skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you're clearly into this it would be useful if you could check the answer I gave elsewhere about RSA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5853601

Feel free to email - probably better than cluttering up the threads here.
Not sure, but the good news is that the current method in itself works great.
How to opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program.
I know that was the case with Nextel phones, is that the same with iOS devices?
I get a 403 error when I try the link he provided.
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Ask HN : Typically how much stake does and EIR get in?
And the link without the affiliate portion:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008ZPG704
> Survivor bias.

1) So if you went to disney and came home safe, that's survivor bias?
2) You don't have rape in the US? Way to go!

> Someone asked to see your ID?

1) Yes, and they didn't like it ("what state is this from?" "England" "but what state?") so I spent a night in a cell.

2) At the tender age of 13 while living in Chicago, I was threatened with spending the rest of my youth in juvie... for throwing a bit of gravel at a closed window to get someone's attention. This went as far as court.

> For most people

Ah, you're William Hague, right? Nothing to fear if you've nothing to hide?

You'd be there in 1938 shuffling into a cattle car believing that your benevolent government was sending you to a holiday camp.

Oh, and finally...

But instead the majority of people here sit in their comfortable chair in front of the computer fantasizing about how bad things are outside of their glorious america, having never left their home city, never mind state.
Yea, that sounds quite obvious right? If the supposed fake hate speech is a constant then all they have to do is put an if statement somewhere to make an exception about this specific email.
This is one of the most formulaic, most predictable comments on HN. It adds nothing to the discussion, offers no insight into the topic, and exists only as a cheap way to score magical internet points.

Please do not post such comments again.
The NSA was already on to Edward Snowden before his PRISM leaks went public
I thought it was fairly shrewd - any kind of "extra-legal" action against him in Hong Kong would almost certainly piss China off, and they're really the only tiger that the US isn't in a hurry to get into a wrestling match with.

A hit on Snowden in Hong Kong would be an immense international diplomatic incident. A hit on him in Iceland would be a flash in the pan (what's Iceland going to do about it?). My hunch is that he's banking on diplomatic tensions between China and the US to shield him.

Hong Kong puts him under China's diplomatic shield without necessarily directly exposing him to the PRC's equivalent of the NSA, who I'm sure are eager to get their hands on him.
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Its no different than building windows 8 mobile apps in windows.

As for gone out of their way to prevent you from running it in a vm, they equally have no real incentive to make it easy.
Same. A lot of people are sharing the link, maybe FB's spam protection is kicking in?
This is a back-of-the envelope, rather than a serious analysis, but perhaps it gives some idea of the scale?
That's not a very representative sample. Restaurants tends to be better in Germany. And in both countries, prices are much higher and service much worse than in the US, because waiting staff doesn't depend on tips.
I think what they are looking for are people that are technically competent, and entirely lacking in a consciousness.
It's not about allowed device. It's about supported technology. Apple went all-in on HTTP live streaming, everything they make supports it, and everything they stream uses it. VLC supports it. I think silverlight does too, if you want to whip up your own player in a dead technology.
> Being one configuration directive away from embarrassing failure is not a good idea.

I can't stop but thinking about PHP webapps, for instance Wordpress serves wp-index.php in the same directory as wp-config.php, indeed only one configuration directive away from blowing it all up in your face.

Every few months or so I encounter a huge site that serves me PHP source code. For instance the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/zmachine/hhguide.xml

But hey its PHP I guess anyone who would care about something like that has stopped using it years ago.
The mods have changed the title, so your comment makes less sense now. For those who are confused, the original title was something like "This is the best video you'll ever see!" or similar.
I understood grandparent's post as asking for a country with lot of political power and clout (like US) to be a data safe haven.

Unfortunately I can't think of a single state that has enough power and would want to keep data safe. Russia is basically dependant on US, China is not interested in keeping it safe, etc.
That's am excellent suggestion!
I liked the Business Week article that this article link-spammed from even better.

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/123492-costco-c...

"This week, I’m writing about Costco again because of this wonderful article about the company, on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek. There’s tons of fascinating info packed inside, even stuff that I, who consider myself to be something of a Costco nerd, didn’t know."
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No is not. To you maybe, but not to me. It just looks like a coincidence and that is like I will take it until further evidence emerges. Otherwise we just look like the religious morons whom claim that their religious text is the correct one because it predicted a historical event somewhere in the last two thousand years.
davidw on affiliate links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813826

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4156909

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360330

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4402285
See the comment below for example of a NYC terrorist plot foiled by PRISM.

