skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NSA take a leak from a height on fourth amendment protections and "produce" falsified evidence trails. They do so at times when they have no right to. They have no mandate for domestic crime and yet as the quote and documents below reveal, they snoop for it and set up arrests. After that, the instruction is to cover up the evidence trail. This is what has come to light, I doubt it would have without Snowden. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...

"If the intelligence community collects information pursuant to a valid foreign intelligence tasking that is recognised as being evidence of a crime, [it] can disseminate that information to law enforcement, as appropriate." [1]

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/06/justice-departm...

EDIT: where I have written "produce" above I had initially written set up, the course of action is as follows.
NSA tip off SOA/DICE re: domestic crime, SOA/DICE instruct DEA/IRS to have police stop suspect at location for e.g. "traffic violation" and create a parallel evidence chain - so that source of information cannot be determined.
i'm not convinced that the benefits outweigh the risks. wouldn't browsers have to check for malicious decompression bombs? IIRC -- even without nested zip archives -- a smallish .zip of a few files full of 0s can decompress to many gigs
also, sadly, FOSS as a 'buzz keyword' is pretty out of fashion so i wasn't being controversial for its own sake.
Grit (personality trait)
Maybe I'm the exception, but I never experienced anything but easy access to the speech. A few months ago I googled it and got the full text and great YouTube video taping of it. No issues.
One more interesting indicator would be the relative economic change within the area in question. Meaning, how much as the tax base and property values increased within the area of the store. I think the real question is, "Is a Walmart a net gain for a community." Lots of data points, but I'm sure there's some dude reading this with Hadoop skills and a case of boredom and some leftover Jolt Cola that could hammer it out this weekend.
From my experience MetaJS allows to write much cleaner code eliminating a lot of typical boilerplate. Many frameworks assume that some functions always have some parameters (for example "request" or "callback") and MetaJS improves signal/noise ratio in such cases. Look at some examples at https://github.com/dogada/metajs
Rendering bug crashes OS X, iOS apps with string of Arabic characters (Updated)
I lived in NYC for two years and agree with this assessment. Too many tourists stopping in the middle of the street, not knowing how lines works, and generally being oblivious were what set people off the most.

I did find natives to actually be very nice if you weren't being stupid. In fact it is probably the nicest city in the country. People are more then willing to talk to you, point you in the right direction, offer suggestions, invite you along for drinks with their friends.
I don't imagine this is the kind of thing that shows up in a System Administrators inbox every Tuesday. Origionally I was just assuming that Snowden was publishing the information he himself received.

He would have had to surf deeper into the system for this kind of information I assume. I can't even imagine what else is on those hard drives.
We do know a lot about stuxnet - I would guess that's one of the major ones.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ord...
> Schools have successfully used copyrighted books all the time in literature classes without problems.

That is a completely different issue, classrooms have a specific exception (USC title 17 chapter 1 § 110 (1)) which allows "performance or display of a work by instructors or pupils in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction".

The issue at hand here is that textbook publishers can't (or won't) include the speech or even major excerpts of it. And although a teacher can buy the speech DVD and play it, it's not a very good support to study the speech.
It writes a little easier than, "Here are two dimensions of many. On the X axis consider technical skills. On the Y consider 'knowing your customer's business better than they do'. Plot a line..." :-)
The Black Budget - $52.6 billion
Related to the launch of the Pirate Browser perhaps?
pirate browser - http://piratebrowser.com/ - was released on the 10th, and only uses tor when normal access doesn't work (so would explain the low use).

BUT the increase wasn't til Aug 19 - https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users...
I can certainly identify with being a younger guy in a large corporation and never getting taken seriously. That dynamic is the root of startup culture, typified by ycombinator - since young people frequently are talented enough to run a company, they might as make the opportunities for themselves. I think the choice is to leave or to make the most of it - and if you have the authority to reshape your team, you should do it.
The stress of poverty can perpetuate poverty
i write quite a bit with git, and recently brought an old collab project with a friend onto it.

i do all of the git work, and i just have my friend add my edits to his document, then he sends it back and i diff the two for potential errors... he requested it be this way because he is stuck in his ways, but we've agreed to go full git on book two in the series...

that said, when i first started sending him diff files we both saw this as a problem... my solution?
i just wrote a script that i run on the diff to just highlight the changes made, then send him the new edited diff.

-PARAGRAPH
+PARAGRAPH

becomes :

-SENTENCE
-word...word
+word...word
+SENTENCE

...
i place git's diff at the bottom of the file in case he wants to look that over as well, but this cleans up the edits real nice
Eventually, yes. We'd also love to find local people, too. But paying people outside the US gets messy, and this is our first attempt at traveling/working. So, consider it an MVP.
Verizon said to be valued at $285 billion
Very few citizens pay no federal taxes. Remember, this link is only talking about the federal income tax.

