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These are indeed the end times; I quote, with approval, The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/06/civil-li...):

"Few Americans believe that they live in a police state; indeed many would be outraged at the suggestion. Yet the everyday fact that the police have the right to monitor the communications of all its citizens – in secret – is a classic hallmark of a state that fears freedom as well as championing it. Ironically, the Guardian's revelations were published 69 years to the day since US and British soldiers launched the D-day invasion of Europe. The young Americans who fought their way up the Normandy beaches rightly believed they were helping free the world from a tyranny. They did not think that they were making it safe for their own rulers to take such sweeping powers as these over their descendants."

Or in the acid wit of Iowahawk (https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/342683624216330242):

"I'm grateful to the American heroes who stormed Normandy and made NSA monitoring of this tweet possible."
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Not being state run does not mean it is not under the influences of the state and the position its leaders take.

"First, it is home to al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language news network that has transformed how Arabs get their news. Many give the television channel more credit for spurring on the Arab Spring than Facebook or Twitter. By bringing the revolutions into the homes of every Arab, al-Jazeera drew regional attention to early events in Tunisia and helped boost the number of Egyptians on the streets from the thousands to the hundreds of thousands. Al-Jazeera gives Qatar “soft power” well beyond its size."[0]

Kinda like the history between the CIA and many news organizations that "operate distinctly independently".[1]

[0]: http://www.cfr.org/qatar/tiny-qatars-big-plans-may-change-mi...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_the_media#Use_of_mass_...
That you are aware of. There was outages at the io registry nameservers, read.io was most certainly affected.
Yeah, "I am high as a kite" and "Finally" are two I like to put in when I can. Gruber defined the genre. I just like to visit it.
Matt Petach (NetEng/Yahoo) does some calculations on the PRISM wiretap project.
Tell HN: Don't let anger drive your decisions towards the US government
Everyone should keep in mind that the goal is to fix the US government. This goal should be more important to our generation than landing on the moon was to our parents/grandparents. it certainly is more consequential, both in the short and long term.

The US govt is only superficially broken. The corruption can be purged without destroying the bedrock of the country. But it will take a lot of hard work. This is a community that understands the importance of dedication and perseverance.

Most importantly though, it has to be done cooly and rationally. Even though everyone is mad, we cant let anger dictate our decisions.

The last thing we need is a Robespierre (or worse). It would be very easily for someone to step up and demand the heads of bankers, lobbyists, etc. Dont listen to them. There is no quick fix for this situation. This will take us our entire lives and the underlying principles of the United States are worth keeping.

Anger will only lead to less desirable outcomes. The goal is to fix the worlds most powerful country, not to punish the bad apples.

The greatest, and singularly beneficial, outcome of this situation is that the United States becomes a force for good in the world. A government that is respected by the world and pushes all of humanity forward.
Thanks Steve, agreed - just unfortunate that I only found your service earlier today, and when I went back the site was down :( Would having a custom domain have got around the problem, or is that a CNAME to your .io domain?
Quoted for emphasis:

Turing believes machines think /
Turing lies with men /
Therefore machines do not think

Society can be sometimes wonderful, and sometimes so incredibly terrible.
I like the idea of recommendations but the way they did it is useless. If they make it better I would be happy.
Everything they are doing is legal. Americans are shocked that a spy agency was given powers and money by Congress and then proceeded to use them. What did they think would happen? What about holding the idiots who voted almost unanimously on the PATRIOT Act accountable?
Hi there ... thanks . you can search the same way how you search in google. Mostly degree courses & institutions to start with. eg , list of universities in USA, mba in finance , BS in criminal justice , top 10 .... You can narrow them down by region etc - by default it will list the country of your IP as preference. if possible kindly leave your email id in the feedback form , so i can get in touch with you as we progress.
My dad once told me "A degree is a ticket to an interview" way back when I was in high school, and my professional life for the last 8 years continues to bear that out.

A degree does several things for you:

1) Shows that you are trainable
2) Shows that you can follow direction and instructions, complete tasks on time.
3) Implies that you have knowledge of a wide variety of topics
4) Implies that you have expertise in at least one topic.

In my professional opinion, your major doesn't matter -- I personally have a theatre degree, but I'm a senior software engineer for a large corporation.

If you don't have a degree, you need a portfolio. It's not a dealbreaker to not have a degree, but you'll have to prove the above things in some other way. You'll need to prove that you can learn enough in a few weeks to get up to speed with my team. You need to prove that you can follow my directions and complete tasks on time. You need to prove that when I ask you to do something you've never done before, you can figure out how to do it (like research in school). You need to prove to me that you know what you're talking about. You don't have to know everything, but you should know enough that I know that you won't fuck things up.

