skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alleged spying project is led by a Scottish American and organized by guys named Randall and Paul Jacobson, using software from an Indian company owned by Boeing and an Israeli company headquartered in Massachussetts. Of all the different people involved in this, we are only supposed to care about the Jews. Singling out the Jews for hate is racism, especially given how minimal their alleged involvement is.

The evidence for this alleged act of Israel spying on the US is that an Israeli company developed software that was purchased and used by the government and phone companies. That's all. We don't even know what the software is named or what it does other than a vague description of it logging and copying network data; it could be a frontend to wireshark or netcat. Consider, how does Hacker News react when any other startup develops useful cutting-edge network management software and gets a big government deal? Now see how we react when an Israeli company does the exact same thing? This is a hate-the-Jews thread.
It seems to me that Singapore is great for big business, not business in general.
Slight paranoia: Analyzing Yahoo's PRISM non-denial
I really like your analogy to unit tests and integration tests. It makes me wonder if the Soylent ‘experiment’ might provide a better means to do that. Rob has already written about a few times where he was missing something in his formula and was able to detect specific problems and respond to them. Sounds pretty close to being unit-testable at that point.
If the US government won't tell its secrets to We the People then We the People shouldn't have our privacy violated by the government.
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Green means new user
File system traversal can be quite slow on traditional hard disk drive, it requires a lot of random disk access which has much higher latency than sequential access (think about the moving parts in the disk drive). So I guess that being written in Python is hardly the bottleneck if the disk reads have not been cached by the kernel.
The guy who wrote that blog item apparently doesn't know what county Cleveland is in. I suggest reading the cleveland.com material. I wonder why people link to the blog instead of the actual story, it's not behind a paywall.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/06/cuyahoga_co...
When I was in HS and I learned that police could lie I was floored. Obviously it is unethical, but I think it causes ethics rot: I think the scariest thing about telling police that it is OK to lie is that it sets up the standard that normal rules social of social conduct don't apply to them, and what are laws but very formal rules social of social conduct...

In this case I am impressed with the Cleveland County Prosecutor for letting this guy go.
Green means the account is fairly new. However, despite the age of the account I'm not seeing it as green.

Still, don't hell-banned account posts show as [dead] to all but the owner (and even then only to those with "show dead" on)?
They start capturing lots of data. And nothing prevents them from doing so.
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Then, maybe, use Bitcoins for payment and Tor+HTTPS while signing up for the hosting provider?
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Are you telling me NO Vietcong ever launched a kamikaze attack? Maybe you should try asking the French what happened to their tank crews in Vietnam
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So you are taking the position that Unit 61398 of the 2nd Bureau of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff Department’s (GSD) 3rd Department has no relation to the state of China. Please elucidate.

http://intelreport.mandiant.com/
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Responses like these just legitimize the idea that privacy is about hiding things. It isn't. Privacy is a way of restricting the government's power over you.

Giving the government the power to read your email, tap your phone, and record your porn usage isn't bad simply because it's embarrassing. After all, the data will likely only be seen by a computer. But it gives the government enormous power to make decisions about you -- decisions about whether you may take a commercial airline flight, get a security clearance, get a job, or even be indefinitely detained -- without your knowledge or consent, and without you knowing how they make the decisions.

Recall the stories of people getting on the no-fly list with no appeals process and no way to find out what information had been used to put them there.

In short, a lack of privacy gives the government the power to be even less transparent in its decision-making, and gives it yet more power over its citizens. It's not a question of discovering your fetishes or being embarrassed, and we shouldn't act as though having nothing to hide really is an excuse.

There's a rather good paper I can recommend on the subject:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

(I've posted this several times over the past few months, so this is half self-plagiarism)
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EFF's link to its previous story is broken.
Yep. It doesn't matter how you securely you get your data to Company X if Company X is handing the data over to the NSA.
I am wondering how that works with dynamic ip allocation by ISP. My ip changes every time I reset my router.
In zsh:

print -l **/*myfile
In zsh: print -l /myfile
Is it simple like a urine pregnancy/drug screen test that gives quantitative recommendations?

Or is it more like arrange with your doctor to draw some blood, have it tested, then get an expert appraisal of the results which recommends a set of supplements?

Either way, it should probably be done periodically, to account for changes in diet and personal circumstances.

I wonder if this is something that personalised medicine could start with -- A machine which combines the blood analyser, expert system for determining requirements, and a set of dispensers that load the exact quantities into capsules while you wait. Ideally it'd work with something like a glucose test finger-prick sample, but I have no idea how much blood you need to run some of the more complex blood analyses.
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Nothing, but they would still not know where the traffic is coming from. The "Onion" defined in the Tor protocol is unwrapped layer by layer by each node. So the NSA has a choice where no option would help them too much:
1. Be the first node you access and be able to see your IP but not your traffic
2. Be the last node and be able to see your traffic but not your IP
3. Be a middle node and see neither
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I've built a link sharing app. This app is made just for sharing links...that's it, so if you like sharing links with friends, you'll like this app. We know you will. Coming soon to iPhone.

