skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. The bit about the "elites" is just my own opinion. I mean people who are invested in the status quo and thus interested in maintaining it, even when it is apparent that there is a need for change.

I put the term in quotes because it's more of a mindset they seem to have than an objective qualifier.
I think you need to look at how the American system treated it's own people (well, at least those lucky enough to be born into one of the more well-off segments of society).

I'm no expert on the matter but I would say a general outsiders perception was that internally the American system treated it's own people fairly. They had good rules in place to fight the issues we're seeing now.

What they did to the rest of the world is, of course, another matter altogether.
I did something similar (but with more layers) using one of the Lytro depth images as a sample:

http://www.infinite-imagination.com/

(This one rotates on a desktop browser, but uses the device orientation to create a 3D effect on iOS at least).
> It's okay if I agree to it.

That's the typical fallacy. If Chinese factory worker agrees to be exploited in conditions close to slavery doesn't mean that that kind of exploitation is "okay".

Tempting people for whom the price of these services is too high to surrender their basic right to privacy is ethically questionable at best, and in my personal opinion should be made illegal.

What if Google asked people to give up their right to vote, would you think that was okay? Were do you draw the line?

The protection of civil liberties includes the protection of those who don't care about them, because if they can sell out their rights to greedy corporations, it affects all of us.

It's not just about your personal choice. A world in which corporations yield such power affects everyone.
yup, exactly - see link above.
People seem to assume that PRISM would be a passive "find me the terrorists" button. I imagine in reality it's just a tool they use among others, similar to any other law enforcement database (Just with a much larger dataset).

Like say for example, you catch a terrorist but he won't tell you anything and you suspect they were not acting alone.

So, maybe you interview the guy's brother who insists he knows nothing , hasn't seen his brother for 5 years and loves America.

So you check the brother out with PRISM and find that:
He had an IM conversation with someone in 2002 and he spoke about how happy he was that 9/11 happened.

Someone had taken and uploaded a photo to a social network of the brothers at the same place 2 years ago.

You decide that putting covert surveillance on the brother might not be a waste of resources.
Like gp said, perfect for a grad student!
US Navy can use lower case letters now..:)
Nice! It even works on my FirefoxOS phone, though a bit slower than in Mobile Safari which is weird considering it's using 3d transforms. Maybe it's the frequency in which the deviceorientation event fires?
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That's the worst thing about the people saying "I have nothing to hide so I won't be put on any List."

I just want to say to them "You're already on the List, we all are!"
Could it be due to the hardware?
Do you think it makes sense to compare personal and corporate taxes? Corporations are generally far better equipped to spend money avoiding taxes, so it probably makes more sense to try to keep loopholes to a minimum and evaluate whether the effective rates are appropriate for the parties they apply to.

The article you link discusses the very wealthy having taxation dominated by the lower taxes on investment income. I think such taxes could be higher without having significant impact on investment (lots of rhetoric suggests that even tiny changes would cause investment to collapse, that's silly), but there is plenty of room to discuss whether government spending is a better use of the wealth than private investment (and such taxes do more or less have the effect of directly moving private investment dollars to government spending).
Google's CEO said, "You can just move," but I think that's out of context. Here's the whole phrase: "Street View, we drive exactly once. You can just move, right?" He also retracted the statement later:

>UPDATE: Google CEO Eric Schmidt has offered a response to comments he made during his appearance on the Parker Spitzer show last Friday.

>Schmidt's statement reads: "As you can see from the unedited interview, [...] I clearly misspoke. If you are worried about Street View and want your house removed please contact Google and we will remove it."
Should the Apache Foundation stop hosting NSA-sponsored code?
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Just expanding the acronyms should give you a decent general idea - one is a 'secure shell' the other a 'secure socket layer'. For more details, it's pretty googleable.
Spreadshirt has had an API for a while now, spawning things like http://zufallsshirt.de/ (German, random shirt per visit, you either buy it or consign it to oblivion.)
Precisely

Even people who didn't ordinarily like the USA were supportive back then. The USA completely ruined all that goodwill.

Heck, done right, that would be way more efficient to prevent further attacks than all the money spend in the NSA.

