skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>However Chile basically continues this liberal economical politics

No they don't. They use the mix of capitalism and socialism that every functioning country on earth uses (though their settings and dials are unique, like everyone else is).

>people's needs are unlimited

And at some point, given enough time, robots will be able to fulfill even unlimited demands. Your world view has no answer to such a situation.

>it is my goddamn business when someone tries to rob me from my money in a name of your weird understanding of "fairnes"

It's not "robbing". Money itself is something the state made, so consider taxes a charge to use it. You're welcome to trade in "widgets" if you can find anyone who will.

> Poor people can do what they want with their lives as long as they stay away from me.

No they can't because you've bought up all the land and allocated all the resources despite using a small fraction of them.
You can also run puppet without a master server.
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He didn't commit treason. He isn't even charged for treason.
I started a really basic project to help raise awareness. It's dead simple, but the idea is to remind people who aren't on HN all day about the core issue of privacy instead of focusing on an individual.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5933612
If I m not mistaken, the PRISM story is directly related to the IT sector. If surveillance is going to be a permanent situation in online media, people will grow reluctant to use them over time.
Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA, but almost no one uses it
I feel that if the problem is political, then the solution is surely political as well. We need to get behind parties that protect our Internet freedom. Voting for your local Pirate Party would go along way to sending a message to legislators, even if your candidate can't get enough votes to win.
> To allege he won't receive a fair trial in the United States is completely ridiculous. What he's really trying to say is he knows he is guilty.

What he is saying is that he knows the government considers him guilty and will make it so. Which doesn't automatically mean that he shares the same opinion.
America's present is stained with human rights violations. USA is perhaps better at compartmentalize, so Internet commentators don't feel the pain of their fellow Americans of the underclass, more so than perhaps China, which as a wider lower class and smaller upperclass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...
Isn't that so that people can talk about a function (for example json_encode) in different places, have it register in search, and have other people be able to find it?

If they have that kind of lookup table implemented for functions, don't you lose the ability to search for just mentions of a certain term? Also I found the dropdown completion list to be pretty fast (once I clicked a link it loaded rather slowly, though)
I'm not telling you it's malpractice to use it that way, but we wouldn't.
It could be that SSH isn't as good as, say, HTTP servers, when it comes to handling a lot of connections.
However I'd also like to see data on this.
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Please dont make this a personal issue about just OP. Hundreds of upvotes on this -- he's clearly not alone.
Note that despite this headline, the article does correctly state that Google now uses Perfect Forward Secrecy.
I'm in the process of putting together a weekend project inspired by this (doubling as teaching me everything about webdev because I'd hadn't grasped it all fully yet).

It's going to be a super simple site, but it will simplify the process of writing to your representative. In my experiences, physical letters have yielded better results than emails. I'm basically making a site that will easily let you select a representative, type out a letter, and it will cheaply print, address, and mail the letter for you with 25% of the proceeds going to the charity of their choice.

Any thoughts on that? It's my first real project building and deploying a website from scratch, so I'm chugging along on it slowly when I get free time and learning a lot along the way. I don't expect this will be a game-changer regarding PRISM, but it will be solving a pain point for me where I want to write my representative but emails seem futile and mailing a letter is inconvenient.
Unstable, underpaid, overworked and extremely competitive market. Also, pinnacle of engineering in both frontend and backend; eats web dev for breakfast.
Authomatic - social authentication client library for Python web applications
Job #1: figure out what to do. What will have the biggest impact for the smallest risk and time investment?

What's the user story?
Salt includes characteristics of C and D that didn't work for me.
I'm sure this has nothing to do with Snowden.
More than just who your parents are... who your role models are. Who are the most successful adults you know when growing up as a child, what are they doing with their lives, and how did they get there?

I grew up in a poor, uneducated family. The only wealthy/successful people I met were people my dad worked for, and he had nothing but contempt for them generally. It wasn't until I went to college that I really started meeting people who made something of themselves. My sense of scope, of what I can do on my own, has grown with the kinds of people I know. I left the limitations of my childhood behind long ago.
> I'm so fucking sick of the blame America first crowd.

Pointing out the true history of the United States is one of the best ways to learn from the mistakes of the past. Don't mad at people for talking about this, get mad that colonialism exists and its affects, past and present, continue to shape US society in the negative.

> 1. every land has been invaded/occupied/taken over at some point in history. it is human nature. deal with it.

