skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an artifact of small figures and small sample sizes generally. Anything which grows geometrically will grow progressively more slowly over time when expressed as a percentage.
I find it more interesting that they are crowdfunding unravelling the alleged crowdfunding scam.
> the United States doesn’t sentence people who sing anti-Obama songs to labor camps

It's hyperbolic statements like this that which damage the credibility of otherwise good articles.
"Kobe" beef in the USA isn't. That is always scam.
frandom - a Linux kernel prng, which is 10-50 times faster than /dev/urandom
I think while some may view this as speculation, it's extremely fair reasoning given a) the people we're dealing with and b) how carefully they're choosing very specific words. They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and are now dancing around the issues.

It's upsetting that using a word like "collect" can give any sort of plausible deniability. "Oh, I didn't mean 'collect' in the traditional sense, lol!"

This is all just one big lie on top of another on top of another. I think we'd all be ridiculously stupid to not acknowledge that.
> don't use plain AES to encrypt a file

What does "plain" mean in this context? (If you mean ECB then you are right, but it is ambiguous.)
RT doesn't work that way, it requires a specific site near its target gene in order to make the DNA strand. There is off-target activity, but it is almost certainly vanishingly rare.
If you've got a copy of the MSI already, run it against Dark (the WiX decompiler) and you'll be pretty much handled a copy of the MSI source. Obviously you'll have some cleanup work, but it's a hell of a start. http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/dark.htm
Yeah, I did't know who he was and I took it as a drive-by comment. I somehow missed the "I know I'm biased ..." bit unless he edited the post after I replied.
>It would have taken less effort just to try out both frameworks, and then you wouldn't need anyone else's "evidence"

I've tried both frameworks, and looked at the code for both, and I'm of the opposite opinion.

Yours is not a very suggestion. It presupposes what is asked to provide evidence for. That's called a circular argument.
I'm kinda shocked that anyone would have invested in it at all, fraud or no. Why would you desecrate Kobe beef by making jerky out of it?
Like a previous commenter noted, the instant math portion of google is a good feature. Any way to do this with DDG?
Actually, calling the US a republic suggests the power lies with the people. That's what "republic" means, and is why the last six letters of the word are "public."
I mean a mode without authenticated encryption:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_encryption
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People forget this, but even though git was developed for programming version control, there isn't a lot that makes it useful strictly for programming only.

Git is a powerful version control and collaboration system for any plain text (or maybe even binary) files.

There's nothing special about programmers that makes it so they are the only ones that can learn about these tools and use them. With something like TortoiseGit (or Github's app) I can totally see people you would never expect start taking advantage of this.

Authors, mathematicians, research agents, cartographers, government agents (all those legal documents need version control badly), lawyers, etc.

As the world trusts computers with more and more of their files, they might start picking up the tools that programmers have held so dear.

Why not empower them?
Thanks for the link, that was an awesome article. Well written and technically substantial. How did you come across it?
Direct access... FTP... you say chicken, I say fish. It's not that big of a deal. It seem like you're TRYING to make it a big deal, but it only serves to distract from the real issue.

What is a big deal is that my personal conversations and yours and your mother's are being recorded, read and stored to be used against us later. That is a big deal. Human rights. Civil liberties. Not living in constant fear. Those are the real issues.
> frandom is based on the RC4 encryption algorithm, which is considered secure ... the random numbers can't be too bad. If they were, RC4 wouldn't be worth anything.

Lol!
Anyone can argue all day over the semantics of "where the power actually lies." I would say that it lies in the hands of people who frequently use physical weapons to harm and threaten to harm others, which for the most part is government.
Your analogy doesn't really make sense. Your Xbox account is similar to a Steam account works on PC/360/One and you control the hardware if your One breaks, buy a new one and authenticate it with your account. All your games would now be accessible.
edit: Missed the suggestion to block traffic entirely with a firewall - thought the discussion was only on sniffing traffic. Less ridiculous then :)

You're suggesting people that already stated a distrust in Google do a thorough network traffic analysis after every update, so that they know their privacy is violated after the fact? That's a bit ridiculous, really.
Paying a $20k premium on purchase price for "free" charging? OK...
well, no, the supreme court has decided that effectively breaking four covalent bonds is not transformative (your words). I think it's a wrong decision. Even so, if you actually understand it, the act of PCR is an act of creation, not transformation. That dsDNA molecule doesn't exist in nature.

