skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they are misusing the word "fairness"
fairness can have both size, all doing the same or all not doing it
both we just usually prefer the wrong side as we know we are hard to change the mind of others
I don't, because China doesn't CLAIM to not do so. And doesn't try to drum up disapproval of the USA for doing it. By contrast do you remember the CIPSA nonsense?
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Not a movie, but I am betting that hundred of spies were elbowing each other over him in Hong Kong. What he had with him is a gold mine.

If they get an order to stop him from doing X, they have many tools at their arsenal
But the information isn't just in his head. And revenge-killing might make more information available through some dead man's switch, especially now that wikileaks is involved
It won't be enforced I see many sites supposedly banned still posting everyday websites such as physorg and the Atlantic.
> Gaming Reddit for traffic has become a regular frustration for the community, which boasts more than 22.9 million monthly visitors in the U.S. alone. This is particularly true within Reddit's default subreddits. All new Reddit users are automatically signed up as subscribers of the site's default subreddits, which include r/AdviceAnimals, r/Atheism, and r/Politics.

Hmmm...maybe this problem could be alleviated by not auto-subscribing new users to a meme-based forum? Of all the great subreddits, AdviceAnimals (albeit, which is pretty funny sometimes), seems like a silly one to acquaint new users to.

Have any of the bustups of voting rings been done algorithmically? That is, does reddit have a way to pick out cluster of reddit accounts that seem to behave like scripted bots? It seems all of the major domain bans (such as the Atlantic) were done through manual user suspicion and inquiry.
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"Don't be a square fumbling for your cash or writing a check, simply wave your magic card over the pad and be on your way like a cool dude cause other people are behind you waiting to consume. Chicks don't dig squares."

That's the actual subtext of more than one commercial in the US.

Here's one for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuMgRN2Atvk
As you might guess, we have deep expertise on-hand for the Foundation as to MTB/MSB laws, and can confidently state we do not engage in MTB or MSB activity at the Bitcoin Foundation; we're just a member organization.

The state of California is blanket C&D-ing all Bitcoin businesses.
It's amazing, reading Vinge, how his writing just keeps getting better and better. Though the "deepness" novels may still be his best, I was surprised by how poetically written, perhaps because a key character was a poet, Rainbow's End was. Vinge really knows where his towel is.
It's worth noting that another Redditor and mod from /r/AdviceAnimals, /u/ManWithoutModem, independently discovered different evidence that the Quickmeme posts were being manipulated. [1]

No one believed him and he was demodded. He's not happy about it.

http://np.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1gvnk4/quickme...
We do this all the time with devices carrying the DMX protocol. As others have said, it works only in networks that aren't using all 4 pairs of ethernet cable -- which is the case in DMX.

The biggest issue when doing this is always sizing the power supply to the receiving device.
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I actually do appreciate this response. I think it well encapsulates the gist of the debate of what's going on here on HN.

There's a great irony going on that I think few people here are appreciating. Snowden "blew the whistle" on illegal and unethical government programs and surveillance. This is a noble deed for a citizen. There is little disagreement there. And he make these revelations precisely because governments shouldn't do illegal and unethical things.

And then it turns out he's seeking refuse in places that have (less sophisticated, but) much more violent and brutal intelligence and police arms. Not to mention countries that have completely rigged elections (Venezuela, Russia) or no elections at all (Cuba, HK to some extent), and countries in which journalists are routinely murdered (Russia) or forbidden (Cuba).

So now I'm confused to what his point is? (I need to flee from a country that spies on its citizens.... to a country that terrorizes its people, but hey, as long as it's not me it's cool.) What is your point? (Nevermind the thousands of political prisoners etc in these countries, at least they are a place for US whistleblowers to seek refuge)?

Why couldn't he have gone straight to Iceland, Norway, Switzerland... any number of countries for which extradition to US may be difficult but at least have nominal respect for human rights. Perhaps it's also asking too much, but - IMO - if he really wanted to make a statement with full moral authority he could have just pulled a Socrates and stood trial here in the US.

tldr - while sitting comfortably in his seaside villa in Cuba or Venezuela, I'll regain respect for Snowden when he criticizes his host country as vocally and forcefully as he criticizes the US intelligence apparatus, but I think he's too much of a hypocrite/coward to do that.
> thus irregularities such as an individual voting multiple times as a deceased person would not be able to be detected.

