skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a screenshot of one of the videos: http://i.imgur.com/nppgVPG.jpg

Perhaps Iridium refers to the Iridium satellite constellation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellatio...) (Edit: or maybe one of their products http://www.iridium.com/Products.aspx) and "SBD service" refers to something like this: http://www.iridium.com/products/IridiumSBD.aspx?section=supp... ?

Edit 2: Perhaps they were tracking the balloon?
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Not tethered, as nostromo mentioned. The hazards created by cables in the air for airplanes would kill the idea before it could take off (pun not intended).
You'd be looking for a ringspun cotton or a triblend t-shirt from a high-end brand like American Apparel or Canvas. It all depends on how much you want to pay.

American Apparel and Canvas are on the high end of the market. They each offer both ringspun and triblend styles. You're looking at $3 to $4 per shirt over the cost of a basic cotton tee.

If you want a "value" soft tee, you should consider the Gildan Softstyle or Hanes Nano T. You can get these for only $1 to $2 over the cost of a basic tee, and you'll still feel a noticeable difference.
Also, you may want to look into node-webkit. You can now build cross platform "apps" using html/css/node.js
Okay, I get it. I think it's basically unanswerable but I'm happy to agree to disagree.
Thanks for that correction. Makes this all even crazier, if Wired is straight up trying to send him a message this way.
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I've used javascript for many many years and, as of 6mo ago, started using Scala (I do a lot of distributed programming on hadoop, storm, and recently spark). Scala is now one of my favorite languages because of Spark (http://spark-project.org/). Scala very nicely blends the functional and imperative styles and it always favors programming without side-effects. Anything you can do in java you can do in fewer lines and you will see fewer bugs.

That said- it's not a superior language, just a different paradigm. With Scala you get very strong typing, functional constructs (so incredibly powerful), matching, options, very clean closure syntax, etc.. You'll eventually fall in-love with _, too.

I haven't used scala.js yet, but here are some downsides to Scala proper:
* slow the compile
* tooling isn't great (this true of anything jvm to some degree though)
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They are testing it in New Zealand hinterland.

I wonder what implications this is going to hvae for NBN in Australia. They are spending tons of money to launch two satellites to provide access to remote towns. Google is showing they can do it for cheaper, possibly, and with Fiber they are showing gigabit FTH can be done cheaply...
Hey there Kevin, how does US Attorney cock taste?

Anybody with any sense knows you're a plant, not a hacker, and your hacking charges were laid there by the US Attorney to give you cover to turn on real hackers. Wired has been part of the compromised media from the day they published anything written by you.
How long before they abandon the idea? Google is well known for creating projects for shits and giggles and abandoning them when it turns out giggles don't make money.
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I'm building a site in which 501(c)(3) nonprofits can accept donations and fundraise through my service.

I understand that from the perspective of the user/donator, you should get an email telling you how much to claim on your 1040 Schedule A form. However, I'm clueless as to how to handle this from the perspective of my service. Do I simply report the actual amount transferred to the nonprofit after fees, or are there extra steps/forms to fill out that I'm missing?

(and since extra info can't possibly hurt: we're using Stripe as our payment processor)
> As Gore Vidal put it: "Americans have been trained by media to go into Pavlovian giggles at the mention of 'conspiracy' because for an American to believe in a conspiracy he must also believe in flying saucers."

While we're on that subject:

There's a very interesting video about 9/11 that every American really, really, really should watch put out by a group called Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

"9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddz2mw2vaEg
Oh, I agree. I think it's great they're disclosing what they can and pushing to be able to disclose even more. The "somewhat useless" remark was directed more at the restrictions preventing them from divulging more than at Google themselves.
FYI more details are here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589461-38/facebook-micro...
I've often thought something like this would be good for providing internet access to the people of North Korea.
At the moment, the NSA still permits use of 2048-bit RSA for classified information up to SECRET. It would be highly questionable for them to do so if they knew of easily exploitable weaknesses, as they're taking the chance that other governments won't find them.

Remember, the NSA's mandate is twofold: They are a signals intelligence agency, but they are also charged with protecting government communications, much of which occur with commercially-available cryptography.

RSA does make people nervous for some valid reasons, and that's why there's a gradual transition to ECC underway, but there's little reason to expect a practical attack on RSA at 2048+ bits in the near term.

