skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rights have "due process" attached to them, as you noted. This is exactly what creates violent religion called "state".

My suggestion is to use "contracts" as a basis for all social agreements. People voluntarily agree to certain behaviour between each other and "lock up" themselves in voluntary obligations. Breaking these obligations is punished by economic ostracism by others, who'd like to keep their obligations and benefits. If you steal, we will not sell you bread until you pay your debts. That simple. If some bunch of people agreed to not pollute the river and you come and pollute, they would not deal with you. If you disagree, no one kidnaps you, please feel free to negotiate and boycott back. Just like on your interview: if you don't like job conditions, you withdraw your service. But also employer withdraws his payment if he doesn't like your conditions. So you either come to some common grounds (without any need for "rights" or "morality"), or you go different ways.

On a large scale it can work beautifully with internet and crypto proofs of agreements. You can have millions of people easily lock up in common agreements on intellectual property, pollution, insurance against disasters etc. Anyone willing to go against existing relations will face ostracism from millions of people absolutely automatically (via dispute resolution organizations that will act as delegates/proxies).

The trick is only to grow such "contract / dispute resolution" network to a large enough scale when bullying is big economic risk. Today, people trust state to make decisions who's bad, who's good and state makes a good job to hide these people in jail and courts, so you don't even have a chance to negotiate openly. Almost no one has millions of chances to find supporters. In voluntary society you can always go to a competing agency and try to convince them that you are right and others are wrong. If they can successfully prove that to customers, they'll win the market. So what is acceptable and what is not will be decided locally by the market, never set in stone, always renegotiable to the maximum satisfaction of everyone.
Good news. I'm OK with Windows - I'd rather be enraged with Microsoft, than with the Million Monkey syndrome.
Have you seen it on a phone? The new UI looks horrible on a projector, but pretty nice on a real emitting IPS display.
Ask HN: Site that has video walkthroughs of code examples
You can speed up and slow down code and it shows it being coded in real time.
our minister (Ivo Opstelten) has just said that he hasn't had any complaints concerning prism.

probably because it was a secret... duh... the way our (as in netherlands and EU) politicians are responding to these issues are so laughable it makes me depressed.
I have a lot of problem with Brooks' argument, but I still find it interesting enough to upvote and comment on.

We've had government secrets for hundreds of years, yet lately we seem to have an upsurge in leakers. What has changed? Have "those dang kids" just given up on traditional structures of authority, as Brooks believes? Or has the system itself grown evil enough that people view their obligation to their fellow citizen more important than their obligation to the structures created by those citizens?

I think as government continues to tighten the screws on society, more and more people are going to rat out the system. Some are going to be single-issue types who limit what they release. These guys have one issue that they feel a majority of the population would be outraged about if they only knew. I support these guys, although I would warn them that they could very well be wrong -- people might not be outraged. And they are gambling with their lives. The penalty for treason is death. This is not something to take lightly at all.

The other folks are mad at the system itself. They declare war on it and do whatever they can to hurt it. I do not support these people, mainly because some secrecy is necessary and we rely on our system of government to do good and necessary things.

99.999% of the time, your oath should come ahead of any personal considerations you might have. But not always.

I also note that the smearing of Snowden has begun and now is in full force. If I were some of these reporters, I'd be asking myself how I would feel if the rest of the media establishment treated me this way the next time I broke a major story.
I can say with certainty that as of 6 years ago, 4473 checks were not retained in any way by the ATF or the federal government.

There are local copies of the paperwork retained the FFL in which the sale took place, and those are required to be kept for a period of time and, should the FFL ever close shop, those records are shipped to the ATF, possibly revealing record data to them, but at least at the point of the NICS check, the data is not retained at all.
BackupBuddy gets updated to 4.0
Are you disputing that incidences of theft are frequently rationalised by the perpetrator on the basis that the victim deserves it?
>There was lots of government surveillance and invasion of privacy of (say) gay men back in the "good old days". Maybe it's just because the white anglo christians are affected by government surveillance and intrusion that's new?

My point isn't "this old thing was bad", my point was "this thing has been happening to lots of people before, now it's happening to everyone".*

For one, if it happened to "lots" (in reality: far fewer) and now is happening to "everyone", this extension of reach automatically makes it far worse.

Second, even considering a single target person, the breadth of this, the automation, the easiness, and the retrieval and cross-search capabilities, make it several orders of magnitude worse than what was happening to people before.

Compared to the breadth, scope and capabilities of modern surveillance, J.E. Hoover was a total amateur.

Also "government surveillance" of "gay men"? When? For who? A few prominent figures people wanted to blackmail?
Most German i2p developers were motivated by what you were wondering. It was part of the negotiated agreements.

