skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. They didn't care then and they don't care now. The government can data mine my facebook page as much as they want - it's my library lending record I'm worried about...
>1. Schneier is calling for people to break the law at great risk to themselves on the ground that the government's current position is immoral (but not illegal).

Man do I hate this objection. Would you have behaved the same in Nazi germany? "Come on! You're asking people to break the law! It's illegal to tell anyone about our plant for murdering disabled people.". Well, yes. Because a corrupt entity has control of the laws and is making it illegal to point out the illegal activities said entity is engaging in.
He's not saying it's taboo to name drop. He's saying don't be so naive to play in the hands of a system designed to deflect from taking real action to fix the erosion of civil liberties.
Check out http://www.whatsmydns.net pretty useful for seeing where issues are or tracking propagation.
We are listening. We take all the criticism to heart. We are focused on UX and quality. You will see a transformation.
Few things were higher profile than WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, and they certainly took away his voice. Now he is relegated to being a sideshow -- a novelty to gawk and point at (not unlike a caged beast).
> At 30 square feet per rack, that's 10 billion square feet, or 360 square miles.

...with no redundancy whatsoever, and that's raw capacity, not usable. Crazy talk.
you can check whatsmydns.net, how some places are working, and some not, for example: http://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/www.works.io
There was a NES emulator for the Game Boy Advance that performed with a surprising level of accuracy at full frame rate. I guess the CPU emulator was a simple state machine, but the interesting thing in this context is how it did the graphics and sound. Having a pretty advanced "PPU" of its own, with the same basic types of features (sprites, tile indexing background layers), it translated the PPU register writes (with appropriate scaling, I guess) to native register writes. I'm not sure how things like collision interrupts were handled, but presumably the GBA has similar functionality. For a javascript emulator or static recompilation, similar methods could be used to set up a bunch of shaders dealing with the basic functionality of the PPU (sprites, tile layers etc). Certainly less accurate and probably missing a bunch of corner cases, but it would definitely be the fastest approach to dealing with graphics emulation.
Another German legal blogger chimes in on the gaffe: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
Space Invaders 404
It is currently also impossible to register .io domains (I can confirm this since yesterday afternoon)
This may be a reference to the Macintosh 128K, which had its casing's inside signed by the developers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K
"...(from the Big Brother)?" Especially in light of the other stories today, this is getting downright scary. (see e.g. this: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/nsa-tapped-internet...; )
I'm not sure what your reasons are for posting this, but it is interesting. The portion titled Collapse of the Yugoslav Economy is astounding. I would like to see more declassified documents about our plans/policies in other countries.

It's a little frightening to learn that so many of those paranoid conspiracy nuts were right...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1lZMTCqf8
recursion :)
(Mental note to self: Never ever use "clusterfuck" in title when posting to HN ever again. Karma mod trolls do not approve.)
Security cameras are quite often placed at the entrance/exit. Having your device connect and making a DHCP request as you walk in seems like a legitimate concern.
Can you provide a source for the statement:

>If you are a government agency with a private key that matches one of the observer public keys (Russia, China, and India have openly claimed to have these

I am not calling bullshit, I just want to know more.
I think it might actually work better for more modern hardware. Less handcrafted ASM tricks, much more regular (compiler generated) machine code. And of course no self-modifying code that would be extremely difficult to recompile correctly.

Modern hardware (GPU, sound cards,...) is also very similar to what you find on a PC so it would be more straightforward to port all this code. No messing around with the framebuffer mid-scanline to create a cool effect, no quirky special purpose hardware for very specific tasks.
Can you provide a source for the statement:

>If you are a government agency with a private key that matches one of the observer public keys (Russia, China, and India have openly claimed to have these
Restructuring rumors, Azure rising, and the more business-friendly Windows 8.1
I mean a simple, user-friendly email service that only stores the emails on user's computers and offers strong end-to-end encryption. Not something necessarily for me, but something that I could build and market as a truly secure email and offer to the world.
Did all the other ignored petitions cause any awakening?
Intelligence Chief Calls Leaks on U.S. Data Collection ‘Reprehensible’
> I'm very surprised to see this kind of reasoning on the hacker's forum

I'm not. HN is typically more liberal than what some might consider a traditional hacker to be; I'd imagine the real hackers congregate somewhere else. Somewhere less "white hat-y", if you will.

The problem with getting through to people who are willing to surrender their freedoms for a false promise of security is that they don't see the government as a threat. If the government is not a threat then why not surrender your freedom to them? Are they not there to protect us?

