skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on everything else I've read, NSA is still sniffing traffic off the wire or something similar.

It's nice that Facebook is pushing for a little more transparency, but they could be telling the absolute truth here and the NSA could still be getting all the data.
"Never mind about the NSA, here's this wacky project for the public good!"
Plenty of pictures on their G+ page: https://plus.google.com/+ProjectLoon
We've been "sorting the country out" for hundreds of years.
And if you're looking for something browser-based, I've been using a chrome extension called syncpad, for about a year now. Does the job.
I know this is all in good fun, but you all are uncomfortably close to describing things that will soon get added to the practical threat landscape.

As long as you have a flexible hardware platform that lets you crank up some of the voltage regulator outputs, gpios that can be attached to a long trace/external wire as a makeshift antenna and have a decently fast cpu clock you have all the ingredients for a crude but usable software defined radio. maybe not super fast if you can't repurpose a hardware phy or radio interface, but more than enough bandwidth to exfil a secret key or 10 for maybe a couple dozen meters.

Tools to do sdr utilizing only general purpose processors and no radio specific gear are already available here and there as research implementations, and code that uses gpus/audio dacs/ and re-purposed phys to make a radio interface with a different spec or broadcast frequency is already in production use (wifi phy using a dvb radio interface -> tv whitespace communicator).

Using an approach like that to exfil or bridge an air gap is just too tempting for it to not happen. Honestly, I'd be willing to bet there's already an example of that somewhere out there in the wild today.
It needs an accelerometer.
Corporations have legal personhood, so yes; it makes sense to compare them.
Hmm, I have a hard time seeing a difference, but this is a large screen and a decent computer. What uglieness should be fixed by this? I use Oracle Java 1.7.0_21-b11 64-bit. Those hundreds of Java flags are a mystery to me.
This is great! Cambodia is a wonderful place to visit and this discovery will add to its already fascinating cultural history.
I think that this is a great project, and would be exactly what I need for ProofPeer (http://www.proofpeer.net) because I have lot's of code that needs to run both on the server and in the browser. I am using Clojure/Clojurescript currently and am pretty happy with it. But I am missing the possibility of defining abstract datatypes in Clojure, so my first choice would have been Scala if Scala.js would already be mature and reasonably production ready.
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I like he accidentally showed a counterexample (Cloud of Inspirations) without commenting on it.
Yeah all this takes on a whole new context in the light of PRISM.

I think it was Cory Doctorow who said, "Snowdon took the theory out of conspiracy theory".
This is all like the plot of a bad cold war movie.
HAHA. That's cute. You weren't being serious were you?
I love how google has so much money they can spend money on pet projects like these. No wonder they attract people with so many "impossible ideas" that sometimes turn out to be pet projects worth spending come money on.
In a paranoia bout, I was connecting some dots. The US and EU are currently dealing a trade treaty. Imagine the treaty mandates that RFPs are to be open to both side of the pound. Then a US entity (private company or State entity) starts an RFE. The NSA as part of it's mandate can spy on any EU citizen without any limit of what it does about the data (yeah, not a US-citizen). So imagine if by pure luck an NSA employee stumbled on the proposal data of an EU entity before filling and passed it along to an US competitor of the EU entity. Now you have the perfect crime because terrorism no investigation possible at the treaty level and foreign citizen no law as been broken on the US soil.

There are suspicions that this game has been played between Boing and Airbus (I overheard that the US was the spy, but being in Europe, my environment is biased).
Shoot, if I had known someone was going to do this I would have made the prime number program a bit more efficient. Since it looks like you've ported the algorithm exactly it shouldn't affect the result though. Let me know what the test reveals, I tried to write the fasted arbitrary precision algorithms I could.
Totally man. I'm in the process of switching my email from google apps to lavabit + imap client. I've already blocked cookies on www.google.com.au so my searches aren't logged, and I'm running Ghostery to cut all third part cookies.

I hardly ever use facebook but it's definitely going. I'll still use dropbox to accept files from others, but I'll no longer use it as a defacto network drive.

Sad, but the NSA and Whitehouse really fucked this up.
it does on my Nexus S, much older phone. Chrome.
It's because they're not independent cores. You're pretty much never going to get the same single-thread performance with two threads running on a module as with one, the idea is that you ought to get better than 0.5X the single thread performance, such that if you have two threads then 2*0.75X is better than X, while still allowing you to get X (or better with turbo) on strictly single threaded workloads.

