skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The official response to these leaks has been almost as embarrassing as the leaks themselves, and this statement is a continuation of that trend.
> It mimics the gmail look & feel, i.e. one line of text represents one thread in your inbox

folder-hook . "exec collapse-all"

set sort=threads

set sort_aux=last-date-received
The Middle-Class Revolution
that's interesting. i did not know that shortcut (well, it doesn't work with vi keybindings), but that sounds useful. that was not the whole point though.
ex-NSA off-grid Edward(!) `Brill' Lyle, (aka `Harry `The Call' Caul' The Conversation (film) 1972 (~prequel)) in Enemy of the State (film) 1998 (~sequel), teaches us a way to get reins on NSA's wild horses is to bug(1) and wiretap Clapper's and Kieth Alexander's homes. In addition to heroic(martyr?) whistleblowers, the world needs angry and experienced curmudgeon tradecraft operatives:

(1)
"...will find them and have the NSA start an investigation. Lyle also deposits $140,000 into _______'s bank account to make it appear that he is taking bribes.
I guess they are trying to keep their ad-supported and tax-supported business separate? I don't understand.
> If the source is available to the public it is open source.

That's not the usual definition. The usual definition of "open source" revolves around having an open source license.

> I may not have a copyleft license, but for that we have other terms like "Free Software".

"Free Software" and "open source" are approximately equivalent (the FSF "free software" definition and the OSi standards for "open source" aren't identical, and there are probably some license that meet one but not the other, but they are close enough in practice that its not a huge difference.

"Copyleft" is a much narrower term than either "open source" or "free software". Most open source or free software licenses are not copyleft.
Key US-EU trade pact under threat after more NSA spying allegations
Increasing Revenue while Reducing Cost
hard but rewarding
I am always saying the same thing but...

This is the same tone the CPSU/NKVD/KGB would use to defend their tactics, their manipulation, their ultimate power.

The "heroes" are the ordinary citizens. It is their ordinary lives the NSA is commited to defend: especially their ORDINARINESS, more and above their lives.

You do not want to live: you want to be free. This is what motivated the independence war, you know? People preferred dying to living under the Crown.

Nowadays nobody in the whole world is free from the NSA.

This has to end. As soon as possible.

Sorry to say but Goebbels, Beria and so on come to mind. And of course, Mayakovski...
Spreadgit.com looks awesome.

I'm working on a SaaS in the health vertical: http://www.checkqm.com
RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC
I wasn't actually talking about Germany. He does have to avoid countries that have declared him (accurately, in my opinion) a war criminal.
Yeah, he is employing logical deception. He is equating "willful effort to circumvent or violate the law" with "willful failures in the protection of civil liberties" which aren't the same, before we even get to the point of discussion how people could be incidentally or inadvertently violating rights.

It's almost like he WANTS us to read between the lines and realize the laws are too permissive.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5505645
Interesting. I remain a step behind this one in that I'm using offlineimap to sync local maildirs from google's servers and then using mu and mu4e in emacs. Means I get to use the Gmail Android client which is actually very good.
About to start a similar process in a month or two and think the following two articles are helpful, in order:

1. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BetaTest.html

2. http://www.product-launch-kit.com/marketing-articles/beta-te...
I've been a mutt user since around 1997, and elm and mail before that.

I now do something crazy with maildir sync via mbsync and then mutt. Works pretty well. This lets me use push mail from an EAS (Kerio or Z-push) server on the iPhone to get push email, as well as getting mail on a few computers, all with full local archives. I just use the mail server for webmail in the cases I need to use it, but kerio's webmail is pretty crap.

Unclear what benefit sup gives over mutt. Mutt's killer feature is folder hooks, I think. I can't think of anything which can't be done with folder hooks, other than maybe tags, which I just solve with full-text search.
Some have called for a suspension of talks on the trans-Atlantic free trade agreement.

And now we start talking about costs to the United States.
Sure, it takes 30 seconds to install postfix, but in practice, email is stupidly hard to admin because of spam. You may be able to send email easily, but a large percentage will be blocked as spam unless you use a well know relay even if you do everything right. Similarly, you will also be fighting a flood of spam in the other direction.
Domains blocked by the Air Force post-WikiLeaks
Looks pretty cool :)

We recently added WebRTC to echoplexus
https://chat.echoplex.us/
https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus
Have fun. Party a lot. Learna lot and overcome your fears. Enjoy your internship.
EU doesn't spy on anyone - we have no central intelligence. So let's not assume anything.
Like "we burnt the Constitution, 100.000.000 copies of it, but nobody was injured. We also used flags to enhance the bonfire. And what a fire it was!

We did no harm to anybody."

