skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not that hard to get (>1 million US citizens have TS), but not all clearances of the same name are treated the same by three letter agencies. The NSA does not, by default accept, a clearance that you received elsewhere. The biggest cost to getting a clearance is time, energy and risk. The easiest path to a respectable TS/SCI is to join a TLA, pass all your background checks, pass all your lie detector tests, work there for a few years making sure not to do anything that could get your clearance taken away and then switch to the private sector. During that time you work at TLA you get moved to a project that uses technology that has little to no value in the private sector making it more difficult to make the switch.

Disclaimer: I know this stuff from reading books and informal chats with people at tech companies, please apply salt to taste.
This page brings my i3 Gentoo x64 Chrome Version 28.0.1500.20 beta to a halt. For example the rotating effect on the first page is very shaky getting a maybe 4 fps.
No matter what I try I can't seem to get it to accept my Spotify credentials. But hopefully I will get it figured out, I've been wanting to try Google Music for a long time but the only thing that's been holding me back is my Spotify playlists.
You can format your HD to be case-sensitive using DiskUtil. It's just set to case-insensitive be default.
Neither did I, though I still enjoyed it. Really opened my eyes to aspects of web development I never considered.
Justifying Snapchat’s Valuation
I'm just going to repost a comment I made during an HN thread on trolling here:

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"....However, on a general note, I think it is important to realize that every text message you send, every cell phone conversation you have, every post to the CNN forum you make, every tweet you send ... is directly attributable to your IP whether you use your own name or not. With Facebook and Google tracking everything you do, whether you are logged in or not, I would go one step further, and say all of these things are directly attributable to you personally.

I would strongly urge young people to really think about what they are putting out there. Consider this, the military was doing the equivalent of credit checks for sensitive positions during the 60s. No one else typically had to have credit checks back then. [Today...] you need a credit check to do ANYTHING, even things that don't require credit. How long before an internet and phone background check is standard in the background checks organizations do before offering jobs? [Saying that it won't happen is naive.]

I can tell you the military is doing this sort of screening right now for sensitive positions, but at least you are confronted about it. It still basically ends your career, but they will give you a chance to explain your posts. In the private sector in the future, they will just deep six your application and you won't know what happened. Or they'll let you in at entry level, maybe, and subsequently you'll start running up against an invisible barrier as you try to advance beyond the first or second layer of management. Or you will find resistance to you advancing into management at all.

Also be mindful, it can affect more than your professional life. Think about what the background [and credit] checks for apartments will look like in the 2020s. Or what 'dating sites' will be like in the 2020s [perhaps with Google Glass]..."

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That comment was made in a thread on trolling... but the principle is apropos here as well. Back in the 60's credit and background checks were not commonplace because only security agencies had incentive enough run that information down and collate it for a given person. Security Agencies like... say... National ones. Eventually the process was smoothed out so much that today even a rinky dink property manager in Rochester MN, or Santa Clara CA can run that information down. So they do! Whenever you want to rent an apartment. And employers do as well... whenever you want to get a job. etc. etc.

Now think about that in the context of a theoretical "internet and mobile phone profile check".

For an apartment?

For a job?

For a date?

For a lawsuit? or for a divorce?

or even...

Just for the hell of it! Why not? I never liked that lady anyway.

So people ask... what are the implications?

Well... consider "scope creep".

With information of this nature... the number of methods to command your conformity that the government and military can dream up is legion.
can executive branch "ask" the Supreme Court just to confirm legality of a law? I know that's the case in many other countries, where the other branches of the government may ask the supreme court to rule on legality of a law. Isn't it the same in the US?

The petition states: WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
Request The Supreme Court to Rule on the Constitutionality of the Patriot Act.
Go to page 10.

http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/crcl-bor...
I've been at Yahoo for 5 years as a Software Engineer.

This really is a new company under Marissa. I wasn't special, aqui-hired, or anything. I now can easily access management when I need them, my suggestions are taken seriously and acted on, and I get everything I need from upper management to excel at what I do. My manager has always been great, but now she is more empowered to get stuff done more than ever before.

I'm also 24, so I have a bit of a way to go before I get jaded and go into consulting. Maybe. But I've also been working for 5 years instead of school, which gives me a less than rosy perspective of life at a big company.
In all likelihood, because they need the government to work with them. Google, Facebook, Microsoft -- all companies that must deal with regulations and shareholders who care more about profits than morals. The last thing any of them need is for the government to retaliate with stricter enforcement of those regulations, which might hurt their profits. The FBI's latest push for backdoors sends these companies a clear message: standing up to the government is bad for business.

