skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say it was useless. Responding with a content-free and condescending comment did nothing to further the conversation. You're using more space on the page to say nothing and dragging down the tone of the conversation.
does that mean these are all the current federal laws?..
I'm baffled as to why anyone would purchase this board.

Because it's small enough to be useful but a hell of a lot less work to get started on. I would much rather use this for a personal project (not a product) than spend a year learning a new architecture.
What you're effectively saying is that because the boss of the prosecutor thinks the guy is guilty, he loses his right to innocence before guilt. That is, pardon my French, fucking stupid. No god damned shit the prosecution thinks he's guilty.

Obama has not targeted for execution a single person without a trial who wasn't an enemy combatant. What you're proposing is a Judge Dredd style method of conducting combat operations, which is, again pardon my French, fucking stupid.

"He's shooting at us right now, but we can't assume he's guilty of shooting at us right now until we gather a jury of his peers together and they determine that his finger is the one pulling that trigger. Yes the trigger we both see him pulling that's attached to the gun he has pointed at us. What's that? You're dead because he shot you in the face while you were contemplating the morality of our situation? Well, at least we're not bad people though, right? -HURK-"

As for "extraordinary rendition" and "enhanced interrogation"? Again, there is literally nothing the US/any country can do or say that will give anyone absolute guarantees that such a thing won't happen. It's worthless to speculate about. Besides, if that were the route the US decided to go, don't you think it would have already happened?
I agree with your sentiment, but the Constitution gives congress the power to establish inferior courts.
The encoding looks like valid UTF-8, at least for the first few pages that I glanced at.

I did notice the section references look a little strange in vim, e.g. "act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 1" near the top; it consists of c2 a7 (section sign), which looks fine, followed by e2 80 af (narrow no-break space), which shows up as a box in vim.
Well, you have to be prepared, and think out the consequences. You should have some leaders who are used to acting disciplined in public protest.

If you choose to shout him down (e.g., for a messy and still-controversial example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_Coalition_to_Unleash_Power...) you'd better have a united message and a goal, and media present. And it might still be a bit of a mess. (I had the privilege of attending a lecture on organizing by one of the leaders of this action.)

Other choices are to turn your backs on the speaker, or to walk out en masse.

I'm not sure there was time to prepare for this one, because these revelations are so fresh.

*

By the way, you seem pessimistic that this state of affairs can change due to grassroots action. I don't share your pessimism. When people find out the NSA has been scooping up their e-mail and Facebook chats?
This link is an artificial construct designed to provide the superficial result of a real article.
Hmm. Fair enough. That's a very reasonable interpretation.

You're right, I was being rather generous in my interpretation, and I don't actually know his intent.
The government mostly outsources now (a problem Snowden identified in terms of information control) or develops in-house with vendors.

There are a lot of fingers in that pie. Oracle, for example, has a National Security Group, whose job is to come up with "solutions" and then try to sell them to three-letter-agencies.
I think it's possible for some people to broadly approve of the collection, but still have issues with it. Not sure where that 98% number comes from, but I think the 50% "approval" number is misleading on its own.
Increasing a number by 1 using jQuery
I can understand why the OP dislikes the homogeneity. But from a reader perspective, I don't mind it at all. There's nothing to distract from the post. It's just one simple battle-tested design. No cover to judge the book by.

> I felt dead inside.

Thanks for the hearty chuckle!
Well, I think it's also partly about being part of the medium network and having your writing surface for others to see.
Probably more important than just diffs is actually a dependency graph and a topical index. While they've tried to do this via titles/chapters and references, linear breaks are never going to be as successful as many-to-many linkages as every Bible concordance out there demonstrates.
Using a service like PagodaBox helps a lot with the security issues. The filesystem for everything but uploads is read-only.
Indeed. I hear 'protesting' near any member of the Secret Service has recently become a very, very big no-no.
A half hour before the keynote Moxie encouraged attendees to disrupt the talk https://twitter.com/moxie/status/362596265034399746

"Ubiquitous surveillance prevents millions from speaking
freely. BlackHat keynote attendees, let's not let Gen.
Alexander speak freely today."

I anticipated the protest to be effective, since black-hat hackers have somewhat of a culture of booing presenters who they morally object to. See for example an undercover reporter that was booed out of DEFCON in 2007. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ou/undercover-nbc-dateline-reporte...

I think the thing that made this disruption ineffective is the majority of attendees weren't black-hat hackers. They were mostly corporate professionals. See Black Hat's own demographic survey http://www.blackhat.com/docs/bh-us-12/sponsors/bh-us-12-spon...

It's therefore not really surprising that most of the audience wanted to hear the general speak, and was annoyed by the disruption.

If, on the other hand, the general were speaking at DEFCON I think he probably would have been almost unanimously booed off the stage. But the feds are staying away from DEFON this year (for that reason).

