skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Republicans have, so far, not been willing to use the "big government" label to attack anything to do with military, police, or espionage - their "law and order" platform trumps their "small government" one.

In the bizarre logic of American politics, Republicans and Democrats are both pro-NSA, while the Greens and Libertarians are anti-NSA.
That feature, to me, guarantees USB 3's adoption, and massively boosts my confidence in the standard.
It might want to get that chlorine looked at.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure I'm the right person to share more insight. I don't work on the network team but data between data centers flow on our own network.
Data between a client's machine (machines on external networks) and machines on our networks has been encrypted for a while. Data at rest on servers has been encrypted.

Before these revelations, the tech community in general didn't expect that we needed to encrypt all traffic flowing on our home/office LANs. Like the rest of the world, these spying revelations have taught us that we need to be much more paranoid than we were earlier and are now encrypting data on our own networks.

As a user of a lot of web services that are deployed on the cloud, I'd actually beseech my fellow tech community to do this too. All and any user data passed between any two servers (even on a backend, internal, local network) needs to encrypted.
Thanks for the input—great idea!
I'm willing to throw everything out as long as it is very infrequent, for a good reason, and known to be for a long lifespan before doing it again.

Going from 30-pin to Lightning was acceptable, as it really does seem to be a 10+ year future standard, and Dock had been around for a long time (although it is a real pain for the car; I'd like to put in a lightning spec dock, but I need to find audi radio keys and either do it or find someone else to do it who won't screw up my electrical system this time (sigh) and really I just hope my car gets totaled and a Model S falls from the sky.) Going from MagSafe to MagSafe 2 was infrequent, but didn't feel meaningful.

I got pissed when ThinkPads moved from 14.4V to 20V sometime around the T43p -> T60 series, which is when I moved to Apple, so there's always a risk.
unfortunately, we don't have good data on which drugs are effective on the same people versus on different people. The clinical trials just aren't set up that way, and there hasn't been a concerted effort to gather that information from the general population.
I'd love a monitor like that also, but I also wouldn't mind a 3D monitor for the computer also (though i'd want it to be at least 4k also, having jagged edges wouldn't work well) just for the neat immersion that can be had for games and such. For TV i don't think it's actually that useful, very little content and even then it's gimmicky.
I understand all that. My point was that if you know enough to appreciate Plan 9 then you know enough to take advantage of the *nix ecosystem as it exists today, which is far too mature for Plan 9 to catch up to. We can always dream though...
Intel: [We] will not carry XMir patches upstream.
Economics/Sociology Phrase Book
I thought that was what the Guardian's lawyers job was.
Yes, the semester of residency can be a class that meets one Saturday a week.
I'd extend that complaint into the wearable display market. We are just now starting to see things like spaceglasses and oculus. But they are all feature heavy either with AR or VR and/or 3D. I've been hoping for a simple head mounted display to replace fixed position 2D monitors for years. Like spaceglasses, but trading all the AR baggage for a higher perceived resolution and lighter package.
G20 ends abruptly as Obama calls Putin a jackass
At Virgin America, a Fine Line Between Pizazz and Profit
Concentrating sunlight like that also creates potentially dangerous high heat. As a kid I had a 24" fresnel lens that would almost instantly ignite anything I focused it on. Having an array of those on a residential rooftop would require some good safety engineering and insulation, which will add to the cost. It may still be a net win, but this might be something that's going to be more suitable for stand-alone, "solar farm" type installations.
The original name was Read the Rainbow. Turns out there are still trademarks on Reading Rainbow (also, advisers said the name should communicate the benefit, not the appearance), so we changed it. How funny that your first inclination was the same as mine!
The claims that a benign, offhand comment on social media will bring the school into "disrepute" is absurd. The fact that claims like this are becoming increasingly common would indicate that the West (or perhaps just North America) is slowly retreating from the idea of reasonable individual freedom of expression.
From Myspace’s Ashes, Silicon Start-Ups Rise
yeah because when i search for ingrown hairs on google, amazon emails me about products that remove ingrown hairs.
A little amount of SEO can help.

E.g. a typical search query can be "bootstrap ebook". Currently, you use "ebook" word only once in the smallest font. Your title has neither of this words.

At the very least, change your title to something like "Bootstrap in Practice — ebook and step-by-step examples"
I'd suggest a offering a significant reward for information leading to the return of the laptop. This signifies that it's a matter that you take seriously, without claiming responsibility for protecting others' property. Choose an amount that is comparable to the street value of the laptop. Take up a collection to pay it if ends up being paid.

This motivates anyone who has suspicions or inside information to come forward. If it's a theft by a student, it's quite possible that someone besides the thief knows what happened, but doesn't want to appear 'uncool' by expressing their disgust. A monetary reward may overcome this, and potentially makes them into a hero rather than a coward.

