skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As has been pointed out, Google owns a lot of fiber. When you have stuff that spans thousands of miles, there's a very real possibility that a bad actor can try to tap into it.

Apparently even tapping undersea cables is not as challenging as some think, according to Kapela: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/undersea-cable-surveillance...
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> The purpose of intelligence agencies is to spy on non-citizens, both in peacetime and in wartime.

No, the purpose of intelligence agencies is to gather and analyze information that might be of use to the nations leaders. Spying -- whether on citizens or foreigners, and whether on people located within the country or abroad -- is often a mechanism used to gather information (though collection from public sources is also a common mechanism.)

And there's nothing really special about the foreign vs. domestic (whether by location or citizenship) axis for "intelligence agencies", generally -- while sometimes the agencies that do domestic and foreign intelligence
gathering are separate, that's not always the case, and certainly not a defining feature of "intelligence agencies."
Don't waterboard him, and he'll tell you whatever he wants you to hear. Waterboard him, and he'll tell you whatever you want to hear.

Questioning him, under any circumstances, is useless. We need to get rid of him instead, and perform an independent investigation. However the circumstances under which such an independent investigation would be useful are limited. When East Germany started to fall, the Stasi started shredding everything they could get their hands on; organizations like this don't allow evidence to survive.
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You don't get such numbers by asking people 'what would you prefer' - that would give wrong answers even w/o lying, since many of those things are such where sociologists know that the believed preference (what you think you'd choose) differs from the true preference (what you do choose in reality).

But you get useful results if you (a) ask people how happy they are (even if they exaggerate and understate, the ranking is generally accurate), and (b) ask people if they're getting X in the company, and then measure the correlations (and do a bunch of tricky adjustments for factors that are interrelated).

I.e., you don't ask "is a fair boss important for you? are office conditions important for you?" - but, if for example, on average the people who think they have a fair boss are feeling happier than those who think they have an unfair boss; but those who think that the office conditions really suck are just as [un]happy that those who feel that the office is okay - now, that's useful signal.
I will use this. Similar to what we used to do when there was no other option to cool down -- plunk your hands in cold water for a minute.
This is definitely the classic online text. However, I'm surprised no one mentioned An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf). It is the basis of the Ikarus Scheme compiler.

Lisp in Small Pieces is also a useful book, for those interested in Lisp/Scheme. It covers much of the same stuff as in the PDF I mentioned.
The US is reportedly spying on the phone calls of 35 world leaders. How many countries are spying on the phone calls of President Obama? Does France have access to the phone calls of Obama?

Some countries would love to spy on the U.S. It's true. But how many actually successfully do? And at what scale?
Any amount of paranoid ridiculousness can be justified after the fact by some sort of big incident. It's how we justify the PATRIOT act after 9/11 and how one might justify Stallman's actions after the NSA leaks. That doesn't make it any less ridiculous to go to such radical measures.

We could just shut off the Internet entirely and force everyone to walk around naked lest they strap a bomb to themselves.
Indeed. "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" is worth a read.
Another perspective: this need not be a binary 1/0 decision. At my school it's common to take a year off school to work and gain some real-world experience. I did after my third year of engineering and I'm very glad for having done so.

Why don't you view it that way? Then you can return to school if/when it doesn't work out, and still get the awesome experience and hopefully some $$$.
We're thinking about doing that with CoffeeMe. Did you have unlimited introductions initially?
On the contrary, we could get to about 30% of the speed of light with a Bussard Ramjet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet

Combine that with life extension and you can travel the stars within one lifetime. Lots of nearby planetary systems would be within only a few decades of travel.

Read Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" for a great sci-fi exploration of the culture that would arise around this form of travel.

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Also, if you believe your "soul" / "mind" is represented by a pattern of matter rather than the particular matter itself, you could travel at 100% of the speed of light by 3D scanning yourself to cell-level resolution, destroying the original body, and beaming the data to a biological 3D printer on the destination planet.
libx264 doesn't provide a decoder. Did you mean H.264?
Google glass is a HUD. When it is on, it also projects directly into your eye. My honours thesis was comaparing the angle between the eyes when viewing items in a 'virtual screen' (eyepiece HUD) and a real screen (half-dome field at 3m). Glass uses the same technology as the military HUD - throwing collimated light into your eye and using your retina as the screen. Not to mention that the glass is still in your field of vision when looking elsewhere, you're just not directly focusing on it. Your field of vision is 'everything you see', not 'what you're focusing on'.

Similarly, in its current incarnation, I can watch video on Glass. My radio and instruments can't do the same.
bdcravens's claim was "some states" and "some states are more lenient".

