skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But....

Precedence can be handled a few ways:

1. They can be narrowed. "Gathering data from all customers regarding where and where they called from and who they called is fundamentally different under the 4th Amendment than what was decided under Smith."

2. They can be expanded, "Cell site location information is no different than what a pen register collects under the Constitution."

3. They can be overruled by the Supreme Court ("We hold we were wrong when we decided Smith v. Maryland.") This is the last choice for obvious practical reasons, and it involves more scrutiny.

I don't think this will cause the third party doctrine to be reconsidered as it was decided in the past (in the context of narrow investigations). I think it is far more likely that courts (from circuit courts to the Supreme Court) will merely hold that it is Constitutionally different to do this to everyone without individualized suspicion than to do it to a specific individual already under investigation, just as it would be Constitutionally different to issue a search warrant for all apartments in a high-rise apartment building than it is to issue a search warrant on an individual's home. I don't think California Bankers Association will be overruled either and if they feel compelled to differentiate, they may say that rules do not require routine disclosure of all financial records, only the few big ones.
would love to learn more about your path - maybe a mixergy interview? :)
Precisely. Can rayiner obtain my call metadata? They cannot. I did not broadcast this information, the NSA obtained it by using state powers to secure a secret, unrestricted (in the most literal sense) warrant.
Cliffs notes up 400%
Rackspace? Look up the history regarding Indymedia in 2004.
thank you. don't forget wwdc
If you watched the announcement I think you can get a sense that Sony has learned a lot from their past. You can tell that they cared about the people that they made this product for.

Something really striking about this whole Xbox One vs PS4 thing is how one sided the enthusiasm is (in favor of the PS4). It's all the more striking when you consider that the gaming community is one of the most passionate, fickle, and hardest-to-please bunch of people there are.

I think Sony really listened to what people really wanted and made something with those things in mind.

Just gauging the reactions from across the internet and from across my diverse group of friends, the PS4 is being received so incredibly well and the sentiment towards the Xbox One is exactly the opposite.
So because there might be bad people, somewhere, planning to do bad things, we should just let the government run wild and do whatever it wants? What if the government claimed that they needed to put cameras in everyone's livingroom, because by doing so they could stop a major terrorist attack?

The problem with your argument is that it basically allows the government to do anything it wants, and then claim that there is secret information that proves that what they are doing is necessary to save lives.

In my view, there is a need for government secrets. Diplomatic cables need to be secret. The names and locations of informants and spies need to be kept secret (I will not deny the need for such agents). During times of war, the locations and planned movements of troops must be kept secret. On the other hand, the existence of diplomats, the existence of spies, and the existence of the military absolutely should not be kept secret.
It's very simple, really. I'm sure most of you have heard this before and know who said it:

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

It just so happens that the people are hidden in bunkers of truth while their government is in denial inside the empire of lies.

It's time to set the record straight.
Uh...no. This is real simple. The people of Gaza and the West Bank use the demonym; Israelis do not. It is appropriate to call people what they call themselves, and so I do.

And even were it a reasonable comment on your part (it's not but it is in keeping with your rabidly pro-Israel, burn-the-Muslims worldview that your comment history demonstrates), I think using the demonym that the targets of systematic economic and cultural oppression use to describe themselves is somewhere well below the literal least we can do. (And to forestall the tired and obviously dishonest because the self-victimization is appalling: no, the Israelis don't get to have that excuse when they have the strongest military in the world completely backing any and all injustice they wish to perpetuate. Not allowed.)

I shouldn't have risen to your bait, but I'm tired and annoyed by people who would abuse America to do evil and you are one of them. You will, I am sure, leap to take the last word.
good .it worked properly for most examples I tried.
Replying to self because I'm past the edit deadline.

Calling this a "hack" is silly.

If I said I'd defeated Microsoft by discovering a backdoor into MULTICS I'd be correctly laughed off HN. The claim above is analogous.
PBS: What Should Be Up for Public Debate When It Comes to Secret Surveillance?
Based on the various reports of issues with iCloud losing data, I think 1Password is safe. If Apple took the time to make iCloud more robust, useful and transparent it could definitely be a killer feature.
bah no wonder someone placed a hold on my copy I had from the library (3 weeks ago there were no holds when I got it but now there are a bunch of Pple in line)
The Libertarian Party is largely a joke, I agree. Speaking as a small-l libertarian, mind you.
One of the major reasons I'm ditching the Xbox (I owned an Xbox and own two Xbox 360s) is because of the PS4's much clearer focus on supporting indie games.

