skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little bit different on that side. Telling others to go fix things, if you succeed, is better than (just) doing it yourself. I can donate money to charity, but let's say my budget (and in other scenarios equate budget to time, or skill, or whatever) is £100/month, if I donate that and tell others to donate, then maybe I can have a £1000/month impact.

Whereas if I'm just telling people "this is no good, it needs fixing" then not only am I not helping, I'm not persuading other people to help either.
Wiretapping and saving everything in the internet, including comms from allies and neutral parties, is foolishness or possibly a form of mental illness.
I switched to Feedly and I like it so... not really.
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Actually, you are explicitly allowed to decide what the site does, insofar as display is concerned. If it's client-side, you can do what you want. And blocking ads does get people somewhere - a less annoying internet.

As for your analogy...again, you're allowed to do that.
It's a strip search. You don't have a problem with being strip searched?
True, but most of the casualties came from large (poorly built) buildings collapsing, not regular houses.
A strongly commercial interest, at least. No one's going to fly if the planes aren't safe, for one thing. See the other reply which has already covered the boon in selling expensive detection equipment. Once that's in place, do you think lobbyists and TSA-employee unions are going to be excited about winding them down?

No terrorist is sitting there thinking "Hell yes, we've stifled their freedom! We've won!"

I can't imagine any of the airport shops cried when people were forced by policy to throw away bottled water and other drinks before entering waiting lounges. Longer security lines increase thirst and hunger too.

Board a plane with an infant and liquids are a non-issue - milk/formula, pre-boiled water, medication, etc. I've read that you can be asked to taste products you're carrying, but never had this happen. Always wondered if someone planning to asplode a plane is really going to be deterred by needing to drink a toxic substance. (Martyrdom for their infant would be a matter for the strength of their belief.)
"when a burglar comes through the window, do you put more locks on the door? Better to just acknowledge that we chose to live in a dangerous neighborhood."

So they start keeping both the door _and_ the window unlocked? If that happened to me, I would 1) get better at keeping my windows closed/locked/barred 2) consider moving to a better neighbourhood.

"People can barely manage the privacy settings on Facebook" – Citation Missing. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Where-Teens-Seek-Pri... suggests the opposite.

"in violation of the 5th amendment, likely, but how long until a friendly precedent on that account?" – so vote, speak out, do something instead of accepting the status quo.

Who wrote this, Keith Alexander?
Which in itself is ridiculous.
What do you need/want now? If you don't have anything you need/want, I think that is a bigger problem than learning a new language.

otherwise: code what you want now.
They are not refusing. They are opting out of an optional procedure. If you think this is a smart-alecky comment, realize that it's not mine, it's the TSA's.
You can also just use an Incognito tab (or similar in your browser). AdBlock alone may not be enough to keep you out of tracking for comparison shopping.
Yes. It interprets and executes JS like a real browser would. Which is nice. For Python: http://jeanphix.me/Ghost.py/
The idea here is to bring Tor to a wider audience - not that it would be the first time Tor can be used through Firefox. There may also be other technical advantages or disadvantages, such as the fact that main Firefox will get updates quicker than TorBrowser.
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Your TV's remote control should also not work during commercial breaks, otherwise you might change the channel and illegally watch the show.
After trying quite a few of the alternatives, I realized how much I've become used to the reader UI, especially all the keyboard shortcuts. Yes, a lot of that is copied, but that just makes it worse when you're missing out on a few.

Then there's the update rate and the UI speed (e.g. feedly manages to freeze my whole browser). Also, while the interface missed out on a few of the Google improvements, at least it was possibly to turn off most administrative debris.

I might really have to pick up a self-hosted one and maybe make a few changes of my own, as RSS is a pretty big part of my daily 'net consumption (Never understood how people could cope with twitter for that. Feels like drowning in an echo chamber.)
> "If we're going to trade our civil liberties for our security, then that should be a decision that we collectively make,"

I don't understand how the blog author can relate the use of the word "collectively" to a hint at Communism, East Germany and the Stasi. Is this generally a taboo word in the US ?
Wow. Have you seen the movie 'Brazil'?
It's like a shopping a pantry store with a nasal smell blocker. How is that legal to block your nose while shopping here! It is stealing! Your logic is just perfect.
[Citation needed.]

Maybe this is well-known, but my google-fu only turned up this news about Adblock Plus. Are you sure Adblock does it as well?

