skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may have to offer a bit more here... Pressure != Wheeling and dealing. I think what President Obama meant by wheeling and dealing is that the U.S. will not "give up" anything for Snowden.
I'm wondering, how do you replace an old image with a new one. Do you just start a new VM and terminate the old one ?
The 140 char limit has nothing to do with image hosting and you already touched on how URL shortners are toxic.
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Ubiquitous surveillance can be used to control and coerce anyone, regardless of absence of criminal wrongdoing (though there are people who claim the average american commits three felonies a day now, because the USC is so overbroad).

It's not about "nothing to hide": when anyone can be blackmailed, including judges and lawmakers and law enforcement, the entire system of interlocking checks and balances breaks down.

http://pastebin.com/7SRmFpFH

The FBI threatened MLK Jr with exposing his extramarital affair (they'd discovered via surveillance) if he didn't give up his civil rights work.

You may not have anything to hide, but many do, for entirely legal reasons, and it is shameful of you to deny them their right to privacy.

If you truly have absolutely nothing to hide, it is quite unlikely you are doing very significant work to meaningfully improve the world.
That's technically not true. Options would enable you to hedge your equity position in the trust.

The trust is designed to "reflect the performance of a weighted average price of Bitcoins." The degree to which it does this accurately is yet to be determined; tracking error is a real problem with some ETFs.

Bitcoin has proven to be subject to extreme volatility, the trust may not achieve its investment objective, the options market (if one becomes available) is unlikely to have significant volume and all of the other risks associated with options trading would apply.

If you want to hedge against the loss of value of your bitcoin holdings, your best option today is to pare your holdings and realize gains (if you have them). I wouldn't expect that to change for the foreseeable future even with financial products that you can access as a retail investor.
>If you're smart, hardworking, and willing to relocate you'll be able to continue your life as a wage-slave and never acquire any true influence in this world.

Agreed.
People might think that (apart from GPS) signals to one tower only are unlocalizable. Add the variable of signal strength (with fairly uniform xmit pwr) to that single vector and it gets more interesting.
All intelligence services are in the business of mass surveillance, period. If they're not, they aren't a good intelligence service.

Isn't it the other way round? You fail at targeted surveillance and have to resort to mass surveillance?

The simple fact is that with the way the world is today, it's foolish to blindly assume that your allies are always acting in your best interest. They are, obviously, going to act in their own best interests, but it's important to know when your interests coincide, and when they don't. And it's more important to know that now than any other time.

I mostly agree - usually the best you can expect is that someone is acting in common best interest. But there are also some exception like help after a natural disaster where states might indeed act in your best interest.

The difference between today and 30 years ago is that there isn't a Warsaw Pact for NATO to oppose. Keep in mind, every major player in the Warsaw Pact is now either a member of NATO, or in a "partnership for peace" with NATO. The current major "adversary"(and I use that term very, very lightly) is China, who enjoys good trade relations with the entire world, to the point where open conflict with China would be so disastrous to everyone involved(including China), that it's completely off the table.

For Germany China is an important trade partner with between 5 % and 10 % of the total import and export volume. Stopping all trading relationships will without doubt have a noticeable effect but I don't know if it will be our if I would call it disastrous.

That's why this kind of spycraft is even more important now than ever. Large scale military movements are easy to see. But knowing things like what the EU as a whole is going to do with trade agreements, or if the Chinese are talking to the Russians about a new oil pipeline, is hugely important.

Yes, it might be interesting to know, but obtaining this information by spying at others is not legal. In this world it is also important to have some money at hand but that makes a really bad justification for robbing a bank. Just because you want something does not mean you can have it or are even entitled to have it. If law and justice means something to you, deal with it, otherwise you are just opportunistic.
If MSFT and EA don't do it for you, he was an exec at EA through an acquisition of his game company, Distinctive Software.
It's in fact the opposite: the jury is explicitly told to judge the case, not the law, and mentioning nullification as a juror will certainly get you thrown out during the selection process, and I've even heard of cases which were sent to mistrial when the jury's intent was revealed. The best way to successfully nullify is to pretend that you've never heard of such a thing.

