skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and now that I have his full name, home address, and personal phone number, it's easy to learn other things about him -- he's a software engineer at Google, etc, etc.

And now that you've exposed his gender, initials, part of his address, and part of his phone number, and his profession and employer, so can anyone else who knows how to locate people through databases (I do, but I didn't). I'm a little mystified about why you only half-redacted his information - did you need to include his apartment #, which in combination with his zipcode allows me to eliminate a large number of addresses from that neighborhood immediately, or the area code on his phone, which tells me where he used to live, or his place of employment? As someone who used to live in the same area, I even have a pretty good idea of where to find him at specific times of the day.

You're right to critique the NSA for its carelessness, but I'm at a loss as to why you would then go ahead to magnify their error by posting some of his PII on the Internet and publicizing it on HN.
First, according to Wikipedia, they can't use the PRISM data against you without a warrant; which means that they are operating all this within the 4th Amendment's restrictions (so why do we need to restore the 4th if it isn't broken...?)[1].

Second, Article IV, Section 4, of the US Constitution states that it is the duty of the Federal Government to protect the states against invasion and domestic violence[2]. Clandestine surveillance programs have long been tools of governments to accomplish such goals; PRISM is just a 21st century version.

Furthermore, the US Government has LOTS of tools at it's disposal that _could_ be used to implement a tyrannical state. But, the beauty of the American system is that we have checks and balances in place to prevent these tools from being abused in a tyrannical manner.

In conclusion, it seems to me that PRISM is a necessary and justified government function. This makes me wonder who exactly is benefiting from the Obama administration receiving so much bad press because it seems that they really are being unjustly crucified (and this is coming from someone who voted against Obama both times).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program), paragraph 4.

[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_St...
Have you ever been to 4chan? Just scroll through: http://boards.4chan.org/b/ ... things like this can be considered the norm depending on what sites you go to.
As the upper-middle-class (for the area I now live in) son of a single mother whose serious health problems prevented her from finishing college, I spent a good chunk of my childhood on food stamps. I was even on medicaid for a while when I turned 18 and child support and my father's insurance stopped.

The only reason I now own my own home, have good insurance, and don't worry about money is because when I was 19, a hiring manager 600 miles away who knew me from web forums took a chance. I had just enough cash for a plane ticket. I walked into an office in Santa Clara one Spring morning and got handed the keys to the kingdom.

Fifteen months later the company imploded and I had two offers from four interviews, all arranged by further connections I'd made on the job.

Logically, that never should have happened. I had no formal qualifications, not even a diploma, and no documented experience. I don't think they even bothered with the standard background check, and I know they never checked my references (which were real but borderline worthless).

I made the right connection at the right time. I got lucky. If I hadn't, I'm not entirely sure I'd actually be alive right now, but I would definitely at least be several years behind where I am now.

Everyone has different experiences. You can't assume yours is ordinary, nor that what worked for you would have worked for anyone else.
But that's exactly the problem -- some fearful little officials saying, "But what if he meant it?"

An intelligent chief of police and prosecutor should have looked at the kid's background, maybe dropped by his house, and said, OK there's no "there" there. Unless there's a history of violence, or record of mental illness, or sociopathic behavior officially noted, etc. Which as far as I know, there isn't in this case. Just pure blind, stupid bureaucratic grinding an individual with their jackboots, simply because they have the power.
I'm at the beginning of a research cycle on graph databases

Pretty much the same here. I am not an expert on any of these projects yet, but I can share some of what I've found and been researching so far.

and am curious to get some suggestions of your favorite open source projects?

Depends on exactly what you are looking for. There are graph "databases" and there are graph "processing engines" and there are subtle differences between them. Some of these things gain massive scalability by running on top of Hadoop, others implement Bulk Synchronous Parallel processing, etc.

A few interesting choices you could look at include:

Apache Giraph - http://giraph.apache.org/

Titan - http://thinkaurelius.github.io/titan/

Faunus - http://thinkaurelius.github.io/faunus/

Apache Hama - http://hama.apache.org/ - not strictly a graph database OR a graph analytics engine, but a generic BSP platform, written in Java, that works with HDFS. Does include some built in support for Graph processing: http://hama.apache.org/hama_graph_tutorial.html

Hypergraphdb - http://www.hypergraphdb.org/index

OrientDB - http://www.orientdb.org/

GoldenORB - http://goldenorbos.org/

You may also be interested in Blueprints, which is more of "just an API" but is supported by several of the various graph database projects out there. https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki

For what it's worth, I'm leaning towards focusing most of my initial energy on Giraph and/or Hama, but I'm also pretty excited about Titan/Faunus and OrientDB as well. I haven't read much about GoldenORB or HypergraphDB yet.

