skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone made a decision that the lives of American soldiers were worth more than an entire Afghan village. That's a war crime, and someone should pay for that.

Is that true? I mean, it could be, but I'm wondering if anyone determined this to be the case, or is this just speculation based on descriptions of the video of the attack.
> Responses like these just legitimize the idea that privacy is about hiding things. It isn't. Privacy is a way of restricting the government's power over you.

I wholeheartedly agree with you. But I'd also point out that most people do in fact have something to hide. So not only is it wrong on principle for the government to invade your privacy - massive surveillance could end up becoming a real, practical problem for many people. Both are important.
Very profitable indeed. And the companies that profit from it have been big campaign donors.
I think there's another reason: there appears to be only one human, and he is both the engineer and spokesperson. If the engineer could be read in and forced not to communicate with either the public or the rest of the team, it would be a more feasible operation.
"Abuse"? I think it's working as designed.
I didn't mean financial survival. To listen to any apologist of our Middle East policy, it's utterly vital for Israeli survival to have the threat of American nuclear reprisal at their beck and call.

Perhaps "military assistance" would have been a better term.

As to "nominally democratic", they're governed by a bunch of repressive thugs who don't listen to their own people - slightly better than the United States in that respect. Or do you really think their Palestinian policy is democratically derived?

And yes. I think the military-industrial complex will do anything to win, and the Israelis are known to be non-stupid. They could do worse.

As to the level of discourse, I thought my response was better than JEW JEW JEW ANTISEMITISM, but your mileage may vary.
I recently dove into this area in an attempt to find something like strace that didn't cost as much (as the slides mention, it's hundreds of times slower to run something under strace). It seems like dtrace can likely do what I want, but it doesn't sound reliable under linux yet. Does anyone know if the native linux profiling tools can be used to answer questions like "which files is my process accessing"?

As far as I found, various tools can trace syscalls and count them, but the critical thing strace adds is that it decodes the pointer parameters to syscalls into strings, something that e.g. "perf trace" doesn't seem to do.
Another Trello CLI which I thought was really neat is "wrk" (https://github.com/blangel/wrk). It abbreviates the output from its commands into shortcut tags, which makes chaining operations together pretty fluid.
This is a great comment. Thanks for expressing your thoughts so well!

> I developed politically during the G.W.B. years and was deeply disturbed by the used of the words freedom, liberty, and patriotism.

I think freedom, liberty, and patriotism have a real meaning and mean something very important. It's sad to see that they are sometimes (or often, maybe very often!) abused.
Personal communication has thought to be private since ancient times. Emissaries were expected to deliver notes to the recipient without reading or tinkering with them in any way. And it goes a far way as communication goes, since mail (the paper, clay, stone, wax or whatever thing) has been assumed to be private since those times.

Also, I don't think my face or height are adequate analogies when playing against my wages, food preferences and trade secrets. All these details can easily give unfair advantage to "other parties" whereas my face or height couldn't help much except deciding I'm likely no good at basketball
Purchasing power is vaguely bell curve ish centered on middle age. Old people don't buy much other than medical and food. Lets say you lead the world in automobile production, then 20% of your population get too old/poor to buy cars anymore. Whoops.

I'm not on the side of doom and gloomers WRT Japan because they're basically the USA in 1970 without a 3rd world nation to the south (no Australia jokes please...). Every year for the median USA worker has been worse, etc, but its not that bad, the rich keep getting richer, its just not the end of the world.

As a thought experiment, reread the whole article substituting in the USA in roughly the early 70s for Japan.

The USA has a lower number of employed people every year, lower fraction of population with jobs, increased fraction of old people, reduced economic outcome for all but the top one percent, blah blah. Only difference is we've been doing it longer, and we have illegals to boost the population and govt expenses.
You started out defending nationalism, and now you're taking a libertarian stance. I'm not sure where you're going with it.
I fully trust in Danese's description of the events in this case.

