skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't have it both ways. Either the president is bound by the letter of the constitution, or its spirit. If by the letter, he has the power to issue a pardon. If by the spirit, he need not use "every means available" to persecute Snowden.

Consider also, the opposite case. During the Iraq war, the US government tortured people. That is clearly against both US and international law. Yet the president and his justice department have done nothing to "go after" those responsible, much less "use available means." Does this conform with either the spirit or the letter of the constitution?
Much like "Bored Director"
The three-dots operator for not implemented code is a clever idea IMHO, if it was present in Ruby I would use it all the time :-)
The implied solution appears to be manual discovery/detection? Google has this https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?pli=1

Not sure there is an automated system that could detect "legit" sites selling links unless you have a larger body of evidence.
My thoughts exactly. After seeing the names it generated, along with the the addresses and so forth, I immediately started looking for the link to buy or download the code, database or whatever was on offer. To my disappointment, there was nothing available.
> this is a huge smokescreen for a concerted and consistent attempt to weaken or expose US intelligence operations. The fact that an impingement of our sources and methods helps our adversaries cannot be understated.

How so? And which adversaries?
Me neither. I just put it in the paper bin and off to recycling it goes.
So this is my second point. Where, thirty years ago, we used to start up rock bands, we now startup start-ups and experiment with new ways of communicating with each other and playing with the information we exchange. And when one idea fails, there’s another, better one right behind it, and anotherand another, cascading out as fast as rock albums used to in the sixties.

And this was in 2000. He would have loved 2014.
No good reason, no. Feel free to start your local franchise, and let me know how it goes. :-)
Yeap, i can confirm. Hispanic surnames are more or less correct, but first names are bizarre.
If it had checkboxes for all of the social networks, free email providers, and so on it would go a long way toward setting up false identities.

If it could comb death certificates for names and demographic data rather than randomly generating it, that would be even better.

You'd probably make a fortune selling SaaS contracts to criminals in Russia and Washington.
But you also get more energy per litre than petrol, so it actually works out cheaper.
It does not require a G+ login for 99% of the features.
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It would be interesting to simulate Free banking vs Central banks and the effect of different interest rates.
I wasn't for an instant suggesting that the person who wrote that anti-Feynman screed was actually impartial, nor that they expected to be thought not hostile to Feynman.

But a theoretical physicist might have thought their attack would look less like a matter of professional jealousy if they couched part of it in terms of how much more appropriate an experimental physicist would be.

(I don't think that's very likely. I think the person who wrote this was probably not a theoretical physicist. That's why I think it was unlikely-ish to have been Edward Teller. I was simply pondering possible reasons why a theoretical physicist like Teller might have written those words about theoretical versus not-so-theoretical physics.)
Here's a perspective from the other side: I purchased Octave and having used it, and asked for a small feature (single-tap to pause). You told me that you don't have much time and will work on this feature when you have time. I understand that, but it's disappointing from the consumer point of view. I wish I knew that before I dropped $5.

Basically, it sucks to be stuck on the "passive" receiving end of a passive income project. Though actually, it's Apple's fault for not letting me trial software.

But I'm glad to hear these projects are working out and wish you continued luck!
That was a bit of a simpler time, approval-wise. After animal tests Salk first tested the polio vaccine on himself, then on his wife and children. Soon thereafter he tested on a group of children from the Polk State School for the retarded and feeble-minded. Then he lobbied for permission to do mass tests.

So, a few things:

1. this testing environment would not fly today, as it should not have then. Testing on children who may not have the ability to give informed consent is unethical.

2. polio was the most dreaded disease in America, for many reasons. More people contributed to the development of a treatment--through the March of Dimes--than for any other disease up to that time. Even though the vaccine was feared and widely known, the mass tests were fiercely opposed by some. When the positive results of the test were announced, the nation treated the news much like the end of a war with exultation, presidential awards, and ticker-tape parades.

3. the polio vaccine was relatively safe and straightforward, as killed vaccines generally are. The killed vaccine was first tested in culture to make sure it was dead. Unlike many other pharmaceuticals, where the effectiveness even after a test can be murky and side-effects abound, a killed vaccine is relatively easy to understand. Testing a drug that may lessen the impact of a particular type of cancer is considerably harder, both in itself and because of today's protective regulations.

