skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The latter is simply not true

Until the government decides you are inconvenient and "leaks" embarrassing data to the press.

Or, alternatively, how long before a socially conservative Congress decides parents/friends/potential employers have a right to know if someone is engaged in un-Christian behavior? The fear alone could make a more moral world (and depending on your level of crazy, help cut the deficit as we won't have to pay to clean up after natural disasters, God's punishment for immorality). We could end homosexuality, abortion, pornography, sexting, and atheism by ensuring their practitioners are too afraid to communicate. Texting and the internet paved the way for the moral decline of America, and this lazy, entitled generation is running amuck with no fear of God. We can fix that! We could even publish a registry of romantic relationships which don't lead to marriages. A list of who's had an abortion (horray for electronic health records!). Parents could retain control of their children through college and early adulthood by threatening to cut them off if electronic communications reveal undesirable behavior. You could have tax incentives for businesses that hire straight, monogamous churchgoers (geofencing) who don't watch porn.

None of this would run afoul of the Constitution, as there is no restriction of speech or religious freedom, just the sharing of third party business records.

Or, alternatively, how long before a liberal Congress decides people have a right to know if politicians and employers make racist remarks by text message or post pseudonymously on neo-Nazi forums? Which lobbyists call them, how often, and for how long? If the children of anti-gay rights campaigners are secretly gay? You could surveil private businesses to make sure they're paying their workers equally, and not talking about trying to cheat safety or monopoly regulations. Imagine an inside look at the discussions behind every hiring decision!

Yeah, it's a little farfetched. But we seem to be okay with intercepting this data and using it in our collective interests. So far, that's just security, and my objections aren't terribly strong. But I encourage everyone to look at the incredible power of rural America in Congress (see corn subsidies) and think hard about what else the Values Voters and Focus on the Family might get written into law as our best interests.
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While my experience is limited, the system administrators I have worked with typically had more rights on the servers I worked on then I did myself. I do not find it at all surprising that a system administrator at the NSA might have access to some of these systems or a clear route through which to attain such access.
You did, even if you didn't mean to, with your Nazi reference.
A lot of the criticism seems to be directed at the icons. They really don't look that great to me. Sorry that I have an opinion on the matter, you can direct your vitriol at me if it makes you feel better. Here's a redesign posted to HN earlier that I think looks quite a bit better: http://dribbble.com/shots/1109343-iOS-7-Redesign/attachments...
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They have been turned into sheep over the last 6 decades by the media.
I did need to tweak some registry setting on my Win7 box to allow my MacBook to access its shares properly. Not very user-friendly, but after that it's worked fine.
> It's bullshit to focus on Snowden's personal life instead of the real bullshit he exposed.

…in an article about Snowden's personal life.
The sound worked for me and it's a quite different version (a beta score?) compared to the one we're used to.

I guess these demos were released halfway through the development, hence the weird setting, different music, etc.

PS: your link led me to Grim Fandango's OST. OMG, what a great game and OST.
I can see how the way I phrased it brings up the eyes of some Ph.D., but I was thinking more about having a complete picture of things, or new information changing the context of interpretation for things, etc.
Ask HN: Voting rings on HN?
Just saw this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861459 which had been on the front page for several hours and attracted lots of comments, suddenly drop to rank 100 in the space of less than 5 minutes.

I don't believe that 1 person flagging it can have that effect. Am I missing something or are there voting rings on HN?

Surely this would be easy to check for an admin - just see who flagged the story? I thought pg was specifically against voting rings?

I am not even sure why a story that had been front page for several hours would suddenly get massively flagged in any case...
What's immoral about spying?
They passed the time codes to the juicy bits around the data center.

I am sure it was more than just a few times and more than just a few people.

And just imagine what happens when it's outside contractors.
For context: you're referring to Steve Clemons reporting on overhearing a bunch of people affiliated in some way with foreign intelligence services babbling at an airport about how Snowden should captured or killed.

When I hear someone who works for the USG talk about how we should turn some supposed adversary of the US into glass with a barrage of nuclear missiles, I do not immediately fear for the future of the planet.

I hope the people Clemens overheard are identified.
Without knowing what you do, it's impossible to say. Did you have sex before the age of 18? You've committed statutory rape. You've probably violated copyright many times. You've probably violated the computer access law many times (forget name but violate a eula/TOS and you are in violation). Ever sell anything or make any money (say a bet between friends) and not report it on your tax return?
These slides are certainly prettier and less crowded than the NSA slides, but they are, if anything, less readable. Unless the slides are intentionally informed by the principle that hard to read text is easier to remember (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/health/19mind.html?pagewan...), I think these slides are a classic case of form over function.