Or, if we want to be optimistic, maybe they had no idea what their companies were participating in. Maybe the NSA people they met with were lying about their plans or purposes. It is a classified system, so maybe they felt compelled to leave out details that would otherwise have had the CEOs fighting back.
Ask Hacker News: Are there FAQs about topics for Ask HN?
Has someone compiled a list of FAQs on various topics for HN into a text or HTML file?

I feel that people should look at FAQs instead of asking first. Read the FAQs ad if your question is not covered there, then ask it.

If HN is not updating a FAQ on different topics, then why not? You should be able to list every Ask HN post and then put a tag for each topic or category of it to make it easier to search and look to see if a question has already been answered. Then you can run a script to go by topic and category and create a downloadable text file or HTML file to read to help educate the public.
If your're Spotify account is bound to Facebook you need to specifically lookup your device username (which usually only contains digits) and password. You can do that on your Spotify Profile page at: https://www.spotify.com/de/account/set-device-password/
I didn't realize that NSA funding was harder to nil out! I guess because the Pentagon gets their budget and then can do what they want with it? I'm sure strings could be attached to the Pentagon's budget though.

Upvoting your comment here too, though. Thank you.
I think people are beginning to realize that the demorepublican party is two sides of the same coin. Tails you lose, heads they win.
"I spend all day at work".

Looks like the plan is working.
Anonymizing the data would make it useless.

Tokenizing/pseudonymizing the data would make it identifiable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
NSA is wrong, not evil
Yeah I requested a device password, but haven't gotten anything from them yet. I guess I'm just really impatient. :)

Does Portify only port playlists that you own or all playlists that you are subscribed to?
In case anyone's curious (as I was) about Javascript's Math.random(), here's an implementation I wrote and executed in Chrome on a 300x300 div: http://i.imgur.com/63M2Adb.png
These numbers are from 2008, and quite a few states have decriminalized pot, so I wouldn't get quite too excited. Also it is probably just coincidental that crime peaked just as incarceration rates went up and crime rates continued to decline as incarceration increased.
"What's wrong with JavaScript" and just a single block of JavaScript was found in that post. The rest, CoffeeScript.
It should also pick up subscribed playlists.
15 Websites For Testing Your Code Online
Why not just stand up and cool off? The focus of the story is privacy on the internet, and predictably it gets huge play on this website.
Django automatic code reloading is working fine on my environment (osx host, Ubuntu vm). Are you working on windows host?
Haven't we had python in the browser for a while now with pythonwebkit, pywebkitgtk, and the other webkit-native-DOM python bindings?
I can easily eat a 1/2 lb steak for dinner and feel fine, but eating 8 slices of bread at once will make me feel very sick. so I don't think caloric density is the be all and end all of nutritional value. I mean, wheat and beef also have about the same caloric density as gummi bears...

http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/kroger/gummi-bea...
https://www.google.ca/search?q=40g*11.3+to+lb
https://www.google.ca/search?q=140*11.3
My theory is that Biden was a firewall against the impeachment/resignation of Obama. And people thought Dan Quayle was bad...
I watched your video, but I feel like it didn't quite tell me what 'bohr' actually does to help me write (or read?) papers.
Ain't going to happen, because PRISM simply doesn't make the lives of 99+% people significantly worse. People riot when there's high unemployment, because that has a big impact on their daily lives. We don't have enough info about PRISM to correctly evaluate what impact does it have on our lives.
The tradeoff is the same as keysize in crypto. It is time.

If you choose to communicate a second time from the same endpoint with the same equipment you may achieve only pseudonymity.

Since Tor doesn't limit the encapsulated protocols, it depends on the implementation and awareness of the user and you can't put a number or percentage on that.

Imho the Tor-role has changed, it provides access against censorship, DPI, region-partioning and hidden services.
Simply try to access youtube or any other global service via different tor exits, that may be intresting, not from an anonymity point of view.
"In this case a corrupt federal prosecutor (is there any
other kind?)...."

According to superstar trial lawyer Gerry Spence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Spence), as of when he wrote his book on Ruby Ridge, in an aside WRT serious prosecutor misconduct in that case, he has never tried a case against a Federal prosecutor in which there wasn't egregious misconduct. Come to think of it, his skill in finding that probably helps his near perfect success rate, and especially his signature tactic of resting without presenting a defense.
From http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu (disputed):

> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

See also:

http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/

According to this guy, the US Code is now so gargantuan and grandiose that the average American commits three federal felonies every single day.

