skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main take away from your comment is that Keith Alexander is Enabran Tain & that I feel like the US is approximating the Cardassian Union more everyday.

The existence of nuclear weapons has rendered traditional warfare unprofitable, except against the very weak, and even in those cases only military contractors benefit.

We invaded and occupied Iraq and didn't even get any oil, just a trillion or so in national debt. At least in the time of Rome citizen soldiers were titled large swaths of land in the conquered territories.

I expect in the long drawn out economic warfare to come that cyber espionage and surveillance to be critical advantages & well connected military contractors with access to the NSA's total information awareness database to profit handsomely from insider trading.

Update & Question:

I'm taking a short break from work and wondering why this comment has been down voted twice?

Instead of down voting & unless you just hate ST: DS9 references, can you provide a plausible argument against the inevitability that tapping the entire world's communications will not lead to insider trading?

There are so few terrorists in the world, and so many opportunities to profit from having early access to employment reports, corporate revenue numbers and other economic data.

Please give me a compelling reason why a wiretap on all the worlds communications is more likely to be used to catch terrorists than for simple greed?
Naive and unnecessary. The Patriot Act was overwhelmingly supported across the aisle. And it should be obvious by now that Obama is an enthusiastic supporter, based on his treatment of Snowden. Not to mention Pelosi and Feinstein aggressively defending the government's right to suppress information.
This has nothing to do with party affiliation. If you believe in Republican Vs Democrat, you're still in the Matrix, and, sadly, sipping the koolaid.
I have a friend who posts to Facebook several times per day about where they are and what they're doing. Only a few years ago, this person used to be my closest friend. Now, we are distant, and I feel this Facebook usage is part of that. I am under the impression that this person feels their social needs met, and their social 'obligations' discharged, by regular status updates. They are 'connecting' to everyone they know continuously. Meanwhile, I feel I hardly know them anymore. But I know exactly where they are and what they are doing at any given moment. This person has also told me that they feel they have become friends with certain people they only communicate with on Facebook. That doesn't seem like a real friendship to me. I should add that all of this communication is 'public' in that it is all visible to all the people in these friend circles. That too seems strange to me. How many personal things will someone say in such mixed company? And, indeed, the communication seems far more banal and superficial than what I am used to. It is almost painful to read.

My friend feels very differently on the subject, and that itself is part of the reason for our drifting apart.
We shall see. I hope you're right.
Every time I post the truth about this NSA fiasco, I get:

1. Downvoted to oblivion by a hivemind, and

2. Somebody like you chimes in with a content-free emotional outburst.

So exactly what did I misunderstand?

The incontrovertible fact that this really isn't news?

The fact that every history and exposé on the NSA has been saying this for decades?

The fact that the NSA tried cramming the Clipper chip and key length restrictions down our throats to make domestic spying easier? For half a decade this was a weekly running joke on Slashdot that you had to have been living under a rock to miss.

That the previous commenter claimed to be a "news junky" and then admitted that by news he means the mass media—a pack of tampon salesmen and political hatchetmen.
I don't know Tim Caswell and whether he's capable of building this probject, but his progress so far sounds pretty unfocused.

I designed a stream system that's both lightweight and works great in both node.js and browser environments. I spent a day creating a module loader for chrome apps so I could use common.js style modules.

That's after taking almost $20,000 for a Kickstarter campaign in which he detailed the risks:

But in the case that I'm still wrong and it's way harder than I thought, I can promise that the project will have enough of a head start to survive on its own and be usable before the funds run out.

His repo is open source but there doesn't seem to be any committers apart from Tim. Being able to clone a repo is far from being in a usable state. The actual work that was committed seems to have taken place in a little under two months from April to June.

I get that personal projects can be hard to see through, but Tim is asking for tens of thousands of dollars without explaining how he will approach things differently this time around, or even acknowledging he failed his previous backers.
The ease of which it is to get started with Sublime Text may be a factor. It's nice not having to worry about managing plugins and custom settings. Though I see no reason to switch if you have taken the time to customize vim to your liking. Once you get a decent package management system for it (Pathongen, Vundle) it's hard to beat.
Fearing someone for organizational reasons is different than the fear I believe he is referring to. People may fear him due to the power he holds on changing people's lives with the information he controls and has access to.
I think Moxie Marlinspike truly and deeply cares about these issues, isn't an outrage tourist, and has done more for online privacy than I probably ever will. I think he truly believed that attempting to disrupt the talk could be an effective strategy. But I also think he was wrong about this.
As someone who just started another attempt at picking up vim (actually vintageous in this case) last week: how do I keep myself from forgetting that I'm in a vim editor?

It'll happen every so often that I'm in the middle of something, switch to Sublime and just start typing - as it's second nature. By the time I notice whats going on, I typed half a dozen characters. I'll curse, undo the random commands, get into insert mode and will effectively have lost my train of thought.

