skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's chilling that they explicitly mention parallel construction on page 12:

When a complete set of CDRs are subpoenaed from the carrier, then all memorialized references to relevant and pertinent calls can be attributed to the carrier's records, thus "walling off" the information obtained from Hemisphere. In other words, Hemisphere can easily be protected if it is used as a pointer system to uncover relevant numbers.
>I'd still worry if she were 34 or 44 or 64? She wouldn't stop being my daughter.

Not, but you should have stopped being the parent of a child when she grew up.

>Should I feel sorry for your kids or are you not a parent?

You should feel sorry for yourself, and the idea that your ideals of parenting are the only ones there are out there. Here's a small pointer to a larger universe for you: http://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Up-B%C3%A9b%C3%A9-Discovers-P...
Show HN: LayerCraft – A Photoshop plugin to export UI assets from layers
the Op might consider building some nice sales pitches to different types of customers. for instance, someone in the movie industry might be able to use his for a more realistic production asset!! please, for the love of mitnick, we need better hacker production assets in entertainment!
Yep. Depending on the scenario, i don't think this the loss of readability is worth it. Using gzip on the webserver already cuts enough.
Our country is full of police departments that fund themselves through seizures of drug money, that they know about by using data our intelligence services collected on us.

I wonder who's using the phone data to buy and sell stocks? Maybe that's what they'll get into once we legalize marijuana.
A de-centralised network, with chosen usernames. Is it possible?
I was wondering if it would be possible to have a de-centralised network, which still allowed each person to choose a username.

As an example, imagine a de-centralised Twitter, where you go to register through a client, and if the username isn't taken, it gives you the username. If it is taken, it doesn't allow you to take it.

If they owned the account with that username, they would then be able to login to their account from a new client, on a new device.

I'm wondering if this is possible? A few years ago, I'd have assumed not, but now with de-centralised systems growing popular, such as with Bitcoin, I'm wondering if it is?
Here's some more information: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/new-amicus-brief-urges...
Do I really need to download this massive PDF to find out what the useless title of this submission means? Mods, please edit.
Have you watched Silicon Valley? The plot is exactly like this.
Yea but your brain doesn't work at all like a single process cpu.
I am not so afraid of the loss of attention. I think this takes a little getting used to, like using a route planner.

I didn't see a comment yet about placing a loose object in front of your face. During a head-on collision you will eat that thing. Don't even put a box of matches on your dashboard. CD's become chainsaws. And this hunk of plastic?

Every year, loose objects inside cars during crashes cause
hundreds of serious injuries and even deaths. In this paper,
we describe findings from a study of 25 cars and drivers,
examining the objects present in the car cabin, the reasons
for them being there, and driver awareness of the potential
dangers of these objects. With an average of 4.3 potentially
dangerous loose objects in a car‟s cabin, our findings
suggest that despite being generally aware of potential
risks, considerations of convenience, easy access, and lack
of in-the-moment awareness lead people to continue to
place objects in dangerous locations in cars. Our study
highlights opportunities for addressing this problem by
tracking and reminding people about loose objects in cars.

http://www.star-uci.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ubic489n-...
(a) I've used it for academic research
(b) Does not seem to exclude use in an open source application or freeware.
(c) They tell you to e-mail them if you want to use it commercially. They have a documented API you can play with, then if you want to make a commercial product, you can pay them and use the same api that you are already familiar with and understand the capabilities of.
Slackware is a highly capable distro. It may not have the fancier things that other distros have (or at least not as simple), but it's just as capable, and it's highly more stable.
sorry, but everybody * is not * a nerd until they're reading articles on beam-forming with wifi antennas with rapt attention.
I believe HN guidelines are to use the title from the source document. In this case, "Hemisphere Synopsis." Don't think that's much better.
Most Americans are single, and they're changing the economy
And now it has been updated. Any new CSRs generated will be 2048-bit.
Will there be a mode where no icons are lacking a textual description?

Can I see single messages instead of having the whole thread loaded?

Is there a design that uses less whitespace?

Is there a classic "tree on the left, list on the top, message at the bottom" layout?
Wow. We actually have secret police in America. I didn't really put together what that means until now.

There are 'law enforcement' agencies that operate outside the law, and they fight to keep their very existence from being exposed in court. Thats crazy.
im also in pdx and am curious about our bull run water.

agreed, after the fluoride campaign, no way in hell adding Li will pass.
There is a lot about this article that is not to like. With tutorial articles, I am of the opinion that all analogies are false and therefore bad. And resorting to quantum physics to describe the impact of Maxwell's equations is another bad signal.

