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but don't you remember the huge political battle over Obamacare?

Well, I do, but only very vaguely; after all, it took place thousands of kilometers from where I happen to live and it's not like we don't have enough of our local issues to take care of.
15 seconds on the page and i have no idea what it's for
It very much doesn't, not least because it does nothing to alleviate the issue that everything typed into a browser page is currently available for access to the site in question and should a MITM attack or similar attack occur, JS can trivially be inserted to capture passwords long before they're sent. :/
Or just some other zero-knowledge proof mechanism, of which there are many, including those involving little more than cryptographically secure hashes. :)
Hahaha! Greenwald would love that...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130494
What's wrong with the media in the U.S. is that they let these finely parsed denials stand, reporting them verbatim or worse summarizing as "the companies deny it".

We need press that is capable of communicating the grey areas as you did in your top comment here, ideally in a way the masses can grok.
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
Unfortunately, Obama is so amoral and charismatic, he'll wiggle out of this one as he always does.
I was actually surprised and disappointed by the response on reddit. It should have been the top story on the front page.
Show HN: Flat Checkout Concept in HTML/CSS
Korea's biggest search engine(www.naver.com) is basically like this. they created a walled garden that gives you practically everything. These portal type sites disincentivize individual sites from creating contents, because the search engine directs the traffic into their own services(Q&A, blog, etc.).
Thank you for detailed explanation. I know the system - it is almost the same as it is in US - some company must decide to hire you and then to do all the paperwork.
Well the produce is coming from the UK & my target audience is the US.

I do have the .com domain too but I'm currently trying to wrestle it away from the clutches of GoDaddy & waiting for it to transfer.
Question to the more experienced hackers here:

Would such a massive undertaking be possible without the knowledge of the regular developers working at these companies? Some big names on that list, like Facebook (and I think Dropbox was 'coming soon'). If developers at these companies knew about these measures, I'm really skeptical in believing that it took an intelligence officer to expose this story. Chances would be much higher of devs at these companies (chances being good that some of them are the reddit/HN libertarian types) would have exposed this long ago.

Is such an operation feasible without the knowledge of hundreds of Google/facebook/other engineers?
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"The collection is broad in scope[…], subject to stringent restrictions." Wait, what?
`git whatchanged` is what you want, it shows the files changed and the commit message.
Concisely? If you are familiar with DuckDuckGo's Spice goodies (https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/blob/master/documen...), this is basically the same except you don't have to submit code to DDG to call your API, you use semantic HTML & upload an XML layout file.
We got Amazon to approve for 100 instances for our early beta. They are aware of our plan but that doesn't mean endorsement on their part.
The majority of stimulation we receive is just waste of time by your philosophy.

You're right about one thing though, my American (and British, Australians, Anglo Canadians among others from the same language group) friends are lazy as hell to read subtitles generally, the majority never ever getting interest of learning another language since almost anyone learns some English, which really puzzles me.
A set of documents must be supplied to the immigration authorities, which consists of a guarantee of a job offer from a registered enterprise and detailed financial information. Education and age aren't concerned in this case. It is important when one applies to student visa.
I'm not a bad Spanish speaker, also have been trying to learn Mandarin. Native English speakers are used to hearing things aloud, because everything we consume is in English. If English is not your native tongue it's understandable that you would be more used to reading subtitles, having perhaps grown up watching subtitled Hollywood films for example.

The brain optimises itself to tasks it performs most often, so understand that reading subtitles for an extended period of time would be more mental effort to someone not used to doing that than it is for you. I think you're ignorant for equating that with laziness.

> The majority of stimulation we receive is just waste of time by your philosophy.

Yep. I'm wasting my time jamming along to a Joe Satriani CD on my guitar right now. Totally wasting my life.
Writing Web Content With Markdown
Thanks for the response. So it is an ethics thing with you. Personally the idea of supporting Apple over Google is alien to me, but is interesting reading other people's perspectives.
Not rendering correctly for Firefox 21.0 (Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu Canonical 1.0). Am I the only one facing this issue?
> You seem to be very sure of the exact reason why something happened. But it doesn't work that way in the real world.

That's completely backwards. You made the absolute statement that "None of that did anything either". How do you know? I see you've even switched now to "Maybe the box".

I wasn't picking anything at all, I just pointed out that your logic was flawed with an example, and now you're trying to argue that I'm wrong by arguing against your very own logic!
I have two questions for which I couldn't find the answer:

1 - Will these companies provide data from all users or only US citizens?

