skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
slow down? these people are talking out of their ass and all this shits up for grabs...
Report it anonymously.
I feel like that was added by cloudflare... just tried at home, no problems.
See http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/07/transcript-what-oba...; for the full answer to the question. Obama separately addresses the phone issue and the internet issue. In both cases he implicitly admits that what was said in the press about them is substantively true. In both cases he claims that Congress and the FISA court were kept appraised. In both cases he defends the programs with justifications that can be supported by what was said about them in the press. He makes it clear that they are separate programs.

The inevitable conclusion is that while he did not specifically confirm what was said in the press, he lent great credibility to the leaks being real documents describing real programs.
I'm told that sending the native code is smaller than sending pictures of the desktop - meaningless on your home network, but it has ramifications on a busy network.
The White House has confirmed that PRISM existed, and has condemned the leak. This means that the power point slides that were leaked are real.

Now go read the slides, and you'll know exactly what is going on.
good god i hope not. we don't need that faux rockstar culture in my pretty language.
Yes. The bottleneck, as usual, is cultural.

Still, I have hope. Some people refuse to touch or even be near people who aren't clean. That forces others to be clean and propagates hygiene through society.

I wonder if we could do the same with information. Teaching little children that putting private information in public sites is dirty. The same way we teach them not to go around naked.
Very cool!

Small suggestion: In the case of selecting an item that's not the topmost, it would be nice if it was a one-step process rather than two (you need to first highlight with ctrl+letter, then activate with Enter).

Maybe a repeated press of ctrl+letter could actually activate the selection. Or maybe pressing and holding ctrl+letter for a short while.
It's interesting to think about where the NSA will be going with this technologically too. If they're moving towards processing of not only internet data passing through US shores but data from drones, video cameras, microphones, and other sensors world wide, they would need a hell of a lot of processing power to deal with that data. The data center in Utah would be the tip of the iceberg.

As a nod to fiction like Eureka and the revelations like Los Alamos testing quantum communication for years [1], it's interesting to think what else the NSA is working on for (inter)national surveillance.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0305
http://www.epostmail.org&#x2F; - seemed like an interesting technology, at least by reading the papers.

Unfortunately getting it to run involved sacrificing at least a dozen newborn animals - which is maybe the reason it never went up.

Also, of course the mail delivery took tens of minutes even in a trivial ring of 4 machines connected on the local LAN. Maybe I had something wrong in the setup, though.
so recruiter didn't pay attention to that part?
Misleading headline. It should be "Someone adds fake job to his resume and gets busted". But I guess that would get less clicks.
seeded by geerwire? I wonder
Could you explain what exactly that is?
We may be thinking of different statements by Google. The one that I am thinking of is at https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/A98pnaek.... Specifically this chunk of paragraph 3:

Press reports that suggest that Google is providing open-ended access to our users’ data are false, period. Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received—an order that appears to have required them to hand over millions of users’ call records. We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false.
They do drop down but not every pass.
Looks really cool, but doesn't work with Postbox.
Amazing. This has instantly become a must-have utility for me after trying it out for just a few minutes. Easily the best new Mac utility I've seen in a very long time.

I noticed the mention of the "regions" feature in the README, so maybe you already have plans for solving this, but one thing I'd love would be to have a way to select something based in part on its proximity to something else. For example, imagine I want to click on the comments link for a particular story on the HN front page. It'd be more intuitive to me to type, say, "Shortcat#comments" to pick the item that matches "comments" nearest the item that matches "Shortcat", than to type "comments" and hit Control to select the correct link.
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In Wayland architecture, the window manager is the display server. To provide wayland-XMonad, you don't need Haskell bindings, you need an implementation of the protocol in Haskell.

This isn't as horrible as it sounds, because unlike X, the display server in Wayland is pretty tiny. The current implementation is like ~10k lines. I expect it to fit in sub 3k lines of Haskell. :)
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No, they didn't deny anything meaningful.

An NSA program like this would not be voluntary.
It's not the sixties anymore. You can waste precious time and resources protesting or you can raise funds, buy a politician or two, and make some real fucking changes like an adult.
Jam the NSA Day
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The problem is that the video system for your computer isn't just a commodity app, it's a huge, interoperative clump of software. It drives the primary interaction device on most computers, and that interaction is a complex beast on every level.

If it was something you could hack up in a basement in a couple of months, we'd already have dozens of choices.
> For all I know, Obama traded advocating higher taxes for getting Obamacare through.

He had already signed the healthcare bill 9 months prior to the events I am talking about. And again, one must understand that he was in a position where if nobody did anything, the person favoring higher taxes would win. It took effort to get the outcome that we did.

