skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
particularly galling pull-out para:

"Together the permission to search and to keep data longer expanded the NSA’s authority in significant ways without public debate or any specific authority from Congress. The administration’s assurances rely on legalistic definitions of the term “target” that can be at odds with ordinary English usage. The enlarged authority is part of a fundamental shift in the government’s approach to surveillance: collecting first, and protecting Americans’ privacy later."

The Cheney administration was openly deceitful, as it were, a brazen set of liars fronted by an idiot stooge. This turn of events - particularly given Obama's rhetoric and the expectations of him - seems in many ways much more insidiously dangerous.
Measuring Black Boxes (Presentation)
You're right, thanks! :-)
Not always, but as it is practiced today in the United States, most certainly.
Why is this not perjury? Kinda serious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02ea3dBJAuI&feature=youtube_...

>Perjury, also known as forswearing, is the willful act of swearing a false oath or of falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.
These articles kind of miss the appeal of something like medium. If you have a blog and/or an audience, you probably don't want to use medium very often; but if you have something to write that you think might appeal to a broader audience medium might get you more publicity.

I mean, if you have your own blog, why write an op ed for the New York Times? Why write a comment on HN? Why do a TV interview? Why write or speak anywhere but your own website? Because many of those [ah, fuck, how do I choose another word than] media can reach a bigger or different audience than your website, spreading your ideas, increasing your reputation, etc.

The other nontrivial factor for medium specifically is for people who want to write something every few months or so. They're unlikely to build an audience for their own blog, but if they write on medium they might get read.
Products made in China and not exported are subject to different taxes (BTW a tag price in China is the final price, inclusive of all taxes, similar to Europe). In addition, the US probably has a more efficient distribution network, both in the form of better logistical networks and competition between retailers.
Cyclicity CDL is nice: http://cyclicity-cdl.sourceforge.net/cdl.php
The uniform look of Medium sites also pushes value in their direction instead of yours. When I view an article on Medium, I always look at the same-as-every-other-page-on-Medium design and think "oh, this is Medium" rather than "oh, this is <insert author's name here>."
That does help. But it's 2013 and I think we should be able to plug a device in at night without having to try 2 times.
Swartz report spurs MIT to hold forums on open access, computer crime
Phabricator, an open software engineering platform (built by Facebook)
What's the latest news on Snowden? Is he still holed up in Russia? Have they started prodding him for information in return for protection yet?
Simply useful article, embodying its own advice: Sort of intelligent SEO advice for ordinary types. It's an updated analogue of the kinds of reasonings my (hard-nosed news-editor) journalism professor used in his teaching us hard news.
Sometimes the stupidity cannot be adequately explained by stupidity.
> I'm looking to build something new, and need a refresher on the exciting opportunities at the moment. So... what's good now?

That depends. What are you trying to accomplish?

> PHP sucks now right? Did Python replace that? And what about IOS? Is there more opportunity there, or is Android "where it's at" these days?

Same answer -- it depends on what your goals are. You just asked a question so general that it mixed platforms (Android, IOS) with languages (Python, PHP), so your inquiry is too general to be meaningfully answered.

> PHP sucks now right? Did Python replace that?

There's really no comparison -- PHP and Python address completely different purposes. It's like asking which is better -- a car or a typewriter.

> In other words, what's cool these days?

Technology isn't a fashion show. Well, anyway, it shouldn't be.
hackathon idea there. pivot!
Freenet actually does this, though they aren't just sending random chaff, they'll actually use it to duplicate the data. It makes this particular attack impossible, but freenet has it's own potential issues. If you control all of someone's inputs and outputs you can still determine when they are using the system.
America spies on the rest of the world, while it's partners spy on americans. The agencies of all participating countries then collaborate to exchange "insight." So, America ends up spying on itself as well but without the legal implications(?).

All this to get around laws.

The workarounds, extensive bureaucratic support structures, and concomitant costs remind me of Oracle's enterprise product licensing terms, conditions, and caveats.
Most of this is just defining the scope of distribution.

Sublicensable is, perhaps, scary -- but it let's them legally allow other entities to distribute the content. This seems necessary for, say, RSS feeds if they want to let others use the content in aggregators.

The mediums (lower case m) all make sense, a "best of Medium" coffee table book is still distribution, and likely reasonable? I am actually curious what their general user expectations are for this type of thing. Note that this is clarifying language, though, the right to distribute doesn't imply a specific medium ... so they would be getting the same thing even without being explicit.

"Utilize all copyright rights" does include creation of derivative works, which would be an interesting thing for Medium to try and do (and probably go counter to what users would expect). I think that's the only one of the copyright rights that's "weird" for these terms.

