skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that the set of five countries: UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. I'd like to know how the US came up with this list. Is it because we speak the same language? Is it because we share the same heritage? Where does this leave France? What did France do to us that we need to spy on them?

To gain some perspective here, imagine this scenario where Germany was in the US' position and it makes a list of countries: Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland as nations to exclude from espionage attacks. Imagine that we are in a military alliance with them (NATO) and Germany has military bases spread across the US.

Would that not make you feel uneasy to suddenly learn one day that not only you are a possible military target but also that you are an active espionage target? How can you trust someone who does not trust you and feels the need to spy on everything you do and every word you say?
The Spiegel homepage is hugely popular in Germany.

Look at the table on the bottom [1]. Note that the data is a little bit older and Bild is yellow press and recently introduced a pay wall.

If a topic is prominent on the Spiegel homepage mainstream Germany will talk about it.

[1] http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=ht...
Lol played through 2 full times hoping it wasn't just in repeat haha
If "sexism" is being considered as treating somebody differently because of their gender, then I think that yummyfajitas has a point.

If the typical male-to-male interaction within a given community involves making sexist remarks now and then, then a male who doesn't make sexist remarks while in the presence of females would be treating them differently due to their gender. That in itself could be seen as a form of "sexism". After all, if everyone were to be treated equally in that context, then sexist remarks would be made regardless of whether the other people present were male or female.

Political correctness is often contradictory or self-defeating in this sort of a way. Those who are against "intolerance" end up inherently becoming intolerant themselves, because they do not tolerate intolerance, for example. Or those who single out, target and speak out against bullies end up engaging in a form of bullying behavior themselves.
It's not just the NSA. All big countries have intelligence services and anyone with anything to hide should assume that they will try to get their hand on as much internet traffic as they can.

So e.g. if you're a US company that has a competitor in China, and you don't want the Chinese company to read your email, it's a sensible precaution to encrypt it.
The problem is that most people don't like programming or don't see themselves doing it. Even those who do might not actually like it all that much once they get into it. While it's true you don't need a comp sci degree to be a programmer (I don't have a CS degree either), I think you need to have at least some passion about computers and how things work or trying to make a go of it as a programmer is going to be much harder and miserable. I've always felt lucky that I truly love what I do and enjoy the process of learning more and getting better, and that oh yeah - job security isn't that big of a deal in our field and we get paid pretty well. For these reasons I've tried to get many of my smart friends wondering what they are going to do with their degrees into the field, but to some, the thought of sitting in front of a computer and cutting code all day sounds unbearable to them.
Why would the FDP profit from this? AFAIK they never positioned themselves in favor of privacy.

I think the green party (Bündnis 90 / Die Grüne) will profit considerably more from this. They are know promoters of privacy and personal rights.
"Die Linke" could also profit from this.
A lot of female gamers go nuts online too, mostly of the attention-seeking nature. Of course it's not every every female, but that small portion has had an indirect part in creating all these stereotypes and behaviors.

Essentially, both sides really need to grow up.
Yeah, they definitely require work but it is possible. I had just gotten my Android+Scala setup completed before IO and am now looking into integrating Gradle+Android+Scala, which is proving more difficult.
Same here trying to launch a vertical ad network that should have shipped already.

Also working on a two other smaller projects.

Thanks for the motivation!
Yes, having everything you need may seem easy, but have you ever thought what life is like if you never needed anything? Would you go to college? What would be the point? What about the joy of bringing your family to their first home? That experience is utterly impossible. You don't hang out with cowokers because you never had and never will have coworkers. Almost anything considered a normal life is off limits to you.
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Maybe I am misunderstanding you but I disagree that the US runs Germany. Or what do you mean by saying "the US runs the shop since the end of WW2"?

Yes, the US has stationed troops and nuclear missels in Germany but this is far from "running the shop".
Please give us feedback on our tool for helping ideamakers train their pitching
Hi good HN-people!

Lauge, Kristoffer, Morten and myself (Anders) have been working on a small web-based tool (http://pitch.brightloops.org/) that aims to help ideamakers practice their pitches. But we need some honest / brutal feedback to iterate further.

We began building it together because quite a few of the young startups at the Danish incubator space we work at have struggled with pitching their ideas to potential investors, advisors, at events like Startup Weekend (the list goes on).

We discussed this issue with our advisors who confirmed this problem, then began discussing how we could address it and started developing the prototype since Tuesday. We finished the first version today, so it's all very new.