That doesn't seem correct. Voters need to provide identification and their fingerprints (!) as part of the voting process, so the risk of these irregularities would be much lower than, for instance, the United States.
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That's not a fair comparison when Maastricht lets you go freely anywhere in Europe.
Quickmeme, for the most part, was only regulated to /r/AdviceAnimals, which says a lot about the quality of /r/AdviceAnimals.
> Does this mean his US citizenship has been revoked

No. Under the 14th Amendment, the government cannot forcibly revoke the US citizenship of anyone born in the US. See Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967): "Congress has no power under the Constitution to divest a person of his United States citizenship absent his voluntary renunciation thereof".
the owners of grumpy cat hired a "meme manager" to promote and sell their meme. I now hate all internet memes.

http://mashable.com/2012/04/17/meme-management/
Like they did not punish Bradley Manning?
I'd be absolutely amazed if this isn't happening.

It's such an obvious target (and not just for the usual reasons, commercial intelligence collection does and has happened).

I can see large non-American companies becoming very wary about using American hosted clouds going forwards.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2012...

http://cironline.org/reports/local-police-stockpile-high-tec...

http://www.aclu.org/militarization

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/growing-militarisation-pol...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/sunday-review/have-america...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/09/12/police-milit...

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/how-the-...

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/police-militarization-an-in...

The video in the first link is probably the most interesting.

Edit: Also shouldn't forget http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/
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Even if we consider China an enemy, that's not "standing up for an enemy," that's telling China that one of their universities is being spied on. Not a big surprise, and little damage done.

And I very much doubt that was done to aid our "enemy," but to help galvanize Snowden's status in the eyes of the Chinese people, which would in turn weigh on the government's decision whether or not to cooperate with the USA's extradition request.

And it worked.
But the private data you mention isn't all that private. The government doesn't care about leaking your private data, it cares about information getting out that will politically damage or embarrass those in charge.
Someone at Waze should get on this. Send a small notification to Waze users that there's a jam ahead, and to slow down by 10mph to help alleviate it! It's a simple solution and might even work since Waze users are already a "community" of drivers in the sense that they're looking out for each other and not necessarily just themselves.
Incidents like this one don't help, where bank robbers wore full suits of body armor:

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

... probably because they expected SWAT. It's a bit of an arms race, literally, between the cops and the robbers.
The Bitcoin Foundation site [1] accepts donations via Bitcoin. Whose server are they using?

[1] https://bitcoinfoundation.org/donate
I didn't mean in that sense. And, though I sense your question is somewhat sarcastic, I'll pose this to you. In the same way that a person joins the military to do a job, protect our interests both domestically and abroad, to the best of their ability, without the luxury of being able to question the mission; does anyone in the hacker news community feel the same way?

For example, do any data scientists feel like they could make a meaningful contribution toward increasing the performance of PRISM's algorithms, thereby reducing the number of false positives and helping keep the country safer.

The hacker ethos is one of distrust of big corp / government and a greater responsibility to the people and their rights. But, despite what we might like to think, people will die and maybe, just maybe, some of us might be able to help.

Granted, our values are only meaningful if we adhere to them during trying times. And, poorly paraphrased, those who seek to tradeoff their freedoms for security, get neither.

And thus, hopefully, you can see why I asked this question.
The point I was trying to make is that there are some powerful forces that will drive the expansion of "security culture" far beyond what seems reasonable to us now.

The .gov has always required contractors working on sensitive matters to have clearances. But the point I'm focussing on is the broad expansion of what qualifies as "security sensitive information".

And maids have physical access to rooms where people may be storing both personal, corporate and government information; it's easy to imagine someone making an argument that they should be subject to a criminal records check and possibly more stringent requirements for the luxury suites...

Especially since the security process gives management extreme leverage in labor negotiations and ensures that there is an absolute power imbalance between employees and employers.
Traveling within a few hundreds miles of Gitmo. The movie of this is going to be amazing.

It's like a world tour of US foreign failures under Bush's fourth term.

Can we start a whitehouse petition for Obama to give back his Nobel Prize?
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> It's not my business to report anything to anyone

Actually it is. If you're in a Common Law legislation there's a good chance the you could be charged with conspiracy. And if you're in a Civil Law legislation there's a good chance that your country requires you to report ongoing crimes once you gain knowledge about them (of course there's the question if a court will treat Snowden's actions as completed or as ongoing crimes).

Not arguing about the moral thing to do here, just about the legal point of view.
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Ecuador has received an asylum request from Snowden
How likely is it Snowden is on Hacker News?
> …because the Swedish government can make no such promise, as extradition is a matter for the judiciary

This is a half truth. The Swedish government can overrule the judiciary to prevent extradition, and have on multiple occasions.

They government have chosen not to offer such guarantees.

Though frankly, a bigger concern is the prosecutors insistence on not questioning him in the UK and her claim she somehow can't, despite evidence to the contrary (Swedish police regularly questions suspects outside of Sweden)

> He never had any guarantee from the UK that he would not be extradited, and yet was happy to spend time there.

