skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All questions about Kelly's policies and track record in NYC aside, what's interesting about this move on Obama's part is the utter vapidness of it. There's no reason to presume that the skills of leading a large (even one of the world's largest) police forces is in any way transferable to the task of running a sprawling federal agency like the DHS (if in fact it can be "run.") It's a completely alien environment, in fact.

But Kelly is being pumped for this job solely on the basis of stature -- and nothing else. If anything it's just another sign of how useless and zombie-like the DHS has become in the short time since it was created. Which pretty much everyone -- including, it would seem, Obama himself -- already knows on some level, though very few are willing to state openly.

Brings to mind that Leonard Cohen song:

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied...
People buy iPhones. A lot. iPads too. Macs - not so much.

It's not that russians are anti-Apple, it's Apple that neglected Russian market for a decade. iPhone got very popular anyway from the first days of American phones jailbreaks (even before apps, before that stuff, a lot of American phones were smuggled), iPod too (it's not so expensive anyway), but that's it. No hi-end gear.
> It was still possible then to track you as easily as it is now given the right amount of manpower or attention.

You realize that you contradict yourself in the same sentence? That's the kind of thing I tell people who ask me "Is so-and-so (technically very hard) possible?": "Most things are possible with enough time and money".

The fact is, technology makes previously impossible things possible, and previously difficult things easier. The law should absolutely account for that.
I've always wondered what is the objective of the poster behind these poles.

Are you trying to figure out if you are too young for something, if yes, then the answer is No you're not too young.

Are you trying to figure out if you are too old for something, then the answer is No, you're not too old.

If you're trying to figure out if you should fund someone, hire someone, have any sort of relationship with someone (regardless of the type of relationship, personal or business) based on some data, than I feel sad for you.

Did I miss anything?
The article specifically addresses this question:

> For a sense of scale, researchers at the University of Milan found in 2011 that everyone on the Internet was, on average, 4.74 steps away from anyone else.
That last bit is what worries me (9/11 not fresh in people's minds).

A disaster any day now facilit^H^H^H^H^H^H allowed to happen would serve the political status quo very well.

Am I being overly paranoid? I don't think the people in charge of the NSA shenanigans care one whit for loss of life if it would consolidate their power further.
If they control the code they can bypass the protections for their suspect as well.
How things get done? Through a combination of focus and personal connections. Focus at YC is “write code and talk to users”.

Here is the Charlie Rose interviews Paul Graham, YCombinator video:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14928956
Many people have argued that RSS is too complex compared to JSON... and to be fair it's clear now that every new API from every service is JSON based. At this point, XML is clearly on the way out for web people!
So ... this is kind of relevant, at least here on OS X:

http://xkcd.com/1015/

http://imgur.com/12yT8Ez
> However, this method is not reliable if you don't trust Google (or its infiltrators) because Google provides the clients that would do the hashing before sending the password

That is strictly true, but isn't it significantly more difficult for an infiltrator to (a) obtain Google's private code-signing key and push a compromised client build to devices; than (b) hack into a Google database and read the 'users' table...?
Yes, feedly is a browser extension, that you knew how to install Most people don't and most readers are not browser extensions...
The article noted people everyone on the internet is on average 4.74 hops from someone else. [1]

If they say "Two or three", that makes me believe that they have no constraints on it, and merely query as many hops' worth of data as is enough to give what they feel to be Enough. "Two or three" implies, IMO, "... to five".

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/technology/between-you-and...
It's not about "terrorism," it's about control.
Parsing JSON is also a solved problem. And JSON is also easier for humans to read than XML.
That's the same kind of attitude that caused the decade of "XML for everything, and damn the technical requirements".
Do you really think people who don't know what their browser is will install an extension or a bookmarklet?... Again, compare that experience to a click on "follow me on twitter" button.
Almost all Linux distributions without an Android userland have a nice selection of bitmap fonts that are noticeably thinner. I've never noticed ill effects in curses applications.

Your last sentence is confusing to me. RDP supports ClearType, and lossy compression is disabled by default (and only arrived in what, 2008 R2?.)
It would be for businesses that have a large customer base and are less concerned with having the latest features and are much more interested in stability.
There is a difference in separation too. Prism could be spying on you or me, while the torture programs are torturing someone somewhere. Not saying this is right, but direct impact tends to motivate people more.
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> All to refute a simple statement that logging might prove useful in such a circumstance.