This idea has been present throughout history and most notably in western literature. It's believed by some that in order to have an achievable utopian society we must enslave ourselves to the government only at the cost of our personal freedoms. By this definition we've long been enslaved, it's just that some are now noticing it.

Of course some level of opposition will always be present. However the size of such is so small that the power they have must be leveraged through some alternative means. Some say this is the internet. We now know that's not true.
And it's not like these investments serve any public good. They don't get commercialized or taught to the public/industry like NASA, DARPA, etc... and what terrorist attacks have they stopped? Kids still shoot up schools. People drive car bombs into Times Square (street vendors stop them). They blow up marathons. They get on planes with bombs in their shoes (passengers stop them, not the NSA).
Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011)
In some sort of irony, statuspage.io is down. Was looking at their offering about an hour ago and thinking of taking it for a spin, but now I'm not so sure...
نتيجة اعدادية الشرقية
Microsoft Debuts Next-Gen Server Software
Glenn mentions this and specifically points out that there is a pattern:

> When you grow up gay, you are not part of the system, it forces you to evaluate: ‘Is it me, or is the system bad?’

One has to wonder whether the government considers gays and lesbians high-risk dangerous individuals, and furthermore whether they should establish inclusive policies for gays and lesbians to deter any anti-establishment tendencies (or to establish exclusive policies discouraging or preventing gays and lesbians from holding sensitive government jobs).
Unfortunately such a social network would probably be so dominated by tinfoil-hat crazies that it would be unusable. The thing about social networks is of course that the people you want to socially network with need to be there.

On the other hand you would be fully up to date at all times on the evils of vaccines and water fluoridation.
Paying with your credit card? That's being tracked. Your back account transactions are being indexed and collated.

They're probably in all of our computers already. I've been operating a windows7 honeypot as my "main" computer for several years, generating what appears to be legit "personal" traffic. You wouldn't believe the shit I've found, and it doesn't appear to be your garden variety cyber criminals or foreign state actors. And I'm not even that smart.
I wonder if they have a termination case. You never know, maybe this will break the system.
The Bewildered User at the Center of the Legal Firestorm
Imminent death of the PC predicted, news at 11.
For the lazy: https://twitter.com/dnsimple
purpose-built linux distro

That seems to be the intent of Tails [1]; see also [2].

[1] https://tails.boum.org

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5838140
Stackoverflow & friends remain steadfastly anchored on the technical side, but in the end everything is political - technology not the least.
Microsoft and its OEMs stick to an outdated tablet strategy
very cool. will try it out tonight.
Intercom.io is down as well. Particularly frustrating since its preventing me from replying to customer emails.

Technical details of permanent delivery failure: DNS Error: Domain name not found
The goal may not to make it all accessible simultaneously. They may archive to disk then remove the disks when they are full and put in storage.
Riding my bicycle around town can be extremely disconcerting when the only one on the road who is actively participating in their transportation is me.
Probably take fingerprints of someone on the envelope too? Randomize it and complicate it so much that the idea of finding you dies the most desperate death.

Ha ha, the situation feels 'arrived' at fictional level already!
UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation
I don't think it's even really about flagging anyone. The objective is more likely to be good old-fashioned careerism than anything else. These guys are in the business of "screening for terrorists" (apparently), so they are unlikely to want to see less terrorists in the world. That would put them out of a job. No, much better to expand the definition of terrorist, and expand surveilance so they have plenty of work to keep busy with.
Octokit Becomes Official
TNW broke the story in English http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/07/paypal-accidentally...
We're back online at http://candid.io. Someone on twitter posted "VCs should think twice before investing in startups without a .com" -> I think that's patently absurd. Azure, AWS, and the other 'core infrastructure' services suffer similar outages form time to time.
What is amazing here is not the techy stuff, but productivity and clear understanding of concepts. Of course, such shape (of mind) comes from years of daily practice. That's why I know I will never write anything good - I didn't spend enough time practicing. Practice leads to perfection (not reading HN).

And look, the guy is not using any IDE or proprietary tools - just a terminal window and command line (what a horror!) tools. Looks like they are good enough..)

All that 9-to-5 Java coders should at least commit suicide.) More seriously - this is very clear illustration for startup founders of what a huge gap lies between mediocre and a top performer.

Convincing a top performer(s) to work for you is the real secret of a successful startup. Even pg (god forbid!) could be not so successful without rtm.))
jeez .io names come in at 60GBP ~ $95 a year - why so much?
8 Dart Features Those Fat Cats Don’t Want You to Know - Programming
>We need more public spying on the government...