This blog most may also be of interest: http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/40759505554/a-comparison-of-...

as may this one:

http://xinhstechblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/scalable-graph-pro...

The Google Pregel paper is also worth a read: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1807167.1807184
This is a condensed version of a longer article: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/world_of_wonders/2011/02/...
>If you have wealthy/powerful/connected friends and relatives, they can and will shield you from the consequences of your actions.

Like a trillion dollar bailout.
What's especially frustrating is that there really isn't a penalty for violating these rights. The people have to fight tooth and nail to push the gov't back to the point where they respect privacy rights.

At the end of the struggle, if the people win their rights back, we're just back to where we were supposed to be and there's nothing to stop the gov't from trying again.

It's a battle of bulges. They cross the line in one place, we push them back. They cross again in another place, we push them back again. Without penalties, there's no end to this.
If this goes to show anything that it is that the administration is full of incompetent and insecure people who will thrash hardest to someone who cant hit them back.
You're insane. I say that not because you disagree with me, but because you have tried to turn an informal discussion into a math problem, apparently thinking it would be in any way persuasive.

For the record, the final line of my comment was intended to mean, basically, "If you don't think airplanes built my amateurs are dangerous, then we're not going to get anywhere, because I would consider you insane."

Whatever else you got out of it is your own invention.
I'm running cartilage mapping MRI sequences on knees today - and while its hardly scientific, I would have to agree. The big runners I scan have some pretty munted hips and knees. So very messed up that I can't find any decent cartilage to use as baseline normal for the scanner.
30 years ago maybe. These days, America is much more atheist-friendly than religious-friendly.
Well, some became wealthy with more moral means than others.

But everybody that became wealthy took advantage of systematic injustices to do so (and to keep his wealth).

Except if he won the lottery.
The OP made a series of inane statements. I pointed out the absurdity of just one of them. I gave the commentator the benefit of the doubt, which you have failed to do in your reply. If you think someone is trolling, downvote them. If you think their conduct is egregious, flag the post. Please familiarize yourself with the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you would prefer, I can reply at length. I thought doing so was unnecessary.

Matthew R. Davies ran a dispensary out of Stockton, CA. By all appearances his business complied with local and state laws. He relied on a pledges by the President and AG not to prosecute conduct that was in line with local and state laws. He's facing 40 years for cultivation of marijuana.

This is very bad for reasons that should be obvious.
Great documentation of your progress.
there's more to ops than just deploying. it's about running a smooth environment from end to end. automation gets you 90% there and give you the time to focus on that much more involved 10%.
I'm slightly less worried that the NSA wants to optimize their interpretation of the constitution to catch bad guys than I am about how little effort it takes to push that interpretation through.

To turn your comment around a little bit in a way that places responsibility on normal citizens or congresspeople instead of the NSA, it's inconvenient to disagree with authority, or deal with a lie, but once you start conceding rights or letting one branch of government lie to another, where do you stop? What's tolerated is encouraged, as most parents would suggest[0].

When this broke, a lot of people said "we already knew!" We did. But when you're explicitly confronted with something, you get to decide whether you're going to tolerate it or not. In fact, you have to - there's no way to not decide whether to tolerate something or not.

0. Incidentally, I wish we would start seeing ourselves as parents of a gov, if for no other reason than to not see ourselves as children.
> Another thing one could try is to give everyone a guaranteed low wage job. This has fewer perverse incentives.

This sounds like a great way to create and maintain an underclass of laborers who make less than minimum wage.

No person should be forced to work just to eat or have shelter.
I'm willing to overlooked botched spellings of "bureaucracy" because it doesn't take much of a misspelling to get beyond what many spell checkers can handle. More than once, to get the red squiggle to go away I've had to resort to finding an article that used the word and copying from that. (The Wikipedia article on the movie "Brazil" is good for that).
On top of that, I have never heard a convincing argument that some people are poor because other people are rich.
Not just fibre, as I'm sure you're aware. Their stonework is awe inspiring and seemingly quite earthquake resistant too. I spent hours admiring their walls and terraces.
It sounds to me like you're thinking of this in terms of revenue share - a deal where you get 15-18% of revenue (for an agreed period of time) might make sense for something like an iPhone app. That's not the same thing as startup equity though. As others have commented, anything that complicates the cap table like this can make it MUCH harder for companies to raise investment later on.
There's still a way around that. The NSA was able to do what they do by and large with the cooperation of very powerful businesses. Now it may not be as easy to do without some of these as opposed to, say ESPN, but it can be done if people are willing to accept certain sacrifices.