There's also the 18 cents federal excise tax when one buys a gallon of gasoline, the $1.01 per pack of cigarettes, telephone tax, and other taxes.

(Personally, I think payroll taxes should be included as coming from the employee, and that it's mostly a bookkeeping detail about who nominally pays the tax.)

In addition, your simple threshold is meaningless. How long may I not pay taxes before I lose the right to vote? If I take a year off of work, make no income, and live on savings, then I'll pay no income tax. Should I lose the right to vote because of it?

If my wife goes back to school to get a Master's degree, and I support her for two years, the she'll pay no income tax because she doesn't have any. Does she lose the right to vote?

What of retired people, living off savings, or who have arranged their accounts so as to not pay federal tax? (See http://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2013/06/05/how-retirees-... )

And so on, and so on, and so on. Are all of these people "drag[ging] the country down, quick"?

If not, how do you determine who is and who is not a drag?
I don't think children alone are the problem - switching countries often means leaving behind your entire social network. From the guys you go out drinking with to the person who cuts your hair, you have to build this all over again.

It can be fun, but it can also be isolating. It's tough to meet new friends, especially in a foreign culture, where your common cultural threads - sports you grew up watching, foods you grew up eating, languages you speak - don't overlap.

For some people this is a great opportunity to meet and learn about all sorts of things, and it can be, until you're tired, sick, or stressed - and just want the voice of a familiar friend.

Moving every 3 months means this problem is only amplified - you'll never really feel tied to whatever place you've moved to. Making real friends, learning the language... why bother, if you're just going to be somewhere new in a few months?

The other thing I dislike about this article is the "advice from rich people" tone it strikes. I've seen a lot of these kind of articles - "I made this successful business and then I realized I can just travel the world doing nothing". I suppose Tim Ferris started it, but he's not the only one.

The point being you have to have a certain amount of financial resources before you can do this kind of thing.

Now nothing in the article says they are rich (and they do point out CR is cheaper). But before you can do something like this, if you have any sense, you've either got enough money in the bank or enough business already planned to cover all the changes - relocations and all. You know that it will be an international flight to meet almost any client, and that's not really a problem.

I really think that - especially in the youthful zeitgeist, "conspicuous consumerism" as we once knew it (IE, at its zenith in the 80's) is dead. So let's stop acting like the only reason people live a frenetic life of work hard/play hard in the city is all about building up money to be better than their peers, and if only we had a little more perspective we could realize we could live relaxing, fulfilling lives on a tropical beach working a few hours a week.
Looks cool, would consider for under $200.
It's interesting the version from the US National Archives (http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf) has (top of page 5) different wording to the speech (IIRC)

My own little children ... shall be judged not by the color of their skin

Vs

My four small children ... shall not be judged by ...

"Shall be judged not" is the speech and just the memory with its crackling soundtrack gets me. It's odd how even with a prepared speech he still belted out a better version on the day.

Edit: oh yes - anyone wanting to improve their accent before the next YC interviews could do a lot lot worse than have MLK playing through their headphones each day. Learn from the very best.
Here's the way in which I presume your comment was interpreted:

You are not [supposed to make your boss look good].

Not that I would've interpreted it that way, however.
The CIA and NSA have launched aggressive new efforts to hack into foreign computer networks to steal information or sabotage enemy systems, embracing what the budget refers to as “offensive cyber operations.”

We'd noticed but making unofficially official is indeed a significant step, especially given that it kind of blunts the complaints about Chinese offensive operations.

Indeed, one might imagine that a year ago, an NSA official might get a "top of the world" feeling from both mobilizing major offensive capability and getting the propaganda victory of appearing to be on the defensive from Chinese attacks.
If you don't work >43 hours/week, you aren't productive. At least according to one boss I've had. :|
That was the case in my school. We covered (nearly) every major religion, how it formed, how it spread, impact on the societies involved, etc. Did it upset parents? Undoubtedly. But it was a non-issue, unlike the ban on soft drinks (which was blown so far out of proportion it became comical).
Nice. It's a shame it can't break down the more complex ssh/scp parameters such as -L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport
Those are the commands I'm always Googling...
See also thumbor [1], it's been used and developed by the biggest news portal of Latin America.

> thumbor is a smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, resizing and flipping of images.

> It also features a VERY smart detection of important points in the image for better cropping and resizing, using state-of-the-art face and feature detection algorithms (more on that in Detection Algorithms).

