skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My cable internet got cut off 48 hours ago. I'm still doing a merry jig with Time Warner to work out why. So it was probably PRISM, right? The NSA saw that I was posing about PRISM online and immediately moved to sever my connection to the outside world.

There is zero evidence to link Omar's case with PRISM- especially as the events described started over a year and a half ago. I am not "assuming" that it is unrelated, I am making a decision based on the fact that there is no evidence linking the two. When such evidence arises, I'll re-examine my opinion. But assuming that everything is related to PRISM because it involves computers and/or the government is a slippery slope into tin foil hatted-ness.
Keep telling yourself that but I've never seen a German base in the USA.
It makes sense if you are on the same social coding platform.
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"if people get denied for normal stuff (overstaying, violating their visas, etc) they're told and can at least fight it a little."

I think this is true when the person is in the country but when they're not they can't enter when it's being worked out, even if there are no security issues. (but I'm a US citizen and don't have any direct experience)
I think maybe AMD should move to niche markets and stop trying to compete with Intel, giving how vast the gap is in technology and resources.
Install the ad-block plus and Ghostery extensions, just to know (and block) how much tracker crap companies put on their websites. See, for instance, the Huffington Post http://i.imgur.com/sMIJRL8.png (and it's not the worst example)

Funnier enough, you will also learn about the bad practice in some sites of not displaying anything at all if some of these scripts fail to load.

Note that this will not protect your IP being tracked on the servers, but at least it will do it from third parties.
The PRISM scandal remains a threat to US tech businesses. Long after it fades from HN, it will be a drag on growth. Since government credibility will be hard to repair, a big part of the solution is likely going to be stronger technical measures against any kind of snooping.
IBM shipped a 5.2 GHz chip for it's mainframes over 2 years ago. This is not the first.
FOIA and Privacy Act requests are completely different.
In the case of Snowden, PRISM, etc, you have a good case to request expedited processing. The NSA uses DOD rules, which will fast-track requests:

"urgently needed by an individual primarily engaged in disseminating information in order to inform the public concerning actual or alleged Federal Government activity"

[http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/foia/submit_foia_request/, http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/540007r.pdf]
The non-WebKit version of Opera Mobile and the Android version of Chrome are both significantly better IMO.
I would say take it easy. A lot of powerful lobbies are up in arms right now - see how things will turn out. If there is wide migration outside of US (which seems likely at the moment) I am not sure that the rest of the world have the capacity and bandwidth to accommodate such traffic. So having disruption in the service but outside of NSA reach may not be that good of a trade off.

Also migrating content outside of US is not as easy as it sounds - US have the strongest free speech protection right now so you have to make sure you are in compliance with the local laws - In wide parts of Europe stuff that is illegal is - Nazi symbols, holocaust denial, pornography and in a weird case - bank rumors "I think bank X is threatened by insolvency" is punishable by fine and maybe jail time in Bulgaria no matter if it is honest opinion or even truth. Britain have insane libel law and so on.
You should read up on what Persona is before making judgments about it. Just a general guideline for reasonable discourse.
Take a look at this one: http://www.nine.ch/. It might be worth looking first at countries that don't honor U.S. extradition, which Switzerland up until a few years ago was strongly in that corner but lately they have been giving finance info etc to the U.S.

Some other sites have already done the work so look for sites that you are sure would not be hosted in the U.S. and then try this: http://whatmyip.co
OK, then explain the Tsarnajevs (the Boston bombers) getting past even with multiple terrorist flags? If the system is stonewalling and so tight, then why were they successful in going to terrorist camps and then coming back?
> marrying an American, she was told that if she goes to France to have a wedding ceremony that she would not be allowed back in to America.

My cursory reading of the USCIS website tells me her fiance would need to apply for a K1,K3 visa. Being married she is entitled to rights the typical J visa holder does not have.

This is where the immigrant/nonimmigrant visa process breaks down. USCIS makes it painfully expensive to change a nonimmigrant visa into an immigrant visa. I guess what they want to avoid is having people jump the greencard queue, and marriage moves you right to the top, by flying in on a tourist visa, find a willing US citizen to marry.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with simply using the same content under a different layout that is optimized for smaller screens/touch.
Wow, I hadn't heard that. Not great behaviour! How did you find out?
If only we had records...
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The Internet as New Enclosure: The Attention Economy and the Surveillance State
According to the FAQ:

" With Cozy, applications run in the user's personal cloud where he keeps ownership of his/her data. This simple paradigm shift changes many things.