He was happy to spend time here because unlike Sweden, the UK has not been quite as willing to illegally hand people over to the CIA for rendition flights (Sweden has admitted to multiple instances), and has a legal system that at least has a little bit of a spine in extradition cases on occasion.
> I find it strange to be accused of being manipulated by one party.

Indeed. From your point of view, you have gathered plenty of information, weeded out the crap, and applied careful logic to the good information. From your point of view, you have come to solid conclusions about the NSA and you do not like them. Any thinking person sees the obvious contradictions between spying and democracy, right?

But why did you spend all that effort on the NSA issue? Their domestic surveillance has been an open secret for decades. If we go back to the OSS and its precursors, for the better part of a century.

Out of the universe of thousands of current issues, matters of importance that have a public dialog going, why has this particular moldy old scandal been dug up and kept on the front page of CNN for weeks?

Because somebody is keeping it there.

You say that the Democrats stand to lose greatly from the NSA scandal. Not nearly as much as from the IRS debacle! They are terrified that if the IRS debacle stayed in the public consciousness, the Tea Party would be able to call a one month tax strike. That would cause a Social Security payment cycle to be delayed and destroy the DNP forever. Literally dedtroy, they would have the credibility of Whigs or Soviets afterwards.

Hence the absolute desparation to plaster the news with anything, everything except IRS. We can also expect to see a parade of insane wars as distractions. Libya, Syria, who's next?
> if you're in a Civil Law legislation there's a good chance that your country requires you to report ongoing crimes once you gain knowledge about them

Does anyone have any citations for this please? (I'm especially interested in English law, but any other country is fine too.)
WikiLeaks Statement On Edward Snowden’s Exit From Hong Kong - Updated
First, when you buy a new iPhone, the way you authenticate yourself is by entering your Apple ID and password. Once entered, your new device will begin receiving iMessage data. This means that Apple is capable of provisioning a virtual device with your credentials, which will receive your messages. From there, they can be either stored or forwarded to third parties.

Wrong. As others who have examined the protocol have noted, your password is used to unlock a keybag on the device itself. Apple doesn't have your password (only a secure hash) and therefore can't unlock the keybag. The security depends on the strength of your password, which is a weakness, but it is in your control, not Apples.

Yes, the binaries of any system can contain arbitrary spyware or be infected with such at any stage from development through to decommissioning. Open source is no absolute protection against that.

At the moment we are trusting that companies are not baldly lying to us, even Google.
That's exactly the environment in my country in the 40's to mid 70's. You were obliged to inform the state of suspicious activities of your fellow citizens (things like reading the wrong sort of books or indulging in private gatherings) and were promptly compensated when you did so, whether you were being truthful or just really didn't like your neighbor. The infamous PIDE (secret police) is considered one of the most effective police forces in history, partially because of these sorts of tactics and how they managed to creep their way into every aspect of society. This is not something I'm proud to be associated with our history.

Of course that was dictatorship era Portugal. More than 40 years ago. I wasn't even born. But things have a way to come around again, one way or another, when we let ourselves get too comfortable and forget history or just trust too much on the competence of others.
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I hope at least the movie version ends this way, it would be a great twist. The leaker walks into the oval office and shakes the hand of the president, who smiles, and fade to black.
as is the essay. My PhD co-advisor was the dean of the graduate students for a spell, and he repeatedly said, 'the one factor that determines the success of a grad student is their GRE writing score and the quality of their essay'. Which is deliciously ironic, because I think he himself was an atrocious writer, I think he has dyslexia, yet, he's the only professor in the institute that has a drug that made it to Phase I.
If you're interested in the physics of it, there's a PDE that explains these backwards propagating density shockwaves (aka traffic jams).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgers'_equation
I've been using this method of deployment for several production sites for a couple of years now. I don't really see why rsync is better, or how using git is meaningfully different from having a live branch that you Rsync from. As long as you're checking out into a detached work tree it is functionally identical to rsync.
My thought is that could work together with other tools. Say you do your next deploy with heroku, it says there are unsaved changes and asks you to first do a 'heroku pull' to pull the changes and you can then commit them or you could blow them away with 'heroku push -f'.

I'd say 80% of the sites online are managed by one or two people. They may need the scalability of the cloud for traffic bursts, but we can't say cloud is the future if all of our existing tools and workflows are completely broken.

For the past year I was building a cloud competitor to Heroku. We had a traditional host (like HostGator) and we talked to those customers about moving to the new cloud infrastructure and all the benefits to why. Most people said it was too complicated and were stuck in their work flows (FTP and file managers). Which is why I wanted to chime in with FTP is not dead.
Spark, up to 100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce.
And why is rsync superior?
I'm from the 80s. I bet you want to replace me also.
I thought Coinbase was based out of SF and even backed by YC?

