skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this particular case, the limiting issue was probably international relations. Securing it on-site solves the problem of keeping it away from terrorists, without raising all sorts of questions about access, transport, secrecy, payments, etc. between three nations (U.S., Russia, Kazakhstan).
It's just a Java program that writes bytes to a file in the object format and machine code of whatever system you're targeting. It doesn't use any other assembler or compiler apart from Graal (which is also in Java).
If you talk with any of your non-tech friends about this topic, does a single one of them care?

FWIW, the nephew of a very close friend of mine mentioned the topic of Snowden to me. He's a former army ranger, just recently mustered out and now going to veterinary school. He thought Snowden was a hero. His mom, who basically owns a few gas stations, has been very pro Assange and Bradley Manning for years and I'm sure is also paying a decent amount of attention to Snowden's story.
Yes agree. 9 hours is way more than clerical.
You snipped out the part where he said exactly that.
I wouldn't exactly say that AppEngine doesn't have much traction. Every month, half the world's IP addresses touch some service hosted on AppEngine[1], which is a pretty huge number.

[1]: And that statistic is more than a year old now (from 2012's Google I/O: http://gigaom.com/2012/06/28/google-app-engine-by-the-number...), it's a higher number now.
There's more to the internet than just port 80, so to declare that a scan encompassing only a single port on each host is a scan of "the entire internet" is somewhat mistaken.

The more correct title would be, "a scan of the entire World Wide Web."
it is amazingly disturbing that this criminal act has occurred and the discussion turns to data backups. They should not be allowed to steal your possessions period. You should not have to backup your data just for the sole reason that the government wants to steal it.
I could have sworn that the line was: you have nothing to fear if you're not doing anything wrong.

Good for the goose, good for the gander.
I'm not sure if Cloudbill provides this...

But what I would (personally) love is a place to manage all of my bill payments in one place -- instead of having to log in separately to bank/credit card/internet/cell phone/etc sites to view amounts and then pay all separately. (Sometimes they can be configured to autopay, sometimes they can't...)

Every time my CC number gets compromised and I have to change the billing info on 8+ sites... ugh what a pain. And then on CC sites where they don't allow autopay (or only allow it in a fixed dollar amount, WTF), and I miss the e-mail saying my new statement has arrived, and get a late fee... ugh again.
Well, India does not have to imagine that, since its common practice. A language is the identity of the people. I am not sure that India is ready to inorganically archive or extinguish the identities of its various sub-cultures. India is already proving that it can mix growth with diversity(albeit at a slower pace), but a section of the middle class think's this approach is too slow. I personally do not agree with the one language nation theory. It reeks of sectarianism.

Edit: I consciously ignored Tower of Babel due it being a misplaced argument.
People don't care. Never did, never will. Yet, things do change, from time to time. One way out of this deadlock of apathy and perception of apathy would be to study -- in depth, historically -- what has made power erode, often in very short periods of time, sometimes even single events. Maybe you'll come to the conclusion that just "raising awareness" is not what gets you there, and that there may be situations where people who, essentially, don't care are much more likely to bring down a regime than people who do.
You have an unwarranted amount of faith in bureaucratic competency.
Curious as to when you last tried out GAE. I've had a wonderful experience so far over the last 2 years. My instances never take longer than a few seconds to start up... in fact it's sometimes spooky how fast they do.

"...with very harsh restrictions and poor portability"

You can say the same about web development, but the real question is if the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. As a one-man-band GAE is almost a necessity for me, allowing me to focus purely on code. As far as portability, I'm religious about wrapping any GAE-specific code/paradigms so I can hop onto EC2 or whatever pretty easily if I need to (actually did need to once). Certainly if I was leading a large team, we would explore more efficient and cost-effective options, but for me it's perfect.

There is also Google Compute Engine, which may mitigate the restrictions of GAE...haven't tried it myself yet though.
And here's what it looks like at runtime: http://play.golang.org/p/bVh52aKvMi
Let's say you're a college student or career changer who just learned python. You can write a script, upload it, and have the world use it for free.

You then learn sql and build complex apps.

Learn about bigtable and build a viral app that scales to anything.

Learn golang and make your python code more efficient.

And you can do this all free to start off with.

The alternative - learn linux, web servers, db admin, security. Or php/mysql and pay shady hosters $20 a month and buy domain name.

