skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps - I don't have any real knowledge here, but I suspect most countries probably have something similar to the stated (but clearly abused) special protection for citizens privacy rights over non-citizens (kinda inevitably in one sense - if you have no ability to vote in elections in the country making the laws, you have very little reason to be protected as much by those laws as those who can vote poor lawmakers out).

So for my personal situation - there are two juridictions I have citizenship in (Australia and The UK), neither of which I have much confidence in the amount of resistance they'd provide at a policy or law enforcement level to requests for my personal data from US agencies - and both places where I suspect that companies capable of storing data for me reliably and availably enough probably all have enough of a US presence that they'd be easily "leaned on" by agencies as powerful as the NSA (and probably even the MPAA) in such a way that it'd be "the right thing for them to do" to give up my data rather than incur the costs to the company of fighting.

My current "solution" is increase my (and as many people as I work and communicate with as possible) use of encryption (and hope that as well as "not doing anything wrong, so I've got nothing to fear", that things like AES & PBKDF2 with strong passphrases and tools like EncFS, TrueCrypt, 1Password, OpenSSL are still viable options even against the NSA).
2.3 is still big but its share is dwindling pretty fast.

Vine only supports 4.0 and above & there's no uproar. It is a Top 3 app on Google Play.
Why Google’s Request To Release More Spying Data Is Probably An Empty PR Gimmick
Meet the British version of David Brooks.

"The problem with Glenn Greenwald and the creepy cult that surrounds him"

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/willardfoxton2/10000...
Particularly ironic since Apple made such a big deal out of their slide to unlock patent, being a competitive advantage etc. and specifically tied to moving something from two explicit points along a predefined path. Now after all that fuss they just threw it away and copied their competitors?
USA does not have an extradition with basically every country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extraditi...

It has been widely reported just how bizarre it was to pick a country like Hong Kong given their recent cooperation with the USA.
Poll: What do you use for deploying code?
I'm researching for a blog post on various deployment tools and would love your input
EC2 BeanStalk
Oh no! The EU! A political body which requires unanimity to make any decision! We tremble in fear...

In all seriousness though, the EU does not currently extend to defense; it is currently only a political and economic union. France and Germany have proposed extending the EU to include common defense, but as of today it had not yet been ratified by either the European Council or the member states. See, e.g., the Treaty of Lisbon. (Note that the Treaty of Lisbon technically removes the unanimity requirement in place of a "double majority" threshold (meaning >55% of vote from >65% of countries) beginning in 2014.)
Access to sensitive data is strictly controlled, logged and audited, often on a per-case basis ("I need read access to log X for 60 minutes to investigate bug Y"). Even if your hypothetical spy did manage to worm their way into the very, very select ranks of people who can access (say) Gmail data, he'd be busted as soon as the auditors spotted him accessing the files of people he has no reason to access.
Client side monitoring makes way more sense in this case, I'd have to agree.

I suppose people need to learn not to use facebook for private messages. Or Skype. Or any US based corporation.

There's plenty of end user solutions that are secure - depending on the level of surveillance on the client it's going to be relatively difficult to set up secure communications though.

Imagine a scenario where authorities have a warrant to listen in to your communications. They'll install a trojan on your computer that sends screenshots and keyboard input to their computers. So forget about using the PC (or Mac, doesn't matter; while Macs don't get attacked by trojans in the wild, a targeted attack is near impossible to prevent).

That means use a mobile phone (buy a new one in a shop if extra paranoid); use a VPN or that secure chat program, and only use public internet access, like starbucks, as your home internet might be compromised. Then, once a secure channel is established, you're pretty safe.