We have tried to build the prototype around some insight & feature-requests we gained from organizers and attendants of a past local Startup Weekend (who also struggled with teams having a hard time pitching), and we would greatly appreciate feedback from you guys.

Issues with the prototype that we're aware of and working on fixing:
- Printing in Internet Explorer 10 is acting up
- The current pitch duration calculation only goes per minute, not per second.
- It has not been tested in Internet Explorer 9 or below, or in Opera. But Firefox and Chrome should be fine.
- The name "Pitcherific" is a working title, any ideas are welcome!
- Pasting in text does not activate the character counting, you need to paste and then hit space

Again, feedback is very appreciated and thank you for your time and interest. In return, we'd love to give feedback too.

- Lauge, Anders, Kristoffer & Morten
Let me try to phrase that in a way a politican would say that:

"Those on the extreme ends, commonly referred to as conspiracy nuts, would say: That's exactly what we expect Lessig to do after attending Bilderberg Conferences. But to those I say: Lessig is a honorable citizen, with strong believes in freedom and democracy. Somebody who would never shill as a pseudo credible mouthpiece for defending questionable public-private partnership."
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The j/k shortcuts work great now, thanks!

Only other comment I have regarding styling is there doesn't seem to be any highlighting of read vs unread items like Google Reader which shows the title of unread items in blue and read titles in black.
Is a sad and disturbing sense starting to form that....
to the U.S. government, all non U.S. citizens are at best suspect and at worst enemies? Allies no longer, just suspects to be spied on?
How long can Edward Snowden stay in the Moscow airport?
What are the Rails applications OSX ships with? I have never heard of or noticed this before.
I have a $150k art school student loan (mostly for a MFA) that will be paid in full when I turn 65. At that point I will have no retirement savings and will have to continue working until either my children can support me or I die. I work as a front-end developer on a completely self taught skill-set
I wish this article existed before I went to graduate school. Had I not been buried under this debt I would likely still be a practicing artist.
Girl players on average are worse than boy players. Yes, this is a stereotype. But a stereotype based on experience instead of prejudice. Don't like it? Get more girls playing computer games and being good at it.
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> not good enough to open an editor for

It's just a keystroke away (`C-x C-e` in bash and zsh, in emacs-like line editing mode) if you have $EDITOR set properly.
As a german citizen, i would love to see this!
EU demands clarification over US spying
The liberals are very vocal about privacy and interfering of the state in the people's affairs. They just don't do a very good job making people aware of these positions...
The principal cause
NSA - Recording One Billion Phonecalls Per Day
The BND has a tradition to focus on political extremist groups in Germany, while domestic surveillance in the other large EU countries such as Britain, France and Spain have always had a stronger focus on Islamist groups. So I don't think it's a question of competence, but rather of focus.
BTW if someone wants non-google-translated reads, Spiegel has international version in English. Some links:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/nsa-spied-on-euro...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/jakob-augstein-d...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/eu-officials-furi...
Correct, the proper terminology is Spiegel Online (SPON) and "Der Spiegel". SPON is very popular among Germans and has been one of the best journalistic sources of Germany. It's also received the embassy cables last year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cable...

with El Pais, Le Mond, The Guardin and NYT.

For this very story: It has received some new presentation slides in the recent days that it's currently publishing. The FAZ and other German newspapers are referencing SPON for this particular story. So for this story SPON is the first/primary source.
Sounds like more misinformation.
Another excuse to exceed their mandate.
I don't trust anything they have to say anymore.
Spot on. I am surprised you are not down voted by the hordes of politically correct people here.
I added the language because I am not interested in the libraries. I'm interested in the syntax and semantics.
Judging by the revealed alliance with GCHQ in UK, and the long term history of joined espionage programs here in Australia, there is a good chance that top tier list are already in strategic negotiations with the US and the NSA.
I still don't understand how the term "raped" is sexist. For "raped" to be sexist, it would have to imply some gender when both men and women can be raped.
It's funny. To Java devs, code completion is fundamental (me included, to a certain degree). The idea of having to know all of the methods available on an instance and fully type everything out seems draconian. And yet, for the JavaScript and Ruby devs of the world hacking away in TextMate, auto-completion just isn't there (correct me if I'm wrong). But, they still manage to be productive. :)
It is economical harm, which impedes and on the long run destroys hegemony.

Recent examples: Opel attempting to buy itself out of GM (saved by Gov't bailout), Creditor Deutche Bank National Trustcompany (housing debt), most SV chip machinery comes from DE such as Zeiss etc.