Also, keep in mind that job listing "requirements" are for ideal candidates -- their IDEAL candidate will have a CS degree, 3-5 years of experience, expertise in X language, and so on. If they need to hire someone soon, they'll often settle for a little less than the ideal. For instance, if you're super good at X language and have been using it for 4+ years, then they may overlook the fact that you don't have a degree. Or if you have a Masters in CS focusing on cloud architecture (I just made that up), and the position is a DevOps position, then they might overlook the fact that you're only 6 months out of school.
Wait a second. You see no distinction between a death from a random vehicle accident and a death at the hands of an organization that is trying to kill as many citizens as possible?

Those are equivalent in your mind?
https://twitter.com/makerop/status/343008058991075330
Per capita would be a huge improvement. It looks awfully similar to a population map at the moment.
One of the product creators here -- we're working on this :) We ended up launching the site today (a week earlier than expected), due to the press on the topic.

We'll have bitcoin support by tomorrow.
The long history of NSA and spying on US citizens
>His answer to any problem seems to be to boycott it, as if that'll change things.

False dicotomy, he's done more than just that.

>What someone in his position should be doing is talking about how to avoid this dystopian future by promoting standards, accountability, and more transparency.

Or, hacking the legal system to create an entire class of intellectual product resistant to the kinds of control he criticizes? Plenty talk, Stallman is one of the few who has done.

Honestly, what more could be expected of one person.
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It's amusing that you're defensive on this subject. Someone accused you of something, then another commenter said the described strategy was actually that of a well managed company. I explained the described strategy was very nearly rent seeking. So even though the thread started about your company, it became more general and that's when I stepped in.

I wasn't talking about your company specifically because I don't even know what you do. But the fact that you're defensive enough to take my comment as an attack makes me wonder if the OP was actually close to the mark. :)
> unless of course the recipes you're using are hosted on github

Yeah, the problem I was having at the time was that Homebrew was trying to fetch a tarball hosted on Github. I was just whinging though, that was the only time I've ever hit that particular snag.

The system you propose would be great, but more work than switching to running headless Linux VMs on OSX for most dev work ;) This is something I have been drifting toward for a while now, using Vagrant.
I think the ideas and algorithms transfer over to web based distributed development more popular imo, otherwise it appears those technologies are used mainly in demos and scientific computation which usually are not as popular. I have seen CUDA in breaking MD5 hashes and the last time I have seen it was simulating water and real time ray tracing.
Actually, I was inspired by Evangelion. I've never seen The Lawnmower Man.
Here is another HTML5 space invaders game
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You can also control this with your iPhone! (Socket.io/nodejs)
Thanks, Samuel Goldwyn.

"If you vote for me, I will <political promise here>" sounds like an oral contract to me, since it involves consideration in the form of a vote.

Oral contracts when done before witnesses may be enforceable in some jurisdictions, except when the type of contract in question explicitly requires a written counterpart, such as in the conveyance of property.

I'm curious if this could be solved at the federal level via checks and balances provided at the state level. i.e. could a State legislate that it is illegal for candidate for US federal office to make false campaign claims when in that state. e.g. Any promises conveyed in speech made by a US presidential candidate when campaigning in that state, would constitute a legally binding contract between that candidate and any constituent of that state that votes for that candidate if that candidate is successfully elected into office.
We are shocked, shocked...
I'm not sure what exactly to do with this site. Maybe there should be an explanation on the main page? Do I search schools? Classes? Degrees? What's the point?
Notwithstanding a MITM attack, the pipes are secure enough, provided you are properly using encryption. If an app stores any sort of data unencrypted on a centralized server, that data is potentially accessible to others who can compromise that server. This makes endpoints a piece of critical importance. When you self-host your data, you can patch that hole in the armour so to speak, because the endpoint falls under your control. Coupled with encryption, it's a massive deterrent to eavesdropping.

