skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point of backups is that you should never expect a single hard drive to stay alive, no matter how young it is. Lots of hard drives with defects die early. For your own sanity, it is best to think of any data you have only one physical copy of as data that may not be there tomorrow. Personally I don't get comfortable until my most important data exists in two physical locations, so fire is not a risk.
> And this is coming from a white man who spent a week hitchhiking and walking around with zero security.

Survivor bias. Your experience in Congo does not in any way discredit events of genocide, rape, catabolism, and all the other crazy things happening in those parts of the world.

> but because of the jackbooted thugs that you call your government and her agencies.

Someone asked to see your ID?

For most people, living in the USA is a simple and non-violent experience as far as the government goes. You can post your outliners, but that's all they are.
I fear that absolute surveillance is an inevitability, no matter where you live, or how "free" your country is.

It works like this: Best case scenario, you live in a country with a functioning republic, in which anyone is free to vote in anyway they choose.

A politician's worst nightmare is to be the one who was overseeing during an instance in which security disastrously failed (e.g. a terrorist attack).

The irony, of course, is that no matter how much security there is, a terrorist attack can always be successfully carried out in some manner or another.

Further, even if the government ran out of traditional hardened terrorists to oversee, they would start morphing dissidents into terrorists. So no way to stop terrorist attacks, and an ever-growing pool of terrorists. It bears repeating: you cannot stop security threats. Period.

That said, a politician's only recourse is to do something. That unfortunately means increasing security. No politician will ever stand in front of a camera and say, "You know what? I think we did everything we could, and these things are just going to happen from time to time. We'll learn from this and try to do better next time, but no guarantees. That's life." It's a truth, but we know that's not what politicians are here to tell us.

The other side of this tragic playing out of events is that, following a standard bell curve of distribution, most people are of mediocre intelligence, at best. That means they can't, for themselves, critically come to the understanding of the aforementioned maximum security problem. That means they're going to vote for the guy who promises to do more about security threats with straightforward security lockdown. They don't have the patience or intelligence to understand real policy reform that might actually lead to more security.

It's a feedback loop that will cause any bipartisan republic/democracy to inevitably succumb to a dictatorial-style surveillance state.

Do away with bipartisanship? There might be a way, but no elected leader in the US will ever implement the changes to make it happen, for the other evil politicians commit is to maintain the status quo at all costs.
Ironically, I had all those things and chose not to live in the US anymore. I live in another first world country that has all those things but doesn't waste money and lives fighting endless wars, doesn't constantly erode my freedom and privacy, etc.
How praytell, do you prove a secret agencies existence?
I believe that the problem with .net etc is that the development is done on Windows machines to run on Windows machines. iOS is different. I believe that Apple have gone out of their way to stop people from developing iOS programs on other operating systems. Similarly they have gone out of their way to block me from running OSX in a VM or on non-Apple hardware, even though there are no technical reasons why I can't (in fact you can do it, just not legally).
I read somewhere (perhaps a Martin Gardner's article) saying that numbers couldn't be classified as "extraordinary" (having interesting properties) and "normal" because then the first normal number could be deemed extraordinary.
>After all, it's not like Carrie from Homeland is chillin' at the CIA reading my texts with my girlfriend. They have neither time nor inclination for that.

When you get accused of a federal crime and they use the handful of terabytes of all your data against you, what then? How can you possibly defend yourself against an entity with unlimited power and funding. Check out how much it costs to defend yourself from a federal charge and what the chances of winning are. If your charge is anything remotely national security related, you have zero chance. Partly because of the massive data they have on every citizen.

> I very much do mind New York City being used for another terrorist attack.

Has PRISM or any other program done this? When we do find out about foiled terrorism plots, it always has to do with FBI informants posing as arms dealers or fellow extremists, which ends with an arrest of a low-hanging fruit weirdo who may or may not be dangerous. All this infrastructure didn't stop the shoe bomber or the underwear guy. Those guys were mildly determined. How will it stop a group as organized as the 9/11 bombers?
This "operation," is just ridiculous and childish, and worst case say it could actually pose a risk...I'm definitely a supporter of privacy, just closing ur facebook, using linux, and turning off your phone during precious conversations (reducing ur digital footprint)...that will do more than creating an unnecessary risk like this.
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HK has more political freedom than the rest of the PRC. I've heard of protests there that would be illegal anywhere else in the PRC. IIRC, you also need special travel papers to go to HK from the rest of the PRC.
This is practically a lesson in the misuse of data. However you define the metric you're measuring, you should be comparing America to other countries. By any measure, America has more school shootings than most other countries.
So true. Steve Jobs saw the potential of Akamai back in 1999, when it was a small company and when most people hadn’t heard of them. Back then, Apple invested US$12.5 million in Akamai, for 5 percent of the shares of the company. (Akamai’s valuation has gone up to 36x since then)