I don't think that was goal. I think he was questioning whether invading the privacy of a huge amount of individuals is worth it for that cause. How critical is it to have 2 year's worth of car-location data at your fingertips for any investigation? The question is not whether kids ever get kidnapped, but whether such a gigantic dataset aids investigation in any way. A compromise would be to delete the data after a few days, similar to what happens in Minesota, according to the article.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_interests_(rhetoric...

edit: I mistakenly assumed that hvs and rayiner were the same person. There might be something to be said for your interpretation, but I would assume the best possible one.
Remember when a "bootstrapped startup" was simply called a "company"?
> It's going to take a pretty creative stretch to make this topic relevant to hackers.

Not that much of a stretch. Prosecutorial misconduct because a pretty big focus around here after Aaron Schwartz' death.

While I often find myself at odds with the views of the National Review and my thoughts on the Zimmerman situation are way more complex than "he's guilty" or "he's innocent", assuming this is all true, she sounds like exactly the sort of bad actor in the system that needs to be shut down.
Right, I'm talking about after any browser-based authorization has happened.
Try to keep as high a proportion as possible of employees focused on the core functions of coding and selling.

Outsource as much of your non core business as possible.

Simple ;-)
Appears to be a space; I think it's an intentional mistake to add to the message. (Which might also be the reason for "vision" to be a light color on a light color background)
Wardriving actually specifically refers to "the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by a person in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer, smartphone or personal digital assistant" per Wikipedia.

It looks like that blog post only states that they deleted the erroneously collected network data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving
"Not sure how this could possibly be helpful in an investigation if everyone is a suspect."

b/c it has nothing to do with an investigation...now blackmail and extortion??? That's another story.
But is parsing an RSS-like format that uses JSON a solved problem?
I agree, especially after reading about the NSA basically "Hoovering" all electronic communications since before I was born. (mid 1960's)
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Tap water with enough chlorine to kill mosquito eggs - let's play a game of 'where on earth is this!' (I keed I keed...)
and this 'creation' made it into front-page. WTF?
Generally when this happens I just inspect it with Chrome and change/remove the css that is preventing me from reading it.
Patrick runs not one, but TWO SaaS products as a solo entpreneur, runs a super-insightful blog, puts out info-products, and also runs this podcast.

We should all be so productive...
I don't want to know dogs and don't want to be forced to know dogs.
Just saying - I am not in favor of shooting nice dogs, but dog owners really should understand that they can't force their dog lives on other people.
On hard problems: Just because something is hard does not mean it is valuable. If you are succeeding at the moment I'd say you are doing so in spite of embracing this kind of thinking.

Challenge, Experimentation, Inspiration, Winning? They all sound very generic. If you truly have a culture it shouldn't sound like it could apply to any other company.
Title is pretty misleading, I expected it'd be something about the importance of pushing users to activate quickly in your product.

Instead, it's assorted tips for web app performance -- from someone who used to work at Twitter -- talking about his current side project.

At the end, he name drops other well-known front-end devs to show how cool he is.
Any chance you'll be adding/have Puppet support as well? We have our cart hitched pretty firmly to it at this point. Congrats on the upcoming release!
You're correct - if it's not useful to the investigation of the person who called Comcast, why would they look at everyone who has called Comcast?

Common sense says that they would not look at that data. If the response is "well they're power hungry, they'll look at whatever they want" then the discussion about the number of hops used is irrelevant since a power-hungry and abusive organization would find no value in limits on this sort of thing in the first place.
> can a single phone have radios for all the different carriers?

All carriers in a single country? Yes, many do. All carriers worldwide? You'd be putting a lot of radios in the thing.

> Could they share a single antenna?

Not a radio expert, but I think each antenna has to be tailored to each wavelength. Maybe you can get away with one per band (one for 800-900, one for 1800-1900, one for 2100-2600)

> Could one be activated by the user selecting which network to get on?

You'd need a SIM card for each carrier you want and swap them out, and for American CDMA carriers you'd have to have your ESN registered with their networks beforehand.
I too would prefer that police not shoot dogs if they can avoid doing so. However, disabling a dog with a kick doesn't sound that easy to do. If it responds to a kick in the ribs, great. If it doesn't, you are now off balance.
Normal operation of the Internet backbone.
I am using https://www.insynchq.com and it works really well.
> How much would it be worth it to get to say your degree was officially from Harvard and now qualify for the bar, even if all you did was quietly watch the videos and do the homework?

I think you make a crucial point. Even if you were eligible in both situations to sit for the bar (say by virtue of California's looser education requirements), the Harvard name would be worth a heck of a lot more than $60k, at least assuming you were curved against other Harvard students in your examinations. The value of a law degree, at least in many circles of the legal profession, is 50% name brand, 40% sorting within the class, and maybe 10% education.