When I used adblock as the search criteria, I got a bunch of hits on it. But when I did adblock -plus, I got nothing primary that could pin this activity to AdBlock.
As Android Rises, App Makers Tumble Into Google’s ‘Matrix of Pain’
The mud-slingers and paid character-assasinators of the world call themselves journalists, and the real journalists go by the names of assange, and greenwald.
> that their development and procurement was a particularly depressing example of political corruption

I'd like to hear more about this.
Chalk that one as an example of irony.

(The other front page article today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6274914)
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Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN
NSA Broke Encryption on UN's Video Conferencing Systems
Nope, I get 100+ Mbps to at least Taiwan and Japan, according to speedtest.net.
Those C99 features are only at library level and are partially required by C++11 and C++14, there is no change of mind going on, at least for the moment.
I worked at quite a few hackathon's at my previous job. Judging always had some ulterior motive.

We'd see people walk into 48 hr hackathons at the very end and pitch their pre-built app they always took around. They could walk off with a macbook pro no problem...not bad for a few hours of work.

It's sad, but most of them seem to run this way.
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Rob Pike's story on how he and Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 over dinner:

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/Rz1udTvt...
The industry already got one actually, I coincidentally came across this yesterday:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-13/florida-pharmacists...

The TLDR is that an independent pharmacist treating AIDS patients got run out of business by price fixing competitors. He got the last laugh and sued on the behalf of the government and has so far collected $597M in awards (the government has collected over $3 billion).

The behavior of these (very large) firms was outrageous:

> For example, Abbott Laboratories (ABT) sold its antibiotic Vancomycin 1 GM FTV to customers for $4 a dose, according to a joint Justice Department and Ven-A-Care lawsuit. Abbott reported the cost to pricing publishers as $72.48 -- 18 times the actual amount, the lawsuit says.

This is likely going on for other types of drugs and then also in every other segment (medical devices/supplies being a biggy).
Just sign up for Global Enrollment (GOES) and you automatically get TSA Pre and don't have to go thru the regular security lines: no Millimeter back scatter scanner, no taking off your shoes or taking your laptop out of your bag. Australia, the Netherlands and Canada have similar programs and at present all recognize each others program enrollees, so it also gets you thru Customs in those countries faster too.

https://goes-app.cbp.dhs.gov/main/goes
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Ultimately everyone pays. Since corporations aren't humans they aren't paying anything. Everyone else in the corporation has to take fewer profits and less compensation as a result of those taxes. They aren't free.
> To me this seems to lead to a complete exhaustion of the player, instead of giving a challange combined with relaxation and distraction.

Isn't the point of all exercise to get tired? To bring your body and mind near the edge to push the edge little bit?

> It seems that someone who spends the same time honing a real skill (e.g. programming) would come out way ahead!

Do you know any place where you could program competitively in short amounts of time (hour or even less)?
This is a good site that's been around quite a while: http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/
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Totally agree. And to be honest, I've been wondering if there's going to be a moment when certain celebrities and Hollywood 'types' start getting 'caught' in the data that has been found... in some sort of new age McCarthyism.
Exactly this. I've confronted gardeners doing this and the homeowners who employ them. I even had the police come out on a noise complaint. Nobody seemed to care and most think it's fair game to make noise as long as it's during "business hours."
Imagine if Alinea billed you for the flour in your meal at $300 per bag (amortized). Would you feel ripped off?

Billing the saline to you is an accounting device. It has no meaning--it's just a component in a service that isn't a commodity at all.
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Yes. A central idea of the American experiment is that there are exchanges of liberty for security which it is not acceptable to make even if the people collectively decide to make them.

That is why certain liberties are enshrined in the Constitution, which is intentionally made hard to amend, rather than merely in law, which is relatively easy to change.

Looking at the number of totalitarian systems which started out as expressions of the collective will of their societies in the two-plus centuries since, I'd say the founders got this one right...
Celebrities are on average not much different than other people. Most of them are sheep.

Like most of us do not go to protest on the streets over such a thing, most celebrities will not be bothered to stick their head out in a possibly career crippling way.

The ones that do regularly are quickly labelled as parts liberal Hollywood that can be disregarded.

Another thing is that actors are part of the big movie-industrial complex that has a lot of interest in surveillance because they perceive this as their only hope against the free distribution of data.

But I agree it would be worth the effort to actively pursue people like Matt Damon to give the cause widespread legitimacy. Easy it will be not, I'm afraid.
Convenience is Key
"If you save the text and come back in 2 weeks, you will see the importance."
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If I remember correctly, TorBrowser is Firefox + patches + a couple extra extensions.
As Matt Damon was talking about "civil liberties vs. security" it resonated with essentially every second sentence DIRNSA was saying at his public appearance at BlackHat.

