skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, to take the area of Constitutional jurisprudence I'm most familiar with, look at all the effort that was put into claiming the 2nd Amendment created a "collective" right instead of acknowledging an individual right. This interpretation caused more than a little mischief, especially in state courts against their own versions of the 2nd Amendment, but also in at least one lower level Federal court decision, but a bottom line was that it was rejected 9-0 in Heller (this is a good article on all that: http://davekopel.org/2A/Mags/Collective-Right.html).

The Federalists' argument was that a government of limited powers could never even do such things. Unfortunately, the subsequent history of "a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce [us to] absolute Despotism...."
Although Clapper told Andrea Mitchell something different -- that he was using the term 'collection' to mean actually looking at it.
China Retakes Supercomputing Crown With a Lot of American Chips
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One in ten emails from BT accounts is malicious
Oculus VR gets $16mil VC Series A
I started to formulate a reasoned reply, but honestly forget that: your comment is garbage through and through. Marco sounds like a bitter man about Android, as he always has been, and he has literally NOTHING to say about the platform that is worth listening to.
...it is like planning a gravity-assisted interplanetary
trajectory. Sure, it's complex and you have to get all
the details right — but once you start moving, the only
way you will fail to reach your destination is if the
laws of physics (or mathematics) change.

I will make a slight complaint about this statement, from the perspective of an aerospace engineer: long trajectories may be subject to a significant amount of uncertainty. Recall the fears of a huge asteroid[1] hitting Earth in 2036. It wasn't until refined measurements came in that we could be certain that it wouldn't go Deep Impact on us.

Other long-range space probes come under the influence of the many small objects in the solar system on their cold voyages, leading to course corrections during the mission. Estimating the position of these spacecraft or asteroids leads to an uncertainty ellipsoid in space, representing N% probability that the object is inside it.

So, yes, astrodynamics does work really well over short distances, but just like other engineering arenas, there is no Exact Answer.

As for the rest of the article, I'm not qualified to agree/disagree. The engineer in me just wants to use secure tools to make secure services and protect private data.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis
"I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it’s going to be recorded and it goes to the government."

I can't believe this guy. At least he thinks it should be public, I suppose.
Collecting information prior to the delivery of a warrant is unreasonably invasive. If you extend the reasoning then they could post a video camera in your home, filming everything you do, and then get a warrant to obtain the material at any point in the future. Our digital homes should have the same safeguards in place that our physical homes have: nobody has access before a warrant, and with a warrant they can only find out what's there now, not what's been there in the past.
I've got an application running Rails and my easiest path is to eliminate it entirely.
Where do you draw the line? No more frameworks?

It's up to the dev to go through source and understand it. Having a test suite helps.
Apple should create a new category for 1 year. App stores for apps. The best one at the end of the year becomes the official app store.
Why Was Apple Late To The PRISM Party?
AirBNB would never be able to survive in countries with a well-run "business hotel" culture. I frequently travel to Japan and usually stay at a business hotel chain like Dormy Inn or Richmond - the price is rarely above $80/night and the rooms are perfectly fine. No Sofitel, sure, but about Ibis level. And Dormy Inn has an onsen in every hotel!

If a decent hotel room is ~$80 then I wouldn't even think of using AirBNB and I doubt I'm alone. I have no idea why hotels in other countries are so damn expensive.
Percentiles I think greatly help the appearance of rankings. Knowing you are in the top 95% vs. knowing you're a measly 2 standard deviations above the mean.
As someone who was once ranked 81st in the world on a game, it was a blast to see that my score was that high. Maybe it should only tell you past 1000, but it's a great little reward.

Over time the app became more popular and and I lost my rank, but it was still cool.

I wish Apple would fix the rampant cheating. While my rank was 81st, it was realistically ~60th because many of the top scores were simply cheaters who scored MAX_INT when that was at least 10,000x higher than the next closest score. That is the thing I find discouraging about looking at the scores, that every game is topped by cheaters.
This is related to the ongoing Yahoo! email compromises [1] as BT outsourced its email service to Yahoo!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5896977
Typo in the first sentence of the third paragraph in "Option 5"

"... only benefit the our companies ..."
A Thorough Introduction to MarionetteJS on Smashing Magazine
Except that even in the U.S. it has literally been much worse, even before computers. We have always had an ebb-and-flow with civil liberties.

First we enslaved the blacks, then we started making them free. Then we made a slave control law to forcibly rendition captured slaves back to their masters in the slave states. Then we fought and died and FREED THE SLAVES!.... except that we didn't, as it turns out. Reconstruction was a high-water mark, then Jim Crow and the KKK came.

Hell, we didn't even start off from a great place. Go read about the Alien and Sedition Acts when you get a chance.