PS: I suppose buying a new laptop would work too but laptops / PC operating systems are a soft target compared to say an iPhone.
Orwell’s ‘1984’ Soars on Amazon After NSA Snooping Reports
I have a 3GS. And even though I've had it for so long, it still doesn't feel dated to me. Apple did a good job with the hardware and the software support. It is finally starting to feel a bit sluggish after almost 4 years of very heavy use. Compare that with my old phones which I essentially threw away after a year or so and never missed them...and the crappy Razr that died after a year.
Google Buys Waze
You would, of course, prefer something like, "iOS 7 reset creates new opportunities for Developers" or "iOS reboot creates conditions ripe for disruption" or, ....

Honestly - "Fertile Ground" is a pretty damn good title. I can already imagine people casually discussing it at WWDC "Did you catch Marco's "Fertile Ground" post?"
Click the dream before she does. [Game]
Well then your definition of slavery includes pretty much every human being throughout history. Freedom doesn't mean getting stuff for free.
Down for me due to a Cloudflare error: "DNS Points to Prohibited IP".
Jesus. I served 5 TB of video on a site with Cloudfront last month and it was cheaper than that. I'll stick with my uglyrandomletters.cloudfront.net domain.
Not when you think about what's going on behind the scenes. There are 40 CloudFront datacenters, which means all 40 of them have to have a dedicated IP and setup just for you and your SSL certificate.
FWIW I'm using the iOS 7 beta, and this behavior is inconsistently present. It works in nested lists, but other screens e.g. the music Now Playing screen don't do it at all. Hopefully it gets OS-wide integration.

But hey, it's a (really buggy!) beta.
You want a GUI with an embedded console?
Ask HN: What methods of information gathering are legal under congressional law?
Outside of the conversation of our shared popular desire for everyone to not know our every action.

The forth amendment only applies to criminal law, covertly gathered information can't be used in criminal proceeding. My question -> What does the actual congressional law say in regards to the power of governmental supervision in civil matters? This has business implications not just regarding government contracts to purchase information but also to the tracking hooks that web companies use to power preference engines.

We can have another feed asking the question of who is best at playing the good shepherd with our personal information? public or private sector?
Or to suppose the preferences of congressional members desire to be NSA briefed on the opinions of their constituents.
Google to U.S. Government: Let Us Release More Surveillance Data
Ah, you make a good point. Let me rephrase: by "selective", I mean hiring the best and the brightest, as opposed to boring assholes who are easy to clear.
My first language was Logo, then QBasic, then turbo C
Qbasic on MS-DOS 5
Unfortunately the documentation doesn't mention how it's implemented (at least I couldn't find anything), but considering the steep pricing, you're probably right with your assumption.

Hopefully they'll be able to switch to Server Name Indication (SNI) in the near future as that would save a lot of IP addresses (and, if that's their biggest cost factor, allow them to lower the price). I think Windows XP is the biggest obstacle w.r.t. SNI, but thankfully XP will be EOL'd soon(ish).
Crazy how many people are affected when github goes down for less than 2 minutes.
Do you believe that, in actual effect, the 2006-era program was substantially different from its 2013 equivalent? And that the program had "no review" is false, members of the "Gang of Eight" were briefed, and of course could have pursued legislative measures to shut down the program consistent with separation of powers (i.e., defunding it).

I actually agree with you about the wording of the poll and the difference between the metadata collection and "warrantless wiretapping". But hey, all the stuff HN is going nuts about for the past week was all cleared by the FISA court, AFAICT, so the lack of that fig leaf wasn't really what would have pissed off a consistent citizen in 2006, no?
When Digital Art Crashes
If they're not using SNI, this is reasonable. Hopefully they're not using SNI.
I've seen this in several places, but when people say Apple "changed everything about how use it" in this version of iOS, what did they actually change? The only big things I've seen with regards to the OS seem to be the flat iconography and the pull-up menu from the bottom that has the setting changes. Everything else looked approximately identical functionally (at first glance anyway).
I just started using EC2 BeanStalk. It's been surprisingly painful...the system makes sense, but some of the config details are obscure...(using Rails 3.2 and mysql)

Shouldn't Heroku be on this?
Do you think that's the expressed intended reaction or an unintended result?

