skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While most laws exist simultaneously in the distinct (and sometimes even contradictory) forms of statutes, rules, and operational norms, foreign intelligence laws start out by necessity with fuzzy statutory foundations, and end by necessity with secret operational norms. This situation is indeed exacerbated by the DoD's (and, I suppose, FISC's) unwillingness to be clear about its rules and rulemaking process.

Thomas - I can't help but feel that you're using words and definitions (aka splitting hairs) to defend something that should not be defended here. With enough effort, almost any unethical behaviour can be made to look justifiable given the circumstances, the complexity of the world, etc etc.

In my experience, I've found that a much quicker test of ethics is using the incredibly powerful subconscious brain that we have evolved with, which allows us to make pretty quick decisions about issues of right and wrong. In this case, it's pretty clear which side is wrong and needs to be brought to task and examined more closely. In no way can you possibly suggest that the level of mass spying that the NSA/GCHQ are engaging in is on the right side of the ethical line in the sand and retain any credibility as... as a human being.

As for the hair-splitting, I can engage in that too:

> So, my refined question would be, in what sense does this executive branch have secret rules or norms that apply to the criminal justice system?

Because the executive branch created the secret spying system and then allowed it to feed into the criminal justice system as a secret source of information. Whether or not they knew about the "parallel construction" (which I prefer to call "lying to the judge's face"), they were an essential element of it. Probably they knew, given how sensitive it is.

Irrespective, though, these people have done nothing to earn your staunch support. Have they?

It's not a case of innocent before proven guilty. First of all, we're talking about a state, not a person. Secondly, there is overwhelming evidence of guilt.
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well then you lose the smallness. That's also why the pattern matching isn't quite regexp and about half of 'the bad' adding features adds size.
ActivityInfo - allow non0technical humanitarian and other NGO workers to define indicators, collect results, map, share, and overlay from dozens of different sources. Open-Source AppEngine/GWT app with OLAP-ish database that syncs to local WebSQL for offline usage. http://about.activityinfo.org, or http://github.com/bedatadriven/activityinfo

Renjin - new interpreter for the R language built on the JVM (http://www.renjin.org) - includes a gcc-based Fortran/C to JVM compiler tool chain to leverage and transform existing scientific code.
Clef (https://getclef.com) — a replacement for usernames and passwords on the web.

It's cool because it allows the 99% of people who aren't technical to use public key cryptography to log in to websites.
If gps jamming becomes an issue, using some anti jamming(using spread spectrum or frequency hopping) transmitter together with few drones over the city to do signal localization isn't the complicated.

Jamming this technology is much harder and usually emits large radio signals which isn't useful if you want to hide.
Have you tried using Lucene for the source code search engine?
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Fewer and fewer people. The art world is similar. Artists should be aware what other artists have done, to not do something unoriginal unintentionally. But that's hard work because it requires so much time/energy to investigate. So the hard work of art criticism falls on the non-artist who can dedicate him/herself to the task full-time. My analogy is the critic is the codebreaker and the artist is the code-maker. Artists make great critics because they have inside knowledge of how the moves (decisions) are made. But artists often lack the historical perspective, awareness of emerging work and (while I can't read anyone's mind) they typically lack the vocabulary to discuss their decisions analytically. But splitting up the work allows for more specialization. They're both specialists with tons of overlap but they have different goals. So maybe the cryptography world will make the same split, if it hasn't already? Crypto-artists dedicated to creating complexity and then historian-critic-codebreakers to determine the value (strength?) of what was created. They need each other. One creates, the determines the value of it.

Anyway, as in art, "naiveté" (no formal education) can sometimes lead to a surprising breakthrough. While it's rare for an uneducated artist to do something interesting, I believe education hinders creativity in some instances. Though most unschooled artists, most of the time, tend to produce the same cliché results as predecessors, they do have the advantage of always thinking outside the box because the box is invisible to them. So outsiders can get breathtakingly weird results sometimes and part of that weirdness is due to their lack of education. It seems to me cryptography is like art in that originality is a goal. In non-objective art especially, you don't want anything recognizable. Like cryptography, non-objective art conceals the true meaning behind the intent. Sometimes cryptography and art even conceal the intent.

So creativity allows for infinite approaches and therefore infinite ways to conceal information. Anyway, I don't plan to become a cryptographer but I think it's a cool analogy (to compare to art) and would be interested in learning more about the "big picture" of cryptography if there are any good books on the subject, even if it's fiction.
> with those in a lower income country in deep economic trouble

Things might be a bit more subtle than that; Barcelona is in catalunya, which is actually doing quite well for itself in spite of the catastrophe in the balance of Spain.
If you haven't seen NPR's visualizing the grid, check it out - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1109973...
I took 10 AP Exams in High School, and walked out of 8 of them.
Are you kidding me? No, of course you aren't. Of course we're reading TechCrunch playing blog-telephone with a story that started out with a terribly misinformed blog post.