For example, there is a molecule thiostrepton which is an antibiotic compound, that's really quite poor. They have recently discovered that only the core of the molecule is necessary for antibiosis, and removal of the rest of the molecule improves its pharmacological properties. It's a distinct molecule, created by the scission of 3 covalent bonds. Should it be unpatentable? Almost certainly, somewhere in nature, there has a thiostrepton molecule that by accident happened to have been cleaved at exactly the right places to render the molecule. does that change your opinion?

I am not trying to defend the practice - I abhor patents - but a lot of people are letting their emotional reaction to "patenting genes" get in the way of a dispassionate and informed analysis of what actually is going on here.
I misunderstood. Excellent.
"the accounts using to shill pre-date the kickstarter."

"April 2013", makes you feel that the account was legit? Did these accounts predate the other kickstarter the scammers ran?

Magnus Fun Inc had created another project - a mini coffee table book – that failed only 2 days before Kobe Red was launched.
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You're always going to have "battleground regions" unless you can guarantee a uniform population density and uniform distribution of political tendencies across the entire nation.
>If so, it's incredibly dangerous.

I think it's absolutely thrilling. Just imagine, all it takes is one disgruntled, lucky cypherpunk to crack into the NSA content database and reveal its content to all.

Unencrypted emails, text messages, phone calls between you and your mum. Let's be honest, leaking that database is probably what it's going to take to see any kind of real attention/change on this issue.
That must be one of the most annoying videos I have seen. Why would anyone talk like that?
When exposed to noise for prolonged periods of time, sometime in the middle noise becomes silence. You don't feel there is noise, unless some turns it off or increases/decreases a little.

Its called conditioning the mind.

Its a bit like the right pane in eclipse, In years I never remember using it even once, yet its absence will irritate me.

Ever get that feeling sometimes when you are surrounded by people in a noisy place and yet after sometime sort of don't even feel that is disturbance.
you're correct, it seems like me to be an intellectually misinformed decision. In all cases, a PCR reaction is essentially the creation of a molecule that never existed before in nature. Whether or not they played the trick with the introns.

http://www.indysci.org/mission/onpatenting.html

EDIT: I'm a biologist - not a lawyer, but the child of a lawyer.
I would chalk it to the fact that if you have a really good idea for a new original product, one that is good enough and realistic enough that it would convince people to part with their money, you might as well try and make it a reality.

What happened in this case is that was a product that too few of the mostly technical-oriented Kickstarter audience understood was unrealistic.
The problem is that the One isn't backwards compatible with any of the 360 games I already bought and are stored in the cloud, which leads me to believe they'll do the same with the Two.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm saying I resent it, and I wish there were more alternatives.

For me, Netflix is better than Hulu. I wish I could pay more for Hulu's content with no ads.

For me, "The Magazine" is better than ad-subsidized magazines. I wish there were more like it.

I would pay Facebook to be exempted from creepy data mining and ads.

I would pay more to NPR to never have to listen to their insufferable fund drive again.

When a "kill the ads" in-app purchase is available, I buy it.
Fucking scum.
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Is there a good platform for this or someone who can help me out a little bit.
I found this for https://codeable.io/ for wordpress, but I need the same for ROR.
I'm doing something similar, but storing the PDFs in Redis and serving them from Openresty/Nginx. If you use the password function in Redis it would be a little harder to compromise than leaving the PDFs on the filesystem.
This helps me understand where you're coming from.

I understand your frustration, but I think you're attacking the signal instead of the noise you're talking about.

There's definitely a lot of nonsense floating around (optical signal intercepts from these providers, etc.). This is noise.

But there is also a very real signal. A journalist with an inside source is telling us about a program that indicates some of these companies have given the NSA a level of access than most of us who know anything about systems would not be comfortable with.

While the degree to which this is happening has not been supported with evidence, numerous other claims have been. It has already forced the declassification of orders to the phone companies. This seems to be a very credible source.

Instead of attacking the noise, I see you attacking the signal. You're saying "These companies could not be doing this! Why would you believe someone saying they are!"

Maybe there is no such program, maybe the NSA doesn't even know what it's doing enough to make an accurate presentation, maybe the presentation was planted for the guy to find, and maybe the journalists are hacks. These are all possibilities. But with what we know, these are the extreme possibilities, and speculation about them is mostly noise. Defending hack-job articles attacking the source and messenger isn't increasing the quality of the conversation.
Kobe Red project was started on May 14, 2013.

B.B[1] posted a comment on May 18 saying, "i had kobe red jerky yesterday at the GREAT GOOGAMOOGA MUSIC AND FOOD FESTIVAL in brooklyn NYC and it was amazing!"

B.B has an account on Kickstarter registered in April 2013. The account has backed 6 projects and created 1. The project created was a "gay handbook for straight friends" (B.B identifies as a gay woman) created on April 17 that had 18 backers for a total of $501, the goal was $1700 and was not met.

