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What if China hacks Google's data trove? Oh, that already happened:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chines...

And in Denmark, hackers gained full access to many security services databases, among others the European 'most wanted' database, the driver's license database, passwords of 10'000 password officers etc.:

http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik/hacker-angriff-datenl...

(Newspaper article in German, sorry …)
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>You must be very naive to think that once a small group achieves a complete control over a country, they will use it for everybody's good.

Yeah you're right. Singapore's dictator totally didn't bring the country from third world to first world, currently ranking top 5 in the world for academic grades, lowest child mortality and GDP per capita PPP, without the help of foreign aid or natural oil resources, in less than 40 years.
Awesome talk, though the SystemTap coverage was oddly weak.

Saying 'SystemTap was was created when there weren't Solaris for Linux ports' is a little disingenuous. Linux had live kernel instrumentation with kprobes way before Sun debuted DTrace, and DTrace was deliberately licensed in a way to be incompatible with the Linux kernel.

If you want to see some actual useful production taps you can use right now on your Red Hat / CentOS box, check out http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/WarStories
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I am not in the SV area and so would be unable to participate, but you absolutely have my support in doing this.
Good for you. For me this ended when I said at school that global warming is caused by solar activity and not by humans.
Its fairly instructive to watch early Steve Jobs keynotes (say iMac and iPod) to compare them with later keynotes. The things that change are really interesting. I get the feeling reviewing them might make you change how you do things. It needs to be adapted (of course), but the thought process is interesting.
Alternatively, you may just install locate. It won't examine file contents, but it works in the common cases. It's also blazingly fast because it's indexed.
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Those lists are great but they lack an important part — some signal of quality. How would a user know if the book is any good? Or if it shows best practices? Especially if it's meant for beginners.

It would be of course unreasonable to expect the author of the list to review each and every book but maybe users could post reviews? Or vote? Or just comment?
It is one of the known possible side-effects of vitamin B3, but I have no idea how common or at what doses.
if you put it that way, the only solution is to brute force it (i.e., have cheap, limitless energy, which is easy for any and everyone to utilize).
From reading this, I'm not entirely sure what makes this better than grep. I get why it is cool to have written it.
Yes, this is a known problem with precise.

The discussion on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/669481 indicates that a fix has been released, although one wasn't - a 12.04 default server install will STILL happily hang after a boot problem until you press "enter" on your keyboard. Additional reboots will not help.

And given that 12.04 is still the LTS version, it makes Ubuntu unusable for long term remote servers unless you have an IPKVM.

Of course, after 12.04.03 you can update your /etc/default/grub to include:

GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=0

and then do

grub-update

(and some people say you should also do:

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc

Although I can't figure out why that would be needed)
Its problem that you always have to update the index, which can be problematic in fast changing systems (and quite slow in some cases).
The greatest disadvantage is that you need root rights to update the index.
Agreed, let's start organizing public protests. Even regardless of PRISM, the Verizon (and undoubtedly other phone companies) dragnet surveillance of everyone, which is absolutely confirmed, is unacceptable! Now that everyone is aware of it, this story needs to not go away and slowly become accepted as the way things are.
How about using Tor > VPN (Note: Not VPN > Tor) ?
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Being in the middle of the Taiwanese startup scene. Lots of smoke and no fire. Most of them just want to jump ship to elsewhere (especially to the US). That is made harder by multiple factors.

- general low quality of their projects (stated by multiple people from Startup Weekend organizers to incubator hosts)

- scarce funding (the VCs here quite often want something validated far more than elsewhere, and don't fund something until someone else did)

- low cost of of living (really easy to scrape by on very little money, so much smaller pressure to keep cranking that experiment/learn/pivot cycle, many people end up merely "threading water" for years)

All that said, I really really really hope this will change, and I'm among those who are trying to shake things up.
I looked into his python implementation, I thought he would just translate the parameters and call find, but he instead did go to implement the search algorithm.
Wouldn't that make it a bit slower than the original find?
I just realized how scary Google is.
Nice list- I am not sure if an equivalent law exists in any other country- but in India, if you have attempted suicide (and survive),you will be arrested!
Incanter 1.5.0 has been released
Interesting how everyone in the diagram except the user, the sysadmin, and the relay nodes have "evil eyes".
Incanter is a Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment for the JVM. More information is on http://incanter.org/
This is really not a failure of prosecutors. I mean it is, in the sense that they aren't actually obligated to do this, but they have every incentive to and they're human.

