skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swedish submarines are ok...

"Gotland managed to penetrate the defensive measures of Carrier Strike Group Seven undetected and snap several pictures of the USS Ronald Reagan during the December pre-deployment Joint Task Force Exercise 06-2 (JTFEX 06-2) in the Pacific Ocean (probably in the California Operating Areas), effectively "sinking" the aircraft carrier.[10] The exercise was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the US Fleet against modern diesel-electric submarines, which some have noted as severely lacking.[11][12]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSwMS_Gotland_(1995)
In my experience hacker has gone from "definitely a criminal" 5-10 years ago to "maybe a criminal" today. When I tell people (not in the tech scene) that I read a site called "Hacker News" they don't assume that it's some CC swapping forum. I'd say that's progress.
I appreciate that quite a bit. I am very confused by how HN specifically reacted to this story. There are a lot of really smart people here, and most of them seem hell-bent on jumping to conclusions with almost no facts, based on terrible reporting by non-technical people. This place is usually very picky about fact-checking too.
This occurred to me, but assuming he hasn't been disappeared this would be too easy for him to deny leaking.
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I don't think its any much better
You must be talking about xml-configured DI.

cf. Guice, which is compile-time checked:

https://code.google.com/p/google-guice/wiki/SpringComparison
From the article: "And while most types of software get more user-friendly over time, user-friendly cryptography seems to be intrinsically difficult. Experts are not much closer to solving the problem today than they were two decades ago."

I'm not sure I agree that user-friendly cryptography is "intrinsically difficult." It doesn't seem like it would be hard for email clients and even the Gmail frontend to pop up a message saying, "Your email is insecure. To let people send you private messages securely, set up your 'public key' now. It's easy." Then a short wizard would walk users through the process and automatically append the public key to all outgoing messages.

On the other side, if you were going to send a message to a friend, the email client would check if that person has published a public key and then ask, "The recipient allows secure messages. Would you like us to send this message securely?"

Google and Microsoft and other large companies are no strangers to implementing a feature and using their size and clout to quickly make it a de facto standard. The real reason we don't have easy end-user cryptography is that these companies would lose access to mine your data and provide new services on top of that (and the article mentions this too.)
To me, this is the scariest part though not that surprising:

"That metadata includes which version of the operating system, browser and
Java software are being used on millions of devices around the world,
information that U.S. spy agencies could use to infiltrate those computers
or phones and spy on their users."

A database that contains the specific versions of installed software for millions of computers world-wide is a very powerful tool. For any given target--if their machine is in the database--compromising their system is a trivial matter! It's a "what exploit would you like to use today?" situation.

Assuming they gather this information from Internet backbones--I'm OK with that. Good for them for skimming data off the public Internet and shame on the software that makes it too easy.

On the other hand, if they're obtaining this data from the likes of Microsoft (or McAfeee or any other incredibly popular vendor with an item in everyone's systray) that is an incredibly scary proposition. No target stands a snowball's chance in hell at not being (trivially) compromised. It's one of those situations where, "you'd better not use that company's products!"

I can't even imagine the sheer destruction that could occur if such information fell into the wrong hands. Imagine if some "fuck the world" anarchist hacker got his hands on a database that contained precisely the information he needed to, say, compromise (and just plain erase; 'rm -rf *') just about every banking computer that happened to be listed. It would be like, ARMAGEDDON.
The way I see it is, we have a right to privacy. Government overreaches in years past have slowly chipped away at the legal protections of that privacy, and say that, for example, our emails are fair game without a warrant because they're sitting on someone else's server, so we obviously don't care to keep them private.

If we encrypt those messages end to end, they can't use that argument, because we're taking clear measures to keep them private even from the server owners. So it destroys a legal argument as well as letting us take back our own privacy and protecting it without relying purely upon an ever weakening legal protection.

That's why I do encrypt and advocate encrypting email, not to avoid NSA scrutiny. If one's life were to depend on avoiding such scrutiny, however, the advice in the article may be reasonable.
The name has been succesfull all around the world. There's already Freedom Parties etc. in United States, and nobody cares about those parties. A Pirate Party, on the other hand, can utilize the global movement's brand.

Of course, the core problem is not the name of the party, it's the lack of a democratic voting system.
I've always thought that the most querulous position the ATF has taken was on FFL closure. If an FFL closes up shop for any reason, they must ship all their records to the ATF.

I don't have any personal insight into what happens to them after that, but it seems like at least a sparse, time-delayed registry could be built from those records... which is perhaps the best kind of registry as private sales would skew the data substantially.
> people are so fucking obsessed with their own little lives ... She works 12+ hour days, plus a 2 hour commute...

