skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes very little sense.

There obviously were enough people who could pull off such an atrocity. (Unless you think it was all done with mirrors and holograms).

And, looking at other attacks which have come out as state sponsored (Glenanne gang), or other conspiracies (Iran–Contra) - there are obviously enough people within "the system" who demonstrably have pulled off such plots.

The only questions left are...

Was X an "inside job"?
If so, how high up did it go?

(For the record, I don't have an opinion on 9/11 or any other attacks).
This is ridiculous. This kind of abuse of anyone and everyone whom the government finds inconvenient has got to stop!
This is a perfect example of selling something for what it's worth, rather than for what it costs to build.
Tarsnap encrypts the data on the client side[0].

The source is open, and signed with PGP.

The data ends up being stored on S3, but the location doesn't matter.

[0] https://www.tarsnap.com/crypto.html
Facebook security bug exposed 6 million users' personal information
> That seems to have been the mentality of the government since 9/11.

You'd be more accurate if you referenced Pearl Harbor rather than 9/11. The national security state in the US wasn't a post-9/11 creation.
Now, encryption is probable cause...
Some of the bill of rights is that, and some clearly refers to things protecting "the people". I am no constitutional scholar, but this does seem to indicate that those specific rights are rights that are intended to apply to citizens of the US.
Am I the only one surprised by the choice of name "Soylent" for a nutritional drink?
> Further, the diffing format used there is atrocious.
Law is code. Why haven't we fixed this yet?

You might be interested in this experiment:

https://github.com/divegeek/uscode

(Federal code, not state.)
You're super literal. Imagine completely re-designing the car dealership experience so that it becomes a positive to the buying experience vs a negative. Secondly, who said the dealership has to be a franchise? Lastly, franchise's (even if you did that) have to follow some pretty strict guidelines. So you could drive the process hard.
Difficult to wiretap in the sense of intercepting communications to and from Google, yes.

But it's also engineered to give Google itself access to your data so they can improve their behavioral profile of you.

I think what people are suggesting is that if end user privacy was Google's priority rather than gaining access to user data for their own use, they could engineer a service that didn't place themselves as a man-in-the middle.
Why Instagram’s videos are 15 seconds long?
I think they are in the realm of 10%.
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The point of not using embedded libraries isn't about saving space. It's about not having several slightly different versions of the same bug spread out across several slightly different versions of the same library.

Saving space is just a nice side effect, so why not have that too?

The DLL hell problem doesn't exist in a GNU-based system because we have sonames. Windows and Mac OS X don't have those; instead, the software libraries there can't coordinate with each other harmoniously, so each program has to have all of its libraries packaged with its own set of bugs while making a hostile and rude gesture to the rest of the programs in the OS.
Well, what have you got to hide........?
Your ISP is already "spying" on you. They subject the bits you send to traffic analysis, they might do deep packet inspection, they record your use of the network, etc.

Also, the government doesn't need a warrant to intercept a UPS package.
ah, "due process" vs "do process"
Ask HN: Will be hard to get a job without a degree in the future?
I used to study Maths at college, but I always code -as a freelance and also in a startups-. Now I changed to Computer Sciences, but still I am not comfortable. I think college is not for me - after five years, I did little progress.

I am not happy with it anymore - it makes me sad : i work from 9 to 6 and then go to college until 11pm, monday to friday. I see my gf only on weekends and I almost dont see my friends anymore.

If I kept going on this is because people kept saying this is the correct for my future, but I don't think I can still do it anymore.

What's your opinion or experience? Until now, I never had trouble finding a job, but do you think in the future will be really hard to get a job without a degree?

Thank you!
Lost the key.... Sir?

OK, then we will take you house away and you cant have it back until you produce the key.
This is cute. Now be prepared for a thorough audit :-)
In theory, why not?
The GAO upheld two portions of the IBM protest. One claim was that the CIA failed to evaluate prices for a possible task provided for in the contract. The second sustained protest was that a software-security requirement in the contract was waived by the CIA only for Amazon during negotiations.

The GAO denied IBM's argument that the CIA didn't properly evaluate Amazon's past performance given certain service outages that occurred with Amazon's cloud service in 2012.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732479890457852...
Then they would need a way to do client-side public key encryption in the web browser, which is difficult and not really an important feature as far as the vast majority of their users are concerned.
Untedium
My Regret is ____
Have you seriously missed the dozens of articles on HN recently explaining why privacy is important even if you have nothing to hide? Or are you just trolling?
Thank you, guys, for suggestions. Yeah, many great profs had to be omitted :(
The vast majority of that 1m+ employees are low-skilled wage laborers. Finding 3000 high-skill engineers is definitely a monstrous task. Twitter is 7+ years old and they're only at ~1600 employees about half of which are engineers.
> "At-will" means that companies have the right to execute strategic layoffs, and also to set performance standards whereever they wish, as long as they're uniformly enforced across that job description. (Both of these, I'd argue, are reasonable.) It doesn't allow companies to vary their performance standards for different individuals, or to fire "for any reason".

