skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived under surveillance before, so I feel my perspective might be somewhat appropriate. I won't comment on the specifics (uninteresting and irrelevant, had to do with where I was living). I won't even make a statement about whether it's justified in my case or in general. I'd just ask everyone here to do one thing:

Watch this, then ask yourself how you feel (if it doesn't go directly to 6:40, fastforward to it, then watch for 30 seconds):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwiUVUJmGjs&feature=yout...

I understand about various interpretations of "collect", "intercept", "analyze", etc. Just watch the video, and ask yourself how you feel. Please know that I'm not telling you how to feel, just providing a small snippet of a conversation. Why do you feel that way, and what does that feeling say about you, or your society?

Originally found in a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5835025
Been to Arizona lately?
How is a democracy functional when a secret and parallel government has access to undisclosed powers which override those of the existing democracy? This isn't just an issue of separation of power between branches of government -- citizens are forced through law to hide the existence of this para-judicial system, as if it is a phantom of our minds.
http://www.vagrantup.com/

Edit: Yes it is technically a VM, but it is the lowest friction solution I have found and you can configure it in such a way as to make the VM fairly transparent.
The loss of privacy is massive in comparison to the lives lost to terrorism. More people die each year due to car accidents than have lost their lives to all terrorist attacks on US Soil. If the information that is being gathered is about safety, then why isn't the government isn't creating a massive program to strictly monitor highway speeds, traffic roadways, and increase traffic safety then?

Answer: The information gathering has nothing to do with safety. It has everything to do with power.

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Ah yes, because data gathered by intelligence agencies have never been used for political and personal gain. And everything that goes on in politics is transparent, above board and immaculately honest through and through. Nepotism, cronyism, corruption, and the like only exists in hollywood movies.

And they never get the wrong guy. They always get the right guy.

As long as nobody is inconvenienced it can't possibly be bad. Right?
These are national security assets: evidence gathered here will never be used in a drug case, or a tax evasion case.

Information from intelligence programs has already been used in non-terrorism cases, like those of Petraeus and Spitzer.
You are a piece of work, aren't you?

Interesting that you went back and researched my comment history. So, your assumption was that I am a kid looking for a CS degree? Now, that's really funny! Thanks.
I'm 17 and made the front page of Medium.com 
A most recommended article: The Starbucks Theory. Proof that you don't need to be a journalist/CEO to write great stuff on Medium. P.S. Medium was founded by Ev Williams who made Twitter.
Don't forget https://spideroak.com/ too.
But what "if the doSomethingWith function takes a non-const pointer"?

Also why would C be better otherwise?
Because he knows where to get good fish and chips?
They take bitcoin now (again).
Next obvious step here is precrime or a massive attack on the US (civilians or troops) due to a leak of the data.
I can't speak to Saint Lucie specifically, but I always wonder the same thing when someone mentions a specific country: are they speaking to rights afforded to everyone who comes in, or just citizens? How long until one is made whole in that country?
If I could upvote this twice, I would. Software engineering is a great profession, but it's certainly not overpaid (well, the bad ones are overpaid, but the good ones are often underpaid).

There are many relatively straightforward routes to more $$; most people just don't know about them.
Is Digital Inclusion a Good Thing? How Can We Make Sure It Is? (2009)
My problem is more with employers who demand that potential employees "pay their dues" before being allowed into an industry. It favors privileged people who can be supported by some other person while they're working for free. Also, requiring interns to work 40 hour work weeks for nothing is downright sadistic. At least have the decency to allow your interns to work a second job.
They are legally required, personally and individually, to lie about the existence of these programs, or go to prison instantly. These orders are gag-ordered by default.
Twitter isn't on the list. Obviously someone put up a fight.
Affordable robocars -- will it be cameras or LIDAR?
It's important to remember that we still have a functioning democracy. If you -- Hacker News reader -- decided to run for congress tomorrow, you might not win, but you won't be killed, sabotaged, or secretly blocked. Well the IRS may just decide to target you:D

The problem isn't so much the collection of the data, it's that checks and balances that are in place are completely opaque to public scrutiny. Everything is classified
Everytime I see you reply to this thread, I have to remind myself that you are actually out in the woods right now, probably sitting by that lake as you type the comment.
The day you become popular and stop updating that file, what do you propose we do?
A really good mysql gui client that runs on Linux and Windows. Doesn't need to have loads of features, just make common things like browsing data sets, creating new tables, deleting data etc very quick.
In that example, the author makes his own fallacy. Apparently the speaker's experiences are the only valid ones, and the responder has no right to share his experience - which some of his "I hope it should be clear that none of these are appropriate responses" are doing.

