skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admire the VC companies that pledge towards charitable causes. Its nice to see one that actively works towards promoting these causes too.
Funny thing is that it's a promo for their own Kickstarter project (Kickstarted the movie).

Based on the video revealing the fraud, there's no way I'll fund the movie. (Not that I've ever funded anything anyway)
Convenience is an Attack Vector
The notion that Joseph Nacchio, who enriched himself to the tunes of tens of millions of dollars by defrauding his shareholders when he sold his stock to them at prices he knew to be inflated due to secret information he possessed as an insider, is somehow a victim of NSA is another one of those "things people thing on Monday and Wednesday" --- except in this case it's a Monday 6 years in the past.
Sony Turns Its Lackluster SmartWatch Into A Developer Playground
If you can be bothered to type your name in and hitting send, why would any congress member doubt you'll vote in the next election? It's clear you're paying attention to at least something, you're voicing concern with over 100,000 other individuals. You can also customize the e-mails if you're so inclined.

Despite that, if you receive 20,000 e-mails from constituents in your districts, perhaps you'll perk up to that.

And if you think phone calls are a good idea, why not create a simple website making it easy for people to find the numbers they need and promote it to the stop watching us people (ask if they'll promote you if you promote them to achieve the same goal). It's truly a good idea.

Phone calls stopped SOPA most likely. And a huge internet black out.
Indeed, it increasingly seems 'content' is a consciously-chosen term, which is intentionally time-tense-ambiguous, to obscure the fact that calls and other communications have slready been recorded to NSA systems. They're not tslking about a warrant to truly start 'collection' of future communications (in the normal senses of English).

Getting a warrant just sets the read-access bit on already ingested 'content': "Oh, the secret court approved the warrant? OK, let me run `chmod a+r /calls/by-person-id/us-gz-74916949/*` - now you're in!"

This might also explain the growing pursuit of mandatory-total-traffic-retention policies in other countries. Their security establishment has a hint of how nifty this has been for the NSA, but might not be able to pull off — legslly or financially — the same broad ingest feeds and giant datacenters as in the US... so they try to offload the obligation to regulated private entities, and still have the arbitrary lookback when they need it.
Very naive. Perhaps Joseph Nacchio, you know, committed insider trading. Perhaps his lawyer's excuse, that it was retribution from the NSA was, you know, a lawyer's excuse. And perhaps the sympathetic tech press regurgitates it like a fact.

Edit: and by the way, it was a jury trial. So not only was the SEC acting on behalf of the NSA, and the judge who sentenced him, but so was a 12 person jury. That's more believable.
Kobe beef wasn't exported prior to 2012, and today, the US has only received <400kg of it. Not much at all. It's almost certainly not Kobe beef if it's named as such - and certainly not if it's affordable.
I love DDG and I used it for 6 months but the problem I had is that when I was looking for things related to coding or Linux--it fell short. I would type in an error from Objective-c, Node.js, Java, JavaScript or Scala and nothing helpful would return. This forced me to return to Google which I ended up doing so often that I switched my default search engine back :(.
Supreme Court: Scientists Can't Patent Naturally Occurring DNA
Complete and utter speculation. This is wordplay for page views, I'm disgusted to have given them one.
Except that Google have stated that they have humans look into each request, and that there is no dropbox. So either Google's lying, or The Guardian/Edward Snowdon didn't actually understand what was going on (beyond the obviously true and worrying collusion with AT&T and Verizon).
It means the people, of course. But I'm not disputing rosser's claim, I'm just pointing out that the same is true of the term "republic."
Beer fed cattle is pretty much an urban legend, this didn't tip anyone off?
The telcos are a bigger problem if you are living in the USA. If you are a non-US-citizen outside the USA, the web companies are a bigger problem, because a) you're probably well out of the reach of Verizon (though also within reach of your domestic phone snooping) and b) unlike an American or US resident, you have no legal protection if the NSA decides it would like to look at your web-company data for any reason, though it still has to issue an individualised order to make you one of the few thousand people or groups it's following on Facebook (as 'twere).
And you would be horribly, tragically, mistaken.
If a CA is compromised, then it's just open sesame. So....
"stories based on the most extreme possible interpretation of what seems to be Greenwald's own extreme interpretation of a slide deck covered the entire front page for days."