4. the polio vaccine was developed by a very small team run by a zealot. The resources required were considerably less than the resources required to develop other drugs. Look at the development of the sulfa drugs for a counter-example: Bayer delayed their widespread release even after they had concluded they were effective and patented them because they wanted to make sure their patent was valid (source: "The Demon Under the Microscope", by Hager.) Bayer had spent a lot of time and money developing the drugs and wanted to make sure they got a return. (Ironically, it was quickly realized that the patented sulfa drugs were in fact a combination of active and inactive parts and the active parts could not be patented; and soon after penicillin was introduced, sidelining the sulfa drugs. It's a fascinating story, well worth the read.)

Source for info about Salk: the excellent "Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio" by Kluger.
Quite useful but the site has ignored about 17.5% of the world population - Indian names are missing.
Yeah, I was able to find that, too. There wasn't an easy way to purchase things on most of those sites. It seemed like half didn't incorporate an online shopping cart/ecommerce solution at all, and would rather you contact them via email or phone to make a purchase. This seems really backwards.

And while OpenBSD may list them as a preferred vendor (or whatever nomenclature they used) how can I be assured the bulk of the proceeds from that sale will go to OpenBSD? I didn't find much (if any) indication that any amount of money was given back...
You might be interested in the ODROID : http://www.hardkernel.com/main/main.php

It sports a Cortex A-9 and a Mali 400 GPU.
Yes, "bluster" was the right term.

According to your suggested phrasing above, if your lawyer does not investigate and then prosecute any apparent law-breaking, then you have just lied to a police officer. That can be an expensive phrase to follow up on.

If you are arrested, and convicted wrongly (which we know does happen), then your assertion of innocence is, to the courts, another lie.

According to the Supreme Court, you must say that you are going to remain silent in order to exercise that constitutional right. Your suggested phrasing shows that the citizen saying that is ignorant of the law, and is more likely that the "rent-a-cops" will use intimidation and other forms of persuasion to extract information in hopes of making an arrest.

You don't care, since you don't recognize the laws as being just. But it is bad manners to suggest your course of action to anyone who is not aware of what their legal rights are under this unjust regime. A martyr without reason is just another arrest statistic.
Because if you want to argue over the meaning of the word billionaire, you start with why we shouldn't have changed the meaning of the word billion :)

When you're talking about personal wealth, there's a real danger of money going from a tool to do stuff; to being a way to keep score. And that latter road leads to the worst kind of arsehole-ry (damn, that needs a better word).
No, both were fresh installs without plugins. Nightly ran at significantly faster speed than Regular on that laptop.

On my regular comp the difference was non-noticable. Even with all the plugins.
The article is light on the details. Apparently, the addresses were gathered from defunct botnets. You're right that there's no evidence for this, though I'm not sure what kind of evidence you expect. I think the idea that this is the BSI gathering active email accounts is pretty preposterous.
How very coincidental. This afternoon I was talking to my cofounders about test data generation - and names were one of them.

Here are other resources that we found that were helpful:

- http://www.generatedata.com/

- http://databasetestdata.com

- http://randomuser.me (useful for frontends)

- http://gedis-studio.com/ (not free)

Also, TIL that Hipchat doesn't always pull all the links
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If you're renting your first couple places, absolutely not. But at some point you hit a mark where you have a property manager doing all the day-to-day and a few leasing agents filling vacancies and it becomes as passive as you want it to be.
Yeah, but miners get obsolete very quickly, since the difficulty is growing exponentially.
Wow, I just took a look at the docs for Laravel. I had no idea it was that sophisticated. Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it some more.
Same in Bolivia. You're even explicitly disallowed to rent rooms out to people unless you notify the owner. I agree with it to, if I were to own an apartment and rent it out, I wouldn't want any random person to live in my home.
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I think maybe he means "public interest."
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No, that's not necessarily true. For instance, the "spymall catalog" contained no revelations about NSA abuses against Americans, only details of intelligence tradecraft.
You could always use Boxcryptor (https://www.boxcryptor.com/)
As much as I would love to sit here carrying on about how Information Wants to be Free, I do appreciate where she's coming from. YBB forced to students to actually read course evals and apply critical thinking to their class selection. YBB+ wrongly suggests that the quality of a class can be reduced to a scalar value.