And likewise with privacy rights. We didn't start off with those either. As long as the government didn't have to search you or your property to find something, it was fair game. But then we added controls for postal mail. Then telephones, and eventually cell phones, beepers, and more. We also had the Supreme Court essentially create "reasonable expectation of privacy" out of whole cloth (which I don't blame them for, but goes to show how we didn't start off with Jefferson's dream government just to beat back all the attackers over time).

Of course in between there were COINTELPRO, FBI watchlists, HUAC & McCarthy's red scare, J. Edgar Hoover (which even MULTICS referenced, IIRC), ECPA, CALEA, attempts at the Clipper chip, munitions controls on crypto, etc. etc.

So it hasn't all been consistent progress but it also hasn't all been consistent withdrawal. So while I respect and greatly admire those who fight for increased privacy because they think it's the right thing to do, I can only assume those who characterize civil liberties in the U.S. as something that has simply been slowly eroded over time have not studied as much U.S. history as they should have.
“I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it’s going to be recorded and it goes to the government,” Kelly said. “I think the public can understand that. I see no reason why that program was placed in the secret category.”

The whole media ruckus over Snowden is simply because people don't like secrets being kept from them. They're actually completely cool with the whole total surveillance thing, though.
I wish that were true, but in the context of everything he says it doesn't seem true.

This part especially his belief that privacy is a universal right:

More fundamentally, the "US Persons" protection in general is a distraction from the power and danger of this system. Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%. Our founders did not write that "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal."
I think like using ECB, CBC, OFB, CFB, CTR, and XTS modes when encrypting with AES. Theses block cipher modes ensure confidentiality but they do not protect against malicious tampering. Someone can delete part of the encrypted message and it would still decrypt ok, giving the false impression that it's the original message. If I send you an encrypted message, "sell all IBM shares when price hits 120," and it's truncated to "sell all IBM shares," that would be disastrous.

Adding HMAC/CMAC/GMAC authentication code helps to mitigate tampering.

Newer block cipher modes like CCM, GCM, OCB, and others roll both confidentiality and authentication into one, making it much easier to use AES correctly.
I went once with a friend to a club and he said that I really stand out of the crowd as a geek. I said: impossible, prove it. He took out his phone and recorded 30 seconds of me dancing. It took me watching just two seconds from this movie to realize he was right.

I don't frequent dance floors much since then. Still haven't got over it.
Brazil protests spread in Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Rio
Identical articles were common 15 years ago.
Just goes to show that regardless of all the claims of oversight, it all comes down to people. You combine that with the fact that power corrupts and it's obvious what a danger the NSA is to America.
It's like you suffered the worst parts of an affair without any of the benefit.
The "Top" lists benefit Apple, which is why the feature remains. "Top Free" lists apps that have managed to get large user bases, such as Whatsapp and Facebook. These apps help Apple get their customers using more apps, which lock them into iOS. "Top Sales" and "Top Grossing" are even more obvious -- while they do encourage the skeeziest business models, they are apps that are proven to make money, and whatever money they make, Apple gets 30% of that.

"Top" lists won't go away until their presence starts hurting Apple.
A Chrome extension is offered as an alternative.

At least that's my reading.
Ok. So if you already knew that, what's your point?
Interestingly, the same person also asked:

> What evidence do you have that refutes the assertion that
the NSA is unable to listen to the content of telephone
calls without an explicit and defined court order from
FISC?

And it was the only question Snowden ignored.
I've gotten three of these in the last two days from three family members on different sides of the family who all use Yahoo. I thought the first two were just idiots, but after the third I started to wonder how widespread this was.
Well, the Federalists didn't think far enough ahead. We have CPUs that are Turing complete with only a single instruction, so in retrospect simply limiting the number of abilities the government had wouldn't have been sufficient in the long term. It's easier to say that in retrospect but I'm glad that the debate process for the Constitutional ratification led to the Bill of Rights being drafted in a compromise.

I'm not sure how to take the last sentence though. I know who the Continental Congress felt the despot was; who is the despot now?
Any details on the stock/colors that you use? Is the stuff coming out at commercial print quality? Digital print? Or are you just a couple guys with a nice inkjet and some fancy API footwork?

Can I choose stock, or finishing stuff? Matte vs. Gloss?
Though neither side said this, I feel its important to point out:
If you’re learning crypto SOLEY by coding attacks, you ARE NOT actually learning crypto.

A good chunk of bad cryptography was done by people who thought "eh, I can't see any attack against this" -- or read Applied Cryptography and thought that was enough. Hopefully the Matasano crypto challenges don't have the same effect.
Married men die before their wives - because they want to. ;-)
The screen resolution is obtained by JavaScript, right? Would it not be possible to modify the Mozilla source code (in the TBB) so that it always returns a specific screen resolution, regardless of the actual resolution?
Imagine having to explain your past to every new person you meet!

