skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Same could be said about flank steak which used to be a cheap cut of steak.

That was skirt steak, though flank steak has also shot up in price due to its newfound popularity (presumably because it's fairly lean, fairly tender, and easy to prepare).
Summary of the Geneva Conventions
of 1949 and Their Additional Protocols - http://www.redcross.org/images/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m3...

Pretty sure there's something in there about destroying entire village(s) filled with people.
No, allegedly is a good word to used in criminal cases and reporting about them. Among other things, it helps to remind people that innocent until proven guilty remains the case (most of the time) in the United States, and that's a good thing.
"The people who helped American forces in Afghanistan or talked to American diplomats have the right to have their personal conversations kept private."

Then their privacy had already been violated, because the state department diplomat had already forwarded those conversations to others within the state department.
I'm not sure how he means it, but it sounds like he means one that is optimal for drinking while mowing the grass (or which you might imagine someone drinking while mowing the grass.)

Mowing the grass is a hot activity, done in the sun (can't mow wet grass) so you want a light bodied beer that is best when frigid (Guinness is out). There is also probably some notion of mowing your own grass being something that you don't do if you can afford to pay a neighborhood kid or landscaping company to do it for you, so cheap beers are picked. You probably shouldn't get absolutely sloshed while mowing the lawn either so that excludes a lot of choices as well.

Basically a shitty, cheap, refreshing, and ubiquitous beer.
Why do people eat popcorn? They like crunchy butter.

Why do people eat lobster? They like chewy butter.
Is it more likely than not that looking at all social graph info from phone records over an indefinite period of time will show evidence of terrorist activity? If so, probable cause is met.

What's lacking is particularity which is entirely missing in the text of that law.
That's what's significant about these recent disclosures and subsequent wave of interest. Informed people may not have found them surprising, but to say "what's the big deal?" is a mistake. The big deal is the state change in the political discourse.
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They had Steve Jobs and Bill Gates doing a joint interview, so it doesn't get anymore serious than that. They get current CEOs (Apple and Google). Microsoft might not be the influence it was but its CEO's words have quite an influence on some big markets.
Wikipedia might be a weird source to get that data, since people are more likely to "quickly check wikipedia" on their phone instead of a computer, while most sites people just browse may be uneffected.

More data needed.
One possibility:

Your banking is pwned. Domestic SWIFT-ish scandal. Not for big dollar amounts; every transaction -- at the least, every one that exits a local branch and/or bank.

And/or, my personal favorite:

Your shopping loyalty card mined for "suspicious" foods. ;-)

--

P.S. Yeah, I know the second one is redundant in as much as so many people shop with credit cards. But I've always been suspicious of those loyalty cards. And everyone knows that, while the [keyword] may shop with cash, they can't pass up a bargain.
Not everything in life is as simple as checking Stack Exchange.
You are wrong. Rule of law is a judiciary state or institutional system in which every actor respects the same set of rules, from individuals to the very institutions that creates the rules, those rules usually imply separation of powers and always respect to fundamental rights (privacy is one of them!!)
Same here! I moved to Lansing St. 2 years ago and so I always walked past the building. The fact it had no windows was pretty weird and concerning and so I often joked that it was probably a spy agency/wire tapping operation. I was pretty surprised when I read that it pretty much was built for that purpose.

You honestly couldn't have designed a building that could have stuck out and raised more suspicion than this one.
It wouldn't just break IMAP, POP, and search; it would also break the cooler new stuff like Inbox Actions and Google Now.

Is it either privacy or usability?!

It's fundamentally an issue with the law: if they can't even feature FISA orders in their transparency report then their hands are pretty much tied. One could only hope that these reports will result in a change in the law itself.
I don't think there is a point to this article other than nitpicking. We can all agree she sourced the data from a quote from Danielle Levitas, and that it wasn't scientific or necessarily Danielle's intent. But the point of the slide still stands and this is an obnoxious fluff piece of an article. Mary has her issues but this is silly.
That's the place. On the corner of 2nd and Folsom.
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You'll hear a similar term from cigar smokers: "yard gar", a cigar that's cheap so if you drop it (or it suffers other insults) while working in the yard it's no big loss.
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So lets say, hypothetically speaking, that I know a whole lot about how prism works, and have some slides and what not and that I trust GG with them. Let's further suppose that I am unaffiliated with Facebook, unemployed by the USG, no clearance etc. Just Joe Coder the contractor who loves Freedom. Why can't I just send them to him, what do I care if the FBI knows since I'm not under an NDA or a govt employee?
Has Mayer made a smart move by acquiring Tumblr?
Not really. These were repealed right around the time of Marbury v. Madison so we never got a chance to see them in court.
As has been covered, the government already obtains a FISA warrant in order to "search" the records they are gathering en masse.

