skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like this charge can carry the death penalty because it involves "communications intelligence". From
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/794:

"(a) Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to communicate, deliver, or transmit, to any foreign government, or to any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, or to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance, or information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life, except that the sentence of death shall not be imposed unless the jury or, if there is no jury, the court, further finds that the offense resulted in the identification by a foreign power (as defined in section 101(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) of an individual acting as an agent of the United States and consequently in the death of that individual, or directly concerned nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, early warning systems, or other means of defense or retaliation against large-scale attack; war plans; communications intelligence or cryptographic information; or any other major weapons system or major element of defense strategy."
I think we have to march on this one and be loud.

For San Francisco, we should show up in force somewhere - is Tuesday too soon to plan something - say show up in force at Union Square at 8pm?
Yes, though it is important to keep in mind that 40% of all sickdays are taken on Mondays or Fridays.
Thanks, that cleared it up for me at least.
Prison Sentence of Ex-Enron C.E.O. Skilling Cut by 10 Years
Espionage is punishable by death. I sincerely hope Snowden finds asylum somewhere safe --Iceland perhaps-- as the Department of Justice has made it perfectly clear that this patriot is no longer welcome here.
https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web/blob/master/files...

https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web/blob/master/files...
Then you are talking to someone too low down the tree.

The person who signs the cheques as big as you want them to be will be the person with P&L for employees and contractors
Possibly across IT and marketing or accounts or ...
The people using the term "treason" are either using it ridiculously or only to characterize their opinions of his actions.

From the Constitution:

> Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
The solution is easy: if you fork a project and it becomes incompatible with the upstream, rename it. How is anyone supposed to discriminate between the two versions if they have the same name?

Also, I'd say, if your software needs lots of modified dependencies, you're not communicating with those projects properly.

If every single project were to fork every one of their dependencies, the result would be maintenance nightmare.
Right, I think it would have been supremely hard to get him for treason.
Treason doesn't exist in Hong Kong's basic law.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/06... around 2:20 he talkes about this

taken from a reply by daywalker
Nice straw-man, since I never claimed to be a victim (I was merely making an observation). Also citing your wife's individual experience is a red herring since she alone does not represent a large sample size.
Can you imagine a jury of 12 all believing that what he did was not in the interests of his country?
That's actually really sad that they will blatantly not comment on a high profile petition.
The concept of consent does not vanish when you're in a relationship, and if you need a guide – especially one that advocates being dominant – then heaven help you.
I don't have any personal knowledge of this but if I were to recklessly speculate, I would wager "deleting stuff is hard". The typical concern is data loss, so to delete something completely you need to unwind your entire data loss prevention stack. Delete a file, delete a row from a database, wipe a cache from another server, scrub any ZFS-style filesystem versioning of data, mirror the changes to any off-site on-line backups and scrub everything there, retrieve any off-site off-line backups and wipe those...

It's a non-trivial engineering task. If you want an email service which can readily delete your email, you need to find one with non-redundant, completely un-mirrored databases, fragile filesystems, and no backups. But that is not what most people are clamoring for in a service provider.
On the contrary: you have confused 'denomination' and 'denominated': http://www.thefreedictionary.com/denominated
Tesla answers questions about battery swap announcement
It makes it more expensive to run this Stasi-like surveillance program.

You can use your argument to anything. E.g. what is your previous comment accomplishing?
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15351198

I don't think this citation supports your point of view.
I honestly don't know why this blog post is so highly rated on HN. He is just recapping what other people have been saying in news articles and blog posts.
First ransomware app targeting Android devices spotted in the wild
What is the Best Predictor of Unhappiness?
Don't worry, the NSA will take care of everything! They wouldn't remove signatures from a petition they disagree with just because they can.
Me too, the other CP/M programs I ran a lot on my (knockoff) Z80 card were TurboPascal and f80, the Microsoft Fortan compiler. It always felt like a tiny betrayal running Z80 code, though, I was a 6502 man through and through.
This question is asked every time Soylent comes up, and the response is always the same: no one is suggesting that you never eat regular food again. Just that with Soylent (or other food replacements) you have a healthy and cheap option for those times when you eat fast food because you don't have the time or energy to cook something healthy.
The packagers actually do know what’s best. What they do makes patches flow faster not only downstream but also upstream. Improvements and fixes get to more people and get to them faster.

