skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have no reason to believe that any actual terror attacks have been stopped.

My guess would be that NSA guys probably take the fact that many Americans hold that view as a huge compliment. I'd be willing to be there's a whole book of "if only you knew".

(FWIW, I still don't think that warrants the program.)
I don't count trawling data as described so far to be spying, any more than I consider my back yard getting photographed by spy satellites to mean they're spying on my place of residence.

I think that most people assume that email is just like mail: private, and protected by the 4th amendment. I think most people assume that their phone records are similarly protected.

The law has said otherwise for >30 years, and I think most people who think about it are aware that their email and phone records are stored by 3rd parties. Do you have evidence for your view, or are you just projecting what you think should be the case onto everyone else?
Supreme Court disallowed Citizens to act vs. NSA - in Feb 2013
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Thanks. A was looking for a quote while you probably referred to the following paragraph:

'Skype wilde volgens de agent jarenlang geen inzage geven, maar sinds het eigendom is van Microsoft zou alles worden gedeeld zoals ook bij Google en Facebook het geval is. De topmannen van die laatste twee bedrijven stelden zaterdag nog niet op de hoogte te zijn van het internet-afluisterprogramma.'
I contend that monetizing social software is actually very much easier than most people believe.

However, the trick, I think, is to look at assistive rather than extractive models. Rather than looking at how to interject ads into social media, or to otherwise hijack a fraction of the collective attention span of your userbase that you can then sell to the highest bidder, instead look at how to leverage social functionality to put tools into people's hands to help them help themselves in the service of commerce. For example, google search ads and pinterest.

Other examples: enable finding product and restaurant reviews, ratings, and suggestions by friends; improve wishlists for gift-buying; make group purchasing at discount easier for many products (games, books, movies, concerts, events, etc.); enable time sharing of services; facilitate picking up hobbies, skills, and activities; and so forth. There's tons of money in these ideas, but it's more common for companies to go to the advertising trough because it's seemingly so easy.

In my view it's always easier to make money off of a transaction that both sides obviously benefit from.
"We might as well join the club, stop innovating and make a monoculture out of it." made my day :D
Thanks for helping make the US suck. Do you really think if someone like Rand or Ron were president they would overturn Roe vs. Wade? You irrelevant-one-issue voters have got to get your heads out of your collective asses.
In the ways the heat management is designed, it reminds me of the oft-maligned G4 Cube, which used the same components around the edges, airflow through the centre idea to cool the machine. The small size of the unit also reinforces the similarity for me.
The CIA has a office 'down the road' from every hotel.
I've sorta been saying this for a while. Earlier on my G+, but also here.

>(which I suspect were simply the dates that the companies brought up infrastructure to be able to quickly and easily comply with FISA warrants. Which means "direct access" is true, but it also means that "we were forced to make it easy to give the government what they want as soon as they need it")

This telling of the tale fits with pretty much what everyone said. The form-fill denials are true and make sense. The governments repeated references to FISA make sense, and it gives them a way to justify their legality.

The rest of the article is great for those cough that keep saying "FISA warrants" as if the warrants part means anything.

I mean, the API for this automated "Takeout [NSA style]" would be super easy. I can imagine it. And all the quirks in the spec. "Check the FISA warrant ID (or don't, it's just a mocked interface that returns true, same result as the court records)", etc.
I have more or less a reaction like this.

I think the best approach to a FISA order is to say "sure, no problem. We will have this all printed, bound, and shipped to you surface mail within 24 hour, preferably from our outsourced printing office in the Yucatan (it's a lot of pages and we don't have the equipment in house to do that). And on the off chance you want it to be electronically readable, we will print it out in OCR-A fonts. Great doing business with you. Have a nice day."
He's probably being downvoted because his comment is a useless sidetrack of the issue. It doesn't matter what Rand's position on Abortion is as he'll never have the required level of support to change it.
But normally you pardon rich people that did something stupid, like Wall Street bankers who commit fraud.
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Definitely, 1984 is a true classic. Out of curiosity, what are the other two books in your list?
It's not the wind that blows that is dangerous, it is what the wind blows. (Some US comedian, I forgot which).
You are perfectly free to express your opinion and we are perfectly free to express our disagreement.
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Life is not a Hollywood movie. Hollywood movies, comic books and so on use larger than life figures doing larger than life activities to stop larger than life villains. In reality, no one on earth is that competent. The villains are usually not very good (often blowing themselves up alone with their bombs) and the "good guys" are usually not that great either (often corrupt themselves).