The "anything else that is reasonably appropriate" clause let's them do stuff that's not normally in the scope of copyright. Reasonable is a legally restrictive word and would actually give power to what their user base generally finds fair. It really seems more like cover-your-butt language than a significantly larger scope.
I was always surprised how no one knew about these, they can do so much!
GP created Vagrant.
Man Call NSA in Attempt to Recover Deleted Email
It's pretty hard to take your point seriously when your second paragraph is so clearly wrong and more a SNL sketch than reality. No President in the modern era has been stupid. The psychotic need to perpetuate this is one of the ideas making politics in the USA worse than it should be. The evidence and interviews with the former President show him to be very intelligent.
Nevertheless, it's 2013 people are to concerned with security and threat, I would be nervous to bring a stranger into my home I'm not familiar with let alone a family allowing this kind of hospitality would be strange but that's just my opinion.
Should we also blame ourselves? As the informed, as the people with the capability to explain these technical issues to the masses, with the capability to foment a movement if we so desired, what blame should we place on our own shoulders, if any?
One of the posters re-posted a comment that this is a fragment of:

"The Internet was built on, and runs on, trust. Every postmaster, every network engineer, every webmaster, every system admin, every hostmaster, everyone crafting standards, everyone writing code, trusts that everyone else -- no matter how vehemently they disagree on a technical point -- is acting in good faith. The NSA, in its enormous arrogance, has single-handedly destroyed much of that trust overnight."

Commerce also runs on trust. The US dollar bill is a promise backed by debt...

In one case, I am seeing more evidence not to trust the US authorities. In the other, I am seeing evidence not to trust the US financial structure.

This current age is getting really strange/disquieting/fragile to me... (I reside in the US) Am I one of only a few? Or many?

It's feeling like that slippery slope when conspiracy theories start being found out as truth...
It's one thing for an institution to position itself against emphasizing individualism. It's a couple steps further to define emphasizing individualism as a form of racism.

Is there somethig that I as a non-american don't get that makes this newspeak palatable? Have american racists historically been more individualistic or something?

EDIT: this comment from elnate nails it:

"They're conflating racism with enthnocentrism, the idea that one culture (usually yours) is better than others."
Prospective study was probably not the correct term, since that's an epidemiological study. "Placebo controlled study" is probably a better term. And a placebo controlled study is the best evidence for a medical treatment - doing epidemiological studies to determine medication effectiveness doesn't seem right.

Consider an SSRI study for depression. I want to know if someone who is depressed and takes it does better thank someone who is depressed and doesn't take it, or takes a different drug. I don't care what it does in a healthy population, since they probably won't be taking it. I mean, the effects of SSRIs in healthy individuals is an interesting topic, but not relevant if I'm investigating depression treatments.
given how difficult hardware synthesis with existing HDLs is right now I don't know if that'll happen anytime soon

Synthesis sometimes feels like a great blind spot in the hierarchy of abstractions. It is hard, critical, and yet appears to be developed only by niche players.

the fact that logic takes so long to synthesize and simulate really has little to do with Verilog's deficiencies

IMO it has everything to do with the open-ended nature of synthesis. When you compile software, it's very procedural. You have a linear chain or network of paths. You construct it. You improve on it where you can. Hardware on the other hand- you have a cloud described in RTL, you construct it. That's not hard. But when you get to improving it? It's like the packing problem, with N elements, and to make things better every element can be substituted with a variety of different shapes!
Oh interesting. What are you moving to? Are you hooking into 'libc' to be able to intercept file accesse for layers or something?
Entrepreneur-ing Abroad
There's a difference between optimism, arrogance, desperation and ignorance. Some of the things you described I wouldn't label with the word "optimism".
So what if he's smart? As if smart has anything to do with being honest and moral.

Give me honesty and integrity over IQ points any day.
Was he under oath to tell the truth at that press conference? If not, it's not perjury, just ordinary lying.
I'd also like to point out MyHDL: http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php It allows the full power of Python (being just another module) while you're developing and testing, and when you're ready to compile to hardware you can compile the RTL subset of your program to Verilog or VHDL and take it to hardware from there.

The creator did a good talk about it at PyCon Taiwan earlier this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSgOpvr8FII
What evidence shows Bush Junior to be particularly bright or competent? His grades at Yale? His running into the ground of multiple business? His embarassing performance as President?

Don't get me wrong -- there are a lot of smart, competent conservatives I think are sometimes wrong and or just on a different side of class interest from me. Say, Dick Cheney, Bush Senior, Ronald, Nixon (off the charts smart, really). But George Junior was, indeed, an idiotic stooge.
3D TV is no longer a gadget that can be easily purchased on a whim and throw away in the closet later. Check the 3D TV sale in China, I bet you will find it's not more than the US.

