skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I help a lot of my coaching clients with this sort of thing.. Here are some simple, proven strategies. Identify the coolest people you can and host your own dinner. Give it a relevant name if you want, something cool and relevant. When you meet people you'd like to build a relationship with, invite them. Get 10-20 people and build the relationships. You'll be the hub and seen as the connector and value adder. Variations of this include after parties, morning yoga sessions, even unofficial breakout sessions. Also, take advantage of the press at the event and introduce yourself / visit and leave something in the press room (you could even send food / coffee care of your company to the press room). Also, you could go as press and interview people you'd like to build a relaionship with and then publish an article about them on your company blog or if you have a column somewhere. Ask great questions during public sessions and be sure to introduce yourself and company -- this alone can be amazing. I once asked a question "so just last week my blog was named top 25 in the world by TIME, and I'd love to know some tips to best leverage that." After the talk, I was flooded with people who wanted to talk to me and do business - they wouldn't have known me otherwise. Keep your eye out for possible joint venture partners -- find the people who seem to be kicking ass and get to know them and build a relationship.
Read the article till this rediculous paragraph:

"Describing themselves as the Transform Now Plowshares, the three came as non-violent protestors to symbolically disarm the weapons. They carried bibles, written statements, peace banners, spray paint, flower, candles, small baby bottles of blood, bread, hammers with biblical verses on them and wire cutters. Their intent was to follow the words of Isaiah 2:4: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”

And was like, uhm, ok they may not be terrorists but they are nut job religious people. I mean baby bottles full of blood what the hell?

And yes it is sort of terrorism to go to a nuclear power plant of a country and say dismantle all your weapons with something/anything that may look threatening!

But regardless I don't think terrorism should stick in the court cases as much. They should get a bit more of a sentence than normal protest and maybe include some invasion of private property but terrorism seems a bit out of touch.
People have been taking swings at democracy in the Athenian sense since, like ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates
At https://twitter.com/SCClemons/status/343392529913356289 @scclemons writes:

> In Dulles UAL lounge listening to 4 US intel officials saying loudly leaker & reporter on #NSA stuff should be disappeared recorded a bit
I think this will be the deciding moment whether it's 1984 or Brave New World. If Americans don't rise up in the streets and do something to change this, then I guess we'll have our answer, and I'd say that's a lot scarier than if it was 1984, because at least then there would be a slight glimmer of hope for overturning the government and changing things. But if it's Brave New World, then no one cares how authoritarian the country's leaders become and how much they abuse their power.
The damage was already done well before that. Individuals may not care that much (so Facebook is relatively safe), but businesses and governments have already been well aware that storing their data in US-run services is a bad idea, and in many ways not even legal because of existing privacy and security related regulations.

If you for instance store sensitive medical data, you can't do that somewhere where the US government may get access to it whenever they want (warrant or not btw, unless that warrant is server to you and not your service American provider).

Many of us are looking at ways of backing out or staying out of US services for the potential legal complications alone. This may accelerate things, but to most it was already clear: if you have any kind of liability concerning the data you store and process, you can't use American online services.

The question "does your product use American services?" will be asked with increasing frequency. Also, having "no" as an answer is a good selling point in many markets.
> The NSA is allegedly putting some stuff in a database.

William Binney, who was at the NSA for 30 years, and who designed big pieces of the infrastructure we're talking about, quit and blew the whistle. If I understand him correctly, every type of electronic communications people use -- email, phone, SMS, IM, fax -- are all stored forever.

There are a million interviews like this:
http://youtu.be/TuET0kpHoyM

Edit: and, it seems that Snowden wanted the Washington Post and the Guardian to release all 41 slides, but neither paper had the courage to do it. I'd like to know what was on the other slides. If they had nothing of interest, why were they withheld?
You aren't alone. People are organizing protests and preparing letterheads, as they should be, but it all feels just as ineffective as the last time. The ugly truth, as many people know, is that these complaints/protests are built-in to the infrastructure, they're expected and they disrupt absolutely nothing.

We need a new conduit for effecting change.
Turnkey tyranny is the other.
we should in our actions extend to others the rights we want to have ourselves

That belief is cultural too - it just so happens that almost every culture has independently arrived at it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule is a fascinating read.
Maybe he has connections in Hong Kong. What's so weird about that. Besides, Hong Kong is about as far away as you can physically get from the US.
Looking at some of the bigger selling newspapers in the UK, I don't think people get it or the writers believe people wouldn't get it. On the whole most people in the UK who are not technical appear to know pretty much nothing about it and do not understand why it might be bad for them.

The whole, "I have nothing to fear" point of view. It's the bigger picture they need to think about :(
Thanks for the info.

