skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Because then the government would still have our private data, the only thing you'd have effectively done is made it that much more difficult for the government to do the one and only valid thing they could have done with that data (track terrorists, child pornographers and sex traffickers, etc.)
We need to teach more history to the youngsters.
Oh, believe me, moral expressivists are very much employable as long as their preferences align with society's. This tends to be the case because of shared neurophysiology and socialization.
I completed the level.

You too young for the old arcades then?
Which would no doubt brand us cyberterrorists if it managed to work.
Only if they decide you did so for tax reasons (which is just a formula they apply to your earnings and assets. hint: if you're going this route, do it fast as these numbers drop every year).
Thanks! Feel free to submit an issue [1], everything can be discussed, but the absence of an erasing tool (or any other tool) is a strong feature for us and our users.

[1] https://github.com/lisezmoi/scri.ch/issues
Homosexuality is no longer persecuted as a crime in the industrialized Western world. However, if by "past it" you mean homophobia no longer exists or is not significant enough to worry about — absolutely not. This story of horrific treatment of gay teens in Anoka, Minnesota, near where I used to live, comes to mind: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-g...
Obama is a liar and a puppet. Clear as day to see.
"I don't need to be fast. I just need to be faster than you!"

Your trail-covering only needs to be better than the investigation capability of those who are investigating your leak.
Do a search on first world countries. Most of them will be fine.
Now that we know AWS is part of the NSA data operation, who will move private data to AWS?
Thanks, and that is absolutely true. That's why it's open source: I want people to host their own version if they don't trust me https://github.com/alainmeier/cryptonote
So Github is a good example of why the traditional open/closed dichotomy falls apart on the web.

The things that make Github really valuable are by definition closed. They own a well-known URL and have a ton of content behind it. I know where to go to find projects, I have a consistent workflow for acquiring or modifying those projects, and I have a reliable method for commenting on and contributing back to those projects. Even if Github were completely open and simple to customize and deploy (which are very different things), a fork would have very little of the value we associate with the original.

Not an open/closed issue, but illustrative of the concept: Google+ is a noticeably better written piece of software than Facebook, but no one uses it because that's not where they can see their sister's baby pictures.

This is very different from desktop applications, such as Office. Assuming file interoparability, I can use an alternative that I like better to improve my workflow without losing much value.

So what we really need is to move away from focusing on project source and toward open data. We should be pushing for better and richer APIs for third-party access to large datasets.
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> hardware choice is far from the biggest issue with this sort of freedom

This might be why we differ. To me it's a huge issue - that I can continue to buy from a range of hardware manufacturers, and install my own OS and software. My computers all have Linux + Windows 8, and my phones have always had custom ROMs on there. I get that not everyone needs that, but Apple stopping me from installing OS X on my laptop, which is perfectly capable of running it, just strikes me as "evil".

If you go out of your way to avoid Apple services that lock you in, then I suppose that you could be reasonably free to exit. But on an iOS device you can't get out of using default apps like Apple Maps, and services like FaceTime and iMessage encourage people to connect with their family and friends through a system which is almost unique in only working on one manufacturer's hardware/OS (the only other example is BBM, which I also avoid).

> I don't see Google as that much more open than Apple

I see them as much more open than Apple, probably because it is in their best interest to be. Google's continuing existence is based on people's ability to use their services from any platform. They are trying to make hardware and operating systems less relevant by moving everything onto the internet. In order to do this, they need everything to be interoperable, and they do that through openness. Apple's business on the other hand is about getting people into their walled garden and keeping them there. Microsoft did that to an extent with trying to lock everyone into Windows, but in my view Apple are a million times worse, as they are trying to lock people into their OS and their hardware - and in many cases their software as well (eg. Maps and other default applications).

With respect to Android, you can use it without using a single Google service.
Feinstein's constituency is Silicon Valley. And while we know all about the Google/Facebook/Apple/Y-Combinator silicon valley, there's also that other Silicon Valley.

http://vimeo.com/15992737
1. Many Libertarians give defense spending a free pass, calling defense the only essential function of government.

