skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years
Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 years in prison
Instead of going through all this hassle with private clouds just to avoid using a service like Dropbox, I have some shell scripts that use rsync and curl to grab almost everything I want to back up from my hard drive and the internet (rss subscriptions, bookmarks), and generate a tar.7z.gpg file. The 7z archive is AES256 encrypted as well.

I feel relatively safe that I could drop this file anywhere I want and it would be useless to anybody without access to my brain or keystrokes, so I just put it in unsecure cloud storage. If I'm wrong about that, then I'm screwed, because all of my finances and identity would be full compromised. Each backup is pretty small since it's mostly text files and a few binaries and images. I have a minimal amount of media files so I don't bother to back up larger things that are mostly replaceable.
Traffic, pollution, Internet censorship and VPN attacks, rent, visa rules, taxes.
I thought they only charge your card if the project was successfully funded, so if it didn't reach its goal then no fees were charged in the first place.
If you are using vim with C# I highly recommend OmniSharp - https://github.com/nosami/Omnisharp

It provides real intellisense, find usages, etc. It's based on NRefactory.
I don't understand why having the right to choose what to display on my screen is so hard to understand for these people.
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What has government ever done for us, part from GPS, metric, GMT, telephony, electrical standards, safety standards, the Internet etc?
Start the "Nothing to see" campaign!
"Vim mode" in applications is rarely complete. It's enough to get by if you're doing a simple one off thing but it's no way to live.
Exactly.

I feel like the term "marketing" is often used by not-so-great communicators to fill a gap of understanding of how value is communicated by those who are doing good business as a result.

I think the same goes for companies. E.g. a user friendly phone, tablet, computer or maybe just a very usable website, is not more expensive because of 'marketing', but because it does a better job communicating with the end user and thus creating a better perception of value to the customer.
> The truth of the matter is, corporations hold more influence with Congress than voters.

Corporations are convenient fictions. The truth of the matter is individuals with lots of money and connections hold more influence with Congress individuals without lots of money and connections.
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Wait, you mean it's not for personal enjoyment?!
Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison
Until there is data, not talking points or vague references to other models, it is in face just a rant. What is the actual supply? What is the actual demand? What is the curve function for the supply and demand lines for education and workers? What factors of those functions are accounting for teacher unions and what is the source data that you used to fit those functions in your model. I don't mean a handful of words - I mean actual data with numbers, or at least a citation to a work that has that available. Waiting for Superman may include those - I haven't read it.

As for the attempt to derail over "politeness concerns" because I used the word rant - I won't bite.
Since "root" in an SELinux configuration has just that one job, it is significantly easier to limit access to that privilege level to very specific cases which you can two-man or externally record ala the script command.

Assuming, that is, the system was set up that way in the first place. Which is such a PITA that I totally believe they just skipped it.
Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years for WikiLeaks disclosures
That's not even remotely what he said. He was making two separate points:

1) the problems of having to teach users how to enable Java applets. Having done time on a customer support desk in a past life, I know full well that talking someone technologically inept through something like that would be hell on Earth.

2) and a point about how this idea works out less secure in practice as you're allowing 3rd party code to run natively on your machine, desensitising users to running 3rd party Java applets (or even encouraging people have the enabled to run by default). And scripts running inside PDFs are a known vector for attack as well.

I also disagree with the practice of pushing proprietary solutions which are only able to work on a single platform - which it sounds like their solutions are in-spite of Java and PDF being open and cross platform standards (I'm having to take the OPs word on that point - as I'm not a resident of the same country)
Truecrypt hidden volumes already solve the problem of password extortion, although they are not easy to setup properly.
Those incomes look like fairly typical mid-level individual salaries (in the DC area, at least). I would expect the household numbers to be higher than listed to account for those that have working spouses.
cmd+ cmd+ cmd+ cmd+ cmd+

oh yeah, you're right 9pt is very readable for me too.
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The last paragraph:
"Yes, of course everyone deserves access to the Internet. But they deserve access to an open Internet where they can own their Digital Selves..."

Does everyone actually deserve internet access? Is that an inalienable human right?
If people want something of value, they have to provide value in return. If Google and Facebook see value in the people's data, then they are willing to give them "free" internet. It is a choice to give those corporations your data in exchange for their services.

Saying that people deserve something can be dangerous. Who provides these things that we all deserve? If there's no economic incentive, why would someone spend the money to provide goods and services for other people?
>and nearly all of his self reported vitamin/mineral intake was about 1/3 of the daily recommended levels.

Yeah, and that is above average. You are seriously over-estimating how healthy the average american's diet is. This is one of the big reasons people are interested in soylent, getting 100% of all your vitamins and minerals by just eating "real food" is actually very difficult.
I will second that. I will also say that it was incredibly easy to setup on both Ubuntu and Solaris.
I genuinely wonder what other sysadmins working at/with the NSA think about Snowden.

