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I mean, didn't he take someone else's idea and turn it into a billion-dollar company for himself while cutting them out? Multiple reasons not to trust him!
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Sure you can. They have 10.8 VMs for VMWare Workstation. I'd recommend at least 8gb of RAM for smoother access though.
Local SSDs are always going to beat out iSCSI (which is what Amazon EBS' are under the hood).
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Agree that the git command-line API is harder than it ought to be. My comment was meant to help git beginners that are afraid of exploring for fear of wasting many hours fixing their mistakes; you should consider learning the commands to undo your mistakes before learning other crazy commands.
Indeed. Feudal society would have been very different if any eighteen year old whiz kid could start up his own manor and attract five million peasants over the course of two years and three venture capital cycles.
I was just thinking - don't get me wrong - but is there any way to know whether if the surveillance actually protected any terrorist attacks, and if yes, how much? I think it is theoretically possible that it helped to prevent many attacks, but government could not announce it because that would reveal the whole network. It would be best if somebody would leak some documents that would show the terrorist attack being prevented. That would probably be the first leak that revealed not the crimes of the government, but actually good work, that was supposed to stay a secret.
You're making it up on volume (which, as long as there is some margin per unit, is fine). Congratulations!
If Chrome Frame is necessary for you, why not continue it as a separate open source project? Google has already helped you massively, it's not their job to manage your backwards compatibility issues for you...
So in other words, the Guardian is saying that I'm right (again)? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5859493
Teens are still using Facebook. It's become a utility to stay in contact. It might be 'cool' to say you're not using it, but the reality (read: data) shows that they use it more than ever.
> If you're 20, generalize.

Did you mean 'study an a uni'?

> If you're 25, specialize.

Did you mean 'graduate and find your first job'?
Is anyone else bothered by the vague, overbroad restrictions in DigitalOcean's terms of service? Particularly:

"2.5 You agree that you will NOT use DigitalOcean's services to: [..] Transmit, distribute, post, store, link, or otherwise traffic in information, software, or materials that is offensive, abusive, inappropriate, malicious, or detrimental"

Almost anything can be offensive to someone. I compared the Linode and AWS terms of service and neither has anything like this. While none of my own content is by any means extreme, the presence of this provision seems like a red flag and has kept me from switching to DO.
> My intuition on this may be wrong, but it seems to me that the lack of variable seek time ought to lessen the variability in I/O performance that one hears so much about.

Take this with a grain of salt, as I'm limited in my experience, but I believe that's not entirely the case. Modern SAN controllers are optimized for very consistent latency on spinning platter disks, even under heavy load. The big benefit that I see in SSD-backed SANs is increased I/O bandwidth.
facebook has gotten old.
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I was assuming the built-in NSA access was making people uncomfortable. ;)
The way they're monetizing their role in the release of this widely-followed signal is morally equivalent to insider trading on their own.

That said, serious traders who object to this tax can predict the signal from more-primary sources.
Emperor's New Clothes. By openly restating something that has been "obvious", "implicit" or "well known", we've been served with a wake-up call.
We use a bunch of tools up and down our stack, but the nginx+uwsgi+Flask part of our stack has been very reliable.

Every request to new-ish parts of the Twilio API touches Flask, and it's performed like a champ.
Greenwald, in (I think) a slippery way, tried to start walking this back last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845649
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I think it's possible that Steve Gibson is right on this week's Security Now podcast. He suggests that perhaps the NSA has tapped into the ISP just upstream of the 9 companies listed. Then, they copy all of the data coming into and out of the fiber going to the Google datacenters. This fits with the name Prism, and is corroborated by the 2006 revelation about the NSA-controlled room in the ATT building in San Francisco.

Edit: this does rely on the NSA having access to routers, not servers, so it still isn't exactly what they said
The point is that the companies decide what production data to deposit on these servers after their legal teams have reviewed FISA requests. According to the tech companies, these requests are individually reviewed and target individuals and are narrow in scope. And they push back when they are broad.

This detail is a major one. This would mean the NSA cannot simply log on to Facebook and query for whatever they want. It means the system is simply a way for companies to comply with FISA requests, something that they were already required to do.

So: even though Twitter doesn't use PRISM, there is really no difference between what the NSA can access on Twitter and what they can access on Facebook. Twitter just complies through some other manner.
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“In the long tail of history just following orders is wrong. That’s the key thing that really matters.”

Jacob Appelbaum hit the nail on the head.
Because the company has to provide the data (or not). The company can (must) decide to exclude data that doesn't have a FISA warrant, for example.

The threat to this model is the idea that a FISA warrant might not be required until monitoring has gone on for 72 hours, but that was just as much of a threat with the prior model, where the data were manually extracted and sent by the company instead of using the automated dropbox setup.
I think you just come from a different perspective than me, i work in the enterprise for fortune 500 companies. The mindset and the process is just different. If the horse and buggy works, and is cheap, and doesn't have high maintenance costs, in the enterprise will gladly let the horse and buggy technology go until paste the day when we are flying spaceships to and from work.