You might want to also check out The Anatomy of Revolution - it details the broad life cycles revolutions succeed through. It concludes that revolutions are overall detrimental to lasting change in a society. The American Revolution is discussed in order to explain why it turned out atypically.
Remind them that the Internet is forever, anything that reaches somebody else's computer screen can be assumed to be potentially public knowledge.
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Part of the problem is defining wholesale surveillance. I don't think we are to the point of having everything stored by the NSA (in terms of all content we produce, send, or exchange). I think it is quite likely that the NSA does in fact store their most interesting subset of broad data (cdrs etc) along with a narrower subset of content. If that isn't wholesale surveillance, then we aren't to that level yet.

But in the end what I have said for a while is that it doesn't matter. The NSA doesn't need to store your Facebook stuff on their servers because Facebook is doing it for them. The scary thing is that the interesting subset that the NSA has to pipe back is a small fraction of what they can go through if they ever decide to make you a target of an investigation, so in that sense we are under wholesale surveillance and the NSA is just controlling a very small piece.
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Which is rather humorous considering how articulate he was in the video of him being interviewed by Glenn Greenwald. You can tell immediately he's not your stereotypical drop out.
Last time people were looking forward to a meaningful conflict, it plunged the whole world into 4 years of war, followed by another 7. Be careful what you wish for.

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.
IAH (Infra Against Humanity)

Nice, memorable, and accurate. Let's make it an official euphamism.
Maybe it's damage control? "No you guys, there are definitely absolutely no true Americans who are against the NSA. This guy? Oh, this guy is a Chinese spy!"
Make no mistake, Hong Kong's law enforcement community and government is extremely close knit with their U.S. counterparts.

We've personally had assets and servers seized by the "Commercial Crimes Division" of the Hong Kong police, at the sole request of U.S. Law Enforcement.

With that being said, you may be correct in your speculation, especially since Hong Kong is definitely not known for it's free speech in regards to governmental or criminal matters, if he were truly going somewhere based on only their 'reputation', there are far more viable choices (Ex: Iceland or Ecuador)

Something is definitely fishy.
That's already been a common discussion for many years. The business world outside the US is very much aware of the problem.

What we're likely to see now is article discussing how to get out of the US cloud, because it has now shifted from a potential legal issue to a commercial selling point.

Even clients with "nothing to hide" will start asking questions about where the data is stored. Not so much because they're worried about the US looking at their data, but because they want to know how well we as their service provider take care of their data.
Since more or less all software encrypt their traffic, the FRA-wiretapping is pretty useless.

Huh? Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but are you saying everybody uses SSL?
Remember: the great excuse is that the US is at war (albeit not against a country, but "terrorism".) Hence, treason comes very much into place here.

Handling intel to "the enemy"...
Really? I'm one of those people who didn't get a CS degree, but I learned a lot of CS stuff; I learned it because it was interesting. People have put a lot of effort into making CS accessible to anybody who wants to learn. There are textbooks sitting in public libraries which can teach you, in well-written straightforward language, far more about CS than most CS graduates ever remember. There are people on the internet who know amazing things, and will share their knowledge gladly. Hell, people stick entire books online, just waiting for you to read them.

It's easier to get "equivalent experience" in CS than with any degree I know of, and has been for some years now. This is a beautiful thing; let's at least acknowledge it.
AFAIK Silk road just deals in a bit of drugs (relatively low volume too, all things considered).

For intelligence agencies, having evidence (even if inadmissible) of smaller crimes, is just leverage -- and leverage against people that might be able to render useful services (eg: provide deniable assets for framing someone with drugs).

Now, if Silk Road did most of it's trade in weapons grade plutonium, things might be different.

Remember, the whole reason the NSA-thing is a news story, is that it is illegal wire tapping. The feds can't use this for setting up a case.
From the reports I would be surprised if non-hosted ERP stuff was ever easily targeted. Hosted stuff is a bit of a different story.

ideally if you are paranoid, you should run things in-house and firewalled. If you are less so, I will point out I help run a British-registered hosting company for an open source ERP (the company can be found at http://www.efficito.com).

Everyone wants to talk about how the cloud will change ERP and while I am involved in a startup that is operating in this space, I have to say that it is extremely important for users to know that they give up a lot of control over security when they make that choice. We do our best but we cannot compare to a well-run internal installation.
We are far from powerless. Facebook - the only valuable thing there are the contacts - they can be rebuild.

A new search engines can arise (we are long overdue anyway, time to reinvent the search is nigh - google has been giving crappier and crappier results for the past few years and is still the best out there)

There are a lot of devices that are still controlled by their owners. I have a lot of non technical people asking about encryption and migration to linux lately (pre scandals).

