skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks"
I would agree that we engineers often treat the field of marketing with some suspicion. That's probably because--despite it having plenty of legitimate practitioners--it's also the natural home of countless snake oil salesmen.

However, I have not yet encountered the stereotype that marketing is where women in tech end up, that marketing is full of women, or that women in marketing are inferior to men in marketing. I have met quite a few engineers and tech-industry marketers, and in my experience at least, the programmers are a more gender-balanced group than the marketers. The marketers in tech that I've met have been mostly male. And all the snake-oil salespeople I've met so far have been male. Maybe this isn't true globally; I'm just relating my anecdotal experience.

This is not to discount the author's perceptions. I take it she has encountered this sort of attitude before. If so, then she has every right to take issue with it. And the tech world does have gender issues--whether we're talking subjectively about culture or objectively about numbers of male and female programmers. But I'm merely reporting that, in my little corner of the tech world, I haven't observed this stereotype.
A good biz plan wins no matter what happens
> And the reason that’s not how it works is because we’ve got congressional oversight and judicial oversight. And if people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress and don’t trust federal judges to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution, due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here.

Oh thank god, all branches are providing oversight. So it's just as harmless as all those other programs being overseen by all branches of government.

Like TSA.
Amazon and Viacom Burn Netflix
Could they just partition user data so that data locality on citizens of country X are located in country Y and therefore outside the jurisdiction of country X.

When you sign up, they could make this an option. "Do you prefer faster access to your data or have you data located in a specific jurisdiction?"
You're assuming that all sensitive information has the same probability of leaking. Anecdotally, that's not really true. Most of these systems depend on honest citizens to keep the information secret, and honest citizens are more likely to leak "secret" evidence of abuse than information that will cost innocent people their lives.
> What needs to happen for IPv6 to take off?

1. Consumer grade routing hardware that always supports ipv6 out of the box.

2. ISPs transitioning into supplying both an ipv4 and ipv6 address to households.

3. Major network backbone services (google, amazon, etc) transition to both ipv4 and ipv6.

4. Once a majority of the critical network infrastructure is available on both, ISPs need to start dropping ipv4 addresses from customers, preferrably from new customers.

5. Slowly depreciate ipv4 by using a ISP provided ipv4 tunnel service for a while for those that still need to access the ipv4 web.

Basically, it requires most of the work be done on the backs of ISPs. In the US at least, the ISP business is an oligopoly of cable tv and Hollywood and will resist ipv6 because it enables more peer to peer trafficking and open communication over the Internet.
I can't cite anything as I went to school with the guy. It's fascinating to talk with him.
Is it common for convicts to hold the right to vote in Europe, unlike in the US?
What An NSA Domestic Spying Operation Looks Like
And then the kids will move on to the next thing. Hopefully, for the sake of their investors, that happens after they've been acquired for a billion. Rinse, repeat.
Please, please, please don't forget about the Angular UI and their ui-router!!

The first project I was working on had several complex nested views and this little piece of software made my life sooooo much easier. I wasted so much time trying to find a resource about how to handle nested views. Hopefully this will save someone else some time in the future.

Angular UI Router:
https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router
What happened to this:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130315/14254522342/shocke...
418 (I'm a teapot) is another.
If never looked at it this way - its does make sense. However it doesn't explain the treatment of reporters.
Because it seems to emphasize doing over thinking. Maybe not a bad idea, but in the context of the comments about blackwater, immoral and illegal things, and indoctrinating fresh grads it sounded spooky.
> Google knows exactly what sort of porn you all like

If only.
A huge pile of escrowed cash, held against any release of records (inadvertent or otherwise), does seem to be a way of moving some of that trust around.
A Taxonomy of PRISM Possibilities
The Book, TECS [The Elements of Computing Systems] is great, but the version I have was missing a lot of stuff. There were certain parts of the hardware design that were missing or not really completeable with what was provided, and not a lot of follow-up resources.

The original guy who built a CPU in minecraft actually built it based on some of the exercises in that book. Good stuff overall.
> Almost all public activity generates a paper trail, and before the internet, your phone company, bank, grocery store, even your VHS rentals and public library, were keeping records on you. The internet makes it far far more efficient, but it didn't invent the collection of such records.

In addition to efficient, it also made it more convenient and secure to do so. This aspect is huge.

The local video tape rental place may have kept records of every movie you rented, but an agency wasn't going to go in and demand your records from the scumbag owner unless it had a really pressing reason to, as it would potentially blow their investigation/operational security. Scumbag owner would have some guys in dark suits visit him and it'd be all over town in a matter of hours. The end result is that they probably wouldn't sift through your rental records.

Now, with the proliferation of the Internet, the government doesn't even need active participation of the records custodian, they can pull traffic off the wire and warehouse it themselves.