And we know most people won't.
He had a public defender, but recently got Donald Flanary to take the case pro bono. I don't know anything about Flanary, but reports indicate this is a positive development, and it seems he was able to get some traction.

I think fundamentally the woman did nothing wrong, if it was truly a case of an unrelated person showing concern. If it turns out she had some more nefarious reason to throw Justin to the wolves (there's no evidence of this) then have at her.

A more tech literate police force would have pointed and laughed, but that's a pipe dream. Where I feel the system truly failed is in getting past the DA, past the grand jury, and past the judge with the $500,000 bail.
I'm not constitutional scholar but text just says: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated".

In other words, I have right that my things are not subject of unreasonable search (and fishing expedition searching for patterns seems unreasonable - why do they think I might be a terrorist or connected with terrorists?). I don't care whether it will used against me or not but my right is that gov does not do that without warrant.
>Ev Bogue is a mentally unstable guy who comes out of the woodwork every so often to say crazy 'edgy' things. He generally builds little cults and then destroys them in fits of mania. His last title for himself was "Cybernetic Yogi."
After he destroyed his minimalist and post-human blogs and communities he's recently got into coding Node. Presumably because he lost all credibility in the other fields. His thing is to "quit" services. He quit Twitter, quit writing, quit Facebook, rejoined Twitter, deleted his blog, undeleted his blog, quit his identity, created a new one, and so on.

All of which sound like very normal things for a non-conformist with lots of interests. Perhaps they exhibit a small attention span, but that's about it.

>He is at best, very mentally ill.

I presume that you are a medical professional, and you have, in fact, examined him. Else, you are, at best, rude.
Hanging out with Jimmy Hoffa.
> The best among French Daily newspapers

Seeing how crappy the french daily newspapers are, that's a pretty meaningless claim. Over the past few years most of the "quotidiens" have been doing nothing more than rewriting the AFP reports. They don't do investigative journalism anymore, and even the published articles are full of spelling mistakes, something you didn't see 20-30 years ago.

The level has dropped significantly for the press in France, and that's also why no one buys them anymore. All these french newspapers are heavily State-subsidized for survival. Let's not wonder a second about their independence.
I don't know if you remember high school, or more specifically other peoples' parents, but it doesn't ring true to me to blame the bureaucracy with their "jackboots."

Parents are fucking nuts, suburban parents doubly so. This is some town outside of San Antonio--you think these police officials are acting out of step with what most of the local parents want?
If we use our energy and break down our muscles during the day, our body will want to sleep and recover... this is GENIUS. Im starting a startup.
This is a tautology. Of course visionaries are the ones who were vindicated.

That doesn't mean that being perceived as a crackpot is a reliable indicator of being a visionary. It's similar to the argument that opposition equals confirmation -- some religious groups and conspiracy theorists argue that the fact that people oppose them means they are right.
Well, if you're not a programmer, it makes sense.
Yes, but I wouldn't do that. Every time you pull an item out of the channel, you actually submit a task to execute in a separate thread pool (to produce the next number), block your own thread, and wait for the task to complete on its thread and then wake your thread up. That's a lot of task-switching going on just to generate the next consecutive number :)

OTOH, you could use async's coroutine code (used to implement go blocks) to create generators, but because you have lazy sequences, that's not necessary either.
If you scroll further down the page of the link that I had posted with it [0], you would see that multiple were being conducted.

And to suggest that just because it only happened once, to mean that it can't happen again is naive (but I guess that is in the nature for apologists of the state).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5992013
People say that like it's a kind of medal of honour.

No, if your self is impolite, jerk, greedy, racist, etc, and a thousand other things, it's not OK to "be yourself".

That's what societal standards of conduct were for, back in the day.
I am not impressed. Your new boss is God.

http://www.templeos.org/files/TSGodSetUp.zip

Why don't you do your psy-ops shit on God.

God says...
ghetto I'm_not_sure hobnob glorious Jesus phasors_on_stun
vengeance what_a_mess act wanna_bet programming piety
joke bizarre news_to_me repeat_after_me employer I'll_ask_nicely
study you_hoser ipod frown I_didn't_see_that It's_nice_being_God
Japan don't_you_love_me go_ahead_make_my_day that's_your_opinion
what_a_mess angel piety I'll_get_right_on_it insane spending
duck_the_shoe where's_the_love vengeance love one_small_step
Paul, so happy to see you make a supportive comment on this. I agree with what you've said completely. With all of the awareness and momentum building in the privacy sphere I hope there's room opening up for startups that are explicitly anti-data. I say that with a lot of irony considering I worked as a data scientist at a startup for the past several years.
Happy 2013th Birthday America (by Carl Lerche - tilde.io)
'French PRISM' revealed: All communications tracked, metadata collected
If you want to help people organize and get together without being underhanded, you're more than welcome to set up your own organization.
You mistake my meaning. I don't consider the leftist fringe particularly peaceful. There are militant ideologues at both ends of the political spectrum, and I despise them all.
That's just the thing though. Context matters a lot. Are you so excited to have something to be outraged about that you don't think about this? I mean, if I yell "I'm going to rape you" in a video game that's the equivalent of "Good game buddy", and quite innocent. I wouldn't however yell that in a public arcade at a 12 year old.