" * personal data are aggregated in a trusted environment the user have full control on,
* apps can collaborate around data, cross apps integration is made simple delivering a frictionless user experience,
* there is no need to communicate personal data to a third party because the processing is made within the user's cloud."

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but it seems it runs on a Cozy server instead of the user's own hardware. Therefore it is subject to being secretly copied by the government (of whichever country the server is in), at any time. Is this not correct?

If that is really how it works, I don't see how "the user have full control" as they claim.

Also the third point, "there is no need to communicate personal data to a third party because the processing is made within the user's cloud" is silly because as soon as you send your data to Cozy's servers you have then sent it to a second party and you then no longer have control.

The only real advantage I see here is that the business model (according to the claims ) is not based on the company data-mining the customers. That's a step above the likes of Facebook but it hardly compares to "control of your data".
There's a difference between telling the future and saying things that happen to turn out correct. That sentence has no information content beyond disliking the US. (And in general quoting Bin Laden as ambassador for human rights may also not be a very good idea.)
When I log into persona.org, it seems to allow me to remove my (currently only) email address by clicking the first blue "Edit" button and then clicking "Remove" next to my email address. So I assumed that, in the future, I might also be able to add email addresses. Sorry if I was wrong about this.
Your example is not a Privacy Act request, it's a standard FOIA request. Asking for your own personal information is different than asking for information about someone else.
I'm using Opera Mobile on Android 2.3 and it reflows text nicely. It has some other problems, but it's far better than the stock browser!
When the US has access to approx 10 billion 'metadata' from Jordanian citicens (probably more, I am quoting from memory), it means it has access to ALL their communications.

So if this poor man just happened to have the wrong social graph...

"We found the problem with your visa [silence]".

The [silence] means: there should be a 'CANCELLED' stamp on it. Why bother?
I didn't know this discussion would be added to Wikipedia.
Nobody F***ing Cares
I do think it's relevant, and not some completely off-topic political thing. However, it's given way to a bunch more politics - people denied entry to the US, "there are nukes in the netherlands", and so on, and filled the front page, crowding out pretty much everything else.

I just get a feeling that this is a turning point for the site, but only time will tell.
And continuing with the insults helps, how exactly?

Seems your issue is with the "liberal" media and not the people they are quoting. But I disagree, it is dishonest for you to claim your right to not quote the entire statement of the amendment due to laziness but require the opposing viewpoint to quote in full to prevent being labeled dishonest. In fact, I'm not even sure what your statement about the media and quoting the entire amendment have to do with each other.

I'm not sure how the Supreme Court is involved in a statement of how it is written in the Constitution of what the amendment process is. Have there been cases before the Supreme Court involving changing the amendment process? I'm not aware of any so I'm curious.

If you are in favor of creating laws to mess with a group of people you don't like, then that's just a sad fact. Because you are legitimizing the very idea of writing laws to punish people you don't like. If that's the case, then one day some group that doesn't like you will do the same and you'll have no credibility to complain about it.
tl;dr

The ACLU is leading a particularly good suit. As a Verizon customer, their phone records were scanned as well. And as a legal firm handling cases where even the existence of a call to a lawyer is privileged information (ie govt whistleblowers), the system is clearly unconstitutional.
They will if US voters vote in a President who gives a ....

I suppose the only problem then is, where would they find one?
Article signed by 80 scientists: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jun/05/trust-in-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5868406)
Hetzner often gets recommended, not sure whether the recent security troubles will (or should) change that.

Although you probably should look into a country that itself has no troubling issues, which wouldn't quite apply to Germany. Don't a lot of the file sharing sites run from Switzerland because of that. And speaking about them, maybe New Zealand is worth a look, too.
My taxes pay for the expensive university education of foreigners, without guarantee they can stay? Great.
They probably actually are a bit worried.

The circular logic they were relying on to make the law go away, "can't sue without standing, can't get standing without evidence, can't get evidence without suing" has been cut at step 3.
I'll take the downvote as a "yes" :)

It's true the "Is that even possible?" was out of line and I should have tempered it -- but, I am truly surprised.
This title is not accurate. You could always sell your code and assets but you would have to recompile and resubmit whereas now it stays live through the transfer.
These are political problems that will be fixed by "politics" in its various forms: people making their voices heard, politicians doing their thing, donating money to organizations, lawsuits, stuff like that. Lots of hard work.

