skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some situations that can work, yes, but it's often harder to read unless it's typeset well, and obviously doesn't work in non-styled text environments.
Or in the ACLU's case, people with irrational hatred toward them.
And you saw how well that worked.
Why don't they seem likely? We already know that the NSA had access to private messages from Facebook and other popular sites.
I think you mean half a hundred thousand. It really depends, are they going to movies and buying local beer or are they shooting at people? What is currently happening in Germany is the first not the second.
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Well, he is a member of the European Parliament, so there's that. Most MEPs aren't very widely know, though, even compared to members of the national assemblies. They also have the luxury of being in a sort of permanent opposition against national governments and the more powerful parts of the EU government.

I agree that the story is overblown, although the concern about the whole thing in Germany and all of Europe is obviously very real and hopefully will turn into a greater concern over what our own governments are doing. I hope a lot of conservatives are caught finger pointing in the next few days, if nothing else just to see them squirm when they're supposed to wave through the next set of laws curtailing internet freedom.
In a conversation with another developer, we debated a development that could be "a project" of some form. We disagreed on one thing, though: My conclusion was "might be interesting, but I'm not sure if this would be useful to others" while the other concluded "this is pointless, would be a waste of time to even start".

This post rang very true in that light. It's all very nice to only do deeply logical and important things, but it drains the brain dry because you arrive in a headspace where you are incapable of surprising yourself. Sure, you make a lot of progress - but only on existing, known problems. Those solutions you build are often useless once you get a new set of problems or the entire domain shifts and your very concept of what a problem is, in itself, is shaken. And, of course, sometimes you need to develop solutions to problems that aren't even seen as problems in the first place.

Usually, I do my best work whenever I act on a hunch, compelled by curiosity.

Screw all the tricks about how to get yourself "into the flow" and the whining about productivity. If you need motivation, do something that is interesting. Usually, it's so incredibly compelling that your brain doesn't even work in the "motivated vs. not motivated" dichotomy anymore.

And finally: If you need to do something that is not interesting, work hard on finding a part of it that is, first. That might be your entrance to finding it interesting again (or at least you get that part solved).

If you can't find anything like that, try redefining your entire approach (like "I should try to write code that in turn writes my program" or "I am now forced to code this in LOLscript"). It might end up seeming as just technological wanking (the usual "engineer takes 12 hours to program software that solves a problem he could have done by hand in 3"), but, heck, I'd rather do that than bore myself out of my mind.
That movie is usually regarded as being one of the more accurate ones. E.g. Joachim Gauck (Germany's current president and former head of the Stasi Archives) said that save some inaccuracies many things are presented very well. [1]

Definitely worth watching!

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Leben_der_Anderen#Deutsche_...
And the ideas that eventually turned into Plan 9 namespaces first appeared in 8th edition Research Unix, for which the manual came in 1985.
"The press is not among the elements of civil society that Brooks lists; and yet it is the one to which Snowden turned."

Real journalists should be ashamed of "pundits" such as Brooks
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I did the same, but for slightly different reasons. In the Silicon Valley area, the data from Waze seems more up-to-date. But I found the UI very difficult and frustrating, so much so that I switched back to Google Maps.

I'm looking forward to the Google Maps UI with the Waze data.
Every government employee who carries a gun is trustworthy and honorable while every government employee who carries a pencil is the modern face of tyranny.
> the US authorities may have been reading her private Facebook messages for weeks.

That's ridiculous and puts the whole article under doubt. Nobody would waste that much time on her.
Through sheer manpower however. Because of this, it wasn't a secret that everyone has been watched. That doesn't make it better, but gives it an own taste compared to PRISM.
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Ha. Also, what kind of attorney would have the kind of conversation covered under attorney client privileges on Facebook, PM or otherwise?
Fox News and its hypocritical morons are some of the most biased, unmoving, blabbering, illiterate and uneducated right-wing journalists I've ever seen.

Same goes for MSNBC, but just replace right-wing with left-wing.
The "anarcho" part means no government. The fundamental thesis of anarcho-capitalism is that private enterprise can solve all the problems that government currently is tasked with solving, including private property, defense, law enforcement, punishment of wrong-doers, consumer safety, charity/welfare, etc.

