skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering some of the other revelations about the workings of FISA, how do you know that Apple has not been given a request for "all current and future information about all users", and decided that it is "appropriate" and that given the order, the "narrowest possible set" of information is all of it? (while they do indicate the number of requests, users and devices affected by data handed over to law enforcement, the use of that term itself is curious - it's not law enforcement the noise has been over, but intelligence agencies, and particularly NSA)

It may very well be that they have not had to deal with any broad requests from intelligence agencies, but the statement most certainly does not preclude it.
You don't make any convincing or exceptionally novel points I'm afraid, it's the same old rehashing of poorly construed history data.

I mentioned this earlier but I'll say it again: It seems the free market is apparently doing a pretty lousy job, if we've come to a reality where two lucky dudes who were well connected could sell their photo-sharing app for a billion all the while a good half of the country risks getting financially decimated come an unforeseen disease or bad accident somewhere. You will agree with me that at least here in the US, the experiment of 'capitalism' is shaping to spell failure, no?
Vodafone network head says HD video over 4G won't be popular for long
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I disagree, tape isn't that reliable for covering larger areas with sharp and uneven surfaces. Plus, it tends to peel off by itself when heated. Should be better to just secure the two boards apart from each other at opposite ends of the case.
Four or six (depending on my work) Dell 30" LCD displays at 2560x1600 oriented in either landscape or portrait or more often, a combination of landscape and portrait. Each monitor is mounted on Humscale M8 monitor arm.

An early image of my setup is here: http://www.otakunozoku.com/my-new-monitor-layout/
1. Glenn Greenwald, the reporter with actual access to the source and documents, is sticking to the original narrative. I don't know where this "back walking" theme is coming from. Take a look at Greenwald's twitter @ggreenwald for clarification on this point.

2. We've learned that many of these requests are bulk demands for many, many people at a time, often demanding data to be delivered indefinitely thereafter on a periodic basis. We also know that the FISA appeals court has favored the government 100% of the time.

3. It was never stated that the "watching your thoughts as you type" portion was part of the PRISM program. This next part is wild speculation on my part, but if the NSA has a database of zero-day exploits, which I would bet that they do, you could theoretically streamline the process of setting up a keylogger on a target's computer if you know their basic system setup. If they've designed this process to coincide with the laws as has been the pattern with other things we've seen, it's certainly conceivable that Snowden could deploy that system from his terminal.

Greenwald has stated that more revelations are coming. I would say to watch this story closely over the next several weeks, but I'm sure you were going to do that anyway.
"The government was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself." -Jefferson
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".terms { display: none }" in my user stylesheet, and I'm good to go :)
Thanks for posting this. I linked to it in a few places from the comments on the link that made it to the top of HN.
Do we know that they send your password in plain text?
I don't know what you mean about MUXes. It's just simple abstraction to say "yeah, take this pattern of gates and give it a symbol so we don't have to draw it over and over again in detail". You're still just wiring up combinational logic...

Flip-flops and sequential logic made my brain flip-flop itself for a while though when I first ran into it. :) That really does require a different sort of thinking, since you're introducing time as a factor.
Yeah, I am talking about Common Law in general.

Interestingly, consumer protection aspect you talk about is very similar. Stronger protection is given to consumers through legislation - eg: Sales of Goods Act in UK. The word "reasonable" is ingrained into common law and a 1000% interest loan would certainly not be reasonable.

>You cannot get away from a contract by simply not reading it
All circumstances around the contract would be considered in common law. I believe the courts would rather void the term on the basis of unfairness rather than putting weight on the fact that the person did not read it.

Contract is binding even if you have not read the contract is a very important cornerstone of contract law. Almost everyone that signs the contract does not read the contract - even contract that exceeds billions of dollars. They turn to their lawyers to read and negotiate the terms. Complex and specific terms are required to specify the rights and obligation of each side. If we are forced to read the contract before we sign them, our society would not be able to operate and many disputes would arise over overly broad terms that can be interpreted in many different ways.
Right and Facebook prevailed through being a technology company and having amazing engineers to make the technology scale. They just turned on their first data center outside of the USA (in Sweden). That datacenter is comprised of technology developed 100% by Facebook and it's 100% open sourced (including hardware). That's the power and innovation of a true technology company.

Myspace was never ever a technology company and neither were many of the competing social networks like Friendster. Facebook just built a better product. Just like Google did.
That is indeed an odd reason for sticking with OSX.

Check it out: VMware Converter

Can clone Windows and Linux just fine; in fact I have a dual boot system (need bootable Windows for BIOS/Firmware upgrades/(Nvidia)mods) with 2003 server (that's my laptop OS from 2005 sill kicking), Win 7, and OSX VMs.

