skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the NYT article: "The data, if independently verified, could help Chinese officials figure out which computers have been hacked, patch security holes, itemize compromised data, analyze the quality of computer security defenses and develop techniques for hardening other Chinese computers against future surveillance by the N.S.A."

So he is offering aid to the Chinese government in the form of top secret US data. I understand the need to have whistle blowers and respect that some things need light shined on them. However, I draw the line at specifically assisting foreign governments who are often hostile to democracy and the West. If the reverse happened and a Chinese security contractor fled to the U.S. with state secrets I would be less worried but I do think that person would be a traitor to China.
If NSA can break modern crypto (especially if they can do it in real time) then it is a secret at least as big as Ultra/Magic and the NSA wouldn't ever dare to use anything they found on you this way, even if it was the only way to prevent another 9/11.
And there are state affiliates already existing or forming in many states, even some not listed on the US pirate party page. Texas, for instance, is starting to get organized.
In the face of a growing culture that makes it wildly impossible for me to enjoy my life, with rigorous criticism and the only friend to be my Terminal and vim where I can type out, hundreds of times a day, things like "$ jangyrun" and "$ git down master"; in the face of speculation of psychosis due to use of the computer system; in the face of a heavily sexist technoculture and a "Black" culture to which I am expected to account for or justify, wherein it itself is ragingly sexist:

You win. I am crushed. I will wander these days, perchance sharing what little I know of front-end architecture, but beyond this, I can put forth nothing else. I expect many other developers to fold under the crushing weight of a country lacking any orchestration what-so-ever.

And my only lullaby is the dictum, from all of you, that I am "always wrong." No wonder people stand aback, shocked, when I call myself an "idiot" or a "moron." No wonder I seem crude and jaded to women, because when things do not work, they "die" or cumbersome, inelegant, "programmer-talk" is just "more efficient" or what have you; jargon files trapped in the insufficiently neuroplastic fabric-circuitry that is my constructed "mind."

If my hands were not so fully alive, from these years of writing code, I would have absolutely nothing to live for. I thank this country for that. And yes, I realize that I am over-generalizing, and I am probably wrong. Or I need more clarity. Or I write too emotionally. Or I'm "batshit." Even you call me a "fool" or go beyond the constraint of constructive criticism to inform me that "dyslexia is a niche" and therefore it is "ugly" -- that I am wasting my time.

You did not understand one of these sentences produced here. Of course you didn't.
With hope, the next simulation will be less cruel, or I will simply obey conceptual schemes which generally give us concepts like "banned books" or "dangerous ideas."

I will leave you with this, and then I will cease to bother Your Technological Society: Quot capita tot sensus.
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'Whatever. Fucking Apple.'

As a developer, I find myself saying that more often than I would like. Glad this isn't just a developer thing that Apple does - it seems like a consistent part of their DNA.
> In Java, I have to handle malformed URL exceptions, even though I can see the URL in front of me, and if it's not malformed the first time, it'll never be.

That's a very good point. Malformed URL would mean that there's an error in the program. It's not an exceptional situation, like e.g. user entered malformed URL into a text field.

In these cases you should simply throw AssertionError immediately. But that still results in unnecessarily verbose code. Ideally, there should be two constructors, one that would throw an unchecked exception (URL.create(...)) and one that would throw a checked exception (URL.createOrThrow(...)). (You can create an unchecked constructor yourself.)
To the lay person that would have an equally negative connotation, as most people would associate it with illegally accessing private information such as what Anonymous often does. It also conjures up imagery that's unattractive or otherwise unappealing, and carries with it a measure of exclusivity in regards to computing skills or literacy.

In the case of pirates there is at least a level of romanticism around the idea. And since nobody is really a pirate, anybody can be one.
(Nice joke) But - not true! from the wiki: "The name refers to the project's origins as a "post-Ingres" database, being a development from University Ingres DBMS (Ingres being an abbreviation for INteractive Graphics REtrieval System)." more history can be found at http://www.postgresql.org/about/history/
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> It's too high-level to be useful for systems or game programming

I plead with you to check out http://jmonkeyengine.org and see for yourself
I think that a major reason for the entire problem spectra of US is them being a "two party" democracy - It hardly counts as a functional democracy at all. The entire republicans vs democrats chatter seems ridiculous to an outside observer... More like a gang turf war than anything else.
Long time Pages user - It does handle Word reasonably well, just as Numbers handles Excel, and Keynote handles PPT. But as with most import/export functionality it has quirks so that you cannot use it exclusively. It is not useless, but not perfect. Depends on the document.