This is somewhat misleading. It definitaly allows them to vary their perfomance standards for different individuals (just not to discriminate on a set of specific prohibited bases) and to fire for any reason except for set of specifically prohibited illegal reasons. Having consistent standards (both in theory and in documentable enforcement practice) for everyone isn't a requirement, it just helps you prove that the firing was not for a prohibited reason, and that the standards you were applying to that particular person were not discriminatory on one of the specifically-impermissible bases.

Many of the things that people perceive as "legal requirements" aren't actually legal requirements, they are things that are common practices designed to demonstrate that the actual legal requirements are being met.
These 2010s sites look pretty much the same, visually. Is there some kind of trend and/or are these templates easy to get? Maybe the tools generate these kind of default pages?

I left web dev in mid 2000s, so things changed quite a bit.
It says "specifically authorized to be kept secret... and are properly classified" which seems pretty normal.
A language like Prolog might, though. Through necessity of defining terms.
Google staffing boss: Our old hiring procedures were 'worthless'
> The chain of trust still extends to them. You're
> trusting that they're actually doing everything
> they say they're doing.

Tarsnap performs encryption in the client, which is distributed only as source code. If you audit the client sufficiently to believe it is properly encrypting your data, then there is no need to trust the server or the hosting provider.
No, tptacek is right... if you are a foreigner living abroad, the bill of rights does not apply to you:

In 1957, the court changed its position, overturning decades of precedent to declare that American citizens are in fact protected against U.S. government misbehavior by the Bill of Rights even outside the country. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, the court limited its ruling to U.S. citizens. Foreigners remained stuck with the old rule that the Bill of Rights doesn't apply abroad.[0]

So US citizens are protected whether they are within US borders or abroad. And foreigners are protected if they are within US borders... but once they leave, it no longer applies.

[0]. http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/16/opinion/oe-raustiala...
s/corporations/commercial interests/

It is only a matter of scale (this is a state senate, after all).
This being more or less the entire stated mission of GCHQ, I wonder who's actually surprised by this revelation.

I'm truly appalled that the GCHQ see it as their job to collect network traffic from every communication passing through the UK, and pass that on to foreign intelligence agencies and politicians in the UK and abroad. The potential for corruption and abuse there is astounding, and no organisation or person should have anything like this amount of power over our lives. Politicians can be bribed, judges turned, legal cases undermined, corporate financials exposed, and leaders overthrown, all at the whim of any one of the millions of people with access to these databases, which apparently also have appallingly lax access controls and standards of oversight, along with their terrible standards for defining which signals they should intercept.

If complete surveillance of the population is the purpose of the GCHQ, it should be shut down in my opinion, but I think that's a perversion of the role of signals intelligence in our society. The purpose of these agencies should be (and originally was) to defend the communications of our government from interception, to intercept communications from known enemies of the nation and to assist law enforcement and the judiciary in intercepting the communications of criminals, using all the standards of reasonable suspicion, judicial oversight etc that we hold so dearly to in collecting evidence in every other domain. Just because it's easier and more practical for them to intercept everything and record it for later use, doesn't make that extreme violation of many of our codes of privacy and law acceptable, predictable or desirable. It has enormous implications for our society, this is an essential debate when so much of our lives are now held in digital form, and I'm surprised that you try to blow it off as old news and of little consequence.
Becoming a better seductor is only a small subset of being receptive to your partner's needs and actually caring about them. There's a lot more to a successful relationship than sex and seduction, and the idea of no divorces if everyone started having better sex is laughable.
Nah, OP seems to be doing just fine. I feel more sorry for the people who forgot how to laugh.

Here's mine (NSFW-ish): http://nl.neocities.org
off-topic: you need some line-height for that post.. very hard to read.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/602d01t8ahqw1km/Screenshot%202013-...
If you have the time, I really really recommend listening to the "Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights" [1] which is available from The Great Courses (and the Sunnyvale library, possibly a library near you as well) It is an excellent introduction into how the systems works (or doesn't work) and how it evolves the interpretation of the Constitution as it applies to citizens and noncitizens alike.

