skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What should we as a community do about this? Honeypot Laptops.

Laptops modded specifically as honeypots. They could be modified to maximize battery life, and pass muster as an ordinary laptop under casual observation. However, their real purpose is to sit there in extremely low power mode, waiting for someone to move them, at which point, they fire up their radio and gps, and signal cameras and security personnel on-site to start watching.

Are onboard accelerometers good enough to do dead reckoning positioning of the device within the building, provided they have good data to work from?
As I read all the comments complaining about the pricing I just can't wait for the recap post coming in a week or two saying how he made 5-10k today :-)

This isn't priced off of how much paper or bits cost people. If it saves a developer even an hour it is easily worth the price of admission.
Look, if you have debilitating schizophrenia refractory to any therapy because the demons in your ears tell you the FBI is after you, then the benefits of symptomatic treatment may outweigh whatever unknown side-effects there are.

For the millions of those with 'psychiatric' disorders that are diagnosed using incredibly vague guidelines [0] -- do you ever feel tired? do you ever lose attention? do you ever feel really confident? -- using medications that do not have any observable and immediate symptomatic relief is not worth it. Many of these people have dysfunctions of cognitive processes or issues of their childhood that can be attacked in more conservative ways.

[0] http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/depression/DS00175/DSECTION...
"NSA employees participted throughout, and occupied leadership roles in the committee and among the editors of the documents"

I don't know jack about writing crypto software, but I see one improvement that we can make to the process, right away. Gotta love Open Source, and open standards.
Give it fifty years. They seem to have been pretty good about releasing documents from the Cold War.
This is a fantastic list. Thank you!
WARNING: Shortly after I posted this, HN no longer loads for my IP address: http://screencast.com/t/J0FIYAhn

It may just be coincidence. But that's quite a coincidence. HN completely doesn't load for me, with "No Data Received," meaning the Arc process running HN is specifically deciding not to send any data to my specific IP address (since Tor still works). Meaning my IP got banned. And just before that, I started receiving the message "We've limited requests for this url" for everyone's comment page: http://screencast.com/t/h0n0HjTcM ... so it does appear that my IP has been singled out for some special reason, possibly for this comment. (I'm not sharing my connection with anybody, so it was definitely something I did.)

So until I verify what's going on, don't risk your account by making comments telling hellbanned people that they've been banned. There may be consequences. (If that's the case, then I wish they would've just deleted my comment and told me not to do that... I didn't mean to cause problems. Sorry.)

EDIT: The error has changed to "This webpage is not found." http://screencast.com/t/NcFgfnQ3p4 Still not loading. Other websites load fine.

EDIT2: Back to "no data received." Definitely not loading for my IP address.

EDIT3: Attempting to unban my IP using the method described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5631364 didn't work. The Arc process really doesn't like my IP address.

EDIT4: HN now loads, but https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=trysomething is still returning "We've limited requests for this url." I get that error message for all profile URLs, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

EDIT5: Aaand my IP is back to being banned.
The problem is that Linux is quite alright as well.

The advantage of plan9 was "at scale," being able to commingle multiple system's resources in interesting novel ways.

This has never been and still is in no ways Linux's strength. Linux is inward focused: a monolithic kernel designed to serve as a pleasant base for anything running under it.

There are probably near a thousand different Node.js projects each implementing some kind of coordination layer between Node.js processes (ex: https://github.com/amino/amino) and similar efforts abound on for all other applications to be coded against (Hazelcast, Hadoop, &c). Why?

It's all done as application framework level because the Linux operating system's design space is sitting on a box and running. The fanciest interconnect you're going to get is when you first modprobe in USB-IP (allows network control of a usb peripheral). It's downhill, and back to writing applications if you want to push on.

Linux is definitely quite alright. We're fine with Hadoop, running on the JVM, running on Linux. We were delighted to have a desktop Unix, to have X running- the never ending parade of "year of the linux desktop" stories, year after year. Linux arose when we wanted better ways to run things on a box, and most problems fit on a box. Linux was what we wanted, took care of the pressing matter of running a single box, and it was good at that, whereas when it and Plan9 were in their early days, it was a harsh and hostile landscape and we weren't good at working within the confines of the box.

Plan9 has always been for those cases where you abutted the constraints of the box, and wanted to think more openly more broadly about the problems about us- and plan9 was for those who wanted to reap solutions that could scale and reach out in a common interoperable serviceable way. It was ahead of it's time, and we couldn't picture the use of a fabric that would let the boxes work together, in part because boxes were still rapidly individually advancing from the very crude, hard to use machines of the mainframe days into things we could begin to use. Thanks Linux for getting us so far, but I tend towards suspecting that thinking of a running environment that thinks chiefly of itself, that remains firmly about it's own box, is too old world to be of much real service these days.
You've got this backwards. TJ sells name brand products at a discount that can be fairly steep. The product manufacturers are incentivized to camouflage this (via the TJ label) so as not to cannibalize their higher margin brand name sales.
Oh really,

What I read, among other tidbits, is:"Every once in a while, someone not an NSA employee, but who had longstanding ties to NSA, would make a suggestion that reduced privacy or security" and there are a lot of similar tidbits. The headline seems justified.