I had very, very high hopes for Obama. But I guess he too is just a cog in the system. He seems better than Bush, at least.
"publicly" seems to be a prominent omission from the title.
Does not appear to work.
I think it's a useful discussion to have since there are so many people who "don't have anything to hide"

The argument works well for privacy advocates because even without regard to revealing classified secrets, the NSA won't be able to demonstrate good efficacy or good value for the money, due to the fact that such a system can only ever "work" rarely. A close look at this ought to also reveal a large fraction of abuse, and waste, in addition to false positives.
Perhaps I'm pessimistic but my immediate thought is how much Google is involved, i.e are they providing the backbones the balloons connect to? The last thing I'd want is Google knowing every URL I visit.
There's a large subset of that intersection that puts a bizarre halo effect around the NSA (everything they do is good) and the opposite for the IRS. So I do think this will wake them up.
Blame falls on all of us. The media or the propaganda masters don't do this on a whim -- people have a hunger for details around a story. It is in all of our nature.
Of my immediate family, only one has a Facebook profile, and none of them would come up on Google, none share any image online nor do they trust things like cloud storage or online banking. It's worth noting that a big portion of the world is still fairly unknown to Google.
Holy lucre ! 300 billion in lost revenue. That has to be wrong. Even at a tax rate of 30% (way higher than the US effective rate) that implies one trillion dollars each year gets hidden from the IRS.

That will solve every budgetary crisis going.
Credit card transactions are mentioned several times in the article.

That isn't closely private information, but it isn't something I would call public activity.
sure, there's an example at
https://bitbucket.org/isti/c-orm/src/4ec76f741d756bf70c2b1b8... but i don't have any text explaining it yet, and it's a bit hard to see what is happening.

but basically there's a python script that parses your struct definitions and then auto-generates a library (this isn't great i know, but what else can you do? if you don't want to use that, you can still use it as an SQL library, but you need to write your own callback functions to do the work of setting values in the struct). that library is

#include "phonebook.corm.h"

in the linked code. then you can do things like

static int find_name(isti_db *db, const char *text, name** name) {
corm_name_select *select = NULL;
*name = NULL;
STATUS;
CHECK(cname.select(&select, db));
CHECK(select->name(select, "like", text)->_go_one(select, name));
EXIT;
if (status == ISTI_ERR_NO_RESULT) status = ISTI_OK; // see NULL name
if (select) status = select->_free(select, status);
RETURN;

}

(the STATUS, CHECK, EXIT and RETURN are just macros for the usual "return an int as status and goto exit on error" handling). the snippet above populates the name (a struct typedef) pointer with values (id and name value in this case) from the database. the thing called select is a struct with function pointers that generates SQL select functions (so there's the usual objects-in-C pattern of passing the struct in to the function in "select->name(select, ..." for example). and the SQL being generated is "select * from [table] where name like [value]". it's all escaped correctly to avoid SQL injection.

the API for the database backend is isolated out, but the only current implementation is sqlite.

the complete repo is at https://bitbucket.org/isti/c-orm/src (if you download it and run doxygen you should see better docs - but they're incomplete and not online yet)

if people are interested, email me at andrew@acooke.org and i'll get back to you when it's in a usable state (it mainly needs docs, polishing, and perhaps another database backend - probably postgres).

also, of course, there are many limitations compared to ORM systems. there's no way to retrieve related objects, for example (so if a struct has a pointer to another struct, that pointer isn't retrieved - the best you can do is also store a pointer to the primary key and then make a second call based on that). and currently table and column names must exactly match struct and field names.
Being completely anonymous is neither practical or desirable for most working people. You need an online reputation in order to stay competitive.

The better solution is to control your online reputation. Prospective employers may need to search for you. If you have a website in your name and/or have other public posts online, you can control your image. It also gives you a platform through which you can respond to any criticism or misinformation.
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The technical portion of William Binney's presentation at HOPE 9 sheds a lot of light on this.[1]

If you go to 14:33 in the video, it has a nifty screenshot of an activity sequencing tool. He also talks a lot about latent semantic analysis and other methods.

1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xs8zl4_william-binney-hope-...
While it's impossible to estimate how smoothly things actually work in the NSA, if you are someone who takes the leaked slides as gospel, then you have to admit at least one thing:

The slides were written as if morons were the audience. It uses brightly colored bubbles to define the very few key points involved. In any other bureaucracy, these slides would be seen as yet another example of office workers having to be reminded to do their "TPS reports". The slides, more or less read as: "Hey dumbfucks, remember that we have two systems for espionage. PLEASE remember to use BOTH of them"

The fact that they took the time to come up with a memorable name like PRISM is also kind of amusing, like the way politicians come up with PATRIOT Act and PROTECT-IP to help people remember what hot-button issue they involve.

edit: In addition to this, Snowden managed to get the files using a USB key, something which had been banned years before at the NSA because someone was able to infect NSA's infrastructure with such a device...and yet Snowden was still able to steal files...at the very least, the NSA's IT logistics doesn't seem to be much better than of large corporations: http://theweek.com/article/index/245643/how-edward-snowden-s...

So the NSA may employ the world's best engineers and mathematicians, but it doesn't necessarily mean things are well-honed and efficient.
Decades, or centuries, perhaps.

I admire Ron Paul when he defends individual rights.
Why not say "How hard could it be?"

