skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, there are excellent reasons for the current interpretation based on precedent. Although I'm quite liberal, I partly agree with conservative legal scholars that the Warren court engaged in quite a bit of legal overreach during the 60s with cases like Griswold, interpreting the Constitution so broadly that legal argument ever since has involved too much rhetorical trickery and too little straightforward explanation of the Constitution. We spend too much time on increasingly strained arguments about what the language of the Constitution means, which would be better spent on building a public consensus to amend the Constitution using clear and unambiguous language, eg inserting an explicit constitutional right to individual privacy rather than 'discovering' one in the 'penumbras' (shadows) and 'emanations' of other constitutional protections like the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.

Of course the problem with rewriting the Constitution every time you have an idea for improving it is that after a while you end up with the sort of Constitution we have in California, which is less a collection of guiding principles than a heap of legislation on steroids: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const-toc.html

At bottom, what you have is a set of conflicting imperatives. It's perfectly reasonable to charge government with the job of protecting people from military attacks, and as we saw in 2001 the costs of failure to do so can be truly severe. The opportunity costs of investing the government with broad powers to prevent such attacks are much harder to quantify. I have to say that I think the 'war on drugs' has been legally and practically far more destructive of liberty than the Patriot act or the NSA (but please don't interpret this as an endorsement of the latter). I don't worry about top-down totalitarian government nearly as much as I do about the inexorable economics of privately run prisons and city and county pension gaps. People don't care as much about the liberty of crack- and meth-heads (since drug addicts stereotypically have little consideration for others), so we craft these overbroad laws intended to protect the legitimate interests of good people by scapegoating ne'er-do-wells.
Why your click events don't work on Mobile Safari
If they can get lemonade cheaper then yes they lost. In this instance there would have been no stand if not for the investor. Chemically speaking the investor is the catalyst that make the whole reaction possible.
Turns out it is also quite easy to generate total and utter crap by writing about C++.

It is reasonable to speculate that C++ is more popular with beginner programmers than C, and that this may significantly affect the characteristics of a software project developed by a big team or community, as opposed a single particular programmer.

It is also reasonable to assume that trovalds speaks out of his experience and doesn't merely speculate.

As for me, his observation perfectly matches my personal experience.
MEGA?
EUP 2014
This comment is a joke, right? You're trying to provide an example of what an irrelevant invocation of "ad hominem" actually looks like, right?
I would be surprised if it hasn't already been extracted and added to the governments collection.
If I wanted to pair this with an imap or pop3 mail account, what other command would I need to run?
I am so happy this is finally getting media coverage. I'm sick and tired of being called 'paranoid' whenever I say it's obvious this is what the NSA is doing with their enormous data centers.

This is STILL just the tip of the iceberg. I really hope the whistle blowers continue to release details of more and more of these secret programs. If people think this is as bad as it gets they're in for quite a shock. Call metadata, all your private files, and the people you stalk on Facebook are nothing.

How about access to your laptop's webcam and microphone? How about the two cameras and the microphone on the smartphone you carry with you everywhere? How about the exact GPS location of your phone every minute of the day? How about aggregating the CCTV and traffic camera footage with facial recognition to give a full video/audio recording of you everywhere you go every day? How about all of your credit card purchases aggregated, plotted on map, used to determine your habits?
It's an educated guess IMHO.
if anyone else is confused by the title: it was used for 1,600 years, and has been submerged for 1,200 years (so you might say it's 2,800 years old...)
So can we freak out now? ::
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence...
I can't tolerate misdirected requests, because I can't do anything about them. If my website had any hits in this period, and the response was 301 (as it happened), users won't be able to come back using this browser, pretty much, ever. Most people don't know how to clear their browser's cache.

So it's much bigger issue than a simple outage.
When people wanted to talk about this kind of massive wiretapping program years ago, they were called paranoid nutcases. Now that the truth is coming out, people who want to talk about it are called out for belaboring the obvious.

I see this "are you so naive as to be surprised?" reaction in almost every thread about this. It's some kind of defense mechanism.
Software is design. We can't put design on any kind of assembly line / stamping process. This seems like it will remain true for a long time.
Why would Microsoft buy Skype to make government easedropping easier?
So the fact that the AT&T Nexus S was throttled makes Google at fault too? By your metric every single handset manufacturer has made the "ultimate sellout".
I suppose I am in the minority when I say I was in the same sort of position but stuck with it. I was hired to work on a zombie of a product, walking dead, unprofitable. The problem was there had been no direction for several years and with my help the project is now back on track. There was a period of time where I did the absolute minimum but by taking the initiative and doubling down I am proud of what I have done. I have a problem with startup culture where people are quick to jump ship instead of putting in the required work to create real change.
Tasks from which a potential intern may learn the most are quite likely to be tasks which create value for the employer.

