skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this surprising? You don't think the NSA has APTs running in internet exchanges around the globe?

I would say that thinking the NSA doesn't have assets somewhere, given their propensity to hoover every piece of data within an arm's reach, is foolish at best.

It would be better, these days, to assume your data is compromised as soon as it is sent over the Internet.
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Couple this with amerine's suggestion to allow release packages from private repos, and developers could also use GitHub to sell closed-source software.
I've worked in the first environment and experienced the burn out first hand. Short deadlines can be a good thing by focusing on core benefits of a product instead of unnecessary features.

But it's a double edged sword. In the wrong hands, a management team can use it as an excuse to overwork the team causing burn out and high turnover rates.
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A lot of the time this is done to keep secret any strategic investors in a company.

Some very large companies will plop some money down just for the sake of starting a relationship with a company so that they could monitor that company to make an acquisition offer when the time is right. Sometimes the founders want to keep certain investors secret because it may scare off investments or acquisition offers from the competitors of the strategic investor. If you are a founder you should definitely deny board observer rights and financial observation rights to such investors. They can work against you as a de facto poison pill.

Another option is that there are "gatekeeper" investors involved that used to work very high up in some large public tech company. They discover a new company that may be of interest to their former employer. They make a nominal investment in the company and then make a ton of money back by simply making the right introductions and pushing the deal through. While this conflict of interest may be known to many of those involved, they may not want their investments to be openly public since it would shed light on the conflict of interest.
Are there any blogs or column on Ecuadorian politics (in English) where we can read about Correa and the public's opinions of him?
I have no idea if they are required to do so, but it's worth noting that while the government requires a warrant to open US mail and inspect the contents, your agreement with UPS/FedEx allows them to open anything they see fit to.
Using it: People from all over the world... http://www2.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://retro...
I thought that it had already been revealed that they have collection centers all over the world. I remember reading that in one of the articles I've read on the subject, but now I can't find it. So maybe I'm misremembering.

Anyways, it wouldn't be much of a surprise to me to hear that they have collection centers in other countries. I already pretty much assume that they do.

Edit: I found some evidence. Look at the leaked slides on Boundless Informant [1]. It mentions having sites in "regions" and querying for what kind of coverage we have for a given country. It doesn't explicitly say that "region" means a world region. It could just as easily mean a region inside the US, but I think that would be awkward terminology when the rest of the document has a global scope.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/08/nsa-...
Yes, but as someone who makes IT decisions for an organization outside the US, it's still a factor.

When evaluating services, one factor is "Do they use sound security principles?" Does their API use SSL? How does authentication work? How is my information stored? Etc.

Another factor is "Do I trust them with my data?" This has a lot to do with the company's track record, business model, and of course their location. Where are they? What are the privacy laws like there? What is the level of corruption?

If government agencies (and their subcontractors) can go to my service provider and secretly demand sweeping access to any "foreigners data", without any sort of due process, why would I do business with that company? I think I'd rather go with a company in a country with strong privacy protections, even for non-citizens, and take my chances with best practices for securing data on the wire.

Due process and strong privacy protections are a competitive advantage for a country... The US is royally screwing it's own tech sector with these policies.
GET requests to create users. What could go wrong?
Ansible doesn't store them, but exchanges them in memory. (The assumption is you'd want them to be current anyway). We are going to add some optional caching (likely just requiring sqlite as it's all we need) in a future release.

But yes, it's easy to do that. Assuming you meant a template, you could do:

{% for host in groups["datacenterX"] %}
{% if host in groups["Y"] %}
{{ ssh_host_key_rsa_public }}
{% end if %}
{% endif %}

Ansible is also good at carving up groups based on these things, like if you just wanted to talk to those hosts:

hosts: datacenterX:&Y

note that Hacker News ate my newlines.

etc
But if BBCW is emphatically not subsidized as stated above, wouldn't it be perfectly OK -- even more OK than regular BBC -- if it competed with UK commercial websites? Since it's not got any "unfair" subsidy advantage?

Not trying to argue, just trying to understand the (bizarre) logic of the blockade.
Essentially what you're proposing is a DoS of the tracking system. The problem with that (at least with physical mail) is that it takes far more resources to generate physical mail than to scan it. A DoS shaped like that will never work unless you have some way of massively amplifying the effect you are having.

Postage on a post card is currently 33 cents. How many postcards do you reckon you'd have to send before the automatic scanning process costs even one cent extra?
This word real-time. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You can't compare the NSA with the Argentinian intelligence agencies because the countries are in a very different scale.
Typically your playbooks are more specific then 'do something vague' for example, install apache. You would say specifically, using 'apt' install the package 'httpd'.