EDIT: The parent has vanished... It was in the same vein as my comment: "no harm done, what a (dirty) joke."
"...we will remain committed to the defense of the Nation and all that it stands for - security and liberty."

That's the ENTIRE issue here: security is being placed before liberty.

This document just confirms that.
Citation? And no, France is not "EU".
I think this would be interesting if you could extend something like packer that was on HN the other day. It's great to instantly have a dev environment for everyone but I'm still more inclined to use one that is the same image as my production box, allowing you to create custome images with packer, vagrant or some similar tool and deploy that to kite would be much more beneficial IMHO.

Overall its a great concept and something I think you'll see done by companies like Heroku as a form of lock-in as teams grow and never really learn how to virtualize their workflow. If you can get on the front of that movement it will be interesting to see where this project goes.

Good Luck!
For another anonymous chatting tool, be sure to checkout our project:

https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus

Easily deployed for private LAN chat :)
This statement indicates real progress and is a fantastic step in the right direction. While I thoroughly disagree with what Keith is saying (I'll get to that in a minute), his acknowledgement and down-to-earth tone show that Snowden's purpose of igniting a national debate on privacy is working.

Now on to what he actually said.

>we provided over 50 cases to both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees that show the specific contribution of these programs

>The challenge of these leaks is exacerbated by ... little awareness of the outcomes that our authorities yield

We see on full display the "ends justify the means" attitude that the NSA argues. It is not an invalid argument, but it is one that I'm sure the vast majority of the HN audience would disagree with. Hopefully this attitude is debated in the national spotlight alongside the validity of the programs themselves.

>Through four years of oversight, the committee has not identified a single case in which a government official engaged in willful effort to circumvent or violate the law

Again, there's that "willful" keyword we've heard so much. That's a loophole you could drive a train through! If Keith is so confident in his mens rea defense [1], I'm sure he welcomes the spotlight being shined on his organization's workings.

>Leadership ... is now engaged in a public dialogue to make sure the American public gets the rest of the story

Like I said, it is fantastic that this - the goal Snowden described - is being acknowledged. I look forward to Greenwald's continued leaks (such as the imminent release describing the NSA's collecting of the contents of 1 Billion cell phone calls every day [2]).

> We need you to focus on our primary mission of defending our nation and our allies

Keith seems to be worried that these leaks are taking a toll on his organization's morale. I sincerely hope that this does not impact national security - I doubt it will - but, reading between the lines, I think he's petrified that Snowden's heroic leadership in this area will inspire more leaks. One can only hope.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mens_rea

[2] http://businessinsider.com/greenwald-nsa-store-calls-every-d...
It's so funny to see all this railing up against NSA and PRISM, while tomorrow, the first of July 2013, the "Bestandsdatenauskunft" will be implemented as law in Germany. A commentator from Die Zeit newspaper tersely summed up the intentionally abstruse wording of the new rules. The law means, “that police and intelligence services will in the future be allowed to obtain extremely personal information about mobile phone users, and do so with the press of a button and without having to face any major legal hurdles”.

Crudely translated it would mean something similar to "Inventory Data Information Act". Parts of the new law are the following:

> With respect to the obligations of the access providers, ISPs with more than 100,000 customers are now required to maintain a “secure electronic interface” in order to minimise the time needed for certain agencies to retrieve information.

The innocuous sounding term, “inventory data”, should not detract from the fact that the issue involves direct access to people’s private lives. “Not only names, addresses and bank account details will be sent to the police. But also the PINs of the mobile phones, and passwords blocking e-mail inboxes and accessing services like Dropbox and dynamic IP addresses”, warned Die Zeit .

Proper english article (I don't know about this source in general, but this one is accurate): https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/11/germ-a11.html

Google translated german articles:

Die Zeit: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_...

Der Spiegel: http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...

Netzpolitik.org: http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...

The debate about this is astonishing mute on its own, but compared to the NSA, PRISM and TEMPORA public outcry, the debate about the Bestandsdatenauskunft is basically non-existent at the moment.
Why can't I sue my software provider?
Interlisp was the so-called "west coast" Lisp that emphasized an interactive programming environment and in retrospect looks more like a hybrid between Smalltalk and Lisp than modern Lisp implementations. It was developed at PARC for a while. I don't know if there was cross-pollination between Interlisp and Smalltalk or if the similarity was a zeitgeist thing.

This article talks about the design values of the system and communicates the flavour of what a Smalltalkish Lisp would have been like.

As someone who's only read about this, I'd be interested in hearing from people who actually used it.
Let's start a thread where we share links to our profiles :)
http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=jdu3m77ytyhj5gmnbriq...
I have to agree!
The biggest problem is compression. Methane is stored into tanks using a 4 stage compressor. They are expensive due to economies of scale, but I've considered using a paintball CO2 compressor. The problem is I don't have a few thousand for an experimental buy.

