skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the basic ideas of distributism is that of subsidiarity, which I think is applicable in the workplace as well. The basic rule is this: Whoever does the work owns it and gets to make as many decisions regarding how to do the work as possible. This is how I run my open source projects.

The big issue is that of the less talented taking ownership of tasks. Give workers freedom to do their jobs right and expect good things from them.
Thinking sexual preference is a choice (and especially being sure of it, and deeply invested in that belief, in spite of the testimony of openly gay people and scientists) is an obvious symptom of homophobic self loathing repressed homosexuality.
That's embarrassing. I think I'm sleep deprived.
Okay, let's not call on powerful people to do the right thing then. I mean they were the ones with the ambition to influence the world, so it's pointless to even ask them to have some morals.
In Steubenville, for example, and pretty much anywhere else. Oh, they will not tell you that rape is ethically ok – but they will tell you that something that is rape was nothing of the kind, that she/he asked for it or deserved it or has only herself/himself to blame.
Does anyone even use DRI-2 directly, rather than through Mesa/OpenGL (which can, as far as I can tell, fall back to AIGLX even if you're using DRI-2)?
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I had begun to speculate the same... Why else would China NOT want its citizens to use Google -> We are in a Cold War of Sorts...
How Google can come clean on PRISM. Suggestion.
If Google has nothing to hide, there are ways to show it.

Allow few selected organizations like EFF to do security audits on Google. Auditors, who are domain experts, sign NDA just like any consultant would do. Only the result of the audit and conclusions are public. Trade secrets stay safe. If they have nothing to hide, they can even afford to pay for periodic audits it and keep their name clean.

Massive bulk surveillance like PRISM will show if the audit is comprehensive. It needs infrastructure and bandwidth. There might be people sending anonymous tips on where to look.
not sure how much familiar you are with EFF though, it is called electronic FRONTIER foundation (not FREEDOM foundation)
NSA: All up in your privacy junk since 1952
It seems like I am in the minority here but I see nothing wrong with making a required government process more efficient. The companies in question would have to provide this information anyways and streamlining the process seems logical.
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> It is still on the HN new feed

Lazy link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5844621
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1.1, 1.2, 17.1: wrong, signed integer overflow

1.3, 2.2: wrong, shifting by negative number is undefined behavior

2.1: wrong, relies on some specific behavior for signed integer overflow

4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 17.1, 18: wrong, shifting negative numbers is implementation-defined behavior

Some examples will also suffer from integer overflow if the type 'int' is changed to something bigger (because then 1<<n could overflow, you'd need .e.g (uint64_t)1<<n).
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I don't think it looked quite so good. The "no direct access to our servers" line spoken by all four CEOs sounded like something out of North Korea, but they all also had the option to send this message through a relatively faceless spokesperson instead of throwing their own credibility on the pyre.

None of them addressed the incongruity of having all the major news outlets contradicting them, after apparently finding the major points of the story supportable.
Again, corporate officers of large corporations generally have the resources to defend themselves. They can harass you if you're the only one, which is why everyone needs to do it.

>AT&T's monopoly

They spent 50 years trying to break them up and within 20 years after that they had pretty much bought each other back up again and continue to do so as time passes.

You should also note that the public hated AT&T because they were the prototypical example of an abusive monopolist. It's a different story when the reason for the campaign is that the corporation is going to bat for the public against government overreach.

There is also the matter of Citizens United -- it's extremely unfortunate when the government legitimately wants to attack oil companies or other evildoers, but it works just as well (if not more so) when the corporation is doing right and the government is wrong.
In how many instances in history has "We don't tell you for your own good." ever worked out to be true once the facts come out?
bit ops are a really great way to obfuscate the intent of your code and most compilers strength reduce stuff anyway (and are probably smarter than you at it)

They also tend to have subtle differences in semantics compared to the "usual" way of doing things so beware.
The loss of privacy and the collapse of creative ambiguity
No iOS suggestions?
@Pinboard: "If any of these companies had spine, they would have sent the data they were ordered to disclose on iomega zip drives. Click click click"

This.
NSA PRISM workaround so we don’t have to give up great services
It sounds cool, I would be very curious to try it!

Edit: If you're offering, I would like to see some screenshots. Also, what settings do you use for it?
This denial says "or a so-called drop box", which puts it in direct contradiction to what government officials have told the press.

