skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's possible that the public does understand the issue and disagrees with you"

It is possible but almost certainly not the case. Most people do not know enough about computers to understand what the NSA programs even entail. It is pretty hard for the general public to make informed decisions about computer or Internet policies, laws, or government involvement.
That's how it works for alcohol in several countries, and while I don't think any of them have managed to show any actual benefits from doing it that way, it's also not a total disaster.
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No, they shouldn't. It's hard to imagine anyone reading your comments or my comments who believes that the police should have been called over these Google searches.
One of the benefits to the charity is that by receiving a donation in expertise, they have a lower operating overhead then receiving money directly and spending it on the same expertise.

*at least as far as I understand.
This is what happens when you have bloggers writing exclusive news rather than journalists who know how to verify facts.

Don't get me wrong: blogging has generally been a good thing for the spread of information and exchange of ideas. If bloggers want to start running down leads and researching exclusives, though, they'd best learn to fact check.
Obviously if you feel tired you won't function at 100%, but even worse, people who've accumulated a sleep debt (or approx. equivalently, borrowed extra hours of wakefulness), may report feeling rested and yet still suffer severe performance deficits:

http://graehl.org/2013/02/21/chronic-6hrnight-sleep-incompet...
One of the unspoken premises of the book is that learning to program requires learning how to deal with new knowledge domains. SICP doesn't require mathematical sophistication - math is just another knowledge domain and not much different from the graphics domain in Chapter Two or the banking examples in Chapter three.

In some ways mathematical knowledge is even easier to obtain since the same logic underpins it as the lambda calculus upon which scheme is built.

That's not to say that some of the exercises don't rate 28 on the Knuth scale. But I don't think there are any 34's or higher...and it goes without saying that the Donald definitely throws in whatever math might be needed regardless of the reader's experience. And yet this doesn't make TAOCP inaccessible.
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> Sorting is expensive. Collecting cans is trivial.

Collecting 10 cans is not really trivial. And even with 10 different cans, the result still needs to be further sorted (there are 20 or 30 types of recyclable plastic alone). Glass needs to be sorted into 4-5 different colors. Paper needs to be sorted into 4-5 different qualities.

Industrial waste sorting certainly is expensive -- due to capital expenditure, not ongoing costs -- but it's needed in every recycling solution. The problem with expecting the public to sort, is that humans are less good at sorting than (well-designed) machines and relying on humans sorting reducing the percentage of recyclable material that is actually recycled.

There are serious arguments that all general waste should be machine sorted since it's the only way to maintain maximum levels of recycling.
I have a bit of a pet peeve for apps that try to customize form fields, because they almost always get the corner cases wrong. Here, for instance, select all doesn't work as expected. (In fact, selection doesn't work at all. Skeuocard, like many overly-clever widgets, will overwrite your selection to put the cursor where it thinks it should go.
Pressure cooker seems to be very specific topic. There are a real lot of ways to make bombs. Yet more to cause general havoc - terrorism doesn't have to be just with explosives. Yet the questioning, as reported, was very focused - which raises the suspicion that it was related to the other piece of information that was focused on the same topic.

As for if they got it from "old" or "new" NSA programs - I don't think anybody really cares at this stage. What one would care is if his next google search would lead to a 3am SWAT visit with flashbang grenades or just a friendly visit from a bunch of armed guys in SUVs. That's the worrying part, not the name of the program the government uses to make it happen.
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He tweets about his experiments in various languages quite a bit if you don't already follow him there.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack
I hope its customizable or using voice commands with two phones nearby will be awkward.
I was on the board of a small non-profit. Volunteers with time, enthusiasm and smart ideas are great, but they come and they go. They get bored, they get jobs, they move on. The staff then gets stuck trying to support and maintain the special project that ultimately they can't.

It's hard to say no to someone offering their time and expertise, but unless it is focused as part of a larger, on-going plan, it may do more for the volunteer than the organization.
Not the comment I replied to. He just lumped all defense contractors into soulless assholes basically. And that's just intellectually dishonest.
Like adding jitter to try and disrupt timing attacks, this increases the cost to the attacker but does not actually prevent the attack. If you send a@gmail.com a couple of times, you will get an average length. No matter how much noise, send it enough times and you can get statistical confidence in the average length.

There's also the issue that adding random incompressable junk to your packets sort of defeats the point of compressing them in the first place.
Is your assertion that she is lying when she says they identified themselves as part of the JTTF which is overseen by the FBI and includes local police force members throughout the US whose salary and expenses they pay while working on JTTF tasks? Or are you saying that they lied to her in saying they were JTTF.