If you're experienced and know all about servers etc, you can now ditch all that knowledge and outsource it to someone else and focus on higher value things.
Aaron Patzer went into quite a bit of detail a year or two ago with a commuter medium speed Maglev concept. He since ditched it to focus on self driving cars because he felt they were more viable.
You'd still be battling the inverse square law. Wireless power is just too inefficient to ever be used for serious appliances.
> Really? If you talk with any of your non-tech friends about this topic, does a single one of them care?

I've had quite the opposite experience so far. Most of the non-tech people I met recently on buses, shops etc. seemed to understand the problem very clearly and they cared. People cared about the issues at hand and quite intensely at that.

True that the majority seems silent, but deep inside almost everyone expressed a kind of hatred towards the 'O-force'.

Let's not misunderstand people because each one of us wants to hear positive news everyday. Stuff like Kanye's baby. This is not an unexpected behavior because ordinary people like us really want only one thing: Not being hassled by assholes.

In my opinion most of the times people are in pursuit of happiness and that is also, mark my words, the sole reason why people voted the O's to power in the first place. Let's not underestimate the power of people and lose hope altogether. It's much quicker to fall downhill than to climb high in the trust game of politics. Ever wondered how many people still dislike the bygone Bush?
While what you're saying is true, what happens when you pay bills from multiple accounts like most people do? You have to register all of those bills with all of your different bank accounts. The same issue arises when you want to change banks...reregistering all of your bills.

What also sets this apart from bank bill pay is the ability to pay with any credit card and be given suggestions on how to pay each bill to take full advantage of any discounts or earn the best rewards.

Grey charges (questionable charges) on credit cards as well as bills from places like phone carriers and cable companies have become a huge problem for the average consumer and Cloudbills automatic alerts to grey charges along with the ability to remotely dispute the charge, offers value.
I have no data to back this up but. . .when we first started hearing about microcredit, the funds were coming from non- or not-for-profits entities. Then banks saw a huge potential there and jumped in. I think it would be interesting to measure the effectiveness of non- and not-for-profits vs. banks and for-profits.
No, it isn't because these lists are one-way. Once you are detained no one in authoritay ever considers the possibility that you are on the list incorrectly. There is absolutely no benefit to themselves to question the list. If they are wrong they let a terrorist go, meanwhile detaining the guy is all by the book so no risk to their job security.
The geek in me agrees, the art collector in me doesn't.

For me at least, the moment you display "art" on screens, its significance is diluted. When it's not "permanent" it feels like decoration or worse, a screensaver.

Having said this, some of those in the art establishment have the same point of view about a recent project I was involved in which brought art from the UK's public collections onto 22,000 billboards across the country. Whatever gets art in front of people can only be a good thing.
I suspect you suffer from this insularity you reference. You're completely out of touch with "Main St" where this story has legs and is turning the tide against terrorism based laws. Look at quotes from various leaders of US congress for how the shift is in play.
> That is, Mr. David Miranda had no Miranda rights there.

I wasn't aware that Brazilian citizens detained in the UK had rights granted by the US.
That's more a testament to Western propaganda than the historical restraint shown by Western governments.
If we wait long enough, we will also find out that Steve Jobs invented practically everything around us - the bits, the bytes, the electricity, atoms and molecules. Hack, he was the first fish out of the water that gave raise to the man kind millions of years later.

All Hail the King Jobs.
JVM deployment is a little more involved, but due to the use of the virtual machine, can allow for hot code swaps. However, this isn't cleanly baked into many application architectures, so YMMV.
Canada's RCMP spied on Amnesty, the Anglican Church and the Raging Grannies. Our secret services gave their American counterparts information that led to torture of Canadian citizens and others.

You think we're not part of this totalitarian movement?
I always wondered how it was possible to build the small pieces that go into mechanical movements with a 200 years old technology. I guess they needed precision lathes or other tools to build them. How much was a trade secret and how much was known by everybody? What would it take for someone today to replicate what was possible then?
I find it even more annoying when they're not engineers, and their math is bad, and they get it totally wrong. The number of news stories I saw explaining the Hyperloop as 'like a big pneumatic tube' and showing the twitter picture of the huge fan forced tube as support... even though that's COMPLETELY WRONG... anguish.

But yeah, screw those guys. Much more fun to solve the problems.
Cloudbill does provide what you're looking for. You have outlined the core problem with current billpay...the time it takes and the hassle you have to go through. Cloudbill can alert users via txt, email and within the app itself to help insure you don't forget a Nik.
And the entire spy film genre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_film
I am unable to say. The name of the group, or groups, controlling both the government and corporations is unimportant. Call it the illuminati or the jews or whatever. All I know is that money is an extremely good reason for the super rich to create groups that help them continue be super rich.

