skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For non-Kiwis wondering why _resident_ is used instead of _citizen_ in these quotes, New Zealand is one of the only countries in the world that allows permanent residents to vote in national elections [1]. Anyone who's lived in NZ as a permanent resident for at least a year can vote, therefore residency rather than citizenship is generally regarded as more important in determining whoa _New Zealander_ is for these types of laws.

[1] http://www.newswire.co.nz/2011/11/voting-a-unique-privilege-...
I totally agree with you.

As I said above, yours are examples of clear, detailed, polite, constructive and useful criticism: one does not need to say so and so is a good man but has made this tiny mistake in order to be polite: just distinguish between facts, actions and persons.

So thanks for your efforts and keep up the good job.
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Do I get this right: this attack renders suffix-salted passwords public?
My person is sensitive.
* > It doesn't matter whether someone is a brilliant designer.
Perhaps we can agree to disagree on that.*

Perhaps you shouldn't take a sentence out of it's context.

Maybe I've just heard this 'lessons learned from assembly-line manufacturing' applied to design and construction too many times.

What on earth does it have to do with what we are dicussing?
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I somewhat disagree. Even some protection is better than no protection at all. Then if cryptocat was actually harmful to the users or less secure than traditional IM (which I fail to see), it would be different case.

There seems to be strong "do not do" culture in these circles. I dislike this. Doing is always good. Then again, criticism is also important.
Or just use the rawgithub url: http://rawgithub.com/Continuities/adarkroom/master/index.htm...
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I disagree with the chart. The search terms don't make sense.
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I hear you. I too am an Italian CompSci student and I too feel useless. I'm in an even worse situation than yours, since I recently found out that I'm not really suited for the academic environment. I did all the interesting courses and now I'm stuck with difficult, boring courses that I can't overcome because I lack interest and this means I won't finish the 3-year coursework in the expected time. Also, I now realize that I will probably never have a career in software development because Uni doesn't teach anything useful in that setting (and it isn't supposed to) and I don't have the patience and dedication needed to start anything on my own. I'm confident that when I'll finally finish I'll find something to do with my life. With a degree, any degree really, it'll be a bit easier to find a job, whichever that might be, so don't give up hope and plough through.
Oh God, HN is turning into Kuro5hin.

Also, I'm old.
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Why is the black bar bothering you so much?
It's entirely possible that someon in the FBI wrote a report describing the Occupy folks as potential terrorists - I can easily believe that occurred. That's not the same as the entire organization or even its leadership holding that position.

I agree that this is not something to be outraged about, but it is something to be watchful of and to be called out - government agencies should not refer to peaceful or even violent protesters as terrorists, and our laws should not distinguish between terrorists and other suspects in terms of the rights we give them. In this particular case I agree we need more evidence to say anything meaningful, but there are plenty of examples of misuse of powers given to our states to deal with terrorists for other purposes.

Context matters a lot, and so do primary sources. This sort of political free-association that you seem to enjoy quickly ends up in conspiracy-theory territory because it's not falsifiable.

That is mostly my objection to the use of the label terrorist - the meaning of the term has been stretched to encompass so many acts (from giving money, to riots, to bombing a market), and the judgement calls required to choose between freedom-fighter and terrorist are so subjective, that use of the term limits the horizons of any debate to a narrow exchange of slogans. It is similar to the epithet traitor when applied to Edward Snowden. It's simply a way to shut down debate without further thought, and classify others as in a group you could never parley with or understand.

What's interesting about both the Snowden case and terrorism when it comes to the US is that in both cases the government sees some acts as good, and others as bad a priori, when in character they are exactly the same. This administration leaks classified secrets all the time, but those are good leaks, whereas Snowden's leaks to journalists are bad leaks. Obama stood in the former jail cell of a terrorist at the weekend and contemplated freedom and the terrorist's struggle to end Apartheid.

These issues are complex and shouldn't be reduced to sound-bites or slogans, and the label of terrorist is particularly dangerous in the west at present as it has been used to justify ignoring our laws on human rights, privacy, and justice for whole swathes of people. As soon as you are associated (even a few degrees removed) from activity deemed terrorist, your rights no longer exist. That's extremely dangerous.
It will be interesting to see how the French public react to this in comparison with Brits and Americans. Not to mention the Germans.
> since we know that the NSA has even installed hardware at companies like Google

you do? I never heard of such thing - can you tell more?
It's a bit beyond anecdotal. His anecdote compares the performance of someone getting the written questions for a press conference at least half an hour in advance and for whatever random reason latches onto the "written" rather than the "half hour in advance" part.

