skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carlin was a great comedian and I'm a big fan but I'm not about to agree with this simply because the late great George Carlin said it. This is totally backwards and you have to do some mental gymnastics to believe it. In the end, this is what it is, a joke.

If you don't vote you have done nothing to even try to elect someone who you, in good faith, believe will do what you deem the right thing. Yeah, politicians are fucjing scum a lot of the time and lie to the point where its easier to trust the devil himself rather than a politican. That said, totally dismissing the system as one big huge scam is the lazy, cheap, and easy way out of your duty as a citizen. It's a total copout that lets you feel superior but in reality makes you completely inneffectual. The electorate may or may not have much power but it still has some. Voting is just one method of exercising your will over your government. It's important but we also need to be active in lobbying our government in other ways too.

Those in power want you not to vote. To take on this "I don't vote because its a sham" mentality is to play right into their little game. When enough people fall for it that's when it becomes a reality. I'd say its close to being a reality but it isn't too late to turn the tide. It's going to take some time which requires patience, something Americans don't have much of.

If you vote you always have the right to complain. If your guy loses you get to complain about how the other guy would've done things differently. If your guys wins and doesn't fulfill all his promises you still get to complain about how you were sold a bill of goods. If you don't vote, you're still entitled to complain but I personally won't take you as seriously because you haven't tried to affect change. This is supposed to be government for by and of the people but if you believe that Carlin joke (its a JOKE by the way) then it will no longer be that.
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No, which is exactly why he is deemed "un-electable".
Huh. Actually, I like this guy a lot, but somehow wasn't aware of him during the 2012 race. He's actually a Republican that I could vote for. It's a shame he was drowned out by people like Newt Gingrich and Michelle Bachmann.
My understanding is that CBS and Paramount have given explicit permission to make fan-produced Star Trek content as long as it's non-commercial. I assume the agreement includes having to include the copyright/trademark disclaimer as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWLGH0VHUVs

Red Letter Media's take on "Into Darkness". Yes, even as an action flick it sucks.
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With what has been said and reported, I don't think I want those Google Glasses anymore.
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A Freedombox-style approach wouldn't be substantially more difficult to use or substantially less useful. It is more difficult to build, however.
In his defense, President Obama knows lot more non-public information than ('08) candidate Obama did.

That said, dragnet surveillance of US citizens is still heinous.
It's not so much that I care about privacy. My life is relatively boring. I subscribe to all sorts of services that help me get metrics on my life, at the expense of privacy.

In 2001, after 2,996 people were killed in a horrific attack, we got the Patriot Act. There were lots of people decrying "This will not end well" and others shaking their fingers and saying "Oh, that's a slippery slope argument". Well, now we know just how slippery.

One time in an airport, I was opting out of the scanner, and the TSA agent made a joke about how I obviously must "know the drill." Playing off his joke, I said "Oh yes, I've been groped before." This led to me being detained for 30 minutes to have 10 different people ask me the same 5 or 6 questions (it wasn't a "go to this back room" thing; it all happened in the open).

What jokes can I not tell my friend in a text message now?
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I don't feel more locked in to iOS than I would be to Android. If I changed device I would lose apps, including purchased ones but little else.

Yes the services are only available on their hardware but hardware choice is far from the biggest issue with this sort of freedom, ability to leave the supplier entirely is the power I want and precisely because they offer less (or at least I use less) than the full Google ecosystem I have a lower barrier to exit.

I use iCloud only with some apps that support it and the photostream functionality but I have all my photos offline too. I don't buy DRMed media so could transfer my music elsewhere. I don't use Apple or Google mail services, but pay for a separate IMAP provider. I have some documents in Pages but they could be exported as a different format and there doesn't seem to be difference in lock in to Word or even Google Docs.

Regarding open vs. closed I prefer open too. I like open source and have a Linux server. However I don't see Google as that much more open than Apple. Both release large amounts of Open Source software (LLVM, Webkit if you struggle to think of Apple examples) but only in areas where it benefits them. Open has reduced benefits where a single corporate interest has full control of the direction of the project.
This is a classic "technology is neutral" situation, or if you prefer, "social problems don't have technical solutions".