Tomicakes[2] was created in May 2013, the account backed the KRJ project and another called "Natural Decadence: Gluten-free Grahams.". The account posted multiple comments on KRJ claiming to have tasted it at an event (and goes on to interact with B.B in the comments), tomicakes also commented on the "Natural Decadence: Gluten-free Grahams." project a couple of times.

There's more comments from people claiming to have tasted it with account histories. This is either people seriously committed to fraud (I guess it's possible when it's hundreds of thousands on the line... but the target was only 2k) or the fraud is the product quality. I feel that backing a wide variety of different projects and creating different projects across a wide variety of accounts is the point where this becomes more likely a misunderstanding vs. premeditated fraud.

The ways in which the project came out as a fraud are so very amateur that if this is a pre-meditated fraud (in that someone created fake projects, backed projects, created plausible accounts months in advance) I can't see how they managed to screw up so royally when it comes to whois and usernames?

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/brandb

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1976351133

edit: oh I see what you mean about the first project, impossible to find out as the account has been removed and there's no google cache. If the project previously matches the current MO (30 day) then yes, it may well match up!
The charges were filed weeks before the raid. Surely he was given numerous opportunities to turn himself in. Also, this was only one of many charges he couldn’ve been brought in for. Kim Schmitz is no boy scout. I don’t underatand why so many people (which includes HN members) idolize him.
Maybe that's what those 19998 other unreleased documents are.
Incorrect. If you were right, then every provider that was small would be skyrocketing up the usage charts. However, that's numerically impossible. Many smaller providers simply die off or never gain any traction.

This time next year, they'll likely be in the top 15 to top 25 on that same list.
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I've worked 40-50 hours/week at an adjustable stand-up desk for three years now. No chair. I rarely move the desk from it's highest setting. I do get tired on a rare occasion and sit in a recliner with my laptop on my lap.
I think this project got the spotlight because of the large amount of money pledged, and the large difference between "money asked for" and "money pledged".

I think it's still possible to fraud people over kickstarter by staying under the radar: ask for little money, and if you receive not much (let's say under 5000? 1000?), no-one will bother to investigate whether your project worked out.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/al...

As a result of this “expanding array of theater airborne and other sensor networks,” as a 2007 Department of Defense report puts it, the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (1024 bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

It needs that capacity because, according to a recent report by Cisco, global Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, reaching 966 exabytes per year. (A million exabytes equal a yottabyte.
All existing Tesla vehicles that can use the superchargers can use them for free. Unfortunately that means no Roadsters, for reasons involving AC-vs-DC charging (c.f. Q&A at the 2013 shareholder's meeting). You also only get the supercharger gear for free with your car if you buy one 85kWh models (which does necessarily not mean the most-expensive... 85kWh models start at $72.4k but go up from there, into six-figure territory). If you buy the cheapest Model S, at $63k, you can pay an additional $2k to buy the equipment necessary to use the superchargers.

Model Xs will have a similar situation, I think.

I haven't yet seen a commitment that the "third-gen" cars (currently touted as aiming for a $30k price-point, though we shall see in a few years), but it's certainly how Elon talks about it. He's also said that OpEx on the supercharger stations is very very low: little or no rent, little or no power costs. And it's obvious that a major goal for him is moving personal transport off of fossil-fuel; charging at home off the grid doesn't _actually_ achieve that, but giving away solar-powered juice at stations does. So we'll see.

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If only there were a way, on the internet, to spend half a minute researching one's uncertain theories, before posting comments on HN. Yes, half a minute is all it would have taken to learn that your claim was mistaken.
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Precisely. All of these claims about what the NSA is "not doing" are silly, and almost certainly false. It's not an "either-or" situation. It's an "and" situation.

The NSA is tapping undersea cables and sucking up e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g that crosses them AND getting data through court orders and national security letters AND getting all phone metadata from all phone companies AND tapping into the backbones at appropriate places and sucking up everything that crosses those places AND listening in to every satellite communication AND......

It's AND, not OR.
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Did they ask him to turn himself in?

I can't say I know what New Zealand's procedure for this actually is, but in the US, one of two things would occur in a white-collar case like this: The suspect would either surrender with his attorney at a prearranged time and place, or he would be arrested by a couple of officers who peacefully knock on his door.

Anything else would be seen as grossly excessive force, the fallout of which could easily involve ruined careers and political repercussions.

And I don't know who you're talking about that "idolizes" him. I don't. I actually have no particular opinion about him one way or another, only about the manner in which the case has been handled.

