skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't use email for anything private or important really. But yeah, I do encrypt with GPG anything moderately private I send.
can you elaborate on the emergence of resistant strains due to mass vaccination?
I bet Stallman feels quite vindicated now.
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"Big Data" is the buzzword of the day but I think "Big Privacy" will be a bigger trend in the very near future. Right now it's technically possible to put together the resources to give your self a fairly good bit of privacy, just as it's always been possible to write a cron job to do remote backup before Dropbox. However this takes both a bit of technical skill, a good chunk of time and planning, and there's still a chance you'll miss something.

So I believe there's a lot of money to be made in providing instant privacy the same way dropbox provides instant backups. Likewise as statistics + programming = data scientist,
statistics + programming + security = privacy scientist

Sadly this also means that privacy will become a commodity and I can easily imagine a tiered system of privacy based on cost (eg 19.99/mo get's you a secure network + encrypted files, 99.99/mo get's you text re-structuring to avoid stylometeric identification.)
You can have the best of both worlds: vote, but don't leave the democratic / political process alone after that for the remaining part of the year.
Well then I guess it's my moral duty to help spy on my fellow citizens so that I will save the country money.
This is a great idea ! There is no lack of content on Mac/iOS topics on the web, but I found it very hard to find in depth topics on good practices, architectures etc. Question though : where's the RSS ?
The point of my thought experiment is the op was saying that there are some thing we don't even have to think about like torture and the surveillance we are discussing. For the surveillance, it seems much more reasonable to believe it might actually help.
"buy a cheap printer and then destroy it"

Have somebody else buy it with cash only. Surveillance cameras catching you with a printer and then not able to explain where it went will not go well.

I can't believe I actually am saying this. I truly can't believe that we are all having these kinds of conversations about something that should be as trivial as telling the truth. This is the kind of stuff I imagine the Russian mob would do, not employees of the US government who have a conscious. It is truly despicable and makes me a bit nauseated. The worse part is there doesn't seem like a fix and there doesn't seem like there is anywhere else to go to avoid this.
"arkOS is designed for use on the Raspberry Pi"

What about this is specific to the Raspberry Pi, and why? Can Genesis run on any Arch Linux installation?
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Wow, Stallman sure has a way of predicting the future. This isn't the first time he's predicted the future with such accuracy -- remember the story that he wrote about a dystopian world far away in the future where books were under DRM? It's so funny that story came true so much earlier than expected.
There's two answers to that.

The narrow legal answer is: false advertising regulations generally only apply to commercial trade which doesn't include elections; wider fraud offences are (unlike false advertising) not strict liability so would require you to prove that they knew the representation was false at the time it was made (as opposed to just changing their mind later), which is difficult, and in any case it's unclear that a court would consider a vote to be a gain of money/property; there's no unilateral contract here as there's no objective intent to create binding legal relations with every voter in the country; and administrative law concepts of legitimate expectations don't apply to manifesto/pre-election political promises per R (Wheeler) v PM. (That's all for English law, but I imagine the concepts are similar in the US).

The wider answer is: laws are made by politicians. They're not going to pass laws that would make them liable for lying to win elections.
Yes, if they're aiming to hire more people than are actually willing to work there, the argument breaks down. I doubt that's the case, but your point stands.
I don't understand; what was your intended purpose in attending this school if you're not learning anything and not accomplishing something you can show to an employer? If you can easily learn 2 semesters worth of material in a month, why is your GPA abysmal?
These books don't tell me how the government analyzing communication metadata is an infringement of rights.

"Imagine a world where the government assigns you a number when you are born. Where you have to register with the government when you turn 18. Where each year you must report detailed financial information to the government. It's like 1984!"
FreeBSD works well enough for me on my Thinkpad X220, with the notable current exception of suspend and resume. If you can live with that for now I believe it will serve you well for your use case.
Being able to vote others into office hardly constitutes moral hazard.

Lying to the American people as a politician for the sake of gaining power presents a very real clear and present danger to the United States of America. If we can't rely on a politician to at least make a good faith effort to carry out their promises, then the entire basis of a representative government, a fundamental concept upon which our entire union is based, is essentially nullified. I know this sounds naïve, but this is a very real conversation we should be having because it is at the root of many of the problems with politics these days and many problems can just be solved by introducing moral hazard when votes are at state and holding the politician and anyone that follows him into office (as a cabinet member) accountable.

