skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly new, but updated to detect and extract any links (URL) provided in the text. So, you can forward a working link using a punched card. (Images are bit tricky, use MLT PNCH or column binary.) Links must start with "http://" or "https://" as fully qualified URLs in order to be detected, case will be preserved, even when displayed in upper case on the card.
How the Government Spies On Us
What are the odds that Google, Yahoo, et al. handed over their private keys, I wonder.
And all were immediately added to Main Core.
Over here in Asia, where there can be fear of maids kidnapping children, a big trend is CCTV in the home. This is then sent out over the internet to the CCTV collection company and visible via the internet if you have a username or password.

For those who have watched the movie "So Close" (I recommend it-- sexy, tragic, thrilling, thought provoking), the idea of global surveillance of cameras in houses and businesses is something well within the possibility over here, though perhaps not to the same extent in the US.
He did say "willing to take high risks" though.
Totally agree that it's a completely different market, a $60 game vs. a $1 game, and anyone comparing digital iPhone and Android downloads to X1 downloads should stop.

I will, however, guarantee we will never see $30 release-day games of the quality of GTA or COD. If anyone was willing to do that, they would have done it on Steam, XBox Live, or Playstation Store already--they all have DRM'd digital downloads, and it would immediately switch all of their users to that distribution platform. If I could buy GTA5 for $60 physical or $30 digital, there's no contest.

If anything, my bet is some of the new games will be $69.99 for X1 and $59.99 for X360, justified by the additional graphics and "extra" content. See DVD vs. Blu-ray.

The entire original post is wishful thinking from an engineer. As an engineer myself, the first thing I ever learned was that management, sales, and marketing aren't just blowing smoke at the public. The point of always on confirmation is to shut down used sales and stop piracy. That's it. There's no noble endeavor to save us from scratched disks. They love scratched disks; it means you have to buy another copy.
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I have a strong conviction that they will! See all the hard work made and focus on the right stuff (durability, ReQL, ui, auto sharding+clustering, etc.)
Do they need to MITM? If they have a copy of the private key, can't they just use it to decrypt the data .. even old data for which they've only just acquired the key?
Yahoo fought back against 'unconstitutional' government order before PRISM
The problem is that we have a tension between what provides value to people vs. what makes money to investors. Our economy has no concept of "social capital".

Government doesn't have a pressure on profit since it can print money and can back projects whose objective is not measurable in dollars.
Startpage's Privacy Policy - a Netherlands-based Google anonymizer
The NSA is working on powerful quantum computing technology
they are gonna become the next ms?
they already have good dominance in browsers, wearable pc, phones, webapps..

people scurrying away from win8, opens a lot of doors.
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They don't, and it's logical fallacy to boot.

The actual proverb is "two wrongs don't make a right".
I don't have access to the pastebin from office, can someone please post it here? I am very much interested in reading this piece. Thanks.
Or, uh, use cat6.
He might be willing now. But I have seen many people interested initially who repented later. Also I gave a suggestion based on his busy schedule.
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It's more than "slightly different".

By all means, try and replicate this complete list in your Chrome browser: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html. I'll wait...

What makes the DDG !bang system awesome is its enormity. You don't look up what !bang to use to search something. You assume it exists, do it, and 99% of the time, you're right. That's a game changer.

I don't write Perl, but I know !cpan exists. I don't even have to look. I don't even know exactly what site it's going to search. But I know if I !cpan twitter, I'm going to be looking at a list of Perl libraries for tweeting.

That's the DDG killer feature. You want to do some kind of site-specific search or lookup, you just type in the most logical sounding !bang and assume it will work. You're simply never going to replicate that inside your browser.
I was referring to how in the McCarthy era, people were persecuted for mere association with any sort of "unpatriotic" activity or organization.

That's a dark place to which I hope we never return.
It's not real time. 3 days ago, the trends it carried have not changed much as I look at it today. While this could also mean that they've actually not changed, I highly doubt that for a country like India.
It's essentially a long running dutch auction that goes on forever.
One idea comes to mind in that case. May be register LLC and work for that company in your spare time ? people can have side parttime jobs right ?
Sufficiently truncated hashes (SHA-384, SHA-512/256, SHA-512/224) in the SHA2 family should have the same property, right? You need the missing state to extend.
This keeps getting worse.
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DDG is nice initiative. The problem is that it does not solve any problem related to privacy because it is based on a matter of trust.