So very true.

Of course, graduating into a life of debt, being forced to go to work to get affordable healthcare, working 50+ hours a week and constantly being distracted by shiny new expensive things to buy will amplify this exponentially.

Not all countries are like that.
Looking from out side from a country that has FPTP But the USA still doesn't have two parties in the modern sense you have two wide coalitions (18th century style) with a considerable amount of horse trading and pork keeping people on side.

Read Williams Hugues bio of pitt the younger to see what I mean.
EU directives are in general just guidelines. The EU is a culturally and politically diverse part of the world and there are differences between countries like night and day.
I have an order in for three computers in the new EOMA68 form factor. It's basically entire embedded computer systems in a PCMCIA style card. The ones I'm waiting for are 1.2ghz Quad-Core SMP Cortex A7 processors, 2 gigs ram, SATA controller, gigabit controller, etc. It's a perfect ARM-based server that fits on a card that is ideal for running off of a server backplane. The whole thing will consume less than 10 watts too and is passively cooled.

My goal is the same that you're describing. I want to see if I can make a 3u server case that has 96 slots in the front to insert these cards with either pass-throughs on the backplane to hook up SATA SSD's on the backside, or use a SAN for a hosting environment. Oh, best of all? The cards look like they'll be less than $50 each. ROI on a VPS environment would be just a few months.

http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner/a31/
http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA-68
Unknown danger? No, that is too broad. Crashing planes over New York City? A kid wouldn't exactly be too unreasonable to ask the question.

Anyways, only underrated because expectations of Spielberg are deservedly high.
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Yep it is one of those things that is deeply ingrained. It doesn't save much time but I believe if you don't need to ask for it, then don't. Asking for it only increases the chance of users entering something incorrectly.
Which wouldn't make a lot of sense if they already had a generation of quantum computers with enough qubits to brute force RSA-1024.
You know you can get the source code to Windows? You have to be a very large customer and have data protection measures in place.

Postgres worked with Heroku to test one of its security patches before releasing it to the public, and no one blabbed. You can probably find a way to get on Microsoft's early-bird notification program, too, if you are an extremely large customer and can assure them that you won't leak the data out.
With regards to the mentions of Office and Excel on Android...

Android spreadsheets which are Excel compatible are something I am interested in. There's a few options - Documents To Go, Quickoffice, Olive Office...

Two years ago I started to write a spreadsheet which could handle Excel format on Android without network access. I used the Apache POI libraries. I could handle pre-2007 Excel files OK (XLS), but post-2007 (XLSX) was more of a challenge. I learned the hard way of Android's famous 2^16 methods per Dalvik executable file limit while doing the project, and discovery of the existence of that limitation put the project on an indefinite hiatus. I tried to get around the problem - I pulled a lot out of the schema but it was still over the 65536 method limit. One option available would be custom class loading of multiple Dex files, which would be a pain. Another possibility is some kind of cloud solution where XLSX files would be uploaded to a server - something I have little interest in.

The remnants of my project are here -
http://bit.ly/1abDbhK - although there is not much there, just a very, very bare skeleton of a spreadsheet which can handle XLS (pre-2007 Excel) files. I have to update the README though since the API of the Apache POI libraries have changed - it still works with the archived and still downloadable, circa-June-2011 POI libraries though.
I see the nonsense works pretty well on you.

>expansionist power with nuclear weapons pointed at us was not a "made-up" threat

At the time of McCarthyism this wasn't really what was going on. What was going on was that capitalists were afraid communism would work. They saw rich and powerful people getting killed or displaced and the "plebs" running things and they were going to make sure it couldn't happen here.

>Neither is international terrorist organizations conspiring to attack us

International terrorist threat conspiracy theories. Nice. You mean the global terrorist group with all kinds of secret cells hidden under ever rock? Yea, that was all made up bullshit. Al Quaeda is a name we made up to be able to apply our own RICO laws after the first WTC bombing. And you may not realize it, but terrorist groups tend to hate each other as much as they hate anyone else. They are religious extremists after all.

>but it's factually incorrect to say they are "made up."

They are either utterly non-existent or so small as to be ignorable.

>putting gas in your car on a sunny weekend day with the hair on your neck standing up because even though you know that there is a negligible chance of your being the victim of a sniper attack, the possibility scares you in a way that the possibility of death through heart disease, or hell the certainty of death through old age, cannot.