Some of his examples are condescending, which is the basis of what he's trying to get at, others are only condescending if you wilfully choose to take them that way. The problem isn't in pointing out the fallacy, it's with the tone of the commentary. The simple fact that you name a fallacy while exposing it does not mean you're a lazy debater.
Haha, Robert Vinson is no longer a member of the fisa court, guess you'll have to do something real to feel like your doing part (like set up a tor node, or start actually using pgp) instead of circulating bullshit petitions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
Who do you think put the Patriot act into place to begin with? At the time the GOP not only held the White House, but both houses of Congress. Among the first things they did on obtaining legislative control in late 1994 was start work on rewriting immigration law - resulting legislation so draconian that experienced criminal lawyers are often floored by its provisions when they have occasion to study it.

For example, an alien with a criminal record who is unable to prove their right to be present in the US on the spot can be detained incommunicado for six months before being entitled to any kind of hearing. This is a step forward; until a few months ago, the government was able to detain said alien indefinitely: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9721558833419753...

Bear in mind that the President is sworn to uphold the laws as they are, even when he disagrees with them; his powers are far more circumscribed by Congress than most people appreciate, viz. Obama's oft-repeated desire to close Guantanamo, which has gone nowhere because Congress won't authorize funds for setting up detention facilities on the mainland. It's not so much the case that Obama wants to know who you were calling last Tuesday as that he's supposed to maximize the government's legislated powers to defend the US from attack. If he ordered the NSA to suspend this sort of intelligence-gathering and subsequently a terrorist attack took place that could supposedly have been prevented, he'd be impeached. The whole Benghazi thing is arguably an effort to build momentum for impeachment, IMHO - if the GOP gained supermajority control of the Senate the current House would draft articles of impeachment in a heartbeat.
Also, you may want to support this new bill that will be introduced by Sen. Paul, tomorrow (call your senator to vote for it, etc):

http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/06/rand-paul-to-introduce-fou...
You were by your own admission 17, which implies (since you were a minor) that you were living with relatives and debt free. Can you think of any important differences between a 17-year-old with a support net (even a shitty one) working for free, and a college educated adult with debt?
Newspeak is rampant these days.
Very clever. Nice hackaround.
I agree. Investigative reporting in the US has been on a downturn for the last 15 years or so. Many newspapers have had to cut back on resources because of declining readership and its hard to expect decent investigative news from any of the network news stations because they are just pandering to their own audiences for ratings and whatnot. It also doesn't help the president Obama and his administration have been incredibly hard on journalists and those who leak information as we have learned over the last month. Even though it was the Guardian that was the paper that reported it, Glenn Greenwald, an American, is the author of the original article. Either way, I'm just happy this has come to the public eye and has confirmed many suspensions. I hope that this rallies enough support so either amendments to the Patriot Act can be made it can be repealed entirely.
You know, maybe you out to calm down and think before you type.

If it makes you happy, yes you are right, I don't know jack shit about economics or cs. There, you won.
Pizza deliveries cannot wait 5 minutes or so. You are now talking out of your ass. That is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard and pizza companies will never do this. They can just hire people who are down on their luck to drive for them for chump change. You ever see a pizza delivery person take their time? Hell fucking no. You honestly fucking think they will spend thousands of dollars on a vehicle to equip with all this automated bullshit? The costs would be astronomical, so much fucking wasted R&D, and to top it off, this is not some Back to the Future bullshit. This is the dumbest shit I have read on HN in a long fucking time....
This looks interesting I will definately try it out. But could you explain how this is better / easier than setting up a virtualbox with windows + IE ?
For what it's worth Apple and Google denie it: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100797046
Eagle Eye...my favorite movie!

While I understand that this had been uncovered today, is it really that surprising.
I don't see what's so extraordinary about Linus' claims that bad programmers make the language worse and easier to produce crap with.

I think it's clear that Linus isn't talking about the language as the syntax and semantics that get accepted by a compiler, but in a broader sense, relevant to the Real World, which includes a social context.

There's a culture and social context around a language, that includes things such as idioms, best practices, libraries, learning material, etc, which are fundamental to the practice of programming in it.
Yes, it works great. I know because I tried it.
Do you think these ultra-high value targets - the ones with these ex-Soviet nukes or weaponized anthrax stored in their basements - are posting on Facebook, using gmail, or using traceable mobile phones?
Oh great. postal money order through the mail?
It may be their database, but it's our lives.
Now. Exactly which data is exposed for each provider?

I'm thinking mostly about Gmail. Because virtually everyone now is using it…

The whole content of any communications? Just origin/dest?

This is becoming scary.
I'm interested to hear more about how this guy quit his finance job and founded an institution so that he could do what he loved doing most full time. Power move!
All of this deserves impeachment. Will Congress oblige? That's the real question. Normally, Republicans would be more than happy to do it - but for something like this? I'm more skeptical about that.
@il, thanks for posting this.

I'm now donating $10 per month, and consider it money well spent.