For now I can only provide an anecdotal evident that most of the Chinese I know (including me) don't like 3D (TV or Movie). 3D movies are very tiring and draining to watch, and afterwards I don't remember the scenes as vividly as I would from a 2D screen.

I'd say this is just a sign for Xiaomi to show interest of entering the "home TV, phone, tablet as unified" system market. There are much to be desired there.
I wish all these posts didn't look the same. Honestly the same exact layout on every single one is so boring now that I just figure the articles are just as boring, which they usually are. Its like reading the wannabe New Yorker without any cartoons. /rant
I am pointing out what was written which was utter BS. As to his honesty or morality, history will have some interesting comparisons versus his predecessor and successor.
Shi Tao: China frees journalist jailed over Yahoo emails
So, there's no company info at the website at all, why should I trust "unknown" to host my data? Who's liable? Do I know you don't run out of business next week?
Is he under oath? Does it rely on interpretation or perception of the facts? I'd love for everyone one last of these crooks to lose every lifeline left in their lives, left to flip burgers and to live on the spoils of their own work, but if they've gotten away with this much, WHAT court is going to find them punishable? I really can't imagine anyone involved having a tougher life after being found taking our country for advantage, like has been done, and that is extremely and deeply crushing.
The Lewis Model
If you went to VC and said your bright new unmistakably hot crazy brilliant idea was ...hold your breath... a blog engine, you might have been thrown out of the building. Only Evan Williams can do 3 startups in a row, two of which are blog engines and one of which is... well, again a blog engine (albeit with 140 char limit). Granted he never seems to have any brilliant original ideas, but the dude knows how to spread his stuff like wildfire and pile up yet another billion dollar in the process. Almost overnight, posts on Medium has been appearing on HN like TechCrunch and other well known outlets who have put years on building reputation. To me, most posts doesn't seem to have that much of a substance but headlines are eye catching and they do get lots of upvotes (hopefully, not from faking). Seriously, how does he do it?
The sender is supposed to close the channel to signify to the receiver that there is no more data to be sent. The receiver is not supposed to close the channel. (You could hack around this by recovering from the panic, but this is bad style.)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/RmfHSHE9...

Note that there is no requirement that you close channels-- they aren't like file descriptors. They will be garbage collected after they're no longer needed.

goroutines, on the other hand, will stick around unless you clean them up. goroutines aren't iterators, and you shouldn't use them as iterators. They're more analogous to threads.
If you try to make something idiot-proof, they'll just go and find a bigger idiot.

Never underestimate the human capacity for stupidity.
I don't understand why in the quote from Medium's terms of service he chose to bold "non-exclusive".
The people who worked for him have pointed out he was quite a lot smarter than them[1]. The interviews he gave during his library's opening. Dick Cheney has said Bush is smarter than him. This SNL BS is seriously messing with how people think. It's like the number of people who believe Ford was an unathletic clutz.

1) one example http://keithhennessey.com/2013/04/24/smarter/
Next android name after Indian sweet "Ladoo"?
I say sure, extra scrutiny there. But we should also hold hackers (in the laymen sense of the word) who steal either information, finances, or actual things under just as tight of scrutiny too. I don't trust either to be honest.
I used to think much the same thing.
I have, however, had the wonderful experience of being treated (for ADHD) by two very science oriented psychiatrists.

They know the research articles cold, suggest approaches based on actual research, can explain the best scientific understanding of why something should work, and when it doesn't, why that theory may be wrong, etc.

Now, as for " What needs to happen first is that we need to attain a much deeper understanding of how the brain works on the low and high levels, mechanically and abstractly."

I couldn't more strongly disagree. What you say could be applied to every area of medicine. We have been very wrong in very many fields about very many causes of very many diseases.

We only gain understand through trying and failing, and trying and succeeding.
Sitting around waiting for scientific knowledge to magically increase through some unspecified process will do nothing.

If you want to argue psychiatrists are overconfident and usually wrong, that's one thing.
If you want to argue that the diagnosis criteria are essentially vague bullshit that reads like the stuff they used to use to convict people of being witches, i'm right there with you.
But you seem to be arguing we should stop trying with medications until we understand things better.

If we did that, we should stop roughly all modern medication, because in large part, we only know it works, not why or how, at any real level. We irradiate cells to try to solve cancer. This is basically at the level of using leeches.

We have theories. People are trying these theories out on real live people through making test medications, performing trials and treatments. Sometimes they pan out, sometimes they don't.

Sitting around doing MRI imaging studies (and any other kind of study you can think of) of the brains of various mentally ill people has been done, and the results analyzed. It has not helped.