The idealist in me died when he realized that even large, powerful governments can be undermined and destroyed by this controlling group (or the group's controlling group). If they can topple countries, like they have done several times in the past, then what kind of resistance can a lowly normal pose offer?

None. I've learned to just keep my nose to the grindstone, make money for myself and ignore the rest of the world. It's easiest that way.
This looks very cool, although I'm not sure I want to spend the time to figure out how to install it manually :( Why not put it in the Chrome store yet? You could even put it up with an opaque name and no description just as a way for others to look at it without going through the manual install hassle?
Not on a weekend.
If it was mainly for entertainment, they should have called it Blow Jobs, you know. It would have been true to their intent (entertainment), and more accurate to the content of the movie.
Easy: without video proof, they have a better chance of arguing that injuries came from something else.
I think the equation given does give units in watts/m^2? Unless I'm missing something, power has the units of W, and the only dimensions on the bottom of the equation are the radius, which is meters. Because it's r^2, the result is in W/m^2.

For a non-directional beam, it would be P/(4.pi.r^2).
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As Greenwald's response[0] suggests, it seems the only obvious way to cause any type of change (from small to moderate), seems to speak in terms of 'mafia', 'fascism', and 'police state'.

Allow me to take John Stuart Mill out of context momentarily, because he was speaking with regard to Irish-English relationship (territory disputes between the two countries). But it summarises Mill's thought on why radical and extreme thought is useful: it helps bring small to moderate change because it incites dialogue. Unfortunately, this seems to be where we are at now.

"...I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment. [...] To induce them to approve of any change it is necessary that they should look upon it as a middle course: they think every proposal extreme and violent unless they hear of some other proposal going still farther, upon which their antipathy to extreme views may discharge itself".[1]

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-m...

[1] Autiobiography. John Stuart Mill. Penguin Classics. p. 216.
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A wasted opportunity to properly interview a great man. There are a few people that you interview with reverence: Woz is one of them.
I don't think the UK government is just a US puppet here. A lot of materials that Snowden released are directly related to UK interests -- part of which is to at least be perceived as an autonomous entity that can make autonomous decisions.
I agree with you. These soft skills are often overlooked by programmers and they chase they technical knowledge, even though it is fun you have to remember that there is more to be successful developer.
The thing that confuses me the most, is that Obama used to come across as extremely intelligent, with nuanced understanding of the issues at hand. In his writing and in his speeches, he had no equal, and he was very much a "straight talker", and even on issues you disagreed with him on, you felt that he understood your side (and all sides) of the argument genuinely.

But over the past year, he's practically gone full retard. I'm not even talking about on a policy level -- I'm just talking about his communications, period. On the Snowden issue he's shown zero leadership, zero sense of understanding or sympathizing with Americans' concerns... and all this coming from a former constitutional-law scholar, it's just BIZARRE.

Obviously my faith in Obama has rapidly dwindled, but more than that, I'm just left confused. Why can't the man even communicate anymore?
Disclaimer: This is largely speculative and WHOLLY me playing devil's advocate. I do not condone this sort of behaviour by my government.

Could the case be made that journalists are legitimate targets for investigation following on from Manning and Snowdon? My focus here is less on terrorism and more towards counter-intelligence. Were I a rival nation-state I would see an intelligence-gathering opportunity in what's happened: Rather than bribing/coercing people into become informants, there is now the option to invite them to 'blow the whistle' by posing as a journalist.
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he did invent the personal computer right? ... right?

;)
> "Money doesn't come only from taxes, it can also come from printing."

If the government printed money and gave it directly to the impoverished it would be equivalent to a tax on everyone else (and the wealthy would experience the largest absolute wealth loss).

Money is only useful in so much that it represents a fraction of the total money supply. It represents a kind of point system for the distribution of wealth. I might own one trillionth of the total money supply, whereas a more wealthy person might one one millionth of the money supply.

Thus, when you print money it reduces everyone's wealth (except for the new money holder). So let's say today there is $1 trillion in the money supply, and I (the government) print another trillion and give it directly to the impoverished. The value of every dollar has just been halved. So every millionaire has essentially become a half millionaire.

So yes, if you printed $1 trillion and gave it to the impoverished it would be equivalent to a tax on everyone else (and the wealthy would experience the largest absolute wealth loss).

