skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the NSA whistle-blower news a damage limitation exercise for a bigger story?
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing to go on. Edward's disclosure was responsible, and certainly served a public good, and so far he should be lauded for it. It was a brave act. I understand him fleeing and seeking asylum in another country given that there is little chance he would get a 'fair' trial here (as has been shown by the way Bradley Manning and Aaron Swartz have been treated)... but of all places ... China??!? He's not an idiot, so he must have thought this through but it makes no sense.
I really don't mind it when it's just meant to amuse people or send a nice message. When people try to engage in a battle of ideas and they rely so directly on borrowed wisdom, it can make for a boring time.
This is the distinction between education and training.

Training is what the poster's sister has.

Education is the bit that is missing.

Unfortunately education and training are confused these days.

I have the same battle with my children and mathematics. The teacher teaches them the mechanics of mathematics but no meaning, reason or application.
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The difference here is that Snowden is going to be wanted for criminal charges, not political ones, so his case for pleading asylum is very, very weak.

It's like someone being accused of murder and trying to seek asylum in another country (I'm not saying that what he did is identical to murder, just pointing out what "criminal" means here).
Is this really relevant to HN? There's nothing of substance in the content at all.

Reddit is a much more relevant platform for mildly interesting stuff that's happening on the internet. I wish the mods would be more aggressive with moderating submissions.
> Its no different than building windows 8 mobile apps in windows.

I'm pretty sure you can do that on other operating systems.

> As for gone out of their way to prevent you from running it in a vm, they equally have no real incentive to make it easy.

They have specifically gone out of their way to prevent it. They check to make sure it is being run on Apple hardware, and you can get hacks that bypass this check. There is no technical reason why I can't run OSX in a VM on my Intel Linux machine.
What I want to know is how these places store my bank account / ACH details. That always worries me more than losing a few Bitcoins.

From past experience with other services, they have about a 95% chance of giving up all customer data due to a hack-in.

Even Linode was storing their private key in the same place their public key was. You can never trust anyone these days.

I'd love to stop using BitInstant and dealing with their cash deposit down-time and issues with their processors and moneygram, etc. But I get to make up all the personal info and don't have to worry about making it into some database that's going to get compromized.
Hardship? Of course not - it's right there in my dock. My point is more about open web standards and Apple not caring about them here.
Yes, as you say, that's... written on the linked page.
The mainstream US media is universally skewed pro-Israel and attempts to present a pro-Palestinian, or even less than fawning, point of view are regularly shouted down as being anti-Semitic.
Eastern Canada.

Well, not DC anyway.
I really appreciate this viewpoint, because I was trying to understand the apparent disconnect between my American and European friends on the suggestion of protesting, and now I do think the function of public space has much to do with it (also overall size of the country).
If you find yourself in this position ever, do yourself a favor and try to avoid this immediate "jump to make it as close to Linux as possible". I know several people who've had this opinion (being hardcore Linux users) and of those, a few have moved over to OS X (one kicking and screaming, no less). The rush to "just make it look like Linux" is unneeded and probably counterproductive.

OS X is a terrible Linux machine, but it's an outstanding BSD machine. Rather than try to force it into what you know, give yourself a short time to get comfortable with the Linmux->BSD shift and you'll find very little need to beat OS X into submission.
BoxCryptor[1] has been my choice. I've been now using it on daily basis together with Dropbox and I'm satisfied. Boxcryptor works on the client side and stores the encrypted files on Dropbox folder as ordinary files. It is also possible to encrypt filenames. Boxcryptor comes from Germany.

The only drawback I have encountered is that Dropbox limits the path names to 255 characters. With encrypted file/folder names this can become an issue especially with some Java projects.

I think this really gives me the best of both worlds. Security for the files I think need it and the Dropbox infrastructure for syncing files.

[1] https://www.boxcryptor.com/
I sometimes feel I'm at a disadvantage by working on a startup that just provides incremental improvement for a well-understood problem for well-defined customers. It's like making money isn't cool enough.
Wow. This is the first time I've encountered an exception to Betteridge's law. The article makes a pretty strong argument that the answer to the headline is "yes".
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I think that's the biggest key, to implement what you learn. I think now I have a good idea of smaller projects I want to work on, with a bigger project in mind. This was a great motivator. I never felt like I could finish a small app after chapter 3. I'll definitely have to go back and think through it this time around. Thanks!
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Thought the one I got was really funny so I peeked at the source. Maybe that second 32 <= score < 35 text is a work-in-progress? :)

20>score?

Here's a fun fact: If you just blindly clicked 'yes' for every answer, you'd have scored better. But don't beat yourself up about it. I mean, you might hit someone else by accident.

