skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No Society Takes On the Characteristics of Its Exceptions".

That's a terrible phrasing. Every society generates the characteristics of its "exceptions" through its internal contradictions.
I keep trying to share this on facebook and facebook makes me enter CAPCHA and then breaks my link. Conspiracy Y/N?
http://www.youtube.com/live/all

Quite a few, more than I'd have expected actually. Looks like there'll be an unofficial WWDC stream too.
I hold a less extreme position, that
(1) The laws should have a two-year sunset clause
(2) The government should have to prove the law's efficacy to the public. Fuck this 'it works but we can't tell you' bullshit.
(3) We have to understand full well that when we allows these laws they will be used fully. I don't think it takes an evil person for this to be true. I think most of us, if we were given the responsibility of protecting the public and the authority for doing so, we would use that authority. Nobody wants to be the guy that people look back on after a terrorist act and say, 'but YOU could have prevented this.' Look at all the grief the spooks are getting with this 'Marathon Bomber' kid (Tsarnaev). Apparently they were warned that he could be a threat. But they respected his rights and let him be free. And now they are being accused of being incompetent.
Any country that requires identity cards (such as France) has already lost its claim to be more free.
I'd actually be happy to help with NSA's COMSEC (defense of USG vs. foreign countries) mission. I wouldn't want to be stuck in bureaucracy, secrecy, etc. though.

I wish NSA would separate into COMSEC and SI at the agency level.
Did you read Yehuda's explanatory post https://medium.com/the-future-of-the-web/2fcd1c1bb32 or the linked readings on the manifesto? It's quite a bit different than today actually.
http://www.youtube.com/live/all

Al Jazeera:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e93MaEwrsfc

Everyone with 1000+ subscribers can live stream if they want to.
Yes, the sand settles into the nodal lines of the pattern of vibration on the plate; those are the places where the plate is not moving. The same frequencies on a circular plate will produce different patterns.
It does the encrypted parts.
The thing about democracies isn't that they're
less likely to violate your civil rights, it's that
they seem like they're less likely to do that.
That's a lot of power right there.

Yes, yes! It is still important to use that power. But let's keep things in perspective, or else we end up, as in another comment to the OP, placing USA and China and Russia in the same basket.
As I recall he plead guilty against his attorney's advice...
The referenced article: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/costco-ceo-c...
There should be a tool for students as well at schools to make their learning leaner. So so cool!
Isn't all of this H.264 stuff floating around these days basically a subset of QuickTime?
Gun ownership amongst individuals did not lead to the Arab Spring.
Most iOS app that shows video are using it behind the scenes.

It's even mandatory if you want to work over 3G: "If your app delivers video over cellular networks, and the video exceeds either 10 minutes duration or 5 MB of data in a five minute period, you are required to use HTTP Live Streaming. (Progressive download may be used for smaller clips.)"
like i wrote. it's not about what's really happening in details, but overall perception
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It's not "some" statements, it's quite lengthy. Seriously, go read his own words, he went to the trouble of saying them and explaining his piece, if you feel you support him you can at least go read what he said.
I agree, but a pedantic point: North Korea is as different from China as China is from the Western world (in this respect). It is, frankly, different from any other place on earth.
>> I also fail to understand people who so viciously defend the 2nd amendment

The definition of "viciously" at:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/viciously

"Having the nature of vice; evil, immoral, or depraved."

What was vicious about newbie12's comment which was a direct quote from an American President?

http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/when-government-fea...
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If you like what is happening, do nothing.
If you don't, do something.

The best way to hurt a rich person is to make them a poor person.

The best way to hurt a megalomaniac is to make them helpless.
Do they not sell milk bags?
I'm in the US, and had the same exact problem.
That is just one example, others are Berezovsky, Chichvarkin, Akhmed Zakayev to name the few. You should know who Berezovsky is, Chichvarkin created a retail chain for mobile electronics who had his business expropriated by some high ranking cops and Zakayev is a former Chechen rebel. This is what I can bring on top of my head, but I'm sure there are a lot more.
As a contrary anecdote, I've travelled to the US many times for business and pleasure. I've never had any feeling I was under surveillance, about to be detained tec.
Because some shiny new gadget will impress you more than a beautiful visualization of the mathematical structure of nature?
> the ad-hominem attack on the author

It's not an ad-hominem attack. He stated that the author is a clown because his article is a joke (which he argued for in the paragraph above it), and not that his article is a joke because he is a clown. The more correct term you should have used is 'rude'.
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Did you have to take a photograph and save your 10 fingerprints and disclose all your personal and economic information to get into the USA?