Honestly so far I am surprised at how easy it is. The only difficult part is with a jigsaw cutting out the various holes and shapes for the vents and whatnot. Besides that it has been smooth sailing.
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I'm sorry, I have never seen that movie. Why do you say that?
Kafka would be proud!
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the CAAT appeal was stunning.
Alhough admitting that Pine Gap was used to target strikes on Iraq, defence insisited that it is not a war base - which made the facility ineligible for the protections from judicial scrutiny afforded under "special undertakings".
Rather than admit that a foreign war base operates from the heart of our country, and unwilling (unable!) to answer the defendants' full range of examination, the prior conviction was nullified and the christians against all terrorism walked free.

but now the usa is opening more bases around the country, including marines in Darwin and US warships off WA.
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What are some good use case for this app? I have downloaded it couple of years back, but didn't find any use of it.
Thodo, todo list on the new tab page
I'm wondering if you could add a page describing all of the 'garment' options! I like what I see otherwise, but am not familiar with what each of them are, and there's no where on the website I can find that info.
Anyone know (and able to tell) what radios, frequencies, and antennas are being used for the experiments? The antenna balls on the houses are interesting - I'm guessing there is an actively pointed directional antenna inside.
The NSA already open sourced a data storage system. It's called Accumulo and is built on Hadoop.

http://accumulo.apache.org
Do you think it makes sense to compare personal and corporate taxes?

Yes. Corporations themselves want to apply the Constitution to the corporation as if they're a "person", therefore, it makes sense to compare the corporate tax rate to the personal tax rate.
What makes you think PRISM collects data about everyone? BLARNEY/FAIRVIEW are their "upstream data collection" programs. PRISM isn't one of their dragnets, so it confuses me that people are only talking about it. And what about the "give us all data for everyone each day" orders to phone companies? Why aren't we talking about that?

It mystifies me why everyone is so focused on PRISM, there is zero logical basis - and I'm starting to suspect it's intentional that the most innocuous program is taking up the majority of media time.
If by recently you mean like 50 years ago, then yes, recently.
Macs with SSDs don't need freefall sensors, and thus, no accelerometers.

Works great on my 2008-era Macbook.
I use it for text all the time - blog post drafts (that I tend to finish in iA Write), scratchpads, things to remember…

The search interface is absolutely fantastic and it stores files as .txt which is great and much more lightweight than Evernote.
Things are very very alpha at the moment. Yes, it's huge now but is going to change in the future. Don't get discouraged by this as it's nowhere near final production version.
I would be cautious to say we have universal literacy today, even with universal education.
I agree these are interesting details, and I'm happier for knowing more about the people involved. However, I also believe that these facts are smears. They are being published not to inform but as ad hominem attacks on Snowden.

When the war logs leaked, I doubted that anyone would take the initial smears against Julian Assange seriously. I'm Swedish and the sexual misconduct allegations were a big conversation subject here.

After a while, I realised that though I wasn't impressed by the ad hominems, they really did work on the general public. Older relatives and friends who were not in tune with the particular issues of the leak were much more interested in stories about the people behind it. These stories require no expert knowledge; they're relatable. It's daunting for a layperson to try to judge who's right or wrong in issues like war or spying, but it's easy and familiar to judge people over the perceived wholesomeness of girls they're involved with. Thus, to my disappointment, these friends and relatives categorically dismissed anything about the war logs by referring to Assange's personal affairs.

Things like this are published to create negative associations; to cater to personal vanity (better-than-thou) and focus judgement on Snowden's character rather than the faceless institutions he ousted.
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No, spending will increase to match.
The actual document [1] is remarkably vague. ( And the answer states in the least charitable interpretation that the German intelligence agencies are capable of partially analyzing ROT13 or detecting traffic on port 443...)

But actually I did only comment to ask, if there is a way to switch from Google translate to the actual site, not the "original" button which still goes through Google servers. ( Especially since Google also renders PDF as HTML, when I click on a PDF link in the page.)

[1]http://www.andrej-hunko.de/start/download/doc_download/225-s...
(pdf, German)
That doesn't mean they aren't attempting to parse this massive data set. PRISM could be test run for all we know.
Does not work on my Nexus 4
No it doesn't. Corporate tax legislation is not the same as personal tax legislation, therefore a comparison is irrelevant. Even if corporations would be treated as people, as long as the legislation is different it does not make sense to compare the two.

You may argue that tax rates are too high or low for both or that there are too many loopholes but that is a different discussion. I don't think anyone actually wants to see the same tax legislation for businesses and for people - it makes no sense what so ever.
"As part of K.D.D., an algorithm was applied to the broader data set in efforts to detect patterns of behavior fitting models that had been previously established as being indicative of the activities of a terrorist cell."

http://m.vanityfair.com/online/eichenwald/2013/06/obama-veri...
As an Indian, I LOL at this. If you think the Imperial English government did not butcher Indians, you have obviously not studied Indian history much.

