skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, hey, we could restore the pre9-11 checks and balances. Just a thought. Maybe we could demand our government not use every small threat to our country as an excuse to move the goalposts, the Overton Window.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Some edge cases juts aren't worth chasing :) And Apple's mastery in business thus far, has been knowing exactly which ones those are (as I see it).
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Have you ever not paid sales tax to your state, on an item you purchased tax-free online? That's felony tax evasion when the amount is high enough; varies by state.
Yes, of course. I'll go one further and say I wouldn't trust any country to not sniff the Internet traffic passing through them.

However, spreading it around is at least somewhat better than having the majority of traffic snooped on by a single power. Right?
Java+Swing in 2013. Is it worth it?
And how much collective campaign financing will these angry people provide next election? Zero? Then fuck them.
'We are a one-man agency...'
contradictory?
I agree that the above poster has them backwards.

Yet I have never been clear on why we need a domestic spy agency given we have the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, DHS, and DOJ who are all actively engaged in monitoring internally. At what point to people start to realize that all of these groups will exist to serve themselves at our own expense?
John Ive has terrible software design taste.
Americans are abusing freedom and liberty. They care more about themselves than their country. They benefit too much from the country but they refuse to sacrifice their email message just only to the government.

My question is :
Who will really be afraid of the email and phone call was monitor by the government?
Well, we still have to worry that only the NSA has access to the layer. But even with ongoing crypto breaks I trust computers more than I trust people (in a world of spear phishing) to do the right thing.
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Doctors take the oath generally upon graduation from medical school. There isn't any regulatory body - unless you make it mandatory to pay EFF dues there is no body to regulate the oath-taking.
The problem with Brooks's arguments is that they fail as soon as you apply them to other NSA whistle blowers like Bill Binney and Tom Drake. He paints Snowden as a young, incompetent, introverted outcast who "couldn't navigate the institution of high school." That mud just doesn't stick on the others who blew the whistle for the same moral reasons as Snowden, like 40-year NSA veteran Binney.

Was Daniel Ellsberg a youthful, rebellious societal outcast, unable to navigate the country's institutions? Just someone who was eager to confront authority?
Agreed. However I think there's also a certain agreement in place with companies like Google. I willing accept to share my locational data with you in exchange for you telling me about a new coffee shop or local offer. I can weigh the pros/cons of that to ultimately decide if I opt-in.

I don't have a similar (or any) agreement with the government.
At Grameen Foundation, an international nonprofit becomes a software developer
No worries. 53 people already have. Somewhat impressive (if a bit excessive)
Why are the pre-9/11 checks more trustworthy than the post-9/11 checks?
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Especially including people like Stanislov Petrov's understanding of mutually assured destruction, and his willingness to martyr himself.
This quote from that article gives me chills because it's what they are saying now:

Erich Mielke's mania for information: the long-time head of the Stasi, Mielke believed that "you have to know everything in order to be completely safe"
If you think the government is going to disappear you to Guantanamo, what's there to discuss at all? You clearly believe the government is bound by no laws at all.
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Sorry, but when exactly does he say so? I am pretty sure I watched it carefully...
Somehow that is better. It gets people who are involved in it to get their hands bloody. That is necessary when taking lives. It should be damaging to ones psyche and it should be difficult and stressful to kill. It should not be a push of a button. Go blow up kids herding goats all day, then pick up your own kids for soccer practice in Langley at night, that's what we are up to now.
and, the link to the privacy policy. :)
https://www.stopwatching.us/www.fightforthefuture.org/privac...
The White House petition, along with this letter to Congress, exist to make the people signing them feel like they've done something about the situation. People are filled with outrage and clicking 'submit' allows them to vent some of it in a pretty futile way, but one that gives them some self satisfaction for standing up for themselves but without actually risking anything.

In some ways I think online petitions have done some societal harm because people will always take the path of least resistance. If it's between clicking a button or actually going out and banging on doors to rally support, the button wins every time.
Fuse requires root permissions in Linux. Most distributions simple make the fusermount binary setuid.
The moment someone points a gun at you, your freedoms are completely intact.

Moreover, this is the moment when you can show whether you are really free.

Free men do not mind dying when their time comes.
Kopete with OTR? :)
"... the value of the disk to that person is now zero. Given the opportunity, they will sell the game at any price they can get. They will happily trade the game in for $5."

But that's not really true, at all. "Replayability" is a term that gets tossed around, a lot when describing single player games. If "the value of the disk to that person is now zero" were true, it's a term that wouldn't even exist.

