skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The media, of often as it can, likes to make criminals out of information activists. Maybe they desrve it, maybe they don't; Not even arguing that. The thing is, this guy isn't a clear cut "criminal" like Assange or the Pirate Bay guys, this dude notified his fellow citizens that our government was/is doing some highly illegal and immoral shit.

Interested to see how this plays out.
as per usual, golden handcuffs.
Probably one of the better responses that we've seen.

Regardless of my earlier posts, I'm actually inclined to believe these service providers.

I'm curious, has anyone seen/heard anything from CA's? I imagine it would be much easier to just create a split network route at the ISP layer and decrypt all traffic.

Wouldn't be that crazy if you had all of the root keys.
Unlike Sony, Microsoft seriously confused their strategy with their marketing.
Microsoft has a strategy that says "we want to be THE single entertainment device in the living room". Great strategy, no problem there. They care about things like making sure you pay for content (like used games).

They then proceeded to market the xbox one during it's launch event as if that is what people want. People don't give a shit about that, really. They would have been much better off presenting what their core base wanted, and then gently pushing their core base into the direction they want, or at another event, selling all the media entertainment features as extra, after you've sold people on the core gaming experience.

You can't just go to your customer base of 10+ years and then spend hours saying "hey guys, we know you've all drooled and waited for the next big game year after year, but we're not here to tell you about that, instead, here's some social fucking tv shit we really want you to care about for advertising reasons. Also, you will have to pay a fee for used games! yay!"

Sony seems to have learned the lesson Microsoft didn't.
Just tried it, not impressed.

"give us your email, give us your email, give us your email" on the first page isn't very welcoming, it sounds desperate. I can wait a short while for a scan (I came for the scan, not to give you my email address - what are you going to do with it, by the way?)

The scan returns 3 vulnerabilities - I have to create an account to see them. Alright, it's a "security company" (even though I've never heard of it before), how bad can it get? I have good spam filters anyway, whatever.

After creating the account, I have to verify I am the owner (this is a good thing!). I choose the meta tag option - it's broken, and the error is at the top of the page, not at the bottom where I have clicked "Verify". The link in the error doesn't even work.

So, I upload the HTML file, and proceed to my report, where the 3 vulnerabilities have reduced to 1, a vague "Entrance scan". Impossible to see the contents, the only possible action is another scan. which returns 0 vulnerabilities, my website is safe.

Just before closing the page, I notice my email address at the top right, I see "My Account" there... and it's a good thing I've checked, because I've been signed up to 2 newsletters.
PCIe SSDs are available from a number of vendors. Fusion-IO is probably the most well-known.
Is price really how folks decide which to buy? Even if a couple hundred dollars separates them, it does not change my choice.
Sony clearly lost the last battle in the console war, so it makes sense for them to try to undercut Microsoft in the next round.

Microsoft seems to be making a bet that people want their consoles to do more. Sony seems to be focusing just on delivering a better pure gaming experience. I get the sneaking suspicion that "gamers" are going to like Sony's approach more.

Edit: Sony apparently didn't "clearly lose" the current-gen battle.
they may feel that they could get a better TV experience that the xbox has been trying to tout.
So these are you criteria, not the feature set?
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I don't know. It's a great question that demands an answer. However, I feel like finding those answers might take me down a Google hole I don't want to travel down at this point in the night ;-)

But I will ask you this. Is open government intelligence something that should be tested?

While I might be wrong with my claims, what's worrisome to most is that I'm not. And opening up intelligence as a test isn't exactly something that can be fixed with the next iteration.
Don't code on a Monday
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/06/10/edward_snowde...
And also IIRC he had contact with Major Nidal Hasan before Hasan killed all those soldiers at Ft. Hood.

PSYOPS is a military specialty just as much as shooting rifles and digging ditches...
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That strategy demonstrably worked -- we got through the Cold War.

The problem is you can't always assume that the other guy has good intentions. If they're rational, then mutually assured destruction keeps everyone rational. If they're crazy, then that certainly is a problem, which is why there is enormous effort put into preventing proliferation and containing the capabilities of countries like North Korea and Iran.
I've been trying forever to get my dad to go out and timelapse one with me. He wrote GBTimeLapse and GBDeFlicker (http://www.granitebaysoftware.com/) and I've always wanted to do this.
92% of Patriot Act arrests were for drug-related offenses.
7% were for fraud. A mere 0.8% were for terrorist related activities. (n = 1755)

