skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you agree that if your policy is more jail-oriented, than free money will only accelerate it?

Also, do you agree that no matter how evil your government is, without money (taxes and/or inflation) their evilness does not mean anything - they won't be able to execute on it.

Therefore, monetary policy accelerates whatever your government is up to. If it already had a lot of military power, expect that to grow with cheap money being added.
Yes. Which is why we need to keep a lot of nodes running, and part of why Tor hidden services are a good thing.
The EU has been trying to push privacy laws or a while (mainly because they can't control servers in America), while the US has pushed for non-censorship-stuff on the internet (mainly because it'd undermine de facto US control of the internet)

It's not all doom and gloom
That's covered in the diagram.
> Maybe the sentence was too harsh, but I have little
> sympathy for them.

I cannot rightly comprehend the sociopathy that assembles the facts of this case and renders a judgment like the above. I hope you never need stand before a jury of your peers.
Tor hidden services could help, though.
It could circumvent VPN censorship/supression or DPI since VPN is not a secure end to end communication.

That way you would obfuscate your endpoint against your vpn endpoint/provider.

It would add no further benefit to location obfuscation with Tor, since your VPN-provider will always snitch on you when opposed with lethal force.
Vagrant is nice because your environment becomes disposable and version controlled.

If you mess up your db config while performance tuning, for example, just call vagrant destroy and vagrant up.
What's the problem with nuclear weapons anyway?

As a signatory to the Non Proliferation Treaty the US is LEGALLY OBLIGED to get rid of its nuclear arsenal.
You can help contribute - https://cloud.torproject.org/

Note that you can reduce your costs by using spot instances.
Extreme fructose diet. The company was even named Apple.
I like this quote from reddit:

"People that say they have nothing to hide from the government are making the mistake of assuming they know what the government is looking for. "

(http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_belie...)
Iain Banks has died
Conspiracy theory presumes a secret: not a fog of misinformation to counter the known and open facts.
It's the other way around. Nixon saw the increase in crime and this prompted him to drop the gold standard :p
Btw, the library is implemented by referring to the official Ruby wrapper: https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb
His political agenda is anti American foreign policy, and he has chosen to highlight leaks that support this agenda.
Akamai and other CDNs, could they be part of PRISM?
The following two paragraphs from an old article [1] caught my attention in light of the recent news about PRISM:

> Akamai plays an important role as an intermediary for a large chunk of all activity online. Not unlike Google, Akamai has an enormous power to monitor users’ Internet usage and to control or even alter the messages that users send and receive. But while Google is repeatedly — if not often enough — held to the fire by privacy and civil liberties advocates, Akamai is mostly ignored.

> We appreciate the power that Google has because they are visible — right there in our URL bar — every time we connect to Google Search, GMail, Google Calendar, or any of Google’s growing stable of services. On the other hand, Akamai’s very existence is hidden and their power is obscured. But Akamai’s role as an intermediary is no less important due its invisibility. Errors provide one opportunity to highlight Akamai’s role and the power they retain.

[1] http://revealingerrors.com/akamai_ssl
What's wrong with saying "This seems to be becoming a lot more common lately" rather than "This is becoming a lot more common lately"?
If you're able to make a living doing a PhD (from your stipend and being a teaching assistant), it might help to tide you over till the economy improves. But obviously, this article is just for fun!

If you're looking for a more serious analysis about whether you should do a PhD, see here: http://careers.guardian.co.uk/phd-right-career-option
I wish someone would post an article that actually provided a serious, levelheaded view of the ups and downs of a PhD as well as what it's actually like instead of the overly negative articles? I understand that it might not be what it seems, but it's hard to figure out what's for real and what's just somber humor for the uninitiated.
"Hacker News"... that term does not only refer to some programming stuff - like a new javascript library or some startup with a new idea...
I don't think that Apple's "Developer Conference" (...) is something interesting right now.

As "Hackers" and technology affine people we are the ones to actually be interested in this - share as much information (every new leak) with others.
If we find some new apple product more important - god have faith with this world...

(sorry for the passive aggressive way I wrote it - I am little heated)
I think this is a fantastic idea. It's worked out really well in America with the way we've treated each new wave of immigrants...
> Governments have a legitimate need for secrecy in some situations. If FBI investigations of white collar crimes were posted on a public website, for example, there would be a dramatic rise in both flights and wire transfers to Belize.

