skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
verbatim :

"At the Chronicle.SU, we take truth seriously. We take what we do so seriusly, untruths at chronicle.su are punishable by mutilation or death.

Sadly, chronicle.su is not of this earth. After crash landing in an asteroid December 30th, 1976, the alien husks of Chronicle editors rapidly adapted to Earth climates and bacterial flora. They are able to survive naturally in the wild and reproduce freely.

Here at chronicle.su, we take a liberal stance on drug abuse and theft of intellectual property, but that does not mean we are liberal because liberals are faggots and I ain’t no steer-boatin’ queer!

Receiving tweets twice daily via fax from religious advisers impregnates our right-wing furnace of hate, enabling us to bring you the most horrifyingly sensational headlines you’ve ever seen, or your money back – guaranteed!

If you wish to write us spam, please use press@chronicle.su and we will get back to you at our earliest possible convenience, or whenever."
And what if if stand a few meters from a google glass user and don't see the led?
So isn't that then the same PRISM program people were talking about here that was some startup in valley that was used to collect data at one place from multiple sources?
"But why does this have to be ensured through the action of the Congress? If the misdoing was the Government's, it is up to the courts of law to absolve the private actor of guilt."

Courts don't absolve anyone of guilt. They merely determine if a law has been broken. It is congress that makes law, so it is up to congress to construe the law such that the private actor has not broken anything.
Just some feedback on your pricing: $50 is very steep for a kindle book, in fact I don't think I've ever seen a kindle edition so expensive. If this was around $20 I'd have bought it.
Hosting it yourself at your company is probably the most secure way, depending on the value of your time, possibly also the most expensive. Use a small VPS somewhere to act as a smarthost for email if you are on a ‘residential’ internet connection that isn’t liked by other email servers.
That's what I thought about my commenting being killed off. Not that I flooded HN with comments, but a lot of my posts I put too much time into.

I would be happy if HN could somehow block me from being able to see the site at all. I know about the procrastination feature and other blocking tools, but while I admit I have a problem, I'm not willing to do anything about it. ;)
Strictly speaking it's not really the job of the National Science Foundation to protect us.
At this point, you could link to an Onion article about PRISM and it'd get voted up to the front page (and would discussed as legit)
According to a new slide released by the Guardian, PRISM does give direct access. [1]

[1] http://guardiannews.com/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-server-c...
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Ask HN: Anyone Else Tired of All The Leak and 'PRISM' Stories?
We get that civil liberties and privacy are important but for three days straight that's all there is on HN.
I would certainly like to know more about it too, but whenever the government (regardless of party) throws out details of such things it rarely seems to change anyone's minds. In a different context, I'm quite interested in financial fraud and in discussions with others I've heard over and over that the government never prosecutes anyone in the finance sector. For a while I got into the habit of pointing them to a DoJ website which demonstrates that a surprising number of people on Wall Street have been successfully prosecuted (http://www.stopfraud.gov/news-index.html), but in the end I gave up and just stayed out of those arguments because nobody ever seemed interested in rethinking their position.

I think most people (and I include myself in this) are much better at rationalizing their existing position in spite of new data than they are at re-evaluating their position. Of course this is an endemic problems at institutions like the NSA and in Congress.
I will skip the nonsense point of me being somehow stuck, if you think more than 5 seconds I believe you can figure out how this works yourself.

As for your second point: it contradicts reality. There had been even direct democracies (ancient Athens among many others) and, judging by the frequency that constitutions change around the world in most democratic countries you need just a referendum to entirely repeal the constitution.
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IPv6 can fix p2p connectivity, as long as the people rolling it out don't screw it up by using NAT or (to some extent) deny-by-default firewalls.
"Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing." - Poe's Law

That's the reality we live in today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
It's probably not a coincidence that Leviticus prohibits shellfish.
Try using those as currency, i.e. in the USA.
But does this not open the way for arbitrariness? At this rate, given enough support in the congress, the executive power can pretty much do anything -- the congress will just decriminalize it afterwards.

Edit: What I meant in previous post was that a court of law has the possibility of absolving private actors or responsibility, the same way they do with someone who has committed an illegal action under blackmail: they are still guilty of having broken a law, but there are obvious reasons why they should not suffer the full penalty of it (or any penalty at all), and legal action moves against the blackmailer.
That sounds like a good approach!
Is this serious? This "news" website is making an outlandish claim, yet cites not a single source.

