skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The input space is too small for SHA1 to effectively anonymize. The NANP, for example, has less than 10^9 possible numbers; it would be a very simple task to create a rainbow table mapping every possible phone number to its corresponding SHA1 hash.

For the same reason, you can't just use a simple cryptographic hash to "anonymize" data such as birthdates, zip codes, SSNs, or PINs.

Using a key derivation function with a very high cost factor can mitigate this to some extent (e.g. making it take 5 seconds on an average CPU to generate the hash from a phone number), but it by no means makes for secure anonymization; eventually computing power will catch up.

Encrypting the number with a secret key (or using an HMAC), and destroying the key after the anonymization takes place might be a reasonably secure way of doing this, however.
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In my dreams, there's an organization pushing for interoperability, open standards, data freedom etc over the long term. If there were such an organization, this would make an excellent case study in failure. Are there any strategic interventions that could have rescued XMPP federation?
He used 'have' after United States of America, which is a Britishism. To Americans, 'United States of America' is singular and would use "has" in this particular sentence:

For decades the United States of America have been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum.

Maybe I'm overanalyzing but I don't think this is a verbatim statement from Snowden.
when was the last time you used a mac? right click has been omnipresent for the past half decade.
> The Russians are clearly using Snowden as a pawn, probably because Russia is threatened by people like Snowden just as much as the US is.

Or simply because what else can a government use an individual for?
It probably won't; but the fact that there is a split in what was previously a rock solid relationship, and that Europe would be much better off if it could distance itself from a US led global financial system does mean that the possibility is there in a way that it was not a month ago.

The first leak in the dam doesn't look so threatening...
Copyright is hold by the person who took the photo, so they both have a case. That said, what can she do? As long as Reddit responds to DMCA takedown requests, they should be under safe harbor, so unless she planned on suing each submitter - and for nothing, since damages would be very hard to show -, there's really not much she can do.
If my life was in jeopardy and I had means to apply pressure in a way that would reduce the risk of getting tortured by the U.S., I would apply that pressure in any way possible.
Accusing the United States of depriving him of the right to seek asylum seems like a tautology to me. If the United States wasn't attempting to bring him back to the US for a trial, he wouldn't need to seek asylum.

Does this mean every country who attempts to prosecute people who subsequently seek asylum is violating "a basic right"?
Yeah, what assholes, instead they made it so you don't have to screw around with physical media and can instead share your games with 10 of your friends around the world without having to deal with a disc.

Well, to be fair, there was nothing really concrete about their plans. And now that they've changed their minds they can talk big about how awesome it would have been. But I seriously doubt the end result would have amazing as everyone claimed it would have been.
Your bad practices remind me of this:

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committees as large and bureaucratic as possible. Hold
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I have been using Vagrant for development on my Mac for over a year now and it has made having consistent dev, test and prod environments so much easier. I see others who dev on a Mac and deploy to Ubuntu running into a myriad of issues, ranging from libraries not compiling correctly to TCP sockets lingering on TIME_WAIT for different periods of time. It's nice to avoid that class of bugs.
It's not really a valid argument, though. Even if there was a complete certainty that returning to the US would see him tortured and eventually executed, that still wouldn't change the fact that he is still a US citizen (unless he chooses not to be). That's why I'm hoping, all-be-it doubtfully, that it was innocent exaggeration rather than a lie - not that it really makes a huge difference I guess.
Obama is saying "You broke the law. We want you back. We won't wheel and deal for you with any country who wants to use you iike a pawn to win some other concession or just enjoy sticking it to us. Take him in at your own risk" Nothing new here or deceitful. Pretty standard operating procedure.
>Without any judicial order,
the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a
basic right. A right that belongs to everybody.

This is British writing style. Brits leave off the preposition "from" in these types of sentences; Americans put it in.

American English: "Administration now seeks to stop me from exercising a basic right."

British English: "Administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right."

I'm not a linguistics or grammar expert so I can't name the proper terms for all this. I've just observed in the past that this is a "Britishism" that differs from American style. It's interesting to see it here. Snowden wouldn't write like that. IMO, he needs to ditch Wikileaks because they've done nothing but harm him and seem to only be interested in advancing their agenda.
doesn't he fall in the "de facto" stateless person as defined by the unhcr http://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain?docid=4ca1a... ?