We've complained about this bitterly going the other way. How many app developers are frustrated when they get a one-star review that says, "This app couldn't sync to my online account unless I was connected to the internet. Changing to five stars when that's fixed"? How many Amazon shoppers have seen one-star reviews that say, "The package was damaged during shipping. The return was really easy and I got a replacement in two days, but I wanted it for an event that happened before the replacement came."?
In mid 2013 I signed up 22 referred accounts in a VM box for a family member with a newly created Dropbox account.
Three months later all 22 inactive accounts were removed, and the extra storage was gone too.

I did it in 2011 as well for my own account and still have the extra storage. I've since upgraded though. Even 15GB is peanuts today...
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RIG (Random Identity Generator) is a free replacement for a shareware
program out there called 'fake'. It generates random, yet real-looking,
personal data. It is useful if you need to feed a name to a Web site,
BBS, or real person, and are too lazy to think of one yourself. Also,
if the Web site/BBS/person you are giving the information to tries to
cross-check the city, state, zip, or area code, it will check out.

$ rig
Adolph Cline
739 Anton Dr
Mentor, OH 44060
(216) xxx-xxxx
$
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Note that New York city is a densely populated small city with a huge population. Still can't provide proper internet speeds.
Oh well, it's hardly an income but I created a rhyming dictionary years ago where one adsense container pays for all my personal hosting bills. http://rhymebox.com/ http://rhymebox.de/
I would argue that the "crippled" Windows netbooks were just fine for normal tasks too... so what are we debating?
The issue is that competing marketers can use "negative" signals as a weapon to hurt competitors. Google is handcuffed somewhat (less so as time goes on) when penalizing for bad SEO.
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Downvotes but no arguments? Is this reddit pitchforking?
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I’m from Argentina and also find that the names are very unusual. The usual names vary a lot by country, but I could not even recognize a most of them, and I had to retry about 10 times to get a realistic name.
Thanks for telling me that you are not available in my country AFTER I register....
"citation needed" is just about the most useless thing to contribute to a discussion and based on the other comment I'm not the only one that feels this way. This isn't reddit.

I though the same thing, until I actually needed the citation myself on a topic I cared about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7043314

So at least "citation needed" is legitimate sometimes. (I totally agree that most of the time, it seems merely argumentative, not knowledge-seeking which is what is the good thing its being concealed behind).
The money spent mining bitcoin for electricity and hardware could have been used to buy stocks.

It's not really different, for both mining bitcoins and investing in stocks you need to spend some money. You aren't issuing anything for free.
no, it's just bad writing. meandering nonsense is never good writing, though perhaps it boosts your ego to feel like you are part of a special club (of millions) that understands his ramblings.
box lets you pull up a file on your phone... we find the versioning and collaboration features of box to be far supperior to dropbox... lan sync is nice though, I didn't actually know dropbox had that.
I just generated an icelandic hobbit and it GAVE ME MY OWN NAME! I actually WTFed out loud.
Clearly we should disarm the police for our own protection. Heh.
I'd disagree that security == transparency. You can not have security without transparency, but you can certainly have transparency without security.

As for the idea that they are "phishing for active mail accounts", I find that pretty far-fetched to be honest. What use would a vast list of email addresses of normal people be of use to them? To spam them?
"Am I being detained", not "am I under arrest"; there are plenty of forms of temporary detention which are not arrest but where walking off right then becomes PC to do more (and potentially a crime/beating/anal-rape-with-or-without-medical-personnel incident).
It's easier for them to access when it's stored outside of the United States... you get that, right?

There are laws in the US that they attempt to abide by that make this more difficult domestically, but not as difficult on foreign soil.
yeah, quite misleading:

AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE

and then:

HOLD UP.
BEATS MUSIC IS NOT YET AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY.

very annoying.
I'm not going to get into a discussion about whether he should've rocked the boat or not.

My only point was that your assertions earlier in the thread were shaky, at best, especially considering Snowden's corroboration.

Or is there any other evidence besides the two unnamed sources who contradict the official CIA account?
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A firefighter is writing apps for Google Glass to make his job safer
Relevant: "Man reportedly outsources his own job to China, watches cat videos" http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/17/business/la-fi-mo-ma...
Demographic identifiers are not necessary to deanonymize data. Even if every person is simply referenced by their unique identifier (MRN, PID, whatever term is used locally), patient identity can still be inferred by medical history.