Distributed search, similar to bittorrent, DHT-based designs and the like are notoriously difficult.

I've participated in such efforts, like the Seeks Project [1], Yacy [2], and related initiatives like Unhosted [3], and it takes a certain amount of dedication (and suffering ;) ).

However, I believe it is not entirely impossible that we see a true alternative sometimes. From what experience, what is needed is a slightly better set of distributed algorithms, a business model with the ability to sustain such a technical effort, and a range of features that no search engine can yet offer (because centralized).

[1] http://www.seeks-project.info/
[2] http://www.yacy.net/
[3] https://www.unhosted.org/
More like a day and a half.
Maybe, but I suspect you'd end up with worse prices.

It would be hard to enforce a true "blackout period". Traders trade on all kinds of information, not just controlled data. Wouldn't liquidity tend to be lower on a non-realtime exchange, because everyone is essentially trading on outdated information, resulting in worse prices than the realtime exchange?

But I know very little about this stuff, so maybe I'm completely wrong.
If only there were a way to contain one's snark.
This [1] is with less data than the NSA collects.

1: http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention
wealthfront.com or another such service. Automatically rebalances for you.
I wonder what the source for this is.

Verizon was ordered to hand over the metadata of all its US customers.

http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-record...
A little snark is probably the politest thing you're going to hear if you're supporting your speculation that

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

with nothing more than the fact that you're a professional web developer. Replace that with the equally valid 'amateur lion-tamer' just to get get a more disinterested sense of how it sounds.
Having the root CA's private key doesn't give them access to the end entity's private keys. When you ask a CA for a cert, you only provide them with your public key (in the form of a CSR) for them to sign. The CSR does not contain the private key.
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Holy shit.

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software company, provides
intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software
before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the
process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to
access the computers of terrorists or military foes.

Microsoft gives US military hackers and the NSA zero days to go hack people with.

I think this helps explain Google's 7-day disclosure. Also, fuck microsoft. Running your mouth and trying to blackball people who don't give you 60 days while (presumably selling) those exploits to governments? Just amazing.

Edit: here [1] is discussion of Tavis Ormandy / Google's new 7 day policy. I really wonder if this was partially driven by eg Microsoft's abhorrent behavior.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/30/4379004/google-to-make-cri...
None of this is advice. I just like talking about this stuff.

One of the ways to get familiar with investing is to buy shares in an ETF on the S&P 500. ETFs are like mutual funds traded on exchanges; you probably know that but maybe you don't.

I mean, it's not about making money so much as you will get to experience being a part of the American growth machine. S&P down 12 points? Well, how come? Oh, this company tanked it? But these other ones are doing well…is an example thought process on a day as owner of said ETF. Owning stocks and funds holding stocks will change how you think about money and value and companies in general. There is something deeply powerful about having skin in the game with the success of others' companies.
Baffle them with bullshit or dazzle them with details.

I think we are against an effort to tranquilize us with tyranny!

Where we are just overwhelmed with outrageous actions such as to desensitize us to the fact that "well, holy shit, this is so pervasive and so entrenched, what is there to be done? I mean, my life was great for the last three years and this has been going on, at such great lengths, for so many years -- how bad can it be??"

This is a test as to how much we will take. They want action - they want an excuse to really show us what debt slaves we are.
I don't think that anyone who understands what "hashing secrets" means would think that "don't hash secrets" means "send them in the clear."
My second remark is that our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static
relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively
poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our
limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and
the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in
text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible.

From Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"
Well, I don't think this is as bad as you make it out to be. This is fairly standard practice for firms, releasing the knowledge of security holes to customers, especially if a patch isn't prepared.

See the entire Heroku/Postgres for another, less insidious example.
> While companies are offered powerful inducements to cooperate with U.S. intelligence, many executives are motivated by patriotism or a sense they are defending national security, the people familiar with the trusted partner programs said.

Their fervent patriotism certainly didn't stop them from demanding immunity as a prerequisite.
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Now we know, I would presume, exactly how Stuxnet and Duqu were born...
Well, there's the smoking gun for the reason behind CISPA. I'm sure tptacek still won't admit he was wrong though.
Plus, WinRAR can extract these just fine.
Or, they have a MAPP[1] subscription. You too could have information about bugs in Microsoft software before the fix has been released, if you could become a MAPP partner or subscriber.

