you have trouble thinking and people may trust people the shouldn't nothing we know about can force you to be truthfull.

tl;dr difficulty lying != forced to tell the truth
Since most chips come from China how hard would it be for the chinese government to embed back doors in the chips firmware/logic?
It's certainly interesting to think about, at least: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.ru/2009/06/more-thoughts-...

Given the huge downside of a CPU exploit leaking or being detected, I'd expect them to be used very sparingly if at all. This XKCD comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/538/
megapixels are pretty meaningless.

A decent bottom end DSLR (Nikon D3100 for example) will run rings around it simply because of the sensor size and optics.
Hi PStamatiou,

We have certainly thought about giving direct access to customers Glacier accounts and behind the scenes each customer has their own glacier "vault" for potentially this reason. But for many customers they would prefer a set-it and forget it type of service. We didn't want a barrier of first create an glacier account then call us...

We also then didn't know what to do if a customer then changes their glacier files... if we are syncing with Lightroom and this gets out of whack... then it defeats the purpose of the automated sync with your local files. If it just "read only" access, we are already providing this with our App.

I think the difference in what we are providing in online backup is that we are not a pure cloud where we encourage you to delete your local file - We actually want to sync with your local files. Our philosophy on the workflow side is that changes that you make to your files on the App, should be reflected locally in your Lightroom catalog file. This way you always own your own data.

I agree with you on the site redesign... have had our head down on this. Good news is that the design is approved and being implemented as we speak (although won't be out for a couple weeks.)

Thanks again and happy to answer any other questions. Best, Gerard
It could probably be considered public though and therefore freedom of association wouldn't apply.
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Really great project, and well documented too!
not at the moment, but it's a great idea. We oppose vendor lock-in of any kind - so we'll definitely look into adding offline access and export features. Thanks!
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He needs to stop playing devils advocate. It's painfully obvious you are right. Why on earth would you want someone to leech information from a hacking convention to be used against those very same people? Fuck that. Ban whoever you need to ban.
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I must have missed that. Thanks!
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Is the not-vertically-aligned design by choice? It's very disturbing IMHO
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FYI it takes 14 days to permanently delete the account. They wait for 14 days, if signed in before that you are given an option.
There might be a special case for the 737 & 777. What I have read is that Boeing designed the cockpit of the 777 to match that of the 737, and so the type rating is mostly transferable between the two.
The price of invites on the Steam Marketplace has been about $0.03 since January (and there were several bots that collected invitations and handed them out to applicants).
Just to be clear here... Your Lightroom catalog is very important but is not backing you your Photos. (which I know you said at the end. I am just emphasizing)

Your LR catalog contains your photo edits, metadata and history... but is not your original files. Backing it up is very important but is only part of the story. Putting your Lightroom catalog backups on Dropbox is a great and should be done by everyone. (Again just not your active catalog.)
How close is this to a full-blown 3D CAD program (i.e. Solidworks)?
The text you quote literally contains the phrase "old-fashioned physical property rights".

It seems to preempt the question you are asking. I get the sense that the "old-fashioned property" in the last sentence is referring to physical stuff as much as to software.
Properly, projects lacking licensing information are known as "license-free software":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License-free_software

http://ar.to/2010/12/licensing-and-unlicensing
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Yea, we know the name Flock is not unique but it's so good at embodying the functionality of the app we decided to stick with it.
I agree that the law should be the first defense. But the NSA aren't the only criminals we have to worry about - there's run of the mill crooks too. Like the disgruntled network engineer at your job, the guy baiting his neighbours with open wifi, the dodgy stalker dude who happens to work for an ISP. Laws wont protect you from people who are willing to break them.
> Unless he travels to a country that the US can throw Interpol at him, he is a free man.

until he gets kidnapped to another jurisdiction.
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I think the outcry of how "creepy" it is that an app is selling men access where women live is going to overshadow any possible profit. As soon as the media begins beating that drum, Apple will pull the app to avoid bad press and may just issue refunds too.
What Snowden is going through: http://xkcd.com/538/
The general population of devs seem to have this misunderstanding. Since many just Do Their Jobs and don't release personal projects (and thus feel they have no immediate need to understand copyright and licensing), it's understandable.

I'm now curious how many of these intersect with the crowd that thinks when I've released my own code under the GPL, that I must never make use of that code (that I own the rights to) in some proprietary project.
> Not having a LICENSE.txt does not make Github projects
> public domain.

+1. From the U.S. Copyright Office FAQ:

> Do I have to register with your office to be protected?
>
> No. In general, registration is voluntary. Copyright
> exists from the moment the work is created. You will
> have to register, however, if you wish to bring a
> lawsuit for infringement of a U.S. work... [1]

(Many other countries have similar rules.)

This is why open source projects often require a "contributor agreement" when submitting patches.

[1] http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html
Sounds like you'd like the game Smite, then. League of Legends doesn't play like an RTS so much either, though.
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I completely agree with what this blog post says. I would never write for Medium unless they come up with a model where the writers get paid for X amount of revenue for their posts.