Edit: per the link in the other thread. http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg123...

Edit2: I'm just saying that the article really does seem to show John Gilmore speculating that the NSA seemed to interfere with IPSEC design and implementation process. I know no more than that.
No problem. Nothing wrong with tangents as long as they're understood as such.

Anyway, I still think the "how" is important. If the NSA was spying on everybody with sheer technical prowess, the political remedy would basically be, "Hey, you guys need to tone it down. Limit the spying to actual enemies." The techniques would be OK, they just need to be applied more carefully.

The way things are now, the techniques are unacceptable. The political remedy here needs to be, "Hey, you guys need to stop sabotaging crypto standards, forcing tech companies to hand over data, and threatening them with prison if they talk. Stick with the technical prowess stuff you're supposed to be doing."
I'd imagine the NSA is concerned about future intelligent adversaries who have finesse

I'd imagine the NSA already has such adversaries. Note how difficult it appears to be to track down members Al-Qaeda, and how relatively well-informed bin Laden's hiding scheme was. There are doubtless also other less-publicized malicious operations of the same breed.
Ah, crypto back in the late 1990s, the period when NSA was trying to restrict export of encryption stronger than 40-bit. The funny thing is that 56-bit crypto is still in use in the form of PPTP with MS-CHAPv2. What is even worse is they thought it was non-exportable 128-bit encryption at the time, the actual 40-bit and 56-bit versions are even worse.
You know, it's really only an accident of history that human communication historically primarily took place through air vibrations (which are difficult to acquire, store, and query). Digital communication is a new medium with different principles of interpretation. It is stupidly cheap to algorithmically monitor and query digital comms on a mass scale. Why wouldn't it be done? If you think the NSA is the only institution in the world doing this you're an idiot. The only thing Snowden accomplished was demonstrating how large an undisciplined joke US intel is that a high school graduate with a narcissism complex could accomplish these leaks.

Here's an idea: if you don't want your neckbeard anime discussions pinged by the world's intel/ad agencies, don't digitize and broadcast them over the internet.
Kevin Drum (edited name) was relegated to an old guy who really doesn't get it when I read that paragraph. I understand the need to the NSA to have countermeasures and options - however this is in the public interest as it puts disclosure, privacy and breach laws in a very awkward position. It also asserts that there is no expectation of privacy within US borders on the Internet - that is unacceptable and complete bull shit. Soghoian said it best recently when he stated that it is not OK for the NSA to possess dragnet capabilities on all crypto.

Sorry Kevin, I think you've gotten off the wrong train - you landed in the land of complacency.
Can you describe what I do better than I?
How have I never heard of backtick quotes? Apparently they are an abomination [1], so I will promptly force-forget them.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/7490311/807674
What is this strong crypto vs weak crypto he's talking about? Apparently strong crypto is more of a PITA I gathered that much. But weak crypto is no crypto. If you are going to go through the trouble of using any at all how much more annoying is it to use NSA proof methods? Has any well established crypto methodology been declared broken because of Snowden leaks?
2/ Only surround yourself with brilliant and positive people.

I partly agree with this rule. People who are negative drama-creators who regularly make bad decisions can really drag you down. They can cause you to spend an excessive amount of time worrying about pointless problems that only exist because of someone else's immaturity.

But I'm also a teacher. I work with at-risk children who are immature and sometimes make bad decisions -- exactly the kind of people this rule says to stay away from, only they're 9 years old instead of 35. And being around them makes me very happy -- because of the difference I can make for them. I find it unfortunate that people sometimes fear "negativity" and "immaturity" so much that they let themselves be scared away from rewarding opportunities.
I agree with you for the most part. There are people with severe, debilitating conditions that may require medical intervention.

There are many, many more that have been labeled due to loose diagnosing guidelines to have a psychiatric disorder. A psychiatrist might just notice that your affect is slightly off, and label you with schizoaffective disorder, which is pretty well known as the diagnosis you give when you can't really put your finger on what's wrong, and yet they still treat medically.

How many people diagnosed with MDD or hypomania, do you think, genuinely deserve treatment with muddy medications? How many of them do you think may have other rectifiable issues that are leading to their disposition? Psychiatrists tend to overlook identifying those issues, and jump to asking the questions needed to diagnose a disease as per the DSM-IV.
>Are onboard accelerometers good enough to do dead reckoning positioning of the device within the building, provided they have good data to work from?