> "The White House can’t order all 20 million of its employees around. Someone will always talk to us, and help us understand the truth behind these troubling, but somewhat ambiguous conversations and other communications. All your PRISM are belong to us, and it’s going to be this way for as long as something like PRISM exists."

Where did this quote come from? Who are they quoting? There is just so much wrong with this article.

Edit: The more I browse, the more this site seems like a less funny version of The Onion. Here are some choice articles chronicle.su has published in the past:

Stephen Hawking joins Illuminati, snubs Israel
Amanda Bynes dead at 27, inventor of ‘lol’ signs off [she is still alive]
Margaret Thatcher, Illuminati leader, dead at 87
Fascist Zune Conspiracy Exposed
Granting immunity of private actors for government illegalities is a very dangerous precedent.

That ship sailed a long time ago, and the Constitution grants a broad power of pardons to the President.

My favorite example of this being used block something being Bush Sr's pardon of everyone involved in the Iran-Contra affair. A matter which seems likely to, if further pursued, lead to wrongdoing by Bush himself. Or possibly worse, if you subscribe to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise_conspiracy_the....
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"I've fallen on tough times and can't continue my education"

If this has anything to do with the monetary cost of education I say this:

If you are in the States, take out as much Federal Loans as you can and get the degree from the best possible school you can get into or transfer to.

You can defer payment indefinitely if you do not get a job that pays above a certain level. There has never been a better time in the history of mankind to take on debt. Look at what the fed is doing. There are stories about professors in the 70s that said their college debt basically 'melted away' as inflation went nuts. There's literally no social stigma to having crushingly high levels of student debt.

College has absolutely nothing to do with teaching you skills for a job. It's a social signal that tells other people how they should treat you. Not having a degree will force you to do something extraordinary--like starting and succeeding with a company or doing very cool projects. Those paths may work but ultimately you are taking a very real risk of whether you can impress people with sheer ability. This is unfortunate, but we are incredibly ape-like when it comes to signaling. College is a straightforward way to signal that you are of a certain status and that you can do what needs to be done even if the reasons for doing it are not perfectly understood.

Unless you are some Maverick, fearless entrepreneur with what you know is incredible drive and raw intellectual ability to solve problems better than the 100 million college-educated kids living in the emerging world who can work remotely for 1/3 of your cost, then, sure, don't do college. But if you have any inkling that you may be somewhat normal, save yourself the possibility of feeling hopelessly low in the social hierarchy for the better part of your life.

And, again, to anyone who has examples of people doing very well without college, I am saying that these people are unbelievably bold and we really should look at them as trailblazers. I mean, sure, shoot for the stars and don't go, but realize what you're doing.
Most people working "in science and technology" do work that's very marginally related to what the EFF does.

Why would a biotech scientist working at a pharmaceutical firm be above-average interested in sponsoring an organisation that's all about software patents and the likes?

It's nearly completely unrelated.

I know this is and HN, and HN is about Silicon Valley, where "technology" equals "software", but really, the world is bigger than that.
Well, it's an animal rights kind of deal. If you're the kind of person who cares about that, this might make or break a decision to prepare lobster for dinner. If (like me) you don't actually care, then it's not relevant.
I have a better chance of overdosing on pharmaceuticals than I do being killed by "Terrorists".

And lets not pretend that we are suddenly more vulnerable after 9/11. Maybe our perma-pandering leaders are more vulnerable as more people start to see they aren't wearing any clothes…
He did not say that they require the same sort of government. He said they deserve a government of the same standards and access to the same opportunities.

That's vastly different.
Heh, I met this guy last week at a party. Small world when you're in the Bay Area I suppose.
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Care to enlighten us as to how? And by "us" I mean President Obama (who was pretty much forced to comment on it and certainly didn't say anything like you did), those in the administration going after the leaker(s) (for if this is uninteresting, the leakers aren't in the wrong at all), and those people who marked the slides as TOP SECRET. Oh and the German data protection and freedom of information commissioner [1]

What of the others programs in the slides? Two even had to be redacted out because of the potential of the fallout against NY-based Guardian US

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/07/europe-surveillanc...
Anything from The Onion is automatically dead. I think it's blacklisted on HN.
If publishing surgeon's performance leads to better surgeries, then I would say there is a chance same would happen in military operations.
I think both have their place. Twitter serves as a real time stream of events. Longer form posts are useful in a different way.
This is so terribly, terribly fake. Look at the other stories run on this site: "Kim Jong-Un cancels nuclear war, reveals he is K-pop star PSY", "Amanda Bynes to star in porn movie with Ron Jeremy", &c.