And by the way -- why would I be accused of a FEDERAL CRIME? I didn't do anything wrong. If anything, _their collection of my data could be used to exonerate me_. Data is a two way street. It can both prove or disprove your guilt.

Be real. You and I both know that when it comes to national security, we do what we have to do. That doesn't mean we exploit those capabilities to put people in unfair situations. You let me know the first time someone gets picked up on a petty offense from PRISM-collected data. I doubt PRISM even collects data on offenses short of treason, terror plots, etc. Certainly none of that falls under the purview of the agencies involved.

By the way - you know other countries are engaged in the cyber war, right? Are you saying you don't want our government's protection against them actually _stealing_ your data and using it for god knows what purpose?
I wasn't selective, intentionally. I'm asking what argument he would supply for ever acting, not merely in certain circumstances.

Why does the commenter believe there is ever a point at which a person becomes morally responsible for the acts of others?
Yeah, but they only need one copy of what's on akamai, plus the metadata.
You can't, but rumors can give you a hint. There were rumors for years and years about extensive NSA intelligence gathering (see e.g. this: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articl...). I haven't heard the same amount of massive rumors regarding any of the EU intelligence agencies.
You mean, like the internet?
It's still a prediction, even if the immediate interpretation is that they have some ability to predict before they start filming/not in the few months before release.
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Yeah, I do all of that stuff. I started doing it initially because I couldn't really afford to pay someone to do all of it. Bought a book, got a copy of PS, and away we go. I'm not a good designer - very poor actually. I make up for it by going to Shutterstock 1x every 3-4 years, buying a monthly membership, and downloading 400-600 stock illustrations and graphics. I then take those and convert them to my needs. It's not great but it works "good enough".
How is this compatible with European privacy laws? Wouldn't this mean European customers would be able to sue those companies over violation of this laws?
Many people have sought asylum from the U.S. over the years. Does no one else remember the Vietnam draft-dodgers who departed to Canada? The communist sympathizers or agents who defected to USSR?

That said, I disagree with the notion that because the U.S. implementation of personal freedoms is not perfect, then we are as bad as any other country. Freedom is not measured binarily.
I'm not talking about balance, I'm talking about existence. I am asking why you think there is ever a moral obligation to act. What argument would you give that a person ever has a moral obligation to act?
Yep, seems like an easy thing to bypass. Might be better to search for these keywords within tweets or fb updates and create a script based on that (re-scrape every x users so that it changes).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_%282010...
what's the general feeling over there? Mostly people fall into two categories: ignorant or apathetic.

Either people watch too much national news, and don't really hear this story, or if they do know about it they don't believe it's that big of a deal.

Here in the midwest, "I have nothing to hide" is a popular comment.
If you haven't read it yet, check out Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother (http://craphound.com/littlebrother/about/, http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/). He explores ways that average citizens could fight back against technology that watches our every move.
If you're not a native speaker, you're probably also not as well versed in the folklore of the US revolution. Paul Revere is a popular hero of the US revolution, so using him as the target terrorist invokes "one mans terrorist is another mans patriot" argument at the same time as it demonstrates the usage of metadata.
This brings up the idea that Snowden fled the US to a place that he felt would be more free.
Yes (this isn't meant to be sarcastic, but necessary because I had to move this post from where it was to where it is, and HN keeps marking it dead).

The DHS is not bound by Posse Comitatus[1].

The DHS has been buying massive amounts of ammo[2][3][4], and most recently, the House has voted to get justification on the quantity of hollow points it is purchasing[5].

It looks like the claim that they're buying large quantities of urban armored vehicles is wrong[4], though they do acknowledge that they possess them, though my Google-fu is on the fritz getting a source for that since all searches for "DHS armored vehicles" returns the wrong conspiracy theory.

The DHS was using 'no more hesitation' targets that look like citizens[6][7]. Of note, link 7 implies that the manufacturer took them off the site, but the manufacturer never claimed that they were no longer for sale, or that they were no longer being sold directly to DHS, even when asked that question directly. I have no direct knowledge either way.

