skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I know it for the same reason I know unicorns and leprechauns don't exist - there is no credible evidence supporting it."

Of course there is no credible evidence when evidence is known to be actively suppressed. See: 'Intel Laundering.'

Also the US boasts that spying resulted in thwarted attempts. Where are those court cases? More importantly, where are the bodies of those involved? Sure is easy to not have credible evidence when all evidence aside from one sided snippets and meaningless statistics is never published.

edit: diminoten sure shifts goal posts around a lot. Changing persons to US persons, etc.
I don't quite understand why people are purists on anything at all...

Even Joe Armstrong likes Elixir!

http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html

Here's a direct quote: "This is good shit."
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Not sure if this is a joke or totally messed up.
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How to inject objects using collections in Spring
This completely missed my radar back in May. Much appreciated.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
2013 iPhone event on Sept 10th
8 cool things George R.R. Martin's doing when not writing the next Thrones
Why add the extra complication of painting a person green (safety, removal, efficaciousness). Why not just grow a slab of blue-green that excretes sugar and drains into a pot for the end of the day.
Heaven and Hell in Startups
With those scores I doubt you will have much trouble in school. And if you are in-state for UT-Austin I doubt it is too expensive.

You may just want to do android and web dev now, but nobody knows what will be important 10 years from now. The skills you pick up in college, as well as the credentials, may prove to be useful.
This whole write-up is based on the assumption that everyone has hundreds of "friends" on Facebook, but let me tell you something: if you have hundreds of "friends" on Facebook then you're using it wrong. I have 54 friends on Facebook, I know all of them, if someone asks me to add him and I don't know him/barely know him, I don't fucking add him, it's that simple really.

Besides, even if you're so dumb that you can't stop adding strangers as friends, rest assured that on your feed you'll only see activity from the people with whom you interact the most. So, basically, the whole thing is pointless.
Everything is better. Everything is worse. Just pick something that works for you but don't expect you will magically change everyone's mind with your wit.
BTW, thank you for the NSFW warning, as in a thread like this it's very tempting to blindly open galleries to compare layout. Very considerate of you.
Yeah - the intention was to write a little bit every day or so, but I needed to quantify it to keep myself honest and track progress. I guess I could have said "write 20 things this month" or something similar.
It would be really awesome if the LavaBit team released all their trade secrets, including their C code for their custom daemons, and other substantial details, as an open source project. ...that is, if there's truly no hope, and they've shuttered the business for good, and never plan on re-opening their doors and returning to business.

Hardware and Service Provider expenses aside, this would represent an opportunity for many people to create their own systems and participate in a distributed, federated network of professionally vetted, (ostensibly) secure e-mail services, based on field tested architectural standards.

If the company is dead, why not turn lavabit.com into the homepage of a project spawned from the ashes of the original business.
Are you seriously comparing protecting the environment to embarrassing a government in to open disclosure?

Really?

Two completely different things.
Even just seeing the images of those lenses hurt a little. I'm glad for the heads up, really.
For any ChemE out there, is ammonium hydroxide a stable chemical compound? Or does it revert quickly to an inert form in the presence of air, water, and light?

The question arises from analogy with chlorine. To remove chlorine from tap water, all that is needed is to let a glass sit on the counter for a while.
"Realistically these companies don't have much choice"

Of course they do. They can comply or not. If they do not comply they may face court. Of course it is impossible to say how that court would go since none of them are making a choice to stop being co-conspirators.
Haha, that is brilliant!
The point of civil disobedience is that those doing don't believe that the official methods for determine what a good thing is are working. Comparing this suggested action to oil companies and the EPA is like comparing Ghandi to the KKK.
>it's a hiring filter at lots of established companies and you'll be defending not having a degree for the rest of your career if you don

I agree, it's essentially putting a handicap on myself for the rest of my life.

Do you think four years of full time experience and networking wouldn't outweigh a degree?
BTW, Elon will reveal the details at 1:30 PDT:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/366964441159438337
Probably not have shifted bracket keys :D
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> but arguing that the NSA program has never lead to anyone being 'snatched up off the streets', is WILDLY disconnected from reality.

Do you have evidence that indicates US citizens are being 'snatched' from the streets of the US without being arrested, tried, or convicted as per the US criminal justice system?

You say it's wildly disconnected from reality and that the NSA's entire purpose is to do precisely this, and if that's the case you should be able to easily show me examples which demonstrate the 'snatchings' are a) occurring and b) the norm.