His assertion that "there are readers and listeners and that people are rarely both" is, as far as I'm aware, entirely unsupported by science, and not even defined by Drucker in any useful way.

Yes, his general message of "know thyself" is fairly sound, but most of the specifics in that article are feel-good babble.
Just as for the US, we've known that these intelligence programs exist for many years. If you can read French, see this post [1] about Frenchelon from 2010, I also highly recommend the Bug Brother blog [2], and Reflets.info [3].

[1] http://bugbrother.blog.lemonde.fr/2010/10/02/frenchelon-la-d...

[2] http://bugbrother.blog.lemonde.fr/

[3] http://reflets.info/
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I think the main problem the US has with sticking to a clear definition of terrorism is that it usually would apply to itself as well, so that's no good..

But yes, terrorism does mean something; just the way the word is used a lot, kinda doesn't... but this doesn't change what is terrorism and what is not. Even if someone where to argue that the ends justify the means, it would not change what those means are.
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Just because it's unsurprising that doesn't make it ok.
> Should this same approach to literacy also be applied to the machines we drive around every day?

Yes, and it is. You can drive your car anywhere you want.

But it's so hard to hard to pick where to go, it's much simpler to pick from a simple list of places. Our car only drives you to the top 20 most important locations of your town, we find that our customers don't want to go anywhere else. We are sunsetting your ability to drive to unimportant places.
> we know that the NSA has even installed hardware at companies like Google

where did you find that? I thought all the big companies say they don't have anything installed by NSA, but that NSA can ask for data
> So, let's see. The NSA does it, GCHQ does it, DGSE does it. The operating assumption should be that all countries are monitoring [...]

USA, UK and France are not any contry the're all at the top of this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...

It doesn't say much about other contries.
It is still very useful to have proof. It dispels the image of conspiracy theory.
You need to stop spamming this.
Apparently it works pretty well on WINE http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId...
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I know, it's not easy to keep up with all these revelations coming out every day...

Here you go: http://gigaom.com/2013/06/29/new-prism-slides-say-the-progra...
And look what happened. People thought they had a secure channel but they didn't.
They were lying, just like everybody else...

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/29/new-prism-slides-say-the-progra...
If bitcoin succeeds, IMO one "satoshi" (0.000000001 btc) could be worth what one dollar is worth today. So you might just be giving everyone 1 million dollars ;).
If they're into crypto, hopefully the one with a robust attitude to handling security flaws, rather than the one where pointing them out is considered bad form.
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Looks like a good offer. My Swedish is a bit rusty, though. They wouldn't happen to have an English or a German site, would they?
Where did you get that from? You can only extend the hash with this, and get a valid hash for "original data" || "something".
"definitely contributed to economic growth in Europe."

Yes it has, estimated to be 0.5pp in the GDP of the countries affected in 1948-1951.
Does this still use Square's DRM, or is it all handled by Steam now? I was playing the re-release through Wine on Linux last year, but the DRM workarounds made it activate as a new PC each time it started. Since it has an activation limit, I got locked out after a few launches.
You are right in what you say. Absolutely.

I am just speaking about the "tone". Long term/short term tone-wise.

If you go to the Perl community you will understand what I am talking about. Not just TIMTOWTDI, not that. Just

"This is wrong and does not work as intended".

Instead of

"Fuck it, man, this sucks completely and is crap".
I'm suprised the comments so far accept the premise. I've not read Slashdot regularly for a while, but when I pop in occasionally it stills seems the same mix of informed, humane, sanity and crazy, ill-informed, poorly directed rage that it's always been, i.e. mostly tilted towards the latter, even after filtering.
We celebrate it monthly :)

https://twitter.com/plntxtoffenders/status/34073025293647872...
It looks like with the nuclear bomb: all countries want the world to know that they have it. Are secret attacks becoming the norm and governments are telling they have the means to uncover any hidden identity?

Anyway, it would have been surprising if intelligence agencies didn't collect as much data as they can. What was the most scandalous with Prism is the methods of bullies used by civil servants against businessmen. It's fair if they can catch data discreetly, not if they threaten to imprison or kill to gain easier access to all databases.
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I think people too often discount the fact that for the NSA system, there's actually oversight. Or at least they try very hard to make it seem like there is. I haven't seen that in the European stuff, and that's what worries me.
It's always fun to watch patches you make to projects get removed or changed a few weeks/months later for arbitrary reasons :(
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I agree that some users use VPNs for credit card fraud. What I find hard to believe is that the majority of VPN users are committing credit card fraud. If nothing else, it would be difficult for VPNs to make a profit if they had that many chargebacks.
I see your goals difficult to accomplish. If a business problem can be solved with an application that will be an easy one.

