skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly do you think a No-Fly List is? The use of the word "blacklist" is entirely appropriate.
If you've used this particular contact system before, you'll know that your e-mail login information won't pass through LinkedIn's servers. A popup from your e-mail provider's server asks you to grant LinkedIn access to your contacts via that provider's APIs.
Yes most sites do ask for permission to upload your contacts, but they do it without needing your password. No need to log in as the user anymore to do this.

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/
There are other ways to suppress when you control the mass media, and as far I know they do put lots of people temporarily in jail for voicing decent / showing up to peaceful protests.
How is minidisplayport Apple only?
Delegating or micromanaging, threading the needle
So this is different than Slimfast -- how? From what I understand, Slimfast is pretty close to a meal replacement. Or is this intended to be in the same category?
This is in direct conflict with human nature. As people, governments, institutions, or organizations grow more powerful, they tend to have more enemies. As such, the need to protect their financial and other interests becomes key to their survival.

You think Bill Gates should be more transparent with his wealth? Do you think JP Morgan Chase be more transparent about future financial opportunities its pursuing? Do you think China should be more transparent with their economy?

Yeah, it would be great if it would happen, but it won't. Human nature is just too strong for people to willing give up their secrets. Besides, Assange's hate of the US is well documented. For him, it was more of a personal crusade, then trying to create more transparency.
are there screenshots for the new admin?
If you're new to programming, then start with JS, because there's a lot more documentation and tutorials out there. If you've already got another programming language under your belt, then go straight to CoffeeScript. You can always look at the compiled js if you want, but you're practically never going to want to.
Hey Bill,

Here are the nuclear launch codes:

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Hope all goes well. Good luck with the free world. Say high to Hillary.

George
Unless I am mistaken, saying that "Ghostery is selling their browsing data to advertisers" is wrong, at least to common understanding of those terms.

I have ghostery installed and I do knowingly opt in to the anonymous data sharing. From their FAQ (http://www.ghostery.com/faq#q16) my understanding is that there is nothing personally identifiable about this data, they are just using my interaction with the web to say "Tracker X appeared on website Y". I see nothing wrong with this.

I'm happy to let them gather this information and profit from it - they are providing me with a useful service and selling that aggregate, anonymous data lets them stay in business and continue to provide me with their service. If I am misunderstanding something, and this data can be used to identify me as an individual, I would welcome an explanation.
What do you mean? Non-libertarians had no justification to refute those things?
Actually, I would argue that external USB disks are more annoying to use with a MacBook Air than with a workstation. I couldn't even have my MBA on my lap right now if I had to connect an external disk for music or apps.
LinkedIn showed my email address on their web page, and provided a box under it to type my email password.

Maybe they wouldn't have actually stored my password locally, but there's no way for a user to know that for sure.
Most cited legal paper regarding the right to privacy:

The Right to Privacy, Samuel D. Warren & Louis D. Brandeis,
4 Harv. L. Rev. 193 (1890)

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...
But the problem is that there is no court, and they (NSA or whomever) are left to make their own conclusions and act on them before we have a chance to defend ourselves. In the example, you can draw (at least) two conclusions, the problem is: the NSA gets to pick the one that suits their needs and defend it with misinterpreted "meta data"
This stuff sometime around like minute 45 or thereabouts.

I'm frustrated by them asking the wrong questions to the wrong people. They should be asking FBI about listening to Americans' phone calls. They're not dong it, in the bits I've heard, yet.

Edit: FBI did chime in on reading emails in real-time, indicating FISA court as the means for doing so, but nothing else I heard. (~1:28?)
Edit2: Grunt. I clearly don't understand what's going on here. (~1:42). I'm just going to shut up for another couple days and see what the Guardian releases in response.
Your anecdote is meaningless when we don't know whether you're swapping to disk or not.
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I don't think anyone's saying we're in a commie gulag, but the comparison is still valid. The vectors for abuse of government power are growing and our resources are shrinking. The problem is still bearable, but we're headed in the wrong direction nonetheless.
Ah, I use GMail, which allows that the type of functionality I mentioned. I didn't see that it behaves differently with other providers.
Do you have any examples of them not working?
Slavery was the issue that almost destroyed the Union before it formed and nearly destroyed the Union again in 1860. But it seems we worked that one out.

Prohibition was instituted through the proper constitutional channel of the amendment process -- and repealed the same way. You may view it as the extreme opposite of the gay marriage issue today: a sweeping prevailing mindset that turned out to be a really bad idea in the long run.

As for women, Jim Crow we worked those out too. I can't respond to your '"sanctity" of marriage' comment, because all I'm getting is vague left-wing ire.