I think this argument is based on a strawman. The 'secrecy' most people assume and that the government wants is 'keeping secrets indefinitely at their sole discretion'. The 'secrecy' needed by your or any other scenario is merely a time-limited secret, ie. that all information must be released publicly once investigations are completed. The former is intrinsically harmful, the latter shouldn't harm anyone.
That's been the official response for decades. (Sidenote: most Americans agree with that sentiment.)
To make this complete you need "No, because I host all my own services already".
Somehow, I don't think the NSA would look kindly on that, and who knows how that might affect you. Not exactly the perfect crime.
To answer a complex question: SSL/TLS isn't the problem, the certificates are.
Sure you realize that audience is way smaller then what you imply and you did answer to most of those questions to your doctor/lawyer etc..
Try to compare apples to apples
And for another, we used to wait till people were sentenced / punished before claiming that they were punished.

This is an article about their prosecution. Prosecutors push for the maximum sentence that they can possibly get, and have done so since the dawn of time. Whether or not they are _actually_ sentenced depends on the judge.

As far as I can tell, this is a hit-piece by the defense team of these three individuals to drum up public support, and hope for a reduced sentence.
The BBC is funded by the TV license fee, not the government. It is an independent entity that is not dependent on government budgets.
Don't forget about congress too! I always look forward to what old man such and such has to say about modern law
1. I guess why did node.js happen. Was the developer just trying to showcase his skills and did it for fun, and then went viral. And now everybody else is just doing that. To me then *.js are nothing more than a fad.
2. Reasonable.
3. Php is fun, has more support (atleast when it comes to doing more 'servery' stuff.
I actually looked at this from a different perspective: the workplace. I was only in a PhD program for one year (left to work on Wall Street) but have 7 years in the industry.

A is the disengaged MacLeod Loser, slightly motivated by social acceptability but averse to hard work and risk.

B is the slimy and superficially impressive but unoriginal executive (MacLeod Sociopath) alpha male.

C is the true Technocrat, the problem-solver who's an ideal student but generally "difficult to manage" in the workplace and usually gets fired a couple times before finding the right niche.

D is the terminal middle manager (MacLeod Clueless) whose self-deception prevents him from accepting the fact that he's actually checked-out (in practice, if not in mindset).
The important part of the diagram for Tor is the first NSA character, as you can see it still shows "Location" before you are routed through the Tor relay.

With the location information it is possible to correlate the exit information via pattern matching, though it would take considerable analysis, this can be done by logging volume and timing information on the two sides. I am sure there are even better techniques to analyze exit/entry correlations, especially if you're not using a secure browser.

So having a private VPS doesn't really matter, in fact it can make matters worse because you are adding layers that can be "watched" before you hit an entry node, the more data that can be logged the easier it is to track.

You're best option is to choose random nodes, connect at random times and also look into using Tor bridges. If possible using several different IPS's or even better random wi-fi hotspots, though this is hardly convenient for most users.

Tor bridges: https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges.html.en

Whitepaper on Tor passive logging attacks (pdf): http://people.cs.umass.edu/~mwright/papers/wright-passive.pd...
Do you really not understand the difference between the government having this data and a private corporation? I'll spell it out: the government has guns and can lock you up based on their interpretation of the data, private corporations can't.

And please don't try to tell me that the government only targets the guilty with the data they collect and the observations they make. Many, many innocent people are caught up in the government's nets every day.
If it's not exactly that same analogy it's only off by a micron.

For that matter that is why I mentioned elsewhere that I'm less scared of the government than I am of my fellow hackers, when this is the mentality that is all too frequently employed. :-/
Breaking news, there are a lot of bad laws. Next up at 11, how to ignore idiotic laws and get into trouble. Neighbors say, they where such peaceful and intelligent people.
Indeed but wouldn't the world be a wonderful place if your constitution did apply (and was followed of course) worldwide.
HN has something like what the article proposes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

Although I think it just filters by account that are older than a couple of years, obviously becoming less useful over time.
Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59
keeping these decisions as local as possible

That's federalism, not nationalism.

Nationalism is "Deutschland Uber Alles"
do you have any good tips/links/search terms to find this tonnage of papers? I'm curious.
Also, I think its important to note that no one is disputing Destruction of Property as something they genuinely are guilty of.

If there was naivety involved in this, I genuinely feel for these people. If this was the stand they wanted to make, than this thread is perhaps the start of the attention they wanted to the topic.

But for reals folks, if you are not prepared to spend 'years' in jail, do not break in to a government weapons facility, guarded or not. Please, for me. :-)
>> there's a lot of studies done where people deficient in vitamins have lots of adverse health effects

Sure, that's why you should go for physicals. A doctor can have blood tests done to check, then you have a medical reason for taking them.
Readers will hopefully notice the semi-sarcastic sub-tone of the text :)
Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program
Android + TextSecure = Encrypted SMS using standard elyptic curve based public key crypto.
Principle of Least Action and Lagrangian
So, you claim that pure glucose has no known health problems associated with it? (If I understand correctly this is an equivalent claim to what you say, since the other 50% is glucose).

