skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fairness requires impartiality, and they're being discriminated against.

> The relatively small city of Zhongxiang in Hubei province has always performed suspiciously well in China's tough ''gaokao'' exams, winning a disproportionate number of places at the country's elite universities. Last year, the city was cautioned by the province's education department after it discovered 99 identical papers in one subject.
Former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer was arrested in Japan's Narita International Airport attempting to travel using a revoked US passport. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Detention_in_Japa...

Though he wasn't deported to the US, but was held there for a few months, perhaps a year, before being allowed to fly to Iceland and claim asylum. That was arranged by chess friends of Fischer in Iceland, not Fischer himself.
Haha, just like the Innocent Foreigner syndrome. Most people on this world have to live by the rules of others unfortunately.
SoftLayer has their Catalyst Startup Program, which provides $1,000/mo of free hosting for 1 year.

http://www.softlayer.com/partners/catalyst
Take Hetzner (large German provider) as an example - while they do offer managed servers and root servers, those are much more expensive. I'm not advocating the use of such products, but merely pointing out that they're still around a lot.
Heck, if the dude's money really was on Cyprus, revenge may already be his.
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Crowdfunders Push SEC for Investor OK
I have zero interest in assisting the government spy on people. Some spying, e.g. during wartime such as the work done at Bletchley Park, may be legitimate, but given our current ongoing state of emergency and war against a non-state enemy, it is far more prone to abuse—as we've been seeing lately.
The US is not going to go to war with Venezuela. Obama is having enough problems getting a war with Syria going for that to happen.
I'm planning on writing about this in more depth later, but this is essentially the route every cloud hosting company is taking right now and I think it's a bad to only allow that kind of deployment.

Don't get me wrong, I love Capistrano, git deploy hooks, ruby gems that do deploys (heroku), but most cloud hosts are only offering this mechanism to deploy apps. FTP became popular because of the ease of use for designers and webmasters. You don't always need to deploy your entire application for simple changes. Another big one is the ajax file editor in the browser.

For trivial changes a simple file change would suffice. When you do an entire deploy for app like this, depending on your dependencies and payload, it could take a long time. What if you had the wrong price and need to make a change immediately? Of course maybe now there are multiple environments which play a factor too.

I do realize that was before we had multiple web servers running the app and that is part of the reason, but there are still ways to make it work (file mounts).

I'm hoping more deployment options in the future and that cloud hosts realize the need is still there from traditional hosting.
It has already been made (Under Siege) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133952/.

It is one of the most chilling movies I have ever seen, they were going to make a followup, about an attack on the World Trade Centers, but then reality court up with them.
As much as I'm for what he did and revealing the Prism program, he stopped being a whistleblower when he released top secret, classified documents.

There's a ton of different ways to prove what the NSA was doing without leaking a mountain of classified documents.
Yes, exactly. I was wondering if somehow it's possible for a US/EU company to establish jurisdiction against a New Zealand company (in some patent-enforcing jurisdiction) to still sue them. Anyhow, I am consulting attorneys. Cheers.
I wrote:

"Of course I expect the same from every other government with similar behavior."
You don't know what you are talking about. Peace Corps volunteers do not have access to classified documents to begin with. They are required not to have ties to intelligence gathering activity, even a relative in the intelligence industry will get you thrown out of the application process.

This issue threatens the lives of Peace Corps volunteers and I find it disgusting that you are willing to endanger them on the basis of conjecture and hearsay.
So you mean the flow through a straw is better than through a funnel?
And his library card too!
Yet the Bitcoin foundation is neither a operator of a virtual currency service or an exchanger according to FinCEN rules.

Tradehill and Coinbase are based out of California and are following all federal and state rules.
Edward Snowden is Jason Bourne.
The evidence is that the DNP has media operations research down cold. They are the RAND Corporation of public dialog manipulation.

The evidence is that the DNP was caught actually doing things with the IRS that are 1000% worse than what the NSA is hypothesized to maybe have done. That they desperately need a way to cover it up, something spectacular and engaging to run in the press.

The evidence is that everybody knew the NSA has been doing this since the OSS days. The liberal kiddies voting up this Snowden crap weren't even alive for the running gag of Echelon surveillance in the 1990s, where everybody assumed the NSA was intercepting everything and that you might as well put in suspicious keywords to screw with them.

The evidence is that the NSA intercept rooms at telecom interchanges were well known for decades. Again, it is a running joke that the NSA controls entire rooms and even floors of majors interchanges.

So given the half-century long intel program, why is there now media saturation and 48 point headlines? The answer must be that somebody needs there to be a media circus, that somebody keeps feeding leaks and quid-pro-quos into the media machine. There are many organizations who have the capability to do it, like Johnson and Johnson, but most of them can be ruled out as getting no benefit. The one remaining org that needs a distraction is the DNP, to let the Benghazi, IRS, Syria, and other fiascos blow over.
"being escorted by diplomats and legal advisors from WikiLeaks."