As deadly serious as I believe this surveillance business is, I think people are starting to get a little breathless, and lose sight of reality. Just a bit...
The Oscar Grant shooting by police in a BART station in Oakland, CA is another of many examples. I don't think it's localized at all.

I'm not saying this makes up a majority of tweets. Most tweets are pretty meaningless, IMO.
Yes. But ironically you just created a new first-page piece related to PRISM...
The current incarnation of the U.S government has _tortured people_, I doubt they'd have any problem with disobeying their own laws and just going after Greenwald and figuring out the justification later. If you disagree, then we differ there and on more fundamental issues as well, probably.
No, not really. Right now I don't care about the usual stories about someone launching a photo sharing app or creating a javascript framwwork. The thing I take away from it these days is that if it succeeds it's going to be used to spy on us.
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Something like that...Oil fraud, 1998 US Embassy bombings, same thing, right...
>because I don't think Greenwald cares about protecting US interests

Why is this again? Have you read any of, or even heard of, his books or his articles?

Before you answer, be sure not to fall into the trap so common as to be a cliche for him [1] of accusing him of having no skin in the game. I've watched him be accused of that and the rest of the things listed there and he's used to it. It doesn't phase him, he'll go right on doing what he's doing and that sucks for them.

[1] http://ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br/2013/01/frequently-told-li... item five
You can easily pick out the recording LED on camera equipment from 30m so that's not really an issue. The bigger problem is simply not noticing once glass becomes even slightly popular.
Which is precisely the thing that is incompatible with Western democracy. Of would you like to amend the First Amendment?
I'd be completely bias, but I think we'll see an iPaw: www.tmandarano.com/ipaw-a-new-breed-is-coming-to-apples-wwdc-2013-2/

:)
It's not that simple. When 'terrorists' are in their home country fighting the occupiers, it is sometimes justified. When they go into another country to attack civilians any justification of fighting for freedom is lost. As a category 'terrorist' is imprecise and problematic, and likely better off not being used.
Sounds exactly like Droplet (http://dropletpay.com) which is already live in the UK.
HN folk should be out on the streets, protesting. Or the equivalent, on the internet. Seriously, this is important.

Civil rights: use 'em or lose 'em.
You're acting like this stuff isn't confirmed. Political leaders (both supporting and condemning) have come right out and said this stuff is genuine and even routine.

Your theories seem to start from the premise that Greenwald is anti-US and just wants to watch the world burn. Or is stupid enough to take the risk of forging documents that would prove the US President to be a liar about violating the constitutional rights of nearly every citizen. I find that starting point very dubious.
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"You can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience,"

So he is offering us (well, actually just U.S.) 100% security. Interesting...

YES WE SCAN.
"Allegedly" is a word needed only by people unfamiliar with his body of work. He seemingly spends literally all day every day doing one thing: criticizing the US government's expansion of authoritarian power. Judging from the length and meticulous citation of every single one of his articles, his speaking tour history and the videos [1] of him speaking, you either have a truly honest person on your hands or you have a psychopathic method-actor super-human capable of feats never seen or at least recorded before.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCj7SmjSsGw
U.S. Government offers details on PRISM
The existence of PRISM is now officially confirmed. But the U.S. government claim it is misunderstood.
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> consider defense of the 2A and gun rights to be one of the most critical issues of all

Would you mind explaining your position on this?
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Long time (european) OVH customer here. We've had some 10 servers there for ~4 years.

TL;DR: The hardware is cheap. You _must_ have spare servers and plan for failure because they _will_ fail from time to time. Avoid dealing with their support people (just replace the server when there's some problem with it) and you'll be fine.

In more detail:

- Renew servers monthly. This will let you drop any server at any point and only lose the remainder of that month's worth of server cost.

- The hardware you get is cheap. This is generally not much of a problem, but you _must_ expect things to fail at some point.

- They handle most of these failures pretty quickly. A failed motherboard gets replaced in less than 30min. usually.

- The real PITA are the disk drives. They are _not_ enterprise disks, which means that their failure rate and performance loss over time is larger than what you are probably used to.

- It is very hard to convince OVH to replace underperforming but operational disks. Basically, it is hard to convince them about any degradation that doesn't halt the server. The time you must spend to convince them is just not worth it: replace the server and call it a day.

- Hence, you should always be ready to switch from one server to another. It's much easier to just rent a new server and cancel the older one than to make them acknowledge non-obvious hardware problems.

