skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That last point would be incredibly salient it if it weren't for the fact that East Germany had no claim to legitimacy via the will of the people or a Constitution that guaranteed life, liberty and and the pursuit of happiness. It had legitimacy because it was the state, and it had the guns.

The implication in the United States is more serious -- the secrecy and double-talk around surveillance means that a Big Brother state can be implemented, and that the people are lied to, and perhaps the Constitution is not being upheld after all.
Probably Jon Favreau didn't ghostwrite this one.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau_(speechwriter)
The US aggressively peruses "Free Trade" agreements on behalf of our manufacturing corporations, with the deliberate policy of only allowing tariff-free imports from nations who implement these criminal actions. (e.g. the NAFTA suit against California for banning that gasoline additive). Just trade policy would be opposite: large tariffs on countries who don't match our labor or environmental standards.

China is agreeing to play by the rules, but the US wrote the rules.
> A band obviously has more than one musician.

There are single-musician bands though :)
Just ask 1,000,000 people for a single dollar - job done.

You might need a good story...
1. I don't have a CS degree or any high-education degree.

2. I don't live in the US or a developed country.

3. Middle/Lower Class family with no superior connections.

Edit: 4. I have a WP product selling @ $2,000/month. I'm looking for some dramatic change, though.
Some things about Snowden's story feel more like spy fiction than reality. I have a feeling there is more to Snowden than mere IT guy for intelligence agencies. But any theory of what else he could be that I can come up with, goes off the rails into wackyland pretty quickly.
Well, these are much more interesting links than your last round.

So, if your car has been stolen, and also you have evidence that 100 other cars have been stolen by the same crook, and then you report it to the police, and I go ask the police for comment about your car, and they say "we can't discuss that with you, jholman", does that mean that you have a secret relationship with police? I say no. I think the Google/NSA thing that Wired is refering to is very probably the same type of thing. The NSA are the cops you would go to, if the crook was another entire country. The secrecy the court upheld, reported in your link, was not whether or not Google went to the cops, but whether or not the cops investigated the thing Google asked them to.

"If there was nothing to hide, why do they try to hide it?" I agree, and it looks like Google agrees, but the NSA is crazy. The reason we should think that Google agrees is because Google campaigns to increase transparency, arguing that although national security is important, hiding the numbers of NSLs or FISA orders does not improve security, it just makes abuses possible.

Almost everybody in the valley is related to In-Q-Tel, emphatically including YCombinator. So, yeah, you're right about the facts on that one. I dunno what to make of it. DARPA funded the internet, too. TOR was designed originally by the Navy. Maybe it's all okay? Maybe we should be worried? It's really not clear. If you want more facts for your conspiracy-theory fire, there was an HN link a day or two ago to a Paul Carr article at Pandodaily, responding to a rant by Arrington. (I think Arrington's piece is fucking retarded, personally, but I bet you'll love it. And I think Carr takes at face value too many of the rumours.) But Carr DOES have some juicy facts about relationships between the intel community and Silicon Valley. I don't draw the same conclusions that you draw, but it's good to have the same facts on the table.

I don't think there's anything new to be said about the Wifi/Maps thing. If it was a mistake, as Google alleges, it was obviously an embarrassing one. No one can prove whether it was a mistake or deliberate, though. There's lots of evidence that if Google didn't lie-a-lot then Google was basically not being super-naughty... but if Google was in bed with the NSA then they would have lied really really a lot, and so all that evidence is probably worth nothing.

I think that if you look at the history of NSA collaborators, like the telcos, you will NOT find calls for transparency. The denials, yeah, I mean... no denial would convince you, and I guess that's fair. But why don't you apply the same standard of doubt to everyone else, too? Remember that there is basically no evidence that Google has participated in any illegal surveillance, nor any widespread surveillance (legal or otherwise), except for some really vague allegation in five powerpoint slides, where those powerpoint slides ALSO make claims that are obviously false (like claiming you accomplish this amazing panopticon for $20M, which is hilarous).

Btw, on a completely irrelevant side-note, I don't think "dissemination" means what you think it means.
VCS integration is pretty good. I still tend to use the command line for most stuff though, so I didn't include that feature in my review. Still, there are nice things like having a graphical indicator of changed lines in a file since the last commit -- showing in the left margin of the file -- that I like, and it's probably worth a section.

I tried remote debugging and Vagrant tools and haven't used them very often since, so I didn't include them in the review.

I don't use Atlassian software except BitBucket repos, which the VCS plugin (and my command-line Git-fu) seems to handle fine.

