skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you be more explicit on which reason is this "same reason"? I listed several reasons.

Do you think law enforcement use of E911 pings without a warrant is trespass on your possessions, which was the reasoning behind the US vs Jones (2012) case I mentioned?

In any case, United States v. Graham disagrees with you. Geolocation data is "information voluntarily disclosed to a third party" and so "ceases to enjoy Fourth Amendment protection."

What do you find wrong with the reasoning in the Graham ruling?

In reviewing your other comments, it sounds like you also disagree with the conclusions of pages 47-56 of this most recent opinion by Judge Leon, where the judge describes how collection now is different than from a few decades ago, and in a manner that the Supreme Court has indicated other cases indicated may have substantial 4th amendment concerns.

Why specifically do you disagree with the reasoning behind his opinions?

Obviously US v. Graham (US District Court for Maryland) and Leon's opinion (US District Court for DC) are at odds. Leon points that out in his own opinion, on p66. It's going to take the Supreme Court (or a big change in the law) to sort this one out for the US.
It's Vice, check out the quality of their other articles. They'll take anything that sounds seedy, from the mundane to the fake.

I don't buy it at all, it feels like something I'd write if I was trying to troll a magazine for money.
I wish humanity could fix its memory leaks before it goes out to buy more sticks of RAM.
Then you're spending 90% of your time communicating. I'm sure Stan Lee spends far more time communicating his ideas to other people than he does developing them.
Why is a KDF slower? Using KDF2 with SHA-2 (SHA-256) is not slow at all!
Facebook tracks and researches status updates you don't post
We tried phantomjs for a while but it was very unstable (regularly crashed and since it's open source, bug reports often go ignored, even with stack traces), undocumented behavior, and fairly unusual ecosystem. I believe phantom made a fundamental mistake of not being nodejs based in the first place. Phantom has some really nice features though, like being able to read the console output. Selenium is kind of a joke in terms of features, but at least it's stable. I would choose selenium unless you get a specific benefit out of phantomjs.
Absolutely love splinter! That being said, I implemented frame buffer support for both Firefox and chrome driver (for Linux clients) and saw phantomjs as unnecessary as a result.
> What is a US person? US Citizen? Person living in the US? This also contradicts so much of what I thought I knew about PRISM that I'm baffled that no clarification was asked for.

Uh, these details were actually all hashed out in the media within the couple of weeks after PRISM was initially revealed.

USPER == Anyone in the physical borders of the United States, whether a citizen or an alien.

Likewise it is true even when PRISM was described that a USPER couldn't be accessed without an Article III warrant. The big question was whether this was a technical safeguard or a "analyst follows policy" safeguard. But even for non-USPER PRISM still required at least an NSL (which the receiving company could escalate to the FISC if they felt the NSL was illegal).

If this all surprises you about PRISM then I'd humbly suggest that you've been getting fed so much misinformation that you should possibly consider using alternate sources instead of sitting back in an echo chamber. ;)
How is this title related to the article?
Maybe C# was just the language at hand when the research was done, perhaps as part of a day job. Why not blog something up about web sockets in JavaScript?
Whenever the "targets" have been found within US jurisdiction, they have been treated as regular boring murderers!
"No offense but it sounds like we'd better off without you working."

That's needlessly provocative, and one of the more absurd uses of "no offense" I've seen in recent times...

"If you think minimum wage laws don't harm anyone you're terribly mistaken."

I don't think the parent said that (at least anywhere I can find it up this thread). One can believe that a policy hurts some of those it intends to help, and still believe that it does on balance substantially more good than harm. You seem to be engaging in precisely the sort of black and white thinking that the parent was cautioning against.

With regards to minimum wage in particular, in isolation it clearly hurts those it excludes from the workforce in the short term. However, when assistence is frequently tied to "looking for work" and not turning down job offers, then things potentially change. I'm not at all sure that a general minimum wage is a better solution then saying "jobs below $X don't count toward assistance", but I'm not at all sure of the opposite, either.
I think you need a new random function, the one you're currently using seems to be lacking some very basic features.
It's very real: http://www.419eater.com/

The letters are deliberately implausible to weed out smart people so the scammers don't waste time on them:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&o...

Personally, I want to know where all these dumb people are getting their money, and can I please have some too :(
It sure did; http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/fbi-kansas-suic...
Morally repugnant? I can see the case being made even if I don't agree with it.

But self-defeating? Not sure I can even see a plausible argument for that one.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-terror-stings-entrapment-or-...