(just asking, IANAL, so maybe some technicalities elude me)
> His actions have opened the possibility of Western Europe defecting from the US led coalition that has dominated world affairs for the past 70 years. Which is not a result anyone could have predicted.

What changed compared to previous US spying scandals? (e.g. Echelon and the 2003 European council wiretaps from the US)
If he wasn't, he would have simply turned himself in and faced trial.

All his globe-trotting and statements just detract from the issues he's raised re: surveillance.
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Why would China want to go rolling into Moscow? It's full of people and has nothing to offer to a conquerer. A much more practical trophy would be something like Sakhalin island! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin#Economy

The point I am trying to make is that Russia is not an aggressor. They're facing the opposite challenge: too much land, too many resources and the shrinking population. They see the raise of China in the East and the threat of islamic fundamentalism in the South. Why on earth would they think of attacking Germany under these circumstances?

If anything, Russians have expected the West to become their partner dealing with those challenges, first after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and especially after the 9/11. But the continuing Cold War era rhetorics and missile deployment plans in those stupid "buffers" make it easy to understand why Putin is disillusioned and annoyed with the West.
Exile is indeed how it is generally described when the "bank" is a "country" and "you" are a "dictator".
I guess it depends on how much you trust Wikileaks to review information for its accuracy.
Does anyone know how feasible it is to use a Firefox OS phone with no data plan? Using GSM for voice calls and SMS, but forcing it to only do data over wifi?
How americans can be spied on without warrant despite FISA
I would not overstate the certainty of the illegality. I've heard many people state this like it is a fact. It is much grayer legal territory. There is a substantial ways to go to determine if it would be found illegal.

The average american commits illegal acts daily, but I doubt you were referring to that.
I believe that the keyword here is "ActiveSync," which is another Microsoft product.

Since I made a conscious effort (years ago) to remove all Microsoft products from my life, ActiveSync is another app which I have never used.

Who needs it?
You could download the routing data into IndexedDB and use that for your file system.
That's an awesome website!
And the Egyptian, Turkish and Brazilian governments are not afraid of their citizens either.

It is best to give up any hope for a better world, power always prevails; and power is always on the side of authority.
Sarah Harrison, the Wikileaks advisor accompanying Snowden, is a UK citizen.
It's likely she had a hand in drafting this statement.
It's a plea for public support. By raising Obama's profile as an oppressor, he hopes to turn public sentiment against the sitting government.

As someone else said, remaining silent lets his opposition control the discourse. You can see this clearly in the frenzy of stories in the media about Snowden's stripper girlfriend and the "IS HE A COMMIE SPY?" headlines. Providing a counterbalance makes it harder for the government propaganda machine to sway public opinion against him and turn him into Just Another Terrorist.
Teaching became a female job around the early 1900s, but I don't remember why now... I need to find it again.

I once had a male teacher when I was 12 or something like that, he managed to engage both male and female students with pure awesomeness.

Also when male students had a problem, this teacher was the automatic go-to one.

Later during the end years of the school, I went to a elite one focused to get people into university no matter what (yet in my year 90% failed, while all previous years they had a 90% of success, and the only change is that on my year affirmative action went into effect), then I had balanced male and female teachers, usually the male teachers were way more popular (sometimes too much... ie: one of them got fired multiple times for having sex with female students, and then hired back because students demanded him back...), maybe because as you said, they tended to allow people do random shit (in fact, sometimes they joined the fray too, one teacher destroyed a lamp by accident after throwing a shoe across the room), but were also hard to crack down if needed (the sex with students teachers only once threw people out of the class in about 15 years of career, two female students that insisted in chatting REALLY LOUD and after it bothered him too much, he said: "Ugly near the fat, you two, out", after the news of that incident spread few people ever bothered in challenging him again, since it was quite clear he was ruthless if he wanted to).
Q: What are your plans for the Google Reader integration now?
Why do you think it's easier to catch people using Glass?

You can operate Google Glass hands-free.
His education, temperament and girlfriend don't matter but his political persecution surely does.
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Would you consider someone who murdered several children and then fled the country to be in exile? Because his choices would be to return and face the death penalty, or live in hiding abroad.

Whether you think he did a good thing or a bad thing, it's clear that Snowden is, by his own acknowledgment, guilty of multiple counts of serious felonies in the United States. The government is acting as expected, given this fact.
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Fun that we reach for the wikipedia definition of a word; that definition is easily editable.
He _broke the law_ and is a fugitive from justice. He wouldn't be a hero if he wasn't risking consequences, and it should have been obvious from the start that he was going to be apprehended by the US eventually.