The inability to discern the difference hints at mental issues that need to be discussed with someone, even a parent would do.
I think the primary effective target for these ads is Apple employees. The message is Apple's self-identify, what they perceive as their purpose of existence, how they approach developing stuff, why they don't try to be everything to everybody.

Customers getting the message is "just" collateral damage.
My point was that my writing style was not out of line. Being snarky and critical is perfectly okay. You are free to disagree and reminisce about the old days though.
What a bizarre misinterpretation of statistics.
I'm going to be downvoted into oblivion for this comment, then my account will be hellbanned by the mods, but whatever: this guy's posting was jarringly violent and disturbing.

I believe most people would never fathom ideas so evil, and yet this guy broadcasted it in the most public space in the known universe - FACEBOOK.

The guy needs correction, badly.
It depends on your business model, e.g. Wizards of the Coast did it this way: They payed in stocks. One share equaled $0.50. e.g. a "drafting table" was valued 200 shares, or about $100 of fictive money. This later became $280,000 when WotC was sold to Hasbro.

Normal investors, especially the YC group who exploits kids fresh from school, think this is insane. Workers should not be payed in equity. Only rich people should become richer.

But for WotC it worked out well. I would prefer the WotC model, over accepting peanut money from YC.

See http://www.peteradkison.com/blog-entry-2-wizards-of-the-coas... for further reference.
Résumé Shows Snowden Honed Hacking Skills
Image of fake bug:

http://cryptome.org/2013/07/ec-bug-decoy.htm
I 2nd this. Wouldn't it be great if nonviolent strategies for change were required learning in secondary schools? Not just history lesson facts like Ghandi did X and Martin Luther King did Y, but a real education about power in society and methods for change.
No, we need to push hard on both fronts. A government which does not respect the rule of law is a threat even if our communications are secure in transit.
Using 521 bits with ECC is comparable to 15000+ bits with RSA.
European firms 'could quit US Internet providers over NSA scandal'
Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl [video]
It's not really a 500-year-old bridge if they install a new one every year...
This is precisely why I'm a cyclist and not a runner. I like to think that I gave running a sincere effort, but the little aches and pains just bothered me constantly. Maybe I had poor form, or maybe my body just isn't built for it, I don't know. By contrast, after tens of thousands of kms on the bike, all I ever get are sore muscles after a hard effort.
I would expect that a "breed" should also be stable. That is, pairings between male and female members of the same breed should produce offspring of that same breed nearly every time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breed
Totally. It was a small crowd but very positive, focused, and on message. I'd go again. The saddest thing was how many people we passed at Grand Park that had no fucking clue about the surveillance scandal. At all. The media is the problem.

Edit: And the county sheriffs officers out in full combat gear, with M-4s and body armor, were alarming. But not surprising.
Great info, thanks! Are you a lawyer?
...and furthermore, a passport is not required for travel: this is merely an international convention and can be waived and changed at any time.
Well, I wish that meme would stop too. It makes macros sound all freakazoid, when really they're just another technique.
The obvious and natural and historically standard guidance is "Don't write a macro when a function will do."
Seven minutes of effective exercise, done regularly, is miles better than being sedentary 100% of the time.

I've visited rehab centres before, and have seen elderly stroke victims doing little more than lifting their arms for exercise. When you've been bedridden for months, this sort of thing is real progress. So it is for the sedentary, when they start to get active in even "minor" ways, I'd say.
But everybody that became wealthy took advantage of systematic injustices to do so (and to keep his wealth).

That seems a bit of an overstatement, unless you're going to argue from extremes, eg 'X chose to work at building a business rather than establishing a level economic playing field for everyone before starting that business.' I've met lots of privileged people, but I've also met a lot of people that succeeded through a mixture of luck, talent and diligence and I don't consider them to be taking advantage of systematic injustice.

Can you explain what you mean?
StartPage.com may have better search results because it's based on Google's search data, but it suffers from the same core issue as DDG. Instead of being based off of [Yahoo!'s Search Data][1], it's based off of Google's search data. Effort would be better spent working on a true alternative, rather than just a wrapper.

[1]: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/