However, in today's banking system newly created money disproportionately ends up in the hands of the wealthier. In this way, creating money (today) is a tax on the impoverished and the lower earners in society. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation
For posterity's sake, the deleted comment, by qubitsam(https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=qubitsam):

>Why is this submission* of Greenwald's account of the incident dead (even after it got on the front page with 25+ upvotes)?

>* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6233685

I'd say it's because the submitter for the linked submission, with username cransa (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cransa), is only 17 hours old, while the submitter of the active link is m1 (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=m1), a user for 2 years. It is interesting that m1 hasn't commented on any submissions in months, and this submission is one of only two in his history. If he's been active recently, he's only been lurking. Of course, it shouldn't matter how old the user is or what their activity history looks like, so long as the submission isn't spam. The deaded submission clearly isn't spam and cransa's comments aren't spammy either (and that dead link is his only submission to boot), but this isn't the first time the mods have decided to give preference to links submitted by older users (edit: as well giving preference to other users with no discernible rationale for doing so). As well, in my own observations, it appears that there is a upvote/comment threshold that once crossed means the rising submission is liable to get killed. That is, if a rising submission has ~10-20 upvotes but no comments, it seems at greater risk of being deaded. And of course there's the auto-hellban for new users that decide to jump into active discussions, regardless of their comments' content. I think that's a more insidious action than any of the preceding.

tl;dr: Mods = Gods

(I don't know if qubitsam deleted the comment of his own accord. But assuming he didn't: Please, dear gods/mods, consider not deleting this one too.)
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I think this is a terrible mistake but I do wish he'd stop referring to himself as a journalist. He's a political protagonist using his platform for change. Journalist's don't "aggressively" report on stories. It matters because GG is now so tightly integrated into this story that we need to view his comments not as those of an impartial reporter.

I doubt they think they can intimidate him. They probably are hoping they can get their hands on as yet unreleased docs to stop them being published. Either way it's a real mistake.
Does anyone have the original article link? There are several indications in the comments that it was changed by an HN editor.
Of course they never had. The goal was to point that it's not like in the movies. He can't demand the lawyer, he can't even stay silent. A lot of things to slip the tongue during the nine hours of interrogation. Being detained under terrorist laws, it must have occurred to him that they can even throw him in Guantanamo and claim legality. Intimidation, you bet!
Adam Curtis just 10 days ago published a good piece on bureaucratic competence within the UK intelligence community:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER
Snowden has been on the front page of the Huffington Post for months - just like this particular story is at just this moment. This submission was posted from The Guardian. Masses of people read these publications.

Astrophysicists, mathematicians, and scientists, for the most part, don't read Hacker News. But they do read the Huffington Post. Some of them even are so clever they made these microwaveable-beef taquitos that always come out crunchy that I'm just about to snack on. They don't care about issues that directly affect their freedoms and liberty? The masses are unwashed?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyuoUwxCLMs
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I really don't know anything beyond genocide I could muster (we don't have a word for holocaust of entire humanity, do we?)
The very phrase "#N in the [official] playbook" suggests the existence of a structure of governing rules.
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Perhaps what we should advocate is for every presidential candidate to go through a brainwashing program that removes these tolerances?
we are in a serious democracy crisys right now all over the world, because the politics doesnt represent us anymore.. not now.. and dont thinks things changes that much only by "voting the other guy".

if people dont really pressure for a immediate change in laws, its a illusion that by exchanging parties in power they will change their behavior..

they had made us believe there were only 3 powers in democracy.. but the truth is there are only 1 real power.. and thats the one that comes from the people.. the other 3 ones, are just institutionalized..

its in times like these, people must show this power in action in a way that make the institutions fear the people power..

they made it in the french revolution, they made it in the arab spring.. they are making it here in brazil..

in brazil now they are just listening, and doing what they are told to.. dont know what will become of all of this.. but it is working..

people must stand.. its the only way against distopic and schizophrenic governments
If you want the facts read Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs.

>> "It would have been true to their intent (entertainment)"

OF COURSE their intent is entertainment! It's a movie!
> It exists on both the right and left ends of the political spectrum.

Even though those are relatively exotic forms, compared to the one that exists in the middle of the political spectrum.
On the US's murderous sanctions against Iraq (and nuking Japan, for that matter):

Lesley Stahl: "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"

Madeleine Albright: "We think the price is worth it." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq#Albright...)

Dissidents (those who Greenwald praises) point out that international politics runs on the mafia model. (Keeping in mind that the mafia is small and nation-states are large. https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/03-2)