This is no way excuses any injustice brought about via military and armed conflict/occupation.

> 1.a. Would india be better or worse off today if it were not for British colonialism?

I hear this sentiment a lot in various forms, that somehow people in the past who were violently and systematically oppressed and violated should be grateful to their oppressor. This is utter nonsense, the effects of colonialism are not over and continue to affect and harm those people you believe only to have been affected in the past.

> 2. the vast majority of native peoples were wiped out by disease, not by warfare.

This fact was exploited in warfare and policy against native peoples in the United States and this is not something that excuses violent invasion and occupation.

> 3. I didn't fucking enslave anyone. nobody alive today in the US killed any native americans or owned any slaves.

The legacy of colonialism and slavery still exist today and some kinds of people still directly benefit from that legacy. To deny that is the wipe the current day experiences and issues that affect native and black folks away so you can feel better about yourself/your country/your society.

> 4. America despite its many faults has been an overwhelming force for freedom and wealth throughout the world. A thorough cataloging of such good deeds could take years to compile.

This is debatable, however even if good deeds have been done, that doesn't change the history of the horrible things done by the United States and we should most certainly not forget that or ever stop talking about that legacy and how it shapes society today.
you care about network security, why are you exposing ssh ports in public anyhow? Put them behind a VPN.

There are ways to configure salt with masterless or behind vpcs or with syndics that are perhaps an enhanced security model. But defaults are for regular use cases, and for most cases the defaults are fine.

I suggest checking it out.
Um yes, that's covered in the "malicious URL removal" part. Hard to do malicious URL removal without, you know, looking at the URLs to see if they need to be removed.
Our own self-interests have pushed the state of science and technology forward quite a bit in the world, I say to you over the internet. He said nothing about motivations, only end result.
Snowden has nothing to worry about. He should come back home. Here:

Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.

Barack H. Obama, The Obama-Biden Plan.

http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/
s/akin to//

It is torture. Human beings are not meant to be deprived of interaction that much, and you can be sure he's not in solitary because he's a danger to other inmates.
We have something like this in the UK, which works very well indeed: http://www.writetothem.com/ . May be worth copying their design as a starting point.
People criticizing this article should note it was written by former US president Jimmy Carter, and not one of those supposed "whacko activist journalists". Consider his perspective, and especially his post-presidential role as an unofficial world ambassador.
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Daala just came out (hopefully DarkShikari will evaluate and speak up on it). What would be even better is to at least take RMS's suggestion regarding how to handle existing software patents while we wait for the legal system to finally get rid of them.
This is a pretty reductionist explanation, and it misses a lot of the benefits of state management. You make it sound like you just write a bunch of lines of shell script and you can sub in some variables, which is not at all their major strength.

The benefit of Salt, which it has over Ansible, is that it doesn't have to use SSH (which, as mentioned in the article, doesn't scale well to large deploys), and it can do a great deal more things than just 'run shell scripts from a file'.

If someone were to read only your comment they wouldn't see the benefit of these systems at all, which is unfortunate.
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Puppet and Chef both support Windows.

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Window...

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Fast+Start+Guide+for+Wi...
This is because the Presidency is a position where it is difficult to good. Now, it is easy for Carter to push for good -- but his pushes carry far less weight.

Unfortunately, a position's power is negatively correlated to the position's support for speaking of humanity's great concerns.
What prosecutors are responsible for the 24/7 news cycle?
DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu
This is becoming something of a tangent, but the U.S. doesn't produce a particularly large amount of oil relative to its population: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_pro_percap-energy-...
You are against all ad revenue?
Guilty on what? He has 3 charges against him. Pretty sure he won't be found guilty of Espionage (at least not at the Supreme Court if he gets there). If it's in a normal Texas Court, then he may be, and his fears might prove real that he won't get a fair trial.

As for being found guilty of "leaking classified documents", I supposed that could happen, but again I'd like to see the issue at the Supreme Court, because there you might see it being discussed if a whistleblower can or can't be charged for "leaking".
The thing that strikes me about this is that it's written by a former president. It's hard for us to compare the present behavior of the US government to past behavior, because we don't know how many bad things the government did secretly in the past. But Carter, as a former president, does know. So if he says we're behaving worse than we used to, we are.
Can somebody point me to similar low cost, low power GSM modules?
So what kind of battery is it? I might want to try this. Do you have any other details? A blog post perhaps :-)
Get started with Sass / Compass
These guys are also on a similar path, and would probably love to collaborate!

http://project-byzantium.org/

Recently, they have been working with Rasp-Pi repeaters, and TCP/IP over amateur radio.