[0] http://nymag.com/news/9-11/10th-anniversary/patriot-act/
I personally really like the multitasking aspect of it. As well as the TV integration with kinect control. That easily justifies a $100 price difference in my opinion.
This is great thanks!! Ever since google shut down sms search I've been wanting something like this!
Sounds good. But is it gonna work most of the data need to be retrieved and presented back to user if that is the case then we have to use two way method . Here the hacker or a third party person who has adequate knowledge on computers will obviously decrypt the same . Yeah I know we can atleast protect from some.
Because the threat of force is the only real deterrent for some sorts of people / threats. Wishing it was different doesn't make it so.
Just a couple months ago, we built a similarly specced 1TB SSD raid using an expensive controller and 4 256 GB drives for a multipass batch processing job that we do. It gets about 1GB/sec read and write performance and cost about $1k altogether. A controller that can max out the PCI bus is about $300 alone.

The major benefit we found is that the higher random access speeds allow us to multiplex our jobs without completely thrashing the old RAID array that we replaced.

But it sucks that there are no PCI solutions for what we needed. OCZ had a couple cards but they were out of date and enterprise priced.

I think what we really need is some kind of slot for internal flash the same way DIMMs are slotted, maybe even have the controller and flash chips physically separated for more fine grained upgrades or have the SSD controller embedded in the motherboard chipset.

The weird 9.5mm enclosure and sata cables that SSDs currently use is some kind awkward weening phase off of spinning platters that needs to go away. Even single SSDs are starting to saturate SATA3 and the SATA specs aren't keeping up.

Hopefully a new trend in workstations that look like the Mac Pro will come along the same way that many "Ultrabooks" look vaguely like MacBook Airs. At which point we'll hopefully get more sensible SSD and interconnect management.
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You can't think of a single object that isn't a uniform color?

How about flowers? Rocks? Fruit? Animals?

Try harder.
You must be an American with such sheltered views - with the exception of the UK, Playstation 3 is dominant in Europe and Asia.
Ugh, this keeps coming up. No amount of cooperation from Certificate Authorities will enable passive attacks on SSL.

All the CA does is cryptographically certify "this is the public key that the Company (eg. Google) gave me"; they never see the corresponding private key.

Cooperation from the CA might give the NSA their own certificates for Google, which would allow for an active man-in-the-middle attack. Certificate pinning would defeat that, and doing that on the fly in the Internet at large would be a serious undertaking.

But if they want to decrypt traffic passively and they don't know about serious SSL vulnerabilities, they would have to have Google's private key. And with Perfect Forward Secrecy, even that is not sufficient. (PFS requires an active attack because the session key can only be determined if you're actually one of the two doing the handshake, or you know how to factor very large numbers.)
Zynga is hiring??
Definitely the right thing to do after laying off 18% of your workforce.
> 1. The general public won't install an APK outside of an "App Store" equivalent

Oh Please. It doesn't mean the general public _cannot_ do it. And you don't even have to be a root.
Mobile game review sites are a waste of time
I started in the third grade. Most kids have trouble coding until they've developed some form of abstract thinking. The biggest thing is to never force someone to learn to code - that'll take the fun out of it. Teach them when they want to learn, and do it on their terms.
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> Sadly those votes don't mean a thing when there's lobbyists involved.

I honestly think this might be the most important insight in the modern political landscape -- though I think it's incompletely expressed in the language on display here.

The central truth is that voting on its own is a pretty limited form of civic interaction, and as long as it's the only one, officials and citizens will tend to be pretty isolated from one another.

Lobbyists close the loop. Of course, as long as that means hired lobbying, it only closes the loop for people who can afford to hire people to lobby for them.

The question I think this analysis brings up is whether we have too many lobbyists or too few.
That is true but there are 100's of resources to learn how to do Flat UI correctly. I tried to learn Flat UI a few months ago and I ran into a lot of the issues that I see in Apple's interface and I'm not even a trained designer.
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so a $3B judgement would be enough to run PRISM for 150 years. Well... let's say 100 years to account for inflation and adding more backdoors and secret decoder rings.
Who in the media is trying to make a criminal out of him?
Nope. Google does not prevent anybody from installing apps outside of the play store. (Device manufacturer may try to make it hard to root devices, but that's outside Android's choice of letting people install whatever they want).
Anybody going to apply for shiggles?
Not to defend the Xbox One's many faults, but the answer is very simple:

Because they want to play the games that are only available on it. Or they want to play games with their friends on xbox live. Those can be very powerful motivators, games and friends aren't commodities.
Assange is a criminal? Just wait and see how Snowden starts raping people and breaking ancient chinese sex customs.
Who's throwing around terms? I'm not the one who works at a law firm. I didn't bring up FISA, HIPPA, or FERPA here. I was just stating it like it is, which you in your roundabout way have confirmed: The system isn't going to fix itself, and nobody is going to jail except Edward Snowden.
That's a good point. When I was learning I was desperate for knowledge...back then we didn't have the Internet so my options were really limited. I ended up getting a comb-bound manual on Basic for X-mas and was thrilled with it. LOL
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You forgot another important one: Having no self-respect, and be ready to be bullied by Apple.
I personally am not a fan of used cars (I don't see it as being much better ideologically than theft, since the people who made the car are not getting compensated on resales which provide an identical experience to one that you get brand new), but publicity-wise it's a very smart move on Honda's part.
There's very little loyalty in the console business. Nintendo's the only exception, largely because their target audience is different, and even that brand is starting to suffer.

