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For a high level overview of your branches I still think http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1057564/pretty-git-branch... is the best git log
They did oppose it the first time around when a Democrat (Joe Biden) introduced it. Yay for partisan politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Counterterrorism_Act_o...

(According to Biden, the Patriot Act was basically the same thing as his Omnibus Counterterrorism Act.)
On my own hardware?
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I admit it... I tried to click on a story that looked interesting in the image.
Sometimes more data can beat better algorithms:
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The Boston bombing also shows that you should cloak your identity physically. Hat and sunglasses at least. The one who didn't hide his identity is the one who was easily identified.
Aaron Swartz's death ended up taking over the entire front page at one point. There was an image showing that at the time, but I can't recall where it was off the top of my head.
Whenever I see someone downvoted for an unpopular (on HN, anyway) opinion, I always upvote the comment, even if I don't believe that the comment otherwise merits an upvote. It's my way of striking back at the practice.
$20 million to run the whole program? That doesn't make sense. That amount wouldn't buy the hard drives to hold a firehose feed from any one of those companies.
>Surely you've noticed by now that every time he ask Congress to help him close Guantanamo and allocate funds for keeping those prisoners on the mainland, giving them civilian trials and so forth, it generates a shitstorm of opposition?

I like how you said "opposition" rather than "public opposition" because it's what makes the statement true. Fox News will spend all day and all night discussing how Obama is probably a Muslim from Kenya and then "let you draw your own conclusions" regardless of what Obama actually does. That's going to happen whether he does the right thing or not, so why should it stop him from doing the right thing?

I'm really not sure what you're even trying to argue here. It sounds a lot like an argument that because someone somewhere can be found loudly disagreeing with us that we ought to give up. People disagreeing with you is part of democracy. You fight for what you think is right in the court of public opinion and at some point we have an election -- and if the people we elect don't do what we want we get to try it again in the next round, and threaten them with the boot in the meantime. That's what we're doing right now. We're expressing our grievances in public and kicking up our own shitstorm so that more like-minded people will express their views to elected officials and otherwise try to make change.
Obama switched his stance to be in support of the Patriot Act/FISA extension _right in the middle of the 2008 primaries_! Chris Dodd, who was also running, led a huge filibuster effort AGAINST it. He ultimately failed and was one of the first to drop out. Moreover, for the record, Joe Biden is largely considered one of the architects of what became the Patriot Act, from his 1995 Omnibus Terrorism Bill (after the Oklahoma City bombings.) It's like a source document for the current legislation.

So, yes, Congress passes these laws, but yes, Obama, Biden, and the majority of Democrats also do bear responsibility. Obama is the President. He signs off on, and executes this and is in favor of it and it was known before he was elected.
I'm sure Obama will wake up today, check HN, and decide that, thanks to the front page being full of this stuff, that things are going to be different from here on out. All those upvotes will have changed the world for the better.
Is that what it's for? I thought it'd be a big retroactive database; identify someone we want to know about now, and then look back through the last year's records to see what she's been doing.
For content sites this is indeed a problem, but for somebody actually selling or providing a service over the web this isn't too bad.

After all it doesn't matter if the purchases come from your website or from Yandex Islands, as long as they come.
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Think he lives in Brazil though.
For those of you who also missed it on the first pass, the "Islander" circle (under the "Islands" header) is clickable.
If you don't want to download all the docs to view, there is a mirror on Google Docs with web based viewers:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bx25s45t4-d_eE0xbklZ...
There's no need to be sarcastic about it.

The comment I replied to says that when Al Jazeera reporters try to get into the US they have been questioned harder than actual terror suspects. Do you actually believe that?
Or allies like Tony Blair:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6321173#.UbHMYPlYh8E
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Don't look now. But there is a typo in the title.
Why would anyone be aware of Yandex unless they live in Russia? Even here, I mostly use Google.
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The threshold I generally use is the use of extra-legal violence, e.g. open violence against those "dissidents" with the organs of the state ignoring it.

