skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just the fact that the US President can order an extra-judicial killing of any US citizen, if he deems it fit, should be enough to raise your ire, citizen. With such tyranny allowed, justice is no longer possible in US society.
A search engine that claims it doesn't track its users.
Maybe a silly question, but is there any reason he couldn't have flown to Moscow in the first place?
Or didn't and lived in Japan.
Love this (assuming it's satire). I think there is a bit of group think on HN lately.

Sometimes, we have a highly up voted UX article that tells us users "can't read" so we should not rely on text.

At other times, we have this highly up voted manifesto that tells us we should focus more on text.

Am I the only one to see a contradiction?

PS: I do think text/plain HTML files are great (in some cases).
I wonder if these conflicting final destination accounts were orchestrated to disrupt any attempt to intercept Snowden.
It's all quite surreal, isn't it? At least people seem to be waking up. Bravo to HN for keeping up the coverage and not letting these outrageous revelations fade to a whimper.
Investigators Say TWA 800 Crash Not An Accident
Imagine the financial power in the data the government has and doesn't want to reveal. Like who is buying and selling what stocks. That information is gold for data mining.
Would this work with StatET?
My impression has been that HK was always only intended as a first stop. I don't know if he had a specific end destination, but I don't think he considered HK as the end destination.
Do you think that'll work twice? Plus he was an employee of NSA..
Tracking Snowden
How can that work and still provide unified billing while you're in operation. E.g. let's say the photos are stored in S3, would they either have to pay bills to both Amazon and you, or switch to a smaller bill from Amazon upon your demise?

The other problem is of course that very few of these companies do that sort of thing as far as I know (which I wouldn't, particularly, seeing as I only use rsync.net for off-site safety (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado) and otherwise use local disk plus LTO tape with a full backup always in a safe deposit box).
On June 20th, the flight did not pass through US territory: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130620/1...

Perhaps strings can be pulled so it takes the same route again.
>“Hammer this fact home, ...punish those who fail to report their security suspicions"

Not Gotwin, but STASI Law. Here, today, is mom's good ol' apple pie USA.
I feel like HK was looking for a reason to wash their hands of this, since it would have been a political mess with no real upsides.
Diesel is cheating, but switching out the entire battery pack isn't?
This BBC article tries to gloss over the fact he's an important whistleblower that has been accused of committing a series of criminal acts in order to blow the whistle on some particularly egregious domestic and international surveillance by the US government and British government, and instead paints him as a Wild West-style criminal on the lam. It's not that they're incorrect, it's just the story's lead and first few paragraphs appear to be a not-so-subtle attempt at framing [1] him in a negative light to sway perception and erode support.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)
Not that exclusive--Over 4 million people have security clearances.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/12...
Given that this is summer when many people are on vacation and have less or no Internet service and often the same for cell phone data service, which is famously limited anyway....
A Yahoo Employee Sent Us This Satirical Letter Mocking Marissa Mayer's Policies
Snowden himself answered this here, the question is about Iceland but the answer is applicable to Moscow too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-n...
Thanks, I'll browse it.

Ideally I'd like to start something of my own with someone else, and ideally it'd be aligned with my time zone (and maybe even someone who I can meet face to face).

But this is definitely a good start. Thanks.
"Chávez himself read my findings on potential elections theft – to his nation on his TV show – and then he moved swiftly, establishing an election system that Jimmy Carter, who has headed vote observer teams in 92 nations, called, 'an election process that is the best in the world'.

Here's how it works: every Venezuelan voter gets TWO ballots. One is electronic, the second is a paper print-out of the touch-screen ballot, which the voter reviews, authorises, then places in a locked ballot-box. An astounding 54 percent of the boxes are chosen at random to open and check against the computer tally. It's as close to a bulletproof count as you can get." [1]

In the face of significant US interference Venezuala could have gone extremely dictatorial, but it seems they went the other way and implemented a more secure voting process than in many other countries where electronic voting is used.

