skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He has been involved in peace negotiations, election monitoring, and disease eradication [1]. A lot of this probably requires communication with foreign leaders.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Center
In the US ...

Unfortunately, those recordings would not be out of reach because while you cannot be compelled to testify against yourself, you can be compelled to testify against someone else if the prosecution has reason to believe you have testimony material to the charges. And that is why this sort of thing falls down.
Stamen made some lovely world wide watercolour tiles:
http://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

They explained the process on their blog:
http://content.stamen.com/watercolor_process
There's no mention of extra time between the off and on state.
That's a fair point, but our opposition to Zero Tolerance stems from the fact that punishment does not account for extenuating circumstances.

Policemen are not judges, nor should they ever be. The problem with Zero Tolerance is that the judges are overly strict. We want policemen to enforce the letter. We want judges to consider the spirit of the law, and interpret it appropriately. Policemen lack the knowledge of the law and lack the time to make these decisions in a rational manner. They are forced to rely on poor heuristics. There is less immediacy to a judge's decision.

So, yes, I think it fair that someone who forgets he has a knife in his car is removed from class pending an evaluation of the situation (with this taking place in a reasonable amount of time). Then I believe it only fair if the evaluation determines that if it was truly accidental, then he return.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4574644
Not only should the data be recorded, but it should also be 'live streamed' to the public. I placed live streamed in quotes as I could see the need for some sort of delay simply due to the sensitivity of the information - plus some level of post-processing would need to be done to ensure innocent parties faces are not being displayed.

Police behavior is such a broad ranging topic, simply having their actions recorded does nothing to solve the root of the problem. One of the topics I'd like to see addressed is their 12 hour work day. For what appears to be an enormously stressful job, it seems like some form of torture to ask law enforcement to always be on duty for such long stretches at a time. I really think that to get back to the 'To Serve and Protect' mantra we need to start treating policemen like humans first.
Functionally, yes. But it makes that functionality available universally on Android. You don't have to already be in Chrome/etc.
You are absolutely correct. I guess the answer would be that if such books were, e.g. CC licensed, then hard copies would be able to be printed. Given the prevailence of self publishing firms available, one would hope there is a market for text book publishers who compete on the printing price alone. Such companies needn't even be publishers themselves, but rather a middleman which makes use of self publishing services.
Because its an anticompetitive attempt to suppress employee wages?!
The biggest problem with police cameras is they "malfunction" or "forgot to turn it on" whenever the camera shows evidence that the policeman did something wrong.
This is appalling to read, and it's frightening how blasé they are about blatantly illegal and unethical non-competition. Yet, I think the article misrepresents Schmidt firing the recruiter:

>Here, Schmidt relates a phone call he had with eBay CEO Meg Whitman and then orders his own recruiter to be fired because that person tried to poach the COO of eBay.

Reading the email, it doesn't seem like the recruiter was fired for trying to poach the COO; it seem like he was fired for lying to the target about the position (as Schmidt calls them, "falsehoods"). Don't forget recruiters usually get a significant finder's fee, and are not above misrepresenting a position to generate interest.
I am wondering what happens when one mails directly to the mentioned addresses.

Or, what 4chan/other trolls could potentially do with it.

Publicly disclosing internal matters for the courts is bad enough, but PII like internal mail addresses should be redacted before release!
I genuinely don't understand why it's okay for people but not okay for governments?

People who breach privacy do stuff with that information. Governments who breach privacy do very little with that information, and mostly not to me.

That's not to say it is acceptable for governments to do it - they must not. But if find it weird to read on HN peoe saying that it is terrible for a government to breach privacy but then admitting they do it to their users.
http://linux.die.net/man/4/tty_ioctl suggests that TIOCCONS, which xconsole uses, has been supported as recently as 2.6.x, when it started requiring privilege (before, it allowed anyone to call it). Maybe that change made xconsole stop working for many users.
Presumably the parent is talking about when FB used users' likenesses alongside product endorsements in their friends' feeds, without the user's knowledge.
What?

Police (ordinarily) cannot throw you in jail without probable cause. If you're taped committing a crime, members of the public can just forward the tape to the police, and you'll end up in jail anyway.
Is there actually any reason to assume the pace of technological progress from the early 20th century til now, will remain the same in the next 100 years?

I find it more likely that technological progress ended around 1980 and what we are doing now is coasting on old ideas that weren't implemented in the 1960's because computing power wasn't ready yet. Once those run out, it's just going to be rehashes and efficiencies. Why is that? All this recent progress was driven by WWI, WWII and the cold war and space race. We haven't had another one of any of those, and we'd better all be hoping we don't have another one!

