skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hundreds of corporations lobbying the US government to stop

And then if the government say that they stopped, how can you ever be sure they did?

Unless we use free (as in freedom) software, open encrypted communication protocols, and decentralized network services, we are trusting too much of our computing and communication to third parties, which are subject to political powers, that always do whatever they can to protect themselves. The government should not be trusted, it must be controlled. Corporations should not be trusted either.
See, this instantly makes me wonder how Russia (and everyone else for that matter) will respond to the "always on" kinect on the xbone...
Using Google itself is the biggest problem. Russia, Germany, somebody needs to create an alternative.
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I'm not bringing "character" into this so much as I am pointing out that Larry Klayman suing something for billions of dollars isn't newsworthy.
Causation vs correlation.

I have eaten approximately 50% more Chobani since the PRISM story broke, so PRISM has definitely had a huge impact on my consumption on Chobani.
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Yup, the original was:

“In America, you can always find a party.

In Soviet Russia, Party always finds you!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff#Russian_reversa...
This one is awesome http://www.wingsandwheels.com/wantads1.htm
The attraction is that it provides greatly needed decentralization for the internet at large. It doesn't solve the spying problem, but it does contribute to solving the global hegemon with turnkey totalitarian surveillance problem in a meaningful way that both Russia and the rest of the world can derive value from.
GMail does send what you've typed to their servers and stores it as a concept so you don't lose your work in case your browser or computer crashes. I seriously doubt the NSA has access to that stuff, but technically it would be more or less possible ;)
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V8 faster than Lua-JIT sounds like a really bold claim. AFAIK it is the other way around, with a factor of 3x.
And similar concepts in certain parts of the US, e.g. the South. "Honor cultures"; correlates with nomadic heritage. Why you can call someone an asshole in NYC and they shrug it off, but south of Mason-Dixon they have to make something of it.

The classic paper: http://mypages.valdosta.edu/mwhatley/7670/activity/honor.htm
I also object to any slides that cannot be at least readable printed in black and white. Consider the ink costs - do you think the NSA is made of money?!?
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1984 is on my list. I just finished "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and although it was a very good read, it was a little depressing since I could imagine the future turning out that way.
I can't read Cyrillic and my Russian writing recognition skills aren't very good either. The language could just as easily have been Montenegrin or Slavonic, I have no way of knowing. And yes, our comments are in Latin/Roman script.
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The tutorial for using the website is awesome (and beautifully anti-american): http://www.lingscars.com/chat.php?domain=www.lingscars.com&l...
If desirable, stopping, or better regulating the NSA is the government's job. Of course they wont suddenly decide to stop.
Good points. Just as an aside, I often hear people repeat the mantra that government needs secrecy, but have yet to hear a justification which is worth the many rampant abuses covered by its cloak.

My own government has of late been justifying its own abuses by claiming commercial-in-confidence with the private partnerships it is operating, not to mention they just exempted parliamentary privileges from FOI.
Too much hate... Visually chat looks nicer that way and they are just promoting their social network...
And small bonus is that search works even when user is offline... if you are US government :-)
Post-script: Two of my favourite bloggers describe the same conflict between society's elites. Mencius Moldbug describes them as Optimates and Brahmins. Michael o'Church describes them as E1 and G1. Oddly enough, although they describe the two sides almost identically, they're on opposite teams (Moldbug seeing the left-wing elite as all-powerful, and Michael o'Church seeing the opposite).
Do you actually believe what you're writing? Seriously, the NSA or any other govt agency would be stupid to delete data and I highly doubt that the "checks and balances" measures actually care about doing their job. If they had done so then the leak would not have been necessary.
GM isn't bad per se. However Monsanto's business practice + GM is evil. Pure evil (much in a way software is ok, but Microsoft brand of lock software is absolutely evil).

If there was an OSS licence on all GM food I might consider it, non-horrible.
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Bleep! They also offer 24bit wav versions.
What's interesting is that it took most people a day to realize this. Well done Sony but this may cost you more long time as people don't like to get played...
I imagine the NSA will still find a way to read your mail.

Remember how Google complained loudly about Chinese hackers breaking into a few Chinese dissidents' gmail accounts?

How pedestrian of them. The NSA is apparently far more efficient at that game.
Seriously? Are you completely unfamiliar with the conflict in Chechnya and the surrounding regions?