I had to... because it seems for the USA, any Mexican that dares to enter the country is a potential criminal, so there I am in the huge Mexa database. Just because I needed to spend a week in the USA for work.

Whereas the 7 years I lived in Europe (UK and Germany) I did not feel as "guilty". Even with Germany's Rathaus compulsory city registrations.
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powertower did not imply that anything you originally listed as incorrect, but saying that you are looking at a very small part of what the US does.

I'm pretty sure we could look at any person or government, find all their past flaws/mistakes and only list this to show that the person is 'evil'. But without looking at the bigger picture of everything they do, you aren't being fair with your judgement of that person/country.
I didn't mean to say most companies sell user data, but rather of the companies that sell user data, most are not straight forward about it.

Example: Onavo, Dolphin Browser, Opera Mini, Ask Toolbar

What I am emphasising is that while they could ask plainly, and state they are collecting your data, and then selling it to 3rd parties (even if in aggregate), they do not.

I would want users to be given a clear choice about what is happening with their data, and some companies have the integrity to do this.
> There is however a big difference between China and Russia on one hand and USA on the other: the openness of the US society is, among other things, manifested in noticing and magnifying dirty spots.

True, but that just means that the people are more (but far from completely) able to be aware of what is being done to them and more free to talk about it. It doesn't change the spirit behind the government agency's actions, and even then "able to be more aware" covers a lot of ground as things like the recent revelations are only heresay (and ignored by most) until good evidence somehow becomes public knowledge.
It's not hard to predict a movie's box office right before it comes out

Well, there's the Netflix prize[0] which tells otherwise

Predicting movie appreciation is actually very hard to solve. One of the infamous examples is the "Napoleon dynamite problem"[1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081123/1212542927.shtml
China would turn Snowden over to US authorities only in exchange for the return of Chinese protesters given asylum in the US.

The "China is an oppressive regime" meme makes up a lot of US propaganda and is used to justify all kinds of policies. So the US is put in the awkward position of not being able to engage in the usual diplomatic trade.

Hong Kong is useful b/c it represents the future of Chinese society and is a concentration of wealth and influence. By letting Snowden stay in HK, China can appease its own population while also appearing to stand strong against the US government's demands.

The best hope for the USG is that this blows over. Snowden seems fairly savvy about the media's role and if he's able to continue to shape the discussion there might actually be meaningful outcomes.
I played Spore when it came out. It seemed like that was more about raising and customizing your organism through different stages of evolution. This idea is quite different. You play as the universe itself. There's a famous Sagan quote saying we are a way for the cosmos to know itself. You get to design planets and stuff that exists in the cosmos. You input various characteristics for the species you make and them evolve like SimCity cities. What inventions and ideas will they adopt? what galactic events will affect them?
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Netherlands
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Yes, I did. Again, some times high-level APIs fail to account for extreme needs, and some times low-level APIs are too hard to use to be practical for common needs. This is the trade off. Unless I am misinterpreting it, this manifesto seems to suggest that we sacrifice the latter in favor of the former. Which I disagree with.
I understand your point however we could be seeing the images that will define Mr Obama's presidency in the making.
It depends on who you prefer should read them: Obama or Putin, the CIA or the KGB.
Where the National Security Agency isn’t so secret: Schools
It's unlikely that he'd be able to hide anywhere in the world at this point without at least someone finding him. At least by saying where he is people will notice if he goes "missing".
There are also early adopters on movies. I follow some projects even before they start shooting.
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It's being attacked because the surrounding countries fundamentally object to the existence of an Jewish state and wish to destroy it.

To say "Israel has apartheid" really cheapens the struggle of Black South Africans.

//edit//Corrected glaring typo.
What is scary to me, having grown up in the 80s, is how accepting people are of things that used to be considered typical of the USSR.
> Why this switch will be helpful?

I was raised in Britain towards the end of the transition from imperial to metric units. I would NOT go back.

So it worked for yardsticks. Why not clocks?

> If I live in Europe (e.g.) and the sunrise is at 3 SUT ...

You're catching on. It's simpler than Daylight Saving Time, don't you think?
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> Thomas Jefferson: ""When governments fear the people, there is liberty.

Looks like false attribution according to wikiquote. (Why do people feel the need to use proof by authority anyway? Either a thing is right, or it is insightful, but attributing it to dead 18th century rebels does not bolster the case.)

________________________________

When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
Falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson; first attributed to Jefferson in Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, It's All in the Game: Butterflies, Mind Control--The Razor's Edge‎ (1994), p. 214. A 1912 issue of The American Anti-socialist attributes the re-ordered form, "Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty", to John Basil Barnhill.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_...
Not quite by my understanding. He would need to be in an area officially classed as a war zone for that.