Not sure though, seeing on the privacy page an Oregon address.

https://coinbase.com/about
Good to know you are working on it
Good luck with that. Nobody is putting that genie back into the bottle any time soon....
You are correct the Mossad assassinates people routinely.

However, this is a poorly chosen rhetorical attack in defense of the CIA since the US currently is engaging in a global assassination war using drones and other means which has murdered far far more people than the Mossad ever has, and far more of those people are completely innocent of any wrongdoing. Mossad at least picks specific and known enemy leaders and tends to assassinate only them up close and personal. It is true there is collateral damage, but the collateral killings caused by the US assassinations are much greater. The CIA is deeply involved in selecting targets and running the assassination programs, just as it was involved in horrific torture, abuse and war crimes committed against thousands of people in recent years. The CIA is a powerful and dangerous criminal organization which routinely engages in crimes against humanity. There is absolutely no defense possible for the crimes committed by the CIA.

http://www.livingunderdrones.org/

http://humanrightsclinic.law.stanford.edu/project/living-und...

The argument that "at least the CIA doesn't assassinate" like some other country that has nothing to do with Snowden's case makes no sense. It's simply not true that the CIA doesn't assassinate as much as the Mossad. The CIA assassinates far more, and far more indiscriminately. The CIA assassinates by giving american kids videogame-like control over flying robotic drones and having them assassinate anyone who they think looks suspicious while eating candy and drinking soda safe in an air conditioned room thousands of miles from where the robot planes are flying patrols. When they see someone they feel like shooting they shoot them and it is assumed that person is a "militant" because they said so. To them it is a fun videogame about shooting what they call "ragheads", and other derisive terms even worse. They keep track of their kill counts as a competition. At no point do they take responsibility for their actions, consider their targets human beings, seek justice, risk their own lives, or display any intelligence or skill. They are just cowardly thugs playing a video game where they shoot up random people who are a religion and color they don't like, because that's their job.
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Interesting that you say that. Coinbase is verifiably registered with FinCEN, but not the states, as far as I can see. (Square, mentioned in the article, actually is registered in California.)

http://www.fincen.gov/financial_institutions/msb/msbstatesel...

http://www.dfi.ca.gov/directory/money_transmitters.html
There are only two commercial flights between Asia and Latin America. One flys between Mexico City and, on alternate trips, Shanghai or Tokyo. The other is between Dubai and Sāo Paulo.

The Mexican flight crosses a lot of US airspace.

Everything else requires stops in North America or Europe.
The IRS debacle. A tax strike would cause a cycle of Social Security and food stamps to be delayed, and even confused old people and urban minorities would understand who hung them out to dry. The Democrats would join the Whigs in the dustbin of American history.
That's okay, but what does that have to do with the Bitcoin Foundation? I hope they take them to Court.
Also he invented tons of kickass sampling techniques and wrote what I consider to be the best review of MCMC of all time http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~radford/ftp/review.pdf
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Yes. And this subthread nicely proves the parent: At least half of people who claim to program in C++ can't.
The Bitcoin foundation does neither exchange or trade Bitcoins, nor does it release any Bitcoin client. Its only mission is to "standardize, protect and promote" the use of Bitcoin.

Charging the Bitcoin foundations for violations against the money transmission laws would be like charging NRA for violations against firearm laws. This would be a very alarming precedent and would basically violate your rights for free speech.
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Here is a question: I often find myself wanting to do background tasks within my application (say, a Flask app) without running celeryd. While celery is quite useful, I just want to spin up an application and have it Just Work without external dependencies. With celery, now I have to run celeryd, run some sort of queue (redis, rabbitmq, etc), and just worry about all of these pieces simply to execute long-running background tasks.

Are there options for this? Akin to an sqlite for tasks, in python?
In this example they are checking out into a work tree that is detached from the central repo, which is bare (or could be.) Therefore there is no .git directory in the work tree and the history is inaccessible from the outside world. I don't see how having the entire history sitting in a private directory on the server is silly, as long as only you can access it.

Honestly we are just talking about transferring files here. However you automate it, as long as it gets the files from point a from point b, is fine. I happen to find it most convenient to use git since that is how I send and receive code changes everywhere else, and it seems foolhardy to introduce another file transferring tool without a really good reason why. Moreover it lets me very easily tell exactly what revision is sitting on the server, and also causes me to pause before I push. It is also really easy to integrate git, through hooks, with a continuous integration setup.
It isn't clear yet if Snowden has chosen Venezuela. He might be choosing Ecuador.