However, I do use PyCharm's virtualenv support all the time, and it's pretty nice. Good point there and I should probably add something about it in the project management section.
Exactly, I don't know why this reasoning isn't more obvious to people. He didn't have a "world of asylum options" at all, realistically very few countries could resist US pressure to extradite him, China and Russia being the top two.

And he gives China a huge reason not to extradite him - reciprocity for the US granting asylum to Chinese dissidents, and further the ability to use his case to advance their argument that the US government is being hypocritical when it criticizes China for all manner of things, from civil rights violations to cyberespionage.

He is a huge political coupe for the Chinese government, that just sort of fell into their hands, and as the Xinhua article supporting asylum for Snowden shows, they are going to milk it for all it's worth.

He's playing a dangerous game, and there are no guarantees anywhere for him, but I'm pretty certain he put himself in the best possible place with the best possible odds. Better to play one superpower off another, than to put yourself in the power of a country that may share your sympathies but have no power to protect you.
> Bitcoin has no security definition, no proof of security, and is vulnerable to polynomial time attacks.

Cite?
I regret not buying Intellij Ultimate during their End of the World sale.
yes, I'm not looking for getting rich. I'm looking for a particular amount.
Or even release them as products. Or actively shutting them down (or attempting to). The mouse, their DRM language (as mal-conceived as it may have been, was pretty clean), Bob Metcalfe's Ethernet and bit-mapped windowing displays all come to mind. IIRC correctly there were some interesting experiments in object-oriented interpretive languages, their runtimes, dev environments and libraries (think about lessons learned from LISP/Smalltalk before Python/Ruby or Perl or even PHP)

And there were more. Many more.
I think Jake was pretty straight forward in saying in the post that he isn't a fortran expert and was looking for someone to offer up a better version if he was doing something non-optimal.

Not that Julia ever misrepresented/misused a language in a benchmark on its front page, say like calling pure python code numpy. . . . (http://web.archive.org/web/20120215054907/http://julialang.o...)

Also, thanks for sharing the Julia distance links. The explanation of how the speed-up is achieved is really useful:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-dev/hd1beLPrsVk/6n88H_...
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So, the US Judiciary seems rather Machiavellian these days. He's got several recent examples of whistleblower treatment to consider.
Your argument fails when you realize that the freedom zero doesn't prevent Apple from pre-installing iTunes (etc.) with the operating system. Your mother doesn't need to actually use freedom zero and install other software, she could continue to use the pre-installed applications.

The whole idea that "fredom zero = no pre-installed programs" doesn't really make sense.
What reader are you using?

The feed complies with RSS 2.0[1]. Specifically, for each item:

title: The HN title
link: The submitted link
comments: The HN comments link
guid: unique per item
description: html linking to comments

Since the link hasn't changed, I'm unsure why you're having problems.

[1] http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html#hrelementsOfLtitem...
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2007 Obama lead us precisely here.
Indeed. With some experience, however, you can better hit it. I have a friend who never missed it and continues to generate more sales for every new theme he produces.
“nsa dating” is not what I thought it was.
Remember, too, that Glenn Greenwald has long been extensively targeted, as revealed in the HBGary leak. There was even a plan to set him up with false information to discredit him.
"The only meaningful question is "Is the government fulfilling its role as government?""

This attitude is very dangerous as the government will just change its role.

Everything is rooted in ethics and thats why we should be worried whether our laws and actions are ethical. Just because people disagree on it does not mean we should stop trying to find out objective ethical laws and principles.
That was populist pandering based on some sensationalist fictions. Getting personal political gain by capitalizing on outrage ginned up through the activities of several yellow journalists. Some of the worst (not the only!) behavior in the name of progressivism in our (American) history.

For the record, I used to really like this guy, until I read more about the era from some real (not high-school) history books and analysis pieces.
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As discussed in another thread recently, the CIA hired him first and they are willing to take anyone who appears trustworthy. Eg, they'll take someone like Snowden who is not well traveled or educated and apparently patriotic, over an expert linguist who has lived in foreign countries a number of years and may have conflicting loyalties.

Disclaimer: I don't know this for sure, just repeating one explanation given in another recent thread about this.

>Considering this guy hasn't done so indicates he's not scared of whatever bad guys are coming after him. Which means, either he's really stupid, or he has no reason to be afraid.

He's been working with ex-Constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald since January. He is very well advised, and I'm sure he'll lawyer up if he ever finds himself back in the US.
Yeah, I should probably have a "Multiple Platforms" section in there to discuss issues like that different key bindings. Since I've remapped almost everything, I don't notice it as much.
Has anyone considered that the NSA PRISM program coming to light could be a long-term win for the Internet giants?

