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by jaekwon 13y ago
What alternatives are there for group chatting?
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Calm down, the letter speaks of paying homage to the sacrifice of Omaha Beach. As in, if we don't act now and stop the injustice, we aren't worthy. He's talking about you and me, not Edward.
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Doesn't Google Glass force all apps to communicate via Google's servers? When I read the API the day it was announced, it certainly seemed that way. So basically Google Glass is a massive camera & audio surveillance device, wi
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Wow, HNers for restore the fourth! Hello comrades. I'd like to create or join a working technical organization for the creation and distribution of existing of liberating technology, such as distributed social networks with strong perf
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Yes, and I hope you do see that taxing this self-sufficient community (assuming it did not require the benefits from the govt like highways and whatnot) would be akin to theft if it were compulsory. Of course all communities require somethi
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Sell the data to government agencies across the world. Welcome to the information economy, where your startup is the commodity. Silicon valley is the spy capital of the world. I wouldn't be surprised of a lot of VC firms were actually
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Yeah right. There's no reference as to where to post the idea, so it's clear that the OP `ziko` would have to be the investor. Yet `ziko` clearly knows how to submit "Ask HN:" type posts, so the pastebin.com is merely
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Twat.
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Presumably through voluntary subscription to private services, or flat taxation of alternative currencies controlled by and tied to local communities where usage of the currency is voluntary. The way we're taxed federally right now wit
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by jaekwon 13y ago
He advocates Palantir's surveillance program for the purpose of copyright protection, using its technological aspects of "immutable auditability" to ensure that the program is used for its intended purpose. The problem is, he
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What Lessig is asking for (see his 1999 book "Code", and his plug of Palantir) is for software that can cross correlate data from multiple sources to identify leaks of information for the purpose of copyright protection. He (and o
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Supporting whistleblowers is not sticking your head in the sand. The PRISM program & Palantir's products do not give YOU any transparency into anything.
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The the government's claims of transparency and audibility of the NSA's PRISM program is analogous (if not directly related) to the claims of Palantir's. Search for "immutable auditing" below: http://www.
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No, he's reacting to allegations about direct ties to Palintir, and failing to respond to the criticism of such a surveillance program.
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Lessig (or something) is deleting my comment on Disqus. Here it is: ---- The the government's claims of transparency and audibility of the NSA's PRISM program is analogous (if not directly related) to the claims of Palantir's
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> So decide, tech peoples: Should this technology build in audit trails or not? Should this technology record what interface a government employee was using to extract this data, or not? Yes, use the technology wherever applicable, knowi
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My point is, no, we cannot use technology to constrain this. The solution is to stop funding concentrated surveillance programs, and to protect government/corporate whistleblowers. We're headed in the exact opposite direction.
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Yes, and probably the biggest hole is simply mod'ing the surveillance software with backdoor unauditable access to the data, such that higher ups with "special secret privileges" can bypass the logs. Who audits the software?
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He's using the issue of copyright to condone the current direction of the surveillance state, and he is offering red herrings as "balancing" compromises. Yes, I agree with you. I think it is because we are among the first to
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No, purely technological means cannot protect privacy!
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Nevertheless, it is the very idea that you can strike a "balance" between privacy and law, that allows for the existence of the Utah data center. The existence of this architecture of surveillance poses a real existential threat t
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You cannot ensure such a thing.
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How are the means of production coming back to the people? I'd like to know, because that's where the hope is.
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The grand "balance" has been under our nose the entire time, as laid out by prof Lessig, also of Harvard. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5964883 I think it is ignorance that is causing this. Specifically, ig
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So... about that 512 qubit D-Wave in the works... How far are we from breaking RSA?
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Oops you're right! Of course there are intelligent justifications for IP. Blindness goes both ways.
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More people need to know about this. I think people get lost in his prose and lose the gist of what he's really trying to do.
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>> Palantir stores an audit trail that shows exactly where each piece of data comes from and who has accessed it. This allows citizens, courts, regulators, etc. to see precisely how data is being used. What are you blabbering about? W
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This. Yet we need a good protocol for experimenting with different models in order to arrive at a good system. A balancing act. We certainly need more fluid borders in the world, like between the borders of our states.
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Actually, it's not just the company but rather Lessig's message itself that bothers me. Read my other comment here for details. Nobody is suggesting any direct link between Lessig and the CIA, but the ties between Palantir and the

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