The ammo they've been buying is hollow-point[2][3], and hollow point ammo is illegal per Geneva convention (is actually wrong, it's illegal based on the Hague convention, the point stands true either way... Hague just predates Geneva)[8]

I think that's all of it. Let me know if I missed anything.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

[2] - http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/the-ammo-cons...

[3] - http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/04...

[4] - http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/ssabullets.asp

[5] - http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/303803-house-vot...

[6] - http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/high-tid...

[7] - http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/25/law-enforcement-targets-in...

[8] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-point_bullet#Legality
Why in the world would anyone serve a php file as .xml?
That seems to be the problem... xml files are meant to be readable as text.
Sending drones into Chinese airspace, that is really going to fly!
That's nice. Read the thread. TL;DR: It's been proven (though some dispute it) that almost all nutritional research is false. That research's validity is pretty close to that of homeopathy.
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> Is there not something rather bizarre about the government taxing the money it's giving to you to support your studies?

My PhD in the US was funded by NSF dollars, ie public money. I went to a state school. My stipend was taxed like regular income. On top of that, I paid Medicare and Social Security taxes (publicly funded government programs), which as a non-US citizen, I cannot use anyway. When you're making less than $20k a year in downtown Chicago, all this hurts quite a bit.
It doesn't matter the level of invasive practices in other states. It's not a competition for the most or least practices, though policy and research are worth having dialog about. This combative attitude isn't useful, in English or Hebrew.

Edit: As the first commenter of the article suggests, companies are doing far more than the government in terms of intrusion just all the time. We need to strengthen the bill of rights to not just give procedural protection from the government, but real rights that protect us all from each other.
Does anyone actually believe that that'll have any positive impact on this situation whatsoever?

Maybe I'm just jaded, but "clicktivism" seems like it's just about the least valuable way you could possibly make a political statement.
Not sure why you're getting the downvote. This is obviously true.

It's also important to consider not just the size of the organization, but the nature and extent of its powers. For instance, Google - no matter how big - cannot arrest you, try you, convict you, or imprison you. Your health insurer isn't going to send the Marines to attack another nation, no matter how many doctors they have in their network. I could go on, but the point should be clear: military and law enforcement have a unique - and uniquely dangerous - set of powers. Accordingly, they operate under structures for accountability unlike those that exist anywhere else. The extraordinary trust they're given in some areas is balanced by a distinctly high and formalized level of distrust in others (e.g. actions that are subject to prior judicial review and approval).

So contrary to what you insist, we can give some powers to some organizations, withhold the same power from others. And we can base those organization's ability exist and operate legally on the degree to which they respect and abide by these divisions, and the rule of law.

When it turns out that (a) they don't and (b) we can't respond to these violations, it's a signal that the most basic arrangement keeping our society viable is coming undone. That's a problem that needs to be solves. But thanks to the principle of divided power, it doesn't mean we have to give up intelligent arrangements for sending email or handling health care data in order to keep the police and military in line.
It might be useful to compare the political structures, sure.

"Cheapens the struggle of" is not a statement about political structures, it is a statement about personal experiences. I don't think it is fruitful to reduce the experiential quality of living in an oppressive regime to some calculus of cheapness, wherein Having Supreme Court Judges counts as +$10.
On a mac it would be:

open -a /Applications/VLC.app/ http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/129opiygabsdvibsdfobsd...

:)
I'd wager it's HD's. The government may have big ideas, but it tends to implement insane scale with normal things. Remember, the budget here is in the $80 billion range. Just because they have all that dough doesn't mean they don't spend it on stupidly large numbers of standardized items.
Canadian phone and Internet surveillance program revealed
Potentially. There was Mozilla Europe, but according to the Wikipedia it was disbanded in 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Europe
This is very clever and all, but from the British perspective - this is exactly what they would have been looking for and Revere would be considered a revolutionary and a real threat, so this is the system working as it is supposed to.

This is the equivalent of saying that the NSA can use such metadata to find muslim extremists that want to kill your children and implement sharia law. (hyperbole courtesy of American media)

Changing the timeline such that "americans" are the underdogs rather than the establishment isn't really helpful... is it? Or is this attempt to stoke revolutionary sentiment?
I don't think it is either privacy or sharing. We have the technology to share privately, the challenge is to make it accessible to more people easily. The issue with centralized networks is, they are built to spy and sell data. I understand the importance of social networks as a great media and believe we can do better than how facebook, twitter and google + does it. Diaspora is an effort in the right direction. If we delegate the responsibility of running our communications to corporates whose business model is based on selling our data, then we have a problem. We have to take control of our communication infrastructure and projects like diaspora and Freedom Box are attempts in the right direction.
Accessible as in the permissions have been changed.

