skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was changed pretty quickly, to be honest.

PRISM was announced as a system that could "literally read your thoughts as you type". Greenwald said the NSA had direct, unfettered access to Facebook, Google, etc. So naturally I was pretty concerned about this vast abuse of authority and massive blow against Constitutional freedoms, and expressed as much here on HN.

But just reading the NSA slides made it clear that something much different (and far less sinister) was being talked about. They couldn't "read our thoughts" after all. At worst, the system allowed tech companies to automatically package up the data legally obtained through actual warrants or subpoenas, something previously routinely done manually. PRISM even still required the company's manual involvement for each and every single request. The reality was far different from what had been implied, and sometimes even actually stated. Greenwald himself had either lied, or been mislead by someone, and my money was on the latter. But it was Snowden's job to know how PRISM worked and get Greenwald to explain it right.

When it turned out that the self-described "career intelligence operative" was... not, I quickly realized that things weren't as they seemed. And then all sorts of excuses started piling on: Oh, PRISM does require a warrant sometimes, but the Court that issues them gives secret rulings (oooh). Never mind that the Court in question was around since 1978, or that no other nation even bothers putting judicial oversight on foreign intelligence. Snowden said he'd have been fine with PRISM with Article III warrants, but when an Article III warrant was duly issued for his own arrest then all of a sudden all U.S. courts were corrupt. And on it goes.

And it's turned out that way for almost literally every single leak since. Some claim would be made about the NSA, but then when pressed Snowden or Greenwald would have to admit that the topic being discussed was a capability, but there wasn't evidence of major misuse. Or they'd leave out important context.

A lot of this stuff would have been damning in some way on its own, so I could never figure out why the shiftyness was required. When you're debating with the USG and the USG is more honest, that's sad in many ways.
Not to mention these two:

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Scienc...
While I do see Go a lot, I don't usually see Dart.

People can just like the language, but the upvote system is anon...
I think its bad to have the police capturing plates and locations. It would be better if private citizens with concerns could simply report plate numbers without location. If there is a plate associated with a crime, the police could respond by asking where it was seen and when, with no response the rest of the time.
(Devil's advocate) The opposite is also true and might warrant such extreme actions. The internet is the most powerful weapon ever conceived in a terrorist's arsenal. It allows for instant and private communications with every person on the planet and unlimited knowledge can be shared, there is also the ability to actually gain direct access to some of the governments systems and they could impersonate, spy, leak, or even cause physical damage to the nation.
> Manslaughter can be a mistake or an accident, but if you intentionally aggressively killed someone I'd rather not be walking past you on a street or participating with you in an open market

It is my understanding that if you assault someone intending to injure them and accidentally kill them, that is murder in the second degree, unless they provoked you so much that the position of the law is "they were asking for it" (USA) (http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/second-degree-m... , http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/voluntary-mansl...). I can see your objection to serial killers, but the hypothetical 2nd-degree-murderer doesn't seem to be much risk unless you like to get into bar fights.

The same resource also points out that if anyone dies (and there's some sort of iffy connection to you) while you're committing a felony of any kind, you're guilty of murder. Robbing 7-11 with your buddy who you didn't realize was armed will get you convicted of murder if he happens to shoot and kill anyone.
> speed of the pressure wave that would propogate through the marbles

IOW, if it's not clear, the speed of sound in glass (assuming the marbles are made of glass).
For a critical response to Gary Taubes and the many other cholesterol confusionists, I highly recommend the videos by the PrimitiveNutrition Youtube user. He has over 30 hours of entertaining video analyzing medical studies and arguments related to this topic including the common attacks on Ancel Keys regurgitated in TFA.

https://www.youtube.com/user/PrimitiveNutrition/featured
Transcripts: http://www.plantpositive.com
So telepresence, basically?
Most of these "we switched from X to Y" stories seem to boil down to Brooks' "plan to throw one away" dictum. In year zero, the technical team of a startup is never going to really understand the requirements and constraints they'll be facing in year three (or even year one). The best you can hope for is to be flexible enough to tear out and replace pieces as you go, and to not have an ego about your original design.

