skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those landing pages are crap and kind of annoy me. They're just stuffed with a useless text template, no doubt for SEO purposes. I don't like how the covers are all the same. Each page is the same as the other, just paste the country's name.

Hey sivers, here's what you need to do:

- License a sweet stock photo of scenery from each of those countries, put that as the cover image.

- Write up at least one unique short paragraph for marketing copy. Who wrote this guide? What's their background, their story? What amazing things did they learn about doing business there?

Your landing page templates are shit and nobody is reading them. Sorry :)
I wouldn't say the rule of law is an illusion - it's a social construct or a social tradition. The rule of law has had real power in the past, and has often given the minority power over the majority.

The problem is that as a social construct, it will break down if too few people believe in it. And that's what is starting to happen here.

The rule of law is pretty similar to money actually - it only has power if people believe it has power.
If you were trying to quote Ben Franklin, you botched it. He said "Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little Temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety", which is significantly different.
DNI Clapper offers (some) facts about intelligence gathering activities
That is not what you were asked.

You were asked, if you accept "oops" as a valid excuse, is it possible to successfully prosecute any war crime? Can you think of any examples of war crimes where "oops" could not be used as a defense?

"If you go into a field and there's a bunch of women and children (unarmed!, and I hate that I have to mention that...) then there is no valid military purpose to an air strike."

If you accept "oops" as an excuse, then guess what? That air strike was an "oops".
yeah, no kidding.

I just started working for a new company a couple of months ago and my co-workers are all techies. We all decided to carpool together (I wasn't driving) and the driver was aimlessly looking around for the location.

I asked him about using google maps and he looked at me like I was an alien. Nobody else in the car ever used Google maps (or any form of GPS) regularly.

When I don't know how to get somewhere, I use GPS.
again, what he or she thinks is not the point
I think you may have missed the part where I said you might disagree with the methods. But my point wasn't regarding methods it was regarding purpose.
Well, I was going to disagree with you, because "allegation" is actually an English word with concrete meaning, whether or not it fits your personal preference on language, but you really convinced me with that comprehensive list from the reputable NOOZHAWK, which is literally the result of "a quick Google search".

Did you even read that list? Those include actual proper uses of "allegation". If you actually look at the definition of "allegation", it is a claim of fact, which is the most you can say about charges that may be brought against a defendant pre-trial. Or are you not at all aware of judicial proceedings in which facts are shown later to be incorrect?
Does anyone else find it darkly funny that an international fugitive hiding in a South American embassy to prevent his arrest and extradition thinks he can lecture people on the rule of law?
What do you think used to happen with artillery strikes? It doesn't make it ok, but in war when under fire, they would call in air-strikes or artillery and clear a whole ridge. The difference is "the heat of battle" versus intelligence that 3 terrorist operatives where staying in a village of 300 people.

Military operations are not law enforcement. They aren't required to prevent all deaths other than combatants. I don't know where you draw the line on collateral damage, but to say that you can't kill any "innocents" is not practical.
Different building. Twitter was at 795 Folsom (at 4th) which was also an AT&T building. This building is at 2nd and has very few windows and does not appear to be occupied by any office tenants (I walk by it every day).
History's First Cyber War Has Begun
I don't know what their technology challenges are, but I can suggest a new slogan to help them with their PR problems:

"Lost all your data? Don't worry, we have a backup!"
No. It says "Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009" below the post.
I thought "taking the video" meant videotaping.
When discussing government signals intelligence programs with the average person, the industrial espionage point is often a very good one with which to sway skeptics who consider individual privacy concerns and totalitarianism-potential too ephemeral to take as serious threats.

It is unfortunate, though, that the subject is generally, as within the EU report document, framed within a nationalist perspective - nationalism itself being something of a time-honoured trap for the same class of victim.

My most favoured quote of late is Einstein's description of nationalism: an infantile disease; the measles of humanity. Our generation's challenge is to conquer this.
It's a bit a lot of things. I can't find when the building was built, but I'm guessing the 60s/70s, so pretty much the height of brutalist architecture. Basically, very hard geometric forms, heavy on repetition, lots of concrete. There's a lot of that type of stuff sitting around, especially on university campuses.

It appears to be have been actually designed for use as a telephone switching center, for which windows actually are mostly useless. Should take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street, another telephone exchange in NYC. It is literally a window-less skyscraper.
Seems like a bogus review, since the same review is posted for each book, there is nothing specific mentioned about the details of the books, and the user doesn't have any other reviews.
"NSA will accept and evaluate unsolicited proposals submitted in accordance with the Guidance for the Preparation and Submission of Unsolicited Proposals..."

