skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I say no to all mass slurping of data, foreign or domestic, but yes to targeted spying with the full weight of government and technology, foreign or domestic.

The problem is not spying, the problem the industrialised mass spying of literally everybody as though we are all the target.

I'm happy for any of us to be targeted as long as there is good reason to do so.

However the problem with public opinion is that a lot of it is either patriotic or of fear, rational or irrational. This is where we get those double standards, which are understandable, but should be resisted, even plain ignored. I say that we are all human beings first and foremost, citizens of arbitrary borders and religions second, right?
I probably need to explain why I think it is important on a hacker forum. First, it shows a cultural phenomenon when technology exposes interesting things to a lot of people, sort of like preview of what Google Glass will bring to life. Second, I wonder if self-driving car technology can be taught to behave in an optimal way in a non-standard situations that happen in may of these video fragments.
> >I don't understand why everyone thinks it's terrible if a government surveils its own citizens but it's totally a-ok if it does foreigners.

> What did you think the CIA and NSA was for?

There is a point when foreign signal intelligence project turns into an act of war.

Large scale hacking of phone companies and stealing SMS data gets pretty fucking close to that line, if not outright crosses it.

Not that you should care about my opinion of course, I'm just one of those silly foreigners whose right to privacy you think it's just fine to violate. You have a gov agency whose self-proclaimed job it is to monitor the world and violate everyone's privacy. Congratulations, it is doing its job very well. So, everything is fine, right?
Stop this nonsense. Don't give voice to those people. Just the 1st paragraph shows he has no clue of what's happening.

Nobody protested because of 20cents. Those were yearly protests by movement free pass (passe livre). Their goal is free public transportation and they do demonstrations for at least 10yrs.

It's just for effect that they time the demonstrations to the fare raises.

And now, the media giving voice to that kind of people is what made the govt get away with 20c less on the fare for this issue. It totally undermined the movement and alienated newcomers.

Those people eager to appear in the media effectively destroyed the leadership and turned the protest into a headless occupy wallstreet kind of thing.

Yesterday there were talks of the military taking opportunity and throwing A COUPE... Highly improbable but since now nobody has any direction, even within the gov, it was a real fear for some in the workers party that heads govmnt currently.
I'm working a little today, finishing some contract work.
Here's the fatal (no pun intended) problem with that theory: the groups capable of carrying that out are also smart enough to not go with such an unreliable plan.

He was a reporter. Reporters are easy to lure to secretive meetings with anonymous strangers. You want to kill one? Shoot him at an anonymous meeting, using a non-traceable gun. Or better, use a gun that has been tied to organized crime. Simple and reliable.
Since you are an employer and interviewer yourself, have you thought about writing a guide to doing technical interviews? Or do you think one of the existing guides, such as SPolsky's Guerrilla Guide, is good enough?
Thanks for the feedback ! When you click HD, I order the player to load all the videos in the best quality available.
If you can't stop China from spying on you, how is "spying back" any more justified than ANY OTHER reaction? After all, it does not change anything.

What could change something, if one were to actually think freely, would be to have no secrets. Then suddenly what was stealing, is now just someone wasting their own time. BOOM. But of course, you can't have slavery and sitting fat on doing nothing without secrets, so that's not within the framework of allowed options.
On the other hand, a taxibot would be working most of the time, while this system would be sitting idle most of the time. Not just sitting sitting idle, it would be weighting on the airplane while flying.

EDIT: And this system, like the other one, would be just an alternative solution to the plane main engines, so if they were not working, not enough at peak hours, or not available at every airport, it wouldn't be such a big problem.
Work visa and moving from the US back to your home country
That would pretty much have to contain every programming tool ever written. On the backend you can do whatever you want as long as it can accept TCP connections.
What type of encryption? What key length?
8 ball is stupid. The goal is to enjoy God's company. If you want to just use Him and not love him won't work.

Imagine a woman you want to have sex with but just get her company. Or, a billionaire who is surrounded by people who want His money.

Entertain God with good conversation and enjoy His conversation as bullshit more or less.

God says...
Seven chambering safety educated showed tamedst served prolonged
transcription plunging status seducing interpose Press
toys seduction Curiosity sacraments metres lures forefathers
Continual armed to-morrow follows haphazard terrestrial
foot contrite dismiss Service fruitfulness lower protect
entitled haply army meat stilled groans prefer mazes they
uninjuriousness persuaded prizes remains class__class__shutup
finish wither sorrows enduring boastfulness mildly attempt
sung

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Apps/HolySpirit/HSNotes.html

Use these programs

http://www.templeos.org/files/TSGodSetUp.zip
if you knew the truth you'd shit yourself...
If it really was, why do you think you need to tell people? Do you think people are a bit stupid know and need telling? Do you need to tell every one for your own sense of well being?

