skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh...I certainly had a good chuckle at this comment. I don't honestly think that the NSA ever paid more than lip-service to the "war on terror". They've been doing the same job since long before Sept. 11, 2001. Before the "war on terror" it was the "cold war", there just happens to have been an awkward gap in between...

The NSA is in the business of Signals Intelligence. Their job, plainly stated, is to have access to as much communication between non-US entities as humanly possible. What makes their job difficult is that, over the course of the last few decades, it's become increasingly the case that much of the communication between non-US entities travels via US-based channels using technology originated in the US. Somewhere along the line, when forced to balance "as much communication" and "non-US entities", the NSA clearly chose in favor of accessing those communications at any cost.
Well if you misread my comment but don't tell us what you thought it said, I can't put your response in context.
Apple made a lot of money by not thinking this way, and other big companies in SV have started to notice. Skilled industrial/UX designers often come out of a humanities or art major. In fact, so do developers, product managers, and marketing staff.

Blame the protesters for throwing bricks into a bus window, but don't blame their majors.
Add it to all previous and you have some basis.

Companies that have been compromised[1] - MS, Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Carriers, Backbone providers - now they are going after security providers. From the big guys only Intel is standing. And that may as well be the next leak.

Also think if they subverted some of the big guys antiviral software - it runs at ring 0 usually.

[1] Blackmail, threats, bribes, lawful intercepts, warrants, NSLs
It's usually pretty difficult to create an exploitable remote code execution bug in code without very obviously heinous (read: amateur level) code. Whereas with buffer overflows it's fairly trivial. Moreover, in order to exploit a more complex vulnerability an attacker would need to know something about the nature of the vulnerability, making it more difficult to come up with exactly the right steps to exploit it to maximum advantage. In contrast, with a typical buffer overflow you only need to tune how much junk to throw at the buffer before you start getting code to execute, and then you can just inject whatever existing payload you have already. This is so trivial that there are now tools designed to automate the process.
That article is merely one piece of information in a long chain (Echelon, the Snowden revelations, Lavabit), and all of them add up to the conclusion that you better not trust any US-based/originated IT security system.
If the advice comes from tptacek, you should probably do the opposite. He insisted this was NOT a backdoor:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944118
Obama says Snowden’s actions have “done unnecessary damage”
As much as he can get under one's skin, and as much as he can be abrasive, and any number of other things, I trust his opinions on security and crypto.

He's rational to a fault--unfortunately, that means that when facts change he may be left with egg on his face. I don't think there's anything wrong with how he's handled this stuff.
When you put it that way, the situations begin to sound more parallel than I would have thought. There are rules to being an oligarch, though the payoff is a lot better, and Khodorkovsky should have had a more sophisticated understanding of the terms of the deal.
The port shutdown was about the truckers, though there was some ILWU support - I have personally met ILWU leaders who were in support.

The truckers are not allowed to unionize, are employed as "independent contractors", sometimes have to sit with their engines running, idle, trying to get into the port for hours without being able to pee. They are treated as if they operate a small business while they are in actuality an employee with none of the rights of a typical employee.

The ILWU also doesn't oppose the city or state government interfering with a port shutdown because without the ability to shut down a port, they would not exist.
It's a bad image, because it conveys an idea that's different from the story, but I can see why they used it -- from the general public's perspective the tokens are pretty much the most recognizable symbol of RSA.
Speaking as an HN'er in one of the "traditional Rust Belt hard-luck cases:" Anyone reading this have any good ideas for ways that areas like mine can improve local economic conditions and better retain or even attract younger folks?

Area politicians are desperate to improve the economy; if you're looking for a new site for a medium-to-large business, especially if you're in a high-tech industry that's perceived as going up instead of going down, you'll likely find the Rust Belt's state and local governments to be quite accomodating.
It's Bad.
The Silicon Valley-ization of San Francisco
Nation states are likely to roll their own dongles though. The folk that use these are bluechips meeting due diligence requirements.
Pavel, folks here are being hard on you guys because historically, 9 out of 10 times "independent thinkers" who roll out their own crypto stacks get something wrong. That's why if you want to market your app to this crowd, you'll have a hard time selling something that is not what is a currently recommended crypto stack. Emphasizing that it is the NSA who recommends it is just a pasive-aggressive conspiracy theorizing. It may very well be the case that the NSA have ways of cracking their "Suite B", but we have no evidence of that, and if they do, do you really think that your ad-hoc solution would do much better against them?
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This is a very well-put comment.