Sounds plausible to me, along with your point about learning experience, but the comment you're responding to is just reflecting American federal labor law.

According to the feds, paid internships can only be for the benefit of the intern, not the employer - if you're gaining from it, you're breaking the law.
This is widely misunderstood; it's possible that Skype is end-to-end secure and everything flows through MS servers. It's possible that there were backdoors in the old pre-MS versions. One really has little to do with the other.
ProPublica is doing a Kickstarter now specifically to do a report on the intern economy: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/propublica/investigating....
Thanks Benlin. Good point.
It has been claimed by many smart people that skype is still p2p and e2e (for the record I disagree with them). Skype does claim to be p2p sometimes for some values of p2p http://liliputing.com/2012/05/skype-abandons-peer-to-peer-te...

>I'm not sure when the security people you are talking about did their audit

The security audit was done in 2005 by Tom Berson of Anagram Laboratories. This was well before Skype was bought by microsoft but Skype links to it off their home page http://www.skype.com/en/security/#review
The people are generally more fun. It is far less humid and almost never rains. The tacos are better. The sea food is cheaper. The bandwidth is better. You can take a train to the happiest place on earth, TJ Mexico. Or up to Disneyland.

Maui's sand is nicer and the water is warm, but there is no surf. Same with Nice, FR -- however the beach is topless(!).
Because those who might benefit most from unpaid internships are often those from disadvantaged groups and the lower classes seeking social mobility.

But doing an unpaid internship necessarily demands an external source of money to cover living expenses. So there are many people who would in theory be happy to do an unpaid internship but are unable to do so practically.
Wow, that's cool. Very cool. Do you guys have any competitors? Does this even need a server to use? If it's p2p, it's already decentralized, right?
Private server with sync software of your choice. Sparkleshare is a quite Dropbox-like git front end. Con: Uses Mono. Pro: Uses Mono.
This is a reply to gknoy:

I would suggest Spider Oak, however, their support is not timely and there's currently a bug in the Windows 8 client that doesn't let it work. But if they get those issues sorted it could be a decent service.

Could someone please tell me why I can't reply to any comments that are below the third level? The reply link simply disappears!

Edit: Now that I've made this statement there's a reply to gknoy, but not the ones below him or to o0-0o. This is really weird.

Edit 2: Upon refreshing, there's now a reply link to o0-0o but not the other ones below gknoy.
5 Reasons You Should Go Mobile
I guess it depends on your use case, most of the use cases I've seen have been time series using range iterations which is incredibly fast, but I understand your concern if you're only using it for random gets.
Numbers 2, 4 and 5 are all based on the same false premise that the Fisa "court" is somehow a check on the government.
Read about the Fisa court, it meets in secret, is located in the same building as the DOJ, and did not turn down a single government surveillance request in 2012.
You are thinking about it from someone trying to understand another person through distorted comms. You aren't thinking about every other signal in the "speech" that is really quite easily identifiable with a reasonable margin of error.
No, but now there is proof, which should make a difference. How are all of these not cases for impeachment? If Fox News thought Obama should be impeached over Benghazi, they should love this.
The company I am at now was all of those things when I started, it is none of those things now. You work at relationships, not jump ship and talk about them behind their back.
Microsoft outlines their system for used games, licenses, and family sharing
I've read somewhere that it's voluntary
edit: read it here http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-dat...
Just built a fulfillment app for a relative's Shopify store using EasyPost last month. The sub-10-minute support response times are real, and the drop in pricing to 5c/package is phenomenal.
We decided to test an internship programme at Mandalorian and we found someone that we really wanted to take on as an intern, but I felt that there were two things we needed to do:

1. Pay them a graduate starting salary for the duration of their internship.

2. Make sure we had the time to invest in helping them grow before going back to university rather than just giving them shit jobs or using them as cheap labour.

Unfortunately number 2 was derailed by the fact that we took a full time graduate on and felt that this combined with illness meant we couldn't guarantee the mentoring that we wanted to provide. We felt that we couldn't do right by the intern we wanted, so we postponed the programme.