I last viewed the webpage (as I was reading the book) yesterday at 8pm PST.

Creepy no?
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For me, It would have been a better article if it had maintained Sam's Club as a focus, rather than switching to Walmart after comparing shopping club employee wages.
data is being correlated and stored

I'm thinking that the volume of data that they would have to store would be reflected in disk drive sales. In other words, it's probably large enough that it would have distorted the market price for hard drives.
For reference, wolframalhpa says that is approx. equivalent to 3.3x the volume this can carry (in oil): http://i.imgur.com/jSzgKAB.jpg http://i.imgur.com/dVXdESI.jpg
So, roughly four of those.
In fact, they opened a DC in Canada and not the U.S. and one can guess why.

Because it's culturally closer, I'd guess. OVH is a French company, and their Canadian data center is just outside of Montreal.
"We need a peaceful solution for this. Vote these people away. Replace them by better people. Educate those who think they have nothing to hide."

I hate to sound pessimistic, but it is incredibly naive to even think this is possible.
"Is there not something rather bizarre about the government taxing the money it's giving to you to support your studies?"
Not at all. Its just like mp's, staff and everyone else employed by the government.

"I'm not sure how it works in the Netherlands, but in the UK you can claim unemployment benefits without having to have been paying taxes (so far as I'm aware)."
No, in the UK and the Netherlands they won't hand out money to unemployed foreigners who choose to come and live there.

"That's the only difference I can see between a grant system and a salaried one."
You can still get a grant. Lucky you!!
Interesting, but for a similar experiment that's rather higher on the "cool" spectrum, check some of the videos with "oobleck" (non-newtonian fluid, like cornstarch and water) on an amp.
That would make Microsoft pretty disdainful of OS X/Linux/BSD/yada yada.. users as well, Visual Studio is not on anything but Microsoft platforms.

Both of their priorities are themselves, their customers and their developers.

If your software supports HTTP Live streaming, you can watch it. What Apple is saying is that will be using this to play and they know that the necessary support is in these devices/client software. If you can find the supporting software on your client ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming#Clients ) there's nothing stopping you from viewing it. And, the spec is published ools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming (It may not be in widespread use but it is available ).
But on top of that you have the fact that "The Chinese could offer him asylum in exchange for classified information" is a decent deterrent for them even asking.

Additionally, suppose they ask China for extradition and China offers protection in exchange for information. Then Snowden has several useful options. He could suggest that the US back off so he doesn't have to make a decision. He could give in to the Chinese. He could turn himself in and issue a public statement that if the only way he could stay in Hongkong was to sell out his country he would rather face jail.

Even the third option (turning himself in) would be very possibly something that would work in his defence. That is hard to spin against him, "He's so patriotic he'd rather go to jail than sell out his country."
Good for you:) I have no problem with your mentality. You are ofcourse, free to act as you'd like.

I just put the non referral code link so people have a choice:)
Previously submitted, but no discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5850201

Significant discussion instead on the washingtonmonthly.com item here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5852751
We have two justice systems in the UK, one for you and me, one for people with more money than god.
Hrm...on closer inspection, if you continue to reload the page you're able to get to it.

Looks like it's under heavy load or there's something odd going on with the permissions.
Apple + Akamai + Star Wars is what really made it all come together, according to this former Apple engineer: https://www.quora.com/Movie-Trailers/How-did-Apple-com-becom...
I personally do. However, I haven't been coding for decades. I learned just for my startup and mainly deal with frontend with my co-founder on backend. Still, it wasn't necessary for me to create icons. It is nice to know though. Plus, I enjoy design. I would DL inkscape (unless you have adobe illustrator) and get svg files of icons you like. See how they have done it. Most icons are very simple shapes. I personally think they are more effective when bare and simple. Its as simple as just drawing and connecting lines. Smoothing edges. And most of it is actually fairly precise / logical and.less artistic (I.e. no need to learn to draw). With time you'll get better. And you can create cooler and more complex icons, logos, and so on.