I'm not claiming any authority over the term "anarcho-capitalism," and you can use it however you like, but I have read a lot of works by people who are widely considered to be pivotal to anarcho-capitalism, and I've been somewhat active in several online communities that call themselves anarcho-capitalist, and I am reasonably confident that your usage is incredibly non-standard, and that very few people who are aware of the term would use it to describe minarchists.
But it still isn't a bad argument. First of all, the spending is off by an order of magnitude, and secondly, the amount of money spent per death is many orders of magnitude different. Spending 20x the money to save under 1/10 the lives?
I like how you took such a simple concept and somehow turned it into partisan politics. Bravo.
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Honestly, I'm starting to feel like the lack of comments from European leaders about the infringement of non-American's data might be because they know they might be the next to get caught with their hands in the honey pot. I can't tell if I'm just starting to be part of the tin-foil hat crowd though.
You wont catch me that easily Mr CIA Man ;)

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I don't know, I mean that is is a concern: If not enough people fake the attributes you'll get shit-listed. My answer is really that it would depend on the terms of the activity.

I've thought of a couple of ways of doing it.

One is that:

You need to be part of something, I think, that's in general use and automatically sends junk data that can't be read (i.e. encrypted nonsense) between its nodes such that being part of a network isn't distinguishable from the junk connections that the program makes on its own.

The other way I can think of is that:

you have all communications public but encrypted and posted in one (or several depending on the throughput of the service) online bins. Since many people access the same bin and download the same data but can only read their own the meaning of the message becomes dramatically more worthwhile than the traffic-a stuff.

....

The second one might actually - kinda - be being done already in some form or another now I think of it. Encrypt your message, steg it into a meme-pic, stick it on a popular forum. Since the forum is accessed by thousands of people the knowledge of who it's downloaded by doesn't get you very much :/
I do not support this. Yes, there are "surges" around particular events... but guess what? They eventually end and that topic settles in with everything else. Just give it a few days - and maybe take heart in that fact that so many HN users are so obviously passionate about certain topics.
Agreed - the Netherlands is terrible, for instance. http://www.thehollandbureau.com/2010/03/07/the-netherlands-c...
Just a note of caution, a friend of mine wanted to send their daughter over to visit the US during the summer before she headed off to college. We were of course happy to let her stay at our place which is a good west coast starting point for things California.

Somewhere in correspondence where she was trying to ask nicely if she could stay at our place she said "I could watch the kids or something" and later in that same correspondence we had said, "no worries, its no trouble for you to stay here." Based on that one statement she was refused entry at SFO and sent back on a plane to Paris and subsequently refused entry into the US for the next 5 years. It was insanely stupid.
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Absolutely. As a young liberal in the 1990s, I listened to NPR fervently until I worked in the post-war Balkans and came to realize that most of their reporting there was total bunk. At present, they have a strong pro-government bias (particularly when that government is Democrat) and seem much more interested in weaving a beautiful narrative than in reporting the facts. I stopped listened to them several years ago -- and switched from liberal to libertarian (or at the least a civil liberties-driven liberal).

NY Times is more hit or miss. There's less of pro-government bias, but more of a liberal slant. But certainly they can not be depended upon to report the news in an unbiased fashion.

All things considered, journalism in the US is in a sad state.
Or as it turns out: less.
cough Myspace cough

Quite a lot of dotbombs, too, relied on… advertising. Back when it was banners. Punch the monkey!
they didn't have access to all private messages from Facebook and I doubt the turnaround time would have been fast enough to retrieve messages at customs.
> They are still surprisingly tolerant of the long term military occupation of their country by the US.

It's not exactly occupation anymore. Plus the US brought in the big money through the Marshall plan, starting a big economic boom. Even nowadays companies can get cheap loans from KfW bank that is essentially Marshall plan money.
Before that, you'd be voted down and hollered at because there would be little credibility for it among common idiots. This has been the case for years, because a lot of the information about the NSA published by journalists was built on anonymous sourcing. Now, there's more documentary evidence available to support it, so the US government no longer enjoys the benefit of ignorant doubt.

Now, these stories can gain traction.
Actually it's naming a city "Essen" in the first place that I find hilarious. Just like the name for that city next to it, "Theremouth" (Dortmund).
Note: http://www.revolution.co.uk/ made a remastered edition, so I'm not sure of the legal status of the game (i.e. if any demo or full versions are available for projects like this).
Yeah, when you've been here more than a year you can lecture me on "courteous discourse".

Making a comparison equating a US spy/wire tapping program to a homicidal antisemitic lunatic that played a major role in exterminating 9 million people is naive at best and idiotic at worst.

Believing such a comparison is apt does in fact make you a fool, by definition, because what you are displaying is foolishness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolishness

By all means though, continue to believe in nonsense. That's your right. Don't attempt to tell me I can't call a spade a spade however.
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The Onion's take on the NSA spying
STARTTLS is supported on both IMAP/SMTP. Email from Google outgoing uses TLS encryption (at least to my mail server), email from my server to Google also uses TLS encryption.

IMAP is already TLS encrypted.