Those rights on that piece of paper have saved us from much government tyranny. Indeed, without the Bill of Rights, we would have lost many of them long ago. The founders were rightfully wary of government in this regard. Why is the 9th Amendment there at all? Does the government treat us as serfs or as sovereigns?

The Constitution is not perfect: it did not foresee the level of political activism present on the Supreme Court throughout the years. The Court has been amending the Constitution for far too long without proper oversight. We should not be able to predict the votes of the Justices, since most of us are not constitutional scholars. Yet we can...

The USA is different than most countries throughout history, but it has lost its way. The latest NSA / IRS news could be seen as simply the last in a long train of 'repeated injuries and usurpations' to and of our Liberty.
That didn't end with the Soviet Union. As of 2010, at least, that was still the case in Ukraine.
There are some pretty large differences but it is similar enough that more and more people are making the comparison in conversation. Folks who have read up on the Mccarthy hearings on anti-american activities will see a similar pattern of public backlash developing. s/Communism/Terrorism/g right? It becomes easier and easier to recruit people to vote against the excesses and then these people get booted out of government. Can't happen fast enough for me
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>As an American, I traveled all over HHA and rarely had to show my papers. So, no, there certainly weren't questions...not like you alluded to.

Erm, yeah, American visitors were treated differently from native subjects. No shit.
Not everyone uses Gmail.
lol Oh Canadian Tire money.
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The value of meta-data is why people tag friends in photos and cameras geocode. It's called meta-data because it sits above data in the information hierarchy - just as a digital photograph sits above the bits and bytes on disk from which its image is composed.

"Honey, it's bad news," or "Darling, I need you to hold me," or "<sobbing>" don't say squat...unless you know they were made from the doctor's office and what calls were made afterwards.
yeah :)

I couldn't resist getting on with the ebook yesterday and noticed my 5.3.4 install didn't have the realm dir.
She's making it in the application Paper, on an iPad.
LXC will never replace XEN/KVM/whatever. LXC has its places, but saying it is the future for all VMs is just naive. Since it's from linuxjournal I want to check who dares to make such bold statements, then realize this is probably the real purpose of that article, a twisted ads for its Drupal business?
In short, the article is pointless and shallow, and you can't stop checking who is making such claims, and then you find yet another drupal hosting site, this sucks.
What was said in the conference: they look at the number, if the number is foreign, it's good. If there's an error and the number is US (for example, a clerical error) the query results are IMMEDIATELY destroyed, and this event is reported to subcommittees and FISA court.

The metadata is collected, destroyed after 5 years, but cannot be queried except under the stringent circumstances. So it's basically if they could just go "back in time" on looking at certain phone numbers.

and the 20 people is in the conference. Alexander said that 20 analysts and 2 managers (himself and Inglis) are the only people with access to this database.
It is... OK. Works pretty well if you don't have a large number of feeds. If you do, can require some decent hardware to run well. Probably not a big deal for most people here, but I got tired of administering it and switched to NewsBlur.

Some of my performance issues could have been MySQL tuning issues, but I just got tired of tinkering with it.
I really don't understand this Soylent nonsense:

1. I like food. The smell, experience and taste. Why in god's name would I eat powder to save myself the "hassle" of eating food? That's like promoting adoption as a method of avoiding the "hassle" of having sex.

2. Why the hell would you associate the brand of a product that you believe is healthy with a movie that is about feeding dead people back to us? That's the first thing I think about when I hear the word Soylent - that "Soylent Green is people!" Yum! Let me rush right out and get me some of that.

To me personally, Soylent is the very antithesis of the idea of living this short life I have. With like 40% of people too damn fat for their own good, I don't get how anyone sees a positive outcome for them.
If your connection is so bad that you have to resort to shipping physical media to upload data efficiently I wonder how you're going to make effective use of the data once it's loaded into "the cloud". I understand that most consumer Internet connectivity (in the United States, at least) is asymmetric, but it seems like constrained upstream capacity would go hand-in-hand with constrained downstream capacity, too. I understand "seeding" the remote storage for backup applications, where you wouldn't be frequently accessing a large amount of the corpus, but I wonder how this would work with applications like moving your personal media library out to remote servers if you were one of these people with a connection that's so bad that you need to resort to moving physical substrate around to move bits.
It's really not practical to stop doing business with every large company with whom you have a disagreement, especially when they are the dominant player in their industry. I'm sure most of us could find a nit to pick with both Apple and Microsoft, not to mention Google.

If you will never need LinkedIn, that's fine. If you might, then you're only hurting yourself.
Hmm - sorry if this is not what you were looking for, but my feedback is that I only made it to the second step before stopping. I don't have an event in mind to try it out with, so I just put in Test Event, then you asked me for my Name and Email. I have no idea what your product is or does so I didn't give it to you. Give me a screenshot on the front page, or something at least to tell me what it is before you ask for my info.

