skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Private Internet Access.

You can create an account anonymously and pay in Bitcoin, and not leave a paper trail. That's exactly what I did.

Their policies state that they do not log, but I personally find this questionable. Much torrent traffic goes through their network, and I couldn't imagine how they respond to complaints sent by media companies to their US servers. They claim that they use "proprietary technology" to deal with abuse, but that seems only to be with blocking outgoing DoS attacks.

However, policies of "not logging" aren't particularly new to [many providers](http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anon...), so I'm not really concerned.

It may also be useful to note that they've been supportive of the Bitcoin community. They host BitcoinTalk, and were also one of the first VPNs to accept Bitcoin.
Now now, let's not be too hard on the follies of youth--how do you think I learned C?
I don't have new ideas (but it's a great subject), so I'll start off by listing the basics everyone should start doing.

Install GPG if you haven't already. Include your public key fingerprint in your email signature, and encourage people you know to do the same. Encrypt messages whenever possible, regardless of content. It's about maintaining your overall right to privacy, not hiding specific things. If you're on a Mac, GPGTools (https://gpgtools.org) is an excellent GPG interface, with Mail.app integration. On Linux, Thunderbird with Enigmail is fairly good (http://www.enigmail.net).

Enable OTR in your IM apps, and switch to Adium (http://adium.im) or Pidgin (http://www.pidgin.im) if what you use doesn't support OTR. Again, this will be somewhat dependent upon others using it as well, but be an advocate for encrypted communications by default. Also switch away from AIM or Google Talk and use other XMPP providers or host your own. DuckDuckGo has one, and allows connecting with SSL. (https://duck.co/topic/duckduckgo-s-new-public-xmpp-jabber-se...)

I haven't used it yet myself, but I've seen people advocating BitMessage a lot lately. (https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page)

Use Tor (https://www.torproject.org) for anonymization, but be very careful to follow its instructions to avoid leaking identifying data, and always be sure to use HTTPS whenever doing anything sensitive.
clapper@utdc:~$ sudo rm -rf /data/*

[sudo] password for clapper: No4thAmd
Sadly this is not like you were given a choice in this particular case.
Luddites among us! Run for the hills...

A smart phone is a digital camera.

Paper maps are like horse drawn carriages - sure they still work, but they are outdated, inaccurate and a relic of the past. It's like saying you still pull out an encyclopedia.

You can argue all you want about how hipster it is to use a dumb phone, and you're entitled to reject any technology you want, but I'm still highly suspicious of your work, out of band Luddite tendencies are a red flag.
> All three branches of government agreed that the surveillance we found out about this week was lawful

Turns out that three branches are not enough :(
sorry "understand snapchat", ojr is my snapchat, I should give you my password, you'll see a few of my college girl friends send you snaps and maybe you will be closer to undertanding...
Out of curiousity, what is a purpose of using a separate 'vault' for email if the entire disk(where email is stored) is encrypted?
I liked _THE MYTH OF THE RULE OF LAW_

"I believe that, much as Orwell suggested, it is the public's ability to engage in this type of doublethink, to be aware that the law is inherently political in character and yet believe it to be an objective embodiment of justice, that accounts for the amazing degree to which the federal government is able to exert its control over a supposedly free people. I would argue that this ability to maintain the belief that the law is a body of consistent, politically neutral rules that can be objectively applied by judges in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, goes a long way toward explaining citizens' acquiescence in the steady erosion of their fundamental freedoms. To show that this is, in fact, the case, I would like to direct your attention to the fiction which resides at the heart of this incongruity and allows the public to engage in the requisite doublethink without cognitive discomfort: the myth of the rule of law."

http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
I don't know, I think twice about a lot of stuff I used to do more carelessly (I'm 21 now), but yielding my data isn't one of them. I just can't seem to bring myself to care if the NSA is reading my email. Perhaps part of that is that I can't recall any negative consequences of the government knowing who I'm calling, whereas I can remember negative consequences for, say, drinking too much.
terrorist - ter·ror·ist [ter-er-ist] noun
2. a person who terrorizes or frightens others.

It seems more & more that the people doing the most to rally up fear & frighten us are the people we elected - not random people throughout the world that "hate" us.
I think a lot of this is also economic. Many other types of food (beef, chicken, pork, fish) soon became heavily industrialized, with semi-mechanized processes capable of harvesting food in bulk. Things like trawler nets or meatpacking assembly lines. Lobster remains fairly labor-intensive to harvest, with lobstermen needing to check individual pots and bring up lobsters one-by-one. That means the price of other meats has come down much more quickly than the price of lobster.

