skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The majority of those supporting Manning/Snowden maintain that neither man did anything wrong. This seems to be a much more reasonable and fair-minded approach.

>"Mr Manning’s public-interest defence is especially thin: he leaked over 700,000 files with little judgment about what harm or good this would do."

I agree - it was irresponsible and unwise, and it may have ultimately harmed the country more than it helped. I think Snowden has generally used his best judgement; we can disagree with what he saw fit to leak, but at least he takes some responsibility for the information he holds.

I also agree that we've gone way too far in restricting liberties. We have a bill of rights for a reason: individual rights the government shouldn't be able to ignore, even when it's inconvenient.
Thinking outside of the box, applying a known business tactic to an entirely different thing and being able to create a market for it all have a bit of brilliance at heart, IMO.
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I skimmed the actual paper and wasn't very impressed. It uses theoretical models without any actual data to support its claim. The claim the paper actually proves is:

If there is a technique that successfully weeds out false positives, then such a technique can be used profitably.

Which is a far cry from their supposed claims, that the spammers are using bad grammar and "Nigeria" to weed out false positives. They basically proved a molehill and claimed a mountain.
I always stick to 79 chars and stick to the latter method for indentation. I am completely happy with the readability of my code as a result. Thus, I'm not really happy with the new 99 char rule.
Try just answering the phone with "hello?" for unknown numbers.
The hidden tip I picked up here:

Make observations about the person.

Ask them questions to confirm your observations.
No, the story doesn't boil down to "a lady claims". The fact that the Guardian followed up and confirmed that there was a visit is significant. That takes this out of la-la land.
People said this at my undergrad, too. "Instead Of Engineering", but same deal.

Mainly, they had a reputation for a light workload, which people naturally extrapolated into a judgment of the discipline.

When this came up I always proposed the alternate explanation that Electrical Engineers' higher workload might, just might, be due to a sadomasochistically-macho department culture, and Industrial and Operations Engineers' lighter workload might be due to a curriculum designed by efficiency experts.
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thats why the x.400 and 500 standards had the concept of generational qualifiers.
> Her using that specific word all over the place leads me to believe she is hiding something.

She researched what went on with her family? You just used the words also, so according to your "logic" you have something to hide. Perhaps that's why you created a new HN account?
This is pretty much the official reason why Toyota and the rest of its Japanese brethren took over car manufacturing. The opportunity wasn't lost, American companies ignored it, japanese companies didnt and so after a decade of application they drank our milkshake. It is literally the history of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.
Wait a moment. Before you get carried away, we still only have her word. Also on the piece :

In a conversation with The Atlantic Wire, FBI spokesperson Peter Donald
confirmed The Guardian's report that the FBI was not involved in the
visit itself. Asked if the FBI was involved in providing information
that led to the visit, Donald replied that he could not answer the
question at this point, as he didn't know

So at the moment, we still have hearsay. It's from the original source and I'm not calling her a liar, but I still don't know what exactly happened. Just who came to the residence beyond some scary looking guys in SUVs who said they were FBI.

Edit: Interesting that asking for evidence warrants downvotes.
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There's nothing in lizzard's post to suggest physically barricading the house against law enforcement. Meanwhile if you read the article, you'll see that according to the author's account, the police did indeed ask the husband "if they could search the house".

Always say no[1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
All this bad press is a great incentive for people to develop encryption skills. I'm now looking into javascript client to client encryption of certain social sites and services using greasemonkey to organise the contacts and keys database.
So we know that Federal (and State) law enforcement spends resources following up very tenuous leads.

Approximately 18 years ago I had 4 local police show up at my front door at 11:00 PM because my roommate had broken up with a girl and she told her parents that I posted her phone number on a Prodigy message board. I didn't do it and have never even had a Prodigy account.

I also barely knew the girl and she was only doing it to get back at my roommate through me.

I was in bed when they knocked on the door, I went downstairs and didn't let them in. They threatened everything short of killing me, I told them I had no idea what they were talking about. They then grilled my roommate outside for about 20 minutes. Dumbest situation I've ever been involved in.

