skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi ISL,

We're totally aware that we need to be a lot more explicit and include more information on our site about the product / processes / security stuff. We've been working on this for a while now, but kind of rushed the launch due to the recent press over the NSA stuff -- we figured it was better to launch early than delay.

We're actively working on answering all those questions, and will be including a page which covers all the security aspects fully in the next week-ish.

We're 100% dedicated to making this work for our users (and ourselves), and providing real security for people.
You should accept bitcoin so that the bank and the NSA won't have a list of all of your customers.

edit: I see in another comment that you're adding this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5840440)

Also, if you want to prevent tracking at the USPS -- ship the phones in unmarked boxes with postage purchased with cash. Don't use a return address and randomize the post-offices drops you utilize to send the packages.
To those wondering why the top answer says "No, no it doesn't."– the submission was originally titled "The internet needs more 404 pages like this"
"Thugs"? For people that make, sell, and customize software?

That sounds like a description people would attach to Blackwater.
Hm, yes, added a warning message, good idea. As for your other thoughts, I completely agree. It's a work-in-progress and I figured the best way to figure out what's wrong is to learn from others.

Edit: Also added a link to that discussion next to Nadim's post.
More to the point of your response to; "Greenwald is by no means perfect."

I agree that he is by no means perfect and can hold views that can be seen as the parent's point.
Sealed bottle garden still thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
Working on this now -- we should have Bitcoin support by tomorrow.
I've never registered anywhere and I have moved a lot. In the states we have at least 20 million undocumented. In Germany you legally have to report someone that doesn't have an ID card.
http://facity.com
At our current rate of progress, IPv6 will be fully implemented on May 10, 2048
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Did this person just confess to theft of services in a blog article?
How to find anyone's email with Rapportive
Not sure what I can do to prove this to you since we just launched and don't have much of a history, but I'm happy to answer any questions.

I'm a programmer at a telephone company currently, and have worked in the telco industry for a while now.

I have no government affiliations at all.
You're a moron. We had none of this infra in place until recently and what have the "terrorists" managed to pull off? Two WTC attacks in 20 years and the biggest one killed 3k people. I'd rather take the chance on a bomb going off in Time Square at rush hour. That happening is insanely unlikely, but the government abusing privacy information has already happened. The more they have the worse it will get.

The only "terrorists" I worry about is the US government itself.
Some business advice, you are opening yourself up to interesting levels of CC fraud (desirable good, lack of needed info, lack of data for pattern checking). Which if chargebacks don't directly kill your bottom line, the payment networks will simply cut you off for your high fraud.
Do all the phones look the same? Because if so, "If you'd like to recycle your Burner when you're done using it, just throw it into any cell phone disposal box (these can usually be found at office supply stores)."

Ummmm.
If you're that paranoid, you shouldn't be using a hosted service at all. There could be a guy right outside your house intercepting your cable line and filtering all traffic to and from cryptonote.org and routing it to his own instance of the app. That doesn't mean that cryptonote is responsible for that happening.
I know this has been said before....but I just couldn't help but chuckle at the irony of a "completely anonymous" phone, only able to be bought with a credit card :|
Can the committee giving out that prize revoke it? And if so, have they ever done so in the past and under what pretenses?
The Onion's parody on Facebook's CIA ownership is now sounding eerily accurate. For those who haven't seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0
Likewise. Awesome comment. Book I wasn't aware of. Thanks so much for taking the time to write this.
Obama: 'Nobody is listening to your telephone calls'
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They don't catch anyone! The only plans they intercept are their own fucking plans! Have you not noticed that every would-be "terrorist" they've caught was entrapped? That is, without the US government talking them into it and supplying the materials they wouldn't have done shit? Get your fucking head out of your ass, you're selling our freedoms to fight shadows.
It looks like the bottle is sealed with cork, which is permeable to both air and moisture.
Give this clip about 5 minutes, it's a pretty good explanation of sexual orientation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNgknc7Qv8&t=45m52s

The entire series of lectures is excellent if you thought this was insightful.
This is 100% due to us launching earlier than expected (with all the press about the NSA stuff).

We're implementing bitcoin purchasing right now, will have it ready by tomorrow.

Sorry for the inconvenience =/ I realize it's not perfect, but we're working on it ^^
> I have no government affiliations at all.