I'm sure some of the technologies I've worked on during my professional career could be used to do things under ethically dubious circumstances. They could also be used to do the exact same things with a sound ethical and legal basis that almost everyone would agree was reasonable. And they could also be used to do many other completely unrelated and useful things where there is no ethical dilemma at all. Context is everything.

I would guess that the majority of people who work in any kind of manufacturing or information services industry could say the same thing, probably including technicians working on communications systems at the kinds of organisation you mentioned. Most of those people have no way to know or influence the way their work will ultimately be used further down the line. Society is too big and too complex to expect action or accountability for everything at that level.

That means the only practical position is to say that responsibility for (mis)use of general purpose tools must lie with the (mis)user, and if the system isn't working, that is the level where any fixes need to be applied.
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I will pay you cash if you can give me the details of my network being hacked and remote accessed on Nov 28-30. This was in Los Angeles at 7917 Rosewood Ave. One of the hackers is named Julian Perez, he also may go by "Sebastian". I am not looking to press charges, I just would like closure and some understanding.Your anonymity will be respected.
Yesware looks promising, but I decided on a dedicated CRM (Upvise) because I like to keep my peas separate from my mash potatoes if you know what I mean.
> Both leave a bad taste in my mouth, but conflating the two is dangerous and dishonest.

Unfortunately that is par for the course here on HN, if you pay attention to the political threads. It so often is just the same political truth-twisting, logic-bending contortions that I often saw applied by the GOP or creationists, where logic becomes subservient to the objective, instead of forming your objective based on logic.

And in this case it's completely needless! Why use propaganda techniques to mislead when the truth is persuasive on its own? I'm not even shocked about collection of metadata per se, but it should not be a secret program run by secret courts issuing secret warrants. If it's important and useful the people will allow it, if not then let us live with that choice too.
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Not really a surprise. Palantir has always been secretive about what exactly it is they do every day, though it's always been implied and rumored that a large part is government intelligence work.

Also the reason why I've ignored every contact from a Palantir recruiter so far. This smells like working for the white collar, air-conditioned, catered-lunch version of Blackwater.
If it was found. Which is the point.

Debian, which is much better known and in much wider circulation than Tails generated weak SSH keys for two years. Yes, it was indeed very big news. When it was found. After two years.

Oh, and tin-foil-hat on: Do we know (actually know-know, not just assume, think, trust) that the weakness wasn't planted there?
I don't see how does it provide any of that. This is a server administrator, isn't it? like old school Webmin for instance?
That implant seems like a pretty serious surgery, though. Hopefully the trials go well and they get this figured out without too many mistakes.
I'm really curious to know how this ties in to Star Trek New Voyages... are they alternate timelines, or are they overlapping?

http://www.startreknewvoyages.com&#x2F;
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Why is static pointless and why is dynamic better? If emulating a newer game console, couldn't you get better performance by running a statically recompiled game, since it doesn't have to do the extra work at runtime? Or better yet, couldn't you cross-recompile a game to run it on a platform that couldn't normally handle emulation of the target platform?
No, he most certainly was not. His point was that it didn't matter, and as we are seeing, it doesn't. You can vote for one of two flavors, but both of them taste like shit. You can go to the polling booth believing the fiction that your vote matters, but it does not. Nothing ever changes because both mainstream candidates are always essentially equivalent in most of the ways that really matter - they're always just two sides of the same shitty coin.
>> The US is remarkably stable in historical terms,even when you include the Civil War.

Historical terms? 237 yrs is a relative piss in the bucket as far as historical terms are concerned. Talk to me once they get 800 yrs of stability under their belt.
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I agree. He likely understood that a separate south was likely to support slavery for much longer than a south that was part of a union that tolerated slavery in the south for a time, even if the civil war had not occurred. In which case preservation of the union was important to achieving some form of moral progress.
"You can't be neutral on a moving train." - Howard Zinn
> Which would also make it much more difficult to use and less useful.

Maybe. As somebody who's worked in content management system design for a great deal of his career, I'm not at all convinced that the ongoing enclosure of information into systems of formatting serves people. Instead, what you find is people jumping through hoops to fit their information into the format chosen by others. Paul Goodman critiqued the tyranny of format 50 years ago, and Douglas Rushkoff authored the natural extension of this critique in his seminal "Program or Be Programmed". The promise of the internet has to be more than giving people text boxes, or I give up. :)

> We've organized our info this way because we like it and it makes sense, it's no surprise that it's useful to the government as well.