A lot of people have real IPs that allow them to receive incoming connections and are not forced to ask for port forwarding and nat.

There is always ways to create distributed p2p encrypted global network. And with opencompute there will always be enough free home hardware to back it up.
No, its not. Do you think we are buying any essential safety for freedom? I don't think so. They have a needle in a haystack problem with a large responsibility such knowledge holds.

If you don't think governments can't change, I'd like to hear your opinions on how we went from a authoritarian (kingdoms) to democratic governments in the first place (or vice versa). Everything changes. Even societies change on micro (companies, clubs) to macro (governments or totality of the world) level all the time as new people arrive and old people leave.

US won't turn into Iran over night, it might take decades, centuries even to change into a totalitarian regime. But first sign is trampling your constitution. I'm not saying its going there but it could be going that way.
I've heard that SatoshiDice is used for this. It's technically a gambling site but you can set the odds so you have a 98% chance of winning.
> But too much consumption and not enough consumption can't both be problems at the same time.

What if the the problem is that the demand is for things that Japanese companies have a hard time producing? E.g., oil/energy (which of course actually is a big problem in Japan), iphones, etc...
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Simple, you say "no comment". Companies do this all the time.
Perhaps related: in his latest book about traditional societies Jared Diamond mentions that most people from traditional societies decide to join "civilization" quickly once given the chance. One of the biggest benefits that attracts them apparently is not living in mortal danger all of the time.

I suppise it is all a matter of degrees. You always have to compromise to live alongside other people.
lol, perfect example of why twitter is retarded.

I live in DC and know tons of people who work for the government. Guess what? They are people like you and I, and in a lot of cases less capable or bright (which is why they go for cushy government jobs). They get drunk and they act like assholes in groups, you hear them talking garbage all the time on the metro and in restaurants.

Just because these people (who in all likelihood are bureaucrats with no power at all) say they want this guy dead doesn't mean they have any power or ability to send out the hit squad, or killing reporters is now US Policy. It's just as meaningless as me randomly saying "god, I wish Karl Rove was dead."
I'm sure there are some exceptions -- but most advances in the world can often be advances for both "good" and "evil". Or to put it another way - political or technological change doesn't overcome human nature
> "American companies have overwhelmingly dominated it. They have done so with astonishing innovation and technical achievement. Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Skype..."

Skype was in no sense an American company until it was sold, first to eBay and then to MS
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There was no democracy at the time of Socrates it was the Romans and/or the Church.
After 9 hr hiatus, Glenn Greenwald returns to Twitter.
Maybe lawmakes should have immunity about the things they say while in office. This way the executive branch will have to ask for silence instead of demanding it. And they will be free to leak something that is outrageous.
Of course we can go back to business as usual post-PRISM, because PRISM turned out to be absolutely nothing. It's a mundane, boring data storage & analysis system for data obtained through FISA requests about specific individuals. It's not a data dump from major tech companies, it's not a warrant-less spy program, etc...
26. Unfair! I never used web fonts at all :(

For the record, I hate web fonts because they always display incorrectly in anywhere between 1/4 and 3/4 major render engines. Usually all the ones except where you are testing in. I can't recall having seen websites with custom fonts that rendered correctly in Webkit, Presto, Gecko and Trident, so I shun webfonts altogether and just use the standard ones. Interesting fact that nobody seems to know: some people asked me what font I was using that displayed so well, while it was simply Arial with proper spacing. </rant>
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Ask HN: Thoughts on i2p2 and Syndie anonymous networking/p2p/messaging?
With all the focus on wire tapping, and new laws on data retention taking effect in Norway (already implemented in parts of the EU) - I went looking for alternatives for anonymous communication and file sharing -- and came across i2p[1] and Syndie[2] -- both of which looks promising.

Do any HNers have thoughts or experience with the technology? Any papers substantiating (or refuting) the usefulness? Anyone that have experience using the software?

[1] http://www.i2p2.de/
[2] http://syndie.i2p2.de/
I didn't mean to make it sound as if I want violence. I hate violence. But they've been lying and building weird information weapons for years. We need something other than that to start happening soon.
We've tried to write a streamlined UI for GPG keysigning parties in university. The CLI of gpg was absolutely hostile. Fatal errors would still have 0 as the exit code etc... :(
If he had connections in Hong Kong, why supply the weak excuse "oh, it's because of its history of dissidence and freedom of speech?"

He would have been much more convincing saying "yeah, I know that China doesn't have the greatest record on privacy, but I have several friends in Hong Kong that I hope will support my asylum case." Boom. Totally makes sense, and doesn't sound like a rehearsed rationalization that could have been scripted by the PRC.