(A bargain was also struck with the UK: they got bombs from the USA in exchange for data - Anthony Neil Wedgwood "Tony" Benn was Postmaster General)
Maybe it's my bias, and I'm probably not educated about the deeper arguments on both sides of the PRISM case - but this article feels very off to me. The cynic in me feels like this is pure inner circle propaganda.

"He betrayed the cause of open government. Every time there is a leak like this, the powers that be close the circle of trust a little tighter. They limit debate a little more."

So our choices are to quietly ignore the fact that the circles he speaks of have already closed beyond recognition - and are continuing to do so without our knowledge or consent. We're obviously not involved in the debate in the fist place - so it seems to me that we have nothing to lose - at least out in the open we can actually watch the circle of trust close.
What about:

import Prelude hiding ((.))
import Control.Category
import Control.Arrow

half' = Kleisli half

...

runKleisli (half' . half') 8
despite the severity of implications of PRISM, being able to laugh about it is important.

slides were designed excellently, i definitely did not giggle at all..
You know what's faster than JS? C. C, the language many VMs are built in and tasked with running these kinds of things.
I don't think this would be a crazy thing to do.

Russia doesn't drone 'suspected' terrorists based on their meta data.
> We recognize abortion as a right in contemporary American culture because women cannot have equality in a soul-crushing corporate workplace without it

Completely regardless of any pro life or pro choice bias, I don't really understand A) why you think this is true or B) why you think that "because it is necessary for equality in a soul crushing corporate workplace" is a valid justification for something.

> Similarly free speech and due process are necessary for our form of governance to survive.

And once again, you're justifying the means on account of the ends without justifying the ends as worthy, why should we care if that particular form of governance survives?

Care to enlighten me? Curious.
I used to be terrified by GM foods because the big companies that make them intentionally contaminate farmers fields, then sue them, and the farmers lose everything. The only reason I'm not terrified anymore is my "gentleman farmer" great uncle died, so I have no direct family in the line of fire.

Imagine growing what amounts to an overgrown garden, some dude takes a sample, detects "contamination" containing their "intellectual property" and next thing you know, you're bankrupt and homeless. I could probably survive that, but for my elderly uncle that would have been a death sentence. Killing someone to make a relatively small amount of money seems inhumane, but its the American way.

GM = horrifically evil in practice. In theory I agree 100% there is nothing wrong with it as a technology. However as a business its a disaster. I'm not willing to kill my uncle so some monsanto exec can get 61 Ferraris with his bonus instead of 60 this year.

I feel terrible for the poor farmer who owns the field the contamination was detected on. Its like, euthanasia time for legal reasons for that poor guy, his life is basically over now.
So intelligence services in general are out?
"He betrayed the privacy of us all. If federal security agencies can’t do vast data sweeps, they will inevitably revert to the older, more intrusive eavesdropping methods."

So as long as you're spied upon unintrusively, it's all fine and dandy?

That the NYT should print this bloviating pundit's Orwellian attempt to twist a self-sacrificing attempt to defend privacy in to a cynical betrayal of privacy shames the paper, if it could be shamed any further.
What Google updates mean for your business
Brilliant marketing. Bravo.
You have to click on the left third of the next slide, or the right third of the current slide.
One of the most clever ways I've ever seen to sell yourself.. On par with the Oreo ad during the superbowl I think.
You nailed the timing of the issue, and I hope you get some awesome jobs from this. The hair still rose on the back of my neck, and it made it seem even more manipulative. A+ design/presentation skills.
Indie game development isn't as sexy or craze-inducing as the idea of homebrew. Homebrew suggests a completely open and level playing field, and it ignites the imagination of gamers (even if they never attempt it themselves). Indie-game development translates to most as: instead of tens-of-millions of dollars and dozens of staff you only needs maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars and under 10 staffers. Not nearly as cool as the idea of sitting down at your PC and hacking together your own game which can then be run on your own console.

Keeping your fans/community thinking your indie support is actually homebrew in nature will benefit you and once you launch, the buzz isn't as important.
I would say his argument is the olde: "We, your betters, know best. Don't argue or criticise, its unpatriotic." Oh, and bung in a bit of "what have you got to hide", while we are at it.

I really, really, hate saying this, because usually its a phrase used by right wing nut jobs, but it really smacks of genuine intellectual elitism. (Thank god for British gun laws, saying that makes me want to blow my brains out, or at least an old laptop. I'll have to make do with the next best thing, a Jack Daniels on ice)
Stop Watching Us
Email observation exercise
KGB is much better than NSA: they simply don't have money for data processing on that scale.

Yandex Mail is a great competitor to gmail, some things even work better -- you've got a separate list of thread's attachments, ability to unsubscribe from whole spam categories in one click, SMS (maybe only in russia) and so on
"Trust KGB to read your mail (http://www.russianpost.ru/) "
Is this a really subtle joke...? The FSB will very definitely kill you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovs...
What I use is thunderbird + enigmail, which encrypts the message with the receiver's public key and/or signs it with my private key.

