skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Class C shares don't exist yet...they're structured as essentially a stock split, where each class A shareholder gets an equivalent class C share that's non-voting, and so you'll see Google's stock price roughly halve when the transaction goes live.
Has anyone ever sued the government over income taxes being unconstitutional? How far did they get? Has there been a Supreme Court ruling on this?
Mark my words: You're a delusional idiot. Today, not in 2041.

Seriously, have you been to China? Have you dealt with their government? TEHRE ARE NO FREE ELECTIONS IN CHINA. You fucking, fucking idiot.
Ah, the sender of the email is at fault or the person gave them the wrong email address!!!
I actually thought the weirdest thing - how was a guy who was a high school dropout get a gig at the NSA?

Even small businesses won't hire someone unless they have a four year degree. I know its possible for developers to get a job based on being self taught. I highly, highly, doubt a government agency like the NSA would hire someone with such sketchy credentials.

My other real concern was brought up in the article. Once you're about to feel the full brunt of the United States Government coming after you, it's usually standard procedure to lawyer up. Considering this guy hasn't done so indicates he's not scared of whatever bad guys are coming after him. Which means, either he's really stupid, or he has no reason to be afraid.
Why do you keep harping on the WaPo?

She's a CBS reporter, CBS is reporting this analysis, and they're the ones who hired whomever did the forensic analysis. Here it is from the horse's mouth:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57589367/cbs-news-confir...
Agreed. It's really hard to read the rest of the article without questioning every statement after reading that ridiculous paragraph early on. You're telling me Facebook, who's killer app was photo tagging for the first 3 years of its existence and who has, over the last few years, been struggling with transitioning its platform to a mobile audience, somehow ranks ahead, technology-wise, of the biggest e-commerce site on the internet? The technology that goes into Amazon's logistics and distribution platform alone rivals facebook's impressive scale, and Amazon is doing that while, at the same time powering a gigantic and feature rich cloud service and methodically eating the publishing industry's lunch.
Yes! The sender is at fault here!
From wikipedia:

> Having worked at a U.S. military base in Japan, Snowden reportedly had a deep interest in Japanese popular culture and studied the Japanese language.[15] He also has a basic understanding of Mandarin, was deeply interested in martial arts, and claimed Buddhism as his religion.[16] Before his disclosure of top secret documents to the public in 2013, Snowden had travelled to Hong Kong for a holiday with his girlfriend Lindsay Mills.[17]

He speaks some Mandarin (which would be somewhat useful in HK, especially if he can read it, which he probably can since he's studied Japanese), and he's been to Hong Kong before. All his justifications about HK's legal system is probably relative to the other choices he was considering (presumably Japan, HK, Taiwan, mainland China).

He worked in a start-up which sold anime. "Anime nerd flees US, resurfaces in East Asia" is not really surprising. I guess he picked HK because it has a lower US presence than Taiwan and Japan; and mainland China was a bit too scary.

He could have picked a more secure place to flee to, but most of what he's done hasn't been totally rational.
Not totally true. If I, as a programmer, can excercise Freedom 1 to write a new programme, then I can give it to you, and you can excersice Freedom 0 to run it on your device. If the Overlords™ don't want that type of programme to run on your device, there's nothing they can do about it.
In the UK there are spending limits. £30k per year per parliamentary seat. £18.96m per party per election.

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/elections/election-spe...

It keeps our campaigns pleasingly short, and the advertising deliciously mundane and cheap-looking. Also it preserves a nice equilibrium, it's in nobody's interests to try and break or change the limits.
You are probably correct.

Not sure about the date, but in time, China will be the leading free market democracy. What people totally fail to appreciate is the slow long term planning China can do, and no other large country can do that because of the democratic process. If you are out after 8 years, what is the motivation for a 50 year economic plan?

As the Chinese move more and more in to capitalism, and its people grow richer, they will want a say, and some power. As that happens, China will slowly feed in democratic mechanisms, as it has capitalist ones. It will have no choice, and it knows that. China will incresingly have more to lose and more international assets to protect, so its military will grow, as will it's navy. As Chinese influence and world investment grows, the likes of the USA will lose power and influence, and grow more an more concerned. As we have seen, that fear and paranoia will lead to more and more loss of freedom and democracy. So as China becomes more like America, America will become more like China is now.

The USA needs a long term plan to meet that challenge, and find a working equilibrium. I don't see one or where it will come from.

Not thought this through, just floated in to my head, but.....

