skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More likely you'd use algorithms based on structure from motion, like in the Kinect. But that's definitely not the target market for these guys.
You're kidding if you think those are even of remotely comparable level of difficulty. I've fixed many small electronic or mechanical devices by just opening them up and looking at them.

It's a lack of critical thinking and problem solving ability, that's all.
Usually it's more like the old joke:

Guy walks into doctor's office, says his body hurts. Doc asks where it hurts, guy taps his forehead and says that that hurts. Doc asks if anywhere else hurts, guy taps knee and says that too hurts. Doc asks if there are any other symptoms, guy pokes at this other arm, says that that hurts.

Doc diagnoses guy with broken finger.
Ironic that both of them (I believe) involved current or former law enforcement officers, too.
One of the benefits of a high-paying software industry job is that I can afford to support causes like this now. I suspect many other HN readers are in a similar position. I encourage everyone to give what they can, as standing up for our rights at the cost of ten years of labor is an incredibly difficult thing, and deserves reward.
Another measure of tyranny (especially of the accidental/incompetence instead of malice kind) is the ease with which false accusers can get away with lying, for how long, and how bad an impact it can have on the accused.

Another way of putting it: In your society, how toxic and volatile is suspicion?

No society is perfect, and even though things are great in many ways, society in the US definitely has some oppression in it. The way forward is to take off political blinders (both left and right) and to be honest with ourselves about it.
You say single issue, but really the NRA is single Amendment. They fight for a strong, individual right within the 2nd.

Privacy, unfortunately, doesn't have that same focus within the Constitution. Where the 1st gives, the 4th takes away esp with respect to National Defense. So Privacy advocates are left to fight a broad argument based on the protections in the 1st and by narrowing the definition of reasonable searches. That's a much harder problem and a long game that requires many, complementary actors.
I think the issue here is that one of our greatest tools, The Google, is being neglected. I bet if I had a simple problem with my car, I'd google it and see if I can fix it.

I guess in the case of not being able to connect to the Internet, they can't really do that unless they carried their smartphone around with them like everybody else in the world.
There is likely a lawyerly distinction here between "target" and "use person's name as a query".
That must be it. Proof: the violent and unnecessary military police shootings in Norway, Sweden and Denmark that are all over the news every day.
When small companies can no longer operate
More lies. He does do one thing well though: he'll tell you exactly what you want to hear. He even said the civil libertarians can be considered patriots, too. Wow, that makes me feel special. I almost like Obama now.

The problem is it's all just words, and we've had plenty of those ever since he was elected the first time - and then turned around and did the opposite. So let facts speak for themselves, but he already sounded like he still wants most of the current surveillance capability in place, and you basically have to trust them because their interest is only to protect the nation (yeah, right).

He uses all these words about having a range of safeguards, and whatnot (while saying nothing specific), which almost make you believe him - but again, it's all just words.

He even said he would've done this without the Snowden revelations. Can you believe that?! He would've turned around the surveillance state in his second mandate all on his own? Come on. All of this while still slipping stuff like "the FISA Court has done a fine job so far".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statist...
I like fakemailgenerator. They have multiple domains, and incoming emails are shown almost immediately (very fast email servers and push notifications). http://www.fakemailgenerator.com/
> I got to see an authentic modem from 1999

Get off my lawn.

You know ebay has them if you wanted to see them before, they're not museum pieces yet. Also, they do still have their uses.

Kids these days ...
Let's remove verbs from HTTP 2.0
I grew up with white on blue. The non-bright intensities, that is. Very good during daytime light levels on a CRT. http://mindprod.com/utility/sa!.txt
Oh, triple unfold is a little more reasonable. Still, the 10-20 W was fairly optimistic; you might get the 20 W with a good panel with the laptop closed and the lid flat in noon sun. With the unfold it'd be enough power to charge and run an Atom laptop (charge at midday, use in shade earlier/later), but it's still not strictly comparable to Joey Hess's setup. Different scale, different purpose.
I suggest reading the C standard, where you'll find that, despite the many words used about volatile, it doesn't really guarantee you anything at all. I especially love this sentence:

> "What constitutes an access to an object that has volatile-qualified type is implementation-defined."