The thing to notice about SNR is that you can increase it by increasing amplification at the sender (where the background noise is fixed but you have a clear copy of the signal) but not at the receiver.

This presumes that the signal that you are looking for is above the detectability threshold at the receiver. It may well not be, if you are trying to capture a weak signal.

Let's put aside the concept of a MASER used in radio astronomy and the size of their antennas. Or the fact that your wifi router or dongle has an amplifier inside of it. Let's do an experiment.

I have two instances of kismet running in my lab here in the leafy suburbs. One has a 3.5 inch antenna attached to a fit pc with internal wifi, the other has a 14 inch antenna attached to an Alfa with kismet running on kali in a vm on my mac laptop. The 14 inch antenna is successfully decoding 167 wifi networks and the 3.5 inch antenna sees 35 networks. I don't know what the relative gain rating of these antennas are, or what the relative quality of the radios is, but the dramatic difference on the receive side is pretty telling.
At this point, Snowden's clearly a traitor.

His revelations about domestic surveillance were important and timely (if not surprising to people who've been paying attention). But here, he's leaked data that's unarguably within the laws under which the NSA operates - it's a foreign telecom operator that operates abroad.

Releasing this information isn't whistle blowing, it's pursuing a political agenda.
No, I don't remember that. And I really hope that you're not a founder.
Writing my representative and senators now.

To hell with these people.
please excuse the language

Let's just not do this.
Is it really less derogatory? Deferring to another countries government is treason, isn't it?
I'm not sure where $6M would carry a team of 30 for 4 years, but it certainly isn't in any of the tech hubs. Total cost for an employee around SF is between $150-180k (office, taxes, benefits, etc). For the sake of being generous, let's say we're in Seattle and it's 120k:

120,000 * 30 * 4 = $14.4M

Even at 60k total cost you break 6M in 4 years:

60,000 * 30 * 4 = $7.2M

> It's big for the average series A for YC

That's not true, it would be huge for a Seed, but that's a fairly middle of the road series A. Big would be in the 10M+ range.
Odrive
The idea of 100% attention when thinking about the brain is just a simplistic notion to make discussions easier but inaccurate. Even in this simplistic approximation of the brain, the idea of 100% attention is pretty thin. If I'm driving somewhere I'm probably listening to the radio (deduct 5% attention points!) or thinking about wherever it is I am heading (deduct 5% attention points!) or if someone is actually in the car with me, I am probably interacting with them in some way (deduct 10% attention points!). And while I'm driving and keeping a constant vigil through the windshield for danger what if I see a glorious new Apple store that I didn't know existed?? That is going to hijack my brain for a bit (deduct 100% attention points!).
What the fuck has NASA done to make your life awesome?
Distilled water being very low in dissolved ions will be more prone to picking up metal ions from pipes than water that already has a natural/normal level of dissolved ions. So in that way it is more "corrosive" than ordinary tap water.
This Guy Almost Became CEO of Apple, Google, and Yahoo
Why not just use MessagePack (aka MsgPack)

http://msgpack.org/
I agree with the main thrust of your comment but perpetuating the 'immaculate conception' myth of the US as a government of, for, and by the people is counterproductive. In particular the war on drugs absolutely goes against the ideas 'espoused' at that time. But that still holds. Ask any senator what America stands for and they will say something like "liberty, freedom, and justice for all". That doesn't mean it is what they work for in the background.

Even while framing the constitution the controlling landowners of the US, i.e. the "US", were aware of the internal enemy that needed to be controlled.

"The framers of the constitution made the determination that America could not allow functioning democracy, since people would use their political power to attack the wealth of the minority of the opulent"

http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/19970303.htm

Where the "opulent" are the class from which the framers originated.

This is not a new development.
This is also a good online reference: http://www.memorymanagement.org/
Just like we are all hackers now too. Just a societal fad in today's participation ribbon receiving culture. Overall it's a good thing though, helping to push/pull people forward.
Interesting idea. Positive fun feedback for staying focused! A few things: the app is called Forest but the HN post title is Forrest. What is "phubbing"? I've never heard that word before and I suspect most people would not have. Do you mean distracted, and if so, why not say that?

It would be fun to be able to convert concentration points into other things for the forest: animals running around, flowers, progressing the seaons. Maybe an autumn season will approach if your month-to-month productivity starts to fall. :)
The question is, who released this information?

My impression from all I have read about the Snowden affair is that some time ago he gathered some very large number of documents (large enough that he couldn't have gone through them all by hand, rather it seems he did something like a giant data dump). He then encrypted these documents, disseminated them to a small number of individuals/locations, and now he is not necessarily in control of them any more, perhaps even he no longer has access to them all.