1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/collaboration/mapp.as...
Patriotism is a flimsy, BS, defense.
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And yet, still one didn't leak. Not one.
I have nothing against the database, but I wish they'd come up with a better name. At work I'd feel silly trying to pitch a piece of technology that sounds like a motivational slogan. That's not an criticism of their work, but sometimes names matter.
If you're in the MAPP program, you promise (on application, and presumably contractually upon membership as well), to:

Do you agree to publish monthly protections derived from MAPP information
only after Microsoft’s public security update release?

I'm doubting the NSA / military hackers make, or honor, any such agreement.
Why wait to get pulled over? They could mail the fine the moment the infraction occurs. Actually, now that I think of it why mail it? Could just debit your bank account directly and save everyone a lot of time.
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Try that with Noscript on, and it gets cut down to 3 trackers.
> When I turn on my Google Android phone in the morning, the phone will be smart enough to know everything I check every morning. I'll see the weather forecast first, then my sales numbers, probably headlines on Reddit and HN.

I see this is scary. At the same time this is something we collectively want.

I think the problem here is not what predictive services based on our data are being offered. The problem here is that these services are being offered by a company that has much of our data. _Who_ is doing the computation is worrisome, not the computations themselves.

I would love to be able to do `apt-get install google` on my privately own server and get the same good services while keeping all my data under my roof.
>the 2000 FISA orders in 2012 would have to have covered an average of about 500,000 Facebook accounts each.

500K pales in comparison with all the tens (or even hundred) of millions in this _one_ FISC order

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/veri...

Again, for FAA 702 collection no individualized FISC required. 1 order for the whole Facebook, 1 order for whole Google, ... it seems that NSA does really need that server farm in Uta.
Personally I don't, but it should be noted that there are other indexes besides what you have mentioned. That said Samuru and Procog are pretty interesting.
The copyrights were filed with the U.S. copyright office at some point. If the copyright should be found invalid, does that obligate the former copyright holder to return licensing fees? I somehow doubt it. The licensor acted in good faith; if you now own a worthless license, that is not their fault. Indeed, Warner themselves probably bought the copyrights from someone else (they were founded in 1958) believing them valid. Willful fraud, on the other hand, is another matter.
governments of every other country should shit in their pants after reading this. Stop using MSFT os at this very moment.
Well the safest of all would be to write your own highly secure browser and use TOR.
Maybe that analogy could have some merit, but it is decidedly not the analogy that Schneier uses in his article. By putting forth your own take in this way, you are likely to derail the discussion without contributing anything other than your own grievance.

Your attempt at an analogy should be discussed separately, if you think you can substantiate it.
You have elegantly and succinctly described "defective by design".
What do you mean, "policy wise"? Responding to (unpaid) feedback is in practice a PR / campaigning issue, not a question of policy.
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I can't believe there's a government anywhere in the world surprised by this news.
the information is not released publicly. You need to be their partner.
Every foreign government and overseas company handling potentially sensitive information should immediately sue Microsoft, in U.S. and foreign courts, for damages.
-= YOU =-
Hi, my name is __________ . I would like a [loan, voter registration, health care check up, et al]

-= THEM =-
Ok, ________ . Did you live @ ___________ in _ _ _ _ ?
Did you ever have an account at ________ ?

Where do you think they get the info. Connect the dots.
Did that... doesn't seem to work on my corp mac.
Microsoft are running a "Your privacy is our priority" ad campaign at the moment in the UK (Started before the PRISM story broke)

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/online-privacy/overv...
> I think the problem here is not what predictive services based on our data are being offered. The problem here is that these services are being offered by a company that has much of our data.

Predictive services using your data wouldn't be much use if they weren't offered by someone with not only much of your data but also big honking scads of other data, including other people's interaction data, both to analyze to find general patterns for prediction, and to actually provide the information you need based on the predictions.
I agree. There is no known attack on AES-128 which comes anywhere close to the capability of any known supercomputer within any reasonable time period.

Except maaaybe the aggregate computing power of the entire PlayStation Network for a long long time. I haven't run the numbers for AES.