Lying is fine with me. Lying for the purposes of getting votes from citizens, should fall under the clear and present danger clause and should be prosecutable just like yelling fire in a crowded theatre. If a politician wants to lie while outside an election cycle, that's fine, but from the moment they begin making an intentional effort to be voted into office, until the time they are voted into office, they should not be allowed to lie in forums and messages targeted towards a voter they are trying to court. Doing so, should be prosecutable.
What most people are missing here is that the average American a) doesn't care b) doesn't actually know what their rights are c) is happy to allow this in the name of "anti-terrorism."

Seriously, step away from the internet/reddit/HN/blogs and go out on the street and talk to an average Joe/Jane about where this ranks on their priorities.

People who think there will be a "revolution" over something like this are seriously misguided. Revolutions happen when people are hungry. The average American is not starving and will never be rioting in the streets over phone records.
Translation of National Intelligence Director’s 193-word statement about PRISM
Schmidt already tried telling people this would happen:

"I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."

Instead of praising him for honesty, people started taking his quote out of context. "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."
Is Canada Trapped in Its Own Incestuous Bubble of False Positives?
He was blocked from the get-go. I'm not sure what you mean.
If you don't like it, then you should become a politician and start fixing it yourself. It's easy to complain, it's hard to do something about it.
A good overview is here: https://code.google.com/p/kernel/wiki/AIOUserGuide

Unless a program is designed to use it, it won't be. It doesn't work on sockets or pipes and filesystem support is limited.

The only things I have seen that can use it are MySQL, DB2, and Oracle.
I think the apparatus available to today's government for spying on its citizens would make a 1980s KGB or Stasi agent blush.
Presumably this is the tip of the iceberg and most western states are essentially wire tapping their citizens use of the internet?

Why is the UK govt. trying to create an the snoopers charter when they already have it? Unless they know that their current method is morally dubious and arguably illegal?
The 404 page on scri.ch (drawing tool I made with a friend) is a drawing like any other on the website (you can draw on it, save it again, etc.), except the HTTP status: http://scri.ch/-
I would watch them if they focused on a single topic and were from 5 - 10 mins
I told my sister-in-law (a very level-headed economist) about Palantir and she just referred to them as paramilitary thugs. It hadn't occurred to me to phrase it like that because they are a young, hip group that borrows from Lord of the Rings and evidently posts cartoons on their walls.

Karp's M.O. is to simply list off all the possible use cases of data inference, including good ones. It makes him sound like a wise judge who will exercise restraint. However, these use cases are sometimes simply incompatible with each other, no matter how you slice it. Even IF he's a well-intentioned judge (which I doubt), political forces are likely to overrule his control when the kitchen gets hot enough.

We must stop excusing bad behavior from our elites.
Calif. utility will close troubled nuclear plant (San Onofre)
Comparing what the NSA is currently doing in the USA to what was going on in East Germany is a stretch. I hope we learn more about how the NSA is scaling their operation due to the absurd amount of data they have. In East Germany they had to use lots of people listening to every phone and apartment bugged conversation. That doesn't seem realistic for the NSA. Do they have software that is processing the data looking for keywords or phrases? That seems useless because an actual terrorist probably doesn't say 'bomb' on the phone.
What? Because we rely on a massive infrastructure we aren't allowed to complain about government surveillance?

Also not sure how prices for hard drives got brought up. What relevance does cheap disk space have on this?
I can't seem to find this story on the main part of the site?
This is why I get very angry whenever somebody calls Stallman a nut. He's not a nut. He's a visionary; albeit a very pessimistic and dystopian one. Call him crazy now, but in 2023 you'll look back at what he said now, and you'll see how it's all right and wish you'd done something. Anything.

But no. Free software is not business-oriented. He's a nut because of his privacy advocation; he must have something to hide. Let's just ignore him, and start startups and get everyone to accept our vendor lock-in and remain blissfully unaware how we're harming everyone.
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> they have an obligation to respect the views of those ideological minorities when their main agenda is defending their rights

Ideological minorities don't get to make up "rights" and then demand the government defend them. The government has the obligation to defend free speech rights, even against the wishes of the majority, because there is ancient recognition of that right along with explicit adoption of a broad statement of that right in the Constitution.

But, there is no such thing when it comes to "privacy". See: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightof... ("The U. S. Constitution contains no express right to privacy. The Bill of Rights, however, reflects the concern of James Madison and other framers for protecting specific aspects of privacy, such as the privacy of beliefs (1st Amendment), privacy of the home against demands that it be used to house soldiers (3rd Amendment), privacy of the person and possessions as against unreasonable searches (4th Amendment), and the 5th Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination, which provides protection for the privacy of personal information.")