Where might be a better place to host my web site or email? Both the US and China spy on me, that an equal given. But, so far, I dont see non Chinese citizens running scared of the Chinese authorities. Could be totally wrong, but are the Chinese, with allies, harassing any Kim Dotcoms or Assanges? Are they making any one launch massive raids on homes? Cant help feeling that China might be a safer place to host some services. Must be a problem there somewhere. Its an argument to be had though.
See above threads. The sender is the one that is using the incorrect address.
That's the main remedy in criminal court. If the police unlawfully search your house, you can also sue them in civil court for both money and injunctive relief.
the fact that the NSA routinely monitors certain channels does not turn them into an omniscient boogieman that can read everybody's minds. in fact, being aware of the channels that they monitor puts you in an excellent position in this respect
More likely: someone typo'd johndoe's address.
In the days of iPhones and App Stores, Open Source is almost exactly the same as Free Software.
Canvas triblend is another option, usually cheaper than the AA tri-blend and has a more "solid" feel, while still being soft.
I was hoping to find a well-reasoned story here, but it isn't there. I don't find her reasoning to be logical, and she keeps calling things strange or abnormal based on either a single anecdote, or none at all.
USA! USA! USA! By any chance?
The real question is why this was scheduled at a time that was pretty much guaranteed to conflict with the Senator's schedule? Scoring political points by foolishness is getting a tad old.

[edit for branch]
.vimrc isn't available to me right now, but off the top of my head the ones I use the most are CtrlP, Flake8, supertab, jedi-vim, surround, UltiSnips and solarized color scheme.
tl;dr : if you don't like the message (or don't like the idea of believing the message to be true), then you attack the messenger
The time has come that we cannot talk with superiority over China from the West in that respect.

We've also started "disappearing" people and hunting them down, locking them in isolation without due process.
This is a not so well known feature, not a bug. You can also make more aliases by appending text after a + in your email address.

Sending email to miles.s.t.andish+123@gmail.com will still deliver email to milesstandish@gmail.com.

This is very helpful if you want to make multiple accounts on any website without going through the trouble of making multiple email addresses. Particularly helpful if you have multiple test accounts in your web application.
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We're commenting on a WaPo story, is why. But sure; in case it matters, s/WaPo/CBS/g and I stand by the same set of arguments.
No; the software is almost the same, since almost all Open Source licenses are also Free Software, and vice versa. But the philosophy and goals of the projects are very different.
Well, she is essentially accusing him of being intelligent and not a total dork. One wonders why…
Why is the Thai guy running Windows/Linux in English?

Why is he on the English website for Chrome in the first place?

I'm in Central America often. When downloading Chrome, I get redirected to the Spanish site. OK, so I explicitly find the English page. Download. So far, everything in English. Then Chrome itself inside the downloader overrides all that and installs in Spanish. The only way to override is to ensure I'm on a proxy.

I'd love to know the statistics of people overriding Google's localized site (forcing google.com in English versus local Google site), overriding the Chrome page (change the URL to have "en" wherever needed), running an OS in English (with no alternative keyboards), that still want it in the language of whatever country they're in.

Not to mention, this falls flat in multilingual countries.
Is it me or does this sound like a nutty conspiracy theory?

NSA is one thing... But IRS? I have a hard time believing this is anything but grossly exaggerated.
Free election is fine when the people know the truth. Not when people are gullible and easily manipulated. Not when people are selfish and think only for themselves. China is a country that thinks about the greater good. I've been to China. It's quite nice.
Wolf thinks Snowden is fake because he talks about all the bad things that might happen to him as a result of his leaking. She thinks that he's drawing attention to those bad things on purpose, to scare other potential whistleblowers.

But Greenwald was the one drawing attention to that stuff, by asking Snowden what he expected the US government to do to him. Snowden wasn't volunteering that on his own; it was Greenwald trying to play up the human-interest angle.
No, just cap the spending and maximum donation.
If congress would simplify the tax code, it would be both harder to cheat and vastly easier for the honest to pay their taxes. And the IRS wouldn't need to snoop into everyone's life.
MAPP customers do get proof-of-concept code to trigger the vulnerability, sometimes months in advance. That is a huge head start towards a functional exploit, and has been converted to a fully functional remote code-exec exploit prior to disclosure in at least one case that was fairly public.

Though I do not think this story has anything to do with MAPP.
Wasn't this the speech where he had to wait for like a minute before his staff brought him the speech, because they lost it or something? So yes, definitely canned, and he would've rather waited until they found the speech, instead of taking the issue head-on himself.
That doesn't override Chrome's idiotic installer which has the language logic built into the installer itself, so it grabs a localized version off your IP when the downloader runs, regardless of every possible hint to the contrary.
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yeah, this is pretty much the flip side of the ProPubica report on TurboTax[1][2]

[1] http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5443203
Greenwald has been in contact with the film maker Poitras for over 1 year. Presumably it was Greenwald not Snowden who introduced her. But surely this Wolf person knows that, if she's a media type who hangs out with Assange's entourage.