Unbundling upstream libraries from downstream projects flattens the change-flow network, reducing the time it takes for things to get fixed and for the fixes to propagate. For example, say that project P uses library L and bundles a slightly modified L in its release. Whenever L’s developers fix or improve or security-patch L, P’s users don’t get the new code. They have to wait for P’s developers to get around to pulling the new code from L, applying their own modifications, and re-releasing P.

Packagers say that’s crazy. They ask: Why does P need a modified L? Is it to add fixes or new features? If so, let’s get them into L proper so that L proper will not only meet P’s needs but also provide those fixes and new features to everyone else. Is it because P’s version of L is no longer L but in name? Then let’s stop calling it L and confusing everybody. Fold the no-longer-L into P or release it as a fork of L called M that can have a life of its own.

The point is that keeping L out of P makes two things to happen: (1) It ensures that when L’s developers improve L, all users, including P’s downstream users, get those improvements right away. (2) It ensures that when P’s developers improve L, those improvements flow upstream to L quickly and reach all of L’s users, too.

More improvements, to more people, faster. That's the idea.
Am I understanding correctly that if you authorize and then don't charge for 7 days, the auth expires? So that would eliminate a kick starter, 30 day model?
Yes, but almost every provider is going to tell you up front that they will comply with requests from the government. If they then do that, there's no violation of trust.
i'm down. i work close to union square. should we create a meetup? let me know. i'm down.

fadysfca@gmail.com
Isn't Monday and Friday 40% of the work week?
The problem with marching in SF is nobody takes marches on SF seriously -- something is being protested daily.
> I answered your question of why the status quo cannot be enforced by contract instead of by industry-specific law; the status quo only exists because of those laws.

That wasn't my question. My question was why contracts cannot enforce this kind of behavior instead of heavy handed law, not if the parties would agree to those contracts. The fact that you think the parties would not willingly enter into this kind of contract makes it obvious to me that it is heavy-handed.

> If you prefer a country where everyone operates like Tesla -- your nearest service center is a state and a half away

That's a much more cynically view of dealerships than even i portrayed. Are you suggesting dealerships offer absolutely no value to customers and wouldn't have a sustainable business without the gov't protecting them? It almost sounds like you've come across a business idea in the event of a post-dealership-apocalypse world.
Former PR firm employee facilitating celebrity AMAs now working for reddit
Yeah, but if you read the linked paper, there are things Google could do to protect its users' privacy. That paper is about privacy-preserving targeted advertising, which would not give Google anything for the government to subpoena or search while still allowing them to conduct their business. There is no reason Google has to make itself an easy target.
The difference is editorial independence. You know this.

The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Christian Science Monitor, a few others, are in no way comparable to properties owned by media conglomerates. You know this.

If not "corporate", how would you refer to likes of News Corp, Clear Channel, Time Warner, Disney, etc? "Purveyors of propaganda for the power elite?" "Anti-democratic radical right wing noise echo chambers?"

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

"Corporate media" is a term which refers to a system of mass media production, distribution, ownership, and funding which is dominated by corporations and their CEOs. It is sometimes used as a term of derision to indicate a media system which does not serve the public interest in place of the mainstream media or "MSM," which tends to be used by both the political left and the right as a derisive term.
UK taps global fibre-optic communication cables
No matter. It's a gesture. A hundred thousand people giving them the bird.
I don't expect much of a response either, but I still think it sends an important message, if this gets over the threshold (and it looks like it will).
Maybe there is no need for the Fourth Amendment to apply - these rights are human rights and can be found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) [1]. As far as I know the UDHR is not legally binding but there are other international laws covering the same topics as the UDHR, for example the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) [2]. Maybe a bit naive, but at least in theory I - living in Europe - should be able to sue the United States for human rights violation if the NSA read my emails without justified suspicion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Civil...
I have a feeling we're never going to see the rest of the data Greenwald supposedly has.
I actually don't think charging him is inherently bad. If he in fact took 4 government property laptops with him, that's a crime, at the very least.

Ideally, pre-trial investigation and a trial would be fair way to find facts. It's entirely possible minor crimes (violating classified NDA, taking laptops, etc.) would be non-conviction based on other information, but on its face, I don't really have a problem with initial steps to investigate.