From Wikipedia's article on the Second Chechen War:
> According to the 2001 annual report by Amnesty International:

>> There were frequent reports that Russian forces indiscriminately bombed and shelled civilian areas. Chechen civilians, including medical personnel, continued to be the target of military attacks by Russian forces. Hundreds of Chechen civilians and prisoners of war were extra judicially executed. Journalists and independent monitors continued to be refused access to Chechnya.
Old Sierra games are availble with HTML5 at http://sarien.net/ - is the html5 ScrummVM really new?

http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2012/01/08/monkey-island-1-the-sec...
Teach your kids about the NSA with the help of CryptoCat and DecipherDog.
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Putin gets divorced and all of a sudden there are Russian warships moving into the Mediterranean and now Russian citizens might be punished for using Facebook or Gmail.
I never said I wouldn't vote for him. I said I find his views on reproductive rights unfortunate and inconsistent with his libertarian values. I'd hope his views on this issue would evolve the way Obama evolved on gay marriage. I'm more curious than anything. Do his libertarian values only apply to men? Or is he taking a hard line on abortion to get elected in Kentucky? Time will tell, but in the meantime I applaud his efforts to challenge the administration on drones and privacy.
Neither does prom advocate that. He just said existing research is mostly wrong. That's not defeatist, that's realist.
FSB does not need the money for it, but they already spy on everyone for 15 years. In Putin's Russia, the ISPs purchase the necessary equipment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM
You only need probable cause for US citizens IIRC. Anyone else is fair game as far as the NSA is concerned.

The twist here is that the NSA gets to trawl through the data looking for interesting stuff (to them) on a pinky promise to a judge (in a court that has never said no) that they won't target US citizens. Given that the US government has stated that a 51% chance that the target is not a US citizen is sufficient to meet this requirement (!), it sounds to me as if the NSA gets to target whoever they like (because taking a huge pile of data and processing it with automated algorithms is not 'collecting' it according to the State doublespeak) and if they happen to wind up targeting some US citizens, well they can always claim in court (should it ever come to that, which it won't) that they thought there was a 51%+ chance that they were dealing with non-US individuals. How would you ever challenge that?
And direct messages, if anyone uses that feature.
Why, because he asked questions? He's as pissed as you are about the Verizon stuff, but at the same time being smeared by shoddy journalism on the "Prism" stuff.

(Bias on the table, I know Justin).
Can someone post the link with out the popup bullshit.
+ I like the way each slide it headed with a question. I find that helpful in doing presentations

- On slide 13 I got a bit lost as the green circle for US & Canada stands out a lot so I read it before the text. Maybe the green circle could include the text?

Great marking!
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> Thanks for posting this. The most obvious point (to me) is that it would be very hard to install a 1984-style regime in a nation where almost every educated person has read 1984.

The fact that people think so is one of the reasons that its not true.

> Anything that even has the slightest overtone of old-school totalitarianism gets mocked and derided by the media and the educated classes.

Ineffectually, usually, and with a very big "boy who cried wolf" effect.

> No-one intelligent takes the "war on terror" seriously, for example.

Either there aren't very many intelligent people in the country (so that that statement doesn't matter), or that statement isn't true in any substantive sense that demonstrates resistance to totalitarianism.

> We live in a weird society where most media outlets are controlled by big business, and yet most people who work in media are very progressive

Its not all that weird that the serfs support the downward distribution of resources and power while the lords don't.

The weird thing is treating it as if the influence of the former was actually a counterbalance to the latter.

> Fox News/the Daily Mail/etc do not have some secret source of right wing humanities graduates, and so most of their reporters are typical young, metropolitan, educated liberals

Who very quickly learn what side their bread is buttered on. So, they are practicially neutered, however they continue to self-identify.
It is off course down.

From the little I could see through the Google cache, the port is based on Emscripten. The site provides the demo versions of a few SCUMM games.
Yes, I actually believe what I'm writing. If you doubt any of the checks and balances work, what's there to discuss? The only conclusion I see you as being able to come to is that we'd have to eliminate all foreign signals intelligence.
Would the missile defence system that was planned for Poland really have protected Poland from attack from Russia? They are pretty close so cruise missiles and/or aircraft would presumably be preferable to use rather than ballistic missiles.
"an ethical oath"??? I don't think there is such a thing. What may appear unethical to you may seem ethical to another.

Everybody will find justification for their actions as unethical as they may seem to you.
What, the big "Translate from Russian?" bar didn't give it away? :p
Ahh makes sense, sorry I presumed he meant in terms of a more repressive approach to communication.

I can't see why any governments would be happy with the US monitoring their citizens communication. If the US laws don't change I'd imagine you will find a lot of alternative services having to appear pretty quickly.
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The port you link to is a rewrite in JavaScript[0], while this is the original ScummVM code, compiled with Emscripten.