I worked in healthcare IT (electronic medical records) for a while. I sought ways to protect privacy. Technically, there is none.

Only laws can protect privacy now. Such as laws preventing sharing patient data.
Lithuanian names: http://uza.lt/vardai/

It's more of a fun read than anything useful, really
As an Indian I am a bit sad to see Hobbit, Klingon and Ninja in there but no option for Indian names.
"What was considered dangerous in the past is today made possible with advanced technologies."

What was considered dangerous in the past is dangerous today.

It is what was not considered dangerous in the past what we know today it is dangerous, like x-rays(they used it with pregnant women and basically killed a lot of people for ten years), powerful RADAR, tobacco(yes you can see advertisements on youtube of how innocuous it was), benzene, asbestos, pfcs, nuclear radiation(Curie couple died from that).

It was only after being proven that a technology kills thousands of people, that this tech is controlled.

For me it is a great idea to find guinea pigs for testing new technologies, but don't test it with me against my will sending radiated energy in the air.
Seems like you are missing localization and you see the keys for the text.

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The Paisley Rekdal poem referenced in the beginning of the article is "Bats" [1].

Can anyone find a copy of the plagiarized version by Christian Ward? I'd be very interested in seeing it.

[1] http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19501
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> YBB forced [] students to actually read course evals and apply critical thinking to their class selection.

This doesn't come close to being true in any sense. Wanting to do something and actually doing it are barely even related concepts.
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> that's because it was decided that a titrating drip of stories would keep the narrative alive in the media and, not coincidentally, better serve the interests of the publications releasing the stories.

It takes time to read the classified documents and decide which documents should be released and which shouldn't be because it might be damaging to national security. Or did you expect Glen Greenwald to make one gigantic article about all of the 50,000+ documents?

And seeing as we're just speculating as to how Snowden's documents might be abused, here's some speculation to address your concerns: http://cryptome.org/2014/01/snowden-count.htm

From the article:

There are information security programs which compartmentalize data for multiple levels of security and access as well as controls for the distribution and timing of release. These are used to manage classified data handling among a variety of personnel and agencies with varying clearances.

It could be that Snowden remains in control of his material's release by way of programmed implants in the material for access and timing although the material is physically distant from him. This too is conventional security practice.
You want to do the "am I being detained" thing while at the same time being physically non-threatening -- keep your hands visible (in a traffic stop, on your steering while), etc.

Depending on the state, there's a requirement to ID (particularly in a motor vehicle, even as a non-driver). I generally am willing to comply with ID requests even when they're not mandatory, with a few exceptions (i.e. where it will prolong the interaction, like open carry in Oregon seems).

If a search happens anyway (either terry stop patdown or something more serious), the "I do not consent to search" should be repeated and very audible (ideally for any recording device), but don't physically resist.

OTOH, in NM, I'd probably not get out of my car even if demanded, but I'm currently boycotting the state.
The Norwegian name set generates some really strange first names. Plausible surnames though.
I've been giving it a run through this morning. Haven't gotten too far in, but I'd already say Spotify and Rdio have some serious competition on their hands.

The curation is where this service really excels, also the UI is pretty tight.

I've heard bad things about the headphones, so never tried them.
https://www.bankaccountchecker.com enable the validation of UK bank account (web app and API). It is not making loads of money but I get enough traffic to pay for summer holiday. I often get request for the logic behind the API. the sort code file is also selling well.
I have created another saas service at http://www.conceptuel.co.uk/burnDown/ but there is not enough demand to make it a profitable passive income.
As an app developer who has gotten those reviews, the reality is they don't actually matter. Since everyone gets them, the real question is how many happy and 5 star reviews you get from the rest of your customers. You don't have 3 stars because of the guy that put 1 star, you have 3 stars because of the people who gave it 3, or all the people who didn't feel it was worth it to put down 5 stars.

The situation is the same here, at my school when viewing aggregate evaluation data, I find it to be VERY accurate to the actual experience I've had in those classes, and I think that's the issue here. Yale is protecting teachers from being called out for being bad teachers.
There are also faker libraries for various languages, e.g. the famous https://github.com/stympy/faker, https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker and a little port in Scala (created by me) https://github.com/justwrote/scala-faker