Some will claim the conversion costs $12,000 and they are right, but only because in order for it to be "legal" it has to be done by someone who is "nationally certified". In other words, the oil industry has their paws wrapped around nearly every aspect.

Another advantage of CNG (compressed natural gas) is that it can be added in addition to gasoline. A diesel engine, however, does require a mixture of about 20% - 30% methane to run.

Here's a guy who did it himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYP2ZRwq9EE
I once received a pamphlet from a "friendship committee" with North Korea. It contained a series of translated speeches by Kim Il Sung. Unsurprisingly Kim Il Sung in his speeches likewise insisted everything was for the best of the people, and their happiness and security. Likewise, you'll find Mao said a lot of stuff about freedom and democracy and defending the people.

The only people who uncritically buy statements like these are people that want to buy them because they are already invested in believing...

Such as having a job that depends on them being able to justify what they are doing to themselves.
Shut down the NSA's 1.2 billion dollar Utah Data Center
That's exactly what I thought. Just last week they put out a warning to US service members stating that confirming the leaks is against the law. Now we have the guy at the top saying the stuff in the news is accurate.
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I'm unaware of where "facts" will come from though. So far it seems as if the gov't says one thing, the companies say another, and the leaks say yet another. I don't see any companies rushing forward to clarify what exactly is going on, and the government isn't really a neutral arbiter of truth here. I would say we prioritize the information from the leaks, given their restricted nature and their intended audience, but that doesn't mean there might not be over-generalizations or mis-interpretations there either.

I really hope that tech company CEOs get their feet held to the fire for misleading statements though and journalists keep (or start) asking them direct and difficult questions to get answers on record before more leaks come out.

getspopcorn
This is one place where I feel your constitution holds you USA types back. Those rights had to exist before the constitution for it to be written, and even the constitution itself doesn't try to be a closed set. But it has largely been judicially interpreted as one. And it is entirely possible the NSA would pass constitutional muster, with this Supreme Court.

But it is possible for a thing to be legal - and constitutional - and in breach of rights which don't need to be named on any paper to still be rights. Like the right to privacy.
I'd add, Words like "Homeland" are also familiar. And not from the lexicon of traditional Democratic-Republicanism.
Particulate is only a problem during acceleration. When used in a hybrid system as a generator, it is not a big concern.
"Two of these capabilities are the programs in the news."

Sounds suspiciously like an official admission that the information available in public is both correct and reasonably complete, at least as far as those two programs go.

Also, that there are other "capabilities".
"At best, it's a fluff peice, at worst, propaganda."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5966222
That's simply not true. For example, on Windows, they can use CryptProtectData. Mac OS has a keychain function too. Pidgin devs are being disingenuous by suggesting that accessible to current user is identical to storing plaintext on disk.

Full disk encryption and per-user encryption are good steps. But an accidental backup of Pidgin will still reveal passwords that would be safe if they bothered to use platform specific APIs for such storage.
As if I'd trust the NSA boss to tell the truth about this. Bring in a Church committee, and then we see.
I disagree- the university setting only impacts a few degrees which were historically apprenticeships/trades anyway. Art, Music, and even Law Schools would better serve students by leaving expensive universities.

Of course, some subset of students will want a university and will be able to afford it; but in the far future, that will be a very small fraction of the current college fairing crowd.
There are many effective means of particulate filtration available.
The way I view it, by definition someone has to be first.

We just don't know enough about all the variables, such as noted by others in this discussion the probability of evolving to sentience, to state with any confidence that we can't be the first in our galaxy or the portion of it that we're looking at.
Or the precursor to their more-formal statement:

"What the ...?"
Posted: Friday, June 07, 2013

Dear Google users—

You may be aware of press reports alleging that Internet companies have joined a secret U.S. government program called PRISM to give the National Security Agency direct access to our servers. As Google’s CEO and Chief Legal Officer, we wanted you to have the facts.

First, we have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government—or any other government—direct access to our servers. Indeed, the U.S. government does not have direct access or a “back door” to the information stored in our data centers. We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday.

Second, we provide user data to governments only in accordance with the law. Our legal team reviews each and every request, and frequently pushes back when requests are overly broad or don’t follow the correct process. Press reports that suggest that Google is providing open-ended access to our users’ data are false, period. Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received—an order that appears to have required them to hand over millions of users’ call records. We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false.

Finally, this episode confirms what we have long believed—there needs to be a more transparent approach. Google has worked hard, within the confines of the current laws, to be open about the data requests we receive. We post this information on our Transparency Report whenever possible. We were the first company to do this. And, of course, we understand that the U.S. and other governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety—including sometimes by using surveillance. But the level of secrecy around the current legal procedures undermines the freedoms we all cherish.

