skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really true. A lot of self-modifying code follow very predictable patterns where the modifications treats addresses in parts of the code as a variable. In 6502 code in particular this is a common idiom for looping over arrays of more than 256 bytes. Many of these patterns are easily detectable and easy to statically rewrite.

You likely can't handle the general case, but that's a lot less critical. Especially for old consoles or computers where the pool of software with too complex cases that can't easily be handled with generic analysis is small enough that you can reasonably add special cases for most stuff you care about.
There are two answers to this in the video.
1) Even if you are not doing anything wrong, you are being watched. You don't have to have done anything wrong, but if you fall under suspicion due to a bad call, they can go back into this system and analyse every decision you've made, every friend you've ever discussed with and attack you on that basis; that derives suspicion based on an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrong-doer.
2) The storage systems are growing by an order of magnitude every year and if this sort of a system is not stopped at this stage and if we allow this and assume this to be legal, imagine the kind of danger it may bring in the next few generations.
Alternatively, a more popular version for Rails: https://github.com/goshakkk/nsa_panel
>As long as Hitler has a good reason I have to trust the Nazi's.

FTFY
You can't do it (easily). I think there are also hardware compatibilities to watch out and the effort (of setting it up and maintaining the 'hackintosh') just isn't worth it.

[Edited for typo]
I though the real issue was that we trusted the American government and they broke that trust?
also if they want to intercept a few of your high profile users, the fact you're using SSL really isn't going to stop them, when they can issue valid certs for your domain without asking you.

short of SSL pinning being widely deployed: you're powerless to stop them, and while it's an admirable goal, it's ultimately disingenuous to suggest that you can safeguard your user's privacy.
I agree, but I have to disagree. I'd gladly use a more secure email service, but the problem is: 99% of everyone I know uses gmail or Google Apps. It doesn't matter if I encrypt my email if everyone I communicate with is vulnerable. The trick is getting the layman to accept something simple like a browser extension. If even 20% of the people I communicate with would consider using the extension I would be very happy.
WebPG or Cr-gpg perhaps can handle the GPG part probably.

I'm not so sure about the not saving Drafts, that would require rewriting some bits of Javascript which might break other stuff.

As for key exchange, that shouldn't be handle by an extension. If you want to encrypt your e-mail so the other party can read it, encrypt it with their public key, which by definition is public and can be uploaded to a keyserver.
I think I know what point you are trying to make and I just have to say that it is very sad that passion and the belief that we can change something is associated with youthful naivete
The NSA tried to force twitter the list of all the people who subscribed to wikileaks. Twitter refused, but similar requests to gmail etc were being done and probably were'nt refused.
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Oh yes, and what I understand it is par for the course that intelligence agencies do trades with each other for that exact reason. Either explicitly or implicitly (As in - We know you operate in our country, but we'll turn the blind eye. Just remember to alert us, if you happen to find anything suspicious.)
> I still object in this instance because promises were broken,

The fact that we ever even anticipate that a promises involving specific things ought to be made is a mistake in our civic education. It is a goddamned stupid expectation to have of elected officials. They give an oath. That oath defines their job.

Campaign promises should never be made, but no one significant can be elected without them. We ask them to lie and then are shocked when they do.

> and in a significant, yet to be determined, portion of the population the spirit of the constitution was broken as well.

But democracy, as an institution, is built to anticipate such failures. That's why there are impeachment procedures. That's why there are checks and balances. That's why there is civil disobedience. You can't call this a failure of democracy until those break down as well. (And, I concede, they probably will.)
It is sad for me to see the course that the US and the European governments have taken in the recent years.

My company (a small european provider of mobile telephony and chat) has to store all traffic that is going over our service during the last six months for the government, which may request that data.
They didn't yet try to get that data in bulk, but I am pretty sure that we will see that happen in the near future.
And there will be nothing that we can do about it as a small company if we want to stay in business and out of prison.

I believe that at some point this will harm IT business, which hopefully will also cause the government to rethink their strategy, but I am afraid of how far they will have to go before they come to this realization.

In 1998 (as a 17 year old boy) I was able to board a plane in London to Vienna without passport. (because I've lost it during my trip)
Today I have to give fingerprints and other biometric data like a criminal just to get a new passport.
Tomorrow maybe it will be a standard procedure that robots do a body cavity search on me before boarding a plane.

It is funny that I, as a tech enthusiast, am hoping that I wont see the kind of progress in robotics during my lifespan, that enables them to do anal probing at scale in airports.
I 've had 29/39 too. Mostly guessing ("he wouldn't ask if this was obvious, so..").
Sweden used to be the most open country for internet access.