I've seen various stories about it. In a couple cases, evidence suggested that the FBI sought out unstable individuals and convinced them to engage in terror plots (instead of working their way into existing terror groups).
Registers are referenced explicitly, already compiled software could not possibly use more registers than it already does.
I had similar comments from other people, so I will reply here:

In my native tongue, 10 years wouldn't be called an "era", hence the disagreement.
Mugshots from the 1920s are Significantly Cooler Than Mugshots from Today
Why Google isn't our Bell Labs
This trend isn't limited to HN. When talking to people (even lawyers and such who I know do not read HN) that have dealt with Khosla, I have repeatedly heard that he is shady, but I have yet to hear any concrete examples. From everything I read about him on TechCrunch and elsewhere though, he sounds like a great investor to have...
The North Korean government has liberalized a bit, but let's not give them too much credit.
I haven't seen much of the poor code as shown in the example (thought I may have seen worse), but what strikes me on the last two big projects I've been brought into is Class-itis.

What are others peoples thoughts on that? Have you been inundated by a huge number of classes, rather than methods within a class? Maybe I'm wrong and classes is the way to go.
President Obama To Meet With Eric Schmidt/Tim Cook On NSA, ObamaCare & Income
One significant reason I don't want the government collecting all of my data is because they seem totally incapable of creating a secure system or even a system that operates properly.
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Multivitamins of the right formulation (like Ortho-Core) are great, but I do agree, most multivitamin formulations are inferior or just plain shit. Eat right.
> "...it is widely believed by experts and, more importantly, stakeholders..."

What sources would you recommend reading to learn more about that? The 9/11 Commission Report? I'm embarrassed to admit that I haven't done much reading on inter-agency relations pre-9/11.

(I hope this comment doesn't read as snark, I'm genuinely interested in learning more.)
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Some JVMs already use tagged pointers for various things, often called "compressed pointers". It is of unclear utility for a language like Java and it could be easily added to ART if deemed useful.
How is Parking like a Sandwich?
"everybody" knows God is omnipotent (and omnipresent). He can hear your prayers without the hairdryer amplification, which the President should surely know. Using a hairdryer to communicate implies that the President believes in a God that cannot hear unamplified prayers; i.e. the President doesn't believe in the "real" God.
There's also this older story from Financial Times (February 2013):

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/ed6a985c-70bd-11e2-85d0-00144...
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Well the problem is that a lot of antibiotic resistance can be attributed to efflux pumps that literally pump the stuff out of the bacteria. So these are generalized resistance mechanisms that target a broad array of environmental stuff that might ordinarily kill a microbe. Here's a pretty well-cited paper on the issue, though it's rather old: http://aac.asm.org/content/45/2/428.short
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Unfortunately, the actual study seems to be behind a paywall, http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1789253, but I think the concept of the study is flawed.

I started taking vitamin supplements about a year ago, but I didn't do it with the idea that I'll live longer if I take them, just that I want to live that little bit better. Have a bit more energy, that kind of thing.

I'm sure other factors in a lifestyle have a much stronger effect on mortality than taking a little pill. I think people have too many expectations of a miracle.
The "world leaders" in the US rely on highly skilled labor and pay top dollar for it. There is no need for Google employees to unionize because they're doing really well.

They're not crippled because they're unionized, they're non-union because highly skilled workers are in short supply.

When our "everyone should learn to code" and "if you're not a STEM major you don't deserve to exist" initiatives gain more traction and Google/Apple/Facebook are drowning in highly qualified candidates, that could easily turn around.
> The 5S is there so the compiler, app developers, and the overall ecosystem move to 64-bit and get the kinks out earlier rather than later.

This is a good point, and it's the first time I'm hearing it stated so succinctly.

With 64 bit mainstream chips, the manufacturers got to roll them out slowly, first to the scientific computing community and then into server applications before finally tackling widespread desktop adoption. Given that there's not an equivalent path in the mobile space, I guess you have to test the waters somewhere.
> What about the kids whose parents won't ever take them to one of these spaces/libraries?

What about them? There are plenty of children growing up today that either don't go to school, get expelled, or refuse to learn anything. I don't see the difference. The percentage of children of going to these places? What about the last 5000 years of human progress? Surely they progressed without mandatory/forced state education. Would you agree with yourself if we were all in North Korea knowing what we know? That's the problem with hypotheticals, you can expound ad infinitum.

> The problem is that for a percentage of children (varies by country, but quite high in the third world), handing the responsibility of their education to their parents is even shittier.

Which doesn't matter. The question isn't what's more economically efficient or favourable to higher literacy rates. It's a matter of morality. If the state requires me to let them raise my children, and threatens me with force if I do not, then in your opinion, who's in the wrong?

Now of course, things need to be in context. But you can't simply make an assertion that the state will always be better of a parent to a child than even a poor or illiterate or even neglectful parent. The problem with the ability to exert pressure on persons to send their children to public schooling is that it violates a natural and historical bond, and replaces it with "the monopoly on violence" in the name of justice. Always in the name of justice.