The core cause there would seem to be sharing comm channels with foriegn actors--the same thing that makes our position with regards to the 'net so awesome also means that the NSA is kind of forced to get involved closer to home. It's a tricky tradeoff.
I thought this breach only affected cards that were used at Targets right after thanksgiving up until the breach was discovered last week?
https://twitter.com/rabite/status/414162384350367744
cool, but boy those formats suck. reminds me of what youtube really achieved. video that works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6yaSLipeWg
RSA the company has nothing to do with RSA the algorithm.

Well, "nothing" isn't strictly correct, but connecting them is more like the Kevin Bacon game. Rest assured that this story has nothing whatsoever to do with RSA keys.
I have to retract my "for the most part". I was thinking of Nadon... but he was previous Federal Court of Appeal and Federal Court.

All the Justices were former jurists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Canada#Current...).
Our CS labs solved that by allowing any food and drink we want. Dominos understand "the undergrad labs, ECS" as an address.
General humanitarian principles (specifically against torture -- as Ms. Manning was indisputably subjected to) have far greater precedence over any country's military justice code.
Fodder for Psychohistorians.
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> Why not live closer to work?

1) Maybe they got the job at Google half way through their year lease in SF and are relying on the bus to get to work for 6 months until they can move.

2) Maybe they are fresh out of college and still live in their family home in SF and are only using the bus to get to their new job while they save up enough to move closer.

3) Maybe they live in SF because it is equal distance from their job south and their partner's job north or east.

4) Maybe they are in that group of people that thinks jobs come and go but your home is your home. These people don't move closer to their job.

That said, nobody HAS to live in SF. A fair number of people actually commute INTO SF.
I wouldn't use a blanket statement like that, it's actually a lot more complicated. First of all, the tax system in Russia is set up that it's impossible to run a business without violating one tax law or the other. That setup is intentional, put in place specifically so anybody who's in Putin's way can be put away for tax crimes. That's exactly what happened here, and tax charges are bogus.

Having said that, you couldn't become a billionaire "new Russian" in the early 90's without doing something horrible, which I'm sure Khodorkovskiy has done at some point. So he probably is a criminal. However, the ONLY reason he was put in jail is that he dared to defy Putin. Everything else was bogus - charges were fabricated, judges had direct orders to convict him, etc.
Those aren't the only options. Anyone with any smarts can figure out how to quietly and anonymously leak a lot of these details. The fact is that they were too cowardly to do even that though.
My guess is that most people educated enough and promoted enough to get access to such information wouldn't risk years of efforts for potential fame. I'd say most of the whistle-blowers want to remain anonymous.
The exact level of shared culture necessary to have a "nation" in the sense of "nation-state" is infinitely debatable, but the statement at issue is just true of states generally, so while your point might arguably be true, its not all that relevant.
This is why I started using Chromium instead of Chrome -- Chrome forces you now to use (and pay for!) the web store (it's impossible to install extensions not hosted by Google, if you're running on Windows because "think of the users!"[1]) and if your extension doesn't get along with any of their policies (i.e. the extensions listed here), then Chrome users can't use it at all. Super-awesome, Google.

Chromium doesn't (at the moment) have these restrictions.

[1]: The post with this fucking Newspeak title: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-fr...
I guess the rule is just no root without the user asking for it in some way? The Nexus 5 is unlocked, but it's not root by default. I definitely agree with that rule, I don't think it should be difficult but it definitely shouldn't be default. I'm a big fan of the sudo approach in some Linux distros.
If I know someone worth referring, I don't need a 30-60 minute meeting to get me to refer them. I'm just going to do it.
an unlocked bootloader isnt the same as a rooted device
Dangerous or not dangerous, 10 years of life spent in prison is a lot.

Let's see what happens next.
As we all know, all jobs begin at 8 and end at 5, there are no other wage-earning options available.
Replace the text with handwriting, problem solved.
Who in their right mind would use an American technology product at this point? You would be an idiot to think that it wasn't backdoored by the NSA.
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We use that exclusively there, too. 5% off is a no brainer for how much we shop there.
Are they making anything else with it? I mean, except for smashing windows and annoying a bunch of sleepy coders? I'm ok with "not everything is money" but what they have to show in non-money part? Usually their "anti-capitalism" is just another way of saying "I'd work as little as the society allows me without going hungry and do stupid shit like breaking windows and defacing other's property when I'm too bored".