If it's not conspiratorial fantasy, then the evidence should be in abundance, right?
It might be mildly interesting, in a whole different context.
OF THE STREET: OPEN THAN SHUT
This was edited to add in links for ease, but now looks more like spam. My apologies, mail already winging its way to info@

Ignoring that however, the setup has taken a while to arrive at a sensible level and might be useful to the OP.
I don't think so. Laws change all the time, and a society's fears and priorities change over time too. Technology both gives us the ability to archive and analyze communications forever, and to provably protect (encrypt) them forever. Laws only give us the ability to protect our communication as long as the complex web of human desires and emotions allows it.
It's All Just Systems Design
So you're arguing that there is no evidence because the NSA is so good at what they do, they've successfully hidden all operational evidence from the public for their entire time of existence?

Is Snowden the first mistake the NSA has ever made, in your eyes, then?
In those days I'd just be happy with a language that let me quickly manipulate 16-bit integers. AppleSoft used floating-point for all intermediate calculations, which made even simple loops very slow.

I enjoyed using GraFORTH, which was a 10 kb dialect of FORTH with bitmapped and 3D wireframe graphics (!) that compiled to threaded code.
The most recent information I can find says that the wage gap for similarly educated women in the physical sciences is 12%

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/08/gender_wage_gap_lower_i...

While I agree there have been drastic improvements, I don't think you can say structural discrimination no longer exists.
Yep, the NSA is on very thin ice right now and they know it. It's the perfect time to stand up to them. Large tech companies can do more than just release statistics. They can take principled stands against these disgusting programs in their entirety.

Executives who are still playing along at this point are just cowards.
Same for me in FF25 (Aurora), and Opera Next 16.
But don't you have to add some noise to keep the _NSABOT_ happy?
You might need novelty for a side project to hit the front page of Hacker News, but you don't need novelty to see benefits from the "Do things and write about them" paradigm. For example, you could write blog posts about problems you've run into and how you solved them if the solution isn't already on Stack Overflow.
If you're strictly judging by lawfulness, its a problem - but if you judge it by the public being exposed to harmful externalities during the normal operations of any of these businesses, and that preventing that is a positive, then this might be a solution.

The negative externalities are pollution and secret monitoring of customers. Polluting more doesn't reduce or eliminate either of those for the public, while informing the public of how it is being monitored does.

That being said, it would be a protest, and all useful protests against government are unlawful.
Technology hasn't stopped hunger, the claims of mad scientists notwithstanding. Anyone with right brain critical thinking can see that population will just keep increasing, and it has. Even if you 'solved hunger' you'd have even more environmental problems to solve. There is such a thing as a 'pyrrhic scientific victory', I think. Too many discoveries like these and the planet will be done for.

So now we have an invention that will deplete one resource instead of another. Awesome, go science!
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Right. Lisp machines came out of the assumption that general purpose hardware would be very bad at running lisp, in an era where custom single-purpose computing hardware seemed to make sense.

As it turned out, Unix workstations ran Lisp just fine. So when the 80s AI winter drying up budgets, AI labs decided to buy cheaper SUN workstations and the Lisp machine companies failed.
Corporations have morals now? Just seems like a bad idea to root for, actually it sounds very similar to the argument that there is a serious moral imperative for the govt to ignore the 4th amendment to stop terrorism.

You are either for the rule of law or you arent.
Go to school. You'll have an uphill battle for the rest of your life if you don't. Your resume will always be viewed with a bit of suspicion if you don't have a degree, you'll be expected to do more to prove there aren't gaps in your self-education. That's if anyone looks are your resume at all, many places HR won't bother without the degree. A github profile and a network of people who know your skills are both huge assets to finding work, but the lack of degree will always cause difficulties.

Plus, right now you're doing web and android dev, but maybe you'll take a class that will open your eyes to other areas. Maybe you'll find out you love compilers or computer vision or parallel computation.

There are a lot of people on HN who love to be contrarian or want to beat the system by proving they could accomplish X without a formal education which they believe is more about credentials than actual education. But the truth is, not having the degree is just going to make your life a lot harder, plus you might miss out on learning things you wouldn't self-study.
Our Cyborg Overlords May Arrive Sooner Than Expected
Thanks Rhizome.

I'd like to add,

The Gulf States are already under Sharia, and have been since their founding almost a century ago. The Taliban copied Saudi Arabia, even using the exact same names for bureaucracies. [2] Relations with them were excellent before 9/11.

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Promotion_of_....

