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Hey guys, I'm a long time reader but this is my first time posting, I'm not sure on the proper etiquette of these things but I wanted to share my goal with you guys. Feedback would be really appreciated. Thanks!
C++ is painful, but language wars are more painful and divisive in the long run. This is from six years ago, why bring it back from the dead? C vs. C++ squabbling should have ended in the 90s IMO.
Or wasn't asked because nearly all of the content is public already. Or is going to cave after some unknown amount of resistance in the future like Apple, Facebook, and Google did. Or dozens of other possibilities.
Tea party groups weren't targeted for audits. Groups that applied for tax exempt status on basis of providing social welfare were sent for additional screening to ensure the group was not primarily a political group. There were over 300 applications sent for additional screening. 1/3 were conservative groups. 1/3 were liberal. The whole problem was the selection criteria for being reviewed - based on the name of the group.
Try git-annex and git-annex-assistant; it doesn't even require a central server.
"These are national security assets: evidence gathered here will never be used in a drug case, or a tax evasion case. Why not? These tools exist for the bigger fish"

Yes, "national security assets" would never be used for silly things like the war on drugs:

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-01-12/local/me-147_1_drug-c...

That is the problem with this sort of argument. Things done to catch terrorists usually wind up being used for law enforcement purposes years down the road. Terrorism just is not common enough to justify the expenditure; eventually, after the well-connected companies and contractors have laughed their way to the bank, some politician comes in and says, "This is a waste of money, but it would be less wasteful to use it to help our poor, overburdened cops!"
Sen. Mark Udall: I knew about the NSA spying, did everything but leak to stop it
Possibly the judge should have ruled that the law was unconstitutional and therefore void. The legislature cannot make laws that contradict the constitution.
Depends on your metaphor. If you think of software distribution like manufacturing, then writing the library is more like re-tooling an assembly line for production. This metaphor makes sense to me because both are significant one-time investments that (potentially) keep paying dividends far into the future.
Maybe they noticed what happened to Joe Nacchio?
Exactly which data is exposed for each provider?

According to slide 2, all of it. You might be confusing this with yesterday's Verizon story, which was "only" metadata -- caller, sender, time, and duration. This one is "actual" data -- email content, chat text, audio/video of VoIP calls.

(From the article, there's also a parallel NSA program (BLARNEY) that collects metadata only. I don't know why there's two of them).
is it just me or did a lot of chimney commenters just shrug away the inadequacies of this app by predicting things based on nothing at all?
But that's not a personal attack. The comment also mentions speculations about "rejoice" when they opened the Facebook graph, after believing what the article says about FB's methods of data sharing without further questioning.

Again: Questioning the motives behind an attempt of persuasion argument isn't a personal attack.
<Insert obligatory comment about bread and circuses>
I took the liberty of "correcting" that with an upvote I'd otherwise wouldn't have given before spending some time on that lobsters site. :)
Actually, in my haste to post I only listed the ones that I thought of right away. I was quite disappointed to hear the Apple too, has succomb.

Now I really have a reason to install Debian Wheezy on MBPr. ;p

This is no way to live. Something must be done.
I actually found that GitHub Pages didn't scale well at all -- during peak traffic, response times slowed to over 10 seconds. This was my main motivation for the switch. Nginx (even on a micro EC2) should be able to handle very high load without the need to scale. S3 is definitely a viable option as well (and I'm not suggesting you shouldn't use it) but I find that an EC2 was a better fit for my needs.
It’s baiting. Look at this similar title:

“Technology company Apple introduces entirely new user interface for its computers”

(Title for a 2013 article, referring to Apple’s 1984 original Mac)
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We have such a massive program, according to many; the NTSB is a big bureaucracy and a lot of people consider the whole concept of speed limits and traffic police as a encroachment upon their freedom rather than a reasonable collective decision on how to share transit arteries.

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

This seems a rather inappropriate aphorism, since most people here would very much like to deny the NSA access to information about their phone usage. This is an argument against censorship rather than one in support of privacy.

I don't think you've really thought this argument through. I don't think the government is so much interested in vastly expanding its powers of information gathering (although as I've noted elsewhere, the government has had unlimited access to your phone records, by order of the Supreme court, since 1979), as it is in maximizing its predictive abilities within its existing legal limits - which is also considered by many to be part of its job. It's not so much you vs. the government as you vs. a large number of your fellow citizens that simply don't share your beliefs about privacy, and who choose to elect law-and-order types more often than civil-liberties types.
If the linked PDF is actually the text of the bill then it does nothing. Searching, it will be argued, is the active analysis of collected phone calls/internet logs still currently illegal without a warrant. The passive archiving will be unaffected.