They could send them to surveil and intimidate him though, but there are less costly ways to do that which won't upset the people in the country he is currently living in nearly as much.
I believe that in the UK, and probably the EU, you cant extradite people, I think including Americans, if there is a chance the death penalty will be given. Not 100% sure, but I think that is the case.

So, in some ways, the US has been a place form which one can seek asylum for ages. Or at the very least, be very careful in considering extradition application. Assuming the US government bothers with the legal inconvenience and doesn't just sent the CIA in to render them.
At this point, American law is completely corrupt. Who gives a damn about it? What they've done to Bradley Manning isn't right, at all.
Maybe they should, but they usually don't.
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Americans aren't in the streets because we (collectively) want this. Americans care about fighting terrorism far more than they care about privacy or government spying.

I wager that, for the average American, this news made them feel safer, and the only thing they're upset about is that the "bad guys" now know something they shouldn't.
So does mdfind.
Good for you that you feel safe.

An American colleague of mine (doing a 2nd PhD in Liverpool while I was doing my first/only one) told me he did not create accounts in Google/Yahoo/Hot mail not because of what could happen at this time, but at what the people with that information could do in the future.

Right now, you feel perfectly safe in your comfortable chair, having all your information in Google, Facebook, and other servers. But after a small wrong turn of events (that I hope do not happen), you might find yourself in the wrong place and the wrong time, and all your innocently shared information (shared with google, microsoft, facebook, etc) will be used by your government to condemn you.
Obama Promise to Never Wiretap Americans in This 2007 Speech
I think you left out the part where he defiantly broke the law at the time against economic activities in Yugoslavia.
This is clearly Ops problem.
That, and making sure the NSA gets its daily helping of your data! :-)
There is a survivorship bias when looking at the history of activism.

It looks like it takes extremely high effort to achieve anything worthwhile: look at what the labor and civil rights movements had to endure, for instance.

But, there are plenty of examples of other change that was achieved at lower cost. The environmental movement, for instance, generally did not face levels of institutional rejection and physical violence that labor and civil rights did. Why? Because they had a message that a broad swath of Americans could believe in. Regardless of party, ideology, or race, no one wants their kids to get sick from pollution.

So, the first steps in activism should be the easiest steps. They might work! And if they don't, having tried them creates the moral authority for more aggressive tactics.

Movements that jump straight to civic unrest are typically rejected by the broader American culture. Most people highly value law and order, and are only willing to tolerate departures when they think it's absolutely necessary.
That was tongue-in-cheek (mostly...you never know with WWDC).

This video reminds me a bit of A New Kind of Science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science): some of the phenomena Wolfram discusses gave me the same "holy! how does this happen in nature" kind of reaction.
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There is so much demand in maryland for IT that has a clearance that it bids up the price of anyone reasonably competetant.
Well, to be honest, I don't think the US government cares about foreign people - or any kind of people, for that matter.
I removed the quote because the original source is too controversial, but how exactly do the many and real positive characteristics of a society get outweigh by a few negative and mostly overblown characteristics that are not even characteristics as much as exceptions, and in most cases are simply natural products of ANY and ALL societies (and in other cases just emerge due to the sheer number of overall events)?

That phrasing means that definitions describe the whole or major; they don't describe the minor... That is, I'm not going to describe the buildings of an entire city as derelict, when only a few are so.
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Your assertion is essentially that all of these rights are natural rights.

This is, as I said, an interesting claim.

I'll point out the irony that the freedoms everyone considers so important didn't even make it in the original document, only the addendum :)
> Serious question: Now that he's a US citizen on foreign soil, and an enemy of the state, is it now legal to call a drone strike against him?

Not quite by my understanding. He would need to be in an area officially classed as a war zone for that.

They could send them to surveil and intimidate him though, but there are less costly ways to do that which won't upset the people in the country he is currently living in nearly as much.

(the parent comment seems to have been deleted while I was responding, hence breaking flow as I have and replying to the top)
I think we can send a message to Google and other corporations involved with the NSA if we start using alternative providers like Yandex or otherwise.
Not quite sure what the focus on high fat is all about. It almost looks like they are solely attributing high calories with a high fat diet.
No, really, there is no "arms race." It has a known terminus. If strong encryption were in widespread use, the race would be over. Even metadata analysis would become mostly useless. What's more, the week before PRISM was revealed, there were headlines about how China was all up in our trade and state secrets. Are laws going to protect against that?