So yeah, local cops have way to much time on their hands.
I wish there was a text version of this thing, in simple and concise sentences.
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Joel's rejects site (i.e. hackers), CrazyOnTap is down. What could have happened?
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Burn it hot enough and emissions turn out mostly ok.
The point is also moot in Emacs. What editor are you using that forces you to navigate one space at a time rather than being able to at least jump around by word?
I think there's more to it simply on the basis that sending three SUV's with at least six agents to investigate people would be almost impossible from an economic standpoint. That is extremely costly and time-consuming, not to mention the amount of lead-time required to brief agents and investigate this family. If they did that for every suspicious search query combination, they'd be awfully busy.

I don't even doubt that their family was paid a visit by agents. However I wouldn't be surprised if certain details were left out to sell a certain angle on this story. For example, to create a headline-worthy story she might have gone to unreasonable lengths to create the illusion of suspicious activity without actually doing anything illegal.

Edit:

I checked the Atlantic Wire story and was immediately turned-off by the photo. It is meant to mislead the reader into thinking the subjects are members of the family being described in the story. However if you scroll to the end you see in grayed-out type:

Photo: Massachusetts police search a home after the Boston bombings.

News these days is a complete joke. Anybody who thinks this is real journalism should go read Ryan Holiday's Confessions of a Media Manipulator. It's impossible to read or watch most news sources without a conscious level of skepticism.
That is really nice. I remember implementing something similar to step 2 and 3 on AppEngine a few years back for a project. It turned out quite nice and non tech-savvy users used it without much problems. We managed to have something that could easily work with different CSV formats (MS Excel and others).
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I refreshed the page, and now there's a shot of a man (presumably Bohlin) wearing a seatbelt above the phrase in question.
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If I understand correctly, iPhone and iPad run ARM processors... does this mean you can now use PyPy on iOS?
I'm using ST3 (and ST2 before that) with the default tab handling options, and it inserts spaces and not tabs. I don't think it'd have the rapid adoption among Python programmers if it didn't.
This would be cool as a whiteboard with a sliding frame on it.
How is that economically/environmentally sound to import garbage? Garbage should be burned locally to avoid extra pollution.
A number of WTE plants do a couple of things -- 1) biological / wet fraction goes to a digester for methane, which is either burned as additional fuel or sold to municipalities, 2) solid waste is burned, 3) ash from burning used for additional projects (road, train beds, etc).

Most also do cogeneration as well (energy + heat/steam distribution).
Having 0 and o next to each other on a keyboard is great too.
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I find that far too often, clients don't understand or respond to the terminology of "web applications". I've toyed with Web Software, Online Software, Web Apps, Apps and none of them feel right.

So, what do HN's consultants use to market web app services?
Sounds like they do a pretty good job of controlling the emissions. My primary concern, and this is a fairly uneducated concern, but I always envisioned a (bleak) future where we had already mined all the precious and rare-earth metals and minerals and were forced to use our garbage dumps to re-claim those materials. Of course a good recycling program, would in theory, prevent this from ever being necessary, but in general, burning stuff to create energy feels sooo 20th century, we should really be using renewables and nuclear.
How would you do that? cc the NSA I mean?
I don't really know why, but I like the imperfectness of our calendar system now.

Stupid stuff like February having only 29 days is pretty funny and those 7 days of December 25th to January 1st is perfect because its an exact week.

It would be too boring if every month was the same.

Could we have fun stuff like `April Showers Bring may Flowers' if every month was just the same 28 days? I'm sure we could, but everything would be the same and that's boring.
I'm not sure I understand your syntax. Graphs are typically specified as relationships (edges) between nodes.

a->b
b->c
d->c

{ name: "a", inputs : {}, outputs {"b"} }
{ name: "b", inputs : {"a"}, outputs {"c"} }
{ name: "c", inputs : {"b","d"}, outputs {} }
{ name: "d", inputs : {}, outputs {"c"} }

???
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Actually, the Moose PDF is still the one i link to when necessary. However lately i've switched to simply linking to http://perl-tutorial.org and pointing out the relevant bits.
Why not? are you satisfied with speculation as an alternative to the truth? is this an excuse to not even ask questions?
Author here. I originally had a pic of a regular old seat belt, but when I saw the Volvo meme I had to use it. Just fixed that.

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> Like how? Do you want mothers to retreat to a disgusting public restroom to feed baby?

Most mothers that I've seen publically breastfeeding have a light cloth that they drape over themselves.
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You won't get an argument from me that various federal agencies are riding the line of "gangsters".

