skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're conflating television with reality. You don't give or pay the Russian mafia, they take what they want. The Russian government (Russia is a "virtual mafia state" [1] so gov't == mafia) is responsible for some of the most visible politically motivated assassinations and scams in the world. I.e., look at the use of polonium to assassinate Litvinenko in London (the assassin suspected by the British gov't is now in the Russian parliament) [2] or the use of police and official stationary to steal $230 million by quietly signing over companies owned by Hermitage Capital Management [3].

The NSA, as secretive and as evil as it may become, is still a US government agency run by Americans with a moral code. The same cannot be said for the KGB (colloquial for FSB), Russian government, or Russian organized crime (all three of which are pretty much inseparable).

It's far less likely that they'll care about you but if they do notice something that they want, you're fucked.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinen...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky
I'm sorry that you understood my statement to be of the form "no such person exists, such that..." when in fact I was expressing a conclusion about the typical (perhaps stereotyped) person with this background.
I did some more reading and it looks like Thunderbolt 2 is a lot like a single lane of PCI-e v4, slightly faster but similar.

Hopefully Thunderbolt performance will continue to improve, though, and it can leverage all of the improvements to PCI-e.

The fiber version of Thunderbolt/Light-Peak could probably fix a lot of these issues with copper signal limitations. At this point the electronics in the Thunderbolt cable are so expensive that switching to a more expensive cable with no electronics might be a net win.
We buy that book, along with _The Tangled Web_, for candidates to Matasano. We like both books a lot (I wish WAHH had a title I wasn't embarrassed to say out loud, though).

The other book candidates here tend to get is _The Art Of Software Security Assessment_.
Maintenance people (whether it's janitors or sysadmins) need more access than the average staff member. There's probably a lot that he didn't really understand in any great detail, but I can certainly imagining him being in a position where he saw a huge amount.

Sysadmins know a lot. They run the email servers. They configure hardware for a number of projects. They set up the databases. They see everything that breaks (and in software, that's everything). There's probably a lot of control over the actual data, but the basic workflow is something that would be very hard to hide from the people who are keeping the systems running.
Excellent! Very cool tool.
Here's Ling's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?authToken=qSpd&id=3543...

I think there's some sort of genius in there. Its somewhat like playing the piano and faking playing the wrong notes intentionally - its a lot harder to fake playing badly than it is to actually play bad (if that makes sense)
And security loop plugged.
Can you give specific examples of these arrogant character traits?
dylangs1030 said: "We are not anything like chattel slavery. It weakens your argument to try to argue otherwise."

Where is your disagreement? I'll reiterate:

> We definitely do not live in a system of chattel slavery...
What do others think about the safety of using Waze? One thing that I have noticed is that the app encourages me to interact with it as I'm driving in order to add data to the system. It's a little hypocritical of me to complain about this because sometimes I text or check email while driving, which I know I should not do, but it still feels weird that Waze actually encourages me to read the screen and interact with UI while I drive. I wonder if there are any liability issues around this or if the core UI will change as a result of the acquisition.

Also, I wonder if Waze will become irrelevant if Google happens to productize self-driving cars (which can presumably talk to each other).
It was created by me. The complete source code is available on github if you would prefer to host it yourself. Linked to from the about and privacy pages of the site.
This isn't new functionality, it's just that SMB2 is now the default.
More importantly, no one outside of this conference has even used the iOS7, so really, truthfully, everyone needs to shut the fuck up.

False. I'm thousands of miles away, and I've been using it since a couple hours after it was announced, which was about 20 hours before this post was published.
Bluehost kills website of Snowdens Girlfriend
From archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130418231028/http://www.lsjourney.com/

NY Post Story:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/girlfriend_left_behind_final_blog_2sgEl3ZhJAVrIlU6low2hK
I agree and have signed it.
Finally. Someone at Apple must be a Bukowski fan. I'm reminded of his poem "16 Bit Intel 8088 Chip" (not his greatest, but suitable):

http://bukowskiforum.com/threads/16-bit-intel-8088-chip.2791...
McCarthyism is a good point. I agree.
US is Behaving Like China, by Ai Weiwei. 艾未未
A decent alternative for Google Analytics is Piwik. It's open source and can be self-hosted or you can pay for a SAAS version of it (though not sure if any exist outside of the US. The interface is not nearly as nice or powerful as the one offered by Google Analytics, but it's open and uses a simple SQL backend, so if you self-host it, it can basically do whatever you want it to do.

