skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He would have to do that to protect himself. Nobody is going to take it seriously when they discover child porn on his computer, or he turns out to be a russian spy and he isn't going to rot in gitmo (or worse, the secret prisions we don't even know about but which most certainly exist somewhere, probably either in som eastern european country or in the middle-east). They will have to try him in the US, and they would have serious problems on their hands if they treat him like Bradley Mannning.
Its the difference between tactical secrecy and strategic secrecy. Operations that require strategic secrecy rarely work. The best example successful strategic secrecy being the "Ultra" secret which required secrecy for no more than a few years and the success of the "Ultra" secret is less a success of secrecy and more a failure of imagination by the German High Command.

Most secrets are tactical secrets like the plan to attack pearl harbor. They require short term secrecy and the utility of that secrecy declines quickly with time. The period of time is short enough that even if it is leaked the window of risk is small (US learned about Pearl Harbor but by the time Pearl Harbor got the news it was too late).

Tactical secrecy has a high utility and a low social cost because the secrets aren't keep long. Strategic secrecy has a low utility since most plans that require it are bad plans and it has a high social cost in terms of stifling debates about policy.

Almost no one complains about tactical secrecy, all these complaints are about strategic secrecy.
"Everything they say can, and will be used against them". I just hope they make a lot of mistakes and lie a lot in the media before they realize that, and by the time this is over their credibility will be zero, and someone gets impeached (from the FISA judges to the intelligence committee, and even the president).

By the way, I suggest you watch this guy's speech. It's pretty powerful, especially if you're an American:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etm4dHdaApo

I can only hope that's how all Americans are feeling right now, because that's needed if things are going to change.
Edward Snowden identified as source of NSA leaks
Absolutely. I will not cover version 2 of Vagrant until Vagrant 2.0 is actually released. The book uses version 1 configuration syntax running in the latest version of Vagrant. This allows you to get all the benefits of the latest stability improvements, while using a stable configuration syntax.

The book will be fully updated to version 2.0 when that is stable, in the sense that configuration will no longer change. Thousands of companies are already on the latest version of Vagrant and using it without issue.
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I had no say in the animal. :)
Could we even trust the numbers? It's like, if they lie about the system existing, what else is fair game?
Actually, Congress can pass any law they damn well please. It's not until the courts deal with it that an unconstitutional law (in the opinion of a court interpreting law and precedent) can be thrown out.

My original post was operating under the assumption that all branches would abide by the legitimate actions of the other branches. Grandparent is pointing out that sometimes this doesn't happen. Always a possibility, but not something I expect to see very often.
I would say that hopefully there isn't more to reveal, from his point of view or anybody elses, but I do suspect you are, unfortunately, right.
Rand, not Ron.

But, yes, I believe this is probably of a piece with his drone filibuster in terms of being political theatrics.
Nice. I'm working on an experiment that'll fly on the ISS next year, using 4 ARM processors. It will also be running debian:

Linux stick1 2.6.39 #1 Mon Aug 15 19:04:09 PDT 2011 armv7l GNU/Linux

And:

root@stick1:/usr/share# cat /etc/issue.net
Debian GNU/Linux 7.0

Should be interesting. :-)
So pretty much your argument boils down to, "such a lookup table cannot exist, therefore any argument using it is irrelevant." Note that even Scott Aaronson disagrees with you in the article you cited.

If we were having this debate in the XVIII-th century, you could equally as well assert that any machine capable of playing chess should be considered a person. The motivation is exactly the same as with the Turing test: so far only humans can play chess, humans are sentient, QED.

Say someone said, "But what if a machine used a minimax algorithm." To which you could respond, armed with your knowledge of XVIIIth century technology, "Such thing cannot exist therefore it's an irrelevant question."

As for the creation of such a table, not that I consider that question particularly relevant, but here it is: Say a crazy scientist in the future created a program that actually simulated a human brain, then ran it (on future super-fast hardware) on every possible input (once again, the size of the input is bounded by the maximum length of a conversation a human can have), and stored the results on future super-large hard drives. Then he deleted the human brain simulation program, and gave you just the lookup table. The act of deleting the original program we may very well consider murder. But what about the generated lookup table?
This man is a real hero. He actually put himself on the line to move society forward. I feel like his release was the tipping point, people are starting to wake up.
I moved here from the U.S. The process was fairly fast and simple, and as soon as you have a work permit you get all of the social benefits. It only takes 5 years to get citizenship, too.

It's supposed to be fairly easy to bring a spouse (different or same sex), or even an "unmarried cohabitating partner" with you.