You're only as good as your current console.
Of course you can downgrade. You just can't downgrade after iOS 7 goes gold.
http://www.shapeways.com/materials/steel

...of course if you don't want to deal with high temperatures, there is always electrochemical deposition.
Maybe I watched TWISTER too many times growing up, or maybe my up bringing in the midwest instilled too much fear in me, but that was terrifying. "And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night!"
Here is another candidate (posted earlier):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5856795
My eyes! No, not the app, but the very tall form factor of that device!
> A blanket warrant covering thousands of customers cannot possibly comply with the Fourth Amendment

How about a blanket FISA order?
Setting aside the issue of surveillance... the following clause seems a good way to ensure government contractors get plenty of work :

'Carriers are permitted to meet their CALEA obligations through the services of “Trusted Third Parties (TTP)” -- that is, they can hire outside companies, which meet security requirements outlined in CALEA, to perform all of the required functions.'
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I am certain that the PS4 will do better than Microsoft simply cause of the privacy situation. I really can't stand the idea that XBOX one has to have the camera on at all times!
I would prefer not to have anything to hide. However, the society pretty much forces me to hide who I really am. Why? Social stigma.

People are used to live in a society where people hide what's not socially accepted, as well as their "problems". After a while, people tend to intuitively think that these "problems" don't exist, and become much more judgemental when they witness an instance of them. This reinforce these social stigmas and people do more and more to hide everything that could be used against them. This is a problem on its own, artificially created by the society we live in.

Ideally, we would become more and more open, up until a point where we don't have anything to hide. Protecting privacy for the sake of privacy is foolish. Privacy is only necessary as long as we decide to remain close-minded and blind to reality.
24 hour checkin (always-online DRM) and restricting game resale/trade is huge. The former has been adequately demonstrated by PR catastrophes like Sim City 2013 and Diablo 3, the latter is also very important to a lot of people who still buy discs.

We'll have to wait and see how this translates into sales, but Sony won a lot of points for not caving to publishers on these issues.

I suspect a lot of gamers also aren't keen on the Kinect, so the extra $100 for it is another downside.
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I am not sure, but doesn't Apple allow more than one browsers in their walled garden?
Right: (1) the chance of being murdered for any reason is very low, (2) the chance of being murdered for a political reason (a.k.a "terrorism") is extremely low, and (3) the chance that a multi-billion dollar, multi-yottabyte info dragnet can save you from (2), or is even designed to do so, is also very low.
I appreciate framing the speed goal.
The PS3 installed based is larger than the XBox 360 installed base: http://www.vgchartz.com/

And the PS3 was released a year later than the XBox 360.
> You want to know what officers are working under cover in the police force?

I don't think that there need to be undercover police officers.

> Who are informants on terrorist organizations working against the state?

I don't think there need to be informants on terrorist organizations.

> The home phone numbers and addresses of all public employees? Their emergency contact numbers? Medical histories relevant to their jobs?

I wouldn't classify (teehee) this as "government secrets." If they're public employees, then obviously their names should be public, but I don't see their personal information as a "government secret."

> crippling the capacity of government to do kinds of work that it has to do does not.

People disagree about which kinds of work have to be done by government.
Ask HN: Home based cloud setups
No doubt precipitated by the recent NSA coverage, there has already been posts about setting up ownCloud servers at home, etc. However, on their website, ownCloud mentioned that the term 'cloud' is somewhat of a misnomer, since there is non of the usual underlying cloud components (separate storage, VM provisioning, failover, etc) (admittedly they are working on this).

Running a full stack at home is also not completely viable, given probable capital expenditure, electricity costs and typical DSL uplink speeds (assuming you're using it just for your own items, so bandwidth cap is not too much of a hassle).