2 - Who has access to the data? Only people working on this program at US intelligence or a wider set of people? For instance, can they look up my emails, photos and so on if I am about to be interview for high profile government job?
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Don’t believe the hype: Here’s what’s wrong with the ‘sharing economy’
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I've found Al-Jazeera to be the best news network out there. It seems to be only one that's not ridiculously biased and ratings driven.
Yandex is traditionally playing catch up with Google copying their ideas. This time - it is Knowledge Graph.
I'm absolutely speechless! Very impressing job. Take a look at http://www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com/Astrophotography/Ce... prepared by Rolf Olsen (the author of the post) and Mike Sidonio.
Poll: Do you support PRISM?
Is today cognitive dissonance day?

A lot of people are still forming their conflicting opinions on PRISM.... the merits of such a program - which can only be achieved by displacing the privacy of millions of domestic and foreign citizens.

(Note: The poll is probably somewhat flawed, since it doesn't segment into foreign/domestic categories either. I can imagine that opinion between pro/against varies depending on nationality.)
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Check choices below
(Pro) I support PRISM and the means used to gather intelligence
(Fence) I support the idea of PRISM, but feel conflicted about the obvious invasion to privacy
(Against) I do not support PRISM
No it wasn't you maybe need to read Mathew 7:3 and reflect on it.

You do know that other 1st world democracys look at the sclerotic nature of the US system and shake their heads.

One member of the US legislature commented on the BBC that the house of lords was more Democratic than they where in a lot of ways :-)

And don't get me started on the obsession with Barak's race and the fact that the GOP the party of Lincon Seward et al has been taken over by the "swivel eyed nutters"
Youe nimble search engine will have nowhere to send users.

Everything on the web will be either opaque walled gardens (like Facebook) or homogenous services with no obvious "pages" to go to, accessible via external wizards or internal forms or apis.

Of course there is always wikipedia, but for general purpose searches the surface of interesting web pages shrinks.
> An app like this is going to make significantly more money in the Apple ecosystem

More money possibly, but its hard to imagine it is not worth the cost of porting these types of apps - and that's what is relevant. Unless it is an ideological thing.
Busting the cookies and privacy myth
And the acquisition also generated a lot of bewilderment from nearly everyone in the industry.

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders how much PRISM had to do with the acquisition of Skype...
Off topic, but what's with the trend of not showing dates on blogs/blogging services? Just overlooked or hidden on purpose? Even the comments don't have dates.
NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook
Thanks, I guess I'll be donating then :)
Yes, I already meditate daily and have noticed profound changes in perspective and mindset. I can't recommend anything more!
Schlining noted,

"The most frustrating thing for me is that most of the
material we saw—glass, metal, paper, plastic - could
be recycled."
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Yeah I agree with this. I seem to have reached a point in life where I don't really think about the past and future often, but I wouldn't say I've quite reached enlightenment yet.
I wonder how long before/whether a major player will simply decides google et al freeloading off their hard-produced data and displaying it in search results makes being listed a net loss and goes for a social-only model of traffic sourcing with a block-all robots.txt Between Google pulling out prices and reviews & Google News auto-generating summaries and snippets of on-the-ground reporters it feels like a matter of time. Maybe a halfway house would be starting to de-index hot news/exclusives for the first few hours.
The software works well and the company has been very open.
I wouldn't choose to work for Goldman Sachs, for ethical reasons. I wouldn't buy an app from a guy that was rude to me when I met him, out of spite. I don't do certain things because I don't want to support certain companies or ecosystems. Often these things are, ethics aside, inconveniencing me, or stopping me from making as much money. Sometimes I just bite the bullet and use the app by the guy I don't like.
I meant to include that I don't think that Apple are saints either. However their business model is largely making stuff people want and selling it with an upfront price rather than you (and the data trail you leave) being the product to be sold to advertisers. Google's scale and data collection creep me out already without adding more to it by using an Android phone, and therefore I don't want to encourage others to do things that I wouldn't do.

But as I said its a preference rather than a hard black and white line for me, major corporations have their own interests at heart not customers/users where they conflict.
What areas benefit the most from Citibike?
A Guide to the New HTML5 Form Input Types
It looks like Yandex intentions is similar to what JavaScript did to browsers.

Initially browsers could just ask for a static content. Later some interactivity was added and sites changed from beeing a [content] entity to a [content, on-action] entity.

Here we also have: initially sites were static for search engine, but now there is an interactivity support, which should split monolith entity of site.
Out of curiosity, why not just send a letter in the post?

Pretty hard to trace an anonymous letter.

