skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also note that that quote from user madduck appears to be from a user of Salt in the issue tracker, not one of the project maintainers. It seems like they added a comment below and an edit to the first comment to clarify that.
US bases outside of America are vital to the US if it wants to operate on other continents[1]. The bases in Germany for instance were used for medical care of casualties from Iraq and Afganistan. It's fair to say that without such bases, the US probably could not operate in the way it does.

The US has aquirred it's bases for different historic reasons. Some, in the pacific, were leased off the UK for money. Others, like the bases in Japan and Germany, were forced on countries that lost a war with the US, and as few who fought in or supported that war are still alive, you can see why those countries might consider whether they benefit from them.

It is hard to separate beneficial activities that the US does, like the protection of shipping as it travels past East Africa, from it's pursuit of strategic objectives, such as rivalry for dominance in Africa with the Chinese, and middle eastern power blocks. And in addition, there is a legitimate counter terrorism aspect, which probably benefits the US more than other countries.

The thing is that the US had a great deal of control over Western Europe, imposed by force in the 1940s, and declining since then, and this was achieved as part of a struggle between the US and USSR, where European countries were really pawns. As the power declines (in part due to increasing strength and unity between EU countries), it's hard to imagine that the US will be able to maintain it's bases.

I think you should try to see it more dispassionately. There is a strategic game, where people lose and win, often in different ways at the same time. As American power declines from it's peak this century, it may be more comfortable to view it as a neccesary horror, rather than America's god appointed role, as a lot of Europeans view their own countries real politique.

[1] http://blog.heritage.org/2013/04/26/u-s-military-bases-in-eu...
It's very impressive that this works at all, although it's extremely inaccurate for me.
It's hard to fully trust anyone's impressions of anyone, particularly if they're confident about it. (I don't particularly trust even my own. :)

Perhaps he sat down with you and said, "I have no interest in talking about anything. I have many opportunities to build products, start companies, get research funding, etc; but I simply choose not to, because... it bores me and that's how I roll now." Ok, then your reasoning is impeccable. (Or maybe you offered him carte blanche and he turned you down?) But from this one post, it's unclear you got into his head, or that he felt comfortable engaging with you.
As a newb on this, can I use this on Arch Linux for example to give people a sort-of chrooted SSH environment with their own Nginx instance?

In this way I could still let people SSH into my box and put up their website with 0 risk of them every seeing the things I have on my SMB share? (yes this can be achieved with groups but this seems better.)
Oh, man, that course contained so much of "Do you see any problems with this construction? No? It can't possibly be vulnerable to anything, you say? Boom, here's how to break it completely".

My mind was blown on every course video.
When to use i.e. in a sentence - The Oatmeal
The tool has that built-in. As soon as significance is achieved, we show a "winner", so to answer your question, instead talking about statistical significance we focus on the more positive aspect of an A/B test.

Those not initiated in Statistics find this a little difficult to understand. I personally go about it like this:

Me: "If you flip a coin 10 times and it shows heads 7 times, can you say with certainty that the coin is loaded?"
Them: "Umm, no not really"

Me: "Ok, what if I flip it 100 times and it shows head 70 times?"
Them: "Yeah maybe"

Me : "What if 7000 out of 10,000?"
Them: "Of course it's loaded"

And that's how I explain the basic concept of statistical significance, but without the math. More data means it becomes more 'obvious'.

To take it a notch further, I ask "If your life depended on it, would you still bet that the coin is loaded?"
People usually become unsure after this and I joke that their previous decision was based on 95% significance, but if they really want to be sure, they should wait for 99% significance.
"you can defend your own shipping routes"

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

Presumably the US is there because US ships have been attacked as well?

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk_Alabama_hijacking
Hyperinflation will it effect your future investments
>Spending the rest of your life in solidarity with terrible food and no entertainment

That sounds like torture to me.
You can calm down, there's a cure:

http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/
Plus, they're owned by the UK group, so...
In response to kba:

deadchat implements the latter option. The secret room key is shared using the RSA key exchange protocol but you're right, there's currently no way to guarantee that you're talking to who you think you are. User authentication is on the todo list.

I think there's still value in hiding the conversation from the server even if you must still trust the server to not behave maliciously. If some three-letter agency contacts the server operator asking for a back channel to listen in, he or she could respond that it's not possible without malicious intent towards a user:

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apples-imessage-encry...
Jerry Seinfeld in an interview a week or two ago described the process of finding an adult life as a process of finding a torture that you're comfortable with. You find a level of health that keeps the pains down to a tolerable level, and you suffer through the amount of exercise and refuse to eat things that you want to eat enough times that you need to keep you at that level of chronic pain. You make these calculations with all opposing tortures in your life.