A random google search (e.g. see http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2011/jan2011_Glucose-The-Sile... ) indicates that this belief is not part of the consensus. Care to back that up?
Have a look at http://marcua.net/writing/gradschool-guide/
Wouldn't it be incredibly easy for a government or major news organization to spam a news blog, causing them to rise over the 50,000-visitor threshold, thus forcing them to apply for the license?
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>>Is it simple like a urine pregnancy/drug screen test that gives quantitative recommendations?

Not that I know of, you have to get blood drawn.

>>A machine which combines the blood analyser

Yea, that would help a lot.
Yeah, it's weird what our existing civil liberties are able to prevent out intelligence agencies from doing.

If it were the Stasi, Gestapo, or NKVD that noticed an Army major communicating with a Resistance element for any reason you'd have been able to count the remainder of that major's life in hours. FBI, on the other hand, went "Meh, not enough evidence to start an investigation".

So be careful about the conclusion you draw from that. All you've really said is that we currently have handcuffs too tight on the NSA and FBI.
Based on pending discharge for "adjustment disorder" in lie of "gender identity disorder."

it could be interpreted as a feeling that there is an incompatibility/conflict between the physical gender of the "motherboard" body and the gender identity of the mind.
Vagrant creator here. What a pleasant surprise to see this pop up on HN this morning (it was unexpected, to be sure). I just want to shamelessly say that if you're more of a book person, the Vagrant O'Reilly book I wrote was just released this week, and it is a great way to get started:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026358.do

Thanks!

(And, hopefully as you know, as an author I make barely any royalties on any book sold, so I'm not posting this for financial reasons. I just know some people really prefer books to online docs.)
Living in the Great White North (Canada), pretty much every health group ever recommends a vitamin D supplement because we get so little sunlight. As an office worker, this goes double for me.

Also conspicuously missing from their list are vitamin B supplements; as a vegetarian I take B12, but they don't make any comment on whether this could have similar effects.
Throw your chewing gum on the ground.
Ask HN: Countries easy to emigrate to, with tech opportunities?
What are some countries that are fairly open to immigrants, and have opportunities in tech?
To be fair, Ögmundur is now out of office and this is as good as dead. The porn filter was a political suicide for him and his entire party.

... I'm still ashamed to have voted for that dickbag in the previous elections.
This was satire.
It's not all or nothing, obviously, but many people's dietary choices (especially those who consider themselves most health-conscious) go far, far beyond anything that's supported by science. My claim is that most dietary choices beyond a reasonable intake of calories and more or less "normal" food is magical thinking and worse -- it's pseudoscience. This includes what we know about human physiology. We know how some systems work, but we don't know much about how they interact. Suppose fiber helps to move waste through the intestines. But does it have other effects as well? Is it good overall? And suppose it is good overall -- just how good is it? Is it even worth the effort of consciously increasing your green vegetable consumption by 10%? This last point is the crucial one, because I'm trying to show that when it comes to food, some people actively change their behavior based on conjectures, or little evidence.

BTW, what I like most about John Ioannidis's work is that he not only proved theoretically that most medical research is false, but he showed it empirically: He showed that a large percentage of papers in the best regarded medical journal turned out to either be completely false, or to have a much reduced effect-size. Some of these papers suggested practices that, at the time, were considered "probably good" choices, and have since been shown to be anything but.

What I was saying about purity had nothing to do with psychoanalysis. Not all psychology and anthropology is psychoanalysis, and I suggest you take a look at Haidt's research. At the very least, it's thought provoking.

Lastly, I'm not taking a hyper-rational stance. I've long ago realized that I, like all people, am far from rational. I am superstitious myself, and about stranger things than food. I just think that the rise of the food religion among the educated liberal elite is interesting. I am very much interested in the history of religion and mysticism, and I always find it fascinating how magic works its way back into our lives -- contrary to Max Weber's assertion -- no matter our background. Haidt's theory of values is one especially interesting framework through which to examine this phenomenon.
Open Source Compliance at Twitter
Darpa video outlines progress of Phoenix satellite re-purposing project
But that's the thing, this data has been "leaving the silos" for years too. It's not actually new. They've improved the technology for the FISA process, sure, but it's not actually a new thing.
Scottish author Iain Banks dies aged 59
It's satire. The whole post is a parody.
Here's an example: Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime. Sometimes the conspiracy alone, that is just talking about breaking the law without ever doing it, is considered a crime.*

So an email suggesting something illegal with a reply agreeing can get you prosecuted and jailed. We all know how hard it is to understand tone from emails so even if you were joking you would have a hard time proving that in court. And if you weren't joking in the email but just imagining what might happen that can still be a prosecutable crime.