[1] https://github.com/globocom/thumbor
In a more modern context, this sounds very much like the spending associated with countering IEDs by western governments.
Unfortunately, this administration has a history of broken promises when it comes to respecting state medical marijuana laws. They have always given themselves ample loopholes in any guidance so that they can justify desired prosecutions.
Author of MnmlRdr here. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Because there are explicit laws covering the protection of letters sent through USPS. We could make such laws covering ISPs, if our representatives wanted to.
I like the idea very much and the fact it's self-hosted as well. Yeah, you could go with launchrock of a standard Bootstrap-carrousel page or a Wordpress template, but this is even simpler to deploy and allows for easy tweaking. Great for launch- and product pages and even small websites without a database and stuff. Did notice the button to 'video' doesn't work in Safari (6.05). Works fine in Chrome.
In search of food deserts
That only addresses the first part of the answer which I assume isn't the controversial one.
If you are curious about a roll-your-own article similar to this, but for Python: http://docs.webob.org/en/latest/do-it-yourself.html
Hope this self promotion is ok but coincidentally I just launched a service for this very thing ("just" meaning it's on /new right now!)

It's called Modulz and you can find it at http://www.modulz.co

Basically it's a set of modular HTML sections that you can use to quickly build a landing page (and pricing page, faq etc.) for a startup or side project. It comes with a CSS framework which allows you to customize the look and feel of the site that you're building.

Hopefully it can help you out. It's borne out of my personal experience with the pain you're encountering!
Feedbin is a good service. If you like them, you should stick with them.
Would this be a case where homomorphic encryption would be useful? This is really just a set intersection problem, which there are known algorithms for I believe.
Google Cofounder Sergey Brin, Wife Anne Wojcicki Have Split Up
Hehe, you are so right. I remember at some point considering Drupal for a project because I thought Django was doing "too much" on certain things and "too little" where I needed it the most.

Fast forward a month and two books later: I rewrote the whole thing in Django in half the time with 10% of the hacks. Drupal is great for what it does, just don't try to make it do anything it doesn't or customize it too much.
From screenshot, I think digg reader is more minimal (minimaler?) than this.
OK, but we're getting away from the subject of employee loyalty: the bank employees involved in the Libor scandal were probably motivated by personal enrichment, not by loyalty to their employer. It so happens that the employees' personal enrichment was aligned with the banks' corporate enrichment, which often happens (usually by design) in fields like finance or sales,
but in a spy agency, it is not possible to align employee's personal interests with the interests of the organization broadly enough to get a similar effect.

And I still maintain my larger point (implied in grandparent), that whether or not banks can find enough talent does not shed light on whether spy agencies can find enough loyal talent.
Good fact about your EX
I would like to show you a fact about EX.
There was a move earlier in the year on "Internet Freedom Day' for everyone to share the video of the speech, anywhere they could, in defiance of the copyright. Not sure what traction there was.
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/18/its-internet-freedom-day-ti...
Roger Christie dispensed pot for a donation of 'The Approximate Street Value'. I'm not sure that a non-profit religious organization that is in effect 'selling' un-taxed goods is going to get out of jail soon. If he'd been handing out alcohol or Pez Dispensers it'd still be pretty shady.

The second article is a little more interesting, but I'll repeat from my comment above, it is very difficult for the administration not to enforce federal laws, even when they may want to. I would be very worried about operating a dispensary until federal laws change, unless you are ok with going to jail as an act of civil disobedience because you believe the law is unjust.
After doing anything for multiple years of anything I'm sure it would feel natural.
Hard coupling to a framework-specified details is tough to remove after the fact. For example, everyone's OK with ActiveRecord's coupling until their test suites are slow. This decision creeps up on them and they have to expend additional energy dealing with it.

It's the tradeoff of simplicity: framework authors want to make things easy (and this is commendable).
I can tell you that in middle school at a public school in New Orleans, I had to read, summarize and write a paper reaction to the speech, as well as having watched the video.
Does NERDTree work over ssh/sftp?

I remember having tried it once and abandoning because it lacked this feature (or didn't work out of the box).
Do you know quite a few people will consider you mediocre if you don't have millions of $ ? Will that make you change your career?
I have a personal revelation about that. Until Apple Works got under way, Apple was paying me a lot of royalty income for Apple Writer because I had negotiated a rather high percentage in the early days, before either Apple or I understood what a normal royalty rate might be. After seeing me refuse to accept a reduction in the rate, Apple got fed up and started the Apple Works project with a much more favorable arrangement with Lissner (I think he might even have been employed as a programmer). In principle that should have produced a good outcome, because Apple Works was a much more ambitious program that did a lot more than mine.

But after the Apple Works initial release, Lissner left and refused to work on the code base any more. So Apple asked me to take Apple Works over with the same arrangement Lissner had had, but by then, spoiled by the royalty arrangement and having heard too many stories about Steve's behavior, I refused.