I'd say Keynote<-->PPT is the best of the bunch, followed by Pages<->Word. VBA Excel macros are hard to port.
The PUL (swedish privacy law) restricting where and how you can store information about citizens is quite famous (infamous?) among swedish technologists. Which is not saying that you're wrong, I wouldn't expect non-swedes to be familiar with it.

But still, isn't it sensible for the government to keep internal information within the national borders?
An insurgency within one of the two big political parties is probably more likely to work than a third (or nth) party given how broken the US electoral system is. And of course it's the super-low-turnout primaries where we can really make a difference.
In that context, I'm more pessimistic than that. I expect some push back against what I would certainly label overreach, but I don't expect any sort of long term memory or change to come of it.
I assume they're looking at the UK Netflix catalogue which differs from what's available in the US (from my experiments with ProxMate) What would be interesting is comparing what's available on Blinkbox to the US Netflix Library (or the entire Netflix library, for that matter).
I think most people respond to their mails pretty much as they come in. I'd add that in corporate settings a norm of near immediate response has developed. I've set my timeout at 9999sec -- mutt throws in an error if I add a digit.

I don't use OSX, but can you comment on how easy key exchange is nowadays?

I have to admit that I have it set up and ready to roll, but pretty much no one I know is willing to take the plunge.
Twitter uses MySQL for all their data. They forked it and made tons of improvements. Here's their blog https://blog.twitter.com/2012/mysql-twitter and here's the project https://github.com/twitter/mysql
I think you're making a good assumption. I think any one of us who "fits the profile" can assume that they're on a list.
DI will defer the injection to runtime instead of compile time, so you don't get the benefit of type checking during the compile.

I've been bitten by this in the past with SpringMVC. It usually ripples up quickly and has never been an issue in a released app.
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My website, MyHopeHub, is in the very early stages of development. We are struggling with whether the business would work better as a non-profit or for profit? Given Watsi's recent success we are now leaning towards non-profit. Thought and comments appreciated!
If that's what it means, it is a bit misleading since it is combining two other services (Rhapsody and Napster) against one (Apple).
Exploits or vulnerabilities? If they are handing out fully built exploits, I have a problem with it. If they are just vulns then yeah, it is probably MAPP which isn't news really.
Not to go all conspiracy, but maybe it's US Government providing the info in order to discredit Snowden and lay the groundwork for getting rid of him?
That sounds like a widget issue. Unless you saw the clock widget change times, it most likely froze up.
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It seems like if Zuckerberg and co. want to effect real change with FWD.us, they should lobby for institutional reforms such as proportional representation to give minority parties a greater chance of getting members elected. Of course, such reforms are not sexy, nor politically expedient, and stand against centuries of entrenched systems, and so this will never happen.
That looks like 肉干 (rou4 gan1, or bak kua in hokkien).

It's usually made of pork. I've tried those made of chicken and beef ones. They taste yucky. Stick with the pork ones. I'm guessing in trying to capture the majority muslim market in Malaysia, they came up with the beef version.
The name alone would kill any chance such a party ever gaining traction in the United States and would mark it boldly as a fridge group. Purely from a marketing and PR standpoint, you would need to use a term that has a very broad positive connotations. Even so much as to be socially unacceptable to dissagree with the name. For instance, just look at the names of bills that congress uses to gain support for their causes such as the Patriot Act. You would be much better off with a name such as the Freedom Party, Hope Party, United Party, Liberty Party, Independence Party, etc...

However in this instance, my personal favorite would be: Patriot Party
What about Android and iOS? Any recommendations on email clients with a somewhat good user interface and experience?
> "Unlike its predecessor, Dotcom's new site Mega offers secure encryption, which he says protects each user's identity and data."

I haven't kept up with Mega much lately, but does anyone know if the security issues identified after the Mega launch were ever fixed (see e.g. http://fail0verflow.com/blog/2013/megafail.html)? It seemed like the Mega launch was rushed to take advantage of the free publicity they were getting, but I would expect that they've had enough time to get their house in order by now.
I am not sure if such system existed in the past or if I read about it in some sci-fi book, but it worked as follows:

You generated your key pair. In (almost) every country in almost every city there were “key signers” (basically trusted members of the PGP community). You met with them and they verified your identity and signed your public key. You needed to visit couple of them to get enough signatures to obtain certain level of trust in the PGP community. Once your level of trust was high enough you could start signing keys of other people. Too good to be true I guess…..
The key to many of these effects is to animate both the transform and the position of the transform-origin simultaneously. Done correctly, it can give the animation a sinuous behavior that makes it much more interesting to look at.
The US and other parts of the world aren't one single country either, but that doesn't stop the US intelligence agencies from collecting data from all over the world.
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It must feel good to discover something 8 orders of magnitude stronger than predicted.
Perhaps the number one priority of those in tech should be to educate the public about the potential intrusiveness of data surveillance.