A good alternative to Dropbox is Bittorrent Sync and Dokku looks like an interesting way to do your own Heroku (https://github.com/progrium/dokku).
> "Before iPods, suburban normals gave zero fucks about their obtuse, bulking heaps of plastic that spun CDs of boy bands from their hips."

Elitism aside, this seems contradicted by the fact that Steve Jobs used Sony as his model corporation. You know: the company that made the Sony Walkman etc...

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/04/12/sony-outlook-steve-jo...
> NYT, filled with subtly negative phrases like “dwindling number of loyalists”, “notoriety”, “erratic and imperious behavior”, “delusional grandeur” et al.

Do NYT articles about Obama or Bush use these phrases? If not, why not? They certainly could.
It's one sided because it was edited by someone with an obvious bone to pick with no context. Frankly, the name itself is editorialized.

What's sad is that we could be looking at a terrible incident, but that fact that it was released out of context with an obvious political motive (and name) discredits it.
Done. It should work now.
Having that info can make routing better, though. For example, if it's just normal traffic volume, the delay is probably fairly predictable. On the other hand, if it's a massive accident, it could take some time before the road gets backed up enough for regular GPS monitoring to notice it, but you know as soon as the massive accident is reported that things will be bad for a while.
From archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130418231028/http://www.lsjourn...

NY Post Story:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/girlfriend_left_behind...
Excuse me, do you really think now is the right time to trivialize the waffle issue?
Great work Owen!
I don't care about his education, his salary, his friends, or his demeanor. What I care about are the documents he showed the Guardian and/or the Washington Post.

Anyone can shoot the messenger, but as history has shown, it just doesn't kill the message as intended.
...while I don't find this implausible, must the only provided example be a CEO?
I go to a large indoor swap meet/flea market near here to check out used computer equipment, tools and other stuff. The aisles are crowded, stuff hangs everywhere, lights are flashing, sounds collide, sellers project offers to you from behind makeshift counters, and you move through it slowly to make sure you don't miss anything.

This site gives me the same feeling -- raw selling.

Edit: respectfully fixed a typo.
It's likely your computer runs an OS made by a company founded by a college drop out.

Hong Kong has been more protective of free speech tha n China. I also bet free speech that puts the NSA under a less than favorable light is heavily protected in China.
High school diploma or no high school diploma. It doesn't matter because that was 11 years ago and the things he has done in those intervening years were sufficiently impressive that both the NSA and Booz Allen, after reviewing what he's done since high school considered him capable of doing the work they asked of him by hiring him. Not only did they hire him, but they kept him on for several years, implying that his work was satisfactory to them.

I know someone who ended up freebasing meth freshman year of college, cleaning himself up, going to another university, improving his grades, transferring to a better university, doing research that eventually got him a full-ride offer for a masters or PhD in biomedical engineering at Harvard. People can and do change and they can change so much in 10 years to have practically nothing in common with the person they were 10 years ago.
But the language and meaning of the slides are in question, not the authenticity. Only 4 (or is it 5 now?) slides have been shown. The language in the slides is imprecise, because they look like slides that were used for an overview of the program, to an audience that we don't know because we haven't seen the rest of the slides.

For God's sake, Facebook was spelled wrong, or rather, whoever put the slides together didn't even take the time to properly word-wrap things. So is it really beyond the realm of speculation that some of the key phrasing was off-the-cuff, in the way that PP slides often are because the presenter plans to elaborate during the actual presentation?

And if you're thinking: well, this is the NSA, surely an organization of their import would have a crack team of slide preparers who are at the top of their game in communication...well, as Edward Tufte would kindly point out, the top people in an organization can't be counted on to prepare accurate PowerPoint slides after a fucking space shuttle blows up: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

edit: made it clear that the language and assertions of the slides were in question, not the slides authenticity.
I dig the letter, but someone needs to have edited this for content.

> "reports based on information provided by a career intelligence officer"

That's clearly factually incorrect. Snowden wasn't a career man, and also wasn't an officer. He was an IT infrastructure analyst. He's a support guy.

Reading posts like this make the distinction (even w/in the intel world) very clear: http://qz.com/92509/edward-snowdens-lesson-to-both-businesse...
Girlfriend left behind by NSA leaker
Who's prosecuted? They are just disappeared via extraordinary rendition.

https://twitter.com/SCClemons/status/343549654916542464
Clearly a lot of people agree with you (including myself). I should clarify that I don't think its a hard and fast rule...but if this is something they consider to be acceptable then my point is simply that it doesn't inspire confidence in the work they'll put out in other areas of the organization.
What Happened at the PS4's E3 Event? Here's Everything You Should Know
Since HN likes changing submission titles back to the original article's, I think the only way to point out something from inside an old article is to write a short blog post with the title you want and then link to the article.
This bit about someone self-taught being incapable of understanding "at least some of the depth" of complex strikes me as elitist wishful thinking.