23>score?

Sigh. Oh well. At least no one got hurt. That's the best we can take from that.

25>score?

That performance was like the film Taken 2. You went in guns blazing but the result was, well, ugh. Wouldn't buy you on DVD.

29>score?

Not too bad. If you were my child you'd be my second favourite. Even if I only had one child.

32>score?

Pretty damn good. There's a lot of gotchas in there that you managed to avoid.

35>score?

Difficult to criticise that score without being childish, so: Hahaha points you're a massive nerd.

35>score?

Wow, that was impressive! You hardly tripped up at all. Give yourself a gold star.

// Else:

You cheated. You cheated and I hate you.
I don't get this flat vs. skeuomorphic debate. They're not necessarily opposites.

Skeuomorphic doesn't necessarily mean photorealistic. Flat doesn't necessarily mean white text on bold colors. I believe you can have a design that is both skeuomorphic and flat, though I don't expect them to do that.

I think it's safe to say Apple will move away from skeuomorphism, but that doesn't necessarily embrace some pure form of what we've been calling "flat" design.
Paul Revere, "in the Fall of 1774 and winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a Committee for the purpose of watching British soldiers and gaining every intelligence on the movements of the Tories."[1]

Paul Revere was essentially one of the founding members of this country's counter intelligence program against his oppressive government. He was the first in a long line of Mark Felts, Bradley Mannings and Edward Snowdens of this country.

If we have a system where these whistleblowers are stopped before they can leak information on the system that catches them before they can whistleblow there is no turning back. This would not be the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA without Paul Revere and Edward Snowden.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_in_the_American_Re...
Thank you for finding this! While exabyte-scale is fairly realistic, yotta-byte relies upon utterly massive improvements in technology in order to fit in a data center the size of the one in Utah. The article states that microSD cards would be the volume of the pyramid at Giza. 4TB drives at maximum density, full racks of 4U-80 drive enclosures, would occupy 360 square miles of racks. Tape is less dense than hard drives, though it has huge benefits for shipping, transport, and long term storage.

So yottabytes may be feasible, but it's a ways out there.
love the article...and thanks for the mention to ShareDesk!
I would guess it's a configuration error around something like smart extensions, maybe? "If the clean URL has a .xml at the end, send the request through PHP."

Dumb, but it's the only thing I can come up with offhand.
Can you get up in the morning, turn on your coffee maker, shower, eat, get in your car, drive to work, ... enjoy your free time, etc? Do you know how many safe things need to happen for any of those events to work? Think about it. From the electricity to the police force to the gas prices and 100 other things.

So, your argument is that the USA is as safe as Russia and China? I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of people in those countries that were able to accomplish those tasks today without a problem.
> This system is bullshit.

Of course it is. It's bullshit because you have no responsibility in it. You've abdicated your democratic capabilities by saying, "Promise me the world, and I'll wait and watch to see if you give it to me."

You're just a face in the audience. Why would anyone give a shit about being accountable to you?
Additionally there is a very real possibility of backlash against US companies. It makes them uncool and political hot potatoes, who wants to use a phone made by some pet of the NSA.
Key infrastructure doesn't even emit security anymore. The P in PKI is for painful, and I really doubt that some CA, owned by big corporate entity (microsoft, oracle, ca) wouldn't manipulate the eternal append-only log-file for any given human factor and just re-roll it.

There is no benefit in auditing it permanently, like rewarding auditing with payment in bitcoin.

A given conglomerate CA would just revoke and reissue client/customer certificates for some reason and that eternal append log-file gets a short restart and everything is fine again, because of OOPPS compromise.

No CA ever, would host a eternal append-only log-file where you can simply point at and tell: I told you so.

It is simply beneficial for any CA to deploy compromising evidence, just in case, of OOPPS compromise. You sure know whom to blame.

It is not beneficial for a given CA (usa) to allow any other CA (china) to forever store their certificates and make you pay for it.

There is no benefit in eternal log-hoarding for PKI, and they make you pay it.

There is no benefit in it for customers even, because you cant even store that log, retrieve that log or even process it as an individual.

I am at a point where I would try web of trust with unicorns, raindows and flying cats before trying again and again with PKI by taking something from virtual currencies and attach it to PKI. Certificate Transparency is like Chrome, it is not build to let you or me delete, or remove CA-Certificates, we may dislike for any given reason, or just because we can.

I am at a point were I really conclude that taking away certificates or keys and delegate them, is the worst idea ever.

Certificate Transparency is baiscally the same wet-hot idea as in 1994 with PKI:
PKI, nearly twenty years ago: In the perfect PKI world imagined by netscape, there would be no war, only love, because secrets would stay secrets forever and the NSA would still chew on their first intercepted message.