This doesn't address the more general question, if you gather a crapload of documents indiscriminately, and then you end up losing control of them (and losing control of the ability to release what you want and not release what you don't want to), are you nevertheless responsible for future releases?

I don't know the answer to that
Good insect controll company?
Didn't you use 70-75% twice? Once in the text body and once in the list?

Wouldn't your method leave you with 31% at the end if you just used this age bracket once and didn't have the extra double cycle?

But for the record, I'm sure you are right. The ODDS of developing start doubling. Not the amount of people afflicted (No doubt a somewhat complicated figure as death, not insignificant at those ages, starts changing the equation. Do people with Alzheimer die at the same rate as those without?). Thanks for the explanation.
I really don't see too many use cases here. Both parties have to buy into it, then at that point you might as well use a binary protocol.
For all the anti-distraction people: Why is the Navdy HUD so much more dangerous than the already existing stuff in your car? At least when you are looking at Navdy you are still basically looking through the windshield. When I look at my radio or speedometer on my current vehicle, the windshield relegated to peripheral vision which is useless in this case as you get no depth information from the peripheral. With Navdy, you still should be able to see something coming at you. It seems far superior to the current HUDs in cars.
So have 100% of the beta goals been met?
Ask HN: How far in advance should pre-orders charge me in advance for?
Recently I preordered an item which had a successful kickstarter campaign (the pre-order opened after the campaign).

My credit card recently got charged in late July, but now the product is slipping to being shipped Feb 2015ish.

How long typically should a credit card be charged in advance for a preorder?
And this is exactly why more and more non-US-citizen don't like the US anymore. Seeing the world in two classes "US" and "non-US". Yes, I know, no secret service is better. The question is: Are secret services compatible with democracy? More and more indicators let me think: no.
We haven't put much effort into mobile yet. I will be doing that before 1.0 though :)
We posted a few projects on our downloads page https://www.mailpile.is/download/ they're coming along!
Nice,though this is a paid product, not free.I'll try to emulate that stuff with angularjs,will be a fun project.
The notion of "walling off" information apparently also extends to court testimony and the prosecution brief:

"However, when the mention of Hemisphere data in official documentation or court testimony is unavoidable ... Hemisphere analysts might advise the investigator on issues such as report writing, presentation to the prosecutor, and the trial phase." (p14)

Just extraordinary.
No, mine wasn't an "uninformed, knee jerk reaction" - it's was the informed conclusion I came to after some research (prior to this article) into prescription doses of lithium. Becoming docile, turning into a soulless robot, mood supressions - whatever you want to call it - is an extremely commonly reported side-effect by those with first-hand experience. Several people in this thread (go right up to the top parent comment by hammock) have already backed this up with their own experience, yet you still seem to be dismissing it.

As to why that is relevant to microdosing...

- High doses: major mood suppression -> practically no chance of suicide

- Micro doses: (?) -> lower chance of suicide

Simple reasoning would suggest that (?) == some degree of mood suppression. I'm not sure how you've concluded that this "could not occur" with lower doses?

Putting it in salt is hardly better than putting it in the water supply, it's still systematic mass "medication" which would become difficult to avoid.
Being perceived as an intellectual of any type (nerd or otherwise) still mostly excludes one from public office above a certain level (in the USA, at least). Until that changes, it's difficult to take the idea seriously.
Well you can see it in their faces. It was a true WTF moment. The lead engineer visibly choked a couple of times.

As an aside...pretty weak password for such an important system.
Who are the climate change deniers?
Email is a de-centralized system where you choose your username. It's just that the fully qualified username includes the domain where it was created.
"And pretty soon My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed, When he finds out I published first!"
There are easier ways for the government to make money. There is a strong belief the CIA was selling drugs to citizens in the 80s to fund themselves [1]

[1]http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/9712/ch01p1.htm
Fail. If you're outraged about being the target of such tactics, basic empathy would mean you should be outraged at others also being targeted.
I'm redoing the site and this won't be grey anymore.
The Story of the Federal Reserve on 9-11
Cool, nice work. I personally think the pricing is quite reasonable as well. I have a project I might be able to use this with in the near future. Thanks for showing!
This is a story NYT broke in 2013:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-ph...

Obviously, this is deeply fucked up.
People play Ingress?!
Not necessarily. They formed an alliance which is legal under both countries' documents of sovereignty.

An example:

Most E.U. member countries relinquish the protection of their borders to the E.U. organization proper. Does it lessen the sovereignty of the country? Yes,for instance, because of that reason France didn't acquiesce to the E.U. and retains full sovereignty and their own military.