2. Libertarians are opposed to giving money to govt, not taking money from govt.
I still see it on the front page.
Arguably, canvas should be more optimized for gaming. Especially with the use of WebGL and etc.
I was just getting this out as soon as possible. There's nothing hard about it, I just wanted to put it out there and keep working on it.
Or how about scrap it and don't rewrite anything. Terrorism is no threat to the US, just stop making a big deal about it. The boston bombers killed 3 people. That's like 1 car crash.
Related, I highly recommend seeing a performance of Breaking the Code[1] if the opportunity presents itself. It's a play about Alan Turing, dealing with events in his life from his involvement in WWII through his death.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Code
I can personally confirm Palantir Prism is not NSA's Prism. I helped build that team and write that software in 2006. It was Palantir Finance, and it was built for use at hedge funds and financial houses as a quant analysis platform for traders.
I disagree. Making "best choice" you endorse the wrong one. If you didn't like it, you could vote for alternative candidates which you preferred, even though the logic dictates that they had low chances to win.
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Most criticism of Stallman boils down to the fact that people are reluctant to resign from even the slightest bit of what is convenient or pleasurable, even if ethically this would be the right thing to do or even if it is likely to cause harm in the long-term. I mean I have never seen anyone criticize Stallman in a logically or ethically coherent way, most people just whine that they are not going to stop using Facebook or their mobile because they won't.
1,788 of 1,789 request were granted. The outlier was one that was withdrawn.
I don't see how that's really relevant to literally anything.

The crux of Greenwald's response:

"Given that I had never written about Sam Harris, I found it odd that I had become the symbol of Harris-bashing for some of his faithful followers. Tweeting a link to an Al Jazeera column about Harris and saying I find one of his quotes revealing does not make me responsible for every claim in that column...That said, what I did say in my emails with Harris - and what I unequivocally affirm again now - is not that Harris is a "racist", but rather that he and others like him spout and promote Islamophobia under the guise of rational atheism."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/03/sam-harr...

edit: by not relevant, I mean that Sam Harris's opinion of Greenwald doesn't mean that Greenwald has indefensible opinions.
Except for all the people killed by the gangs involved in smuggling this highly demanded consumer good that's affordable for a broad cross section of society across the borders.
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To me the biggest thing driving acceptance of gay people is the realization that being gay is not a choice, but rather something you are born with.

In a recent poll by Pew last month, 41% of the country now believes people are born gay. 8% believe it is the result of upbringing and 42% believe it is a choice.

Source: http://www.people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/06-06-13%20LGBT...

To those that believe it's a choice, the natural question is, "When did you choose to be straight?" For me, I knew I was attracted to the opposite sex as early as 5 or 6. I didn't make a choice. Nobody makes a choice. You're attracted to who you're attracted to. If anyone says that is not the case, ask them at what age they chose their sexual orientation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S14VRjVDPcs
lol, there is no way Guns are going to get banned now. More people will buy guns cause of this. I don't know if the Government did this knowingly or unknowingly.
But if you need to trust the server (and you do), then the client-side encryption is 100% pointless. You might as well encrypt on the server with safe, sane, battle-hardened code.

At the end of the day, XSS, rogue hosts, etc can own this even if the person "running the show" doesn't want it to happen.

Edit: I note that you now link to nadim's response to http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography&#x2...; -- you reaaaaally should consider linking to the original, or perhaps to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5768837 wherein that article is torn to shreds. JS cryptography is very, very dangerous.
What? I subscribe to his mailing list, and read his blog... Yikes.
This seems to use it
Outside of the US couldn't you just say directly where you received warrants?
This is a stupid comparison, and it contributes to the dumbing down of politics and political thought.
What, no sign in with facebook button?
Is this based on Amazon S3 because you have that at hand, or is it based on it because of some innate advantage?
s/minimum wage laws/unpaid internships/g
I did not mean in any way to imply I'd prefer anything but democracy, just to remind us of its panoptic[0] urge.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticism
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But inspired by the time he spent at the BBC.

Obviously it and Animal Farm were based a lot on Communists and Fascists ... he saw them up close and personal in the Spanish Civil War. But various details of flavor, ways in which the U.K. had already moved towards them ... well, that period also inspired Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, which was in all seriousness and honesty dedicated to "THE SOCIALISTS OF ALL PARTIES", who as you know took over after Churchill.

ADDED: I don't think it would resonate with American and Commonwealth audiences as well as it does if it wasn't as the above that I believe it to be. In part; plenty of it is universal enough.
there are more than a few Mathematica-isms that Rich has admitted being influenced by

Can you say what some of those are?

I'm enjoying your comments on this.
Real time tracking, yes. But during investigation, no. The intelligence agencies and police states weren't blind before the invention of the internet, or even digitization of records.