I don't think it serves anyone to think the worst of Snowden while at the same time thinking the best of the NSA. In both cases the reality is likely more towards the middle.
More likely, the guy at the gun store called the "See something, say something" number.

Or your friend (or someone with a similar name) is on a list. A friend of mine with a very common name (think John Smith) had a similar experience after getting a license from a local jurisdiction.
stop waffling and get back to the topic...
If successful, do you plan to continue holding this course? If yes, how many times a year?

I, and may be some other folks, can not do this now, but would love to some time later.
I've been wondering when some old games would be ported to JS via Emscripten. Now ScummVM is in the browser!

What I'd love to see next is OpenTTD!
I'll bet you that Waze won't exist as a separate app/product in 3 years. I hope it does, but I doubt that Google are going to maintain two separate navigation apps.
So the word "routinely" shows up twice in the article but fails to specify how often. Maybe happened a few times until the guy got caught is more acceptable. It just seems like link baited word choice.
But they are not the whole story. They cannot possibly be. They are proposing that they effectivly mirror the data of major Internet companies for a budget of 20 million dollars a year? There's obviously stuff being left out somewhere.

And we don't know those slides are legit. I could make that powerpoint in an afternoon. Hell, I make powerpoints all the time with proposals, examples, etc that I would never consider to be reference documents.
As far as I know, and according to noam Chomsky, the NYT is good journalism defined the "American" way, for it always paints the US as "the great, always correct" freedom fighters.

Where was the NYT coverage when:
The US vetoed UN ban on nuclear weapon development? Where was it when it vetoed UN ban on weapons from outer space? Where was it when the US intentionally shot down a commercial Iranian airliner?

yes, exactly, it was non existent.

a good read with a lot more information and a lot of sources also is Noam Chomsky's book: Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky, truly a great read!
Very nice=) I just finished the final episode last night. I think it is time for anustart.
I'm hoping to do this 2-3 times a year, if I can get enough interest and nail down the material. Mind you, the price will be going up past this "beta" run.
The cloud isn't dead. It just needs to evolve
I heard it was kind of buggy in 10.8.x.
Asking why a highschool dropout got into the NSA is a completely unfair question. It implies highschool dropouts are unfit for service.
Ultimately the only language the US government understands is the massive fines and restrictions about to be levied against its corporations. Should Apple be operating in Europe for example? Would it be possible to levy a fine for each iPhone sold? Perhaps the tax authorities could take a different view on their profits...
Amount of formal CS/technical/college education that is relevant to accessing data in a database system in which you have priveleges == 0.

"High school dropout" doesn't mean "dumb", it means "not socially compatible with school". This is not anti-correlated to comfort using computer systems.

I once worked with a sysadmin with all the stereotypical features: weak credentials, puffed-up self-important attitude of "God of knowledge", constatn bragging of his hacking skillz, poor root-cause analysis of complex software failure modes. But did hew know how to install a database and read its contents? Of course.
The point is that whether a typical person understands that kind of system is irrelevant. He's already highly atypical by virtue of working for the NSA and being a whistle-blower.
This is totally awesome :)
Realtime collaboration is the future !
I Love it
Avoid? There have been rumors for a long time that Facebook will buy Opera.
Heh. I get a bit defensive at times, probably unnecessarily, but there seems to be a "formal education is a waste of time" meme about the place.

Agreed, a lazy or incompetent software/IT worker is lazy and/or incompetent regardless of past educational achievement!
> Time Machine, only works over a LAN with destinations that support AFP. This is at least in part because of Time Machine's reliance on Unix hard links, and also in part because it has to be able to ensure that any OS X files with HFS+ specific metadata are correctly preserved.

This is not the reason. Time Machine does support hard links, legacy Mac metadata, and other Unix features. It does this by writing all the data into large blobs (a sparse bundle) with an embedded filesystem of its choosing (i.e. HFS+). It can use any destination filesystem for the blobs, including FAT.
Jezebel on Snowden's girlfriend 
Jezebel reports on Edward Snowden's "dancer" girlfriend, or at least her blog and social media stream(s).
The FSB is still colloquially referred to as the KGB.
The existing Mac Pro has four drive bays. That number seems to be too many, or way too few, never quite right. This design seems to surrender to the fact that one stupidly fast SSD is good enough to build a base, and the rest can be attached externally.