EDIT: Just spotted the update. Question answered.
They can certainly manage to avoid compliance with at least the spirit of the law when it really matters to them. I guess avoiding paying tax is important enough to engage armies of lawyers and reorganise your corporate structure, while this isn't.
Thanks! I've been putting the candy packs together for quite a while, for family & as gifts for friends in the US.

Offering flat pricing including shipping seemed to make sense for this type of purchase. I checked the prices of similar food subscription packages and kept that in mind - they seem to range from $17 to $33 typically.

I put together several candy packs at different weights and settled on 250g, 500g and 1kg - I priced them up and worked out a per gram price point so when I'm looking at new products I can work out if it's good value. Eg. x pence per gram of candy.

I put together a chart of shipping prices. Listing 3 different world zones (EU, US/CAN, AUS/NZ) and delivery speeds (surface/airmail/48hour). That enabled me to put a flat price on shipping. So for example I use the AUS/NZ price as standard, if people order from other locations then I save on postage.

I'll probably make some pricing adjustments over time, as orders grow I should be able to improve margin by buying larger packs, once I get around 10 orders per day that brings down shipping costs too, I can pass that value on to the customers. I'm looking forward to getting the new site launched! Thanks for your feedback!
A similar situation happened with the Apple App Store. Many developers were(/are?) unhappy. Many users were unhappy. Within a few months, no one really cared anymore and they adapted. I can't even remember what the old App Store used to look like.
How are we any betteer than china? Because there is a huge fucking difference between monitoring information flowing over networks and censoring it or using it to supress political opposition? What ridiculous hyperbole.
You are saying that they cannot release everything. I am saying that I don't care, I will still criticise them for a piss poor response even if that is all that they are capable of giving.

If I require something of them that they cannot provide, I do not stop requiring it of them. If they cannot satisfy me, I will remain unsatisfied. I will not change my standards to accommodate them.

I've answered your question now three times. Are you going to pretend not to hear me again?
> 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.

So, the people would dream themselves masters of the government agency NSA. Wasn't that what government was supposed to do? Serve the people?
Assange hasn't been charged with anything by the US.
Maybe ignorance yes, the fact is I do not share their experience, I only watched dubbed stuff in either Hebrew or Portuguese until my early teens although I learned Yiddish first. It was from mainly 2000 to 2002 that I learned to read subtitles and after that I never needed it anymore unless in a language that I don't know.

Good to know you're not in that second group.

I not a fan of Satriani but keep rocking.
They don't need credibility, the chilling effects of knowing you are being watched are enough. You prevented yourself from actualizing your thought crime.
Today has been a very productive day at work since I don't care about this NSA thing at all.
Found Easter Egg! If you click on the image at the very end of the image (the one with Christopher Columbus), it'll flip over to reveal what seems to be signatures of devs working on Yandex (or probably just Islands).
The nice thing about exposing what was already "known" is now so many people are talking about it openly. It is hard for the wolves to attack so many moving targets. What we need is for hundreds to file very narrowly focused FOIA requests that do not probe too deeply. They need to be fulfillable.
It's not Knowledge Graph, from a comment below: "The Columbus example looks that way, but I think the big new item is that you're able to add your own forms to search results (as a site, not as a user).
http://interactive-answers.webmaster.yandex.com&quot;
Patches welcome!

More seriously if you could explain how you'd like to see it done I'd be happy to try adding it.
The bias of Fox News and the NYT are easy for Americans to see, because they both have an slant that impacts US domestic policy. Just because Al Jazeera doesn't have such a slant does not mean it is not biased.
I'm sorry for you for all the extraordinary films and media you have missed. Mandarin is spoken natively by twice as many people as English, then Hindustani, Spanish and Russian. Notwithstanding the best of Japanese, French, Italian, German and Swedish cinema.

Well, you are not alone in this as an English speaker. Trying to see a popular yet non-dubbed film or television program in France, Spain or Germany is an exercise in itself.
Not a U.S. citizen I take it?
Just what we need--another two senators and one representative to speak for high, dry, lightly populated territory.
Absolutely they will, as they have in other similar cases. They may or may not succeed, but they already have a track record of going after journalists, so I don't see why this should be any different. If they don't push for prosecution, he'll probably have an "accident" at some point in the not too distant future, like has happened to plenty of other whistleblowers, or at the very, very least, they'll turn his name to mud through aspersions and insinuations of sex crimes and so-forth.
> their reporters are held for hours at the US border and questioned at greater length than actual terror suspects

Citation very sorely needed.
Or it was leaked on purpose to let everyone know that they should, "shut the fuck up." Or be watched?
I took about the same screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7964705/nsa.png
Verizon stock unaffected by news of NSA data collection
Most search engines (and Yandex too I assume), crawl the static web. So if you have a web page whose content is auto-generated using Javscript, it likely won't be indexed by many search engines. Google has been working on this for a while, but it's definitely a very hard problem (tm) to solve (and computationally expensive too).
Perhaps. Let us play it out;

Suppose sites like Hipmunk succumb to the siren song and do the microformat dance like Google wants in order to show up as a fancy card/wizard in the results -- and eventually Google swaps them out for identical ITA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software) / Knowledge Graph / 'etc sourced ones, thus killing Hipmunk.