If the government actually were stopping constant terrorist activity (a) they wouldn't parade obvious entrapment cases as "wins", they'd pick something legit to make us feel safer and (b) someone would talk. One of the contractors, loud mouths, drunks, etc. would eventually leak something. A group as large as NSA wouldn't be able to keep their world-saving completely quiet forever, that's just unrealistic.
Yeah! Want the next one names OSX Cruise? :-)
This is a very weak feature to be touting as a reason to move...
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That is not entirely accurate, the DP signal can be embedded in a TB stream (like on the Apple TB Display, where the actual signal in the TB cable is TB data) but a TB device can demux the DP data and output DP data in the DP/TB connector. The DP data actually uses pars of the total available bandwidth with Thunderbolt 2 since there is no dedicated 10 Gbit channel for video data as with classic Thunderbolt.
I suspect the NSA and CIA remember the Cold War and still regard Germany to be an occupied US possession.
I have a daughter. That still doesn't make me willing to throw out a candidate for his/her potential to stop or slow a problem we are actually having because they hold a position that could never actually be applied in any case.

Pretty much all politicians are awful right now so if you're not going to run yourself you're going to have to make compromises in who you vote for. Please make practical ones.
I use Bytemark, based in the UK. They have a cloud service in beta: http://bigv.io/
His character matters because if you care about this issue, you don't want the public face of opposition to it to be a buffoon. Which is what Klayman is. The guy's been in on everything from Swift Boating to birthering, and that is absolutely not what you want people to see when they look up who's leading the charge against PRISM.
It's far from cynical to ask how a business proposes to make money, especially if it's non-obvious! Yes, there are other challenges beside this, marketing, engineering, and others, but the whole purpose of a for-profit company is to make money. Asking how a business plans to do so isn't naysaying, it's a sensible question.

Also, a valuation is more or less a made up number that suited the VCs and others. The words, "okay, we'll change the valuation to..." seem to be uttered quite commonly when the previous valuation is inexpedient.
It seems clear that the post 9/11 "you're either with us or you're against us" policy was directed primarily toward establishing a global, connected police state (at least as it pertains to surveillance / privacy). The US needed everybody on board, 9/11 was abused to serve that purpose.

At the time I just viewed it as generalized anti-terrorism, anti-Al Qaeda type coalition. In hindsight it seems comically obvious what they were really targeting.
Perhaps they have, shall we say "outside" sources of funding like the CIA is famous for.
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Also, Enemy Of The State is currently the most uploaded movie from my Bittorrent shares...
Larry Page is a liar, straight up. For him to continue lying is pathetic.
What happened here then? http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...
i think these guys are seriously underestimating the computing power the nsa has accumulated.
Getting excited about Rand Paul speaking out about this is exactly like getting excited by candidate Obama talking about how he was going end the wars, close Gitmo, and stop torture.
What if you send it to WH? Maybe they have a disk space cap too.
"Meanwhile, the BBC has learned that Twitter was invited to join the Prism programme last year, but rejected the approach from US authorities."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22824379
Developers.Google.com down
edit: looks like they're having problems, I'm sometimes getting the homepage but no search results
Actually they compare pretty well to The Sun, which is also a sensationalist tabloid. But NY Post/Daily Mail, they're not!
I think this is mostly a troll, Apple 'concentration camps'? Seriously?
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Justin Schuh is a google chrome security employee and former military/agency contractor with a TS clearance, who hinted that it is basically a REST API on his twitter feed. That's getting pretty close to Arrington's theory.

https://twitter.com/justinschuh

He's a little drunk on the red, white and blue kool-aid, right now and lashing out, but he had some comments earlier.

(make your own interpretation, I don't know him or anything else, that was just my read)

The point about these companies being in the program, and twitter not, is a huge distinguisher. That is essentially proof that there is some automation/privileged access.
Obama has been subject to some rather curious use of and emphasis on his middle name by his political opponents, largely in connection to implicit or even explicit conspiracy theories that he's secretly a Muslim. If you ever hear someone do it, you'll notice immediately -- the "Barack" and the "Obama" will be quieter and come out very quickly, while the "Hussein" will be spoken loudly, clearly, slowly, and often with emphatic pause before and after, to draw attention to it.

This has the lingering effect of tarnishing the credibility of anyone who uses his full name even for innocent purposes.