I have nothing against today's English people, they are terrific people. But, Imperialism as a culture should stay consigned in the dustbin of history - it makes monsters out of ordinary men. It should never be revived again with terrorism and national security as future excuses.
>So by analyzing a network of communications, the NSA could be ferreting out clues from more than just the messages' particulars.

How could one distinguish between a terrorist cell and another small group of people intensely working on something, like a startup?
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I wonder if employers think it weird when Googling a job candidate when they find nothing at all about that person?
Apple and Google use simplistic presentations. Does that mean that the target audience for WWDC and Google/IO are morons ?

No. So I probably would read too much into the presentation style of the slides.
The issue is consequences of your actions -- not just the consequences you want, all the consequences.

Efficiency is a red herring. Ethics ends up just two sides saying "I'm right you're wrong". The only meaningful question is "Is the government fulfilling its role as government?". Or the simpler proxy question: "Is this constitutional?".

Ethics talk is opinion because obviously the people doing it and their supporters think it's ethical. If you tell them you think it's unethical they'll disagree and discount the rest of what you say. Two groups just saying "I'm right and you're wrong" or "I'm ethical and you're unethical" ends up with the more powerful one getting what they want.

Even if, say, torture efficiently got information, if it also galvanized the world against you, provoked many suicide bombers, got your own people tortured, lowered the population's trust and faith in the government, distanced your allies, increased the costs of maintaining the military, and so on, it might not be worth it.

If you put the entire population in jail, you will have 100% efficiency in jailing criminals. But what cost? The point is that if the government doesn't protect freedom or represent the will of the people then it will lose popular support and have to support itself by convincing people lack of freedom is preferable to freedom or just lying.

Besides, it didn't stop the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Obviously this is a conspiracy by the government and not news org's trying to sell newspapers/clicks/ad dollars.
My personal favourite IDE for Python is WingIDE...the introspection, code completion and debugger are very impressive (step through Django templates in the debugger!).

I recently switched to editing in VIM and using jedi-vim & a few other plugins to get the same Python experience that WingIDE delivers. My conundrum is that I absolutely fell in love with vim (this was my third or 4th go round with vim fwiw) as a text editor but the Python experience can't touch Wing. Wing has a vi mode, but it is not even close to being an actual vim editor. Now I find myself constantly flip-flopping between Wing & vim and finding both slightly unsatisfactory.

I've tried JetBrains, but prefer Wing as it seems smaller and easier to configure. I don't have enough experience with IdeaVim but I'm almost certain it won't deliver a proper vim experience (comments by mmahemoff seem to back this up).

I think I will probably settle on vim and live with the reduced Python integration...and possibly switch back to Wing when using a big unfamiliar library...The introspection is a huge help when exploring something like wxPython or QT.
I hoped for something like clojurescript with Scala. Its finally happening which is great step. But for now , I am happy with Dart.
Currently using eclipse with pydev and frustrated by the lack of tooling and general understanding of my code by the IDE (mainly due to python's dynamic nature of course, but still). Would anyone here knows a better alternative ?

PS : i'm on mac
The problem with "basic income" as I see it is people's ideas about what a proper standard of living is completely subjective. Should a basic income cover an apartment, or a house? Should it cover cheap food or expensive organic food? Should it cover technological gadgetry, and if so, how much? What type of car is "fair" for someone to be given? How do we ensure people's standard of living doesn't continue to increase. Will we not always have someone with more money to compare ourselves to? It's the nebulous definition of what a "basic income" should be that has me worried about the whole concept.
Yeah, spent on sorting the country out.
I get the strong feeling that, as you say, its a redesign for the sake of redesign..... but I think, more to it than that, is Ive’s distaste for anything Forestall, and this is his crusade to remove any last vestige of “him” from iOS...

Thats just my subjective opinion, but it comes across strongly from everything I’ve read and heard..... I don’t really care one way or the other, but I hope for their sake they can improve what they’ve shown and pull off something insanely great (though I’m not holding my breath).
Source: Obama Considering Releasing NSA Court Order
What you think abut this idea 
root account = one Username (ID) for all
the idea is build Web App to Create root account
this root account - allow user to log any web app or mobile app or software by root account

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Swedish article on the matter: http://www.aftonbladet.se/minekonomi/article16839634.ab

I have no idea if Skatteverket (IRS equivalent) were right in their decision but the guy did lose in the first court instance.

Also: If the Facebook page was public and Skatteverket were questioning the legitimacy of the 'business purchase', why shouldn't they check the page? Basing the decision on only one status update seems a bit strange though.