And if it does require active participation from the data custodian, they have nice National Security Letters with highly-threatening gag orders, which have proven to be quite effective.
I've seen that argument advanced seriously quite a few times, but it seems like a weird combination of utilitarianism taken to it's reductio ad absurdum form and the Nuremberg Defence

If asked what I chose to do with my life, I don't really want to say "I chose to commit acts of evil to order, but at least I was selective about which acts of evil, and not too competent at carrying them out"
ClickStartMe's Almerico Offers "Keep It Simple" Tip To Crowdfunders
It's not really a loophole because the UK generally doesn't have jurisdiction over crimes committed in the U.S.
What would've been really cool if he had weighed it with a very accurate scale. If I remember my chemistry correctly, it shouldn't have changed a bit, and would've been proof of it's isolation.
Ethics and NSA Snooping
A patricia.py trie for efficient string look-ups
patricia-trie is my pure Python (2.7+) implementation of the PATRICIA trie. It is geared for effcient look-ups of string collections on unstructured text. While it cannot beat the C-wrappers of the MARISA trie, I believe this is close to "as fast as it gets" in pure Python. If anybody has improvements to suggest, I would love to hear them!
41 US states don't allow same sex marriage. In 2012, we had a serious presidential candidate (Michelle Bachmann) who runs a "gay conversion therapy" business. We are not past this at all.
Although, I do see potential for this, pay with credit/debit card? It will be traceable who do I call, also it will show up in my card records. Also, there is going to be some record where it was sent. It will be probably sufficient for most users, but not all.

I have it a little bit better, but not perfect.

For 15 euros I will get phone + prepaid card. I can buy it from any local gas station or kiosk or mall, I can have some homeless to buy it for me.

Prepaid over here means, it is as simple as old school phone cards. No name, no bank accounts, no contract, no credit/debit card. Cash and goodbye.

I can also allow roaming just by sending sms to specific number(if it is not allowed), it will work almost everywhere(although the prices will be pretty high)

(source(sorry, translator don't work with https
https://www.elisa.ee/et/Eraklient/konekaart/konekomplekt/eli...)
Some good advice posted: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/listen-up-future-deep-t...;
Browse the Future of reddit: Re-Introducing Multireddits
Just use vanish.io
[Why Google doesn't know] PRISM Confirmed: major US providers grant direct...
Someone suggested the article's original title wasn't descriptive enough.
OP here; patricia-trie is my pure Python (2.7+) implementation of the PATRICIA trie. It is geared for effcient look-ups of string collections on unstructured text. While it cannot beat the C-wrappers of the MARISA trie, I believe this is close to "as fast as it gets" in pure Python. If anybody has improvements to suggest, I would love to hear them!
I wonder how many millions will end up at Google since Snapchat is built on Google App Engine. [1]

[1] http://gigaom.com/2013/05/07/snapchats-act-of-faith-in-build...;
For those wondering why, check out slides 14 and 15 of the 2013 KPCB Internet Trends report:

http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trend...
Great for them. Snapchat is the only service in recent memory that I've actually overheard high schoolers use as a verb. If you can define a new way to share something that gets its own language, you've got something pretty interesting.
"This would allow the companies involved to make narrow claims about not turning over data directly to the government."

Well there you have it. Even claims such as "we don't have any backdoors", if found to be false, they could later say:

"Oh, we didn't think you meant it like that - but yes, we do provide the government with any information they want from our servers. Why do you ask?"

PR people are very good at spinning stuff like this, and so are the lawyers.
Regarding your concern about biological weapons... I'm not convinced all this State surveillance could plausibly have any impact on an individual actor, developing and using a sophisticated biological weapon. I think we're at (or near) the point where individuals can engineer / grow their own viruses in home laboratories. The risk is that one whacko grows SARS v456 and unleashes it, resulting in a The Stand scenario. But if he/she is truly working alone, monitoring their communication probably won't help.

Now thermonuclear is different, because - AFAIK - it would take a massive engineering effort involving lots of people and sophisticated equipment to build a nuke. But that's the same reason that it strikes me that it's less likely that terrorists will ever get one. Even nation-states like N. Korea struggle to develop nukes, and do so undetected. A terrorist group building a nuke seems like a plot from a Mack Bolan novel, not a real-world possibility. Now, buying a nuke on the black-market, from a former Soviet state, might be doable... so I'm not saying there's zero chance of this happening. But weighed against the clearly non-zero chance of our government decaying into a totalitarian / fascist regime like something out of Orwell; I'd err on the side of restraining the government.
Yeah, it actually makes sense. If you read the official Prism description, it is pretty vague (it takes some... data formats? I guess? and converts it to.. different data formats? I think?), but nothing from the description matches the Guardian/Washington Post description in the slightest.
"I believe the world is more dangerous than it used to be"

I don't understand this belief. Since the 90's, we've lived in a world without a nuclear armed superpowers with a hostile relationship. Trade has made war so costly that developed nations just don't do it with each other anymore. More Americans die trying to end civil wars in other countries than die from terrorism. At this point, we should be reaping a peace dividend not only in dollars, but in rights.