I think it may be down now as well, FYI. Getting an error when I try to load it.
Containers are efficient(and most likely the future) for PaaS/SaaS type of applications, where individual Instance (VM/Container) is not treated as a "computer" or Infrastructure.

Another benefit for PaaS/SaaS is that you don't necessarily sell RAM or DISK, you sell an application/service and thus can take FULL advantage of containers, like:
- more efficient resources sharing(on host)
- dynamic resources re-balancing
- quicker start/stop/etc

Containers can be used to offer IaaS, but as was already mentioned in this thread, a few edge cases (custom kernel or kernel module, any filesystems support, any firewall support) prevent it due to support/operations overhead.
and you can throttle with ionice on xen running a Linux dom0[1]. It works pretty great if you have some user who is going overboard and you want to make it suck for just them and suck less for everyone else.

It doesn't work like the CPU scheduler; which is to say, I can't set ionice on all the guests and expect good performance on the light-use guests while a heavy-use guest is thrashing the disk. (I can expect the good performance for the light-use guests when the resource in contention is CPU time.) It's possible that either ionice isn't a good enough tool, or that I don't know enough about it... but I think it's far more likely that the variable nature of disk throughput makes balancing requests harder... (e.g. how many IOPS a second I get varies a lot from second to second, based on where the sectors I want to operate on are in relation to the read/write head. How much disk bandwidth I get varies even more.)

I am pretty curious about how much this situation will change with SSD storage.

[1]http://wiki.prgmr.com/mediawiki/index.php/Chapter_7:_Hosting...
Quick, buy up land on the bottom of the Atlantic!

Seriously though its pretty cool to think about the continents moving around, and yes that will cause all sorts of problems (and new opportunities).
Facebook also asks for permission to import your email contacts from other providers. For GMX, Skype, mail.ru and "other email service", you need to provide a password. It really depends on whether the target site implemented OAuth, OpenID or etc.
Great advice. If you're just starting this, don't get hung up on the automation steps at the end; just change your welcome email, and go from there. If you have such a big list that you need to automate the scheduling etc., then deal with it when it's a problem. Don't let fiddling with that get in the way of acting now.
You and Go designers are misleading people by claiming false statements.

You don't have to look into the package to ignore it, I even explained to you how exactly to do it, but you keep repeating this bullshit. You have to look into the package and therefore parse it in one case only: when this package is imported into current namespace, which is almost never the case in Go. You can detect and ignore unused package with looking no farther than current package almost all the time, because each imported package uses unique namespace. If there were no symbols present with that namespace in current package - you don't have to look into the package with that namespace, it's that simple. And gc (Go's compiler) already detects unused packages in similar way.
Mostly "no particular interest", but passive dislike comes from an (understandable) fear of congestion.

All else being equal, you'd rather fewer people be where you are than many. You'd rather ride a half-empty plane than a full one. You'd rather your favorite restaurant be quiet and spacious than crowded and loud. Of course, everyone has specific people they'd prefer to be around... but we're mostly irritated by crowds and be around people we didn't select. That's just how we are. We're animals, and every animal exhibits heightened cognitive load when animals of the same species (conspecific individuals) are in range.

This is not worth getting angry about. It's just how the world seems to work. Even if the world isn't congested, it almost always feels that way... and to most people, you and I are part of the problem. When you drive, you're part of "traffic".
I don't know about that. I've customized the heck out of that thing (e.g. https://github.com/mazelife/django-scaffold) and it's quite possible, although you'll need to be pretty familiar with the source code. That said, this particular part of Django is definitely starting to show its age. Compare the look-and-feel and UI with something like ActiveAdmin (http://activeadmin.info/) for Rails and you'll see what I mean. What's more, the approach to "class-based views" feels disconnected to the way Django apps are written now.
That's not true -- Linux has had local root exploits pretty much at ALL times. If you're in a container, you can break out with one of these exploits. You'll be root and have access to all other containers on the machine.

In a VM, you don't share a kernel with other users, so the local root exploit doesn't buy you anything.

I prefer containers and think VMs are a huge hack for most problems. But as it stands now, the number of local root exploits vs say remote exploits on Linux is probably greater by a factor of 100 or so, so you're taking much more risk.

Security is one of the problems with Linux containers that still needs to be resolved. (see http://mattoncloud.org/2012/07/16/are-lxc-containers-enough/, Google "lxc security")
This is missing the point so far it's almost a non sequitur. Reading, talking with friends, playing computer games. I enjoy these all at least as much as I enjoy eating. But I still wouldn't want to be required to do any one of them every single day for the rest of my life. It's nice to have options.
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Slimfast and other similar meal replacements (like Ensure) are not really balanced for normal, active people. They're meant for people who want to diet or are unable to eat solid food.
Snowden can't access the data , according to this testimony.