And yes, I realize for every The Witness or Braid there will be 20 or more pieces of crap, but this isn't 1982 where we are trying to figure out what to buy based solely on cover art. We have the Internet, the stuff worth paying attention to will be filtered up to the masses with or without Sony's explicit help.
I think the takeaway here is not that it's easy. It's that you should find a niche. A weather app is not it.
He planed this really well, I've been almost more facisnated with his execution then the story.

One if the most amazing things that some may not know (if you look through my submissions - I only have 3), he pressured the Post to publish by going to the Guardian. Even the Post consulted gov officials (which is understandable) prior to publishing.

If he continued to stay at that hotel, it would of been his folly I believe. I'm sure his anxiety level is off the charts, so to stick to these well calculated decisions is almost like hearing a Jason Bourne action flick.
First off, the PS2 backwards compatibility was a feature of physical chips that was in some units and not others, and never got disabled by anything afaik.

But as to how Sony will handle indie devs. I view it as a situation similar to Apple. They are very hostile to the end user having root control over devices, but they are perfectly happy to allow any kind of indie games onto the platform. I don't think there is any risk of the sandboxed games going away.
CIA was down the road from his hotel at the embassy.

I am not sure if he really had a plan there.
there are some dead links in this topic that are actually pretty funny.
Point taken. But don't they have a right to restrict immigration enough to enable some assimilation of the immigrants, rather than feeling overrun?
"We did not have an unconstitutional relationship with that authority."
I don't get it. If it he can do this, why can't someone else do the same thing? Why can't people register _that_ part of the story?

Anyone who has ever seen the show 24 can see that for every amazing tool we have to spy on Americans, there is some double-spy working within the agency using the very same tool against the government's own interest. This is exactly what is happening.

We built something we can't control. That's the story.
Is there something I can do with my domain to "enable" Persona, like SPF [0] or SSH fingerprints in DNS records? [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4255
Between the lines it seems the NYT is somewhat jealous Snowden did not come to it with his materials (when the news broke they quoted "a British newspaper" instead of mentioning The Guardian by name!).

But they do make a good point: the scope and reach of the post 9/11 intelligence apparatus does not only mean it tends to overreach, it also means it employs too many people, some of them potential whistle-blowers.
Be slightly careful with Wikipedia about Rome. Such sweeping generalizations covering hundreds of years can't be always accurate. In fact the Senate's power waxed and waned depending on the politics of the empire. Under Claudius, the Senate was comparatively powerful if largely to convince everyone that the days of Caligula were over.

Understanding the dynamic nature of governments, especially ones as expansive as the US government, is necessary I think to appreciate how little democracy we actually have in the United States as it now stands. If we want to pin things to the definitions historians use to differentiate the Roman Republic from the Roman Empire, I think we passed that point with FDR to be honest.
What If We Understood
Google doesn't have anywhere near the power the government does, and people realize this well enough to not make a false equivalence between the two.
The Rubik's Cube was a nice touch. I remember when I was inseparable from mine. (Averaged 50 seconds. Not world-class, I know, but not terrible for a 12-year-old.)
What is truly marginalizing is to infantilize an entire philosophical position without actually putting in some effort to try and understand it.
For ease of recognition, the positive and negative spaces of a given form should be about equal in area. In this respect iOS 7 fails miserably. It's as if they've forgotten hundreds of years of collective design wisdom.
I only finally read 1984 about a year ago. Everyone should read it: it's a great combination of entertainment and insight; funny, yet terrifying. The classics don't always live up to the hype, but there's a reason so many terms from the book ended up in our vocabulary.
Ask HN: why do we accept that governments may have secrets from citizens?
Gaming: Half Life 3 wait explained
> Apple is widely acknowledged in the industry as having amateurish design and an utter lack of anything resembling perfectionism or attention to detail.

I would love to see your source on this one, because I never stop hearing the opposite.
I'm writing this on a MacBook, but who knows how long it will last. Maybe it's a high quality device, and maybe I'm not supposed to care if it starts flaking out after 2 or 3 years. I like the software, and the exterior construction is nice.

