skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Osama Ibn Laden has equally to do with 9/11 as you or me with Boston Bombing. Well, that's overstatement, but here are some facts for you to digest:

- Osama never took responsibility for 911. His multiple speeches he gave recorded in caves after 911 were incorrectly translated and heavily redacted for political purposes. E was just perfect to be framed. Anyone speaking Laden's language can hear him speaking that his family were doing business with Bush family (proven fact) for decades and he would never be competent to carry such an attack. Unfortunately, most videos of him speaking without overlapping loud audio vanished and any translation you find you can barely hear his native language. But you can find interview with people that were asked to translate his words ad they were pretty angry that everything got twisted.

- ibn Laden was on FBI top list but never for 911. As far as I remember he was most wanted for some huge oil fraud he performed while his family did work with Bushes.
No, that's still economics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
Pray tell, which Islamic nations was the U.S. "occupying" on 9/11? We're getting way off topic, re: decadence and "hating freedom", but let me try to bring it back. Why blow up the World Trade Center? Surely that was a symbolic act, against a quintessentially civilian target.
Even non-Scandinavian Minnesotans act like this ;-)
Memory will seriously save you when you're out of reach of your reference material, so why rely on flammable, fragile, heavy paper? Don't you see how mechanical people who rely on books are, always sticking their notes in their mechanisms to read words off wood pulp instead of pulling them out of their memories? How much better it would be if we abandoned print and went back to the simpler, better time of rote memorization!

Or is that maybe not what the human mind is best used for? Maybe, humans are best at being creative, and our tools help us at that task by freeing us of tedium and ignorance of simple facts.

True, some people misuse GPS technology by driving their cars into lakes. Some people misuse book technology by taking Von Däniken seriously. I'm not seeing a big difference between the two, moral or otherwise.
> how to win freedom even while under intense pressure from dictators.

That's a great problem and a great starting point for working on that problem.

But that isn't the problem here, because we aren't living under a dictator, not even a non-malicious dictator.

Rather, we have complaints about democratically elected officials. And many of us have given up on everything tied to that system and want to use non-democratic mechanisms (up to and including violence) to resolve our own complaints.

This has two major problems, of course. First, it means we are (illegitimately) overriding interests which should be democratically represented. Second, it opens the door to an arms race where those with competing opinions will do the same to us, and those who are peaceful will be marginalized unless they also embrace anti-democratic tactics.
I shewd EFF's link to an English major. He responded, "Come now, they've been spying on us for years."

The big news is that in rationalizing it we will develop a schism across the class line. Many of us are so poor, unlike the ranks of the increasing elite, that we'd gladly sell our privacy for coin to eat.

Build the money machine faster. How else are we to build gittip for the homeless without anonymous coin ?

The worst case example is where freedom of privacy paradoxically conflicts with liberty from privacy (law), involving Twitter accounts like @NeedADebitCard.

I'm sure most senators simply react to such peculiar "rational economic behavior". Is it altruistic ? Is it a hoax ? Is it a honeypot ? Is it stupid ? How do you build a political-economy around this? Around communities that can print most of their toys at a local "3DPrintBox" ? And international mobile targeting hackers ?
God bless Manning; a true American Hero that remembered he swear to protect his mother's soil from enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC.

He will probably rot in jail for the rest of his life for what he did. And I salute him for taking the hit!
What the author is pointing out is how the social perspective is completely arbitrary, even when it tracks the economic value. Of course lobster will be cheaper / less valuable where it is more plentiful, but it was also viewed as intrinsically worse than other foods, in stark contrast to its popularity today.
If anyone is skimming the comments to see if the article is a worthwhile read, it is. Excellent analysis.
> Any facade of a functioning democracy, or of a commitment to transparency by this government, is swept away.

The same was true of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
You really trust a custom compiled version of Android from "1337haxor2" which has auto-update capabilities built in?

The easier way would be to monitor network traffic. If random encrypted information is uploaded, then block it, whether or not you have an "open source" rom.

Better yet, just get a Nexus device without the carrier apps pre-installed. Stock Android does not have a "upload all data to the NSA" feature built in, it would be easily discovered and would be the biggest news story of the decade.

Unless you are the NSA, then I wouldn't advise using a custom version of Android, you'd likely be much less secure than with a stock (and up to date) version.
Strange that you think these problems will be resolved by attacking one party.
If you read "Consider the Lobster" (which you should), you'll note that the product did change. Lobster used to be cooked dead, then canned in saltwater. Now it's cooked live and served immediately with a hefty side of melted butter.

Sure, maybe the class-based issues made it less likely that people would be willing to try even lobster done right, but I don't think lobster as it was once served would have much more success today.
It can still be only alleged that the person you're speaking of is the actual person shown in the video.
I had never been to SF before last summer. This building was right across from the bus I took home every day. And every day I wondered: what was in that windowless building? Never was it not an imposing sight.