• The main font is too thin.

• The first few slides are white text on a neutral gray background, which is inexcusably low contrast. Ditto for the green text on the blue background on the following slides, and the gray axis labels on the blue background, which I can barely read even on my computer screen. The white text on blue background is good.

• The text in the graph on the "How can we monitor everything?" slides is too small to be readable from the back row (but this was also a problem in the originals).
Would the NYTimes hire someone who would stick up for Snowden?
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Terrorism is an important issue similar to how child abduction+rape+murder is an important issue: it's a serious crime in its own right and lots of people tend to freak out when it happens in their country. (n.b. Not true in all countries at all times, but currently true in most Western countries.)

I think that governments should address terrorism (although the particular strategy and tactics used should depend on the particular terrorist groups).
It's likely your computer runs an OS made by a company founded by a college drop out.

Despite some amazing success stories, I suspect that the public perception of someone who drops out of college (or high school) tends to lean toward assuming marginal intelligence and little aptitude for skilled labor.
Wow. Looks like you're right.

The breach appears to have been aimed at unearthing the
identities of Chinese intelligence operatives in the United
States who may have been under surveillance by American law
enforcement agencies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chines...
Isn't it lovely how HNers enjoy providing reinforcement to such fear? You guys are in on it, aren't you.
Once you have an account with Linode, spinning up another node is quick and painless, and with way more options.

Plus they're up front with their billing - I need to send in a question and wait for a email response on how much it will cost to keep it longer then 30 minutes?

I'll pass. His concept is to SAVE TIME, yet with all the missing details, it will end up costing more time (and probably money) then it's worth.
I'd be interested in the mechanics behind this service. I see you are using Meteor, any other info on the stack?
Just this morning they had a conversation on the correct way to use the term "whistleblower". Technically it's someone exposing illegal activity, but hey, we have this secret court issuing this secret order, which makes it all fine and legal, so the term does not apply to Snowden.
Does she have a public profile? The link you provided requires auth. I think she's fascinating and inspiring.
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I think your price is reasonable for people that will get a good return from this, and not for people that won't.

I'm not going to get a raise from doing the course, and my employer is not going to pay out for it, so I'd like it to be $500. People who are going to make the money back will pay more. If you fill the seats, the price is right.
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This argument is shot down by the fact that they released the unedited video at exactly the same time on the same website.
He is not even a journalist. He is a pundit, no better than the talking heads on Fox News, he just knows how to dress himself up as an "intellectual" to cater to the NYT/Charlie Rose audience.
I read the Kravets piece at your recommendation only to find that there was no mention in it of anyone using data obtained through FISA to build domestic criminal cases of any sort.
>When I look back at history, I see that the worst people that have done the worst things are in fact people in state governments, using the powers of government against civilians.

That's because you're looking at the largest damage influenced by a small group of people, instead of total amount over a period of time.

Obviously the most damage done by any single person was done by a person with a lot of power, and thus probably a member of the government. That doesn't mean more damage is done when a government is present rather than in total anarchy.

Consider a choice between:

1. A mad governor that kills 100 people yearly, but prevents any other killings (somehow)

2. An anarchy system where 100 mad people kill 10 people each every year

Your heuristic of 'the worst people that have done the worst things are in fact people in state governments' still holds, because any other murderer only killed 10 people. However, comparing the two options clearly shows the first one is better.

TL;DR - availability bias
It was not for nothing. You helped digitalizing a book.
Okay cool. What would it mean for someone to fail the course and would there be any way to retake the course (possibly for a reduced price)?
"Check out this facebook page... That's right, not a single friend"

LOL
What has that got to do with length ? - entertainment value isn't a function of length.
I may be way off, but I feel that this issue is similar to Debt a few generations ago. they put it off to let the next generations down the road deal with it. Are we not doing the same thing with our civil liberties now? "why worry about it now, it's not a complete catastrophe yet." - narrow minded thinking in my opinion.
This seems like an awesome idea.

Unfortunately, or fortunately?, not sure... most of my application security understanding comes from this question on stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/q/72394/25981
Don't assume that: "tried to cache the website? >> I've been chasing it around all day, can't cache it. Too fast for me." (her twitter today).
What he leaked is a slideshow. The rest of what he said has been received by many here as gospel, when in fact, there are legitimate questions about his truthfulness.

So if you want to stick to primary sources, we have a PPT wit some logos thrown about in a tacky way.
Linux has been implementing Plan 9 features piecemeal for ages. For example: /proc fs, several system calls, utf-8, etc.