Stuff made in China might be half price from what things used to be, but it's hard to find any alternatives now.
>>According to a bill submitted to congress last year, Nicaragua's canal will be 22 metres deep and 286 km (178 miles) long - bigger than Panama and Suez in all dimensions.

The wording is interesting. It's a plus that Nicaragua's planned canal will be deeper, but you don't really want ot be bragging that a new alternative is going to be longer. If I was a stakeholder in this project, I'd much rather that the government did everything possible to make the new canal deeper, wider and shorter than existing alternatives.
I've seen more than one poorly designed, poorly executed product go to market with lots of user testing. I'd love to have someone from Apple comment on their design process, because it's really just conjecture that they do or don't usability test their products, but I'm not holding my breath.
Structural Or Cyclical?
Good catch. Wont delete it since there are two replies but that may not be the reason :)
Dutch IA works with PRISM: "provide email address, all data available in 5 mins"
It's hard to say how this will work out, but compared to Microsoft who has seemed to expend a tremendous amount of effort crapping all over indie game devs it's hard to see this as anything other than very promising.
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1984 is a pretty incredible book, even without its relevance to current events. It is probably in my top three of all time.
Also, we're pretty protective of our right to espouse even very unpopular and radical beliefs...
Satanists seek to 'adopt-a-highway' in New York
How to configure LI (Lawful Intercept) on a Cisco 7600
In his book, "Star Wars," Lt. Bowman makes the case that the Strategic Defence Initiative (and similar missile defence systems) are bad ideas specifically because they disrupt MAD. His argument is that as long as we KNOW we are not being under attack, then we can all sleep at night. There is a point to this.

MAD wasn't just about deterrence, but also about ensuring mutual access to early warning information. The combination of the two is actually not a bad thing. "I know you can destroy me if I attack you, and I know you can see me if I start to do so" is not a bad set of factors. Unfortunately things like anti-satellite missiles and weapons in space really endanger that because if a small piece of space junk collides with a satellite over the other guy's territory, you may not know for sure that this is not the prelude to an attack.

So the actual MAD strategies as they developed through the Ford years were actually quite sophisticated and stabilizing. But what happens when your threat is a nuclear weapon in a twenty-foot container instead of an ICBM (because some country like North Korea knows we can have 747's with lasers shoot down launching missiles if we launch a first strike)?
Off the top of my head....Watsi, Kahn Academy, Wikipedia.

It depends on what type of problems interest you.
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The attack is to generate a certificate, sig. it themselves as valid, and then man in the middle the target. it's not about decrypting somebody else's session, it's about creating their own, seemingly valid one.
You'll love 7.0 then!

The tools save all the robust features added in 6.0, but they sent a designer to go over them again in 7.0 so it's pretty and powerful now.

Here's a screenshot of me running the Safari 7.0 dev tools in the multi-monitor space:

http://cl.ly/PYL4
Interesting POV. The gov't laid that submarine cable with tax money though, the cables belong to us. The gov't controls them but we need them back.
> or any contractor or lobbyist the government is persuaded to share this data with

Or anyone the government is "persuaded" where persuaded may well include security breaches by hostile parties of indeterminate origin... Actually the hell with it, just put it this way, insecure by law is still insecure. Effectively PRISM and its ilk implies that insecure by law is in fact insecure, completely.
the video may have been linked to by some popular outlet. We'd be able to find out if we had access to historical view count data but alas...
Generation Google - Our Digitized Selves
No, really, that's not just the official story. The reality is that tens of millions of people were killed in wars and genocides in just the 20th century. The most basic role of government is to protect its own citizens against that, and it is not an abstract threat. And despite their many flaws, and the many wrong things that they have done, the US and its allies remain the most open, free societies and a positive, stabilizing force in the world.