My guess is it would be difficult to find any piece of document where it states something along the lines of "The goal of this program is to make this country more appealing for illegal immigrants, by offering them extensive welfare and preferential job and tuition situations, especially over those of our citizens."

I think what's more likely is that you are citing unfortunate byproducts of an imperfect solution to a complicated problem. Not a "typical reaction."

I'm not an expert on these things, though.
iOS6 is at 93% and it hasn't even been a year yet. Where's Jellybean? Who's still stuck writing apps that are compatible with Gingerbread and have to use ActionBar Sherlock?
If that is the case, it seems like a very risky move. If I were so ordered, for example, I would immediately seek to challenge it on the basis of the first amendment. Not the free speech part - the free exercise of religion part. My religion explicitly states "thou shalt not lie".

EDIT: well, technically it says not to 'bear false witness against thy neighbor', but it certainly would not be hard to justify a religious objection to that requirement.
http://www.mailvelope.com/ is an easy way to do PGP but most certenly not the securest
Yes, he's their token conservative.. intellectual diversity and all.
I don't know about "Dropping Fast" - it's slowly dropping away, even after they changed how they gathered statistics to only count devices visiting the android store.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Android-dist-by-dessert.pn...
I don't like the idea that four years is a prohibitively long time for a device that I spend hundreds of dollars on.
Watching Snowden's video it's self evident how learned and intelligent he is.

I don't much care whether or not he finished high school. It isn't the single measure of intelligence.

Morality is the quality by which I'd rather measure him.
> Vine only supports 4.0 and above & there's no uproar. It is a Top 3 app on Google Play.

Are people really likely to get in an uproar over Vine?

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, sure... but Vine?
You have a valid point, but you're overlooking a really crucial difference: data in the hands of a corporations means something entirely different from data in the hands of government. One of them has a monopoly on the use of force and the other doesn't. At least, that's the distinction that is important to me.
I'm not familiar with Logo...
Your post is not obviously connected to anything that's happened in reality. That is, you're just replying to Google's claim with "they're lying" but giving no way to move the argument forward. How do you plan to test this?
Apple Stays Closed As iOS Shuts The Door On Developers
The NSA may have developed SELinux... but it's in the mainstream Linux kernel.

This means:

1) It has had review by members outside of the NSA before inclusion into the kernel.

2) The source is available for anyone to view.

3) You can audit the source right now! :)

Because of this, one can reason that there is very low probability for a "NSA backdoor". Having said that, you can audit the source to make sure.

The same can be said for certain implementations of AES such as that found in OpenSSL. I can't vouch for the specific algorithms involved being secure however, so I'll leave that to someone specialized in cryptology :)

SELinux is only as secure as the access policies in place on your system and only certain distributions (like Fedora) actually distribute SELinux policies.
Yeah, there was a brief major service outage according to the status page.

https://status.github.com/messages

Today

1:45 UTC Major service outage.
Good Documentation in Help Desk Tickets, or Lack Of...
I'm curious, in addition to a lack of compatibility with Windows XP and early versions of certain browsers, is there any other reason that one wouldn't want to use SNI?
What's the problem? This is in Russia where it gets REALLY cold in winter and never thaws for several months. Or did you think that they would haul the parcels into a heated building for sorting? Nope. As any Canadian knows, that kind of snow falls off as soon as you shake the parcel and the paper (at freezing temperatures) is so slick that it is as if it was lubricated. Most of that snow will fall off from the vibration of the ride inside the sorting building. And the recipients will never know that it happened.

Plus, it is a Russian tradition to wrap things in plastic before putting them in the parcel postal boxes.
Thank you, was thinking about checking it out. Could you explain why you went with BeanStalk?
Personally, I'm interested in the general answer.
You can have adaptation or adaptiveness, but not both. Either a system is well-fitted to a purpose and needs professional intervention to change, or it is permissive and undemanding and can be turned to any purpose and do it poorly.