Proposal #1: Cut the crap.
Just cut the self-inflicted bullshit out of the data collected - and you'll end up working with much less data.
You can always detect when a certain kind of meat's price plummets, because then it suddenly appears for a limited time at McDonalds:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mclobster

https://www.google.com/search?q=mcrib
It is new for every person learning it. Every paradigm is a new paradigm for the person learning it. When someone learns logic programming usually they already learned structured or object oriented already. Then logic is _new_ for them and _them_ here is almost every programmer out there.

And the fact that is 40+ years old actually supports my point. It is so old yet it hasn't caught on yet. Maybe just maybe it is waiting for its time in the limelight and it hasn't come yet... Or is that Bananarama playing in the background, and my Sony Walkman is running out of batteries... ;-)
She has some interesting stuff, maybe some factoids were too good to fact check

http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trend...

I always thought she was more of a cheerleader than a tech visionary, but she dug deep and looked at the big picture too, not someone who was lazy or sloppy or full of s*.

Seems a little nitpicky. Not like the mainstream media or SF Gate never has to correct anything.
I don't really understand your question. It seems like you're asking why several groups, under attack in the same way, might get together to defend themselves, but I'd have thought that self-evident so -- what are you saying?
Indeed. It seems to be a somewhat harsher constraint, noting the use of the subjunctive.
This is why shellfish are not kosher/halal.
Bluffdale, UT - the $2 billion Facility where NSA Will Store Intercepts.
I already mentioned this and sorry for repeating but our beloved liberal / transparent / change-and-hope-loving president Obama voted for the retroactive immunity back when he was still a senator.
Seems to indicate the NSA is performing some sort of MITM, or running intercepts from inside the datacenter after the traffic has been decrypted:

"PRISM allows “collection managers [to send] content tasking instructions directly to equipment installed at company-controlled locations,” rather than directly to company servers. The companies cannot see the queries that are sent from the NSA to the systems installed on their premises"

"From their workstations anywhere in the world, government employees cleared for PRISM access may “task” the system and receive results from an Internet company without further interaction with the company’s staff."
You cannot encrypt emails. Even if you'll satisfy your urge for privacy - the originator of email or addressee of email will still contain unencrypted copies. So forget about it.

The presence of encryption will raise more suspicion and cause further investigation in your activities.
So forget about it.
What she thinks IS the point.

She's been in this industry since before most of this site could code.

She is not god or a soothsayer but when she talks about trends people know she has been analyzing the market for a long time and they trust her opinions and facts. She makes one comment on a slide at a private event about people checking their cell phones and all of a sudden you guys are like Chris Hansen busting a pedophile. Relax.

If you want to comment on things tangential to the article as Bram's, that's fine. The point of the article is to harangue Mary for one item which we all KNOW is true.

The downvotes sting Tikhon. Say it ain't so.
> I doubt this will ever make money.

Why didn't you do this more of a wiki/collaborative/open style?
Although I agree the "nothing to hide" argument is fundamentally flawed, I have yet to read a solid rebuttal to it. This article has not broken that trend. While it has given me some food for thought, I feel it resorts to a weak slippery slope argument, not quite capturing what feels truly wrong about universal monitoring.

--garbled by my mobile
From that link, the guy who leaked it was a "computer technician" for twenty years. Is that real, or was there a effort to discredit him or something. Twenty years is a long time in the same role.
alternatively, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good

depends on your opinion of vodka...
Saw posted else where that people probably wouldn't care about privacy issues if the NSA offered free email, maps, video, storage, etc.

Which begs the question, if the NSA did offer such services, on their own systems, so great security, what would the take up be?
President Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex (1961)
I agree on #2 and changed the title as I don't want that inference to be made.
I don't think it merely a social construct, or that the problem is that too few people believe in it. My point is that sometimes efforts to fulfil its promises have resulted in the promises being further out of reach.

The thing about a convenient fiction or illusion of this sort is that the duty to preserve it constrains abuses. In this way it is very different from, say, the value of a US dollar. So I think you are discussing the rhetorical norm (which is a social construct) while I am discussing the promise which is forever out of reach.
What is more frightening than the leaks themselves is the future of this administration and the administrations to comes, assuming that they will continue in a partisan manner. It's only a downward spiral from here.

What needs to be effected is not the abolishing of government agencies. What needs to be effected is an administration that is clear and transparent with its actions, not necessarily the implementation of said actions.

And yes, education is a must. The EFF and EPIC are both organizations working to change the apathy perpetuated by the mass media.
[Note: This is more startup/content provider/network world focused and will be a bit less applicable for the enterprise world.]