They will not be fixed because you clicked the 'upvote' arrow on a bunch of stories on a niche site, thinking that "some smart entrepreneur types" will go fix the problem for you.
I just understood the social development platform approach, that is on top of revision control and has its benefits when are developers are on one platform like bitbucket or github.
If the US attacked Germany, the rest of Europe would instantly go to war with the US. Russia would likely attack the US as well (as good a time as any) and who knows what China might do. The US spends the most on military but considering they haven't won a fight since WWII (which would have ended the same with or without them) I don't see that they're that good.
There was an NPR interview a few years ago with someone at Wikileaks (must have been Assange, do they have another public face?). They used to release information in dumps, nobody paid attention. Teasing it out was the only way to get the media to bite. It's not a very appealing strategy to those who just want the information, but a response to the current state of affairs, I guess.
Actually, though... If they've been monitoring everyone's internet traffic, it's feasible they have unwittingly downloaded illegal copies of media. Meaning they've committed copyright infringement on a massive scale?
"The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen."
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I did an app transfer yesterday and it was a shockingly smooth & painless process. The system updated in just a couple of hours.
One of the positive effect of "publish or perish" is that every mathematician/scientist is obligated to put most of what he's thinking on paper and on a digital medium. It is much easier to search in a pdf file than in someone's mind.
If you're a lovefilm subscriber go to one of the movie pages and look at the network requests (you can do it with chrome inspector), it used to be the case all the information was encoded in the calls to Doubleclick.
I am not sure how you can make such an assertion, when almost everything they do is classified and they have repeatedly lied about the very existence of the programs in question for years now. Until the details of the program are available and subject to legal scrutiny, I would not assume that they were following the law, regardless of what President Obama or his allies in Congress have to say.
High Court Gives Irish ISPs 30 Days To Block The Pirate Bay
Maybe step 1 is to ditch FPTP and give minority parties a fighting chance?
...the people fighting an oppressive government were labelled as terrorist...

Not surprising at all.

Dig into the history of the ANC a little. Specifically, look for Umkhonto we Sizwe after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960.

While in no way [edit] trivialising the abhorrent and often vicious apartheid regime of the time, the ANC (and Mandela) haven't exactly been angles, either.
I wonder how far they will OC on air.
I hope I wasn't misunderstood. I'd want the Twitter account so he could verify to the public that he was still alive.
Dribbble isn't about showing off (well, not just). The people there can help you, and the least thing you want to do is find yourself working too much hours on a design.
NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots, experts say
Why Learning To Code is Easier Than You Think
I understand your point, and it’s a good one, but iPhone 4 isn’t allowed to run Siri because of hardware reasons, not API support. The noise reduction in newer models is a lot better than on iPhone 4. Hackers have managed to get Siri running on iPhone 4, it just doesn’t work as well.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/05/apple_iphone_4s_a5...
Apple iOS 7: Android copycat?
> Americans don't want people visiting, working, or studying on their shores.

This is utterly false and unfair. Please don't lump the entire US population with a few ignorant morons who have not seen the world five miles outside their home town. A quick look at our universities is proof enough that what you are saying is incorrect. The last time I visited MIT it almost felt like I was outside the US.
To keep excitement up over the course of the year, choose something from an area of Computer Science or practical applications that interests you beyond the tools required to solve the problem.

As a resource for cool ideas, there are hundreds at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/acs_projects/#topics (click on the names of the research groups at the bottom of the page). Most of these are intended to be 33% of a year's work at 4-year undergraduate or 1-year masters level.
My understanding was the only reason what he did worked was because the whole thing was winding down. 2 years prior and things wouldn't have worked out so well at all.
One of the core principles of free software (as in the free software foundation) is no restrictions on the use or distribution of that software. This also means that if you release a piece of software under a license that prevents, say, arms manufacturers, dictatorships, or the NSA from using it, it is not really a free software licence.
Standard sites aren't always fine. For example, sites where the UI relies on mouse hovering.
Exactly, this is the first ever 5GHz x86 chip. The title is factually inaccurate.
Or maybe the issue tracking system is a web tool that links to the file in the repository and you could fix it with a click to edit instead of pull,open file,fix,commit,push.

Documentation or fixes to comments in code is an obvious usecase for online edits cross-language.

If you'd really rather do the pull,open,fix,commit,push i would argue that you are too stuck in your own ways.
In a state where even corporate malfesance is rarely pursued and even more rarely punished beyond fines that can be considered a cost of doing business, exactly which of our agencies, representatives or judicial systems are we expecting to perform such an investigation?

