skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silk Road is a few pennies and few gram transactions. [See the data here http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7139]
It would be foolish to expose their snooping capabilities for this, right?
Wow, Tor is not considered safe... Amazing
* RMS reads the web via email because he's traveling virtually all the time and rarely has Internet access. A batch-based system makes more sense for him. This isn't an ethical stance, and the fact you include it hits your credibility severely.

* The FSF uses computers other than Yeeloongs. The FSF also doesn't really care about free hardware. The Yeeloong has chips with non-free firmware burnt in, and the FSF doesn't care because that isn't software. It's the Free SOFTWARE Foundation, after all.

* Stallman is on a few social networks, notably identica @rms@identi.ca (possibly now defunct). He probably has a GNU Social endpoint.

I think you're conflating Stallman's willingness to be uncompromising in his own lifestyle with his calls for reform. Stallman is fairly intelligent and understands that not everyone can live like he does, but I suppose he feels the need to answer the question of "what should you do in the present beyond push for reform."

I also don't know what "entertainment" you're talking about. The FSF is against proprietary video game engines, but their mission pertains to software, not music/movies/etc.. They campaign against DRM because DRM requires non-free software to enforce.
The standard reason given is privacy for the victim and jury, less jury poisoning if there needs to be a retrial, people can be a little more or at ease, etc.

It definitely depends on the court, OJ's trial was on TV.
If you were to start a new country, what would the legislative process look like there? For example, how should new "startup nations" like BlueSeed (http://blueseed.co) inspired by Seasteading Institute go about passing and storing laws? Should they have some sort of open github repo to which anyone can make pull requests? How do you see the congress of the future?
The public was behind doing something. Much of Congress didn't want to be seen as impeding something.

It was obvious from the length of the act alone that even Congressional staffers couldn't have read it carefully between the time of submission and the time it passed. Quite a few people that I knew were weakly opposed, but the sunset provisions may have made it more palatable.

It takes character to stand up and defend doing nothing when something "must be done".
>Someone whose language is out of place for the region they are in

Check (German browsing in English)

>Someone who is using encryption

Check (my PGP Key is on my website)

>Someone searching the web for suspicious stuff

Check (I'm a curious person, what did you expect?)

I guess I'm considered a terrorist nowadays.
Sorry, I wasn't suggesting Google were complicit, but the NSA need to suck up search queries, so it makes sense to locate these NSA servers right next to local Google installations.

Again, page 13; a local Google Pakistan search query.
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When I was a kid learning to code, there were no screencasts. There was documentation and tutorials. All of which still exists, and honestly, is much better than when I started learning. There are also lots of "teach kids to code for free" sites, and places to find mentors or groups. Again, non existent when I started.
> it just makes you look bad if you heckle someone on stage.

It also takes a lot of courage to do just that. And people with courage are rare. They need our support. People who are 2 inches away from getting loud need our support. Because they are the people who can start the chain reaction that is so urgently needed now and that will not happen if we collectively shut up and just stay polite. We have been seriously betrayed and we have now every reason, right and duty to break free from the rules which were appropriate for the times "when things were good".

So I think he did just what everybody should have done - in a perfect world.
How on earth does shouting "bullshit" at him like an idiot fratboy make him any more likely to give your concerns any credence?

The best it can do is surprise him for a millisecond, then let him write you off as an "unserious" person to be briefly patronized and then devoutly ignored (or worse, add you to a list of "interesting" persons).
They are very different.

If you are looking for something that you can run from a USB cable, this could be the perfect tool. Someone called this the Bus Pirate of RF and I think its a great way to describe this tool.

The SDRs from Per Vices are geared towards low latency and high bandwidth. You can't squeeze 4x PCIe bandwidth into a USB cable. Neither can you get sub microsecond latencies. You can't get this over an ethernet connection either. This is the application where the Per Vices SDRs come out as clear winners.
Politicians and bureaucrats won't change until people start treating them with contempt, both socially and professionally.

Playing nicey-nice with people that have little to no conscience doesn't work as a method of political change.
real coke is not standard in the US because sugar is difficult to import. Most explanations for this center around the cuban Fanjul family - which has captured congress to maintain a sugar tariff against importing sugar from every country except for the dominican republic, where their refineries are.

Hawaii no longer produces sugar cane, it's not economical (neither is pineapple; golf and tourism have taken over) and northern sugar beets only produce white sugar, not molasses.