For a while during the 2008 campaign it was a bit of a meme to do the same to McCain ("John SIDNEY McCain") and imply that he was secretly Australian, as a way of pointing out how ridiculous the whole thing was.
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Out of interest, what parts did you find funny? Personally, I thought it was one of the least amusing books I have ever read.
is this some kind of clever ddos? ;)
I think so long as the Germans allow the substantial US military occupation to continue, it's VERY likely much of the bureaucracy views Germany as a quasi-possession (ditto Japan and South Korea).

The way the US regularly gets various major countries to dance upon command, probably just helps reinforce that view (eg the US directly threatening Britain in regards to leaving the EU).
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Simplicity My Ass.
I've read some Plutarch, Seutonius, Tacitus (in translation) and always wondered how the Old Testament measured up as a work of ancient literature.
Well, in the 'if you've got nothing to hide' vein, I think it would be appropriate for an international team of UN cyber inspectors to walk into the NSA and all related company data centers for an unrestricted access all areas fact finding mission.
So what are those three felonies?
I mean deniability for the Chinese : Hong Kong is independent enough that they can claim powerlessness to their American partners, but they are the elephant in the room and can ensure that they keep actual control of the situation.
Yeah, if you stop seeing reality through your super narrow lens, you'll realize that large-scale wars are started by governments and states and not common people.
> The 'if it were android' bit just shows how completely Apple has made us expect the web to not be open.

I think it reflects more how bad Apple are at browser compatible websites, and how we expect them to suck. I have run into many issues in the iOS devcenter where it would only work in Safari. Lame.
Not sure if it's down for everyone, a few mentions of it down on twitter- https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=developers.google.com&...

Intermittent for me at the moment
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Probably works in Safari.
I was looking at the IO bit, and due to the new horrible black on black labels, I was unable to see that there were actual ethernet ports there.

Completely unrelated ofcourse, but that's pretty telling about the black on black + led thingie they've gone for. It's not something to be taken too far.

Edit: I have my monitors in portrait mode. Setting a window to span several monitors and work in "landscape-mode", I can see ethernet is mentioned. On a portrait screen it falls outside the visible area of the viewport and there are no scrollbars.

Edit 2: By resizing the window, I see that the width of the viewport is adjusted based on the height of the visible viewport (w = 2*h). So on a portrait type display (tall) the width of everything is adjusted to be even bigger. This pushes most of the content (apart from the black tube) outside the visible viewport and off the screen.

Basically, this page was designed to only ever work in landscape and break doubly in portrait. And hence most of the details on the page were simply not available.
That would be direct targeting. Originally, the mail can be send to whoever you want.
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Isn't the NY Post regularly 'speaking out' on behalf of homeopathy? I think they even had a post about how you should be an anti-vaccer if you're a parent or some bullshit like that…
But why should they need to?
Android AOSP browser doesn't scroll either, and chrome on Android shows nothing. Weird since they're both WebKit.
These three journalists are sitting on a gold mine of information that is without doubt damning to the greatest military superpower the world has ever seen.

In the movies, people like this tend to have 'accidents' or are 'leveraged'.
Since where Security is a precondition to Freedom ? I wonder where you conceived that strange idea. We never had as much security as we have now (compared to the hundreds of generations before us) yet we are losing our liberties at an alarming speed.
Looks like this version is single socket only.
more like accidents: Bourne
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I read lots of old greak and roman records too (among others, Sun Tzu was chinese :)).
I am amazed every night how much the old testament can be different from what I was taught back in school.

Like the "eye for an eye" saying for example. Never taught it would be cited in the book.
Thanks, where will the man in the middle be ?
Thanks for this. On a related note, be slightly careful when chopping onions or crossing the street. Be moderately careful when trying to do both at the same time. Be extremely careful if your knife is dull, you wear contact lenses, there is oncoming traffic, and you are jaywalking.
The prognosis is not good. There is unquestionably a new aristocracy who are not subject to the same rules as ordinary citizens. Wealth and power is bound in small groups who assist each other in keeping it. It's never been harder to transcend a humble (i.e. poor) start and join the ranks of wealth and power, so the lines between aristocracy and peasant are being solidified (although you wouldn't know it from the propaganda I hear, and in some places it really is just plain propaganda; I used to hear on US radio, just from out-of-nowhere, what were essentially sixty second propaganda pieces describing some guy who made a fortune in business).

While it's still a voting republic, the monied use that money to teach the poor how to vote (predictably, in a way that means they get to keep their money and power).
No, they need a full range of policies if they are to get people to vote for them. Otherwise, people will say "I agree with you on X, but other policies are more important to me, so I won't
be voting for you."