I would not offer any sort of amnesty or no-questions-asked policy. If you end up finding the thief, prosecute them. If someone claims to have 'found' the laptop in the the bushes, seems very interested in the reward, and you are suspicious, turn the matter over to the police and let them decide if the story holds up.

Specifically, I don't think you should offer warnings to others to take greater steps to protect their property. This has the appearance of blaming the victim, and potentially helps the thief (and potential friends) justify their actions to themselves as something the victim deserved for their negligence. Making it known the crime occurred is sufficient warning. It's in each individual's interest to protect their personal property, but not in the group's interest to create a 'fend for yourself' attitude.
It masks the obvious agenda; but yea, it also presents problems of its own.
Almost by definition this is shaky science at best, but Daniel Gilbert seems to be one of the best.

His book on the topic is here -> http://www.amazon.com/Stumbling-Happiness-Daniel-Gilbert/dp/...

The impatient can look at his TED talk here -> http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.h...
My personal theory: NSA has gotten in bed with the Hardware Security Module (HSM) vendors. There's essentially only two of them: SafeNet and Thales. SafeNet has bought up all the smaller players.

All of the big guys use HSMs to protect key material from intruders or malicious insiders. Key generation happens inside a sealed box from which the keys can never leave, except into another identically-configured sealed box from the same vendor. As such, there's no way to inspect the keys being generated - you have to trust the FIPS certification that it's being done correctly.

If--perhaps as part of the FIPS certification process--the NSA were to compromise the key generation function of a handful of popular HSM models, in one fell swoop they would have compromised all of the CAs, DNSSEC, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, etc. (Not to mention all of the banks, credit card companies, etc.)

Further data point: in my experience talking to SafeNet at least, they employ a lot of ex-DoD folks who probably still have connections to their old bosses.

This is just speculation, but seems a likely attack vector.
I found your list a lot more useful and interesting. Thanks.
ForSyDe: Embedded Systems and FPGAs in Haskell
A document properly encrypted with AES or similar modern methods would be considered "strong crypto" (using the article/'90s political terminology) and would be infeasible with current computing power to crack (assuming AES does not have a major vulnerability/backdoor, which has yet to be discovered by the top security researchers who depend on it).

As tptacek and others frequently say: "Crypto is hard to do right".

There is sufficient encryption technology to evade the NSA (at this point in time) but the social-engineering aspects and difficulty confirming a bug-free, secure implementation present the most issues.
And I didn't...
I think it's relevant to point out the potent anti-depressant effects many people experience with natural supplements such as sam-e and 5htp. It's unfortunate that these drugs are rarely prescribed (in the U.S.). Few clinical studies have been done on these and there is little economic motivation for drug companies since these are un-patentable substances.
PGP email. And Snowden has already specifically stated that a PGP/GPG encrypted document is safe from the NSA (assuming no one leaves around a plaintext or private key, anyway).
I wonder if there's a business opportunity there: make it easy to own a personal domain name and use it with various other services. So instead of having to monkey with MX records for mail, you just say "I'm using provider X and here is my account info.". If distributed social networks ever go anywhere (a dubious proposition, I'll admit) then automatic configuration/hosting could be bundled, with all the necessary configuration and DNS records done for the user.

Of course this magical company could go bust, but even if it did, the users would technically be able to migrate to one or more other providers without losing anything, including URLs.
The author has posted an update which kinda-sorta retracts this article: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/hed
I appreciate your comment, thank you. May I ask for a source where you got your info? It's probably accurate, but it's good practice to insist that hearsay not be trusted on faith.

EDIT: Ah, it appears to be confirmed at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-glen... ... Thanks!
It's common sense for hot beverages to be hot. But alas, we've crossed that line as well. This one seems less ridiculous, though it's never too let to attempt to reverse the trend I suppose.
> and they do put things on sale from time to time

I think you are mistaken. From their FAQ:

"Sale" is a four-letter word to us. We have low prices, every day. No coupons, no membership cards, no discounts. You won't find any glitzy promotions or couponing wars at our stores. If it makes you feel any better, think of it as all our items are on sale, day in and day out.

http://www.traderjoes.com/about/general-faq.asp
Going by [1] it seems like PGP.
"Snowden only wanted to communicate securely using PGP encryption, for which Greenwald didn’t have the proper software installed at the time."