BTW, during the financial crisis, a collapse in demand and a bumper crop of lobsters drove the price way down. In late 2008 you could pick up $2 lobsters in supermarkets in Massachusetts. My family ate a lot of lobster for those few months...
Neither the Guardian nor Greenwald are "read in" to the U.S. national security information apparatus. They literally have no legal requirement to avoid publishing what they have.

As far as being Disappeared, even Greenwald can't possibly be that dumb, can he? If he has information that the NSA would want to remove him for, and he hasn't already deleted it, it is by far in NSA's best interests to "disappear him" right now.

If they wouldn't find it politically possible to disappear him now then it wouldn't be politically possible to disappear him then.

Does he just think he's going to string NSA along and that they're simultaneously angry enough to kill him and dumb enough to let him choose to leak it after all?

The very fact that you (and surely many others) feel that Greenwald might release this "super sensitive material" later should be all the reasoning you need to understand why NSA will have to remove him now or not remove him at all.

Obviously I'm saying the latter will happen, but this means that Greenwald is acting like a tinfoil-hat conspiracy nutter. Hell, even if the former will happen Greenwald is acting like a nutter; his logic is all wrong even for the world he thinks he lives in.

Once he releases the information he can pose no further risk to NSA for now, which would make harming him far more politically damaging (as it would be revenge, and not to protect further disclosure).

I don't think he's stringing NSA along at all, I think he's stringing the rest of us along.
You mean the footer of the whole website?
What are some examples of war crimes that some politicians / troops / PR spokesmen couldn't have justified as an "oops".

"Oops" we thought we were killing the enemies of the people.

"Oops" we thought all them were Viet Cong and could have killed us

"Oops" we were over-stressed, tired and and upset about our soldiers being tortured so we went all hog wild on them
Hey, like when a recruiter found me a position with Huawei.
Exactly which government can you hold to international treaties ?

Let's take a very obvious and blatant example. The government of Saudi Arabia signed the declaration of human rights, the FIRST article of which guarantees individual freedom of religion. Yet we all know they don't allow that, and they regularly execute ex-muslims for converting to Christianity, for being gay, and for a dozen other things. There's thousands of documented cases.

As if this is not bad enough, the government officials of Saudi Arabia regularly get caught torturing people they plucked off the street, apparently for fun. One of their allies, a UAE official, got caught on tape (or should we say, made a tape of him having his fun, then someone "leaked" it) [1]. This is legal (in sharia the government has the right to kill, torture and ... anyone they want).

I would say this is a far more blatant and dishonest practice than the ones you're alleging to. Yes the US spies, big whoop. They don't publicly behead people for things they signed a treaty they would not consider a crime ... And yet nobody seems to care. Yet one thing seems blatantly obvious : when it comes to human rights, the US ... is not the problem.

The truth is that outside of some of Western Europe and the US, most governments consider international treaties little more than a weapon to be used against their enemies because of the public attention they can garner using them. The most blatant violators, from Saudi Arabia to China, accuse everyone, from the US to Luxembourg, of violating international agreements of torture. Nobody should take this serious, but of course a lot of people do.

So let me know how these international treaties are supposed to work. I would love to hear how you'll get freedom of conviction, religion, politics and sexual orientation respected in the ~2/3rds of our planet that has signed an international treaty not to consider it a crime, yet kill people for it. China, just about every muslim country, Russia, ... (2/3rds, because China, India and Indonesia together form a comfortable 60% of the world, and none of them respects even basic freedom of religion. Only India can be said to give it a half-hearted attempt)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHgaMqTzWaE
Sure, pull the plug.
Obligatory why should I work for the NSA video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw
ECHELON was used for industrial espionage (European Commission report)
Definitely this version is oversimplified.

As Thomas Bushnell once pointed out to me, lobster has the interesting characteristic of being delicious, but making you very sick if you eat it all of the time. The diaries from which we get the descriptions of how horrible people around Massachusetts Bay thought lobster was, ALSO contain descriptions of how wonderful it was. It was only after having little choice but to eat it frequently that their extreme aversion developed.

Try it. Try to eat lobster every day for a month. See what you think about it then.
Or, rather than stop at a gas station to buy an out of date paper map, you could get with the program and pull out your smartphone and have the worlds most advanced cartographic system at your finger tips.
"Securing the future", as in, keeping it for yourselves?
They say: "NSA is interested in receiving unique and innovative ideas or approaches for use in satisfying our technology challenges."

It would be useful if they tell us what those technology challenges are :)
Question: Mommy, mommy why do all the Arabs seemingly want to blow themselves up and attack us and why do we have to fear them?

Answer: Because they hate our freedoms honey...

/They reason it is presented in that way is because the explanation is infantile and geared for an infantile mind but it is funny how well it has worked for so long
This suite was just below Twitters main HQ for years
I see this happening more and more. Especially with regard to the recent topic of transparency, I don't think hellbanning is a good idea.
SELinux policy will prevent it
And more programmer red flags!

