skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bill Binney's complaint about the NSA was that they were wasting money on a system that did a poorer job of handling US-centric SIGINT. He was not himself opposed to collecting intelligence on US citizens; his own "ThinThread" system was designed to do exactly that, but with better technical controls over who could view the data.

The problem with the NSA's programs isn't that they lack technical controls; it's that they're allowed to supervise their own collection efforts and build their own controls in the first place.

The notion that Binney is a staunch opponent of PRISM-style surveillance is revisionist.
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Don't feel bad about linking to your blog -- even with the few posts it has, it was an invaluable resource in helping me get started with Docker.

Please keep writing!
I think government surveillance is an issue because people can be arrested or harassed for things. I still don't see what harm can come from a private company having my data as long as they don't share it or use it for something nefarious. I don't see the threat of that happening with google.

To be clear these are two very separate issues: government surveillance and privacy policies of corporations.

We agree on the first point and disagree on the second.

If I'm wrong on the second, please give me a plausible example of something google would do with user data that would be actually harmful besides sharing with the government.
Useful product, although I'm dismayed its not a device that can build a point cloud of the whole room yet (and use said point cloud for rendering on a mobile device, as well as high-resolution measurements).

Look what tech innovation has done to my expectations of products :(

Room scanning point cloud with Kinect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhg3_ZgRK68

Boiler Room Point Cloud:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1l0X46rOAU

Point cloud of living room:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6eRG3Q27Lw
"It's not our fault!"

The nation is polarizing, e.g. too many Blue Dogs got sent home to spend more time with their families, too many never really on our side (re)turned against us like Harry Reid ... we'll see how it goes. Then again, ask ex-Senator Richard Lugar what he thinks of the NRA and gunowners.... What we really need, for both issues, is this bit of wisdom from Milton Friedman:

"I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office."

Of course, for privacy, if everything is kept secret including the courts, how will we know...?
I'm the koding user (non staffer) who made the video.

My goal was to quickly gloss over the features with the video, but i thought the concept of Online Development was a pretty well grasped concept. No offense to you of course, the video obviously falls short for a lot of people. It's not intended to be a pitch, just an overview.

I had hoped that by going over the features, that Koding would make a bit of sense. Perhaps i need to redo the video? The short timeframe goal, really limits me though haha.

I never intended my 2 minute overview to be on the front page of Koding, nor be posted onto reddit and here. This is so much more publicity than a short little video targetted at new Koding users.

Nevertheless, thanks for the feedback :)
A better navigation experience
There are a number of solutions for dealing with complex rollover navigation structures. Deriving inspiration from hover intent and Amazon's mega dropdown, I tried achieve a combination of benefits while simplifying along the way. Goals include the use of a slight delay on initial launch and quick response over other nav and subnav items.
Ugh, op here. Why was title changed? It's less informative now :(
Perhaps Bob knows both Alice and Ann and is using encryption so that Alice doesn't find out about Ann;)
Does this mean that Linux has arrived as a desktop that's worth exploiting?
I've noticed all along that the NSA is relying VERY heavily on the idea that an automated system collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from spied data is entirely legal so long as no humans are involved. This was the legal defense that whistleblowers claimed they were using (but which has never been tested in court, and they would like to avoid that testing of course) years ago. And for some reason I can't guess, everyone seems to just be going along with it.

"Oh, agents don't have easy access to our personal information? You've just got it all recorded on your servers and you constantly datamine it, but the analysts only look at outputs from the mining and not the specific data? Well OK then" seems to be the response of the press at least.
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Yes, you're correct on the definition. I don't wanna go look it up but there's a good one about an embedded attack hidden in an internal PCI board's on board memory.

If someone with $100M wants to get you, they're probably gonna find a way.
Please get published so an audience beyond HN can read.
Indeed. This is one of the reasons I use the SELinux sandbox to run my browser: there are a lot of ways that a browser could become a vulnerability. I would like to think I would always remember not to copy/paste from a website into my terminal, but the truth is that I could easily forget -- if I were in a hurry, if I knew the guy who made the website (but did not stop to think that someone might have hacked into the server), etc. Unfortunately it is hard to advise that everyone do this; the sandbox is very restrictive and basically incompatible with how most people use their computers.
Are they okay with it? Apple has always seemed like the type of company that wouldn't want to dilute the "Apple Experience". I'm quite impressed they're aware of it and haven't asked you to shut it down. Kudos.
This is the problem with the Deep State. When a huge portion of what the government does is deception and subterfuge, it should not be a surprise that everyone becomes suspicious of government.
All of us, seeing how the tax system works.
What if Schnail Mail automatically filtered postal junk mail so you never had to receive another piece again?