Are there public databases that collect information on officers/ agents?

If not what kinds of information would be valuable (to the public) to collect/ what kind of processes would be good to use(crowd-sourcing, web-scraping, .gov apis, etc)?
http://pineapple.io has been up whole time
Well considering that a large portion of us are responsible for our user's data (from small to large) it's a very hot topic that is pertinent to what we do on a daily basis.

We may discuss business decisions over email, we might even exchange information via Facebook, even if we're sensible enough not to do this with critical information that doesn't mean our whole company knows the score.

It impacts the kind of promises we can make to our clients about the safety of their information and makes us have to consider the usage of these popular services.

As a brief example we have a facebook import function that enables a user to import some limited information about their friends. This means that if someone uses this function on our site then Facebook will probably track that access. That means that when someone is using our site someone else is tracking them. Sure that's not a big problems in most cases but it is in some. Do my terms and conditions even cover that? What if I've previously erroneously made the claim that we don't track usage on the site?
We'll see how it turns out. Bring popcorn.
Rsyslog 7.4 released
New York vs. the Sharing Economy
Mixmaster (and also Mixminion) is high latency anonymity network and is therefor nearly impossible to trace. You remember the University of Pittsburgh bomb threats. The FBI is still unable to track down who was sending the emails. A pretty strong endorsement in my mind
Or run it through Google translate (or equivilent) a few times and manually correct any critical words in the end result.
The article basically for people who want to leak classified documents or state secrets. Whistleblowers are currently the target of witchhunts so I'm not sure what makes you feel think they should seek the help of a psychiatrist.
What a waste of my eyes!

As someone who spent years working in government-ese, there is nothing new here at all. None of the documents are actually classified. They are standard policy propositions layered with heavy technical/government jargon. The intelligence community and DOD is meticulous about properly classifying even the most mundane information that could be connected to anything of consequence for national security. Hence, it has been the standard for decades that every single classified document must have a header and footer with its classification level clearly posted. I was put on the spot once in a brief for not having a footer with the brief's classification on one slide in a PowerPoint. None of these documents have the required headers or footers. Logical conclusion, none of them require it because none of them are classified.

The real government is far more boring than the one that appears in popular conspiracy theories and movies. Trust me, the real government is a boring employer...great health insurance though!
Curious....

I saw a BBC story about Assange that mentioned his mysterious original programmer. It stated that the original programmer and Assange's co-founders left him to create another Wikileaks-like site.

Does anyone have a URL for this new site?
Makes me wonder how do 60%+ of the people manage to live in this place.
> given that the protection does not extend to UPS/FedEx/etc

You've claimed this before, and still haven't identified the precedent which holds the government can force UPS/FedEx/etc. to turn over packages.
Oh yeah I know that but he implied that the salary gap wasn't that big. As far as I can tell it is. Sure defense contractors pay far more but that's not really working for the government anymore, you are in private industry and could just as easily go to someone that has use for people with clearances like Palantir or similar.

On a side note do the top tier/brilliant software engineers at Lockheed/et al make Google level salaries? Actual technical people, not those who have moved into management that is.
Mine seems to be working fine: sawt.io
The 'net is dark and full of spoilers. Block them in Chrome with Unspoiler.
I was about to write something telling you to not be so hard on yourself, but your edit is in the right place!

The only thing stopping you from learning 'dark magic' is your willingness to put time, study, and asking others about it. If you want to learn, just keep pushing forward.
Wait, media were talking about Prism before?
You have no idea the effect they had on terrorism. We can't tell with the information we have currently. We don't even know which information is true. Maybe they saved ton of terrorist attack, maybe they got multiple criminal or killers with that, but we won't know because they never said it was with the help of Prism.

All we know is that this project cost 20 millions, they had access to informations from a dozen companies, which is easily multiples hundred terabytes, probably even petabytes. I doubt 20 millions is enough to do anything useful with these informations. However can we even trust theses slides?...
I think it's more than that. It is not yet clear that this approach can work in the general case without emulation: the halting problem may be in the way.
Does anyone trust an organization that has been spying on them to tell them the truth afterwards?
Yes, but I think an individual spending 1-2h/yr running a tor node or remailer is a far greater impact than donating a marginal $25-50 to EFF. An additional node both makes the network stronger and sends a message/educates the operator on privacy issues.