Which won't work very well at all in such a well armed, and better armed every day country (for the last several years every month has had higher gun sales from licensed gun stores compared to the month a year ago, details can be found at http://www.nssf.org/). Also makes a very big difference that policing is primarily under local control, and the central government can't stop state prosecutions without explicitly acknowledging the target is a government agent (see the squashing of the state prosecution of Lon Horiuchi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Horiuchi#Manslaughter_charg...).

Of course, also in light of Nazi Germany, any serious national effort at gun confiscation will instantly spark the civil war we seem to be sliding towards. On the likelihood of that (kudos to you for acknowledging the systematic "squashing" of dissidents), let me quote the recently woken up Peggy Nonan (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732441260457851...):

"What does it mean when half the country—literally half the country—understands that the revenue-gathering arm of its federal government is politically corrupt, sees them as targets, and will shoot at them if they try to raise their heads? That is the kind of thing that can kill a country, letting half its citizens believe that they no longer have full political rights."

She's using "shoot" in a metaphorical sense (tellingly, American English has a lot of shooting and gun metaphors).
I just submitted the form and got the following error. Might be time to upgrade that ColdFusion formmail script, guys.

http://www.nsa.gov/applications/forms/foiaemail.cfm

Internal Server Error - Read

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
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Confirming or denying, or stating the (in)ability to talk about it is a breach of the requirement to keep the information classified. The proper response is 'we do not know what you're talking about'. Which is what they said. It can't be conflated with something stupid like 'cannot confirm or deny' which tells you right away.
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They are good for mobile and fairly useless on desktop browsers.
Same here. It just shows how partisan Reddit really is.
I don't really understand the reaction!

I guess my conclusion is that in general Americans trust their politicians/government, whereas in the UK the general public assumes they're the enemy and not to be trusted, so this wouldn't be a major surprise.
not really. Entries in /r/programming must contain code, for instance. I enjoy all the "Show HN" and weekend project stuff, there are no such things in that subreddit
...feeding the information to the phone company which retains this information for weeks, months, even years. Just a warrant-step away.

The warrant comment suddenly sounds old-fashioned.
>U.S. Government: Reports About PRISM Contain “Numerous Inaccuracies”

Yes, that would be the case for any leak of "in the dark" government activity. It's not like everything is out in the open to be reported upon freely and in detail. As long as they got the gist right, I'm covered.

>The unauthorized disclosure of a top secret U.S. court document threatens potentially long-lasting and irreversible harm to our ability to identify and respond to the many threats facing our nation.

How is the use of "top secret U.S. court documents" not a threat to the very idea of democracy itself? And a threat to the people from such covert activities?
Looks like a private beta registration page is running
3-4 years ago Reddit cared about news, even prided themselves on being among the first to cover a breaking story. Now it's all about who can make the most pandering, mediocre jokes about any given topic.
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Strongbox.
What a brilliant gift - aiming to give sight to the blind. It would be wonderful if it could stay out of commercial hands and be distributed as far as possible.
Why? It's an interactive device that they can play Tetris or Angry Birds on. It's not a stick of dynamite. Most parents will be more worried about what the kid does to the tablet than vice versa. It's only a risky item because some people can't stand the idea of there being any way to access the internet that doesn't include all of the less salubrious bits.
Also, they appear to be redirecting all HTTPS requests to HTTP. Try it: https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/foia/submit_foia_request/foi...

Configuration mistake or force of habit?
I expected a more nordic look :) Like bluish, lots of white, simplistic layout with green accents :) And why not host the Swedish community on .se domain?
The problem with these inputs is how do you style them or customize the UX? For example, how do you style an element that is a color swatch on some browsers and a text field on others?
Alas, I no longer have a flag button, for reasons mysterious to me - I don't think I abused it, I seldom used it except for spam posts, no more than a dozen times a year.
If nothing else drivers need to be able to use cell phones for emergency situations such as someone following you. You won't be able to stop to make a phone call.