It seems to rarely be the case that it would have been a better idea to build with Y in the first place. In any case, even if you had a crystal ball and could predict your year-four, millions-of-users design in year zero, it'd probably be a mistake to try to build it from the start. The needs of a product (and team) in its infancy are a lot different from those of a mature one.
Thanks for sharing ! I am curious to know about Big Co #4.
Google translate is completely worthless between chinese and english (either direction). I'm baffled every time I see people praising it.
interestingly, we have seen such demo's before. The fear is these things will fade away like many interesting computer interfaces in the past due to no industrial application. I personally think it will be a great help in logistics. But when you put that in numbers, it would cost much more and will be ignored.
I think you're conflating Harvard University with Harvard Business School, which are two distinct entities. Your comments are true for the former, but generally not for the latter.
Absolutely. For instance, improved latency is the big advantage of LTE for me. The extra bandwidth is nice, but I hardly ever push that limit. It's the latency improvement (~200ms to ~50ms, IIRC) that makes the connection qualitatively different.
A better title: "Why black-and-white thinking is bad for your diet and moderation is good". Actually, that could pretty much replace the whole article.
Rather then "the founder made a poor technical choice", I think she made the best possible decision at the time (fastest to market). The change over to Go gave the company an excuse to rewrite their codebase which always gives great improvements relative to hacked together code.
When I read things about latency I always somehow get reminded of the story of the 500 mile e-mail: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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They have not been very strongly or actively trying to hide themselves.

I'm sure finding them would not be that hard.
Do note that modern compilers can detect when the return value of the ++ operator is unused, and skip the extra steps when unneeded. (I've verified the resulting assembler myself from GCC 3.X.) That said, I still use the prefix notation because I can't come up with a good reason not to.
The professor does mention why he decided not to go ahead with Erlang - I favored going with a c-like systems language because I'm more familiar with it and was less comfortable teaching in Erlang.
Don't jump to conclusions yet -- I'm still reading this analysis.

https://pay.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/26px1i/truecrypt_sh...
It would be very helpful to add to the README a section explaining what problems this solves. So examples of conventional python classes exhibiting weaknesses that are improved by using yuppy features.
To see if they killed any known insurgents / high value targets. If they can mark them off the list then they can focus on getting the other ones / people that fill their empty position.
What does an MLP chan have to do with Truecrypt?
Awesome! I am really thinking of getting into drones as a hobby. There are so many cool projects you can do, especially when you have a communications system. Imagine a pack of drones "hunting" together for something!
Docker did not invent Linux namespaces, it originally used lxc then moved to a docker specific go implementation. IMO what is needed is a multi-os C containerization library; libvirt is too much of a mess, lxc has undefined behaviour and implementation defined behaviour and parts are written with seems the writer did not understand the respective standards.
I'd imagine it goes straight to the lawyers
Too bad they screwed up again. Maybe they'll eventually get it right and switch to Clojure.
Strongest chess player, ever
Are there no innovative technology companies in your country ? Or are they not hiring (you) for some reason ?

Don't worry so much about the technology itself as the principles behind it. If you are just graduating, you have a lot of life ahead of you. Do something that you don't hate to your gut, and do a great job at it! You would be surprised how often that leads to new realizations and better opportunities. It is hard but don't throw away what you can get now just because it is not where you want it to be.

Also, it is your responsibility to be up to world class standards even if your current opportunities don't demand it. Make sure you are competitive at an absolute level and don't give in to the mediocrity that your current situation (or the level of your peers) can suck you into. That may give you the option to move up (maybe in a different country or a different company) given that you are already prepared for it.
Author here, the bash version is too beautiful: compact and clean! I will include it in the article if you're ok!
I just moved to San Francisco and got Webpass (about 800mbps symmetrical). It has wildly changed my perceptions about how I use the internet. For example, instead of buying a $1000 Raided NAS, I just use arq to push my backups straight to S3. It's fast enough (~70MB/s to AWS NorCal Region). Uploading a 2GB video to YouTube? That'll take 45 seconds.

It has really changed the fundamental way I use the internet.
Didn't truecrypt website have a paypal donate button. So paypal definitely knows who they are.
Introduction to chroot directory tree, jails, and qjail
> In addition to in-house programs, the N.S.A. relies in part on commercially available facial recognition technology, including from PittPatt, a small company owned by Google, the documents show.
I have been participating in a Stanford Medical research study since October. The name of the randomized control study is "One Diet Does Not Fit All" (http://nutrition.stanford.edu/projects/DietbyGenotype-Study....). The basic premise of the study is that as almost everyone has one of two insulin responses to glucose and that if you have one response, you should be on a low-fat diet, and if you have the other, you should be on low-carb.

My personal results have been quite successful. I was randomly assigned to the low-carb diet. I basically eat vegetables, meats, and cheese. I avoid everything from bread, to rice, to even nuts and fruits. On this diet I have lost nearly fifty pounds since I started. So it's been pretty successful for me. (I will admit that I had no idea whether it's the particular diet I'm on, per se, or the fact that I'm on any diet at all -- that I am paying attention).