Overall, the single biggest problem is the € and the success of western Europe (it seems one might take Bruxelles bureaucrats for terrorists). Most of the decisions for the € is taken from Frankfurt given it is almost a refitted DM, and which needs to be countered by all means (ie. proxies such as Greece).
> As far as I can tell, Gmail is 100% accurate.

My experience is I've had a few false negatives and false positives. Gmail is still very good though, and any replacement, if it is to be widely used, needs to solve the spam problem.

If each message had to be separately encrypted for each receiver, would this add much to a spammer's costs? I'm guessing it would, but not by enough to make spam uneconomic. A better solution might be to require that the first email someone sends someone else, unless they've been OK'd by a third party, contains bitcoins to the value of $0.01.
I get that it's popular, but still.. maybe it's just a cultural difference, I don't think in the UK we would specify website (e.g. "it's on the front page of The Guardian's website"), and even then I don't think we'd refer to the front page of a newspaper/magazine's website as a big deal, we'd maybe specifically highlight how prominent on the front page it is.

I mean, on Spiegel.de right now, sure the NSA story is at the top, but other items that could be described as being "on the front page" include BBC Nature: The man who lives with the grizzlies, F1: Hulkenberg Sauber team threatens to bankrupt and Jennifer Lopez in Turkmenistan, to pick out a few.
One cannot own the rights to floating islands and big trees. This is entirely frivolous.
Inconsistency-tolerant logics
I seriously doubt that even today Germany has a final say without US weighing in first in anything related to their military, intelligence, foreign policies. France on the other hand plays hard ball, I'd like to see something like that escalate in France.
Of course they did. They made their position against the Vorratsdatenspeicherung several times in the last years (See their statement here: http://www.fdp-fraktion.de/Vorratsdatenspeicherung-nicht-bes... ).

With Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger they also have the last privacy wall before the Constitutional Court.

They of course have absolutly no problems with corporate data mining...
Yes, the OA's suggestions under the $10K Art Education heading were interesting. I especially liked the 'create accountability' section urging people to join a community to give and receive feedback on work.

I am wondering if there is an opportunity for a local institution here to facilitate face to face networking for local artists? Perhaps mediated via a Web site?
Interesting. Is the US army inside Germany a left over from cold war? Do they have the capability to own the country if necessary?
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> and maybe used SQL injections

Why do you need "SQL injections" if you are writing direct SQL statements in the first place?
I have downloaded and tried to play with Diogenes several times. I can never seem to get it to do anything. As best as I can tell, you need to provide it with data sets as well. Do you know where you can get these?
This question makes me think we need a privacy.stackexchange.com and a revolutions.stackexchange.com
This is not particularly surprising to me. When I was employed with the US government for a short time as a contractor during the Bradley Manning / Wikileaks mess, we were repeatedly reminded of the INFOSEC policy that restricted us from visiting those sites. That is, official policy states that any access of classified material on a NIPRnet(that is, public Internet)-connected computer would be treated as data leakage, with the same punishments and criminal hubbub as any other leak, regardless of the fact that it had been released publicly.

That policy was never rooted in sound logic, in my opinion, but it is still active. Outright blocking of the Guardian newspaper was probably not necessary - in our case, fear of persecution was enough to keep us from visiting Wikileaks, at least at work - but it is consistent with their policy and motives.
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Having lived in the Bay Area for a while in the past I can assure you that moving there will probably make your anxiety much worse.

Being on the edge of a big shaky bathtub surrounded by clueless narcissists made me very uncomfortable. And I am not prone to anxiety.

The cost of living makes being there pretty pointless unless you have an executive level job.
May I ask how many hours playing online shooters you have under your belt? This word isn't being used in a vacuum.
Is there really anything surprising with the notion that the US is spying on other country's official businesses? Did people think that the surveillance apparatus just disappeared with the Berlin wall?

I also wonder why people who are committing to official business aren't having everything encrypted anyways. I don't know how technically difficult it is to encrypt phone calls, but I can't imagine it being that hard.
This is from the Observer (Sunday Paper), not the Guardian as the headline states, though I think they published it on the Guardian website - the two papers have separate editorial teams though they share the same online space. You can see the printed edition of the Observer article reproduced here:

http://guardian.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

It'd be nice to see some verification of the claims, so I'd be interested to see the article if it is ever republished after checking (I think they took it down as the source - Madsen - is seen as particularly unreliable).
If you deny reality there is no discussion to be had.