Even after I found out about this, it freaked me out; especially that it's right in the heart of downtown.
In my experience, it's vastly more likely that a mobile device loses reception, power, etc. than it is that my paper suddenly goes up in flames. I'd probably have bigger problems to deal with if that were to happen. Paper relies on any old light source and can be preserved for a terribly long time (Dead Sea Scrolls) in the right conditions. It can be torn and soaked and retain its message, being such a reliable medium.
Alternate theory: al-Qaeda used planes because planes exist here in the real world, and weaponized Anthrax bombs that can kill 100,000 people don't.
"Here is 2.7 billion dollars, build me a super high-tech submarine (with specific specs) and DO NOT make any mistakes." Sounds easy, right?

A military contractor going slightly over budget is not news worth, it's database or list worthy at best. Throw the data on wikipedia with the other million projects that had a hiccup or needed more funding, then be done with it.
Hrm? I have... there really is no difference. With PBR and other American Adjunct Beers ( http://beeradvocate.com/lists/style/38 ) It has little to to about taste and everything to do with not wanting to buy from the 3 industrial leaders that own 90% of the market.
The big deal is that honestly young people seem not to think twice about yielding up their personal information to the data maws (older, non-tech folks have the same issue, so let's not spin it as a purely generational problem!).

If you need to make it a "real issue", well, honestly, you lack a sufficiently cruel and malicious imagination--it should be self-evident that any sort of monitoring and data-mining (.gov or not) is very dangerous, and something which you should think very carefully about opting into.

We need to make this an issue for everyone, not merely millenials. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem like it's going to happen until there are more casualties in the privacy wars.
It is a public key, but it is small by todays standards. You could factor it with a modest budget.
Maureen Dowd: Peeping Barry
I was looking at her old reports and thinking how she missed many of the real trends (as opposed to fads) at their onset. The October 2007 report only mentions the iPhone as a footnote. The 2005 (iirc) report talks about Joost, but not Facebook.
No, poor article. Yahoo flatly denies involvement in any broad surveillance scheme. Trying to dissect words such as "voluntary" and "requests" and trying to claim they are not actually denying this is absurd.

Don't get me wrong. I believe we live in a surveilance state. I believe the US government collects tons and tons of data on every US citizen whether they are under investigation or not in case some day they are needed, but I don't believe the big public companies like Facebook, Google and Yahoo participate in this scheme.

The US government has more control over the Internet than to need permission from these companies.
What the author fails to point out is that eating seafood every day sucks. It's too rich/sweet/salty. It's like eating cake for every meal. It's not that people are fickle or stupid or whatever he's trying to point out here. No one wants to eat lobster every day. Not even people in the midwest. Ohh, and to add to that, eating a lot of shellfish can cause you to become allergic to it.

Source: I come from a coastal town and love crab, but couldn't eat it more than one or two times a week.
"The talk she gave was her annual Internet Trends Report at the Wall Street Journal's annual D: All Things Digital conference....perhaps the most important talk in all of tech"

Quick question: Why is that conference regarded in this manner?
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You got me wrong too :)

The only reason you don't consider an 18 year old an adult is that we don't give a person adult duties and responsibilities until 18 - so it takes till 25 till they are a "real" adult.

I say, give them those duties and responsibilities at 15. Then they will be an adult earlier.

If we did like you say, and wait till they are 25, then all that will happen is that you will not consider 25 years old adults, and you'll want to wait till 30.
Funny how stuff like this only starts getting action from politicians once it's politically expidiant to do so.
Sorry if it sounds rude, but I have a much better idea: find a way to bring them into the conversation you're having, try being more interesting, change the subject to something they might want to participate or just leave them alone for a bit. Some people need to "recharge" by being alone.

As vinceguidry put it on another post, "We use technology as a way of filling in parts of your life that would otherwise go wasted with something that could be more meaningful."
Diamonds as well. http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-de-beers-2011-12?o...
Fundamentally, both Assange and the US government face the same issue: how to balance the privacy of individuals with some greater need. In the case of the United States, it's national security, in the case of Assange, it's his feeling that government needs to be held to account. The people who helped American forces in Afghanistan or talked to American diplomats have the right to have their personal conversations kept private. Wikileaks violated that right in the name of a greater good. If Assange wants to criticize the United States government for violating the rights of Verizon customers to the privacy of their calling information without due process and the rule of law, he should seriously consider whether his own organization did a good job of protecting the privacy of thousands of people because either through conscious decisions (releasing the Afghan war logs unredacted) or negligence (leaving copies of the unredacted cables on publicly-accessible servers, allowing seriously dodgy people like Israel Shamir access to unredacted cables) that information got out. What due process did Wikileaks give people named in leaked documents? When the cables were being released it wasn't even possible for me to contact Wikileaks to get them to redact names on a cable that were accidentally left unredacted.
hmm, I was expecting to see that they'd factored the private key. It's been done before for 768bits RSA and presumably both NSA and RSA are picking good semiprimes but maybe not eh? That would be interesting to know.
Tastes change[1], and sometimes the economics of things change (see Aluminum). Few things have an intrinsic value that you can separate from culture.