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_det...
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This is what happens when a plane is landing and the runway disappears
US government is not broken, it got sold. It works really well for the people who pay.
At first glance the first two paragraphs are hand wavy enough that it is pretty clear that you exaggerated when you said "simply ntp synch requests" and things get a lot worse after paying any attention to the details in your post.

Timezones and NTP? NTP does not use time zones so I am not sure what that has to do with anything.

Exit nodes forging ntp responses? That is going to be pretty tough. Last time I checked tor has a tcp fetish and ntp is squarely in the udp camp.

I checked the reddit link. Lets skip over the fact that you said "identify a client" and the reddit link is about hidden services. In order to work it requires that the hidden service serves http, serves http over plain ipv4, and is running on a computer that is also a relay. So that is not "simple" but most importantly it has very little to do with ntp requests.

I'm not going to lie, I stopped reading the whonix documentation after the first three paragraphs and i have pasted them below:

Don't wonder... To prevent against time zone leaks, the system clock
inside Whonix was set to UTC. This means it may be a few hours before
or ahead of your host system clock. Do not change!

On the host. If you were a user of TorBOX 0.2.1 or below and removed
NTP, restore it now.

sudo apt-get install ntpd

Can you see why I stopped reading when I did? It seems like you may have disremembered the details of the "simple ntp synch requests" can give a way a users identity attack.
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Presumably the contents of the conversation will not be secret. Only the location of Snowden.
If you're implying they can go to eBay and figure out what you've been purchasing, that's quite scary. On the other hand, if they go through the accepted channels and gather that information from the credit card companies, that seems more acceptable.
This was so badly needed. Thank you for sharing this.
Improving sanity with structured binary formats and protocols
PRISM and location sharing
Yeah, I'm looking for a discussion about technology and maybe somebody have an idea how latency would be. But all I see is typical comments you find in any social network.
After the edit, point 2 and point 3 are directly contradictory.

Once someone has created j.smith@gmail, jsmith@gmail can no longer be created -- because they are the same account. It's not possible for you to have j.smith@gmail and someone else to have jsmith@gmail.

I get other peoples' mail all the time. It's not because gmail is misdelivering mail with dots in account names. It's because someone has another letter in their account that somebody left out (jjsmith, jpsmith, jsmith1, etc.) It's the sender, not gmail, who is directing the mail to the wrong inbox.
"...Summary: we should vote out any representative who doesn’t understand these concepts and, even more importantly, doesn’t seem to care."
These devices will have very poor image quality. It's not like making small lenses is hard; the properties of light mean that anything usable as a camera will be visible to the naked eye. Cameras can be small, but they cannot be arbitrarily small. Your "What then?" will never happen.
Closest equivalent I've found and use is ResophNotes (http://resoph.com/). Works well with nvALT.
Facebook post since no respectable editor would print such silly stuff.
yeah, certainly not for all the 100s of services out there -- I am not even sure what they do, I think they just ping the URL of any "unsubscribe" link
somebody thinks they have johndoe@gmail but they actually have johndoe1@gmail or johnpdoe@gmail or something like that.
Robozzle, a robot-programming game
Waterboarding was banned in 2009 by presidential order.
Depending on the vulnerability, a crash POC might be a day's work away from an exploit, or it might be months of work.

MAPP or no MAPP, Microsoft does not have the technical capability to produce reliable exploits for all of the vulnerabilities it's made aware of.

Also, we both know NSA has a (less-well-known) charter for coordinating vulnerability response and computer security across the agencies; NSA has a public huge defensive interest in this stuff as well.

NSA doesn't need Microsoft to enable it to break into arbitrary Windows machines. But it might need their help to keep up with every attack vector on Microsoft code, which is what you need to do if you're doing defensive work.
How do I contact you? Perhaps I have not earned enough karma to private message.

I was thinking about creating a "Rational Party" website. Which would focus of evidence based positions, rational discourse, and getting the word out.

I believe in socialism for essentials (health care, education, infrastructure), social libertarianism, and capitalism for the rest (junk food, fashion, games, etc).

Can I put an e-mail here? Try cobope@gmail.com, since I don't care if anyone spams it. I will check tonight, and tomorrow. I don't check it often though but I will try for the next few days.

Either way, I agree, and I'm down to work on an idea you have as well.

I've been working through the Ruby on Rails Tutorial as well as through Matasano's crypto challenges lately, albeit slowly since I just graduated and have been enjoying not doing much at all. So hopefully those will help eventually.
Don't Mandarin and Japanese use different symbols entirely?
I read about him asking Greenwald to setup PGP some time ago and him not actually communicating with him until that happened.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-glen...

