skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They would accuse you of 'supporting terrorism' and 'aiding the enemy' - both of which can come with lengthy jail terms.

Pretty sure that no matter how outraged you or I might be by this, the person in the street would believe the spin: 'I can't believe company X really wants to support terrorists by keeping information from those that are trying to make this country safe'.

Look at the lack of outrage at the treatment of Manning (or god forbid the inhabitants of Guantanamo Bay - most held without charge with no hope of a trial, simply still held because no (friendly) country will take them - and you know we can't have them going home now can we...)
Maybe he just has nothing to hide?
I'm late to the party, but we are based in the Silicon Valley and we are looking for a great hacker to be one of the founding members of a consumer-facing health startup. We have seed funding. We will be solving a range of interesting problems that will touch on NLP, recommendation systems, machine learning on genomic data, as well as mobile app design (iOS). You don't have to be an expert in all of these domains, but you must have demonstrable knowledge of at least one, and be able to learn fast.
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still slow and sluggish sometimes but very much usable from the look in the video.
> Use a Linux live CD on the "burner laptop" -- don't trust the preinstalled OS

Tails is a Linux distribution aimed at privacy and anonymity.

(https://tails.boum.org/)
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git log --stat
> Well, you're right, tight monetary policy would kill the economy, very briefly. It would force liquidation of debt.

Indeed! Now think that the USD and its debts is not just America's home currency, but the world's "reserves", even "savings" for a rainy day.

So I'd strongly doubt the "briefly" part when the whole world is forced into a "liquidation" (you mean settling?) of debt.

Who can untangle the planetary debt webs? No flavour of monetary policy can do that, whether it's coming from US soil or global institutions. Can it ever be repaid in "real terms"? If it is clear that it cannot, the best they can do is to allow for nominal "debt-service performance". The banks demand it, simply because the depositors, pension funds, insurances, billions of people implicitly expect "at the very least that".

So you print. Doesn't matter whether the figure-head is Bernanke or Greenspan or Volcker or Yoda. Doesn't matter what Zoho's CEO thinks of this or ZeroHedge. Knowing the "hard place" that needs to be avoided, we cling to the "rock" for as long as possible. That is, as long as the entire planet happily soaks up all the fresh shiny USD coming out of the presses.
try one of the following:

git log --stat
git log --numstat
git log --name-only

These flags can be passed to most git commands which show revisions, including diff and show.
Whoops, sorry - I didn't realize you meant K-12.
I see this as "apps for search engine results". They appear on Yandex when searching for certain things, but not created by them. Instead supplied by developers.

At this point they seem limited to just forms, but maybe in the future it could be possible to make richer apps. The search engine could be a platform like Facebook or iOS.
But, but, he's a rapist! So we should all denounce him.

This is the view now held by most about Assange, sadly.

On the note of Greenwald, it looks like it's already started:

Gabriel Schoenfeld, a national security expert and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who is often on the opposite ends of issues from Mr. Greenwald, called him, “a highly professional apologist for any kind of anti-Americanism no matter how extreme.”

They'll be calling him a terrorist within the week.
If you don't need video then I'd setup a private IRC server.
"Don't think Orwell, think Kafka"
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127...
Too much Power in one Hand. Today it's against terrorism. And in ten years?
you can get a slightly more reliable list of commits that are in HEAD that aren't in master using --not:

git log HEAD --not master

or the shorthand

git log HEAD ^master
The toaster example is relevant. It is a physical thing, like a particular git repo would be, too. In contrast, an idea is not relevant. It just happens that in US, ideas are patentable - which is nonsense. A nonsense that you happen to agree with.
Yet you contradict yourself - on one paragraph you want to protect the implementation, and in another you wish you could protect the idea.

I'm not stuck on the title, and I know just as little about AI as only there are strong and weak forms of it. But if I happen to look at Star Trek tonight I should not be allowed to go and patent 30+ "ideas" that I saw in that movie or that I dreamt of.
I think this so called island is just like what Baidu just have done. Baidu's Aladdin project has provided a lot of service in the search result,such as flight,train when you input two places. I don't think this Islands could do something different.I didn't see anything new in their video,neither.
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The NSA's primary mission is to look at foreign communications. The controversy that is erupting here is because that mission inevitably involves surveillance of US data centers
"I can imagine that opinion between pro/against varies depending on nationality"

While I agree that that is true, as a non-US-citizen I also find that slightly offensive (not your saying it, but the fact that it's true). It's unambiguously wrong to invade your citizens' privacy, but it's ok if it's one of us?