1) Antitrust lawsuits will surely happen. Perhaps at that point Google is so big and adept at playing this game so..

2) Inevitable overhead from being a large bureaucratic corporation leaves enough margin for the Hipmunks of the world to exist outside this ecosystem and still be used by prosumers.
Which leads to a comeback of the old-timey Google styled search engines whose value proposition is to float such sources fairly in its results. With the margin being big enough they will gain popularity for the same reasons Google itself initially did.

Edit: Walled Gardens can hold, but only for awhile as 'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy' always applies.
1. people voted up, better one of these than the other 20 or something posts about the FBI or NSA populating the top posts.
This advice is dangerous, because the author fails to mention other precautions the user can and should take, such as:

* Use a Linux live CD on the "burner laptop" -- don't trust the preinstalled OS

* Change the MAC address of the Wifi used to connect at the internet cafe

* Use Tor, most easily via the Vidalia browser bundle

The author also does not mention that leaking documents can expose the whistleblower via watermarking and user information embedded in the file (most infamously in MS Word documents with versioning).

Edit: update formatting
Is anybody going to vote Pro or Fence on Hacker News? I'm not sure if we need a poll to understand what this site's opinion on PRISM is.
I assume you got your national ID card and register at the police station every time you move.
> Because there is a huge fucking difference between monitoring information flowing over networks and censoring it or using it to supress political opposition?

Monitoring information is arguably a light form of suppression, isn't it? When someone is being monitored they get worried, they're more conscious about their actions. It has a chilling effect. I don't think finding parallels between the two is an exercise of ridiculous hyperbole.
Twitter does not participate in PRISM
Entrepreneur First startups raised £15 Million for graduates
Entrepreneur First is a not-for-profit accelerator programme that welcomes final year students and graduates on to a year-long entrepreneurship scheme.

The first group of companies have now finished the programme and between them have achieved a collective valuation of £15m.
I hate to be that guy, but this is surely a textbook example of:

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." — Benjamin Franklin

Government analysis of all communications can obviously help find terrorists. But it can and will also be used against others – protest groups, environmentalists, other non-desirables.

Think what McCarthy (the communist witch hunter, not the inventor of Lisp) could have done with this, and what the Syria or Iran or China is doing with similar systems in their own countries – which America just lost the moral high ground to oppose.

Countries that aren't or don't want to become totalitarian don't spy on their own people, no matter how tempting.
Holy Karma grab batman!!

Next up do you support nazi concentration camps and Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.
A one click information dashboard for every person in the world that uses a computer. I don't live in the US and I feel invaded by this.
I do, but not so much that I want to read 22 different articles about it.
I support PRISM. Not for what it is trying to do, but about what it is. Outing a system like that could force the privacy debate before the last possible moment while the government is not prepared for it. And while the people that are for digital freedom and freedom from surveillance still hold some cards.

I hope that PRISM will be a catalyst/Rubicon of a sort - that there won't be turning back and fast forgetting. This is clearly overreach and lets hope that the scaremongering hawks have finally crossed the line behind which there will finally be pushback.
While records of emails, telephone calls and social network connections of Americans' life histories are being categorized and stuffed into an inaccessible repository in Utah, does anyone else have vivid memories of previous exciting or maybe sad moments involving the front page of HN?
All the better to say we had nothing to do with it, but given that he was charged during the controversy do you really think that had nothing to do with it?

My mother's uncle, John Caughlan, was charged first with purjury for claiming he was never a member of the Communist Party at an immigration hearing (where he was an attorney, on behalf of, I think Hazel Wolf), and then on various tax technicalities, and so forth until something stuck. He eventually spent a year in jail. The further it is removed from the controversy the better.

That Assange and Greenwald are outside the US makes them easier targets for accusations passed on to foreign police forces.
Hmm? Longbows (i.e. wooden self bows) went up to about 200 lbs.

I also don't buy the chainmail test. Probably poorly riveted, as is usual for modern recreations. Also showing the wrong arrow type, as (if I'm not mistaken) bodkins aren't considered the main armor-piercing arrows anymore.