Where this can fall apart is if you're trying to use eight homogenous threads at once and the threads have large working set sizes, such that the second thread causes spill out from the per-module caches. Then you have eight threads contending for L3 bandwidth, or if you're really screwed you fill up the L3 and start to hit main memory.

Out of curiosity, have you tried any of the Abu Dhabi Opterons? They doubled the L3 from 8MB to 2x8MB, which I would expect to help by both keeping you out of main memory and reducing contention by splitting each L3 between half as many cores (assuming you don't get the new twice-as-many-cores models).
I would argue against this using absurdity. I don't want corporations to have the vote, so I don't particularly want to reach for legal personhood when justifying policy.
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Including after the fact attribution of motive for any of a number of actions based on peoples online comments.

The real question is if the already exposed two way trade in information is going to be broadened into a comprehensive assessment service. Will the NSA provide a "DataVeillance report" on individuals considered for 'sensitive positions'?

Will your call records be used to assess your fitness for work? Will your spending habits be turned into behavioral alerts so that your HR manager is calling you in to ask if you've been drinking too much?

Who gets to access these records and for what purposes?
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This is the status quo but doesn't address parent's argument. If corporations want the same rights as natural persons in one area of the law, it would be cherry picking to want to keep a privileged position in another, e.g. tax law. A good argument against parent would need to attack the premise that cherry picking privileges is bad.
Sadly some form of OBString is a necessity, any string object needs a reference count and some function pointers packaged in the struct to work. Converting OBString to have the same interface as standard string handling functions is a good idea though, and using the standard functions as a backend would also be done in that case.
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Things seem to be going pretty well, all things considered.
You're right. It doesnt make sense.

But the problem is: we've already crossed that bridge. Corporations are treated like people in enough regards, that it only makes sense to make these comparisons now.

But yes.. its retarded. It doesnt make sense. But it's how things are now. And until something changes with corporate personhood, they should be held to the same standards as people. This way people will wake up to how stupid it is.
Thanks for posting this, I've been searching for a great not app for quite a while.
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Some bad habits from Java are the only reason. I thought about having obrelease and obgetCString. Putting ob at the beginning of every function seems like overkill, and I don't like that only some functions had would have ob at the beginning if I didn't do a global name change. Any suggestions?
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An open message to Snowden: this reporter would hand over his private key in a second.
From the perspective of an established incumbent player in a lucrative market, a disruptively effective startup _is_ an economic terrorist.

The existence of a repository of data of this sort will be used to defend existing economic arrangements against new entrants; and to prevent certain classes of arrangement from becoming established at all.
If you want to tax corporate activity, the best (most consistent) way would be to eliminate corporate income taxes and tax capital gains as regular income. It would serve multiple causes:

(1) Instead of spending inordinate resources in tax avoidance schemes, companies would have the freedom to focus on investing human and financial capital in serving customers by providing better, cheaper products and services. Remember, the cost of those tax avoidance schemes are embedded in the prices you pay for goods and services.

(2) Taxes would only be due when gains are realized, thus allowing compounded growth to further spur the economy;

(3) It would raise the effective tax rate of individuals who receive a large portion of their income from capital gains (something that seems to really bother those who worry about such things;

(4) It's a more consistent approach to taxation. Today we are taxing the owners of a company's stock both within the corporation's income structure and then again when income and growth is distributed to shareholders as dividends and capital gains, respectively.
It's strange - I find it both weird and cool at the same time when a google search about a person comes back without information. Weird because - who does that? Cool because - it's possible that this person is very good at managing their privacy. But my head cannot decide and in the end I'm mostly frustrated that my desire for information was left hanging. I completely know that it's wrong and bad, but, well, the feeling is there. Weird times we live in.

It also reminds me, again, of the joke making its round when google+ started:

It had an uncommonly long signup form, the joke being "Come on google, quit playing games - you already know all of that about me. Why bother asking?"
Google says:

(80 000 feet) / the speed of light = 81.336269 microseconds

So no, that's not a very big amount of latency. Not to be confused with the latency you get to satellites, which is much much larger due to them being way further out.
I just graduated, so most of the data structures are still pretty fresh in my mind. I started after getting tired of implementing data structures in my many C based classes, hoping that at least I would get some use out of them during school. Sadly after that I never took another C based class, but the project became interesting in its own right and I stuck with it.
The IRS doesn't tell you why they've decided to audit you. They just say you were flagged. Then they audit you.
Your argument is a fair point, cherry picking privileges is quite ridiculous. That said, it makes absolutely zero sense to compare corporation taxes and personal taxes. The dynamics are just totally different. I can see nothing good in equating personal and corporation taxes.