You are very clearly stating here "'the JTTF' didn't interrogate her husband", meaning that she is lying when she says they told her that or they told her that and were lying. Please cite your evidence of this claim.
Treasure map- you can only imagine the possibilities here..
Looks great, but having to flip the card over to enter the CVV code is a huge usability hit for me.
While the term "A-round" has a changing meaning that has been especially fluid over the last couple years, two responses to your point: first, 4MM is (as an example) a perfectly respectable A round, and 39MM would buy 8-9 of those --- which is also a perfectly respectable number of companies for a small fund portfolio; second, full-on "institutional" lettered rounds are often syndicated, and usually want primarily for a fund to lead the round, so perhaps their play is to lead a bunch of syndicated rounds to help catalyze funding for companies.
"public opinion is against him and he is labelled as a "traitor" because people think it is perfectly fine for the government to spy on them"

I think it is more that the majority of people do not believe that the government is spying on them. Most people do not understand that it does not take a team of government agents to spy on a person. The issue is not merely that people think they have nothing to hide, but that they do not even understand that they are being watched.
I believe there's an algorithm to determine if a card number is valid (before determining if the other credentials are correct). Implementing that would probably be the most useful thing you could do in Skeuocard, as it helps people find typos in an otherwise inscrutable list of numbers.
> I am aware of the actual ratio of the horror stories to reality

And what is the ratio? For example, try calculating this ratio for aircraft designers of the period: imprisoned_designers / free_designers. I don't think the result would be pretty.

I was interested enough to make (completely unscientific) assessment of what happened to some of the emigrants to USSR.

I've looked through all 8 Finnish emigrants listed in Wikipedia category [1]. The result isn't pretty: 3 executed during Great Purge, 1 commited suicide, 1 killed during civil war, 1 "lucky" to die just before Great Purge. The rest 2 were politicians (one of which was very high ranking). No scientists or engineers or technicians.

And here is the same assessment of all 7 American emigrants listed in Wikipedia category [2]: 3 spies; 1 scientist (Arnold Lokshin); 1 composer (Karl Rautio); 1 short-term technician, not allowed to go back to US, Gulag prisoner (Alexander Dolgun); 1 car toolmaker, not allowed to go back to US for 44 years (Robert Robinson).

Ignoring spies, we've got 2 miserable fates, and 2 good fates. So your ratio for US emigrants is 2/2. And those two are good mostly because of political reasons: the composer of Anthem of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic; and asylum seeking scientist.

Do you still want to move to (hypothetically restored) USSR?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Finnish_emigrants_to_t...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_emigrants_to_...
I grew up with this:

Thirty days has September,
April, June, and November,
All the rest have thirty-one except February,
Which has four and twenty-four,
'til leap year gives it one day more.
Is it possible to get a permalink to the talk so that I can watch it later? (or will this link work for that?)
Yes. I'm saying she's being dishonest about what happened. Also, you continue to use the term "the JTTF", which is misleading. The FBI has formally denied being involved in the interview, and the Suffolk PD just announced that they were behind it. It's the blog author (and you) who invoked (and now continue to invoke) the FBI, and to invoke "the JTTF".
It's fairly common, particularly with a just-terminated employee or one who left on bad terms, to review any activity they undertook between "we're letting you go" and the last time they actually left the building. Because occasionally, just-terminated employees try to get revenge.

I'm not saying this is definitely the case here. Just noting a circumstance under which "checked everything the employee did recently" makes a lot of sense -- and a circumstance under which "searched for pressure cooker bomb information" might appear suspicious, and might lead someone to contact law enforcement.
People might take you a bit more seriously if you would stop minimizing every Snowden leak.
Many Russians believe that the gay rights movement was Soviet propaganda against the West that is now backfiring on them.
>Does Google autocomplete usually indicate something is a common search term?

Furthermore, Google autocomplete is entirely game-able. /b and or Anonymous have had their way with it on several occasions.
I had low expectations based on the leaks and this thing is still incredibly underwhelming even relative to my drastically reduced expectations.

Surprisingly meh across the board, even if the price were in Nexus 4 territory. At $200 on contract it is a sad and unfunny joke.