Congress would probably be a better venue for this than the courts, though.

Being charged is also pretty much necessary for asylum somewhere, too. (not essential, but it strongly helps)
I don't think it would take very much "involvement" at all.

Let's say you sent such an e-mail. It was noticed by the NSA and triggered... whatever and now they've decided that they want to monitor you. How much difficulty is involved?

From what I've read recently, it seems that it's fairly trivial to start monitoring an individual and continue to do so for a period of time. I would imagine that the easier it is, the higher the chances are of it happening.

If it's a matter of hitting a few keystrokes to begin the monitoring, there's little cost involved so why not? They could monitor you for a while, analyze the data, and then decide if they need to keep monitoring you.

If it's extremely difficult, costly, or time-consuming to begin the process, well, I'd imagine they would be less likely to do so (by how much I won't begin to guess).

Basically, if they can start monitoring you and gathering data on you with little effort or cost required, it's probably a given that they would keep an eye on you. If there's a bunch of paperwork, warrants, etc., involved, the chances would be lower, I think.
there was a reason i wrote off-topic. i did not want to comment on the article itself. more so, how the OP was displaying it. geez..
7k more signatures needed on the Snowden pardon petition
I think you misunderstand; If friend A had information about you in their address book (stuff you didn't have on Facebook) and uploaded their contacts to Facebook, and friends B and C downloaded their Facebook data, it would contain the fields gathered from friend A's address book.
There seem to be 2 confused issues in this (sub)thread.

Firstly, the Therapeutic Index argument (ratio of effective dose to dangerous/fatal dose), for which the 2 drugs are (very) roughly equivalent, based on some back-of-envelope estimates (~10:1 for EtOH, 14:1 - 3:1 for GHB).

The second is the 'commonly encountered form' argument, which I think was your main point, and appears to be misunderstood. Alcohol, with the benefits of being legal and easily available, is available in known purity solutions anywhere from 1~90%.

The biggest problem (AFAIK) with things like GHB in a bar/club environment is the fact it must be concentrated enough to be small enough to easily smuggle in/out. It has specific other unfortunate properties as well, like being very destructive to many types of plastic. Dosing with an eye-dropper into an existing drink is apparently quite common, and I can easily imagine this leading to accidental overdosing in a crowded/loud/intoxicated environment. You must also account for the fact that there's not nearly the same quality control in terms of purity from batch to batch, which combines badly with the low Therapeutic/Effective Index.

The other difference is, even if your bartender is serving you 180 proof rum, he's probably not going to let you chug the whole bottle of it, regardless of demand.
Riak could be contained in one OS X application bundle. All its dependencies in one directory. To uninstall, just trash it. It's up to the distributor.
I should have also added that you keep software up to date. Any previously exploited vulnerabilities (ideally) get patched over time. Of course, if you've been pwned at ring 0 by a persistent and active attacker, you've got more problems to worry about than automated exploitation of out-of-date software.
dnscentral.com

simple and reliable, they host the name and let me set the pointers to the nameservers I use.
Oh, yeah, I misunderstood. I thought he was taking a course on how to build web apps in Rails so he could create his own product, not work for other people.

Pre-selling a contract software development service when you haven't yet learned how to do it is going to be a lot more of a challenge.

Much easier (and much more lucrative) to pre-sell a product and then pay someone else to build it.
That may or may not be doable depending on your company however.

If you are a software shop, you are likely going to want to recruit locally. Outsourcing is has its own drawbacks.

It is simply asking yourself, as a business, will my business get more value for 1 120k developer in my local office or 2-3 remote developers. Depending on your business it may work out better with the remote devs, but outsourcing has disadvantages. Especially when considering time zone, cultural differences and such.