[1] http://www.gregpalast.com/did-chavez-pick-steal-the-election...
I asked if I'm on a shitlist and it said I'm an Al Queda associative force. I'll take that as a yes.
Small trivia: that path goes close to the Azores where the USAF has an airbase.
You're not the first person to say that. The home page will change shortly. Thanks for the feedback.
Wikipedia:

"Ellsberg also shared the documents with New York Times correspondent Neil Sheehan under a pledge of confidentiality. Sheehan broke his promise to Ellsberg, and built a scoop around what he'd received both directly from Ellsberg and from contacts at IPS."

No, Ellsberg got duped. He also went into hiding afterwards (although briefly). He never deliberately put it all on the line.

Snowden made this information public and shortly thereafter admitted to it -- knowing full well that it would end his life as he knew it. That's the act of a patriot.
Who told you they weren't democratic [0]?

Remember that the US propaganda machine has good reason to call itself democratic while calling actual democratic nations dictatorships. Say it enough times and people will believe it.

[0] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/why-us-d...
The news content of the article is that the Norwegian Pirate Party claimed on their twitter feed that Snowden is going to Oslo next: https://twitter.com/PiratPartiet_No/status/34878871367489945...

The rest of the article is some fairly loose speculation re: whether he's really coming to Norway, will be heading to Iceland (perhaps via Norway), or will be heading to Latin America as previously reported.
A (BLANK) Solution to a (BLANK) Problem
His answer here would seem to suggest that he didn't request time off: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-n...
No idea. Perhaps you can email PG.
Your personal experience is not a source, keep your reddit speak where it belongs.
There's splashtop 2 , which lets you remote desktop your pc to an android tablet , and will work for games if your pc is strong enough. As far as i can tell(from some google research) it's the best one for games in the market.

If your TV can run android apps, you might be set. If not, there are plenty of set top boxes or hdmi plugs that run android. But choose one that would be fast enough.

Regarding doing it alone: as far as i can tell, efficenly compressing the video on a pc with low latency and decoding it on the other side is a hard problem, not a side project.

And if you try,i think it would be wise to use something stronger than raspberry pi ,as least for starters.
I do reside (a lot of the time), in GuangZhou, and whilst there is certainly people who are like that, I know a lot who aren't. (Much like any other country).

So I have a counter proof that your generalisation is too broad, hence why I asked for you to clarify.

My take is, (having travelled a fair amount within china). That China is very different depending on which region you are in (much like the US is). So alarm bells ring, when I see people making broad statements such as "Chinese are all corrupt".

You are essentially saying that some weird twist of the CCP causes corruption in the society, else how do you explain Taiwan, and HK? Is that what you are meaning to say? That is an interesting thesis.
"...pay for it in rainy day cash..."
There's a nice simulation of these physics here:
http://www.traffic-simulation.de

The jams seem pretty robust, unless you turn down the input flow -- a bit like real life!
Lack of available flights? Flights from East Asia and Oceania to the Americas are relatively rare and expensive compared to going the other way via Europe.
Yea, this is a large part of the issue for me.

It really is not clear what is content and what is interface.

I like to imagine that we'll see a time when there is a tighter integration, that the future of interface is essentially data visualisation but intil that time it remains a challenge to explain to users (and even sometimes technical folk) the distinction between data and interface and flat design really feels like a step backwards in this regard.
I'm sure this will not be a matter to be resolved by fighter jets. This is a regular commercial jet and if asked to land by air traffic control, it will land instead of going rogue. So as long as it stays off actual US airspace, it should be fine.
"Mr Snowden requested that WikiLeaks use its legal expertise and experience to secure his safety."
They tried 2 times before, Manning is in jail, Assange is living in an embassy. Only losers quit.

edit: I see that Garzon is on board, he's the one who tried to judge Pinochet, one of the CIA's dictator. His job ended when he tried to bring trials for acts of the spanish dictature.
The curse of the spinning statue at Manchester Museum
From watching CNN, the tone I get from the government is that they mainly want him so they can send a message to other potential leakers that this sort of behavior won't be tolerated.