We set up a hack week for next month in order for our geographically disparate team to get some time together and some proper training. In addition to bringing the team we invited both the intern we had to cancel and the student we wanted to intern with us for next year (as we found him this year but he was a year early). Our plan is to spend a week breaking stuff and training each other up on core pentesting areas. The students get to come along and join in on that as well as take part in ad-hoc hacking sessions. Both students took us up on it and we're covering their costs. Our not quite intern will probably be offered a job around graduation time, the other lad will almost certainly be our paid intern next year.

There's a right way and a wrong way to do internships. If you can't do it the right way I believe you shouldn't do it at all.

By all means offer them opportunities if they're genuine, but don't dress them up as internships. Just be straight with them. The students attending hack week will go back to Abertay Uni to do their ethical hacking degree projects having spent the week living with a pentest team and hacking all the things, something none of the other students will have done. While they haven't been paid they won't pay a penny for the week. I will reluctantly let them chip in for beer if they insist, but everything else is on us. It just wouldn't be right any other way.
Contrarian to be contrarian drives eyeballs, which drives ad revenue. Keep writing stupid articles Will.
use Tonido (http://www.tonido.com)
I'm especially appalled to see Dropbox on this list. I'm in the process of migrating to BitTorrent Sync.
Funny thing though... if Fox goes after Obama over this, it's tacitly admitting that Bush was evil too. I doubt they'll do that.
I am reminded of the story linked on HN a few days ago detailing how many people were in solitary confinement in US prisons and how they ended up there.

Many of the people were in solitary because the bureaucracy had decided that they were associated with a gang. And even if the link was tenuous then into solitary they would go being allowed out of their cell for an hour a day.

I can imagine this dragnet of NSA data being used one day for similar automatic spurious bureaucratic purposes. If the wrong person rings your mobile phone asking about something you're selling on craigslist then say goodbye to your security clearance. And heaven help you if you get involved in the US criminal justice system.
Entrepreneur Magazine suing over word 'Entrepreneur'
Fair point. I wasn't aware of this, and have since read the relevant DOL fact sheet [1].

[1] http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
Keep paying US taxes and voting. That should work.

(But seriously. It's time. Pack your belongings and leave. Vote with your tax dollars, please.)
Time to self host everything. Paranoia just became reality.

http://www.slashgeek.net/2013/02/17/self-host-everything/
There's been a lot of debate over the past several years as to whether or not unpaid internships are even legal.

The clearest outline is from the FSLA, and the criteria is outlined below:

"If all of the factors [below] are met, then the worker is a “trainee”, an employment relationship does not exist under the FLSA, and the FLSA’s minimum wage and overtime provisions do not apply to the worker:

1. The training, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to what would be given in a vocational school or academic educational instruction;
2. The training is for the benefit of the trainees;
3. The trainees do not displace regular employees, but work under their close observation;
4. The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the trainees, and on occasion the employer’s operations may actually be impeded;
5. The trainees are not necessarily entitled to a job at the conclusion of the training
period; and
6. The employer and the trainees understand that the trainees are not entitled to wages for the time spent in training. "

EG if an internship meets those criteria, you don't need to be paid.

(1) http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEGL/TEGL12-09acc.pd...
The story that the CIA sold cocaine is pretty much outside of the realm of conspiracy theories. The idea that spying agencies care about laws is ridiculous. Why should they? If they are doing their job right no one will ever know.
While unpaid internships are sad, I would be really interested in seeing how many of these positions would not exist otherwise. I'm sure some of them exploit interns to save a few bucks, but I can guarantee there are other situations where the company would just go without for the summer if they couldn't do unpaid internships.

An unpaid internship is better than doing nothing. It might even be better than working at McDonalds.
First off, with regards to calling strlen multiple times in the loop, the author is just plain wrong. Gnu C has something called __builtin_strlen which is a compiler extension that can replace the function calling a statically allocated string with just its length[1] making it essentially zero overhead. Second, strlen is defined with __attribute_pure__, which means that the compiler can optimize to just one function call in all other cases[2]. With these two compiler optimizations, C is at least as efficient as C++ in worst cases, and much better otherwise.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html
[2] http://ohse.de/uwe/articles/gcc-attributes.html#func-pure
Just guessing, but maybe tax breaks or some government contracts.
Very interesting that the NSA's own material refers to Facebook's "surveillance" features:

With a few clicks and an affirmation that the subject is believed to be engaged in terrorism, espionage or nuclear proliferation, an analyst obtains full access to Facebook’s “extensive search and surveillance capabilities against the variety of online social networking services.”
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy [pdf]
Not to condone such an intrusive government but I've read that a lot of personal info is public record but with the result of, for example, being able to track diseases with great precision in families over decades.