[1] http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.asp...
people lawfully present in the US, not just citizens.
Trailer for new Steve Jobs movie released
It's also pretty hard to argue that prior to 1957, anyone in the USG needed to get a warrant to collect intelligence information from foreign soil.
Fast VM rollbacks? (through in-memory snapshots)
Obviously they don't there is potential for confusion it would be settled in court (unlike, for example, zenRobotics)
Chicago Public Library to open free Maker Space
My understanding as well; noncitizens on US soil are protected by the Fourth Amendment; outside of actual border crossings, the USG cannot search them without a warrant or probable cause.
Also, the government doesn't need a warrant to intercept a UPS package.

[citation needed]
Show HN: A scalable, easy-to-use event-driven networking library for Java.
They do offer some value to both consumers and manufacturers - they allow manufacturers to sell cars without the capital costs of setting up dealers everywhere themselves. The trouble is that, without legal protection, you basically have to be a sucker in order to set one up; if the manufacturers can set up dealers themselves, they can just cherry-pick the most profitable locations and drive their independent dealers there out of business. This actually happened with Games Workshop, whose resellers didn't have any legal protection - as soon as their stuff took off, they set up stores everywhere and drove the hobby stores who took on all the risk of marketing their products out of business. (To the detriment of customers I might add.)
I took it as sarcasm. One can hope...
While I would prefer your stance to be correct, the Supreme Court has held that the Constitution applies only to persons within the USA. For example, Downes v. Bidwell found that "the Constitution does not apply to foreign countries [...]" [1] and that it doesn't apply to US Citizens if they are outside of the US, "[the] Constitution can have no operation in another country." [2]

[1]: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vo...

[2]: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/140/453/case.htm...
True, but short signatures are different than the "No signatures" that the article demands.
All encryption is temporary encryption. "In other words, if your messages are encrypted, the NSA is keeping them until they can decrypt them."
I asked if UPS should be allowed to inspect your data. After all, you did hand it to them.
Facebook Security Bug, 6 Million Accounts Affected
I used to agree with you, but I've seen the other side of this. When I was applying for FT jobs out of school, one of the companies I interviewed with sent me a small coding assignment, which I completed - I got the job. I've been here for over 2 years, and turning in that coding assignment is probably one of the best things I've ever done for my career. Was it really necessary for them to tell that I could code? I don't know, but showing up at work and knowing that everyone I worked with had been subjected to the same test and rigorous technical interview was nice - I knew I was working with smart people. In contrast, the other two companies I got offers from barely had any interview process at all, which was worrying to me - if they'd hire me without so much as a fizzbuzz test, who knew what kind of people they had working for them?
Soylent crowdfunding campaigns attracts $755K so people can survive without food
Regarding (a) --- I don't understand how this argument that the constitution of a country (which represents its highest thoughts and ideals) can be applied selectively (i.e., only to citizens). If the thoughts contained therein regarding the rights of human beings are indeed 'True', then surely they should apply to all human beings?

If the US insists on waiving the rights of non-citizens, despite the constitution, then it should also accept that it cannot prosecute any non-citizen for non compliance with its laws because they were not afforded the same rights.

Gotta have both sides of the coin.
Hah! I've been playing with Jekyll and Pelican and other static site generators, and one of the thoughts I had was "if Geocities were still around, I could host pages there."
Google doesn't 100% say that the data is totally totally gone, but seems to say that it is no longer indexed for lookup by your accounr, after 60days after deletion:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7401?hl=en
Not really sure what the Church committee is. Am I missing something from history? Or is it an actual Church committee.
What exactly do you mean by profiling? Do you mean deliberately choosing a group of people so that they all fit a certain set of demographic criteria? If so, then I am arguing that there is not necessarily profiling going on. Just because a group is skewed demographically doesn't mean there is active profiling going on. There could be unconscious biases or other effects at play.

I don't disagree that they were probably chosen to have homogeneous opinions. I do disagree that there is clear evidence of ethnic or gender profiling. I think they just said "we need experienced judges who can be trusted to keep things secret and have strongly favorable views towards law enforcement and intelligence services." It happens that most such people are old, White, Republican men.
Actually making things - finished things - is the hard part. For one, almost anything worth creating involves substantial schlep, and people lack the patience for the schlep. For another, creative people continually have new ideas, and it's very easy to drop that boring schlep in favor of the shiny new idea.

I know a ton of wonderfully creative minds, full of great ideas, that have never accomplished anything. They never finish, either due to frustration with the schlep, or by starting something new before they ever finish what they were working on. Those people are NOT good creative partners, generally. They'll flake out when the going gets tough - and if what you're doing is interesting enough to be worthwhile, it WILL get tough at some point.
For 120k you can employ 2-3 developers in Europe, outsource development, and keep marketing and business stuff in usa.
> Wikileaks is not new. We used to have a little thing called 'investigative journalism',

We still do. And, historically, it never got us anything as important as cablegate.

> Technology does not motivate moral growth.