Since when did WikiLEaks have diplomats on its payroll??
I personally prefer git-ftp. It is common that ssh is still only luxury.
> But when sleuthing through the metadata, I noticed other names thrown in incongruously: Joe Ricketts, Helen Lee Schifter, Irena Briganti, Antonio Weiss, and Luke Weil. I also noticed the same Wikipedia editor, Belkin555, had tidied the entries of several of them.
Tectia SSH Server Remote Authentication Bypass Exploit Published
What are the legal specifics of a case like this? Does this mean his US citizenship has been revoked, ergo he is a stateless person? Would love to know.
Are circumstances like these considered by the government appropriate for extraordinary rendition?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
Peace Corps is not working in any countries which are targets of US military attacks. They do work in some countries where local politicians scapegoat the US.

It works out OK, because volunteers are not conducting espionage inside government ministries, they are doing things like teaching classes on how to dig better toilets. It seems to take an American or a European to be so paranoid that even this can be cast as a sinister activity.
I doubt the US government would punish him at the cost of mass protesting.
Very good question. The uncomfortable thing for me to admit is that there is no plan yet (otherwise I'd have done it as a for-profit company). I have several ideas about how it might happen.

It could start off as a veterinary drug.
Clinical trials might happen in a country where it's less expensive.
A brave generics company could stump for it anyway.

There is no ROI guaranteed with ANY compound (100 different ways it could fail), and not being IP'd doesn't mean you 'don't get a ROI', it means you have to work harder, be more patient, and be more of a manufacturing badass to get that ROI.

I'm trying to stack the deck here - the compound is natural product-inspired (which empirically means the likelihood of working is higher), and it should be relatively easy to manufacture.
Do you mean, working for the NSA with the intention of getting access to secrets and then leaking them?
If I understand correctly, he's still a US citizen. He is now like any other American who doesn't have a passport, except that he finds himself outside of the country.
They are keeping their heads down and waiting for the next election. Fox News style reporting has become the norm. Why get your hands dirty when you can use YouTube, Facebook and network news? Fear enables an abandonement of logic and they pumping the country full of fear through very specific channels. This propoganda campaign is truly a work of art that has fooled the masses. The same people behind the industrial military complex are behind this onslaught of blurry information.
This thought crossed my mind as well after I spent some time thinking how a president could still get things done with how little power they actually have vs. entrenched entities.

I still think it is extraordinarily unlikely though.
Not sure why I'm getting downvoted here. I'm a cable cutter, DVRs hold no meaning to me.
I don't think Cuba or Venezuela would care if he has a valid passport. He seems to have already got diplomatic treatment from the two countries. The US' mistake was waiting until the 21st to revoke his passport.
Seconding git-ftp. I use it almost daily and find it excellent for deploying on shared hosting where ssh either isn't provided or is a hassle to set up. git-ftp is an awesome, awesome tool.

https://github.com/resmo/git-ftp
I always assumed that there was an international database, e.g. interpol, at least between the EU and US. But maybe not between Cuba and the US.
There are lots of US citizens who don't have passports. Most, even.
The audit was a public act where participated all the parties, with the curious exception of the one who solicited it. It was open to the public, and filmed. People around the world was invited and witnessed it.

The electoral notebooks were audited twice. The first time before the October 2012 elections and the second one before the 2013 elections. In both case, the opposition parties approved the process. Now they are asking for a new audit of the used notebooks, one not supported by the law. They only asked for a new audit to try to keep alive their "protest".

Those 3,200 "irregularities" are anonymous, unsubstantiated, and in many cases patently false reports made in an opposition website. Some examples included "Ms. Mary, a witness from the government party didn't assisted to the process the day of the election", "An electronic machine didn't work". And you have the "grave" accusation like opposition witness expelled of the voting centers at gun point. The only problem is that there's no support for those accusation. No police report, no video, no witness willing to swear before a court of law. Or you have an accusation, like the one made by Capriles in public tv that a voting center had more votes that voters... if you count all the votes in the building but only the voters of one station poll in the building.

These kind of irresponsible denounces will be laughable and those who spread them condemn to the public ridicule if the media would do its job. Instead, they have been keeping repeating the number of (alleged) denounces without spending one second in their substance. For god's sake! The denounces officially presented to the electoral council were a printing of a powerpoint presentation devoid of any actionable piece of information that could be used to investigate them.
Agreed. Ever since this thing broke, I've been pretty skeptical about how this is unfolding.