Or are you just a karma whore?
Nixon was also operating at the height of the Cold War, when there may have been a legitimate right to more control over what the press can and can't say or release.

Obama is operating at the height of what? Asymmetric warfare where we're basically beating third world peasants into submission. Or maybe the War on Drugs where we're basically beating first world peasants into submission and slavery, whilst turning a complete blind eye to what's only comparable to genocide in a country we share a boarder with.

What our government is trying to do is on par with returning us to serfdom. I keep hearing that things are supposed to get better, but it's important to remember; freedom comes after the blade of a guillotine. No one in power is going to stop abusing it, we only have to look at the repeated introduction copyright legislation, time after time after time it gets submitted until it gets broken down and submitted piece by piece and slips under the radar. This will stop when its forcibly stopped, and the longer it takes the greater chance it will be done by violence.
Better store it all on site or they'll end up with a feedback loop; if they pump it back down the commoner's pipes. ;)
> Follow the language / platform standards and idioms so your code will instantly be readable by other developers

Yes, yes, and hell yes.
Let's just quote half-reformed Obamacon Peggy Nonan (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732441260457851...):

"What does it mean when half the country—literally half the country—understands that the revenue-gathering arm of its federal government is politically corrupt, sees them as targets, and will shoot at them if they try to raise their heads? That is the kind of thing that can kill a country, letting half its citizens believe that they no longer have full political rights."

Note, it doesn't matter a wit that you don't believe this. Because we do, and it's at least a debatable point, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. A potentially country killing one. I suggest you work to fix it, either by convincing us we're wrong, or by fixing it---at this point, one necessary ingredient is clear, completely revising our tax system to eliminate the IRS's discretion.
Evolution of Language from Descartes to XML
I wonder if he has given various journalists pieces of information to release at set times or in response to particular events. This one could have been triggered by the charges being brought against him.

I seem to remember one of the Guardian journalists mentioning that there was more information to come.
Actually, yes. He doesn't need money for elections any more.
This thread is a great counterexample to the argument that HN always disses Show HNs.

Constructive criticism: Overall, great work! A "new" way to listen to music on Youtube is not nearly descriptive enough. I don't want a new way to listen to music on Youtube, I want a better way. And much more importantly, how is it better? A landing page would do wonders for you. But again, awesome work!
Thanks for sharing, Dmytro.
The wise commenters in this forum have reminded us that "just because it's legal does not mean it's right."

So, by this logic, just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's wrong. So Reagan broke the law. So what? He was just doing the right thing.

Reagan was a hero. All hail the chief.
PHP Design Pattern: Event Dispatcher
Innocent until proven you're against my political beliefs.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't aim for "moral absolutism" however.

As a foreigner I don't really consider USG spying on its citizens any more or less unjustified than spying on us foreigners. Just because you are born somewhere should not dictate how your rights can be violated. People should be treated and considered the same, especially when it comes to stuff happening over the internet. I don't think anyone can honestly argue otherwise on moral grounds, and the moment you throw in "but in real world ..." the argument loses its substance.
How about the less inherently violent Pareto "history is a graveyard of aristocracies". We've got something akin to that in our ruling class, and we need a Pareto style circulation of elites to fix it. That doesn't inherently have to be ultra-violent, then again, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of limits our ruling class has in what they're willing to do to retain power.

As you specifically note, "on par with returning us to serfdom", which does not strike me as hyperbole.
I would say that a technical interview consisting of coding questions that test data structures and algorithms is about as standard as you can get. True that some interviewers will turn this into a hazing ritual, but hopefully there's some feedback mechanism by which that behavior can be discouraged -- a few ideas would be to have shadow interviewers or allowing candidates to submit feedback about the interview content and process etc.

IMHO, the ideal technical interview would be one where the interviewer is able to dig in deep into the candidate's experience and able to ask intelligent questions that reveal the candidate's technical depth. But this requires very strong interviewing skills as well as an appropriate technical background on part of the interviewer -- this will not scale.

The "audition project" is a non-starter for the reasons you mentioned and as you correctly point out, we have no evidence that it works in the large.

So back we are to the flawed coding interview. Like some wag said about democracy: it's a shitty system, but there's nothing better.
So the rest of the world public is rightly pissed off knowing this information, and you still think it's a good idea to argue this would've been better kept under wraps??

There's a lot of US people coming out of the woodworks spewing their ideas that American privacy is somehow more important than everybody else's ...
Accusing China of human rights violations and large scale cyber warfare is going to get more difficult in the future...
Wouldn't there be a physical tether?