I enjoy the witty snaps, but realistically, it just shows your out of touch with the enterprise space.

I am not talking client facing apps, all of those are cross browser up to date to ensure maximum visibility, i am talking intranet enterprise apps so hideous no one who isnt paid to use them ever would... these are the backroads that only the farmhands use. the overseers are like you want to throw an automatic carriage back here, but we pushed for it, and just as it rolls out i gotta tell em the automatic carriage company stopped selling gasoline, and they just look at me laugh, and say horses run on hay...

thats all it is aint the end of the world, aint even a big deal, i will write an active x control and embed it in the page to do what i need... horse and buggy style
I think we are more aware of the product's experimental nature due to having read and discussed his blogs. I'm not sure that reading the sales page discloses this as much.

It definitely doesn't look like an experiment. There is no data collection, no controls, no clear or explicit warning that the product is untested.
> except going over to someone's house and play a game without having to bring the disc with you (yay, big deal!).

I doubt it'll allow that, simply because it's not practical. You'll still need all the data at the disk, and MS probably won't add a very expensive network service to make it easier for you to not buy a game.

That portion of the ToS probably means that the XBox won't refuse to play your game once you put the disk in a console and log with your account, even if the console isn't yours... Maybe restricted only to a friend's machines, but the part about any XBox One implies that they won't check it. Anyway, you can't just make that kind of assumption from MS licensing terms, the word "any" there could mean anything and we'll only know the exact meaning once somebody tries it.
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Author here.

I should have made it clear that gaming is the only reason for me to add high end cards.

Is a Mac Pro with some graphic cards really a good choice or would a cheap (read: $300 for the base system + cards) self build Intel / AMD box be a better alternative? If I look at current boards with 4 PCIe x16 slots.

A complete box would likely be cheaper than two or three graphic cards for the Mac and it should be a lot faster (TB vs. PCIe x16)
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Exactly, there's enough wiggle room in non-technical terms like "direct access" that both the accusation and the denials could be true. Does it mwan root access, SQL access, or if PRISM involved a search API (thin wrapper around the db) would that count?
Here's an interesting take on Mr. Greenwald's handling of this story: http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/greenwald-sticks-with-his-...
They don't and this story is likely bogus, smart marketing on the part of the lead character in the story who managed to get the name of his company out front on a hot button issue.
Steve Gibson suggests [1] that direct access means, direct access to their internet pipes, effectively tapping or mirroring their content for analysis. He says that "direct access" has more meaning to non-techies than saying they "are listening at the upstream router". Very interesting podcast too. The $20 million per collection point, is to build the secure secret rooms [2] at their [google, facebook, apple, microsoft, etc] telecom providers, slip the fibers, and for all the gear they need to do it. He even suggests this is legal, since it is the open internet and anyone is allowed to peer into the traffic, since this is not actually in any of their [google, facebook, apple, microsoft, etc] data centers, but at the peering level.

[1] http://twit.tv/show/security-now/408

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Yeah, the NSA might have a system like that for all I know, but it's going to be named something other than PRISM.
The syllabus is not part of the decision and has no legal effect (it says this at the top of every syllabus), so wouldn't be grounds for a challenge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Detroit_Timber...
As a Michigan resident I second this. I don't support his politics really, but he is the perfect example of what a politician is supposed to do for his constituents. I often visit his FB page to see what he has been up to. He always has very thorough summaries of what he voted on and why he voted the way he did. Simply fantastic. I can't imagine how he deals with his slithering counterparts on a day to day basis.
Yeah. That is similar to my 3rd thought and very similar to one of the programmer's thoughts. Makes a lot of sense since it would be hard to find the person who wanted to do the day in and day out 'fix the printer' stuff and also have the skills for the more high end stuff.
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Or because of profit ala "powered by mapbox"
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Non-fiction.

Making a financial success of fiction is (even) harder. Much harder. Generally speaking, I think you need a publisher behind you for fiction, although Amanda Hocking recently managed to bootstrap her way to self-published vampire success.
And, as customers, we're just letting them have access because it's easy.

I use facebook because it's easier than any alternative, even though I don't like the privacy stuff. I'm just following the crowd.

I use gmail because, woah! 1 GB storage and they're reliable! And so I just follow the crowd.

I don't bother with encryption because it's slow and clunky and most of the people I communicate with can only just use a web browser, they have no hope of using GPG.

I'm quick to blame the big corps for rolling over and giving my data away, but I've done a lot to help them do it.
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>And, finally, don't be extreme in any way: politically, socially, culturally.

I strongly disagree with this, not just on principle, but also practically. There is always an extreme.
I'm curious about what you think is "magic" in Django? It does have a lot more included than Flask/Werkzeug/Jinja2 but it did start in the era before Pip/VirtualEnv existed so a lot more had to be included.