The behavior of I/O ports and the meaning of any attempt to access them is beyond the scope of the standards. The "requirements" that exist for volatile are simply an absurdity outside the (new in C11/C++11) threading context, since the implementation is not actually required to do anything useful.
More from the Q&A:

Asked about if Snowden is a Patriot: "No he is not. I called for a thorough review of surveillance programs before Snowden leaks. A thoughtful, fact-based debate. I signed an executive order that provided protections for whistleblowers in the intelligence community, so there were better avenues for leaking information."
Safety first is fine, so long as the police are part of the community they are policing. When they are not, then the tensions and the stakes will be more like those facing soldiers of an occupying army, with some of the bad consequence that comes with that.
Quoting the hip-hop artist KRS-1:
"Barack is like the manager of Burger King. All presidents are, including Bush. It's like this... When your fries are cold, if your burger's not done right... you go back to Burger King (America, or your government), and you say, "My burger's cold; I want new fries!" First, you go to the cashier... that's the courts. You argue to the courts... The courts... If you can't get no justice with the cashier, you say, "Let me see the manager! I want to go to Supreme Court. I want to see the president." The manager comes out, "Hi, what can I do for you?" Now the manager can override the decisions of the cashier, but you never get to see the franchise owner of Burger King. If you really have a problem with your burger, you need to go see the franchise owner. We need to go to the top. Or to the bottom [moans]. We need to go where the real architecture of government is. And it's not in a president. It's in a global scheme."
Favors are favors, and business is business.

I have no problems doing people favors, but those are done for free with no expectation of payment. If I'm expecting to be paid, I want it in writing.
It looks like you can search the communications of US persons who interacted with non-US persons by using the US person's name.
It'd be awesome to see a dump of the data so that we can examine it on our own - many people may think of ways to use it that you haven't, or draw different conclusions from it. :D
If by "ordinary, mainstream" you mean white, you need to remember that the Irish, the Polish, etc. were not considered white at this time.

(not trying to be racist, just trying to accurately describe a racist system)
He's mastered the arcane and delicate technology that we software people work with every day, but that doesn't make everyone else a moron. His experience blinds him to how bad the user interfaces are for most things we use. The sad fact is that most software products are simply not good enough if the general population is expected to be successful with them.
Language is fluid, and besides, it makes sense to add the 's possessive marker to it. It's the way it used to be written.
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This is a prototype of a CMDB that I created for work. We are currently building servers across several countries and in order to track the team's progress I created this application.

url: dcmdashboard.herokuapp.com

login: visitor@example.com

password: password
This test fails to detect many existing police states.

I lived in Cuba for a while. Many people would consider that a police state.

Yet people were free to vocally criticize the government. And they did.

The government tolerated it because they knew those particular people were harmless. It only clamped down on those that posed an actual threat to their authority.
Obama pledges greater surveillance transparency
Those packaging overhauls are evil, even from a suppliers perspective. However, they're almost never for no reason, as they're very expensive for a supplier to do.

Club packaging requirements are very particular to how they sell, in large bulk packs directly off pallets or steel racks. Usually the packaging is completely custom to the club, from the product packaging itself to the pallet packing. And no club wants the same as another (if they even stock the same product). This leads to new packaging having all kinds of unforeseen problems that slip through testing; from shifting in transit when using certain trucks, pallet crushing due to stack design, stretch wrap ripping for some reason, sub-optimal presentation when the pallet is thrown on the floor for sale, etc.

The package refresh itself will take the supplier ~6-12 months (unless it's a critical deficiency in the packaging), so even if the problems present themselves immediately you're looking at a "yearly" overhaul. And then the cycle repeats itself, when new bugs are introduced (you just can't test for everything that's gonna hit at Club scale sales).

Standard retailers use the same basic packaging styles, even if slightly customized for that client, so most of the 'gotchas' with those have been rooted out and accounted for, so refreshes are much less frequent.

Edit: Unless you were talking about simple label changes. In which case you are correct in there being no real reason beyond the marketing department trying to keep itself employed. Supply chain departments hate it due to the headaches and costs associated with switching over (and writing off unused labels/packaging).
What you are talking about was pederasty, not homosexuality.
Knowing how to use a computer is a lot more integral to living in modern society than knowing how to use/debug a car, though. Especially in areas with good public transit, one can live life without knowing how to drive, much less fix a car. Computers, on the other hand, are quickly becoming our best windows into the world at large.

Knowing the technical difference between China's great firewall, the NSA's snooping, and the the UK's proposed porn filter is vital for people making decisions about them, as well as educated voters.
Privacy is not an issue with Unity's shopping lens, since Amazon cannot identify you apart from anyone else. If you don't want your search queries to leave your computer at all, then don't use a global search box (just like you don't type those queries into Google, either).

"We are not telling Amazon what you are searching for. Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf." --Mark Shuttleworth, http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182
The wifi is actually somewhat excusable, if they only ever connect to the internet at home or work and could have been years since those two networks were configured. Plenty of people never use internet on their laptop outside of two or three places.

However, it's pure lunacy on the part of the IT guy to expect people to know the specific proxy settings (including whether or not a proxy is needed), where to enter them, what sites exactly are being blocked, and how to diagnose where in the chain of powerpoint -> computer -> AP -> proxy -> internet your video is failing and how to fix it.