They even offer work permits for self-employed workers, though that requires quite a bit of extra paperwork (you have to proof self-sufficiency). I heard you can start a business here and request something like a 2-year grace period before you have to proof you are self-sufficient.
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Well of course they do, but it gives them a propaganda opportunity to appear as champions of free speech, "unlike the Americans who spy on their citizens". He would not accept asylum in China anyway.
PSA: Three old geezers shouldn't be able to bypass nuclear weapon facility "security".
> A "challenging company" in the bay area is going to throw you head first into a technology that not only you do not know, but nobody knows. You will be expected to create original algorithms and ideas. Your work will be regularly reviewed for patentable ideas. Every day when I walk into the office I walk into the unknown - google and textbooks are no help except to point the way. It someone else had already figured it out they would already have the business. I have no idea if you are capable of that or not, but nothing that you've linked says you are. Change the links, or your plans ;)

That seems awesome. What do you do exactly? I was under the impression that most start ups in SV were about social or e-commerce stuff.
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I'm working on this now. I won't say much more than that until I have something to really show for it.

Development environments are the primary focus on Vagrant because that was the pain point it was initially meant to solve, and it does this quite well. The workflow model Vagrant introduces doesn't translate as well into staging/production yet. I'm actively investigating the use cases here and how Vagrant may adapt to it (if at all).
A SCOTUS decision is supposed to be binding to whatever act HAD been passed. Whether that happens in effect is entirely dependent on the (usually) executive branch complying with the SCOTUS ruling. Congress can, if it wanted, re-pass the law. Obviously, it would make a subsequent suit and overturning easier, but in reality, it can, and has happened in the past.
Those things are covered and if you would have taken the time to do even a cursory review before writing your baseless dismissal you would have seen this.

It's clear this is an evolving project. I don't believe Derek Sivers would do a project like you making it out to be and I don't think you have any basis to think he is, even if you don't know who he is.

Just to quickly address some things where you've missed the point: these are entrepreneurs' guides; these are targeted at an American and other non-Asian markets so it's important to answer questions from that perspective, regardless if you think they're irrelevant (you can't know what's irrelevant until someone tells you or you learn from experience); it's amusing that the "contents are a joke" when they address the things you have asked for.

And from above:

> Come on... this is lowly. Just because you have some money to spam-market quick-e-books with doesn't mean you are the arbiter of truth. Hire a real writer, do some real research, and be honest about it. Without quality, there is little point in publishing.
Fail.

Go look at the content before before making such claims ("lowly...spam...without quality") and advising them on their methods. After you've done that, how about focusing on the content?

Sorry for the tone but I can't stand these types of off-base dismissals and ending it with "fail" is just the icing on the cake. Derek Sivers is a respected member of the community that just spent the last nearly two years of his life on this and deserves better than these as the top comments on his announcement.
I'll tell you what I really like about this. If you have a setup where information in the right column is providing clarifying information about what is on the left (NOT vice versa)...

Based on the responsive design of the grid, if you resize the window smaller, it puts the "context" directly underneath and you can offset based on color. That's at least based on a 2 column system. I haven't tested it on multiple sets yet but it works for what I need it for.
I think it's almost certain the guy will have some problems not long in the future. One question that comes to mind is how a supposed intelligence organization allowed someone who subscribes to EFF thinking even come to know about this surveillance. Shouldn't the NSA be doing some kind of screening to make sure the people they hire don't have ideals diametrically opposed to their practices?
I've been reading far too much about the downsides lately when trying to decide if I want to do it, so this was a fun diversion. I'm 28, fresh out of a CS MS program, work full time at a job doing computer security 'research' and really still feel like I don't know as much I as I want too.

Interesting, the question about family/friends is what peaked my interest. My girlfriend of 10 years is about ready to kill me if I commit 4-6 more years.
This post is inaccurate about how Mr. Stallman uses the internet, among other things. See:

stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html
stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
I'm curious - would you say the same thing if it was a kid in rural, bible-thumping Arkansas with secular, scientifically-educated parents who want him to learn about evolution without interference?

It's easy to forget that sometimes whole communities of people - sometimes millions of them - have values different from ours. And that there are people like us who are minorities in those communities. You can't protect the rights of those minorities without also protecting the rights of minorities within our communities, as strange as their beliefs may be.
The sign on the fence said "trespassing is punishable up to 1 year in jail".
on related note - Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in MA (and, thanks to ALEC, coming soon to your state).
You can do that without much trouble, start by setting @gridColumns to 24 instead of 12.
What are the implications of NSA surveillance on the average Internet user?
Thanks for taking time to write such an honest response. I realize my mistake that I haven't listed any projects explicitly.