What you are describing is irrational, emotional response. None the less, we can't make policy decisions about how you feel. And the media is largely to blame about this. The reported news should be proportional to the effect. The Boston marathon bomb should have been a byline on the local Boston news if it was mentioned at all.
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And after that is the increasing use of smart-phone clients which don't have support.
The bottom of the second link (first Google Scholar link) leads to a free copy of the comment from Kent State University's website.
Reddit has information that can be used to identify the author of a submission or comment. I was a disappointed to hear the soft stance on protecting reddit user data.
> There is no initial fee required to submit a FOIA request, but the FOIA does provide for the charging of certain types of fees in some instances.

> For a typical requester the agency can charge for the time it takes to search for records and for duplication of those records. There is usually no charge for the first two hours of search time or for the first 100 pages of duplication.

http://www.foia.gov/faq.html#cost
Many sites (like blockchain.info) offer a browser extension which does the checking for you every time automatically. Mega also has a browser extension which does downloading, but I'm unsure if it does checking.
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From what I see:

* everything is done server side -> trust issues

* no encryption, just indexed by a hash -> that means the messages are not store encrypted on the server

I would recommend people stay away from your solution, and instead use something like Zerobin: http://sebsauvage.net/paste/
It encrypts everything using SJCL, and if I am worried with the server sending me a modified version of the JS code, I can still keep the code on my own computer but use it to send to the server.
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Office would do well without the rest of Microsoft (in fact possibly even better), but I'm not sure the rest of Microsoft would do well without Office. Office is a huge stable cash-cow that allows Microsoft to experiment on things like Kinect without having to worry if they aren't always profitable.

You could argue the same thing with Apple and iOS. iOS would be better if it weren't so tied to OS X, but I'm not sure the rest of Apple would be in anywhere near the same position (or even still around) if it weren't for the big iOS and iPod cashcows.
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I would argue that, for now, this is an "enemy of my enemy...." situation.
Thank God! The current inspector is horrendous. I don't know how to find anything, and I use Xcode regularly.
Anyone knows where to get those invitation codes?
I've always used Chromium, but I'm also planning on switching to Firefox soon.

Also, IE10? You don't trust Google but you trust Microsoft?
Ok, so I strongly disagree that the raid was part of a deal to film The Hobbit. It would imply some extremely poor negotiation on Warner Brother's part since the raid happened AFTER production had moved from New Zealand. If Dotcom was really such a big deal to WB, why not make filming contingent on him being raided?

Yes, there was a big brew-ha-ha around moving the production of the Hobbit offshore (from NZ). But that was due to negoations falling apart with the New Zealand actor's union[0][1]. This is the dispute that lead to negotiations with NZ's prime minister on 27 October 2010[2]. These negations take place after the film was greenlit and Peter Jackson (not Guillermo Del Toro) is confirmed as director.

The result of these negotiations is that film workers in NZ loose their right to organize.

Now if I were Warner Brothers, and had actually made this deal to have the government raid Kim Dotcom in exchange for filming The Hobbit, wouldn't I wait until the raid happened before starting filming to make sure that New Zealand holds up their end of the bargain?

But, in fact, principal photography on the Hobbit begins on 21 March 2011. Dotcom is raided 9 months later, in January 2012. By this time, all photography in New Zealand is finished.

This timeline doesn't add up. What guarantee did Warner Brothers have that New Zealand would hold up their end of the bargain?

Furthermore, there's no mention of this deal in the e-mails and memos that were released around the Hobbit filming negotiations in February 2013[3].

[0]http://screenrant.com/the-hobbit-new-zealand-peter-jackson-k...
[1]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&o...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(film_series)#Indust...
[3]http://www.3news.co.nz/Hobbit-files-released/tabid/1607/arti...
Yes! But don't call the party "Pirate party". Call them "Republicans" because that is likely to be backlash against the Democrats after Obama's miserable performance.
I wouldn't be proud of Capgemini.
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Would you know or be able to provide evidence that it hasn't been used? Probably not.
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There used to be anonymity, but it's too late to start now. I've met a few people, (outside of the homeless community or the third world), that are truly anonymous in the practical sense of the word. It's not something that 99.99% percent of people would consider or desire.
So the absolute top priority for the US pirate party should be voting reform at the state level. If people see how much vastly better alternative systems are at the state level they're likely to start complaining about it at the federal level.
It's a matter of cost. It's "easy" to build Mach 2.5 jetliners, but customers actually prefer to fly really, really cheap instead of flying really, really fast.
And where is the private key stored? On Google or Microsoft's server? What then would be the point? (I assume you'll answer that it'll be done client-side, but JavaScript cryptography is a whole mess of fail. But that's a separate issue.)
I get the argument that it is a derivative work, but a personal genome also has the unique property of literally being the absolute essence of my own person. I morally and ethically possess a right to the usage of that essence, and I think it would be a very good idea for society to set up a legal framework that protects that right.
There are other researchers too, who disclose bugs to Microsoft without spewing unnecessary vitriol? And he was being irresponsible. Microsoft's security division has been proactive earlier, regarding zero-days [1].