This essay also outlines some of the ways that surveillance can be used to squash activism and dissent:

http://pastebin.com/7SRmFpFH
ARB_sampler_objects, ARB_draw_indirect, ARB_tesselation_shader, compute shaders, opengl es compatibility, debug callbacks to name a few.

Please do not justify brokenness by citing other brokenness.
In case Jake is reading: that page is unfortunately unusable on an iPhone 4 in Chrome (latest). It freezes for 30+ seconds trying to load the background effect. It crashed once for me, too.
I'm going to try making a new Spotify account and just subscribe it to my playlists then try again with that Spotify account.
Is anyone else curious about the timing of all the releases? I am not suspicious of the content but I am interested in the release dates of each article and the sequence. It seems to me that each release needs the previous. Like a slideshow or HBO drama.
Nice work!

re: passwords/OAuth, playlist manipulation over OAuth is possible when using the Music Manager interface [0].

That said, I don't think search is possible over OAuth.

[0] I noticed when I added Music Manager list/download to gmusicapi (https://unofficial-google-music-api.readthedocs.org/en/devel...).
Good article, though I'd argue that the U.S. has considered foreign citizens not to be fully covered by Constitutional rights since way before 1990.
Qwest.
What about an encrypted form of your true name?
Did Spitzer or Petraeus have conversations with foreign participants?
I will be corrinated soon.

God says...

9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied
the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram
said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it
peace? 9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said,
Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do
with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The
messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.

9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and
said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast
thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.

9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh
not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of
Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And
Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his
chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of
Naboth the Jezreelite.

-----

God says...
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This has as much chance of working as demanding the Whitehouse makes shit smell like roses.
My theory is that Biden has decades of experience and a speciality with international affairs, and was chosen as a counterpart to Obama's freshness- or inexperience, if you spun it another way.

But hey, if you want to belittle his achievements, go ahead, I doubt he cares.
I think non-violent protests only work when the state (or entity you are protesting against) is forced to negotiate. By that I mean all these non violent protests occured at a time during violent protests. Martin Luther King Jnr was given negotiating power because the State preferred a non violent entity over the black panthers and other militaristic groups.

If there is no threat of repercussion, why would any entity bother negotiating with you?
Intel officers are also not in the habit of "talking shop" in airport lounges... at least they shouldn't be. Even working in a non-classified capacity with a big consulting firm, one of the first things they warned every new employee was never talk about clients or work in public spaces.
Directly reports to a VP and comments about the flatness of the company... Hmm... I see hundreds and hundreds of VPs...
EFF: Google's Transparency Report does not include FISA court orders
Be aware that it only works with "Premium" (ie. paid) Spotify accounts.
Are these people serious?

Pushing the blame fully on Obama is absurd. Yes, he is a shit president, just like those that preceded him. But the whole government is shit. Congress sucks. The SC doesn't give a damn about the law. The whole administration, hell, all three branches are to blame, not one person.
Show HN: From idea to App Store in 10 hours: Bitcoin Trading Game for IOS
That's what concentration camps are. You concentrate a demographic into a camp - it's a concentration of that kind of person. 'Concentration camp' is not a synonym for death camp.
That's a backdoor
They do; it's called the iPod Touch.
What is currently the best personal cloud application?
In light of the recent privacy scandals, I'm going to be setting up a personal cloud at home. I've seen a couple frameworks already (ownCloud being the best looking), but would like to get the community's opinion on the "best" one out there.

Best can mean several things:

- Secure in its implementation,

- Open source (can't assume that I trust the people who have made it),

- Has all the basic features (file browser/streaming, email, contact, etc.),

- Is visually pleasing.

Any ideas? When I choose a piece of software, I'll be writing a detailed tutorial on getting it set up on Ubuntu and securing it before it goes online.
Right. And the Executive Branch may request an opinion regarding legality of a law from the US Supreme Court? Correct?

That's at least how it works in many countries in Europe. When the President or the Government is not sure if a law follows the Constitution, they request the Supreme Court to rule on it. It's a non-binding request. The Highest Court may or may not care to investigate. The petition is to ask the Government to ask the Supreme Court to look into the matter.
Or you need to read up about the concept of "original jurisdiction" with regards to the Supreme Court.
Also crashes mobile safari on an iPhone 5.
thanks. Too bad I'd still need the Password for searching. BTW, I really have to add a note somewhere that I used your unofficial Google Music API as reference.
http://js2coffee.org/ has really helped me in making the transition.
> SSL certs require cooperation of a trusted registrar even for the biggest companies -- Google's is signed by Equifax, for example. Given what we've seen in the last few days, requesting keys from the root CAs is a no-brainer.