I think a better solution would be for cars to have a way to detect if your eyes are on the road and warn you.
This is one excellent read! Thanks to the author for writing this down. Not that i'm not interested in the NSA, but this is a welcome diversion. And something I wanted to play with myself for a long time.
Why? Using them doesn't hurt as they fallback to the text input type. But semantically the code makes more sense as it is more specific, and for those browsers that don't support them, you could fall back on using some javascript to get similar functionality, if you're so inclined.

Of course, these elements will look differently on different platforms/browsers, but for a lot of applications that doesn't matter. Maybe, in the next version/iteration of HTML they make these things a bit more style-able?
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Yeah, writing on land's a real bummer.
Nothing was 'given up'. Something was traded.
European intelligence agencies regularly 'launder' intercepts through foreign governments ('hey NSA, we'll trade you some info, if you can get us some info on one of our own...').
Oh, they even do Mercurial. I love hg, so we’ll see if they are cool.
Being completely anonymous with no method for followup questions makes it difficult for the journalist to publish your leak. I suggest you be very patient if you go this route as any reputable journalist will have to independently find another source or verify the documents.
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I'm not confident that opinions that I've expressed or activities that I've engaged in will not be targeted by future administrations. For example, I'm an atheist, and have associated with atheists. Who's to say that won't get me rounded up in 30 years?

When I was younger (I'm nearly 40 now) there were very few records of anything that I did, and to have a government file was unusual, not a few keystrokes away for LE to generate a file on anyone. We're all guilty of crimes, questionable opinions, and questionable associations that leave digital remnants. I'm starting to think that I don't need a cellphone anymore.

>I'm quite depressed that it's taken people so long to put it together that they're willing to buy into the idea that Obama a) invented it or b) had the freedom to single-handed dismantle it.

This is what depresses you? I don't give a shit who the general population blames, and the idea that Obama had no ability to dismantle it would be a controversial statement anywhere. We've had presidents who've carried on entire wars without Congressional approval.
Yeah, I agree that if you somehow become arrested, rather than unlawfully detained, the game seems to be stacked against the government. Now, in theory, if you're unlawfully detained, the game should also be stacked against the government...
>I'm not asking you to feel sorry for them; I'm just asking what you would do if you had their job.

Quit and get a decent job?

>* Saying you wouldn't take that job is beside the point; they literally don't have the option of explaining themselves fully.*

That's kind of begging the question. It's like asking "what would you do if you were a drug dealer?".

>The number of people who are empowered to declassify information is very small in comparison to the number of people who are empowered or mandated to classify it.

Err, that's a PROBLEM, not a situation they are OK to have to work with, or people have to put up with.
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I see. As a quick fix, I tried to call python 2.6 from the colout script, but that failed because importlib exists only in python3. I don't know how to make it work on both versions, I'm afraid.
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I bought Office 2013 which doesn't come with a DVD (you need to download it only after signing into your "Microsoft Account"). Sadly this doesn't always work as can been seen here: http://pastebin.com/GFWT1pC0 After a long battle with Mary from Microsoft our chat goes like this:

john: I think I will just download this software instead from a torrent site

john: at least that way I can get it

john: I can then just use that code if it asks for it

Mary: Obviously, I cannot comment on that.

Mary: Is there anything else I can assist you with today?

john: yes

Mary: Yes

john: Please ask Microsoft to keep DVDs with their products, or provide URLs to download the software

john: thanks
I'm sure all of this will die down in a day or two and HN will return to links to GitHub and stories about VCs. This only happens once in awhile, the last time being when Aaron Swartz committed suicide.
Where is Sam Lowry ?
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If, no matter who we "elect", we get the same policies, then I do think it's productive to highlight this via comparing and contrasting the parties/representatives.

This shows very strong common threads running through two parties which are presented to us as drastically different. That, in turn, exposes the fact that there is another "power" that completely supercedes our democratic process and the very notion that we actually have a representative form of government.