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-glen...
It's a shame we'll likely never see the "Annexe (available to BULLRUN indoctrinated staff)" that contains a breakdown of their capabilities.
Indeed, which is precisely why it's so valuable for us to figure out exactly what Snowden insisted on: it addresses every single one of the problems you mention, which is no small feat.
Did US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet?
Collect $2 each from the 1000 participating students... and buy the guy a new laptop. I am sure they would not mind ... and for those who do there will be others who will put in some cash.
Upstream source: http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2013-Septembe...
NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data, including BES
> Isn't the BIOS supposed to be the hardware abstracting layer we run our programs directly on?

Yes. The problem with this idea is that the BIOS fell prey to a classic negative feedback loop: It wasn't extremely efficient to begin with, and in 16-bit x86 programs can bypass it entirely and go directly to the hardware, so they did.

This meant hardware interfaces became more standardized (to a point), to make specific pieces of hardware more attractive to buyers who wanted to run the widest possible variety of application software, and the BIOS was relatively neglected. This cycle continued until the BIOS had essentially code-rotted into unusability, being able to boot Windows and not much else. The final nail in the coffin was when 32-bit x86 chips came out and the BIOS remained 16-bit real mode: Even though protected mode could have saved the BIOS, by making it impossible for application software to go directly to the hardware, the fact the BIOS never jumped to 32-bit code meant not even OSes can really use it.

So now the BIOS can run a POST and load a bootloader that actually knows how to load a modern OS. That's pretty much it.
Let's play the devil's advocate here... I've known people who have lost their marbles once they stopped taking their meds. Are we rally saying that their grip on sanity was a placebo effect? Or are we saying that we're just treating the symptom? If it's just the symptom, who cares, as long as the drugs help people?

For context, I'm not on any psychiatric drugs, have never been on any, and think they're largely being abused by American society. But the extreme cases suggest to me that they have a use.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Greenwald acknowledged that he's no expert in using such technology and said that Snowden even provided a step-by-step email and video to help secure their communication.

I wish Greenwald would publish that step-by-step email. It's probably one of the most valuable HOWTOs ever written, because only Snowden (and his colleagues) know for a fact what steps are NSA-proof.
"Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it." - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-...

Bruce Schneier has said something similar, having seen some of the guardian documents. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsas_cryp...
Where does Intel say this? The patch is from a chris-wilson.co.uk email address, not intel.com.
Some possibly related background? Not sure, I have no idea what XMir is

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ1NjY
>We have a new crop of anti-bullying laws

Please cite the specific law that would make a single mention of an unnamed "bitch" criminal.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-glen...

Second paragraph into the article describes Snowden's requirement to use PGP while contacting Greenwald at the least (although it's a tertiary source and very sparse in technical details).
OK. I try to see articles and find a positive spin where I can say "hackers could ...". To some people it would be obvious, but to young or non-tech people it might not be, so it could be helpful to them.

As other commenters have said, psychiatry/psychology is an ineffective field and also expensive.

The self-help industry is kind of related to psychology/psyciatry, is unregulated, and a $11 billion a year field.

I gave a mention of a documentary that came out recently about people building apps in this category of self help/health/life monitoring kind of stuff. Some terms to google to find out more are what I typed in the OC.
False. A scale of 1 to 10 only goes to 10. :).
Bear in mind that as soon as Snowden started communicating with Greenwald, he knew that he was going to flee the US within a short time period, after which there would be little damage in the NSA decrypting the historical communication logs. As such, knowing which mechanism he would choose for encryption that was required to be secure for only a few months might not be that useful.
There are a lot of blog posts out there, many of which refer to peer-reviewed literature (or at least to news articles about peer reviewed literature).

This is one of the best IMO: http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2011/09/10-things-you-need-to-know...

A lot of it aligns with what you might consider "common sense":

exercise

a sense of purpose and meaning (can be religion-based, but doesn't have to be)

meaningful work

gratitude for positive things in your life

having someone you can talk to about your problems and difficulties

regular and consistent connections with friends and family
Agreed. Timing also plays a vital part.

However, I generally find articles like these, which state the obvious with the benefit of hindsight do not really impart any new knowledge, thus are a waste of time.
Hopefully none. The information should be free to the public that paid for it. You can sit here and quiver over national security or how some "know better than others" and how they can be trusted with information that the public can't. But at the end of the day that is all verbal excriment, tax dollar paid information is property of the tax payers and anyone that argues against that is living with their head in the sand.
I'd guess the kind of mentality where you'd save for retirement.
Sure, no problem. Let me know if you have any questions or want to chat about random compsci topics.
I don't know what's better, that she used a lawyer to get the principal to back off, or that Wellesley stood up for her. It really bothers me when petty admins abuse their position, because they prey on the weak.
I specifically said non-floating point. I have not used any database that would screw up a decimal type. It would lead to mass migration away in certain very well paying industries.
Amphetamine is certainly effective and fairly well understood in its clinical effects. There is no doubt about its effectiveness and principal uses and side effects. (Adderall(^tm) is a brand name for amphetamine.)