At least from my memory, It's varey rare to see a go-get-em special prosecutor attached to anything that didn't have a partisan political origin. And neither of the parties are anti-surveillance - the last thing they want to do is ruin their next chance at bat with it.
If you have something to hide, then I'd be sweating. If not, who really gives a shte if people are tapping into our digital lives.*

Because your "something to hide" may be something that is currently legal / acceptable / non-embarrassing / etc., but becomes illegal / unacceptable / embarrassing / threatening to those in power / etc. in the future. And because governments have been known to collect data, nominally for legal reasons, and use it for political purposes, to threaten, harass and intimidate people based on their political affiliation.

All of that said, it really comes down to the principle of the thing. I've said - and will continue to say - plenty of things that could endanger me in some hypothetical future. I actually tend to be very public with most of my thoughts, rants, ramblings, and what-not, as I have an attitude of "If you don't like what I say, fuck you" directed at the government and pretty much everybody else. I have almost nothing to hide. BUT... not everybody has that attitude, and some people care more about keeping their "stuff" private. And even I want the option of keeping certain things private when the need arises. Just because I'm, say, 99% transparent (whatever that means) doesn't lessen the importance of that "1% secret". And that's the rub... everybody probably has at least "1%" of things that they do want to keep private/secret, now or in the future. And they should have the option to do that if they want.
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Certificate authorities don't have private keys. A CA could give the NSA the ability to forge certificates, which would allow the NSA to engage in active man in the middle attack, but that could be defeated with cert pinning.

ETA: of course CAs have their own private keys, but they don't have the private keys of their customers.
Does the US have a broader selection of content on netflix?

I'm in the UK and subscribed for a month, but didn't see what all the fuss was about.

Apart from House of cards (which was worth one month on it's own, but I got that month for free), it was a collection of "Stuff I already watched years ago" and "Stuff that is mediocre at best".
I read statements like this and imagine large companies playing a game like Pokemon or Magic: The Gathering, but instead of monsters they have patents.

"I choose you Patent of Phone which uses Glass!"

"I'm going to counter with the Patent of Electronic Things"
Narus Launches Mass Surveillance Product For Pentagon [Feb 2013]
NSA probably has specific exceptions written into law.

In the UK GCHQ has exemptions to cover things like anti-circumvention of copyright law; images of child sexual abuse; copyrights; etc etc.
That's just a result of each forum opting in to using that as their 'native app.' It's annoying that it's the same app every time, but would it be better of all of these forums each had a completely different app they prompted you about?
Hackers vs. suits: Why nerds become whistleblowers
Mandela didn't found anything. He started out as a militant leader in Umkhonto we Sizwe (translates as "Spear of the Nation"), which was the military wing of the ANC.
It says "Free to download and use" So how is that copyright infringement?
I don't really care what motivates them, so long as they fight for freedom and get the job done.
Nice to know my taxes pay for the lofty education of people who may have no intention of working in my country.
Tunecore founders launch Audiam - Get paid when your music is used on YouTube.
If we are dealing with an organization that routinely lies to congress, how much respect do you think they give the restrictions you place in some text at the start of your source code?
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My favorite bit:

"We cannot mention the letter at the heart of the EFF's demand without noting that it comprises perhaps the most diverse collection of groups in the modern history of American politics."
Note that moving the servers from the US would not be sufficient - you'd have to move the domain to a TLD not controlled by the US or any other entity that they can influence. You'd have to host with a provider independent enough etc.

Thus, the stated goal of persona is to remove the need for a centralized auth provider - thus sidestepping the problem of where those centralized servers are located. That's why they don't want to engage in a whack-a-mole game with the US government.
Thanks for confirming what I had in mind.
They can deny you for any reason. Very literally any reason. It's not newsworthy, they've been able to do this since the US started to control immigration and it is not related to what the NSA has been doing since basically the NSA has been in existence.

People are trying so hard to find tangible evidence of someone doing something with info the NSA has collected that they are latching on to anything that could be construed as such if you look at it believing you found that evidence.
Jumping the shark!
I personally use an HP beater that I found on clearance at my local RadioShack. In my opinion most people don't think of them as the first place to buy a computer.
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Wow, haven't seen such blatant fanboy(girl)-ism in quite a while. Apple doesn't do something so nobody cares? it's articles like these that convince me that the 'Fruity Cargo Cult' is real.
Also http://owncloud.org/
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