Satellite seems like the last thing that would be used on a submarine, but I have almost zero knowledge of the actual tech used.
Yeah, something small is probably okay. I know that I've invested more than that preparing to interview for a new job (brushing up rusty skills, revising algorithms I don't use but interviewers love to ask about). The author talked about hiring people for weeks. I think that is too long.
The willingness for a ordinary Chinese man to see his sons die in car crashes, wars or terraformed planets is exactly the same as it is for any other ordinary father anywhere else and anywhen.

Just because governments may be willing to advance on a wave of bodies, does not make it something the population will tolerate, or for long.
But if you have terrorism in collective consciousness then you can end as savior of your nation? I just hope normal Americans are not so stupid to buy that shit anymore. Anyway, this is final test for You as nation.
Sure it changes something - it levels the playing field.
There's a pretty measurable difference between trying to fix the constitution and "abusing" it, which generally entails flagrantly ignoring it.

Personally, I don't think the death penalty should be used for anything less than willfully causing the death of of an innocent victim.
> However, what our democratically elected government does to us is very much within our own power to change, and we have the ability to hold them to account.

We do not elect the Director of National Intelligence and we did not have a public debate about secret laws. The only reason these things are coming to light is due to the extralegal actions of one brave man, one technologist, one individual. Not due to "our democracy".
>Who knew in 2008 that during the Obama administration it may get to the point of people wishing for the good ol' days of George W. Bush?

I only wish that Snowden would have been in a position to leak this stuff about a week before Obama was reelected. At least then voters would have been able to make an informed decision. Romney may have been equally as evil as Obama in terms of surveillance ambitions and disregard for the constitution, but the difference is that part of Obama's election pitch was that he was going to get rid of these types of programs, while Romney never said anything of the sort. I don't like the fact that a man who clearly lied about his fundamental political views just to get elected is sitting in the Oval Office right now. Bush, and all Presidents before him, may have lied about many things, but at least you knew where most of them stood politically.
This is from the same organization that proclaims your startup dead if it hasn't raised any new venture capital in the last 12 months. Hyperbolic is all they do.
AFAIK, what they're currently doing is

submarine|-------optic fibre------>mothership------satellite-----internet
This Achilles heel of `theft of laptops' minimally should be listed in the `Don't List' of `Whistle Blowing For Dummies' to alternatively rather fatten up a Fry's $70 terra usb drive, cloud store it, etc.

Proving provenance of the data? No. If he can list it, he can edit, `touch' re-timestamp it, etc, ie, falsify it.
Same here.

I've got 'click-to-play' enabled - flash doesn't start running until I click on the flash object - and it looks like you've cleverly hidden it so there's no object for me to click on to enable it.

If I disable that the app loads fine.
> The moment any non-US citizen is using a service provided by an US company, he is giving up any right to due process, privacy and data security (as far as this service is concerned). Which is risky and short-sighted to say the least.

I realize this is a crappy response, but the only solution is to not use the services of countries whose laws do not explicitly protect you. As a US citizen, I refuse to use any services that can avoid that are provided by China for this very reason. (aside from the fact that I can't read Chinese.)

But... it's really, really important you understand something else here... The rights and protections you are correctly suggesting are NOT granted to you because of the limited scope and application of our Constitution, are the exact same rights and protections of mine, as a US citizen, that are currently being violated. Were I a citizen of another country, I would be just as, if not more, incensed about what has been claimed about the privacy rights of my data recently. But imagine what it's like to have grown up in a country where the guarantee of these rights is so ingrained in our minds that they are barely (almost NEVER) questioned, to find out that they are being violated at will and without the legal right to challenge or even the right to know what those violations are.

I can not even begin to articulate to you the degree of uncontainable rage I and many, many people I know have regarding what is going on right now. I can't recall a single time in my entire life, which is not an insignificant number, that I have been more angry or concerned about anything. NOT F!*&%$ ONCE!
The author specifically recommends hiring someone for weeks. Maybe he meant a couple of weekends, but it doesn't read that way. I agree that something small - evenings and weekends - might work. Of course, you and your team need to be prepared to come into work at those times too, in order to make this a bidirectional experience.
we are working on that as we speak. reload, it should work better now. the formats are different, but we try to filter them for ios...
Thanks for the feedback ! Yes, you are right. I build blynde to specifically load track not full album. If I allow load entire albums, "artist panel", "your top" and so on became without interest, no ?
I don't like people that would lie about their fundamental political views just to get elected sitting in he Oval Office.