Absent an operational error on the part of Wired or Snowden, I seriously doubt the NSA will be decrypting that message in Snowden's lifetime, and almost certainly not before changes in the political climate.
I work an hourly programming job (not exactly the norm). I can either spend X amount of hours laminating my floor, or spend those X hours working and making money. Then I can spend a fraction of that to pay a skilled laborer to do it for me.

While not everyone has a job that's hourly, people still have a strong sense of their time's worth. Maybe working extra doesn't directly translate to X dollars at the end of the month, but it may mean you can negotiate a larger raise, or a bonus.
> "why don't they need one to get into my "facebook home"?

Because there is no such thing as your Facebook home.

If you're associating Facebook with "your home", they have you by the balls. Google is trying desperately to grab your balls too, so that your Google profile is the center of your online persona. They make incremental, subtle changes to push users towards Google+ to achieve this. The latest change happened this week, where you can no longer have a profile picture on Youtube unless it comes from Google+. They actually removed my profile picture, and popped a message up saying I have to go to Google+ to set up the profile picture again. They replaced my avatar with a generic blue pattern that looks like crap. Bastards. I don't want a Google+ profile. I don't like being forced to use social media services just to have a profile picture on Youtube, or just to rate an app on the play store.

Your "home", digital or otherwise, should be under your control, not sold out to a company. IMHO there needs to be new laws designed to protect our "digital homes" from the very tech giants who facilitate them and change the rules at their choosing, absent user preference and input.

Imagine not being able to get into your own house without first logging into Facebook? Or not being able to use the internet without first checking in with Google? Far-fetched? Not really, it's slowly heading that way in baby steps. The needs and wishes of companies and government first, citizen freedoms and user-control and true privacy second or third, or not at all.
If you hadn't identified yourself as a Java programmer, it would have been obvious by your high level of concern for IDEs.

Language like Python and Ruby don't have IDE support like Java does because they don't need them. I'm reminded of the post, "IDEs are a Language Smell": http://www.recursivity.com/blog/2012/10/28/ides-are-a-langua...

It's sometimes a bit disconcerting how strong a learned dependence Java programmers seem to have with IDEs.
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Correct, the main issue is that many seem to mistake Java's OO model with OOP in general.

Most modern languages are all OO based in some form, while being more flexible, like your example.

Java 8 will probably improve the situation. At least on the enterprise level, I don't see it moving away from Java and .NET anytime soon.
If this could bring the INTERNET to places like China (where there is only INTRANET)!
There's no way to know if you're really Kevin Poulsen. Your account was created an hour ago. It could be someone trolling. If you want to prove this is you, you could link your comment from a tweet.

I've read more about your involvement in the Lamo-Manning conversation, and I've changed my mind. Lamo turned in Manning. But you knew Lamo was planning to deceive Manning to make him confess more leaks in a second chat:

http://www.salon.com/2010/06/18/wikileaks_3/

I can't edit nor delete my original comment since the edit link has expired.

As an important actor in the Lamo-Manning story, I would like to ask you some questions.

- Do you think Adrian Lamo acted ethically?

- What's your opinion on whistle-blowers and their role in democracy?

Thanks.
You could look at Zoho: http://www.zoho.com/productivity-apps.html

That is the only alternative I know.
I'm 53, and have been doing projects since I was a young kid. Even had an oscope from a friend's amateur radio father in my bedroom as a kid.

One thing I have learned, though, is not to say "How hard could it be?"

Still, go for it...
Whether people in rural areas will or not, someone not from a rural area who does use Glass may want to travel outside of cell coverage areas and keep using it. Furthermore, far in the future it's fair to presume such devices would be miniaturized and likely become more acceptable.
> Loon balloons are superpressure, which enable them to stay aloft for 100+ days at a time. This is far longer than typical weather balloons, which last for a matter of hours. Loon balloons are also unique in that they are steerable and entirely solar powered.

It's like they are putting up cheap, disposable, steerable satellites up in the stratosphere! Genius.

Would be pretty interesting to understand the monitoring and control system for the balloons - not sure if they can bring back the failing balloons to a maintenance site to refurbish and relaunch them or they just dump the debris along with the failed balloon. I suppose at least the electronics aboard must be reusable for a time longer than the 100+ days the balloon stays afloat.
1. We print hundreds of thousands of shirts every month, so our cost of goods is much lower.

2. The base price includes free shipping to a single address. If you want to split the shipment to multiple addresses, each additional address costs $3. So if you want to ship each shirt to a different address, just add $3 to the per-shirt price.
I'm actually more concerned about what happens to the NBN if there's a change in government (looking more likely as each day passes).
> Proof that an Ars Technica reader can amount to something.