1) although, being from ND, I have yet to meet a beer drinker willing to drink PBR
Nothing, that's the problem. What needs to happen is for these programs to be brought in to the sunlight and for Congress to make it explicitly legal for people to discuss them, regardless of any previous prohibition. Then I might be able to believe a denial, or at least accept it as meaningful.
Anything Yahoo! says rings false after the incident in 2002 when they willingly volunteered identifying data to the Chinese government about a user, which landed him in prison for ten years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/world/asia/wang-xiaoning-c...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Xiaoning
The non-denial was written by a lawyer... it would be a common assumption that there is word trickery at hand. I believe this analysis goes into the details of how words can be used to change what the original statement is saying... while looking like it is just an honest non-denial.

That is why I upvoted this post at least.
Anyone who tries to talk that actually knows anything worth talking about. I assumed that was an obvious implication of the parent poster's statement, but I guess not.
We don't need a verified data source to tell us the average person wipes their backside once a day with toilet paper. We know it to be generally true such that some people wipe more, some less, others use baby wipes, but the take away is that the TP market is huge!

Would it help if she said 'the average cell phone user checks their cell phone A LOT every day'?

The whole article about 'misinformation' only focuses on one fact that she supposedly misinformed us about. I bet dollars to donuts we all agree people check their phones very frequently, which is all that slide was driving at.
"You see, people don't want to know if government has direct access(ok, they want, but it is not their primary concern), they want to know what happened.
"

The companies are saying they have no idea. They literally said "we've never heard of this program".
What more do you want?

The claim the newspapers made, in line 1, was, "the government has direct access". The denial made was "the government does not have direct access".

If they want to publish a different claim, i'm sure a different denial will be written.

If you want to know what happened, why are you asking GOogle?
Go ask the NSA
Good use of combinatorics - haven't seen stuff like that in a while!
I'm sad that this comment was posted on a weekend, because I think this is one of the awesomest things I've seen on HN, and not a lot of people are reading HN on Saturday nights and they're going to miss it.
Then show them to us, or someone. Secrets don't like the light, like cockroaches.
If you're on the east coast, you guys should try Yuengling. It's easily one of the best cheap* beers out there.

* < $1/bottle
Well for the one top ten web site that has open web logs, mobile traffic does seem to be taking off at the expense of desktops - http://www.vartmp.com/blog/2013/04/16
More than 10 years have passed. The current Yahoo is very different than the Yahoo of 10 years ago.

Whether they deserve to be given a second chance is to be decided by individual people and you are free to not trust them. Be glad that you are free enough to publicly voice your opinion in the matter.
The fundamental problem with that saying is that it for it to be formed, for it to even exist, as a thought, the reality in which you are currently cohabiting must be terribly skewed off the truth axis. Black must be white, up must be down, and good must be evil.

I mean, look at our society...just look at it. So much of its energy is devoted to ruling people. Judges, courts, bailiffs, clerks, kings, police, lawyers, etc. It's madness. Most people can't even imagine any other way of living...when they write about alien societies, the aliens have laws as well, and clerks as well, and laws as well.
You misunderstand. I was merely pointing out that the existence, or lack thereof, of a court order, was completely beside the point as far as the National Security Agency is concerned.

The NSA is chartered and bound to not do domestic spying.

The only thing stopping anybody from doing anything is the law, and the threat of potentially violent enforcement of that law upon them. It's no different for the Agency.
Somebody made the call to bomb the village. Either they knew it was a village, or they did not know it was a village. Therefore that person was either malicious or incompetent.

Do we really care which? Mens rea isn't required for drunk drivers, why should we demand it for dropping bombs on villages?
> lawnmower beer

I swear, the moment you think you have a handle on the jargon...

What, may I ask, is a lawnmower beer? One made out of grass?
They get big names and it is the WSJ. The audience also has quite a few upper level folks.
People who grew up under relatively benign surveillance may not have the imagination or experience to see what happens when all that data is used maliciously. So you need to get people reading. Historical accounts. Recent experiences[1]. Fiction[2].