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> e.g.: Table sugar is 50% fructose - however, it is not associated with the same kind of problems that pure fructose is associated with.

Table sugar consumption is indeed bad for you only because of its 50% of fructose.
22 ssh?
Secret web portal on 80?
Right now we all know when people when the sun rises and when people wake up in every country, because of local time. We'd have to remember that the Indian office doesn't open till 11pm- how is that any different from just remembering a time zone?

Most people in the world don't ever leave their time zone, so why should we get to inflict these changes on them because we're bored with programming them?
carrying written statements indicating they may be there to sabotage the weapons

In what article was the contents of their written statements disclosed?

I don't think their charges sound that terribly unreasonable.

10-30 years for trespassing and damaging three fences is reasonable? Are you deranged?
All your government are belong to us. (HN gave me -7 for this statement. But some pts just come back.)
Emigrating to Japan is actually incredibly easy if you have a job: getting a work visa takes less than 2 months and costs almost nothing.
Google is on the verge of closing a $1.3B acquisition of Waze
The Japanese have embarked on an intriguing and desperate monetary policy
I was first introduced to Vagrant at my current company - where my manager had prepared a VM + set of Chef recipes for setting up and managing VM hosting our app.

I had spent few days later setting up few VM's for my personal projects - I must say that having easily deployable VM's, each one serving specific purposes, all on my laptop, using just one base box (CentOS in my case) is a really a time saver - especially when dealing with projects utilising multiple technologies. But what is most important is the fact, that all those technologies are not polluting the main machine and creating misc combinations of them is as easy as branching / cloning my Chef + Librarian + Knife repo.
You can have arbitrary indices being created by arbitrary users. The database(s) that is(are) used by the locate command can be specified by command-line option or by an environment variable.
I don't see a lot of difference between this and any police or government sting operation.
Zoho not an option, needs to be a non USA based Company in order to avoid FISA warrants and gag orders! NSA effektively scoped any EU Company out as a cloud customer.
If he were living in Yemen instead of Brazil it might have already happened.
You have an old link for "Natural Language Processing with Python" - the NLTK book. It's moved to http://nltk.org/book/
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It searches the contents of files, not just the names of files.
You mean, how it used to welcome inmigrants.

It doesn't anymore. Brin entered in 1979, and Grove in 1957.

Some extremely talented people (for example, one worked with Anders Hejlsberg developing C#) are still stuck in the extremely long green card process. And, other than H1B, I don't know of a decent way to get a work visa in the U.S. (forget about actually inmigrating).

Compare to Canada, where I know there's a sane system for entering, it's still bureaucratic, but at least it's clear.

Australia is even more open. And while Europe is heterogeneous in its inmigration policies, it's far better than the U.S.
Can't they do both 1 and 2 and correlate the information?
They are donating bandwidth, which is always scarce.
Security professionals have hypothesized many attacks against the anonymity of the tor onion and what you describe is pretty close to one of them.

If the NSA was to create tons Tor nodes (enter, exit, and relay), the onion may be broken.

Tor is by no means perfect. It is only obfuscating.

It is easy to see how this is broken if you click the TOR button on this thing and then imagine the TOR nodes say NSA on them.

I think it is more fun to imagine security this way (extremely challenging and like you are protecting yourself from the perfect attacker, and the NSA is a good face to put on the perfect attacker). People don't realize how much trust they are putting in their hosting provider, cell carrier, etc.etc. It's insane.
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straight_talk isn't comparing Singapore to North Korea; they're arguing that Tloewald's definition of evil is too strict because it wouldn't include North Korea.
Not so many: there are indeed ~1.4*10^6 arabic speakers in Israel, but most are Palestinian-Israeli, barred from getting any security clearence by the Israeli military.
Don't let the gov't frame the question. Just because I don't report every detail of my personal life, every thought, every word out of my mouth to my gov't does not mean I'm "hiding something". Because I refuse to cooperate spying on me doesn't mean I'm hiding something. Perhaps it means I simply know better than to entertain the paranoid obsessions of the powerful.
What do you think about genshi?
We already created the technology for everything you're describing, though some of the apps aren't finished yet. It's called Tent: https://tent.io https://github.com/tent
US military aid is about %1 of Israel's budget, so factually it can't be said to "survive" on it (BTW it's required to spend nearly all of it buying from US suppliers).