In some cases, organizations simply had to actively file reports with government agencies via snail mail when certain suspicious activity was encountered, sort of an active, HUMINT client-side filter.

Best examples are one-way ticket purchases, or cash transfers at banks over $5000, or Western Union telegrams, these were activity monitored via human labor and dead tree paperwork.
In theory you have a right to a public trial, but it seems to me that the government has been ignoring more and more rights lately (of course, a lot of this is just better coverage than we had 30 years ago).
Turing thought they think
And he suffered terribly
Therefore they do think
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When you are making some financial goals for the future it is useful to be able to calculate such important things like your returns, the period of time for which you need to save or how much you need to save to benefit.
Examples please. I would like to read more.

Plus, I wasn't suggesting that we create laws that penalize federal officials for how they perform official duties. I was suggesting that we penalize US citizens for things done prior to them becoming federal officials. I wasn't suggesting that we prosecute them for how they do their job but prosecute them for false claims made to help them achieve that job. How they did their job would merely be used as evidence to support any claims made against them when they were ordinary US citizens. Their actions in office would be evidence to a crime, not the crime itself.
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You felt comfortable implementing AES yourself?
seems like discourse would be a useful tool to do standups as well.
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Your points would probably be better received if you did not exaggerate. He of course does have an internet connection, as he uses email. Plenty of people turn off some subset of cookies, javascript, and java (who has java turned on?). I agree that better subversion comes through acting normal and engaging people closer to their own terms.
Yeah, it could say "access denied" :)
I never said you couldn't criticise islam. In fact, I think Islam is terrible and deserves criticism and mockery.

However, it is also true that many Muslim people are unjustly persecuted, and randomly bringing up that "their prophet had a 9 year old wife" fits into the pattern of discrimination. People who bring that up are either bigots who enjoy namecalling at Muslims, or people who are unaware of that social context of their words, which is a form of racism/privilege itself.

So, feel free criticise Islam (including for the 9 year old bride), but don't randomly bring it up if it's only vaguely related to the topic of discussion.
You can't confirm that Palantir's Prism is not the NSA's Prism unless you have complete access to both systems. Palantir could be correct in saying that their Prism was not designed for the NSA, but is it outside possibility to believe the NSA is using software outside the knowledge of a corporation?
It's like a million hipsters cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

I will pour out some PBR for good ol' .io.
So it is a contradiction, but one forced by circumstance.
At that level of 'paranoia' / privacy concern you might as assume this is an elaborate honey-pot. An unlikely scenario but certainly the safest assumption from a privacy perspective.
If you're left with the choice between the lesser or two evils on how to run the country. It is very _very_ important that you get the _lesser_ of those two evils.
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Wow, this is great! Thanks for the share.
This is the first time I've heard Palantir being called paramilitary thugs. Are there specific claims that would substantiate that? (I was an early employee.)
Our site is not down: http://82.io
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For learning purpose, why not? Taught me a lot more about crypto than I would have by simply reading about it. Of course, it wasn't meant for real-world use. :)
Well the Democrats did control Congress from 2008-2010...

And much of what's happening in the Justice Department and IRS, for instance, belong squarely to the Executive. Something could be done, but this administration is not doing it.
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This whole thread is like a textbook example of why people like me (breakers) have itchy trigger fingers when it comes to people building cryptography features.

I'm glad if this has been a good learning experience for you (may I suggest another?†), but real secure systems aren't, to steal a phrase from Richard Stallman, "debugged into existence": they start from a foundation of a secure, well-considered design and are verified piece by piece as the system is assembled.

† http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges
People will receive bad news better if you know how to communicate and engage with them.

As an example, the angry vegan on the street shouting, "Shame! Shame on you!" doesn't convince you to go vegan. The vegan that engages you in rational debate and shows you how a vegan lifestyle isn't as hard/daunting as it seems, may convince you.

It's foolish to realize that people will ignore bad news from some unkempt academic that seems a bit off, rather than by a clean-cut smooth-talker in an expensive suit.
> Every time you make a purchase we'll package and ship your order, then destroy all transaction records in our system. We make it impossible to give or share your information with anyone.