But, as Iraq showed, there's no need to understand elementary facts about their culture before you invade and engage in a massive social engineering project, or engage in an global, eternal, "war on terror".
So does javascript unless you forget `var` and you refuse to `"use strict"` and lint.
The apostrophe has three uses:

To form possessives of nouns
To show the omission of letters
To indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters

Rules and examples (including the decade examples): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/
I like the way apps work in android better than iOS they seem to have more freedom to work (things like Tasker being able to work with multiple apps, and Google Play Music able to run in the background and sync without me having to open the app every once in a while) .

As for your settings maybe you just aren't thinking about the android way, for changing the wallpaper you should probably be pressing the menu button on the home screen much like you would right click on the desktop in Windows.
Was the QNX source ever available?
Some of Tagore's work is available as volunteer-recorded public domain mp3 and ogg files from librivox.org -- the recordings for Tagore's book "Sadhana: The Realization of Life" are very well done, by a volunteer named Peter Yearsley http://librivox.org/sadhana-by-rabindranath-tagore-v2/
> Pick the phone/platform that suits you better.

It's nice to have a good idea of what suits you before picking. This post is helpful in that regard.
Don't be a dreamkiller
These arguments are about the same category as stating that email is broken - If you have 600+ friends or emails that overwhelm you, blame your process and not solely the tool.
Requiring ID prevents scalping because you have to be the person who paid for the ticket in order to use it.

IIRC my last TicketMaster ticket was transferable - there was a webpage where I could change the name. But presumably if one credit card/IP address transferred the majority of its tickets, you could say with some confidence that that person is a scalper and shut them down.

The limit on purchases is reasonably effective, though.
>if you are in-state for UT-Austin I doubt it is too expensive.

I am in-state and I have some money in savings so I could probably manage it well.

>nobody knows what will be important 10 years from now

That's one of my fears about going to college. Perhaps it's irrational but I have this feeling that I'll miss out on prime opportunities which might not be available after I graduate.

>The skills you pick up in college, as well as the credentials, may prove to be useful.

I definitely agree with you on that. If I ever want to get into more rigorous software development like machine learning, searching, etc. college would be very valuable.
Then look at Github or here, find projects you find cool, and contribute to them and write about that. If you don't know what you can contribute to, ask - most open source projects can always need more contributors.
So we're ready to convict the government of thought-crimes?

Just because they can, doesn't mean they will. Gun owners could all go out and harm innocent people, but they generally don't, do they?

At least we don't convict them before they do.
Second that. Lists were introduced as a response to G+ circles just as the subscribe function was added as a response to the follower model of Twitter. Everyone expected a response from Facebook and they delivered. Then the features were left languishing and were never updated/enhanced. I don't know what's the rationale behind this, lists are actually a wonderful way to catalogue your "friends" and most people would find them very useful, if they knew they're available. Facebook should really consider to make them a more prominent feature and simplify the whole adding process.
Or people would go "well, that sucks, not much I can do about it" and business continues as normal. But that's the cynic in me in talking.
Try 12%: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/08/gender_wage_gap_lower_i...

And feminism works more like philosophy than religion. In fact pretty much all notable feminist thinkers are in fact philosophers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler
I found this story on Atlantic which sums it up in words simple enough for about anyone to understand.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/photocop...
There is waterproof casing (I mean for diving, not spray water), - I would hope that's enough? I don't know for sure though, so please don't take my word for it.
You didn't give much background of what your experience has a dev. so It`s hard to say if you you can just switch to the same salary.
I personnaly made the switch for 1 1/2 year, I was a backend java dev (jboss, srping, hibernate) and switched to a game job doind backend server work at a similar salary* .
So has long you can translate your work in the new job you should be fine, I saw poeple switch from iOs/android apps dev or web dev to game witout losing any salary doing game.

* :my yearly was actually increased but my hourly salary was somewhat the same.

Note that the gaming industry can be rough (even the casual gaming one) with long hour and crazy deadline, be prepare to work much more than the normal 40hr/week you normaly see.
I guess the key is to run faster then others, so bear will not eat you. Most people do not care about privacy.
This looks like a pretty slick, mobile-compatible photo gallery, but without the code it isn't very useful. They talk about Chromatic like a real product, but "free web service" basically means "demo".
Or you are for the rule of some laws and not others? Just because you are pro-pot doesn't mean you are pro-child-molestation, right?
Correct. Just like there is also no reason not to believe in ghosts or magic or bigfoot or unicorns.
How risky or bad is it if you don't own the .com domain for your app or service ?
Another Lisp for the Apple II:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/plisp.html

Complete with disk images so you can run it yourself on a real Apple or an emulator.
Once you have information, you have control. We now have given them control, by behaving differently, because we now know they have our information.