Find some areas that interest you and pursue them. When your spidey sense tingles and you think the tools suck or just need work, work on them. Be active on discussion groups of the things you find interesting. Demonstrate that you have interests and can work on projects and enabling tools and you should be able to have an almost unlimited career in the tech industry.
My Grandfather grew up in New Brunswick, Canada. His mother and father were servants and he ate lobster every day for lunch during elementary/grade school. He would hold his sandwich so that no-one could see that it was lobster.

They cooked lobster alive back then (1930s), so the cooked dead thing must be region specific.
I have known Big Contractors to actively seek out Small or Minority contractors in order to actually get the job. The little guy ends up with a agency type fee, once he hires the big contractor as a sub on the government job.
This is an interesting article, but the idea that cyber war is worse that nuclear war is kind of ridiculous.
I may. But to get it started, I want to help set the tone and focus. But once there's a precedent/standard/example to follow, an open style may make more sense.
Depends, can I encrypt my data before I back it up with them?

I am reasonably satisfied with PGP/GPG. I don't assume that they absolutely cannot crack it, but I am confident enough that it is expensive to do. I would be willing to back up some of my data with them, after encrypting it. (Mostly stuff the IRS could get anyway).
1 billion dumb fks can't be wrong
It doesn't matter that the Guardian is an American LLC.

If you walked up to some dude on the street, who hasn't already agreed to protect NSI, give him a confidential sheet, he's under no legal obligation to protect it (though, see below).

That's one of the surreal effects of our 1st Amendment rights is that for whatever reason J. Random Citizen (and especially the press) are not bound by classification requirements (with the exception of actual national defense information such as war plans, military designs, etc.) unless they've already agreed to be.

So is Greenwald sitting on military secrets? If so he'll never be able to disclose it, so there's no point mentioning it. If not he could disclose it today, if he felt like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_U...
This article might be from 2010 but this is from a discussion in 2003. It's a pretty far stretch to compare Facebook's current data policies vs. something a 19-year-old kid said.

We've all been (or still are) teenagers and have bragged to our friends about something.
ha i never downvoted you. I actually don't have enough karma on this account to downvote. by he or she i meant the commenter above, not Meeker
They've said on twitter that glass is deliberately left open / unlocked.
Two ways I could see this being set up:

1. NSA goes to Facebook and tells them to install a server/rack in their data center. The server needs to be on a port that can "see" all traffic unencrypted. The servers then transparently record data and analysts on the backend parse it into something useful.

2. NSA puts servers on premises but instead they are pushed formatted feeds of data. This would require them to work more closely with the company to make sure they provide a feed that is workable. They would store the data and as requests for data came in the server would feed it back.
A Child's Guide to Why NSA Surveillance is Bad
Dear NSA,

The most scalable way to collect your data is to pipe it to the quantum wormhole device called /dev/null. Please consider using this to transfer all data back to your data centers.
>Then it's simply a matter of sending an NSL to whoever they need to in order to get the content of the message.

If its done right, there are only 2 people capable of getting the content of the message: you and the intended recipient.
Ah, remember the NSA spying on civilians stuff?

What was the weasel word google and facebook were, well, are relying on?

Oh yes "direct".
It'll be interesting to see how this flies. To be entirely honest, while the tech and journalistic circles are utterly outraged about this, the general public has yet to display any real care or regard for data privacy.

I know a number of people that are quite happy with the idea of invasive airport scans in order to get better security. It's a hard mindset to change.
How about walking or riding a bicycle in a time of motor vehicles?
One wonders why there is a "culture of leaks"

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/303957-fein...

This is just the start. Some of people I suspect who become a cog in the now large system don't get their original patriotism and respect for Constitution sucked out of them. A few will see the ridiculousness of this and do a very risky and dangerous thing and leak the information.

There is a loss of trust that is building up and that will be devastating. Maybe the trust is disappearing because things really did get worse or it is disappearing because the Internet is there and people get more access to alternative channels of communications ( I haven't decided which is which ).
"Said" implies neither truth or lie. It just means he said it. The reader is left to make up his own mind.
Fairly certain the general truth holds. It's not like there's some missing yellow cake.
The Internet isn't so decentralized...
> And the public reaction is to simply ignore this, and even deny it.

That pattern seems to apply to most risk. There is huge fear over rare plane accidents that affect up to a few hundred at once, while ignoring the traffic accidents that kill 3,000 people a month (US) in ones and twos. Even terrorism is rare, and 9/11 is a blip compared to those traffic accidents. A nuclear accident could affect lots of people at once, while coal/renewables are doing it in dribs and drabs for far greater totals.
Honestly, I feel like this means nothing. First off, he was only 19. That alone should make this completely pointless. I don't care who you are, you probably have said dumb things when you were younger and didn't mean those things AT ALL.