In general key business problems are really difficult to solve in the context of a particular problem. For example, I can't find employees in a specific niche because there are not enough in the market. How can I solve it? I can train people but that training would take a long time and I can't afford that risk.
There's no length encoded inside the hash, where did you see that? Adding the length in the total hash would probably mitigate this attack, although I'm not sure it would defeat it.
LOL worth a read for a quick grin.
I disagree vehemently. It is much better _not_ to create software that gives you the false impression of privacy, than to create it. If I am aware that my IM client is insecure, I'll behave differently than if I mistakenly think my IM client is secure. Specifically with crypto, I may be endangering myself if I mistakenly hold this belief.

In essentially everywhere else in CS, people are encouraged to go nuts and experiment. The barrier for entry is null. Anyone with access to a computer can make whatever he wants. Not here.
In crypto, it becomes more serious, because people easily depend on it. If it is a toy, _clearly mark it as such_, and never give the false impression of security. Toys are fine. Endangering people is not.
"That leaves us with the riddle that every software developer faces at some point: how best to make a UI simple enough to be intuitive for a consumer who wants a solid, fast browser that just works, and yet is customizable and extensible so that power users can add the features they want?"

You don't. Taking both user groups into consideration and weighing them equally assumes that they have the same bearing on the usage of your product. Once it reaches mass market, the tinkerers (occasionally referred to as the early adopters or evangelists) are no longer the largest nor the most profitable segment of your user-base.

Therefore, you can theoretically afford to disregard them--however, in practice, this has implications that can prove disastrous. For instance, they could seek out an alternative and start the disruptive cycle all over again, increasing its appeal and reducing yours, which propagates and ultimately ruins your perception, though this can probably be avoided.
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This is so nice and useful information
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There is a difference between starting with a reasonably well written core and fixing issues that are discovered, and starting with a product that demonstrates essentially no understanding of cryptography beyond the bare minimum and trying to debug a working cryptosystem into existence. It's bad enough to try that with regular software, but doing it with crypto is insane.
Here are hard problems all businesses face: making something people want, finding customers, keeping customers, growing customers.

If you can solve these problems for me, I'll pay you a lot of money for your book.
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I really really wish they'd Javadoc their code properly, before they do anything else at all..
In some ways I believe that Internet has now matured up to a level where it is able to impact the Government and its functionaries in a very serious manner (Avoiding the word disruptive here, because unlike Hollywood, Government people generally take this word with a more murderous rage).

It's no longer okay to brush away stories as conspiracy theories because, well, you now know it could be true. Most likely. All this that has happened in past few weeks seems like a moment of truth to me. I have a strong feeling that the next level of impact of Internet on these Governments and arcane bureaucratic structures will be one to watch.

[Edited for spelling.]
Is it still operative for people like me to easily access others account using these tricks o faceook??? cant believe
It's inappropriate to invoke Godwin's Law here, because discussion is regarding authoritarian governmental practices. Therefore the Nazi's are on topic. The problem with saying "There is a big difference between the US government and Nazis" is that when we think of the Nazis we think of everything that they did at the end of their reign, after they had a death grip on Germany. But the history of the Nazi Party doesn't begin in the late 30s. The groundwork began before 1920.

Indeed, World War II is one of the most focused upon subjects in the study of history because it is a very important subject. If we knee-jerkedly banish all discussion of the Nazis until we are dealing with a government that is in fact like the Nazi party of the late 30s, then it's far too late. I don't think that anybody is saying that government spying on everyone is akin to the worst actions of the Nazis, but it is the sort of consolidation of power that could, in part lead to similar authoritarian regimes in the future.

On the other hand, I'm not signing onto the "sheeple" comment. I'm just pointing out that discussion of the Nazis should not be off limits for this topic in general.