Now, what we do with that information is another story. Talk raises awareness, but it's not enough to just talk about it. There needs to be a viable third party and protests aimed solely and specifically at reform such as removing the money from politics, term limits, closing the revolving door between industry and government, etc.
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Thank you. I do not write often, so this was a challenge for me. Constructive criticism welcome.
Echoing adventured, if you're going to stay and fight this legally, make sure you're sufficiently well armed* that government violence against us is too expensive. The relevant Alexander Solzhenitsyn quote from The GULAG Archipelago is:

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

"Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

"After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria [Government limo] sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked.

"The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!"

* The minimum gun is a military grade bolt action rifle with a 5 round or greater magazine, anything like the Mauser 1898 (sic) or the many guns inspired by it or that evolved in parallel. The last remaining cheap, military surplus ones are Mosin–Nagants (you should be able to get one for $150 or so, just make sure to buy non-corrosive ammo). Buy Jeff Cooper's The Art of the Rifle (http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Of-Rifle/dp/1581605927/) to learn how to wield it effectively.
> Monitoring information is arguably a light form of suppression, isn't it?

Not if it isn't widely known.
Let's asume 500.000 PP-Users got this message - legal will force PP to pay out - this is a 250 million EUR gift :D
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A multi-journalist dump + impressive documents + ambitious journalists + at their home addresses = highly likely publication without getting you sent to Gitmo. Make sure journalists are already on side with you though - aka people that have already argued against whatever cause you wish to damage.

However, if the documents are uniquely identifying and of incredible importance then you will want to go public, and you will want to go loud; have your face plastered everywhere, documents in every conceivable location, send them to thousands of journalists via email, scream your identity to the roof tops, don't go to ground, go to press conferences, and leave the country if at all possible before you do go loud.
Clicking on the comments link does not reveal any comments. I'm getting a "Subscribe now to get more of The New Yorker's signature mix of politics, culture, and the arts. "
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I never mistook Obama for a progressive, but I did make the mistake of taking him for a principled conservative. It turns out he is none of the above.
The bigger point is that journalists usually need to go back and forth with you.
... while it's not really useful for the NES, which is so old that emulating it does not strain even the crudest modern processor, I'd be excited to see this technique applied to newer consoles for lightweight mobile processors.
>Print the addresses (be careful here - printers sometimes put identifying marks - get the most common one)

Printer steganography is usually limited to color laser printers and high-end inkjets. Buying a common one unfortunately won't help you. Included in the codes that have been cracked is the serial number of the printer as well as a date and time stamp of the printout.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
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Grow up will you. By saying that I was being disingenuous you were saying that I was being insincere about my reply. That is tantamount to calling me a liar without going so far. End of.
Ask HN: How would you guard your data privacy?
I would like to hear what other HNers might be thiking of doing about keeping their data private. Feel free to be creative in your responses.

I no longer trust my data being stored in cloud services or data centers. I briefly considered storing them outside the US, but then I don't know who to trust there. I'm considering hosting them on my own servers, in my home, or in a trusted friends home. I'm also considering them being stored on my personal phone encrypted. I definitely want my email to be encrypted.

This has to be a problem on a lot of people's mind right now. Practically, what could one do?
Email is secure iff you use it properly. Just like everything else.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you had a backup from 15 days ago, wouldn't that backup contain documents 21 days prior to it? So in effect: up to 36
And a better solution still is to get rid of the driving, not the distraction...
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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Unsupported input types default to input type="text", so you can just use a JS polyfill that detects the returned input field and acts accordingly.
Interesting stuff, and I like the writing style.
Well you certainly rose to the occasion. I look forward to leisurely reading this in detail.

Before I looked at the article I immediately wondered how you were going to handle self-modifying code (running on the internal RAM of course). I guess you didn't encounter that situation?
How about a system where it's secure even if the user is dumb.