There is no hacking around things; it's only with OSX where virtualizing it is a bi-atch (as of 2 years ago at any rate)
On the picture it looks like a row of 10 leds, you could do some binary also.
Is that you Snowden?
I think you misunderstand asymmetric encryption. you have also confused the two uses of asymmetric encryption;

(a) to prove identity -- a digital signature
(b) to provide confidentiality -- encryption

If the secret part of an asymmetric key is generated on a device and it lives and dies on that device, Apple doesn't have it -- the device does. Messages encrypted using the public part of that key can only be decrypted with a device that has the key.

Your augment regarding PKI encryption systems is flawed. You don't need or care about a "root authority" to provide confidentiality. If your assertion is/was true, how can or does PGP work? (Hint: signing only affects identification and authenticity of a message)
This is untrue. Aokp still has a permissions blocking app available with their ROM and I don't know exactly what google would be blocking as far as I know CM doesn't distribute apps on the google market. The issue is it was outright blocking vs seeding so many apps would break/fc.
Hmm. Are there really enough 1%ers to drive up rents across the entire city? In city after city?

Isn't it more likely that this is simply about migration into global cities, by people of all incomes, exceeding the growth rate of accomodation capacity in those cities?

It seems like this phenomenon could be usefully analysed quantitatively. I haven't seen anyone do that yet.
At home my HE tunnel is snappier than the plain ipv4 from rr. The weird thing is it is not just a case of user perception (mine). One of the upstream s1 ntp boxes I sync with has ipv4 and ipv6 and is relatively close. I set one of my s1s to sync with both the ipv4 and ipv6 addresses of the machine and the ipv4 clock displayed a lower delay and less jitter while the offsets were seasonably close.
> Greenwald has stated that more revelations are coming. I would say to watch this story closely over the next several weeks, but I'm sure you were going to do that anyway.

I was, but at this point he needs to offer actual evidence of his claims. He's effectively claiming there has been an insanely massive data collection program that has somehow gone unnoticed by tens of thousands of security professionals for several years. And while our security professionals may take awhile to find things like Stuxnet/Flame, they at least found vestiges of the programs much earlier, and neither is anything close to the insanely wide scale this would require.

I'm not saying this is impossible, but god damn is a lot of it sounding improbable as hell.
It's much better now compared to your experience. I get "unlimited" LTE for around $40 USD/Mo more than half as much as I was paying AT&T. Quite fast and reliable even in the MTR which blew me away after having lived in NYC for a short while. Even the prepaid carriers like OneTwoFree are a quite good.
When exactly was that?
I was talking with someone on #vim about the history of that feature a few days ago. I traced it back to either Launchbar or Quicksilver and I'm glad I wasn't that far off the mark.

As a side note, it's somehow funny how a sentence like "Sublime Text Ctrl+P Like Fuzzy Matching" can tell quite a lot about the person who writes it. I'm not criticizing, of course, but well… I find it funny. That's all.
think that depends on the field though. At least in CS, the experience seems to have been a lot more open.
PRISM isn't the NSA's only project. They could can it tomorrow and then name this something else. Only with full unrestricted inspections by the UN can this kind of abuse be brought under control.
The Victorian Internet is an interesting and fairly quick read. Check it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Internet
Notice that the paragraphs immediately before that specifically talks about data passed to law enforcement and plays down the type of requests, after the paragraph before that talks about national security.

Since when would anyone start to lump NSA in with "law enforcement". The focus on law enforcement in general in that statement is curious since that's not really what all the noise has been about.

Maybe their PR team are just a bunch of buffoons that have still not realised that these statements gets dissected, but it is rather odd that they when releasing a statement to try to stem criticism based on their previous choice of words again choose wording that is so ambiguous

In fact, if I were to trust this (and I can't decide if I should), my main reason for trusting them is that I'm wondering if they wouldn't just flat out lie and give a much stronger denial if they are in fact feeding the NSA with tons of data.
What about FaceTime?
Wow, whatever happened to reading comprehension? Did I say Apple sends database dumps to the government? All I am doing is explaining using an example why people might consider the wording shady especially it is so gladly used by different companies.
If you continue reading the thread its primarily because its unfriendly to developers. Seeding dummy data and interfering with developer source of revenue is not something they wanted at the time. Even with this incognito mode, they are attempting to do it in a developer friendly way.
It's implausible that Dr. King was a communist. He was a minister, and communism is explicitly atheistic.
Yes, everyone in Africa is waiting for internet to use with their smart phones.