Politicians and idiot TV hosts have made statements akin to "all they are collecting are phone numbers, times and cell tower data".

Ha! Give me that and access to other sources such as LinkedIn, Facebook, your email on Gmail, your Google docs, IRS and state tax filings, court documents, vehicle registration, travel records, Amazon, Ebay, college and university records and a myriad of other publicly and not-so-publicly available data and those phone numbers become powerful unique identifiers through which I can learn just about everything about you, your family, your friends, colleagues, occupation, hobbies, history and more.

There's nothing innocent or insignificant about "just collecting phone numbers".
Go tooling will likely get better as time allows IDEs / plugins to be written.

It remains to be seen if the Go language will grow significantly from one major release to the next, and how frequent any such changes will be. (it might stagnate, as well)

Sun / Oracle have demonstrated the last 10 years that they do not intend to improve the Java language itself (COBOL with separate compilation, user defined types, field accessors and subclassing is good enough for all!), but will only keep rolling out new "Enterprise" libraries / frameworks.
Tangentially ontopic: I remember an offhand comment from someone in the intel community a few years ago that went along the lines of "you can't really have privacy unless you run your own DNS servers". Can they really store all dns lookups?
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'Kobe' is actually a city in that region of Japan, so the name already doesn't match the geographical location. Even pedantic-marketing Kobe beef doesn't ever have to visit Kobe.
Sure, exactly what we need. Another fringe party, with a weird name, marching under the "we come from the interwebs" banner.

At least on a national level 3rd parties are poised for failure unless there is some massive financial backing and a strong leadership.

In my opinion the smarter way would be to focus on lobbying efforts and bundling money and manpower for pro-internet candidates. Considering that there are politicians in both parties that have excellent positions on tech related issues but not that much in common in regards to other policies, making this about one issue and not about ideology seems a much more promising approach.
"Also, like anyone else, we will comply with court ordered legal requests. However, in our case, we don't expect any because there is nothing useful to give them since we don't collect any personal information."

Yes, until the NSA requests that DDG allow them to see all searches in real time. You could argue that it says "court ordered" but no one here has any clue what type of pressure the government used to get PRISM through at a major publicly traded company or what they are capable of with a small operation like DDG.

[added] as pointed out below, the NSA could and will just save the searches which would result DDG being just as insecure as google.
There are stories. I doubt it is as common as the fear is. Certainly not a threat that I would give anyone with the influence cameras in my house to solve.
Being for-profit would immediately lead to skepticism, so my 2 cents would be non-profit.

Also, your homepage (link for the lazy: http://myhopehub.com/ ) should probably say "confidentially" instead of "confidentiality."
It's almost like the comments were posted by different people!
I believe it's common that T&C's will state you will be charged if you're on the call for more than an hour, regardless of free/unlimited minutes.

I've still never experienced this. I'd test it, but I haven't had a landline in a while.
However, being infamous is not sufficient to be criminal.
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Just because we get a few token gestures, doesn't mean we have any real change. What happens in Washington and Colorado really doesn't affect the people in power and may be advantageous for them to use in the future as scapegoat material.
360 degrees shift? I do not think it means what you think.
What I meant was the fact of the call is recorded (see leak on phone records), but I see how this is ambiguous - sorry about that and thanks for the correction. I also managed to spell his name wrong as Snowdon... I actually think recording the metadata associated over long periods (who,when,where) is as dangerous as recording all the calls, but didn't mean to muddy the waters further there.
great post. i like couchsurfing and i've had mostly positive experiences.
apparently they deliberately wanted to distantiate themselves from the "couch"/hosting theme - hence the new logo (they redesigned their logo from couch & earth globe to what's supposed to be a "path" symbol) since they had users who cannot host but are still interested in meeting other couchsurfers.

about the gender issue - here's what happened to me when i visited egypt two years ago.
i logged in to couchsurfing because i wanted to change my couch status to "i'm traveling" (to let potential travelers know that i couldn't host at the moment). without knowing it or explicitly stating where i'm traveling, my profile must've appeared in some "people near you" part of the site - within 24 hours i had received nine contact requests from guys wanting to meet or marry(?!) me. i don't know. it just really creeped me out.
Let's make an app for this
Alas, as much as I like golang, this is one area that it seems to have got worse than Java: error codes instead of exceptions, preferably unchecked exceptions like C# uses (and other languages, I presume)
Dude, I have to ask, what is NOT a shitty name in your world?