To see the package managers Ansible supports OOTB look at:

http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/modules.html#packaging

For examples on how this can be abstracted to handle multiple platforms see: http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/bestpractices.html/#operati...
> Must you downvote?

I must not. I have refrained from voting because opinions.
I know it's a bit on the nose to point it out, but sort of poetic how all of this fourth amendment business ended up coinciding with the Fourth of July independence celebrations.
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> Google tried to combat Facebook with open standards and it didn't work. OpenSocial, ...

Yes, they did try open standards. However, the reason it failed was not (IMO) because open standards were a bad idea.

The Open Standard initiatives failed at Google because they did not really know how to do UX. They have only recently started to figure it out.

(I would argue that Google+ is significantly better than OpenSocial ever was, and Google needs to improve it even further)
The sad thing is, a video game scenario of shooting up a school is probably perfectly legal.
Yesterday I started deleting all my FB content. My FB account got locked and released 24h later. When I logged in, all my content was restored. I'm still trying to understand why.
In Chrome, that's:

1. Start to type wikipedia
2. Hit tab as soon as wikipedia.org is the first choice
3. Start typing the query and note that the suggestions are coming from Wikipedia, not google

Significantly faster than waiting several seconds for DDG to redirect
There's been much talk about this, but here's the EFF's take: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/restore-fourth-campaig...

Long story short: GO! DRAG OTHERS!
> Also: we both know there's more to the story with Auernheimer than simply sending material to journalists.

Uhh, excuse me? They discussed what could have been done maliciously with the data, and then DIDN'T DO ANY OF THOSE THINGS. I honestly don't know what else you're alluding to.

To answer your main point:

I figured it out yesterday. I believe that sending packets over the internet, of any kind, with any content, is protected speech.

We're allowed to say what we want. It's the responsibility of a listener to determine how they respond.

This is how the world works, and it should be how the internet works, too.
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Einstein spent his entire life changing the world for great good. Of course another one of this contributions lead to the development of the Atomic Bomb. It is said that in his later life he slumped into a bout of depression knowing how his work was being used.

On a different scale, i think a lot of us are realizing that all the things we've been working towards (machine vision, machine learning, twitter, facebook etc) are also being used against us. Its a bit disappointing really.

Of course, ever since nuclear proliferation, worldwide violence has been dramatically reduced... so take that for what its worth ;)
Perhaps I've always found it obvious that creating these things, working for companies with close ties to military and surveillance (Lockheed, etc.) is quite near evil and that professionals with integrity would not do that.

I think that is a minority view in our profession, so you are probably right.
I've seen a good number of benchmarks that show modphp for Apache to be as fast or faster than FastCGI on nginx. If you're running a PHP application I'm not sure there's a huge impetus to switch from nginx over apache to just nginx (other than reducing a point of failure).
chef-solo does require ruby > 1.8.7, rubygems and many gems though. Their argument for ansible is that it only needs basic python which is installed by default on most systems.
Yes, I'm sure that an economic war is what we need right now.
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Get out there indeed!

But also, bring others! Friends! Family! If they don't understand why, explain it! Ask them to do the same!
If the data isn't actually encrypted or it is otherwise not protected information then you wouldn't need to provide a specific defence.
That's naive. You don't think the Russians and the Chinese have operatives in Washington trying to spy on Americans? Spying is illegal, but everyone does it.

What we're talking about is an international game of brinksmanship.

Illegality is a relative proposition. There are scarce few international laws that govern anything and even fewer international laws with teeth. Each individual nation has laws against spying, but given the propensity to avoid an international incident, I tend to think that spies who are discovered are either tortured or returned to their home countries. Since the laws of one country do not extend beyond their borders, it's difficult to enforce ones sovereignty in a different country, or to exert ones own authority over another nation-state's actor.

This is all just very murky, but the concept of illegality is relative at best in this instance.
Quite sure it was purposeful. People will be going out in crowds anyway, so any who are clueless and don't really feel its an issue may be disrupted by those who protest, and hopefully learn something about what's going on.
Not so sure, I've heard that quite a few times. The use case of rack-and-do-not-need-to-reconfigure-until-I-want-to-change-something seems quite common, but I suspect it's in often better organized ops teams where you don't have dozens of different people logging and not following the process. There is of course --check mode in ansible for testing if changes need to be made, as is common in these types of systems. Thankfully, both work, and you can definitely still set things up on cron/jenkins/etc as you like, if you want.
Does a shell/python script that writes a httpd.conf file count as a configuration API?
Interesting! We do use librarian-puppet but we do not use apache. It's possible that we just managed to step around that land mind essentially by accident. Did you run in to any other issues?
This is extortion, and is subject to criminal penalties.