My experience is that people who actually can do stuff with their life (degree or not) don't go around smashing windows. They are too busy doing their thing to spend time on breaking other's things.
I did similarly, but managed to squeeze out a few more points:

^(((((((((xx?)\9?)\8?)\7?)\6?)\5?)\4?)\3?)\2?)\1?$

(60 points)
Aside from the only thing that makes our platform open, we didn't compromise on anything!
I disagree with many of tptacek's opinions but honestly he's one of the reasons this site is great. He is capable of arguing with people with strongly opposing views with civility, which is something that is entirely too rare these days. He's also capable of admitting when he's wrong and being gracious when proven right. Also entirely too rare these days. I'd rather have a thousand tptaceks on this site than zero.
Ok, I get what you mean. I was aware of the Fische-Tropsch process, though I would lie if I say I understand how it works. In the proper context, I understand why you are excited about this new technology hinted in the article.

As I have mentioned elsewhere, I do not think either of these will fix the energy problems we are facing. I do believe Fischer-Tropsch could play a part on the solution, and this new technique would be even better at it. Namely, a EROEI neutral-ish way to concentrate a diffuse energy source into a highly packed storage medium for strategic purposes (i.e. transportation, since carrying around the fuel is kind of a hard requirement)
"We Americans"...

Next time you feel compelled to use this kind of political spiel on the internet, remember that YOU Americans only count for around 4.5% of the world's population.
I don't think you're effectively rebutting my larger point, which is that these protesters represent themselves as being of one population, when they are in fact of another. Certainly, if I change my statement to "some port workers" were economically damaged by the protest, purportedly on their behalf, in which they did not participate or call for, the point remains. Regarding the "convenient mis-characterization" -- my girlfriend worked in a major union for five years, specifically in the communications department; I know very well how to read statements made by, and on behalf of, union leaders. The kind of tension and political tiptoeing I described certainly exists.

The mere fact that we can point to two statements, one expressing support for Occupy, and one denouncing a specific Occupy action, by definition means that there is a conflict in strategy and tactics.

Now, I will grant that this is all based on my opinion and observation -- none of it is empirical or measured. So what? Supply some measurements if you think that my opinion is illegitimate. Tell me what percentage of Occupiers are actually from traditionally poor background -- those who suffer systemic disenfranchisement, a lack of role models, have insufficient access to education -- you know, the people who they claim to represent. If this is such a diverse movement of the working poor, go ahead and let me know how the demographics of self-identified Occupiers compares to that of East Oakland (the poorest neighborhood in Oakland.) Shit, speaking of diversity: I would be surprised to learn if even a single percentage of them were multilingual!

I'm all for advocating on behalf of those who have been systematically locked out of opportunity, who have never been able to access the things we all take for granted, which have made it possible for us to be so successful. The people I see at Occupy events are poor, but it doesn't seem to me that it's for a for lack of access. They are bitching, basically, because the opportunities for very well privileged slackers to get by decently without putting in too much effort have all dried up. The rest of us -- poor and working rich -- are busting our asses off.

Happy to be proven wrong, but these are my observations, and yes my biases too.
If I had to guess: http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/factsheet.shtml

"The company’s headquarters is located at 12500 TI Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75243."
So the claim here is that wave zero, original inhabitants don't have "excellent restaurants, concert venues, botiques, bars etc.", and their displacement by the first wave is excusable by this fact, and some hand-waving about "solidarity."

On the other hand, the second-wave and later are callous Scrooges who just take what they can get, and thus deserve to be vilified.

This is special pleading at its most naked. I've heard the saying that you pull up the drawbridge just after you enter the castle, but you seem to want to scrape out a privileged little Goldilocks zone on both sides, where first-wavers are each an embodiment of a noble Jake Sully, fighting to save the Na'vi against the invading hordes.
I was just trying to put the arc in Bay Area terms for illustration purposes. There ARE a lot of tech workers in Harlem, but not a "tech community". As a general rule... most of the people purchasing in Harlem are purchasing to get AWAY from their professional communities. So what I meant was more the NY equivalent of upper-middle class technocrat. ie - hospital administrators, lawyers, book store owners, doctors, sports management guys... and, of course, techies too.