I do hope there's a demographic shift here. Facing heavy-handed laws regarding drugs and such, web-savvy young people seem to be slowly catching on about tactics like nullification, not talking to police, etc.
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Well I do hate to say it but we've always had an "us or them" mentality to the rest of the world. I mean we were so isolationist that we were willing to watch Europe burn from afar rather than do anything. There's no telling what would have happened without Pearl Harbor; the U.S. may never have joined the war against Germany at all, in fact.

You'll notice that much of the furor has come from the idea that the NSA might be watching what Americans are doing. For everything else there was effectively a big giant "Of course they were bugging $FOO, that's their job".

Obviously Europe doesn't feel the same way (and didn't with ECHELON)...
MyFonts does too. 83k web fonts according to:

http://www.myfonts.com/info/webfonts/
under U.S. law nothing keeps the government from getting that information from the phone company.

To the extent that you can actually differentiate between them. Which was hard enough when ATT ruled.
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I would suggest that their self driving car technology is not purely intended for Maps, their goal is for it to be used for industry and by consumers.
Yes. But, I don't think fighter pilots often watch YouTube on their HUDs while flying.
Snowden was in Hong Kong not China. There's a distinct difference.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty anyway?

Doesn't mean you can run away and avoid facing trial. For example, in Australia, if you flee from a Breath test (drunk driving) without being tested, your punishment is guaranteed to be as bad or worse than as if you were caught drunk driving. Presumption of innocence is a right granted to you as part of a legal system. When you refuse to operate within that legal system... you can't pick and choose the bits you want to apply to you.

To me the case is so murky- I would have no trouble believing that Assange was completely set up, but at the same time from his behaviour I would have no trouble believing he was guilty either. But as long as he avoids facing a trial, you can't just say "we must assume he is innocent". That is a right granted to you as part of a process where you will face a courtroom at some point.
Its not illegal to have a Bluetooth headset and have your gps running. What's the difference here?
Like how those other NSA whistleblowers were "tortured"? Their treatment was wrong, I'll admit, but calling it torture is insulting to those who have actually been waterboarded by the U.S.
Yup. They claimed they owned "1% of all BTC", without specifying if it was 1% of 11M (current amount) or 21M (max theoretical amount). But if it is 1% of the latter, then it matches perfectly with the number of bitcoins needed to back this ETF (1M shares * 0.2 BTC/share = 200k BTC).
The best way:
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A meta comment.

It reflects strongly on the state of our world now that I was more concerned about the fallout from visiting wikileaks.org than I was by the latest information coming from Snowden.
> But you can be sure that if you tried to do this, a lot of other sell orders would pop up, making it effectively impossible to buy up all bitcoins.

Yes, at entirely reasonable prices, right? :D A substantially higher cost basis starts to cut into fund profits...

Also, a minor correction to your comment: the depth of the MtGox order book is public, and it was accurate at the time of my comment. It's up to $2.2mm USD to buy the whole thing now.
This is a really cool idea. I've been looking for ways to combine the advantages of a static site with a more traditional CMS-esque workflow (I love Jekyll, but I hate having to recompile my site and repush it just to add a new post -- it makes things like mobile editing difficult.)

My question is thus: how would this work with a blog? The demo video showed how to change the text of divs on a landing page, but is it possible to actually create new pages/posts?
That strikes me as curious - given that Google owns Motorola. I wonder if Facebook's "We detected a login into your account from an unrecognised device" thing gets triggered by this (and if not, is that because Motorola are for some reason attempting to log in to Picasa/YouTube with your credentials but not to Facebook, or whether Facebook are "filtering out" notifications from Motorola's ip addresses?).
Web/app development is not responsible for this. People are. One way to move the needle would be to not go into web/app development, instead starting something that directly serves people who have the problems in the article. It could be as boring as enterprisey CRUD done right. A medical network for health professionals and users. Physical products. Face to face services, where technology is not the point but merely the tool.
I completely agree. However, when my mother wants to locate an old friend from her childhood, my description of a currently non-existent widely-used federated social network is of little use to her, but Facebook seems to serve her quite well.
Threats to cancel trade agreements if Equador grants asylum to Snowden: http://news.antiwar.com/2013/06/26/sen-menendez-threatens-ec...