So California is one state. There are 49 others to check. :(
Hmm.. products that have a limited number of consumable things. Maybe earlier reddit, when there wasn't many links, you could exhaust everything on there.
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Ok, I take it back, vaporware is a little harsh. But in order for Daala to win, it will not only have to beat H.264, but also H.265 and significantly. Otherwise, the argument of the powers that be is that H.264/265 are the established standard, widely deployed, low-power hardware implementations, and here is this spec, which doesn't meaningful improve on quality, bandwidth, or battery life, but is license free.

In other words, Daala will have to hit a homerun out of the park to convince all of the major players to endorse it over their existing deployed infrastructure.

If they do, I will be the first one cheering in the streets. But I'm skeptical, hence again, like with WebP, we see Mozilla opposing something that offers immediate offers benefits now in favor of something that in a few years might be.

This Cisco blob, what if it significantly underperforms x264 in encoding quality and CPU. Would we then be stuck with crappy WebRTC video quality because you can't drop in better implementations?
Ask HN: What is your least favorite part of your favorite language?
Complaints about a language usually come from people who dislike the whole thing. Those who are passionate about a language may be more insightful to its own shortcomings.
Something like Secure Mail, Safe Mail, Trust Mail, Private Mail sounds better than Dark Mail
There should be some level of distraction while driving wearing such device. It's not like a dedicated pilot's helmet, where the UI facilitates control over the plane. Here it's the opposite - it hinders it (to some degree).
doctor-nigger want to sue for a trillion dollars.
That doesn't sound like an attack. try the usual like deleting cookies or at least try loading it in a private window.
Right now, http://codemoo.com/ by the University of Illinois uses it to teach Java. A few teachers have expressed interest in using it for similar purposes, but we need to make deployment easier.

It's too slow at the moment for production use, since it is an interpreter. But if we add JIT compilation support, I believe it will be fast enough for usably running legacy code/libraries in the browser.
Well, let's look at the policies of the US against rogue states: sanctions. What GP is describing is connectivity sanctions rather than trade or economic ones.
I don't really see you making good points as to why Meteor would kill Rails. So Meteor lets you deploy apps quickly, but how is the rest of the development cycle after that? You can find more JS developers than Rails developers, but since when is more always better? You write JS on the front and backend and don't have to switch all the time because Meteor does a lot, but why is easier better?
Coming from Vancouver, I assumed chip & pin cards were widespread across Canada (they are here). I suppose this is not the case?
That's not unobstructed, you'll have trouble seeing the kerbside.
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> There are a few cable repair ships that pull broken cables to the surface and fix them, but other than that... No one can reach it and no one will bother it.

Even if you pull the cable up to repair it, it is unlikely that you would discover the tap. The device used in Operation Ivy Bells was designed to detach from the cable if the cable was lifted. Non-intrustive tapping might not be possible with fiber (it isn't, as far as I know), but I expect they have other mechanisms to avoid discovery. Perhaps lifting the cable would cause the cable to "snap" on either side of the tap, before the device could be lifted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/ic2000/ivy_bells_pod.jpg
See: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html

H.264 already won over VP8. The battlefield now is now is going to be on the next generation of codecs (or even two ahead), and Mozilla puts their forces behind Daala.
If they aren't including a opt-out link that is promptly acted on, then they are in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act in the US(specifically section 5(a)(4)). That link is further required to be "clear and conspicuous" (section 5(a)(5)(A)(ii)). Another screwup I see regularly is not including a postal address (sections 5(a)(3) and 5(a)(5)(A)(iii)). There are financial penalties for violating this, should you wish to pursue them.

That said, not only are they stupidly pissing of potential customers and violating an FTC mandate, they're shooting themselves in the foot business-wise. At some point they're going to want to use one of the big-time Email Service Providers (ESPs) to do those marketing mails for them (and provide the analytics), and they take idiots who violate things like CAN-SPAM seriously. We fire clients all the time who can't get with the program, because one entitled jerk or clueless marketeer can impact all of our clients.

(Disclaimer: I work for an ESP)
hmm, the 1 mile radius is important to me. psychologically, knowing that the people you're talking to are within walking distance is exciting
I agree they aren't intended to be high quality, but because of their ease of use and mimicry, they are often used in place of actually formulating a thought or statement which is similar to the themes in Orwell's piece.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt
thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation
even among people who should and do know better.
That is what I would prefer. I can not think of a good reason why we (Germany) should spy at our friends like France, the UK or the USA. Agencies should gather information about (potentially) dangerous citizens in their country and share this information with other countries. I have also no problem with collecting information in war zones and I include countries hosting terrorists where you can not rely on there agencies to provide good information here.
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CPU, memory and chipset have always been very much modular parts. Chipset is determined by which motherboard you buy, memory comes as sticks you put into the motherboard, and even the CPU sockets in to keep it modular.