I expected people to look at "Repositories contributed to" in my github profile for project experience. I guess it was my fault for assuming something like this.

Aside from projects listed there I also worked on the eval server for http://rubymonk.com/ and http://pythonmonk.com/.
Am I the only person who dislikes the headline?

"Turning a pacifist into a violent terrorist" is what happens when you send someone to Gitmo, break him, convince him the world has no meaning except for through violent terrorism, etc.

Prosecuting a protesting pacifist under laws meant for terrorism doesn't "turn them into" violent terrorists; I'd be perfectly comfortable around them/not afraid they would kill me, although I do think they should get some slight punishment for destroying government property and trespass (suspended), while the security at Oak Ridge should get vastly more scrutiny.
Actually, you're right. Python's functionality is pretty close to C#'s. Clojure just happens to be the language that introduced the concept of non-single-class polymorphism to me.

Rich Hickey's pretty open about the fact that there's very few original ideas in Clojure. When he presented the new reader/EDN features of Clojure 1.4, someone in the crowd told him it was very similar to YAML. He said "I didn't know that, I ripped it off Erlang, but I'm sure other people have had the same idea." (words to that effect)
Neither NBC News or CNN is showing this on their front page. Odd.
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I don't think it is as insane as you might think. He is guessing that the government would figure out who it was that leaked the information and then they would come after him.

The original law was on incredibly shaky ground however and the goverment isn't likely to want this issue to end up in court ever, so they would have to either terminate him (the nine-milimeter kind of termination) or prosecute him for child porn or something like that, or disappear him. Right now his name is published everywhere so they can't really do any of these things.
Q: Washington-based foreign affairs analyst Steve Clemons said he overheard at the capital's Dulles airport four men discussing an intelligence conference they had just attended. Speaking about the leaks, one of them said, according to Clemons, that both the reporter and leaker should be "disappeared". How do you feel about that?

In Dulles UAL lounge listening to 4 US intel officials saying loudly leaker & reporter on #NSA stuff should be disappeared recorded a bit
— Steve Clemons (@SCClemons) June 8, 2013

A: "Someone responded to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process – they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general."

-From the written Q & A, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblowe...

The tweet by Steve Clemons- https://twitter.com/SCClemons/status/343392529913356289
Incidentally, I don't know about the situation in the US, but in the UK this is one of the key rationales for this kind of action. Since it is a defence to argue that your actions were motivated by the need to prevent a greater crime, this kind of action potentially presents an opportunity to raise the legality of the state's nuclear weapons policy in court. As the article says:

> The U.S. Attorney’s office filed a document they called “Motion to Preclude Defendants from Introducing Evidence in Support of Certain Justification Defenses.” In this motion, the U.S. asked the court to bar the peace protestors from being allowed to put on any evidence regarding the illegality of nuclear weapons, the immorality of nuclear weapons, international law, or religious, moral or political beliefs regarding nuclear weapons, the Nuremberg principles developed after WWII, First Amendment protections, necessity or US policy regarding nuclear weapons.
Whenever Amira Hass tries to explain her vocation as a journalist, she recalls a seminal moment in her mother's life. Hannah Hass was being marched from a cattle train to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen on a summer's day in 1944. "She and the other women had been 10 days in the train from Yugoslavia. They were sick and some were dying. Then my mother saw these German women looking at the prisoners, just looking. This image became very formative in my upbringing, this despicable 'looking from the side'. It's as if I was there and saw it myself." Amira Hass stares at you through wire-framed glasses as she speaks, anxious to make sure you have understood the importance of the Jewish Holocaust in her life.
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There is a difference. China isn't too interested in a trade war over copyright infringement, but it is also an up-and comming world power, so they might decide that the propaganda win is big enough that they are going to keep him.
The driver of the truck that came to grief on the I-35W bridge should be sweating then.
In general, I would agree. However, I happened to hear a presentation by a former IT manager from California Dept of Corrections. Using data, they were able to figure out that a sudden increase in the purchases of Ramen was a precursor to a riot. The theory being, inmates knew it would go crazy and they would be locked down.

That kind of big data analysis is helpful to the guards, inmates, and taxpayers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)
This should be renamed to 'How well do you know Browser Quirks?' as the test is more about that than HTML itself
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"I sitting at my desk certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president if I had a personal email"

"I had access to the full rosters of everyone working in the NSA, the entire intelligence community and undercover assets all around the world, the locations of every station, we have what their missions are"

Wow, is this guy for real? It sounds crazy.
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> I realized something: he doesn't know numbers. With the abacus, you don't have to memorize a lot of arithmetic combinations; all you have to do is to learn to push the little beads up and down. You don't have to memorize 9+7=16; you just know that when you add 9, you push a ten's bead up and pull a one's bead down. So we're slower at basic arithmetic, but we know numbers.