The interpretation wasn't extreme, it was literal. What it looks like is that the NSA claimed to have direct access while the denials that have been make it seem like they indeed might not have it.

The thing is that the NSA said they had this kind of power to someone, in a power-point presentation. They have said that they wanted it. And the regime of secrecy today makes it extremely difficult to determine for certain what they do and don't have.

I mean, if the NSA director was being truthful to congress in saying they weren't systematically spying, he's being very coy now when confronted with apparently contradictory evidence. Possibly, like many secret bureaucracies, the NSA was as wedded to telling someone, likely a high official, that they were ubber-powerful, and were by the token, attached getting the direct access even if they indeed currently lack it.

I mean, I think the NSA is discovering the weakness of secret approaches - that it makes all denials and all limits implausible. Hopefully, this will force a situation where all the "secret laws" and such get done away with.
Cool. I wonder what the conversion workflow --> GeoJSON is like? KPX and CSV and XLS are common over at data.gov.au / data.act.gov.au
Hmm. In 1999/2000 I had a $110 Kobe Beef cheeseburger (complete with truffles) at the Burger Bar in Vegas, so either (A) it wasn't Kobe Beef or (B) there was some limited exporting prior to 2012.
U.S. says Syria used chemical weapons, will send arms to rebels
No, it doesn't. I've detailed how safe browsing works in Chrome, Firefox and Safari works before[1]. tl;dr only partial hashes are exchanged, so you can't reverse it even if you really wanted to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5588362
A Visionary's Pick (A)Cloud, (B)Data Or (C)Intelligent Algorithms?
Precisely. When a smaller provider goes from 1000 to 50 users, it's a "ZOMG 95% drop!" while only 950 users left, line noise for bigger providers. You're adding another example to my point.

Naturally I didn't say that all small numbers always change drastically. But those that do change, appear to be more drastic than larger numbers.
Lucas And Spielberg Predict “Massive Implosion” Of Hollywood
You can't see the wood for the trees, can you?
OK, now I have to try Vagrant, too!
Hands-on with Jolla’s first smartphone running Sailfish OS
It also enrages me how they dismiss the metadata as a "nothing burger".

Does it occur to anyone how much leverage you can exert with that information alone in such areas as finance, divorce proceedings, opposition research, leak investigations, and good old fashioned blackmail?

To add to it, they don't even need a court order or oversight to do the metadata searches per Feinstein (today).
Awesome! I love your terms. "So you go prove a negative, and then..."
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DDG is already my default search engine, and landing page (in FF, mind you).

However, honestly, I prefer Google's results. Has anyone else had this experience?
It isn't a dedicated core. Linode offers a $20/mo 8-core instance. That doesn't mean there aren't others sharing those cores. If Linode were offering 8-core Sandy Bridge E5-2670 servers with all 8 of those cores dedicated to you for $20, that would be quite a steal.

The RAM is guaranteed and the processor is shared. Amazon has been working a fixed-compute model on all except their Micro instances. Other providers are sharing cores.

Right now, DigitalOcean is limiting the number of cores exposed to smaller instances. They may change that in the future (there have been hints on their feedback site that they're looking into changing this so that smaller instances could have better burst capabilities).
Yes, if they challenged it and lost, they would have to comply with it.

Assuming David Drummond and Larry Page's denial is accurate, there are various possible explanations. Two that leap to mind:

- the government has so far held off on a broad order for Google because they assumed that Google would challenge such a broad order (whereas given past history Verizon and most other telcos would be likely to go along meekly).

- perhaps internet-based orders can be targeted more precisely, so Google's gotten requests for tens of thousands of user but not millions
I haven't seen 20,000 documents reported anywhere, or perhaps I just missed it. Do you have a link to an article mentioning this? Thanks.
Here's how it works (this is my professional opinion as a web developer

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Is OpenStack the next Linux?
It's hard to tell exactly what codeable does but I really like a combination of Skype + Screen Hero. Google Hangouts might be another option.