Paul, I'd assume -though that assumption in turn assumes he's smart enough to tie his own shoes- knows or was told this already.

So... PR stunt?
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The CIA has stated that it wants to do this.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/

Tech like the XBox One will make this pretty easy (as its microphone is always on and the Kinect cam is integrated).
Actually it's the backdoor bit that's more problematic. If they hand data by court order that is acceptable but if the government has direct lines to servers that is much more problematic.
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And my guess is the following video is an example of why the NYT is now saying that Obama no longer has any credibility on this issue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6fnfVJzZT4
The funny thing is this is about yesterdays story, dealing with just metadata. The article asserts that it's no big deal because it's just metadata.

With today's revelation that they're slurping everything from everywhere with no accountability, this article is now comedy.
I'm pretty sure Congress approves of this. You'd be surprised how many laws contain clauses exempting the decisions of agencies from judicial review, for example. A lot of lawmakers dislike the idea of an independent judiciary and consider Article III of the Constitution to be a design flaw.
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The problem is when things get "tough" certain individuals will use this for political purposes or some other gain. It is like IRS targeting "tea party" - but much more scarier.

But I grow up in Eastern Europe, so I'm unreasonably concerned and paranoid. It will not happen here because we are so special. /sarcasm.
Dropbox coming soon?

Dropbox better come out ASAP with a formal response to this. But honestly, it might not even matter because if the NSA has targeted Dropbox, any betting man would say that it is already part of the problem.

Ugh...
Reread it yourself. He does in fact uphold forcefulness ("confidence", "command", "outmaneuver", not "feeble") and rhetoric ("inner strength", "emotion") as superior to logical thought ("predictable", "rigid"). It's like he just discovered that street-level debates don't follow Oxford rules, that some people cannot be persuaded by logic, and that other people can be persuaded by illogical means, so he denounces the use of logic and stands by the illogical means as the path to deducing correctness. He views rhetoric as persuasiveness as correctness. His examples all reinforce this analysis.

And let's consider that "inner strength". It is not the actual strength of the argument since that is what the logic-users would see and support. If the argument had outer strength, the baloney detectors would not have called it out in the first place. This "inner strength" is a feeling he gets from the argument. It is an emotional uplift. It is irrelevant to the actual strength of the argument.

When the baloney detectors are correct, they very well ought to be assertive, stubborn, and convinced of their own correctness. Why should they accept their opponent's views as fact after they have proved it insufficiently justified or logically false?

And yes, conversations can be multifaceted. I'm sorry to have to inform you that serious logical flaws and mistakes of fact in one facet of a multifaceted conversation do in fact invalidate that one facet of the conversation.

And please refrain from the insults, although it was nice to learn that I am both young and old at the same time, and also a racist.
Assuming that the demand for real jobs in the sectors that are hiring interns remains constant without the unpaid internships then this might in fact be a good thing.

An opportunity that is only realistically available to those from more affluent backgrounds (who already have a bunch more advantages) actually translates into a disadvantage for those who are unable to take them, so it is somewhat a zero sum game.

Especially if they become a defacto requirement for the best jobs in some sectors.
YES! Ha, I totally thought this...
I might be cynical but you cannot lobby against this. The only way you can avoid being watched is to actually take technical countermeasures to prevent being watched.

What good is donating to the EFF when they have no power to stop the CIA/NSA from doing this?
Why bother? An app like this is going to make significantly more money in the Apple ecosystem. With all the Vesper features they could be working on, I'm sure they don't see any need to spend time on Android or Windows right now.
I don't know about Spitzer (though he was Governor of New York), but someone holding blackmail leverage over Petraeus is certainly a matter of national security concern.
Thanks for the reminder to get this set up again (they could probably use some help getting payment expired emails set up, or if they have them, I never saw them). In for $25/mo.
Leaving works for individuals fortunate enough to be in a position where it is feasible. Unfortunately it is not a solution that can be applied across the board. Even assuming every concerned American had the means to leave, such a mass exodus of Americans would surely cause concern in any country they might wish to flee too.
I don't agree. The traditional news outlet that broke this story (The Guardian) has a lot of advantages over WikiLeaks. It has experienced reporters who understand the issues involved. It has a well-known and respected editorial process that can weigh the consequences of a leak versus the potential value to the public. It has a process through which the public can contact the organization and correct errors. When WikiLeaks put out the cables I noticed that there was one cable where they redacted the names of people who had met with US diplomats from the body of the document but not from the title of the document. I looked very hard for any way to contact WikiLeaks to get the matter fixed and found nothing - their website suggested that people interested in providing feedback contact human rights organizations or a couple of law firms in the UK. On the other hand, traditional journalists typically post their email addresses and twitter handles and will often respond to queries.