As for "nominally democratic" I'll ignore it in order to not bring the already devastated level of discourse here yet lower.

But, back the point, do you seriously believe the NSA will outsource its most sensitive operations to another country? HN is now moving from r/politics to r/conspiracy.
We've been worse than modern Canada and China since at least the 1930s. Wild.
Interesting connection. I'd say these charts alone aren't enough to solidify that causation, but it sounds plausible and I'd love more info to back it up.
Those who downvote are invited to provide a rational counter-argument. My facts are:

1. State promised to provide gold in exchange for U.S. dollars before November 1971.

2. After November 1971 it basically defaulted on that promise. But due to different factors (including military domination in many countries) people overseas kept trading in dollars, so dollar did not collapse.

3. When money is created it gets in someone's hands who now have some purchasing power they didn't have before (I'm not debating if it's "good" or "bad", it's just the fact).

4. Mainly, money is created via bonds issued by the government. So it's mainly government who get new purchasing power (the whole point of those bonds is to make some cash for government spending).

5. Government is different from any corporation in a sense that it has monopoly on violence. Only government agencies can put people in jail, use guns on massive scale at home and in the world. Again, I'm not saying if it's evil or "good for society", it's just the way it is.

6. Extra purchasing power for government means more economic power to do things that only government can do. E.g. pay policemen to chase drug dealers, computer hackers, bitcoin traders etc.

7. No wonder that incarceration rate grows.

Where am I wrong?
huh, and phrases like 'mumble on' make your point stronger? I wonder, what have you stood up for? I was trying to have an exchange of ideas, but as long as we're making it personal, people who save their bravery and vitriol for the internet make my blood boil.
With most ISP already using DPI it's anyone's guess how much the spies can see.

http://www.bivio.net/products/dpi/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/06/deep-packet-inspe...

http://www.george-orwell.org/1984
What happens if you are logged into one of the services where the NSA has "direct access to the servers"?
"But in addition to making their own cases, they have exposed something deeper about our system of government. We are all in their debt."

It was hard for me to put a name on what in this story resonates with me. And I think that quote really captures it. What they did was illegal, of course, but there's something about the response of the government that really exposes the paranoid insecurity of the security state. We're told that our wars on Terror and Drugs are going well and that the ends justify the means, and yet this story seriously destabilizes for me the feeling that there's much else besides security theater and draconian punishment. The government just seems to be making up the rules as it goes, and if you don't like those rules, God help you.

It's infuriating. We could be so much better as a country.
it struck me this morning, thinking about the (justified, imho) anger at the way swartz and the nuclear protesters were treated, that those are both cases of the white, middle class receiving the kind of treatment previously reserved for poor black males.

i'm not american, and not a sociologist, so this is only my impression (of course). i wondered if it rang true for others?
> (what serious attempts have been made to shut down Wikileaks)?

Shutting down payments was a serious attempt [1]

[1] http://rt.com/news/wikileaks-lieberman-king-mastercard-visa-...
First, there isn't much logical thinking involved in veganism or vegetarianism.

I strongly dislike the flavor and aroma of meat, so it's logical that I follow a vegetarian diet.

(There are few things as useless as discussions about nutrition at Hacker News.)
Run a node to stop this attack working!
I'm infuriated and disturbed by both stories.
You're wrong because there's plenty of other Western nations without the gold standard and higher state expenditures, yet they have low incarceration rates. The point is that there's no clear connection between your economic theory and jail sentencing. (Of course economic policies affect sentencing a lot).
Don't confuse yourself and your fellow neighbors with particular people with particular political power. You and a policeman carrying a gun are two different persons with different agendas. It is in interest of those in power to make you think that it's some abstract "country" that is responsible for actions you don't like, not some particular persons.
None of those things mean that rigging elections, removing even the most peaceful statement of opposition to the government, ensuring that remotely popular articles get their publishers fined are somehow not evil.
Funny, but not to be taken too seriously!
What has happened to citizen disobedience in America?

What would happen if 1000-5000 people who have been served NSL would come out at same day. Many of them working in big companies.
I disagree with your claim that veganism and vegetarianism can't be backed by logical thinking. Producing meat requires significantly more natural resources (land area, water) and produces significantly more pollution (methane, ground contamination) than producing fruits and vegetables.

Here is an example comparing the amount of water needed to irrigate various crops compared to the amount needed to raise beef.

US Corn Production: 9 gallons water / lb corn

US Wheat Production: 14 gallons water / lb wheat

US Barley Production: 26 gallons water / lb barley

US Alfalfa Production: 31 gallons water / lb alfalfa

US Beef Production: 441 gallons water / lb beef

http://www.journalofanimalscience.org/content/71/4/818.full....