EDIT: Also, the concept of "a human right to seek asylum" is meaningless. Asylum is a two-party arrangement. Is that a legal obligation for all nations to _grant_ asylum to seekers, regardless of circumstances?
I very much doubt that the United States government is afraid of me.

What makes you doubt that? You know you're not meant personally, right?
Wikileaks is generally reactionary, i.e., they rely upon others to bring them leaks which they publish. The organization steadfastly denies going out to acquire the information themselves.
An Android phone made by Motorola is reported to be leaking data, and your response is 'don't use any Microsoft products'? How is that relevant?
Believe me, I am empathetic to the pain this is causing you. I can understand the anger you are feeling.

But I don't think that I am trivializing things. The fact is, that phishing sites are causing a real pain (as in millions of dollars lost by the victims, hundreds of thousands of computers becoming zombies, etc).
All major browsers are trying to mitigate these risks by implementing phishing & malware filters.
None of these implementations are perfect (you probably know a bit or two about bugs in software development).

But on average these filters have a positive ROI - especially for the target market (which is Joe WebUser and sadly NOT your company - or mine for that matter). The costs of a false positive ("I'll go & find that information on another site") far outweigh the costs of a false negative ("I put my login+password into this legitimate looking website and now I can no longer access PayPal").
An additional bonus of "!so" is that works with stack overflow search syntax like tag names between brackets.
Didn't work too well for Bradley Manning. I am not a US citizen, but for me its pretty obvious that your police force/intelligence services are out of control, at least in the context of this "national security" drama. I mean there are even secret court orders. How could the public control those? And if the public is left unable to know about and comment court orders, you have are serious problem with democracy and the rule of law.
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> It occurs to me that there is a kind of deep hypocrisy for those who make the rules to claim that someone broke the rules.

Which is why I think it's silly that Snowden has (as so many before have and surely after him will) bothered to note that the US isn't allowing him to seek asylum. If you're in the position to seek asylum, and you think you deserve it, you're already claiming that the US is unfairly targeting you. Why would an organization that is unfairly targeting you be fair about asylum?
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It would alienate some young boys, too. There are a lot of stereotypes in these comments.
If you have that much money, why not just get your butler to do it for you.
yes, "where the f*ck are you going?" :)
I would rather pay once for type faces. I am sure if I was the content producer I would feel differently.
Doesn't leaving, refusing to return, and requesting asylum effectively fall under the "choosing not to be" category?
Maybe it was changed since you saw it, but the statement now reads:

"...the United States of America has been..."

Edit to add:
The statement as quoted at http://boingboing.net/2013/07/01/snowden-asks-russia-for-asy... has the original version with "have" still in there.

Here's a screenshot from twitter of the original - https://twitter.com/ClaraJeffery/status/351833289000112128
I'm curious as to why you think so - the fact that he improperly removed and published information belonging to the NSA isn't disputed by anyone. I don't have the title and chapter on hand, but I'm just nearly certain that this is about as cut-and-dry illegal as it comes.

If you can give me a hint as to why it might not have been illegal, I would love to be enlightened.
If I am reading that right you are saying that justice is defined by laws - rather than the law being derived from justice.
> Maybe even Microsoft or Yahoo would switch and it would pressure others creating a cascade.

Microsoft actually made XMPP federation a big deal with Lync Server 2013, there used to be an entire server role that needed to be installed for federation but now it's just part of the edge server role as an optional feature. Even Microsoft sees federation as being important, too bad Google doesn't.
And when I travel and try to add new people to my friend list, to verify it's me logging in, facebook shows me pictures of food and cats and asks me to identify my friends that have tagged everything but themselves. Plus I'm remembering a hundred fake names, because nobody uses their real name.

I'm the same, I do it too and think it's very neccessary, but it can interfere with FB procedures in funny ways.

But then again, all this isn't new information. I have never really trusted a webpage with relevant stuff. ECHELON is old news, and servers can be hacked. The level of trust some people put into the net amazes me.
I'm wondering about this question myself. It's not as if the facts of your identity change because a country revokes a document. Is it just a policy issue, that there are no countries that allow entry without showing a passport?