Eventually you're living in a finely tuned pain minimizing environment, and if you have any energy left, you can get things done.
Taxes would be paying for it, so it wouldn't increase demand at all.
And it use apidoc for backend documentation ;-)
Bits are "papers" - then the only mechanism for storing information.
Yes, that is what SILC is for. It has been around for really long.
The article goes on to mention pocketbooks and stitching.
He is not a traitor. He is wanted for espionage. Those are not the same thing.
Why menus suck - food tech revolution
NSA data volumes in terms of STASI filing cabinets
Funny, I though the private key had p and q, but then I reread the algo description

The 1 mod (p-1)(q-1) comes from Euler's theorem and (p-1)(q-1) is how you calculate the totient for numbers that are the product of 2 primes p and q
Definition of "statelessness" cc: Snowden
That would be a great thing, actually. The US would save a ton of money that can really be better used internally.

Also, reducing military spending and enacting a saner foreign policy would have the nice side effect the US would stop making new enemies. The world would be a much safer place.

No. It won't happen.
All I hear is, "well, I don't care if the silly spooks see my boring facebook, email, shopping data. Ha, ha to them if they are that interested.".

The problem with a lot of civil liberties situations is that while the consequences of being the victim of a deliberate abuse or simply a mistake can be severe for the individual, the probability of being such a victim remains low, particularly if you're a good little citizen and keep your head down. This allows the kind of "it would never happen to me" mentality that Pastor Niemoeller tried to warn us about.

Realistically, the expected damage to an individual citizen from (for example) a busted economy or poor healthcare or low quality education really is much higher than the expected damage from a government failing to respect the civil liberties of its citizens, so the "meh, got bigger things to worry about" crowd do have a point here. It's just unfortunate that there is a lot of danger in the world and most people don't have the time to expend on every possible danger to them or their loved ones, so they naturally favour concentrating on the dangers they perceive to be the biggest threats.

We're supposed to have representative governments as a way to balance this problem, so that the people who are there as professional public servants have more time to consider the issues that aren't numbers 1-N on the list. Alas, numbers 1-N on the list then become the deciding factors in the elections that determine those representatives instead, and anything from N+1 on down can be handled or mishandled as the representatives and whatever special interest groups have their ear see fit.

I'd like to say I have a solution to this, but it seems to be an inherent problem built into typical modern political systems. However, it's deeply ironic that many governments' own actions in these cases seem to be doing exactly the opposite, letting the fear of a high-impact, low-probability event like a major terrorist attack dominate their agenda rather than dealing with vastly more important issues like the ones I mentioned before. I still don't quite understand what's really in it for them to constantly perpetuate the fear of crime and terrorism, nor for the media to collaborate in doing so. Surely spending all that time and money and public attention on high-profile, high-value projects that would actually make a difference to a lot of people's lives would give them more political capital come election time, but at the moment it seems as if the political classes have lost all perspective.
So the key is getting transferred in plaintext, if their implementation is what I think it is.
Love the children and shiny object metaphor.
What's more striking is that the first person that comes all "you're an idiot and I'm a crypto expert" gives a wrong suggestion

Item 4 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)#Key_generation
Professional audit results: "Umm, you're sending your key in plaintext".
Pilot SSH: connect to and manage remote servers from iOS/Android
"Where's Waldo" is a simple concept that most people can understand and have an opinion about. A country spying on its own citizens is an important thing to deal with, but sufficiently complex that most people would rather just ignore it.

I would imagine that if even a tiny fraction of the people hearing about Snowden then go in to investigate the spying, then that's more attention than the spying would get by itself.
> In the western world, however, parents will very quickly make their newly reclusive child's life miserable (taking away TV, games, computers, etc.), and even kick adult children to the curb if they refuse to support themselves. And because this is done almost from the start, most kids aren't yet so far gone that they can still reintegrate into society themselves, if given enough incentive.

You kick someone out of the house it's entirely possible that they'll behave in an analogous manner on the street or in a council flat. Do you have any data?
NEET (ニート) appears to me that it has a much wider, common and regular use in Japan, in particular it's entirely appropriated by the population and media. And there, in their terminology it is distinct from Hikkikomori, which was the point I was making
Hmm no. Although Linux was built as a multi-user operating system, it is not a secure one. Privilege escalation exploits are routinely found and fixed, and there are likely a lot more out there.

So if your stated aim is to use the LXC as a speed-break on hackers, don't rely on it.
Why a more transparent NSA would be good for Barack Obama
Sadly, Crypto 2 seems to be delayed to Oct 15 now.
Faqs - Glass Press
Any penal system should focus more on rehabilitation/reintegration than pure punishment. The idea is to make society safer.
Paris Seduction Is Out.
You can vet who joins the channel by denying unauthorized users the room key. Users who don't have the key cannot post messages to the room.