A few fields take this trait of education to a counterproductive extent (banking, consulting, law), but I think the unfortunate truth is that for most fields, the value of a degree is more than 50% in branding and sorting, rather than education. Even in engineering, outside some progressive places, I wouldn't put it much below 50%.
I was napping hard in the afternoons and staying up late as a teenager. I was hoping that would get better with age like it does for some people. But it hasn't for me.
The __builtin_types_compatible_p technique used here would be a great complement to http://libcello.org/ seen on HN a few days ago.
It's not lost on me that it's a lot more. Trust me; I've done math before. But really, once a dataset is sufficiently huge, it's just "big." Could it be bigger? Sure. But it'll still be big. Again, five million dollars is five times more than a million dollars, but it's still just a bunch of money.

To put it another way, it'd be foolish to assume that there are limits on how much data they're collecting. Those limits on what can be collected and from whom probably exist somewhere, but it should not surprise anybody any more that the NSA is collecting x data from y userset. We're in the future now; you should operate under the assumption that any and all data is being logged by somebody, and that the walls that keep that data from others are only so strong.
Perhaps his children, like mine, are now adults with children of their own?
Writing JSON is also easier by hand than XML, or at-least it is for me. Any time I'm planning a data structure I always use JSON since it's so well structured.

XML is quite loose, unless I use plist theres no data types which is both an advantage and a disadvantage.
Why would direction make a good filter?
>"Never mind" the damage Mao inflicted? 65 million people died during his reign.

First, the huge majority of those deaths were due to famine.

Second, it was in a country in great turmoil, civil war, and a revolution (regime change, if you prefer). In places where such things happen -- as opposed to an country with a stable political climate like the US, people die (including by execution).

Someone from a stable country cannot relate, but think of the Civil War and the tons of deaths. Or the French revolution. Those doesn't mean one leader or a handful is the only one to blame, like one does not pin civil war deaths to Lincoln or the confederate leaders. Such are the times.

Countries do not get into such messes by one "bad apple" leader. On the contrary, the leaders represent the general problems in the society in general. Even Hitler was voted by a majority of Germans, which ascribed to the same ideals long before he came to power (and for the "philosophical" parts of nazism, even decades ago, e.g Nietchze, Wagner, Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, and tons of lesser intellectuals).
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> JSON is also easier for humans to read than XML.

That's extremely debatable.
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It's would be nice to have a refuge away from politics. But it seems that politics are pushing into the world of technology even if we try to ignore it - from copyright enforcement, over-zelous prosecutors, patent trolls all the way to ex-post-facto tax laws for startups.
> when a husband and wife marry and then the kids turn out looking nothing like the parents.

Doesn't seem like a bad thing, just means that there should a good market for plastic surgery for the next generation.
"how black people are seen" - i don't think it can be answered by one number on the scale from 1 to 10. For example, Russians are pretty racist, nationalistic chauvinistic, antisemitic ... you name it, basically Equal Opportunity Haters ... and there are a lot of disrespectful jokes about black people as well. On the other side - we drank a lot with the black students we had at our University and at other places and the girls liked them as well.

>then find out that your experience there is not going to be like your friend's was.

yep, he may be a cool guy and you're a party pooper or vise verse :)
Syncany looks promising. It's open source, includes client encryption and support for multiple options of storage(google,amazon,rackspace,ftp and others),and it's only 8K loc of java.

Of course it would still need a security review.
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Yes, you're on to something. :)
Looks like I can't edit... but I shouldn't have said that academic fees are "less than half" the professional fees. That's true, but doesn't indicate just how much lower academic fees are. Total in-state tuition and fees for an academic graduate program is just under $16,000.
I've been sending query to:

'https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s' % sanitise(location)

and then parsing the result to find the lat/lng. However, this isn't an "official" way of doing it, and the format of the html has changed. The result used to match this:

'viewport_center_lat=([-0-9.]*);var viewport_center_lng=([-0-9.]*)'

but now it looks like this:

'latlng:{lat:([-0-9.]*),lng:([-0-9.]*)}'

Yes, I'm using regexs to parse HTML.

However, now that's working again, but I might switch to the explicit two phase process used in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058751 - or I might directly use the second link mentioned there, instead of calling the URL I currently use.

Does that all make sense?
The 3 year old phone 4 still costs $450 off contract while a Nexus 4 is $299.
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In dynamic clusters like Flynn this could be solved with a naming service. Typically this will be implemented on top of something like Zookeeper or Doozer.

Another option could be to use Go DNS [1] to integrate a DNS server directly into the cluster. This would allow the DNS records to immediately reflect the state of the cluster, using SRV records to map directly to the dynamically allocated hosts + ports. DNS resolver caching would have to be carefully managed though.