Nice try, Rand, but some people still read the text of bills.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=240880
Those beers may all hover around the same quality, but I don't think a blind taste test could work at all with those beers (one way or the other.) They are all rather distinct in their refreshing mediocrity (Coors is significantly more mild than PBR (hard to say if that is in a good way, or a bad way), and Rolling Rock has a distinct "corn" flavour.) Anyone who drinks a lot of those beers is going to be able to pick out which is which, at which point the taste test would no longer be blind.
"Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers..." could easily mean "We ask them for the data and they give it to us from their servers."

Especially in the context of that slide where they are contrasting it with their "upstream" collection which would require sorting out the packets (and presumably decrypting them) before analyzing the data.
I'll second that. Also their "black and tan" is fantastic if you want to go slightly more expensive.
This is junk -- there is absolutely nothing that the companies can say to satisfy the critics. We're not going to get at the truth via conspiracy theories and making connections in the language of the denials. "Non-denial"??? If you were in the CEO's shoes, and knew that the PRISM issue was false, what would you say DIFFERENTLY?

What frustrates me is that this comes from the assumption that Yahoo & co. are absolutely without a doubt guilty.
Skirt steak is still considered one of the poorest cuts; I have found that none of the butchers in my city will provide it unless you explicitly ask for it.
As far as I know there is a stealth startup doing this already. One of my friends is involved in it.So if you want some advice I could ask him to talk to you depending on what you want to find out. Security is a big issue here of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlip7jZX9m0

Jump to 3:00 and feel free to act on all that advice she gives.
Thanks for remaking the sausage.
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This is not correct. You and your site are certainly not subject to "american trade and penal laws" just because a .com registered address directs to your server. They can seize your domain name, but that's it.
The out-of-control surveillance state
I grew up in Minnesota and never drank a PBR til I moved to Seattle.
What she did is something we call "bullshitting" or "making it up" because if the data in question really was regarding non-smartphone users then she would have to be either terribly misguided (putting it lightly) or flat out lying.

Whether incompetence or unscrupulousness, it doesn't matter. She shouldn't be uttering such false information promoted so specifically if she promotes her talk or her talk is viewed as a state of the industry report.
Microsoft is also using "voluntary" in their, surprisingly short, press release: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jun13/06-06st...
As someone without training in law, that wording seems extremely odd.

It seems like it is not a piece of legislation, but rather an interpretation of the amendment; where I thought that interpreting the constitution was the job of the court. If this wording works, than wouldn't it give Congress the ability to work around the constitution simply by passing laws saying that <insert clause here> shall be interpreted to make <insert law here> constitutional.
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Yes, I would really like that! elaine@p2ppostal.com
'We are not subject to any sort of federal order that requires us to turn over data, as described by Glenn Greenwald' would be a nice place to start.
If the government gets to deny human rights to anyone it with a specific label - what does it matter what the label is?

The government should not be allowed to deny human rights to anyone.
Applying correct amounts of scrutiny to one set of people, and abusive amounts of scrutiny to another, is still being partisan. Don't let them hide behind that.

Seriously. It's extraordinarily dangerous to our way of life to try to defend the IRS on this one because, I presume, you don't like the Tea Party. This isn't bad news for Tea Party or conservative groups. This is bad news for anyone subject to IRS jurisdiction. Who's going to be in control of the IRS in four years? (We're a ways out, but certainly decent odds it ain't gonna be someone with a (D) after their name.)
U.S., companies: Internet surveillance does not indiscriminately mine data
This is a percentage chart, which only shows that mobile traffic is eating into desktops' _share_ of the total traffic.

This chart says nothing about whether mobile is eating into the absolute traffic that desktops are getting. More likely mobile traffic is increasing a lot, and desktop is holding steady.
You wouldn't know anything about the program unless you had a security clearance.
These guys recommend you anesthetize the lobster before cooking live:

http://www.cookingissues.com/2012/07/04/how-to-become-a-seaf...;
I think the fundamental problem is that "rule of law" is a convenient fiction, which is basically a way of encouraging people to believe that we have more limits on governmental abuses than we do. The problem though is that all decisions have to be made by individuals, not laws, and laws are subject to selective enforcement and so forth.

For example, mandatory sentencing takes power out of the hands of judges to adjust sentences. It is argued that this makes the system more predictable and fair, but what it really does is transfers that power to the hands of prosecutors, and thus makes the system less predictable and fair.