Now, if you are already located in say Poland, random example, then that is another story. But then you may also get a lower valuation to begin with. USA is a huge market and has a very large chunk of the venture capital. I believe Germany is in top for Europe but I don't recall, I tried looking for a list I've seen before about but I could not find it right now.
you made a good point, but you never know unless you try. i'm happy to take an hour out of my time for this man.
Yeah, these Ruby guys releasing incompatible versions every other weekend and expecting to be allowed to blurt their stuff all over the system was rather strange. Good thing Debian provided decent packages.
Yes, I am surprised at how quiet they've been this week. Must've grown tired of having every new denial answered with a new document showing them to be lying again.
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petitions Looks like they're running mongodb. Maybe they just forgot to set the write concern.
Slander is spoken falsehood, I think you meant libel. Also something is only a falsehood if it is false, and much of the writings here are quite characteristic of misogyny, rape culture (esp. apologetics), and male privilege as commonly used in SWE.
Sadly that's not how your legal system works any more. I don't have the link handy but it came up here recently with that environmental activist who just got out of jail for breaking up an illegal auction of land.
He thought he'd be fine but when the prosecution found that many of the jurors had received a juror's rights pamphlet out lining the basic foundations of your country like that jurys are supposed to be a social check on the laws and the social conscience they threw a fit and they with the judge 1 by 1 interviewed potential jury members and sent home anyone who wouldn't agree to follow the judges orders and interpretations of the law and just vote to convict on weather or not he broke the law, not weather the law was just or what he did was for a greater good.

And so with a jury stacked against him (some may say against the original spirit of your legal system) he ended up with years in jail. Mean while in the course of trying to redo the auction they of course found that it was illegal and didn't do it.

So he felt he'd saved the land and it was worth a few years of his life.

Snowden faces worse and again probably a fairly stacked jury if it were to ever come to that. Tho they could also just indefinitely detain him nakedly in a micro cell in solitary etc etc etc.
> It's easy to sit around and complain about what the government is doing, but this man has actually gone out and done something - setting up infrastructure to make it easier for the average person to submit these requests

His infrastructure does not make it easier to submit these requests. It is harder to submit them with his stuff than to use the NSA's own form:

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/foia/submit_foia_request/foia...
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-04-17/ ;)
You would know about it, but the warrant can still be sealed if it "is necessitated by a compelling government interest", so you can no idea why it was being done.

In theory you can get this reversed, but it is common for courts to uphold the government's interest in keeping investigations secret well beyond normal disclosure dates, in a few cases even up to and during the trial against the person who was served the warrant.
My use of the term "free" was not intended to imply that "non-free" web services were any better.

I used the term to highlight that what most people consider "free" web services actually have a price.

That price is usually your privacy.
I keep seeing Soylent pop up on blogs and stuff and I don't know what the big deal is. He made some shady claims before about things like "suffering from a severe iron deficiency" in just a few days, which was magically fixed when he remixed the formula. I'm also shocked that he's marketing it to this extent and still doesn't say anything about the ingredients. People have allergies, people have dietary restrictions. How is this at all different from a protein shake at the Health Food store?
What?! This is total nonsense.

Application uninstalls are as trivial as dragging the application to the trash bin. No, this will not eliminate the application's data from ~/Library, etc, but 98% of the time you don't want that anyway. If you know what you're doing, it's usually a quick `rm -rf ~/Library/...` and you're done. Some poorly behaved apps stick stuff in other places or otherwise muck with your system, but now with the app store, that's no longer an issue.

And, if you're absolutely anal about deleting every single trace of an app, there are tools that automate the process. For example: http://www.appzapper.com/ -- But really, it's probably a waste of your time unless you had a badly behaved app go rouge. In my many years of Mac ownership, I've installed and uninstalled hundreds of apps and the only time I ever had to bang my head against the wall was when I used to use MacPorts and a Postgres install went haywire because of the same sort of packaging nonsense that the article is talking about.
Wow. Our younger is only slightly autistic, and the elder has already grown up. Two simultaneously would be challenging indeed!
I don't think putting pressure on the government to fire the prosecutor who filed the petition is likely to work. A poll earlier this week found that the majority of Americans want Snowden charged and disapprove of what he has done. You need to start with petitioning your fellow Americans.
And yet someone had to answer it.
Why? I doubt Snowden expected anything different.
Huh? Why would the prosecutor be fired?

And a Congressional pardon? Are you sure about that?
US charges Snowden with espionage, asks Hong Kong to detain him
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The pardon petition also only needs more 7k signatures: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snow...

Remember that the goal is to get the government address the issue, and show that the people are not fine with the NSA's actions. It would be nice to get them to actually pardon him, but that is a much harder goal.
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