The biggest missing puzzle piece is making it simpler for people to get S/MIME set up (or PGP for that matter), and having it work with all major mail clients (yes, Mail.app is a major mail client).

Right now S/MIME still requires too many steps to get the lay person to set it up, same with PGP, we need something that is secure from the get-go with very minimal effort required on the users part.

The downside is that S/MIME and PGP don't really fit into the online world, no longer will it be simple to open the browser and go look at your email, you will be required to have your keys with you. Securing those keys becomes the second problem, one that has partially been solved with smart cards and other devices that will do signing/encrypting/decrypting on the card without giving up the private key... but loss is still an issue so key escrow becomes a big thing.

It is an interesting problem, with interesting challenges and I look forward to seeing how we as a group of technologists solve them. Once it becomes easy enough for grandma and grandpa to use secure encrypted communication it will become much harder to do wide-scale snooping on data.
Probably not even anything that difficult. If you search for her last name and city, her freelance site comes up. If you go through the freelance site you get an email. Under a search for that email, I think there is a livejournal. In livejournal info there is a link to the facebook page. Etc etc. Something like that. Just google search a few things and play "follow that link"

Worthwhile not because of super spy tactics, nothing any of us couldn't do in 10 minutes of looking for a person, but because its a reminder of how much info people leave out in the open even if they are semi privacy conscious, and also whether you think it is valid or not (I don't obv) immigration is going to get anything they can to figure out why you are here if you are a "frequent tourist" and seemingly from all of our interactions with them, the thing they are most concerned about, to the point of being fanatical, is whether or not you are making any money while you are in the US.

In the age of telecommuting, multinational clients, etc this makes no sense. (My partner can of course hire American clients when in Europe, but can't even work for European clients when in the US) but not exactly the first time bureaucracy is dragging behind the way we are actually living.
Isn't the NSA supposed to be for foreign intelligence only? I don't find it shocking that the US would track the messages of an accused terrorist. What I find funny is that a lawyer used Facebook for privileged communication.
> I think the point is that the facts provided by the article don't seem very likely.

Exactly! How would the US gov't have access to someone's private correspondences on Facebook? They'd having to be spying on FB's users for that to be the case...
What's the best case usage for Kippt? What is it ideal for?
Occam's razor clearly makes this story less interesting than face value. I think we can assume that the NSA is legitimately looking for real problems, not ones that involve the illegal hiring of an au pair.
The unlikely part is not that the US government agencies could get the private messages, it's that they'd jeopardize the whole system by letting regular border officers use it directly (instead of, for example, data-mining and send out no-entry-lists) and show proof of its existence to (foreign!) citizens.

I mean, I don't know why Snowden bothered to leak the info, if they're just telling any 18-year-old German girl about it.
Ah. This one is actually kind of credible.

But if the client was already accused of terrorism, then this monitoring was on his end, and surely covered by a specific warrant. So this isn't (presumably) the kind of massive data hoovering that is the primary concern; every country does this kind of thing. (Back when I was running Despammed.com I'd get requests from various LEOs - one came with a real live subpoena for information related to an identity theft ring, and one was from Italian authorities pursuing an insult to Mary.)

Where it gets to be a concern is revoking a guy's visa because he's defending a terror suspect.
>Why is it so hard to have one-click templates that give you a server that can run 90% of what a user needs,

well, the thing is? yes, hardware costs are falling (and sysadmin costs are rising) to the point where it's actually cheaper for me to give you a VPS than to give you a shared hosting account.

Problem is... that's because I'm depending on you to do the sysadmin work. That's my problem with things like Cpanel and webmin, well, and pre-installed services, too. they give folks a false sense of control. I mean, with control panels, I say they work 95% of the time. The problem is that then you expect it to work all the time; you depend on it. so 5% of the time? they are kinda fucked. And if you want to take that risk, that's fine, sometimes that's rational. but I don't want to be the guy who has to clean up that 5% of the time... not for $10 a month or whatever you are paying, that's for sure.

That's why I don't like the idea of pre-installed applications in an image... As a service provider? I don't want to set the expectation that I'm going to support apache/php/ruby/node/mysql/postgresql. and pre-installing it does set the expectation, for a lot of people, that you will support it when it breaks six months from now.
Possibly true, though I would question the quality of any lesson about Nazi propaganda that did not mention Goebbels' name. If you are doing the "3-lesson 10,000 foot overview" of the 1930s and 40s then I can see how Goebbels' would escape mention, but otherwise he is definitely in the top 10 figures to mention.
I think Josh has it mainly right in his Medium post https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/a5890c2c2cc0 - it's not just about traffic but engagement.