What is happening right now is that this illusion is being ripped apart.
I haven't tried it yet, but this method of killing and cooking a lobster is intriguing: http://blog.ideasinfood.com/ideas_in_food/2010/06/the-comple...

The lobster is killed quickly with a knife in their main nerve cluster (the article calls it the brain, but I think that's giving it too much credit). Time is then provided for the muscles to stop seizing, and it is brined to improve texture and to prevent coagulation of the hemolymph to the meat. Then the lobster is divided and different parts are cooked for different times just like we commonly do for most other kinds of meat.

I thought HN might be interested, since many of us are incorrigible optimizers.
The Guardian as a news outlet could be prosecuted/gone after for releasing certain things. It isn't just him making the decisions. On Twitter he seems to express the desire to release as much as he can without earning himself a Disappearance; I feel that once this is all over, he might just release the docs the Guardian won't publish somehow.
The notion of democratic itself is a flawed one - meaningful representation left the building a long time ago.

It is often used to evoke some sense of greater social justice.

Notice though, how notions such as 'willingness to invade other sovereign nations' or 'laws on books against fundamental human rights' or 'presence of any constitution or meaningful court of higher appeal' or 'centralization of media ownership' or 'measured trajectory of higher educational capacity' or 'number of excuses government can use to spy on or detain citizens' also seem conveniently out of scope.

Simply put, the notion we are sold of western democracy as some all-solving wonderland of equality and transparent empathetic good-governance is a farce. The more people lend rankings like these ones credence, the harder that is for people to see. (Though they certainly do have some utility, it is important also to see them critically.)
So you don't think the average person checks their cell phone 150 times a day?
I was being facetious, trying to get the parent poster to elaborate. I'm quite familiar with the discourse on rape and rape culture.
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So many questions about this....
Proposal: Execute operation "Office Space" on all surveillance hardware (pursuant to article Youtube Video ID PywI0BOxJpI [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PywI0BOxJpI]).

No data? No problem.
Nothing will be curbing, you all think you have some level of control over this process but you don't.

Stop trusting people who don't have motivation not to mess with your life.

What happens to the people behind these debacles? Nothing, absolutely nothing; in addition, having them fired would just open up the position to more people who would make the same actions.

A state will always seek to expand, and you will always go lax and let them, it's best to just forego the whole pot of pain to begin with.
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>Home WiFi has been widespread for at least a decade, and the UX for bypassing NAT is worse than ever. UPnP still comes disabled or broken, if at all.

Hopefully IPv6 will make this a non-issue.

EDIT: Also, a specifically designed 'personal cloud' could also go between the main cable to your house and your router, bypassing any NAT issues with the router.
Basically the small business version of affirmative action.
| young people seem not to think twice about
| yielding up their personal information

Young people don't think twice about a lot of stupid things. It's called being young and inexperienced.
We should really read what the Times has to say about this before we engage in armchair investigation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-...
The talk page for the PRISM article[1] is also very interesting.

> Why is it all caps? Some other reason? It should be noted in the article somewhere...

And:

> Everyone is losing their minds over this thing, but as far as I can tell, data is only provided with a "legally binding order or subpoena". This isn't the NSA reading through every inbox in the world. Or am I wrong?

Once more:

> The denials by the participating companies are not surprising and may, in fact, be a requirement under the National Security Letters, which the NSA and FBI use to give quasi-legal cover to their signals collection.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:PRISM_(surveillance_progra...
There is another piece here which deals with Lobsters being a particular toxic dish as they are the dumpsters of the ocean: scavenging dead material. One might not hurt, but weeks on the stuff would leave you quite sick.
For those of you missing the point, this "bill" is a bit tongue-in-cheek. He's simply saying "Hey everyone! read the f$%^ing Constitution!"
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Google and Facebook DID allow NSA access to data despite denials
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Read Schneier's take on it: http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicros...

It seems reasonable that NSAKEY wasn't an NSA backdoor meant allow them to secretly install compromised crypto libraries on your machine.
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Isn't it advantageous for a company to use StackOverflow instead of a forum?
I'm a coder, and there's still a lot of companies using crappy web forum software.

Why run a forum when you could point customers to StackOverflow, and have your tech support guys lurk there to help them?

Reasons I see it would be advantageous:

- don't need to host a forum (less bandwidth, server usage)

- better answers as there's less duplication, and bounties for unanswered questions

- but most importantly, people like me look at the number of questions/answers on StackOverflow to see if a new product is worth pursuing or not.