I mean just imagine the trouble to keep the CPU seperate from the motherboard, as is still done today! It is very very difficult to build a socket (and matching CPU) for the 1000+ pins of a modern CPU where each pin can possibly carry signals at multiple GHz frequencies.
There's a tool that will split your git commits into whitespace/non-whitespace pairs:

https://github.com/dmnd/git-whiteout

(Can't vouch for it; I just assumed that someone would have automated this by now so I dug around for the tool)
For me, the RailsApps tutorials and sample applications are about doing a quick spike to see how a feature might be done, and then going back and figuring out how to do that same feature your own way, to suit your own purposes. In this sense, refactoring one of the rails apps sample apps is the coding equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.
Just asked around my office to the other daily glass users. All three of us disagree with you.

1 anecdote vs 3 anecdotes... If only anecdotes proved anything in a debate.

I wear it all the time when I drive and I've even traveled at ~95mph for a sustained period of time on the toll road nearby. In addition it is worth mentioning that I rarely look at it while I'm moving.
Brings to mind the time a US Marine Corps aircraft sliced a ski-lift cable† with its wing at an Italian ski resort, killing 20 people. The airplane was damaged but managed to land safely at Aviano Air Base.

†http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(19...
My editor is setup to automatically trim trailing spaces. When I edit files from other devs in the group, it's not uncommon for my commits to have whitespace removal in addition to code changes. I really don't think that's a big deal.

Now doing a code format to tweak indenting and brace positioning, etc., that should definitely be put into a separate commit.
> one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some
worn-out and useless phrase ... into the dustbin,
where it belongs.

Such a fitting sentence on which to end the essay, since "dustbin" is no longer part of the modern English lexicon, as far as I know.
This was my first ever reading assignment at university, for an International Relations class of all things!

I spent the next 5 years introducing it to others as a a precursor to any copy-editing sessions.
The more I read Orwell's essays of the 1940s the more they seem like a master class in how to write, which means they are also a master class in how to think. The clarity and impact in his style are so powerful that it's actually shocking. Moreover, it seems to be aging well, so Orwell's reputation (specifically for this) has been increasing.

Other great examples:

http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw

http://orwell.ru/library/articles/nose/english/e_nose

Is anyone writing today with that particular quality (i.e. that combination of clarity and directness)? All the candidates I can think of fall far short of it, and only clarify how distinctive Orwell is.

Edit: It's also interesting that this material is now widely seen as classic when at the time it was mere pamphleteering. To my knowledge, Orwell wasn't thought of as a hack—he was respected—but this sort of writing was regarded, even by him, as throwaway work, with a sense that it was too bad that circumstances didn't allow him to do better. (He touches on that in "Why I Write", the first link above.) It's a common theme in the history of art for high-status things to start out as low-status things; this may be a case of that.

Edit 2: Another interesting thing—he was writing this stuff about current events in more or less real time. That's a very murky pond to be looking into. I would very much like to know what it was that gave Orwell that degree of insight.
As we're learning here in the US, there's a big difference and gap between "the people" and the government.
Python: one case where I believe explicit is not better than implicit is the explicit passing around of self. It just seems to add extra clutter to the code, as well as demanding a certain cognitive overhead in remembering that a function is defined with N parameters but is invoked with N-1.

Perhaps there are good reasons for it, but generally I prefer java's implicit 'this.'
First there is a discussion on the bug report.
How is that not open?

If you want a mailing list discussion, did you start a discussion on chromium-dev, or is your complaint that nobody else did?

From what I see, the discussion existed on a bug report because that is how it was reported by a user as a feature request. Support was never complete, the person maintaining it stopped doing so, etc.
Hobbes Mail makes no sense; either you're in the condition of the war of all against all (no thanks) or you've surrendered everything to a single sovereign (no thanks).
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Are you saying that those 2 data points constitute a spanning set of the possibilities?
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> numpads on laptop keyboards.

to save you the clickbait.
Seriously ? Give me specifics where exactly do you think $300 million go? Look at the slides its not for the complete system but the "front end" of it. Most of the software they use is Open Source, Cloud services/hardware is dirt cheap and Software Developer salaries are not that high.
There have been really bad failures in parts of the US at various times in the past. One county had unfair elections until its young men came back from fighting WW2. http://www.behindbluelines.com/2013/01/09/the-second-amendme...
It’s even more annoying for people who are used to operating the trackpad with their right-hand (as I am).
Given your assumptions, that makes sense; however, given what our parent commenter said, I came away with different assumptions.