However wrong these agencies might be, the OP has to face the consequences. My guess is the ATF might knock on his door and give him a lesson on alcohol regulations, nothing more, but at least he should be aware of what the potential consequences are.
> If we had 13 months, all of them would have exactly 28 days. We would need and extra day in order to complete 365 days

And sometimes another extra day in order to complete 366 days.
Pedantic reply is pedantic.

The point I am trying to make is that Snowden took this story to a few local, bona-fide, 100% US-owned/operated/associated well-known media outlets and they passed.

He went to a UK-associated news outlet and got published.

When you're done focusing on the most irrelevant part of my post, please look closer and see if you can discern a forest amongst the trees.
This is a great app. What you need to do is market it to skateboarders.
My county's prime minister is going to jail.
He was the one I had in mind. I randomly bumped into Curtis Sliwa of Guardian Angels fame, and he was the same way for the first 3 minutes. Then he started repeating the questions. :-)
Yeah, this is called being unnecessarily combative with a cop, and is asking for some serious trouble. All you need is a cop that's at the end of a long bad day, and eventual vindication (with a possible settlement) probably won't make up for the several months of grief.

1) Don't talk to cops

2) Don't be rude to cops

lecturing the cops about your rights falls under #2. Ask if you're being detained, mention (politely!) that you only speak to cops with your attorney present if you must, and ask if you can go. Everything else in this not completely believable dialog is asking for trouble.
Strictly speaking it's been the FBI doing the surveillance itself and turning the data over for storage to NSA, if I understand the org. structure correctly.
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Well this is embarrassing. I just had to google quinoa myself.
Wow... Govt is into big data. I wonder what they use for analyzing all this data
He only implemented his optimized software on one platform and somehow starts to compare it with different software on another platform. How is that relevant for that other platform's performance?
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The claim is that the visit was due to her googling, which isn't proven. I want them to investigate the actual reasons instead of dealing with hearsay.
Nobody is perfect, and your self-assessment of the issue suggests that you are probably already on the right track.
I haven't read the article but i'm guessing this a reference to divide and conquer methods. Such as map reduce used in hadoop and such.
"most people don't consider the police an armed gang"

The police are the very definition of an armed gang. Just a legally sanctioned one.

They have a monopoly on violence - what else would you call it?
Thanks for pointing that out. Also, the second link, being a perfectly clear and readable side-by-side diff is exactly the reason why 79 chars is important.
Oh, no, not my activities--but I can absolutely understand the public utility in allowing them such exhaustive resources in verifying the activities of others.

What's that? The infrastructure is indistinguishable? Pshaw.
How long before kids start playing "Google 'jihadist bomb manual' three times" instead of "say 'Bloody Mary' three times into a mirror at midnight"?

Real soon, I hope!
So concentration camps were understandable???

You are nuts if you think that that was acceptable given the circumstances.

Just doing my job is not sufficient in jobs such as these.
iPhone/iPad/Windows Phones are all ARM processors, and almost all Android phones/tablets (except Intel Medfield based phone) are ARMed as well.
There is no proof that the visit was due to her googling anything: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6142238
Are you aware of any research into compression schemes that address these kind of length-leak attacks?

Intuitively, I'm not even sure such a thing is possible.
Yeah, this is far more odd.
Are you reasoning under the assumption that this can't be the case?
You do realize that this is a silly, dumb sentiment, right?

The idea that switching one black box for another black box will save you from this is absurd.
What I've heard as the reasoning behind it is, if the device can read the atmospheric pressure, it makes finding a GPS lock easier. For that reason, barometers are being built into the phones. Maybe someone who knows more can elaborate?
That claim has three parts:

- She was visited by government authorities.

- Those government authorities were federal agents.

- She was visited because of what she searched.

Of those three parts, the first was the only one confirmed (the second, I believe, was proved false.)
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Iframe sandboxing is the solution - removing allowscripts permission will fix this.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/sandboxed-if...

Now it may be argued that genuine Rich HTML ads do need javascript, for example, to expand or interact with the page. To me, the solution to this is to limit what sort of javascript is allowed to run. We need an mraid.js for the web, which specifies the subset of javascript that could be run.