On the other hand, maybe technological progress will keep pace. But there's actually just no reason to assume that it absolutely will. Do not forget that the 20th century was actually a very unusual and unprecedented century for progress in a history where humanity has gone many many centuries without inventing ANYTHING new at all.
It's a fair comment that a lot of take-out businesses are pretty behind the time technically. A pizza place I sometimes swing by on Horne way home from my office theoretically allows online orders. The first time I used it, I discovered 1. They add a surcharge to your bill and 2. They said they needed 30 minutes leeway (compared to about 10 minutes for calling it in). Oh, I noted their order PC was running Windows 2000.

I call in orders now--or just wait till I'm there; they're pretty fast.
My 1 Minute Twitter Growth Hack
If you record it, They will come.
The Ungit[1] gui can also help you to visualize git operations like merging and rebasing commits. Here's the youtube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkBVAi3oKvo.

[1]: https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit
SSD isn't some magical word or feature - case in point, linode's non-ssd offering beats the pants off DO's ssd
Sadly, income-generation is what education is about these days.
Totally misleading linkbait title.

Sure they were "rejected" by NYC (for valid reasons - apparently treated very well) but then went into the Boulder program after applying. And no doubt the reference given by Tisch must have certainly helped I'm guessing.
Not going to bother answering since I think everyone else has already covered it, but just wanted to say those are all the right questions.
What a well made, awful little article. "But hey, for all you critics, there's always the Carter method." This is intended to be funny, but it's also intended to be belittling. Framing not wanting to be spied on as being a "critic" is reasonably toxic.

"The NSA can keep phone records made from another country for up to a month." As far as details to share, like. This has to be intentionally weak. Other details they could share: the NSA scoops up your emails and your phone records.

I don't know what the mechanisms are (e.g. I'm not positing lizard men are doing this), but way in which so much reporting aims to delegitimize any opposition to total surveillance is fascinating. What causes this?
Here's an earlier story about this: http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/27/2753701/no-poach-scandal-u...
I don't think they are related per se. Given A = B^a and R = B^r (not explicitly said in the first paragraph about El-Gamal, S is calculated by S = (H(R,M) - a)/r at the "Merge the hashes" step.

At the next step, he's giving a completely new formula that looks similar: B^S = R * A^H(R,M) = B^r * B^a^H(R,M). However, this one is solved by S = r+a*H(R,M), which is a much easier thing to calculate, since there are no divisions.
There is no inconsistency here. A desire to record the police stems from the fact that there is a huge discrepancy in power in any interaction between a police officer and a normal citizen and that the police officer is on duty to uphold the laws established by society at large. That is a drastically different set of circumstances than wanting to record any average person all the time.

And personally, I don't want to have to live my life in a way where everything I say or do is on the record. I want the freedom to be able to make remarks and jokes that would be appropriate among friends but not to any random person. I don't want to have to phrase everything I say as PC as possible knowing that it will be stored forever.
I think it's reasonable to assume that the 'sergey@google.com' mailbox already has something to filter out the crazy.
Oh, absolutely. I have yet to meet someone who didn't take several months to feel comfortable with it.
There were also people sending[1] money into Silkroad 2.0 after it was hacked and they knew it and sent anyway.

1. http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1ylnmd/btc_not_sho...
If the ideal police officer is a mechanistic follower of written law, these cameras are perfect. No right minded officer would stray from instruction while their actions are recorded in plain sight.

But I'm not entirely convinced of their worth. While onboard cameras provide concrete evidence in court, and undoubtedly solve problems in our society, we might as well replace our officers with robots (this might not be a bad idea).
I've wondered why the Twitter app doesn't automatically replace t.co links with the final destination URL itself.
The same way the SEC opens insider trading investigations based solely on market data - eg. unusual volume of transaction preceding a major unplanned announcement - a government body should mine employment data from LinkedIn for example and investigate cases where there are very few employees switching jobs between large corporations.

This is even more unsettling when you realize that Google, Apple and such have employees that generate revenue in the range of a million dollar per head yet pay a average salary that is 10-20% of that. They end up with absurdly large piles of cash that banks and financial institutions never see because they compensate their employees more fairly.
https://gist.github.com/agumonkey/9730112

/etc/systemd/journald.conf:

ForwardToConsole=yes
TTYPath=/dev/tty12
MaxLevelConsole=info
Do you really need to bean arsehole whilst doing said difficult review?
Socially? He once ran a powerful country, his social networks probably range through many powerful people.
Just have to work hard? What planet do you live on?
I don't disagree with your point but we did give out $33b in Pell grants last year.
Cloudflare is only for HTTP and internet is more than just HTTP.