The real failure is of Congress not to over-criminalize minor offenses and to distinguish what these people or people like Aaron Swartz did from people doing the far more malicious things whose actions are used to justify the laws and penalties these people have been charged with.
That's stupid. When they say "Israel", they mean "that nominally democratic ally of ours who survives on our military aid and who is well-known for technical savvy and outsourcing to whom would neatly circumvent our inconvenient laws forbidding the wholesale surveillance of our citizens." Not "Jews". We have more Jews than they do anyway.
DTrace was deliberately licensed in a way to be incompatible with the Linux kernel.

This was commented on directly by Bryan Cantrill on HN [1]. You should also watch his "Fork Yeah!" [2] and "Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns" [3] talks for full context.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4357507

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

[3]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhgXQFk9noI
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> Since you can not choose military commanders, how useful is that for you?

Huh?

http://www.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=45870

I may not be able to sit in and vote for a commander but every appointment has the backing of an elected official that can be replaced.

As a civilian everything the military does is of interest to me and should be made open - your argument of "you may not understand it" is irrelevant. I want to know everything from how much they spend on toothpaste to how many civilians have died.
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I disagree. I think they should have only been charged with the trespassing, and instead the management of the facility should have been been on the hook for some serious negligence charges. Let's just assume for a second that there are terrorists out there younger and a little more nimble than an 82 year old...

If the whole point is the send a message to the public / make an example of, then it should be those responsible for security (and the budget for security, etc. up the line) that should be made the example of.
And your machine doesn't access your local ISP and vice-versa?
Do you really not know, or do you just act dumb?

To make people realize the possible consequences of surveillance.

One of the assumptions is that the people aren't completely aware of the extent of surveillance. They assume it's simple as "someone listening to my phone call to my mom" or something as innocent. Something like that hardly has consequences for them, but something like piblishing their private information and data surely has. If they have nothing to hide, they should be all okay with this. If they aren't however... then they should not be supporting surveillance.

What did I miss?
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Come visit sometime. Those who live here do not seem to think anything is being "destroyed" or even corrupted, and that includes people from America and many other places. We have experienced the alternatives, and Singapore is not worse.
I seriously don't get the mouthfrothing outrage. For years and years, everyone knowledgeable kept saying - if you post it on the internet, it is public.

You're using Google - Google reads your stuff. Algorithms build a profile of you, select ads, etc.

You're using Amazon - Amazon knows and never forgets what you're buying and browsing for.

You're using Credit Cards - the CC company knows a lot about you.

You have a bank account - the bank knows a lot about you.

You have a mobile phone - the operator knows a lot about you.

Ever had the opportunity to look behind the curtains? Like how banks build customer profiles? Withdraw money from ATMs regularly late at night on weekends? You like to party, noted in your internal credit profile. Implemented that shit myself. The NSA has less impact on your life than your bank.

Etc, Etc, Etc. What do you think all those CRM systems out there are used for? Those are private intelligence tools, with next to no government oversight. No auditors coming in, no whistleblowers, nothing. There are rules of course, but who, ever, has really been caught violating them? Got fined? Went to jail? Right...

And now everyones's OUTRAGED because the government dared to do the same all these private corporations have been doing all along. I don't get it. It's aok if your stuff shows up in data.com, Binley's, etc., right? No outrage, ever.

All the shouting over the Internet, posting on Twitter, Facebook, HN, reddit, .. in plaintext, documented for eternity, in plain sight. No privacy concerns there, oh no. I have accounts in 56 privately owned, for-profit communication tools - but I deeply care about privacy. Here, have my baby pictures, and my current location. Did I tell the world what I think of that Mexican place yet?

You want privacy? Then shut. the. fuck up. Don't write it down, don't take pictures, don't use your credit card. As has been known for a long, long time.

But next week all of this will be over as Apple has WWDC and the OUTRAGE of the common neckbeard will be directed to another awesome topic.
What is interesting from a scientific point of view, and this is one subject we know a lot more about than actual nutrition, is why people who are otherwise scientific minded skeptics are superstitious when it comes to nutrition (if you believe that eating more green vegetable or less, consuming more vitamin C or less, more saturated fat or less is actually better for you, then you are superstitious, unless you are knowingly placing a scientifically unfounded bet on one diet over another).