Full disclosure: I am not affiliated w SO, but I am a fan and regular user.
The effectiveness of biological warfare lead to major world powers accumulating hundreds of tons of such weapons, considering what would happen if they used them, then signing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Convention and destroying them. (It is, admittedly, easier to give up one "ultimate weapon" when you retain your supplies of another. And in warfare there is no question that nuclear bombs are more useful than biological weapons because they act immediately.)

The capacity to create them again exists and takes little resources in theory. Doing it effectively and actually having it work the first time you try is another story. There is no question that al qaeda can find people who could try, but the probability of success is a different story.
I'm not crazy about recurring donations in general, but I did just donate a $100.00 one-time donation to the EFF. I'll chip in more here and there as circumstances dictate. I do feel guilty now about not giving before this. :-(
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Yep - fixed! (Thanks @rymo4 for the pull request)
I am not anti-european, on the contrary. I am just against EU agendas that are pushed against the will of the majority of the EU population and clearly against their interests. The EU is a great idea and project, but the EU commission is a bunch of crooks.
If the requirements include "keeping time with up-to-date knowledge of time zones without costing us money", guess what, the requirements now mandate a code change.

Requirements may not change, but environments do, and continuing to meet requirements in the face of changing environments is something that will often mandate changing code or requirements.

When the world shifts, something often has to shift along with it, lest the whole thing break.
As the example setter for curing social ills of all sorts, the Federal Government is actually required to prefer small businesses, minority-led business, etc. when possible on contractors of a certain size. This requirement extends to prime contractors as well for large enough contracts IIRC.

The requirement is easily evaded, of course. Big Contractors typically help a minority or disabled veteran start a business and land the contract at some inflated rate, and then the small contractor buys the service from Big Contractor and keeps the overhead costs.
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Heh, no problem. Not sure why I decided to post here instead of just doing it there.

Nice lib, though. I'll keep it in mind.
Let me make it crazy for you. I remember a day when you didn't need ID to fly on an airplane, or a security badge to get into normal office buildings. And when the idea of having to insist on such was considered unamerican and a sign of a totalitarian state.
You can just get Insync (https://insynchq.com/) which is in many ways better than the Google Drive Client in any case.
I was really, really hoping that this was a new posting (like, in the past day or two). That would've been amazingly funny in a dark sort of way.

Unfortunately, the footer suggests it dates back to 2009.
> However, it's also common sense that it's inevitable that any complex large-scale long-term operation will ultimately come to light.

Is it, though? Is it unlikely that some projects that a government undertakes could remain hidden indefinitely, or at least until after the collapse of said government?
"We categorically are not making data available voluntarily or under duress to any government or company or organization."

Of course none of them can say that because they're all sharing stuff with someone(s) and who knows where it ends up - Right Media, Twitter button and ScoreCard Research are all on Yahoo's homepage and except the Twitter button, inside Yahoo Mail.
> He will probably rot in jail

This is where we, the people, must step in to make sure it doesn't happen.
First, thanks for recommending Steven Levy's Crypto. It's a historical account that I think more hackers need to read.

I'm probably on the hairy edge of the "young readers" you've mentioned. I'm 27. My present view on the recent NSA leaks is a distinct lack of outrage, but watching this huge response I can't help but feel the whoosh as something big flies straight over my head.

I've agreed to use technology which by its very nature monitors my activity in all kinds of ways. As a software engineer who does a lot of web work and dabbles in cell-enabled embedded systems, I understand and I'm fully aware of most of the ways I'm being monitored. Maybe I'm naïve to think of the recent data sharing between corporations and government as a non-issue, but if this is such a big deal wasn't I just as naïve by allowing these corporations to collect this information in the first place?

This isn't the Clipper Chip or key escrow. This isn't the government grappling for an ear into conversations which nobody except Alice and Bob are intended to transceive. You could argue that were I Bob, Alice is the phone company, but I have no freaking clue who "the phone company" really is. To me it's just a faceless entity who I've allowed to collect data about me. I'm finding it hard to become angry over one faceless entity sharing said data with another faceless entity. And frankly, I have no clue if I've already agreed for this to happen because I don't really care. I expect them to share a ridiculous amount of information about me without abandon. I'd be far more upset if they were sharing content of actual conversations, but metadata feels firmly within the realm of what I expect to be slung around willy-nilly.

I agree that this reasoning is wholly a "death by a thousand cuts" brought on by more and more invasive technologies. As an anecdote, many Facebook early adopters will remember the outrage over the news feed when it was first launched. Now can you imagine the outrage that would ensue if Facebook were to take it away? We're pretty much begging for invasive technology in our lives. How do you propose to correct that? How do we get millions of people to "vote with their feet" against useful-but-invasive technologies?