His actions have probably made their jobs more difficult, but they also work with these same systems, have a sense of their scope, and know the extent to which internal controls are (apparently) more procedural than technical. I wonder how many secretly feel vindicated for some concern they have felt or expressed in the past.
I'm pretty sure that slightly nicer CSS and HTML would not slow down HN.
I have found Evil to be the best emulator that I have tried. But even then, I wonder, why try to emulate Vim? Why not just use Vim? And Vim is more than they keys. It's the whole ecosystem of plugins which come together to be the Vim way. There really is no replacement.
Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in jail
Hard to tell if this is satire or not...if it's the latter, probably a little more explanatory text would be useful, though the interactive walkthrough is nice.

The main problem here is the bidding mechanism. Clicking on "Bid" sends me to my OS mail client (which, in my case, has never been initialized)...at the very least, go to a contact form rather than having the "bids" be sent through plain email.
There isn't going to be an Edge, but there could well be other models of phones for Ubuntu.
No. That would imply you have something to hide.
Very sad.

So the guys who murdered innocents in another country using machine guns sitting on top of a helicopter are yet to be tried. While the guys who stood up for humanity and true spirit of serving forces for good is sentenced 35 years. And I know a lot of people would troll me on this opinion itself.
Switched from iPhone 5 to Nokia N9 and I'm loving it. Can't believe how superior MeeGo is to iOS and how it was ignored.

I will definitely purchase a Jolla/Sailfish device in the future.
We are going in circles. There is a big difference between rejecting the definition of a word and rejecting an entire field of inquiry.
Join this "side project" club, if you're working on one.
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Stop overinflating news stories to avoid scaring people without the technical training required to separate fact from hyperbole?

I say this because the things PJ is concerned about have been problems, at least in concept, since she's been using the Internet. CALEA dates from 1994. FISA dates from 1978. ECPA dates from 1986. Even without the NSA scraping email metadata, if she's ever sent an email across international boundaries in the past couple of decades it has undoubtedly ended up in the hands of the spy agencies of multiple nations.

Additionally, plain-text SMTP/POP3 has always been very leaky of your privacy, and even if you can encrypt to your MTA/MDA, there's no guarantee that every intervening hop would use encryption.

What's worse, you've all managed to spook poor PJ into thinking that encryption is useless.

So in short you've (the "royal" you) all managed to burst the illusion of a bubble she was quite content to live in, and do good work in before, and at the same time managed to burst the reality that strong encryption cannot yet be defeated by even nation-level assets without humongous computing ability (ability which the NSA has more pressing targets for, for the foreseeable future).
On the contrary, it lets Google use Crockford's jslint.
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Hmm, looks like my giving up ColdFusion was a mistake...
All this did was remind me that Dan Hodges is a massive tool.
With a projected ship date of May (and who really expected it would hit that, even if it were funded?), the gap would have been narrow at best. It would be over a year after the Galaxy S4 shipped with 2GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, and probably 6 months after the expected iPhone 5S ships with currently-unknown specs.

You're comparing it to the current generation of smartphones. It's shipping with the next generation.
Are you against bad mobile implementations or just mobile implementations altogether? This seems like a weird position to take. It's not easy to read through comments and stories on most mobile browsers. It requires you to either squint to read the headlines or scroll horizontally just to read across the lines. That is a broken user experience.
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The "Tea Party" movement did much the same thing inside the context of the Republican party in the US in roughly the same timeframe.

Obviously, the mechanics are different (and, IMO, more colourful) in a multi-party system, but at the end of the day, Wilders can only decide to support Rutte as PM or, after applying the full might of his party, not supporting Rutte, who, never the less, remains PM.

They are probably an important factor in shaping public debate, and thus, shaping general policy, but you don't need to be a member of parliament to do that and plenty of non-MPs in FPTP and PR systems alike do just that.
The M-x spook feature of emacs is not a new thing!

I was just looking at the code for that, 5 minutes before I read your comment. It was written in May 1987. A comment near the top says "Help defeat the NSA trunk trawler!". It's interesting how our preceptions of this kind of counter-surveillance tool (primitive as it is) has changed from "OK, man, that's just crazy talk" to "Huh, I guess it really is happening!".
<sarcasm>Wait, you mean it's not for personal enjoyment?!</sarcasm>

I believe that sarcasm is supposed to be contained.
That crossbench is made up of 9 greens, Xenophone and a DLP senator. Certainly Labor won't control the senate, but it's still a long way off the Liberals controlling it. If Labor + the Greens have 38 seats (which would be a loss of 2, which is well within projections currently as it is very hard to pick up senate seats and only 36/76 are up for reelection currently anyway) then they wouldn't be able to pass any legislation without either the Greens or Labor agreeing. If they pick up 3, they would need Xenophon or the DLP to agree.
At least an "about" or "faq" is missing. I (like a lot of people I would guess) skipped the "tutorial" or walkthrough and couldn't find it again. It's not like the website is a challenge to use, but some more info would be nice, including an email to send feedback and suggestions maybe?
Land of the free, home of the brave.