Also at this stage, no company is helping the public. Even Google. Every step of my digital life is mined through US corporations, and Gmail, Google analytics and Facebook have a major chunk of my private life between them. So let's focus on every company, without furthering one single company or defending another.

[1] : https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239064/Microsoft_ru...
I wonder if the test pilots wore parachutes.
Sure, these anomalies have occurred before after a major threat and in the shock over it, such as Japanese internment camps or the suspension of suspension of habeas corpus during the civil war, but the pendulum always swings back against govt over reach. You write as if the American Civil Liberties Union has done no good at all and it a hopeless cause.
Yeah this story is right up there with Obama not being an American for me. Until someone has any reasonable proof I just can't seem to care.
This is hyperbole. Most large software companies report vulnerabilities to CERT and DHS so that they can start patching critical infrastructure sooner rather than later.
You only had to wait -1 days.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/crime/fl-phone-record...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5872348
Consider the Etymotic mc5 or Sennheiser HD-280. Both under $100.

I own the HD280 and an older Etymotic model (ER-6i) and love them both, especially on flights.

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To "bring it home," so to speak, he should request all NSA data on phone calls to and from Congressmen. Nothing makes politicians more angry than applying their rules for everyone else to themselves.
It is a damned shame, then, that we have no friends in Congress.
A crucial problem is that we're not, or we shouldn't be, particularly afraid of "terrorism" -- a slippery word that tends to be applied arbitrarily and politically.

What we should, and can justifiably, be afraid of is "black swan" security events (such as 9/11). The Boston Bombers were horrible people, but they weren't threats to national security, and the bombing wasn't a "black swan" event. If (and these are big "ifs") the NSA is meaningfully restricted to defending the U.S. against foreign governments, and meaningfully restricted to uncovering plots to kill thousands, then I don't see where the privacy concern is.
I wonder if they selectively push any 'special updates' through windows update to 'foreign' systems.
Me too, mainly 1, which makes you feel the language is slow. Contrast with Go (a much simpler language, but feels modern because it compiles so cleanly).
And if it is stored client-side, what happens when the user inevitably loses their key? You and I might have backups in multiple places, and on an encrypted USB stick in a bank vault, but my dad doesn't, and the next time he spills wine on his laptop, there goes literally all of his e-mail.
Having been on the end of 'shared source', you don't get all of it. Certain critical bits are missing.

The closest you can get to them is the leaked NT4 and 2000 source back in the early 00's.
Not all members of this program receive vulnerabilities at the same time.
As a long term, now former subscriber, I have to disagree with you. It's all about the page clicks today, fuck the users.
Stuxnet? Is it too far of a stretch to think that this could have aided in the development? Obviously I have no evidence that it actually did, but I wouldn't be surprised and personally think its likely.
It does do well, and for personal use it's fine (far better than Open Office ever was), but it's just not on the same level as MS Office. When you start getting into document tracking or Macros things start to break down, and the general usability is not as good - especially for Excel vs Calc.

I'm happy with Gimp for image manipulation and indie games (I've got a 3DS and a Windows partition on my desktop for that), but I still boot into Windows or fire up a VM on my laptop to run MS Office (or watch Netflix).
I showed this article to a friend of mine who frequently organizes and participates in CS events. He made a few good points, but here's the main one:

Local groups tend to be extremely personality driven, with a small number of people driving them. When these people move to a new location or their priorities change, the local groups that they led often die. This sounds like what happened in San Diego for the author. There are many other extremely vibrant communities out there, as noted by the comments of others.

Also, if you look at the statistics for users on CS, it's 47% female to 53% male.
Bitmessage is absolutely user-friendly. You are not even asked to enter a password.
Given the recent IRS scandal, I'm surprised the number isn't higher.
Opera, an Open Source browser?
Major customers with very real needs for security probably aren't running Windows

Plenty of big organisations use Windows for almost everything, and certainly don't go around sandboxing it. They manage regular security patches just as you would for any other operating system.
As a (perhaps extreme) example - the Royal Navy use Windows to run several of their warships: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/05/windows_for_warships...
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