There is certainly lots of superstition in all of our beliefs, but you overblown your thesis to the point of being a bit ridiculous...

First of all you present it as "all or nothing" choice, like either you had full knowledge from a scientific study or otherwise there would be absolutely no reasons to choice one alternative over the other. In the absence of absolutely certain evidence there are still more or less "probably good" choices given the informations we have and there are also heuristics that might be helpful.

You also assume that the only way to navigate nutritional choices is through statistical studies. There are other ways though, we have a decent understanding of the physiology of the human body and its biochemistry and we happen to know for example that the moving of waste products through the intestines is greatly helped by fiber consumption, so I don't think eating green vegetables is particularly superstitious.

With your point about "purity" you wander into psychoanalysis, which is rather funny considering your supposedly hyper-rational stance.
It's the war on terrorism. Every time you hear officials talk about terrorism, replace terrorism with "the devil".

"an act of terrorism" == "an act of the devil"

The war on terrorism is our witch-hunt.
Good start to think about "nothing to hide". In addition there is no way of saying what becomes sensitive in the future and who might have access to the data. When pre-nazi germany collected religious census data it wasn't with the intention to supply the nazis with an efficient database to crack down on jews and other minorities. What can comfortably be public changes tremendously over time and who gets access to the data.

The question to ask yourself is really how much risk is tolerable that some data point will be used in the future to discriminate against you.

The other concern is the conformity this attitude breads. Do you really think everybody should refrain from testing the boundaries and adjust their actions to whatever the mainstream is? This way "nothing to hide" is an easy attitude. What kind of society actively discourages edgy thinkers and innovators and where does this lead to politically and culturally? Certainly not a place I want to be part of.
Ask HN: Will you follow me on Twitter? (Sorry, yet another NSA post)
Hi, HN. I am disgusted with our government and finally feel people are ready to hear the truth from us in the tech industry and not think we're tin-foil hat crazy. I also think it's time to draw the line and make it known that as Americans we do not approve of our government's actions. The global panopticon is real. Please follow me on Twitter or visit my homepage.

https://twitter.com/AmericanPrismer

http://prismers.us

Also, FYI, I'm a regular HN visitor, programmer, open source contributor, engineering manager, but I am posting anonymously. I am sure many of you will hate my post and think I'm junking up HN. To those people I apologize. I miss the days of reading awesome tech articles too. But I miss liberty more, and I think those of us obsessively upvoting NSA posts don't know what else to do. The people on this site are in my mind a large percentage of the great programmers in the world. HN is our cafeteria, playground, and classroom. We don't know whom else to talk to about this who would get it like we do.
I'm going to invoke Betteridge's law of headlines here.

"One theory that’s been gaining traction as of late, on how the NSA got around those pesky little things called laws, is that they outsourced the project to Israel."

So basically a random conspiracy theory clickbait. Also the reference to 8200 here really shows the author has no fogey idea.

In short, Israeli intelligence out of necessity doesn't focus on PRISM like data-mining approaches.
But are your assumptions correct? Just because you recognise situations where you would want to be left alone, is it not possible that extroverts wouldn't want to be left alone in those same situations?
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> I can rebut Assange's points on their own merits, but I choose not to

Yes. Instead, you chose an ad hominem attack, which is pretty much the definition of feeding the trolls.

> Is this ad hominem reasoning? Sure, but ad hominem reasoning isn't necessarily bad.

No, ad hominem reasoning is simply meritless. The opposite of engaging in a discussion is remaining silent, not scoffing and walking off stage.
An intermediary system. Sure, there will be internet access at the Utah facility, but the networks will be separated. Stuxnet was physically delivered on a USB drive. Stuxnet didn't have the requirement of sending back massive amounts of data (or any really).
"The other way to look at it is that he might be an expert..."

He is definitely an expert. From Wikipedia, he is a pediatrician, co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, and published more than 130 papers in medical and scientific journals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Offit
You may be interested to read this, then: http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/14/russia-foreign-agents-law... - it's an article from Human Rights Watch, whose representative was quoted in the OP, about a somewhat similar programme recently instated in Russia requiring some journalistic agencies to register as "foreign agents" or face penalties. Funny how it's all the same actors, much the same plot, just on a different set.
Military operations are not law enforcement.