Life is full of tradeoffs. Sometimes the general, permissive loosey-goosey system is what you want. Sometimes it isn't. It takes judgement to decide which is which and when to switch.
> A portion of proceeds goes to Electronic Frontier Foundation.

I'm interested in knowing what the "size" of the portion is.
Reddit, Mozilla Join Coalition Demanding End to NSA Snooping
I disagree with the significance being given to these UI changes. Many App Store niches are dominated by incredibly ugly apps that are functional and get the job done. Take a look at WhatsApp for a prime example.
and up pops a perfect examplar
So based on the teardown, anyone want to predict what the MSRP will be?
The chrome around something like Photoshop is a small part of the entire experience, and unlikely to change a purchase decision. This is not true for many smartphone apps, where the look and feel is one of the key features and selection criteria. Apps that don't update will feel crappy and old and that'll put them at a major disadvantage.

This will be a chance to catch any "lazy" dominant apps if they don't upgrade soon enough. I'm not sure if there are any dominant players that are lazy - seems like you'd need to keep on your toes if you're gonna stay dominant. So not a whole lot might change, anyways.
iOS7 will be a complete re-think of how applications work and behave on the iPhone.

Of course it won't. That just reads like hyperbole. Apps on iOS7 will work almost entirely the same as they do on iOS6 and below.
Jony Ive Redesigns Things - Satire Tumblr of the Moment
It's a great film, but I've read that it's not an accurate portrayal of the Stasi.
The 3GS was on sale as recently as last September (maybe a bit later in some emerging markets).
DTW is quadratic. While in grad school I worked for a bit with a team interested in doing massive speech recognition using DTW so they did some work speeding up the algorithm using a technical called Locality Sensitive Hashing [1], [2], [3]. It might be worth a look in order to speed your algorithms.

[1] http://www.academia.edu/2600658/Indexing_Raw_Acoustic_Featur...
[2] http://old-site.clsp.jhu.edu/~ajansen/papers/IS2012a.pdf
[3] http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~vandurme/papers/JansenVanDurmeASRU11....
Android Fragmentation is a problem because what version do you write your application for? 2.3? 4.0? Ideally 4.1/4.2, but that will miss 70% of your market who CAN'T upgrade because their Telco is not offering 4.1/4.2. Not because their hardware can't support it.

Anybody on an iPhone 4, 4S, or 5 who wants an iOS 7 app, can have it within a day of the iOS 7 release.

The downside of offering only one major phone a year, is that you don't occupy much shelf space in a best buy/AT&T - and someone casually looking for a phone, instead of a particular phone, is 90% unlikely to chose you.

The upside, is that when you offer a new OS - everyone gets to upgrade.

That's the Android fragmentation issue.
I thought of a similar idea, and so have others: http://www.sysmod.com/
Traders Said to Rig Currency Rates to Profit Off Clients
Considering the source, I assumed it was about coffee.
Zuckerberg Is (Still) Disappointed By Facebook Stock
I think he meant it's invulnerable if httpd (the "app") isn't running.
Probably the most well-known example was the usage of the U.S. Army against the roving bandits led by Pancho Villa before WWI. This experience was actually formative in the experience of Gen. Pershing who later led U.S. troops in WWI, but that's a different story.

Later in the century Congress has authorized the use of military force against Lebanese internal unrest that threatened to topple the government in 1958 (Operation Blue Bat).

Later use of force would be authorized in Lebanon again, with UN backing. Though to maintain the peace and not aggressive warfare per se, it did result in U.S. fatalities and other casualties, and the U.S. did fire live rounds.

"Shay's Rebellion" (the Whiskey Rebellion) would also technically count I suppose, as President Washington did raise an army and march it to Pennsylvania, though the rebels dispersed without much bloodshed.

Also easily overlooked, but the U.S. often fought against pirates on the high seas, who are non-state actors by definition. Sometimes Congress made specific authorizations for them, sometimes not, but the U.S. did fight.