@Everyone: Tag along and sign up for a monthly donation!
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Well I put it this way to friends of mine out in the Maritimes. Back in 2012 I was laid off due to government cutbacks (the company I worked for did the Tourism site), and in the three months afterwards I had three interviews across the maritimes. In a week visit to Toronto, I had twenty five interviews.

And salary is like night and day. The highest PHP salary I heard of out there in my interviews and travels was 55k. Toronto PHP jobs start at 60k and many are in the 70's and 80's. I've heard an even larger gulf for Java devs, especialy as you get up to the senior ranks. I don't know about salarys for other languages, but if you don't know Java, .Net, or PHP in the maritimes, you'll be waiting a long time to be employed. There's the occasional C++ or Python gig, but youd' make twice as much in Toronto.

And remote jobs, in Canada, in my experience, do not exist. I've seen maybe five in the last five years. Meanwhile I see remote gigs in the States daily. Basically if your'e looking for remote work, you're looking in the US. Canadian employers I've found are leery to openly hostile about folks working remotely.

Now things could have changed in the last year, and that's just my own experience, but if your'e looking for solid work, and good pay, and in Canada, it's effectively Toronto or bust.
US security agency has direct access to Google, Facebook and Apple user data
Loaning or renting games won’t be available at launch
Haven't used Nitro myself, worth exploring:

Nitro is a library for painlessly writing scalable, fast, and secure message-passing network applications

http://gonitro.io/
The main benefit you mention is the biggest disadvantage of this solution as you may need to scale it as traffic grows. You can avoid it by using S3/GH Pages.
The single founder dilemma
the article is full of links, but they're all to newspapers, not the actual sites discussed?! and it won't let me comment without digging up some ancient wordpress account. but the org referred to is "freedom of the press foundation" whose site is https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/
Wrong on so many points.

Feel free to contact me privately with your real name and LinkedIn profile link. My email address is in my profile. I'll send you my LinkedIn URL and you can figure out just what kind of a moron I am.
whats misleading about the title?
Wow, you guys are in full-jerk mode today!

Currently, I am seeing 16/30 articles on the front page describing the same thing.
In the United States I'm not so certain that you can place the blame on uninformed citizens given that you effectively have a 2 party political system and both parties have been complicit in domestic surveillance.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, a hundred and ten times everyone, yes!

It's one thing to do it legally. It's another to do it without approval from Congress. It's another to do it without approval from Congress or the will of the people.

Although, between FISA and PATRIOT ACT, it more or less is "legal". Either way, you're on the right track. It's a slippery slope and as far as I'm concerned, PRISM is slippery enough to feel like I can say that without feeling silly for using the phrase "slippery slope" seriously (and even worse, three times in one post).
Maybe the 'new data' in this case is how we react to finding out about the existence of the programs.
Anyone esle read this title and think Atlantis?
GNU everyhing, just go to gnu.org, and remember that what we refer to as "linux" is mainly the os kernel, most of the user space programs, libs etc. are GNU projects.
As many have stated, the problem is with inevitable abuse of power. It may or may not be happening now, but it will. Recent IRS disclosure that they targeted Tea Party-linked organizations for audits is one example. I doubt it was deliberately ordered by the administration, but someone, somewhere thought it was a good idea.

Search queries alone will probably tell you which way a person is leaning in an election. That by itself is not good in a democratic process hinged on secret ballot. What if the information of everyone that voted for a given candidate is collected, passed under the table to another "bad guy" in another agency, such as IRS, and then used to inflict financial harm. Yes, very far fetched, but such power is an enabler.

It seems that having courts grant warrants provides a necessary level of review by a psudo-independent body, as to sufficiently protect against undue invasion of privacy.

Based on the description in the article, I'm not sure if there are a lot of protections against personal use, like spying on a girlfriend. (When I used ChoicePoint for background investigations, it only recorded my "permissible purpose" selection, but no real validation, just an audit log of the search.)
Easiest to just play with it , work through examples and see for yourself.

It actually uses virtualbox under the hood (though you can make it work with other virtualisation software)

It is much quicker to get a VM up and running since you don't have to run through the installation process of the distro.

You just look online for "rails dev box, vagrant" and run the command to download and set it up.

It creates a shared folder between host and guest automatically, and port forwarding is very easy to configure in such a way that localhost:8000 can map to guest:80 or whatever.

SSH is super easy, just do "vagrant ssh" to get a shell, no key or password settings required.

Also integrates with puppet etc and low memory footprint since you just get what you need and not X etc.

But it's really the ease and speed of creating VMs that is the killer app for me. So when I start a new project I can just type a few commands and have a fresh VM for that project.
Top secret, special intelligence, originator-controlled, no foreigners.