Is he important enough to move heaven and earth for? I didn't get that. The Obama administration needs to tread very carefully here, which is why, so long as Snowden doesn't make a stupid mistake, which it looks like he won't, he'll be able to squirrel himself away in Latin America. Obama, as head of state, needs to at least make the appearance he's protecting the power and prestige of the government. But he also needs to avoid looking like the terroristic assholes we're at war with.

It's a very thin line, and I'm actually a little impressed with how he's handling this.
So they say that Pirate Party International instructed them Snowden will land in Oslo. Maybe a trail that was planted (but more likely misunderstandings).
My step-father told me a great story about the Cuban Missile Crisis. While Washington and Moscow at each other's throats, he was on a US Navy warship turning away freighters carrying missiles bound for Cuba. As his boat got close to the Russian ships, the crews on either side would wave at each other and take pictures. Regular ol' people to be friendly no matter their background and are not representative of how their governments operate! Please remember the difference between us Americans and the policy makers who represent us :)
Why exactly do we care about where Snowden is going?
Suddenly the front page is Snowden Snowden Snowden. Hacker News is even worse than Reddit at latching to news-of-the-minute.
I lost the number of the girl I phoned three weeks ago. Can you help me out?
I was never a big Chavez fan, but the truth is that he won all the elections he stood in by a wide margin. Those elections were verified by international observers as fair and lawful.

Yet the western media repeated again and again that he was a dictator.

One of the often most repeated lies about Chavez is that he shut down an opposition TV station. This story was created by the (then) US State Department funded Human Rights Watch.

The reality is that RCTV didn't get their terrestrial broadcast license renewed in 2007, five years after they were heavily involved in organizing the unconstitutional (and US backed) coup attempt of 2002.

It's sickening to see how western media outlets and organizations like HRW routinely lie and distort the truth for the benefit of corporate interests.
Why the US demonises Venezuela's democracy (2012)
Other than someone actually turning the statue, how else could this be happening?
This is how I basically keep notes on assorted topics like bash.txt, vi.txt, postfix.txt, etc :)
There is no unified billing at the moment. Not sure that is desired though. Decoupling payment is part of data ownership.

Remember that we provide storage as well. There is unified billing that way at the cost of data ownership. This coupled with the ability provided to migrate to another storage provider is as good of a solution as possible today.

I hope this gets better in the future as I realize it is not ideal. But it is at least headed in an interesting direction :).
I've been a single founder for over 17 years in numerous successful Startups...anyone who thinks that it's a drawback is a fool who's more interested in the fanboy hype world of Startups than in building real businesses. This phenomenon of "needing" co-founders is really a relatively new thing and is dismaying to watch.

I once co-founded a biotech company in New York with a guy. He was the director of research at a smaller investment bank and had tons of contacts in the biotech industry. Between his contacts and my tech skills it was a slam dunk.

That was one of the few times I ever had a co-founder...It was a strategic reason to have a co-founder that fit a very narrow set of criteria...and really one of the only reasons to ever have a co-founder.

To say, on the other hand, "I need a co-founder" by default is just dumb. To treat it like an item to check off the list for creating a startup is insane. But that seems to be where we are these days in the world of startups...
by default there is nothing, but it helps prevents too bold actions that might impact the diplomat too. There is a system where a diplomat can ask for a special authorization to get someone immunity to go somewhere. It's generally immunity from the embassy to the airport, and that's what Equator is denied for Assange by the UK.
"losing defense information"

Funny how none of the defense contractors that were hacked by the Chinese had to face these charges. Some rules for some, other rules for the rest of us.
No visa necessary if he doesn't leave the airport and gets on another flight within 24 hours.
> Basically they told Snowden they'd stall for him (docs are missing page 4 - please resubmit) but he'd better hit the road fast.