Reality check please.

CAs have proven not to be reliable trust providers. It is so easy to find the weakest CA and attack and compromise it.
Certificate Transparency won't change that, its not even beneficial for CAs.

So lets try web of trust, it hasn't failed us yet, it just wasn't sexy enough. May we need that P in PKI pain to gain something after 20 years.

Imagine certificates trust-validated from your nerd friend, facebook group, google circle, 4chan, whom you trust, ymmv.

Everthing is better than certificates from the folks that hold your browser, operating system, data, e-mails or docments hostage and make you pay for some binary data blob and logging their failures.
While not practical for all math, for the particular "mystery" of PI and calculus, I find the story of Archimedes very useful.

Having a concrete example of how PI was calculated was very easy to wrap my head around:

http://betterexplained.com/articles/prehistoric-calculus-dis...
Thanks for the feedback. I do agree that Django will probably be the best way to get into web app development. I do have some Ruby experience, so I might go back and tackle Sinatra first then Rails. But you make a very good point. The first time I looked at the Django project docs they didn't seem very friendly, but I think with the extra time I have now this might not be such a bad idea.
The fact that this is the World Wide Developer's Conference makes me think that developers are the targeted audience.
It could be an interesting idea for terrorists to terrorize people this way: just distribute their numbers and see Gov't do their work.
If you want to get rid of the IdP right now (and you have your own domain), you can use the plug-and-play MVP IdP I wrote: https://persowna.net
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Before anyone else gets this idea, I'd encourage you to look at your organizations' resident country laws before thinking & acting on this.

Companies based in the UK, for example, can not make the claim found above ( http://m.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-m...).

I'm not a lawyer, but you could lose all credibility if you act on that and get it wrong.
I feel your pain. I'd love to find a co-founder to share load, but no luck so far. :(

But if you have a working product and paying clients, you should definitely go seek funding. It'll slow down your development, but you're in a much better position because you're already selling.
A dishonest man who looked good and was able to say what people wanted to hear, promised a lot of promises that he did not keep, a war criminal with Nobel Peace Prize and sexy wife - that's how I will probably remember him.
Flat is such a ridiculous design fad. Good design implements both flat and "skeuomorphic" (another word I wish would just go away) elements. Can we stop running back and forth from one side of the room to the other?
I wholeheartedly agree with the thesis here, and have been saying as much since 2001. An event on the scale of 9/11 happening every other day would still kill fewer Americans than heart disease.
I would hope the poster knows what things the sister actually likes to do. Math is the one subject people will use to excess when it isn't seen as Math. Watch any fantasy draft or craft and see how much math is going on. Find the Math in the math she is already doing and work up from their.

We have the same problem with new students at the community college I currently work at. I am at the "searching for sources" phase of trying to put together a "just numbers" course to get students comfortable with numbers and their uses.

Perhaps buying some of WeWantToKnow AS's software https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragonbox+-algebra/id5220691... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragonbox-algebra-12+/id6344... for iOS if you have that.
No need to stream from a phone this year, or even be in the room. Joe Random with a Ustream account just needs to open the official stream on a Mac, then rebroadcast that to UStream. Easy.
To clarify more: Persona is not "moving in this direction," it has always been designed as a completely decentralized identity solution. The Persona server is just a boostrap to get it started so here's what you can do: create as many identity providers as you can! Seriously, put one in every country.
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Many people in society value practicality. Why should I do something if it doesn't directly benefit me in the physical sense? How will this make me more likable/valuable/wealthy?

Theoretical studies like mathematics serve no purpose to people who view the world this way, except to qualify their earnings gained through other pursuits. Theory is something some smart guy with a big head does. "Normal people" are practical, and work with what is real.

This sort of viewpoint is one reason (in my opinion, the reason) why many students give no effort in learning math, because it is "too hard", when "hard" means "different", and "different" equates to "not concrete/tangible".
I might say "killed with guns" rather than "by" - I'm not sure that I'd normally nitpick but when contrasting with "killed by terrorists" it seems more glaring.
An advantage of an armed population is a large number of people skilled in the use of arms. Most people cannot reliably hit a person-sized target at several hundred meters the first time they pick up a rifle. Make that target a trained soldier who's moving and shooting back and the disadvantage grows much larger.
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Yeah, tried that too. Also tried CloudFogger [1], which has a similar feature.

When it comes to performance, a layer of encryption on top of Dropbox is much better than any competing solution that has client-side encryption built into it, because you're still using Dropbox's awesome infrastructure and lightening-fast sync protocol.