Going to cars, that's like expecting someone to be able to diagnose why an engine isn't starting when they turn the key in the ignition. Without any sonic or haptic clues.
I don't understand why knowing who the team members are IRL is such a huge "security threat". Can someone please explain that to me?
First, he was coming at it from the position of being a fellow teacher, not designated IT-bro.

Second, you dismiss the problems as things "nobody ever has"--guess what? Somebody had them.

Third, he mostly listed examples where a cursory bout of reasoning or just a bit more experience in computers (gotten through doing something other than delegating to the mystical IT wizards) would've solved the problem.

And no, he didn't say the kid was stupid or a numbskull--he said the kid didn't know how to use computers. Stop putting words into the dude's mouth.
yes, i am biased.

1) i'd say typescript will have its place, like coffeescript. usual MS behaviour: "oh there is something cool going on! We'll rewrite this stuff again in our ecosystem, instead of helping the original thing. Then we announce it as 'awesome new thing' with a cool buzzword!"

2) i ignore windows development currently (just as much as crossplatform toolkits need). i know there are many C# people out there, but i am just facing unix-ish based developers around me. so, i can't say something about this.

3) "is supporting". oh, great. And google supports angular. and facebook supports ... . not really an argument. Oh, and i know that microsofts actually pays some linux developers. many firms do. most of them with much less money than microsoft. (oh, when the current stock course ddrops further, this won't be true for future readers ^^)

4) As far as i know they hired a lead designer from apple to actually "invent" the design. Personally i like the tiles of windows 8, at least the spirit. What they made out of this ideas, well, not so much.

5. Who really needs IDEs? C# folks (and java'ish of course). It doesn't matter how good Visual Studio actually is (i know it is good or even the best, i have the ultimate's here), but efficient developing C# requires VS, and that is, in my opinion, a central design flaw of the language itself.

6. i didn't mentioned F# because i have no experience with it.

7. not an argument for a startup for developing their stuff in C# right away, seriously.

Old microsoft: massive marketshares and influence. new microsoft: too little too late, fading away (PC drops, public windows 8 perception (!) is a desaster, Tablets and RT's don't sell, Phone marketshare is not enough, XBox one presentation desaster, stock price drops and drops, ...).

i love discussions with other biased people :)
Yeah! This is something that I'm interested in, but there are a bunch of privacy issues with a raw data dump (references to specific files/URLs and possibly passwords), and I haven't gotten around to making sure it's safe yet.

(note: I haven't actually seen any passwords, but that doesn't mean there aren't any)
The most prominent early SWAT team was brought to us by our good friend Daryl Gates and was more honestly called a "Special Weapons Assault Team"; the current backronym is merely for public consumption.
Awesome. Thanks for the feedback. AutoCAD is in our top 10. A lot of people want to see this integration for various uses.
Also, it's almost always been located in either the top right or bottom right of the screen (re. Windows/OSX here). If all of a sudden the new OSX version required a command line to connect, or changed the icon to something else, I'd understand. But to borrow from the car example, the ignition is unlikely to be located in the trunk.
I was thinking the issue was that Brogrammers had loud in-office drinking sessions that offended people. "Who funded you?" is the least of my worries.
Shut up and Jam: white noise generator for deep mode concentration
The article resonated with me on some level, because it does take a long time to learn how to actually do math. If you are at the point of just doing algebraic manipulations on equations to try to figure something out, you've lost the battle (as opposed to using algebraic manipulations to encode your thoughts, and work out the details).

On the other hand, I think everybody really did see the beauty in geometry. Yes, the initial manipulation to prove something about symmetric angles is a bit silly, but you aren't being taught symmetric angles here, you are being taught how to do a geometric proof. Which is not easy to learn, so you start with something super simple and obvious. I didn't observe anyone in my classes (well this was back in 1982, so memory is a challenge here) confused about that point. And, as soon as we learned it, the requirement for formalism was dropped. It was the same in algebra. In the first weeks you weren't allowed to go directly from x + 3 = 1 to x = -2. You had to do something like x + 3 - 3 = 1 - 3; x + 0 = 1 - 3; x = 1 - 3; x = -2; with all the rules that you are using written out. Annoying yes, once you grasp it, but once you proved you grasped it that was the end of that, and we never had to do it again.

But, I had good teachers that always tried to explain the 'why' of what we were doing, and did not make us engage in pointless formalisms. But you need to understand terminology like ABC in geometry; when you get to tough problems you'll be using it. So, learn it with the easy problems.
Note that the corrections you propose still have nothing to do with the value that the employee produces. They just adjust the replacement cost to something more realistic.

