skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Wave was overtly a communications protocol with a demonstration service.
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I don't see "Them" ceding any power or capabilities. Nor do I see any long term solutions to this situation that don't cause worse problems in the future. Which is a shame, since there are other serious issues that will continue to be neglected till things do get really worse. Call me cynical, but I've read too much history in my life.

I'm all for OSS. I believe this is going to cause a lot more people to take it and security seriously.
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Seems like he's being made an example of. A clear and stern warning to others contemplating similar actions?
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We all sit here and watch as it happens.

Are you calling us all armchair dissidents?
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> In this instance those laws were broken to get information out to the public, but one can easily imagine when those laws could be broken for more malicious purposes. If you leave this unpunished, they might think this opens up the floodgates.

I'm not going to comment about the length of the sentence itself. But sentencing is supposed to take into account the exact details of the offence. "one can easily imagine when those laws could be broken for more malicious purposes" is a reason why somebody breaking laws for more malicious purposes should get a longer sentence. So your argument actually works the other way: it explains why Manning might have been expected to get a lesser sentence.
Not really. MailRank was a toy project that got him acquihired at FB because bos is a genius regardless.
I totally understand that sentiment, but at the same time, the whole concept of classified information breaks down pretty quickly if you start saying it's okay for people to exercise their own judgement and break the rules.

There are always paths to responsible disclosure. From what I understand, many of them are pretty badly broken, and we certainly need to fix that.

But ultimately, you really don't want to set a precedent of "well, if you leak something and you really believe in your heart that it was morally justified, then we won't send you to jail."

Anyway, I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion here, so I shall now let the sea of downvotes wash over me.
Encrypting disks can be reasonable, but for a different reason: It reduces the chance that a third party gains access to your data upon recycling of the hard-drives.
I guarantee you that these rectennas will not work if their temperature is equal to that of the source radiation, and that they will generate waste heat which has to be removed. As for slaves to the Carnot cycle, no one has ever built a Carnot cycle; it is merely an ideal which these rectennas might help us approach more closely.
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> forced to turn over your passwords

Forced, how? Threat of detention beyond the 9 hour window?

If so, it's easy to speculate I would call their bluff and refuse. But in the situation, probably not so easy.

What about using a hidden volume in TrueCrypt for plausible deniability? [1]

I suppose that would work effectively for documents. There's no plausible deniability for stuff like Facebook and Gmail. They can easily see if you gave them access to the real/full thing, or not.

However given the revelations David Miranda of all people would have to assume his Gmail, FB, et al have _already_ been compromised.[2] So the only interesting, still-private stuff would be any documents.

[1]: http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/plausible-deniability

[2]: Not that this makes it right to demand the passwords at LHR.
This is simply incorrect. It's quite possible to audit what system admins do by logging changes to a system and auditing the logs. I've personally ran an audit of logs in a worldwide cloud email service (you have heard of them) to find out which of my fellow admins made changes to a senior admin's access.

And you can definitely control what access system admins have to your system. Not every person who joins workstations to a domain needs to have full domain permissions.

This kind of sloppy authorization and system state control is inexcusable.
So the guys who murdered innocents in another country using machine guns sitting on top of a helicopter are yet to be tried.

You're dead on with that comment. The most galling aspect of this entire story isn't that Manning is going to serve some jail time (although that is absurd in its own right), but rather that all of the real criminals are walking away scott free, with no repurcusions for their behavior at all.

This will probably prove to be the case with the NSA situation as well. The people who ordered, and conducted, mass surveillance of people they had not business spying on, will never be punished. And no one will be held accountable even so far as losing their job, or being docked some pay. Keith Alexander and James Clapper and their cronies keep getting paid and probably get nice, cushy government provided pensions and the whole bit. Meanwhile, Edward Snowden is forced to hide out in another country, completely removed from his friends and family, and - for all we know - may ultimately wind up in jail right alongside Bradley Manning.

Tell me something isn't badly wrong with this picture?
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Why not both? When the emergency password is used, it could produce the decoy data, and silently erase the real data at the same time.
That's silly. Motive is taken into account for everything else. If you kill someone by accident it's different than if you commit premeditated murder. The person planning to maliciously use classified secrets should expect a stiffer response than a whistleblower like manning.