HFCS is the "cheapest alternative" because its production is effectively subsidized by congress as well - from corn tariffs, etc. To a certain degree the evolution of HFCS as a sweetener can also be traced to prohibition, when corn mash could not be used for whiskey and alternative uses for the high carbohydrate content of corn were explored and subsidized.
What ORM are you using? I've never seen or heard of one that people didn't have to drop down to sql with (or a pseudo SQL language that is converted directly to SQL).
Programmer who is looking at keyboard while typing code - not good enough.
Good job reading the article. </sarcasm>
Some people might say it's weird that people write in emacs. :) To each his own.
He wants lower carrier frequencies, not more receive bandwidth. For example, HF [1] is 3 to 30MHz, and cannot be received by HackRF without an upconverter, which adds another board and another $43 [2] to the equation.

Also, if you want to go all the way down to DC, the upconverter approach doesn't really work.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_frequency
[2] http://www.nooelec.com/store/ham-it-up-v1-0-rf-upconverter-f...
I'm annoyed that Title 38 - Veteran's Benefits is out of alphabetical order. Was it originally called Pensions or something?
For the most part, we as Americans didn't actually ever read the Patriot Act, and we didn't get to vote on it. Our representatives that we elected before we ever knew 9/11 would happen voted for it in a climate that made it politically suicidal to not vote for it.

To be clear, the "hawk" politicians (and let's be honest, -many on the left) believed in the legislation but also exploited the tragedy to ram it through and neutered the ability of the other side to have a reasoned debate.

Our population was attacked, angry, and for the most part followed the lead of politicians who said we needed these laws to fight the people that attacked us.

In the aftermath, the scrutiny on the part of the American people never materialized. You're basically witnessing the moment where the most scrutiny on these types of programs/laws has ever occurred since 9/11. Worth keeping in mind that many components of these surveillance programs also predate 9/11.
The weirdest ones are titles that get "translated" into a different one, also in English. E.g. "The In Crowd" becoming "Sex & Manipulations".
> (disclaimer: I live in Flint, MI, another of those top-5 cities)

Me too! Most violent city, 3 years running!
When you significantly edit a comment it's usually considered good form to label the changes.
Thanks RKoutnik. I like that. Just keep shipping. :)
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It's important to compare with the previous slide, to see the problem this is trying to solve. It'd be really easy to do a lot of

if err != nil {
http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
return
}

all over the place, as the error return type isn't part of the standard Handler signature.

The decorator approach lets you return errors from your handlers, and then have your actual error handling centralized; you may want to send an e-mail to the ops team, send it to a third party exception management web service, etc.
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On cspan this morning, the phrased it as: a secret interpretation. the fact that those two words can even sit together hurts my head. How do you secretly interpret something one way, but openly interpret another way.
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The reason many people care about the language is because of the install method (at least that's been my issue). I don't use Ruby, so when I tried to use Octopress the other day I found myself installing a bunch of packages, then realizing that Debian's Ruby version is slightly too old (1.9.1 instead of 1.9.3), then trying to set up rvm or renv (or whatever), then giving up.

I write a lot of Python, so if it had been Python, I would have had the tools to properly install it, no problem.

This is the general problem with distributing "programs" with systems that are really better suited to distributing "libraries" (like gem, npm, and pip). If I am downloading a library, I must be writing code in the language, so it's no problem to expect me to have a reasonable tool chain set up. But if it's just a program that I'm going to run, I shouldn't have to have a language-specific package manager (let alone a rvm/virtualenv-type system) installed and configured.
If we keep "turning the other cheek" we'll end up with broken jaws. I'm a polite individual but politeness will only get you so far. At some point people have to make a stand and say what is actually on their minds in as powerful a way as they know how.
You can look at relatively small jurisdictions and copy what's appropriate. Throw out hunting and fishing and take Alaska's laws in 1959 and you've got the minimum for a jurisdiction. Same for the Canal Zone. You can add legislation from other jurisdictions that works, like New Zealand's torrens (not torrent) system. Alberta's condo laws. I wrote a set of laws for a new jurisdiction, there's no reason to start from scratch.
Sure, but an emacs text buffer is pretty stripped down; that was my real point.
All things considered, it seems like Keith Alexander did a pretty good job of handling the situation. Personally I think the heckler sounded like a douche ("read the Constitution" sounds like a dumb thing to say to a 4 star general who probably has better knowledge of it than your average hacker), even if he (the heckler) had some good points.