Technology enables moral growth by reducing the amount of morality-crushing cruelty we're exposed to on a daily basis and allowing our natural morality to flourish. It's easier to care about others when you haven't just lost your child to smallpox.

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/pinker07/pinker07_index.html

> Nazi Germany was the most technologically advanced society in the world

They were, at best, on a par with the rest of the Western World, and, frankly, mismanaging themselves into defeat due to the very nature of their society.

The idolization of the Nazis as being so efficient and so advanced is due to what some Western observers thought before the war, when Hitler was using basic Keynesian-style pump-priming in the form of military spending to get the country out of the Depression, mixed with a few largely worthless wonder-weapons, such as the V2 rockets and the early jets, which did nothing to win the war.

> The reality is that we are segmenting ourselves from other internet users just by taking part in the HN community. Most people here would admit, the minute HN would spread to the point of being widely adopted, we would all leave. I don't come to HN to be inundated with cat pictures. I'm here because I learn things every time I visit a link posted on HN.

This is true but it misses my point: Everyone can have their little niche space, which is amazing if you're not an upper-middle-class heterosexual cissexual white male who would have niche spaces anyway.

Gays can have spaces where being gay isn't weird. Trans people can have spaces where being trans doesn't mean you get your head kicked in. That kind of social interaction was pretty well impossible before the Internet, especially in places like Iran or Alabama, where advertising that you are 'a certain way' could be an invitation to violence.

The Internet is both a network of linked networks and a community of linked communities; both aspects are vital to what it is and what it can become.
Why is it believable that they got a CA key? Since IIRC you've stated in other threads that having Google's specific key(s) is highly unlikely?
The idea here is that you "bring free energy home" from Tesla's solar-panel-powered stations (leaving you car battery empty), not that you get to use it twice.
I think this is a much better idea: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/fixing-employ...

Essentially, it's a system that allows people to collect some stability income upfront by selling call options on future consulting services. This would also allow intermediaries (like GT) to arbitrage. For example, I'm damn sure there's someone out there who'd pay $750 per hour for my time (or, at least, could justify that much value) but I can't find that person-- and he probably only needs a few hours of my time, here and there. I'd be happy to sell a call option (strike $100/h) for $150/hour and let the option holder take most of the profit ($500) in order to have him doing my marketing and finding those $750/h high-value clients (which I can't).

The one way my consulting call options would differ is that the option holder only gets 95% of the profit; 5% goes back to the consultant. That's to make sure the consultant knows the actual price he or she is billed at.

Employment is already a call option, really. Take software engineers. The median of us is worth less than our salary, but the good ones are worth 5x and the great ones are 20-100x. That's hard to predict, because it's not only a factor of the individual, but also project/person fit and being assigned to high-yield work. Many software engineers at large companies could be rendering over $1 million per year in value, but are being held on evaluative Fourth Quadrant Work ( http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/fourth-quadra... ) while management decides whether or not to trust them with a real project. So there's already a call-option dynamic in place; it's just that right now, it works entirely out of employee favor. I want to fix that.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Church+committee
In Depth Review: New NSA Documents Expose How Americans Can Be Spied on
That wouldn't be Gmail in any sense. Why would google be involved in that product -- they dont' provide the server, the delivery, the spam detection (right?)

If you dont want to use Gmail for some or all messages, just don't use Gmail.
Am I the only one completely unfazed by this?

This seemed like a cool thing, I looked into it a little bit more wondering "How are graphic API calls translated? What about filesystem calls in browser? How do I manipulate the DOM?" and delighted of a new world that would open to me.

And I ended up on my answer: https://gist.github.com/jgranick/5430948

Sure, that is pretty tame CPP code, nothing too hard. And then I looked at the JS demonstration and Chrome decided to give 120MB of RAM to displaying a triangle.

Okay, Chrome may be slow sometimes, things happen,...

curl --silent http://www.joshuagranick.com/examples/simplegl/SimpleGL.js | wc -l
125018

Oh shit.

Well, right. The whole "CPP2JS" boilerplate is there.

I won't even entertain the thought of reading past the first screen of 125K lines of computer-generated source code so I'm gonna ask: what is the point to this? There is no native "manipulate the DOM" function in CPP that could be translated to the original JS one and it takes me 125 thousand lines to draw a triangle: what can we gain from this?

Don't tell me "speed", my computer lost it on I/O alone.
"his book makes not being a bestselling author seem like an accomplishment".

And that, my friend, is a GREAT marketing plan. You know how when pg says that if there are two explanations for your situation, and one gives you an excuse to be lazy, choose the other one? Most people choose the excuse to be lazy. That's a big market just itching to pay to have someone tell them what they want to hear.