There is nothing in the Constitution that says "you have a right to privacy", and it's really very difficult to extend one of the explicit provisions to get you to something that would prohibit the government's collection of information that you voluntarily put "out in the world" by giving it to entities like Google or Facebook, or information (like call records) that aren't even yours but rather information about you gathered by a private company. You have to resort to something worse than Griswald's "penumbras" to get from the 4th amendment, which concerns the sanctity of one's house and physical person, to such a broad privacy "right."

There's not even intellectual consensus on the issue. Academics disagree vigorously about the appropriate level of "privacy rights" and foreign liberal democracies often collect as much or more information than the U.S. does.
Thanks a lot. We focused on shipping the first issue, and now have time to think about things like RSS feeds =)
The operating system that Genesis runs on is packaged for installation on the Raspberry Pi, and its software packages are compiled for armv6 at this time. That being said, you can run Genesis on Arch Linux with little difficulty by just cloning the Github repo.

arkOS is designed for use on the RPi at this time, because my goal is to create the best user experience possible at the lowest possible entry price. Lowering the barriers to self-host one's data and all that. Once Genesis is closer to its 1.0 release (and hopefully once I have more volunteers to help out), arkOS will be extended to more powerful platforms like the Beagleboard Black (armv7) and ultimately x64/64 systems. Since I'm only one person at the moment, I thought it prudent to start with a small focus then expand from there.
I submitted a PR on github with those and one more link on Authentication with Angular :)
The people who want to "start something" generally have nothing to lose. The average American in the suburbs with a family has plenty to lose. Their children, their spouse, their job/income and providing, and safety, are far more of a concern to them than their phone records being spied on by the government in the name of counter terrorism. People riot and rebel when they are starving, not when their stomaches are full.
> This is isn't specific to Google, and I would go further and say that ISPs are a much juicier target than Google.

This statement probably would have made more sense when Google wasn't an ISP.
NSA whistleblowers say agency casts wide net
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You would probably like John Lindquists screencasts at http://www.egghead.io then; I took a more comprehensive approach to try and show how all the pieces of angular fit together.
Hi Krish . thanks . you can search the same way how you search in google. Mostly degree courses & institutions to start with. eg , list of universities in India, mba in finance , BS in criminal justice , top 10 .... You can narrow them down by region etc - by default it will list the country of your IP as preference. if possible kindly leave your email id in the feedback form , so i can get in touch with you as we progress.
If I am trying to avoid sensitive information being imaged from my cell phone, why would I be syncing sensitive information from other devices to that phone?

It seems to me that a simpler way is to have a different phone (e.g. a dumb phone) for your trip through Ben Gurion.
Even if you accept the idea that your vote has some tiny marginal effect on the outcome (which, in the electoral college, is usually not the case), you still have to weigh the opportunity cost of voting (and of the time spent deciding who to vote for) against what you would have been able to do with that time had you not bothered. You could spend more time with your family, with friends, learn a new skill, enjoy a more peaceful state of mind by not feeling obligated to follow the news 24/7, and more. Which of these do you think will most improve the state of your life? Especially when you factor in the probability that the person you vote for will renege on many of his or her promises?

Local elections are a more worthwhile, due to the increased influence of even a single voice and the fact that they are usually decided by popular vote.
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It's just the nerve that gets me. "We can tell our children this day"

--stop it right there. That's bullshit, and he knows it. A president can't do anything without Congress, and when Congress is crap, nothing but a downward spiral is going to be the outlook.
The cost of living is something you need to adjust for. In the Bay Area everyone gets tech company salaries. In the places you might live, everyone gets government salaries.

A lot of people like myself just don't want to work for Google, regardless of price.

The people I know at defense contractors in the Bay Area all make more than what you would at Google.
This story lies at the heart of many entrepreneurial technology matters. I disagree wholeheartedly that the story is 90% political. This is electronic surveilance on a broad scale, thus it impacts any startup that is handling user-data. Not to mention, it creates tons of opportunities for secure communications startups. This is an issue with one foot in politics and another foot in the IT industry. We'd all be well served to pay very, very close attention to how this plays out.
I always assumed it was deliberate. Ten years ago !!!!!1112threefour was a thing.
At some level this has to bring up the issue of voting age into the fold. I'm sorry but I know few 18 year olds who could be trusted to run their lives, much less make sensible, informed and intelligent voting decisions. They simply don't have enough education and life experience to understand what they are voting for.