Members of Congress have tried to justify the revelations about spying on Americans by claiming that it has prevented a terrorist attack. If a decade of spying on Americans prevents just one 9/11-scale attack, I'd choose the attack. Three thousand deaths over a decade is a rounding error. Let's start a war on traffic accidents and metabolic syndrome instead.
How reliable is that? I can't imagine the snapchat app can know if some third party app grabs an image of the screen and does not notify it that a screenshot has been taken.

At the most basic level you can use one phone to take a photo of another phone. If the object is to expose an embarassing photo, that may be enough resolution to accomplish the end. I really think it is impossible to secure the data once it is on a client.
"we ridiculed him for his fear"

citation needed
I think they're called "vending machines". ;)
Woah.. What do you use this feature
for?
I'm curious as to the evolution of the bacteria and other organisms inside the bottle.
Booking hotel in Bahamas
He is a lawyer that practiced with one of the most prestigous firms in the country and has written several best selling books, including a NY Times bestseller or two. Calling him a blogger is the NYTimes attempt to discredit him to a certain extent in the eyes of their readers.
Ask HN: Running an online business without a permanent address?
I live in NY and run a SAAS business. I travel frequently, but always return home to NY.

I'm considering leaving NY. I might reside in another state for six months–one year, but I might not have an address for longer than that.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the business/tax implications of this?

Will I have to close the state business entity/register a new one each time I move? Can I use the same federal TIN?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
The the "strip search prank call" suspect (fictionalized in the recent movie Compliance) was located through video footage of him purchasing "anonymous" phone cards with cash:

Learning that the call had been made with an AT&T calling card... they used the serial number of the calling card used to make the call, and learned that the card had come from a different [Panama City] Wal-Mart store than the card used for the Massachusetts calls. Using Wal-Mart's records of the second store, the cash register, and time of the purchase of that card, the police were able to find surveillance camera video of the transaction. Unlike the Massachusetts investigation, which had gone cold when surveillance video failed to show the purchaser because the cameras were trained on the parking lot and not the registers, the cameras at the particular store where the card used in the Mount Washington call was purchased were trained on the cashiers.

The buyer in the video was wearing a correctional officer's uniform for the private security firm Corrections Corporation of America. Video and stills from both Wal-Marts were compared and the same man was seen entering and exiting the Wal-Mart at the time of the earlier purchase. The police used this footage to produce a front-and-back composite image of the suspect, and subsequent queries to the private correctional company's human resources department led to the identification of the buyer as David R. Stewart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam
There are a lot of single view self destruct sites, but I wanted to make a new one because I wanted to let people host their own instead of relying on the site provider.
OK, I'm the article author, and I think that's great feedback. I didn't pick the title; originally it was "Rebuilding the Berlin Wall"… but editors will be editors :)

I was a little annoyed at the arbitrary change, but on the basis of your feedback, went back and asked the editor to change it. It's still not exactly what I wanted, but it does address some elements of what you've written above. The iPhone clickbait is out.

As a writer, honestly, it does get mighty exasperating when this happens. And, fwiw, you guys have all got insight into the messiness of the editorial/content process :)

-- james
The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland
>The future of the Internet belongs to startups

It looks like you went down the front page desperately looking for any non-NSA related articles to comment on, but rest assured the rest of us have been reading them and your boy Obama and his NSA have just blown the SaaS web startup industry out of the water. No web startup has a chance in hell of selling services to anybody outside the USA now (or anybody inside the USA with half a brain).
See sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5841187
I was thinking since they are probably on the fringes of legality, but with government sign-off, they probably get a lot of free reign to solve problems you typically wouldn't delve into, for fear of legal backlash. So basically you become a legal hacker. That would be kinda neat, and appealing, from a geek perspective.
And that is exactly the problem with PRISM. It gives people in power the ammunition to find you guilty of some unrelated crime if you challenge them.

“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”
- Lavrentiy Beria, head of Joseph Stalin's secret police
The point is that those are things that people do not want to hear. This is why vegans, no matter how polite they are, rarely find a receptive audience when they talk about those things.
This is neat, and the I really like the UI too.