User authentication, so someone is not able to impersonate you, is on the todo list but it is assumed that the server is trusted and won't go swapping public keys on you. A chat system that doesn't trust the server would need an entirely different design. You need to trust the server to perform basic actions like broadcast your message to the other users in the room.
Also mandatory link to 'So you need a typeface' flowchart: http://julianhansen.com/
The ones I saw, mostly in and around Washington, DC, usually seemed to be doing a good business.
Is Cryptography Engineering or Science?
Hetzner is good, the hardware is (mostly) good, the provisioning is fast, the support responses are fast but they follow scripts very closely. The biggest problem is that their network is terrible. We typically lose contact (50% packet loss, 100ms latency) with a machine for 5-10 minutes every day. Different (groups of) machines, different times of the day and night. Every time, Hetzner claim it was an "attack".

I haven't measured it, but they're probably within the 99% availability (allows for 1.68 hours/week downtime) they advertise for any one machine.

Maybe my expectations are too high. :)
Excellent addition!
Couldn't get funding for what? I didn't see any mention of what he was trying to fund.
Let's talk about public outrage. In the last decade the US has officially invaded countries, tortured prisoner (and still continue), lied and spied its citizen, blatantly ignored the responsible for the biggest crisis in a century.

All of that happened, and well, there is still no real public and media outrage.
This reminds me Minority Report interface scene.
Virtualization With VirtualBox 4.2/phpvirtualbox On An Ubuntu 12.04 Server
Fascinating from a scientific perspective, but this line piqued my interest the most:

The detection system used can process 20 Gigabytes of data per second.

Now I know that's not unheard of, but it certainly would be interesting from a technical perspective to know how it processes such volumes of data. (And also makes me think about a certain other party in current events that is processing vast volumes of data every second as well.)
I'd say "conceived of" would be better. "invented" should be saved for the people who figure out how to actually do it.
Awww, dammit. I was looking forward to that. I only checked a couple of weeks ago.
Regardless of whether one thinks it is (in some cases) justified or not, the risk of killing innocents is simply too high. It is certain that more than one innocent has been killed this way, which is entirely unacceptable.
This usually means, the pricing won't last very long.
See: Woz and Jobs.
Doesn't that mean all wars are immoral (irrespective of the justifications like defense)? Would you say that the military too should not be allowed to ever kill anyone? If no, I see an inconsistency that needs to be explained.
"If humans were angels there would be no need for government to begin with, and if elected leaders were angels there would be less need for protection of our privacy -- but humans are not angels and we have experience with elected leaders that are partisan, opportunist, short-sighted and, sometimes, even corrupt. Government's natural inclination is to abuse its power, one critical reason why our Founders limited it. "

Sounds like direct plagarism of this:

"Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."

-Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address
I truly hope the EU decides to get rid of US bases as it will make it harder for the US to get into these ridiculous wars. As for American power, the problem is not that it is declining, the problem is that it is so far ahead that it is a joke. There is no balancing power. Yes China is growing but it is hardly a peer. The EU should really be the balancing force but it sure doesn't look likely.
The Data is King (Because the Client is Data)
What about treating everyone, even convincted criminals, with a degree of respect, decency and compassion?
-deleted google account.
-abandoned gmail,started using riseup.
-trying out duckduckgo.

+already switched to Linux and started encrypting my hard drives long ago.

The only problem I still have is Facebook.I can't leave because of the groups.
As soon as significance is achieved, we show a "winner"

If you've described that accurately, you're hurting some of your customers. It's not well-known (though it should be obvious, in retrospect), but a test can produce a false positive when, in fact, it's a negative.

The problem is that there is always noise in customer data and sometimes you'll randomly have enough conversions such that one of your tests will show a winner when it's not.

Matts Einersen has some simulation code to show this: http://www.einarsen.no/is-your-ab-testing-effort-just-chasin...

Evan Miller has a more in-depth (but harder to follow) discussion here: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html

If, in fact, you show the winner as soon as significance is achieved, it's then trivial to demonstrate that some of your customers will lose money as a result. However, if you take this knowledge and then find a good way to incorporate this into your tool, you may have another great selling point that competitors do not (that being said, the idea is complicated enough that some customers won't understand it).
Indian Direct Benefit Transfer-UPDATE
Just downvote and move along, why the hostility.
US sends pre-emptive warrant to Ireland to stop Snowden flight refuelling there
(I'm very much not any kind of expert on Crypto but...)

Probably when you understand "Applied Cryptography", front to back, maths included, then you can think about writing cryptographic software.

Or win a fist fight with Schneier.
More direct link:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...
Nope, title is misleading.

Using "Iceland" implies a majority consensus among some part of the Icelandic population, whether it be a public poll or a group of politicians.