I don't know if that's the best thing for privacy. I would appreciate a lot to hear some pros/cons.
Apps are House Parties, Websites are Nightclubs
It's almost classic conservatism: structure is good, people in authority know better than you, listen to your elders, and so on.
Installing Spanish Tile Roofing? Here's What You Should Know | LGC Roofing Blog
Ask HN : How about the time version of Kickstarter?
We have always been told/taught - "Time is Money".
What happens at kickstarter is someone donates money for a cause.

How about replacing money with time?

This just hit me, not sure if I am making sense, or if it is too vague.
Just want to know what people think of it here.

Maybe something meaningful comes out of the group mulling here.

Throwing it out for discussion.
Aha, Thanks ;)
IOS 7 Video
Yeah I'm really bummed about that part. And worse it'll probably make it really difficult for someone who wants to make a real legitimate case on the issue.
That's a dangerous assumption to make, many world governments may have purchased intelligence from the NSA and now they'll have to re-allocate funds for locally-sourced intelligence.
Discovering Leap Device
The fact that the slides were so disgusting is just another reason to make me think this "story" was "broke" by design. Controlled opposition.
Interesting theory, and definitely the more boring version which lends it some credibility. My only question would be that the NSA would have to have some assurance that the data they're receiving is legitimate.
That's right, and it was set in America.
The whole article is so ad hominem ("look, here we have a freak breaking the law, he is a poor lonely guy without friends and almost a sociopath") and so wilfully pseudo-naïve ("And, of course, he’s right that the procedures he’s unveiled could lend themselves to abuse in the future.") that it is more than insulting. It is unbelievable that this has made the NYT.

Unbelievable.

Patronizing, like any government sponsoring person looks nowadays.
But a lot of these limits could default to automatically adjust. Serving much more than 500 concurrent requests for static content is rather trivial on most remotely modern hardware if the software is designed for it.

And reasonable queuing behaviour for sites have been possible for well over a decade. E.g. Eddie is 14 years old (http://eddie.sourceforge.net/txt/WP_1.0.html - see the "Quality of Service" section in particular - while Eddie is intended for clustered setups, there are many situations where this approach is amenable even to single server setups) and provides a solution (amongst others) where if the system can't handle the incoming traffic, rather than serving up the main page and choking on assets and failing miserably in serving up anything to anyone, you can serve up a small light "queue" page and grant access to the full site as and when capacity allows.

There are certainly plenty of things that truly does require a lot of technical skill to sort out, but a lot of software have poor defaults and lacks relatively straightforward features that would make the out of the box experience tremendously much better for less technical users.
Cardinal Richelieu, if I'm not mistaken.
Are you a voluntaryist / ancap with hopes for the implications of the underpinnings of the system via cryptographic protocols by any chance? Your ideas sound very familiar.
In all honesty, 20M seems like a bargain for that much value.
Google caught in a lie.
نتيجة الثانوية العامة 2013 وزارة التربية والتعليم وجميع المواقع
You started off by citing his connection though. It's a small desktop. The reason he said Mac Mini _Pro_ was in reference to that high end spec you mention in your responce.
Nice move Mr Presentation Designer.
Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying
Flat UI. Was this iOS 7 inspired? :P
http://prism-break.org/
Imagine the uproar if the NSI hired a graphic designer of sorts to make their slides more attractive. I can see the moaning now "They spent HOW much of my tax money making those slides pretty?!?"

I expect the NSA's slide to be crappy, because you know, they're spies and stuff not graphic UX experts.
Save the iOS: An open letter to Apple, Inc. & Sir Jonathan Ive
Outsource your domestic spying to the NSA cloud!

EDIT: How do we do it? By saving money on counter-intelligence! it's a win-win!
Thanks for pointing this out. I've brought this up many times, but people seem to gloss over it. These more recent programs simply remove red tape. This has been going on at least since the Regan administration(perhaps before with Carter). While it may be "illegal" to spy on your citizens, there's nothing against spying on your ally's populace and then having them reciprocate the favor. Share intelligence reports and you are now successful in spying on the entire world.
You should just get in contact with every governmental agency in the world, the amount of bad designed layouts is over 9000.
Wasting less time on facebook will leave NSA emptyhanded! :)
more likely, trust KGB to steal your mail
Yep, Chrome itself is not open source:

License: Freeware under Google Chrome Terms of Service

Chrome's WebKit & Blink layout engines and its V8 JavaScript engine are each free and open-source software, while its other components are each either open-source or proprietary. However, section 9 of Google Chrome's Terms of Service designates the whole package - Chrome itself - as proprietary freeware.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome
Magpie Apple plunders the competition for cosmetics, as egos run wild
As a NoScript user, I sometimes try to explain to people that for every site ruined by NoScript, there's another site that's made easier to use. This would be one of the examples of the latter. I just got a nice HTML text-ish file with headers for the slides.
> … Mr. Snowden later sent him a homemade video with step-by-step instructions for installing [encryption software], which Mr. Greenwald watched but never completed… In late April or early May, he and Mr. Snowden began to talk over an encrypted chat program.