My personal opinion is that both personal and corporate tax legislation is more or less flawed and that the(effective) tax rates probably need to be adjust but that doesn't mean that I want them to have the same legislation.
An incomplete type is a struct where the definition of the structure is hidden from the view of most of your source code. This makes it impossible to directly access struct elements, and is like data hiding in a object oriented language. Of course in this library you can always include the header containing the struct definition and go bananas so its a soft restriction.
You are correct...Corporate Personhood IS absurd. But until the people stand up to this bullshit, I think it's fair to use it in any capacity to highlight it's absurdness.
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This is an older article. One of the key takeaways is that Congress in 2008 gave the IRS the capability to dive into your personal affairs online in ways that even the justice department can't (without a warrant). They only need to view you as somebody of interest.

Better still, the exact nature of all this -- wait for it -- is a secret.

The long-term trend here is pretty clear. Congress has the Big Data hammer out, and it's not afraid to use it on whatever political cause of the week makes them upset. NSA was first, because terrorism was so bad. But dang it, tax cheats are pretty bad too!

There's no slippery slope argument that needs to be made. We're already sliding down it. Just standby for the next travesty. Don't worry, the wait won't be long. Maybe a year or two.

The American people remain amazingly ignorant and/or apathetic, though. One wonders how many wake-up calls it will take.

ADD: The very interesting question here is this: since the IRS is authorized to go after emails and social chats without a warrant, how are the big service providers going to report this? Even if Google shows its thousands of NSLs, this type of activity wouldn't be covered by them. Some more info here: http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/mutual-funds/...
NSA is supposedly constrained to its strict national security mission charter. However, I've heard murmurs over the years about analysts passing off information in an unofficial capacity to federal law enforcement if what they come across sufficiently bothers them. Those agencies then figure out a way to legally obtain the data they were passed so it's admissible in court.

Recent quotes concerning GCHQ provide an interesting insight in this regard:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/prism-gchq-willi...

> "If you are a law-abiding citizen ..."

This implies they go after criminals and not just terrorists.

> "... of all the things those agencies are doing to stop your identify being stolen ..."

I guess they're also in the identity protection business.

> "But if you are a would-be terrorist or the centre of a criminal network ..."

Again, targeting of criminals (albeit high level).

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IMHO, a top-secret dragnet surveillance program that's tightly restricted in scope to national security matters is a much easier pill to swallow than a completely legal, known program. The latter becomes nightmarish as soon as the data aggregates down the chain to law enforcement or other government agencies. Imagine local police departments having the same level of information about private citizens as NSA does. That's terrifying.
This is a well-known and important aspect of keeping data classified. Just because classified information is leaked does not mean that people with clearance can treat it as unclassified. There is lots of bogus "classified" information out there, and an excellent way to limit the harm of leaked truly classified info (which is unavoidable) is to make it indistinguishable from bogus info. And the way to do this is to not confirm or deny that it is legitimate.

Yes, this means people with clearance will sometimes have to sound silly when it becomes overwhelmingly clear that the info is legitimate. But the alternative is for individuals with clearance to effectively declassify information unilaterally, which would be disastrous. Instead, information is only declassified by folks at the top.

This is just the basic idea I gathered from working near labs doing classified research. Some of the explanations for seemingly bizarre behavior concerning classified information gets even deeper into the "because he'll think that she'll think that he'll think...." rabbit hole. Someone who actually has clearance can probably speak on this much more usefully than I can.
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Just to be clear, I'm not in favor of Corporate Personhood, by any stretch of the imagination. But if corporations want to apply the Constitution as if they're people, I think it's fair for me to apply the corporate tax code to my person.
I don't mean to be negative, but a few thoughts:

>I did not go to school for CS, and don't have a degree.

Where do you want to live/work? Depending on where you want to work this may be more permissible or less. In the valley if you have a good rep and past projects this will matter less, but in many places in the US this is actually a non-starter. If you love programming have you considered that working (even part-time) towards a B-S in CS might be worthwhile?

>before rupturing a disk

I'd advise just saying an injury. This is a little bit a case of too much information, esp. for a perspective employer.

>github:....