From our parent: I used to work in the antivirus industry, and, as I recall, anything that even hinted at a history of hacking or virus-writing would lead to instant dismissal and black-listing (from pretty much the entire computer security industry). I imagine that the same prohibition would now apply to former government employees also.

They used the world "hacking", which I took to mean any form of hacking. We'd need the parent to respond to which one was meant, of course; but if it means any sort of hacking, from xbox modding to submitting bug and exploit reports to Google (which, how do you know if there's an exploit without trying to find it?), then hacking would include all of those people, including the people who you define as "ethical hackers".

If you're a known, aggressive and clearly unreformed cyber-saboteur, then it's pretty much a given that you shouldn't be hired to an anti-virus company since you probably are in there to commit insider attacks (I can't know for sure, I'm not in your brain) and it's reasonable to not hire you; however, if you're a tinkerer and inspector of things and dismantler of technology, then you would know how systems work and where issues are and could even be an asset, especially if you're very good at it. Depending on the author, both of those people could be seen as 'hackers'.
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Sounds like the cloud storage could help solve the large attachment problem. Cool.
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People here with critical perspectives are missing the point. "Where's the value?" The answer is that the people who make this music are not making music for you. They make it more as a personal challenge and/or to one-up their friends.

There's a long history, going back to 80's[1], of artists abusing various computing platforms to write somewhat melodramatic music that pushes the boundaries of both traditional pop songwriting and the computing platforms themselves. This tradition is closer to hacking than it is to pop music in that it follows its own internal logical of oneupmanship and works aren't produced for any audience outside of the "scene" itself. Black MIDI is just another plausible and entertaining development in that context. Probably some kids who got into the scene and wanted to distinguish themselves by doing something new.

It is indeed also in some respects "good music", but at this point it's already so weird that it's not particularly enjoyable to most people. I happen to have been following this sort of music for awhile, since at least the explosion of the chiptune/micromusic scene in the early 00's, and I've learned to enjoy it such that I liked the pieces linked in the article and in this thread. I liked them both as cheesy sentimental pop music and for the "hacks" (e.g. playing a bunch of notes to make a phased "kick" sound) in the same way that someone might appreciate technical guitar playing. Another poster was spot-on when he said that this is basically hacked additive synthesis – that's precisely the joy of it! Ultimately, it's just another acquired taste, like wine or classical music.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
No.

You can actually learn useful things at college. Take advantage of that. Over the long term, knowing technology X or Y matters way less than knowing the fundamentals.

I didn't realize I had a great CS education until I started working. I see a lot of my peers (both who went to college and who didn't) who can program but don't know enough.

Truly learn how a computer works. There shouldn't be any magic.

Write a compiler.
Lets get rid of Columbus Day
That is sincerely what I had thought, as well.
There are no differences, both in practice and in theory, to the privacy rights of citizens and non-citizens. Everyone is spied on, and it is legal. The NSA is tasked with spying on foreign nationals. The FBI is tasked with spying on US nationals. Everyone seems to be getting caught up with these legal technicalities. Our agencies spy on everyone they can (as probably does every spy agency in the world). Our government might not even be aware of or in control of it.
Nah, analysts will make 100Kish for up to 3 years, where they can then be promoted to associate which is 150-200K, maybe more if they are great or the firm has a great year. Some firms offer up to 150K for entry-levels but half that comp is an end-of-year bonus which sucks because its at the end of the year (lock-in) and it gets taxed at a higher rate.

Engineers at the big tech firms pull in 100K+ (this plus literally means up to 200K.. more for some real talent) with solid signing bonuses as a starting salary. No end-of-year lock-in bs either.
When someone has a head mounted display on, it is hard to tell whether they are paying attention to the display or to the outside world. That is essentially the issue here and I think that as the technology progresses this will only become more ambiguous. Drivers should have there full attention focused on the road and any ambiguity in the situation is unwanted from a law enforcement/ harm reduction perspective.
Various ISPs, including Comcast, Sonic.net, and a few others aggressively cache DNS entries (including SOA records) for longer than the 30 minutes we specify.

If you continue to have problems where the site completely times out - you get nothing back - then use better DNS servers:

https://gist.github.com/kogir/7237218
"Well, Bob, as your viewers may know, 'Smith Mail' came out of a group that calls themselves 'The Dark Mail Alliance'. This is a group of anti-government hackers that..."
I totally agree with this post.

Get your numpads out of my laptops!