What if it let you search the contents of every printed message you'd ever sent or received?

What if it let you send international mail, with attachments, for free?

What if it protected you and more susceptible friends and family from postal scams?

What if it informed you that your recipient no longer existed at the address you used?

What if it let you undo sending of mail you regret writing?

...

A free postal mail service that truly replicated Gmail's functionality would probably appeal to many, even with inserted ('relevant') ads and all the privacy issues.

Paid versions of such a service already exist (e.g. https://www.earthclassmail.com/ ). A free equivalent could be pretty disruptive.
I was also thinking about them in terms of tech, relative to the marketplace.

If Amazon decides to open "Costozon" will Costco be able to compete?
Trashmail has an API, so good for various scripts.
If I remember correctly you don't have an inbox, you just forward X messages to another email address, where X by default is 2. After that the email is deleted.
I don't know. It's a pretty standard thing to do these days. Surely you have to make sure you cross all the t's and dot all the i's. But it's not like the practice doesn't have a long history. Seems there are more pitfalls for owning personally.
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In the short term, they'll probably be replaced by a legion of contractors who will be tasked with automating the work formerly performed by the sysadmins. It's not like a NSA contractor has ever leaked sensitive material before though...
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Schneier linked to a study that might explain why some people don't seem concerned about their information being collected for secret government programs.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/secret_informa...

Of course, there's also the "I've done nothing wrong, I have nothing to hide,"-type folks, and people who are generally authoritarian too.
> P.S. Right or wrong is a separate conversation...

No it's not. This is wrong, plain and simple. Wrong is wrong, and black is black.
I've been pretty unimpressed with the build quality and general aesthetic of the majority of Android smartphones. (I'm not anticipating Ubuntu on iPhone will ever be a viable option.) The Edge looks good, and (hopefully) will feel good in hand.

The buttonless interface is also significant: every other phone has physical and/or touch buttons below, which would be superfluous. Ubuntu phones are meant to be oriented around edge swipes as virtual "buttons", with the few actual buttons being only on the top and sides.

The project is most certainly a gamble, both for buyers and Canonical. But I think it's a worthwhile one for both parties. Note that their goal is to release a new "concept phone" once per year; they clearly want to turn mobile hardware into a core competency, even if they're bound to have a hard time keeping up with Samsung and Apple.
There is a tremendous, and key, difference in the amount of processing required for tobacco vs MJ. Tobacco has to be heavily cured and processed (not necessarily with chemicals, but certainly with lots of other methods) to be usable. It's not something that any old joe would want to do themselves due to how labor intensive it is. Plus, tobacco is a super finicky plant.

MJ, once dried, can be used with zero processing. If you consider drying to be processing, then yes, its a one step process. Not saying that these folks wouldn't make plenty of money off of the convenience factor, but the barrier to entry for MJ wholesaling is much lower due to the reduced processing.
Hmm, what should I get from that debate? I just re-read the transcript [1], and seems they just had a minor disagreement over the notion of justice. (And a couple other little "differences" which we could consider clarifications.) I currently don't see why it's so heavily cited; some others (not you) seem to consider it some legendary heavyweight fight in the history of philosophy. But it was just... an interview.

As for his disagreements with certain philosophers... he makes a cogent point, that perhaps he simply doesn't understand it, but much of it seems to him written in a kind of gibberish, which can understandably lead to a lot of mistakes. [2]

Imagine if I wrote hopefully useful code, but it was extremely hard to read and poorly documented... What properties would we expect that code to have?

[1] http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1971xxxx.htm

[2] http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/chomsky-on-pos...
None, because apparently the people who the specific incidents happen to are either never aware of it or are told they can't talk about it.

Visibility is a particular challenge for the privacy issue. On the one hand, it means that advocacy groups should make transparency one of their platform's planks; on the other hand, it exposes advocacy group to the criticism that they are conspiracy theorists asking the government to reveal violations that ostensibly don't exist.
So much for being "equal under the law". If you cannot trust the law to protect you, you must assume that it is being used against you.
That is dated; deferreds and clawbacks are pervasive now
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I don't know about you, but someone who works at the NSA and isn't at least aware of some of the crap they're doing (which has been reported from the mainstream media, mind, this isn't exactly suppressed news) is someone who I wouldn't consider aware of their surroundings, and therefore unsuited to the task.