It would have been easy for the situation to devolve into something much uglier, but fortunately it seems like things stayed pretty calm!
> You can't tell at a glance what's going on and will need to > look carefully. Adding sigils makes it quite clear:
> my $W = qq_mult $ConjugateQ, qv_mult $RotationQ, $Vector;

Actually, that's clear as mud. Is this a function call of 3 arguments? Function composition/chaining, an array of 3 items?
For a lot of people, the allure of Medium isn't the tools or tracking, it's the audience and distribution. If you already have an audience then a place like Medium will do very little for you.
It takes courage to be a whistleblower, or to make any decision different from your peers. It does not take courage to heckle someone on a stage from the safety of a crowd. It happens at almost every comedy show, concert, and sporting event. Heckling someone on stage when you're in the crowd isn't rare at all.
> portraying the speech as having been warmly received, applauded,

Disappointing if true. I can't imagine anything that Keith Alexander would say that is deserving of applause. The guy deserves no quarter.
I don't understand why you wouldn't have considered all those bullet points before moving to a new platform.
And Emacs (with AUCTeX ) will have reached version 2.7182818284590452353603...
Just as you shoulding mistake the formal spec (requirements document) for an explanation of how software works.
Shouting "bullshit" might nudge a couple of people out of their slumber.

If Joseph Welch had been "polite" to Joe McCarthy instead of talking to him like the opportunist that he was, McCarthy would have stayed in business.
Additionally, if you Google the phone number listed as the contact for Athena, you come up with a whole slew of job listings for seemingly related jobs. It seems a lot of subsidiaries with generic looking web fronts use that phone number.

https://www.google.com/search?q=303-663-6378&oq=303-663-6378...
I made the connection: it's a parody, a clever(?) play on words riding off an existing franchise. I never once would have guessed it was made by the same people, because game developers tend not to make sex apps. I've never heard of it happening before.

This is much in the same way I never once thought that Pirates XXX was in any way related to the Disney series Pirates of the Caribbean, even though the guys who made Pirates XXX really want you to draw that connection. A rational person would realize that Zynga, much like Disney, is not in the business of facilitating promiscuous sex.
Your attitude is what makes Microsoft so prone to mangle their own doc/docx files in ways only they can understand.

By doing that, they can prevent you and everyone else from using any competing product, including this one.

I will say it again: if your document breaks it is not the fault of Quip or whatever, it is a feature of using Microsoft formats, and Microsoft revenue comes from that feature.
I am very worried about this actually...

Today I was thinking about it, also about distractions, wasted time, and not enough time really idle.

I noticed that recently I am always using my smartphone, to read news, HN, Facebook or exchange messages...

Yet, my productivity is not good as I want, I manage to get bored on the internet, and the news don't really add anything useful on my life.

And regarding social connections specifically, the only person I see is my SO, the last time I visited a friend is about 10 months.

And the last time I spend more than one day with a friend, is about 10 years ago.

Today, after thinking about all this, I tried to not read news... It was really, really, really hard, and only lasted well for about 4 hours.

Then when I was going to drink some coffee, I forgot my cellphone, and as I sat on the table and tried to grab it, I felt VERY anxious and weird.

And I don't remember this happening in 2011 (when I still owned a internet-less "dumbphone").

I am deeply worried, and I dunno what to do, I want to be able to "waste" time idle, to let my mind think about interesting things, I already have a very vast amount of knowledge (since I learned to read at age of 3 I became a avid reader, my hobby in childhood was read paperback encyclopedias and dictionaries, also I could read popular scientific magazines in one day or two), but I feel I cannot do anything about it, because I am 100% of the time busy, when I am not working I am on Facebook, or cellphone messages, or some news site, or a forum... I am thus with my brain busy so much that there is no time to come up with something new, even work-related ideas usually I have when walking home (I don't dare flashing a smartphone here in Brazil, that is a quick way to get killed) or when I am using the shower (for obvious reasons, I cannot use a smartphone while on the shower).
Haskell 1.0: 1990.
CAML: 1985.

When then?
I can't wait to look for the law whereby Congress established a church in violation of the Establishment Clause. But no one complained.
Cool, but is using your mouse to navigate a menu tree really more efficient than typing "<terminal hotkey>ssh host"?
There are dozens of production projects built on top of RethinkDB. We're starting to work with customers to publish case studies about their infrastructures and applications.

As bjg pointed out, you can track what we internally consider production-ready (when we hit 2.0) here: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1174 (although RethinkDB is already really good for doing real work, and we support all our users).
Being loud is worthless if you're not right in what you're saying when you are loud. Even hurts your cause if you're not right.
Recruit them manually. This thread has a lot of great tips.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6041765
"I have more than words to organize but want something that manages all that so I don't get distracted coding now my traffic is dying and I'm helpless to stop that and it turns out I changed to a service that only manages words well"

I feel like this could have perhaps done with another draft/iteration to tighten up the goal of the article.
Well it's not like anyones going to make a salient and logical point and the NSA is going to turn around and say "You know what, you're right, this is wrong. We'll stop it immediately". So shouting "bullshit" at the top of your voice has the same effect, which is no effect at all. So no one is any worse off for this kind of behaviour.