It is lying: you say legal action is underway. You've done nothing but mail a letter. The moment someone says legal proceeding are underway, the other party needs to shut up, and refer all communications through attorneys. At that point, you'd probably find yourself needing to hire an attorney at considerable expense.

I suspect you could be sued for defamation: claiming legal action when none existed can harm reputation. If you're not a business entity with personal protection (such as LLC or corp, depending on your locale) they can destroy you financially: house, property, bankruptcy. No client is worth that to me.

Even if you were to sue, this website might work against you. It'd definitely come up in proceedings, and may cause the judge to grant some leniency even if your client was ordered to pay.

The warning site doesn't identify you, so if the client could care less (people launching (companyname)-sucks.com all the time), they'll just ignore you. Then you're out hosting and domain fees.

If the client goes the cybersquatting claim route, they can take the warning domain, and you can levied fine of up to $100,000 USD. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting#Legal_resolution)

Glad it worked out for you, but I think you're correct in your warning that no one should ever do this.
Qt works excellently on desktop and is the only realistic choice for native look & feel across Windows and Linux.

I'm pretty sure it's going to be a disaster on Android and iOS because they are so radically different from each other and they don't even seem to have any plans for native L&F, but you couldn't be more wrong when it comes to PC apps.
Well, as I stated: in Smalltalk I can trace statement by statement (compound statements work flawlessly), make a change to a method and the debugger does the right thing. With SBCL under SLIME on Emacs I have to fiddle around with optimize statements over and over, recompile mutliple times before debugging does anything at all, at which point it still doesn't work very well. Randomly skipping over sexpressions, etc., etc. The experience is awful and every time I've ask on #lisp I've been called an idiot for trying to debug instead of tracing (not even exaggerating, sadly).
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I feel the problem was more in the lack of curation and innovation of feed-delivery. FlipBoard seems to be successful without appearing to be a feed-reader on the surface. Google just missed the opportunity to make the feed reader more appealing to the average user.
That's completely back asswards. They have the right to request and require access, as pecufied in their warrant, and if you refuse or are unable to comply then they have the further right of forced entry. They have no 'burden' to do so other than their general 'burden' to perform their duties.
Maybe I'm alone here, but I never had an expectation of privacy in regards to what I write on the outside of a envelope and drop into a public receptacle (mailbox). I expect the contents to be considered highly private, but not the outside.

There's also this issue of willing disclosure of information to an entity. When I put a stamp on something and drop it in the mailbox, I know I'm handing that information over to a government authority (or whatever you want to call the USPS's weird relationship to the government). Regardless of what they are or aren't supposed to do with it, the fact is that I know I'm putting my info in their hands and trusting them. This is unlike PRISM, where I send an email through Gmail with no expectation that it should ever pass through government hands.

Also, I'm under the impression that most if not all hand-written addresses are digitized for sorting purposes. I think you have to be naive to assume the postal service wasn't keeping that data on file.
They will simply allocate more resources to it and you as the taxpayer will end up paying for it.

The only real solution is to have end-to-end encryption that is easy to understand and use.
I dislike that in the article they removed the context of his statement. Just reading this, it sounds like he was making a threat, but if you read the KHOU.com (Houston) article it appears that here's merely mocking the person who is calling him insane.

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Texas-teen-charged-with-...

NPR version:
"I think Ima shoot up a kindergarten / And watch the blood of the innocent rain down/ And eat the beating heart of one of them."

KHOU version:
'Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head,’ to which he replied 'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts,’ and the next two lines were lol and jk.,"
No, in the DPRK you and your family would be sent to labor camps and possibly mass executed a few years later.
I think it's OK for now. This is big news; very very big. I am a fan of trying to keep HN on topic but for now I am very interested in what everyone here has to say.

I have to say, I thought I was very up to date on US spying - I know people who have worked with Echelon and would not say certain words on the phone - but I have still been blown away with the revelations. They're game-changing. They're relevant to HN. Business exists in a context; that context is changing around us, or at least being revealed for its true form. It's very relevant.