You assert that the people "fundamentally lack control over the technology" and that just isn't true. Start with the fact that strong encryption was born in an environment where the adversary is assumed to be a state actor with unlimited resources. There is enough open security technology that surmising that our government or any other has an undiscovered technology with fundamentally different properties is like any super-weapon fantasy: There are no flying saucers at Area 51 and there is no hyperdimensional machine in the basement of Ft. Mead. They put their pants on one leg at a time like everyone else.
That's not how it works - it would be inefficient to the point of uselessness to rewrite the entire file constantly, and my 100GB TrueCrypt volume is fast to save to.
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Well, according to Julian Assange, so is Sweden.
Anyone who knows my real name can search the internet and find out where I work, my home address, my spouse's name, my home phone number and my age. I didn't put any of this information on the internet, in fact I don't even have a facebook account. Private companies collected and aggregated this information and put it on the internet. Some of the information came from public records (for example, home address from property ownership records), but some was very private (such as my home phone number, which is not even in my name and rarely given out). This is a huge violation of privacy and I have no way of stopping it.

I am not worried about the government spying on me. I am very worried about these for-profit businesses spying on me and outing my information on the internet. Why isn't anyone writing stories about that instead?
>I believe that in the UK, and probably the EU, you cant extradite people, I think including Americans, if there is a chance the death penalty will be given. Not 100% sure, but I think that is the case.

That is also the case even in Mexico. To think that in a country (my country) where deaths by beheading, bar mass shootouts and rampant corruption still stands on a 'higher moral ground' that the USA really amazes me.
In a way, it doesn't. There's really no way to arm yourself in a fashion to survive sustained attack from the U.S. military in this day and age.

But that's one of the reasons the military are sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution as the primary goal, not simply to obey orders. They even throw in the surreal weasel words "against all enemies, foreign and domestic" as a way of really punching that point home.

So it's not really possible to meet the full intent of the 2nd Amendment any longer but at the same time there are other safeguards.
But that's not how societies work. America doesn't have a school shooting problem because all human societies develop shooting problems, it has them because America specifically squeezes its youth in ways that makes them more violent.
The French tried something similar after the revolution (Decimal Time). It didn't catch on either.

It's essentially pointless. Yes, it's a bit easier to represent times and handle them differently (5:50 = 5.5h = 550m) but it's not that hard with standard time either, as evidenced by the fact that I and everyone else in the world managed to learn to tell the time about the same time we figured out how to tie our shoelaces.
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we were told that the Soviet tank armies were
poised to pour through the Fulda Gap

Yes they were. I remember the official rhetoric from the days of my military service (private in the Soviet Army) and the military studies in college (which I later abandoned during Perestroika). In private, many of the officers had different thoughts, but some (I would say, the more stupid ones) were very happy with the official line.

And the rhetoric was supported by the facts on the ground. The quality of training was poor, but the quality and especially quantity of military equipment was enormous.
I wonder what would happen if you designed a helmet that vibrated your brain like that?

Maybe some frequency could tweak pleasure centers, etc?
I had to do the photograph and fingerprints thing, and I guess they get my personal information from my passport. I wasn't asked economic information. I'm British.

I would guess that every Mexican is treated as a potential illegal immigrant.
I'm a cs person and never encountered this in school. Is this taught in engineering? Typical course names?
I for one have trouble egging-on whistleblowers not because of what they do, but because I have no effective way to back them up.
Do you think passengers involved in an emergency landing go through immigration and customs? Can they shop at the duty free store as well?
Apparently my new account won't let me reply to the OP, so I'll add it here.

Hackaday's RPi projects:

http://hackaday.com/tag/rpi/
It doesn't matter privacy-wise if service without end-to-end encryption (like Burner, Pastebin or DuckDuckGo) uses FLOSS or not.
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Yeah, the U.S. is set up as a private society (originally) and capitalistic. Where as Sweden, Norway, Finland, they all are set up as socialistic societies communal rather than private.
Sorry for coming on so strong. And for being that guy who misses the tone.
If that were the case, then terabyte-scale volumes would be prohibitively useless - and I know plenty of people with media volumes in TC.
You probably wanted to say 'Jewish state'. Anyway I don't think I disagree with you: the surrounding countries do not want a Jewish state on their land, it was more or less imposed on them after WW2 and it has kept expanding ever since. Can you blame them for not wanting them?
Indeed. And I'm editor at several tech sites.
From what I've tried the YouTube streaming doesn't work through the Apple TV. They could probably do both methods, but I can't see Apple rushing to it.
I think the so called "30% rule" has been made stricter lately though. So don't count on it as a 100% sure thing.