skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You realize that these are exactly the same arguments that were brought up to argue against the details revealed in these documents, so perhaps appeals to authority and use of the words 'conspiracy theories' may be taken with a few more grains of salt. NSA backdoors have been alleged for decades now, and the response is always that they're a 'conspiracy theory'.
Your comparisons are disingenuous.

If your point is that Apple is known and thus unspoken (though it always is spoken), then that has nothing at all to do with "cell phone names": AT&T calls it the Nokia Lumia 1020, while the iPhone is the Apple iPhone 5. Any baggage you put before or after that is almost certainly pulled from a selectivity bias. Sometimes ads mention Windows Phone, sometimes they don't. Sometimes ads mentioned the super advanced iOS, sometimes they don't.

The Galaxy S3 comment is another nonsensical comparison. I _do_ hear commercials say "Come to {PROVIDER} to get the Apple iPhone 5 with the fastest LTE network". What does that prove? How about nothing.

Seriously, the name griping is like a bad Seinfeld episode, only these are manufactured gripes rather than real world observations.
Psh! I know how to fool the NSA! I'll start using 9 character passwords instead of 8.
Should you wrap H1s around your logo?
I don't think it's any different than what you would do with a tool like PhoneGap.
My mistake in submitting that secondary link. This seems to be the source article:

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-nsas-secret-campaign-t...
Why do you say "passive adversary"? I wouldn't call an MITM with a fake cert "passive".
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So this time next year we will have the Microsoft Surface 4, the Surface 4E (or some other letter that really means "the cheaper one" and comes in fun colors), the Surface 10.1, and the Surface 10.1 Professional Edition.
Better off on Reddit, IMO.
This is a great idea, a subtle mix of the gradients and some readers' select-a-few-lines-at-a-time habit.

Or, to mix in another idea (from philip1209) downthread: have the hover-effect add color-matched dots (or other glyphs) at the corresponding line-ends, currently under the pointer.
Headline is misleading. They're only ditching Nokia and Lumia for smartphones - isn't the healthiest chunk of Nokia's business still feature phones?
that would be very annoying when reading on any touch based device. Even on a normal laptop - most people who can read well enough dont need to follow the text with the cursor anyways .. its just adds an unnecessary action that would work against the goal of this concept - speeding peoples reading up!
There is an old saying that states that a jealous husband or wife can't be trusted. They don't trust you because they are, have, or are thinking about fucking someone else.

When the combined '5 eyes' come out and ban Lenovo / Huawei from being used on any of their secure networks, because of fears of back doors [1], one has to imagine that the same is true of themselves.

The hardware is most likely backdoored as well as firmware, the OS and installed software. I would not trust anything, even open source, because to be perfectly honest, there a very few people who really are smart enough to understand the in depth cryptographic requirements. If there are people, then they probably already work for the NSA or GCHQ.

If you want to plan a terrorist attack or become a politician or business leader who does not want to be blackmailed, don't do anything on the internet apart from share pictures of cute cats.

My advice to any terrorists is to go dark. Speak in private. Write it down pass the note and then burn it. Use old methods like book ciphers. Touch and electronic device and they have you.

Legal note: Of course I'm not advocating 'advising' terrorists, well only the good ones, you know those ones that we call 'freedom fighters'. The ones western governments like to back when it suits their purposes.

[1] http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/33679/lenovo-compu...
My argument isn't that the NSA hasn't backdoored TPM's (which I freely admit I can't convince you of), it's that TPM's are not "The Crown Jewels".
Sorry, just read this response. I fail to find the place that I was condescending and assure you that was not my intent.

My only comment was in response to 'creating a "clone" of the currently running operating system.' Which is not, in any sense, accurate.

What is shared, as you correctly point out (and I do not refute) is that kernel and devices are not virtualized per container. So you're absolutely right, it's not like a VM. And it does break down, but none of that has to do with the part where your statement is incorrect, which I've addressed and expanded upon.
Ah! Yes, something about it tripped me up. Thanks!
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honestly, speaking as a biochemist, odds are I'd trust them less. Not saying that good ones don't exist, but a lot of people with "that background" are kind of clueless.
Not all of IGG's campaigns are for pre-sales of non-existent products. IGG also handles campaigns for charities and art projects (Indeed, when I went to the IGG website, the 8 projects displayed were for charitable programs.)

Thus, Paypal can have it both ways.
yes, like Surface Phone?
So this whole thing is one big "limited hangout" - designed to get some info out there and let the angst swell, then subside -- alowing for nothing to change.

It's basically one globally conditioning effort to reveal and get the world to accept, there is utterly zero privacy. Everything you do is monitored and watched. Period. Oh - and we forcefully and violently protect our stealing of your income to fund this.
I believe there is enough resistance in the hinge that you won't push it over with one finger.
I find it awful, as my eyes keep jumping to the color changes, assuming them to indicate some kind of emphasis. Then I have to stop and go, "No, that's not a particularly important word, it's just the Time Cube style they're pushing."