So in retrospect, I think the disruption was a miscalculated PR move for the hacker community.
YAML is unused as a configuration file for end users. Or at least it should be.
Spending tons of money didn't help when DoD was trying to field DIHMRS. The military still runs on an ancient COBOL-era payroll system because they can't successfully develop and field a replacement, despite some billions in wasted $$$.
Be careful what you wish for because you might end up with Ted Kaczynski.
I would love to see a partnership for all the major music festivals being mapped out. Sure, they hand out maps but it would so much better to whip out my phone.

I went to Bonnaroo this year and would have appreciated something like this. Hiking, great idea also.

How about, INSIDE GROCERY STORES? I don't do much of the shopping in my household but when I do, it is usually a frustrating process finding everything on my (her) list. It could be crowd sourced like Waze whereby if Big Box stores do a floor move, you could report on it. "Crepes got moved to Aisle 3" "The Sale section is now here" and look at a visualization of this data. Categorize it by color, etc.

The answer to "Where do they keep the...?" How's that for a killer app idea. FUCKING IKEA! I'll work on this with someone. Please give me an excuse to quit my day job.
This is only the codified portion of the federal law. So called "Statues at Large" that are passed by Congress but not codified into USC are not included. Plus this does not include the federal common law based on the rulings of federal courts.
Real command-line folks will not easily move away from command-line apps, since one of their greatest advantages is that they run in a ssh shell from any terminal. For people who often log in remote servers for more than a few minutes a day, this is a dealbreaker :)
If this is about hiring for talent, then Yahoo is in serious trouble. I will give her this - people are talking about Yahoo again. Some of that was the old board, but she deserves some of the credit too.
The future of programming - awesome talk by Bret Victor
I'm happy that improvements to original products can be made while still monetarily acknowledging the original authors.

This is a great idea, much as Tindie itself was a great idea. I hope it's successful.
I've tried a few times and just can't do it. The completion isn't actually that great (not that VIm completion plugins are very good either) and Vintage mode is at best a poor-mans VIm emulation. There is no sane way to control splits with the keyboard and block selections just don't work well. Search and replace functionality is also not great compared to my experience with VIm. Too many deal breakers for me.
Concentration camps? Me!? No! I just load the trains. It's a tough job market and I need the work. I'm just a regular Johan just trying to get by.
Despite the vaguely militant-underground name "Black Hat", it's a conference of mainstream security researchers, run by a large media firm (CMP Media, which also runs the Game Developer's Conference, and owns a bunch of magazines like InformationWeek). Many of the attendees are themselves in government positions, or serving as contractors. So I'm not sure I'd expect a particularly strong backlash. Heck, some attendees could well be in a position to have already known some of the things that were leaked.
In a profile on Palantir (which sells tools that help with this sort of thing), one employee was quoted as saying "this really is about saving the Shire". Had to laugh.
Yeah. The article might be making a good point, but with such a large, distracting, and loaded analogy standing in the doorway, getting to the meat became a little insufferable.
I thought that question would provoke some good discussion.
And you could not have been aware of all those things before moving to Medium?
The ISPs might not have a choice either, thanks to CALEA.
http://www.webkit.org/coding/RefPtr.html

http://www.chromium.org/developers/smart-pointer-guidelines
This is very meta.
Spotify's losses grow despite revenue doubling in 2012
Interesting to see emacs on its lonesome in one of those boxes. How does that work? Emacs client into an exposed port or something else?
Not to be that annoying guy but:

"Ferrari S.p.A. is 90% owned by the Fiat Group."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat

I don't know what this means.
While I'm sure he's very capable and very much an expert in his field, I don't think he's this charming super politician that planned an elaborate scheme to sway the conference attendees' opinions by appearing to be sensible and calm in front of hecklers.

I mean, can you imagine how horrible this would have turned out if he didn't stay calm? It's basically standard procedure to stay calm and try to explain your way out of it. Sure, he got some applause, and the heckler got some applause too. I think anyone could have imagined something like that happening.
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I'm having the same problem as some other commenters here in that people don't seem to care about these hypothetical situations. They mostly trust the gov't to only track the "bad guys". Are there any good cases of the above-mentioned actually happening? Any other suggestions for responding to the nothing-to-hide argument?
I've never encountered a situation where I was annoyed at TSA because they didn't follow the "formal spec" properly, and wished they had followed it better. In fact, quite the contrary: I have, very occasionally, had places where the TSA let something slide that they officially shouldn't have, and made my life slightly easier as a result.

I don't know why you have such a hard time believing me on this....
http://bit.ly/167W0io
I highly recommend reading "The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies" [1].

Even if polling shows a lack of discontent, it does not mean they were voting rationally. The emotional fear machine of terrorism will always sway towards totalitarianism policies. But if the majority of those citizens were honestly questioned about having their phones (and their entire families) monitored, I doubt they would be for it.