Original comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6595993

Things to know:

No, a judge did not order Thuen's laptop siezed because he was a "hacker".

No, the fact that Thuen claimed to be a hacker did not play into whether Thuen's laptop was examined and imaged.

No, Thuen did not simply leave Batelle to create an open-source version of his project.

There are no similarities between Thuen's case and Swartz's.

What happened here is straightforward. Thuen was an employee of Batelle. He was a developer on Batelle's "Sophia" project. While working for Batelle, he commenced work on his own version of "Sophia", called "Visdom". Batelle fired him. He took "Visdom" and created a new company, "Southfork", which sponsored "Visdom" as an open source project. Batelle sued, and Thuen admitted copying at least some components from "Sophia". Batelle prevailed in a preliminary injunction to have "Visdom" taken down, and, in the ongoing suit, made a discovery request for an image Thuen's laptop. The court agreed, as is routine in civil cases, with the proviso that the image be delivered directly to the court for escrow and not examined directly by Batelle.

There is an annoying wrinkle to this story: the judge did use Thuen's statements about being a hacker as justification for the idea that Thuen might spoil the evidence on the hard drive once notified about the discovery request; Batelle's outside forensic investigator was therefore not required to give advance notice to Thuen. But that is the only thing that the word "hacker" determined in this case.

It is absolutely bog standard for hard drive images to constitute discoverable evidence in civil cases, and it is not at all surprising that an full time software developer might get sued for copying their employer's product (even if it didn't share code, which apparently isn't the case here).

Jim Denaro read an earlier stage of this game of telephone in Ars Technica and called it "dangerously wrong about the law"; the facts of this case are even more attenuated in TechCrunch, which does not give a shit if you know what is actually happening, and is running this story solely to generate rageviews.
My email is in my profile, 9nine9//gmail

(302) 990-8273 and my name is Ethan if you prefer to call.
A School With No Teachers, Where Students Teach Themselves
We know it makes some uncomfortable to have the credentials in the cloud, but we felt it was important to make it as easy as possible for people to be able to use any device (we're working on iOS and Android) to access all of their email accounts. Of course it's up to you to decide if you trust us, but we've went to great lengths to make sure your emails don't pass through our servers and to keep your credentials secure. We explain our security precautions on our FAQ, which we'll continue to enhance going forward.
I would love to find a new mail client to replace evolution or thunderbird. Will Inky be released for Debian as well?

Does Inky support this?

- proper mail indexing and search on large mailboxes
- S/MIME
- per-account HTML signatures
- CardDAV
- CalDAV

Edit: Also, i am wondering what inky's business model is? Will the client cost money in the future? Ads?
> Society needs creatives, but just a few.

The problem is finding them and getting their work out there.
That's what I was thinking of. Thanks.
Awesome, thanks for responding! I'll be watching this project to see where it goes, it has a good potential to upset Ultimate Guitar and Songsterr.
Does the gun use less of a charge when the police car is at speed?

If not, it will often be going faster than ~32 mph.
A interesting and maybe workable approach, though I do see the flaw in that companies can sometimes just hold onto the money and let it build up at which point it is not being taxed until that hold up stops. Bit like a beaver building a dam it stems the flow and in this case impacts the currency itself. You alsohaveto ring fence moneys earned in countries better as currently the ability to have all sales routed via one country and released the bulk of the money via those countries. This is easier in the internet times as you can sell and operate anywere in the World. Google sell from Ireland to the UK and with that for the UK economey it is leaking money out of the UK system.

But the real crux is just look at Ireland, they have a realy low company TAX rate and if that was even lower Ireland would still be cash poor and that money is not filtering into teh Irish economy. Money is like a river and companies are upstream and can divert and dam up area's and vary there impact upon supply to the stage that the people downstream can have droughts like they are now in Ireland.

So most countries count housing values to prope up the books moraly and thats fine until there is a crash and then the impact upon the country is beyond those individuals who own the various impacted homes. With that housing in Ireland is not cheap, its just a saner price having been overpriced. Large corporations still in Ireland, still making money, real impact is the sudden drop of the entire construction industry and knock on effect which dominoes.

Still I always find it funny how companies can find TAX loopholes in a game run by the goverment who also write the rules for the game and can change those rules at any time as well. Yet the goverment still loose, kinda messed up right there I'd say and does back up how ineffecient goverments are. Heck if you worked in goverment and had your upper managment changed every time you just about got used to the last lot and you pay the price for there mistakes and in effect seagull managment mentality. Well hard to see how it truely does work beyond being a juggerling act defering things for the next person to step into the role of goverment.
Thanks. We're definitely interested in making something for music teachers. I teach gypsy-jazz guitar at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, and I've used Soundslice with my students a teeny bit but so much more is possible.