Secondly, this has absolutely no source attached to it (it's also from 2010), or more context to who the person was. It could be a best friend of his where he would feel open to saying VERY dumb (and obviously kidding) things like this. Also, without a true source cited, it could be 100% made-up.

Overall, I just think this is very terrible journalism. It probably got buried in 2012, so why waste time bringing it back to life? It's not even worth the time to over analyze to death.
I'm being spied on and tortured as long as just one innocent person is

You're not really, any more than I'm being blown up by terrorists as long as one innocent person is. LEt's face it, 'X affects us all' is a stupid argument when it comes to justifying security theater in response to terrorism, and it's also a stupid argument when it comes to revolution theater in response to (entirely unsurprising) application of big-data analytics to surveillance.
Facebook Executives call MYWOT.COM untrustworthy
I think most sane people disagree that the right to privacy is paramount when it comes to who is setting and influencing US military policy.

That said, it is worth remembering that more people had access to those records than are members of the Chinese Communist Party. So if the information was particularly sensitive (and it does not seem sensitive, raising the question of why so much was classified) the question is why it was classified for general distribution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juQcZO_WnsI

This Onion video is pretty apt for this entire debacle.
If you talk to the agent of an organization in their capacity as agent, then you're talking to the organization.
This is rubbish. Let us consult a dead Prussian who had a great deal to say on the topic:

"We see, therefore, that war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means. What remains peculiar to war is simply the peculiar nature of its means." -- Carl von Clausewitz

Now, the past decade of war has been against enemies which do not have the authority, power, or will to be dealt with politically. The obvious question, then, is how we can be fighting a war--we are going after the criminals that hit us, no?

Even a defense wherein we say "Aha! But the Taliban and Saddam regime were opposed to us, politically!" is flawed, for we had successfully conducted combat operations against their regular forces and won by any reasonable definition of the phrase. We now find ourselves in a long and bloody occupation---for that is what this is, and an occupation is not a war.

To be even more blunt about this, we cannot simply ascribe the bombing of an Afghan village as an unfortunate side-effect of total war.

We are not engaged in total war, we are not engaging an enemy which has hills and manufacturing capacity worth our bombs and weapons--this is no Dresden or Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Hiding behind "War is hell" at the very least requires us to be engaged in an honest war, and this we are not.
10 things economists won’t tell you
Yeah, it's just grandstanding designed to impress the simple-minded.
Non Americans.

It doesn't go unnoticed across the world how Americans refer to Americans as "Americans" instead of just "people". It is always said as though there is difference and that Americans have more intrinsic value.
The general public agrees with Obama for the most part. And no, the general public's consensus cannot be seen by reading internet blogs/news comments.
" but to say that you can't kill any "innocents" is not practical."

Yes, by all means, let us not burden our efficiency at slaughtering our fellow man with morality!
How the NSA, and your boss, can intercept and break SSL
He's pandering to a simplistic interpretation of the Constitution. Back in 1979, the Supreme Court explained why searching phone records did not require a warrant or constitute a search under the 4th amendment.
If anything, it's even easier to leak the existence of evil government projects (in the U.S. at least) than in practically any time in the past. The U.S. even provides the majority of the funding to Tor that could help you do it too.

Back in the day you had to somehow take pictures of documents you wanted copied, do it in a way that didn't draw suspicion, you were limited to what you could physically examine (and carry), and pretty much everything was huge compared to miniturized technology of today.

And after all, think back to who provided the intel to Greenwald and the WaPo again? The vast majority of government employees, even in agencies like NSA and FBI, feel that they are acting in the public interest (or at least, not against the public interest).

It's not as if there's a University of Illuminati and Zionists for the government to hire conspirators out of.

So I think Ray Ozzie is right on point, with that part among his other points.
Perhaps http://moot.it answers your needs?
Can you explain the labeling of WikiLeaks as an enemy organization and fears that Assange has? Why don't you tell these things to Greenwald himself on Twitter or in an email?

The release of any secret through a media outlet could be considered a "threat to national security"; James Rosen, the New York Times, AP, and Antiwar.com all know this now that they've all been indicted and some of their phone records have been targeted and seized. Glenn has written extensively on this topic, almost daily. I think he has a better understanding of this issue than most people.
That is what I have heard (sorry can't remember the source). But they basically sift through the garbage and refuse all their lives. That is why allergy to shellfish can be common and those allergies tend to be severe.
Hahaha, I take it you were hoping for the story of the actual trip? It was badass.

I'm not sure that every developer out there gets what is happening with Stack Overflow and Github. This is based on the kinds of software I see being developed. We're creating fire with these collaboration tools. The more the better.