I don't have that much of a problem with this because the warrant is needed in order to actually do anything with the information. Also, to be precise, it's more as if the USPS scan the mail sender/receiver info (metadata after all). No content.
Custom is fine, but if it's not model-oriented CRUD+x (where x is any other atomic action on a model object) it doesn't work well.
The storage arrays' access could be limited such that administrative accounts can only be used locally at a datacenter. Then, acting on the warrant would require telling an employee in Zurich to conduct any necessary action.
There is a very good reason instances cannot be explicitly imported: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8728596
Was going to say the same. Has been steadily improving over the last month or two. Still not perfect, but the best alternative I have found yet, and I love that it's under active development by someone who is invested in its success (and paid for it!).
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Actually, the opinion is pretty short and I'd recommend reading it.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-246_7l48.pdf

The long story short is that the plaintiff had not actually been arrested, so he hadn't been read his Miranda rights, and then his silence was used against him in court when he went silent after certain questions.

This opinion says that the 5th is not simply a "right to remain silent", nor is that phrase even in the 5th. If he wanted to claim his rights, he needed to explicitly say so. That's not new, but this case reiterates that point in non-arrest situations.
In the near future, it'll use kernel namespacing (like LXC) and SELinux.
Just like Land of Lisp (also written by Conrad Barski). Not a bad thing.
Another reason to buy the stock model: My partner needed a new laptop, and I was sick of fixing the PC's he was used to using.

His requirement were using MS Office (mostly for word and powerpoint), surfing the internet, and watching videos while traveling. Macbook Air was a perfect solution (even the stock one without upgrades).

Besides showing him how to use a mac and the initial setup of buying and installing msoffice, I haven't had to fix his computer in almost a year.

If I can get more of my non-tech friends and family to switch, I will, not because I'm a fanboy but to cut back on my free tech support for MS products that I stopped using 10 years ago for all my friends and family :)
To preempt confusion: the old title was

'NSA analyst "improperly accessed" Bill Clinton's email [2009]'

That's what the early comments are replying to.
As a user of the product, I love what these guys have done. Although I'd be curious if the end goal is similar to that of AddThis; i.e. selling user data for ad targeting?
Interestingly, I have received lots of great contacts and work through various sites I use, but never anything through LinkedIn. Different communities gravitate to different channels. For me, I wouldn't miss my LinkedIn account. Though maybe I'm just not trying hard enough.
The information will probably be in the next call.
Has everyone made certain they're running the most current version of Tor?
I still don't understand why it requires a browser plugin at all. I find it very suspicious and it put me off Feedly.
All this info is stuff I wrote down during the presentation, yeah. It'll probably show up in a condensed form soon after the end of this.
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>If you will never need LinkedIn, that's fine. If you might, then you're only hurting yourself.

The point, I believe, is announcing the act in a public forum. Whether or not OP stops using LinkedIn is moot.
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That's a pretty defeatist attitude. If nobody complains when companies do bad things, what incentive do they have to stop?
I've found that people generally have a problem with certain types of comparisons.

If I say Bush/Obama is similar to Hitler in ways X and Y people stop listening and get mad, even if the comparison is dead accurate.

I think it is dangerous to dismiss those types of comparisons.
Agreed. Once you learn how FISA works, it gets pretty scary:

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/18/is-there-a-leak-at-the...

"Remember, in a FISA court, there is no equivalent of a defense attorney speaking on behalf of the person being investigated. It is not an adversarial court. Nobody speaks for you, Joe Citizen. The government makes its case, and the judge either says, “okay,” or “no, I’m not convinced.”"

- Since the start of the War on Terror more than 11 years ago, the court has denied just 10 applications, and modified several dozen, while approving more than 15,000.
That's not a new ruling though. Having to claim the right to not self-incriminate was ruled in Minnesota v Murphy, 1984. This is specific to cases where "invokers" have not been read Miranda because they're not under arrest.
You've been Perf'd.
Another thing that bothers the CRAP out of me is that now I feel like I can't say how I feel with friends because I know government is monitoring me. Its not that I am a terrorist or criminal, but this feels /exactly/ like I'm living in some unfree communist piece of shit country where you cannot speak how you feel without facing scrutiny from informants or stasi style police; UNLESS its in the comfort of your four walls with your close family and friends. This is tyranny, make no mistake about it.
there was a supreme court ruling to that effect 35 years ago (can't recall the name right now). Basically they think there's no expectation to privacy because the phone company knows who you call.