You're the one who seems to be taking things very personally.
I call fake. I'm skeptical that anyone working in Studio A would call out that it's on 40th street. Even more damaging is that Typhoon is in the Commons, not in any of the Studio buildings. And I've never heard anyone call it "Streets of Asia" -- "Typhoon" is both its primary name and faster to say.
I think tptacek is using this non-issue to subtly discredit Glen Greenwald and Snowden.
I do wonder if their search engine trends department guys get involved with this stuff.
1 core/512MB/20GB ssd => $5. They state that they are running hexcore hardware. That translates to 6*$5 = $30 per month per server. So that's probably not making much money for them.

But then it looks better if they manage to sell the higher plans. 4cores/8GB/80GB ssd = $80, 2cores/4GB/60GB ssd = $40. These fit easily to single server and that's then $120 per month per server. Compare this to for example some of cheaper dedicated hardware providers like Hetzner [1] who are selling similar dedicated hardware for something like $60-70 per month.

Based on this it could be a sustainable business model, at least if they have enough volume (which seems to be the case, considering the Netcraft article).

(I assumed they are providing dedicated cores and using single socket servers. But it might make more sense to use some relatively cheap multi-cpu servers since with these plans the bottle neck seems to be on the numbers of cores side and not with the memory).

[1] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4
I had the same thing. Logged in to their web console with the details they sent and restarted the host.

It looks like the network didn't initialize correctly on the first go.
You don't have to be a psychopath to be young and inexperienced, nor to want to flaunt your disregard for safety.

My larger point is that smaller laws help curb behavior that leads to larger consequences.
This is outrageous. And much more upsetting. I don't think it is all that speculative. Everyone with access to classified information keeps saying there is much much more they are doing, which we don't know about. Well, what else would it be? Cameras in my house? What would MUCH MORE be?
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I'm disappointed, tptacek. You're a sharp guy. Why muddy the waters like this?

The deck identified specific providers as on board or coming on board. Their denials looked similar. The deck characterized access as "direct"--direct in some context. As a wordsmith yourself, you certainly recognize such semantic fuzz, the loose context-dependent coupling of sign and signified.

And yet, you collapse the possibilities down, giving credence to authority. You cast scorn and ridicule, you narrow the bounds of respectable opinion with language like "extreme interpretations" and "conspiracy-theoretic nonsense".

One cannot have an informed opinion on a secret program. The harder you try, the more vulnerable you become to information censoring. Try the holistic approach, and reserve judgement.
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I don't see the issue here. Now that this is common knowledge, if you don't subscribe to the Thomson Reuters feed, DO NOT TRADE until 10am and the price has settled. Why would you ever participate in a transaction with someone who you know has more information than you, and you know this information asymmetry will be equalized within 5 minutes?
When the FAA was first enacted, defenders of the statute argued that a significant check on abuse would be the NSA's inability to obtain electronic communications without the consent of the telecom and internet companies that control the data. But the Prism program renders that consent unnecessary, as it allows the agency to directly and unilaterally seize the communications off the companies' servers.
I can live with this: As a general rule of thumb nature isolated is not patentable, Synthetic is.
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It's pretty simple with something like Little Snitch...
There's 3 billion base pairs in human DNA, not to mention the other millions of species out there. It seems like your chance of finding a naturally occurring complement to what you want, without introns, is pretty good.
Then what?
> If steam selled Disc Based games I very much doubt they would adopt the same model.

Valve does sell discs for their games, and they're just ways of delivering bits for Steam. The DRM is 100% identical in every way.
I think it's the different between a normal python application and a web app: url dispatcher/route, request handler, template, extension...I started with Django, but Flask clears thing better for me.
Why am I the one who needs to reserve judgement? I'm not the one saying things like "the name PRISM suggests optical intercepts on backbones", or "the name Palantir suggests that that company is acting as an all-seeing eye for NSA".

I'm not the only person with these concerns. Here's Karl Fogel of QuestionCopyright.org:

http://www.rants.org/2013/06/11/epic_botch_of_prism_story/

And here's Mark Jaquith of Wordpress:

https://medium.com/prism-truth/82a1791c94d3
Just as an FYI, new versions of chrome also sends back the full URL and the hash of any file you download or save. I bumped across this when I was trying to download light table and it din't let me open it. After a bit of research I found file scanning to be the new addition to chrome's malware checks. With all the NSA debacle going on now, I am feeling even more paranoid. I love chrome but I will be switching to Firefox or IE10 soon.
Have you played with Firefox's Tab Groups feature? http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-organize-tabs It does some of what you're asking for.