Not only because she (Danese) was the person who actually created the licence (and thus is the best authority on the prerequisites set by the Sun management), but also because it makes perfect sense.

Sun, a company whose Solaris product was suffering greatly under competition from Linux, would NOT want to offer up their systems technical advantages under a open source licence which would allow Linux to use said technical advantages. It seems purely logical to me.

Listening further to Danese, she describes the Sun management as wanting a copyleft style licence for the code, and that they were eyeing GPLv3, but not GPLv2 which was already available (again, GPLv3 code would not be compatible with the Linux kernel, while GPLv2 obviously would), however GPLv3 was taking to long to be finalized so they set her (Danese) on the task of creating a new licence.
New PRISM slide released: Direct access + backbone interception used
That's pretty much the entire article. If the Yen drops 50%, exports are much cheaper, and do much better.
Google COULD insert ads on Reader. My impression is it was killed for not being "social enough" (iow competing with g+)
"Hacker Faces More Jail Time Than The Convicted Steubenville Rapists He Exposed"

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/09/hacker-faces-more-jail-time...
Oh, no, of course I can. Charities/businesses publish account numbers and I push the money.
NSA Budget: $40B/year of tax payers money
NSA budget is thought to cost $40B a year of tax payers money, they should just play an ad on every conversation they listen to.
I had rather hoped that Iain was from the Culture - sending a Contact operative down to drink whisky and write about Drug-using Commies in Space would be just the kind of sneaky but nice thing they would do.
I delivered an opening keynote earlier this week, probably my 10th. Fully agree with the comments in the article, especially the comment about the application of a story arc. I believe the keynote should set a tone that the can serve as compliment or contrast to the talks and panels for the rest of the conference. I'd rather set forth a unique framework or lens for viewing the rest of the day/week vs. the presentation of a completely new set of data points or theory. Importantly, the keynote should get the audience fired up about the oncoming day's events. Its a unique opportunity to inspire.
Most people? Or are you projecting. I would like a citation on this.
I did not see L&H mentioned, but L&H did end up owning Dragon Systems on the basis of a valuation built on fraud. Dragon Systems did quite a bit of government work, and it's a good bet much of it was for the NSA. The Dragon Jim and Janet Baker built really was a tech "crown jewel."

Subsequently ScanSoft (now called Nuance) ended up owning the wreckage of L&H, and Dragon's assets are back in US hands.

So that example has some basis in national security issues.
But if nationality no longer matters, then everyone else gets a say in how far we recognize this, right?

Just as a little sanity check here: could you please define what you mean when you use the word "nationalism"? Because that's not what I take it to mean.
whoops, i glossed over the FBI part. here's one more on point:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/september-11-attac...
Most? I think your sample population is suspect.
but they are not lying because according to terms of service, you licensed your content to them..... so they are not sharing your content.... they are sharing their content
> When you don't HAVE the data, it is nonsense to make conclusions as if you have the data, which is exactly what you and others are doing. Terrible reasoning indeed.

When you don't have the data and the data is kept completely hidden from you, the only reasonable course of thought is to assume that the data does not exist or is completely and totally flawed. When the NSA or gov't asserts that its data collection is protecting you, they must provide the evidence so that such a statement could be examined. If they do not provide such data, you can't assume anything about its existence or even its existence in the first place.
The French flat out pay people to have kids.
A couple clicks away and come across this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal.
A noob(ish) question but does anyone here use Vagrant by itself (or w/ chef-solo). For example can you do multi-VM setups directly to the AWS provider and local VirtualBox all on the same single Vagrantfile config? And thanks for the tip on veewee as it looks exactly what I was looking for to build a company basebox for faster testing. Much appreciated.
ag is great - so much faster than Ack.
> They are calling for the delegitimization of Israel as a country.

[Citation needed] While there is a fair bit of criticism flying around that argues one way or the other that thought through, the goals of the group could mean just that, there is no statement from the group itself. So they are certainly not 'calling'.