A somewhat redacted, 158-page manual describing how to code these markings:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/capco_imp.pdf

A cheat sheet from 2008, by Julian Assange:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/capco_imp.pdf
It made me hungry for gumbo.
Feinstein is one of the worst people in the Senate on civil liberties issues, and one of the foremost advocates of the national security state.
If you are interested in looking into this more, I highly recommend the documentary which is coming out called terms and conditions may apply. It explores how companies are giving this information to the govt willingly + it is stated in their terms and conditions.

This is the trailer: https://vimeo.com/57182041
The author seems to assume that Linus is against objects. I think this makes it pretty clear: https://lwn.net/Articles/444910/
The most constructive use of logical fallacies is in finding weaknesses in your own argument, not those of others.
Costco CEO Leads the Cheapest, Happiest Company in the World
If so, it's great that so many Rs have condemned all this spying: they can't now turn around and impeach him for leaking about it.
Why leave Apple off the list in the title submission?

(Because they deny it? Then better leave Google off the list, too - they deny it as well).
it's a little ugly, because you have to have some strong conditions to use associativity on infinite series (and I forget what they are off the top of my head). Of course, this is true for splitting up the e^x into cos(x) and sin(x) as well.
Why Vesper will Succeed (Or, Why Marco Arment is wrong)
Terms And Conditions May Apply (Documentary on US Govt Breaches of Privacy)
Coming from a country with minimum wage laws I don't understand how you survive when doing an unpaid internship. Do you just have to live at home and sponge off your parents while you are interning? Or do you just have to get deeper into debt while you are interning? How long does it take before you start getting paid?
http://www.paul.senate.gov/files/documents/4thAmdtRestoratio...

One page, straight to the point. Nice.
up vote :), theres definately a need for this. The only "good" sql gui out there in my opinion is sequel pro that only runs on mac. Mysql workbench crashes on remote connections on linux and is a sluggish beast, it just gets worse from there phpmyadmin...
Facebook Denies Giving NSA Direct Access To Its Servers
I hope you're right. FWIW, if they plan to cover this, they are biding their time. I just spent an hour watching Fox News, and saw: A car run into a Taco Bell, a sea-lion get onboard a boat, Holder testifying before congress about leak investigations and prosecuting journalists, and some other random crap... and not one word about PRISM, or even the earlier reveal about the phone call logs.
The Noble American Tradition of Tax Resistance:

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-04-11/article/...
maybe "finds" instead of "found" or "in 2000, found", here on a news (at least its in the URL) site.

That said, I have no problem, cool post OP!
Mark Udall: I tried to expose NSA program
I don't know, I recall watching similar images in the Cleopatra excavation documentary they showed at one of the museum I attended not too long ago.

What kind of a source is core77.com?
The "UK reporter" is Glenn Greenwald, an American: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald
If You’re Not Testing Headlessly You’re Pretty Dumb
SQLyog is better (though not free) and will run on Linux using Wine. But Wine makes it ugly and clunky and crash prone.
That's not true in practice. You always need to file taxes to the US no matter where you live, but you only pay to the US if you paid less overseas (you pay the difference, you don't double pay).
Almost any county you'd want to live in (except tax havens) will have higher taxes than the US.
What really bugs me about this discussion is that all this has been going on for years for foreigners, and nobody denies it. It's apparently ok that these companies and agencies spy on everyone but US citizens.
Don't get me wrong, it's bad that they do this to US citizens, but at least it's your government (doesn't make it better, I know, but still.)

>We have rights to privacy and protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

I want those rights too. I might have them on paper (since it's a democracy here in Europe as well, and there are agreements), but it seems like nobody in charge cares either way.

> If you -- Hacker News reader -- decided to run for congress tomorrow, you might not win, but you won't be killed, sabotaged, or secretly blocked.

I cannot run. I'm not from the US. I can't even vote. I can try to make my government do something about it, but you know how that goes.
> Do you really think this is news to Obama?

Do you really think the NYT headline was known to Obama? So yes: The reaction of the populace is news.

Again: Some people change course when presented with new data. While politicians and partisans rarely fall into that camp, I'm hopeful that Obama does.
I already donate, but I feel suddenly like donating more...
Not exactly. From the article:
>Google specifically denied that it has a "back door for the >government to access private user data."

>Apple told CNBC, "We have never heard of PRISM. We do not >provide any government agency with direct access to our >servers, and any government agency requesting customer data >must get a court order."

They are not providing a back door, but it isn't the _means_ of providing information to the NSA that citizens are upset about, it is the 'providing information to the NSA' part.
Depends on the level of criticism, I suppose. I expect to hear the perennial favorite at some point: "It's all Bush's fault because he did it first!"

If things get really bad, perhaps there'll also be a bit of "I was as shocked and angry as you were when I learned about these things for the first time from my morning paper," followed by a few rounds of "Quick, look over there, some right-wing guy said something stupid!"