So, these real people. One of them comes to you for a sysadmin job. NSA and a high-ish security clearance is on their resumé.

Are they ignorant, apathetic, or malicious? It's one of the three. They either don't know what their government is perpetrating (and aren't paying attention), they know and don't care (because the dollar overrides all morals), or they know, care, and are playing for the other team.

"They're real people" is just an emotional appeal that ignores a very real ethical dilemma. Real people actually suck sometimes.
Yes. Over and over by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people.

The alternative is the public getting exactly what they deserve, receiving the full consequences of their actions, and reaping a bounty of oppression.
Not really. Karp is worth orders of magnitude more to Yahoo! than the rest of the team.

Yahoo!'s always had engineers who could bring products to market. Their deficiency has long been with executives and the product groups.
Sorry about that; you're right.
SEO, click-through rate et cetera
&> The people who think it works get placated*

That is the whole point. Mr Cameron has just offended a group of Tory supporters, some of whom are rich and/or influential, with the gay marriage thing. In order to placate them ready for next time he needs their influence and/or campaign donations he is taking on this issue that the same subset care about.

If the controls are not particularly effective then all the better for him. The people he needs to placate will be placated for a time and the people that only care because they want access to porn will stop caring when they discover this won't stop them accessing porn (so he'll not become someone who has taken away some of their freedom). True free speech fighters will stay on the case of course, but there are so few of them that it'll not be a massive concern (and most of them will admit they have bigger fish to fry), many of the people say they really care about free speech are just not wanting to admit that they really care about porn.
We realize it, but one of the secrets to the NRA's success is it's single issue focus, it doesn't give people unrelated reasons to not join it, as what you recommend would do. Unless it directly impinges on it or gun owners, like McCain-Feingold's suppression of political speech, it's not going to get a major push, although I'd expect it'll be added to "reasons we can't trust the good will of those in government".
I seriously question why they went with the deprecated Atom instead of a ULV i3. Maybe price concerns, but I think the people who would buy this device would be willing to spend the extra $200 so it could have an actually good processor.
A comment to the artilce by a "Strummered"

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty". - Thomas Jefferson

All we have now are corporate lawyers and stooges.
Agreed. There's seems to be a semi-automatic title change process that can make wildly poor decisions. "Bugger" is an absolutely useless title.
> Alcohol and tobacco, at least in the US, are not controlled to "protect the children". Because a 20 year old man can't get alcohol either.

Furthermore, in many (if not most) places, it is even worse than that. A 40 year old man cannot buy alcohol depending on the day of the week or time of day. In some states they can only purchase certain kinds of alcohol from the state itself (if they don't feel like paying for it at a bar). In others, wide swaths of alcohol are simply unavailable.

Are we really to believe that the unavailability of beer over 4abv in Utah is to protect the children? No. That law, like nearly every alcohol law, is a puritanical attempt to regulate the morality of adults. These laws have no place in a civilized society, and neither do the "corresponding" porn laws.
Yes. I got so many emails for source code. I will put it here. https://github.com/premii/hn
The NRA doesn't have "specific, actual, real gun rights atrocities" and they do just fine. How about people who won't give up their privacy until it is pried from their cold dead fingers just getting an address to send a check to in order to feel like they have agents working on their behalf?

Do the NAR or the Chamber of Commerce need atrocities?
So because you think porn has a negative impact, everyone else should have that decision made for them?
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Well, there's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge
Blocking porn requires that you draw a definitive boundary around a subjectively defined area. You'll always draw the wrong shape because everyone has their own.

So now you're blocking stuff that people think you shouldn't, like girls in bare ankles or breast cancer papers or who knows, and now you're requiring people to divulge their thoughts by requesting access to it.

And now you have an insight, however primitive, into someone's thoughts. And you have no right to be in there.
This has nothing to do with getting people to conform, it is about getting people who want us to conform to believe he is on their side (after offending a lot of said people with the gay marriage changes). The subset of the people he is trying to placate here are a subset who are very much against sex education in school.
The movement to undermine US freedom and privacy has been focussed and well-funded since 9/11, under both Bush and Obama and involving more than just the NSA.

If that's true, then why don't they just, you know, end privacy? Tptacek was right when he said:

Obama could give a speech in the Rose Garden this week carefully explaining that NSA requires access to American communications, all of them, in order to defend the country against terrorist attacks, and that while privacy is "important", the expectation of perfect privacy in your cell phone and Internet communications isn't reasonable because it helps terrorist cells without providing much benefit.