I forget whereI read it but there is more to it than that but the gist of it is the existence of such a massive amount of data results in amazing discoveries.
That link looks more like a security classification to me.
Why we should be eating horses (Instead of riding them).
We need this again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
They're also generally quite illegal for exactly that reason.

There's a list of requirements you need to meet to not pay an intern, and it's actually pretty stringent. The problem is most interns feel they're not in a position to actually do anything about this. :(

Most could probably sue for back wages if they didn't fear reprisal.

NYTimes did an article on this a bit ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html?pag...

On a similar note I've seen the same thing with servers: employers will pay below minimum wage even for hours that tips don't make up the difference, or dock pay for customers that run out. Both of those are against the law (at least in my state) but employees fear that they'll be fired if they speak up. (The flip side is that they generally don't report cash tips on their taxes.)
Still better than Google, though, who are actually reading the content of all my e-mails and documents, without so much as even notifying a judge, or even a "judge" as you refer to them. It is beyond me how Americans continue to believe in a political system so cynical and so corrupt that allows a corporation to gather so much data about private citizens without any oversight whatsoever.

What is Google doing with the data? Who has access to it? How do they make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands?

And if you say the difference is that you're surrendering your data to Google voluntarily, I'll say it's not that different from what you do with the phone companies. What you had here was lack of information. You simply didn't know the government was collecting your data. Well, now you do. Most Google users aren't aware that Google is actively scanning and analyzing their information either. The only difference is that the US government owes the people an explanation, while Google reports to no one, as long as its egregious widespread surveillance - which, BTW, is on a much bigger scale than this NSA business - is considered legal. The only reason Google gets away with it is because people either don't know, or would rather not know how their personal information is used by Google (I would add "against them", but that is a metter of opinion).
Writing for the audience you want (and not the audience you have)
I think it depends on who your talking about. If your a decently educated person who follows political developments at least minimally, and to boot you're a developer - I really agree with the OP, should anyone be surprised here? Haven't you been acting all along like all data that major corps are collecting on you was public anyway? On the other hand, if your talking about an everyday citizen with a "normal" job, I think your criticisms are more in place.
New data? Do you really think this is news to Obama?
Im not sure being not American saves us. Do you use any of those US services? If so, I assume they have your data.

If you are British, as I am, I assume our government is shovelling off all our data to the US too.

As far as I am concerned, the internet is now pretty much like having our lives bugged. Might as well go the whole hog and have CCTV in all house holds. Heh, for all I know they access out webcams, etc. So, we might already be there.

I'm afraid the US has essentially infected the internet with a cancer what will only spread. Freedom, privacy, liberty, on the internet is officially gone. Sure we all "knew" about the likes of echelon for years, but it was officially dismissed as loony conspiracy talk. Now we know it basically true.

Sad thing is, this is under the watch of a Democrat, started by a Republican. Who is going to dare to reverse this?
Xbox One publishers decide whether games can be resold
So it's attempting to be like github with various invented new terms for the same functions?
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal says it well:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2961#c...

but also:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2974#c...
Why The Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)
That's suggesting that they have even the slightest compulsion to not be hypocritical. I'd expect them to hit him hard on this (and good for them, even if their reasons for doing so might be dishonest).
I assumed this was already happening and surprised it's news.
>I see this "are you so naive as to be surprised?" reaction in almost every thread about this. It's some kind of defense mechanism.

That's why I'm saying you are right to be upset.

I like the saying "being paranoid does not mean they are not after you". And being paranoid turned out to be realistic.
Naw, just in the part of Idaho near Utah.
The file hoster with server side de-dublication?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4070671

The short answer: You should have already presumed this was happening. Did you really think they'd allow this opportunity to pass them up?
The presidency is one of those jobs.
Is there an open source dropbox-style app that I can install on my own server?
I'll leave this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597347
When marinas become full of thrify tech workers, slip fees increase, people bid up any available slip (used boat), and real boaters are forced out, then you will have encouraged people enough.
They're illegal in the UK now unless performed as part of an official college/university placement.

As a small business owner I'm not yet in the position to employ others yet I have work that could provide decent training/work experience for somebody. I feel like an internship programme at my company would be mutually beneficial for us and the intern. Alas, for now, I'll be working alone.

Edit: This country has almost NO skilled workforce. I could help out if they would only let me.