Joseph Nacchio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio) was the only telcom CEO to refuse the NSA's demands for access, and now he is in prison.

Even though we probably don't know what level of access the NSA has today, it's likely it will want more tomorrow. This is probably not a situation the tech giants want to be in. So what's the solution?

If any individual Internet company stood up to the NSA and refused access, its CEO would be risking a fate similar to Joseph Nacchio. However, the Snowden leak provides a way for the Internet companies to bring PRISM to public light in a unified way -- where everyone is implicated -- while reducing the blowback risks to each individual company.

In the Snowden interview, he says that the only thing that prevents the NSA from doing something is policy -- not legality.

In the short run, bringing PRISM to light may hurt the tech companies, but it hurts them all equally. However, in the long run, it may be the necessary catalyst to build public demand for policy changes to prevent these type of programs from escalating.

If the tech companies wanted out, this may be the way out.
The only major downside I found is its nonnative feel since it's written in Java. Otherwise, it's the best.
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Too bad 2013 Obama sent 2007 Obama to some secret prison somewhere. (A Guantanamo of the mind?)
It is pretty hard to cite the lack of a security definition and the lack of a security proof. As for the polynomial time attack, it is describe in the original Bitcoin paper, at the end of Section 4:

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

It is also described here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...

And in this criticism by Ben Laurie:

http://www.links.org/files/decentralised-currencies.pdf
I love the STM32F4, have to tried the libopencm3 library?
Well, you can start here for a well referenced treatment of these nouns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun
John Connor,

On the Eve world of your choice, start a new crypto-currency TCU(THZ Currency Units)founded on BOINC distributed processing, consolidate and grow for the next couple decades until you become large enough to wrestle with the Tranquiity monster, or simple escape to HongWrong.com and strategically time release Tranquility abuse power-point torpedoes from your quite expensive super-ships and create a blazingly graphic galactic revolution.
Is it known that the source of the docs is exclusively from BAH? I'm not convinced you can get such attention from a high profile journalist simply by claiming that you have Top Secret access and that you plan to leak some documents to him.
The problem is that both candidate Obama, you and I are arguing from a point of massive ignorance.

From what's been leaked I find the idea that all digital communication is monitored on everyone and everything disturbing. As Snowden mentioned in his interview this is a powerful thing for a government to have and can become dangerous. It's something the public should be involved in deciding where and if that line is drawn.

It's a catch-22. The information necessary to fully appreciate what's going on is classified and the only way to understand the argument completely is to get a high level clearance which then prevents you from making any arguments about it.

Daniel Ellsberg wrote something really interesting about the effects this can have on the cleared vs. uncleared: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsber...

From what's available I can't imagine a situation where the cost of this type of massive internet surveillance outweighs whatever benefit. While I can appreciate the necessity of secrets - I wish we could know the truth.
> Google is a business. They're only going to spend big money on a project if they expect to make a profit.

People say this as if this was a law of physics. It's not. The company buildings will not spontaneously combust if they try to do something that is not calculated to make optimal short-term profit. They prove, time and again, that they care about awesome/worldchanging more than they care about the money. As someone pointed out in other thread, they even structured their stock options so that grumpy shareholders who care only about short-term profit can't get in the way.
I've tried using it twice on real code and in both cases the numba code ended up significantly slower than straight python/numpy. Admittedly I didn't bother digging into what was going on under the covers and I'm sure someone who reallyt understood numba could probably get it to work better. But as some simple magic to make your python code faster without rewriting anything, numba hasn't worked for me on real code.
1. Neither do I.

2. You've got me there.

3. Neither do I.

Congrats on $2k/mo from Wordpress. You can't do another one and make it $4k/mo? Maybe if you picked a specific industry vertical to target, like lawyers or accountants, you'd be able to charge higher prices. Maybe if you rethink the packaging of your offering --- instead of "a product for Wordpress", you sell an entire offering that happens to be "Wordpress Compatible" --- you can escape the price points people have for Wordpress offerings.
Yaa101's sentiment is that I sound pro-NSA. That's a joke. Why would you agree with that?

I strongly agree with you about astroturfing though, and I think it's depressing and reprehensible.

And, in case I haven't made this disclosure in a place where you've read it, I am at this time gainfully employed by Google, and I'm sure this distorts my thinking. I really really want to believe that Google is not evil, because if Google is evil than I have to decide if I quit this awesome job, etc etc, and that desire probably has some effect on my judgement. I encourage everyone to be cautious about everything everyone says, including me.