In this case, the title should be more like "Icelandic Politician wants to give Snowden citizenship".
Heroku uses LXC for privilege separation between customers.
Come on Amazon, give ELB some love
Lessons in Sales for Startups
38.1% isn't really half, but considered the small amount it feels closer. Still 38.1% voting yes to something probably not in their interests, because they're nice guys, is still a pretty good result. At least it is when you the world we live in.
Hacker news just disappeared from Google
More major breakthroughs in analytic and combinatorial Number Theory
Success, it was nice seeing all the folks who turned out. We apparently had as many people as NYC and we're a far smaller locale.
I buy most of my books on Kobo and O'Reilly. Kobo is usually quite a bit cheaper than Amazon. I am in Canada, so they have a great selection here, but I am not sure what another country's store would look like. Further, they use ePub, which I prefer as almost every device supports it, with the notable exception of Kindle. They also use adept for DRM, which I really like ;) Their store also contains over a million public domain books available without drm, but the quality varies dramatically (OCR without editing is typical)
Falcon Pro nNow Supports A Way To Blatantly Skirt Twitter's Token Limit
I used to work for a business ISP (PSINet) who had a DC near the foot of Mt Geneva in Switzerland - not sure what happened to it after things wound down?
Good point, but why did you proposed speed limits or illegal downloading instead of insider trading or other financial crimes? Why not proposing some special eavesdropping on wall street operators?
> Not everyone lives in the USA.

And?

The same ideals and rights embodied within our constitution can be found as similarly protected rights well outside of the USA. Even ignoring that, the point would still stand: The blanket statement that "you" (generalizing to all those harshly critiquing the continued development of Cryptocat) "don't have the right" is incorrect.

If you suppose that freedom of speech isn't a universal human right, you could argue that not everybody has the right. But I would disagree with that assertion, as would the signatories of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

> Your amendments are utterly irrelevant to Europeans, for example.

They are utterly relevant not only in history, and how they affect those you may interact with, but also -- as is occurring here -- in the discussion of what rights one should (or shouldn't) have, by pointing out what rights were deemed worthy of enshrining in the highest laws of one of the largest countries of this world.

They may not be law in Europe, but that's a far cry from being irrelevant.
It seems strange that there is no mention of inflation in the article given that they are comparing prices from up to four years ago to today's prices.

> When Mr. Striphas’s book, “The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control,” first appeared in paperback in 2011, Amazon sold it for $17.50, the author said. Now it is $19.

Well, given that the 2011 $17.50 price would be ~$18.12 today (due strictly to inflation) then it is not as big an increase as suggested.

> When the University of Nebraska Press brought out a bibliography of the novelist Jim Harrison four years ago, Amazon charged $43.87. The price this week: $59.87.

2009: $43.87
Today: $59.87
Correcting only for inflation the price would be: $47.63

Inflation doesn't even account for the majority of the price increase in this case but still this article appears to draw rather strong conclusions from rather flimsy analysis.
Of course. I believe in that too. But I'm talking about the criminals that are beyond help (massacring etc)
Vatican OKs Sainthood for Pope John Paul II
My thoughts exactly. Not very usable, but I'm still impressed.
It's odd that I have yet to see a single website that handles oauth failures gracefully. (e.g. hitting the cancel button).
Ultrafast Internet service launched by Vancouver start-up
Talk about wanting to make headlines.
This is correct. You'll also notice the word 'peoples' used when referring to multiple groups of people.
The only upside is a great title:

"Against the NSA, the Stasi data is a flying shit"
The Fortress of Solitude just got less solitude-y
Trying to do exactly that at http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ab-split-test-duration/ and http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ab-split-significance-calc... but yeah, we need a better way to present this.
RFC #1
A back/forward button would be enough for me. The scrollimations always work confusingly on platforms with smooth, momentum based scrolling (like OSX).
Reddit, HN, and Online Tech Communities are Boring Because they lack Women
Someone should man up at the next press opportunity to ask President Obama a leading question. Namely "Do you expect people to point the finger at the US Govt should something terrible happen to Mr Snowden"
Xbox 360 2013 Dashboard Beta Signup is Live
Too bad they used the reported 5 zettabytes number which is probably the amount of data processed, not stored.
Datacenter in Switzerland:

- http://www.dfi.ch/en/about-dfi/swiss-data-center-switzerland...

- https://www.switzerland.net/ (datacenter info: http://www.greendatacenter.ch/deCH.aspx)

- http://www.binarics.ch/die_technik.php

- https://www.greenserver.ch/index_en.html?gclid=COTU9NOwmLgCF...

listed by how quickly I found them on google :)
EDIT: formatting
The mass media putting 'Snowden' in everything, to try to grab some of the traffic, is noise - and that is true it's a problem for the mass consumer. However, the important articles are still circulating, being shared, etc.. it would be good if there was a good way to see them curated in an updated list.