Great stuff, hope to see more soon!
I guess I'm living my life in the government bubble.

If you're censoring your feelings out of concern for the security apparatus, you are really missing the point. This is not Mao's hundred flowers campaign, and it is your job as a citizen to make sure it never gets there.

The only way to stop this leviathan is to change minds. If you thought SOPA was a dark day for the internet, surely this sucking up of network metadata and content data strikes at the heart of end to end communication.

I wonder if we need to start over on the privacy-protected internet, just to make sure this can never happen again.
Tutorial: Build your own cryptographically safe client-server protocol (2006)
> So, as of now, if we decided to create some sort of Open source project, who is willing to devote a few cycles a month to its building?

"You can’t solve social problems using technology".

Sorry to disappoint.
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Lol. And I do consulting. Hire me!!!!

And if you criticize me, I down-vote you. Classy.
As context: a lot of journalists haven't been the biggest fan of Greenwald for quite some time. His blog from '05-'10 (might be getting those dates wrong) covered some stuff such as the Valerie Plame affair, which was often criticized for lack of background research.

As further context: Personally, I think its hard to vilify someone who lives with eleven rescued dogs.
Collecting data is not part of the patented business model. You don't have to show ads to collect and sell user data.
Does that send a physical letter or an email? It looks like I'm going for the same thing, but I'm using an API that will send physical mail for a low price.

I believe that politicians still respond better to letters received through the post than in their inbox (anecdotal evidence from my friends who've volunteered for congressmen).
Homotopy type theory[1] is essentially working to show that math is (or can be viewed as) an interesting application of computer science.

[1] http://homotopytypetheory.org/2013/06/20/the-hott-book/
if

"computer science is a science of abstraction — creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it"

then

language is of no importance
Your link says white people have been less than 90% of the US population since 1700.
ZeroMQ used to be full of assert() calls that would fail on bad data and crash whatever was listening. It was trivially easy to cause problems for someone's ZMQ socket-listening service. It's been fixed, but the perception lingers on.
I'd have to agree. But it's not about everybody converging on one project, as implied in the question; it's everybody doing their part to create a huge decentralized mesh - decentralized and uncontrollable.

Most people live in the here and now; if things don't affect their daily lives, it's not worth attention. But we're all intelligent enough to see where things are heading. We're also all intelligent enough to know that we can at least mitigate the effects of expected developments through coding a few tools.

The more people that think of such tools, the better. But that's not enough. Being a bit blunt, ideas don't count for shit on their own. The more people that sit down to code such tools from those ideas, the better.
Been waiting for it, going to see the Administrations sycophants in the press line up and declare those who don't follow the approved script of somehow being in cahoots with those they report on.

First it was going after the Fox reporter, after all he worked for FOXS NEWS, now we got a few more targets because the government was caught red handed and worse, looks inept in grabbing a single person.

Should be fun to see who sides with who.
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Really? Who said that and what backing do they have for such an sweeping statement?

Looking at the past 75 years, I'd say that technology has solved quite a lot of social problems. The impact of the washing machine alone, let alone the Pill, was absolutely huge.
http://www.amazon.com/Gweilo-Memories-Hong-Kong-Childhood/dp...
> There is no doubt that America's past is stained with human rights violations. However, to hold up America as equivalent to the current regimes in China or Russia (to name just two) is laughable by anyone with an understanding of history.

That other countries exist with their own violations of humans rights doesn't negate any kind of criticism about the United State w.r.t. human rights. You can be critical of more than one thing at a time.

> I'm sick of the moral relativism that you see when people point out American's shortfalls. You see words like "undemocratic", "despot", "dictatorship" thrown around by people who have little understanding what those words mean.

Many people have a good idea of what those words mean and the United State's actions and policies can most certainly be described with those words throughout various times in its history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee ?
I was just comparing the rates for iCracked and Apple. There is a place in harvard square that does it for $50.
Email (or a fax, I believe).