I think some of those brand names were pretty good (the original XBox, iPod too).
The numbers are trending in MS's favor. Q12012 share for BB was 6.8 now only 3. Windows Phone in Q12012 was 1.9, now 2.9

Not rocket growth but the trend clearly points to MS being the weak #3.

Not sure how the existing install base for both effects this conclusion. Sales are only 1 piece of the puzzle.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hun...

I think I use a lot of those words every day. It's hilarious to me that 2600 and Phreaking are both on there when they haven't been a serious threat since the 5ESS switches hit back in the 70's and 80's...
using technical exploits to gain unauthorised access to civilian machines is a violation of law

I'm OK with whistleblowing of illegal actions performed by secret services (enough of this sh*t!). Though I don't know whether he's right regarding the illegality of NSA's actions.
The original Latin verb from which numerals are built is "plicare", which is why in italian you have basically the same word as the original Latin: multiplicare (multiply), duplicare (to double), triplicare (to triple) etc.

I guess the softer "b" versions come from some French influence.
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Democracy seems reasonably alive at a state level. Most of the complaints & problems seem to be with the federal government.
We had supersonic flight (Concorde, also by airbus btw) and it was far too fuel inefficient (that and I think also they were not allowed in some countries if I remember correctly)
Top Communist Newspaper supports Snowden, rejects extradition. (English)
One is a community project for volunteers, the other is a competitive deal between for-profit businesses.

Very different expectations of behaviour given the amounts of money and risk involved.
If China grabs him, they will put him in North Korea.
It's silly because we haven't contributed to the achievement in any way.
The move from MySQL to MariaDB is one of the easiest decisions an admin can make. I expect it to obliterate MySQL in short time.
Actually, their approach was pretty reasonable. Another site did it before Ars did in a more tabloid manner.
I think he is referencing 'Millennium Challenge 2002'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
Also, "never give an answer with more precision than is warranted." -> http://clabs.org/blog/DesignPrecision
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I'm not ready to thank Edward Snowden for anything yet. While I agree with almost all of your points, my reasons for advocating domestic surveillance have more to do with expediency than morality.

I agree that surveillance of any kind is wrong, but I can't see a world without foreign surveillance of some kind. That's not to say that one can't exist, but I don't see how it would come to fruition.

Therefore, I agree with the spirit of your argument but disagree with its practicality.
Not necessarily, it just needs some education about the name.
See for example also the OK results in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Germany#German_St...

Think about what a childish and ridiculous name "Google" is and still it got adopted worldwide.
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As far as I know, that's pretty much how it used to happen. I do believe there even used to be things called 'key signing parties' which was just a way to get a heap of people to do it en masse. Not to be confused with simply a 'key party', though, I presume.
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Says who? Anyone that's ever been involved with technology businesses for 30+ years knows you risk your relationship when you breach confidence. It's common sense.

Of course, common sense is rarely common, which is why we have NDAs.
Your glad about that?
I believe that this is reasonably targeted. He does know who owns those computers, and did not include any government computers on the list.

I know that we Americans like to see al qaeda around every corner. But, for instance, when you target a university's system in a non-Muslim country, the odds are much better that you're conducting industrial espionage than that you're targeting al qaeda.

At the least, from a public policy point of view, it shows the hypocrisy of recent articles in the USA complaining about the extent of Chinese hacking into US civilian targets.
Not really. There are millions of people who let their preconceptions screw up health treatments. Very few of them have accomplished as much as Jobs.
it doesnt have to be a national party initially. If you took a pro-privacy, socially-liberal, fiscally conservative platform you could make a strong push in large urban centers across the nation. I know that the bay area would be accepting of this (accepting != elected, but it wouldnt get laughed at by the voters, only by the national media).

you just cant name it pirate party. In the us that would probably work against you.
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They would definitely not let us know. OMG you are so right: they would tell us nothing!
Michael Savage is still banned apparently. He was raging about it the other day.
> (whereas given past history Verizon and most other telcos would be likely to go along meekly)

Weren't varous telcos co-operating with this program before it was strictly speaking legal? I seem to recall something about them being given retroactive immunity. Indeed, I'd guess that Verizon's broad metadata order is less a means to really compel Verizon than a convenient sicknote for them, giving immunity and some PR cover in the event of discovery.
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