Since America threatened it with economic sanctions (because of the piratebay, sweden was sued by America and their entertainment industry), Sweden has changed a lot.

A pitty America has to threaten every other country in the world... :-) .
Since the public key is public, any eavesdroppers will also be able to read the email. There is no point in the extension if you use the recipient's public key. It must be a mutually agreed secret.
It's reassuring to see how "terrorism" is still the magic word to pass all manners of freedom-trampling laws.
I think the poster of that statement meant that in the interview he made it sound like he was intending to stay in Hong Kong, but that may well not be his strategy.
The two are not competing goals. There are plenty of emulators that aim for speed, so it makes perfect sense for someone to want to focus on accuracy. And yes, it is that important if your goal is to actually preserve things properly.

I don't know about the NES as I never had one, but on the C64 for example, a single cycle deviation in the emulation of interaction between the CPU, graphics chip and memory bus would make some effects impossible to reproduce. And similarly on the C64, people are still struggling to make the SID (sound) chip emulation as accurate as possible, as it used a combination of analogue filters that have proven extremely hard to accurately reproduce in emulation.

People casually testing these games might not care, but many of those of us who used these systems notice these flaws and appreciate that not all of the emulation projects focus only on speed.
the tarsnap client running on your box encrypts the data before it's ever transmitted, that's part of what makes tarsnap cool (along with the deduplication)
Let's hope so. The sooner the US gets marginalized and put on the shelf internationally, the sooner the world will become a safer place to live.
Finally. Something funny. Ok, now I feel like I can get back to programming... something I've been putting off all day. The world is fubar, but it's still alright.
I would imagine the UK expected this was the case all along. I mean, you guys arrest people for tweets, after all.
I don't think that privacy has anything to do with government. Privacy to me at least, is the ability to filter information I present to other people or groups of people.
Well, as with all things game-related, the developers are trying to give you the best experience for the amount of time they were given to develop the game. I don't think spending more time and money on AI is a winning proposition for them.

On the theoretical side, I have a tiny bit of AI research under my belt, so I can make a few comments. The problem is simply that current AI techniques are geared towards solving isolated, "relatively simple" problems. These individual problems can be surprisingly complex, such as creating a very good algorithm for how to "micro" certain combinations Starcraft units. Even though there are ridiculous numbers of combinations, our current AI techniques are good enough to solve these.

The problem comes in when you try to combine multiple elements together. Combine your "micro"-algorithm with a general scouting and build order strategy, as well as having some kind of high-level decision making strategy which ties it all together... essentially this results in the complexity of each part being multiplied together. The number of combinations goes from "barely computable" to "won't happen, ever". What we actually need is something which is able to detect boundaries within the search space, decide where to start up new sub-algorithms, and how to combine them. To my knowledge, this field isn't very mature yet.

I believe we'll be getting interesting clues from how biological intelligences solve this problem within our lifetimes (not to say it will be completed solved by then). It will be very interesting, to say the least!
It's reaching considerably, but the only two reasons that could be true is if the truth is considerably worse (or will be) and the NSA is getting the world used to the idea of pervasive surveillance inch-by-inch (unlikely), or it's not as bad as it's being made out to be and they're framing reality in terms of a more dire alternative. An example of the latter would be that infamous daughter's letter home to parents. [1]

The reality is probably that the unauthorized leak is just that, an unauthorized leak and a lot of people internally are pissed as hell.

The surveillance apparatus in the US and other places is probably more developed than we know about and probably getting more sophisticated.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/college/pranks/letter.asp
That's actually what this was based off of, funnily enough!
Give this one a try: https://gpgtools.org/

It is a tool-set which integrates GNUPG into OS X
An MBA is a powerful tool. It gives you an analytical view on business, coupled with at least introductory understanding of the full range of business activities.

However, as with many things in life, a little knowledge is more dangerous than no knowledge. Couple little knowledge with the feeling of self entitlement and you get a recipe for disaster.

My main message: Don't go discarding all MBAs just yet. Many are excellent people and magnificent professionals.
+1 for Swagger.

I'm predominantly .Net, and Swagger support for the ServiceStack[1] libraries has been very handy!

[1] http://servicestack.net/
Doesn't this mean that they are spying on you without actually knowing if you are a US citizen? By your logic, only after step 4 they actually know if you are a citizen, but they have collected a lot of data about you in steps 1-3.
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It's not purely economic. China stands to gain in intelligence stakes by making HK a desirable destination for US defectors.

Having a high profile example to point to will make convincing others easier.
Assuming for a minute, hypothetically, that the NSA can crack AES and RSA, then the way to combat that is for more people to use it more often, and to create meaningless encrypted spam.