But I ran into the same problem as you did. The 255-char limit sucks, and it's completely unnecessary because even Windows/NTFS allows you to use longer paths (up to 32KB) if you know which APIs to use. I suppose fixing this is not a priority for Dropbox because you normally don't run into it unless you use encryption, and Dropbox has no reason to encourage the use of encryption among their users.

[1] http://www.cloudfogger.com/
If you are trying to compile the software with a new compiler, then you are changing the environment. And then it's expected that you may need to change things. Software has the most complex interfaces between parts, and it's nearly impossible to even verify that you haven't changed an essential part of of the contract. Of course this also hints at how we may build more reliable and resilient software in the future...
We will finally be able to jailbreak our iDevices again!
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Assuming that Apple does go flat, my understanding was that it will be, for the most part, taken care of for developers. Unless you were already doing a lot of custom skinning, building for iOS 7 with native widgets should just "work," no?
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I know a couple of people that, for as long as I've known them, have been consumed by this idea of having to be able to defend yourself from an intrusive government. They, as one would expect, have gun safes full of guns of all types, piles of ammunition and other survivalist tools and equipment.

When the Newtown school massacre happened I actually called a friend in the Sheriff's department to ask if I should "drop a dime" on these guys. My argument was that, while they had never hurt anyone in their lives, perhaps they could one day blow a fuse and use their arsenal to kill innocent people.

This was a troubling call for me. I am not anti-gun at all. I don't happen to own any. Yet, I don't have any fundamental objections to law-abiding people owning them. The Newtown event rattled me as much as it probably did lots of people.

To my surprise my friend, the Sheriff, said not to worry. He went on to tell me that this sort of thing (stock-piling weapons and ammo) is very common. He said lots of cops do it. He went further and told me "we can find most of these people because they are being tracked one way or the other, whether they know it or not".

I didn't think much of that last statement until the latest government scandals started to surface, from the IRS targeting political groups (regardless of alignment, would you like it to happen to you in the future?) to this PRISM/surveillance mess. You now have to wonder where else the government is tracking us. Or, perhaps, the right question could very well be the opposite: Where are you safe?

All of a sudden these "nut-cases" who stockpile weapons and wake up every day thinking the government is out to get them actually have something to point to and say: "See, I told you so". I already got that call, BTW.

No, I am not going out to buy guns. Not interested. I have enough fun shooting them at the range. I don't feel I need to own any of them for any reason. But, you know, how can I now tell these guys they are insane for thinking the way they do?
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(I'm not affiliated with them, btw.).
Just remove maximum-scale=1 from the viewport meta tag. It doesn't allow zooming in Safari, either.
I don't think you know how to persona...
It appears to be simply a lack of sufficient sand to show all of the lines- some of them become symmetrical when more sand is sprinkled on.
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or, to put it another way, please stop writing closed source software ;)
I've taken the GRE once in India, and I can confirm that the math section was RIDICULOUSLY easy. I could ace it without breaking a sweat, and I'm (was) actually a fairly average student.
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I have a better suggestion, make government snooping impossible.

The reason that the NSA's behavior is so shocking is because Americans believed it was other countries, such as China, who possessed a vast surveillance state.
A 9/11 happening every other day would cause $5.5 trillion a year in damage. Possibly much more, if you look at the impact of 9/11 on U.S. stocks.

In any case, looking at just the death toll misses the point. The attack on the World Trade Center was the largest attack on continental U.S. soil since the British sacked the White House. The reaction it engendered was very understandably out of proportion with the number of lives lost in the attack. It was deeply disturbing to a nation that has for nearly its whole history felt secure, being isolated from anyone who would harm it by the world's largest oceans.

As someone from a country with questionable security, let me tell you that you cannot measure the value of safety merely in lives lost. I bet in Bangladesh the violence of hartals (labor strikes) probably doesn't add up to very many lives at all, but the disruptive force of that violence is much stronger. A major terrorist attack just every year would make the U.S. a very different place (see, e.g., Israel).
This is a very strange way of 'faking' a read-only file and after testing Python, it handles real read-only files fine

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 10 17:28 test
python hello.py > test
bash: test: Permission denied
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If I were you (and I know that I don't know much about your personal situation) I would try to get into some startup incubator like http://startupchile.org/
>>Airlines check travel documents before you board a plane on an international flight, because the airline is responsible for returning you at no charge to you if you are denied entry for lack of proper travel documents at the border of your destination.

This explains the sometimes seemingly draconian photo ID checks by airlines at the gate. Thanks for clearing this up -- I didn't realize that the return cost was borne by the carrier. Makes much more sense.