skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What trouble do you have with the fact that there aren't 100 terrorist plots in NYC? There might not even be 2 of them. If they're filtering down to 100 visits a week, something close to 99% of the visits are false positives.
> (Note: this may not apply if you are not white)

…chilling
Not at all, I was merely commenting on the state of the argument I've heard the most, i.e. - "Breast feeding is natural, why should this be censored at all"
Please do not refer to anarcho-capitalism as an anarchist school of thought. Capitalism and anarchism are mutually exclusive.
I prefer DSV files for this reason http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter-separated_values

I have a simple scheme where comma is the delimiter and , in content is escaped as \,. There are no quotes around values.
Is there anything to protect access to search records of foreign citizens?

What rights FISA, Patriot Act and the other laws regarding surveillance from US agencies give to non-Americans?

I don't want to carp at Americans, I'm just genuinely curious of what exactly generates the distinction between Americans and non-Americans.
Yes, that's how they're supposed to be. Any field with quotes, or commas, or newlines in the data needs to have quotes around it. Any quotes in the data need to be escaped by preceding them with another quote.
Ya. Seems like it would have been better if the implementation of variable-width fonts didn't goof and over-correct when presented with two spaces. As it is, they need to do something special when they see Mr. SoAndSo or Dr. SoAndSo, which would be, presumably, language-dependent. Then, everyone could always type two spaces after a sentence-ending period and it would always look good, regardless of whether it was rendered as fixed- or variable-width.
What?! Linux provides me memory-barrier primitives: smp_mb(), smp_rmb(), smp_wmb() etc. Even an everyday Linux hacker does not need to understand the peculiarities of each architecture, because the locking peculiarities are all abstracted out in commonly used spinlock_*() interfaces. Any sane compiler-writer would use these primitives too: so, unless you're writing raw architecture-dependent assembly, or are a very hardcore Linux hacker, you do NOT need to understand this.

Linux supports Alpha, which provides the weakest ordering guarantees anyway, so no: any architecture stronger than Alpha puts absolutely no burden on anybody. In practice, weaker ordering constraint means more freedom for Linux.
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One of two possibilities arise from this comment. The first is that you think that there might be many many terrorist plots ongoing at any time. The other is that you don't understand the simple idea of a base rate and how it applies to statistical filters.
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I remember reading Rendezvous with Rama when I was a kid, and the whole time in my head I was pronouncing rendezvous in completely phonetic English, which also happened to make my mom laugh hysterically when I first said it out loud.
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HootSuite is less than useless, as Twitter Terms of Service prohibit anything that might take eyes off of Twitter.
Stop spamming this thread with your recruiter garbage!
Yes, emission from dioxin has been reduced by 99% since the 1980s beacuse of better filtering and much higher temperatures when burning the garbage.

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In Swedish
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Google translate
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the command gJ does a join without the space logic.
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How long is the contract period? :)
Almost nothing in this article is correct.

* No you don't have to manually go get dependencies of things you're already 'go get'ting

* Why the fuck would you put the workspace itself in version control. That makes absolutely no sense at all.

* Non Code Resources hang out in src/ just fine. You think that you BMP gets rolled into an executable file? You can, if you CHOOSE to, but no, by default, you distrib your assets next to your binary and reference them with a relative path.

(Aka, the same way you do in every language/environment ever...)
Is the existing system really that broken, though? It's a pain, but it works. People know it.

The pain of moving to a new calendar system would be considerably bigger than the pain of dealing with the current system.
Snarky comment (be prepared), but I read *aaS as Shit as a Service the first time around.
Stanford teaches an entrepreneurial course. During one of the courses students were given $5 to use to make money.

The group that made the most money did so by getting reservations to restaurants on Friday and Saturday nights and then selling them to groups who didn't have reservations.

I thought it was clever when I first heard about it but this type of thing is old hat by now:)
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Of course you can. But if you do, you have to make your changes available to your users. As oauth.io is already giving away the source code, you'd even be competing on equal(ish) terms.
You can 'more or less' indicate a vote by voting.

Yes, your response was too short; I would prefer you go into more detail. Otherwise, just vote and leave it at that.
Are you satisfied that the federal government will tell the truth?
Calm down drama queen.

1) veracity of basic facts of this story haven't been confirmed yet

2) even if all checks out, the visit was not b/c of political activities, no one went to jail
Silently?

>Correction: After confirmation from the FBI that its agents weren't involved in the visit, the headline of this piece was changed to "Visit From the Cops" instead of "the Feds.
Lacking any analysis of the costs of the patent system, the above is not "economic justification", but rather just heaping assumption upon assumption.

Stephan Kinsella has written extensively in opposition to the state's intellectual "property" laws.
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I think you may be a tad misinformed. Even though the multiplayer aspect is very popular, Blizzard as a company has been known for really caring about the underlying story in both franchises. So no, the campaigns - which are the main tool used to advance the stories - are not supposed to be "nice add-ons."
Does any of this apply if you are not a US citizen?

As a non-US citizen, if I come to the US on holiday, what rights do I have, if any?