Cracking requires huge computing resources. If there's an overwhelming amount of data to crack, with little guarantee of any useful yield, then we can reasonably expect it that negates the ability to crack it.
I think most of us understand what is the problem with the current state of affairs, but how many of us actually change their behavior in order to reduce the power the government has on them?

How many are actually posting links to this article on Google+ or Facebook?

There are technologies that can allow every individual to have its own personal data center at home, cheaply.
It is ultimately a personal choice.
Ignorance comes also with a cost.
I not sure if the OP is being serious or not after reading his description and realizing he does not mention spore once. EA is honestly not the company I would want to make this kind of game though. I played Spore when it came out and although it had a lot of potential, you could feel it was rushed and limited to what was envisioned. Combined with the way EA has changed their business model in recent years, I fear for what a reincarnation would look like.

If I had to choose a AAA studio/publisher over alternatives, would go with Firaxis, makers of Civilization. An Indie developer though would be the best bet to getting a game that isn't made for just casual gamers.

Kerbal Space Program[1] has a some of what the OP might want, but with a more narrow, realistic scope. Also allows modding for extending the game.

Also Civilization 4 had some great mods (including several Star Trek ones)[2]. They were good enough, you actually felt you were playing a turn based space sim and not one on a planet. Not sure if any are out for Civ5 yet. I own it, but I have not had time in a while to to play much.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/220200/?snr=1_5_9__205

[2] http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=233074
Did he ever do anything bad to Israel?
Did Israel ever do anything good to him?

As you know from history, if both answers are "no", then he's not antisemitic, he just happen to have an opinion.
And to complete the circle (triangle?), nowadays we all but Korean/Taiwanese phones :-)
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Even with this battery?
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I worked at a University in Canada, and we had a no USA hosted services policy from day one of that Patriot Act. Not everyone knew about it or followed it but if an IT department was involved in development we had to enforce it. It was really frustrating for me a lot of times because I couldn't design new useful solutions or suggest products like SurveyMonkey for example that would save everyone huge amounts of time.

This is totally the kind of thing that is going to happen to a lot of businesses now that less technical people that are higher up are aware of these issues. They are going to get a little fearful and mandate certain services are a no go.
Interesting; Sol Price is mentioned in quite positive terms in this book (at least up to the point where I've read): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008ZPG704/?tag=dedasys-20 - Sam Walton's autobiography.
Don't humans call that "being asleep"?
The trick is to reduce the threat surface, not to do whats right all the time, removing gmail from your side makes your threat surface lower. Browser extensions don't provide security, and its unlikely that chrome would be immune to google-wide spying programs.
>The cloud in its current form is dead.

I've heard several people say this... I find that... unlikely.

Do you really see the type of people who use facebook; the type of people who buy things that are advertised online, well, do you see them changing their behavior? I'm pretty sure most of them are okay with being watched; otherwise they wouldn't be on facebook to begin with.

And those are the users that matter.
It's people have made these jokes online for as long as I can remember.

It's sad that it's even remotely possible now that this might become a reality. And you wouldn't even know it.
Just like the 'kim-jong il looking at things'! :)
'Foreigners' are customers too. They are expected to abide by the terms of service agreements (TOS) issued by these companies, which all include statements about protecting customers' data and privacy. As far as I can see, all these companies broke their contracts (their own TOS).
Yes, they should have voted for substance, for McCain, instead, who just yesterday called this process "appropriate".

And of course, the two parties chose to approve and re-approve the PATRIOT act.
No, because none of these laws have been enacted in the Obama administration.

And yes, because Candidate Obama said he was going to fix things, then discovered other priorities once in office.
Because AWS is part of the problem, not part of the solution (right now) and I'd prefer not to give them money indirectly if I can help it. If there was an "anything but AWS" option, I'd gladly take it.
>But what the U.S. NSA is doing is sifting data for connections to foreigners who are suspected of being terrorists.

Demonstrably false. All of the terrorist laws are mostly used for drug enforcement and the like. They get nearly no terrorist usage because there are nearly no terrorists.
I don't think it's that Costco has a problem with MBA's. I think if you get on the management track at the company, they will sponsor you through business school.

"Costco does not hire business school graduates—thanks to another idiosyncrasy meant to preserve its distinct company culture. It cultivates employees who work the floor in its warehouses and sponsors them through graduate school."