I would recoil from such a speech, but the public probably would not.

The American public currently has a weak expectation of privacy in their electronic communications. But they make virtually no meaningful demand for that privacy. Thwarting terror attacks are a much higher priority to them. Want evidence of that? Well, the body-conscious, vain, generally out-of-shape American public routinely submits to electronic strip searches to get onto airplanes. You think they care if someone's screening their calls to catch Abu Shahid?
They would accept that argument. And with that acceptance, the expectations of privacy and the notion of what "reasonable" searches are would be, in short order, redefined --- those rights being explicitly predicated on contemporary mores by the Constitution.

When I look at it from this angle, it becomes apparent that while privacy is inconvenient to the USG, and something they feel they have to work around, it's not something they're intent on eliminating. Despite the rhetoric from the tech punditry, the USG has not stated that it's reasonable for them to surveil US citizens; their defense has instead been that they are not surveilling them. I too think that's a falsehood, but it's truth or falsity is not the only thing that matters about it.
I work at GoDaddy, though not in the domains group. I heard this story from a co-worker that does work directly on domains and was involved in the the deployment.

Within the last week, a UK news agency published a report that it was was possible to buy the domain name 'rapeher.co.uk'. I don't know the exact article but I believe it was this one [1]

The rumor is that someone from the Prime Minister's office called the GoDaddy CEO to express the PM's displeasure with the idea that you could buy that domain name.

An emergency deployment was made to blacklist that one domain name. No additional filtering was added. As GoDaddy states in the article, "We are withdrawing the name while we carry out a review. We have not done this before."

The discussion with my co-worker was clear that it would be impossible to add in a word filter without having a large number of false positives given that domains don't have spaces and it would be hard to know if a blocked term was a word or part of another word.

So, yes, GoDaddy did block a domain, but it's not as nefarious as some people are making it out to be.

(Ironically, that article about getting rid of porn has a full column of ads on the right side filled with half-naked women)

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384629/Britain-home...
> Why have such a narrow view? Have you considered that 99% of NSA employees might be just like you and me, have absolutely no malicious intent, and have absolutely no knowledge or understanding of the programs the NSA is reported to practice?

How is it narrow? I said I would be hesitant, but it wouldn't immediately exclude them as a candidate. I don't believe ignoring this past employer would be appropriate the same way I don't believe ignoring a past employer who happened to be a main competitor. Just because it may be unlikely, doesn't mean it should be ignored.

> These employees probably also have a higher (or at least average) tolerance against "being coerced" as you say into circumventing security mechanisms enforced by their employer

Depending on the attributes that make them hard to coerce (e.g. patriotism), what's a plus for government employment may be a negative in this specific assessment. A patriotic employee may be hard to coerce when working for the government, but depending on the line taken, the government may have a significantly easier time coercing them when they are working somewhere else ("but it's for national security!".

> My point being: try not to focus on the negatives of the news, and remember that these are real people, many incredibly talented and trustworthy.

The undercurrent of my comment, which may not have been clear, is that these admins may find it harder to find employment in the private sector after the recent NSA revelations. That's unfortunate because I'm sure most of them are completely innocent and great employees, making this layoff even worse than it sounds.

Edit: s/public sector/private sector/. Duh.
This device has better range and better accuracy than kinect(less than 2mm error instead of 5-25mm at 2m distance).
Many of us are calling for changes, many people thought electing Obama would facilitate this change. I think these people are the most upset of all; the man ran on a campaign of change ...

There is a general concensus among people across the political parties that things are broken. Congress is not good, the President is not doing a good job and problems are mounting.

The majority realizes that the system is broken (ish), things are bad, the government should be doing something about it instead of prolonging the status quo -- and yet we can't get any meaningful change going.

I just don't understand it.
Well, my initial thought was having the sender's hash could allow for a list of know offenders... but it would be easy enough for spammers to create thousands of address announcements...

If there was a push notification based email server, where the server would have to connect to the sender's server (based on DNS entry) to pull said message, it could allow for better spam filtering... but this would remove the decentralized part.

You are correct in that if I am relying on secure email for my life, then spam would be the least of my problems... but those who feel they must have secure email isn't enough to catalyst a new email system into broad use.
> A site redesign is in the works (I love it, you'll hate it

Yes! Yet another uninspiring Bootstrap-ed site.
Prohibition didn't fail; it was wildly successful.