Yes, the administration is aggressively challenging leakers, but newspapers have a long, successful history of defending their first amendment rights in the courts. Nor is it clear that a UK-based newspaper such as The Guardian would be subject to Justice Department subpoena's or prosecution.

WikiLeaks, particularly under Julian Assange, has demonstrated a complete lack of transparency and biased reporting (c.f. the Collateral Murder video). I have a lot more confidence in, say, The New York Times or The Guardian than Wikileaks.
How does Skype's key exchange work? If the supernode hands out an address for a server that intercepts the call, would the Skype client still accept it and connect?
I doubt it's an R mole. If you think for a minute the GOP isn't in this as well, well...
i want that under water pen! tired of having to write while on land.
I have been a single founder 2 times (one of the companies got sold and other one is doing good) and 2 times with co-founders. And I personally find starting up a single founder.

You mentioned you have good ideas more than 2 times i guess, you will have to take that thing out of your mind. When you are onto something, burn rest of the ideas for atleast 6 months.

If you can't find co-founder, surround yourself with team members, start with hiring people remotely china,india,bangladesh.

Build prototype, no full fledged product. Try to fail fast if things doesn't pick after few months to save some time and fatigue. By prototype I mean, that one feature that separates you from others.

Learn to delegate work. As a programmer first, founder second - I used to micro manage things which gave me really bad time with my first startup. But as you start delegating work to your remote workers / employees, you will start feeling better.

I would advice you to build something with atleast some business model. Its tough to create instagrams or tumblrs of the world.

Hope this helps.
People can put their lives on Facebook's database, it's still Facebook's database. The problem is not that Facebook is sharing this information, it is that people are sharing it with Facebook.
Justifications for some, sacrificial firings for others. Just like Abu Ghraib.
What do you call speed cameras, signs, highway maintenance, driver education, highway patrol policing, periodic public information campaigns and aggressive regulation of safety standards in the automobile industry?
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He presumably changed course once already (when he received 'the news' that he could get away with the sort of shit he had many convinced he wouldn't do). With any luck he'll change course again with the new 'news' that the first news was wrong.

However I cannot say that I am optimistic.
Ugh, I think I voted for her. :-( When is she up for reelection?
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They didn't even stop a couple of dumb kids with a pressure cooker.
I wouldn't recommend Project Euler - it's math-based and that would be a roundabout way of learning anything else but math.

Here's my recommendation:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/H-99:_Ninety-Nine_Haskell...
Well this story did break 2 or 3 hours ago ...
The government's theory is that a national security letter is sufficient to get access to your data. No warrant required. And Dropbox is not allowed to tell you that it happened.

And yes, they can give your data to the government. Communications to/from Dropbox are encrypted. But it is unencrypted on the back end. See http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-u... for how we can know that.
That worked so well for Anwar al-Awlaki.
core77 is mostly a design blog. This excavation dates back to 2000, so its not really new news.
Host it yourself, and use something like this:

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
Apple Says It Never Heard of PRISM
Interestly enough, speed cameras and highway patrols have nothing to do with traffic safety either. Highways could easily have camera systems to monitor the exact time when cars get on and off exits to determine how fast on average they were going during their trip. These systems have been tested and work, but the fact is that actually cracking down on speeders is massively unpopular and a political non-starter.
We have rights to privacy

Sadly, this is not nearly as clear as it could be: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightof...
Which was a problem because its nearly impossible to review these groups properly anyway - the criteria are so broad that it's practically a subjective decision. Of course, Congress could amend the tax code to provide clear instructions to the IRS on what should and should not trigger review and what should be reviewed, but that all sounds a little bit too much like actually doing their jobs.
Yes, the government has "limited" access to your phone records, with a subpoena issued by a judge, after probable cause has been demonstrated. Anything else is a clear violation of the 4th Amendment.
Ask HN: Building first B2B product, how to reach them to validate? 
I'm looking to build my first B2B product and I want to validate the concept before writing any code. I've started to put together an informative landing page (still in progress) and I believe the copy is simple enough but doesn't get too technical.

I've sat down with some business owners and I believe they "get it." I haven't shown it to friends or family who aren't in the industry I'm trying to reach.

The core users (hopefully) will be local bars, restaurants and lounges that have high foot traffic centered around entertainment. What are the best ways to get the word out to them, get them to the site and gauge interest?

One idea I had was to design a postcard, purchase a mailing list and send it to all of the businesses in the area. Get people to the site and do the email signup flow, offering $10 off when it launches. This will cost about $600 for the printing and mailing.