Ask yourself this, if you're worried about children becoming illiterate, then surely you're worried about children joining armies to fight economic wars, children being locked in prison for nonviolent crimes, and children being used to scapegoat authoritarian measures right? What about the children -is not a defense between the DPRK threatening to take my child because I won't permit them to indoctrinate her.
What did your doctor say when you talked to them about it?

What type of pain are you getting? Is it pain in your shoulder from laying on it? In my case, it is because I need to drop some weight (about 30 lbs or so). This can also apply to back/neck pain, esp. if you notice increased pain the more you sleep in.

Do you have a regular exercise routine? That may help (although the pain will probably increase when you start a routine -- make sure you don't over do it). Doing some stretching after exercise will help with this. Also a hot bath before bed to relax the muscles.

If you have joint pain, such as feeling pain in every bone in your feet, that goes away with a hot shower (or after getting some movement going), this is due to lack of lubrication in the joints. Some people have had luck with Glucosamine -- that's something I'm going to try shortly.

Oh, and again, if the pain seems to increase with more hours in bed, and you can't find the right mattress, then you could try breaking your sleep into two 4-hour shifts -- sleep when you get home from work, then get up at midnight, and go back to sleep between 2 and 6.

Finally, some pain is normal, but may feel a lot worse if there is any depression issues going on. But real bad pain (absent of any depression) isn't really normal -- you should talk to a doctor about it.
>I've never looked at .git/logs, but it looks like that is used by the `git reflog` command. It's basically a history (or log) of every commit that a particular reference has pointed to[1]. For example, I cloned the git source code:

I think it's more or less the DAG represented as an adjacency list. I'd have to think a bit about why there is a separate log file for each branch. It seems that there's some redundancy in doing that, and I'm wondering what the advantages and disadvantages are of splitting the history up in that way.

>It's also of note that branches are referred to as 'references' too, hence storing them under `.git/refs/`.

I've developed a loathing of excessive hierarchies/trees, so I'd rather see them flattened in a single directory. But that makes sense.

>See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5290444/why-does-git-hash....

That's a good link. What's in an object? If an object corresponds to a commit, then it must aggregate data about changes to multiple files.
That's interesting. I think classes are supposed to have a single responsibility according to S.O.L.I.D so it seems to make sense to have a lot of them.
Obama to Meet With Tech Giants Over Surveillance, Obamacare
Divination or guidance? Saying "Please God, help know whether to take the job in Cleveland when I wake up" and then sleeping on it was probably acceptable. "Please God, let me roll snake eyes if I should move to Cleveland" is probably less acceptable.
What? Don't you think that any life existing on Mars has the most to teach us about how to successfully live on Mars?
Ah, I'm not in the US. :) Just never heard/thought of the title before, but it caught my eye and I thought I would enjoy that kind of work more than just being a developer.
RockThePost Lands One Of Tumblr’s Lead Engineers
Weekend Project: Tutorials for Javascript Game Libraries
Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds
I think Schneier is a great advocate as of recent and has become a more inspiring security leader (compared to many who are just talking heads who have no real experience, comparatively). That being said, I feel he was a different person when Counterpane got bought out by BT. I happened to work for BT North America Professional Services at the time, which was ultimately purchased headcount from International Network Services to expand quickly. We had no access to Counterpane resources for the most part - although we were told to try and work some of the Counterpane product into consulting recommendations. I tried a few times to get involved with what Counterpane used to be, with the intent of trying to get some facetime with Schneier to really find out who he was (was very deterministic about finding a good mentor at the time). Long story short - BT was so fragmented internally to tie the name BT to Counterpane, or even Schneier was a joke. It was obvious after the first few months that BT bought Counterpane for the talking head (IMHO) which I still feel was true up until now. Schneier's name was worth more than the IP they bought, most likely. Sad state of affairs. BT was, and still today, has no interest in improving security within their own telecom products, but wanted to be very good at the emerging pentesting market (back in 2007'ish). They're no better than the PWCs of the world today - overpriced scanning services with no real meat, but they have a few key folks to make it look like they 'can'.

TL;DR
Glad to see Schneier leaving. I thought it was hypocritical of him working for BT given his recent improvement in position publicly around the Snowden releases. I have renewed respect for him.
PHP functions originally bucketed by strlen, were renamed to balance length
North Korean media just deleted most of its article archives
Ahh ok, a little different than what I expected. When I read

> so they can publicly "break up" a terror plot

I thought it was purely to get publicity or instill fear in people while getting good press for the FBI, rather than for a sting operation.
Should be here https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2013cv0... but the website has been chugging as this is a unusually popular district court decision, http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/obamansa.pdf has it too.
Good point on technology.