Sort of. Dead reckoning with accelerometers is only as good as the error correction. Accelerometers tend to gain error factor very quickly without using a form of sensor fusion such as a partnership with a magnetometer to cross reference things like yaw with.

"indoor gps" is a point of intense interest right now it seems like for in-shop marketing and other (evil) things.
you could build a venmo collection jar!
At the time, the other thread had no comments and no votes so this submission was made to hopefully help raise awareness to what John Gilmore wrote.
I did the exact same thing. You only need to do the prerequisites. No, it doesn't matter where you do them, but it's obviously best if you do them at the same school you intend to attend, as you'll be able to get recommendations from professors in the same department, and obviously the courses will transfer fine.

EDIT: FWIW, at the University of Colorado, I had to do 2 courses above calc 1 - for me that was calc 2 and statistics, as well as 5-6 CS courses.
That's why I said "potential". Depending on how the wind blows, the small-gov platform could give them an easy angle, and if it doesn't, they're still the party of law and order, so it's a win-win. Dems have a harder job, for them it's a wedge issue.
Perhaps Canonical shouldn't have used FUD against Wayland (which is heavily contributed to by Intel).
Double-tap to zoom in.

Double-tap + drag up to zoom in, double-tap + drag down to zoom out.

Both of these have been in maps for a while, and are a lot better for one-handed use than those Android 1.5-era buttons ever were.
In a weird way, stories like this remind me just how amazing the internet and games have become. The fact that people can become so immersed into the experience that their brain mimics chemical addiction is mind blowing.
I never got the unelected point.

Do you think these initiatives are strictly done at the NSA level? At one point an elected official (being the top of the chain in the executive and the legislative) agreed to this stuff happening.

In what universe do we build a government where everyone is an "elected official"?
Sure there is. "Consumer" encryption products are almost all commercial, and therefore necessarily closed. And considering the NSA has demonstrated they're willing to coerce or subvert companies, that makes it awfully hard to trust commercial security products.
So I think my use of the word "automatically" was a bad one. I think I meant "super easy". For instance, when I step out the door, I open my Strava app, and I hit "Start Running", and then I start running. When I'm done, I hit "Finished" and it saves every stat it tracked about my run, and later after some processing, it tells me even more things, like whether this run was better than other runs or whether I ran a new route or whatever. The point being that I don't have to remember anything other than hitting "Start" and "Finish". For an app like yours, I have to go back to my computer or actually type a button in.

I read an article this morning -- I can't remember which one, sorry -- but the author basically suggested that any time you can eliminate typing on a mobile device, you should. If you can make everything tappable in a few seconds on a mobile device, you're golden.

That said, I think this particular activity is in need of new solutions -- not Yet Another Tracker.

Anyway, good luck. Hope this works out for you! Like you said, exercise is all about being healthy, so if this works for you, great! I'm purely offering advice from a business standpoint (as in, I would pay for this product if _____)
Someone has to write the drivers for the hypervisor. A hypervisor is nothing but a minimal OS that provides a different set of resource management guarantees. You can't make many of those guarantees without access to the hardware.
Sure no problem. We just have to invent a new format.
i think some of these points can help me. and the css block in the document head is priceless.
Oh no! Fashion crisis!

Oh wait-- I just remembered. Wireless chargers exist. Crisis averted.
Nope. Random.org could be compromised. XORing it with your /dev/random, plus a locally-generated randomness source would work though.
“Every word that is spoken and sung here represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.”
-Hugo Ball
LLC vs. Corporation has nothing to do with credibility. That this is even consideration is an indication of poor advice you have received so far. Nobody that deals with the entity should care whether it is a corporation or an LLC or Limited Partnership. There are giant multi-billion dollar LLCs, typically divisions of some parent corporation. LLC simplicity makes it easy for LLCs to be divisions of a parent corporation.

Why Delaware?
Your own state's corporation laws are good enough unless you're already gigantic or going public, or already are in Delaware, or someone is specifically demanding it from you, which I strongly doubt. Plenty of gigantic, or public companies do not incorporate in Delaware. Why do you need to have a foreign-state incorporation rather than your own state? Make it simple and less expensive, and use local-state incorporation and local lawyers that are familiar with their own state's run-of the mill corporate laws. Delaware is not that special.

A Limited Liability Company form of entity can be simple to operate, but they are not flexible in having the ability to have multiple classes of investments by others.

If you're the only person, or one of several individual partners, and capital from other people is not a concern, then, sure, an LLC may work for you. Later on, if you have a partner-founder depart, and want to issue a different category of capital representation for him/her upon departure ("units" in LLC speak), you can't, so LLCs are not so good at transitions either. Creating a vesting process may also be cumbersome or not possible. Further, if you grow and need capital, you'll end up becoming a C corporation, to be able to have multiple classes of ownership shares.