Another idea is to buy ad space through Adwords. This seems more of a gamble as you have to predict what business owners might be searching for.

What have you done to reach B2B users before your product launches?
2018. But it's exceedingly unlikely that she has a realistic challenger in either the primary or the general elections.
which of the major issues that the Obama Administration has the major US media broken recently? None. We have had nearly five years of a silent, complacent, if not compliant, major news media in the US. Sadly we have to resort to foreign news sources to get to the story.

Don't be surprised if Al-Jazeera breaks a story before one of ours does.
Google, Apple and Facebook Deny Participating In Alleged NSA “PRISM” Program
I have a simple question:

If you're a terrorist, why would you use any of these pre-built services? There are so many ways to do point-to-point, encrypted at both ends...

I guess when I hear "Dragnet"... the only people I see getting swept into it is innocent people and really, really, really stupid terrorists.
The laws may be written with judicial exemption clauses, but the SC tends to view those with the seriousness they deserve...
Link to delete Google Account:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32046?hl=en
Does Debian (or any Linux distro for that matter) support HDPI displays without looking awful?
>The implication of your position is that we either have an electronically connected society, or we have an expectation of privacy, but not both. The nature of technology in general, and the internet in particular, involves the co-mingling of property on the site of some 3rd party for the benefit of all.

Agreed. It's a strange position to take that because it's technically possible for the government to access the information (owed to the location of the data), then they should be allowed to do so. This could be used to rationalize virtually unlimited access to otherwise private communications in today's hyper-connected world.

But, capabilities that we have had in the past (e.g. wiretapping) have always been checked in order to preserve privacy (or, put more Constitutionally, protect us from unreasonable search and seizure). Phone calls have always involved third-party transmission by the telcos. Why is that different from data sitting on a third-party server?

In general, however, it becomes silly to argue what should be permissible based on the ancillary nuances of technical architecture. It's a bit of a red-herring. The real question is "what is the intent of the protections afforded by the Constitution and are we upholding that intent". To argue that "the government should have a particular right because there's a client-server architecture involved vs. P2P" is spurious in this context.
I (very hackishly, but nonetheless) got it to sort of work:

http://imgur.com/a/PQX63#1

It's full of lots of (mostly green) noise because the demo's chroma key algorithm/parameters aren't that good, but it was fun to do!
That would be a "Vespa".
There's the rub. Law enforcement can't prove that you have the keys (unless you volunteer them), and that's why being forced to unlock something is a violation of the 5th amendment (since the ability to unlock the data is by itself an admission of possession).

There was a case - I don't recall the specifics - of a guy that was caught with child porn on his computer crossing the Canadian border. The courts compelled him to unlock his encrypted partitions because he had already unlocked them once (when asked to by the border agent) thereby proving that he had access to the keys. If he had never unlocked it in the first place, the fifth would have protected him against being compelled to decrypt the data, since the act of unlocking it would in effect be a coerced admission that the data was his.
BTSync cannot handle conflicting changes. It will destroy data if a file is modified in both places, and will proceed to overwrite something when it propagates the update.

And, if you're concerned about spying - well, it is closed source.
I'm not sure why this is a big surprise to anyone. I'm a cynic, but if anyone asked me whether I think the NSA, CIA, or FBI are eavesdropping on personal communications, I would say, "of course they are." This is nothing new: ECHELON, Clipper/Skipjack, Carnivore, ...
> These are national security assets: evidence gathered here will never be used in a drug case, or a tax evasion case.

That's a common miss-belief. Its false on so many levels, but people keep believing in it even after it has been found to be false every single time it has been said.

To take an example with wiretaps in US. First they said that any data found about innocent bystanders would be imminently destroyed. A few years later, they change the rules to keep it, but proclaimed that it was just 60 days. Years later, they put out a small press release and changed it to 5 months.

Or take the Swedish wiretap law. Politians and collumnist promised high and low that it would never, EVER, be used for anything but terrorism threats outside the national border. They said that anyone believing otherwise was tinfoil hats, and just misunderstood the issue. Before a year had passed, the secret police (for internal security) was granted an exception. A few months later, government politicians got an exception. At the same time, the police got an exception to target serious crime. A few months further down, and it was talks about using the data for our version of IRS.

Yes, never ever indeed.
I am convicted hacker that got caught through the patriot act (which was to catch terrorists)[0].

The biggest two lessons I learned from what I did was..1) if I can't tell someone what I'm doing it's probably wrong (I was 19 when I hacked Google, Etrade, and Schwab and thought it was ok)...and 2) if I have nothing to hide, then I shouldn't care to use the internet.

All this is really is confirmation more than a discovery.

[0] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/05/man-allegedly-b/