And furthering ancarda's point, maybe it's a more interesting questions when it's more abstract:

Would it be ok for an intelligence agency to monitor all communication for criminal activity, so long as they only act on the information they gather when criminal activity is indeed taking place (and let's assume they always act, there's no discrimination. And they do not use the information for any other purpose).

If an intelligence agency has the technical capacity to monitor all communications then there'd have to be a pretty compelling reason (assuming their raison d'etre is the prevention and detection of crime) not to. They'd just be doing their job to the best of their ability, it'd be negligent not to.

While I would of course not be comfortable with that, I've never actually heard a convincing philosophical argument for personal privacy.
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I still stand by it, they will pay someone to make accusations of pedophilia or something. Calling him a terrorist is too close to the controversy. The approach taken to Assange is far more effective.
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As a European it sort of makes you wonder about this Data Protection Act, with its loophole safe harbours to allow data transfer to the US. How exactly is that protected under these circumstances, and have Europe just given up on protecting anything because the US told them so?
I'm in Brisbane, Australia actually. Google results are modified depending on numerous factors like location, previous searches and tracking cookies, etc as well aren't they?
Predicting the next NSA Revelation - breaking of AES256 & PGP?
So now that everyone foolishly has woken up to the plainly obvious - that NSA and GCHQ is intercepting practically all data on the internet and is about to store it in Nevada.

How long to the revelation that AES256 and and PGP have been broken?
Bingo, they are heavily influenced by Qatar. Influences of which help to promote the Khalifah's view points, some of which are in lock step with american foreign policy... though they play on both sides of the fences just as well as any other nation state.
Take in account they'll look at fingerprints, sweat, DNA, type of paper, ink and type of printer used. Spelling errors, how you wrote something, etc can also be used to identify you. (Every printer leaves it's own watermark). Perhaps best to print and use a old 2nd hand xerox machine to copy everything or fax it from a public faxservice.
This time around, I wonder if some "rogue" politician will suggest that a drone should airstrike him.
Ask HN: Are there CS masters in EU/USA still offering substancial financial aid?
Mainly from EU and USA. I doubt there's one in the case of latter. But still, there might be that I don't know. There is DAAD, Erasmus etc but usually the amount of education loan breaks the desire and forces to get into maximum paying job that one can get.

The school/university/course doesn't have to ace those rankings. It ought to be decent though, respected and with academic and non-academic culture.
Is there any evidence that paid Google Apps data, for example, wasn't transferred then? If this is because the service is free, they'd be protected, correct?
Their history speaks for itself.

They were originally a branch office of the BBC who decided to go independent when they were closed due to embarrassing the Saudi government. The embarrassment had to do with a documentary about Sharia law executions in that country. The BBC backed down, but the reporters didn't.

I don't care what country's government you are from, would you like to make it easy for reporters like that to get into your country? ;-)
Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
Some questions from JS novice:

Why map isn't implemented:

function map(fun, coll) {
if (exists(coll)) return _map(fun)(coll);
return _map(fun);
}

Why use arguments when you can name your parameter in declaration?

And why _map is defined in global scope? Shouldn't it be better defined inside map function? What are up/downsides in performance for this move?
Sure, but they can't be integrated into a line-per-commit log without fiddly scripting.
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I don't think many people on HN do things "for the karma". I think that finger pointing like "holy karma grab" doesn't help the conversation or the feel of the community.

This poll may be a foregone conclusion, but if so let's criticise it for that, rather than suggesting that HN users are karmawhores.
They don't even have people who tell the people they know about the problem and they are working on it.
I am wondering what they did do with those 3000 people.
Still too close. Far better to find something to tarnish his character.
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You're not viewing their “website”, you're viewing a page dedicated to their new technology that they will incorporate into their search. If don't know what Yandex is, why don't you just visit yandex.com?
Sorry guys, the site actually crashed due to a non-HN related issue just after posting :S

We just updated the design and would love some feedback on it.
How can you begin to approach a problem in a representative system if mentioning the names of problematic representatives is considered taboo?
Neat article, but deeply undermined by zoho's mediocre execution in their crm product. The data model and search are solid, but the ui is wildly buggy (the back button doesn't work!) and the API is slow, missing features and poorly documented.

It's one thing to build, build, build. It's another to build well, build well, build well.
Buy a long-range WiFi antenna and connect from a distant location instead of going to an Internet cafe where you can be recorded by a lot of cameras in the way.
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It's not exactly about parsing JS output: JS output is something which is dedicated for user of webpage.