It may sound ridiculous, but it's actually the biggest hindrance to adopting vim for me. Am I the only one with this problem?
Why not post to both?
I'm curious why you claim that a 4-star general would have a better knowledge of the Constitution than an average hacker?

Especially one who seems to be running an illegal and unconstitutional program like Gen. Alexander.
Git's built-in diff algorithm is particularly bad for text. Since it's aimed at line-oriented code, it does line-based diffs, which is horrible for ASCII text that is reflowed, because every line in a paragraph will show up as changed for a small change.

Example: https://github.com/divegeek/uscode/commit/1fb2d83137dad1c6ca...

What's happened is that "Section 2" was moved later in the sentence, abbreviated as "Sec. 2", "of" was deleted, and "act" was capitalized:

Section 2 of act July 30, 1947, ch. 392, 61 Stat. 674, provided...

Act July 30, 1947, ch. 392, Sec. 2, 61 Stat. 674, provided...

The rest of the paragraph is unchanged, but git shows a 6-line diff with the entire paragraph replaced. GitHub attempts to do some word-based highlighting (see the timestamp lines), but it falls down on most of these paragraphs. Wikipedia's diffing tends to work better for this kind of thing; I'm not sure what they use. The upshot is that the number of lines changed may be a 5-10x overestimate.
Fortunately? It should have devolved into something ugly.
I don't think anyone as savvy and successful as Keith Alexander wants to bake J. Edgar Hoover's image into their legacy.
Messages in public SSH RSA keys
And his detractors look like a bunch of OWS hooligans even if only subconsciously.

I haven't actually seen the Black Hat talk yet, but I can imagine the audience does not compare favorably to another recent PR event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fawN4OZEt-Y

This kind of thing helps build up the conscious and unconscious associations in the minds of many that favor the NSA a great deal.
An alternative XML version of the US Code from Cornell Law School:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wiki/lexcraft/united_states_code_...
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SFO should charge based on actual passenger or vehicle impact, not business model. Charge every dropoff or pickup equally, if need be.
"Zero abuses of NSA PRISM" according to NSA director
I'm very much hoping they allow find in Visual mode. I enabled Vintage mode in ST 2 a little while back and love it, but visual find would be very handy.

Edit: it does. Awesome.
The thing that really makes it stand out is the multiple cursors. You can go very deep with them because everything that happens in the editor happens in parallel for each cursor. They each have their own clipboard, any scripts you run happen once per cursor. "Find all" can be made to select all the matches. You can do some crazy stuff. I love it.

However, if you've customised and become proficient in vim to any serious extent it likely won't be that impressive to you.
Am I missing something here? Sublime's an editor last I checked. So's vim. If you want a vim-flavored editor, why not just, I dunno... use vim?

Wouldn't this be a bit like building a 'vim mode' for emacs?
The audience for this event is infosec professionals wearing t-shirts, for whatever that's worth to you. Demographically pretty compatible with Reddit, or at least the subset of Redditors with top-quartile (for IT) incomes.

To the extent that this audience has any engagement with public policy, that engagement is likely to take a Ron Paul-ish flavor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_the...
> The people working at Fort Meade are not evil. They truly believe they're doing a great service to the nation.

Evil doesn't require intent. Some of the most evil acts in history were carried out by people who believed they were doing a good and moral thing. Most evil people don't go around thinking "I'm going to be so evil today!"

I suspect you are correct and that the vast majority of NSA employees think they are doing the right thing for America. That doesn't make their actions any less evil.
Selling over phone for nerds and others..
> What's missing are leaders (aka media) evaluating and promoting policies based on rationality reasoning rather than what emotional ploys that sell.

Leaders in media have no external incentive to promote rationality. They make money by appealing to their audience, to increase the size and loyalty of that audience.

There is no solution.
https://github.com/gryftir/gutsy clickable link
FAA = "FISA Amendments Act". The FAA provides authority to the NSA for use of PRISM and other surveillance.

How would this legal precedent not effect the NSA if they are operating under the same policy as the other agencies you just listed? I don't see how being a part of a different higher level agency would change that.
Did you read the post? His problem was not "writing words", in fact he actually recommends medium if that's all you want: "Medium really is a great platform if you just want to write. Unfortunately, for me, that just wasn’t my problem."
> how do I keep myself from forgetting that I'm in a vim editor

I think actually using vim would help...

Edit: Sorry, that's a bit snarky. All I can say is that vim proficiency comes from muscle memory. Once you adopt vim and feel the "vim flow," it's really quite painful/distracting to use a modeless editor.