In those first years, Jobs also promoted Akamai on stage at keynotes and Apple wrote glowing press releases about how well the Akamai network held up streaming Apple’s keynote addresses. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2000/07/24Apple-and-Akamai-D...
I think if you had enough people engaged that you could do anything to affect the analysis that you might as well work to eliminate the injustice (rather than just smearing it out across more innocent people).
FWIW, I have first party analytics data on a top 50 online site and this was the trend we saw too. Can't remember if there were any meaningful trends in time spent though (meaning, if desktop was losing to mobile on a time spent basis).
Do you mean "accessible" as in, disabled-friendly accessibility, or as in it has been removed. Because from what I see it's still there.
It seems to me that if the NSA is able to force Mozilla to put in such tracking into Persona (which in its current form, where using the scripts at persona.org is recommended, would be possible—later on, you'd need to modify the source and get people to update to it), you don't need to worry about it in the slightest. You've already got much larger problems: putting tracking into the browser itself would be much more effective.
I agree with you. I didn't state it out right, but you are definitely correct. Most MBAs (something like 60+% have substantial business experience prior to applying to B-School. The remaining 40% have substantial experience in unrelated fields to business like engineering. (assuming we are referring to top ranked schools).

I'm not sure whether they save or not on their MBAs, but they likely do.

> I see the internal recruitment as a way of ensuring that management is comprised of individuals who deeply understand the mechanics of the company. Someone like that, who then goes on and learns a number analytic techniques/philosophies as an MBA is more likely to apply them with insight to where they break down vs reality.<

People with direct, on the floor training are definitely valuable to an organization. As are people with outside or diversified experience.

My overall point in the first post was to state that the title was basically wrong and that Costco does value MBAs to a high level. That is proven since they pay for their educations.
what would really be the best place to hideout? are there any countries where he would be free of us extradition threats given his high profile nature?
That's the same conclusion I've come to. These headlines lately have given me reason to dig in and do lots of research and it seems that 9/11 was the catalyst for a majority of this. Or at least 9/11 was the convenient excuse for doing something that was going to happen anyways. [EDIT] Removed my stupid remark that was probably caused by me waking up grouchy. Sorry.
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I was in a sort of similar position a few months back and did the EDX.org Software as a Service course with the end goal of learning Rails. I was able to complete the set work and pass with a good grade, but Rails never really clicked for me (I think partially because Ruby felt so different to what I was used to).

I put it to the side for a while, then recently decided to try again. This time I spent a little time getting used to Ruby (via codecademy.com and a few small personal projects), then doing the Hartl tutorial. What worked best for me was taking intermittent breaks in the tutorial to go off and implement something on my own from scratch.

For example, after chapter 3 I created a basic, one-page app [1]. Later in the tutorial, I made a pretty terrible To-Do list app [2] that nonetheless helped me finally understand MVC. After finishing the tutorial I signed up to codeschool.com and did a couple of the Ruby, Rails and testing tracks just to revise what I'd been learning.

I'm still a complete beginner, but I'm thoroughly enjoying working with Rails now and am making good progress working on a much bigger project.

* [1] http://jayrobin-yield-calculator.herokuapp.com/
* [2] http://jayrobin-todo.herokuapp.com/
I used to try to do that stuff, but it really is truly the definition of a waste your time. I mean, doing it once to get appreciation for the experts, and to justify the value of those things is worth it. But continuing to blast your head against the wall ends up being pretty worthless.

With the availability of Glyphicons, or FontAwesome, or the numerous cheap assets you can buy it doesn't make much sense to spend your time on an area you're not proficient in. (Unless you want to become a designer?)
So how else should they handle them? Assuming the repo is private, keeping keys in the repo is the most frictionless way to ensure everyone has everything set up correctly.