> As an Objectivist,

Thanks for confirming.
I wouldn't even attempt to report it anonymously.

I found something similar on one of my schools internal sites, there was even a disclaimer that said something along the lines of 'Please don't enter any semicolons or quotation marks...'. I just walked away from it. It's not worth getting in trouble because, for some reason, schools hire incredibly shitty web developers.
bad boy hacker! ;-)
Particularly at the rate the Obama Admin has been prosecuting people on leaks, there's little question it would still be very advisable to err on the side of extreme caution.
Glenn wrote the original Guardian article -> Washington Post, and many others, cited that article as fact -> Apple/FB/etc released their choreographed story about "direct access" -> Washington Post amended their article due to lack of fact checking in their original article -> Business Insider calls Washington Post out for displaying broader context in their story.

Circle jerk. Flamewar. This is not journalism, this is TMZ. We are getting away from the fact of the matter that the President said is a real fact; the Internet is giving away metadata to spy on Americans using a mix of Legalese and Marketing terms all protected by the acts installed by President Bush and extended by President Obama.
Very nice. On your readme page you mention that with sublime text nothing works. I presume the onus will be on Sublime text developers to make their tabs available to the assit API?

EDIT: On further inspection of README this is somewhat covered. /sleepy
works on all pages and not only the front page.
The page you were looking for is not here.
You can't even tell your lawyer?!

That can't be constitutional. The government has no right to even know whether you told your lawyer or not.
You should probably assume that with any large corporation you are privy to about 0.01% of what goes on there.

(Of course, that doesn't mean that the remaining 99.99% is evil. Actually, your assumptions about what's going on with stuff that you don't know about says a lot about yourself as a person.)
Working with existing code doesn't necessarily help you much in the learning process. Just have a read of thedailywtf.com. Those stories are more common than you'd think. Just keep working on little apps you find interesting and put them out there! Eventually you'll have a portfolio to show prospective employers. There's plenty of sample code out there for "proper" way of doing things. Search through github for real examples.
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"Monitor This, Echelon"
Chris Oakes Email 10.22.99

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/10/32039
http://web.archive.org/web/20110715133348/http://www.sensage... ... the company that may have supplied software to store Call Data Records for AT&T (see customer list). They certainly did for several EU telcos to meet mandated recording requirements.

Sensage was purchased by KEYW, a government contractor. All I know is that Common, Series A, and Series D were all big goose eggs ... $0.0000000.
A very good compliment to Quicksilver indeed. This will be invaluable when I'm in browser tab hell and need to find one specifically.

A menu bar icon would be appreciated!
Even if the White House confirmed the PRISM program exist, and condemned the leak about the PRISM program, it doesn't mean all the facts in some power point presentation is real at all.
My fucking 2014 new year resolution: 207 days forward into NYE:
I will reach 1000 visitors a day on my blog by NYE 2014 and develop clear idea about my next startup product: that is a fucking promise.
The other key figure is that the entire submarine weighs 2,200 tons.

The sub was 3% too heavy and it will cost $14 million to fix, big woop, worse happens 1,000 times per day all around the world.
This from the same guy who once gave away access to anyone's data to impress friends.

His quote:

Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.

He has no credibility.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2010/05/report-zuc...;

http://www.newser.com/story/88716/zuckerberg-once-mocked-dum...
http://www.w3fools.com
To be honest, this whole thing is coordinated. The leak, the opportunity for outrage, the opportunity to gloss over the outrage, and now it's out in the open where the politicians and CEOs don't have to face real outrage.

True theater!!!
The reason why I'm currently making users explicitly use Enter/Return to click is because this allows them to use modifiers while clicking, so Ctrl+Enter for right click, Cmd+Enter on a link to open it in a new tab, etc. However, I think Ctrl+letter might be interesting, but might be confusing on multi-letter shortcuts.
Zuckerberg would never give away private info just to impress friends:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2010/05/report-zuc...;

http://www.newser.com/story/88716/zuckerberg-once-mocked-dum...
"a recruiter friend passed on a résumé from an individual who claimed to have created [...] Dwellable"

That person didn't apply for a job at Dwellable. That would have been pretty idiotic. It sounds like a recruiter who just happened to know the actual founder of Dwellable came across that resume.
OK, so you've elected representatives that you trust. Now what?

A major purpose of having new elections every 4 years (as opposed to life tenure) is to allow the people to periodically re-evaluate their trust decisions. What do you propose as the basis for that trust? Blind faith?

What's being suggested here is that elected representatives ought to be trusted by the public without access to the information necessary to verify that their trust has not been misplaced.