It's to the point where I was doing a phone interview recently where they had me code in a live editor. Because I'm so used to vim I had a really hard time just writing the code without a bunch of random-looking keystrokes. Fortunately the person on the other end recognized them as vim commands, but it was still distracting.
Until Google decides otherwise. ;-)
It's free via ACH which Dwolla offers, however if you choose to use a wire transfer, then you have to pay whatever rate your bank charges.
Yes, but to the target audience of a submission with "Activision", "Blizzard", and "Kotick" in the title, indie means exactly what Tomis02 said. Context is important. I don't think anyone else would associate gambling industry with "gaming" in the context of this article.
Here is the newsdiff of today's NYT article on the disclosure of the declassified docs. [1] Talk about burying...

http://newsdiffs.org/diff/290704/290768/www.nytimes.com/2013...
That's why broad, not specific, goals would be decided by large groups. One broad goal might be to "end domestic NSA surveillance". Specific actions could be decided by teams of people in working groups which is similar to the way actionable decisions are made in many businesses.
Malware visualization
He is using computer security as a metaphor.
Security is the same, whether it is digital or a physical lock. It is just much easier to implement these sorts of algorithms in the world of bits than it is to implement them in the world of atoms.
Wayport (the outfit that AT&T acquired to do its public access WiFi play) also used Level 3.

Source: I was the Wayport CTO.

edit: I said Google acquired Wayport. It was AT&T.
>It was obvious from the length of the act alone that even Congressional staffers couldn't have read it carefully between the time of submission and the time it passed.

This is a little off topic, but I always see this trotted out when people talk about big laws (like Obamacare, PATRIOT Act, etc) and it's not really true. Lawmakers usually work with and read a "normal language" version of laws that then gets transformed into a stricter legal version by staffers and experts. They will look at the actual legal version of the law if they care about a specific rule or section, but they usually don't need to.
Google Play gets 10% more downloads than iOS, less than half the revenue
Blue pill for me! What a lovely color; it matches this donkey on my t-shirt!
It could be worse... lookup the Piet programming language (be sure to include all 3 words in the search) :).
There's a few reasons:

Simplicity. This automatically tests the whole page "for free".

Robustness of feedback for time spent. A small visual change could cascade into lots of tests cases that must be updated (rendering is hard, look how long it took IE to get it right). You don't need to update any tests with this tool, you just give the OK to a visual diff with expected changes.

Dynamic content. The BBC homepage is going to be different every day. Writing tests to test this could be arduous and error prone. Testing production content on build 779 vs 780 is a simple way to test regressions.
But still, state and local governments are bound by the 14th Amendment's "equal protection" clause[1], so if a city court makes arbitrary and whimsical decisions they can probably be sued for civil rights violations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause
That is considered an ACH transfer, which is the same way that you normally fund your Dwolla account. A wire transfer allows larger amounts and is much quicker but usually has significant fees attached to it. ( As well as some other differences)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Clearing_House
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_transfer
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You have some competition in the iOS app store, but if you make a Windows Phone version, you'll be the only marine navigation app not using bing maps.

Edit:
Just to add, I think you're charging too little.
Yes, we should have black and white laws, and unit tests for them. So someone could write a unit test for "Will this allow the NSA to create a secret court that is outside the rule of law?" or "Does accessing a university computer that has an open access policy allow for a sentence of 130 years?"

I believe we'd see a lot simpler laws.
OK, maybe it's just a font thing here on Windows (wouldn't surprise me one bit). I'll try again when I get home tonight.
Yelp Shares Up After Beating Q2 Estimates
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We set the maximum seal-time to be relatively short for practical reasons on our end (we have to keep the capsules alive), but coming up with ways to extend that time is something we're thinking about.
Hackers can cause explosions in oil and gas facilities
Found this out via HN the other day. I put a dot between every character in my address and gave it out as a contact method to someone. Their response was basically "Wtf....?"
Also there is the Code of Federal Regulations to contend with, but those are available online already.
One mistake I kept making for a long time is not turning that traffic from HN into repeat visitors. In the old days it was about email newsletters. Today Twitter followers help. I'll often end my blog posts with a simple PS: follow me on Twitter. It's proven insanely helpful to get new followers who will read that next post.
And it's pretty easy to move any of them over to the Kindle. (Or whatever eBook platform you use, I assume -- the Kindle is just the one I have experience with.)
Many people consider legacies to be overrated. Reputation while still alive and kicking is something that concerns just about everybody though.
Very cool! I will download it prior to my next hiking trip.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2011/12/22/micros...
Creating Habit Loops Into Your Product
No, it's just automated pricing based on it being rare. You set a high price, other pricing bots come in and undercut it - unless the book is sufficiently rare or obscure, in which case the high price remains.