I have no idea whether there any plans to implement a naming service on top of Flynn.

[1] https://github.com/miekg/dns
The Marxists I've known have tended to have the view that the Soviet Union (and this generally applies to Leninism and its descendants and implementations generally) was socialist in both the superficial structural sense (in that it features government control of the means of production and exchange, to a very large degree), and in terms of its propaganda.

Beyond that, there has been less agreement, but many have held the view that the USSR either was not socialism (sometimes referring to it as specifically as "state capitalism") or that it was an approach to socialism, but one which was fatally flawed by (and this is, in some respects, my synthesis of their criticisms, rather than one that was articulated by any one interlocutor) the adaptations to apply socialism without first having institutionalized the bourgeois revolution which precedes the socialist revolution which resulted in property-like (if not formally "property") personal social authority structures which shared features with both the property structures of feudalism which are at the roots of the problems addressed by the bourgeois revolution, and the those of the capitalism that are at the roots of the problems addressed by the socialist revolution, which mostly resulted in the net effect of the implementation of Leninism (and its variations applied elsewhere) being to spread a distorted form of socialist ideology in a society in which elements of both the bourgeois revolution and the socialist revolution were present but where the revolutions as such still needed to occur in the normal order but were arrested (in some cases, less than completely--certainly, even in the mid-1990s, most who held some form of this view seemed to think that at least China was very definitely progressing through the bourgeois revolution) by the identification of the status quo order with the socialist revolution.
China's online population rises to 519 million
congrats Collin, Zac and others! Awesome technology, perfect for porting non-standard UI apps from iOs to Android
note that it talks about gps positioning, uuids, etc. obviously all this private info is logged.

that means if they get compromised people will know exactly where you live, where you go, etc. (of course they also just can lookup that info as well)
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Exactly. Most likely, unless someone really goofed, no one has perjured themselves because they answered questions very specifically.
Nope: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
I decided to submit this because of what happened to the IT Director, and got everyone interested in Ms. Corey. Hopefully someone dig up more interesting article related to the story.
indeed.. wondering how this is done technically.
I think we need to mention the sins of Mao quite a bit more before we're in danger of Godwining.

You know some history. Most people who are reading that Atlantic article don't have this context at all. This is because people get their history from movies, and Hollywood chooses to make movies like the Karate Kid remake (about anti-black racism in China) or this Red Dawn farce rather than movies about the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, about the consequences of being "idealistic" and "ideological".

"Ideological" is bad. It's not good. It led to a lot of people dying. And the support for "oppressed peoples" that the OP thinks so much of is intimately tied to the rhetoric of communism, which is invariably and horrifically belied by the reality. To repeat said rhetoric uncritically is to bury those people again. Their deaths were denied in speeches at the time and they are glossed over in writing today. This is wrong. We need to remember them.

So yeah, unfortunately I don't think you can hold up the Maoist era as comparatively positive in any substantive regard without acknowledging that said act is morally equivalent to "Mussolini/Hitler made the trains run on time."

And the thing is - Mao didn't even make the trains run on time. He destroyed China to such an extent that people were forced to eat each other's children to survive.

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/05/books/horror-of-a-hidden-c...

For the party newspaper to tell people that it was good
for them to eat less at a time when it was also spinning
fantasies about the bounty being engendered by the Great
Leap was a relatively small, if telling, irony. At the
larger, horrific center of Mr. Becker's account is the
widespread resort among the Chinese people to that most
sickening form of desperation: cannibalism, the selling of
human flesh on the market, the swapping of children so
people could use them for food without committing the
additional sin of eating their own.

It has of course been known for many years that the Great
Leap produced a terrible calamity in China lasting from
roughly 1959 to 1962. But Mr. Becker, who is the Beijing
bureau chief of The South China Morning Post, has written
the most compelling and complete account of that calamity,
describing it systematically as it affected the
countryside, the cities and the immense network of camps
for ''rightists'' and other political prisoners that China
maintained at the time.

I would argue that these kinds of things are much more important in forming a picture of Mao's China than whether he once gave lip service to MLK. If 99% of people who came to that page already knew the term "laogai", fine, one could arguably move on to a second topic. But we're a long ways away from successfully communicating these high order bits.
Asking how long it takes the earth to travel around the Sun is one of those questions that often tests people's immediate question parsing abilities rather than their actual knowledge. it's quite easy to assume it's asking something else and immediately answer wrong. That doesn't mean they don't know the answer, just that they answered the wrong question.
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Or just a "service"?