Serotonin reuptake inhibitors used for mood management are just a matter of trying them and seeing if you like the way they feel. It's exactly as scientific as drinking liquor or smoking marijuana to see if it makes you more mellow.

But doctors are going around collecting rent on their prescription pads by writing scrips for Paxil and Prozac and the like as if they were technical and carefully calibrated professional tools that required twelve years of college and med school and internships and apprenticeships to master and administer. They're doing all that training and then providing the same service as witch doctors -- but for a lot more money.
Nicely done. The headmaster's mentality is in direct conflict with the Enlightenment principles that the West was built on.
Principia Cybernetica's entry
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HAPPINES.html

World Database of Happiness
http://www1.eur.nl/fsw/happiness/
It could be minimum key size and such, or potentially a specific older version of GPG if NSA ever managed to get something into the codebase, but I suspect it's simple.

Glenn Greenwald is really not very technical at all, so I imagine it was really about getting GPG installed and an appropriate plug-in for his mail client. I actually bet most of the e-mail was spent explaining why he needed to do this, because even now people are still reluctant to use GPG. There's been no explosion in it's use. People are still lazy.
Isn't there a size past which it's always good to do it on the DB? Or to use buzzwords, "At some points, shouldn't most Big Data calculations be done on the database?"
This already exists in the form of MapMyRun, RunKeeper, MyFitnessPal, etc, etc... I don't see what makes yours so unique.
You are interpreting the word "value" very narrowly.

For instance, one could hold a value of relying on evidence rather than preconceived notions.
Let's play the devil's advocate here... I've known people who have lost their marbles once they stopped taking their meds. Are we rally saying that their grip on sanity was a placebo effect?

Well, the withdrawal effects for quite a few of these drugs includes various acute psychiatric symptoms, include suicide and homicide.

I lost one of my bests friends a number of years ago to this.

Also found:
http://ssristories.com/
I have a question from the article that I hope someone here can answer... What's the difference between simple encryption and the "strong" encryption Snowden was insisting on? Truecrypt volumes?
D3 Scale Generator
But the US market is also filled with 3D crap. In the theaters as well. Pretty much everyone I know opts for the non-3D one when available. I guess they just want to justify gouging us for the extra $5 by forcing 3D on us.
That's true, but I'm not sure I'd really like to be found via that query.

Maybe I just have to do it and live with it :)

On the other hand, I recently searched for "bootstrap 3 grid" and "bootstrap landing" and was amazingly surprised to be on first and second place.
That really means a lot to me, because even with the ebook I wanted to share what I learned and be helpful to someone.
I've been taking this approach in a new app I've been working on and it certainly seems like the way to go.
Request for maintainers
I have caps set to escape, for vim ;)
Silent? I've seen way more criticism of Obama than I ever did of Bush.
we need facts, the list of compromised ciphers, the bugs they are exploiting etc.
I guess those NSA guys can't travel abroad, since spying is a felony in most countries.
A great list.

I'd add - Understand the cost of fitting in. Being truly outstanding at what you do sometimes means you need to do it by yourself. Fitting in is comfortable, and will rarely lead to excellence and deep personal satisfaction.
Reward sounds like a good idea. If you're planning to pay for the laptop you'll be spending the money anyways. This way you might catch the thief as well.
Chris Wilson works for Intel and is currently the maintainer of the xf86-video-intel (hint hint) driver project.
With their supposed interest in expanded outside of China, does anyone know if they are hiring? To me it is, by far, the most interesting startup right now.
Statins are a lifestyle drug? Come on.
The Core Data Stack
True. Even if NSA publicly shuts down mass surveillance, I wouldn't still be okay with knowing that someone can still invade my privacy without me getting even a hint. If they still get to keep their crypto powers, how can we be sure that they won't just keep doing it in secret. Just how can people trust these guys when they have already lied on the face of whole world. I feel so helpless and hopeless.
Living with a lot less
The Hawthorne Effect for brains

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
It's foolish, but it will still be done.

Certainly, they need to be reined in. Cracking crypto is their job. Sabotaging standards processes and forcing people to turn over data and gagging them with National Security Letters is very much no their job, and must be stopped.
I don't like "Don't compare yourself to others." To me it has little meaning other than making people feel good. If you are starting at the beginning of just about anything, you occasionally need to compare yourself to the "pros" in order to grow. All things in moderation.
This really doesn't have anything to do with the article, though.

A Chinese based company is releasing a relatively low-price-point TV for the Chinese market. The US market has had many 3D LCD sets, but this is really notable only for mainland China consumers.