Is there a sweet spot somewhere in this, where:
1] One can have your data on storage within your control
2] Have some level of redundancy (especially if you need reliable access to your data)
3] Have some level of certainty about your setup's security
4] Not have it cost you a bundle to run
5] It not be a pita to maintain on an ongoing basis (assuming some know-how for an initial setup)

I'm thinking maybe a shared cost or shared hardware setup with trusted friends or family, or maybe using something like AWS for the frontend, but still storing your data on a low-powered server (Pi) at home, mirrored somewhere?

Has an HNers done something like this? Are they concerned enough to want to try?
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The question is then why would anyone buy their just announced PS3 bundled with GTA5 for $299? Do they figure that since GTA5 comes out in September that they can get a couple months worth of sales in before the PS4 launch?
Sounds like the "security through obscurity" argument that gets flogged by the geek crowd.
I wouldn't go into technicalities because I can't - mostly because it's not my area of expertise and I've never looked into it deeply or maybe not even from the surface other than a user's perspective. The end user.

Wuala is seriously slow and clunky piece of software. Period.
This is because no one gives Windows Phone a chance. I'm now a Windows Phone user and I don't see myself going back to iOS/Android any time soon.
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Nope. Every military officer in the US has Secret clearance, so it's not as big of a deal as you might think. You go through an investigation which requires you to list things up to seven years in your past, but isn't a big deal if you are a decent human being without a criminal history. After the investigation you work and live pretty much like anyone else except there are things you can't tell your friends. If you want to go out of the country you basically just let them know where you are going ahead of time and it's no big deal. The only thing you might not be allowed to do is travel to Iran or Cuba. Oh, and if you are like my friend and get three DUIs you lose your job and clearance. Just don't screw it up that bad and you have nothing to worry about.
It might also be because this link has been posted at least two times recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5807149
I also agree that the article poses useful questions that need answers. However, in this case I think it is extremely important that we get real answers, and don't allow ourselves to be swayed by ad-hominem or other specious arguments. Greenwald may be a flake, and it is one unknown's word against that of many public and powerful people... but lets not let that stop us demanding those answers.

These allegations are very serious and if by any remote chance they were true, those powerful people would be busy trying to make Greenwald look like a flake and Snowden like a confused tech incompetent.
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It however isn't difficult to do this for a 3-axis machine. in fact, the way he describes building layer by layer is exactly how you make complex shapes on a 3-axis mill. You essentially trace a line on the surface that you are trying to machine. The problem simply reduces to the same line problem with the points defined in 3 dimensions.

Of course, there are notable complexity benefits of 3D printing over 3-axis machining, but many of them can be overcome with other machining methods such as EDM.
So from most of the defensive arguments here is in the form of classic... "well, that sucks... but... Apple must have a reason, so it's okay?".

Really? On a site full of tech geeks and nerds? When did majority of us lose our balls and become so meek?
but.. this isn't anywhere near a new idea.. Weather HD, now Clear Day, is by a team in Egypt and has been doing the animated weather thing for years:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clear-day-formerly-weather/i...
I've never bought a used game myself, or sold one, but there have been probably hundreds of times over the life of my Xbox 360 where I've visited with friends and family and brought a good game along with me. Especially, more social games like Just Dance or Rock Band or Kinect Sports. If they truly locked down sharing of games, this kind of functionality would be a big loss. I know they have said that some limited taking of games with you would be permitted, but I think they missed the boat on selling that functionality by being so vague about it...
They can't make the proper port glow when you get the cable close to it?
You don't get an identical experience with a used car. The car has wear on parts, a shorter warranty, uncertainty regarding previous treatment and servicing, and no 'new car smell'.

With a used game, assuming the disc itself hasn't been damaged (and if it has, you are entitled to a refund as per any retailer's used games policy), you get an identical experience to a person who purchased the game new.
>So are you saying that a "right" has to be explicitly spelled out in the BoR in order to be a right?

This is why Madison thought the Bill of Rights was a mistake. The rest of the document was written as a list of delineated powers - "this is what the federal government can do". That's much, much more restrictive than "this is what the federal government can't do". He thought the BoR would lead people into thinking the federal government is allowed to do anything it isn't prohibited from doing.

I think history has born him out, too. I'd much rather see courts asking the question "is this on the list of things the federal government can do?" rather than "does it pass muster on 2A or 4A grounds?" Of course if that were the case 2/3 the federal government would go away. Not a bad thing, IMO.
You don't seem to understand how design works. Tell me you like those new icons.
Microsoft's dumb. Google, Apple, and very likely Amazon (I think amazon could dominate) are all going to compete in the home entertainment space. Meanwhile, Sony and (potentially) Valve will be stiff competition in gaming.

This is why Microsoft needs to split up. They think that their ecosystem itself delivers more value than what it's actually worth. There's simply no focus on what their customers actually want.
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