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Shows me "not dangerous" at UTC 00:43 22.07.2016.
ditto. UTC 02:05 03.07.2016 I wonder if this is related to them publishing emails containing unredacted ssn and ccn information...
HN is a liberal safe space. Of course any article that reflects badly on liberal ideas will be removed. that political-story "gravity" is the same thing as reddit's "modified algorithm" to hide /r/The_Donald. There is an enormous push of a certain agenda from all major corporations in US, neither HN, nor reddit or google is an exception.
http://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.h...
HN has normally been transparent whenever they modify something manually.
its not a dangerous site anymore... as of 7:15 PM PST. https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn...
Fixed that for you. Not everyone know every timezone ever, but we don't need to because with UTC it's very simple arithmetic.
The biggest downside to the NSA revelations is how quickly people accept conspiracy theories. Wikileaks just released a big email dump. People looked at it with Google Chrome, and it detected malware in the archive. That blacklisted the site it was downloaded from. There is no big "Google is protecting the Democrats and hates Wikileaks". Wikileaks was serving malware, and Google detected it.
From your company's website:
"Mission: to undertake impactful research, development, education and training that delivers outcomes to national security and other data intensive sectors"
While I don't doubt that you work on disease modeling, your company's mission statement makes it clear that national security is its main focus. Now being a company of academics and intellectuals, you are precise with your words (unless you are engaging in disinformation of course), and you must know that "national security" has a specific definition, which revolves around utilizing political and military power to defend a nation. Just search google for "national security" to get some references if you plan to brush this off as well.
This doesn't inherently make you untrustworthy. What does is someone of your caliber confidently committing so many factual errors in favor of corrupt power structures on a public forum. You also have a clear conflict of interest considering you make your living working on the same kind of systems we are discussing, i.e. PRISM.
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You're joking right? This was national news when this was revealed. You obviously didn't read the link: "The PRISM program collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google Inc. under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms."
Anyone care to elaborate why I'm being downvoted?
As an aside, your profile says you signed up 1337 days ago and your karma is at 1358. Another 21 down-votes and your Hacker News profile page will looking pretty leet - I say go for it. Remember, it's just fake internet points, you can't spend them or do anything interesting with them.
HN is a liberal safe space. Of course any article that reflects badly on liberal ideas will be removed. that political-story "gravity" is the same thing as reddit's "modified algorithm" to hide /r/The_Donald. There is an enormous push of a certain agenda from all major corporations in US, neither HN, nor reddit or google is an exception.
In this case, the algorithm is open, so there's no guesswork: http://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.h... HN has normally been transparent whenever they modify something manually.
> An item with too many comments (at least 20 and more comments than upvotes) gets the contro-factor penalty.
What actually happens is an organized group of shills comment on an article and it gets burred.
Also what it does is pushes all the interesting articles that facilitate discussion to the bottom. That's my another complaint about HN - there are barely any interesting stories on the first page even. And it doesn't look like there's a correlation between how interesting is the story and how high it is shown. The idea of time factor is cool in theory, but it fails in practice when most people visit once a day or only once every few days, and instead of getting the most interesting submissions they get a bunch of newly submitted links with barely any traction.
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I'm not saying this particular theory is true. It's probably a mistake. I'm just saying that it's completely reasonable to be suspicious and ask questions, however, given that we have definitive proof that Google is known to work with the government.
"Work with government" means lots of things. The NSA leaks proved that the NSA hacked Google's network infrastructure. That isn't exactly "working with the government". There are other things where Google does work with the US and other governments. I believe they pass Flu Trends data to the CDC for example.... And which government branch do you think that Google is working with here? The #DNCLeaks thing is a anti-Hi…
A Guardian article from September 2013, two-or-so-months after the Snowden leaks: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-cost...
> The National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to cover the costs of major internet companies involved in the Prism surveillance program after a court ruled that some of the agency's activities were unconstitutional, according to top-secret material passed to the Guardian.
> While the ruling did not concern the Prism program directly, documents passed to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden describe the problems the decision created for the agency and the efforts required to bring operations into compliance. The material provides the first evidence of a financial relationship between the tech companies and the NSA.
> An NSA newsletter entry, marked top secret and dated December 2012, discloses the huge costs this entailed. "Last year's problems resulted in multiple extensions to the certifications' expiration dates which cost millions of dollars for Prism providers to implement each successive extension – costs covered by Special Source Operations," it says.
> An earlier newsletter, which is undated, states that the Prism providers were all given new certifications within days of the Fisa court ruling. "All Prism providers, except Yahoo and Google, were successfully transitioned to the new certifications. We expect Yahoo and Google to complete transitioning by Friday 6 October."
Google only gave a bla-bla answer when asked about it:
> Google did not answer any of the specific questions put to it, and provided only a general statement denying it had joined Prism or any other surveillance program. It added: "We await the US government's response to our petition to publish more national security request data, which will show that our compliance with American national security laws falls far short of the wild claims still being made in the press today."
I'd say that you should revisit your believes when it comes to the relationship between the NSA and big SV companies.