Funnily enough, my book is a good example of this. There's three copies on Amazon, priced within 1 cent of each other: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1898275351/ref=dp_olp... It was one of the elss well-selling ones in the series so it's become 'rare' by virtue of its own obscurity, rather than inherent merit of its own :-)
> I believe that's pretty central here. I don't see how we can ever be able again to trust an organism such as the NSA - or even the government.

We won't. This cancer is a one-way street. It will kill the organism and kill itself with it. And they know it. That's why they buy billions of ammunition rounds and dispatch lightweight tanks throught the states borders. They know that history repeat itself and they don't want another fourth of July to be celebrated in 500 years now (this time US 2.0 that bunch of clever people used GIT to form a better government). NSA systems are not in place to save you and your family from terrorist -- terrorism needs to be wisely guided; some need to leak through so that you and your family keep being scared, submit to the State and pay more taxes for more "safety". Terrorism is not on their agenda. Had they not let shoe bomber and Boston bombers do what they did, me and you would protest against more surveillance (with Boston bombers officials were inconveniently kept notified by russian government) because we would have been felt safe.

> Transparency is the only solution here. Will we get it?

We won't and we can't. They will oppose it saying that if we tell you what we do, bad guys will use it. Nothing will change this approach. Manning did a huge leak of gov docs and military officials said many lives will be lost as a result; other than Arab spring that did not happen on US soil, nothing happened at all. It was a bluff that they will continue using.

> If we don't, the only other solution would be to cut budgets so drastically that such an enterprise will simply not be possible financially, anymore.

Its not that simple. Even President of United State does not know how many black-ops agencies exist within the goverment. Some entities of the gov sponsor themselves God only knows doing what. If you cut their air supply, they will go to CIA and say: "here are the tapes when you and other officials are negotiating deals with drug cartels in Afganistan, here is a conversation where smuggling is being organized to move tons of heroine into US on a military aircraft, sponsor our venture or we will leak the info". And there you have it. Most likely dirty branches of gov do not need public money but of course they will take it anyways.
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You are aware that:

a) Google gives free access to public libraries in cities that get Google Fiber, and,
b) AT&T WiFi services (nee: Wayport) also has McDonalds as a client.

Right?

With this announcement, you can be sure that McDonalds is considering their options. McDonalds competitors may well approach Google, too.
https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Jawbreaker

What it really depends on is your modulation method.

So say you want to operate legally as a ham radio op on 5760.1 operating CW. Well with a reasonably high gain antenna -15 dBm is OK. COTS MMIC amps and some filters and you'll have a vaguely competitive contest rover. I would imagine QEX/QST and the like will have ham radio band amp designs for a couple bucks soon enough after this thing rolls out. Looking at the cost of a FT-817 and a transverter, I imagine you could save quite a bit of dough using this device... Given $200 I could probably scavenge up some TR relays good for 5 cm and maybe a whole watt or so. Placed in front of a modest rover capable dish this could pretty much kick butt. Plus or minus phase noise, which hasn't been discussed, and frequency stability (I'm guessing no 10 MHz GPSDO input) (edited to add, and I haven't seen a noise figure spec yet either...)

On the other hand if you insist on trying to do NTSC ATV ham radio operation around 427.250 you'll find that a smokin +5 dBm on a 6 MHz wide signal will get you perhaps across the room.
Obscure used books on Amazon tend to get automatically bid up to astronomical prices, as the repricing bots mistake the noise of an empty market for a signal:
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

As of this moment, the most expensive book on Amazon is going for one billion dollars:
http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A283155&field-is-available-new...
I think you're missing what I am saying, which firstly, is in no way party related.

The people I listed have a decades long history which brought them to the US Coup of 9/11: Cheney in particular.

The above are at the core of PNAC, the CIAs takeover of the executive branch (both Clinton and Obama are their puppets here)

GHW Bush has been running shit since the 70s.

Cheney setup the framework for the current MIC exploitation of the world when he was in Sec. Defense position in the early 90s - then setup Halliburton to be in the position to receive all the mandated private-sector contracts so the military could focus on its "core" -- the same with the Carlyle group.

(Carlyle owned CRG West (MAE WEST) and other fiber infra and DCs)

These guys worked diligently to put all this into place. Obama is just a puppet who was meant to quell the outrage that the Bush regime was bringing.

I posted a list of the key players in this, I did not post any party affiliation....

I can provide a hell of a lot more detail than this too - going back to 1920 with these guys...
Our general plan is to build native apps for iOS and Android, and serve other platforms with the web app. cloud.skipper.com is not done yet, but when complete, it should do most of what the app does. We also may wrap and tweak the website for things like a Mac or Windows app... it's architected to make that possible.
I hate Forbes - interstitial ads and persistent headers are super annoying. Can we stop posting Forbes links?

Boing Boing has the same coverage with a much more reader-friendly site design: http://boingboing.net/2013/07/31/nsa-capo-heckled-at-black-h...