NVidia and AMD have been making external video cards for a while now using external PCIe, but they haven't sold very well and support for these sorts of connectors is limited. Thunderbolt 2 should eventually change that.

Apple's in a bit of a tough spot here. The Mac Pro can never be fast enough or big enough for some, and the bigger and faster they make it, the more it becomes overkill for those that just need something more serious than an iMac or Mac Mini.
Very soon, Russia, Saudi, India and anyother countries can demand Google, Facebook, twitter,'s servers be located inside their borders and allow their own intelligent agents to access, inspect it.

Since China block google, Facebook, twitter already, they can also make the demand for Apple imsg, icloud, Microsoft and Skype servers be inside China , else they are blocked. Apple, M$ will have to agree or risk loosing that market.
http://uncrunched.com/2013/06/11/connecting-the-prism-dots-m...

See links to primary sources, including David Kravets:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/spy-court-stats/
The mission to do what exactly, who authorized it, who was running it, how much did it cost, what were the gains, what was the point.

Edit: If you need to keep public things that secret, maybe you shouldn't be doing them.
Having worked in the realm of government contracting, they often hire people who can get things done but don't necessarily have the appropriate depth of knowledge to make the kinds of claims that he is in fact making. He may have plenty of expertise in various areas but that doesn't make him an expert in the types of things he is leaking. Domain knowledge typically lags behind technical knowledge in this field - it's one of the hallmarks of IT that you can work in any specialized domain without knowledge of the specialty itself. It seems to me that your argument is just as baseless as an argument to the effect that he was incompetent, which the OP is not making.

While I'm behind whistleblowers in general, and I agree with the linked article that completely irrelevant information is being used to smear Snowden, I do find a number of things suspicious. We know practically nothing about this guy, and it's not so easy to tease out true facts from what's currently available.
Who are those users to have an opinion of their own? If that's the way you think about your users, you probably don't deserve having them.

Maybe some people don't like the design, but can't move because they have already invested too much into the platform? A brand is a promise to not mess things up.

If users love everything Apple does we criticize them (The sheep!). If they form an opinion while still using Apple devices we criticize them as well (Those "experts"!).

Btw, I actually like the design. I was sort of shocked when I first saw it, but it grows on you pretty quickly.
The fact that you imply that there is craziness of the opponents without any justification makes me think that you may be unable to see any bias they have because it's in the same direction as yours.

You may be thinking of specific examples with crazy behavior, so this may be justified reasoning, but from the detail you've given it's hard to know.
Dear NSA, your slides sucked. Here are some better ones:
Yes, but the slides specifically reference "Stored Comm". There's a difference between a huge wiretap (which Room 641A was) and being able to search and access basically every communication everyone has for a budget of 20 million dollars.
>why Edward Snowden is a "strange" guy

Well, PRISM does have his surfing history. Who isn't "strange" when put under the microscope of data analysis?
Hi, I'm Dan.
It is already here - Technofascism
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/616/1/
I recommend the excellent book 'Traffic' - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Traffic-drive-what-says-about/dp/014... - it covers this pretty well.
Seems like Microsoft was ahead of the game compared to Facebook and Google. Who'd have thought.
The original title I chose was a quote from the article:

NSA routinely shared phone sex, salacious and tantalizing phone calls

After watching the video I thought it was a better summary.
I am so tired of people abusing the phrase ad hominem -- it is not a fallacy to bring in personal details which raise legitimate questions about the credibility of what's being said. Snowden did have a difficult time in HS and he does not possess a formal CS/technical education. He was a sys admin, not an engineer. His claims, in that light, do seem bizarre and uninformed.

You've just committed an ad hominem. As if having a piece of paper from a college would make his claims more informed.
You're absolutely right, and I've been intentionally avoiding a lot of mainstream news sources on this so my overall picture is mostly what I've been reading about what people are reporting.

I also don't mean to come across as overly paranoid, I don't think men in suits with dark glasses popped into NYT offices with a pre-written story in hand.

However this is the place in the news cycle where we've gotten over the initial shock, and start wanting to focus our energy on something. This would ideally be the part of the processes where we collectively ask "Now what do we do to make sure the NSA stops this?" But instead the question is "Hey, what can we find if we look through Snowden's laundry".

And the thing that I find really interesting is that Snowden's laundry is very boring. Painting Assange as extremely arrogant and only using Wikileaks to feed is own egomania, while also being a potential rapists feeling from justice is an interesting story. Snowden having no HS degree and doesn't get along with his neighbors? Not so much.
It should be easy enough to corroborate - tax returns, W-2 and/or 1099s, paystubs, even bank statements showing cash flows if not direct deposits.