Ilands interface of site is something dedicated to search engine from the origin and helps to create a new layer between search engine and site.
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Why use telescreens to watch people when you can just monitor the methods they use to communicate what they're doing? Seems like a pretty reasonable comparison in a way.
Ask HN: HN alternative more about "code" and less about politics?
Not willing to troll, just honest asking: is there another source on the web that would be like HN minus the politics/prism/society stuff ?
Well you're just arguing semantics. Just because HTTP is a 1-to-1 connection doesn't mean web content is not "broadcast". It's there for anyone that wants to view it, so functionally it is exactly the same as traditional broadcast media - it's just the mechanics of delivery which are different.
> Or do they somehow not count?

That does seem to be the general sentiment of your typical statist american.

Governments are allowed to abuse people that are "owned" by other governments, unless those people are americans. Or something.
Or use a website that has an Anonymous Drop Box. Wikileaks did have one, but its no longer operational. I think a few mainstream media organisations copied the idea and claimed to have anonymous drop boxes?

e.g New Yorker has one, called Strongbox - http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/05/intr... - powered by Tor, designed by Aaron Swartz and others, and open-sourced as DeadDrop http://deaddrop.github.io&#x2F;
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The bit that really amuses me is that the Americans are going ballistic because their own government is spying on them but as a foreign citizen they think it's perfectly OK for their own government to spy on me.

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> Maybe this makes me a bad person, but I'd ask how effective torture would be.

Effective at getting information? Probably. As torture is primarily used for interrogation, torturers would stop torturing if it didn't work.

But I guess it's a bit like bombing a village where you have seen Talibans two hours ago. Sometimes you will kill the Talibans. Sometimes you will kill Talibans and civilians. Many times, you'll just kill civilians. For instance, during the Algerian Independence War, French intelligence intoxicated the FLN by making them believe they had been infiltrated (operation KJ-27, January 1958). The FLN commander in the sector tortured the suspects, which promptly gave names of people they knew, which in turn got tortured, and so on. This resulted in the elimination of (at least) hundreds of combatants, most of whom were actually loyal to the FLN.
> the document you criticized elsewhere does cite runtime overhead as a significant obstacle.

And as I noted in my criticism it is completely wrong in doing so: the runtime overhead it notes is boxing in Java, ascribing it to generics.

But boxing is not a property of java's generics, it's a property of java's collections, java collections have required boxing value types since the first release (~1996), generics were only introduced in 2004. The boxing in java collections is orthogonal to generics.

In fact, one of the properties of C#'s reified generics is that it allows the compiler and runtime to avoid object (boxed) collections when it can use unboxed collections for value types.
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in dotcom's case, the calculation was that he would be an unsympathetic character:

fat, obnoxious, foreigner, fortune gained from a somewhat illicit business (let's be honest about the service he provided to both licit and illicit customers)
your a conspiracy theorist...
Although, first comment on the new yorker post is a good explanation of why StrongBox might not be enough http://fyre.it/i3tCXN.4
They'll give the government whatever they like, just like all the other mentioned companies. Collecting more data is pretty much their business goal, so they're pretty well aligned already. I doubt they do anything special exclusively to help the NSA though, if the data's useful they'd be collecting it for themselves anyway.
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Remember Kerry? The french looking guy with no charisma at all?
And we are now exactly where the terrorists wanted: a terrified administration knee-jerking, kneeling before them, breaking the law and treading on the american constitutional rights because 'they are a threat' or even 'can be a threat' ... they?

Man, if Bin Laden were still alive he would be salivating right now.

This is freaking unbelieable: the Administration is (has been and seems to be going to be) simply TERRIFIED. They may not believe in God (I do not know) but they do certainly believe in the Devil and they call it 'Terror'.

So, they have won, and they have won big. The classical thrashing of the enemy.

Has the Administration really learnt nothing since McCarthy?

These people talk about due process but they really know (or willfully reject) anything about it.

"Get all that Roman Law and burn it, it is useless: what is that about citicens? WE RULE, and WE RULE THE WORLD."

S.H.A.M.E-O.N.-Y.O.U. NSA and the Administration (whatever the party, whatever the President).

Thankfully, there was someone with a conscience out there.
MSc degrees in Europe are significantly cheaper than in the US. I think some countries don't charge any tuition fees at all, so if you take this into account, you can probably live with the relative scarcity of financial aid. Post-graduate education in Germany at public universities is usually free. There normally is some kind of administrative fee, which often includes free travel on public transport, but the total cost is much lower than what you'd have to pay for a regular ticket for public transport otherwise. Overall, it's a very good deal. Of course, the question is whether a MSc in CS will lead to a higher-paying job, especially when taking opportunity costs into account.
> I know that English is a requirement of Swedish universities

Sure, to enter you need to meet certain requirements. But according to at least policy (if not law) all lectures for at least the bachelor level must be available in Swedish (if there is consensus among the students the lecturer may switch to English). Course materials is a different matter however, few if any books on advanced topics are translated into Swedish.