Irrationality and logical fallacies are flourishing on both ends of the spectrum (citizens and politicians), and there are few vocal voices in between correcting the bullshit.

What's missing are leaders (aka media) evaluating and promoting policies based on rationality reasoning rather than what emotional ploys that sell.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-ebook/...
tl;dr

How did so many people reach my page? One of my friends posted my article to hacker news where it then got picked up by digg and feedly.

So why did that blog post work? Given the data I’m looking at, the subject matter was controversial and timely, and it was posted to hacker news. Obviously this would not hold up in the court of law but hey it’s directional.
That example doesn't show it very well. To be clear: The intended advantage is: Parens are optional. That permits syntax like the following to be implemented in pure Perl without changing the parser:

try {
die "foo";
}
catch {
warn "caught error: $_";
};

If parens were mandatory, it would need look like this:

try(
sub {
die "foo";
}
catch(
sub {
warn "caught error: $_";
}
)
);

Having the nicer form in the first example is possible only because sigils are mandatory, along with auto-flattening variables and easy code highlighting.

As for the example, with mandatory parens it would look like this:

w = qq_mult( ConjugateQ, qv_mult( RotationQ, Vector ) );

In production i'd write it like this:

my $W = qq_mult $ConjugateQ, qv_mult( $RotationQ, $Vector );

That gives a nice balance between a low number of parens, and clarity of intent.
> Public Wifi is near-universally terrible. Take WWDC this year.

You're comparing a coffee shop with 10-30 people in it to a conference with 5,000 people in attendance?
They do burden the airport to some degree though. The airport allows off-airport rental agencies to drive their giant billboard buses onto the premises, and also provides a curbside for them to load and unload passengers.

Clearly FlightCar doesn't burden an airport in the same way, however they do to some extent. Maybe if the airport worked with them and provided some portion of short term parking for their customers for a cut of the price it could be beneficial to both parties?
In what way was Joseph Welch impolite? McCarthy was horribly rude, Welch patiently waited for his turn and spoke simply and eloquently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5GlFba5Yg
Monitoring with Golang
Twitter and synchrony
Thanks... I actually hadn't thought about that aspect of it (that real estate court was still not established by Congress ;)

I've been reading up on that a bit since your comment, it's a pretty interesting topic because it touches on one branch's ability to influence another. It's a little troubling that a supreme court justice (Roberts, in this case) has the ability to fill this oversight court with whoever he wants. It seems that needs to be fixed.
I think I'd agree with you if it were a public crowd at a more neutral venue, but this is the equivalent of saying that the NSA is bad on HN. Gen. Alexander wasn't there to take off the boogeyman mask for the security professionals, he was there to gain sympathy for the NSA, and it worked beautifully.
It provides OP, and others, with information as to why it was useless to help prevent future useless comments, improving the overall comment quality of Hacker News. Albeit, my method was crass.
This is already on the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6129148
I wonder how much it is worth for Google to write "Google Starbucks" instead of "Starbucks Google"
I love this idea. Any plans to increase the possible seal-time for those of us who maintain digital identities long enough to accept the eventual delivery?
I don't think I've ever lived in a city that doesn't offer at least one better option. To me Starbucks is just a safe bet. If I'm in a new town and in a rush its a guaranteed commodity. Their mixed drinks are pretty good, but that's because they are so loaded down with sugar and syrups you can't taste the coffee. I usually avoid them since I'm not one for sweets. Their straight black drip is below bar. It used to be laughably bad but a couple years ago they made a serious effort to improve it.

To me they are like Wendy's. Yeah, not the best, but not bad. I can do better at home or if I know the area... but that's not always the case.
> There was no serious Q&A on offer at the keynote. The questions were pre-screened; all attendees could do was vote on them.

A joke in every sense, then. Audacious. He leads with a bit of humor, then says,

> and I do want to give a chance for you to ask some questions. Hopefully they'll be easy ones, and I have a crew here that can answer the hard ones if I need to.
Building that one was challenging too (I used to do RF work for thinkRF). Going back through history, they started off with something that would only cover a specific band (say wifi, or specific cell bands). Then we did the 0440 (400MHz-4GHz), then the 0108 (10MHz-8GHz). There are all kinds of difficulties that come in to making and RF front-end that'll cover all of that bandwidth (we also did amplification and filtering to get better quality reception).

You'll also note the prices, and that those are receive-only devices. Some of the reason the price is so high is that we did all the RF design in-house, designing to our specs. A lot of the cheaper boards out there have less amplification, no (or too little) filtering, and use an integrated LO/mixer/digitizer/baseband chip, which limits them to the specs that chip can handle.
Well of course it does. Popularity is a side effect.
In fairness, the title could just as well be "NSA director applauded on stage at Black Hat security conference".