Which, unfortunately, puts the rest of the denial into question for me as well.
The bigger point is that 70 tons should not sneak up on you. They should have been managing weights carefully throughout the process.
I'm not sure I should out right torrent it against their wishes if only to encourage the school to continue providing more materials -- however, I signed up with just this in mind.

Email in profile.

Also for future reference: there is a handy utility called coursera-dl if you want to save time faffing around with wget.

Edit: Oh great, there are backups online, yay.
It's actually quite conceivable that there was a first-line response memo crafted by a NSA/government official, that was sent out to the companies in question. What the NSA might not have expected is that the receivers decided to stick to the template so closely.

It's even possible that the companies coordinated their press releases for the very purpose of raising questions. We shouldn't assume they are all isolated from one another. It's far more likely that there is some form of communication going on between them, or at least between the high officials.

In essence, this looks very much like a coordinated effort to rebel against a gag order without actually crossing the line and putting oneself in jeopardy. Read between the lines.
It's scary to see how many closet fascists are here on ycombinator.
Yep, Facebook has the same thing, which was also pitched as altruistic.

https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=116481065103985
I, honestly, don't think these things are a good idea, bitwise operations make your code unreadable. Moreover there are simple, perfectly readable implementations of operations 1 to 17 that everyone recognizes in a second. With the operations 18 to 20 I agree since you may need them in an authorization system, but that's it. One more argument against these would be the fact that we're no longer in the 20th century and we cannot squeeze optimizations out of simple operations which are already optimized at the CPU level.
Ask HN: What would it take for you to take action?
In the light of the PRISM 'scandal', what specific events would it take for you to significantly change your life and actions?

It's easy to change the goal post. Answers to this question could be enlightening both for oneself as well as for future generations.
What are some things that programmers know, but most people don't?
It makes sense to me that Zuckerberg and Page came out personally. The idea that all their data is open to snooping is an existential threat to their companies. If true, their user bases (and thus revenues) would plummet. They absolutely had to deny it in the strongest terms possible.
The 'programmer laffer curve' may exist, but not for the reasons stated. A good programmer doesn't every 'offer all their experience' and runout. They got that experience somehow; this job is giving them more. They learn and grow, and don't stop having something to offer.

I'm leaning toward the 'bored and want an excuse to leave' school of thought on this one.
"Nothing practical would be achieved by having Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page penalized for what they said on record, in public against a government agency. Nothing would benefit the American people by having them put on trial or their companies sued for violating national security."

Your post is well written and presents an interesting viewpoint, but this is completely wrong. A handfull of the most powerful and wealthiest companies in the world standing up to the US government wouldn't achieve anything? What? It would make a HUGE difference. If the people involved won't stand up for what's right due to personal fear, that's understandable. Most people wouldn't. But they shouldn't pretend it's for any other reason. To do so is a huge insult to those who do have enough courage to do the right thing in the face of huge risk--much greater risk than is faced by these frightened SV millionaires and billionaires.
Maybe moving away from X is really just a cover for moving away from ICCCM? :)
According to the NY Times

>employees whose job it is to comply with FISA requests are not allowed to discuss the details even with others at the company

So it is possible that executives are not allowed to know what data their companies are supplying to the government.
> What would you have these companies do? Band together in a mighty ring of technological resources and begin a Privacy Revolution?

If I remember well Google was courageous enough confronting China.
As for myself: I don't know. That's part of the problem and the reason I asked this question. I'm very curious to see where people's threshold is.
They can prove it. Comprehensive independent security audits managed by well known privacy and human rights organizations. Considering the scale of Google they should have number of people auditing them all the time.
As far as I have always understood it, Turing was really just asking the question of those who don't believe in strong AI: "Suppose a machine did pass the Turing test, what extra thing would you expect of it before you would be willing to say it was capable of thought?"
I agree there have been a lot of topics in this thread :) But my point way back up at the top is just this: If being gay is defined by who you're attracted to, and "who you're attracted to" can change, then "being gay" is probably not something hardwired into you before you are born. Correlate, sure. Not something you can consciously control, sure. But I really think it's something that must be taken on a moment-by-moment basis, not a lifetime-by-lifetime basis.
It's Not Metadata, It's a Social Graph - John Watkinson
This story is no longer just a tech story.
Maybe you can have one but not the other. These guys contract big consulting firms to be the middlemen between them and the government when it comes to tax laws. But I suspect you have to "give" something in return.
> If they came out now, the country would be better for it.