And FWIW I am astounded at the lengths "they" are going to get him and the massive political capital they seem happy to burn in the attempt. Genuinely amazing stuff. I have no idea what's next; no-one has. We're in a genuinely unprecedented era here. Anything is possible.
If you think working for Lockheed is evil, what do you think of working for a company like Facebook, that profits from selling the personal data of teenagers to companies who take advantage of their adolescence to peddle overpriced products to them that they don't need and that their parents can't really afford?

I'm not saying Facebook is evil, but let's face it the world is a lot more morally complex than the self-righteous want to make it out to be.

This idea that Silicon Valley is full of engineers toiling in a Parthenon of virtue while evil people in Washington misuse the fruits of their creations is utter bunk. Like every technology in history, software and internet technology can be used for different things, and there is widespread disagreement on the virtues of those ends.

E.g. Einstein might have regretted his involvement in the nuclear program, but there are a huge number of people who to this day think the development of nuclear weapons was a positive thing in how it ensured American ascendency for the succeeding half-century. At the same time, you'll find lots of people who think Lockeed, etc, are doing very noble things by developing technologies that allow American foreign policy to be implemented while getting fewer American soldiers killed (and reducing collateral damage too--a cruise missile is a lot more damaging than a drone strike). There is probably no country in history that has maintained its supremacy for as long as America has with so relatively few casualties among its armed forces. You can thank Lockheed for that.
I agree with the notion that this is "NOT OK". I generally feel that about most things that have surfaced in the past few weeks. My problem is that I really have no idea what I can do to help or show my disapproval.

I think we really need to go back to a checks and balances type of government instead of a top heavy executive branch. This lack of checks and balances is the root cause of the issues but I really don't know if there's anything I or we can do about it.

I'm open to suggestions for specific action items. I'm extremely unsure of what I can do to help cause change.
But why assume that these European replacements for American web services wouldn't either be complicit in spying for their home countries, or the US? Why is a Great Firewall of Europe better for Europeans' own freedom?
Is the "Mail Isolation Control and Tracking System" ever used to do anything other than decide guilt by assocation?

That is, does the to/from data they collect ever get used to exonerate someone from a crime, or is it just used to decide who to put on "no fly" lists and other such un-American things?

Can this data have any use other than providing guilt by assocation? Can this data be used to say "no, not a terrorist" or something like that?

If it's just one sided, used or useful only for prosecution and persecution, then it needs to be done away with. As it stands, this practice is just Soviet. It's un-American to do guilt by assocation, and to have prosecution evidence that the defendant can't challenge in public.
Why is Java not discussed on HN anymore?
It may be a presumption, but a long time I have'nt seen java threads. Is it because of ORACLE or the language itself ?
> I think that would be news to the rest of the world since it's likely illegal in most of it.

The specific details of the NSA's (or any foreign intelligence service of any nation) intelligence gathering would be news, but the fact the NSA (or any foreign intelligence service of any nation) actually gathers intelligence outside of its home nation, quite often in violation of the laws of the places from which the intelligence is gathered, really isn't news.

I mean, that's the whole point of foreign intelligence services.
You couldn't send a pull request before this.
Instead they can be attacked about having no clue what they are talking about, which seems to be the case for many subjects.

> An adverse opinion of experts can be accused of bias and other things that can cause the conflict to continue to fester

Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this comment thread and the parent's article doing exactly that? To quote from [1]:

> And juries in East Texas like to hand out big awards to plaintiffs, jury consultant Julie Blackman has written for the Jury Expert blog.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-patent-plaintiffs-win-in-...
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Clever - I'd never considered the copyright approach. If they don't pay, you then have legitimate claim for a DMCA take-down.
I'm sure some of mine do too..
"So yes, Marco is absolutely correct that Google's becoming a company that, like Facebook, is more interested in bringing developers in after their products have gained traction with users. This is also how Apple has acquired so much interest from developers; they didn't open source their OS, they didn't spend years constructing open standards for mobile apps. They just built a hugely popular OS and developers came running."

Glass is following the same route. With the delay of the GDK, Glassware is the current development route. It is just a REST protocol on a limited 1,000 requests per day. I imagine the GDK will not surface until they are satisfied with the results from the audience.
I'm ops, but the cool thing about ansible is that it is easy to get devs to help. They know their software packages, I don't, but I can point them at a playbook and they can fairly easily fill out the basics, I can work on the orchestration after they have done the initial playbook design and testing.

Chef (and formerly Puppet) had (for us) a much higher barrier to entry when it comes to getting an unfamiliar dev on board. We basically had to get reqs from the dev, and then we would build the recipes.
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