[0] https://github.com/mutle/jsscummvm
Other than version control, how do you use chef-spork?
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BTW have those slides been authenticated somehow?
That's some wicked marketing right there, guaranteed social sharing - however they should have made it for cats. However, it feels a bit half-assed as I feel they didn't go far enough with the joke.
Not being a strict liability crime, violations of the Lacey act would need to be committed knowingly.
I've just started an Ask HN for European alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861717
Because the tendency of most new developers is to learn one language and attempt to use it in all cases, even if it is not an optimal application.

I used to see this pattern in VB and later .NET developers, where even when another language or platform would make a task easier or more efficient, they would attempt to hammer out something workable in the one tool they knew, and actively refused (or campaigned) against alternatives.

JavaScript is the new VB.
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Ask HN: Whatever happened to Paranoid Linux?
Cory Doctorow described in brilliant detail the fictional distro Paranoid Linux in his novel, _Little Brother_. "Paranoid" fully protects its users: encrypted communication and Tor by default, continual network chaff, etc.

Why isn't this in wider use?

There is no distro called Paranoid, but there are other security-oriented distros like LPS and Tails http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-distros-paranoid-secure-distros-si/

Yet none is widely known and in wide use. Not even HN chatter talks a lot about these.

Why?

Does no one really care about security? Do these distros have usability or security flaws? Is it just a lack of marketing?
How would "forwarding a corporate email" be charged as a felony?
A few artists on soundcloud.com also make their music available as flac (and as lossless wav).
KEEP CALM and Carry On: PRISM itself is not a big deal
This seems to be an April fools joke from 2009: http://www.slashgear.com/toshiba-petbook-k9-provides-pups-wi...
That's why I like buying from bands in Bandcamp.
I find their wording interesting. Microsoft advertises their Xbox Live Gold subscription as "as low as $5 a month"; whereas Sony announced their as "less than $5 a month".
Thank god for this. If there's one thing that really gets despotic police states to change their ways, it's online letters.
Should the government know less than Google?
You don't have to look as far as the genetic modifications themselves.

1) Monsanto ran test plots. The presumed protocol was for them to remain isolated and to be destroyed upon completion of the testing, so that the test lines did not enter the ecosystem. This has not occurred. Either they lied, or they were negligent.

2) Monsanto scientists trotted out estimates of the usable lifespan of Roundup. Many years prior to this, we have pervasive problems of Roundup resistant "superweeds" that can be worse than the original weed problems Roundup was supposed to solve. The scientists lied, or were incompetent. (I'm sorry, but when you use your scientific... predictions to justify widespread ecological modification, mistakes immediately rise to the level of incompetence. Also, there have been reports that, internally, Monsanto scientists were worried about and predicting these results. However -- contrary to the spirit of science -- this information was not shared publicly. Granted, it may not have consisted entirely of measured results. But it consisted of deep concerns for the impact and repercussions of the "experiment" -- the unfettered application of previous work and results -- being conducted in the public sphere.)

3) Monsanto seems intent upon cornering the marketplaces of seedstock for ever more species of crop plant. Such activity has the distinct air, in my opinion at least, of monopolization.

4) Monsanto has U.S. Federal legislation passed that exempts it from liability and from State law.

I don't need to get at far as looking at the direct fallout of the genetic modifications upon downstream consumption, before I start to become quite opposed to Monsanto.

Now, as for the modifications themselves. I'm still uncertain about the consumption of the modified genes, themselves. But there has been increasing evidence that the Roundup herbicide -- the other half of this commercial cocktail -- is not as benign to human health as originally argued. For some years, I've been reading that components of Roundup are more active with respect to human health and more enduring in the environment than originally expected.

And most recently, interesting discussion has evolved about the effect of Roundup upon microflora in the human gut.

Of course, one might easily imagine or expect corresponding effects upon other animal species.

Monsanto, unlike open science, seems to be acting to keep all this quiet, to the extent they can. What we have, in significant part, as the resulting action of this company, is not scientific exploration but rather commercial exploitation that appears to stand significantly in the way of the former.
Your comment is breathtaking in its misrepresentation of what Ayn Rand actually cared about.
"Please watch us extra carefully."
Didn't east germany have warehouses of piles of paper of records of everyone spying on each other?

It bothers me as a progressive that many liberals don't see how we are a hop, skip and jump away from that mentality.

From birth to death there is going to be a record of your child's phone calls, friends, dates, etc. It will never be deleted.
I truly hope this does not become the highest voted post on this thread.

I sometimes feel like HN is chock full of people that tend to become absorbed with minutia and details that most would not normally consider important.