Between this and the fact that Google destroyed Navigation with Android Maps 7.0.2, I'm starting to doubt my next phone will be an Android device at all, which is an idea that would have been unfathomable to me a few months ago.
As many others have pointed out, this stunt is almost certainly illegal. In addition to the obvious violations of Federal law, state and local laws were probably violated as well. This is not a matter of "failing to comply with regulations." This is a matter of operating a Distilled Spirits Plant without a license.

Regarding labels, all labels are subject to approval by the TTB. (Not ATF. TTB, or more fully, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, was split off from what is now ATFE, in the Homeland Security re-organization of 2003.)

Simply to submit a label for approval, you must have a Federal Basic Permit, along with various other federal approvals. Even if you're simply a "rectifier" (someone who blends and bottles, with no distilling) you need state and local permits as well. Labels generally have to be registered on the state level as well. This varies by state, but usually involves submitting your COLA (TTB certificate of label approval) to the relevant state agency and paying a fee.

There are also standards of fill and alcohol content, although that's kind of irrelevant, as the operation was illegal from the get-go.

As others note, the labels themselves probably weren't compliant with applicable law, (CFR 27) although again, that's also beside the point. For those curious, download the TTB's "Beverage Alcohol Manual, Volume 2, Distilled Spirits." It explains all the requirements. There's a learning curve. Even if you follow all the rules, your label may get sent back for revisions. I have yet to get one through on the first try.

Even if you give spirits away, some states have laws regarding advance notification of the state alcohol authority. You might also need to have bartenders with "responsible vendor" certification pouring the drinks. Of course, you have to be licensed to submit this notification, although some jurisdictions allow for unlicensed parties to obtain "special event" permits.

In summary, OP most likely broke a bunch of laws. On the bright side, they will probably get away with it, as the TTB is overworked and probably won't bother with something this penny-ante. A more likely danger is the state alcohol agency.

My advice? Don't pull this kind of stunt again. If you really must, work with a licensed DSP (distilled spirits plant).

Source: I'm a distiller.
Have they announced this anywhere? If not, when are they firing their marketing department?
I don't see any disconnect.
Corporate partnerships with government used to have a negative connotation.

Much the same as the way that governmental employment of mercenaries was once frowned upon, as well as conflicts of interest, which seem to have gained favor in the past 15 years or so.

This sounds to me like it's more a case of sour grapes on the part of the former employer than any sort of redemption for a government's overstepping its mandate.
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I'll have to dig around, I had a hard time finding the text voted today, I believe it's this one

http://www.espectador.com/documentos/Marihuana.pdf

I'll ask my representative for the alternative text from my party, but I don't think I'll be able to get the other one.

They're bills, not scientific studies, I don't know if that's what you wanted :) .
It's hard to find a BI solution that has kept up with all the pure analytics platforms. I'm really interested in what RStudio is doing with Shiny.
Yeah, Twitch automatically provides VODs when the Livestream is finnished.
I'm pretty comfortable with the people who do and do not take me seriously.
Beautiful project. I agree with others who don't think this will drive conversion - who knows...

I would be concerned about reducing conversions though. Unfamiliarity can be scary.

One annoyance for me - I can't hit Command-A to select everything and start over. I'm also annoyed generally by auto-advancing text fields, though this implementation seems to work around some of the issues.
email you how?
If you press tab, it at least cycles through all of the input boxes on the front side in an appropriate manner, and you could probably design it to flip over on the next tab press. I'm fairly certain that would make it work with screen readers (but not positive).
I'd apply just for an opportunity to be another leaker, but there's no f%!#ng way in Hades that the feds would ever hire me. I've been WAY too outspoken in my radical anti-government / libertarian / anarcho-capitalist viewpoints and have said way too many things that would - I'm pretty sure - automatically disqualify me.

Them: "Have you ever advocated for the overthrow of the US government?"

Me: "Well... ah, I mean, errm... aah... define 'overthrow', please?"

Them: "GTFO out here."
For those of you playing the home bingo version of this thread, someone calling in a stupid, paranoid, wrong tip to their local police department has now been reframed as a "corporate partnership with the government".
MPEG LA does this. They make anyone trying to use their algorithms pay and sign a contract.
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Occam's Razor is pre-Snowden thinking. Like 9/11, Snowden changed everything.
I've never been overly fond of Samsung or Moto ads and I'm a long time Android User, Android App Developer and also mod the ASOP for fun and customization.

Then again, I'm probably not their target audience either since I won't go for anything not a Nexus device and dislike preachy advertising for any brand.
The idea here is to flip a coin based on how unpredictably interrupts happen. This is slow, but allows good distribution of bits (if launched on a real multitasking machine, not an accurate emulator). And for many bits it's going to be slow. (>1 ms per bit).