I'm not convinced a marginal dollar donated to the EFF does that much right now -- EFF is great, but fairly well funded.
Unfortunately it may appear up for you and for monitoring systems yet still not resolve for others, depending on DNS cache freshness as well as which root name server you (randomly) fall on.
Could you elaborate a bit on what you found on your honeypot?
Some of those that were broken are starting to work again. However the NXDOMAIN responses will have been cached and take a little while to expire.
€30 a year on gandi.net
You should definitely look into anarchy. I am serious. If you don't like government, find that sort of anarchy which fits your beliefs.

For me, there is libertarian anarcho-capitalism. If you are interested, I recommend you to start with the book "For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto" : http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp (it is available for fownload for free)
Fellow git aliaser, consider shell aliasing git to g!
Only because the market will bear the cost.
If Google provides the UI, you don't have to pay any graphics designer anymore for your service website. :)
Behind the scenes of the video game drawn by hand
Our site focal.io is down as well.
Anonymous are crowdsourcing the jargon trawling. I can't blame them
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They should be, but often people vote on party lines regardless of vote history. Sure, some people may look into vote history, but not the majority.
IT/developer scene in big NYC banks is even worse. People with no experience faking up resume get business analyst/QA position cramming some basic skills in few weeks and they are paid $55/hr for doing nothing. This cannot last, can it?
Sure, if you want!

http://rhodecode.org

But why not pay someone so that they can handle the hassle of setting things up and babysit the server for you?
The average German, Russian, or Brazilian probably thinks about the importance of their relative privacy with respect to their government even less than the average US citizen does. And the average US citizen does not really care. (This NSA thing is essentially an "inside the beltway" issue, not a ballot box thing.)
I think the real question we should be asking ourselves is "What sort of society are we trying to protect?"
> 1.) I didn't know Facebook had bought one of these startups, so I am sure they have plans to enter this area

There are lots of reasons companies acquire other companies. More often than not it's for it's employee's and talent (then again, we don't know which market this is, so they may be considering entering the space, who knows?).

Number 2 depends on market size/saturation. How many CRM companies do you think there are out there? Thousands.

And finally number 3 - build your minimum viable product, get it out there, get feedback, test the waters. That's the only way you'll know for sure and you obviously believe in your idea, so I say go for it!
Check if robot really is Googlebot
I find the Wufoo guide to be more useful: http://www.wufoo.com/html5
The other interesting thing about older hardware is that each cart could embed special hardware that the NES could take advantage of. To play those games: that extra hardware has to be emulated as well.

So far as I know: this is unheard of with current gen consoles.

The most recent example I can think of is for a handheld console. The Pokemon Walker that was bundled with the newer Pokemon games for the Nintendo DS; which I believe has the IR hardware embedded in the cart itself.

So in addition to worrying about rather interesting use of the stock hardware, you also have to consider interesting use of _secondary_ hardware.

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The latest batch of consoles [Xbox One, PS4] look to be x86 PCs with high-bandwidth memory; if that's the case, I'm hoping PC ports are more common, and perhaps we'll even see a virtualization based approach to running next gen games on standard PC hardware.
US spying on average Americans
In other news, the sky is blue, the grass is green, and there is 24 hours in a day.
The "directly" bit is being questioned:

The Washington Post backtracks on claim tech companies ‘participate knowingly’ in PRISM data collection http://thenextweb.com/us/2013/06/07/wapost-backtracks-on-cla...;
>ECHELON, Clipper/Skipjack, Carnivore

Were any of those ever confirmed with documentation?
As much as I am glad that the guy is at least admitting that the phone record seizure is troubling, I can't help but be PISSED that many of us knew this was the inevitable result of the Patriot Act and this trend to let Government take care of us and protect us at the expense of our Liberties.

If only democracies or republics had a more immediately exercisable "I told you so" button.
Ask HN: How important is a degree?
I've fallen on tough times and can't continue my education for quite some time, so what I am doing is taking time off from school for a few years to better myself as a developer to ultimately get a good job, make money, save it, and go back.

However, I'm finding it really tough to find jobs that don't list a degree in CS or related as a requirement.

Hirers/developers/people that actually work - Degrees. How are they viewed? What role do they play? Am I automatically casted out because my application doesn't have a degree?
On top of that some customers will still end up on the name servers that are still failing, resulting in NXDOMAIN results still ending up cached in resolvers.
Amazon hasn’t killed us yet
Agreed. The only way for change is to thrash and thrash hard.
The US is acting dictatorial.
Political suicide? Maybe in the past.
jTypes 2.1 is over 3X faster than 2.0
NeoLucida: A camera lucida implementation for the 21st Century
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