It is a very controversial group, I give you that, but it is not as clear cut as you make it seem to be. I agree that I wouldn't touch it with a stick, but that still doesn't make it as easy you try to make it seem.
The TheCommandline.net podcast is approximately 30 minutes and the Econtalk.org is about 60 minutes and covers more topics like surveillance and terrorism in the end.

Bruce is very consistent in using his metaphors and very enjoyable in both podcasts, if you can't guess it, this one makes a good teaser.
If anyone can make more with less workers, it's Japan. Bring on the robots!
Ask HN: US citizens, whats your Prims feelings?
This is just something I wanted to get out here on Hacker news, I have a strong respect for people here and have high regard on their opinions.

Firstly Im not American, and according to the map Im from a country "less investigated" (src: http://guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining )

Heres a couple of thing i wanted to discuss: (in no particular order)

1. I read that the NSA will start an police investigation on the leek, how is this a priority for now?

2. What is the avarage US citizens feelings on the Prism from a birds eye view? A lot of people on Twitter seems to be fine with the gov. constantly big-brothering you. The quote I see alot is "I got nothing to hide", clearly showing that people dont understand the seriousness of this.

3. Because Im not that into politics in the US, I wonder if there is some law (recently passed) that could somehow grant an government agency rights for this kind of (worldwide) human privacy violation?

4. Lastly I have a feeling US citizen have a strong feeling about their constitution, that said is there something that is going to happen in the next few weeks inside US? Or is this another thing that is just going to be forgotten.

Please note, I dont want to accuse or blame any one person or people. This is just my curiosity regarding this matter.
Responses like these just legitimize the idea that privacy is about hiding things. It isn't.

Of course it is. Absolutely nothing about the principle of privacy and why it matters is specific to keeping secrets from governments.

The examples you gave are just a few things that can happen when someone finds out things about you that you consider private. Many of the same consequences, and plenty of other serious/life-changing ones, could also come about because an employer or union or family member or neighbour or insurance company or lawyer knew something they shouldn't.
> I think on HN we might all agree that type of scrutiny is racist and pointless.

You would think, but every time this happens on HN there is usually at least one reaction of disbelief that someone really gets worse treatment because of the color of their skin.
I use Vagrant for every project now. I used to work with a single VM with all of my projects, but dependencies were hard. Vagrant makes everything nicely sandboxed.

One thing I found difficult is that Chef or Puppet are hard to combine with Vagrant, not having used either before. The quality of instructions and recipes for simple stacks (PHP, Django, etc) even for Ubuntu require tweaks here and there. I've now however found recipes I've tweaked for both examples that work well.
Why must a camera have a telephoto lens specifically? Maybe you meant to say "interchangeable lenses" but that would still ignore the vast majority of cameras, point-and-shoot cameras with a built-in zoom or fixed lens.

Maybe a cell phone camera would not be useful to you but I reject your snobbish assertion that a "camera" is defined by anything beyond its ability to capture and store photon information.

Btw they make lots of clamp-on lenses for iPhones et al. Some are even telephoto. I suppose it's still not a camera because it doesn't have a prism or a hot shoe or some other nonsensical thing you want to fixate on.
If the NSA has the logs of ISPs that carry one third of the world's traffic, couldn't they execute the attack without running any Tor nodes? Or am I misunderstanding the onion protocol?
What does that mean, "lead a Supreme Court challenge?"

From what I understand, they'd have to file lawsuit with a lower court and fight the long long road up to the SC docket.
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Woukdnt most of their savings benefit from inflation as the interest they earned would increase
Every company operating in every country is bound to that country's laws. So Google in China has to accept the Chinese government demands, and Google Maps in Israel already cooperates with security restrictions in Israel, just like Waze probably cooperates with the NSA for its Palo Alto office.