> if the American way of doing things taught me anything, its a lot of very capable people don't go to university.

Sure, but most capable American drop-outs that I know of dropped out at earliest in high school (in fact, finishing upper-secondary school is mandatory for Swedish children, by law). At that point a Swedish student will have studied English for at least six years and should be more than capable to write and read English. Add the enormous cultural influence from America to that.

Now, I agree with your point regarding the name. Perhaps a Swedish noun with an English sub-title would be better, "Raket: Monitoring the Swedish Start-up Scene". But I think the main reason it is in English is to cater to an international audience and possibly to be more accessible for expats living in Sweden (from what little personal experience I have, most of them don't even feel the need to learn Swedish due to the level of English spoken by the common man). Perhaps even foreign investors, who knows...
> let him speak for himself. Or do you claim to read his thoughts?

Is mind-reading the only way people can understand each other? Words don't seem that unreliable.
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I agree thats a negative trend
Well, in order to promote the Swedish scene to the rest of the world - it must be in English - so that's the fairly simple reason. The second being, I am not Swedish myself, so it doesn't really feel natural to write in Swedish.
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You're not taking into account the invisible, microscopic swarm of nanocameras that have been hovering around you since fifteen years ago, when, aged 12, you posted a comment that now strongly correlates with later activities that are not condoned by the government, especially since the new laws passed 2 years ago.
Ask HN: An alternative to Linode?
I was going to move my work to Linode within the past week or so, but then the credit card fiasco happened.

I assume the worst is over, but I don't know if I should risk using Linode.

Are there any alternatives that seem to be on par with Linode?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/25/sami-al-hajj-al-jaz...

Oh, wait that's not the one you were looking for; it's much worse; he's being held in a concentration camp; and questioned extensively about his employer...

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/riskingitall/2011/05/201...

Oh wait, no that's an Al-Jazeera story about US Border crossings.

So you're right, five minutes of googling didn't turn up stories about Al-Jazeera reporters being held at US Border crossings or denied entry to the US. So it must not have happened ever!
My bet is on the media finding out that most of this surveillance and of those NSL's weren't actually used to catch or even investigate potential terrorists, but for completely different purposes, and were specifically used to catch Americans, not foreigners.
But COINTELPRO was 40 years ago and a huge scandal that led to many of the restrictions that our current intelligence operations work under.
Fears of watermarking is probably why the leaked documents are what they are. A court order and a training slide deck are the kind of thing that people are authorized to distribute internally.
* political expenditures which are limited and transparent
--> Restrictions on spending = restrictions on speech
--> Transparent means anonymous donations can't be done, anonymous speech is an import part of the American political process

In general they're against people forming groups (corporations) to promote their ideas and believe that once you're in a group then you lose your right to free speech among other things.
Good time for someone to build a GOOD secure email replacement?
I don't have the skills necessary to build it, but this feels like this scandal could be a good catalyst to start an adoption of a secure email replacement.
Feels a bit overkill and way too identifying - security cameras + internet records + GPS locations will all help track you down, even if they are intermittent.

Buy a stack of envelopes from a supermarket. Buy a stack of stamps. Buy a USB. Acquire all with cash. Transfer all files to the USB via live CD - make sure all meta-data is stripped and files are redacted to avoid fingering you. Handle the envelopes/stamps/USB with care - gloves + hairnets + have a shower before handling (skin cells). Print the addresses (be careful here - printers sometimes put identifying marks - get the most common inkjet that doesn't use dots). Print a message and stick it in the envelope - e.g. "USB contains leaked NSA documents on massive domestic spying. Copy files to your computer then destroy and dump USB then burn the envelope to ensure your own security." Put the stamp on. Drop the letter in the mailbox - try and get a journalist's home address, they'll read it.

Repeat for multi-journalist dump.

Make sure you don't lick the stamps and drop the letters off in physically separated postboxes without security cameras.

You do not want to be in constant communication with journalists/people whilst doing any of this, because the more you talk with them, the more you leak. You want to just strip all identifying data, dump your leak, and run. This tactic has been used for ages to transfer sensitive data, most notably by kidnappers (ransom notes), spies (easy data transfer), whistle blowers (documents) and serial killers (think Ted Kaczynski).
Give me a break. Citizen gun ownership is not a deterrent to spying nor incarceration if the gov't chooses to act on its covertly gathered info.
It seems very much like a "widgets" idea, which for me, really sucks. You can't book a flight at search result inside a tiny window, it's stupid.

It's great for something like Wolphram Alpha for math answers, currency conversion, weather etc, but not more. Widgets.