Let's hope that Snowden never gets caught/detained.
Scarier than losing a company laptop?
"He faced up to 90 years in prison."

I think that, all things considered, this is the best possible outcome (realistically). There was no way he'd walk, because he did break laws. In this instance those laws were broken to get information out to the public, but one can easily imagine when those laws could be broken for more malicious purposes. If you leave this unpunished, they might think this opens up the floodgates. The powers that be would most likely prefer to deter 100 whistleblowers if it means stopping the one person who'd use the information for terrible ends.
I agree it's sad. I'm not personally a big Manning fan, but that feels like a stiff sentence.

(By the way, I think a lot of people would disagree with you. That doesn't mean they're "trolling" you.)
I must say I didn't follow this trial closely but:

"According to the military, Manning is required to serve one-third of the sentence before he becomes eligible for parole."

That's... brutal.
Ha! Mine too.

Although I'm running on the Nokia 822. I actually just run the RSS through NextGen reader and the layout is super clean and has easy navigation for the comments.
I'm a 15+ year vi user, and I can't stand vim. Everything about it is clunky and cludgy and nothing ever quite works nicely. I really want more features than vi has, but I can't live without vi input. So vi-mode plugins for various editors/IDEs are really my only option.
Except in America only teachers unions (along with doctors/lawyers) have managed to raise the salary through (anti-consumer) unions, while the lumberjack/fisherman/roofer is thrown to the wolves. 'Unions for everyone' or 'unions for none' - the only fair way. 'Unions for the connected' and 'to hell with you' for everyone else is unfair, and the startup community should seek to destroy it.
I think, for Manning, it has to be considered a victory, considering he was facing up to 90 years, and the gov't asked for 60. He could be out on Parole as "soon" as 2025.
> Eating is fun, more fun than anything i know of.

I think you're doing sex wrong.
In fact, weren't his lawyers asking for a sentence of 30 years? Sounds like they got almost what they asked for.

"Years faced" is a misleading number, though. I think it's pretty rare that defendants get sentenced to the maximum for each charge. The government was "only" asking for 60.
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To support this stance, this comes from the posted article:

“There is value in deterrence, your honor; this court must send a message to any soldier contemplating stealing classified information,” said Capt. Joe Morrow, a military prosecutor. “National security crimes that undermine the entire system must be taken seriously.”
There are plenty of good reasons to steer clear of TPM. Protecting yourself from the NSA just isn't one of them.
> including 112 days of credit for abusive treatment he was subjected to at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va.

They openly acknowledge abusive treatment, but has anyone received criminal disciplinary action over it?

112 days also seems a tad low considering what I've heard of his experience.
I'm assuming you're not a computer, have you tried using context clues to figure out what the author might have meant? This isn't Reddit, we don't need grammar Nazis or joke threads here.
I don't understand the basis for that position and don't think it's true at all. Why do you think that's comparable at all?
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I can go kill a few babies in cold blood and get out in less then 10. But releasing documents that are private... well now that's just not very nice.
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Hey guys, I know I'm foremost a freelance translator, but I think this is generalizable. What do you think?
But seriously, being a "Nuclear Decontamination Technician" sounds awesome.
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I think 35 years is too long. I'm sure he'll get out early on parole, and has already served 3 years as it is, but he I think his motives were good.
But they could do this with other ISPs as well. The problem is the NSA.
He did break laws, but that doesn't necessarily mean he was wrong. This is why jury nullification exists, though I'm not sure if that even exists in a military court.
Anyone else thinks this is a start of slippery slope? Once enough people are using it any other form of login could be made illegal and "citizen sheep" can be tracked much easier by big brother NSA
This is a disgrace. They send a young man to prison for 35 years for uncovering possible war crimes and a bunch of diplomatic fiddle-faddle.

He is not eligible for parole until he has served 1/3 of the time.
In court ruling, Manning sentenced 35 years
Sounds nice, but this will mostly become a phone sex service and everyone knows it.

Like internet forums freed hookers from their pimps this will free camgirls from cam sites.
95% of shitty experiences on android phones stem from tons of people being on 2 year old versions of android, at best.