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_belie...
[2]: http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/claire-carmichael/incogn...
This seems a odd stance to take. Whether or not Yahoo! is/was involved in PRISM seems divorced from their giving up of a Chinese political activist / radical. It might mean that you believe them capable of participating, but we don't even have direct confirmation of what PRISM is exactly. What if PRISM is a worm sitting on Yahoo!'s network? What if PRISM is interception of network activity going to/from Yahoo! and sending it off to some NSA data-center?
just use a long, randomly generated passphrase and write it down on paper. you'd be surprised how quickly muscle memory sets in after you type it a few times, and if you forget you always have the paper backup (keep it in you wallet or desk).
the gold being made up is actually not true: Gold was valuable because it had precisely the properties of good currency - it was useless, moderately rare, fungible, divisible, easily portable, and very easy to authenticate (a black stone is sufficient to distinguish between say 80% gold and 100% gold with proper standards).

relativistic contraction FTW.
Dont_send_data_to_prism()
+1 for "Consider the Lobster", i read it for my philosophy/ethics class. full link: http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_l...

there's a difference though between "just-killed fresh" and "cooked alive fresh". i would prefer the former without hesitation. though canned is def not a great alternative.
The issue is more with the median age of a hackernews user, most of them don't really know what happened in the dotcom bust or some of the characters like Meeker and Blodget. I was really surprised to see was hired by a big VC firm. I still remember reading about her in this book (http://www.amazon.com/Hedgehogging-Barton-Biggs/dp/047006773...) where Biggs alludes to her here and there. When a segment is flush with money the standards and ethics are lowered due to the amount of noise. We are seeing this now in the tech industry after the hedgefund bubble burst, although the good thing is that most investments for startups are very small around 300k avg vs the millions and billions when a company with $2mill in revenue went public. I noticed something about snapchat looking to raise $100mill at a $1billion valuation, this is scary and hurts the industry. The VC's that push this valuation will have to answer to their investors when the purge comes.
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I'm not sure you are 100% following the point of the article.
no link or anything, no preview, whats the point.
As I've stated elsewhere, and as you can find by googling what jihadis actually say about their motives, the motive for 911 included the occupation of Palestine and US enabling of it.

And if they wanted to make a symbolic attack, they would have hit the Statue of Liberty, not financial and military targets like the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Furthermore it is you who are taking things off-topic.

The topic was jlgreco commenting about the Granai massacre, and how resistance in Afghanistan is because (sarcastically) "they hate us for our freedoms"

You tried to make it out that "Western Decadence" in fact was the reason, which is plain WRONG and contradicted by authorities which I have cited and provided references for.

You have repeatedly attempted to derail the point by going off on a tangent about Osama Ben Laden's psychology, or why Nicaraguans haven't reacted the same way, despite all of my efforts to stick to the topic. The 911 example is a similar red herring, because NO Afghans, Taleban or otherwise, were involved in that attack.

Just admit that you are wrong, will you?
Pandemic, by Matt Leacock. Its cooperative - which might make a good team-building exercise.
Is this the building?

http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/1ds-8/611-folsom-street-nsa.jpg

Is that just very horrid architecture, or some kind of shielding? Perhaps both?
Is it time to start a petition that asks that this leak not be prosecuted?
Oh, okay. Not knocking the characterization, it's just that when I hear big name pubs dictating influence and importance in tech, my bullshit detectors go into overdrive. I recall a "titans of tech" or some conference like that around 2000 featuring Steve Case, Steve Ballmer, and some other people who basically had no influence on the direction of the industry beyond that day. So I look at stuff like that as a lagging indicator.
I haven't actually experienced this, someone correct me if I am wrong: you can choose from different policies (LRU, TTL, random) to expire/remove keys, otherwise if you disable maxmemory it will start using the OS virtual memory and slow down.

Redis had a virtual-memory option like you describe at some point, but it was scraped due to poor performance and other issues.
According to the article, the interviewee used to work at DataStax (leader in Cassandra) before joining Instagram. I guess this is one of the reason why they first considered Cassandra and it turned out to be very successful. Biased or not, it is always good to have an engineer with deep understanding on the database, rather than just being an ordinary user.
smart mobile has basically killed off dumb mobile, but only had a modest negative impact on regular computers

I find that fascinating and have not heard it stated so clearly before. Is it true? Has anyone else been making this point?
But, this time we have no Thomas Jefferson.
naw, something this big will still be big on Monday
Good point. Although my friends from St. Paul with Irish backgrounds are significantly more outgoing and have much larger social circles.
Because I'm especially interested in the comparison between countries, I thought the most fascinating part of the project was to ask the same 200 questions of all 16 countries, and compare the answers.

This definitely isn't a typical MVP business. I didn't test the market. I doubt this will ever make money. It's just something I wanted to do, for my own curiosity. If other people can use it, that's just a bonus.