I was one of those passionate users on Geocities, to the point where I was given shares in the Yahoo acquisition for my work in the community. GeoCities died on the vine because they didn't continue to innovate on the site building and community they had. They certainly could have been so much more - foreshadowing blogs, social networks, everything myspace became, etc and could have found a way to build the kind of sticky (and huge) audience that monetises better - if they'd continued to develop.
The same kind that run third party provided spyware on their personal computers in order to take exams in law school.

(In other words: Practically all newly minted attorneys in the US)

There is no education in law school in the US at least on responsible data handling, and— in fact— schools often direct students to behave irresponsibly with respect to data security.
If I want to share by emailing links I use SkyDrive, though most people seem to post pics to Facebook. SkyDrive doesn't change the size or the filenames of your pics, or "improve" them, and I have 25GB of free space.

I agree about Hangouts but it's a non-starter when none of my family is using G+. They use Facebook chat, Facebook group chat, and Skype. Hardly any of them use Gmail, so my chances of moving 30-odd people to G+ are basically zero....

With consumers, technology is a relatively small part of technology choices, and inertia is a huge factor.
What sort of "correspondence" was this?
On my 4S, it's pretty slow (mine was a little slow on iOS 6). Battery life is pretty much the same.
Nice; looking forward to this maturing. I'll definitely give it a try once a few of my heavily used commands from hub are implemented (esp. `clone`).
Never has there been any dispute that the NSA can freely read what non Americans are doing without any sort of legal authorization. One would assume that access is given to Customs & Dept of Homeland Security too. Some of the NSA leakers think this is wrong, but I have not heard any elected government official state otherwise.

Too some extent, this NSA story should be of equal or greater disturbance to non-Americans.

Using Facebook's private messaging, with or without NSA spying, is very stupid because we know Facebook stores all of this forever, including after you "delete" your account. That could make it accessible even in a non-criminal civil dispute.
I'll also add that there are a lot of news stories that never get published. Some newsroom editor may determine to run one story over another because it would be better received and increase ratings/traffic.
Would you like to share this status update with

- everyone?
- just friends and the CIA?
- just close friends and the CIA?
- just the CIA?
Or they would get fact-checked before publishing and revealed as sensationalist hyperbole.
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I expect we will learn that the NSA turned their eye of sauron on occupy protestors, if not within the US then certainly on protestors outside of the US. If this young woman had any involvement with the protests she could well have ended up on a list of those that are regularly monitored.

I'm not saying that is what happened, there are other plausible explanations too. I am just saying that such a scenario is entirely plausible.
The real reason it seems unlikely is not about whether they were able to access Facebook messages (though the scope of PRISM is still unclear). It is more that it seems unlikely the NSA or other groups who may be able to get access to private messages care about German teenagers attempting to work in America. Alternative explanations (they got it from the host family, it was actually public, etc.) + vague reporting is just much more probable.
Because there was no "evidence" that the surveillance was real. Now people are connecting the dots. Even if the connections aren't real.
It's entirely typical for conservatives to dislike other countries' intelligence and military capabilities, for pretty obvious reasons.
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common decency? human rights?

[when americans visit other countries, do you expect to not have any rights here? to be treated to different laws from the locals? to not be able to talk privately with your lawyers? what do you think the rest of us are like? as bad as you?]
Interesting. Do many people really use LinkedIn as a central online identity, like many use FB or Twitter? It's always seemed to me to be more of something to show employers than something used as an identity or social presence.
That's $27 in volume, which is a bit of a disappointment after getting used to Raspberry Pis in single unit volume of $25. However, unlike the RPi, this is likely more suitable for commercial use, once you figure out how to buy one. BTW, single unit price is $67.50, prior to buying an eval board to attach the COM to.
You are seriously confused on both points.
Was it messages through Facebook?
I know people bag on VBA, but I'm a big advocate of effectively utilizing Excels tools along side using VBA to customize where necessary. This solves the problem in your first comment (users can define their own statistical limits and methods), while keeping the simplicity of excel and its tools for other users.

The problem is that not everyone is a programmer. A "programming" tool might be great for you, but when you show it to co-workers for them to work with, they'll inevitably ask "Can I get this in Excel?". Excel+VBA allows for customization when the "complexity/ease-of-use" balance is out of sync with your needs, but to everyone else it's still just Excel.

With this, those that can program have the option to solve the problem their way, while allowing those that don't program the means to solve the problem the way their used to.
He can probably be forgiven for assuming this was supposed to be about the NSA, given that it's a top story on HN, and with the context that 8 of the 10 top stories on HN right now are about NSAgatewater.
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If someone has had their real name on their profile at any time, and later changed it, it's pretty easy to still find using the real name. Trivially so if they chose a username that contained their real name.