It seems like they just want people with experience working at its warehouses so they can get a perspective on how the day to day business operates.
To agree, and explain what you'd find in the interview:

He practically criticized Manning when he described how he went about preparing the release. There was no reason for him to talk about the meticulousness with which he chose what to leak except as a contrast to Manning.
“My name is Werner Brandis. My voice is my password"
A picture says more than 1024 words, and its funny, thanks a lot.
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Uh, SSL doesn't guarantee privacy, it just guarantees transport privacy (usually). If the data is stored insecurely, you still are easily vulnerable. If you're using a trojaned SSL system (PRC, corporate, etc) this doesn't make you safer at all.
It's unlikely, though, if all the rumors you mention are reliable. Maybe in September.
This story was already huge before Edwards name came up
If you didn't have any direct relationship and assurances from a government that you'd be protected from extradition, which one would you go to?
Now this is the kind of comment I come to HNN for.

(1) From the point of view of a liberal American, it seems a given. To have any negative opinion of Israeli politics in the States marks you as Not The In Crowd.

(2) I dunno - all I know is that American politicians represent the situation in this way. I know a few Israelis, but we've never talked politics and I've never been to Israel, sadly. So I'm woefully ignorant.

(3) We're never supposed to talk about that, are we? Only Evil Rogue Nations violate nuclear treaties they didn't sign, after all.

On your final paragraph - now I'm going to have to go read some things.
SWIFT?
Visualize who's tracking you online (Firefox extension)
Hillariously, previously submitted -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5851063

Can't say I mind seeing this multiple times :)
Has it been posted to Reddit yet?
"Yo guys, i really like snooping on emails lately, can you bring me some more emails to read? kthxbye"

NSA: We 'll do our best Mr. President
That's a good point actually. Chrome would be just as vulnerable as gmail..
That is a strong argument but I'd like to play devils advocate for a second.

First, "unreasonable" is a key word. Is the copying of data without any noticeable inconvenience to the citizen considered unreasonable? Another key word would be "seized", is copying considered seizing? Seizing is legally defined as the removal of property, one might argue that no seizure was ever made during this wiretapping.

Second, the Bill of Rights was written over 200 years ago. During that time PHYSICAL searches and property seizures were the primary concern. Nobody could even fathom the concept of the Internet or the role it would play in today's society.
Right, there are different forms of democracies.
From this chart I see that US is categorized under Full Democracy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Democracy_Index_2012_gree...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
why everybody thinks he's realy in hongkong?
at his place I'd say I'm in any place but real location.
This is one of those times when it's both funny and makes you cry
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You are right. Yet, it is better than nothing.
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For writing a new game I'd go Canvas generally. It will perform far better in many cases, will often be easier to develop/maintain, and supporting legacy IE and older mobile browsers is just going to drain your time for little gain.

Of course your target audience, if you have a more specific market in mind, may make another decision for you!
How do Americans tolerate a government like this? How do US companies? Is everyone living there delusional? What an effing nightmare.
I know one that is easy to use, secure and working (because I very slighty helped with the development).

http://www.mailvelope.com/

It is more secure than you would think - see

http://www.mailvelope.com/blog/security-audit-and-v0.6-relea...

it prevents from saving the drafts well. What is not yet iplemented are signatures
Somewhat relevant: https://github.com/progrium/irc-for-gmail
It's a hidden argument, but ymmv.
The interesting side story behind all of this, that HN isn't looking at at all, is the "bi-partisanship as usual" reaction from outside Washington.

A reason something might come of this? Ironically, it is because the Rush Limbaugh crowd look at it as a way to get Obama, et al, while liberals are equally aghast. Never mind that it was all spearheaded by a Republican administration.

Now, as for me, I vote Green & don't like any of 'em - but it's nice to see everyone looking like they might agree on something for once.
Here. More: http://xkcd.com/1223/
Separate networks at the Utah data center. One would be connected to the internet and very highly monitored for intrusion or unauthorized access.

Maybe even turn off the power for data over X years old. Then it would be impossible to steal that data without physical access to one of the most secure buildings on the planet.
But not Chinese because lord knows they'll spy on us.
I agree, but I think these exercises are still useful.

Reminds me of an interview I had well over a decade ago. It was a pretty high-flying investment bank, that was over 80% PhDs.

They were a C++ shop and asked me a particularly gnarly C++ question in the interview.

I didn't know the answer. In fact, I had no idea. I was pretty green & it was a pretty scary high-performing environment. So I answered how & why I'd avoid it entirely. Plus what I'd do if I actually encountered it in the wild.

The interviewer told me at the end - "Plenty of other interviewees have answered that question, but you're the only one who got it right."

That's just an anecdote really, but it's been borne out in my experience too. Knowing what you don't know is sometimes very useful...
Amusing that the US claimed victory in the cold war and then ends up adopting all their "enemies'" worst stuff.
Did he actually post the photos & recording? Didn't see it.