Could you and I connect via email so that I can get more thoughts? Contact info in my profile.
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Very very doubtful. The base plan is $24 and covers 5000 users (a fairly large amount). If it saves 1 hour of developer time a month to maintain the code/infrastructure/bugs/issues/scaling you're already looking at a 50% price savings. Through building this I can guarantee that it will save way more than 1 hour a month.

Source: http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/13/silicon-valley-salaries-de...
Killing American citizen without a trial puts American citizens on the same footing as any peasant in history.

> Your quote about the NSA has nothing to do with criminal evidence.

It shows historical patterns of gross negligence in observing legalities by the Executive Branch that lead to things like killing your own citizens based on your own "evidence" without benefit of a trial.
And? The people that need water can get it no matter what the supply is. The industries that use huge amounts of water can adapt their methods to be less wasteful. And it will never stop raining entirely. I don't see water shortages causing real problems in the US, as long as we can predict them early enough to build compensating infrastructure.
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I'm looking for a good 2d JavaScript game engine for a small side project (going for an 8 bit feel, exploration style). I've heard of ivank.js, two.js, pixi.js, joy.js, or am wondering if I should just go with three.js?

Any Suggestions?
Increasing population, automation, and globalization. That's what I've been thinking for a long time. Seems unsustainable.

Despite that, the author is right. Something has to give.
This is an extremely disingenuous comment. It pretends that I'm making an argument in favor of dragnet surveillance, and pretends that it's inviting a discussion while at the same time asserting that it's impossible to come to any conclusion other than its own while "retaining credibility as a human being". Then it asserts a premise that isn't in the original article or in my comment and demands that I somehow justify it.
what will this do to the BTC market when the feds liquidate their haul? Is it big enough to swallow a $29 million sell order?
> The new Kindle Fire HDX, for example, has a higher-resolution screen, more battery life, weighs less, and even costs less than the iPad Air.

The new iPad Mini has a higher PPI screen at the same resolution, the same battery life, weighs less, and even costs less than the iPad Air. But... so what? It's a different product, and there are all sorts of details that this comparison leaves out, that justifies the existence of both. So too with the Kindle HDX.
Blaming congress for laws passed? Really?
Sett (http://sett.com)

It's a new blogging platform that helps people build audiences. Our oldest users (1 year) have seen roughly 100% increase in daily traffic, twice as many comments, etc. My personal blog has doubled daily visitors and growth rate for subscribers went from 1% to 10%.
It's interesting to observe that targeted airstrikes have been generating similar moral responses since the time they involved people dropping grenades out of the open cockpits of propeller planes.
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It was a bad decision by french revolutionaries: http://www.bipm.org/en/si/history-si/name_kg.html

However all the standard prefixes still apply normally, ie you will have milligrams (mg) that are 1/1000000 of 1kg.
In all fairness Bullet Bill is half the size of Mario and has Bullet in his name.

http://www.mariowiki.com/Bullet_Bill
That's why i said "cancer research" at the end. But the additional problem is that if it's politically controversial, by and large most research is paid for at the leisure of politicians, so you wind up with another layer of circular pressure.
http://www.hshacks.com. Introducing hacking to the younger generation. Our goal is to introduce as many people to computer science as possible with our hackathon, and promote computer science education to as many females as possible. Companies are looking for more computer science talent and want more to see more females in their company ranks. There are almost 30% less females in computer science compared to males. We are here to provide the mentorship and training needed to become a great developer. We aim to teach students the basics of computer science by holding workshops, teaching the basics of web development, developing iPhone and Android applications, and integrating third party products (APIs) into applications.
Mail.app is an old NEXTSTEP app. It's probably one of the oldest apps on the platform, and it's always sucked.

There was even a windows version for a while, which you could get if you bought NeXT's Enterprise Objects Framework for Windows NT.
I'm not convinced that house prices area actually a big deal, except as an indicator that more housing should be permitted (by zoning laws).

There are two arguments that are typically given.

Firstly, you want to encourage people of different incomes to live together. I don't believe that this is a worthy goal. It's not clear that the benefit to people on low incomes outweighs the loss to their high income neighbors. And the richest 1% always find ways to isolate themselves anyway.

The second argument is that welfare should taken into account the cost of living. I also believe this within reason, but the welfare system already does this in many ways. In fact, London's "one bedroom rule" is a clunky way to do precisely this: it lets people live where they like, but prevents people from purchasing an excessive "quantity" of housing.
But you could create a very simple response and add numbers pretty easily. And at .075 cents per message I gotta think, in the long run, Twilio is a cheaper alternative.