Is it treason? No, because they have defined treason to allow it.
Social anxiety != being shy.

Social anxiety is a very debilitating and tortuous thing, as is any form of chronic anxiety.
Some work has been done on extending Bartlett copying collectors, like the one in SBCL, with mark-sweep: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spoons/papers/gc/residency05.pdf.
What is the pricing structure once exceeded the daily call limit?
Thanks for that.
One of the first things that came to mind for me was under the same domain:

https://grsecurity.net/compare.php
Ask HN: I have a problem to transform my idea for a startup
I have few ideas in mind for a startup but this problem is holding me back. The problem is I am generating ideas on my own and I don't have a group for a startup. Based on what I read on YC's page, I need a group to be able to apply for the program and YC reluctant to fund for a single founder startup.
Is there any suggestion for this problem?
I grew up "shy", and while it was sometimes stressful, there were definitely no suicide attempts, panic attacks, etc. involved.

It's insensitive/cruel to mock someone's diagnosis when you know next to nothing about the details.

There are larger arguments about overdiagnosis in the US, etc., which is all interesting, but if you're talking to an individual about painful experiences in their past, bear in mind that generalities cannot become rules.
Bingo, there was some discrepancy, so we had to take #43 off.
That makes sense with your example - but I really don't think suicide can be seen as a symptom of lack of lithium in the same way as sickness from a lack of iodine.

What is there to show that "this same story holds for any vitamin or mineral"?! Surely there are many which have no positive effect on the body, where zero would be the best dosage. What law of biology suggests that every mineral is in some way beneficial to the human body?

Lithium happens to have an effect on moods in the brain in such a way that suicide is less likely - but the mood dampening effects may well diminish people's positive emotions too (for example). For someone with no mental health issues or risk of suicide, this could well be an overall negative effect, and therefore makes no sense to force on the entire population.
Yes, everything under Beta on the roadmap "should work" in the release. Of course, there may well be bugs, but that's a pretty accurate description of where we think we are right now.
September Week 2
>An engineering degree is also no longer a requisite to using technology, as seemingly anyone today can install a printer or upload a video.

Yikes - does that mean that we all needed engineering degrees to drive cars?
Sun and Wind Alter Global Landscape, Leaving Utilities Behind
cant agree with you more. what the op calls nerds are much more fashion/pop culture and fit more into dork category in this: http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/b3/fd/05/b3fd051...
( ill admit im venturing into generalizing a little too much )

portlandia "nerd psa" skit highlights the issue too.
> Apple has no interest in supporting Thunderbolt GPUs when they cold be selling people additional Macs instead.

One of the reasons I don't buy Macs, even though I like Mac OS X, is the fact that only high end Macs have proper GPUs for serious 3D programming.
iOS apps using Swift crash when signed with InHouse certificate
Internships and portfolio.

Setup a website that goes over projects you've done in school or personal projects. I got my last job because my portfolio website looked good and I had some past projects that 'showed' stuff on my resume. Most other people just had "I know c#". I had a project I could show off/describe.
Do intelligent lazy people achieve more in life than intelligent active people?
Indeed, this seems to be a different (newer?) version of the same slide deck the NYTimes published.
> makes it very clear that the new constitutional system must be designed so as to insure that the government will, in his words "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority" and bar the way to anything like agrarian reform

My point wasn't that this didn't happen or the US was some magical egalitarian wonderland (though the foundational period of the US had a surprisingly level of wealth equality compared to some other periods).

Rather, my point was the manner in which they did this was to construct a system of law that protected the private individual from the instruments of government, and that we're slowly undoing that precise social contract - not stealing their wealth in exchange for restraint on government powers.

It's hard to argue even though the founding of the US wasn't perfect, and that these instruments largely came about as a protection for the wealthy, that it didn't significantly raise the profile of the citizen-as-having-rights-to-be-protected form of government or that the US doesn't have a long history of viewing such policies as important, even if there have been historic violations.

I think you'd even have trouble finding periods similar to the 50-70 year long ratcheting we've seen meant to undermine those exact same rights, or that their infringement has crept so far up the social ladder.
The definition of 'treason' itself is subject to political debate. By subscribing to the meaning that is currently the law in America (basically, the neo-realist "us against everybody else" idea), you're adding your opinion to this discussion, not fact.

It is your rightful opinion to have, though. Others might wonder whether spying on an important military and economic ally is not, in fact, at least as bad.
It's not less derogatory and it's not less treasonous. But it is less vulgar and that's worth it.