I also accept the premise of the study: one diet does not fit everyone. Sometimes I meet people and they say it's as simple as calories in, calories out. Some people say everyone should be on this diet or that diet. I don't know -- I don't presume that my diet would simply work for everyone. The human body is a very complex system both for any one person, and for the population. I tend to believe the central premise of the study (and we'll see if it works out): that different physiologies lead to different beneficial diets (and perhaps much more).

There is a lot of story here: exercise being easier, meetings going more smoothly, my colleagues and family and friends supporting me, YC giving me a new t-shirt, buying a new wardrobe, my changing interactions with women (I'm strait, and who knows if this is due to me looking better or me being more confident)...etc...I'm planning to write up a (as is often the case) too-long blog post on it all when I'm finished with the study on October.
but it's hard to tell

No, it isn't.

https://github.com/kuujo/yuppy/blob/master/yuppy/core.py

https://github.com/kuujo/yuppy/blob/master/tests.py

What you say is kind of funny, although rather an obvious sort of caustic witticism. But I think the answer is in fact obvious to you.
Lenovo definitely wants the brand recognition and distribution network of Motorola in US, but I don't see why they would want to keep the factory there.
Most low fat foods aren't really that low fat, but only contain less fat. If you calculate the percent of energy coming from fat from such foods it's still large. And more importantly, those "low fat" foods are still factory derived high sodium low fiber foods, not natural foods, like fruits, legumes and whole grains which contain almost no fat. What people call low fat is really just not good enough.
For a seriously healthy low fat diet, read The Starch Solution by John McDougall. http://www.amazon.com/The-Starch-Solution-Regain-Health/dp/1...

However, low fat or high carb still misses the point of focussing on macronutrients instead of micronutrients. Micronutrients are a good indicator of the quality of foods. Micronutrients: vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals, are important factors in satiety and long term weight loss maintenance. Whole foods like nuts, seeds and avocado's aren't low fat, but high fat, but can help in weight loss, because of their health benefits. Read Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman, who elaborates on this subject: http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Amazing-Nutrient-Rich-Sustain...

I have experience in combining Eat to Live + The Starch Solution which got me from a BMI of 27 to 20 for three years already. I eat relatively high carb / low fat, with the moderate addition of some nuts, seeds and avocado's. I find this works best for me. I've excluded almost all saturated fats AND free unsaturated fats like olive oil, which contain almost no valuable micronutrients.
(nagging mode) I always like that white letters onto a white background of blogspot.

This is a hint to blogspot. Use ordinary HTML/js/css so that people with their browsers set to maximum security still can read what's on the blog.
HBS is a profit center. Plain and simple.

No need to give away a product which people are happy paying for.

Just street smarts 101.
> Do note that modern compilers can detect when the return value of the ++ operator is unused, and skip the extra steps when unneeded.

Is there an equivalent instruction in assembly for postfix increment/decrement?
Nimrod looks quite interesting but the tutorial has a disturbing penchant for ugly variable names and dune horrific use of Hungarian notation.

If it's hoping to lure in Pythonistas then there are a few strange aesthetic choices in there.
What you should do is look on forums for tests performed by the various ISPs users.
Wow. If my HN top page analysis is correct, this story went from 5th place to 24th place in a minute. Probably got penalized for ring-voting?
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They don't make it exactly easy, do they? Also this seems to indicate they really have to check every single request and each link in it. Could be a fulltime job.
That's true to some extent, but I think market shifts are also part of it. At least here (Denmark) globalization has affected them quite differently: white-collar jobs are booming, while skilled blue-collar jobs have been hit hard. In the '70s, you could get a good, middle-class job at Maersk (the country's largest company) with either university or vocational education. With a university degree, you could work logistics and similar jobs in their headquarters; with vocational training you could work skilled-labor jobs in their shipyards. But the shipyards have all moved to Asia, while the Copenhagen HQ location has turned into a nearly 100% business-and-logistics office. Still a ton of work available, but almost none of it blue-collar, as Denmark is rapidly de-industrializing.
I bet there are more postings about Rust than any other language these days.
> Ok then. How about an option just remove all links associated with my name ?