I should add that I work for Twilio so I'm a bit biased. However, I love your idea. Just trying to do the math. :)
Working on an Android app to communicate with dolphins, )s) Dolphin Communicator http://goo.gl/7H6wh - it's cool because it works and it could help setup first-aid stations in the oceans for dolphins, once we learn how to refer to body parts and ailments, and it may help us understand ourselves better by showing that there are other sentient beings here. Understanding ourselves is required for us to survive this century.
Dude, if my child did this, I would pat him on the back, and go to court and ask a question: "Is it not insanely embarrassing that our GOVERNMENT which is theoretically supposed to keep secure is able to be hacked by my 12 year old son. This is not his fault, it is yours. Now imagine a 30 year old version of my son in North Korea who have real political objectives"
Trigger.io released their cross-browser extension builder as an open-source project[1] a bit ago. And we've been using it from before it was open source, and we love it. Saves a ton of time, highly recommended.

[1] https://github.com/trigger-corp/browser-extensions
PostScript for GPUs? Awesome.
Cory Scott was a director at Matasano, ran our west coast office, and is as trustworthy an appsec person as I know.

Cory also postdates LinkedIn's security drama; he was brought in after the credential leak, which was a good call on LinkedIn's part and sort of a brave move on Cory's part.

(And, full disclosure: iSEC is one of Matasano's sister companies; take this for whatever its worth, but their reputation is excellent).

I would tend to believe anything he says about this or any other LinkedIn system he's worked on.

That said, I would still under no circumstances give LinkedIn access to my mail spool, or any other third party.

I'm also a little queasy about the idea of "norming" these kinds of systems. Look at how much work LinkedIn put into securing Intro, and ask whether any startup will have the means to do the same. I doubt it.
It really isn't difficult to write such a robot, it just involves a port scan before actually probing. Using bash, something like:

nmap $host | grep -i open | cut -d '/' -f 1 | xargs -I {} ./sshscan.sh $host {}

Where the contents of sshscan.sh is something like:

#!/bin/bash

nc $1 $2 | grep -i ssh
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# ssh probing stuff here
fi
If you learn well with books, check out "Javascript: The Good Part" by Douglas Crockford. I don't usually learn well with books, but that one really clicked with me.
Buffer is a great app, particularly for Twitter. I use it regularly across all devices. I don't use it for Facebook though. I haven't observed anything untoward on my Twitter account. I am tempted to temporarily revoke app permissions on Twitter though.
My favorite part:

> Bounce Imaging is planning to sell an emergency responder version for about $1000, a military version for something under $3000.

Because, you know, military.
I live in a relatively nice bit of South London. My rent is £1250/mo. It takes me 15 minutes to cycle to work in the centre (the Tube is 30 minutes by virtue of the nearest station being 15 minutes away, but closer to the stations is still the same rent). North London rent is insane.
That article misses the key point; a MITM proxy for mail is the actual problem, no matter how well implemented it is.
How can the posts reappear? Aren't they just pushed and then stored on the FB database?
I happen to think that inflation and sovereign debt transfer wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/137cC3inVNcfof44Pq1nMiyz1...
We've used Octoprint in the past and it just didn't meet our needs. We believe in designing for the novice and giving configuration options for the professionals; Octoprint just isn't user-friendly enough.

Out of the box, we support Makerbots (as well as ReRaps). Multiple printers are managed from the same interface. You don't need to wrestle with firewall settings to be secure. We offer multiple slicers in the cloud rather than one slicer on the client. And we are starting with a Raspberry Pi client rather than relying on other projects to provide that capability.

And again, by having the service hosted by us, we're able to provide an API to 3rd parties to tie their apps into. Marketplaces, design apps, games, sharing economy services, etc.

Do you use Octoprint? Which printers do you have connected to the service?
I agree, and I was equally troubled by it. In addition to the points you made, I am uncomfortable with the advice in it: feel your way through problems, don't think. I agree with the conclusion that the level of spying that is going on is wrong, but not with the means through which swombat said we should come to that conclusion.
Is linking to their privacy policy supposed to be comforting in some way?

"We promise that the only thing we do with your data is what we said we do inside this huge legal document."
@fredwilson account also got hacked. batch.me anyone (product plug ;)
You set up and knock down a straw man. No one has suggested they subscribe to a "secret Muslim" conspiracy theory.
Well considering their password incompetence i would not trust them with any sensitive information for a long long time.
Can anybody explain weight loss spam to me? Is it just to gain credit card details, advertising clicks?
Yes, they do, still makes you think twice don't it?
> Jamming this technology is much harder and usually emits large radio signals which isn't useful if you want to hide.

This is true. If jamming became commonplace, then it's just a matter of following the broadcast.
I think this is the most interesting documentation considering the debates I've seen here on HN: https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/privacy