The crowd's reaction was definitely mixed.
I think his point was that the writing was fine, but control over the web publishing portion was not.

As far as writing goes, I think a lot of us work in text editors. They're more responsive and stable than word processors.
Exactly! Actually, Alexander was asked the Question of NSA datacollection after his talk, basically it went down like this:

Q: "[..]Does the NSA really keep a file on anyone? [...]"

A: "[..] Frist, no, we don't [...]"

Absolutely astonishing!

listen/watch here: http://youtu.be/tz0ejKersnM?t=33m2s
Show HN: Gutsy, command line app to parse HN Who is Hiring Threads (in Perl)
https://github.com/gryftir/gutsy

Since in about 11 hours, there will be new job postings, I thought I'd show this to people. It is about half way done, but is usable, despite mostly being an excuse to practice coding.

You can search by job type: remote, HIB, internships/ by location/ by language, and pull the postings into a separate html or text file.

It's better then Ctrl/Cmd +f. You can construct arbitrary function references (see GutsyExamples) to pick which postings you want, so I can reject postings which say no remote, or remote control when searching for remote positions. It also searches comments on pages linked with a More.

I plan to allow && between job type, location, and languages, maybe add a few locations (suggestions or pull requests welcome), as well as allow doing your own searches. Hopefully I can get some of that done before midnight tonight.

Anyway I'm curious if anybody besides me would find this useful.
Wow, he/she does seem to be quite disinterested. That's disappointing. It would be really useful to know..
Last I checked he wasn't James Clapper (they guy who lied to Congress). But maybe I'm wrong.
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It's a syndrome of "blaming the tool". Writing is hard. Not because it's actually hard to physically write words, but because it's hard to stop yourself from thinking your writing is bad. So, naturally we blame our tools when we get frustrated with our writing.

This is the same for website templates, IDEs, to-do lists, etc.

I wrote about this awhile back: http://www.techdisruptive.com/2012/06/29/the-cyclical-nature...
pretty sure this is as old as gmail itself.
Some advantages of memory safety remain. When using pools, you don't get protection against use-after-free or leaks. It does somewhat mitigate the consequences of those, however: it's much harder for a use-after-free to become a security exploit in a pool in a GC'd language, for example.
>"I have no idea why anyone outside of the DoD would fear him."

It was said, which is basically confirmed with this latest revelation, that he has all the information on everyone and can blackmail anyone....

I am trying to recall where I heard that though, originally.
;) thanks

I guess my attempt at irony failed

(again)
The reason a fair number of these don't go down to DC is that they have an integrated mixer and ADC/DAC, so they are limited to what that one chip will do for front-end bandwidth.
Well, no, not really.

Path doesn't display YOUR password in plaintext. It shows what you've typed in the password box unobfuscated if you tap the "?" in the password field.

Since the password masking field only shows the last character typed for a second or so, if you have a particularly complex password, sometimes rather than trying to type it in over and over again on a small keyboard, it might be nice to actually see, unmasked, what you typed into the field. For about two seconds.

I fail to see how this is any less secure than the masked field showing your password one character at a time as you type it.
Thanks for the pointer! I think you're right that The Atlantic piece is more fair.

On the "adjusted" chart you reference, my thought was the adjustment makes that chart not hugely useful to the copyright debate. In other words, the debate has one side people who say "copyright encourages creative output" and on the other people who say "copyright actually limits the spread of creative output." By showing books available as a percentage of total books published, rather than showing absolute output, the adjusted chart is useless for the question "might strong copyright encourage greater output," instead measuring only the answer to the question "does copyright tend to limit distribution." Both sides in the debate agree the answer to the latter question is "yes." They do disagree on the scope of the problem so I suppose the adjusted chart addresses that point but it seems like a minor and muddled bit of data. You look at it and might think "ah copyright is really holding down the distribution of media" but when you realize it's basically a percentage chart (based on a small and not necessarily representative sample) and then realize book output has hugely grown it's hard to see the differences in the chart as particularly consequential for the debate. At least IMHO.

I would like to see that same chart adjusted for population growth.
>the four-star general presented a timeline of terrorist attacks around the world, from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to the Boston Marathon attack.

Can anyone speak as to why, with the NSA's systems, they were not able to thwart an attack by the ass clowns in Boston? Russia even warned us about them and they made frequent contact with foreigners.

I'm sorry, but that terrorist event seems like low hanging fruit if their system really works to protect us.
1) If you ever go to Burning Man, we do the free, open source app for that: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iburn-2012-burning-man-map/i...

2) Hiking is where we started. We make the top selling hiking GPS app, the one that people consider to be the true Garmin analog, with all the benefits of the network connected smart phone: http://www.gaiagps.com/

3) Inside grocery stores is tricky because GPS doesn't work in doors. There is nascent tech that does work, though.