Additionally, I hate to resort to anecdotes, but I'm not sure if there's any unbiased research in this area -- but I don't know anyone who buys a brand new game, plays it for a month, and then "will happily trade the game in for $5." I mean, I'm sure there are people who do fit that mold, but if that were true, then all the used games shops would only give you $5 for any month-old game. But those month-old games command a much higher price than that, precisely because people aren't happily trading in the game for $5. This is really basic econ 101 stuff here. Supply and demand.
Power switch doesn't work plz fix.
I've had a very difficult time taking print newspaper seriously.
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Well this is interesting...
This may just turn out to be a good opportunity for European companies to take over from Facebook, Google and twitter.

It would take a super human effort though. Unlikely it would happen but here's hoping.

That would definitely send a message to the corporate system of America.

Mess with our privacy and you loose your audience.
You don't have to shout it, just post it on facebook, they can hear.
A few lines below that line, a more complete quote appears:

> The effect on the local population of the dengue vector* was dramatic: analysis of eggs laid in specially designed ‘ovitraps’ showed that the number of viable ‘wild-type’ eggs laid in the trial areas was reduced by 91-95%, while adult trapping showed a reduction in the local adult population of an estimated 96%.*

They are releasing OX513A ( http://www.oxitec.com/health/our-products/aedes-agypti-ox513... ). It's a variant of Aedes aegypti, so it mates only with Aedes aegypti and only that type of mosquitoes is affected. The first assertion is misleading, but it's only a simplification / edition error / marketing hype.
If I were Phil, I'd write a long blog post about everything Silent Circle does to protect you against PRISM and NSA, and how it does it exactly. He should also respond to all possible objections (i.e. not open source).

Just promoting the home page with bullet points is not enough.
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We need to make and maintain a list of all the sell out hacks that betray their own people. If that list already exists, who ever has commit access please add Brooks to it.
This is Why We Can't Design Nice Things
OSX Mavericks uses Latest Ruby and Python
The latest version of OSX (Mavericks) uses ruby 2.0.0-p195

$(home) - ruby -v

ruby 2.0.0p195 (2013-05-14 revision 40734) [universal.x86_64-darwin13]

$(home) - python --version

Python 2.7.3
There are better and worse slave masters.

But slave master is a slave master still.
Why are there only four PRISM slides in the presentation?

According to media reports, the total number of slides is much larger …
Maybe you're right, maybe most people think that they have "nothing to hide" and want the government to "protect" them against the current boogieman (the USSR, now Islamists, tomorrow China?).

But most people do care about Freedom and civil liberties, on a less "abstract" level. They just don't quite see the connection yet.

And then it's our responsibility to inform those who don't care of the reality of what's happening and what is at stake --freedom of speech, democracy. Before it's to late to do it.
One of many examples: Project Azorian

During the Cold War the Soviets lost a nuclear submarine in international waters. The Soviets couldn't find it, the US (through its network of acoustic listening stations in the oceans) could. There was a multi-year effort to recover the sub, which required an elaborate cover story and operational security.

If the Soviets knew what the recovery ship was doing, they would have blown it out of the water. All the secrecy was necessary to protect the mission.
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I tend to lean towards your view point, mostly because the alternate unknown is terrifying. What does need to happen is the people who are given control of systems need to be accountable, not lie, and intent of their actions needs to be known. There are many more less costly things that can be done to help a society stay safe - from itself and from others around the world.
Have you considered creating something that would help tie the content to the person viewing the slides? Might be really useful for any security sensitive organization. For example, if the color scheme on certain graphics was programmatically modified slightly for each person who viewed the content, then the next leaker could be immediately identified (if they don't decide to voluntarily publish their name). Something like this would survive screenshots/resizing/etc. You could also enable them to put tags where the software can fill in identifying info in the content. For example a link in the slides might be modified to include a number identifying the viewer, and if that link pops up anywhere, it's off to Gitmo.

Can't believe NSA doesn't already do this stuff.
Maybe that was a bit of an overstatement on my part unless you're a middle eastener. But they've proven over and over that they'll throw out the laws when it inconveniences them.
The Russians apparently announced they would have deployed Iskander theatre missiles in the Kaliningrad Oblast to target any US missile defence base in Poland:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K720_Iskander

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_missile_defense_complex_in_P...
So what are the three felonies a day that I supposedly commit? Article is quite short on details.
tptacek, I can't reply to you directly. The checks haven't changed, the obeying part has. The executive branch of our government needs to return to following them. How to enforce that on the branch tasked with enforcement it the problem. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence seems to lack a backbone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Permanent_S...
As you say, this is a technicality. Everyone is guilty under a microscope, and the FISA dragnet can provide authorities with a license to use a microscope on you. That's quite enough to be scared about.
So it does:

$ ls -l `which fusermount`
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 31384 May 31 04:38 /usr/bin/fusermount

You learn something new everyday. Thanks for the correction :)
unless you make a yacht for someone the russians would like to track or listen in on
I can't reasonably predict the weather next week. But either way, I don't choose what to do based on what some Ph.D. will think of it 40 years from now, I choose what to do based on whether it's right or wrong. When it's not that simple, I try to go by what is the best overall solution.
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This is not precise comparison. The Russian military actions in Chechnya are quite similiar to the ISAF actions in Afghanistan, including bombings of civilians and refusals for journalists (http://www.stripes.com/news/files-prove-pentagon-is-profilin...) This is the face of modern warfare, not security operations.

Better comparison to drone attacks on terrorists is killing of Dzhokhar Dudaev by laser-guided missiles in 1996 and, possibly, killing of Shamil Basayev in 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_Dudayev#Death_and_leg...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamil_Basayev#Death
While belonging to the most terrorist groups will usually give the highest score, it's not quite the same as what betweenness actually measures - belonging to the most terrorist groups that are each large but do not share many members.
I thought it came out that emailprivacytester.com was a service created by the NSA.
No no no, the GP was absolutely the question I was thinking -- and I'm sure others too, because a HtML5 JS port has been done before and was well-voted on by HN. But the GP's question brought out the real answer of how this is new, and the detail is interesting to web devs
Aaaand, there we go. Now we're (rightly) afraid to sign petitions. Land of the etc.
I suggest http://www.copernico.net/ ,who are in Spain. I've no affiliation, other than being a customer; in my experience, the service is excellent, the boss, Miguel Angel, is very easy to reach, and I've come to know him as an independent spirit, who does not like governmental intervention at all.
Apparently I'm grumpy beyond my years but I find these lighthearted jabs at the NSA counter-productive as they just trivialize what happened. I'd much rather see creations that will help bring about change, like shining a spotlight on the representatives that support these programs.

For instance Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, who said "the authorities need this information in case someone might become a terrorist in the future."
I never thought "Made in the USA" would make me so nervous.
The official announcement
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/2013-June/004223.ht...
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In addition, while using the actual company logos in the presentation may spoil the aethetic, it conveys the information much much quicker.
Cloudbreak would have been awesome for the introduction to the new naming scheme.
There will always be a way to hack a phone's software.
Though this is a nice approach at deterring petty theft. Lets just hope it doesn't affect resell value.
At least you can re-encode to ALAC without loss of quality, just loss of time and perhaps sanity.
Show HN: Selling 3 items I own in a different way instead of eBay or equivalent
Just that I would point out that Peter King (R-New York) has supported terrorist organizations himself, namely the Irish Republican Army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King#Support_for_the_I...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-10-2011/radical-...
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DMs are quite common.
I thought you had to post to facebook and change your profile picture in some way... like making it green or with a red star?
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The... future? Well, we still haven't in vitro gestation, right.
The CFAA is probably a good place to start, since its concept of a "protected computer" essentially covers every computer on the internet, and its definition of authorized/unauthorized access is quite vague, and so left open to interpretation through case law. And there haven't been so many cases, so the precedent on many things is unclear.

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

Try (a)(2)(C) on for size. If you have a jailbroken phone, its manufacturer might claim that you have unauthorized access to information on a protected computer, even if you are its owner (that's exactly what Sony argued against George Hotz, and they settled out of court, so we'll never know what the courts would have said about that argument). If you have any computer in your house that you modified in a way the manufacturer did not authorize, similar arguments may apply.
Sony may have won out of the established competitors but the Oculus Rift will be coming out this generation too. Given the support it has so far I don't doubt that it will become a major competitor, so it's too early to say Sony 'won'.
Error: No servers right now... :(
Great to hear. Which version of Python?
I'd recommend "It Couldn't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis as a more appropriate choice.
So logically we have a function:

f(oath)-->Binding

Such that

f(privacyOath)-->privacyOathBinding

And

f(loyaltyOath)-->loyaltyOathBinding

Maybe I am just not sold on the whole oath thing. Doctors are regulated not by oaths but through licensure. Licensing of computer programmers is a possible future state of affairs with more likelihood than might currently be obvious without looking at historical precedent - e.g. local governments often license all businesses, other professions become licensed as they mature, and as PRISM shows, governments have an interest in the products of programming. The future may inherit more from North Korea than we wish to consider.
So, how secure do we know this is?
I'd be much more comfortable having the Russian mafia targeting me than I'd be with the NSA spying on me. You can pay the mafia.
Yes, this has been an issue for a few years now eg see http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/eu-demands-answers-ove...
Yep, that's the one. Thank you!
What makes you think the site is "serious" now? She just doesn't know what Hacker News is, and can't be blamed for that. She just knows that some self-proclaimed "hackers" brought her site down with lots of traffic.