In brief: it doesn't solve every Internet eavesdropping problem known to man, no. But it solves a very substantial one that hasn't really been tackled to date.
> Note that no one was actually run over by a tank in China; OTOH, the US has the legacy of the Kent State Massacre

No protestor was run over by a tank at Kent State, either; OTOH, China has the legacy of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, in which at least (even by the official government counts) 50 times as many civilians were killed as at Kent State.
You can not deny the fact they have been lying. Hiding information about data collection and denying it until the evidence is right there in front of them is lying. I'm not saying all politicians are liars, but it sure as hell seems that way.
>I'm not talking about searches at airports here. Searches of people or baggage for weapons, as long as they check only for weapons and keep no records about you if you have no weapons, are just an inconvenience; they do not endanger civil liberties.
Yes. For every animal you don't eat, I'll eat two.
I agree, its "first do no harm" mantra
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Until I read your comment, I thought the post was a joke.
That's the point. Torture can cause collateral damage. These people were not guilty of what they were accused of. But at the same time, you can find out a number of examples of torture giving results.
The sum of everyone's votes is made up of a bunch of single individual votes. If you persuade enough individuals to not cast their single vote, then the election outcome could be swayed.

So sure, telling individual people their vote doesn't matter is basically true. But how many people have you told?! :-)
Erm... I guess that was the point of the map: cheer up! libraries are everywhere!

But still, it would be really interesting to see them per-capita.
I stopped using G+ when it became clear they didn't allow anonymity on it.
I always love when the CEO of a biggish company is sitting in the comments
It's not as if the average individual government employee has the ability to spawn black helicopters or deploy police assets just to settle a neighborhood rivalry. If anything they have less actual power than a corporate drone nowadays (just ask the bankers).

Teenagers have killed themselves over stuff posted to Facebook so I wish people would quit acting like the government is really that much more directly important to the day-to-day lives of people. If you're going to be worried then be worried, but at least be consistently worried.

http://xkcd.com/1200&#x2F; is also close to relevant.
I disagree. Using evil tactics is a "code smell" if you will. Even thinking about using such tactics for one second is a red flag that something has gone wrong. Why would you need to spy on your own citizens? Because they're upset. Would it really be better to oppress them than figure out why they're upset and address it?
Drug trafficking is a relatively honorable occupation that delivers a highly demanded consumer good that's affordable for a broad cross section of society. It's unfair to compare it to the Stasi or consumer scams.
I like .info for personal point of presence sites.. I use tracker1.info as an example.

I also do like .io for previously stated reasons by others... It's techie/geeky (I/O), and it's expensive enough that the squatters have mostly stayed away.
I think it's still better to walk into a random Walgreen's and purchase a burner there with cash.
Not sure why you're being downvoted.

One of the main problems with privacy today is that your rights to privacy are typically enumerated in lengthy terms of service or user agreements that can and do change without notice. If these documents truly do enumerate "rights" they shouldn't be so easily changed whenever the company finds it convenient or profitable. What you initially agreed to was a 20 page document written in legalese that few will bother to read through.

If you truly want to be informed and up to date on your privacy rights for all of the services you use, you basically have to make it a full time job. It's not a sustainable system. What we need is some sort of societally accepted norms, and possibly laws, regarding privacy so that you don't have to hire a lawyer to give you a monthly update explaining what Facebook can and can't do with the data you and your friends provide them.

My point is that whatever norms or laws that result from those considerations will be arbitrary unless they are based firmly on a respect for an individual's human right to privacy.
But again, for all the examples you can name of "giving results" how many can you prove gave accurate results? And if you can prove the torture produced accurate results that means you have a reliable outside verification mechanism, at which point the question becomes: why didn't you just use that mechanism instead of torture?
Oh, so now we play the man and not the ball?

Is this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1010650...

non BBC, non leftie source good enough for you?
The problem is that FPTP mathematically guarantees a 2 party system in a steady state. So long as you own the 2 parties, you effectively own the government. What's worse is that it also actively works against additional parties.

We also have a rampant issue of uninformed voting. I'd bet there are close to 50M people who just "vote with the party" and follow their biased news network rather than learning about the candidates and issues, then forming their own opinions.
Why not just use Kinko's?
I certainly understand the gravity of what I'm alleging, and I wish I had formal training in this stuff so I could publish my observations with some sort of rigour. I will say my methods are pretty crude and consist of:

Process of elimination as far as the processes are concerned. Basically I have been paring back the processes that are visible to me in memory until it should be a bare minimum for a functional Windows kernel in memory, and stubbing out the non-essential processes I find with empty "stubs" so that the hooks are still there but non-functional. Then observing disk io and memory usage, and repeating. Not very scientific, but again, I'm an amateur.

The stuff about disk platter noise is simply recording the audible and inaudible frequencies generated from the platter (I haven't upgraded to a ssd for the system disk yet), and then running regressions on the wave forms to detect anomalies via the noise generated by the platter and the reading head interacting. I was interested in looking into the inaudible frequencies because it seemed like a good way to cloak disk io from the average user.