Evading the censorship is a better idea but I am pretty sure China wouldn't allow such a thing to fly over their country. Or at least make it suffer with network attacks or DDOS or something.
Thats true, NSA related stories have been flooding the front pages of hacker news for the last two weeks. I don't mind a couple of posts but when every other story is related to the news, it gets dry fast.
ASK any question you like from this software
Yes and unlike Microsoft they probably don't give access to their exploits to NSA before they patch their systems. /sarcasm. They will say whatever the government tells them to say, your data is not safe, and if you don't think this is true, you're a fool and an idiot.
>Say what? If I sign a 30 year note for 3% interest it's 3% for 30 years, and the bank is stuck with that.

Yes. if a bank would sign a contract with you then it is valid. I highly doubt that would be the case, the bank needs to borrows the money from someone else. They just merely make the difference in the interest rates. Taking a fixed interest rate would mean that they risk losing money if the money the borrow from somewhere else exceeds 3% in the next 30 years.

>why contract signings are witnessed. In a dispute the witness can testify that you did in fact read, appear to understand, and willingly sign. And this is why online TOS are difficult to enforce

This is not a problem at all.
In Common Law jurisdictions (US, UK), contracts do NOT have to be witnessed (with some exceptions like Wills). Contracts that is signed without any witness are perfectly valid. This would apply to your ToS, if it states the laws of US, UK would apply to this contract. All contracts would state the jurisdiction that applies and all (respectable) courts would honor that term.
You can always just drop ipv6 packets for certain destination ports (eg 80) with iptables if you know the application (like a browser) will be ok. Which is much simpler.
In the dark? Doesn't the sun set around 8pm at the latest?
You can find it on their GitHub page. Looks like it might have been these guys https://www.rainforestqa.com/
Could be, because the 1% buy multiple properties in many different cities. There have been articles about how the City of London has neighborhoods of empty luxury apartment developments owned by various sheikhs and russian/central asian commodities oligarchs.

In SF when you buy a house you are also competing with dozens of investors from overseas paying cash who don't have any intention of ever living there. I believe that the Vancouver real estate market was also affected by overseas investors in a similar way, making it the least affordable housing market in North America.

Multiply this speculative real estate investment by 1% of 7 billion and it could very well be a major factor in pushing up rents, especially in certain super desirable cities like Paris. There's about 1.7 million residences there. Even if only 1% of the 1% want a pied a terre there, the rest of the people trying to live there would feel the squeeze.
Until they shot it down ;)
can agree with the fact that angular models are really left up to you, but stating that angular can't do "nested views" just shows your ignorance
Another option I've found is xprivacy using the xposed framework

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320783
Why you say "random binaries"?
>gone unnoticed by tens of thousands of security professionals for several years

I like that you seem to be making an honest assessment of the program but I really insist that you check this [1] out to see a few whistleblowers who have tried to bring attention to this, only to be rewarded with federal lawsuits. This has created a climate of fear where people ask "Is it really worth it? Or should I continue collecting my 6-digit paycheck and live in Hawaii?"

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...
Are you bothering to read these things, or just searching for the term "direct access" and calling it a day?

Are you bothering to understand what the OP was trying to say or just trolling and calling it a day?

I didn't express any personal opinion on whether Google or Apple leak large amounts of data or not, and in fact I don't have any. I just can understand people wondering about the usage of this phrase and was trying to explain their possible motives.
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"many of these companies are tools of secret government surveillance" ... mutter mutter revolving door mutter mutter ...
Fake Internet cafes and keyloggers
We all start out not understanding how it's possible to make a CPU, write a compiler, communicate over wires, draw text into a framebuffer, and so on. These things seem like magic. This is a problem: as long as they seem like magic, we're deprived of engagement with them. You get a family of systematic errors:

* Magic is supposed to work. So you see people calling for functionality to be moved from whatever they're doing (their user-level code, say) into the magic: build something into the language, compile it to machine code instead of interpreting, do it in hardware, etc. Because of course if it's done by magic, it doesn't cost anything and it works perfectly!

* Magic is out of your control. So if it breaks, there's nothing you can do. If your operating system is crashing your program, or downloading updates you don't want, you're out of luck.

* Magic is easy. So the people who make the magic happen don't get the credit.

* Magic is memorized, not understood. So you need to memorize the incantations needed to squeeze performance from your database/OS/CPU/whatever instead of doing them yourself.

You don't need to understand how to use Karnaugh maps to understand that putting more multipliers on your chip is going to cost you real estate. You don't need to understand the different possible scheduling policies to understand that making your program multithreaded will slow it down, not speed it up, unless you have more than one core. Even a shallow understanding is sufficient to be very useful, and to enable you to question things.
Actually the devices share a key bag, the popup notifying you when other devices are using your iMessage information comes up during this exchange. The fact that the messages don't immediately show up on other devices and can be out of order speaks to this P2P cryptographic style.