It's entirely legitimate to question whether the NSA has been going too far -- there's been debate about it for years. However, there is zero evidence that any of the data being collected had even been used in any way that impacted or threatened the freedom of people in the US -- it's all possibilities and abstract paranoia. It's difficult to have a serious debate when people put on tin-foil hats, plug their ears, and refuse to even acknowledge the broader realities. It's not all just a conspiracy to monitor Facebook and take away our bitcoins. All of these issues demand a dynamic balancing of risks and benefits, and of the rights of individuals against society. Any extreme philosophical positions are dangerous.
This is so awesome. Wow. Amazing design.
It is also, as far as I know, illegal to hack or disrupt computer networks in that way (even for the NSA). If they had warrants giving them access to information they wanted it would have been overkill to do something like that, risk getting caught, and now have to go to the company for intelligence cooperation in the information.
Next-Gen Gameplay Footage from E3 you should see
The Division http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/iz5bzn/the-division-e3-2013--debut-gameplay--stream-

Battlefield 4 Multi Player http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/j8dmtv/battlefield-4-e3-2013--multiplayer-demo--stream-

Final Fantasy http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/tnnvzc/final-fantasy-versus-xiii-e3-2013--announcement-trailer--stream-

Watch Dogs http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/lsjyca/watch-dogs-e3-2013--ps4-gameplay--stream-

Titanfall http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/tfsoez/titanfall-e3-2013--demo-gameplay--stream-
Great input. I couldn't find a better source for the Roman Senate, but my quote was more to satire the current 24/hour news cycle driven politician.

FDR def.; probably Wilson
Sintered metals are never going to have the same properties that cast, forged, and/or welded metals have. Such parts may be very strong compared to, say, plastics, but there will always be a huge class of parts (especially for machinery) which just cannot reasonably be made that way.

But that's fine, additive manufacturing doesn't have to be the end-all be-all of manufacturing. People should concentrate more on leveraging the strengths of 3D printing as much as possible rather than trying to make it be some jake of all trades manufacturing tool that it can never be.
Wow! I can't imagine how anyone could ever go to space, come back, and then voluntarily forfeit their ability to visit space again in the future. Chris Hadfield, I'm sad knowing that you won't be back up there any time soon making more youtube videos.
But only when combining deterrence with early warning and an agreement not to develop weapons to target early warning systems. Otherwise it is a recipe for "oops, I guess we weren't really being attacked. Sorry for the nuclear war."
Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn't.

See, that's part of the problem in terms of economic calculation when dealing with a surveillance society -> since it's largely impossible to quantify the amount of lost business due to various surveillance / justice actions, as the methods and individual events in which such actions took place may never see the light of day, a society could be going bankrupt due to an overly large security division, and never know it.

Let's consider a real-life plausible scenario: a DEA agent gets a tip from a questionable source about a large shipment of Molly coming in tonight on the docks (cliche, but let's roll with it). The information isn't good enough to get a warrant, but the DEA hasn't had a bust in a while, and the agents are being pressured to find something to justify their jobs. This DEA agent figures that it wouldn't hurt to have a look around (nothing illegal there, right?), and spotting nothing immediately out on the docks, begins to think that it's a bust. The agent notices that an upper window is open on one of the warehouses, and that there are voices being heard within; it would take a little effort, shimmying up the side, but the agent could peak through the window (questionable)...and maybe even climb inside if the agent sees something. The agent climbs up, and hears rising voices from within. Not seeing anyone, the agent climbs in.

The agent, walking on top of some crates, sees the owners of the voices, and after listening for several moments, realizes that it's just a typical worker's spat. The agent goes to leave, not seeing anything of interest...but as the agent moves, one of the crates topples, pushing the one in front of it, and so on in a domino fashion. The agent manages to leave undiscovered, but not before $30 million in Lowe's Italian Chandeliers are dropped three stories onto a hard concrete floor.

The workers will be blamed for not stacking the crates correctly, and the owner of the warehouse cited. The insurance company will, of course, cover the costs of the damaged merchandise. However, the cost to society, for this overstep, was more than a minor civil rights violation...it was more than those workers make in a decade, possibly their lives.

And that's kind of at the heart of these infringements...when the intelligence agencies screw up, when the police screw up, it's not like they're shouldered with that debt; it's charged to society as the cost of doing business...no different from what the bankers did recently when they 'privatized the gains, and socialized the losses.'
Big Brother Is Both Savvy and Incompetent
your comment would've been a lot funnier if the company who built the g4 cube wasn't the most valuable company in the world.
Maybe even Lincoln.
How many of those genocides were carried on by a government against some segment of its population? How justified is it to look at the tens of millions who have been killed by their governments and conclude that if the governments are to protect us from war and genocide, "with friends like these, who needs enemies?"
Who will be the next Edward Snowden?