(*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Shabani
Brazil fits the criteria. If it would be a wise decision, that's another story. Many Brazilians would like to emigrate to the US to work in tech.
We take immigrants as long as you're not a refugee.

Have money? WELCOME!!

Have a big family and no education? We rent a jet and send you home

http://bit.ly/18jpmj1
A personal statement from Iain [M] Banks (April, 2013)
thanks for the info, I saw someone else with a green nick who apparently was hellbanned in another thread, so I assumed that was the signifier

cheers
I don't believe that's possible. If they have two nodes then they're still not a part of a defined path. For instance, someone can go through their entrance node and come out someone else's exit node and vice-versa. The NSA would have no idea who is going through where and shouldn't be able to correlate the data.
I would recommend reading "The Phd. Grind" by Philip Guo [1].

[1]: http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm
No, I'm saying that historical misadventures don't always have to lead to suicide attacks.
Very sad. Few novels have left such a lasting impression on me, or evidentially many others, as his Culture series.
That's precisely why I said that this is no false dichotomy here. False dichotomy is something completely different. False dichotomies are things like "if you're not with us, you're against us", or "The new research shows that one part of the theory of evolution is wrong, therefore creationism is right". There's nothing like this here; his was a simple statement of the form "X is not bad, because Y is even worse". See the difference? False dichotomy means (falsely) asserting that when you disprove the factuality of one alternative, only one other alternative remains and therefore it's automatically true. (Whereas apeeal to worse problems is not about factual truths but about the weights of problems to be solved.)
That's interesting. Have you ever considered Leanpub before you went with Oreilly?
Did you miss the part where he said NUCLEAR WEAPONS FACILITY?

There are absolutely zero places I would want more defended than a place holding nuclear weapons. Hell, one of the points used to oppose nuclear power plants is the fact that they have nuclear fuel at all, and that kind of fuel doesn't even blow up in a nuclear yield. But nuclear weapons can!
Covered last night - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5847127
"Evil" is a loaded term. The government does things it considers right. I don't like the government of Singapore but I don't think it's "evil".

In the US we have election rigging (almost all states are gerrymandered, both sides try to encourage their supporters to vote and prevent the other side's supporters from voting, and both support an antiquated electoral system that prevents third parties from being viable), peaceful (well, non-violent) organizations have been put on lists of terrorist organizations, we're running a prison in conquered territory in Cuba specifically to avoid legal jurisdiction, we've got a government surveillance system that issues requests to service providers which they cannot report (the digital equivalent of being allowed to breaking in to people's hoses without showing them the warrant). Is this "evil"? I'm sure everyone thinks they were doing the right thing.

Edit: and this from another post I just saw...

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/15-7
Lack of Money is the Root of all Evil
Additional sources:

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=10008...

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=auto&tl=destin...
What's wrong with saying "This is becoming a lot more common lately" and without any supporting evidence, assuming opinion, rather than "This seems to be becoming a lot more common lately"? I think you would do well to answer that question first, as your question presupposes this question has already been answered, when it fact it has not.

Indeed, you have broken your own rule and left your comment open for easy misinterpretation.
A guy I work with, Terry, an Acadian went to France and he said that the people there understood him as if he was from France and his friend from Quebec they could barely. understand.

The French from France asked Terry when he left and what village he was from Terry kept trying to tell them that he never was from France he had always lived here in the Maritimes they didn't believe him they thought he left France maybe ten years ago.
Latest available source code is for v2.4 here http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Source_code - newer versions are not free software.

Map was never free data - I think they started with OSM, but later switched to a proprietary data source (and of course, they are crowdsourcing more data and updates from users)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent_crime_rates_by_gen...

This is quite surprising if accurate. I would have thought the rate of violent crime for men would be much higher than women but they are about the same.
I am so glad he had the chance to see how much he and his work are appreciated, and by so many people. RIP.
Ever since Google, Facebook and likes became main stream (massive centralized service providers) I have never been fully comfortable with using their services. I guess the recent NSA stories have may just tipped me into embracing distributed computing as the answer to these centralized services.

More and more I have been thinking that in the next 10-15 years, just like back when they made computing personalized and in turn distributed, the next wave of the same will be happen with mobile. Think about it as MPC (mobile personal/pocket computer). I also think that most of the time users are better off hosting thier own services. I imagine a 'OS' if you will that has a in built service in a light weight facing, e.g. inbuilt mail server, inbuilt photo sharing service, in built website hosting service. if you are on the grid your services are accessible and function as needed. if you are off the grid some services may not work or may be in standy mode. either ways your data is in your control.

May be this is a separate post....