Edit: Intent, not motive is what I meant to say. Thanks. Point remains though. You can argue that he did deserve something for the reasons rayiner mentions, but you can't argue that he deserves something to make a point to people with malicious intent. If you don't think he had malicious intent, he shouldn't get as much penalty. They should still expect to get the bigger penalty.
From the publisher's point of view, ads are the only realistic way that they can pay for the expense of running their websites. The alternatives are paywalls, which don't work, or shutting down (which a bunch of sites that were using over the last year ended up doing!).

Anyway, most people install adblock because of really crappy ads that get in your face. Do you have a real problem with static image banners that don't get in the way of content?
A camera would not be even close to good enough. It's trivial to type commands in a window that is not visible on your screen, for example. Keyboard logging? Not even close to good enough since you could easily break commands up or write a script that does what you want in an obfuscated way.
Come on man, "archaic insult" "getting stuck" "bottom rungs" "not keeping up" "remain relevant" "those in our country being left behind". Yeah, I'm sure you're talking about techies working at internet startups there LOL.

You may not like being called out, but it doesn't mean I was misinterpreting or reading into.

"I'd love to see someone really tackle the training and education"

Basically how can a plant maint / building super move up. Although, why exactly do they need to?

One logical upgrade path is trades, like electrician / plumber but that runs into license and union issues, and they mostly do OTJ anyway. I don't have the figures, but some roustabouts get killed OTJ trying to upgrade themselves without actually knowing as much as they think they do, aka I know I'm not an electrician but I'll "help" with that damaged wiring or whatever. An effective way to get killed is to think you're a rigger or think you're an ironworker, but not really know how to do it. This career field given actual training and OTJ supervision is a logical upgrade path for roustabouts.

Sticking in the oil field business you pretty much have to trade risk for money and promotion opportunity so you'll easily go into manual labor roughneck work on the drilling crew, but that's primarily OTJ and what non-OTJ exists seems to do pretty well. All the way up to petroleum engineer from a university.

Really the only gain you'll get from online would be transfer out of the biz entirely, go into "CSS web developer" or whatever. And you're not doing online from the middle of nowhere on land, or a offshore platform 250 miles from the nearest wifi... maybe satellite link or something you could download? Even if a roughneck decided to become a Scala coder in his spare time, now you've got a Scala coder in the center of north dakota with no job prospects within hundreds of miles... Because of this, I don't think online classes would have any impact at all?

Finally if you succeed, and "trap" a guy who likes to work outdoors and walk around eight hours/day and do hardware work into writing source code in a cube for 12 hours a day in the downtown of a city, you might have won by some popular societal standard of human worth, but has the guy who was trapped won? It can be a difficult perspective problem, but there are a lot of people who genuinely like working outdoors, or genuinely like working with their hands. Forcing them not to do that, is not exactly "fixing" them.
Any hope Obama had of Snowden coming back to the US voluntarily just evaporated.
We are semi-rational animals. Not many of us can handle the "Truth", it's fucking depressing.
Pvt Manning has received more time in prison than the entirety of the Collateral Murder crew combined (0 years).
The requirement under RIPA is not to hand over the keys, but to make the encrypted content available - to decrypt it.

By destroying the OTPs you are a: provably preventing access to the content (2 year or 5 year jail sentence)
Trying to navigate the spin, but this company appears to tie things like your existing, bank issued, two-factor hardware dongle to your government identify.

Best line of the article: "The cloud-based service follows federal guidelines to protect privacy, said SecureKey, although exactly what that means after the Snowden revelations is not clear."

Seems unlikely to fly; surely some big megacorp - or cartel of them - wants an exclusivity deal to make government approved ids.

BTW does anyone find it ironic that libertarian leaning programmers are so high in demand, and well paid, by the surveillance state.
Also Lenta.Ru's report:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&ie=UTF-8&u...
As a vim-but-never-vi user I'm interested in hearing more about what you consider to be clunky/cludgy/not working quite nicely.
talk to your representation, bear the inconvenience and reduce usage of known invasive service, and vote.
how does this differ from Yesware?
For all of you who (somehow) don't recognize the UID here, this isn't just some "interested observer", this is the person implementing support for booting Linux on systems with these TPMs. In fact if I understand it right Linux can now optionally use a TPM to verify that kernel modules are only loaded if cryptographically signed.

A good intro to TPM on Linux: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/24818.html
Copying the backup tapes to what? Auditing is implemented along with physical measures like ensuring USB ports are glued up and people are searched going into and out of the secure data center (which is air-gapped from the internet). You can't even carry a mobile phone -- there are detectors for the signals they give off.

(USB ports / CDs being what failed in the Bradley Manning case)
You have not shown that your usage is entirely standard - myself and others have repeatedly pointed to aspects of Wikipedia articles that contradict your use of the term.