An interesting example is the "Utah War" where the Federal government and Mormon settlers feuded over land (of all things). Though no actual battles took place bases were attacked on both sides before the government won. The conflict itself extended over a year though, so it was not just some flash-in-the-pan.
Server ops isn't my thing...and while I've set up EC2 machines before for specific apps and services, I'm trying to build a workflow for deploying as flexibly as I could with Heroku. I looked at Rubber for a brief moment and it felt like too much...so I gave Beanstalk a try.

Beanstalk has components that I can figure out on my own and the command line tools are easy enough...I'm currently stuck on figuring out when the hell it decides to set the DB user and password, despite what I've explicitly set it...so I know what's going wrong, but the whole settings part is much more annoying than it was on Heroku (even without trying to do anything too complicated). But EC2 has the full suite of services I need so I'll stick with it for now. I expect that once I'm comfortable with BeanStalk, it won't be hard to just migrate to old fashioned EC2 and capistrano.

BeanStalk's support for Rails is relatively recent so the lack of questions on StackOverflow is probably why I'm struggling
Basically every country that he can probably go to under the conditions he made (medical), without rousing suspicion, has an extradition treaty with the USA. Certainly if he wanted to go to Afghanistan for "epilepsy treatment", it'd be weird, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_United_S...

Which one's good? If you really cared about the extradition treaty so much, you'd have a problem going anywhere (given his situation, and I think even for the typical tourist most countries on that list are countries you might not even ever think about visiting. Though I've admittedly visit quite a few of those, so I may be wrong on that point).
Fertile ground is Google Glass, the new Kinect sensor, 3d printing, etc...

There are so many more interesting targets, I hope we don't focus our best on new skins for flashlight apps.
I note there's been no statements - suspiciously scripted or not - from the likes of Juniper, EMC, HP, Dell, Cisco...

The social media company presumably-NSA-supplied denial script says "no direct access to servers".[1] I wonder just how few bits of networking gear (or switch OSs) you'd need to root - gear that sits between the SSL termination and the servers - to not even need to ask for "direct access"?

[1] In fairness - perhaps that turn-of-phrase only appeared in every CEO denial because it was a direct quite from the WaPo article.
I would be happy with "Apple's iOS 7 is Fertile Ground", "Hands-On with Google Glass", and "Two I's for Productivity: Interesting and Important Tasks".

Of course, these have all lost their Zen master cachet, but for me that's a distinct advantage. Good writing doesn't need to be cool.
Haha, well, we're running a small site on a huge server and we're not that into automated testing. We actually send email by inserting into a table that serves as a queue. SQL server already costs a fortune. Honestly, though, I've felt a lot of that already, but didn't really attribute it to stored procedures.

Can you explain why stored procedures are faster than code in my app? It seems like they're both run in a fairly optimized VM, but I don't know much about the details. We're using C# at work, but if I was using something like Python I would be more tempted to move things into the db for performance reasons.
For inspiration, consider SIAG:

http://siag.nu/siag/
I'm not "OK" with what happened to Padilla, but the contention was that the executive branch "has been given the power" to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens, and that assertion is false.

Read the history of the Padilla case: http://www.nyclu.org/case/padilla-v-bushhamdi-v-rumsfeld-cha....

See also: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/what-supreme-cou....

There was a legal wrangling over the scope of the President's detention powers, and Padilla's appeal to the Supreme Court was rendered moot by the government deciding to charge him. No U.S. citizen has been indefinitely detained since.
2:01 UTC We're still experiencing a large DDoS attack. The site is experiencing major packet loss and is mostly unavailable. We're working to further mitigate the attack.
Never mind PRISM. The week before the PRISM leaks, the news was full of hack attacks by state actors against US business and government targets. Why are we emailing and talking in the clear? That's just dumb.

Moreover, the toothpaste can't be put back in the tube. Short of transformative change in government, how do we know there isn't another PRISM at another TLA?

The only way to restore confidence in communications is to secure them against all attacks.
It's similar to LISP - but without the parens