Cute. I'm sure he read Dilbert a few times too.

It takes quite an astonishing level of arrogance to suggest that being an "Ars Technica reader" was an important part of his identity, as that article did. Internet nerd makes a few comments on tech website, huge shock there.
So the government seeing your data is bad, but a private company filming your every move is good...
The long game is being fully wired.

No, the long game is wireless communications (and renewable energy). One of the reasons for fast growth in some developing countries is the fact that they don't have to make the same investments in infrastructure that developed countries made in the past.
It would likely not use the Iridium satellites, they are bandwidth constrained, quite slow (due to roundtrip distance) and very expensive. It also wouldn't be offering much advantage over connecting to the satellite directly asides from that I guess you could connect via normal wi-fi perhaps as opposed to needing a satellite receiver on the ground. Perhaps they could be using one of their products though. At least, that's what my experience working with Iridium satellite systems would lead me to believe.
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I support Crimes Against Children investigators on the tech side. I'm a civilian.
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http://news.cnet.com/Wi-Fi-arrest-highlights-security-danger...
True. They aims to make Chrome OS more popular. It only makes sense if Internet access is available everywhere.
April 1st? Hm no, awesome!
All your data are belong to us. PRISM 2.0.
Okay sure, but it makes a seriously weird nonlinearity to the work/income relationship.

Let's say I make a modest wage, $15/hr. For every hour of work I do, I earn about $12 post-tax. My income is y=12x. $24k per year working a normal 40 hour week. Okay.

Now let's say I make the same wage but I get a guaranteed $20k tax-free. For every hour I work, I earn $12 post-tax. My income looks like y=12x+20000. 44k/year if I work a regular 40 hour week. But I could also work only 20 hours a week and still make $32k/year, doubling my effective wages. I could work 10 hours a week and bring in $26k/year. Or work a single hour and make an effective hourly rate of $22,012 in that one hour.

People are absolutely smart enough to see how that works and many of them will choose not to work at all. Yeah, it might be true that you don't live anywhere near as fun of a lifestyle on $20k/year as $44k/year but that's only if you value spending money. There are plenty of people who would be content to contribute nothing TO society but still collect their checks FROM society. That kind of asymmetry is worrisome to me.
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I really enjoyed the subtle design / aspects of the loon landing page.

Starting with the darker background of the thermosphere and progressing into the twilight of the troposphere was a really nice touch. I also just noticed the small altimeter on the left of the page.

Also the whole phonetic wordplay with "loon" and "lunar" was cute. Coming from New Hampshire, I naturally immediately thought of the aquatic bird:

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

But the "lunar" aspect wasn't lost on me.

Kudos, this type of subtle design is refreshing in the wake of the iOS7 release.
One can't read the applicable laws, they may not have been written yet. Executives who cooperate get retroactive immunity. Those who don't go to jail for stock transactions while knowing secrets they can't legally share.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

(Note I'm not pretending to be a journalist here, just wearing my conspiracy hat today)
Just so it's clear: this is from 1999.
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I wouldn't be that sure. The NSA made DES _more_ secure in the 1970s by influencing IBMs design of the S-Boxes, regular cryptography research didn't even discover this until 1992.

This means that the NSA understood differential cryptanalysis 22 years before non-NSA researchers did. Their ability to brute force is meaningless if they have techniques to obviate it's necessity.
Can we have a civil conversation?
So the balloons just float on the air channels 20km up and presumably circulate around world? I can imagine problems coming up with some countries objecting to these being over their airspace.
There's a lot more to it than the wireless piece. Today's AT&T was Southwestern Bell/SBC which as you said, acquired AT&T and switched names.
Will these balloons also be feeding data to the NSA via PRISM?
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Wow....this is mind-blowing.

The potential impact of a globally connected internet is crazy. No longer can a country fully filter/control all internet traffic.

This could be a major boon to democracy.

I wonder if Google did this, partially to piss China off.

This seems like an awesome way to get around the 'Great Firewall'.
I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic, playing on the fact that Wired and Ars Technica are sort of competitors.
Neither the NSA nor the FBI are part of the Department of Homeland Security.
nice. it's heartwarming to see things like this in c. in my spare time i am working on struct-sql mapping. it sometimes feels like the popular c libraries don't try hard enough to provide the convenience we get in other languages. with a little imagination (as here) i think we can push things a little further...
There's a company in my hometown of Albuquerque that does something similar called Inksoft http://www.inksoft.com/ except, I believe Inksoft strictly offers software to companies that sell clothing like shirts. I don't fully understand the garment industry, but from talking with the owners, they make a pretty penny.
If he's using Tor, and not login in in any site, how are they going to know it's Snowden?
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicros...