Snowden's claim that the Vice President of the US is involved in similar political pressure against multiple of the nations Snowden has requested asylum from:

"Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions."

This is obviously political "wheeling and dealing" to interfere with Snowden's right to request asylum.
Am I seeing things or does it look just a little bit like the PBR heat map puts a bird on Portland?

http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/portland/pbr
Really? Can you point to some examples of that? Shouldn't be too hard if it usually happens...
Could we settle on "stolen"?
Feels like the Monkey banana and water spray experiment happened with the bots (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Did_the_monkey_banana_and_water_sp...)
Do you think if you pay an ISP specifically to not divulge your data to others, and they do, then you should be able to get restitution legally, since they broke the contract?

At what point can you actually have a basis for legal recourse?

Once again the problem is that we don't have decentralized technology that would store our data encrypted and serve it only to those who we have granted access. But we will. Actually the new MegaUpload is encrypted.
Thread is screencapped from 2011, and 4chan threads disappear after a few hours.

Luckily for you: http://chanarchive.org/4chan/v/22226/discussion-on-bots-a-i
I don't think that Rockefeller Education board quote supports your position. Education had previously only been necessary for the professions and callings listed - and its not like simply having more schools meant the economy was suddenly going to be composed of 100% professionals. They just want to give to the children what their parents want to give them but can't.

I suspect that factory owners and other bosses would have been scared of a new class of worker that could read and write. In fact I tend to think more education means less docile and easily manipulated people - then and now.
Regulators.

Its going to happen. And I hope they save everyone a whole lot of time and preempt it.
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I'd really like to find a coursera/udacity/... course or any tutorial on basic devops that includes the use of vagrant/packer chef/puppet/ansible....
Perhaps PBR got too popular again.
Global and Mail? It's Globe and Mail. And AFAIK, they've reopened so this is old news.
The first thing this post reminded me of was the Internet Defense League, spawned by the first incarnation of CISPA:

http://internetdefenseleague.org/

Whatever happened with this?
I don't think anyone said that you have a constitutional right to be released on bail or to decide which court your case will be heard in.

You (supposedly) have a right to a fair trial, as well as the right to be free of torture, and the argument is that sitting in solitary confinement for months or years, only to be convicted in a heavily biased Virginia court, would violate these things.
Except that this is Ben Swartz, not Ben Schwartz.
As long as you're here, any comment on the (current) top-rated comment by lukejduncan? How can we trust that our private information today won't be similarly exposed by a settings change tomorrow? (I hope that nothing I've posted would endanger my relationship with my family, but I know others aren't as safe.)
Back at home is questionable. He's got the backing of the young and the technorati, but the traditional media is wavering between "Just The Facts" to sell a manhunt, and labeling him an outright traitor who gave secrets to The Enemy. A great many people take the latter at face value and don't pursue the matter any further.

He might have the backing of libertarians and the far left, but these were people already opposed to the known over-reach of state power. Honestly, if there's any hope of a significant sway in mainstream public opinion, I think it's going to come from the Tea Party.
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And hopefully all the startups here are aware they can get a free 3 year MSDN subscription via BizSpark, provided they meet some requirements.
To imply that the US is somehow out of order to pursue his extradition makes no sense. What does he expect them to do?

IMHO, he should not have run. I don't think he would have any trouble convincing 12 people that what he did was the right thing. Running was bad form.

I don't like this guy, and I don't trust him.
Why wouldn't the same happen when we talk about other forms of prejudice, e.g., racism?
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I think it reflects more strongly on your own paranoia, if you really worry that just visiting wikileaks might get you arrested or something.
Yeah. And waterboarding is not torture, i guess. You can play with words all you like.
Haha, a little bit ...

For those that don't know the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XM3vWJmpfo
And another one.. this one doesn't have Phoenix or San Antonio.. I mean there are a LOT of techie types in Phoenix and other cities in the top 10 excluded... it's not all "creative" most of the development here is more business oriented.. I just really get sick of these types of things not taking into account some of the largest cities in the country.

I'm just getting really, really tired of living in the 6th largest city in the US, not even including the very large suburbs, and always being excluded from these kinds of things.
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The thing that really jumped out at me was the proprietary "Security System" for holding keys developed by Winklevoss IP LLC and licensed to the Sponsor.