Really? The users of FB have decided that this is the way they'd like to organize their information? Surprising. I never recall in my use of FB being given the ability to structure the format as I and my friends see fit. I must have missed something.

In all seriousness, I think we need to look very carefully at this coupling of value you speak of. There are almost certainly areas where the format chosen by an authority (a corporation, a government, any institution really) is that that free individuals would choose. But not every area, and as the information gets more personal, the format becomes more restrictive. I'm not sure where the line between sharing on one's own terms and another's terms gets crossed, but any network that can aggregate detailed information about BILLIONS of people has certainly crossed it. The question is simply whether or not we should be content with this situation.
"Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. "

But you didn't work on it, Mr. President. Just like your preceding, you established a corrupt administration hell-bent upon restriction of freedom and secrecy. You are no better than Bush, and regardless of what party differences both of you had, you are one and the same behind the scenes.

You just don't give a fuck.
The data in the post is household income, so your example would be 50k - somewhere above the 60th percentile.
Back in the 90's there was a movement in congress to lock down all computers iPhone style - i.e., ordinary users should not have access to Turing machines. The Clipper Chip was one of the early attempts at this.

The goal was to prevent piracy, encryption, child pornography, violent video games, and all the other bad things that the internet was enabling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
Does anyone know of anything similar to arkOS that I could throw on a netbook? I'm thinking of installing Ubuntu and building it out myself, but if there's a pre-made distro that would be helpful.
Yeah i'd like politicians to say less and mean more, but unfortunately you cant get elected unless you pander to every interest group, make sure you're liked enough to be able to "have a beer" with the common man and be connected enough in corporate America to get donations and endorsements from interest groups.
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I agree with your point here. I wont be surprised if Palantir is associated with PRISM.
Interesting, I didn't know about printer fingerprints.

But I think there are still ways to workaround this. You could print the doc in an internet cafe, or buy a cheap printer and then destroy it, or print it and then take a low quality photocopy. You could even write it by hand or on a typewriter.
Wow, he certainly does. There were some bits in there I'll have to think about, but mostly it was pretty hilarious. Accusations of sexual deviancy? Tarring by association with Skype? Really?
Yes, that sounds very close to my intended workflow, and 'groups' are the thing I was missing to make it work.
Last time I purchased a prepaid cell phone, I had to show government photo ID. The RadioShack clerk entered my license number in a database.

So the burner phone may not be the best route.
Completely agree. As a guy living along in college some of the best nights would be watching Start Trek TNG. Just the opening was incredible. It made me feel like it really was the future.
Don't you usually have the option to submit a 'I do not think any of these people should lead our country'-vote? We can do that in Norway.
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Anyone here go from a non-developer job to developer? More appropriately you didn't go to school for CS, you weren't a developer as a kid, and had a job for several years outside the industry.

It would be interesting to see if people have successfully made the switch and how they did it. What about pay, was your first offer good?
A CMS is essentially a collection of keys and values. The format prescribes the keys, and the user fills in the values.

All I'm suggesting is that we design the keys ourselves. If that makes communication more difficult, perhaps it's also true that not all communication needs to be universally legible.
Every president since Reagan has been this type of product.
It was OK. I don't think it was better than TNG when it first came out.
As a developer from Australia, I wouldn't be allowed an American (E3) visa without having a relavent degree in my field... so despite feeling that studies didn't teach me a whole lot, I'm rather glad I have the piece of paper in the end.
Your comment seems to misunderstand the difference between vaccinations and antibiotic treatments. Herd immunity disallows an organism a foothold in a population, it is not present to become immune - it is something entirely separate from the emergence of superbugs immune to all or most known antibiotic treatments.
Semi related: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/745547_re-ct-tactical-pala...
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What's the big deal about this? If you have nothing to hide, then why worry about the government looking into your data?
Well you can't deny that their developers probably take on some pretty novel and interesting challenges.
No, it's not, you're apparently just not fully aware of what's going on.