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/09/21577 includes the explanation from Microsoft.

Also I swear to God this has to be like the third repost of NSAKEY in a week.
Interesting! Maybe it can learn from Scala on Android:

For Android development, install Scala runtime into rooted phone, so you don't need to "minify" your code (faster roundtrip). For Scala.js, maybe use Chrome Extension?

For production, ProGuard (removes unused code in Scala) and Closure Compiler (optimizes JS).
If you know the answer please tell me here about it. I've send some XSS vulns to domain hosters in order to help them. They were friendly, but imagine a case where they decide to go awry instead and accuse me of "hacking" them.
This is an awesome idea but I am skeptical if stupid govts like in India will let this move forward. I am sure someone there will raise some security concerns. Probably same for most of Africa.
So the question, then, is how high do you need to go before you're no longer in a country's airspace?
Has anyone done a detailed analysis of code referencing the NSAKEY?
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No need. Why climb in through the window when you have the keys to the back door?
The data that Facebook and Google have... have nothing to do with them trying to get me to install gay dating apps in their sidebars. It's my pictures, my texts, my messages, my friendships.

The important part of "the way the internet unfortunately evolved" has more to do with the fact that we didn't have the forethought to use encryption by default, or design the network in a truly "Free" way like other networks have been designed since then (but of course without any fraction of the size of the Internet)
It's not like in mid-90's the Internet started getting big and the telecoms started running wires because it was the best option. They based the new network offerings on the infrastructure that had been in place for decades.

Developing areas don't have that existing infrastructure. Perhaps setting up a wired infrastructure will make the most financial sense. However, I don't think that's a foregone conclusion, and a pure wireless infrastructure may be far cheaper and more profitable.
Out of curiosity, would there be much point in swapping out Tor for i2p in this sort of setup?
I agree some skepticism is warranted, so I am looking to see what Google and others say. If several big companies all say similar things then we either believe in a much bigger conspiracy or accept their claims there is not bulk access to all accounts.
Already landed on my iPhone - I didn't have to do anything. I find this ... Odd?

Also, love the following tidbit: "Wireless Emergency Alerts are part of the FCC’s CMAS program and are mandated by law. You may turn off alerts (except for Presidential alerts) if you choose. "
So, the changes are my fault, but the escapes are valid XML[1][2]. I'd recommend using a better reader. Both Google Reader and Mozilla Thunderbird work fine for me.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#dt-escape

[2] http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew...
Facebook, Microsoft release NSA stats to reassure users
Remember late last year, when there were rumors about Google being in talks to acquire Dish network?

I couldn't imagine that Google would actually use Dish's spectrum to build a traditional cellular network. Building all those towers is a huge investment and I didn't think that played to Google's strengths. But, assuming that Loon needs licensed spectrum, maybe Loon (or something like it) was the plan?
Thank you. Your suggestion is very helpful. I'll have a gander at that link.
Thanks, Nrsolis. Do they also live in NY? contact AT alexisohanian is probably the best way - I'm a traveling man the next month + planning the tour (as well as doing regular YCing).
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> Finally, our organization has a contingency plan in place in the event the atmopshere toward internet privacy in the United States becomes less hospitable.

Keep up the good work guys. I only recently subscribed earlier in the year when you ran your $30 a year discount but I can see myself sticking with you for a while.
Did you read the PRISM denials?

It was very obvious that the companies were told exactly what to say. They might not be lying in a grammatical legal sense if you parse their words, but they were clearly told by someone how to deny everything.
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That is utterly ridiculous. For one, there are boards out there that are about as popular as reddit that are also far less restrictive in what they allow (such as any of the many popular American imageboards out there).

Reddit does not "normalize sexism and racism" or "LITERALLY rekindle the Neo-Nazi movement" any more than Youtube does, if you go by the utterly inane highly rated comments on thousands of Youtube videos. Does that mean Youtube, and Google, are trying to usher in a new area of racism and intolerance?
I wonder how long it'll be before reports surface of authoritarian countries deploying anti-Loon lasers.

In all seriousness, I'm curious how difficult it would be to jam this network.
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond
words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and
respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise
[disrespectful] and impatient of restraint" (Hesiod, 8th century BC).