EDIT: Yeah, no way without an algorithmic breakthrough.
There's no way any of this will reasonably apply if we stick to this seven year cycle. By 2020, this will all be so obsolete, nobody will care about backward compatibility. Do you care that your PS4 is backward compatible with an abacus?
that info comes from credit reporting agencies (trans union, experian, equifax)
Are you trying to get picked up by Shit HN says?
This is very different from your original (hysterical, sensational) claim that MSFT is giving the government "zero days" to "hack people with".
The value of games on steam is very related to the used game market because there is no used game market on steam, but users still buy old games at used market prices. The difference now is that the money continues to flow to the publisher and not entities with no hand in creating the game.
The NSA is not known to publish things.
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Pinboard is down?
You can't choose though. There is no viable alternative to Facebook, so it's either that or nothing. Not much of a choise really.
It's not clear that the government has recorded all telephone calls?

This interviewee says "All digital communications are ....are..." and uncharacteristically hesitates. Evidently he doesn't want to complete that sentence. So he tries again: "There's a way to look at digital communications in the past and I can't go into details."

No need to - it's called 'recording the entire communication'.
The point is that DDG doesn't log the information—even in the face of a court order, they have nothing to hand over.
I don't think that's the case. Their documentary is on crowdfunders, not scams. The unraveled the scam because of the documentary and being mentioned by Kobe Red (though the publicity certainly is helping)
There's not nearly enough information yet to make a definitive statement about this.

And let's go back to a quote in this article, which seems to have been edited since I originally read it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-com...

“The server is controlled by the FBI,” an official with one of the companies said. “We do not offer a download feature from our server.”

Well. Now what?
Further evidence that "responsible disclosure" is not responsible.
I tried to submit this hours ago but nobody upvoted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core

"As of 2008 there were reportedly eight million Americans listed in the database as possible threats, often for trivial reasons, whom the government may choose to track, question, or detain in a time of crisis."

We are more than half way in the road to serfdom and tyranny.

EDIT: Resubmitted now as "http" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5878571
Thank you :)

Relevant part of the article:

>In a secret court in Washington, Yahoo’s top lawyers made their case. The government had sought help in spying on certain foreign users, without a warrant, and Yahoo had refused, saying the broad requests were unconstitutional.
Related

>The judges disagreed. That left Yahoo two choices: Hand over the data or break the law.

>So Yahoo became part of the National Security Agency’s secret Internet surveillance program, Prism, according to leaked N.S.A. documents, as did seven other Internet companies.

From the court order:

"After a careful calibration of this balance and
consideration of the myriad of legal issues presented, we affirm the lower court's determinations that the directives at issue are lawful and that compliance with them is obligatory."

Seems to me that tptacek is supporting my hypothesis
Employment contracts also carry non-compete clauses which can prevent you from (a) making anything that can complete with the company in its current or anticipated line of business [1], (b) have policies for outside employment that may restrict all but employments that are completely unrelated to the company (like running a family-owned shop, etc.), and (c) disallow even make plans to form a business entity that the company may consider to be potentially competing with their current or anticipated line of business.

The above is largely coming from my contract from a previous employer. I have seen contracts of at least two other big-name companies and they were similarly restrictive.

[1] AFAIK, the legal definition of "line of business" is quite broad. It was suggested that something falling within the same trademark code would be considered to be the same line of business. Computers and software fall under a single class [2]. So an enterprise content-management system and an iPhone game both would fall under the same line of business.

[2] http://www.tmweb.com/trademark_classes.asp
Since no money changed hands, no theft occurred. Fraud is still an issue, but it's not like the typical scam where it's obviously a criminal case.
Shouldn't the question of willful vs. accidental fraud be the decider in whether penalties are faced, rather than just returning incorrectly claimed fees?

The same way that if someone accidentally pays too little tax they'll be told to pay the difference and will do that, whereas if they lie to try and pay less taxes then not only do they have to pay the difference, they'll also get slapped with fines and/or prison time.

Otherwise the model is there to claim fees you don't have a right to, wait until you get stopped, put your hands up and say "oops we didn't realise" and keep all that money.

edit: Should point out I am giving an opinion on the logic, not the law.
"Small companies are more likely to take the government to court, lawyers said, because they have fewer government relationships and customers, and fewer disincentives to rock the boat."

This makes the increasing concentration in IT and communications more worrying.
Response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5878534