Looking at the text on their site, I suspect (aside from issues like dyslexia) that the real problem is that a lot of people are reading text that's too small and probably has overly-wide lines.
If we get quantum cryptography out the door in a reasonable space of time, then we can do secure one time pad exchanges on there. Doesn't matter what you throw at that, since with the right keys you can derive any message of the same length from it.
i have no trouble writing regexes, even quite complicated ones. I probably end up writing a really complicated one once a month or so; but basic ones weekly or daily.

I have no trouble writing them. What I have trouble doing, when it comes to very complicated regexes, is _reading_ what I've already written a couple months ago (myself! I pity those who aren't me even more). And even more so, when it comes to complicated regexen, _modifying_ what I've already written to fix a bug or change it slightly for new requirements.

A complicated regex meets the requirements for the old joke about 'write-only languages.' Somewhat ameliorated if you use the Perl-originated conventions for insignificant whitespace in a regex, which I _think_ ruby does too now, but I am not sure, cause I never use it, cause I can never remember how it works and never bother to look it up (have you tried looking up docs on ruby regexes on the web? good luck! I have no idea _where_ the official docs, if any English exist, are.)

I have no trouble writing regexes. I think every programmer should be comfortable doing so. I think using this tool without understanding regex basics first is a mistake. And I _still_ think this is a kinda neat and potentially useful tool.
I am pretty sure that the OpenPGP standard has been updated since that work, and that it is still not quite following the constructions.

Also, I do not think the NSA would have no interest at all in malleability. Suppose the NSA is trying to track messages sent through anonymous remailers (Type I, maybe because the target is using a nym server) and there is a "Max-Count: 1" header. An easy attack that exploits malleability would be the maul the message somewhere after the headers and see where a mauled messages exits the remailer network. This is probably possible with the NSA's resources and expertise, and the NSA is probably concerned about anonymity systems in general (and perhaps looking for ways to attack them).

My real point, though, is that we need to stop for a moment and re-evaluate pretty much all the cryptography standards we depend on. We really cannot say that these systems have not been deliberately sabotaged by the NSA, not with this latest revelation.
Never heard of the site, and the travel card is UK only. So not too big a conflict.
Most newly announced startups solve tiny problems.

If your product is making extraordinary claims then the template is actually very long form content with a lot of bold, italics, exclamation points and testimonials to wear down the reader's skepticism from a million different angles. But it still helps to be something that a lot of people so desperately want so their willingness to believe is already primed.

It's usually get-rick-quick schemes and workout programs.
Though note that per the deal, after 2015-12-31, old-Nokia will again be allowed to offer phones with the 'Nokia' name. Weird, huh?
I will just leave this here:

http://www.csoonline.com/article/707542/china-not-to-blame-f...

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/133773-rakshasa-the-har...
We could all start swapping 1TB drives full of random noise. One-time pads are mathematically proven to be unbreakable if implemented correctly.
I did the test and came out 37% ahead. I was surprised.

That said, I often find myself fiddling with the cursor to mark my place when I'm reading something long, so the idea that extra indicators of place might help doesn't surprise me.

I feel better line spacing might also help - their test seemed to have the lines pretty tight together, although I'm not surprised a test would be designed to best showcase their software.
This is a wonderful example of how not to do parody. The writing is essentially what a child might come up with. Here's a guideline for future writers who wish to replicate such an inane blog post:

1. Take every element from the post you are parodying and go
full retard.
2. Don't bother including any subtlety; just be crass.
3. Don't tie the points together into any sort of cohesive
statement based on an overall theme.
4. Whatever you do, do not structure your parody in such a way
that demonstrates insight into the topic of discussion.

That last point is the really important thing if you want the weakest parody you can imagine. Just substitute each sentence with a dumbass version. Unleash your inner bully and taunt others by parroting back exactly what they say, only dumb down and twist the words to sound as stupid as possible. Under no circumstances should there be a "read between the lines" subtext.
You must have been living under a rock for the past few months. Welcome to September, where we now know that to not be the case.
Just a warning: some of the other posts are NSFW...
I wrote a break-even no limit cash poker bot when I was in University. So I've spent a lot of time researching and writing code in this are. Limit poker is fairly well solved by bots at this stage. This is because the risk is limited on each hand and the grinding nature of the computer (i.e. it's ability to do the best thing for the longest amount of time) makes it a winner.
Playing no-limit poker, it's a totally different scenario and a real challenge which is why I enjoyed it so much. Any slip up can cost you your entire stack. By slip up I don't mean a bug or clicking the wrong button, I mean a flaw in your strategy. Maybe something as simple as betting 4 big blinds instead of 3 big blinds pre-flop against a raise from a player will end up after a couple of rounds of betting of being played for your entire stack, instead of being something you could fold on the turn.
Anyway, long story short. Limit poker is very solvable just by enumerating the various possible outcomes.
No-limit cash poker is a different beast, it's exponentially harder than limit poker. It'll be a long time before somebody solves no-limit cash games.
All that furore over Huawei contracts in the US was just projection wasn't it? You're might be more secure buying your network kit from Huawei than from a US manufacturer.
That's a funny choice for the name. Is it kee-pass or keep-* ?
When designers make a new font, there are often rough edges and little nubs where the letter was attached to the type sheet. If you pay extra, the designer will file down the edges until the letters are mostly smooth. You may have heard of these finished letters called "Sanded Serifs."
Before my transfer agent will send the irreversible transfer of bitcoins, they'll want to receive their USD by some irreversible means.