The ASCII art in the source code is awesome, BTW.
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If you are working at will for pay, you are not being enslaved. Get a grip.
Take a look at the comment section and the reader picks vs. the NYT picks. The NYT picks are about 50/50, readers are up in arms.
Speaking as a developer who's app is both on Google Play and on f-droid, I somehow share your feeling about f-droid being "insecure"(x), but consider all of the other points very thin.

Crash reports and statistics are great, except if you explicitly want to NOT spy on your users.

Auto-updates are ok, but forced auto-updates take the user's autonomy away, and are only one step short of forced remote uninstalls (which are already documented with Google Play, so far only for malware).

A proper build system is great indeed, but has nothing to do with the distribution medium.

(x) f-droid security: by having f-droid build all the apps from source by default, and signing them with their own keys, two problems appear:

a) you can not switch easily between f-droid builds and maintainer builds

b) you as the user need to trust both the author and f-droid to not be evil, instead of just the author.
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An interesting take on Brave New World vs 1984: http://www.prosebeforehos.com/image-of-the-day/08/24/huxley-...
This is another symptom that the marketing logic of consoles is off the rails. Consoles were closed devices because that's how console users could be made to pay for console hardware - through game prices.

For a couple decades, the economics of this worked just fine. Until just recently, developing for a console market of a few tens of millions was far more lucrative than writing for any "open" games market. But now, with billions of smartphones, which amounts to a crushing ratio of 2.x orders of magnitude over consoles, games for smart mobile devices are making a serious dent - enough so that Microsoft led with their "old people" passive media features for Xbox One.

It is an open question if the console economy can be sustained. Can enough be sold to make a viable market for game publishers? Hardcore gamers have PC gaming to fall back upon, so they will not save the consoles. The "living room PC" was always a loser, and it is hard to see how mixing that in with a console is now going to be a winner.
My bet is that Apple will be hard pressed to keep the current 2,500 base price. Three next generation Thunderbolt connectors, expensive Xeon processors, expensive ECC RAM, expensive PCIe flash disk. They basically took all the cheap, legacy and physically large stuff off the Mac Pro and folded up the remainder into a triangle that goes into a tube.

Can you believe that the old Mac Pro case and fundamental design was launched 10 years ago with the Power Mac G5?
I don't think the NSA can crack 4096 bit keys. If someone was able to find a flaw in the algorithm they would have published it. I don't think the NSA can pay better than some company, and some one smart enough to crack it will probably want to brag about it. Just brute forcing just take too much time and energy.
"For society to function well, there have to be basic levels of trust and cooperation, a respect for institutions and deference to common procedures. By deciding to unilaterally leak secret N.S.A. documents, Snowden has betrayed all of these things."

I'm amazed that the solution to being spied on by my government, showing that they have no basic level of trust in me or my fellow citizens, is to bow my head and treat this as a common procedure.

"He betrayed the privacy of us all. If federal security agencies can’t do vast data sweeps, they will inevitably revert to the older, more intrusive eavesdropping methods."

Wait...what? He didn't betray my privacy, my government did. The second part of the argument there is the most amazing leap of logic I've ever seen. "If we outlaw this invasive procedure, then they'll do something far worse that we've outlawed." I don't understand this at all.

There are so many objectionable parts of this article that while typing out my problems with it I just started raging at my desk. I don't know what to say. I'm just appalled. Any discussion on Snowden and whether or not what he did was right is a sideshow and should wait until we figure out what to do with the information he gave us.

EDIT: No, let's keep going.

"He betrayed the Constitution. The founders did not create the United States so that some solitary 29-year-old could make unilateral decisions about what should be exposed. Snowden self-indulgently short-circuited the democratic structures of accountability, putting his own preferences above everything else."

The leaker of secret programs that on the surface appear to clearly violate my Fourth Amendment rights is the one who is not being held accountable? It was self-indulgent to tell the world about how the NSA is spying on everyone, all of the time? This is an ad hominem attack that makes no sense. The programs he exposed "short-circuited the democratic structures of accountability," not him.
The former, they are preferential to western Europeans and Americans/Canadians