I had a irc server for my friends, one of not-so-friendly visitors told me that the server will get down, and it went down. I lost ping to my server, CPU & the bandwidth were all at 100%. The support told me that I should use another company. I went to a company that has DDoS protection http://www.online.net/

I find it unacceptable that you can be DDoSed so easily, it's like we're still in 90'.. DDoS protection should be something ubiquitous for small power servers like VPS, otherwise it's trivial to get them down.
Creepy or useful: When retail employees start recognizing you with Google Glass
You're right, I wouldn't trust many of those. I usually only consider providers that are from the top provider poll: http://lowendbox.com/tag/top-providers/

The forum itself (http://lowendtalk.com/) is also a nice place to find cheap VPS, and usually the comments make it easy to find if a provider is serious or not.

Just remember that "if it's too good to be true, then it probably it isn't" apply here.
IANAL, but IMHO, the only reason that snail mail is more secure/private is due to the laws that protect snail mail (extensive), versus the laws that protect your email inbox (nonexistent).

Keep in mind that the USPS can (and does) scan the front and back of envelopes[0]. Keeping this information indefinitely is tantamount to storing email "metadata" (information which is intrusive enough that it's what caused Groklaw to shut down).

Also, it's easier than one might think for a determined adversary to discern the contents of the letter - either by opening it carefully so that it appears unopened, or by (e.g.) shining a light to

There are defenses against this too, but I wouldn't assume the physical post is inherently more secure than email.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/us/where-mail-with-illegib... - I can't find the original link that asserted that they store this information indefinitely, but IIRC the USPS didn't make much of an effort to hide it.
I do this (indirectly) on Chrome Mobile by opening links as background tabs. But I can see this being a more accessible UI for more people to achieve the same goal.
Are there any unbiased comparisons of Resin and other app servers? The only source for their claims of better performance is their own benchmark of serving what seem to be static files. [0] A discussion of it pointed out that the comparison is totally moot, since Resin caches 1k files (and thus outperforms Nginx for that metric), but otherwise is pretty similar for larger files. [1]

[0] http://www.slideshare.net/billdigman/resin-outperforms-nginx
[1] https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/4404987
I don't know the U.S. justice system really well, but from the e-mail it seems E. Schmidt was aware of the illegality of their actions, being worried about being sued and a paper trail.

Doesn't that make this an 'aware' and 'intentional' crime, therefore the only resolution would be for him to go to prison for some time? Is it really possible for someone to settle their way out of this with a general prosecutor?
who will the settlement be with? i.e. who will get the monies?
I'm an engineer at Evidence.com (a subsidiary of Taser) which makes the cameras (and accompanying software) used in this study. If you have interest in working on technology that makes both the public and officers safer, get in touch (see my profile)! We're based in Seattle and hiring in lots of areas: mobile engineers, web engineers, UX designers, etc.
My whole original post is an attempt to refute what you just said.

Without grants, there wouldn't be a gap. College would cost less. Also, society "demanding" people to go to college is part of the problem.
At the risk of being snarky, the bust hit a lot of companies that didn't have a viable business model very hard.

Snark off. There is a viable business model for deliveries given correct demographics, population density, etc.--and a willingness to pay for the incremental costs of the delivery. Works widely for some things (e.g. Pizza, Chinese food). Works as a niche for grocery delivery-usually in combination with a physical store presence of some sort. Delivery models work, usually as an adjunct to a physical store, but it's situational. Delivering individual video rentals like Kozmo did (among other things) is probably not one of those situations.
Oh. Yeah. That's how SV works. (I didn't know about this particular story though... must have missed it).

It's basically just another variant of a dark pattern.

They're everywhere. It's basically what fast growth is all about. It's about skirting some rule that you know very well is illegal or at least unethical -- and later when you get caught doing it, saying "Ooops!!! I didn't know this was illegal, LOL!"

Go to http://darkpatterns.org to get more examples of dark patterns. Facebook in particular is expert at it, e.g. see http://darkpatterns.org/library/privacy_zuckering - the clear lesson to take away for startups is, don't give a fuck, do whatever unethical shit you can do to attain a large userbase, get big, get funding, and then either a) deny any wrongdoing was ever done, or b) justify it with some excuse like "we were young :)" or "we didn't know!" Sometimes you have to pay a fine, but you can be assured that the fine will be smaller than the profit made/growth achieved by some particular action. It's a winning strategy.

p.s.: Here's a fun challenge: try to turn off targeted advertising on an Apple device. Can you do it? (fwiw, it's much easier to do on iOS7 vs iOS6).
Does this use InvokeDynamic?
Hopefully some day the absence of these videos of police encounters will be evidence in favor of the defendant. Police will be assumed to be lying about any encounter without a recording.
Simply put, because you recording your interactions likely only has real utility to you.

The police regarding all interactions is something a lot trickier, because they have much broader influence.