Why bother with the bitcoin sandwich? Why not transfer between the agents using Western Union or Hawala or whatever?
If they could port this to Kindle somehow (or partner with a physical, non-backlit reader manufacturer) I would be in in a heartbeat.

Until then I wish them luck and sincerely hope this sort of business model takes off.
I don't. That's what this whole 'disruption' meme is: an outside force of some kind swoops in and brings some sort of knowledge that those in their filter bubble couldn't see.
In sensible jurisdictions you can't sign away your rights like that, although you may pre-agree to binding arbitration or a particular jurisdiction.

However, I've not heard of someone successfully suing paypal, even in the small claims court :(
> Am I the only person who thinks that things like this are totally unnecessary?

Not unnecessary, “useless”, “kidding” are more appropriate words IMHO.

Where is named captures? Oh, you cannot. Well, ordinary $1 $2 $3? Oh, you cannot capture at all!
How do you use back refs? Oh, you cannot?
Wait, why the heck then you even need regexps?

There are problems with complex regexes, yes. But this silly toy is not the solution. For solutions look at Perl6's “regexps”, Perl6's Grammars (example down the thread), Perl5's Regexp::Grammars, look how Haskell do it with parser combinators. They are all light years ahead.
Or it's because you are familiar with enough other languages to understand how much better Javascript could have been, and you find frustration in the multitude of ways its sloppy design makes life unnecessarily difficult for its users.

The reasons I think Javascript sucks have nothing to do with browser compatibility problems or libraries like Jquery; they are fundamental mistakes in the language design, like "this"-binding and implicit value conversion.

The argument that people hate Javascript because it is a functional language sounds very strange to this particular fan of functional languages. Does he really think Javascript is a "functional language" just because it has closures?

"you can’t underestimate the power of ubiquity" - well, yes. That is what Javascript has going for it, and that is about all that Javascript has going for it. Fortunately for Javascript fans, it's enough to guarantee that we're going to be dealing with the language for decades to come.
From the other article on the same subject:

"Among the specific accomplishments for 2013, the NSA expects the program to obtain access to "data flowing through a hub for a major communications provider" and to a "major internet peer-to-peer voice and text communications system". "

That second one is hard to read other than 'skype'.
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It works fine, it just creates a bit more scrolling.
No, but now we cannot just assume that cryptosystems are being developed in good faith or that mistakes are not actually covert sabotage. We need to check these systems before we put our trust in them.
Let me rephrase: That logic would have told all the "micro brewers" of really recent years to just pack it up because Samuel Adams is already at the store.

And since when did "that is already available" prevent anyone from having a go at it anyway?
In addition to trying to obscure traffic, we should be generating large amounts of spurious traffic that's difficult to analyze and store.
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You could still have the problem with a human dealer. There are many ways to cheat at dealing cards, and a very skilled human could be able to do it without being detected.
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Come now, we know enough about the NSA at this point to know that

our, adversaries = America, !America

right?
I had a look, neat. So what is this build on? How are you expecting other to contribute and incorporate social aspects like in the movie section?
I agree with the other responses that library ebook programs are hamstrung by the fact that they can only lend out as many copies as they "own". So if you want a popular book in ebook form, good luck. Might as well just buy it considering how long the wait is.
serious matter, we can't be calm sending information through internet
I'm confused as to why you think a "disjointed, rambling style" is out of context when that is precisely how Dave's personality would be described.
> IMO the elephant in the room of Soylent is that not all bodies, metabolic systems, are identical.

This is directly addressed in the article.
So now every single decision that was taken with help
from the NSA (SELinux, TLS, elliptic curves, etc) needs
unpicking and running by a cryptographer who isn't a
shill.