I'd be willing to try it with you if you just have some simple RoR questions.
I found that having the !$var shortcuts to all sorts of sites (including !g for google, !w for wikipedia, and single word strings for many lesser trafficked sites) has made me more productive than a plain google search bar where I often need to add an extra click to the workflow.
Yes, you are completely correct that this story does not report an instance of this type of broad request to an Internet company.

I found it interesting that this story about an Internet company also mentioned this specific breadth. I'm likely reading too much into it.

Maybe some restraint has been shown and, unlike phone companies, no Internet companies have received requests for more than data about specific individuals. I'll try to stop assuming the worst.
It took one search for some css help I needed and I already switched back to Google. I don't have time to see if DDG knows the answer yet. I just need the answer and Google gives it to me.
DON'T EDITORIALIZE HEADLINES
Erm...sounds like Chinese innovation.
> Why am I the one who needs to reserve judgement?

Because you are responsible for your opinions. What other people say is orthogonal to your own exercise of judgment. /schoolmarm
"Stop asking questions I won't like the answers to."
The real irony would be if the the actual fraud here is kickstartedmovie false-flag creating kobebeefjerky in order to promote their movie.

Now there's a meta-fraud for you.
Linux Top 3: Linux 3.10 Gets Bigger
I have never seen such rampant speculation before. I think you should change your addendum to read "take this entire comment with a grain of salt." This gem really takes the cake:

Even if they had previously installed the key, all they would get is that warning during package installation if a rogue repository was established, something which is fairly common

You see so many "rogue repositories" that you think they are common? I have never had one.
>Google have stated that they have humans look into each request, and that there is no dropbox

I've been looking for this since I read your comment but can't seem to find it. Perhaps you could point me to the article to which you're referring?

If true that would be great, but to fulfill the constrains set by the information we do know, it is possible that most companies have drop boxes, while Google opted out. Do you recall what Facebook said about human review and drop box existence?

Edit: I also wonder how many requests are appealed. The human overseers you're referring to may be little more than mechanical turks and that data is returned in near-realtime.
But he is hashing secrets. Salted and Hashed passwords are extremely important...and saying "Don't Hash Secrets" is just an attempt to get him more traffic.

There is another important aspect to salting that he neglects to say. Adding an 8byte salt is extremely effective (along with a proper password hashing algorithm) in increasing the complexity of generating and storing rainbow tables. PBKDF2 and bcrypt are both slow enough to protect a lot of that low hanging fruit that he is saying ISN'T protected....Sure if you use SHA1....they might get some of them....but everyone agrees you should not be using SHA1 ! (for passwords).
Ok, then: I opt not to reserve judgement. I'd rather know the truth, whether or not it's fun to talk about.
Exposed: inside the Free State site
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This is not proof at all. It's a theory, based on the phrasing used, but nowhere near conclusive.
Yes I am a web developer that goes to work everyday in a professional environment.
As is usually pointed out in these threads, if you're using Chrome anyways, you can do the same thing (and with the same bang syntax, if you want to go to the bother of customizing them that way) with the location bar in Chrome. Start typing the web address, hit tab, enter the query, and it just goes straight to wikipedia, google, etc with no DDG intermediary.

It's slightly different, but you can do almost the same thing with Keywords in the Firefox location bar, and they presumably could support the bang syntax (or whatever) as well.
Open-source Java Virtual Interface API makes Java apps Cloud-friendly
Are you able to elaborate on the testing you did? Did you raise any bug reports over with Mono?
If you're typing !g more often than not. What keeps you using it?
That isn't actually the reality. For example, if nothing else, it's clear that Sony does care about the poor schmuck in rural Nebraska.