Nice try CIA ops.
Obama’s Remarks on NSA Controversy
The biggest issue with AIO is that file reads aren't actually async unless you use O_DIRECT which has performance implications (sometimes it's faster but sometimes it's slower). O_DIRECT also requires alignment which makes it harder to use.
In case you missed it. UPDATE: Startup Palantir Denies Its 'Prism' Software Is The NSA's 'PRISM' Surveillance System http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup...;
Don't be obtuse. States wage regular campaigns to promote road safety and punish careless driving, within the limits of the resources available to them - besides which, traffic accidents are distributed among a large population of road users, rather than orchestrated through a chain of command.
We're hoping that once we start accepting Bitcoin a majority of purchases will be done through that medium.

We've got copy prepared which urges users to pay with Bitcoin due to security concerns, and should have this up tomorrow.
The part that really sums things up for me was:

"XI) “But Eric, if X11 is so terrible why not just make X12 rather than a whole new protocol?” They did, technically anyway: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/X12

One big problem with keeping it under the “X” umbrella: Anyone who cares about X would have a say in a future version of it. By calling it “Wayland” they avoid that issue. No one cares. Its an unrelated project, they (the developers) can do what THEY want with their future display server, the people who care about X can go to make X12."

Which makes much sense. Given X11 has been around for many many years, albiet various revisions. Heck was only earlier today looking at a old book of mine on X11 from 1989 (X11R4) and recall what a curve it was back then.

So I can understand the legacy hangover aspect and with that moving to a new design/brandname enabled many short cuts in the paperwork and other programming politics aspects.

With that the 25 years is mooted much in this document about how old X is and with that the book I have is a first edition and also around the time which graphics cards started to become available, albiet expensive (recalling a 10k black and white X station by NCR).

Not touched coding on wayland (or indeed X for umpteen years) but would be interesting in how they compare and indeed how they also compare to coding in a standard desktop GUI.
So what do you think about pre-natal testing for gay gene?
It does not take balls, but instead an awareness that people will pay a premium for a brand even when the product itself is feature poor. This may also be referred to as "market savvy".
Palantir uses Linux, too. So I guess you can't use Linux now.
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Whats your moral stance on your business? There are a lot of legitimate uses for your product, but its also (for obvious reasons) very attractive to people involved in criminal activities. Will you be putting any measures in place to counteract this?

For example, lets say you were regularly getting orders to a foreign country which is known to be a hot spot for terrorism. Then, you have the police knocking on your door, because there has been a major terror threat in a US city, and they need to track the terrorists phones.

I can guess the answer, but just want to make the point there are usually 2 sides to an anonymous service like this.
Great, so we've gone from "Someone other than you knows, so why shouldn't the government?" to "The government knows, so why shouldn't everyone else?".
I agree with you, but I think the line of thought is more along the lines of "you are born straight and you choose to be gay, and the obvious badness of that choice makes you a deviant". That requires a different counter - and it's not going to be an intellectual one.

It was once not uncommon for big thinkers to believe that animals can't suffer. They had lots of intellectual justifications for that. But people who have a dog know they can. To most of us it seems silly to suggest they cannot. But it's easy to fall for the nonsense if you don't ever spend time with animals.

As more people know people that they know are gay (they've always known gay people), they will just see how obvious it is that it's a choice. I think this is a viral effect, put loosely. The more acceptance there is, the more acceptance there will be. And a tipping point, if you can pick a precise time, I believe happened earlier this year (at least in the US).
Yes, and according to James Clapper (Director of National Intelligence) and Keith Alexander (NSA Director) the NSA was not collecting data on U.S. citizens, either.
Randall - this is awesome! Congratulations on your launch.
> I have confirmed reports that Southwest and United have checked names.

First class on Southwest?
Hell yes! I can fly my own goddamn tacos to myself.
That's the question actually. I don't want to stay back and that stops me from taking a huge education loan. I actually plan to return to my country and join academics.

There were places like Sweden but tuition for non-EU students is longer free.

Anyway EU looks like my best chance.
Reddit was great when it started. It gradually diluted.

HN was opened to the public, who then had access to already tight and information-dense conversation started by YC members. HN was, at that time, some of the best, most focused, highest signal-to-noise conversation one could find on the open Web.

Usability is in good part determined by the users. In addition to the length of time involved since its inception and initial tweaks to appearance, there is the matter of what the core HN population was and, I hope, continues to be interested in: Communication. Getting knowledge and ideas across. Sorting the most valuable (as determined by the community) to prominence.

HN continues to do pretty well at this.

And even in its graphical design... Well, the Verdana typeface was developed by one of most prominent type designers, for Microsoft, to be particularly readable on-screen. (Admittedly, screens at the time were still mostly CRT's. But even with LCD's, for quite a number of years the dot pitch did not change all that much.)