Every time I try to imagine that, that person ends up failing to explain to me why they're so lame... I can honestly not think of anything I ever said that I would be ashamed of in comparison to that.

Sure, sometimes "old stuff" can be an indicator for what to look out for in the "current stuff", and I am fine with that, even if just to not be a hypocrite. But other than that, obsessing about things that are months or even years past just betrays people who never learn and never change projecting their mediocrity on me - and if they cannot see that, I have to do it for them :)
I'm actually working on this right now. We should get the updated api docs in about two weeks.
You could also try the DE2's "little brothers", the DE1 and DE0, which cost considerably less but have less logic elements, DSP blocks, and peripherals.
“He tried to give the impression, it seems to me, that these system administrators had carte blanche to do what they wanted to do,” he said. “I think it’s a problem if that’s in fact what’s happening.”

Is it, in fact, possible to administer a system without having full access to that system?
What are those libraries for multiple processes under Ocaml?

I could google but I'm fishing for your recommendations as well.
Rather than this stupid speculation (NSA bought NeXT hardware; therefore, they gave Apple immunity -- chew on that idiocy), perhaps Apple simply didn't have sufficient data to interest NSA?
I wonder what I would have done if I were in Snowden's shoes. I've seen something that is personally troubling, ambiguously legal, and possibly abused by analysts without oversight. That something is ostensibly the recording of phone calls and other electronic communications without warrant. The abuses could simply be employees viewing communications without instructions (e.g. for voyeuristic purposes or personal gain.)

If those assumptions are correct, then I can't help but think that I would have taken a few phone calls with me on my way out. A few mp3s featuring Dick Cheney and his family would make quite a point if released now for example.
Crowdsourcing for social good - SoGoodx
nitpick... why does the css class applied during card mode have 'modal' in its name?
Are you referring to Prism or the "beam splitting"?

Prism sends over data that was already generated; it's not the government's fault that the company bothered to generate it but if they get a warrant why should they pretend like it didn't exist? I'm not sure how you would even begin to investigate things like 9/11 if you weren't allowed to collect evidence from actions that occurred before the crime came to the attention of the government.

If you're talking about beam-splitting then, well, I see your argument. But that's not what I was talking about in my parent comment.
How Dozens of Companies Know You're Reading About Those NSA Leaks
Thanks, this is cool. I posted this suggestion as a comment on the issue (https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/137).
The link takes me to a paywall. The non-paywall version is: http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2...
I agree Apple shouldn't have total exposure control.
That doesn't mean that Top Charts is not intrinsically broken. Third parties game the top charts just as much (Or even more) then Apple does. In fact Apple is working towards a system that doesn't have any third party or first party control, Apps Near Me.
If you're worried about the NSA or other nation-states then I wouldn't stop with hashing+salting. You need to be using something like scrypt/bcrypt/PBKDF2. cperciva has a paper about scrypt, bcrypt is at least widely known for this use case, and PBKDF2 is even a "certified" way to do that.
Which one of us would find the other more toxic?
Shameless plug of an ASM project I did: https://github.com/cesarandreu/INEL4206-XString (Video in link)
GE Hiring Thousands of Engineers to Build Industrial Web
> Yes, you would still have to trust FB to a degree

Lots of people trusted Hushmail "to a degree" and we saw how that turned out...
And most people don't use the subway for an hour, it's usually less mileage per person. But the extremes do show a big case of opposites.
I agree with your sentiment but be factually accurate if you've looked at the iOS 6 App Store on day one it would differ in a plethora of small details then the one we have now.
That's actually part of the media ruckus. There's a lot wrong going on with these programs, and people have different objections. Some object to the surveillance itself, some object that it was kept secret but approve of the surveillance, and some object to the way the executive branch is doing this without meaningful input from the other branches of government. And of course, some simply object because of the executive who is doing it.

For those who object to the surveillance: it's really important to engage others about the privacy/surveillance debate right now. As those who only oppose the secrecy or the process aspects of what's going on become satisfied, interest will dissipate and it'll become much harder to engage people on the surveillance issue itself. It's a really interesting opportunity to actually engage people about privacy and surveillance without many people instantly deferring to the status quo.
This court has taken a very interesting stance. This ruling, plus some earlier rulings regarding the 4th amendment has made it clear, that one has to understand, intimately, the nuances of ones' rights and act accordingly, in order for those rights to apply. Otherwise, they have agreed to waive those rights.
Where can one find a concise introduction to 'Modern/2010 Crypto : theory and practice' for programmers ?
What I find a bit more insidious is that "listening" is being discussed in the public sphere in the way it is expected to mean--that is, as a real-time, present-tense, current action. In practice, what is occurring and actually under debate, but being evaded because of the language employed, is "listening" in the context the government is doing it--that is, as a retroactive, past-tense, stepping-back-in-time action.
Lists are pointless, all we need is good search.