But more generally, why are you only talking about the United States? What you are saying might be true of the US, but plenty of places across the wider world are home to people who play video games but don't have an internet connection. Or have a spotty internet connection. Or have a connection with restrictive data caps (meaning digital download only would be impossible).
have you checked out some of the !bang options available? I just took a look and here is a sampling of what you have available.

Sysadmin: !apache !awesome !bsd !chef !codeweavers !cookbook !cve !datasheet !distro !distrowatch !eventid !everymac !exex !exploitdb !filext !fsf !fsfe !funtoo !gdiag !gnomebugs !gnu !howtoforge (!htf) !ip !irp !iso !linode !linuxfr !linuxhcl !linuxmint !lxr !mysql !nginxwiki !openbsd !openbsdmisc !opensuse !oracle !osvdb !parabola !peppermintos !playterm !postgresql !psql !puppet !qth !salix !salixforums !sectube !senderbase !spice !splunk !sqlite !susebug !susepkg !technetlib !timestamp !tldp !trisquel !use !vmkb !vol !wog !zahe

Sysadmin (debian): !debbug (!dbugs) !debian !debianforums !debianfr !debml !debmla !debwiki !dfiles !dman !dpackages (!dpkg !dpts) !dtag !fanch

Sysadmin (FreeBSD): !bsdman !fports !freebsd !freshports !fxr

Sysadmin (Gentoo): !gbugs !gentoo !gentoowiki !gpackages !gwiki

Sysadmin (RedHat): !rbugs

Sysadmin (Solaris): !sunpatch

Sysadmin (Ubuntu): !askubuntu !docubu !docubufr !omgubuntu (!omgu) !ppa !puc !ubottu !ubuntuforums (!ubuntuf) !ubuntuusers !uman !upackages !upkg !uu !uude

https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
Yes it does. Check this page out [1] and this stackoverflow question.[2]

"If a file isn’t from a known source, Chrome sends the URL and IP of the host and other meta data, such as the file’s hash and binary size, to Google."

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2012/01/all-about-safe-browsing.htm...

[2] http://superuser.com/questions/387724/how-to-disable-downloa...
HP: Windows XP’s death will save PCs like Windows 8 couldn’t
In your professional experience as a web developer, maybe you could square this assertion:

Services (Google, Facebook, etc) automatically grant request without question as it is a legally binding FISA order

... with the court order the NYT linked to from FAS, where Yahoo is seen to go several rounds with the FISC after having received a lawful directive from NSA to initiate surveillance?

From exactly what evidence do you argue that Google (or any other Internet company) automatically approves all FISA requests?
Just pushed one of my weekend projects: OpenLogin
I can think of quite a few companies that have all made security easier for the masses, maybe 10 or so off the top of my head and they're easily found with the search engine of your choice (FYI: I endorse DDG)

My company (CryptoSeal) works on cloud security, we try to make encryption easier to use. To be on direct point, We have a couple products that make VPNs easy.

If you're looking for something specific I'd be happy to help you find it :)
Well, Googamooga has their list of vendors and they are not on there. Easy to verify: http://brooklyn-lineup.googamooga.com/?sort=Food
Batidos para adelgazar de fruta y proteinas
Wouldn't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio... protect them regardless?
I'm unclear on why the "drop box" matters, so long as it's being filled manually after expert review. In fact, a secure drop box is better than the alternative, which would be ad hoc distribution of sensitive information over the public Internet.
ImageIO dirty memory is not automatically cleared by iOS
It's certainly speculation with a linkbait title, but the apparent consistency between Clemente and Feinstein makes it not-completely-woolly speculation. It's certainly more than possible that that Feinstein's statement should be interpreted straightforwardly while Clemente was just largeing it up for TV though.
Sorry for the late response, but wow. You can't even get flank steak? That's hugely popular here now (US, Seattle specifically). I can find flank steak everywhere (and the price is way up from where it used to be).