Is there an argument for producing better vote quality by raising the minimum voting age to somewhere in the 24 to 30 range?
The end to end video covers building a single page app with angular backed by mysql and laravel 4. It should give you some practical examples to work from, and all the source code for all videos is included on github too.
Just to see if I understand the logic correctly, this person thinks the leak is reprehensible, but the collection of this data is just dandy?

So, the knowledge of this program existing is a huge danger to us, but the actual collection of this data in no way infringes on our rights? Or, are they saying they don't care about the latter b/c of the former?

I sometimes can't tell what is malice and what is incompetence in government. I'd obviously like to assume incompetence, though, to be honest, that really doesn't make me sleep better at night thinking the people making and overseeing policy are just plain stupid.
Don't promise something you can't deliver.
Vaccinations and treatment are completely different things and vaccines and antibiotics are also completely different things. There are plenty of resources on the Internet that explain these matters - if you can get past the anti-vaccine psuedoscience search engine spam. For example you can find plenty of people trying to blame resistant Whooping Cough on vaccines when the most likely cause is the reduction of vaccination rates, not the presence of vaccinations in the first place.

I'd be the first to admit I am no expert so if you have real interest in the topic I would go looking for someone better qualified to talk to than me.
I should say as well, I am an interested layman when it comes to this stuff. I have a knack for maths and statistical analysis, so please take my comments for what they're worth, which is only anecdotal
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Rackspace is pretty bare bones and lots of people like it: http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail

I use fastmail https://www.fastmail.fm

Depending on your uses one might be cheaper than the other, fastmail is pretty cheap if you only have 1 user for all the domains (you can alias whatever email addresses you want) ($40/year personal plan)

Rackspace I haven't really used so I don't know how they handle multiple domains it might be cheaper to use them with multiple users. They do require a minimum $10/month
Yup the web seems to be full of those. http://thefiletree.com/404
DNA Barcoding is the Modern Tricorder
I don't think complex installs full of options can really be reduced to a single click (without compromising security massively).

"Think of arkOS/Genesis as Webmin but with a better design, much easier to use and a more modular style of operation."

Ok that's a good goal. Although right now it doesn't seem to cover even a small fraction of what Webmin does. And even if it did, the "de-cloud everything" claim seems far-fetched from what a super-duper-better-Webmin would really do. Something like providing email in a local server involves a whole lot more than keeping an email daemon running. I'm sceptical that you can make even the network set-up "one click", or SSL tunnelling, or actual encryption which would be essential for something like that. Each of these are on their own massive, unsolved problems.

Anyway, I will reserve judgement for later. The design looks good, that's all I can say at this point.
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> Ideological minorities don't get to make up "rights" and then demand the government defend them.

Sure they do; their right to make such demands is fairly explicit in the First Amendment (both the right to assemble and the right to petition apply to it.)

Now, the answer to the demand may be "No", but that's a different issue.
I am wondering how hard it would be for the CIA to pay someone to make an accusation? It need not involve a conspiracy between governments. You pay someone to make an accusation, press charges or find some other way of applying pressure and let the other government respond to it.

Look at who you'd have to have on board for something like this:

Do you need the prosecutor on board? Not if he thinks the allegations are true.

Do you need the Swedish government on board? Not if they believe the allegations might be true.

Do you need the alleged victim on board? Yes. This is the only one you really need on board to do such a thing.
Might be because some sites merge static files together into one resource by using custom scripts to join files, shinkansen (.net), or packtag (jsp).
> 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.

A member state of the European Union can do that, yet it is still a union. There are quite a few anti-EU parties in Europe, yet none have mustered enough support to leave yet.

At the end of the day each state does a calculus of what the benefits of staying are and what are the maluses of EU laws they don't like. If the cons outweigh the pros, the state should leave; forcing them to stay in a bad marriage is tyrannical.

> 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.
Relationships should be maintained while they are mutually beneficial, if the benefits are once sided, there is no reason to keep it.
Well I'll keep an eye out, and if I see your changes I'll try to fold them in - unless they look too you-specific :)
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AIO still "sux" (e.g. doesn't support async open()'ing). What we need is non-blocking flag similar to what BSD socket offers and then use whatever I/O notification API you want (epoll).