Text is nice and black. It's on a light gray background rather than white, to reduce eye strain.

Just because it doesn't look like a highly customized version of Bootstrap version whatever, doesn't mean it's not good at what it does.

I have seen complaints about usability on mobile devices. Overall, I think this simply hasn't been enough of a concern, nor considered to be having enough of a negative impact, for pg and crew to take it on.

Also, realize that any number of site and design decisions may and I suspect are made without any publicity or acknowledgement. pg and moderators fix problems and determine optimizations, and some of these depend upon a lack of publicity.

It might even be that pg doesn't particularly want the influence of "momentary" attention in conversations. Enhancing mobile usability might be viewed as contributing to a decline in the quality of conversation and/or voting.

I'm not saying this is happening. But I am saying that, with respect to some aspects of the site, sometimes you have to read between the lines if you're seeking the why of it.

Unlike reddit, there has been no private messaging facility on HN. pg has stated, IIRC, that he didn't want to / see the value in putting the effort into developing one. But... the decision might also be viewed as lessening the avenues for "submarine" conversations and the development of cliques.

He did support a third party initiative for notification of responses to comments. And your profile does allow you to state means of contact outside of HN. But there's a bit more friction in those means, and perhaps to good effect.

Finally, pg has stated repeatedly that -- in what started out as a side-project that was specifically YC focused -- he puts the effort he does put into HN where he thinks it adds the most value. E.g. comment quality, spam and destructive participation whack-a-mole, etc.

Not that pg needs me to speak up for him. But, to state what I've observed from my perspective and so perhaps contribute my bit to overall efficiency, here.
This is everything that is wrong with cryptography and privacy. Simply put, if your data is important enough to use cryptography on it, why would you want to use crypto that is broken by design?

The whole point of a well-designed, well-implemented cryptosystem is that even if there is a dude sitting outside my house, he's not getting a single bit of my data. This is just as true for government secrets as it is sending a recipe to my mother. This service is broken, as all such services are. Bad crypto is never, ever, ever excusable.
You haven't read him. Those aren't his conclusions. Those are his personal actions, as a single person without any political power. If you're a judge in an international human rights court, you bring Coca-Cola forth to respond to their hire of murderers. If you're just a bloke of the street, you might boycott Coca-Cola, if only just for having a clear conscience.

What his conclusions actually are have been stated many times before. Free software in every device, under the GPL. Free software in servers, under the AGPL. Being able to install open source firmware on those devices. Using free standards. Banning intrusive DRM, restrictions to second hand sale, et c. All very reasonable and implementable today, if there were the political will.

Well, maybe not all very reasonable, but reasonable to varying degrees. Still, I don't get why you are so worried about Stallman, when he actually wants what you want.
Can someone provide a few examples of legal use cases for this type of thing? I understand people who want to protect their personal information, but these are going way out of their way to actively conceal their personal information. I just don't know why that would be a priority unless you are trying to hide something. I am not usually in the "you have nothing to fear unless you are hiding something" camp, but these seem pretty extreme.
So in 20+ years we have 12 cases? And how do we know any of these cases are actually true? Because the people who benefit from wiretapping us claim it's true? The cases I follow have all been clear cut cases of entrapment (where the victim still went to jail!).
Thx for the kind words of encouragement. There is something elegant about angular and I'm going to keep slogging on. I think you're spot on about mechanisms .. I don't grok how angular does its magic and I think that is a big problem for me. Any suggestion on how one goes about learning Angular internals sans looking at the source code?

I used Angular for two hackathons so far and didn't keep track of what didn't work. It was just a matter of ... let me try something a different way ... and poof ... it worked. Not very scientific I'm afraid.
You can watch more from his talk in San Jose at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732384480457853...
Cool - Good luck :)!
I know...you guys made a good call. Launching in the midst of this storm is very clever.

I wish you all the best!
Most countries have had significant changes in their constitutional configuration over a much shorter timescale than the US, especially when you factor in scale. Your counter-argument is so weak as to constitute an endorsement; the existence of other, even more stable countries does not invalidate my point.
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Look at another clause in that section:

"To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States..."

By your method of interpretation, this clause gives Congress the right to exercise legislative jurisdiction over D.C., but not the right to build the city. A more sensible interpretation is that it grants Congress the power to build the city in the same breath as granting it exclusive legislative jurisdiction over it. The embedding of the power to provide for the common being embedded within the power to tax can be seen as operating similarly. Note that this drafting reflects history. There was no doubt under the articles of confederation that Congress had the power to provide for the common defense. The sticking point was that it did not have the power to tax to achieve that end.