...and the fact that the Sponsor is not liable for security-related losses except in the case of gross negligence, which I don't imagine would cover advanced theft/hacking. (I am not a lawyer.)

Something close to 10% of all bitcoin currently in circulation have been stolen— it's a widespread problem and there are presently zero really robust solutions currently in use by bitcoiners. I eagerly await more data about their proprietary setup.
That probably kills my idea, since to provide liquidity for the ETF they'd need to hold significant BTC outside the fund.
Well according to Assange (and choosing Russia Today as a source that's been sympathetic to him), there's more stuff coming from the Snowden channel, even though it's out of Snowden's hands.

http://rt.com/news/assange-snowden-revelations-continue-459/

and also (vie Reuters) http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/07/01/snowden-rus...

So it appears that Greenwald and Snowden are saying two different things.
I use a Mac every day. I also watch other people use Macs and not only do they not use a contextual menu, but they by and large don't use keyboard shortcuts either. HN users are a pretty small subset of computer users.
I think at least part of the problem stems from society's expectations of the "role" of men in relationships. Right or wrong, men are still largely expected to be pursuers but the rules are not well defined - often different women will have different ideas of what is appropriate which makes the whole thing clear as mud.

One approach is to avoid it all completely, to act as if everybody within a professional context is completely asexual. I think that approach really only works for robots and people who have zero social interaction with other people at work. It's unrealistic, so back to square one with the ambiguity of being human around other humans.

We end up with a cognitive dissonance born of competing and vaguely defined requirements and expectations. That's a recipe for frustration in any context - add the emotional and hormonal aspects and its going to be really stressful for a lot of guys - and that stress is going to come out in unpleasant ways.
Is this where we start parsing what exactly a woman really means by 'rape'? "It's OK, she didn't say she was raped, she said he had non-consensual intercourse, clearly a different thing!"
It's not your porn history the government is interested in - that is, unless you run for public office one day, in which case they may suddenly become very interested in it.

Rather, what you should have an issue with is them having information about you that is deeply personal and private in nature. Have you or a significant other ever had to get an abortion? Have you ever had trouble maintaining an erection? Are you one of the 30% of women who cannot achieve an orgasm? Do you have any mental disorders, sexually-transmitted diseases, or genetic conditions? How large is your penis? Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? Have you ever fantasized about child porn, fat porn, necrophilia, etc.? Have you ever attempted suicide?

Most importantly: do you believe that the government knowing all of this about you - and everyone else - makes you safer?
After first reading this, I pictured a typical Google software engineer, perhaps a Stanford grad who had been on the Google+ team for 3 years.

A bit of digging tells me this is not the case. Ben Swartz appears to be a Product Quality Associate: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/benjamin-swartz/32/988/285

As a former Googler, I'm not 100% sure what the role is, but it appears to carry a $54k salary (http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Product-Quality-Assoc...) and is essentially what boils down to product support via phone/email/forum (http://www.quora.com/Google/What-is-an-Associate-at-Google).

I hope the above does not come across as snotty or arrogant, but rather an accurate framing of Ben's role at Google, because it is far from the default (that I pictured, at least)
This post has to be someones idea of satire. (Assuming it's not) If you have the social intelligence to make this kind of money you definitely have the social intelligence to build something to do good in the world and get "really" rich. I'm the working american unemployed poor at the moment. I've been trying to build something of "my own" for quite a while and can't get my head around the social confusion to save my life. Here's an idea for you. See if you can make a simple online project that generates a profit. Seriously. Just see if you can make something that generates a profit. No VC money, no complicated bloated bureaucratic outside help. Just you researching and experimenting ... and a terminal. If you can do that, and coupled with the resources you have, you could seriously be dangerous. But I still think this post is a leg pull.
By using these services' APIs instead of holding onto your credentials?
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Okay. So, where's the point being made? You obviously want the attention, and I think you've got it. Tell us what's going on.
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I thought we had an army of guy fawkes mask wearing kids who use the power of 4chan to strike terror in the hearts of giant corporations and governments from their parents' basements.