So, reading between the lines, PGP is safe, but that's hardly headline news.
If we were honest and classified President Obama objectively based on his actions alone, we'd label him a neoconservative corporatist in the same vein as Cheney. It's painful, especially after Bush. The truth hurts.
The NSA is one of the most well-funded tech organizations in the world. Apache does nothing for them and has no leverage on them whatsoever.
Works on Chrome for Android.
"Am now quite certain, that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood." -John Brown
"I highly, highly, doubt a government agency like the NSA would hire someone with such sketchy credentials."

Absolutely. It's boilerplate on job descriptions for Federal jobs of any consequence. You can't answer the phones without having a four-year degree.
In Hong Kong they use Traditional Chinese characters, which is almost the same set used in Japan.
Lets try this experiment;

Title: “Whistleblower welcome in US”

The Comment:

Whistleblowers that serve US needs.
Oh, you're a whistleblower against any US policy? Say goodbye to your freedom and count yourself lucky if you don't end up in Guantanamo with a waterbucket around your head.

Interesting how beliveable this actually sounds...

Lesson learned: Don't throw with stones if you live in a glass house.
How do you identify terrorists with only phone call 'metadata'?
"In The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, Wolf takes a historical look at the rise of fascism, outlining 10 steps necessary for a fascist group (or government) to destroy the democratic character of a nation-state and subvert the social/political liberty previously exercised by its citizens:

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place
3. Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens' groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Treat all political dissidents as traitors
10. Suspend the rule of law

The book details how this pattern was implemented in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and elsewhere, and analyzes its emergence and application of all the 10 steps in American political affairs since the September 11 attacks."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf#The_End_of_America
This is disgusting. A news agency that is known for defending its own governments' dirty stuff, twisting truth, and manipulating public opinions, is now appreciating a freedom fighter and a human rights activist.

It's apparently not because what Snowden did matches their core values, or they want the same thing happen in China. Oh yes, they certainly like Snowden. It's because Snowden exposed some bad things done by US authorities, and they can use this as political tool; furthermore they can finally take this and say to Chinese people, hey, US does this too. You like the freedom in US? That's all bullshit.

If you are interested in what their reactions were when this kind of thing happened in China, back in 2010, this [1] (google translate: [2]) was xinhuanet's opinion on Chinese human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Liu Xiaobo [3]. They described Liu Xiaobo as an evil man used by western countries to attack Chinese government, while the truth is Liu Xiaobo spent years striving for Chinese people's freedom, human rights, and constitution enforcement in China.

Xinhuanet basically writes what the government tells them to write, and say what the government tells them to say.

[1] http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2010-10/15/c_12664760.htm

[2] http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http:...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#Nobel_Peace_Prize

EDIT: typos
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For this to work, your adversary would have to be the worst hacker possible, but maybe.

Other possibilities:

1) A script file containing a list of commands was recovered during forensics, which did something obvious like search for something and delete. This is common for automated attacks, and seems unlikely for a targeted attack.

2) "Commands" is being interpreted too literally. They could have observed that files were deleted, and consider the act of deletion to be a "command". You can't really take technical reporting from mainstream media to be that accurate.
As predicted, shoot the messenger.
Internal Github enterprise server, gist.
And like assholes, everybody's got one...
> Am I overreacting? Am I paranoid?

I think you're saner than many of us. As already being noted a few times, RMS, who is a designated "crackpot", has seen it coming a decade ago.

I think a boiling frog metaphor is very appropriate to what's happening :)
Ask HN: What's are the terms of your company's patent incentive program?
Does your company have a patent incentive program? Generally, what are the terms? What size is your company? How much effort does the inventor spend in crafting the application?
WebStorm is my editor of choice, and it has most of the same strengths.

It's amazing though how complicated an IDE can be to develop. I'm not surprised JetBrains really specializes. TeamCity, while good, does not approach the sophisticated of something like PyCharm.

Conversely, the joke at WWDC was that Xcode 5 brings Apple's native tools into the year 2011.
Spies Without Borders III: Modern Foreign Surveillance - A Legal Perspective
Yes, and HK speaks Cantonese, which is very different from Mandarin. Not that that matters though, something like 1 in 7 or 1 in 11 Hong Kong residents speak English as their first language.
Japanese use three alphabets, kanji, katakana and hiragana. The kanji characters derived from mandarin characters.
To clarify: Cantonese speakers use Traditional Chinese characters, and Hong Kong natives speak Cantonese.
No, "what a hypothetical user could do, potentially, given unlimited skill in the computing domain" is the whole point of freedom zero.

All everyday users give a shit about is what they actually can do easily, given their shallow understanding of computing devices, to get the shit they need doing done.

This rarely taxes or even approaches the limit of commercial, closed software, so they perforce give zero shits about hypothetical freedoms that for all intents and purposes do not exist for them given their time and skill constraints.