Also, the preamble is not legally inoperative. It can be read as establishing "common defense" as an umbrella term for powers mentioned within.

Finally, providing for the common defense was considered at the time and today an inherent aspect of sovereignty, and the Constitution through the preamble shows the intent to invest that aspect in the federal government.

I can see the point you're getting at, but I don't think it works. You're comparing a power that's mentioned twice in the Constitution (archaic drafting aside), was considered an inherent function of government at the time, and was clearly motivated by by contemporary events as supported by the historical record, to an umbrella "right" that isn't mentioned explicitly by the Constitution, isn't a neat generalization of the rights that are explicit in the Constitution, and wasn't part of the historical understanding at the time.

I think there's some Occam's Razor analysis that needs to happen here. The simplest explanation of the text is that the common defense was intended to be a fundamental function of the federal government, while the various rights that arguably go to privacy were really derived either from a response to specific injustices at the hands of the British or from common law understandings of due process rather than some unstated general umbrella right of privacy.
Without instant run-offs, voting for an alternative candidate is tantamount to voting for your worst of the two viable choices. In 2000, Gore would have won the US presidential election if not for Nader voters whose second choice was Gore.
Does it still sound "pretty extreme" after the news on PRISM?
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What an embarrassing thread.
You probably know it, but that approach is used everywhere, for example in JavaScript and ruby, where it is typically is impossible to prove much about your program (in some dark corner of the program, someone might redefine that function that appears to add one to a number, if the program is run on Thursdays)

I also have a minor, minor nitpick on the article: I think you should point out that those INY instructions, in general, are insufficient to increase 16-bit pointers. You have to check for wraparound, and increase the high byte if a value wraps to zero. Somebody must have checked (or hoped) that that didn't happen with these tables (developing with the long, safe form and replacing it by the short form before release is tricky, as shortening the code will move entry points)
Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century
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"The most effective tool we have is social network analysis."

It's also one of the most effective tools for coercion and blackmail. See this for an example:
http://blog.etanzapinsky.com/2013/06/06/snapchat-youve-made-...;
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5832505 (especially the discussion following speeder's comment)
I don't believe in this. It's not that it doesn't make sense it's that it seems like fighting a losing battle. To me it seems the only way to change things is from within. Trying to affect change the way you describe makes you the "other" and its easy for them to take steps to either make your life harder or shut you down completely. It's this same kind of mentality that I think makes the whole copyright issue a losing battle. The more you fight it the more everyone loses. The minute you win a battle they make the means by which you won it illegal or a tedious process.
Yes...but the core of a libertarian is that they value their LIBERTY over anything else.

It can't just be that Thiel wants to make money. Would he be involved in a company that is systematically eroding the very liberties that he publicly claims to cherish, all for a few more hundreds of millions of dollars?

I doubt it.

So there must be something else going on - and I am genuinely interested.
Why is this $75? The cheapest phone around is about $20, the Nokia 105 comes to mind for example. Add some dollars for the calls, texts and your margin $75 seems a bit steep.
Anderkent, all of the examples you see at the moment were run through a sandbox so I could capture their value and output. I would love to open it up to more forms and libraries in the future. The plan is to give users the ability to add, edit, and rate examples so things like `deftemplate` could be included. Either way, thanks for checking it out and giving feedback.
Einstein's Desk: Reflections on Process VS Vision.
Don't some kind of minimal transaction records generally need to be kept for tax purposes?
I'm not saying I agree with pressuring you to put up your bio information. I'm just saying that it seems so small compared to the other stuff out there.
What does this app do?
Still bullshitting. Was probably advised make sure to use phrase "nobody is listening" there is a technical reason for that to be correct as computers are technically not a person.
No, it's absolutely productive and helpful. We the people have no voice. Companies like Google who makes billions are the ones with a voice. If a million people left Google in protest you could expect action. If a million people signed some bullshit online petition nothing at all would happen.
The retired electrical engineer has only watered the plant twice, the last time in 1972 when he oiled the plastic stopper so that it wedged so tightly it hasn't been out since.
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been watching their repos for awhile now https://github.com/palantir
Great post. I would add that sometimes revealing the plots that have been stopped or uncovered would itself destroy the intelligence value of whatever means was used to uncover it.

But certainly it should be possible to say something or otherwise have a timeframe after which it's considered safe to mention.

And for the rest, the data collection, analysis, etc. absolutely we need more transparency. The bad guys should already be assuming NSA sees all and knows all, the rest of us need to know what rules the government and public are playing by, and we need to be able to trust and oversee our own leadership in Washington. And that requires transparency.