[edited to add]

Answering my own question, this PDF from the ACLU seems to have some answers:

http://www.aclu.org/files/kyr/kyr_english_4.pdf

"Non-citizens who are in the United States—no matter what their immigration status—generally have the same constitutional rights as citizens when law enforcement officers stop, question, arrest, or search them or their homes. "

However

"Non-citizens at the border who are trying to enter the U.S. do not have all the same rights. "
What if it takes more than a year? What if they are working much harder to invent something than regular, $100k employment? What if not everyone has the ability to do it? What if, for many programmers who pour in the resources, they don't end up inventing anything (or the market doesn't materialise, they're too late etc)? Why should anyone do all that if it's not protected?

For the argument of encouraging investment, the investment should be measured accurately, including risk.

Note: I'm talking about real invention (e.g. relational database, regular expression searching), almost all software patents aren't.

EDIT to clarify: (1) if someone is more capable, more educated, more talented, works longer, works harder etc, you generally must pay them more, hence greater capital investment. (2) To reward success in a risky endeavour is not about rewarding "luck", but making the reward worth the risk, in order to encourage others. This is an economics-and-law argument for patents by analogy with high-risk resource exploration (e.g. gold, oil).
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The police were polite... so it's not a raid? What if he denied a voluntary search of the house? Would they politely stop investigating them as terrorists and monitoring their internet activity?
I think that it is already forbidden in some countries to get specific medical treatments abroad. It is so wrong, and I would not be surprise if it is going to happen in U.S.A. too.
Surely any increase in wannabe-copycat terrorists Googling for items used in recent terrorist attacks would be more than cancelled out by a much larger proportional increase in the much larger group of people that follow the news and don't want to be terrorists also Googling for items used in recent attacks
Yes.

David Foster Wallace says it better than I could:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/just-ask...
""The CompCert verified compiler is distributed under the terms of the
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It's some non-commercial non-free license. Only certain files are GPL? I don't think this would be redistributable...
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How does it not?

src/main.go

src/_web/{css,js}/whatever.{js,css}

It's not even remotely difficult and your build process is now: "go build && run_whatever_to_minify _web/css _web/js _web/img". How on earth does having assets in the Go source tree cause any complication whatsoever?
Why is this even a debate about expense? Even if it cost the government $0 to store data on all americans and send agents to search peoples homes and question them it would not make it right for them to do it.

This is a basic question of what freedoms individuals have. If you make the laws so complicated and or secretive that no one can comply with them then the entire system fails. You have 3 letter agencies running around selectively enforcing overly complex/secret laws then the very foundation of what the law is meant to do breaks. Selective enforcement equals political influence equals the Rule of Men, not the Rule of Law.
Vodka is a pretty unique beast with respect to alcohols. It's defined as 'colorless, odorless, and tasteless' alcohol. While the tasteless part is not necessarily true, other alcohols are specifically designed for taste, which means that the different tastes of wine, whiskey, tequila, etc., are important aspects and can require more time and cost to make - and thusly cost more.

Bottom shelf tequila is bad, no blind taste test is going to prove otherwise. However, if you are just going to be mixing it into a margarita to get people lubricated, it's probably fine.

Whiskey is generally just drank chilled over ice or stones (or nothing), so flavor matters greatly.
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Strictly speaking, non-citizens have no rights under the American Constitution when they're not on US soil. FISA 702 grants extensive access to collect foreign communications relating to terrorism.

So from a legal standpoint, there isn't anything in the Constitution that prohibits gathering the communications of those in other nations, and it's actually specifically statutorily authorized.

Also, to note quickly, this is the norm rather than the exception in Western and Western-style constitutions. The American Constitution comes up in this context more often simply because of our outsize presence on the world stage.
You sure did a lot there to avoid refuting his point (and avoid saying anything substantial, I might add). His point is that the actual abuse hasn't been documented, and they surely wouldn't do it in such a silly way as this article suggests if they were abusing it in this manner.
That wasn't the linked story on this thread, but I found this bit interesting :

A spokesman for the FBI told to the Guardian on
Thursday that its investigators were not involved
in the visit, but that "she was visited by Nassau
County police department … They were working in
conjunction with Suffolk County police department.

But it was only after the story ran that she Tweeted this :
https://twitter.com/inthefade/status/362707932586053633

So FBI became JTTF, which in turn became Nassau cops?

This is why we should all stop listening to the 24 hour news machine and wait a while before everything is cleared up and fully presented. This is a developing story and clinging to one or two tidbits finagled from the authorities here and there aren't going to cut it.
Someone using your wifi means you are Providing Internet Service to them. Is the problem that you're not incorporated? If it's based on IP allocation, what if your home connection has 8 IPs and you give one to each user?
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Obviously you are wrong. With 237 of the Fortune 500 companies using it, it must not be that terribly useless.

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>Most mothers that I've seen publically breastfeeding have a light cloth that they drape over themselves. Portable, cheap, and effective.

Do you want that to be law? It's what my wife usually did with our children. Our friends' child though, refused to feed under a cloth and would cry or thrash until the cloth was removed.
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> If the only thing they did wrong was "failing to comply with regulations", then maybe those regulations are wrong.