It's the age of airplanes, dude. They aren't sending out the stagecoaches with deputies. Physical distance doesn't really matter if someone with access to the resources the US government has is out to get you. I think this guy is well aware of that (as you should be, too).
But the return on investment is likely to be far less. If it is harder, more resources have to be spent, then they will be more selective if just because it would be prohibitive to bug every system across the world, at least at present.
I use fieldset and legend frequently. I believe Bootstrap uses these in their example forms, so I don't think these are nearly as obscure as the others.

optgroup is occasionally useful for demarcating groups within lists, but this need hasn't come up much in my experience.

I also use figure and hgroup, although more just for the sake of using HTML5 elements than anything else!
FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap
I am using an Asus Ultrabook. I did not have any trackpad problems using the default windows 7 installation. Asus provides software that reduces the trackpad sensitivity when you are typing. However I switched over to using Gentoo. I have not configured the track pad and it is very sensitive at the moment. However I have not found that a big annoyance.

I used a mac once. But being an emacs user I do not like the change of the ctrl key. However I have to say the keyboard feels nice to type on. I do not get why people like the trackpad on it. I do not find it anything special, however after saying that I am a user who tries to use the trackpad as little as possible so my opinion is just my opinion.
It's because the American people voted for looks over substance. Obama has no morals and no spine, but he looks and sounds like a Hollywood star.

Obama is just the US population's reflection in the mirror.
I like the idea of teaching GPG as I can fit that into a general scheme on cryptography.

There are problems with one of your suggestions however. If I teach students how to use a VPN, I'm potentially giving them the skills to access pirated material anonymously and/or attempt to circumvent the school's safety filters. Their parents might have issue with this.
I'm going to teach about HTTPS (It's already on the GCSE syllabus), but teaching TOR might be an issue. Giving students the skills to access the deepweb (Silk Road for instance) might cause some problems with parents.
> But why aren't Americans in the street already?

Because they don't care too much ? Honestly there should have been multiple occasions for the American people to go and protest in the recent past but they did not. That's very easy for the government to continue and see how far they can go. The answer is : very far.
Aside from being insecure it is also not robust (fragile?). So, suppose Paul can lie to Alice and Bob, and they cannot lie to him. He can probably interview them separately, too. We can ask how the system will break, either inadvertently (fragile) or due to deliberate pressure (insecure).

Paul's later accusation (of lying) depends on his ability to remember with perfect accuracy all of his discussions with Alice and Bob; and if anything confuses him he might take it as grounds for the accusation. This leads to fragility: Paul's use of lies will likely create a situation where he himself is more likely to be misled, which he could then pin on Alice and Bob.

He could also put people in a stressful situation hoping to coax out the truth, only to coax out a lie. Paul can tell Alice that he thinks Bob is guilty, but that Bob has just put all of the blame on Alice and made her look awful. Paul says, "I'm going to have to put you in jail, Alice, if you can't give me something to incriminate Bob." She doesn't have anything to incriminate Bob so she lies; he might later discover the lie and bust her for it.

For that matter, Paul can stick to subject matters which Alice and Bob find embarrassing, and thus (advertently or inadvertently) stress them out into lying to him. Paul can suggest that even if his allegations are untrue, he will bring them to public light and their peers will judge them based on those allegations. (The example here would look like: Paul is pursuing a child porn ring which has nothing to do with Alice and Bob, but he thinks they're central to it. He tells them that if they don't immediately help him out, he's going to have to put them on public trial and then all of their neighbours and business associates will judge them for it. Then he starts asking questions about the other people in the ring, and they lie about it.)

This only gets compounded if he is allowed to lie to them on procedural matters. For example, Paul informs them "You're allowed to lie to me." Or, Paul informs them, "I'm allowed to imprison you if you say anything which I disagree with." It can be subtler and less coercive: suppose he says that their best option to protect themselves is to apologize for a related act to some appropriate third-party, Carol. So the think that they're lying to Carol (legally allowed) but Paul thinks they're lying to him (a federal offense).

And finally, even if Alice and Bob tell the absolute truth to Paul, it might be the case that Carol -- whether lying or honest does not matter -- contradicts their story and is otherwise trustworthy as a witness. Perhaps she really thinks she saw Bob that day, but in fact it wasn't him. Now both Alice and Bob have said that he was not there, but Paul interprets those as lies and prosecutes them for it.
Congress would have rubberstamped "defense paranoia" anyway, doesn't matter.

What I am curious about is the next presidential race and what the candidates are going to promise, because Obama basically played a huge word game.

He said he was against illegal spying on the country, so what he did was just make it legal to spy on the country instead of stopping spying on the country! I mean come on, that's bullsh*t.