It certifies his identity, not his rights. I'm not sure how you can suddenly claim it's not valid, without claiming that the original certification was found to be incorrect.
I still am curious about the information that a "absolutely bare" FB profile leaks?
That seems right to me. Where there is no law (be that legal, moral, spiritual, etc), there can be no injustice.
Wikileaks has released documents from governments around the world, and at different times the leaks have caused scandals in almost every country out there. You may have heard more about leaks that affect United States because of the news you read.
In my experiences with three children in US public schools, this is not true.
There are several interesting aspects to this story.

The first is obviously the revelations about NSA "overreach".

The second is that this guy could've remained hidden but he put his name behind the revelations rather than choosing the far safer path of being an "anonymous source". This lends his revelations more credence and you have to respect the guy for standing by his convictions. Maybe he would've been found out had he stayed in the shadows but he certainly didn't try to do that.

The third is that the US is very much two-faced here. It seems clear that the surveillance is being justified by a technical ruling to do with US vs foreign persons, a classified ruling no less. While this might be a fine legal argument, it doesn't engender support amongst foreign powers when you tell them you have every right to spy on their citizens but oh, by the way, can you do us a solid and hand over that fugitive?

In what world does the US think they'll get cooperation from anyone when they aren't treated not even as equals but with simple decency? So the foreign policy apparatus resorts to bullying tactics.

The fourth is that both China and Russia were blatantly thumbing their noses at the US. I see no world in which Russia hands the guy over so the actions of the US have done little more than force a guy in possession of Top Secret information to be harboured by a rival. Congratulations on that statecraft, Obama, Biden and Kerry.

What's more it's made the US appear internationally weak.

The last is that the various players on Snowden's side do seem to have screwed the pooch on this one by both issuing a letter of safe passage and not having some kind of contingency when the US did the predictable thing and revoked his passport. This could hardly have been an unprecedented move.

So good luck to you, Edward Snowden. I hope your sacrifice hasn't been in vein. The optimist in me hopes that a future president will pardon you and otherwise reverse this self-destructive course the US is on.
Mattrick has quite a nice background and he was a developer early on who worked on some fun titles, loads of credits at MobyGames (http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,15...) mostly as an executive now. He was at EA for a long time. Headed up the Kinect effort. I wonder if packaging it with XBone (pricing) and the recent PR and backsliding was part of this.

This is strange though, Windows 8 launches and Sinofsky is gone. Then Xbox One set to launch and Mattrick goes.
Cable TV didn't have that many ads when it started out. They increased the amount as it became more stablished and more people started beeing invested in it (at least thats the impression I get in my country).
If these people can't strike
Blows for freedom
With a valid visa
We don't need 'em
The OpenCL implementation provided by Apple is less than ideal. It lacks a number of optimizations that are provided by, for example, AMD's OpenCL driver packages for Linux and Windows.

That, coupled with the wretched GPU options available on the Mac Pro, make the current stack not really cost effective. (I think a 5770 is still $250.)

However, it is better than CPU-only.

I've found slaving a cheap Linux box with expensive GPUs to be a much more gratifying experience.
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Unless he doesn't believe that he can get a fair and just trial. Given the history of those before him, I'd say that's a fair assumption.
Gitolite is actually better than Gitosis. With Gitolite, the owner of a repo can grant access privileges to that repo, it doesn't require the intervention of the Gitolite installation's administrator.

I've had some pushback on both of them from users because the command line fu necessary to use both of these projects is apparently just enough of a barrier that even developers find it annoying.

Gitlab is a bigger pain to administer and more resource-intensive, but much easier for users.
He could have created the private key with a really strong pass-phrase.
Yeltsin did sell off all of Russia's assets to the oligarchs, yes. He did so at the behest of the US, and it was wrong and stupid.

But Putin is nowhere near as rosy as you portray him. Being a nationalist who pines for the days of Stalin may play well in a Russia leery of Western democracy after getting tag teamed by Russia and the US during and after the collapse of the USSR and enduring the poverty and famine that ensued, but it doesn't make you good. Co-opting the Russian Orthodox church into a neo-czarist Church of Putin is hardly the mark of a good leader, either. Nor, for that matter, does murdering people who speak against you.

>Russia doesn't mess with other countries outside their neighbourhood.

Tell that to Georgia. Tell that to the people being murdered and oppressed in Russian client states like Syria and Iran, or Libya before them.