Getting a root's key does not enable them to decrypt the traffic. Getting the server's SSL private key USUALLY means you can retroactively decrypt, but it is possible (though uncommon) for servers to be configured to use ephemeral keys (EDH modes) which provide perfect forward secrecy (that is, the property that the session key can't be recovered even with later compromise of the server's long-term key).

Interesting sidenote: AFAIK there are no widely-supported (TLS 1.1 or below) methods of mitigating the BEAST attack while enabling PFS - those modes are TLS 1.2+ which isn't widely spoken yet.

This is all irrelevant though. The issue is with the tech companies giving them the plaintext data themselves. No amount of transport-layer encryption helps with that.

You have to stop using US services.
This is what how it could impact avg people in the future. But it very probably won't.
HN has officially jumped the shark. Who the hell upvotes this shit?
Dart VM will never be in IE , Firefox or Safari. What's the point of Dart ? to compile down to javascript? if i had to work with an alternative to JS i would chose haxe instead of Dart , since it is compatible with some parts of javascript and one can use the DOM api directly. Dart is great in theory but has little future.
Three felonies a day
Can someone explain to me the point of this petition?
Right. Added a trial for the new account. Gonna cancel it right after successful transfer. Good news, I was able to get to the transfer phase of Portify on the new account. Cheers!

Edit: Worked great. Thanks for making and releasing this utility!

As far as Google Music All Access, does anyone know how to get the play/pause, next, and previous buttons on a laptop keyboard to work on the Google Music site?
Protests are good because they 1) keep the story alive, 2) make it more obvious to ordinary people out in public, and 3) indicate to others that this time we're really angry and possibly get more people to join in as well when they realize it's not just going to fade away after a day or two like always has before.
Well ... it does not matter. The deal is that the executive branch kinda likes the PATRIOT act. So they have no reason at all of challenging it.

If the administration was by any way troubled by the widespread information gathering - they could just tune down and stop.
You'd think that the crowd who reads hacker news would understand that the data on Twitter, Facebook, and Google is not their own property.

You are not entitled to outrage over data you freely gave away.

And the NSA has had domestic phone metadata since the 1970's, the only thing different is the speed and scale.

The real focus should be on the guy who gave up state secrets and then defected to China. Did he make some kind of deal? There were a dozen better ways to handle the abuse he perceived at the NSA - he chose what was most convenient for him.

He does not get my respect, and he is certainly not a hero.
Yeah, that is the party line, but he hasn't exactly lived up to the hype so far. I certainly hope he doesn't listen to me, because frankly he shouldn't if he ever believed if he deserved the position.

Don't forget, Dan Quayle had achievements too, just not ones I cared about either.
If you rule out kids, it becomes 1% of adults. There was a statistic I saw a few years ago that said that 1 in 9 black men were either incarcerated or on parole - it was the clearest statistic showing lop-sided legal policy I've seen.
Please look at the definition of ad hominem before tossing the term around.

You also seem to have read a personal opinion into my post that simply isn't there!
Even if you don't agree you should SIGN the petition.

Why? Because I want to see what happens. Bla bla it's not all his fault, I know. But I want to see how this will be handled if it ends up with 10 million signatures. I want to see the outcome.

He's obviously not going to resign but for the sake of the experiment, please sign it so we can see the result.
The enumerated powers of the executive does not allow the President to refers matters to SCOTUS. They can refer matters to Congress, committee, and agencies but not directly to the judiciary. This is [probably] one of the numerous checks to prevent cross branch manipulation since judges are often political appointees and not elected -- At the supreme court level they always are.

However, SCOTUS can issue subpoena which can force (albeit with no enforcement) the executive to produce documents[1]

The only instance in which I can imaging President Obama getting this before SCOTUS at, essentially, his own behest is to have DoJ bring suit against this program. Because it's a law from the Legislative branch he can challenge it's constitutionality...but I doubt that's a risk they want to take

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1: See the Arron Burr treason trial in which he asked for and was granted a subpoena duces tecum for Jefferson's private letters. This actually set a nice precedent as far as the NSA matter is concerned...This was under the Marshall court (for background, Marshall really really didn't like Jefferson) and in the majority opinion Marshall stated whether or not secrecy of content in a document impacts national safety is up for the Court not the President to decide. How accepted this is nowadays us not something I can answer.
Because they didn't get rich blowing whistles, or by biting the hand that feeds them.