This is a false dichotomy, and definitely not about some sort of tradeoff to protect us from "terrorists amongst us" (which in itself is a dubious claim.)

All these programs are about the creation of a de-facto authoritarian state serving nobody else but the powerful corporations and the decision-makers that said corporations keep in place via their accumulated wealth.

This isn't some democratic debate about civil liberties at conflict. This is a fucking plutocracy.
The fact that law must limit law does not make "privacy technology" pointless.

E.g. the dragnet would capture a whole lot more if no web sites used TLS at all, and three-letter agencies would have a lot easier time of it.
Bullshit!

In many ways Common Lisp is still a much better language than Clojure or Racket. It isn't old, compared to pretty much anything from the 80's it has aged unbelievably well, and while it has some "stale" parts you can call ugly, I find many parts of clojure or racket much uglier. All in all, it is one of the best high level languages around.
Invalid bytes is a feature. It makes it much easier to figure out the bytes you have are not actually UTF8.
I am from another place that had problems with US, and I always believed US is intentionally evil, and it don't proved otherwise yet.

It behaves like a school bully, that protect its interests by beating other kids until they hand their lunch over, and when someone ask why, he says he was hungry.
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Every single day of my life.
This might sound really weird but I actually believe that for people who like freedom post-communist countries that were NOT part of Soviet Union can be quite good place to live right now.

I had previously spent 7 months in the US and I had lived in UK for 2.5 years and now I live in the Czech Republic. I guess this is very subjective but I believe that for example this country currently offers way more freedom than the "land of free" or UK. It has its downsides but not as many as an average citizen of western country would probably think. You could live pretty comfortable "nice apartment, designer clothes and BMW" life in Prague if you wish so (not that I do). It's not how Americans usually imagine Eastern Europe and because of the past people are more sensitive about government intrusion and the government is weak - do not conflate Eastern Europe with Russia with that weird authoritarian shit (the anti-gay law etc.) - this is completely different world here.

Just my $0.02 - it's about personal priorities. And it still feels weird just saying this... given what I thought 25 years ago.

EDIT: I should not have said 'countries that were NOT part of Soviet Union' - certainly not all of them, for example I hear really nice things about Estonia and I am sure that not all ex-Soviet countries are like Russia.
No, the author is correct. The terrorist have won.

ter·ror·ism
[ter-uh-riz-uhm]
noun
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.

co·erce
[koh-urs]
verb (used with object), co·erced, co·erc·ing.
1. to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition: They coerced him into signing the document.
2. to bring about through the use of force or other forms of compulsion; exact: to coerce obedience.
3. to dominate or control, especially by exploiting fear, anxiety, etc.: The state is based on successfully coercing the individual.
Young Neurons in an Old Brain
Very thought provoking. Some thoughts:

1. William Gibson has a really cool short story involving "editors" whose vocation involves editing what are essentially "brain-dumps" from individuals, to be "rented" for entertainment. It's a reminder that the editing problem would be huge, have you ever tried to watch someone's raw unedited home video footage, much less their every experience?

2. This is an argument in favour of the arts. This is after all how we humans (arguably best) communicate our experience to others.
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Lastpass does something like that - it warsn about identical passwords, though of course it actually has the plaintext, but a hash would work fine as well.
Ok, from that point of view, it can make some sense. Even if it seems in the current debate, the issue was the trade-off was more or less made unilaterally by the executive branch, without much consultation, which is actually worse that a "collective" decision, whatever that means.
Gee, I didn't have an opinion on Edward Snowden before, but now that I know what Matt Damon thinks...
Damn. Such a reactionary opinion. I can install whatever I want on my PC, include and specially Adblock.
Whenever I'm learning a new language, I do Project Euler problems in it. Currently working through the first 20 or so with Go. I highly recommend it to anyone who's looking to learn a language.

http://projecteuler.net/
I assume you're talking about Missouri v. Holland? Subsequent to that case, the Court decided Reid v. Covert ("a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the Constitution supersedes international treaties ratified by the United States Senate"); and Medellin v. Texas ("a United States Supreme Court decision that held that even if an international treaty may constitute an international commitment, it is not binding domestic law unless Congress has enacted statutes implementing it or unless the treaty itself is 'self-executing'").

Missouri v. Holland, nor any subsequent case of which I'm aware, did not disturb the holding of the Cherokee Tobacco Case ("The Supreme Court decided against the men, stating that a law of Congress can supersede the provisions of a treaty."). See: http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/article-2/18-treaties-... ("Treaties Versus Prior Acts of Congress.—The cases are numerous in which the Court has enforced statutory provisions which were recognized by it as superseding prior treaty engagements.")