I also doubt that the deflationary spiral is a big issue as it's made out to be. To prove it, I assumed that it is a big issue, and then proved that it isn't -- proof by contradiction.

I think ultimately it all depends on how well a currency is designed or managed. An inflationary currency could outcompete an autonomous cryptocurrency in theory if it could introduce price stability as well as manage the macro economy. In practice this seems like an exercise in futility. Time will tell what happens with the current QE practices.
This is true, the idea of having a reliably secure digital token that you can pass around without reversibility or double spending is huge. But unforgeable tokens don't make a new economy, it just enables economic activity without the participation of licensed institutions (aka 'underground' or 'black' markets) across distance, and that is pretty cool. It replaces 'wiring' money and sidesteps currency conversion issues. In that regard BitCoin is revolutionary.
> And if some children don't want to get any education, and their parents are ok with it, or just too poor to care or deem it important?

I suppose YOU know what's better for them right? The argument is founded on the morals that people should be given freedom, along with the benefits and responsibilities that entails.

Most of our 5,000+ years of known history had no public schooling and constant albeit slow progress. If you're trying to say you're morally obligated the threaten to take my children away from me because I/them decide their education is acceptable, even if YOU view it as none, then ask yourself if this exact same discussion would still be defended by yourself if we were living in the DPRK under harsh and oppressive control by our government.

Thats the main difference really between individualists and collectivists thought. You think we're stupid, and we think you're evil. The government of the US or Canada ISN'T the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, but to me, it could be. All we need are less individual rights, and more dependence on a nanny state that thinks it knows what's best for me. You may choose safety, but I'd rather choose Liberty. My option permits yours. Does your mine?
Not really, Google has been cooperating with the NSA.
Even in 2003 I didn't think it was a good idea to conspire with unknown parties to commit bank fraud.
As a Nexus 4 user, I envy the iPhone's dimensions. Even mine is just too big. Sadly, all small Android phones are shit.
>phone, email, or http

It's pretty easy for any two informed citizens to avoid those means of communication. When you're corresponding with someone who doesn't care if the government spies on them, no level of paranoia will keep your messages private.
Nope! You need this piece of paper you see? And, you'll need to give us $25,000 to get it. /s
Why?

They're essentially forced to take them, and there's a low threshold for the cheap pay recouping the training cost on how to move things around the warehouse.

High turnover doesn't matter if there's a steady supply of people coerced in to accepting and training takes at most 2 days.
I would agree, but on the other hand an extreme libertarian would simply say, "it's a feature, not a bug".
How is it possible to go over 250GB in a month? Do you lie in bed streaming video all day, every day?
My dad almost got roped into at Craigslist scam only one or two years ago.

He was selling a used car on Craigslist and had received interest from someone who was willing to buy it sight unseen but would also need it shipped as they weren't local (single biggest red flag on Craigslist). They were going to mail a check for the cost of the car and extra so that my dad could pay the delivery people that were to come pick the car up the following week.

By this point he had already also given them his phone number and home address so they would know where to pick it up.

They actually mail him the check for a couple grand which happened to belong to Mr. & Mrs. Smith of a neighboring small town. Mysterious buyer had indicated they were located no where near said town. Instead of cashing the check, he manages to save him self by giving the Smith's a call as their home phone was on the check.

Turns our the Smiths had lost their checkbook. I haven't heard the story in a while, I can't remember if they were already working with the police on another fraud check or if they were just recently alerted to their problem. Mysterious buyer/car delivery guy was about to make off with a grand or so and a car.

My dad gave everything he had on the buyer to the local police. I don't believe they were ever tracked down. Totally missed a good sting opportunity in my opinion.
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Just a coincidence I guess that logs will be denied to Linkedin's customers. From an email this week:

"... We'll be retiring the LinkedIn Network RSS Feed on Dec. 19th. All of your LinkedIn updates and content can still be viewed on LinkedIn, or through the LinkedIn mobile app. ..."
The hats are awesome. And I'd love to see what the colors were and how they bring out the personalities.
In most places (that don't have Google Fiber) Comcast is the best ISP in terms of speed for the money. Once you experience high speed internet, it's hard to go back to anything slower. This is a good strategy.
Of course not, stupid! It's clearly Obama's fault.
Random observation. What's with the crossed out "h" in chats on the landing page?
Rinse your mouth with salt-water. It's cheaper and more effective!
Oops. That's completely wrong. It's the case where every honest answer is yes!

I think this is indeterminate. You have to know the ratio of total yesses to total participants.

The real world use-case I was recalling is simpler: flip a coin and answer honestly if it's heads and "yes" if it's tails. Any individual response is non-incriminating, but if N is large enough where you can assume N/2 got heads, you can know the number of "honest cheaters."
FWIW, Vinod's mom thinks he's a splendid human being.