Global Spinach Production: 2 gallons water / lb spinach

Global Potato Production: 4 gallons water / lb potatos

Global Banana Production: 13 gallons water / lb bananas

Global Apple Production: 18 gallons water / lb apples

Global Lentil Production: 64 gallons water / lb lentils

Global Cashew Production: 121 gallons water / lb cashews

Global Almond Production: 252 gallons water / lb almonds

http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Mekonnen-Hoekstra-2011...

I could look for more examples, but this took me about half an hour already, and I think it pains a rather compelling picture by itself. The difference would be less extreme when looking at pork and poultry, but there is still a stark contrast.
Can you give more details by supporting https? It's calling GitHub's API through https
And don't forget to attach your sex tapes if you have any.
The source for those interested: https://gist.github.com/mikeroher/5743860
These guys sneaked into a nuclear (weapons) facility. Which I guess is a very critical and important facility to the US.

How can we know they weren't real spies?

There is a difference between freedom of expression, and cutting a nuclear facility fence. Try to convince people about the dangers of the weapons and not cut the fences.

Cutting the fences will obviously put you in jail. Maybe the sentence was too harsh, but I have little sympathy for them.

If they were detained for speaking about the dangers of nuclear weapons, they'll not have only my sympathy but also any possible help I can give.
I realised while reading this article how little my opinion of javascript has changed since ~2001 (when this article was written) despite the fantastic leaps and bounds JS has made in recent years. Even now, when you can compile Clojure to JS, I'll still only ever use it for enhancement on a public facing site. There are just so few benefits in my opinion.

I browse with JS off these days, enabled only for a very few select sites, and it's incredible how little of the web actually works.
On the internet, EVERYBODY knows you're a dog.
And at the same time, you will never fix anything by being upset about everything.

Even Ray Ozzie mentioned in the other thread that there are actual reasons a small-scale covert project would need to be secret to be effective, try getting some of the other hacktivists here on HN to admit even that. They can't, because they are blinded by their rage. My thought is that having some modicum of historical background on actual oppression can help with controlling emotion and enabling logical thinking.
Do you have any evidence for your claim that fructose in fruit is different from fructose in corn? Absent such evidence, you're just repeating the same magical nutrition claims this thread is about, and name dropping the WHO does nothing to change that.

Here's an interview with a UCSF professor who claims fructose in all its forms is a problem: http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/01/11/2013/the-fallacie...

Also http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/01/11/2013/the-fallacie...
They don't support violence. The title is meant to indicate that they are being treated as if they were violent terrorists.
I think it's perfectly absurd to expect that a brief intelligent comment on a social chat board be expected to include encyclopedic completeness and citations to ward off every conceivable casual wanton misinterpretation.
I appreciate your answer, but I feel the need to point out that the original question still stands unanswered. Is there any evidence, weak as it may be, that FRUIT consumption is harmful in any way? (note: not that FRUCTOSE consumption is harmful. I'm aware of that. I'm looking specifically for FRUIT consumption).

> the difference between wild apples, cherries and strawberries and the ones you can buy in the supermarket.

Anecdotal, of course, but while I haven't had a chance to pick wild apples or cherries, I did have a chance to pick wile strawberries, raspberries and blackberries - and they were just as sweet and perhaps even sweeter than those I buy at the supermarket. They _were_ much smaller and not as nice looking, but were extremely sweet. Similarly for grapes.

I know for sure that e.g. industrially grown tomatoes have been optimized for size and looks at the EXPENSE of sugar (and other nutriet) content. This might also be true for other fruits and vegetables.

> NaCl is salt so it is chemically quite inert

That's exactly my point. It's possible that fruit is "inert" in its sugar effect - studies about pure fructose consumption are potentially irrelevant.

> But if you are a person with the metabolic syndrome, high insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes you just cannot assume that a diet of only bananas, ultra sweet apples, pomelo, peaches etc will do you much good.

Of course, but that's begging the question. If you are a person who suffers from hypertension, than you cannot assume that regular salt intake is good for you! But it is, for 80% of the cases - the remaining 20% being the salt-sensitive hypertension people.

You cannot assume that such a fruit diet will do much bad either. Doing so is blind faith. And that's exactly pron's point.

> Ask someone with great knowledge about human metabolism specifically for your case.

I've been looking for someone like that, but it seems that there are non to be found. Specifically, everything about my metabolism falls outside accepted wisdom; You'd expect the experts to want to look at evidence contradicting their predictions to learn to improve their predictions - but after talking to 30 or so "experts", I have not found one who has such an interest.
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if it's any consolation, i would be mad in your face too. but my post had both rhetoric and an argument. yours?

[update: on the other hand, this is the second time in two days i've lost my temper, which isn't good. i am going to take a break from the internet.]