Environment variables get annoying quickly if you ever need different ones for different projects, and if you create a shell script (or Vagrantfile) to do it for you, you're still keeping the keys in the repo.
> Bradley Manning, a soldier who released classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, has had a very different experience. Manning was held for three years without trial, including 11 months when he was held in de facto solitary confinement. During some of this period, he was forced to sleep naked at night, allegedly as a way to prevent him from committing suicide. The United Nations’ special rapporteur on torture has condemned this as “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in violation of Article 16 of the convention against torture.”

I don't know all that much about the case, but why include suicide-prevention as an abuse? I'd probably want to kill myself in his situation, but I think it's humane to actually try to prevent someone from doing it.

And wasn't Manning's leak much more dangerous since it named foreign informants of hostile governments and terrorist organizations? Why lump that in the same category as Snowden letting Americans know how they are being spied on?
"My brother got killed in a subway bombing, but at least the government can't read my facebook messages about porn and cat pictures..."

REALLY? Could you say that with a straight face to a victim's family member?
That's a good soundbite (honestly), but it doesn't jibe with my experience.
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I don't believe there are any laws against shooting federal agents actually, though I could well be wrong, but in the absence of a verifiable warrant, there's no guarantee that they are federal agents. Even if they are federal agents, that doesn't give them any right to enter your home without your consent, absent a warrant.

I don't otherwise disagree with the synopsis you've put forth, I'm just saying that our right to bear doesn't prohibit us from ever firing in the event that there is clear justification. People storming your home is such a justification, no matter what uniforms they're wearing.
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Hot button inflammatory accusation. If the developers don't support non-English languages, which of the possible reasons do you think it may be?

1) Github developers aren't particularly internationalization-aware. Because, y'know, every other piece of software on the planet is completely i18n aware.

2) Github developers don't have the resources to support non-English languages because they a) may not know the language, b) may not have the ability to engage someone who does, or c) both of the above?

3) Github developers are all white Anglo-Saxon racists who hate anyone on the planet with the first bit of skin pigmentation and want to express this sheer hatred in the only way they know how: by only supporting English.

(Hint: it's not #3.)
The fact that we're having this conversation proves how wrong you are.

If you honestly see the world this way, you might take the time learn more about China's internet. A good starting point are the 9 articles in the economist's special report:

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21574628-intern...
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Yep, that way both google and the nsa get my data! No need for backups at all.
As an Australian, I'd say that comparing them to China and Russia is too far, but the general feeling is that the US is far less free than Australia, NZ or most European countries.

For example, the fact that you call yourself the land of the free whilst having the largest number of people in prison both by number and proportion of the population, the whole Guantanamo Bay thing, and the constant electronic surveillance, the crazy overreach of the TSA (I couldn't believe it when I had to take off my shoes and jacket at an airport when I passed through the US a few years ago - crazy!) etc.
So its choice 3.

Enough to know that it's larger than ten. And knowledge of shootings is like the worst possible criteria. How many people you knew that died of asthma?

Why not count the crime infested ghetto? They are also result of current politics in one way or other.

I'm guessing with enough applied statistic any conclusion you wish can be reached. Also even by that statistics you'll reach a conclusion that American has a lot of school killings compared to other countries of similar wealth.
AWS is incidental to both the problem and solution because the problem is an authorized and legal government program. No matter who holds your data, it will be subject to the same access if the government wants it.

There are only two solutions:

1) Encrypt your data before sending to the cloud, so that server access becomes irrelevant. (This is what Tarsnap does.)

2) Change the law to stop or change the programs.

Neither can be accomplished by Amazon or any other single provider.
I don't think you should lie when advertising your product.
People aren’t listening to you. Maybe you need a little influence?
Turning off your phone doesn't disable the microphone. You have to physically remove the battery.
I'm not convinced that a salaried PhD would be an advantage. Is there not something rather bizarre about the government taxing the money it's giving to you to support your studies?