C Corporations vs. S Corporations: these are elections that are made via a filing with the US Internal Revenue Service. The S Corp has limitations on what it may do and and still maintain its status as an S corp for tax purposes, instead of the default C corporation status.

If you are seeking investments or venture funding:
VCs and investors prefer C corporations: the investor will not be taxed on net income as they would with an S Corp.
The C corp. can issue convertible preferred stock, which is typical structure for a venture capital investment. S corporations can only issue one class of stock, so that also is typically a deal stopper for investors.

Venture Capital funders don't like LLCs or S Corporations for the above reasons, and will decline to participate, unless the entity converts to a C corporation.
If GP is referring to CPython patch #980695, it appears to be available in PyPy, but requires an additional flag.

"We have it, just not enabled by default. --objspace-with-strbuf I think" [1]

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-February/1...
This so horribly misinformed or just naive. The "bad guys" should assume the sites can read their data or the NSA has the private keys or whatever ... I mean really? This is the straw that breaks the camels back ... That "bad guys" didn't known "the man" was actually serious about reading their data?
Bing error 9002
"Without doubt" requites solid proof either way, and the "opinion" of anyone isn't proof.
"and the protection used on fourth-generation, or 4G, smartphones."

This quote was particularly eye opening to me.

In the early 2000's I remember speaking to a Verizon engineer who said their encryption on CDMA was bulletproof. He went on to explain over the course of an hour how impossible it was to crack their encryption or even eavesdrop on their network.

See page 34 here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22599374/Security-Encryption-in-GS...

"The security protocols with CDMA-IS-41 networks are among the best in the industry. By design, CDMA technology makes eavesdropping very difficult, whether intentional or accidental. Unique to CDMA systems, is the 42-bit PN(Pseudo-Random Noise) Sequence called “Long Code” to scramble voice and data. On the forward link (network tomobile), data is scrambled at a rate of 19.2 Kilo symbols per second (Ksps) and on the reverse link, data is scrambled ata rate of 1.2288 Mega chips per second (Mcps). CDMA network security protocols rely on a 64-bit authentication key(A-Key) and the Electronic Serial Number (ESN) of the mobile"
Securedservers looks pretty good. More expensive than OVH, but it seems that they have a much more available customer support team. Would that be a fair characterization?
Autobiographical Memory - What if they were programmers?
Uhm, UTC != GMT
Nobody in this comments thread knows what they're talking about and I wouldn't trust anyone here to program anything to do with time.
We definitely all need to step up and help explain this shit to other people. It's a challenge to understand for a layman.
I think the author is talking about people you choose to have in your life, people you would consider taking advice from and talking about your problems with. The 9 year olds in your profession probably provide very rewarding relationship, and they are people you can help. But they are hardly your "friends."

If you were to surround your self with a bunch of 30 something neurotics who all needed your help, and it was not part of your job to help these people, then you would be in trouble.
Who gives a shit, honestly? That is about as valuable to the conversation as your assessment of his sense of dress fashion.
Of course not, your logic system is inverted. Charlie intercepting communications is exactly why Alice and Bob should employ end-to-end encryption.
It sounds like you're misunderstanding Kevin Drum's statement.

The sentences that you quoted are examples of leaks that Kevin Drum believes were in the public interest. Kevin supports these leaks because they are about what the NSA chooses to do, and are therefore necessary for public debate about US policy.

Kevin clearly distinguishes between leaking NSA behavior (as in your quote) and leaking NSA capabilities (which is in the following paragraph). The ability to decrypt certain types of encryption is the sort of technological advancement that we should expect military and intelligence agencies to make and to keep secret.

Here's the part where Kevin talks about specific Snowden leaks (about NSA capabilities) that he disagrees with:

"But the rest of it is a lot more dubious. It's
not clear to me how disclosing NSA's decryption
breakthroughs benefits the public debate much,
unlike previous disclosures that have raised
serious questions about the scope and legality of
NSA's surveillance of U.S. persons. Conversely,
it's really easy to see how disclosing them harms
U.S. efforts to keep up our surveillance on
genuine bad guys. Unlike previous rounds of
disclosures, I'm a lot less certain that this one
should have seen the light of day."
Neo-Riemannian (music) theory
I think this guy is just a nutjob and you shouldn't project his idiotic overreaction onto other countries.
Depends on what you mean by "left". The Democrats are called left in the US, but clearly right-wing by much of the world's standards. It's a business party. If you mean leftists like the anarchist-influenced Occupy movement (like David Graeber [1] who popularized "We are the 99%"), well obviously there's many anti-statist leftists. (No one's going to accuse anarchists of being pro-state.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber
How is knowing a crypto is no longer strong not in public interest? We would most certainly like to know if they have broken RSA somehow.