It's easy to ask for other people to fight for your rights. What are you doing about it?
Particularly interesting that this time he included an entire Top Secret document in the posting (although it's a Presidential Memo, and thus probably essentially content-free).
Isn't saying this is a oversimplification, an oversimplification?
Works with TextMate 2 and 1's file browser, not tabs
Google CLO responding to the NYT et al:

We cannot say this more clearly—the government does not have access to Google servers—not directly, or via a back door, or a so-called drop box. Nor have we received blanket orders of the kind being discussed in the media. It is quite wrong to insinuate otherwise. We provide user data to governments only in accordance with the law. Our legal team reviews each and every request, and frequently pushes back when requests are overly broad or don’t follow the correct process. And we have taken the lead in being as transparent as possible about government requests for user information.

https://plus.google.com/+google/posts/TMh6gUVrwMq
Totally serious.

Google's Monthly account activity emails available:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/2478305?hl=en

Shows how many searches on has made, YouTube video watches, and other stuff. Pretty cool!
Danny Sullivan, who is a good source on search issues, thinks it was a check in check out system based on FISA requests. The point about not being able to mention FISA requests is then a 1st Amendment issue not 4th.
Prismers
I would appreciate if someone went and fixed the title to have the word "mobile" in it. I was expecting something very different than I got :)
Can you write a $5 check to "an org as important as EFF", or are you just complaining that rich people don't donate?
Google may not like it, but facial recognition is coming soon to Glass
I've just set up for 10% of my royalties from https://leanpub.com/lispwebtales to go to the EFF. It's a very modest contribution(I made ~150$ this month from the book, and expect slightly less next one) but I intend to increase the percentage if sales go up.

Leanpub makes it very easy to set up such donations, if you are an author, consider doing so. You owe it to the free internet that you have such an opportunity in the first place. At least that is my reasoning.
I'd like to know my action is leveraged, or helps provide leverage to others. I send emails to my elected officials (personalized like a boss) when I see an effort that starts to gain traction and I can see the power of numbers. If one of the big companies, or a couple of them, came together to say "we're going to make a stand, we need you behind us" I would be there loud and proud, I would email and share and talk about it in person. I want to be part of a movement, and I want to know that my effort isn't wasted or worthless. Give me that and you'll have my energy and voice.
There is a better way that occurred to me yesterday.Go to Tim Roughgarden's Stanford website.He has links to the archived classes.
Actually I think the breakup of AT&T was one of those moments when policy changed because all of the businesses got scared. When you look at the long history there, and it is a long history, it was right after that, that the government backed off from being aggressively pro-competitive.

We see a shift thus under Reagan from pro-competition to pro-oligopoly which continues and accelerates under Clinton, Bush, and Obama. It is an indication that in class warfare the elite always win.

As for AT&T getting back together, they still don't own a record label, broadcast/entertainment media, the Japanese telephone system or the major manufacturers of phones in the US and abroad to an extent anywhere near what they used to..... People forget just how big Ma Bell was at its zenith.
This is exactly what terrorists want: the impact of a terrorist act is, in the end, measured in money much more than in lives.

They are not going to kill that many people in the end, what they want is to make people afraid and pervert all the freedom in a country. Because what they hate is our freedom, do not forget it.

EDIT: BTW, being wrong (if I am) is a cause for downvotes? Grow up, you people.
And by all rational accounts, is altruistic.
That's always been the case. You'll never see a Department of Offense or a Ministry of Destruction. Even when we're busy bombing and invading foreign countries, we do it to "defend strategic interests". It's doublespeak, of course, but it's always been like that.
Fun vs. satisfaction in games
Why would you possibly need to add an extra core to the CPU to spy on people? What you're thinking of is more like LOM, where there's a second, low-power processor to remotely control the whole computer even in a powered down state. Depending on the level of integration that might give you cross-platform snooping, but it wouldn't be Intel and Microsoft, it would be Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte, MSI, etc.
Google Maps personalization could hurt public space and engagement
CNET: Washington Post & Guardian reports on PRISM are incorrect
So much the worst for the Constitution. What has it done for us lately?
So maybe polities of less than 300 million?
Eh, I know a lot of CS/tech grads who don't really do anything, aren't passionate about their field, and don't glance at their work for a second time. They just want to be done with it.