[edited for clarity, and added the caveat at the end.]
This is a good article but it's important to understand that vision doesn't necessarily trump implementation. Steve Jobs also had a vision of augmenting human intellect (one at a time rather than collective), but he's remembered for the things he built in pursuit of the goal, not the goal. Ted Nelson's vision for hypertext is also more transcendent than what we got from the world-wide web, but on examination it turns out that hos vision is flawed and unrealizable (in practice there is never a canonical reference for any text) while what we've actually built actually works.
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Yes, it would be quite significant effort.
Not if they can trace the MAC address.
Nice one. I'm using it right now. You use the regular or light version?
Exorbitant at the moment: 10 to 20 days' rental buys your own boat at the NYC area pricing ($600/day for a $6000 boat). Compare that to auto ($60 for a $30,000 car) or AirBnB rent ($120 for a $300,000 apt) and the boat pricing makes no sense.
Nonsense - the article comes across more weakly by taking a personal tone.
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> It means something like "sight", "monument" or "place of interest".

It literally means "worth seeing".

It's not even "belvedere" or "tourist attraction", which tell you the type of thing on maps in other countries.

I've always liked it for the ambiguity.

And the shape captures a simplification of early viking forts: http://www.planetware.com/map/trelleborg-viking-camp-c-1-000...

In that respect, the icon means tourist attraction.
My Swedish is good enough to be able to sign up for a 1 month free trial, but alas:

Sorry. :(
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It's a shame, because it does look like a good offer.
lol steve jobs maded the mous
Make cuts with a sharp knife around the chip to sever the NFC antenna. Then confirm it doesn't work at a terminal you trust that you can cancel the transaction on.

With UK credit laws I might be OK with this on a credit card but there was no way I wanted it on my debit card with a direct line to my current account. I only use the debit card for cash and the very occasional purchase (think car purchase once every 5 years or so frequency and inconvenience to pay cash).
Sweden does it as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law
Whether or not it's surprising is totally irrelevant and you should stop pretending it isn't, if that is what you're saying.

But you've got an interesting point in that the desire has always been to capture everything -- while the technical means to do it have been available for a couple of years. Along with a further shift in how people communicate towards easily moniterable technology, that is the crux of the matter.

It was one thing to have secret societies intent on capturing everything in the 60s, when technology limited the scope of the operation. It's another thing when that intention is not readjusted to the societal and technical realities of 50 years later.

That's why it seems like such a sudden, surprising change in policy to some who haven't kept up with the technical possibilities for surveillance, while others realize it's been a slow change going on for decades now.

And of course, for the past decades some of us have been trying to point out the technical possibilities to everyone who would listen, only to get told that just because it's possible doesn't mean it's being done -- we're not surprised by Snowden's leaks, but certainly vindicated.
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Some people build things, other people break things. The people that break things don't understand what it's like to build something, so tend to come across as jerks to people that build things for a living.
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Right, so it seems like they changed their target audience.

The list of extensions for "power-users who miss previous features" is a slap in the face. A half-broken bookmarks extension and then two extensions that are using data-hungry web services. Replacing the simple notes functionality with evernote? What the hell happened to my privacy and my data being local on my machine.
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For all the people ranting about what an incompetent this guy is, why does no one complain that stuff like GPG is so complicated that

1) Ordinary people probably can't use it.

2) It probably would be pretty easy to talk ordinary people into sending you their private keys/passphrases/etc... in the guise of 'helping' them, because it's so complicated.

No one seems to talk about horrible complexity as a big security vulnerability.

Also, I agree that there is something not quite right in the security community that often makes them talk with their Comic Book Guy voices.
> I can't think of a single thing that is legal to buy that is blanket revoked by some company like this.

Firearms.

https://www.paypal.com/webapps/helpcenter/article/?solutionI...

https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?nodeId=6023

https://squareup.com/legal/seller-agreement

Also, at least two of those have prohibitions on "occult materials". I'm not quite sure what that means, but it doesn't sound illegal.
Isn't the argument more that the people doing the software for end users shouldn't be implementing the cryptography for that software themselves and should instead built it on top of libraries that make all of the difficult decisions? Libraries like NACL are good for this, you don't specify cipher modes or anything like that you just say something closer to encrypt(data,key);

Of course you can still fuck up with just that, but it reduces the requirements for the programmer to understand deep cryptography and focus on designing their application for their users.

Also the advertised level of security will alter how the users use the software.

Say for example you have a bunch of confidential documents, you are currently storing them in a bomb proof safe and you never digitize them because you are concerned about security even though digital copies would be useful.

Along comes software that promises to be just as secure as your safe (or more secure). So you jump on it and start using it. Now if that software is not as secure as advertised then you are probably in a worse position security wise than you were before, and you don't even know until somebody steals your documents.
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This is a discussion on HN, not in a general public forum. Sure, the general public is probably surprised by what's been revealed but we should not be.