So let's start simple:
What exact process would you use to increase knowledge to the point you suggest?

Past that, if your real argument is that more conservative approaches should be favored over medication first, well, the problem there is simple at it's core:

Nobody is willing to pay for it.

Insurance companies are happy to cover a pill at 10 bucks a month for months.

Most people can't get outpatient CBT/DBT except at significant out of pocket cost.

So the fact that you have plenty of psychiatrists willing to sit around and prescribe med after med is partially an artifact of "that is what they can do for their patients".
I like the way he makes it sound like the issue here is that I want to easily "control the ads you see on your screen" in order to hide my perversions from family members and shoulder-surfers.

Yes, I believe this person is in advertising.
> The Cheney administration was openly deceitful, as it were, a brazen set of liars fronted by an idiot stooge. This turn of events - particularly given Obama's rhetoric and the expectations of him - seems in many ways much more insidiously dangerous.

"Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged." -- Captain Picard
> unless you use a tumbling service like bitcoinfog

Which could be run by the NSA...

It's turtles all of the way down.
in the callback approach, you can pass in the current item and a Breaker or maybe a RewindBreaker that you can easily _ when you don't care about it.
I am ready to pay more at the cinemas just to have the revolutionary 2D technology available. Sadly everything comes out in 3d :(
..isn't a good place to be paranoid the core of AES, namely substitution-permutation network hocus-pocus. (Joan Daemen' and Vincent Rijmen's). A backdoor transformation would suffice to make all other paranoia superfluous.
These parts are also nice:

> We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, it's all ancient history. And then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly it threatens to start all over again.

and

> Maybe. But she or someone like her will always be with us, waiting for the right climate in which to flourish--spreading fear in the name of righteousness. Vigilance, Mr. Worf. That is the price we have to continually pay.
It's still inaccessible for me.

I tried different browsers, proxies, Tor, and tried accessing from a remote shell running lynx. No go...

It's too bad, as I am a distro-hopper, and would like to be able to access Plan9 related online compendia if I'm going to be using Plan9.

Edit:

Thanks for the link @ nanofortnight
We're talking about some of the most respected and professional protocol engineers of the public internet here, not some global "biggest idiot" contest.
Within the bounds of that article, the author's points are fairly valid. I mean he hasn't emphasized piggybacking as the one ring to rule them all.

For a new startup these are good lessons to learn from. Of course, there is always a danger in building your business atop a competitor platform but if your timing and execution is such that the parent platform can't outdo you right away you can do a decent amount of business.
Why your company should sponsor a Magic Night
My bet is on the core of AES, namely Joan Daemen' and Vincent Rijmen's substitution-permutation network hocus-pocus. A backdoor transformation would suffice to make all other paranoia superfluous.
Fallout NV has his main punch in the superb writing. 3d won't enhance the experience much.

Now Star Citizen or Hawken ...
Audio Technica ATH-M50 no there.
The author touches on this, when he says:

"To write Verilog that will produce correct hardware, you have to first picture the hardware you want to produce."

I think that's the crux of the issue. Most digital designers do have a picture of the actual hardware, as a block diagram, in their heads. When I write RTL, the process is very front-loaded: I spend hours with a pen and paper before I even sit down at the keyboard. The algorithms in question are only a small part of the work of building functioning hardware; where when designing software, I would let the compiler make decisions about how long it expects certain operations to take, and what to inline where, these are all things that I plot "by hand" when building hardware, before I even open a text editor.

I think, then, that the author kind of misses the point when he goes on to say that "you have to figure out how to describe it in this weird C-like [...] language" -- to be honest, that's the same for all types of programming: when I go home and write C, I have to take abstract concepts and express them in this weird C-like language, too! Arcane syntax is irritating, but is not something fundamentally 'hard' (unless it's too arcane, anyway).

By the way -- I also often wondered "why the hell does synthesis take so long?". I originally assumed it was because Xilinx's (and Synopsys's, and ...) software engineers were terrible and had no idea how to write efficient programs. This might be true, but I now believe is probably not the majority of it; if "why's it taking so long?" is a question that interests you, I recommend looking into the VLSI CAD tools class on Coursera.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/vlsicad
Incidentally, nothing at all changed during this whole saga.
By far, most of my time spent in FPGA dev so far has been envisioning the state machines and timing details involved. I use VHDL, so it's never been a question of "how can I make VHDL output what I want?"---for me, it's always the struggle of "why can't I just ask VHDL to make n of these units?", where n is some upstream provided number.

I think the author might need to step away and look at it from the other side: how can we take a working, but overly-verbose language like VHDL and make it more powerful? At least VHDL was envisioned from the beginning as a hardware description language, and it definitely shows.