But I wasn't talking about that stuff specifically (which might or might not be incompatible with core Linux). Parent lamented of Linux generally not trying out new research ideas. Well, why doesn't he have a go at it?
Or if Google continued their "Don't be evil" façade.
The CIA has been recruiting journalists since the 1950s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
Aaaaaand the live map function is broken.
very clever ^^
I hope this will bring you good business!
Too slow on 3G. Also, not completely eyes/hands free. Too dangerous to use in the car. As a result, I never use it.
Price information is available on the second page of the "Get More Time" flow, after entering your email (or not) and hitting "Continue". I'll try to make that more obvious. Thanks for the feedback.
> Since everything is secret, it's difficult for anyone to examine or challenge what the NSA does. If they have a week before going to court it means they have eternity, because no one is going to make sure that provision is always observed.

"Secret" doesn't mean "code is written by people who don't document it and are then killed after it's shipped". Secret means that they don't trust you with keeping them honest.
So stop quoting Rand. Quote the ideas in their original and better articulated form.
Sure, they're fair questions in and of themselves. That doesn't mean they're not used as part of unreasonable or just nonsense rhetoric.

Does the person asking them want to start a real discussion about skill- and merit-based hiring practices? I'm sure much of HN is familiar with the argument there is an over-reliance on formal education as prerequisites to employment.

Armchair quarterbacking someone's leak and escape plan is the same sort of story. There is a lot more to consider in that discussion too (maybe he's got a Chinese hookup for forged travel identification), but I don't think the blowhard on the radio actually wants to have either of those discussions.

Having questions is not the same as smearing character.

And 9/11 truthers would tell you they've just asking questions. Blowhard punditry relies on couching their ramblings in "questions" so much an entire south park episode was dedicated to it: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/255329/preview-im-aski... This might be a bit of an odd link for HN, but we're discussing conversational tactics couched as meaningful discourse and I'm always reminded of this as a quintessential example of the difference.
Maybe FB, but not Apple. It's just not the right fit for Apple.
If you ever wanted a case study in bare faced propaganda, this is it. You'll rarely see a hit piece this brazen.

"But Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism, the fraying of the social fabric and the rise of people who are so individualistic in their outlook that they have no real understanding of how to knit others together and look after the common good."

Aside from mentioning "Big Brother" this reads like something directly from the mouth of Orwell's Big Brother. The vague invocation of impossible to prove dangers ("cynicism", "distrust", "individualistic" people). The clear identification of an enemy: "solitary", "individualistic" people (who are harder to coerce and threaten). The rebranding of social control to "knit[ting] others together and look[ing] after the common good." It's all there, plain as day, in the most respected newspaper in America.

The sad thing is that more will come. The NSA's secret programs are so obviously indefensible that the only recourse available to the mouthpieces of power like Mr. Brooks is to mount pathetic ad hominem attacks against the messenger.
A few points:

1. I don't like that this is being said about Edward Snowden, but Occam's Razor implies it's not necessarily a conspiracy (yet). I'm sure it will be, at some point, but as a software engineer who made it without a college degree, I can personally attest that it's not unnatural for people to bring up and question a lack of education. People love to do this - before I was making any real progress in engineering, and even after I succeeded, people thought it was unusual and strange that I didn't pursue a degree. The only people exempt from this are people like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, David Karp, et al.

2. On citing use of the "fallacy" ad hominem - just stop. You're not doing it properly. Yes, the literal definition means bringing in personal qualities, but personal qualities and background can be relevant. Just as the appeal to authority is not a fallacy if you cite a legitimate expert with established research, it is OK and legitimate to question a high school dropout's ability to understand what he leaked. This should be self-evident - the person is being questioned because they don't have an obvious legitimatization of their expertise. That said, I don't agree with the fact being explored more than the leaked information itself. I'd also like to note that you don't sound any more convincing to people because you just say "ad hominem" - it makes people defensive, causes an audience to think you're pompous (sometimes) and conditions you to try and rebut an entire argument by citing a fallacy and ignoring the substance - which is a method that tends to fail utterly. For more on this, see [1].

3. Finally, it is sad they're talking about his neighbors and school life so much. They have nothing else to go on and they're grasping at straws. It sounds arrogant to say, but that's what most people do. They react to a big crisis and their fear of the unknown causes them to grasp ar any conversation points they can, legitimate or otherwise.

The community of people who recognize this (i.e. Hacker News for one) would benefit from being in a position to correct this mentality and steer the conversation towards the hard issues - the things that really matter. Dump all that shit about his high school diploma, let's start talking about the NSA.