I made something similar (except the one-time view part) not too long ago just to experiment with storing the base64 encoded message into the URL. It also has an option to add a key, which uses a javascript implementation of blowfish.

http://alfg.co/jot

https://github.com/alfg/jot

Since the message is stored within the URL, there's no backend needed, though that means the message needs to be short since most modern browsers can only support up to about 2000 characters in the URL and the messages can generate a long base64 string rather quickly.
The early investors in Zynga have some extra cash to invest?
I remember talking with friends after we had seen the movie "Seven" in 1995 (seems like a lifetime ago). They all freaked out about the part where they said the FBI keeps records on what books people check out from the library.

Nobody would bat an eye about it today though. . .
Never been broken on Arch, Fedora, Debian... or any of the upstream distributions I've used, when I've used them.

Your personal exacerbation of whatever imaginary and nonspecific issues you're talking about is not relevant to a conversation about people other than you.

The world doesn't need your BSD FUD.
"The BSDs" is also absolutely silly as ideas go, there are BSDs which have never supported suspend/resume.
That was remarkably well spoken and reasonable.
Using a preloaded credit card bought with cash also works in a pinch.
The Danger of Dogfooding
I just want the option to choose my data locality when I sign up. e.g. "Google, please save all my data in your Switzerland data centers".
Indeed, that makes it even worse.

Time and time again I see people scoffing at Stallman (and others like him) as "radicals" who do nothing but impede our discourse with their outlandish fantasies, trying to center it around their paranoia instead of finding quick, pragmatic and ultimately self destructive "solutions".

I have a feeling Stallman would have liked to say more, but chose to make a more modest statement. Turns out, he could have cranked it up to 11 and it would still be modest by what we know today.
This is scary.

So, so scary.
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.

That might be true today... but what about tomorrow? Or what if one individual at the NSA starts finding enough dirt on enough powerful people, to start exerting an undue degree of influence / control on our society? It's not like intelligence collected by government agencies has never been used for political purposes before.

I also disagree with their BS about it being "necessary" to collect ALL this data. I'm sorry, but if they're telling the truth about not collecting names, etc., then I do not believe they can detect "terrorist activity" by simply analyzing patterns of phone calls, durations, etc., among random people. And if their analysis is based on analyzing connections to and from already identified suspects, then all they need to do is get a warrant to collect information on people calling (or being called by) the known suspects.
The other commenter says that gun ownership among people is on the rise yet I'm worried that such statistics could be skewed by selected people owning multiple guns.

You're right and this is what I'm actually scared of. Unlike the past, they don't need to cast a wide net and hope it catches someone. Today's tech allows for pinpoint accuracy with data and would allow them to act in such a way that all cases (i.e. abduction, kidnapping, arrests etc.) look like one-off cases to the public.
Funny how that works. Apparently we can't trust the executive branch, Congress, or federal judges to make sure they're abiding by the Constitution, and we do have some problems here.
What a great show. And interestingly, despite being fictional, the point where the dealers failed was the collection of the phones - just the issue discussed above.
I recall that phones were supposed to be bought from stores all over the place, but a lazy gang member kept getting all of them from one source.
The guy standing before of a column of tanks in the famous photo, he got run over by a different tank not long after. Or so I read the other day on the anniversary of the massacre.

(I support your overall point.)
I think it impossible for you to prove that you're not an outlet setup by the government monitoring service.
Nice - fast implementation and this should shore up what seems to be by far the weakest link in your (privacy-above-all) offering.
Already on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5840240
Actually, you'd be surprised -- Comcast is leading the charge on the residential IPv6 front in the US, and Time Warner Cable isn't too far behind. Verizon, the largest carrier in the US not owned by a content company (by my back-of-napkin math), has been slower in deployment of IPv6, by contrast. (OTOH, since IPv6 is critical to LTE deployment, VZW et al have been much quicker on the uptake.)

I actually think that the content hosting folks are behind the curve here. Amazon is one of the biggest hold-outs; their IPv6 rollout has thus far been a total joke. No IPv6 for Cloudfront? No IPv6 glue for Route53 authoritative nameservers? No IPv6 on VPC, barely on EC2 at all, etc., etc. From what I've heard, the management at Amazon doesn't really care about the network behind their infrastructure; instead of investing in building a backbone that could do a better job supporting this kind of stuff -- and all kinds of inter-region applications which would be useful -- they want pretend the network doesn't exist and that nothing needs to change. It's too bad. I think we'd see more IPv6 usage if Amazon would get their act together.
I love how he says several times "we aren't listening to your phone calls". As if that suddenly makes everything better. Fuck me.
Bill would make annoying a cop a crime
Well, then the system worked! It shook out the terrorists among us into showing their true faces! </sarcasm>
Standard government nonsense -- "There is oversight, this is for your safety, trust us, we respect your privacy, whoa look at the time I have to meet someone important bye!"
On the freedom of information