Do you mind citing your source(s)?
Because he has blown the whistle on internet surveillance and the belief in the need for government transparency and individual privacy has deep roots in the hacker world.
Yeah, as seen from far away, Latin America is just CIA's backyard, and as far as I know they have no restrain there.
They use a terrible font in that web, oh.. my eyes!
> I am slowly gathering a pile of evidence of major tax evasion towards her father and his off-shore accounts on Cyprus, and one day revenge will be mine. Justice I have no hope for.

You possibly just blew it.
Explained to a Five Year Old - Espionage Vs Exposure
Pirate Party: Snowden has a stopover at Gardermoen

According to the Russian news agency the possibility exists that Edward Snowden will stay overnight at Venezuela's embassy in Moscow. On Monday a plane will leave for Havana.

This has also been confirmed by Wikileaks on Twitter: "Edward Snowden has just landed in Moscow."

It is currently unknown what happened after Snowden landed around 3 o'clock Norwegian time.

The Russian news agency Interfax reports in the meantime that the former CIA-agent has been met by representatives from Venezuela's embassy after he landed. That way he can avoid setting foot on Russian soil and therefore does not need a visa.

Snowden is a former CIA-employee and stands behind extensive leaks on American surveillance. He had been located in Hong Kong until Sunday.

Unknown destination

There circulate different rumours about where Snowden eventually will travel.

The only thing WikiLeaks will say about Snowden's flight from Hong Kong is that he will go to "a democratic land".

Alternative 1: Norway

One alternative, and maybe the most sensible, is that he will try to get himself to Iceland.

TV2 reports that the Norwegian Private Party will meet in secret with Edward Snowden at Gardermoen on Sunday evening during the stopover on his way to Iceland.

The party reported on Twitter that its leader Østein Jakobsen himself will meet Snowden at Gardermoen.

- We have been informed from our international umbrella party, Pirate Parties International (PPI) that he will have a stopover in Norway. The reason for that is this is probably the fastest and easiest way to get to Iceland, says Tale Østrådal of the Pirate Party Norway to TV2.

The Pirate Party's leader Øystein Jakobsen reinforces that the hints whether Snowden will come to Norway are based on rumours from contacts in the international pirate party network, writes NRK.

Alternative 2: Iceland

Officials in Hong Kong informed the USA on Sunday that Snowden was on his way to Moscow. He left Hong Kong aboard an Aeroflot plane on Sunday morning. According to WikiLeaks, he has diplomats and legal advisors with him on the plane, while they had helped him with travel documents, a safe exit from Hong Kong and political asylum in a democratic land.

[etc. etc. etc., nobody is probably going to read this, but this is a quick and sloppy translation that should not be too far off...]
Java libs hard to live without
No, absolutely the opposite. Only way a classified document becomes unclassified is when they say it's unclassified. In fact, often times they can't even say something that is classified is classified. You're just supposed to report it to your security officer and then they send it up the chain of command. If you have the ability to yank it down, you do.
Surreal? Perhaps.

For me, it reifies all I learned Nth hand about things like The Big Lie. Growing up and studying WWII history I had to accept that it worked, but I never really understood how until ... hmmm, went to college in 1979, read/skimmed the Boston Globe that my student group had a subscription to and e.g. saw how much it lied through omission. The 21st Century has taken this to the Nth degree in the US.

That was when I switched to really detailed study of the Protracted Conflict (the Bolsheviks vs. the world) and it was e.g. easy to understand what the big deal about revolutionary truth vs. bourgeois truth was about.
Sometimes there is no replacement for just a big honking array of ASCII.
How to get a screenshot with Gnome in Debian Wheezy
6 Reasons Why Focus is Job One for Every Startup
"...Mr Li had confiscated a mobile phone from his son and then refused a bribe to return the handset.

Cohen Bros' A Serious Man, deftly sounded this Asian custom as a passing grade bribe into a mixed-metaphor with 'Schrodinger's Cat', all the while quantum engineer uncle Arthur's Mentaculous, returns a fortune.
"ON THE RIGHT >>>>> DRIVERS WITH UNUSUAL BEHAVIOR: THEY ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO MERGE AHEAD OF THEM, AND THEY TEND TO MAINTAIN LARGE SPACES AHEAD, EVEN IF TRAFFIC SLOWS TO A CRAWL. MERGING IS EASY. SEE HOW MUCH FASTER THEY GO?"