It was posted today, so it's early to say how strong this RNG is.
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Yes, darker than those things. When the vector for change is lies, the party that lies most effectively wins. Guess what: that's not us.
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>"When the public doesn't agree with you, or just doesn't care that much about your issue, it doesn't mean they are lazy uninformed idiots. That is a sophomoric way of looking at the world, it's not true, and it's not useful to think that way."

Would you like to point out where I made such an idiotic claim? I didn't mean or intent to imply that the only reason people don't agree with me is because they don't know. My point was simply that a lot of people are ignorant. What's not useful is this sort of straw-man pedantry.

As for those who agree but don't care: it's hard to blame them. I signed petitions, I sent letters to my elected representatives. I tried to attend a protest, but it was so pathetic that I left. I try, but there's a sense of futility to it all.

I'm very open to suggestions on how we can have a greater impact.
Entering CC info is last thing user does and that's the step you don't want to mess up - ever! This is one scenario where you want to stick to boring, well-accepted, well-known, highly familier UX and avoid performing fancy tricks because there could always be some case where it doesn't work as expected. For example, I tried to enter random numbers in this UX and I did not got any response that numbers were bad. Even worse, it did not enabled MM/DD. For some unknown CC this would mean loss of customer that you worked so hard to compete and ultimately acquire.
It's also a photo with more context. If the presentation allowed the owner to pick the starting point, and users to slide forward and backwards, commenters could suggest other funny/interesting frames.

The work required to set up a basic social network around this would surely be insignificant when compared with what you've done to date! Yell out if you need help on the design side of things.
Extended ASCII is not ASCII. There is ASCII, which has no accented characters, and there are other character encodings based on ASCII, which often do. Those other character encodings are not ASCII.
its counterintuitive to me that you think something intelligent and good for society like sorting the trash that you generate is even remotely comparable to fighting a war that shouldn't have happened to start with - and spraying agent orange at a bunch of innocents.
Correct; YC doesn't do any follow-on investing.

But all of the YC partners individually invest in follow-on rounds. (as individuals) I'm fairly sure that this is much more lucrative than what they make from YC funds.
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This whole thread should be framed and hung in the HN lobby.
Legalities aside, the way you drain the pro-surveillance companies' talent pool dry is to be more welcoming and enticing than they are. If private businesses started discriminating based on whom qualified candidates worked for before, a whole bunch of people would effectively be forced to return to or stay with the surveillance industry.

Your idea has superficial appeal but would backfire in the real world.
I live across the street from a small park. It's sad how much garbage is in my yard after the Saturday tee-ball games. I just wonder how these same people would feel if I came to their neighborhood and just dumped my trash in their yards.
I read it closely the first time, thanks. If you'd like to directly address something I said, feel free.

Although, I only said two things, (1) he acknowledges the audience is self-selected (direct quote from the review), and (2) some people aren't willing to put in the work to gain that level of familiarity with the subject (directly supported by his analogy in the second paragraph).

Does that contradict anything in the review? You seem to be fixated on something else there that S4M and I aren't discussing. If you'd like to draw attention to that, again feel free.
When your father dies, and you've named your son Norman John Harman as well, don't you become senior? It's can't be an immutable part of your name if your junior/senior status changes.
It might be. Here's the source code: https://github.com/meemoo/dataflow
And the ultra-lightweight typeface hurts readability even more.
I clicked through and realized I had read that already and liked it quite a bit, I just read it again and I still do.

I was aware of my comment being close to one of those too typical "here's what's wrong with this post" comments, but you hit on two things that aggravate me the most in our community and I'm a bit of a pusher of the whole "work smarter, work less, get more done" line of thinking in general.

"the investor seeing me as tired, without knowing it was because of the intensely productive and long week I had just come out of"

That's why I gave you the benefit of the doubt, I figured this was part of your meaning and why you put the sports analogy in there. I'm with you 100% here, but when you drifted towards the glorification of long hours and threw in a "changing the world" (I hate this delusion with a passion, but you should obviously get a pass because with Hands.org you are one of the very few actually trying to do good) I got a bit snarky.
There's many (perfectly legitimate) buyers out there for whom this would be a deal breaker. If you don't run the adverts through my server (i.e. including using JS on my adserver) then you won't be serving my adverts. And in the world of media buying, that's not at all uncommon.