However, Waze using a dynamic map is able to provide mapping for the West Bank as well. While Google opened up its navigation app a few months ago in Israel, it has not been opened for the West Bank (possibly because of map licensing restrictions that similarly prevented opening it for Israel for so long).
In your country, maybe.

In someone else's country, maybe not.
Any idea about Canada? Vancouver seems very interesting tech hub.
"live with a smaller economy ... The latter is not an unreasonable option"

Former is not a bad idea either. How's the energy security of a rocky island with no petrol more or less right next to China? Oh they're shutting down nuclear plants too, you say? I hope they got lots of windmills and solar panels...

This is an interesting way to analyze their 2030 scenario, lets say they only have the population to run at 80% capacity, sounds bad, but what if they only have the energy available to run at 75% capacity anyway? Sounds like squirting out more kids would be the worst thing they could possibly do in that scenario.

Another "limiting reagent" analysis is that at least a decade ago Japan imported a bit over half its food. In other words they must import most of their food, or starve. Again, growing industrial giant to the west, hows that going to work out WRT food? Oh and at the same time as energy prices are going up / availability going down? Lets say they only have food to keep a mere 90% of the current population alive on a bland starvation diet, or certainly not as good as they currently eat now, anyway. Good luck talking them into squirting out a couple more kids to watch starve under those circumstances. "Well the bad news is, we're cutting the rice ration, but the good news is, we want more babies" hmm good luck.

"import huge numbers of immigrants" = as long as you can feed and energize them, sure. Which Japan is not going to be able to do, so its all kinda irrelevant.
> As a practical matter its probably too late to begin a startup focused on the prison industry.

Starting any kind of business that derives revenue or profit from prisons is massively unethical, as the existence of your business becomes dependent on the continuation and increase of imprisonment. Such businesses do nothing to make society better and in fact only make society worse.
Could you give a synopsis of what you felt has changed?

I've been investing time into speaking but haven't seen many keynotes yet. I would find your opinion very helpful, and any links you may have for direct comparison more so.
Or they'd just buy Google outright.
Well this whole discussion, especially debunking citations with citations, pretty much is a big evidence in favour of the original thesis - we don't know for sure pretty much anything about nutrition.
I wonder where we should draw the line between providing a legitimate service for prisoners and becoming complicit in an imprisonment/slave labor system larger than the soviet gulag.
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A list of Culture spaceships:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cultu...
Not decades in prison worth of damage.
And OTR/ZRTP in their chat/video-chat apps. Not just Apple, though, but every company that offers such services, if they want me to trust my data with them again. Same goes for the cloud storage services.
"They could reasonably have expected to be charged with trespass and vandalism but to be labelled as terrorists is ludicrous"

No, it was very reasonable to expect exactly this to happen. They were offered pleas, but choose not to take these pleas. The US justice system always retaliates against defendants that are unwilling to take pleas. I'm not saying that it is morally right, but I am saying that the defendants knew this very well and willfully choose this over other options. As a result of this you now know about them.
Silicon Valley responds to PRISM with coordinated PR campaign
The X-Cube: a 3D printed advanced Rubik's Cube
Since he's a member of the Senate, a more direct route than the judicial branch would be to pursue legislative-branch solutions, such as introducing a bill to amend the FISA statute in a more civil-liberties-friendly manner.
Rand Paul needs a class in civics, looks like.
Comedic interlude appreciated :)
They're doing very well with testicular cancer treatment. About 90% are cured regardless of stage. Treatment of other cancers hasn't progressed as well unfortunately.
The hiring market in SFBA is one of the hardest for employers in the entire country. Your intuition about the bar for hiring in different regions is understandable, but misleading: you'll have an easier time getting a role in SFBA than you would in a region with fewer tech employers and less competition for talent.
Has anyone had much luck using Chef solo to provision their Vagrant box AND their production/staging environments? I'm currently attempting this, and it has been kind of a pain in the ass. Chef-solo seems woefully underpowered.
good catch, that's pretty much a leftover from pre