They are only required to remove results that are 'irrelevant, outdated, or inappropriate' so unless you changed your name, it would be hard to justify removing all those links. Google has no incentive to make that possible either.
While I'm a little unclear on some of her reasoning, Go does excel at these kinds of web backends. I'm using it for my startup and have found it very productive to code in, efficient in computing resources and ridiculously easy to deploy and manage.
2 million Euro. Just putting it in bank with 5% interest is 100,000 euro/year - more than enough for me.
The short sentences and relatively simple grammar also remove a lot of the common sources of intelligibility-threatening Google Translate errors. With German->English the most common serious error I find is that it'll unwind a compound sentence the wrong way: matches up verbs with the wrong clauses, orders clauses in an order that ends up nonsensical in English, etc. Scandinavian languages don't tend to use complex, multi-clause sentence constructions, so there's less opportunity to completely screw up the structure.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0509/whats_new/h...
I wonder what the outcome would have been, if their engineer had spent the weekend rewriting the backend in Node, instead of Go. We all know that the codebase tends to grow ugly when multiple developers keep adding in code and hacks. A complete rewrite might have surprising results, just like it had with their Go rewrite experience.
This problem like the IPv6 deployment has a solution but ISP's are wary of changing the network.

The Bufferbloat issue has been worked on for the last 20+ years and the CoDel algorithm is a great step forward to fixing that issue.

Try it out for yourself on Linux:
To turn on ECN to help feedback to the AQM in the file: /etc/sysctl.conf add the following line:
net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 1

To alter the Active Queue Management scheduler alter the following file: /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add the following line:
tc qdisc add dev eth0 root fq_codel

replacing eth0 with the name of the computers network card.

For windows:
(All these settings require the “Run As Administrator” permission)
To show the current state of the TCP settings:
netsh int tcp show global

To turn on ECN:
netsh int tcp set global ecncapability=enabled

To turn on CTCP:
netsh int tcp set global congestionprovider=ctcp
> “We would not be doing our job if we didn’t seek ways to continuously improve the precision of signals intelligence activities [...]” said Vanee M. Vines, the agency spokeswoman.

Which leads directly to the annihilation of any form of privacy (total surveillance), given the exponential advances that technology embodies.

If our governments really think that this is what their voters/citizens want, then this subject should be put to a very explicit vote.
Note: Numbers below would be money in the bank, after taxes.

1 million: Takes the edge off, I could support a family, and live a reasonable lifestyle. I'd take up a hobby with the spouse, or work on personal projects to bring in some extra money and to keep busy.

2 million: Similar to above, but working is no longer necessary. I could life comfortably and be happy. Of course, I'd need to be careful with my spending, and not drop $1,000 on a bottle of wine. I'm not one for fancy toys, so this could easily be retirement money in my situation.

3 million+: Same as 2 million, but I'd just have the option to do everything a little bigger. Higher end cars, larger house, more expensive city, better downtown location, etc. Personally, not necessary, so I'd just bank it, or put it towards a startup.

In short, I'll say 2 million is FU money. It provides everything I need in life, it would support a family, and at that point I can leave the rat race.
>did not happen to the same extent in generations past

I have never seen supporting evidence of this. You can't compare perks of manufacturing jobs of the past to grocery baggers and greeters in Walmart today. An equivalent would be to compare it to a grocery store clerk in the past as well. I know they did not provide a living wage or health care back then either because my father was one in the 60s.

>The notion that the people making the money are "earning" it while people doing actual work are "greedy"

This is basic economics. If what you are doing has little demand, you won't be paid highly for it. To understand what I mean, go into a field and dig holes all day long and then demand that someone pay you for doing 'actual work'. Unless someone desperately needed those holes, you won't be paid anything regardless of the effort you put into it.

>from living the natural lives we could all be living

And what natural life would you be referring to? Tribes roaming around foraging and fighting each other for food? An even redistribution of wealth across the entire globe would drastically reduce the quality of life of >95% of US citizens.

Say we just rob and kill off the 1% since you seem to think they don't contribute. You have just eliminated many executives at large companies, most doctors, most good lawyers, many professors, and many highly-skilled senior specialists in various engineering fields. Now that you have wiped out all of these people that spent years mastering their fields, what exactly is it that you have accomplished? What lesson did we learn? They earned high salaries because they were in high demand. Is it to make sure that you never become so good at something that you will earn lots of money?

Perhaps you are confused and you didn't mean the top 1% but instead meant something like the top %0.01? 1 in every 100 people isn't a conspiring billionaire as you've concocted in your mind. Doctors and small business owners aren't getting together in a secret club each weekend to determine the political propaganda they will feed to the 99% that week.

P.S. Currently, your post is mostly nonsensical run-on sentences. Break them up if you want people to read it.
Like for example the simple fact that Peter never founded TPB, he merely spoke for it once it became huge.