Everything I see is Ruby. This is fine, people often have a primary language, but you should pick another language, very different kind of language, and write a project in it. This shows people you are flexible and are the kind of professional learner who can re-tool quickly. I'd suggest considering C,C++,Go,Java,Scala or Haskell.
I think that DuckDuckGo has seen an increase in traffic since this series of stories has broken. I use them myself.

I would be happy to pay a reasonable premium to those companies that chose to take my privacy seriously. Companies that don't take my privacy seriously can compete for people who don't care as much about their privacy.

For the record, I'm ok with legalizing weed, too.
You don't have to imagine how Prism works, as it has already been described in decent detail in a number of articles:

http://theweek.com/article/index/245360/solving-the-mystery-...

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/eichenwald/2013/06/prism-is...
Actually seems quite reasonable, wouldn't want the employees getting a feeling that the security rules don't apply anymore. They would be wise do declassify the leaked documents, what's done is done and trying to pretend otherwise will only server to delegitimatize the rules.
Why are you greylisting? That just delays the email arriving... It makes sense to greylist normal email accounts, but for a temporary email addresses it doesn't...
If it's not, and the program has been running for 6+ years, what has been the output of what they've been looking at?

Where are all the dissidents being rounded up?
I hope Snowden realizes that none of this matters if an FBI agent is sitting beside the reporter as they communicate.
This link goes to the paywall also
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You might find a 100KB email size limit blocks a lot of email. You want to be making it easy for email to get into these temporary email addresses, not difficult.

The thing I like about mailinator is that I know I'll be able to pick up the message that gets sent to it...
XSS: http://maildrop.cc/inbox/sdvygasdviygadsv/129u

EDIT: Hmm, I probably should have mentioned this before, but if you visit that URL, the XSS that happens will lead to your IP address being displayed on a public page.
Page looks like its from something called `Bing'.

We see:

At the top is a U.S. News & World Report button,

4/10/2013 4:15 PM ET

By Richard Satran, U.S. News & World Report

At the bottom of story we see

`More from U.S. News & World Report:...'

-None of this links back to original source.

If I fb share it, or link it, this `Bing' becomes the link. without more further digging to get the original url, looks like I have to use this copycat of full-content `Bing' thing.
Works fine in my Nexus 4. Chrome.

But, I see white border on right side, if I tilt the phone too much towards right.
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Prof. Thall flipped the question, pointing out that any algorithm hunting for terrorists would turn up some number of false positives -- probably a large one. As to whether that should rule out using algorithms, though, he says, "I would very much like to know what alternative they might suggest. With regard to identifying terrorist attacks originating in the U.S.A. before they are carried out, there is no free lunch, and we simply can't have it both ways."

IMO the last quote in this article is the perfect response to the quandaries raised by the rest of the article:

Any automated approach or data analysis is sure to raise false positives - but what other options are there? Zero data analysis or automation? Pure human "police" or "detective work" raises false positives as well.
"the NSA does not use that program to keep geolocation data"

How does this mesh with the Verizon court order specifically demanding trunk identifiers for calls, which can be resolved to geographical locations for cell phones?
Why is this on HN?

I don't understand the problem. Why wouldn't they charge for the lost equipment? That's why you have insurance.
Wake up? So long as none of it actually affects people on a day-to-day basis they won't care. Otherwise it's just another abstraction.
The article conflates what I can do online with what my government, via projects like PRISM and others we've not heard of. My government using the same tools as I can use, perhaps augmenting it to do it on a larger scale, is not the same thing as my government using its vast resources and monopoly on coercive power to muscle its way into everything everyone can and has said with impunity.
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Totally. And as someone who runs a linux and mac machine the "personal license" is awesomely down to earth.
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It's very similar to RubyMine; JetBrains' Ruby (Rails) IDE. For the first time in my life I said to myself, "I _need_ to buy this software for my professional toolkit."

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I went into this article expecting to get mad, but it's actually quite reasonable: just like how incredibly rare it is that Microsoft releases something as capital-i important as Windows, the odds are against companies one-upping the innovations that vaulted them into success. That doesn't mean they're destined to failure or even to obscurity: but innovation favors the young.

(Somewhat ironically, I think Google has consistently shown the highest level of daring and innovation, as seen from things like Project Loon and the things that could totally restructure a first-world society, like self-driving cars or Google Glass -- and yet, they have the highest peak to climb, as I don't think any piece of technology [besides maybe Wikipedia] changed the world quite as much as search.)
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