One thing about spy movies and the CIA, they're truly masters of misdirection. While you're watching the world fawn over Snowden and what he's done and the fallout, you can bet these people are still 4 steps ahead, planning and plotting their next move.
Snopes agrees with you, the 34 people listed by them on the following page who were associated with either Bill or Hilary Clinton all died of explainable natural causes, suicides or natural deaths during the 90s, mostly 1992 to 1994:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp
How are you proposing that tens of thousands of people around the globe working together on multi-billion-dollar projects perform their jobs effectively if all the information is stored on isolated machines?
This is the equivalent of suing the American Bankers Association for a lack of a banking license.
next they are going to revoke his driver's license so that he can't drive anymore...
This is a pretty neat hack, but not really good for a true production deployment system. Rsync is a far superior alternative. That being said, git should definitely be incorporated into the workflow such that, for example, you have a "live" branch which always reflects what is to be on production frontend nodes. From there you do 1) git pull origin live 2) rsync to live servers 3) build/configure/restart/etc. Set -e on that script obviously...

Edit: I should also mention, if you are stuck on something like restricted hosting with CPanel which severely limits your deployment options (some of my clients are in this boat), then http://ftploy.com/ is a really cool solution. But you should really get your ass off cpanel asap.

Double edit: Some of the replies below have made some good points that I had not considered which weaken my argument. So while I'm now more ambivalent than dismissive towards the idea of using git to deploy, there are several modifications that should be made to this particular system to make it production-ready. See avar's and mark_l_watson's comments below and mikegirouard's comment elsewhere for some ideas.
Snowden can not afford to do such a superficial ananlysis.
US politicians issue warning to Russia as Edward Snowden arrives in Moscow
Aaargh !

Build on a build server

Scp to live server along with generated config

Install with native package tool and hook into native service manager

Use salt / puppet / chef to do everything after initial build on your target servers.

Be nice.
They don't have to be on the pay roll to still believe that Wikileaks is providing a greater resource to the world...
That data certainly can (and likely is) turned over by Apple in just the same way that the data Google stockpiles can be.

This doesn't affect the conclusion - Apple can make services that don't compromise user privacy because they aren't driven by their business model to collect personal data for behavioral profiling. Google has a vested interest in collecting this data, and persuading us to accept this as normal, that Apple just doesn't have.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/twa-flight-800-crash-inv...
This is the only thing that has been shocking to me - that so many people are suprised.
Sometimes a country requires a medical exam before granting asylum as part of the process to make sure the asylee isn't bringing in some nasty disease, like TB. I don't know whether this is true for Ecuador, or wherever his destination is.
Of course I do :) I've been living in the US for 4 years now. Some of my best friends are American. Regular people are just regular people, just like me and you and most [1] people reading this.

[1] Thanks to Snowden, I can confidently write most and not maybe
No, passport revocation can happen to stop someone travelling without suggesting their citizenship is in doubt. See, e.g., the section on abduction of minors in http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/family/family_864.html
The bit on the last page

"I imagined a future in which rich people create dozens of scapegoats for themselves, like [...] body doubles, and wondered how some data-mining bot might tell the difference."

reminds me of the "Friends of Privacy" in Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge[1]:

"[T]he web browser was much like the ones he remembered, even though many sites couldn't be displayed properly. Google still worked. He searched for Lena Llewelyn Gu. Of course, there was plenty of information about her. Lena had been a medical doctor and rather well known in a limited, humdrum way. And yes, she had died a couple of years ago. The details were a cloud of contradiction, some agreeing with what Bob told him, some not. It was this damn Friends of Privacy. It was hard to imagine such villains, doing their best to undermine what you could find on the net. A "vandal charity" was what they called themselves."

[1] Incidentally, a must-read for anyone wondering about possible implications of Google-Glass-like VR/AR technology.
> Just to knit pick

Not sure if intentionally or accidentally ironic..
Excellent, a few months ago clicking on a quickmeme (by accident normally when not logged in) link on android resulted in multiple redirects and an attempt to download an apk which was lovely.

After that I used RES to filter quickmeme on all my desktops.
I just landed in Madrid, coming from Vienna. It was an international flight, but since it was within the EU, I didn't have to show my ID once. I bought my ticket online, I checked in online. At the security checkpoint, I showed my boarding pass on the phone. When boarding the plane, they scanned the boarding pass on my phone.

I could have just given my phone to someone else to travel.

There's a lot less surveillance of travellers in the EU compared to the US.
Both reasons.

Mostly it's because it seems people are using Git to deploy without a good reason. At least I haven't heard of an advantage enjoyed by those using Git for deployment.

There are some obvious disadvantages, so what is the compensation? It seems the only reason is that it's easy to type "git push". But of course any deployment method can be wrapped in an equally easy script command.