Come on. There is absolutely no way you can convince anybody of this fact. It is impossible (and I mean this in the mathematical sense) to prove that you have no record of how it was purchased or where the phone went.
> fairly-powerful jails(not as powerful as LXC though)

IMHO LXC wishes it were jails with vimage, and if you really wanted some hillarity you could actually run a linux container-like system under a jail using the linuxulator.
My thoughts exactly, thanks for this refreshing blog post. There's definitely a lot of security value for the intelligence agencies to mine our data and they've been able to stop several terrorist plots because of being able to access that data. Like you said, I just wish they would be more transparent about it. Of course the other danger is that if they're too transparent, the people who WANT to be anonymous for bad reasons will know exactly how to avoid leaving digital trails. It's tough to balance privacy & security but I definitely think the intelligence agencies could care less about what drug dealers you talk to or how much porn you watch and legitimately care more about threats to the country.
How comfortable did you feel with AES when you were done with the project? Could you try to put into a sentence or two what you (i) didn't know about using AES before you did the project, and (ii) knew at the end of the project?
It's not about surprise, it's about proof. Comments like this are nothing but highschool cool-table karma whoring. "I knew it all along" adds nothing to the conversation. Congratulations for nothing.
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I just tried it but getting the file again says the file has already been downloaded...
Twilio even has an in-browser VoIP client: http://www.twilio.com/client
Would it matter? I mean all they have to do is encrypt it using the old standard and then encrypt that using bcrypt.

Lawyers "do you use blabla standard to encrypt the data?" You> "yes" - and it is secure.
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So what if you use something like a Russian VPN or Tor? It seems like that would only be vulnerable to attacks based on exact connection times and to traffic volume analysis, both of which could be avoided by generating fake traffic.
Obama defends phone data collection program
If you need to coordinate your criminal activities all The Wire-like, why not just use some form of encrypted communication using the phone you already have? Maybe just get one for criminal activity only to be extra safe? Aren't all these problems solved by some 2048-bit encryption? I guess the phone company can see which IP you're making a connection too, but that doesn't seem like much. Why do we have to waste this much perfectly good hardware just to be anonymous?
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The first link was about a lawyer, who represented the soldier who stole massive amounts of classified material while stationed in a war zone, being detained and searched at the border. The second was about a film maker returning to the country after traveling to a war zone and being detained and searched.

In both cases their laptops/cameras/etc were searched and confiscated for a time. Neither person seems to have been detained overnight.

This is just the government being thorough. This is not disturbing to me.
No problem! I'm trying to do my best to help the Turkish people
The government said "trust us" too. I'm not entirely sure why anybody who wants to buy an untraceable phone would go to a website run by an unknown person to buy one. There are so many ways that this could go wrong for the phone purchaser.

I'm thinking either this is a spoof site where in a week's time you'll just say "Ha! Look at all this private information you just gave a complete stranger!" or it's a government-run honeypot.
I dunno, I have noticed a huge problem with bicycling in the bay area, and that is people do fall into the "cult of bicycle". Normally its not bad, but they're definately getting their own bizzare "fundamentalist" strains where its ok to mow down pedestrians and run off, ignore traffic signals (and often common sense).

I'm also puzzled by the growth of bike lanes that push bicyclists onto busy heavily trafficed streets rather than less congested sidestreets where they'd be able to move more easily and safely.

Then again, SF is one of the worst run cities in the US so I guess this isn't a surprise.
The government already has information on who you work for (via taxes), so putting up a picture and a short bio (e.g. "i like long walks on the beach") isn't going to change much.
Not all the time. If you buy a prepaid card at e.g. Target, they do not collect your SSN or IIRC any identifying information unless you opt to register the card. You might choose the register the card to replace in case of theft.
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Common sense backs this up. Code names are explicitly forbidden from having anything to do with the subject matter.

Edit: It might not be obvious to some, but code names are always in all caps.
Don't the airlines check?
What astonishes me about PRISM is the motive behind it. It appears the purpose of PRISM is to keep the government and it's politicians in operation only. It has nothing to do with protecting the citizens of the United States or otherwise.

For instance: if we presume PRISM is as omnipotent as described, and I do believe it is as sinister as it was chronicled. One has to ask this: if the "purpose" is to "protect" American/British citizens from harm then imagine how many child molesters, child pornographers, cartel bosses, under-ground arms dealers, etc. etc. are tacitly allowed to do business.

In other words their raison d'etre "to protect us" is bullshit for more people are harmed from all of the above or even in car accidents then from the sinister people they want to "protect us" from.

Perhaps they want to "protect themselves" from we the citizens?
Why would you put genuinely private data on anything other than a private server?

There are still plenty of good use cases for rental hardware. Also, using services that provide ephemeral and virtual data storage seems like a decent way to be sure that you can erase your steps if need be.