That really interesting that you have to pre-order this. It's also interesting because it highlights that you actually have butchers. :) We have butchers in Seattle, of course, but most people get their meet from the supermarket now (in some parts of the country there are no standalone butchers anymore).
I switched to DDG about 2 years ago and haven't looked back.
My take is they have pretty good clue, are appreciative of security, and they use FreeBSD :)
Remote-controlled helicopter camera records Turkey protests
I've also found Tornado to be quite readable. But my norm is corporate closed source code which is pretty unreadable.
Can you feel me now?
"war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength"

We spy on you to keep you free.
My view is that we will be getting answers to these questions soon. The journalist is closer to the answers than we are, but he would prefer the government and the companies disclose the answers in a responsible manner so he doesn't have to be the arbiter of what gets released or not.

It seems that from what we're getting from the government and companies, we're getting closer to answers, but we're not there yet.

If the question you're raising is about the nature of the Prism program, I am very much looking forward to an answer to that. But I think the best approach is to see the evolution of responses from government and companies rather than smear the journalist as a hack for not immediately releasing the whole presentation.
Plus, as once a poor schmuck in rural Nebraska, we had decent DSL.
That's what I did a few months ago when I tried DDG as default. The learning curve getting used to their design was a hurdle I didn't feel like jumping either.
Watch the video at the end of the article.
Snarky tone unnecessary. To which court order do you refer?

Edit: Also, your tweet quoting me sarcastically was also unnecessary. I'm trying to be helpful and you're being rude.
It wasn't, sorry. There are farms in the US that try to mimic the process, and there've been cattle flown in from Japan, which might have been what you had (but who knows, the real product isn't trademarked here).

Kobe beef is also around $300-400 for 1kg, so maybe $50-100 in ingredients alone, in Japan, for a burger, let alone what it costs when imported.

Not that it matters a great deal. You probably still got something good. There's other highly (and higher) valued beef in Japan too, Kobe is just a big prestigious brand.
I'm not smearing him for not immediately releasing the whole presentation. I'm noting places where his own publication contradicts statements that he made, statements that Google and Yahoo and Facebook categorically denied, which are vital to the story.
Every USG veteran knows to be skeptical of mission briefs, regardless of important-looking classification markings.

That deck was put together by a mid- to low-level government program manager who owned the program. He is playing politics, making his program sound like the most awesome thing EVAR so he gets promoted. It's not an "official" document, despite all the fancy markings.

You cannot interpret every word as gospel.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kobered/through-the-eye-...

April 12, 2013.
The problem is a lack of oversight. FISA courts are secret and allegedly a rubberstamp process (see link in my original post). If the program were to go through normal channels it would be ok.
I've got a bridge I'm selling in Detroit you might be interested in. ;)
This has been talked about many times now. All compromising a CA lets them do is to create believable certificates to be able to man in the middle connections, but they can't be doing that for a large number of connections because it's resource intensive and detectable.

They still don't have the private keys of the sites if they break into the CA.
Much of the first world is better connected than the US. If you're talking about gamers with both money and poor connections, they're far more likely to be in the US than anywhere else.
If the NSA had teleportation (and why not, they engage in a lot of research and development), or if they could just make people invisible, would they let you know?
What does this have to do with whether there's a dropbox or not?
because foodie indie hipster startup kickstarter before it was cool.
It's easy to get in the US, it just costs a lot. There are restaurants in NYC that have the certified product, expect your meal to run you around a grand.
This is insane. Apparently Titan can do 10-20 petaflops per second. I didn't think before, but they may be decoding AES-128.
I think OpenStack is the next CP/M ripoff, we've got quite a few iterations to go before its Linux quality. I can't wait to see it with FreeBSD quality after that!
Forgive my uncertaintly, but what precisely do you have in mind when you say 'optical interconnects on backbones' here? Do Room 641A and "Collection of communications on fibre optic cables and infrastructure as data flows past" from the You Should Use Both slide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-surveillance... cover it? (Ironically enough the slide suggests that PRISM is the name for the non-upstream half of the operation.)
It's a pure coincidence, of course, that of all the white collar criminals, the guy who refuses to help the NSA gets found out.

Just like it's a pure coincidence, of course, that of all the people out there hiring escorts, Elliot Spitzer gets rumbled.
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