A side that operates like this doesn't get to call itself the "Good Guys" or call its opponents "Terrorists".
Yes, and water is wet, that doesn't change anything to my two previous messages.
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I completely agree with negligence on the part of the facility management and entire hierarchy of responsibility there. I just think it's a separate issue :-)
> The "cyberwarfare" will be the new war on terror, 5-10 years from now.

Yes, just like the war on terror is the new war on communism.

By 1990, all the defence contractors figured out that without a boogey man to scare people with, the US government has a lot of things it would rather spend money on than billable hours.
Its a great little tool. I have been using it for a over a year now and it simplifies the dev environment issues by sandboxing it. In general, it allows you to isolate your development servers and other such programs and libraries in a sandbox. You can use the editors, browsers etc on your local machine however the servers and other heavy lifting can be done by the vm in the sandbox env. I think this is still bleeding edge stuff as I dont see very many developers using this. Would love to hear experiences of fellow hackers.

One question - I use vagrant with VirtualBox as the provider. Has any body used vagrant with the VMware provider. Wondering if one sees better performance on vmware than virtualbox. Specially when you are running everything (host and guest) on the same hdd.
>The (potential) application of statutes may be outrageous for the kind of infraction.

You can stop right there, because that's the whole point. If the government had charged them with trespassing and fined them each $1000 or put them in jail for two weeks (and then taken the opportunity to have a good hard look at the security of their facility), nobody would be complaining about anything. This is about proportionality.

> Don't be surprised that they do throw the book at you, if you give them the means to do so.

The idea is that they should not have the means to do so. "Making the government look stupid" is not a felony. Trespassing is not a felony. "Here's the defendant, find me the crime" is a miscarriage of justice. A law that allows them to do that to anyone is a broken law that demands to be fixed. And yes, there are a lot of them, and they all need to be fixed.
great project , cant wait to test it.
I think you're conflating nationalism with ... love of community or something. And you're conflating rights with law, I think.

I'm not even sure we're talking about the same thing, and I'm anything but certain we disagree on any point of substance.
This ffind isn't this ffind: https://github.com/sjl/friendly-find ?
What these documents refer to:

1. Criminal investigations within US.

2. National security investigations when they need NSL.

3. Criminal investigations outside US when foreign government officials contact Google.

There is no mention of the main goal of PRISM: national security investigations when they apply to people from foreign countries. They don't need NSL, because warrantless surveillance to foreign powers is allowed by FISA.

>The presentation claims Prism was introduced to overcome what the NSA regarded as shortcomings of Fisa warrants in tracking suspected foreign terrorists. It noted that the US has a "home-field advantage" due to housing much of the Internet's architecture. But the presentation claimed "Fisa constraints restricted our home-field advantage" because Fisa required individual warrants and confirmations that both the sender and receiver of a communication were outside the US.

>"Fisa was broken because it provided privacy protections to people who were not entitled to them," the presentation claimed. "It took a Fisa court order to collect on foreigners overseas who were communicating with other foreigners overseas simply because the government was collecting off a wire in the United States. There were too many email accounts to be practical to seek Fisas for all."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-n...
The Mormons don't go on missions to Arab countries, so the Utah spy site is of limited use. But many Israelis on the other hand do speak Arabic; its a secondary language there; so they are naturally a place to outsource electronic surveillance of Arab speaking countries.
Probably the same way governments all over the world do to inconvenient facts: be silent and pretend it doesn't exist.
All the referenced studies (none of them are behind a paywall):

The Beta-Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial: incidence of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality during 6-year follow-up after stopping beta-carotene and retinol supplements.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15572756

Antioxidant supplements for prevention of gastrointestinal cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15464182

Meta-analysis: high-dosage vitamin E supplementation may increase all-cause mortality

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15537682

Effects of long-term vitamin E supplementation on cardiovascular events and cancer: a randomized controlled trial.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15769967

Multivitamin use and risk of prostate cancer in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17505071

Antioxidant supplements for prevention of mortality in healthy participants and patients with various diseases.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18425980

Dietary supplements and mortality rate in older women: the Iowa Women's Health Study
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21987192

Effect of Hypericum perforatum (St John's Wort) in Major Depressive Disorder
A Randomized Controlled Trial
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=194814
You mean a one time cost "far outweighs" the perpetual annoyance of time zones?