- A good strategy is to rotate servers every 1 or 2 years (tops) to avoid getting to this point.

- From time to time, a new server you rent is faulty. _Always_ test the hardware _extensively_ before you start using it.

- There will be outages from time to time, but they are rare. When this happens, some of your servers will go offline for as much as 1h. Most of these problems are caused by power supply problems, which means that your server will get shut down uncleanly and may have problems coming back up.

- Just for the fun: most of the outages are caused by them fking up while testing electrogen groups and/or backup power supplies. Sometimes we wish for them to not have any redundancy systems to test...

All in all, the service is very good for that price, but you _must_ be prepared to handle failures.
I means that when you're a scrooge and decide not to attract people to fill positions that you need by offering them some monetary incentive, you have to spend even more money on bombs and spare parts that fall in the wrong places.
When you're issuing denials, you don't have to get together and figure out how to phrase your denials unless you're trying to hide something.
Something like moot kind of kills off-site collaboration (like email and chat) when you cannot right click + copy and save a link. If there's a way to get a link to individual threads, it's not intuitive at all, unfortunately.
The theory of it doesn't really matter. How can you share encryption keys securely if all system is traffic is transparent? Ultimately, You might be able to temporarily reduce the attack surface, but you will always be massively mismatched.

The point is, a technical solution is a band aid solution for a technical elite happy to live half outside of "normal" society. The only way to convey similar protections on the rest of the population is through strong legislation.
Or what if said glass user has heard of electrical tape?
The patent has been originally filed in UK in 2008.

Apple bought a few patents by two Finnish inventors (patent trolls?) a couple of years ago. This seems to be one of them. I don't know if they bought these patents directly or as a part of huge portfolio.
This is a paid solution (although the linux port is currently in 'beta' status and gratis as long as it is beta).
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It's absolutely incompatible with democracy, and more importantly in my opinion, with liberalism.
"This incident reveals a gaping whole in the LinkedIn API that enables users to game the..."

Whole? Really, Forbes?
Publishing surgeon performances wouldn't really lead to better surgeries by any particular surgeon - most of them are doing their best already. It would enable you to choose a better one (provided you can afford it and he/she can take you). Since you can not choose military commanders, how useful is that for you?
And, at the end of the day, if I'm not a fan of a private company's practices, however painful it might be, I can choose not to utilize their services. But as long as I live anywhere on this planet, I'm subject to the choices of my government.
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But google, facebook and microsoft all they never heard of PRISM and no such thing exist, why would there be a criminal probe about a work of fiction?
Since the American democratic process is capable of passing arbitrary Constitutional amendments into law, and since the Constitution itself says its establishment derives from the will of the people, your interpretation is completely untenable.

Of all the hundreds of democracies established throughout history, almost all of them had governance through elected representatives and almost all of them had some kind of legal limits on what could be done through the democratic process (at least not without using some other democratic process to revise those limits). At that point, if you don't want to count them as real democracies, feel free to continue inventing your own language because you're not speaking the same English as the rest of us.
Yeah, at least some good theories on how a yottabyte storage system (10^24 bytes, or a trillion of your stinkin' external Time Machine drive) might actually be implemented would be welcome (particularly within the physical confines of the Bluffdale site). That would for sure be a good hack! With civilian uses, even.

As of 2011, the internet's monthly traffic[1] amounted to about 27.5 petabytes per month, or about 2.6e-5 yottabytes. A yottabyte would be about 3300 years of 2011 traffic.

What we are seeing is the recurrence of Admiral Poindexter's vision of Total Information Awareness[2]. It got shot down last time around, but not with sufficient finality. That's what the "three days straight" is about.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
Ah, very nice hint, thanks for that! I see here:

https://code.google.com/p/libjingle/source/browse/trunk/talk...

That in fact your idea has a fair bit of merit. I will add "investigate adding libjingle to MOAI" to my MOAI to-do list, because .. it seems do'able.
Maybe you are right, and he doesn't care about US interests.

But even then, he probably cares about people being killed.
I feel so sick about this, I'm really not in the mood for any other kind of piece of news right now. I just want us to get to the bottom of this, and for the spying to end, and until everything is uncovered. We shouldn't just start our Mondays as if none of this ever happened, and just go back to our daily routines. I sure hope Americans are better than that.

Plus, I bet Greenwald has a lot more to show us next week. He's probably just letting the administration stumble over their own lies, and then uncover more stuff to contradict them, which would be pretty brilliant if he did that.

Don't expect this to end too soon, and I sure hope it won't.
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