It's not like we're talking about specific information that was leaked. The mere fact that there exists such a broad surveillance program---authorized by Congress, the White House, and the FISC---was classified "top secret" and not scheduled to be declassified until decades later. The legally-enforced lack of accountability to the people for such a massive program undermines the legitimacy of a government that supposedly governs by the consent of the people.
The damage this did to american tech companies doing business overseas is HUGE.

How can you trust Amazon won't give access to your RDS account to someone? A hyperbole now but could happen in the future: How can I trust a judge didn't ask cisco to add backdoors to give NSA access to our networks???

I do business with the government (in Brazil) and they asked me to move out of amazon ASAP, we pay a small fortune every month to amazon, we will have to set up a custom environment to this one single contract now.
How bad is this Photoshop job of Melissa McCarthy?
an old time option - a few employees "compelled" to provide access and keep mouth shout.

a new time option - Larry is lying because of the gag order.

in between - Larry said "on such scale". Well, Google probably is of a bigger scale than Verizon.

Anyway, once the data is out there, it is only a matter of time and determination for a government (or any financially well backed up player) to get to it.

This scandal will be a great boost for any services involving "crypto", and probably would spring a new ones like an encrypted phone exchange/switch service, where one can see incoming and outcoming phone numbers, yet not which one connected to which :)
Thanks!

Regions needs a bit more thought, but it'll let you narrow down the search space easier when you're using a complex app like Xcode with a billion different scrollviews.

That's actually a pretty cool idea! I had ideas for sorting by depth in the element tree to current active or moused over element, but a proximity-based search would be interesting. What operator would you think is meaningful? I haven't got plans for '#' just yet.
Cynicism is safe, but it's happening now. I not now, when would you object? I feel like this is the bright red line.
Is this article providing anything new? It seems just like a rehash of all the old articles, with a speculative title.
The menu bar icon is coming back in the next version (v0.4.3) :)
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If you adjust for population growth, your numbers suggest the government significanly shrunk from 1962 to now.

182 million :2.5million in 1962 vs 312 million:2.8million in now. Granted you don't need to double the size of government when the population doubles but you do need significantly more people.
Because complaining on the Internet is way easier than doing something proactive. Less dangerous, too.
From the Sherlock files? I've read the presentation; it doesn't mean everything out there is cast & stone. I'm seeking the truth and not popular stories.
> May I suggest you withdraw from this line of argument?

May I suggest that you look at the paper in question and realize it is one that requires careful and uninterrupted attention for an extended period of time to properly understand?

May I also suggest that you not make assumptions as to what another person is or is not doing, and how it may interfere with their ability to do some things but not others?

Or would you rather just be a judgmental, holier-than-thou asshole?
From the headline I thought that somehow they had attached 70 tons more weight onto the thing than they wanted (e.g. accidentally made the hull too thick or something).

But from reading the article, it seems it's actually they just miscalculated the final weight based on the specs. Their miscalculation had it coming in 70 tons under its actual weight (which is 2200 tons). So the sub was built to spec, it's just the buoyancy calculations were wrong.
Just to add to that - it's $14 million on top of a $2.7 billion project.
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I've been wondering the same thing. It's easy to make this story go away fast for most people by doing what they've already done—placating statements suggesting the programs are good and necessary and not infringing upon anyone's rights. Ongoing protests would continue to show that people are displeased and make it harder for the story to disappear like it always has before. So why isn't someone organizing them?
Given the diverse nature of the two (finance software vesus data harvesting) that doesn't make sense.
Rather than parsing the meaning of the term "direct access", this is what makes the most sense to me: that the NSA did this to Silicon Valley companies without their knowledge or consent by wiretapping the backbone in bulk via abuse of private keys for SSL certificates.

I think the backlash is going to be greater than the USG anticipates. One thing that engineers can do is to simply refuse to work for the US government, or leave if they already work there. Deprive them of talent. Stop them from recruiting on college campuses.

There's a precedent: the campus campaigns against Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The NSA of course has its own very unique interpretation of "Don't Ask (for permission), Don't Tell (what you're recording)". But it's probably just as worthy of censure.
Prism has been admitted by the government to exist.

The notion that it exists, and Google isn't involved in it, is pretty absurd. That'd be like talking about tapping the telecom companies, but leaving out Verizon and AT&T.

See:

"The top intelligence official in the United States condemned as “reprehensible” leaks revealing a secret program to collect information from leading Internet companies and said a separate disclosure about an effort to sweep up records of telephone calls threatens “irreversible harm” to the nation’s national security."