It just seems like an insane amount of brain cycles. Having just one clear goal would make it much easier for anyone to understand - in it's entirety - what the PP is standing for and also streamline resources towards that goal which would probably make it much more efficient in reaching said goal.

As for a complete political programme, can't they just have a team that puts all the decisions that are decided upon in political institutions where pirates are involved into a liquid feedback system where everyone can vote on it? That way the PP could already act as a small direct democracy.
Yes, it absolutely can. Apple may well have rejected software from their Mac App Store, but that doesn't stop an individual from installing any software on the platform. For Windows Phone, Microsoft have similar rules to Apple for their Windows Phone Store.
After living outside the US for a decade, this is how I feel when I go back and watch the news.
Just curious is "X Website Down" important to discuss?
"The EU's new proposed data-protection regime makes it clear that companies, such as US internet firms, providing services to people in Europe would be bound by the obligations of European law"

Good.
But you were allowed to compete and many did that very successfully. Having powerful competitors is fine, but having competitors who can legally block your access to the market is bad for everyone.
> Non-citizens with no real ties to the US, and not in the US are different.

But their US property is still protected. If I'm a Russian orthodontist in Minsk and I buy 500 shares of Google, the Fifth Amendment protects me having them expropriated by the US government even if I never go near the States. (IANAL, but I did check this one.) However if I open a Google Mail account then apparently (under current interpretations) I have no similar protections.

I can't say if this apparent discrepancy is actually legally justified, or not. Without even getting into the question of whether it's morally justified, it is going to come as a significant surprise to a lot of people, who have got used to the idea that they're largely protected by the US rule of law when they do business with the US. And one way or the other, it's reasonable to point out that Rackspace's Fourth Amendment-based reassurances seem to be (no doubt accidentally) crucially misleading to many or most of its customers.
The first one is asking what the three felonies are. You see, when you were born your parents were sent a National Security Letter (NSL) by the government that stated you can never ask about the three felonies. Unfortunately, the NSL came with a gag order, so your parents never told you. But you definitely shouldn't ask what the three felonies are.

The second felony is owning a computer which can be used to circumvent content protection mechanisms. You can address this by purchasing a fixed-function device which cannot be used to circumvent content protection. I suggest an etch-a-sketch.

The third felony is
And the algorithms. If they are intercepting everything and make use of anything like 'data finds data', these will just be ignored.
He was a sysadmin for three months. He never claimed to have firsthand knowledge of this tool. He found the slides on the intranet and jumped to conclusions.
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He's been in space three times already and it was pretty clear that he was not going back due to his age; otherwise, I am sure he would not have retired.
Actually I want a cooperative anarchy with localized institutions that are publicly controlled and from which anybody can opt out in some way.
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What constitutes much noise is subjective, I suppose, but any fan moving hundreds of cfm will be very loud. A 140mm fan moving 20 to 30 cfm is still audible, if you're in a quiet room.

A common approach is to have an intake filter that catches dust. Another is to elevate the case a few inches above the ground.
And I told them "hey, you forgot about the gays, and I can tell you where they are!"
That isn't what a monopoly is.
Observe how Nineteen Eighty-Four is in the public domain in Australia, but won't be in the US until at least 2044.
Yes, 100% seriously. They said that you can't watch the stream on non-Apple hardware, and it turns out that is completely untrue. Why is it in any way controversial for me to point this out?
"Does that not imply they have found a weakness in TLS/SSL?"

Would it not be simpler to get access to a root CA?
what a load of drivel
Not a real explaination, but a nice summary of the developments at valve.

the most interesting part is the breen grub, written by Marc Laidlaw.

https://twitter.com/BreenGrub
It's the weird colour scheme that freaks me. Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls, which are labeled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. Hey, what is this, some kind of galactic hyper-hearse? (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
It's nice to see people like Mr. Wilson stand up for the rights of U.S. citizens by quoting passages from 1984, but what can he and other influential members of the tech industry actually do to change the direction of the country?
> Maybe it's just a bit more expensive / harder to integrate

And probably patent-protected by Dell and needing licensing cost, instead of coming up with something they could patent themselves.
Aurora [1] helped a lot to make stuff even more secure internally. They care a lot about privacy as once that's gone they'd see their users gone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
What saddened me most about that reaction was that it was for the announcement of something that we have always had. The biggest reaction at E3 was to a non-restriction, not a game!
Check the date, it's before the China attacks.