I don't think there's a lot of astroturfing on HN, though, if any. (For one thing, HN is pretty fringe). But also, the comments never say "don't worry it's all okay". Most of the comments raise crazy conspiracy theories, and other ones point out actual holes in crazy conspiracy theories. Hmn, though there are also people jumping on every most-recent theory that makes things look okay, actually... and that would be good astroturfing, so maybe I take it back. Actually, upon consideration, if I was the NSA, I'd post more theories like yours. Not that I'm accusing you personally. (Again, to protect against Poe's Law: this paragraph was sincere, not parody.)

What I'd like to see more of, in these discussions about surveillance, is theories putting the facts together in ways that make sense, and theories that are actually consistent with the facts we have. When you said that that PCWorld link backed up claims of Google-NSA backroom deals, that made no sense. Just read it. When you said (in a more-recent comment) that the CIA is invested in many SiVa companies... well, I don't agree with your conclusions, but your pattern of reasoning is a lot more plausible. Partly because you didn't go too far, like saying "this proves that Google is just a CIA front company". Because it doesn't prove much of anything... but it IS part of the set of facts that are interesting.

I am perpetually disappointed at how everyone seems to read one or two articles, and feel they have enough facts to stop reading and form an opinion.
Admittedly I was asking this here primarily for small business suggestions– I certainly wouldn't expect a simple provider switch to pull the wool over the NSA's eyes. It's a silly thought for a business anyway, where the only people you might be trying to hide from are your competitors. As you said, for practical security Google's offerings are likely top notch and it gives me no qualms having some accounts with them. That being said, I think there's still room for someone to bring almost as much to the table security wise through focus and perhaps a tighter codebase, but beat them out for clear ("fair and decent") terms in regards to privacy and data handling.

Regarding Fastmail, as far as I can tell the new interface is one of the better ones around and it's a big help that they provide Yubikey authorization. I've been using Google Authenticator for a while now but in recommending it to others I've found people taking advantage of just about every opportunity to undermine its usefulness (i.e. backup codes not protected or used regularly when their phone is dead, disabling two-factor auth for a few days because they forgot their charger, or sharing app-specific keys...).
In an ideal world, he could release the information and each individual would engage with it, analyze it, make determinations about it, and judge whether or not it is important.

Thats this world, minus the people that keep "choreographing" things so they have the "right" impact.
Are you suggesting that if the US's trade rules were neutral --- neither punishing nor incentivizing child labor, pollution, abuses --- China would no longer be doing these things/
Ok, that's not an attack against the cryptography of the system, which you're original post implied. E.g, you can't use a polynomial-time algorithm to spend coins which belong to me.
> Either people who form legal entities retain their individual rights regardless of what laws are passed or they don't.

That's not what corporate personhood is. Before corporate personhood became the law of the land, people retained all their individual rights despite forming legal entities. Neither does losing those rights happen in any other western country that does not recognize corporate personhood, btw.

> It doesn't mean their corporation gets a vote or can collect food stamps.

Oh, it does mean a corporation can lobby, which is very close to voting (and statistically, way more powerful than voting).

And it means a corporation can be found guilty of criminal negligence or even criminal behaviour, and yet not a single natural person is guilty. If you look at e.g. Germany, Sweden, or Norway - if there's criminal behaviour, the person responsible for it gets indicted EVEN if they did it as an officer of a corporation.

It's a kludge because, because for the small benefit it gives (allowing a legal entity to own property, which was solved in simpler ways all around the world), it lets the natural persons in control of a corporation evade criminal liability, and allows them to legally bribe, sorry, lobby with a force that they cannot without controlling said corporation -- at least not legally.

> And I'll put U.S. free speech absolutism over most of Western Europe any day.

Care to explain what you are talking about here, compared to (e.g.) Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland? If you say "most", I guess at least ONE of these countries fall in your "Western Europe" group?

Did you, or do you, have experience living in western europe and/or the US, that you base that on?
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Wasn't "NSA's free access to Google data" debunked, like, 3 days ago? Why people still keep talking like they give away all the data?

That's the problem with mass media. Not only a lie spreads faster than the truth, it's also the only thing remembered after the dust settles.
It may be partly that he saw the Bush unilateralism and wanted more consensus-based governance.

The problem being that, in the executive bubble, where most of seats and nearly all of the money is held by the military-industrial complex, that's the consensus you will get.
How do you know that you aren't some trivial but obscure SQL injectable HTTP POST away from losing all your mail on that provider? Because I gave you a reason to believe you don't have to worry about that on Google Mail.
4. I learned the trick and I'm building another $1-2k product. $4k is much harder because these markets are highly competitive. But I can't build 25 products and support them (or manage their support). Maybe a couple products that sell for $25k/month.

I sent you an email.