This is misleading
1)The actual throughput of cars through the constriction even in the animation is only slightly faster despite 'apparent' better speeds.

2)The animation does not account for drivers re-assuming their previous following distance. Regardless of whether your 'comfort' distance is half car-length or 5 car lengths, you will eventually resume it. Leading to a slowdown. The advice, and animation seems to assume both that we've merged (onto the highway in the first place) at a rate that can absorb those driving distances without additional slow-down and that we won't resume our previous driving distance (after merging past the constriction). In short, its moved the problem and then shown a window into the part that was improved.

*edit: added parenthetics to improve clarity
I wasn't implying they would shot his plane. I could imagine the USAF "asking" the pilot to land on the airbase but I don't think any of these things will happen to him.
> or even worse - torture

All studies that I know of show that solitary confinement is torture after a few weeks.
Am I mistaken, or have these guys actually managed to infringe on the WTFPL?

https://github.com/hiddentao/askthensa
http://www.wtfpl.net/faq/
Relevant scene from animated Russian movie "Adventures of Captain Vrungel " (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Captain_Vrungel ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLA7BBF44483CF238E&v=P0DK1...
Everyone seems to be going very public with his travel information. Either it's a way of making it harder for something "unfortunate" to happen to his (ie, for his safety) or this could be misinformation.

How likely is it that this is misinformation?
Every decision Snowden has made has been very well thought out....

1. He pushed US media (WaPo) to publish by going to UK media (TheGuardian).

2. He released with reservation and regard to security, not all docs were published.

3. He voluntarily disclosed his identity for protection...if the public knows him, it'll be awkward, if he just disappeared.

4. [my opinon] He went to Hong Kong (specifically HK, not China), because it is still somewhat it's own country, yet a formidable adversary to the US through China's protection. Also, it's unbeknownst to us, if he released more information while in HK.

5. Russia recently had captured a CIA agent (although I thought it more comical then serious), and no extradition to the US. Again, another formidable adversary to the US, and it may have been a red flag for an intel agent to go to Russia.

By formidable, I imply that the US will not send a seal team in to these territories that have the military capability to strike back (I won't say the name - but Pakistan is what I'm implying here).
Snowden examined by Ecuadorian embassy doctor at Moscow airport upon arrival
Well I won't edit my parent comment now because it might make your reply here look strange. But whether there was (or even should have been) a recount was hardly my point. It was just to illustrate that Washington has a history of political disagreement with Caracas, it goes both ways, and the recent elections haven't settled things.
NSA PRISM puts "public" cloud in a new light
Could be an interesting poll: Would you secretly house Snowden if he knocked on your door tomorrow?
If you look carefully, this dilemma exists in all forms of creative work.

Say I'm creating a piece of electronic music, do I start working on the bare melody on a piano first or do I start with picking voice textures that blend well together? Both can be exciting to work on and both can lead to great songs. Just two different points of entry. Two different layers of abstraction.

This is extensible to almost any type of creative work that I know of, and I think people who regularly create things have tried at least a few of these points of entry in their creation process.

For me, if I want to narrow down my focus, I go with the piano, the pen, the text editor – black and white, minimum degree of freedom. Otherwise, I start by finding two or more voices/tones/shapes/colors that go/interact well together and focus on the overall experience instead.
Every time I've thought about using ddg instead of google, I last about on day because its not very good :(
I was under the impression that they were flying on a privately owned plane. That does not seem to be the case, but it may be on their next leg of the journey.

I do not have direct knowledge, but I would think that if the plane is of the diplomat, then the whole plane could be considered to be territory of the nation of the diplomat, therefore the diplomat could offer him asylum while on the plane.

If I wasn't clear, I was not speaking about offering him diplomatic immunity, but rather the plane being considered as territory of the nation of the diplomat.