Physical letter - good idea!
Offering Snowden Aid, WikiLeaks Gets Back in the Game
Yeah, and nearly everything on the front page of /r/all comes from those 20 subreddits plus a few NSFW subreddits. The smaller subreddits probably don't even want front page exposure.
A palindromic quine
In my experience: most people that don't know proper DB design and SQL will do two things:

- Over-utilize stored procedures, views, etc.

- Implement many obscure "hacks"

There is nothing wrong with using built-in database functionality, but it can be over done.
Ethics. Plain and simple. Computer scientists are given the ability to destroy people's lives, destroy companies, and destroy themselves. I do not care if they're gathering massive amounts of data. I would prefer there to be a system of checks/balances. There is much worse happening in the world and MUCH better places to put time and effort for changing the world.

I want the general populace to be controlled... maybe I'm a minority. Without religion or government, most of my family would be dead or murderers. Shrug.
Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Wordpress, and over half of the top websites in the world are slimy advertising scum?
How is "everything in the computer" different from "everything in the house?" Or are we now writing search warrants for "everything in the house?"
I got an impression that it is more encyclopedic work, rather than textbook suitable for cover-to-cover reading. For latter case, Skiena or even CLRS would be more appropriate. Well, unless you're interested specifically in representing algorithms in pseudo assembly language.
Murder, rape, theft, and so on are also "human nature." But civilized societies repress them, and mostly succeed.
It's good to have the data backed up. What if your new reader doesn't work out and you want to swap after Google Reader is gone? If your new reader doesn't have similar export functionality you are stuck.
Caffeine: For the More Creative Mind
You are wrong on all counts here. Salt supports Jinja2 template engine, so you can template your states [1]. You define custom states in python [2]. In the root configuration file (top.sls) you target configuration based on host name, grains (machine specific information) [3].

1 - http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/tutorials/states_pt3.html

2 - http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/states/writing.htm

3 - http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/states/top.html
Red Hat recently released Ruby 1.9.3 packages as part of "software collections"; I assume CentOS is rebuilding these and making them available the same as they do for other Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages.

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_D...
You realise that you are replying to JIMMY CARTER??

Are you seriously accusing Jimmy Carter of moral relativism? of not understanding the meaning of words like "undemocratic", "despot", or "dictatorship"? of wanting to see a weaker US??

I suggest you stop throwing around baseless ad hominem attacks, and actually address the points raised.
Ansible with Fireball wouldn't use SSH but rather 0mq.
You are incorrect. Nvidia had 4.3 running on linux the day 4.3 was announced. AMD followed a month or so later after the announcement.
> Tablets, like mobiles generally sufferer from planned obsolescence.

> I want my grandma to not have to relearn to yet another UI every two years.

Those two statements have little to do with each other. The current (and upcoming) version of iOS still works largely the same way as iPhone OS did 6 years a go.

Modern mobile OSes are easier to learn than desktop OSes and are less encumbered by malware. For someone who has never used a desktop computer or the Internet, starting off with a good tablet instead of a personal computer is a better choice.
This is a guy whose Twitter profile photo is of "Don't Tread On Me", background is a photo of the American flag, and first word in his bio is "freedom." Subtlety is not exactly his strong suit.
As of this comment, my parent comment above has 127 points - showing that I'm far from alone in this sentiment. Thanks guys, we're fighting the good fight. Let's win.
>how does one keep that kind of secret while setting it up?

The same as with any controversial program. Claim the program is intended for non-domestic purposes, compartmentalize the development into different complimentary components, perform controlled leaks about the development that allow you to frame the public perception of the program (and makes it "old news"), and discredit any public "conspiracy theorists".

>If the non-elite are all killed off, then most of the remaining people (formerly elite) are non-elite and the cycle repeats.

Enough non-elite should be retained to keep the lights on, provide security, and serve any unforseen purposes in the future.
While this is a noble idea, I don't think it will fly. Learning a large legacy system is a grueling experience. It'll be difficult for your team to adapt. Plus, it'll be difficult to communicate with the users who might not understand just how hard your work is. Finally, most American companies are very possessive about what they've made and won't want to give it up to an out-of-country team, NDA or not.

This may yet be viable. If I were you, my next step would be to read pg's essay on schlep blindness.
The other responses are awesome, but I just want to nitpick one thing (as the creator of Vagrant): Vagrant isn't a configuration management tool, so it can't really be compared with Chef/Puppet.

Vagrant actually works with Chef, Puppet, CFEngine, Ansible, Salt, and more.