[1]: http://plover.net/~bonds/bdksucks.html
Sure, might be a bit hypocritical but i get your point. Most of the noise that comes from Waze is when it detects you aren't moving. That said there is the light social encouragement if you see a something (something in road) to put it on the map, or confirm / deny it.

I can personally say the pothole and "thing on the road" warnings might have saved me from damaging my car a few times, maybe even helped me avoid an accident (a mattress was on the highway, yikes).
They did not accuse him of rape.
Sorry I did not mention before, I like the design.
This is pretty awesome. For someone that's starting out it offers basic things like version control hosting for cheaper than it already is. Also the fact that it comes with Growth Hacker is pretty cool too, along with a 90 day money back, you honestly can't go wrong here. Big thanks to HM for this.
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Earned my upvote because this is indeed a nice deal and probably tons of effort went into creating this kind of relationship with that many companies.

However, am I the only one who enjoys setting up Graphite and CI and similar software? (No email, though. Did it once, and don't want to give up sleeping time for a week to do it again.)
That's a lot of ifs. All I know is, when I was a kid calling your congressmen works. Now hundreds of people spamming phone calls and emails has no effect at all. Advertising works and the politicians know it. They don't care about fringe voters because it's usually not a big enough group to matter.
give you a server that can run 90% of what a user needs

Are you saying that you just keep adding things to the server until you've covered that mythical user?

That sounds like an absolute disaster from a security, maintenance, and resource usage perspective.

I don't see what problem this solves. Start an EC2 instance (takes seconds), configure it as you want it (which to me includes a hardened, specific set of software with very specific routing rules where nginx sits in front of node, etc), and then save an AMI from your specific mix of technology.

Trivial, and perfectly suited to the user's needs. I can then spin up any number of perfectly suited instances.
can you have a Linode account w/o having an active server?
This is suppose to offer a small testing environment, fast and easy.
and I guess is cheaper that Linode to just keep it a little bit longer online...
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The 20M figure doesn't necessarily refer to a budget. It likely refers to the cost of making sure the traffic passes through their collection sites. If you re-read the slides, you'll see that it's talking about things like "the data travels along the cheapest path, not the shortest path" etc.
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I was initially surprised to see it fall, too. My kneejerk expectation was for the price to rise.

In retrospect, it's reasonable to believe that the expectation of anonymity has decreased, especially among future buyers/users. For some, anonymity was a major reason to hold/use bitcoin.

A couple of the major transients in the past week have correlated well with NSA-related news. The big increase in volatility started with a sudden spurt of trades on ~ June 3. That had nothing to do with any obvious news stories.
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Fair enough, I was just joking of course...
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My only real negative criticism is with the icons. Everything else I can learn to love -- or already love -- but there are some fundamental issues with the gradient directions, shape details and overall consistency.

I think your redesign is a great step in the right direction! The gradients are going light-to-dark in a consistent manner, the scale of the shapes within each icon feels appropriate and you even simplified some of them further to make them more obvious. If your icons were the ones presented, I'd have much less to complain about.
he was quiet and kept to himself? Never really fit in?
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Probably because SysAdmins are fervent about security/maintainability/reliability.

Fixed that for you. Too often all developers care about is "Ship. Ship. Ship". Get a pager and come join our world for a bit. You'll understand what its like to run a real-world, mission critical app.
it is OK and legitimate to question a high school dropout's ability to understand what he leaked.

This is mistaken. A CS graduate isn't necessarily any more competent than a given highschool dropout working in engineering is necessarily incompetent.
The somewhat dramatic "three felonies a day" mostly boil down to some variant of "Honest Services Fraud". Commonly cited examples include calling in sick without being sick

It's also very easy to trivially commit wire fraud.
There is a client here to try out: http://projects.existentialize.com/dinet/client.html
by "large blobs" you mean sparsebundles, right? Sparsebundles (as opposed to diskimages) can be diff'd allowing Time Machine to not only treat them as an HFS capable FS, but to isolate changes to a single block, reducing network traffic and time to backup.
Why Shouldn't I Work for the NSA? (Good Will Hunting)
Next, i want to see a Prezi version.
drop the real story for some gossip about Snowden implies that someone is able to successfully exert pressure on these organizations.

Oh what did they drop? The leak happened they reported it. They reported the government's response. They reported Google and FB's response. There is now a massive manhunt for Snowden, they are covering that too. The only thing I am aware of that I haven't heard on NPR is the EFF and Co lawsuit. Since the EFF announcement was just today it maybe a day or two until they pick it up. What obvious and valid source of info have they not covered?