As far as the botnet stuff, I've done some MITM packet analysis and some simple stuff like tracerts and observing changes in routing. Right now the box is routing all name service through what appears to be another compromised box in the US state of Georgia, though I'm hesitant to do much network topology due to port-scanning being considered the same as cracking.

This is all just a hobby, and I'm sure some of the stuff I've mentioned about is either very crazy sounding or perhaps already known to people more knowledgeable than me. I grew up when pcs were still a weird hobby for society, and so this sort of stuff seems like things we should be able to do without fearing repercussions.

Also, I only posted this to give context to what I had posted before, so take it for whatever you want to. I'm interested in non-violent solutions to improving society and I don't want to jeopardize that.
Seriously, that's an insult to Glenn Greenwald. The Daily Show is good as far as entertainment goes but Greenwald writes about serious stuff in a very concise and substantive way.
I need to install this as the site has no screenshots but is this really a flat file CMS with a GUI?

I just started working on a GUI for Pico but this could be really great.

[edit] A shot on the Github page: https://github.com/alfredxing/cairn
"National security" falls under the umbrella of "common Defence" (which appears twice in the Constitution). Indeed, one of the motivating forces behind the creation of a stronger federal government under the Constitution was Shay's Rebellion, which was a purely internal threat.

The term ("privacy") does not appear in the Constitution, and the specific limits on federal power that do appear can't be generalized to fit under the umbrella of that term. There is no indication that e.g. the founders intended the 5th amendment protection against self-incrimination to be rooted in a "privacy" concept. It's clearly based on a "due process" concept, which explains why there is no general right to refuse to testify (which is what you'd have if the right was based on privacy) but only a right to refuse to testify in a way that might incriminate yourself. The concern is about he extreme persuasiveness of confessions, and the potential for abuse from coerced confessions, not about the right to keep information from a government investigation.

Similarly, the 3rd and 4th are better understood as rights based on the sanctity of the home and person (notably since the 4th conspicuously omits any reference to communications).

Attempts to find a right of "privacy" in the Constitution are extremely strained, for the simple reason that there isn't one. The founders just weren't thinking of this overriding concept of "privacy" as an umbrella concept for rights as disparate as protection against search and seizure, self-incrimination, or a right to an abortion.
Insufficient data for a meaningful answer. So far, all the discussion I've seen on this has been at a mainstream Reddit level (everywhere, not just at Reddit). Someday HN will return to HN level on this, and I'll be able to perhaps then understand this thing enough to have a meaningful opinion.
You're right. The point is that protesters are killed in the US too.
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Hey, one of the creators here -- I wrote about this in another thread, but here's why we think we're better than physical stores:

- You can order the product online without making a physical appearance anywhere.

- Many of the prepaid cell phones in physical stores come with the SIM chips activated -- so the phone's location has already been broadcasted to cell towers and is pre-registered, making it slightly less anonymous for the end user.

- We're going to be accepting bitcoin in the near future (we're finishing that integration now), so we hope to compete with cash purchases in that regard.

- You can recycle these phones like you would normal phones.

- We piggyback off a ton of different US carriers -- so as you move around you'll be swapping between various carriers in your region.
>If smoking pot is a felony

In what western country is it a felony?

Also if more than one percent commits fraud you could have a problem.
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Don't forget Carnivore:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)
If the name of pi is with itself, and the rate(in domain) of the exponential is itself, how significant are you to do otherwise?
Obama specifically said "nobody is listening to your telephone calls", which is probably technically true. There isn't a person sitting there listening to them. If it's happening, it's an automated process and they're being archived, to allow for retroactive search and playback (probably with a warrant at that point to make it more legal).
If you're going to pose that question, you better pose the other question: is NSA's mission legal/moral?
It seems to be often said that on the order of 1/3 of the Tor Exit/Entry nodes are run by the NSA.
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Very true, the aspect nothing was denied is about as close as we may get to a admission. Though what those 197 cases involved and results would be more of interest, again we probably will never known. If anything I'm supprised that figure seems as low as it is.

Probbaly more concerning is that documents leak out to the press, what leaks out to the criminals you do wonder.
If I had spent 2 minutes posting the photos and a description of the car, responded to 20 emails @ 1 minute each, then spent maybe 2-3 10 minute visits with people to sell the car it would've been a net win even if I did that every day for a week.
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