That said, I think the audience should have received him with absolute silence. No applause, no heckling, nothing to betray the mood of the crowd. Let's see how the General Alexander feels about a thousand eyes scrutinising him with no clue as to what they're thinking or planning. Then maybe he'll have an idea about what it feels like to be on this side of the equation.
I dunno. I personally like writing on vim or on paper. However, there is a reason I feel more expressive. It is the very nature of these specific tools. I really like vim as much as I really like writing on moleskine. So I understand when people say the medium in which they portray stuff is important for them.
> there are more courteous and productive ways to express yourself than yelling "bullshit".

I disagree. When chatting with Faust, I think it's better to avoid the drawn out conversation and just tell him to fuck off. This Alexander guy is a liar and a felon (lying under oath to congress) and has earned our collective disrespect. He deserves a lot more than "bullshit!" He's a domestic terrorist that's infiltrated the government as far as I'm concerned.
Corn subsidies are from even earlier than prohibition, someone here on HN posted once a detailed article about this subject, seemly the first laws about sugars are from 1700s
Yes, old name is: Title 38 - Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2004-title38-vol1/content-d...
But the post I responded to is wrong. Blocking third party trackers does not block my hosting of the JS file; this is only discouraged for most trackers. Most trackers also have a gif-pixel option and by default (eg. quantcast) or a server-to-server option (eg. kissmetrics). I was merely pointing out your conclusions are wrong about Firefox, extensions, or HTTP headers preventing the capabilities of trackers. And again, you are very welcome to not be tracked online; that is very much within your right; you are just spreading falsehoods. Have a look at evercookie, for example.
Jekyll is too complicated. First, it requires a .yml config file, which is unused outside of the Ruby community. So this fails my "you shouldn't have to know what language it is written in requirement". Personally I don't think there should be any config files at all, but if you're going to require a minimal one at least pick something universal and easy to understand, like an rc file or maybe json. Secondly it has the weird _ naming thing. Jekyll was clearly made for Ruby developers, which is fine I just think the world needs something much simpler than that.
GA does use 1st party cookies. There is still concern that with sufficient statistical analysis, Google can still track users across multiple sites. "Anonymous" data frequently turns out to be very personally identifying.

In particular, comparing behaviors and IP addresses used in Google products and captured in Google Analytics would be very easy.

Likewise, Google knows a super-majority of site entrances from their search engine, and a correlation is trivial given that most users are logged in for search.
To wit: if I perform a search with a unique referrer, and that unique referrer is then captured with my Google Analytics user cookie, then I can be readily identified as a person.
Doubleclick and other Google services share this issue.

Others do use Third Party Cookies.
Mozilla is threatening to turn off 3rd Party cookies entirely, which has caused no small amount of concern from ad companies.
See this post, one in a series of hilariously over the top diatribes from the Interactive Advertising Bureau:
http://www.iab.net/iablog/2013/06/mozilla-kangaroo-cookie-co...
I'm agreeing with the ACLU lawyer, this is a good first step, considering it's never been disclosed in ~5 years:

> In the nearly five years since the FAA was enacted, the government has never once disclosed its reliance on material obtained through FAA surveillance to counsel’s knowledge.
Exactly! In fact, Marco -- which the author refers to -- has also been telling this. Since 2011, in fact: http://www.marco.org/2011/07/11/own-your-identity

After a month of struggling between Blogger's brain-dead, non-Markup, stuck-in-2001's editor and contemplating a complete switch to Medium, I also decided to just go with a simpler, static blog (running on a stripped down Pelican). As coincidence would have it, I just decided to put up some random thoughts about this today as well: http://blog.macuyiko.com/post/2013/pelican-switch-follow-up....
I'm more annoyed that they are out of order with reference to which clause in Article I, section 8 their existence is justified by - but I suspect there's a reason for that.
Thanks! Right now we've done a lot of aggregating, and we've partnered up with some great screencasters to share their content on our platform. That being said, we have a lot of exclusive content in our pipeline, so look forward to seeing a lot of new stuff soon.
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>How long until twitter buys Medium and decides to shut everything down?

You should look up who runs Medium.
If I'm not mistaken, you can use a flare gun and get the same kind of service. This is a fine, nominally non lethal option if you still want the same assurance as a gun, but don't care for the whole lethal weapon aspect of it.
I wonder why. The U.S. Code was in electronic format by the 1980's. The Air Force had FLITE, Justice had Juris, and then there's Lexis and Nexis.
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