Mr. Clapper said in a statement that the classified program to collect information from Internet providers is used to “protect our nation from a wide variety of threats” and he condemned the leaks of documents describing its existence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/us/intelligence-chief-call...
I think they are probably replicating their content in realtime onto government servers, so technically Google et al don't give the NSA any "direct" server access. In practice it's way more convenient to house all that data directly under the NSA/DHS/whatever umbrella than to connect to Google every time they need something.

Using piecemeal "direct access" would also hurt the government's data mining ambitions, so there are a lot of factors that suggest internet companies are simply obligated to stream all their data into a gov black box. This way, everybody wins: the government gets warrant-less, hassle-free access to absolutely everything, the internet companies get freedom from search warrants and NSLs, and they get to use the canned "direct access" denial line which is technically true but is still actually a huge lie.
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And if they didn't say that, everyone on HN would be whining about why they didn't deny "direct access" when that was the headline accusation.

Can't win with you guys.
There isn't a necessity for false interpretations or naked usurpation here. If the Constitution said: "Congress shall pass no law... abridging the right of privacy" we'd be in a different boat. But that's not what it says. It just doesn't contemplate the kind of broad privacy right that attaches to information even as it flows in clear text through numerous computers on the internet. That's not surprising--the 4th amendment was specifically a response to the British government's invasive searches of peoples' houses.

Indeed, the Supreme Court's position over the last 50 years has been "reading in" privacy rights in an ad hoc way. If there was a broad right of privacy in there, either explicitly in the text or implicitly in historical practice and understanding, don't you think the liberal Supreme Court's of the 1960's and 1970's that gave us Roe, etc, would have found it instead of having to resort to "penumbras"?

Remember, striking down the actions of the political branches on the basis of unconstitutionality is a subversion of democracy. Sometimes it's necessary, but it's always a subversion of democracy. Calling everything we disagree with "unconstitutional" as ideologues are wont to do, is basically just saying "I hate the political consensus so my ideals should override the voters' decisions."
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This app relies on applications implementing the Accessibility API properly. I'm hoping that there'll be enough Shortcat users to pressure application developers into making their apps more accessible so people who actually need to use accessibility tools (due to being visually impaired can) use their apps.

I've found that most mail clients (apart from Mail.app, which I don't like) have pretty terrible Accessibility support, due to heavy emphasis on custom views. It's still possible to add Accessibility support on custom views though, but visually-impaired users tends to be a pretty small niché unfortunately...
Google could not provide the NSA with its TLS keys and then argue it hadn't given the government direct access to its servers. Nor could the government MITM TLS, which would be detectable, nor could they have compromised a TLS CA to accomplish the same thing, because Google's keys are pinned in Chrome and recent Firefox; you can examine the builds to see that.
With the advent of computers and programming languages that only use decimal points, I wonder how long countries will hold out and continue using decimal commas.

I would not be in the slightest surprised to see that engineering would standardize 100% on decimal points (even if the public used commas), just like how in the US engineering (except houses) uses metric, even though the public uses imperial.

(Also, presumably he spoke in Spanish, so translating decimal comma to decimal point in English is not sloppy reporting - it's good translation.)
Unless more information comes to light, you're just slandering the guy. The assumption at this point is that he was arrested at multiple M16 assault rifle gunpoints because of his involvement in hacking into Jim Parks's fansite. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/01/inside-anony...;
Say they have a CAD model with different types of steel/composites for material. If they select the wrong type of material, or the wrong weight for that material is used, or the thickness of a material is off by even a slight fraction, then an issue such as this could come up. Considering that there are millions of custom parts to a submarine, it's an amazing feat to ONLY be off by 70 tons.
clearly you're not very imaginative. not thinking or realizing you can change the output is naive. there are so many people writing up the same hints it's almost impossible not to run into something like this daily. if you seriously rely on 'discussions' to improve your knowledge you're not really thinking for yourself, are you?
Yup! This is exactly why I posted this, b/c even I fall in this category. I'm a hacker that got in trouble with Google and was convicted through the Patriot Act[0]...yet I still use their products. Reason: ease of use and I do like google.

My next project after my current one was inspired by the ECPA[1]. Simple concept: employ PGP, a simple UI, and sell users a custom WD My Book Live[2] (I'm sure you can see where this goes).

[0] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/05/man-allegedly-b&#x2...;

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/when-can-the-government-read-...

[2] http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=280
Anything else would be simply untrue. These companies obviously give limited data (not server access, not direct) to the government when required by subpoena and whatnot so they couldn't say "we give no access to any data" or anything like that.
link to the slides, please
do you have details on this, not being snarky, i genuinely want to know.