Tell that to a judge. You sound like you are 14 years old. If you run a business, you should follow the laws of the nation the best you can since employees, investors, partners, and customers all depend on you.
It's a shame nobody had the idea in 1582. Since they were tweaking the Julian calendar, they could have been a bit bolder.
>Just who came to the residence beyond some scary looking guys in SUVs who said they were FBI.

From the article, "the Suffolk and Nassau police, which The Guardian reported were the authorities that effected the raid".

As to the downvotes: you could have pointed out the discrepancy between "Feds" and "cops" (the article's title was changed to reflect that) without turns of phrase such as "we have only her word", "hearsay", "I'm not calling her a liar".
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I had a friend who started work there about 3 years ago. Once you're there, you're also 100% unemployable in the private sector immediately thereafter. He tried to get a job outside the place for nearly a year after realising on week two it was a bad move.

I actually ended up writing him a reference from my company for some private work to cover the time he was there and he said he was unemployed for the entire period.
Probably better to ship it to a high quality incinerator than to burn it in a primitive one emitting lots of pollution.

Transport by sea requires negligible amount of energy. Local transport will likely waste more energy than the transport between two countries.
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I'm not necessarily describing his thought process, but here's how I see it.

The bigger and more important something is, the more rigor, care and 'cool' should be applied to it.

A big part of me is just screaming about all of this crap. But it's important to settle down, and apply even more reason and rigor.

Be cool; stay focused; think about the problem; work the problem.
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Substringed JSON arrays work great for this as well. Basically you just convert each row to an array, convert the array to JSON, and the strip the leading and trailing brackets ("[" and "]"). Newlines will be properly represented as \n as well as other funky characters.
It's not worth typing all that to remove one extra space.
"/ ^Mx" is easier.
Surveillance of Google search terms wouldn't be revealed unless someone told the suspects directly (which these bumbling police officers essentially did).

It is entirely plausible that searches for "pressure cookers" and backpacks are some of several factors used to flag suspects. There is almost certainly a mandate to prevent pressure cooker bombings. I would guess they allotted some resource budget to that task and then simply created search criteria that narrowed the set of cases into one that could be investigated using those resources. I am pretty certain they didn't make any calculations of posterior probabilities.
There aren't nearly enough samples to make any kind of meaningful statistical assessment of efficacy, even if you believed that that was the primary decision making tool of the security agencies.

Assuming the story is true the NSA or FBI probably flagged these individuals using a number of factors (search terms, "anti-government" writing, etc) but not enough to merit use of limited federal resources. Still they hit on several risk factors so local police are informed, they may have additional information about these people and have boots on the ground to keep on eye on them (if something did happen then NSA and FBI could wash their hands: "We told the local police, they did nothing"). The comparatively unsophisticated local police, partly motivated by the same fear of being responsible if something did happen, then ham-fisted the investigation.
I've been watching PCC development from afar for a while. It seems to have stalled some time around 2011.
After I wrote a script to scrape this data client side (https://qzaidi.github.com/2013/06/23/dashboards-with-dashing...), I guess this was bound to happen. Murphy's law
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So apparently local police forces have access to the kind of data required to learn what people are searching for.
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I had a very similar problem. For Web Apps I realised it was easier and more effective to just say "Website".

But I also realised I needed to flip my value proposition altogether anyhow.

Is it possible you're over-looking something else?

What I mean to ask is - How do you know that is what's holding you back?
I wasn't thinking anything large-scale: a small EMP device can apparently be built from off-the-shelf parts, yielding a pulse which would only harm electronics in close proximity - I was thinking of burglars instead of pranksters. You are indeed quite correct: the lock isn't always the weakest link, but may be the one that's easiest to break without attracting much attention - breaking through a door tends to be very noisy, and hard to conceal; a broken lock may not be apparent to casual inspection.
There you go.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/isle_take_that_welfare_sc...

No, it's not a soup kitchen. The point's the same. It's just people acting as parasites. Nothing brilliant about it.
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The BBC are terrible. Whilst they don't usually outright lie, they cherry pick stories that don't piss off the ruling elite until everyone else has thoroughly jumped on them.

Apart from the guardian, every other news source in the UK is arse paper.
I suppose real fingerprint differences (on your fingers) are tiny variations that are merely a coincidence.
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From my chemistry background I know you could extract anything with solvents but I didn't realize that you would use that method to get a potable alcohol! I don't doubt you would be able to taste the difference.
> If such an uproarious event happened to the author, why on earth hold on to the story for "a few weeks"?

The author said this happened Wednesday (yesterday). The "few weeks ago" was when she searched for pressure cookers and imagined alerts going out.
Thanks. Ever since I read Clifford Stoll’s ”The Cuckoo’s Egg” I’ve been under the impression that the NSA and the FBI hated each other :)
>Why is this even a debate about expense?

Because the thread of this conversation is plausibility, and the OP article lacks a great deal of that, as pointed out by tptacek. Nobody here is arguing that this surveillance is correct, only that the sequence of events in the story makes no damn sense.