Okay, I have to admit to knowing of one advantage, and that is that only the delta of your changes will be transmitted over the wire, rather than a complete checkout. It's just that in practice the savings aren't usually enough to warrant the potential downsides. For my money i'd prefer rsync or any number of other solutions.
It's ironic that Snowden's destination, Venezuela, is fairly authoritarian itself: the 2008 Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index rated Venezuela as a "Hybrid Regime", and as the least democratic state in South America. His countries of aid so far (China, Russia, possibly Cuba) have a similarly poor record. I guess Snowden doesn't have a problem getting help from, or possibly living under, an authoritarian régime, if it suits his interests. Not a terribly principled man. Indeed, it would be better for the cause of domestic surveillance were he to subject himself to the mega-press event that would be a criminal trial in the U.S. Obviously the outcome would be much worse for him in that case.
Google Handed Over Emails of Wikileaks Volunteers to U.S. Government
I once committed my DB settings (Mercurial) and noticed my mistake only later. It's very hard to get it out of the history. Ofcourse it could be fixed but this is one example.

Imho version control could be used for deployment but only when you use the release-branch of your project.

And ofcourse NEVER put your config in version-control ;)
There's really no better. They're all worse than each other.
For pretty much any non-American, the open primary system is a major WTF.. It's extremely rare outsie the US.
> For trivial changes a simple file change would suffice.

Doesn't scale past one developer or one box.
You have missed it, but private industry was already required to participate in governmental security policies long ago, when we began to privatize intelligence work to companies like Booz Allen. It shouldn't be surprising that the government will make compliance to its security policies a condition of this kind of contracting.

I don't see any reason to think that random maids at La Quinta in Little Rock, AR are going to need security clearances.
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If they refuse to confirm the leaked info, it leaves a shadow of doubt. There is plenty of bogus leaks out there, and plenty of real leaks. Official sanctioning would be a way to distinguish them.
Since a few days, I'm using this: http://hnapp.com/filter/bb4abe7a00d09a35b95c6763f09c0cfb (founded in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846416 ).

It's a filter for stories that are not about PRISM, to be useful now, you should add "Snowden" to the list of filtered words. Also, the 50 points threshold is too high, I prefer 5 points.
Edward Snowden arrives in Moscow
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You've read the linked article, wherein readers are informed that more than two thousand people (not a tiny number given that only 800 students were sitting for the exam at the school in question -- so think parents and family members) rioted outside an examinations hall demanding that children be allowed to cheat on a test and the local government's response was to agree that enforcement of anti-cheating measures had been too strict.

Are you going to ask me to Google up images of thousands of dead pigs clogging a major river after being dumped there by farmers? Photos of walls of buildings damaged during the 2013 Sichuan earthquake showing that they contain quite a lot of styrofoam beneath a thin layer of cement? Reports of intentional (rather than accidental) food contamination and tampering? The gutter oil rackets -- one of which was busted operating in HK late in 2012? You can find all of that information for yourself.

As for HK, off the top of my head, besides the gutter oil operation there (similar to some of those in the PRC proper) ... Both CE candidates had illegal structures in/on their homes but one managed to squeak through the Beijing-run coronation process before his was discovered, the development secretary resigned last year as a result of a corruption investigation, the head of the city's urban renewal authority resigned recently after being targeted for investigation, the head of security at the airport (a former high-ranking police officer) is being investigated for corruption, etc.

How could you really have lived in Guangzhou for any significant length of time and be so in the dark?
This can only be seen as a good thing as Quickmeme tends to be an extremely heavy site with stuff that could be easily handled by simple image linking or, at worst, imgur.
Documentation for your product
"SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations"

Your news is about 30 years out of date. Since the late 80s, there has been a massive increase in the use of paramilitary police teams to serve basic search-and-arrest warrants. SWAT was used against hackers in the 90s, it is routinely used to prosecute drug cases (perhaps most famously), and of course against protesters. What has changed in the last decade is that paramilitary teams can be seen simply standing by in public places; whenever I visit my family in NYC, I see paramilitary teams. Once I even saw a heavily armed SWAT team in Greenwich Village, apparently guarding a bank (or maybe the newspaper stand near it).

You are right that it is disturbing, but this has been happening for a long time. The past decade's increase is part of a trend that has been occurring since I was in diapers. Sadly, most people believe that we need SWAT and that it is entirely acceptable to use paramilitary teams in this manner. There is also a shocking lack of transparency in many places, where the police need not disclose how often paramilitary teams are deployed nor why they choose to use such teams.
Just discovered that this post is linked by the CNet article ( http://www.zdnet.com/anger-mounts-after-facebooks-shadow-pro... ). Thought maybe nebula would be interested to know :)
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Relevant:

http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/overkill-rise-p...