Ideally the revenue model of advertisements... 70 / 30 payout in favor of writer. If the went down this road and made it successful, then that would be something.

But even if they did that. Why not just host your own blog if your writing is doing so well and making money?
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I think the lesson here is that people should stop just thinking of Valve as just a games company. And as has been noted below, dota is an insane money maker. Add to that, tf2 is now self funded through people making virtual hats. This isn't the signs of a company sitting on its laurels.

Can Valve make the next episode of Half Life as well as Naughty Dog might? Probably not. I can understand where you're coming from, but still think that if you look at the pile of games they've made, add in steam, the f2p systems they're developing and moonshots like the steambox etc, you find a company both involved and agile, not slow and monolithic. But that's just, like, my opinion!
Thanks to the regulations, there were suckers who assumed that someone else was ensuring things were copacetic. Foxes hunt in the chicken coop if one is available, and wolves go for the sheep pen if they can find one.
In hindsight, just wondering if running around the world is any better than giving yourself up to the local police. Given the media spotlight he is under, wonder if there would be a repeat of what happened with Manning. He might have got more support too.

I mean if you are passionate enough about your beliefs to throw your life away why not face the consequences head on. Sort of like a King or Gandhi. I realize its an unfair question to ask, but it would seem that sitting in some South American country or Russia without knowing anyone constantly looking over your shoulder is equivalent to sitting in jail.
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I agree with p8952, pdf export would be great. Having integration with services like pocket or readability might make sharing easier also. Alternatively, you could add ifttt support and let the user choose their own service. Great job! I will be using you service.
You understand that most federal employees were as unaware as the general public, right? Just being a federal employee doesn't grant omniscience about all the government's activities. Lumping them all together isn't like saying Google did this, or Microsoft did that. It's more like saying, the tech industry did this (when really it was 2 or 3 companies, and just departments or divisions within them). It's nonsensical. If you're a pacifist are you going to blame the entire aerospace industry for building military aircraft, even the companies that don't have military contracts? Are you going to blame all software companies because a few write DRM software?

We're entering into a baby-with-the-bathwater situation here. Straight up defense is considered, by most, to be good. The interstate system (as a whole, some regions and sections, not so much) enables a great deal of commerce. These fall under the purview of the federal government, should we toss them out as well? Or should we have a more measured and less emotionally induced (panic and fear and hate) response?
Which is why the phone generates a 8MP picture with the extra information from the 41M and reducing noise.

http://c699379.r79.cf3.rackcdn.com/Nokia%20808%20Pureview%20...

Perhaps read the whitepaper before knocking it down as meaningless?

http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/849564/data/2/-/Download1.pdf

If you're comparing a phone camera with a DSLR, that's already saying something.

Here's a review of the technology by a digital photography site.

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/8083837371/review-nokia-808...
My team works like this with a twist. You merge your own pull request. You have developers, designers, pm's, etc to help review the change. You use them if you need them and you take responsibility for your bugs. We'll drop everything to review someone else's pull, and in turn that happens for your own pulls.
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That has to be a misprint. although it appears to be spread all over the place. If you took photos at full resolution all you would achieve is using up all your disk space and making it harder to sync with other devices etc.

Unless I have really missed something this must be a mistake.

Edit: As noted by jcarney it looks like the high MP sensor is sampled down to create smaller files with high quality over-sampled pixels. That is quite exciting.
Transfers still only send to one recipient at a time, no? At least, this is how the documentation reads (recipient_id is taken as a parameter as opposed to recipient_id
). Also, my problem is that you need to send a different request for each payout, when many times (i.e. shopping carts) you'd want to send every charge in one request.
Right, that looks like the thing that I missed. Thanks for the link :)
These just look like blog posts to me with numbers. Am I missing something?
Absolutely fantastic and inspiring story! I like your point that it's more than lifting. If you don't eat well, and don't get enough sleep, you do all that effort lifting to not get a benefit. Kind of like working for 8 hours and saying, "You only need to pay me for 5."

One question though... Doesn't your theory of "Just add weight" apply to running too? Instead of weight, you add speed. So if 10km over three 25 minute workouts gets too easy, then run 11 in the same time. Then 12... Then 13... Keep the target intensity (heart rate) the same. Similar applies to biking, swimming, incline walking, or any other cardio activity.
Yes, in the US, the current state of the law is that anything done in public is fair game for anyone - there is no expectation of privacy when in public.

However, this point of law was determined back in the late 60's or early 70's, back when the concept of an indexed database of millions of permanent records of essentially everybody in public was barely even the stuff of science fiction, much less everyday fact. I think we are long overdue for a revaluation of the legal situation given the drastic change in circumstances of the last 40 years.
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Zach, awesome stuff, hadn't noticed that Nightweb was in the public domain. We've added a link to your project just now in the Unlicense.org featured project list:

http://unlicense.org/#unlicensed-free-software
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