I'm not sure how it works in the Netherlands, but in the UK you can claim unemployment benefits without having to have been paying taxes (so far as I'm aware). Surely people applying to PhD positions aren't so incapable of managing their finances that they require payment monthly rather than quarterly? That's the only difference I can see between a grant system and a salaried one.
I don't think this is true. There are many on the right who detest the ACLU as liberals trying to undermine the country.
Its just http live streaming, use vlc if you want to its worked in the past.
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What exactly is "all this data" you're worried the government will see? What are you doing on Google and Facebook? I have this funny feeling the NSA doesn't care about your memes or JS plugins or whatever stupid crap you talk about on Facebook.
Sure, but who says every major browser will be controlled by a US legal entity five years from now?
I know scrypt is awesome, but isn't encrypted traffic still problematic if all traffic is being recorded? If the NSA Rubaiyat has virtually unlimited resources, doesn't tarsnap eventually break down as a safe way to backup data? I'd love to hear Colin chime in.
Eastern Canada at that. I grew up in western Canada and was very confused when I moved east.
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What about EncFS (or some other encryption) + Bittorrent Sync?
can't an entity be incorporated in the EU that can own that piece of code, placing it out of the hands of Mozilla US?
How is the US a 'data safe haven' when the data stored by organisations within it are fair game for the US government without due process?
Why worry about the security of your passwords when the traffic you view with those passwords is probably already being logged?

While it wouldn't surprise me that AES is encouraged because there's a backdoor in it, I'd be less surprised to find out they had the ability to decrypt SSL on the fly.

If you're paranoid about someone getting your passwords, don't put them in an online tool.
Thanks. Looks like that is the criteria to be eligible, and they're rolling out access gradually.
Umm its their developer conference. By and large if you're a developer, you've got a mac or some device from apple that supports it.
Not advocating the use of a spam bot, but surely it uses would be more efficient ...
a lot of the people that don't want to ban guns because of freedom do want to ban abortions.

you're looking for logic in this? buhaha.
The one main reason ECC was not adopted initially is also patents. Certicom held a majority of the patents on those and every time I tried to push for elliptic curves the first thing every one talked about was patents. So we mostly stayed away from it to avoid any issues later on. One other reason is Openssl did not implement support for them until recently (a few years ago), probably because of the patent confusion. It will pick up in a few years.
I had an art degree and a bit of work designing logos for various projects before I got into coding, so at least for me, the process was reversed.

I'd suggest doing some tutorials on http://psd.tutsplus.com/ maybe, though I don't like how hard they're pushing premium content now, and I more or less deleted my own account in disgust after their passwords were dumped, I found them to be a pretty good resource.
I heard about the good pay and benefits for workers, and thought it would be great to join as a costumer and cancel my other membership. Just waiting for one to open close by to do this and support these sort of business models.
And Bitmessage. It's a good substitute for email, Twitter and chan boards. It's a fork of the Bitcoin code.

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I was very impressed with Hartl's tutorial. Having tried many tutorials (for other technologies in the past), his was one of the best-written and most engaging. The fact that I completed it, including all the extra assignments, is a testament to how engaging it really is.

I can't say I've had a mentor yet, other than StackOverflow and random blog postings. I still consider myself a Rails n00b, but building a functioning web application in Rails is extremely easy. Doing it well and quickly, is probably something that will require more experience and mentorship.
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Was the industry just destroyed? That shouldn't be too hard a question to answer. A good indication is the stock market - so far all major U.S. Internet companies' stocks show no signs of collapsing (prices increased since the leak). If you think the market is wrong, it's good opportunity for you to cash in.

It's also a good indication that the rulling class is not much concerned about this leak of PRISM at all.
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Yeah, i'm sure the French would never have access to the servers in their country...
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You mean UKUSA. ECHELON has nothing to do with this particular area of surveillance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukusa
They are, which is why they created HTTP Live Streaming, which is what they will use to stream WWDC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

How does YouTube stream live? I bet it's Flash, like every other live streaming solution available today.
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That sounds more like a smear campaing, although I kinda want it to just be a chinese propaganda coup against the US.
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I'm hoping for Xeon Phi coprocessors as standard a option too.
The GIG does not describe one data center, it is an all-encompassing term for the entire set of interconnected computing resources owned and operated by the DoD.
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So, per person on the planet, that would be 10^24 / 7*10^9 ... lets say on order of say 10^14 or 100 Terabytes, or 25,000 DVDs worth of storage.. for each man woman and child.

That would be enough to store a few years of everyones life in considerable detail : videos, photos, phone audio, GPS, financials, dna, web surfing, ...

You would probably need to take the complete visual and audio stream that went into a persons eyes and ears over the course of a year of their life, to start to fill that up, and do that for every living person.

I just wonder how much of that data they really need to sift through, in order to find likely terrorists ?
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That comment was referring to their attitude in general.