git status --short

times, thanks
What if they had been shot by guards? This wasn't a very good plan.
That wouldn't be in the spirit of empty grandstanding at all! You, sir, simply don't understand Ron Paul's strategy.
Why not https://github.com/dergachev/vagrant-vbox-snapshot ?It provides full snapshot abilities, so you can have multiple states.
Google has 35k engineers, out of which maybe 2-3k work on Maps. The 10k number probably refers to total number of workers (mostly contractors) that contribute to Maps: Street View, testing, imagery, notation, etc.
This also implies you have a culture that is actively hostile and promotes criminality, be it fiscally or socially. Which I don't think is inaccurate, rugged individualism in the US can promote hostile interactions that lead to violence or depression, and both can get you in jail.
People said the same thing about books. And radio. And TV. And computer games.
Any recommendations? Thanks
Cancer is very often completely asymptomatic until it's too late to do anything about it. We've recently developed blood tests that can detect, or maybe suggest the presence of some cancers, but they're relatively new, and the other means of detecting it are typically only employed when there's a reason to suspect they're needed. I don't know what the NHS's technology adoption rate is, though, so I can't even begin to speculate on whether or not he could have availed himself of them, let alone whether they're applicable to the rare type of gallbladder cancer Banks had.

Either way, I am a very sad person today. I've just pre-ordered Quarry, and I'm about to head downstairs to see which of his other books I've least recently read, and will probably start reading one of them again this afternoon.

Vaya con Dios, Iain. Thanks for everything.
I'm thinking that a realistic goal of screwing with the data mining operation would be social engineering drone strikes.

I'm connecting 2 dots here:

* 1 in 4 drone strikes is on an unknown person[0]

* The CIA must get their intel for the strikes from somewhere, why not the NSA?

This would, of course, require stetting up honeypot email and social media accounts to pose as terrorists and have that information look like it's actually coming from somewhere where drone strikes are taking place (think proxies and GPS spoofing). You would probably have to use your face social media terrorists to drum up some conversation with real terrorists as well (i.e. "friend" KSM or someone like that).

From there, you could spoof a check in on Yemen's Foursquare (Arba-square?) and wait for the drones to arrive.

Why you would even do this, I have no idea.

[0]http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/05/18781930-exc...
Cert pinning and http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962 would help for those cases.
It sounds like you're suggesting that people eat as much salt as they like. Where's the harm in cutting back on the salt?

I agree with you that a lot of our diets (especially fad diets) are based on little to no science. At best, they're based on incomplete science. But what dietary guidelines would you recommend to someone?

Personally, I try to follow Michael Pollen's advice (Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.), whether or not it's based in complete science. Because with diet, one can't simply wait for science to settle things out.
Automated child punishment: Kids yell too much, blank the screen
Maybe outsourcing forums to http://moot.it?
Unless it had been automatically shared to youtube, facebook and twitter on save. And from there, the media would probably have a field day since glass was involved :P
Mission 404 : Internet should survive (Turn on english captions)
What is chef mate?
Sparrow merged into iOS gmail.
So, what now?
As an American Citizen, I don't think I'm _completely_ off-base when I say:

1) Voting accomplishes nothing at a large scale.
2) "Law" can not be relied upon to uphold "rights"; it has shown it can be easily manipulated with money or by those with the power to do so.
3) These "rights", as referred to, or implied by, "The Bill of Rights", are mostly non-existant (I counted...3 remaining?).

This may not be the best medium to ask this question, but...where do we go from here?
Ask HN: How do you guys backup your Linux servers?
I recently put an Rails app into production on a Digital Ocean VPS. I'm using their automated backups, but just in case something happens to their backups I want to keep an extra set of backups for myself. How should I go about this? Should I backup the entire Linux box or just stuff that changes frequently like the database?