What "encrypted chat program" they could possibly use?
Hah. I like how the author pluralized "targets'" while keeping all the other facts intact.
I don't understand why any company would think making a new dedicated email client not in the browser would be a money-making business.
That's not really true. MP3 and AAC are designed, like many video codecs, so that the decoder is standardized and unchanging (except for performance tuning) but the encoders can continue to tweak and experiment to increase quality, reduce size etc.

The LAME encoder was the x264 of its day, and there's forums where people who care test competing audio codec implementations and newer encoder revisions to see how progress is going just like they do for video.

I'm not saying it really matters to end users in a big bang wow sense that you can hang a blog post news item on, but codecs gradually getting better benefits everyone and is continually happening in the background.
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Yes, I guess removing Facebook account and completely stop using the service would definitely be an option.
Brilliant! I think, as the public, we should all re-implement an open, ethical, and fun version of this surveillance infrastructure open to the Internet as a whole. Facebook nearly implemented that goal. But we can do better.
I've been so infuriated with this story that I didn't think someone could make me laugh about PRISM, but this did it.
Lots. Here you go:

1. CPU time goes up. When you need to scale up, your brick wall is a lot closer.

2. When you do need to scale up, moving it out of the database engine is very expensive and time consuming.

3. The languages are archaic, obtuse and inadequate for representing business logic and don't cover ALL concerns. How do you call a web service and do an update in a transaction for example? How do you send an email?

4. It's incredibly difficult to test as the entire thing is stateful.

5. Error handling and reporting is terrible.

6. You lose database portability. This is a big issue these days, particularly when you get whacked with major licensing model changes.

7. Versioning and deployment with the application is utterly painful.

Etc etc...
Brook's position is vital to have out in public. It's basically the governments argument, written in plain English.

With it out in public, the public can deal with it, as you are doing. Had this article not appeared, you would not have posted what you did.

As for the smearing, I have no doubt that these reporters and commentators fully believe in what they are saying. They believe in their government and the believe in the war on terror.
In some places, "Disrupting the flow of traffic" is illegal. For example, driving at 55 mph on the highway is legal. However, driving next to someone, both going 55 mpg, would be illegal, as it disrupts the flow of traffic.
I'm starting to think some people value social stability so much that they would condemn the leaking of "Soylent Green is people!"
Eddy Cue: Before & After
one of the mistakes with Firewire is that they underestimated the royalties issue, which afaik wasn't repeated with Thunderbolt (but I might be wrong)
Etoro.com emails your password back in plaintext if you can't remember it
I find his philosophical views fairly reactionary. What does he want? For society to go back to a pyramid structure where people are bound to a particular village and have freedom to construct their own lives? We watch movies about people living in those kinds of worlds, whether authority prevents a person from being with someone they love, or forces them into a subservient role because of some irrelevant parental or biological characteristic, or simply denies them the right to follow their dreams, and I don't know about you but my reaction every time is one of horror. I would not want to live in that world. And yet that's what these "mediating institutions" that conservatives love ultimately do.

He is correct in that the reason why we are living under these simultaneous horrors of alienation and encroaching statism is indeed the fact that there is nothing other than the individual and the state left. But the solution is not to go back; rather, it is to go forward. For the first time, we have an internet that exposes us to cultural artifacts and sets of values from all around the world. You right now are reading something written by a Russian Canadian; the person replying to me may well be Chinese. True, we aren't going to spend our lives bound from the top down by powerful overarching communities. But what we can do is create communities of our own. We're seeing it already; the fact that this new wave of peer-to-peer services (taking an expansive definition of the term) like AirBnB, Couchsurfing and Meetup are doing so well is proof that people are willing to search for groups of people that share their own values and get together with them. For the first time in history, we're seeing powerful non-governmental organizations bounded by nothing but a shared vision for a better world get seats at the same conferences and decision-making bodies as governments and businesses. Freedom is not amoralism; notice that the author of this article mentioned that Snowden actually _donated_ to Ron Paul; would the archetype "selfish" individualist without enough money to actually influence the outcome ever do such a thing? Rather, freedom is the ability to shape your life according to your own image. And it's about time we simultaneously recognize the problems of the present day and advance a vision to move our society forward that recognizes this fact.
Can't you do this already? I think alienware sell units designed for exactly that.