You can search for analysis of their protocol, I've done some dissection and it's pretty solid.
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Steve_Gibson
Not exactly a common use case or linux related but my Red Alert 2 game patched for tcp/ip instead of IPX support it shipped with will only let you into LAN game lobbies on ipv6, you can't see any games to join. ipv4 and it works like a charm.

My point is just that I'm sure some very very weird stuff can happen with software.
RoboRoach: Control a cockroach with a smartphone.
As they point out in the email "We also advise to run a full virus scan on your computer to ensure there is no mal-ware installed, as this is one of the more common ways this type of information is compromised"
If they pull everything from undersea cables they must have all CA Certificates from all over the world to do the man-in-the-middle for encrypted connections.. plausible?
> That means something.

No it doesn't. How would you even start approaching to prove that I can only fathom.

> Most of these companies are effectively saying they're agreeing to subpoenas

While at the same time they are actively supplying exploits so that their software can be compromised for political gain. Their software is unsafe, and anything that they're saying is by law allowed to be false or deceptive information, hence why you can't prove the first part.

> 'watch your thoughts form as you type'

Is that not what Google claimed it could do with its machine learning algorithm?

> a lot more holes in Snowden & Co's story than the opposite

Do you work for the government or tow the party line for fun. All your shit sounds like the old this is not "reasonable" this is a conspiracy theory line. When everyone knows the reality is that nothing reasonable is going on.
Someone who finds the brick can ssh into his server... that seems weird.
Ask HN: Suggestions on networking for work in SF/Bay Area
I am currently considering my options with regard to work - specifically software development. I am a long time entrepreneur and freelancer/consultant and whilst I have a lot of networking skills (I believe I do anyway) for finding that kind of work, I am also seriously considering going to work for someone else for a few years - specifically in the Bay Area (SF/SV/etc) - and learning how to apply for a job is, well... it's a learning experience.

I have been reaching out to companies within SF and the Bay Area with the usual approaches and changing my marketing efforts to get myself in front of various decision makers within companies but I am interested in suggestions from other people on how they have approached this problem beyond the usual "send a resume to jobs@ and hope for the best." The difficulty with that last approach of course is that it may yield a half-dozen responses from 100+ resumes sent.

I am definitely not interested in working with a recruiter or executive headhunter or anybody of that stripe.

I have a four day window at the end of June in which I will be in SF and my goal is to take six pre-qualified meetings with funded start-ups over those four days and walk away with at least one closed sale, i.e. I have a job offer.

I am open to suggestions.
Shout-out to my activist colleagues down under. Good to see y'all.
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Hi Smirnoff: try out the first few lectures and see if it fits your background. The key is how quickly you can pick up the web programming stuff.
It could mean somebody else can, because of key escrow and partial key escrow. Even if the key is generated on the device and stays on the device, you have to look at how the key is generated. With key escrow, the messages can be secure against attacks by everyone except those who have the escrowed portion of the key.
rbenv is 'pretty spotty' on Linux? In my experience it works perfectly.

Linux is my development environment of choice and the beauty of it is I don't need 'better tooling' in order to get my job done quickly and efficiently; everything 'just works'.
> This, 1000x this.

Repeating a grammatical error 1000 times does not make it "more better".

If you look at actual statistics, they do seem to back up my impression: income in SF is not your typical bell curvish distribution you'd see in many other places. There are a lot of people making a lot of money, more at still quite a bit of money, and a small peak for those making very little money, and fewer in between:

http://www.city-data.com/income/income-San-Francisco-Califor...

Look at:

Distribution of median family income in 2009 (number of people)

Distribution of median household income in 2009 (number of people)
Apple, Jobs especially, has historically been somewhat cozy with Washington. For the sake of argument, let's say that, hypothetically, Apple is doing work for the NSA beyond what they've admitted to.

1. Apple is a famously compartmentalized and secretive organization. If Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. could keep what they were doing a secret until the whistle was blown on them, Apple can too.

2. So far, the whistle has not been specifically blown on Apple.

3. The worse it is, the less likely Snowden had access to it.

4. An admission of guilt would shake trust in Apple as badly as being exposed by a whistle blower, so there's no motivation to do the former in order to prevent the latter.

If Apple's gotten their hands dirty, they're not going to admit to it. I'm not accusing Apple of anything. I'm just pointing out that this press release is utterly and totally meaningless unless you trust the NSA and people working with them not to lie to you.

I may sound paranoid but, in a country where the government has given itself the power to coerce companies into spying and legally prevent them or their employees from revealing the truth, there is no room for trust. It is not possible to trust the statements of any U.S. corporation as long as the U.S. government clings to this power. Obama may be trying to sell the U.S. public on the idea that the safety gained is worth the privacy lost, but the real issue is the death of trust.