Posted by Larry Page, CEO and David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer
Ohio Police Department Using Fake Drug Checkpoints
But this isn't a case of them being criticized when they try to make an /improvement/ in their behaviour. They would always sell Lego to any girl who can pay for them, the bad behaviour in in marketing specifically to boys and creating Lego sets that reinforce gender stereotypes.

They could simply stop doing that.
btc has it's own 1% class already? Isn't this a huge step towards legitimacy?
I believe that the USA always thought of itself as very secure. The richest, most powerful democracy ever.

911 was a very nasty wakeup call and to me the government reaction following that just shows how badly shaken the USA was to that.

Who would have thought before 911 that the USA would use torture, or surveillance of US citizens, or assassinate USA citizens - all government approved?

Unless the USA can step away from this precipice I don't think it would be a big stretch to say that the terrorists won and USA lost.
On the Death of Google Reader & the Future of Reading
Too many secrets. Why they don't operate in the open? This might be additional deterrent to terrorist plots if would be terrorists were aware of how much surveillance they are exposed to.
Using OpenRefine to geocode your data using Google and OpenStreetMap API
In this article we will see how to use OpenRefine to enrich our datasets with data from any web service available on line. We will learn how to use Google and OpenStreetMaps web service to geocode the addresses of a dataset.

In the previous article we saw how to take our comma-separated list of google contacts, and play with them using google refine. We learnt how to do things like filtering, faceting, normalizing data, removing duplicate rows and other pretty common tasks. Now we are going to take their addresses and prepare our dataset to show them on a map.
This is cool - very interested in how well the rails part will work. I see this as a more lightweight alternative to just deploying images, and I think that will be useful for smaller dev teams to reduce setup overhead.
I'm not convinced we know enough to do this. A planet in the right temperature with a high-oxygen atmosphere might just be low-carbon and high pH, such that the entire surface is oxidized and glassy and the liquid water carries a pH in the 12s.

What's great is, we're about to get a whole lot more data with which to do astrochemistry.
Victoria HN meetup? :D
CSS3: Retro Photo Effect
Those allies he talks about in the last paragraph are pretty miffed with him right now by the look of things...
This seems like a pre-emptive move to appeal to their "loyalty" to the agency (and not necessarily to the country) to stop further whistleblowers from coming out with more secrets.

I'm hoping the smart ones will see through this, and if they do know of other illegalities/wrong doings, they come forward. If it's ever the time to do this, it's now, when the government is most vulnerable. It would help if they were in higher positions inside the agency.
Got all the way to embarking on my iPad. Now I'm stuck! Wish I could transfer my game to my laptop.
Seconded, especially with Calendar sharing with specific other people.
This statement indicates real progress and is a fantastic step in the right direction

It read, to me, like nothing but a blowhard spouting hot-air and empty rhetoric, while desperately hoping to spike morale and discourage the next Edward Snowden from doing The Right Thing.

I mean, it's already well established that the NSA operates with almost zero effective oversight: given that the FISA courts are nothing but a rubber-stamp, Congress is lied to and accepts the lies - or engages in willful ignorance - about this whole situation (well, up until it breaks to the public thanks to Snowden), and the NSA operate under their own interpretation of the law anyway.

There's no real judicial oversight of the NSA, there's no Congressional oversight, so that leaves the Executive branch... and does anybody trust them to exercise restraint???

I think he's petrified that Snowden's heroic leadership in this area will inspire more leaks. One can only hope.

No doubt.
Ntopng 1.0 released
Real estate agents or brokers don't have the double taxation that we do right? Meaning they wouldn't have to pay corp/llc and employee tax?
Intelegence is clearly adaptive when you consider humans have the widest habitat range of any multicellular organism on the planet. When you consider people where thriving in Alaska at the end of the last ice age the idea that climate change or industrial pollution is going to do us in is overblown. A full scale nuclear exchange may doom modern civilization but modern civilization showed up fairly quickly after modern humans evolved. The only real man made threat would be some sort of perfect disease designed to kill everyone an even a that is likely to fail.
"...allegations that Washington bugged key EU offices and intercepted phonecalls and emails from top officials."

"... – went well beyond previous revelations of electronic spying said to be focused on identifying suspected terrorists, extremists and organised criminals."

...and there it is: `the smoking gun', or, `the US is a card cheat'.

NSA's mission is now to `asymmetrically' tilt or cheat the `efficient market(1)' by an invisible (surgical latex gloved) hand.

(1)
the efficient-market hypothesis (EMH), asserts that financial markets are "informationally efficient", every player has access to the same information. In consequence of this, one cannot consistently achieve returns in excess of average market returns on a risk-adjusted basis, given the information available at the time the investment is made.