That's why the Web works - search is a solved problem.

Search on app stores is archaic and abysmal -- you'd think Google could solve this kind of problem.
Android has at least been trying new things, though none of them are great. And they've stuck with the same bizarre game categories that have been in place since day one.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/GAME
Had to look this up:

> The NYPD secretly spied on Muslim organizations, infiltrated Muslim student group and videotaped mosque-goers in New Jersey for years, it was revealed in 2012. The NYPD said its actions were lawful and necessary to keep the city safe.

http://gothamist.com/2013/05/20/ap_obtains_texts_from_the_ny...

http://gothamist.com/2013/04/30/bloomberg_dont_mess_with_nyp...

Look's like they should focus on their own problems.
This is the tradeoff... SaaS gets great margins because it's not custom. There's a high fixed cost, then each incremental addition has benefit. Even with a low marginal cost this is true. The #1 SaaS can also add lot of features and increase reliability and spend more on Marketing.

You could argue that Wal-mart is a commodity too. It's just stores and the same stuff as K-mart and 7-11. But it crushes them. There's room for both Wal-mart and Tiffany's just like there's room for a SaaS for your billing system, and Accenture to build a custom one.
Is that really so bad to do that?

After all he was told by his monastery how to grieve, and he's telling everyone else here how to grieve (although he did apologize if his views bothered someone).

If you simply relate what you are doing OK, but once you want people to follow your views you must also be willing to accept some opinions back, and it's OK if you disagree. (And obviously actually changing is entirely the choice of the person.)

Plus, keep in mind that he is hardly the only person reading this.

But, all that said, and reading your reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5896351 I do get your point about what I am doing. It's just I VERY strongly disagree with what he said, and I couldn't just leave it unremarked.
Without realizing it, Medium has become my blog.
Symantec's Windows version of PGP isn't that bad, as far as UIs go. It's been a couple years since I used it but I'm confident I could teach the average person who already uses Outlook how to use it in an hour or two.

The nice thing is that it has opportunistic encryption enabled by default. Thus, it will always try to encrypt an outgoing e-mail and throw up a warning if the recipient's public key isn't available, for example. The error is, surprisingly, understandable to the average person (something like "A public key for <recipient> is not available and this message cannot be sent encrypted. Would you like to send it unencrypted?")
Laser scanner can detect someone watching you from a kilometer away
> It's probably the biggest example I can think of where Apple really shows that they are unquestionably not Google.

I think you give Google too much credit. The Play store is about as abysmal, sans the OS-tied updates. (Search, lists, SEO, etc. are BAD).
The debate mental-chess that the lay-person needs to understand is, quite honestly, terrifying. So now, if a police officer asks you an incriminating question off the cuff, and you say "I would like a lawyer" or "I invoke the 5th" or even say nothing, without a legal background you may find yourself in a situation where what was said / wasn't said can be used against you?

This can't be what was originally intended by those amendments.
Let's at least take a wider view and recognize this is not Obama-speak, but is general political doublespeak. Obama is not the first to employ such language, nor will he be the last. Politicians, pundits, and the general media are working off the talking points we heard about earlier, and everyone is using the same words in the same way. As the executive, Obama is merely putting himself out there as another political actor joining in the shared deceptions, and all ought to be held accountable for this.
Probably the "refined measurements" you mention fall under "get[ting] all the details right". But then I guess you can explain almost any requirement that way.
I don't understand how this ruling differs from Jenkins v. Anderson?
the eagerness is the most important thing in learning.

I'm sure we all know SE major students who aim to get a job as a "project manager" right off the bat, not because they actually love/know anything about managing a project, but simply because it is a managerial position where you don't have to code.
I think the non-legalese gist of it was that by enumerating the right of citizens, it's too easy to get around them on technicalities. "Reasonable suspicion? Sure, we can come up with reasonable."

A negative definition puts the ball on the other side of the court. "Being searched, where does it say specifically that you have a right to search me?"
These are printed on high quality printers. Yes you can choose between stock and finishing.
Protests in Brazil spreads all over the country
To be fair, in a way they were focussing on their own problems. Like...the whole Twin Towers thing.
Samsung starts mass producing PCIe SSDs with 1400MB/s read speeds
You might be right but until there is actual confirmation from Apple that they perform data-driven experiments to improve the App Store, based upon the many glaring problems that have been left unfixed for years I have to assume there isn't anybody at the switch performing legitimate experiments to drive these design changes.