So it's not completely, wholly, and totally new... big deal. For my edification could you explain to me why this gets your goat?
I just tried chrome's built-in translation of your quick start page. It was surprisingly readable :)
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It's also basically impossible to read on an iOS device.
Ahh yes. That could work. In fact I've often wondered why Apache didn't attempt a little of that (even just on the most rudimentary level; setting the concurrency of processes based on the number of CPU cores reported. But it wouldn't be hard to add a little more intelligence)

If that was what the parent comments referred to though, then it's still a moot point as Lin was isn't running the default tunings (if her 500 concurrent figure is to be believed), so the issue still falls back on her rather than Apache defaults (which is what this argument started over). Though I guess you could also argue that if Apache did some level of auto-tuning then Lin may not have felt obliged to tamper with the defaults.
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NetBSD has a userspace filesystem api with a FUSE compatibility layer: http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/

FreeBSD has had some work porting FUSE. I'm not sure the status I just remember seeing it as a GSoC project.

Some people are working on FUSE for OpenBSD. The GPL license of libfuse seems to be a problem but the kernel side stuff is implemented: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/31704
I don't believe most Americans feel this way. It as a poll of approximately 1,000 people. Do we not think they are capable of preselecting the people they poll to insure the outcome they want? I am sorry but I have a VERY difficult time taking any polling seriously anymore.
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It's not a lie* just a poor visualization, omitting anything but the top 5 and remapping that to the visual 100% of a pie chart, yes a better way would be to add a slice for "others", but at least all of the top five are distorted equally. Certainly not best practice for pie chart but not a deliberate lie, until proven otherwise.

It's up to the maker of the chart how far you want to go, see Apple's now infamous tilted 3D-pie example: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/jan/21/liesda...

*By definition almost every visualization is a lie, since some kind of selection or generalization has to take place to make it comprehensible.
I'm sure they could find something to arrest him for afterward if they liked, or find an ally to request extradition. Presumably nobody's going to give him immunity against future crimes, and I doubt extradition treaties even allow that.
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Rereading it now, I see that you are correct. For some reason or another, I originally read it to mean that only the civil forfeiture provisions were strict liability.

Thank you for the correction.
I don't use Google Chrome/Chromium. My browser has no such bar.
Mozilla need to take responsibility for their part in the construction of a world that allows such easy mass surveillance. The 'Open Web' puts a heavy emphasis on centralisation of user information.
Pay attention to what's going on with the leadership of the startup and the direction of the business.

Some cuts to benefits, food stocking, etc should be expected if you're seeing a major shift in direction. They may have to hunker down for a slow period where they don't acquire new revenue or raise new funding as they figure out where they're headed. It makes absolute sense that they would try to preserve some cash during this time and the things you mentioned are a lower impact way of doing so.

If you believe in the leadership behind the company, then stay on and see it through. But if you think they're wandering aimlessly, then prep your CV and get out of there.
Back in the day there was ELE (Everything Leaves Encrypted) that attempted to utilize a livecd and Tor to encrypt all network traffic - but the same thing happened to it as it did to the Paranoid Linux attempt - Lack of support/time/resources to continue development.

As far as why... people who really need encryption already use it and/or are suspicious of a silver bullet solution. People who don't need it don't seem to care as much about it.
Like everything else Rand ever did, this was expressed better by other sources. Can we please stop quoting this hack [1]?

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/15r6sj/why_is...
So if database developers have significant experience in SQL, they should author websites using templating engines that generate HTML using SQL?

(This is only partially sarcastic as there were a few RDBMS + HTML template products that mercifully died).
Aye, and we're still at it deciphering shreddered papers :)

http://www.goethe.de/ges/pok/ddg/en2491168.htm
On 1) a slide is missing, that says the providers are bending over backwards with fiber optic links to gov't-only server farms, free of charge.
Perhaps the bigger issue we need to discuss is are entities like the NSA providing value, honestly how many intelligence agencies do we need?
Keep in mind that those slides were almost certainly developed by a contractor. Who was paid 150K/year. Who was one of thousands of other similar contractors. With little to no real world experience.
Because it's a pain and users, when given the choice between proper security and videos of dancing pigs will pick dancing pigs 90% of the time.

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You mean like the parts here the government rewrites history using a technology that is as similar to the Paladium as you can get with paper?

Or how the governors are a different class that suport each other even on enemy states, thus the wars are nothing but a fabrication to keep the population under control?

Or the parts where they control how the population perceive discidents, by controlling the press?

Or maybe you mean the way how they so perfectly control the population that they must create the dissidents first at the Mini Love, before they turn the population against them. Yeah, reality isn't that way... Yet.
It's a change from PS3, but frankly worth it. Free games as long as you're a subscriber is the main reason why I've been a PS+ member for the past year.
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