They don't only have access to phone records; they also have access to our communications, and they have had that access for at least the last 6 years without a warrant, not even one from a FISA court.
Wrong basis. By voting for someone who won't win you can claim that you tried and failed to improve things, and that it was everyone else (who voted for the winner/mainstream candidate) who causes all our problems and is responsible.
Worth noting he enjoyed the first one. I largely agree with his review of the first one. In my opinion, the reboot captures effectively none of the magic of the original series, but since it's just being its own thing, it works out OK in the end, far better than an attempt to straddle the action adventure with the original Star Trek story aesthetic. I have no opinion about the second since I haven't seen it.
I just love watching people complain about government surveillance while accessing Comcast Internet with Google Chrome on Microsoft Windows on an HP computer that was shipped by FedEx after being purchased from Amazon over a Motorola phone on a Verizon 4G network with a VISA debit card from FDIC-backed Wells Fargo that was issued after a credit check from Equifax, Experian or TransUnion, using currency controlled by the Federal Reserve System by someone who went to a for-profit college with a Pell Grant.

Did I mention they're complaining on a website, owned by another corporation? Which more often than not sells ad space (and user information!) to dozens or hundreds of other corporations?

It's comforting to think that these companies don't know everything about you. But right now, a 4 TB hard drive can be bought from NCIX for $159.99. And right now there are 313.9 million US citizens.

That means, for $159.99, you could store 14,011 bytes of information per every US citizen. If you don't want the government to look over a company's shoulder at data they've collected, maybe we should make it illegal for companies to collect that information in the first place.

I clock the United States Constitution at 19 kB in EPUB format, according to Project Gutenberg. That means that you wouldn't even need two 4 TB hard drives to store an entire copy of the Constitution, for every single US Citizen.
Likewise if you are American you get more immigration points with a degree, should you ever want to move to Australia.
this is really really really bad reporting on the level of Glenn Beck's chalkboard ramblings. And it's all okay, because we're "just asking questions"

"Can we say for sure that Palantir's product, Prism, is the big data engine behind the NSA's secret tool PRISM?
No, we cannot. A call into Palantir has not been returned. As secretive as Palantir is, we doubt anyone we could reach would confirm much for us, anyway.
But it would certainly be a coincidence if there were a big data NSA program was named PRISM and a Palantir product was named Prism and they were not the same."
To quote Richard "Wretchard" Fernandez (http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/06/05/toward-a-more...):

"You can’t vote for a Messiah and not expect a theocracy."

And if this was a joke, the only reason it is funny is because so many have treated him like a Messiah. Of course, when he was saying in all seriousness things like "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal" the confusion is understandable....
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...maybe because it was overblown and nonsensical. I don't mind watching mindless action in a Fast and the Furious movie, but if you're going to make a film that attempts to tell a "story" with people we're supposed to care about...it would be helpful if there was a story and characters we can care about.
What kind of challenges? Please elaborate.
> States petitioned to join, why shouldn't they get out? Seems reasonable to me.

There's no such thing as a "Union" at all if each state could simply walk out when the Federal government passed a law the state didn't like, or the country elected a President the state didn't like.

It's also of severe dubious moral quality when the whole reason you secede is merely because you see a threat to your system of institutionalized abuse, killing, slavery, and racial injustice.

You shouldn't get to simply join when the going is good for you, and stab the rest of the nation in the back only when the going is bad.

But with that said, you're right that Pres. Lincoln is not exactly the bright shining example of civil liberties that the other comments here have made him out to be. He did far worse things than Pres. Obama in his quest for national security...
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You would think 6 years is enough to learn English but in my day-to-day experience in Sweden (anecdotal) there are a fair amount of Swedes who speak a little to no English, especially in rural areas (and rural areas in Sweden are cheap, beautiful and fibred to the gills, so I have to assume there are some worthwhile start ups out there).

It certainly is an interesting state of affairs when you don't need to learn Swedish in Swedish cities (personally I feel guilty). At this rate I wonder if there will be a Swedish language at all in 100 years.
It felt very derivative. It didn't really immerse you into the story that you would forget you were there.
>Also the reason why I've ignored every contact from a Palantir recruiter so far. This smells like working for the white collar, air-conditioned, catered-lunch version of Blackwater.

Is this because you would not like to work at a company handling such data, or because you think you are making a difference by not doing so?

If the former, fair enough. If the latter, you might want to rethink the approach - refusing the job only means someone else will take it, and is likely to be 'worse' according to the values that prevent you from taking the job (less likely to blow the whistle, less likely to challenge sales on projects that are evil etc.)