A more charitable reading is that Obama didn't lie, he was just an idealist and changed position when he was confronted with the realities of being President.

That's not to defend it, but I don't think Obama knowingly and cynically lied his way into office.
I looked into doing a similar project, but just FYI you might want to take a read through youtube's TOS: http://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms

Particularly section 4, General Use of the Service—Permissions and Restrictions.

What you've got is way cool though.
This is from the Guardian Project, and the source code is available here for the curious:

https://github.com/guardianproject/ostel

I'd like to know what differentiates it from RedPhone, Silent Circle and other similar products.
Stop supporting the surveillance machine with: 1: Your money, 2: Your data
It's high time we become honest with ourselves: Real protests do not seem to be going to happen any time soon in our country. So what can we do, when elections are not around the corner?

If we keep giving to those companies who collaborate with the NSA...

a) Our money (by buing their products & services)

b) Our data (so they can make money off of it AND surveil us)

...then we'll literally continue to get what we paid for:

If you keep buying Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, Skype, etc. products/services, then you actively support the mass surveillance apparatus.

And: The only thing that can make companies change their behavior is: Their bottom line.

Every single one of us has a very real responsibility here.

Think about it.
> How long before some unstable government seeking to wreck havoc on its world’s communications infrastructure starts shooting down Loon balloons overhead?

I suspect that the surface-to-air missiles capable of striking targets at that altitude are an order of magnitude more expensive than what it costs Google to replace balloons.

If Iran or North Korea starts shooting down balloons, I bet the US Government will be happy to quietly reimburse the replacement cost simply to deplete the supply of SAMs that could be shot at other things.
So when I invest my money on you, to carry out a specific plan of action, you are free of your obligations by the
time you get my money. Correct?
What are they needed for? Who do they benefit, how, and at what cost? Who/what decides when the cost/benefit is acceptable? Nationalism(our rights are more important than theirs)?
http://www.paulgraham.com/control.html is a good follow up to read on this topic.
One of the screenshots shows ZRTP and AES-256/DH3k
Oh, what is the verdict then? The HackerNews verdict seems to be "innocent on all charges", but that's definitely not what I hear outside my techie echo chambers.
I think the GP's real argument was the "at what scale, for what purpose" bit. I don't think many people want to see intelligence agencies entirely disbanded. But questioning what they do and how much they do it is legitimate.
That's ... just like your opinion man. I am enjoying the mod-bombing though. :D
(June 2012, FWIW.)
A much more charitable reading is that Obama is a patsy and the President isn't really in charge.

Far-fetched? No President could unseat Hoover. Why would any intelligence and surveillance apparatus be any less self-preserving?
If it levels the playing field where the Chinese and US governments are the players, what are their citizens? The pucks?
This is wonderful! One of the best hacks I have seen in a long time. I guess you may want to improve video response time though.
I wish there were English subtitles :( Why does there seem to be black plumes of smoke coming from the rocks/sea floor?
Do we know where approx. that dive location is?
It builds a second tower of poop on it, to reach the first tower of poop. Then the first tower of poop also increases in height, and that cycle never ends. At which point does a "level playing field" come in? Oh, that's right, not ever.
"This leak of information slightly undermines the US bargaining power."

That's hardly treasonous. Inconvenient, as it should be. If it helps, consider what our gov't has been using that bargaining power for lately.
Who said you were a government shill? dun dun dun...
Possibly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent#Black_smokers...
I get that you hate the playing field, and that's fine. I'm not sure your argument really disputes my point though.
The link to their petition is broken. =\
According to google, "ulterior" basically just means "hidden"[0], so I think we can just say "ulterior motives, but in a good way".

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=define+ulterior
It's around Cayman island, Caribbean sea.
Thank you, it certainly seems likely :)
Thanks a lot! These comments make it worth hacking that stuff together! :)
We will continue improving the site, but the actually stream the videos from archive.org, so maybe we have to host them on a faster server.
I have a global team of remote people and we're all paid hourly. So, days of the week and times kind of lose meaning after a while. On the upside, I haven't set an alarm clock in a while.
Why you should learn git, even if you don't program (yet)
I get that you hate the playing field, and that's fine.

That's nonsense.

I'm not sure your argument really disputes my point though.

I am pretty sure you don't understand it, so maybe that can make up for your doubt in this matter.
Yes. The playing field sucks, no doubt.
While that's true, it has also been a very focused problem - e.g. Reading digits + capital letters, with known constraints (in the US the capital letters are pairs from a set of 50 states; in the UK, the form is DLD DLD (D=Digit, L=Letter) and the list of legal combinations is far smaller then all.

General handwriting recognition, especially cursive writing, is still a very hard problem.