Maybe it would have been more clear if I had used the normal real estate divisions of "workforce", "upscale" and "exclusive". I just thought artists, teachers, techies and celebrities would illustrate the differences a little better for the purposes of making the point against violence.
What makes you think the NSA isn't willing to work with countries outside of the US, either directly or through another spy agency?
Some people really like it. I've talked to people who enjoy using it. It's not my cup of tea, but they definitely have an active user base.
You can definitely trust technical information from tptacek. But you should treat his speculation as you would anyone else.
It's the same reason you never see James Bond negotiating with foreign heads of state. You don't send an assassin to do a diplomat's job. Everything that is being revealed about the NSA's actions, this buying of influence especially, is positively reprehensible...BUT it is important to keep an eye on where the blame really lies: with the people that let their assassins dictate their foreign policy and domestic priorities.
I like it that my sarcasm was treated like a serious comment :)

j/k, but seriously, you want good relations with the community. You can't win with security guards.
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Yes. I did not intent to defend Putin. I've edited my post. The reason for posting here in the first place was that I was baffled about the media reaction here. No mention of his past action anywhere.
Nice. Keep us posted on the progress/additions

Do you have a blog where you document the entire process?
>Terrorists don't use VPN dongles.

The story isn't about VPN dongles, it's about a backdoor in an encryption product sold by RSA.
NSA invents weak (Back Door present) crypto algo.

Pushes RSA to make it a Default in a key function (RNG) by giving them $10 Million.

NSA points to RSA as an early adopter and gets NIST to certify it.

Millions of systems are now protected by an RSA product that the NSA deliberately weakened.

Any sufficiently skilled rogue actor can attack virtually any business that uses these RSA products -

NSA (Cyber security Command) gets even more money to "Protect" us from said Rogue actors.

So all-in-all good investment on their part

Edit: Spelling fixed per commenter pointing out the difference between rouge and rogue. I did imply malicious actors not red-cheeked actors (not that they are mutually exclusive).
Not everything is about your libertarian hobby horse. California and NYC are 2 of the "least economically free" areas of the US. Shouldn't they be getting outcompeted by Idaho or something? Or maybe the world exists on more than one axis.
Well you won't know which people have good ideas until they tell you their ideas :)
I have a Blink() function. Blink (Hz)

At one time, you had to tell it the current time. that was when I had a pause time feature. I got wise and got rid of my pause time feature.

I still miss my pause time feature, but shrewdness is bitter sometimes.

It was ugly when you had to pass time into the function, trust me.

If I gave control of TempleOS to somebody, they might remove blink and marquee. I wouldn't care.

God says...
enough_said You_da_man look_out make_my_day end a_likely_story

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

u on the sixth day the bread of two
days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place
on the seventh day.

16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it
was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers
made with honey.

16:32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth,
Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see
the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wil

----

candy corn and peanuts?
Hopefully the end of them. It's the only thing that matters to these mercenaries...
No. Verizon only allows pre-approved devices to appear on their network, regardless of whether you are prepaid or postpaid. They do this by checking the IMEI identifier of the device. If it's not one of theirs, it won't work.

Their network is also incompatible with the radio in this device.
and LastPass
Other executives have.

Look at what happened to Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio after challenging illegal NSA warrantless wiretapping requests. (Hint: he just got out of federal prison about two months ago.)

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230398390...
Mr. Nacchio said he still believes his insider-trading prosecution was government retaliation for rebuffing requests in 2001 from the National Security Agency to access his customers' phone records. His plans to use that belief as a defense at trial never materialized; some of the evidence he wanted to use was deemed classified and barred from being introduced.
To Mr. Nacchio, the revelations of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked documents saying the agency monitors the email and phone records of Americans, have justified his own stance. He contended the NSA's request was illegal. "I feel vindicated," he said. "I never broke the law, and I never will."
Subtext: if you make good money, you have no social responsibility beyond paying the taxes your accountant can't get you out of paying
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Your patch.. fixes.. one of the issues. Kinda.

I commented with a link to the CPRNG you should be using.