Dead reckoning and using the sun will get you really far in navigation. Unless you're trecking across the tundra or sailing the high seas, you'll need something a little Mir modern.

This is getting stupid, you're insisting on using a horse and carriage in a time of motor vehicles. Fine, I will just pass you on th highway, tip my hat and be thankful for living in a country where we have the freedom to be as eccentric as we want.
Jacob Applebaum, of the Tor Project, showed this clip at his keynote at 29C3 last year and commented firstly that General Alexander was probably the most powerful man in the world, and on the basis of this same text, characterised the man as a fucking liar. Your interpretation explanation shows how the creature manages to get away with it.
The EFF is protecting us more than the NSF. Donation sent.
Two things about the submission title, which is currently: "WaPo: Execs From Internet Companies Acknowledge PRISM"

1. The original title for the article is "U.S., company officials: Internet surveillance does not indiscriminately mine data"

2. The excerpt that the submitted title refers to is this: "Executives at some of the participating companies, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, acknowledged the system’s existence and said it was used to share information about foreign customers with the NSA and other parts of the nation’s intelligence community."

Some, not all of the companies involved. So too soon to conclude that the public statements were lies...but Zuckerberg and Page, at the least, could be said to have lied if the companies referred to in the OP are them (both Page and Zuckerberg said that they (they as in "we") had no prior knowledge of PRISM at all)
CHeck the links at the bottom of the wikipedia page.　Similar bombings happened for TWO weddings, where mainly women and children were attending.

Seriously, how can justify these kind of mistakes when you have military satellites, surveillance drones, intelligence and all the stuff that goes with it. I don't buy in it being just "collateral damage".
And the crux of it all…

"Our long-standing love affair with the myth of the rule of law has made us blind to the latter possibility (We can continue the ideological power struggle for control of the law in which the group that gains dominance is empowered to impose its will on the rest of society, or we can end the monopoly.). Like the Monosizeans, who after centuries of state control cannot imagine a society in which people can buy whatever size shoes they wish, we cannot conceive of a society in which individuals may purchase the legal services they desire. The very idea of a free market in law makes us uncomfortable. But it is time for us to overcome this discomfort and consider adopting Socrates' approach. We must recognize that our love for the rule of law is unrequited, and that, as so often happens in such cases, we have become enslaved to the object of our desire. No clearer example of this exists than the legal process by which our Constitution was transformed from a document creating a government of limited powers and guaranteed rights into one which provides the justification for the activities of the all-encompassing super-state of today. However heart-wrenching it may be, we must break off this one-sided affair. The time has come for those committed to individual liberty to realize that the establishment of a truly free society requires the abandonment of the myth of the rule of law."
Arrest That Phone
Check again: The Guardian US is an American LLC. [1]

It would be in their best interest to disappear him ASAP? Maybe that's why The Atlantic's Washington Editor-at-Large just tweeted that he overheard four government officials on a plane (I believe that's where he was) discussing loudly that the leakers and Greenwald should be "disappeared". [2] He recorded the conversation and is getting together an article as we type.

Greenwald has been writing on NSA abuses and other government fraud and corruption for years. He poses a (the biggest) threat ideologically and now he is a source that leakers can release actual classified information through, if they want. He is obviously very thorough with what he has been doing; he had his computer physically rigged (in the sense of software and probably hardware too) to allow for most secure communications by "someone familiar with those matters" who came to his house to do it for him. He's probably in Hong Kong for safety reasons, or at least reasons related to this story. Who else can travel to Hong Kong at will just to leak stuff?

Try reading his actual articles and Twitter posts. He doesn't actually fear disappearing, he fears being sought-after or... I don't know, maybe he doesn't fear anything from acting alone and will release it all himself later! I just interpreted what I have read, "earning [myself] a Disappearance" is not a quote from him at all.

If you care that much about Greenwald, might want to read the Frequently Told Lies list he has compiled [3] so you don't get tripped up. He usually lives in Brazil but pays U.S. taxes as an American citizen (which is what he is, more than most of us). He can not move because the U.S. does not recognize bi-national same-sex partnerships upon immigration.

[1] http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Guardian-News/1127261...

[2] https://twitter.com/SCClemons/status/343392529913356289

[3] http://ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br/2013/01/frequently-told-li...
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In LA personal directions are still useful because google and/or apple maps will give you a choice of some obvious routes that will all be clogged with traffic. It really is like "The Californians" on SNL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTkD8WI8VU
That's weird I've never heard of anyone eating dead lobster, anyone around my region wouldn't consider eating a dead (hardshell) lobster even if it died in front of them.