Fix that conundrum, and you will have a lot of your problems fixed with the ecosystem. Perhaps bifurcating the "os" from "runtime" or something is necessary so google can update everyone to the same 'version' of 'android'

I don't know where to draw the line, but this is a chief reason iOS eats android for lunch app dev wise.
I'm sure there will be punishment, but that it'll be out of the courts. The last thing they want publicized is a case about American Marines mistreating a convict.
Oh the logging and auditing are ok

The real issue is who cares about this (the information collected)

I've seen this with "limited administrators" where they were audited by senior people.

But there's always a point from where the trust is "absolute"
In the early Nineties the White government of South Africa conceded power to the Black African National Congress. At that time, they had made about six nukes, with the help of Israel, which they weren't willing to hand over to the new government, so they dismantled them and the whole program.
Hey danso, thanks for the feedback! We bootstrapped this one all the way down, and we thought we'd take advice from PG's Do Things that Don't Scale article [1].

Sorry it came off as satire, it's totally legit, a few of the things on the homepage were just examples of how to use it.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
Nine hour detention in a foreign airport is perhaps a far cry from torture; the implicit threat of a protracted prison sentence is getting a little bit closer though. In America, prison might as well be synonymous with rape, which is generally considered a form of torture in most civilized countries.

I'm not trying to invoke the literally worse than Hitler meme, because it isn't, but there was a notable geek activist who committed suicide recently under the threat of such. Certainly quite ominous.
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Huh? The whole facility, and the brilliant minds working there, existed entirely to enable the successful decryption of Axis transmissions. If that's not "spying", I don't know what is.
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Oh right, I guarantee you this is correct. It's the popularity of high center of gravity cars like SUVs combined with a lack of driving ability. Nice thinking.
does anyone know if military prison is like civilian prison, in which you could be released early for a variety of factors including overcrowding, good behavior, appeals, parole, just plain ambiguity of sentencing, etc?

from what i read in the media it seems as though civilian sentences for non-capital crimes are basically flexible.... but i'm no expert.
Would be good to have a real-world example, like a progress for $http, or loading data... I am trying to swap angular-app's spinner with this, but it works with $http.pendingRequests (the less, the more advanced the progress should be).
These hardware projects emphasize the product look (and by implication the feel) way too much. The Edge here looks super slick, cool to the touch, and pleasantly heavy, with perfectly smooth edges. The same was true of Ouya and its controller on kickstarter.

But making perfect hardware is hard, and in fact the finished product would never be so delightful. It'd be more realistic to offer lower-fidelity mockups instead of those beautifully rendered images.

But I guess "realistic" doesn't sell.
I think it's earlier than that. The article mentions the time he's already served and a deduction for poor treatment in custody. That comes to nearly 4 years, itself.

I'm not sure if has to serve a minimum of (35-4)/3 or (35/3) -4, but I suspect it's the later if common sense is applied (which is often not the case).
What does Red Hat do to prevent someone from copying backup tapes? Or authorized users from copying data to other servers that aren't audited? Or from databases and repositories via their own protocols?

It's rather unimpressive to claim that you can tell a customer that "your sysadmin had authorized access to all data, so any of it could have been copied".
I have zero knowledge as far as sentence's go. So with that said, how is being required to only server 1/3 of a sentence brutal? What am i missing?
Personally, I believe that this layout deters those who might not be as serious about the content HN brings to the table. The type of person who would judge this website based on its simplistic layout is probably the same type of person who wouldn't read half of the articles posted, or contribute to the conversations at all.
The question is: Why should he be in prison at all? and why the other three murderers in the army who were exposed in the 'collateral damage' video be left free outside untried?

The question is why would someone end up leaking state secrets at all?: Hint: Those secrets are about wrong doings!
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Presumably, the Snowden leak files are distributed among Guardian employees. In order to insure against the destruction of all copies of these files due to a worst-case scenario, wouldn't it be a good idea to distribute the files globally? If the Guardian wants to maintain control of the divulgence of leaks, they could encrypt the leaks as a series of files in a bundle and distribute it over, say, BitTorrent. They could then release the key to decrypt each leak file as they see fit.
I am an actuary, and next week is hopefully my last in the industry; I am going off to do an MBA and then hopefully become a semi-technical founder. I got here for exactly the reason you said, I'm good at maths and it pays well. I'm leaving because it's no fun. I sometimes wonder if I would have been better off sticking to my original plan and becoming a software engineer.
ActionScript has died out in many places, but still has heavy use, drumroll in the Federal Goveernment sector. I was working in a shop recently with a guy who ONLY knew ActionScript/FLEX...... pathetic, but his salary sure wasn't.
I understand that he said this, and I think that he is being honest, but just to point out: if he was secretly planning on bailing it out at the last minute, saying that you will pick up any slack is probably not a good way to run a crowd funding campaign.