"Office politics" is not casual language, it actually is using the term "politics" as most refer to it in modern times: the process of determining power arrangements among beings.

But this is still semantics. I can accept your definition of politics as being the activities within the state. Lets call "the process of determining power arrangements among beings" as "power struggles".

I've claimed there are a number of thinkers that have varying views on "power struggles", some of which presume a state, others of which do not. One thing that seems to be clear is that there will always be power struggles in any community of beings: no system will eliminate them. So the question is, on what basis do we agree to contain power?
I sincerely hope any tech working for NSA is socially outcast. "Pardon us if we're not thrilled that you work for an unconstitutional institution." While the NSA is currently less harmful than say, the Mafia, it has the potential to be far worse.

Contractors on the Death Star?

Bleh, Godwin's Law and all that...
Yeah, some advertisers actually hurt their own industry with really pushy ads. How mild would the ads need to be for you to be happy to turn off your adblocker? Would you tolerate any ads, even from your favourite site?
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His sentencing matrix: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSMgOFYCAAM4aqi.jpg:large
Still not solving for:

1 clone drive

2 force you give password

3 if no sensitive data show up use $5 pipe wrench and go to step 2.
We have one for with we know there was a leak. There may be more who sold information on the black market.
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Get actual VCs to use it?
It's a fair enough opinion, the problem is that there's no public input on whether leaking is justified - those in charge will say it isn't and that's that.
I've actually found pinching and zooming to be more than adequate... And even a bit of squinting I find acceptable because it lets me easily skim a page for content. When I have to scroll forever just to find the content I'm looking for its frustrating and a waste of my time.

Or news websites that start hiding the actual content on mobile, so you're forced to "tap" the headline to even read the summary.

Or in the case of github or stack overflow, the formatting is so illegible, I can't believe they released 'em. They've made it harder to read.

Mobile is about fast access. Letting me get my information on the go... When mobile is a different experience it craps on that goal because I cannot access information as fast. I must now learn this new thing; which, is a the opposite of why I have a smartphone (fast information).

For my use cases is vastly worse. The desktop versions of most sites have more features and allow for faster access of information. Maybe I have to zoom in, that's okay! It's a better experience in the end.
I am totally baffled about where the income data supposedly comes from, and how it's mapped to GH user accounts.

http://www.rapleaf.com/about-us/faq/#where

"Rapleaf aggregates consumer data from data providers, cleanses it and maps it to emails, and ultimately makes it accesible through our easy to use Append portal and API. We partner with dozens of large and small data companies to aggregate data that we ultimately anonymize and tie to email addresses. We source it from only legitimate data bureaus who adhere to the highest consumer privacy standards -- sources that give consumers appropriate notice and choice about sharing their information and have opted in to make their data accesible."

What? Are they claiming to know the salary of all the github users used in this study? Were the users filtered down to those who had income data available? Because if so, that's a really weird (bad) selection technique. If not, what is being done with users whose income data is not available? Also where the hell is rapleaf getting their data?? This whole thing confuses the heck out of me, someone please help.
For me, it was the other way around: I started as a vim user, but, once I started using Emacs, I could never look back. Proof General (http://proofgeneral.inf.ed.ac.uk/) is, put it simply, the best environment for certified software development with theorem provers. And, even when using more mundane languages like Haskell, having the REPL (ghci) running within the text editor if very useful when one is lost in type land.
Obama could fix this with the stroke of a pen. Surely he will deliver. I'll wait.
Weak Castle Doctrine, no duty to retreat in your home, exists in 46 states according to Wikipedia, which sounds about right. E.g. assume you have to retreat from your home in Massachusetts, no matter the current law, case law or circumstances.

Stand Your Ground in 22 states. As in no duty to retreat any place you have a right to be, which prevents second guessing from the calm and comfort of a courtroom. Or as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it in the 1921 US Supreme Court case Brown v. United States, "Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife."
Nevertheless he still has full respect in my eyes, whatever the gov/justice can say or do, I thank him for exposing the truth. I have no doubt, a time will come when his actions will be seen as positive by most of the people.
Seing how they treated him pre-trial, I was really thinking this will be Kangoro court with rubber stamp and maximum possible sentencing for all the "crimes" that Bradley did. Glad that the judge was semi-reasonable. Think on the positive side; 1/3 out of 35 years is about 10 years! (he already served 3).
If you use Firefox, I recommend the It's All Text! plugin, which opens $EDITOR in a new window and seamlessly transfers its contents into the textfield you care about.