I know years ago only the poor kids ate lobster, if you had a lobster sandwich at school you were taunted. First Nations people here used to use lobsters as fertilizer for their crops.

There are a lot of lobster fishermen in my region, my uncle and cousins fish lobster, right now there is a glut of lobster and processing plants have put restrictions on how much they will accept from fishermen. This was after a strike by fishermen last month trying to force processors to give them $5/pound but after a few weeks of being on strike they're only going to get $3/pound.

I know it's a living creature but it's pretty basic as far as intelligence goes I don't eat it but a knife to the brain or instant death in boiling water doesn't seem too cruel, not nice but not cruel. People eat oysters live, boil mussles and crabs alive and they're not too far from a lobster.

Some supermarkets in Germany won't allow lobsters unless they have been killed using a special machine: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/05/03/pei-lobst...
I may partly agree with your assessment. There's always room for improvement. But in comparison to the US, the EU is the privacy heaven :)
"Valid military purpose".

That's really about it, believe it or not.

If you go into a field and there's a bunch of armed VC villagers who start shooting back at your then an air strike is militarily justified, until the defense ceases.

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.

Now, from just the air if you have good intelligence that there is a grouping of enemy soldiers at a concentration point then even under Geneva that might be all the valid military purpose you need to approve dropping bombs at that location, even at risk of collateral damage.

A war crime would be a military action taken out of proportion to the valid military purpose that might justify it. E.g. if it was known that there were lots of civilians and just a few fighters at that location. Or if you shot a soldier in the act of surrendering (note how rarely U.S. soldiers are afforded even the opportunity to surrender in the few times Taliban managed to encircle a U.S. squad).

I, too, wish that we lived in that wonderful world where civilians are not used as human shields and that all intel is perfect (God knows NSA is trying!) but that's not the world we live in. The world we live in has both Geneva Conventions and the precedent of Nuremburg and does not simply define "war crime" as "things that happen which we don't like".

If you try to redefine "war crime" we'd simply have to come up with yet another definition to mean what it's supposed to mean for things like war crimes tribunals.
So many questions about this....

Not really. Pressure group set-asides have been part-and-parcel for government contracts for centuries. Minorities have been the most popular candidates in many countries for decades now.

Another common one is veteran preference for civil service jobs, though that inefficiency is less massive.
Smart programmers are underrated.

The reason logic programming is not widespread is 2 fold:

1) It is a new paradigm (just like functional, object oriented) are new paradigms. That makes it much harder to learn. It is not like going from Java to C#.

Look at this http://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/ppcbook there are solutions to problems in Prolog. Solutions are amazingly short, and concise. They are beautiful in how succinct they are. But few programmers could produce them. It is just too hard to make incremental updates and debug logic programming.

2) It is not really that useful in real world as a general purpose language. And it is sure not for the lack of trying. It was supposed to be the 5th generation language in Japan, the future, money and brainpower was thrown at it and ... not much happened. People wanted to server data over the networks, render games, search databases, sort data, multiply matrices and in not too many of those domain logic programming screams as "this is the most obvious paradigm". Because it isn't.
> “The server is controlled by the FBI,” an official with one of the companies said. “We do not offer a download feature from our server.”

Now we know why they phrased their statements so specifically.
> [The class action lawsuit against AT&T] was dismissed on December 29, 2011 based on a retroactive grant of immunity by Congress for telecommunications companies that cooperated with the government.

What an overreach of power on the part of Congress. Something goes to court to discuss its legality, and then Congress retroactively declares it to be legal? Yikes.
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I never said it was a bad thing. Just a 'hallmark of youth.'
And another here. I'll pay more to not touch US soil when I travel and I certainly haven't been there in a long time.

I haven't got anything criminal going on, and don't hail from anywhere 'suspicious'. It's just that I don't trust US customs/TFSA to not ruin my day for no reason whatsoever.
I had no idea people felt this way about lobster. To me it's the greatest food on the planet, hold the butter please.
Yes, destroying civilian targets with no valid military usage is considered a war crime.

Destroying a civilian building being used as a military facility, on the other hand, is not a war crime, except if there was no valid military purpose to the strike or the strike was not proportional to the military value that might be gained (e.g. it would never be acceptable post-Geneva to kill 1000 civilians just to destroy an enemy soldier). That was one of the justifications the Germans used to sink Lusitania (which despite American and British protestations, it appears the Germans had actually been right in retrospect).
And therein lies the problem. The US thinks in terms of military nouns. The EU doesn't :)
Ok, since they "done so much" to protect us, why don't they tell us about the effectiveness of their program in concrete terms?
I'd hardly call logic programming new. At 40+ years old, it's one of the oldest paradigms in computer science!
Spoken like a man who knows ;-)

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