It's still about minimizing expenditure to bring in a certain amount of profit.
It's hard to find something to say that isn't hopeless and nihilistic, so I'll just say this: it's disappointing to see someone who used to be a professor of constitutional law ignore the obvious dangers to free speech of a set of programs and secret laws that he himself oversees.
The first thing that comes to mind is that they're apparently firing 90% of their sys admins. Their internal workings are definitely being affected.
We haven't seen that bug. https://hosted.stridercd.com runs on Docker. We'd love to fix this for you.

Can you file a bug at http://github.com/Strider-CD/strider?

Many thanks and sorry you are having issues.
I think the writing is already on the wall in favor of that movement.

The biggest civil rights movement left is the War on Drugs, with soldiers routinely terrorizing minority communities, putting them in chains en-masse, taking their right to vote.

Considering the DEA's use of Laundered NSA intelligence, and the Black Caucus's support for the Amash Amendment (due to the FBI's historical relationship with the civil rights movement) this might be a good fit.
I don't mean white. Prohibition agents didn't just hassle the Irish and the Polish (though they did particularly focus on immigrants). The invasive nature of Prohibition extended to everyone, across racial lines. Arguably that's why the drug war has lasted so much longer than Prohibition--so far the major injustices of the drug war have been limited to people outside the social mainstream.
And SWAT teams don't have pensions, and never get hurt on the job?

Also, I expect SWAT teams need/get more time to practice SWATting than regular officers need/get time to practice policing.
Nothing has happened to the "average" American citizen yet as a result of this. No one's gone to jail, no one's been arrested, no one's been "silenced".

Combine that with the general US notion (a notion existent since the Munroe Doctrone in the early 19th century) of isolationism, and you've got an explanation for why we're generally okay with this.
>But leaving out the facts that the guy reported himself to be a murderer,

Sorry to interrupt with a slightly different issue, but anybody can call the police, tell them some story, and cause SWAT to show up at your location. SWAT-ing is a thing. It happens. So is SWAT teams mistakenly showing up at the wrong address, and all sorts of other human errors. It happened to Brian Krebs recently, and it can happen to anyone.

So, without regard to whether there is an actual heinous criminal pedophile terror suspect holed-up in his house, or whatever else is going on; we do want SWAT teams to err on the side of professionalism and restraint, not on the side of driving armored vehicles into peoples' houses, killing their pets and generally terrorizing their victims.

You won't have to look long to find plenty of examples of police acting with complete disregard for the safety of suspects, suspects' property.
Yes, but when a classical composer converses with you and says something along the lines of "There actually is, with all the creativity, a sort of formula I follow to produce my best pieces. You see I do this first, revise it three times, etc, etc." and no one will sit and shutter and have the PTSD style flashback the original comment talked about because they do not know and they do not have preconceived, strongly held, notions in mind about the subject.

Or at least I think that'd be true.
The Odds of a Hollywood Movie Being Made Are the Same as a Startup Making It
Right. I'll read that page when and if I ever need to.
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It's interesting that you're noting this, given the large number of officers who are ex-military. Seems quite possible to me that this is part of the reason for militarization of police forces in the first place.
No, but it is apparently misunderstood.

In the meantime the Fifth Amendment already should protect you against being compelled to incriminate yourself.

For the rest, for better or worse it's always been a government loophole to wait for you to tell a third-party something and then grab it. We used to have a government office that would read all (ALL) Western Union telegrams going abroad and coming within, for example.

Sometimes the government self-limits it's ability to do this (e.g. wiretapping phones... we've gone from days where phone conversations were conducted on a "party line" where all could listen it, to where no one may legally tap a phone line and even the government must obtain a warrant or court order).

The problem with self-limiting is that such limits can be just as easily undone (e.g. Patriot Act).

So perhaps a specific Amendment regarding privacy itself is warranted, because the Fourth Amendment doesn't speak to that itself, unless we wait for another activist Supreme Court decision ;)

But even in that case, I just don't see the NSA completely going out of the game as I don't think Americans will subject themselves to a "no foreign communications wiretaps" law, as that is something even the Germans seem to explicitly permit in their legal code.
There's not a lot to say. I didn't have any huge role in the project, although the experience working on it was hugely influential in the way I thought about programming. Maybe I'll write it up some day.

As for Hyatt, it just seemed like something he would do as a joke. Blink was a ridiculous feature, but it was a standard, which was a wedge that Mozilla leaned on heavily in those days.
Primary German email providers will start to encrypt all email transmissions
That is also in the pipeline :)
Everybody always thinks they're a special case. "Oh sure, he lied to THEM, but he'd NEVER lie to ME!"

That's why one of my lessons is "Expect the best of everyone, but always believe the evidence."

http://unicornfree.com/2011/lessons-learned-from-16-years-of...
You think that current historians only look at stuff that's true to get an insight into the past? Can you spot the flaw there?
I don't see transparency in quotes in the article, also your title doesn't match the article's: "Barack Obama pledges greater surveillance transparency"