I don't think it will happen until there is a major attack. Other than botnets, javascript can mess with cookies, steal data, and do a lot of damage.
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On a high level, how does OAuth 2 work?
If the traders could be rational enough to pick up and move to new temporary offices a few blocks over and carry on with their business the next day, the consequences of a NYSE bombing would not be so dire. The dramatic financial repercussions you mention would certainly happen, but only because people would panic.
This style is used in the linux kernel as well; there can be multiple resources acquired that sometimes need to be released in reverse order, so there are often multiple labels that you can goto, depending on how much stuff you have to unwind before you return.
Is it morally clear though?

Kim Kardashian gets paid to plug god knows what, and it's not immoral to be a shill.

That isn't to say that I would do it. (I won't) But it isn't black and white. It might be a dark gray, but it's still gray.
Reminds me of "here's one weird tip to prevent unlawful search and seizure"
Was the same level of skepticism shown when the government claimed that Snowden was lying? Why not?

Why is it that a private citizen is automatically doubted when they make a claim that is easily verifiable but when the government makes a claim that has been repeatedly contradicted by multiple people over the span of years, including at least two sitting US Senators, the government's claims are taken at face value?

Shouldn't her story get a minimum benefit of doubt until some independent reporting can be done on the claims? Especially when everything she claims is plausible given what is known about the government's capabilities.
I must admit I haven’t read the articles about Snowden’s discloures that close. Do you have any links to share regarding the FBI:s involvement?
I feel your pain, although we Romanians use the (standard?) latin alphabet. I had to spell 'Andrei Simionescu' over the phone so many times that I'm sure I could win a couple of spelling bees easily.

Speaking of which, why don't all companies just move to automated support systems already? These guys are doing it right http://www.zocdoc.com/
I know you're making a joke, but https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

;)
few years back had a visit from a bunch of police guys. They never shown any warrant, said they were looking for some guy who i have no idea about, they checked our apartment and left (5th, ie. don't talk to the police, 4th amendment, etc... - it looked so laughably unapplicable in front of these towering and pushing forward guys (and i'm 6ft btw)) What was it about - have no idea, may be they were really looking for that guy, at least that is my hope and my desire to believe in. I'm an immigrant, with clear record, official record i mean - what they have in secret files about me - have no idea.

Wrt. the topic of this discussion - FBI/NSA/etc... have been monitoring what people have been checking out in libraries, so it is only natural that they continue doing it on the Internet. Of course that is blatant violation of 4th, yet citizens of this country through their elected representatives have been strangely content with it.
You possibly got downvoted because people assumed that the scary photograph at the top of the article was taken during this incident and not during the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings, and that it is therefore a piece of evidence. I thought the same thing at first.
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It is NSFW at many or most employers in the US, for prudish or legal reasons or both.

This is not a comment on breastfeeding, it's an acknowledgement of the environment.
Let's assume that this kind of aggravation is necessary to defend against terrorism in an imperfect world, which in particular has imperfect systems and government employees.

Is there anything EXCEPT terrorism we'd want to have cracked down on that closely??

http://www.dbms2.com/2013/07/29/what-our-legislators-should-... spells out some consequences of this reasoning.
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Thanks for the recommendation and video link.

I had no idea who Verou was. I'm so behind.
For what it's worth, it's not "quite an assumption"; it's an almost universal property of web applications of any significant size.
Say it ain't so...

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Not in my backyard!

Seriously, that's why it's shipped rather than burned locally. Some people don't want these plants around them no matter what the benefit.
My Casio Twincept had the same calendar on its LCD. It applied backlight on a selected frame depending on the month. It was possible to see full set of numbers if you look closely.

It was something like this:

http://www.pmwf.com/Watches/Casio/FirstTwinceptCalendarTwinc...
I work at Stack Exchange, and contacted Samsung as soon as this was brought to our attention last night.

1. The company engaging in these tactics was not hired by Samsung; they appear to have been sub-contracted for some promotion by the company they did hire. Now, it's obviously possible that they turned a blind eye, or don't want to know what methods are used, but in fairness, there's no evidence that they had any idea this was happening. And given the directness of it all, I suspect they'd have objected, if only because it looks so bad.

2. Everyone who was contacted due to being a user on our sites has now received a follow up communication from the company that sent the first message redacting the offer and apologizing for the inappropriate contact and request.

None of that makes any of this... lovely, but it does help clarify that any potential harm or noise this might cause seems to have been contained.