Its the same thing with implied political blackmail. Politicians know the NSA has all their data, so best not annoy the NSA.
The flipside to this is that Skype is becoming pretty ubiquitous, to the point that even tech-illiterate folk can use it...
Haha, that's amazing!
If you had a memory leak in a software program, would you try to solve it by packing your structures 1% better?
Great advice, especially:

>plus you might miss out on learning things you wouldn't self-study.

I'm certain there are subjects I would love to build products around but I won't be able to teach myself as adequately alone.
XSS'ing a bank
I want to point out that this entire project was conceived and implemented by members of the Rust community. For such a young language, I'm elated at the quality of our community contributions.
You'd argue that a child porn viewer isn't doing anything wrong?

Your opinion officially doesn't matter any more. Sorry, I have a 10 yr old sister and I simply can't abide folks who won't even do the research to understand what it means when they say things.
For sub-humans outside of US the encryption is the only solution. Political solution would be declaration of war to USA, which is not very practical.
Congress and the NSA believe it is both constitutional and acceptable to collect and store any data they can get their hands on. They supposedly draw a fuzzy line to exclude most Americans when searching the stored data, but storing the communications of Americans is blatantly unconstitutional and dangerous for our democracy. It just takes one bad actor with access to that information to control elections and entire lives.

The idea that there are "not-so-big tweaks" that could be made to these programs is false if preserving privacy and democracy matters to you.
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The Eurostar is unique in terms of high speed rail in that it has any sort of security check, to the best of my knowledge. Anywhere else, even for international journeys, you merely turn up for the time the train is due to depart, as with any other train service. (In the Eurostar's defence, given a highest class ticket, you merely have to pass through the automated check-in gates ten minutes prior to arrival, and half an hour is the furthest deadline, for the lowest class tickets. I'm unaware of any major airport that expects you to be able to get from check-in to the gate in half an hour.)

Regardless, the Eurostar security is utter nonsense anyway — especially given you're allowed to take almost everything onboard! It makes a whole load of hassle for nothing. At least at airports they're actively stopping you from taking a fair amount of stuff… It seems like the right solution here is to drop the security, rather than anything more drastic! [Edit: oh, looking this up, they appear to have changed this. They now have most of the same restrictions as air flights do.]
Gluten free diet? There's a dating site for that
Renewed efforts to translate the Ruby Hacking Guide into English (you can help)
Google maps and OSM show both the borders. For an India focused website I am currently working on, I went with jvectormap for this reason ( it is just a map to show cities and towns as points ) - http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/map/
It depends on your goals - no one can give you advice on the path you should take if they don't know your destination.

Do you want to be an entrepreneur? Do you want to build a product and company, work for startups, or work in enterprise software development?

If you want to work in big business (a decent and potentially low-stress path if you want a good wage, despite what people here might tell you) you should probably go to college. If you don't know, you should probably go to college. If you know you

I did go to college, and I'm glad I have a significant understanding of philosophy, writing, and chemistry that I would not otherwise have discovered. That said, it was a complete waste of time and money for me. I could be making the same amount I am now, and I would have many thousands more in savings.

Degrees are filters for many low-level positions, but no one has asked me whether I have a degree in years. At this point, it's all about experience and skills. The exception might be Fortune 100 companies that still seem to care a great deal about your formal education. Despite having a degree, I wouldn't want to work for these companies anyway. It shows a type of hierarchical rigid thinking and structure that I would like to avoid.

If you do decide to skip college, I'd strongly advise you to work on CS theory AND the supplementary skills you would have learned in college. Pick up and read some textbooks on the basic subjects you would have studied. Learning more about programming and development is good, but I see value in diverse knowledge.
I could go into permanent Godwin purgatory for listing crimes against humanity that were codified into law not all that long ago.
> The NSA is, despite everything we're being told by some people (Bruce), on our side.

Like hell it is. The NSA is part of the US Government, which is on its own side, and is only on "our side" to the degree that it depends on us for tax revenue and political legitimacy.
> The central mechanic and experience of these networks, the feed, becomes worse as the network connections increase. This is a huge problem. As more friends enter your new feed the strength and relevance of relationships decreases. The experience should be getting better the more you use it.

Thus why lists were created. Google "got this right" with Circles.

> The next great social network will provide its users with an experience that values friendships and relationships dynamically.

Basically an "Auto-Signal-Noise" generator. I get it, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.

The problem is most people can't even assign true value to their own friendships. Why is a piece of technology going to do that any better?

I wrote about my thoughts more in depth about this awhile ago: http://www.techdisruptive.com/2012/09/18/we-are-far-from-sol...
There are underwater rigs for cameras that would no doubt work, although they depend on floatation to make it manoeuvrable.