A cautionary tale about tools.
I'm guessing that it's stealing the small and large grids from Zurb Foundation.
I'm extremely pleased he's so well spoken. Good luck, Edward Snowden.
A lot of info is out there if you can sift through the breathless hyperbole: http://m.theweek.com/article.php?id=245360
>The problem with this sort of analysis is that there are EXTENSIVE efforts to reduce the amount of terrorism.

the question here whether there are EFFECTIVE efforts. As Boston Marathon shows - no. Like in other times and other countries, anybody who wants is still able to commit such atrocious terrorist acts, despite the EXTENSIVE efforts. Governments just like EXTENSIVE efforts.
No, they would likely be prosecuting him for taking the documents that he gave to the reporters. I don't see how that would confirm the media's interpretation of those documents some of which appear to be slide decks absent the context of the verbal presentation that probably went with them. From this article it doesn't sound like he thinks anything legally improper is currently going on. His point seems to be that if someone decided to change the law tomorrow and do away with our rights then the technology is in place to implement that very quickly.
Let's not forget Mark Klein either, or history might repeat itself...
> When will we finally get to the bottom of what PRISM actually is?

Is there any particular reason why you don't believe the fact sheet from the Director of National Intelligence[1] or Marc Ambinder[2]?

According to these sources (selected excerpts):

> PRISM is not an undisclosed collection or data mining program.

> PRISM is a kick-ass GUI that allows an analyst to look at, collate, monitor, and cross-check different data types provided to the NSA from internet companies located inside the United States.

> All such information is obtained with FISA Court approval and with the knowledge of the provider based upon a written directive from the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence.

1. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8dPmI7DfkxMejNyazZYMl93dlk/...

2. http://theweek.com/article/index/245360/solving-the-mystery-...
It's quite baffling that a low-level IT contractor is given this much access and also is making $200,000/year. Why is so much of government farmed out to contractors?

Also, isn't there a large risk that someone at the bottom of the chain grossly misunderstands the materials he is leaking?
Even the smallest men can cast great shadows.

The last paragraph of your comment expresses a fear that is rational, but one that we need to abandon as a community. If we are afraid to even post support for a controversial cause on the internet, then we are already lost.

We do not all need to be whistleblowers. We can champion liberty and freedom of privacy in our own ways. The first step is being brave enough to stand up for what is right, no matter who we are, no matter how apparently small our sphere of influence is.

The government should be at the mercy of the vox populi, not vice versa. It is our duty - our inalienable right - to support and rally for those who care more about the triumph of democracy and liberty than their own safety.
Actually, the opposite is true.
When you join EU you sign a document that basically makes any EU law above given states constitution. Unfortunately it's not common knowledge.
You would think. I hope you are right but people seem a lot more preoccupied with the Kardashians and Lindsay Lohan. Even smart people with college degrees and everything.
Seems balancing the budget is a simple matter of legalizing drugs. Attacks the spend side through fewer prosecutions and incarcerations. Use the money from drug taxes to pay for treatment programs and attacking the revenue side of the budget deficit.

Are there really that many people in the country that are upright about drugs? I've never done a drug in my life but I certainly don't care if others do in a manner similar to alcohol.
Try hiring 10,000 good CNE people with support of the EFF as a red flag. Who works in this field and doesn't support the EFF?
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This isn't particularly important, but I found it curious..

> "I don't see myself as a hero," he said, "because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity."

It's not self-interested in that way, really - had he chosen to be anonymous (and never been found out) then that logic could work, but with where his life is now, surely what the NSA does in America will pretty much never be relevant to him personally ever again. And he must realise this himself, so I wonder why he used those words - I guess modesty (or perhaps false modesty), but would have thought he could have come up with a better way of being modest.

Maybe his motive was fame, maybe it was doing the right thing, hell maybe he was depressed and looking for some excitement in his life. Doesn't really matter to anyone except himself, and people should consider him a hero or not based on whether they agree with what he did, not why he did it.

And I'd certainly call him a hero.
It's weird. On the one hand he makes them sound all-knowing. On the other hand they sound completely incompetent.
That's like saying that if there are any reports of measles, the entire vaccination regime is a failure.

I agree that we need to know more about the efforts to understand if they're working.

I disagree that the small number of terrorist attacks is evidence that the efforts we're using to combat the attacks aren't necessary.