Cryptographers have already been looking very carefully at everything that comes out of the NSA. Lots of security researchers, in and out of the US, would love to find NSA-introduced flaws.
I had basically the exact same experience. I'm a bit dubious about whether this actually helps on a computer, since I can just use my mouse cursor to track lines.
This was pretty funny, but I didn't really see it as a criticism of the Yahoo! logo (besides the fact that you can overanalyze anything to death.)

More entertaining than the not-so-great-but-who-cares Yahoo! logo: how upset so many people are about it.
Oh crap, that must be what the File menu is all about!
I agree. If they don't do this now, they'll have many problems later.
Maybe they could brand everything ARM-based Lumia and brand the x86/PC based devices Surface?
I was referring to the previous comment, where the two lines about shit were used as a test for any sentiment analysis engine. Your point about context is what I was trying to illustrate.
The original piece in Nokia Conversations blog says: "On smartphones, we’ll be seeking to create a unified brand across Lumia and Windows. " [1]

"Nokia" brand won't be used with smartphones but my understanding is that the fate of "Lumia" is not yet decided. Personally I think it would make sense to have "Lumia" smartphones and "Surface" tablets.

[1] http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/09/04/whats-next-for-lum...
I like big dogs and I cannot lie.
If I understand correctly you're saying that JavaScript is a neutral language. It's only a coincidence that in Browsers and in Node.js it heavily relies on the callback style. As a language itself, it could be synchronous.

Well, my friend, with this logic I claim that C is purely functional (it's only a coincidence that some implementations use rw memory) and there's nothing stopping Lisp from having mutable data.
Rhinehart means sustainable from an environmental perspective in this argument.

The main things he wants to do to differentiate is to make it cheaper (ensure complete is $9.00, at walmart, for 1400 calories; his current goal is $5.00 per day, around 2400 kCal), scalable (recipe will be open sourced once complete), and environmentally sustainable (things that can be manufactured on a billions of servings scale).
As obvious of a joke as it is, the logo is pretty good. It completely correctly conveys the BIG and the DOGS. The only thing it needs is a discrete subtitle, like BIG DOGS care centre, or BIG DOGS rescue squad, maybe BIG DOGS lawnmowers, BIG DOGS truck mechanics, BIG DOGS earthmoving equipment, BIG DOGS baby sitting, BIG DOGS tea and coffee shop with the option of also purchasing one of our many tasty fresh-baked goods. I'm not actually joking, I'd like a tea shop named BIG DOGS run by a few large buff people. One that also sells baked goods.
Say goodbye to drone delivery services now.
Is the way MediaGoblin is imported what makes it okay to release this as MPL? I have a similar licensing situation for a GPL Python package I would like to use.
We cannot rely on them to be always good so we have to also have the prior, encryption to protect us if the law or law makers are not working for our best interest.
Sure there is: pre-shared keys, exchanged out-of-band.
OK, but what do you mean by it?
The problem is technological, as deficiencies in relied-upon communication technologies is what have allowed surveillance to scale from human intelligence on prioritized targets to dragnet scrutiny of everybody. No matter how much effort is required, "law enforcement" will always be snooping on some suspects - what we'd like to prevent is an institutionalized fishing expedition.

You're signing up for a losing game. The myth of Democracy (tm) is another layer of control over individuals.

1. Most people will never have a problem with what the NSA is doing. They support the NSA's goals (tautology, since as you've mentioned, it is responsible to the majority), and if its methods end up causing harm to enough people, they will simply be adjusted to reduce aggregate harm (not to rule out any possible harm). The feedback loop of democracy works on specific actualities, not hypothetical corner cases.

2. The most memetically fit ideas are the simplest ones that elicit the strongest feelings (see: bikeshedding). Outrage peddlers swamp the political reception bandwidth with lowest common denominator controversy - usually judgments on other's lifestyles.

3. Even if there is a widespread preference to reduce the scope of the NSA, the people simply do not have the transmit bandwidth to make this preference clearly known. And they are easily led into squandering their input on the aforementioned manufactured controversy.

4. Elected figures don't actually run the government, the entrenched bureaucracy does at an imperceptible glacial pace. The elected figures run interference by making the majority believe they voted for this shit.
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> If you were going to change one thing about the way you decrypted in the wake of today's "new information", make it be that you abandon RSA.

For the purposes of exchanging symmetric keys, what would you recommend as a replacement for RSA when configuring various services (tls-based servers, ssh, etc...) that rely on key exchange?

(Note I'm speaking with only cursory knowledge of security -- which boils down to "use RSA 4096 or the like for key-exchange, use well known open sourced and audited implementations of TLS", etc...)
> always measuring, always sensing, always watching

Is that something to fear or commemorate? We need alternatives to Android.
I really wish they'd work on compilation speed. It probably takes me 20 minutes to do a clean compile of the Play Framework.
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They say it "scalped" him, but the New York Daily News says it got him in the neck, slashing his throat. The latter seems a lot more likely.
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