Another thing that led to the status of treaties in the U.S. is that the Court spent much of the 1800's looking for ways around the various treaties the U.S. entered into with the Indian tribes.

Treaties are dangerous and anti-democratic. They put legislative powers in the hands of diplomats. They represent the words of a man binding a nation of people. Europe is learning this the hard way, with ACTA, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUa5oHgYV2k
It'd be nice if there was a way to sort by multiple categories.

For example, what's the best balance between low crime, high quality of living, and cost of living?

The kind of filters you see on item databases for MMOs would be sensationally useful here.
Journalist vs. Hack
This also means that if you work in a shop you can go home shortly after 8pm and you have a free Sunday. The difference here is that Germans (arguably) respect the time off-work more.
Politics is the art of persuading people they already agree with you. Subtler arguments are much better than brazen ones for doing this, and getting people to change their mind - and good politicians exploit this fact whenever they're in a setting that lets them.

24/7 media, and national coverage when somebody "flip-flops," might have contributed to politicians doing this less often, but I'm not sure.

And don't forget that a political debate isn't supposed to end with either politician changing their mind; it's supposed to end up with the spectators making up their mind about the politicians (which is why in those sorts of debates, you're supposed to use arguments that appeal mostly to your own supporters, assuming you have enough of them.)
This is the first instance I am aware of where a mundane celebrity not known for an interest/connection to tech has spoken out against the NSA on this topic. I'm sure there have been at least a few instances of lesser known personalities doing so.

I sincerely welcome this; celebrities have large networks.
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"Extremely simple?"

There's lots of reasons it isn't so simple for people.

1) Barriers to work and emigration

2) Language barriers - I know that learning a new language isn't impossible (I know a little Spanish but I'd hardly call myself fluent), but I speak only English fluently, which limits me to a handful of nations, many of which are nearly as bad as the United States (hey UK, how are those surveillance cameras?)

3) A lot of us have family support systems that aren't easy to give up - I happen to know who you are, and happen to know that the country to which you moved didn't have that problem. ;)

I know it's not impossible - I follow /r/IWantOut over on Reddit because I have my own fantasies about leaving the U.S. and maybe moving to a Spanish-speaking country with liberal emigration policies (perhaps Uruguay?). But it's not something I feel like I can put my family through at this time - it's definitely not what I'd call "extremely simple."
Other forms of transport, such as trains, don't have even a tiny fraction of the level of security that planes have, and if anything are a more effective terror target than a bomb on a plane (I would say that the terrorists got far more publicity out of the 7/7 bombings in London than they did out of Lockerbie) - I strolled around two of the busiest stations in London for a couple of hours on Saturday, and saw a single sniffer dog occasionally checking out someone's bag, and even that was far more than I normally see.

Yet we don't see train bombs on a regular basis.

So why would planes be vastly different if the level of security was ramped down?
You're basically describing what it was like for me as a child in Canada in the late 70s and early 80s..

Stores were closed on Sundays, things closed earlier in the evenings.. We survived, we planned ahead..

Now everything is open all the time. Malls are open on Christmas day, even on New Year's Day!

When do people have time to spend time together, to relax, to not be consumers but be people?

I kind of wish stores were still closed on Sundays..
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Excellent post. I was about to mention the same things but you beat me to it.

However I think it's worth mentioning that games such as Starcraft offer the unique opportunity to taste glory (at least in Korea) at no personal risk. In the same way that Rome's gladiators had their whole lives defined and determined by the games, perhaps Starcraft players live and breathe the game and consider it their ultimate purpose? With such a mindset, analyzing costs and missed opportunities becomes irrelevant: you don't need to learn skills because you are already doing what you love.
Could somebody please find Ja Rule so I can make sense of all this?
> As soon as 9/11 happened (I'm too young to have been aware of the Troubles), I argued, and continue to argue to this day: after a terrorist attack, as soon as _anything_ is changed, anything at all for any reason, the terrorists have won.

Cockpit door strengthening would have been an acceptable change without declaring the terrorists had won. Beyond that I'm with you.
I have only been reading my RSS via Reeder.app on iOS for the last couple of years. I've switched to Feedbin (I barely feel the $2 a month) and all works fine. Except for the fact that Reeder for iPad doesn't support Feedbin so I can only read on my iPhone and we're still waiting for the iPad version to be updated.