I'd hire the person who is better, with or without degree.
We should use that money to drop bombs via drones 24/7. Eradicate them out of existence.
Americans don't usually take kindly to the government messing with due process.
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maybe something like the visibone charts:

http://www.visibone.com&#x2F;
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The extra cpu runs its own operating system. It has hooks into the main cpus - can read their registers on every clock cycle and an in built radio transmitter. when many of them are put together they form their own cluster, something on those lines.
> You have to realize: Mark Zuckerberg isn't just looking out for Mark Zuckerberg by posting what he did. He has a family, a social life, and a whole lot of people at Facebook who depend on him. To whom, perhaps, it would not be fair for Zuck to martyr himself on the great gallows of the United States of Atrocity in futile protest of its horrifying surveillance subterfuge.

He also has over a billion people who would raise hell if the US Government came down hard on him for doing nothing more than tell the truth about a government program and laws that few people would agree make sense.

Having him put it all on the table to defend his user's privacy would say more about the company than any marketing or press release ever could.

We, as individuals, are utterly powerless against our government. That's a fact. Just try to go up against the IRS or even your local Labor Board.

People like him have the ability to really disrupt the surveillance state in ways we cannot. What would happen if all major 'net CEO's and founders agreed to tell the government to stuff it? They are going to arrest all of them? They woukd have angry mobs burning down Congress. These CEO's have real power. Perhaps it's high time they start exercising it.
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Oh the irony! Obviously if Zuckerberg cared about people's privacy he would have run facebook differently.
Their data /is/ open to snooping. We'll see if their user bases plummet. For some reason I doubt it.
Here is a list of facebook questions I compiled:
http://letschat.info/reduced-list-of-facebook-questions&#x2F;

Or just read CLRS. That is like the definite book of algorithms. I bet like ever CS student has that book.
Well Page and Zuck may not be able to tell the truth about the action, but they have enough clout to fight the Gag law itself. i.e. They could lead publicly rally's/protest against the gag laws and they could be really effective in this without breaking the law.... And yet still, they do not.
It's open source. You don't even have to talk to the developers if you'd rather not. Fork it and make it beautiful, and release it. The world will thank you. If there's enough demand, the devs will merge it into the original project.
Errrm, and what, exactly, tells us who to "drop bombs" on?
How are you able to query the accessiblity api so fast? In my experience, it's awfully slow.
You might find it interesting to hear from a lawyer who helped pioneer these tactics in the Canwell hearings in Washington State (who happened to be a relative of mine): http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/caughlan_inter...

By the time HUAC came around, actually, the reasons to take the fifth were quite well developed. Additionally he had helped someone come up with a strategy of refusing to answer questions without an appointed attorney present which had the effect of getting a lot of lawyers who weren't even necessarily civil libertarians thrust into the front lines. The result was that Canwell lost re-election. This was before HUAC even got formed.

You have a point about McCarthy but only from a different direction. McCarthy was an exponent of what was going on. He did not turn America into anything. He was just the final wave.

We do have McCarthy to thank however for the great free speech protections we enjoy in our nation. It was due to his overreaches that the court ruled that spreading the Communist ideology was protected under the 1st Amendment unless one actually went so far as to try to raise an army to violently rebel (the case was Yates v. United States).

The great irony was that whatever McCarthy's lust for power or his intentions, he succeeded in showing the court why Communists had to have civil liberties too and perhaps turned the US into something better, very much despite his best efforts.
It seems to me that some somewhat sensationalist reporting has gotten in the way of the facts in this case.

I hope that in spite of this, the media furore surrounding the PRISM program encourages useful and open discourse about user rights in the age of rapidly proliferating digital information.
Sure there is logic. We are talking about destroying America. We are talking about us and therefore the rest gets omitted.

If we want to talk about what the blowback will be from the Iraq war, then the rest of that is very relevant though.
I remember the time, about 6 or 7 years ago when I've asked in front of the whole class to the associate professor of the security course, whether building a text messages encryption app would have been a good idea as project for the course. The answer was a smickering "only a drug dealer would be interested in such a thing".

oh man, that hurt... if I only knew a valid point against the "I've got nothing to hide" argument as I do now...
YouTube to the rescue! I just found this guy's channel not too long ago and he's posted all of the videos along with a number of other courses.

http://www.youtube.com/user/afigfigueira/videos
have apple ever approved any app like that? just asking...