In retrospect, I had no difficulties upgrading Apple Writer and accommodating user suggestions, because I was hundreds of miles away and I wasn't an employee. By the time Apple asked me to take over Apple Works, I understood that fully -- Lissner's circumstances were unbearable -- as a result of which there was no imaginable incentive that could have gotten me into a closer working relationship with Steve.
Hi Sukuriant,

As a developer, I share the concern that one's work has value and should not be 'given away'. But the reality is our work is a commodity, and a business can use and sell commodities in the most profitable competitive way.

So this just means moving pieces around on the table a bit. You can still make money, and in fact save money and make more money by focusing on the true alignment with your customer that Microsoft is veering away from.

From what I know of the Enterprise, new versions of Windows are a huge risk and expense, hardly the big picture alignment with the customer that a company should have.

Does the Enterprise customer want to deal with a desktop Windows 8 rollout?

Instead, borrow from the SaaS playbook by focusing on support and continuous releases instead of gigantic monolithic product releases that upend the universe and cause CTOs migraines around the globe.

To replace Windows license revenue, simply "give away razors, sell blades" by replacing Windows license (contract) revenue with support (contract) revenue. The support is provided anyway, of course you don't tell Fortune 500 CTO to pound sand if there's a bug.

So just change the game a bit. Make the same (or more) money. Go from being hated (UGH another windows upgrade) to loved (WHOO MSFT Open Sourced Windows! frees up budget for new Windows application development let's buy some SQL Server!)

And in practical terms, here's what the invoice lineitem looks like (share with your boss??!?!)

SKU-100 | $99/year | Enterprise-wide Guaranteed Bug Response 1 hour Turnaround / per user / annual subscription - Open Windows 2015
There are many nuances that change when it comes to selling an open-source license. How am I to ensure that users can't simply offer my product, with a slight modification, for free? It's not as simple as providing the license on payment.

I legitimately have no idea how I would prevent legal forks, ensure proper credit, etc.
Why is it a pain on Linux? Are you just referring to having a version of linux with +ruby or did you run into other difficulties?
I wonder, what amount of money goes to making sure the sound of car door sounds just right.
Is it form? Is it function?
This is a much, much better article on the same subject: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-you-wont-see-or-h...
Bitcoin Law: What US businesses need to know
I betatested this. Even back then it was pretty solid. As you can tell by the landing page (eat your own dog food etc) it's drop dead gorgeous. It's easy to work with and contained a lot of modules. Took me about 30 minutes to put together a landing page.

This is ideal for testing out those early ideas, or simply when you want to move ahead with a product without having to spend money or time on a landing page yet.

Definately worth the money!
A Makefile for LaTeX to OpenDocument (odt) or Word (doc) conversion.
On Windows, MSKLC is what you should use: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx
Buzz market somewhere else please.
Ironically, I posted a call to action to build a community for writing together. Very curious to see how Loren's project does and how it compares to Draft and others.

https://medium.com/writers-on-writing/920214571e3d
20 * 5 = 100 minutes

So, yes. It's OK if you don't, but I think it's worthwhile foregoing social media sometimes to work on studying and upping your game.

Besides, you don't always have to be in "OMG not enough time to do this nicely!" mode. Such a mindset is reactionary and generally not conducive to writing robust code. I'd rather go a little slower and not have to return to parts of the codebase later.
Lots of interesting points -- but for what it's worth, I'm the founder and I'm certainly not a "rich person". I'm a designer/developer living in Silicon Valley who wanted to experiment with new ways to build a company with the round we raised.

Tim Ferriss was one of the inspirations for the traveling. Like him or hate him, his point is "you don't have to be rich to travel, you just have to do it".

This isn't for everyone, but the hope is that it's extra-awesome for people who want to see the world and experience new cultures, all as part of a job.
Why C still matters in 2013: a simple example
> Everyone says this, but then finds time for FB/Twitter/HN during the day.

Not to mention extravagant lunch breaks spent chewing food instead of inhaling Soylent, trips to the bathroom and time wasted milling around the proverbial water cooler.

More to the point, the technical debt being discussed here isn't solved by increasing office productivity by 5%.
There have been plans/proposals to refill the aquifer under Venice [1].

The construction of the Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico (or MOSE) that is meant to be raised in times of high water started back in 2003 [2].

[1] http://www.geotimes.org/mar04/geophen.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSE_Project
These are all the features I wanted when I quit Vim for sublime text 2 about a year ago...
I was speaking narrowly to your point claiming that banks don't need loyalty like spy agencies do because they're not trying to hide billion-dollar programs.

I'm suggesting they are in fact trying to hide billion-dollar programs, and need a kind of loyalty to facilitate this.

Paying someone obscenely well seems like a nice way of buying a kind of loyalty. Certainly the upshot is behaviour equivalent to loyalty from the bank's perspective.