You're projecting. That's like saying there was no point in investigating the rubble of 9/11 or the explosions because it's all so obvious anyway. It's called "conclusion prior to investigation". If you had arguments, you would mention them. So there.
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The source, Wayne Madsen, apparently has a history of unsubstantiated claims, including that Obama is secretly a homosexual[1].

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-guardian-wayne-madsen-nsa...
Can't see much value in posting this. If they deleted it it's probably factually incorrect or inaccurate and will probably return with corrections.
It will be interesting to see if this dele ted Guardian article holds some water, then the Minister of Justice will have a long face too:

http://pastebin.com/NTJvUZdJ
I find it interesting that he starts of by saying "the traditional approach is failing us" because art school is definitely not the traditional approach.

Art is a skill arguably best learned through apprenticeship; to be honest this as a system works better for a lot of things.
Nice. Why no paid options? I'm guessing because this was a weekend project.

If so, nice work!
Yes, PRISM is probably an extension of the existing ECHELON program. It's weird that the correlation hasn't been made already. Fun fact, I remember Australia stepping out of ECHELON because they hadn't the capabilities to keep up with US surveillance meaning the spying was essentially one-sided [ref needed].
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/ECHELON/echelo...
The BND has a tradition to focus on political extremist groups in Germany

Which is actually one of the reasons they seem so incompetent, they're not very good at that. [also, did you perchance confuse the BND with the Verfassungsschutz? Not that it matters, the Verfassungsschutz is probably worse than the BND, they help Neonazis more than harming them] Also, BND officials say some hilarious stuff when it comes to computers.
You seem to think that if someone isn't "White British" then they are automatically a Muslim extremist.

The ethnic breakdown of London is far more complex than that:

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

At the moment, about 8.5% of London's population is Muslim:

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

Also worth noting is that across the UK the Muslims only make up 2.7% of the population:

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

I'm completely mystified how anyone could see this tiny minority as a threat - especially, as far as I can see, the overwhelming majority of this community are as decent and law-abiding as everyone else.
Request for Fraud Alert System
Imagine a crowd sourced system that helped collect data on the following:

1. stolen credit card data
2. compromised email addresses

The purpose of this system would be to help software services share information about stolen credit cards and compromised email addresses in an attempt to reduce fraud.

I'd be interested to hear how the community here would go about implementing something like this. Thoughts on whether it's possible to do this securely and whether it's even a feasible means to prevent or reduce fraudulent activity.
It's also worth noting that this was the headline on early morning print editions of The Observer but later editions had it replaced.
He would only stand a chance for asylum in Germany if he classifies as under political repression.

Application in an embassy is not possible. If he would manage to come to Germany he could not be extradited if there is a real risk of torture or death penalty.
Happy paying FastMail customer here. Would love to see CalDav support (public and private), so I can ditch Google once and for all.
I think Germany is fairly autonomous. However the conservative parties are basically US fanboys.
Why the downvote? The cell planned and coordinated with AQ while they were living in Germany and the BND did not detect their activities. Since then the US intensified their activities in Germany. I am not saying this is fair for Germany or not, but it's simply a logical conclusion from the US point of view in light of activities such as the patriot act and the creation of the DoHS.
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How is this misinformation? It's 100% true that end-to-end encryption is unbreakable.
Just a thought...

In the UK, overseas students pay a tuition fee + a bond to cover living expenses (which could be large in London) for a 3 year fine art degree.

If a student was interested in acquiring the craft skills and mixing in with other fine art students for three years, then the credentials of the university department matter less. A middle ranking university in UK would charge around £50K over the three years, plus guarantee of income to cover living costs (no cost to UK taxpayer). That income level is something like £13K per year depending on location, so call it £45K total. At current exchange rates that translates into $150K.

It strikes me that Italy and Greece might be very economical at present, given some application to the languages. The OA's 'style' seemed to me (as a non expert) to be fairly conservative, drawing based, heavy emphasis on craft, which I gather would match the teaching style in Italy.
The deleted article is almost entirely sourced to Wayne Madsen, who has made disclosures and claims far more shocking than these in the OP:

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

So are these disclosures new? Whether they're a scoop or not doesnt have much to do with their actual validity, but if he's made these claims well before Snowden, then it's likely they've been debated in the past, too.
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I've used roundcube before, both on a shared hoster and on my own server later on. It's okay, I wasn't impressed with the user interface at the time though that seems to have changed judging from their website. The software is a bunch of php and shell scripts and uses a MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite database.