It's a matter of scale.
One of the frustrations I have with the Snowden leaks is that we see some of the process of intelligence gathering but we don't see the results.

This is the problem of utilitarianism. For any action of significance, there are both short-term results and long-term results. Some of those consequences, particularly the long-term ones, may not be predictable. Some of them may not be to your liking, even if you thought you were maximizing a utility function when you committed to the action.

Some of the consequences may be pretty fucking disastrous, in fact.

Hacking Huawei strikes me as one of those things that seems like a good idea when it's proposed in a locked-down SCIF at Fort Meade, and it may still seem like a good idea to some when it's disclosed in the New York Times. But I can't begin to imagine any long-term upside. I believe that if these people are left unchecked, their actions will lead to the mutually-assured destruction of privacy, or at least the sundering of the Internet.
For the same reason as why big companies can not cooperate prices with each others. If they do, free market can not do its magic. Free market works only if there are many competing independent players, everybody knows everything and everybody can change who he is making business with at any time.
> I find it unacceptable that you can be DDoSed so easily, it's like we're still in 90'..

You can't stop resource exhaustion attacks no matter what you do. There's always someone with a bigger pipe. I'm still baffled that it's 2014 and I can't flush my gumboots down my toilet yet, shouldn't we have solved that already?

> I went to a company that has DDoS protection

What exactly does that entail, technically? Smells like snake oil to me.
I'm perfectly fine with needing to look up half of the functions I call or syntax for something I don't do often. As long as documentation is good, I just consider it outsourcing the bits of my brain that I'm bad at (memorisation) so that I can spend my thinking time solving my actual problem.

But what really bothers me is the number of people that ask someone else before consulting the documentation. IRC, Stack Overflow, and mailing lists seem to be full of questions that are exact copies of #1 in the FAQ or easily answered with a quick trip to `man`. Or even quickly searching the place that they asked for the other twenty people that have asked this question today.

Just look at the front page of Stack Overflow. Any any given day it seems to have half "here's a stack trace that I haven't bothered to read. fixitfixitfixit" and half questions that might as well be the exact title of the man page that they should read.
That would show Jobs to be... stupid and capricious. If he wanted 50% inked on paper, he could just say so.

Funnily enough, the story still shows him as capricious and stupid. She pretty much gave him the same contract, he looks for 50%, he approves it. Genius businessman.
Here's how to deal with many of them - Cut them.

They aren't necessary, they're nice to have.

When it comes to budgets, the nice to have things that aren't really necessary get cut.

It's not all that hard.
Show HN: Decided to open source my Bugzilla 4.x.x skin
Molecular Visualizations of DNA [video]
Fair enough. I'll read it properly and then comment. :-)
How do you quantify in a team how much money a specific employee generates to the company?
Wait a second. These emails[1] (not the commentary around them) seem to say that the big tech companies in the valley agree not to recruit employees of other companies. There's a big difference between recruit and hire. It seems to me like they've all agreed it's pointless to just poach each other's employees.

Eric Schmidt says the practices are zero sum. In my opinion this is exactly correct. If all the big companies just move each other's employees around, nobody benefits. If instead they all agree to look outside of the talent that's already been recruited, everyone (including developers) benefits. New talent keeps coming in, and developers not in big tech companies have a shot at working at places their parents will recognize.

1. http://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage-...
Intriguing high-priced items on eBay
I can see your point. Even without written agreements there are unspoken agreements amongst friends in this regard. For example, if I own a small business, and so does one of my friends, it goes without saying that him poaching my team would feel like a stab in the back.

What I find interesting in this whole story is the value that these executives put on the teams they have built. Of all of the things that Steve Jobs could be worried about as the CEO of one of the largest companies in the world, he's spending his time stressing about losing a few engineers to Google? As an engineer this makes me happy, but I still find it a bit surprising.

These executives knew an agreement like this would have to be delegated to a vast number of people. To me this means they didn't think it was a big deal. I say that because if they were doing something they viewed as extremely illegal they would have been concerned that someone in the delegation path would blow the whistle. Seems to be a crisis of perspective at that top.
Believes? Of course they are.
Sure, you can also do that with most any logger (like, suchas syslog-ng), but how does that address the OP's question? It looks like you're writing to tty12, not to the OP's xterm. :)
I finished at the end of 2008.
Gonna jump in here -- what makes you so sure it's grants rather than the way college loans work?

I haven't done the numbers but I suspect there's like 10x as much tuition coming from loans as there is from grants -- wouldn't that make grants a tiny portion of the problem?
A cool way of introducing some additional proofing of your system is to do what big-science researchers do. Have two teams develop the same services, preferably in different languages. Then have a middleware in front of your database that requires for every action the request be sent from both services, and that the request be identical. As a side benefit your service would be quicker to reveal bugs in production as well.