I think a Chrome version is in the works, but there's nothing releasable yet.
Kickstarter's page is probably very unclear on the policies of Indiegogo. Indiegogo only accepts PayPal for "fixed funding" campaigns.

[0]: http://support.indiegogo.com/entries/20492953-Fees-Pricing-

[1]: http://support.indiegogo.com/entries/20566503-Fixed-vs-Flexi...
One of the main reasons the court system exists is to make sure public input isn't part of the process, no?
> I sometimes wonder if I would have been better off sticking to my original plan and becoming a software engineer.

depends on the job. a software engineer could be stuck writing business forms.

conversely, you could be Nate Silver, the world's most famous and exciting actuary. in this case meaning "well paid guy who does stats and math".
Sure, but once you've chosen to orient it a certain way for a large class of devices, you had better be consistent, especially if one needs to remove it without being able to see it. The last thing you want is users complaining about how their MacBook Pro is one way and their iMac is another.
Thanks! I'll pass the info onto my boss.
Well, for one, he's transsexual, which may or may not indicate he's less of a threat to society.

If he's not a threat to society, and won't do what he did again, then it seems like the motive is to make an example of him.
everything with a camera can be come phone sex and cam sex now. Take a look at FaceTime.
One technique would be attaching typical "Nothing to hide" rhetoric to images/stories of people suffering as a result of surveillance?

In addition to simply exposing these events, it also associates their own rhetoric with abuses.
>Manning, 25, was convicted last month [...] The government had asked [for] 60 years. “There is value in deterrence, your honor; this court must send a message [...] National security crimes that undermine the entire system must be taken seriously.”

This is not the rule of law. It is a government that is increasingly relying on citizen ignorance to secretly make and implement policy, and on savage reprisals to terrorize those who might expose the process.
I think it has improved lately because it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux (at least Ubuntu). I have not had any problems with. Works okay.

The problem I have is that I need to carry around a card reader for my credit card to get BankID working because my the credit card has the BankID signature in a chip to be able to use the software. I use the bank SEB.
Physical security is a joke everywhere. I've worked in 50+ datacenters and I'd bet anyone anywhere that I could sneak a 64GB micro SD card out of any datacenter in the world. No one is doing cavity searches, not even NSA. Getting a "decommissioned" or "test" server out full of data would be trivial in 99.99% of organizations.

Theoretically it's trivial to audit sysadmins. In practice it's virtually impossible. Let me know when Red Hat wants to bet money on it.
Cool, can I use this as a foreigner too?
"sending a message" == getting you to doubt, think twice == instilling fear == creating terror == being a terrorist

Fighting terror with terror. How can it be that no one in the UK government agencies responsible for this can see the irony? How can it be that they don't understand their actions are degrading society just as much as those of the terrorists?
I wouldn't use app stores as a positive example of what Helpouts could do for the services industry. There aren't many companies successfully making money selling software in app stores. And certainly no one is doing gangbusters.
He won't get parole in 1/3rd the time - that will be the end of the fourth Clinton administration and they will be sure to send someone to argue against his release, which since it's military, they will all blindly fall in line and obey.

Just imagine the crimes the government will be doing by then given what they are getting away with now. With what it will have to cover up they will need examples of people in prison forever to stop people from even thinking of talking about it.
Nice hack, but a accessibility failure. Now the users with poor sight can't increase the font size.
What he leaked was available to 1.5+ million people in the USA. It is not by any reasonable meaning of the word classified, it is the proceedings of a seperate class of society.
It's the responsibility of a business's owners/executives/officers to physically secure their building and technology. Red Hat and other groups (like Schlage, ADT, and police departments) make tools/services you can use to do this, but it's your responsibility to make sure all of your agents are doing what you want them to do.

It's rather embarrassing have your IT supplier tell you "This other person who you trusted with access to all your data may have copied some or all of it -- you should trust your employees more granularly."
I switched from emacs to vim a few years ago.

One of them is that vim is actually closer to a windows/mac style editor than emacs is. You can navigate with the arrow keys, you just need keep track of being in insert mode or not. The things that are different are sufficiently different that you won't cross them up. Back in the emacs days I was always typing ^X^S into word or typing ^S in emacs when I want to save.
> Maybe there are better ways of monetising than forcing multiple pages of ads down your users throats? :)

If you decide that you want to show multiple ads, just intersperse them throughout the content. Break it up and insert them in between some of the paragraphs