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The article centers around activity in Syria, but the problem is much more endemic. In the United States, Apple has consistently taken down apps providing information about US gove…

The history of China's rise as a technologically enabled state is in direct contradiction to the premise of the accusation. The West invented technologically enabled surveillance. …

Ever hear of the statistician who drown in a river an average of 1 foot deep?

This does seem to be the way that Open Source has gone: The operating system and some other critical components (compilers, runtimes, etc) are open source - but applications, servi…

The fact of the matter is that the United States considers strong industries in strategic technology fields in adversary nations a national security threat. This is why NSA seeks t…

Others have pointed out some errors with the methods employed in this report. Still, who else is collecting this kind and fidelity of data? I found the trends very informative. Fir…

I don't think anything you wrote is wrong! I have a background in error codes - hamming, and luby and raptor and, and, and. Reed-Solomon is particularly "beautiful" from a mathemat…

Wow. I love explaining Reed Solomon codes and this didn't do it justice. The basic concept is that if I give you five points all on the same line, you only need any two of them to …

Soon the TSA will be confiscating sticky notes.

Not that I have any real answers here (re: theories of everything), but I do have something to add regarding "laws". Charle's Law states that Pressure * Volume = Temperature. That'…

I started listening to "Serial", "This American Life", "Hardcore History" and a large number of other programs. Podcasts are generally easier to consume, reconsume, and schedule. T…

I've been a long time HN participant. I'm coming back from a lurker status after having lost my credentials a long time ago. shrug . Can you explain how you consider this suspiciou…

This is one of my favorite forms of fibonacci, because it unwinds the recurrence relation without having to apply some kind of relation/master-theorem to it. Rather it describes it…

I'm not sure I understand your comment. Can you add more (feel free to edit the current comment content?)

I don't think this addresses the argument I've made. Can you read it again and reply to the strongest possible interpretation you make of it (per the site guidelines)?

It's not specifically "the Uighurs" (that's like saying 'there was no fundamentalist terrorism in the US due to "the Muslims"'). It's much more about the region (Xinjiang) and part…

Surveillance I understand (its a fairly ubiquitous form of government control at this point, including use of DNA - Israel feeds that information into its domestic assassination pr…

Microsoft had a large amount of policy, and it could be that there were some policy that applied, but if there was some it didn't permeate the culture and daily routine in the tren…

It's just good housekeeping at this point. Attacks never get worse, and there have been structural problems with SHA-1 for a long time. Plus, it does make sense for a company like …

I use interviews to evaluate a whole lot more than just hire/no-hire. I'm looking to understand what role someone is going to play in the organization, and to help understand which…

This comment is whataboutism. The topic is very clearly about American activity. I wish I had an account long enough to flag this.

Overall I loved this article, in particular the anecdote about construction materials. One sentence jumped out for me. > These facts should prompt some reflection about the exercis…

Once I pulled a prank on a colleague by setting up a 555 timer inside their keyboard so that alt+f4 would constantly get pressed (every ~1 second). Because that friend was a softwa…