After numerous purges (the magic-removal-branch being the biggest) and deprecations over the years since 1.0, Django is IMO pretty magic-free. If you have suggestions of what isn't Pythonic enough, I think the core team would appreciate a ticket on Trac:

https://code.djangoproject.com/newticket
Was the wording on the slide "direct access to"? I remember there being a "directly from the servers", but that wording has to be interpreted in the context of what it means to someone in the intel community (like the NSA).

And I'm 80% sure that what it means in that context is that the source of the data received has no middleman. I.e. they pull Google's records straight from Google, not from a wiretap or SIGINT, just like for Facebook, PalTalk, etc.
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While certainly a possibility, that really wouldn't fit in with everything else we've heard about PRISM, including what the tech companies have said. It also wouldn't allow the NSA to view data transferred over SSL (which I believe is all gmail and Facebook traffic, at least for me) -- unless the NSA has broken the encryption algorithms.
The URL has existed for less than a day and it's already at the top of results? Bing and Yahoo don't appear to be trying very hard.
The biggest (of many) problems with these offerings is that they only work in and of themselves and only on Windows. I cannot run any of them on my Linux desktop, an Android device, an iPad, etc. Microsoft will not port any of these things to alternate platforms because Windows is their religion.

So the less people use Windows the less appeal there will be for these products. They are all anchored to the same sinking ship.

Also, SharePoint sucks. I had to say it. It's a worst-in-class product in a sea of vastly superior web application and document sharing platforms. I can't believe you included it in your list. I severely dislike many of those other products (Outlook, Exchange, and SQL Server, specifically) but even I'll admit that those products actually do what they're supposed to. SharePoint is nothing but a black hole where documents, time, and energy go in but nothing useful ever comes back out.
Indeed - I think my brain short-circuited there somehow and I took "pro" to mean "anti".
You can use CreateSpace to print and distribute your books to Amazon. I do.

Just don't use CreateSpace as your publisher, i.e. don't buy their ISBNs. For a number of reasons, you want to be the publisher of record, which requires buying your own ISBNs (from Bowker, in the US).
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I'm not saying that hackers aren't doing those things. But the article tries to paint them out to be morally superior, and in my experience, my hacker buddies are the least likely out of all of my friends to be involved in that sort of thing.
I am not a network expert, but won't most of that data still be encrypted through SSL? If that is the case, it would be almost useless since sites like Facebook and Google have made the transition to defaulting to using SSL.
He is implying with not any evidence, aka FUD.
for a lot of self extracting files, take a look at p7zip. It'll usually work on most of them, including some of the funky windows installers.

It's also great to pull data off a cd image without mounting, it.
Generally (pretty much always) the name of a government program is an acronym. I wouldn't try and draw much meaning from it.
Oh my, what lovely interaction design!
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> Surely it's whoever achieved the best outcome, irrespective of how they achieved it.

Isn't that an ends justify the means sort of argument?
With a 20M budget?
99% of monolithic web intranet application only works in IE 7 (8&9 in compatibility mode), you cant expect your user to have a separate browser for one subsection of a web app, and IE for the rest of it.
Thanks for the information. They never mentioned anything about clearance. The end client is a big telecom company. Rate is not finalized and this is a 12 month contract (w2). And the staffing agency is also big company.
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Google itself explicitly encourages people to SEO their sites. So much so that they publish a SEO starter guide for webmasters and SEO professionals [1].

SEO isn't what you think it is, yet you continue to paint all of SEO with your broad brush. Stop.

[1] (pdf) - https://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrus...
Fair enough in general, but I don't think my conclusion of "Twilio's API runs on Flask => Flask is very reliable" is too far-fetched in the context of Twilio, whose whole business is their API.

To be fair to your skepticism, I have probably followed Twilio more than you've had. I seem to remember that they switched to Flask, so I don't think it was technical debt that they had to work around later on. (like it might have been the case with Facebook and PHP)

Let's say that "Twilio uses Flask for their API" answers the question "can it be used in production?" (or "is it a serious project today?"). "Should you use it in production?" is where context matters more.
There's actually a lot of Google employees who post around the web, take feedback and get it to the right teams at Google, etc. I'm just one of the more well-known people.

If the question is "Why doesn't Google have someone I can talk to about my issue?" then I think the answer is probably related to the scale of the web. Remember that Google gets billions of searches a day. There's also ~250M domains on the web. Even if we shifted every single Google employee to user or webmaster support, I'm not sure we could talk to everybody. That's why we look for scalable methods of communication, e.g. our webmaster console or webmaster videos.

Note that we have gotten better over time though. AdWords has phone support now, for example. And just yesterday we started sending example URLs when we send our messages about manual webspam actions. That helps because now webmasters have a better idea about where to look to solve their issues.
I think that's a bit generous. They look over the request but if the result set is too large it couldn't be reasonably vetted by lawyers. Eg, they would have a look at it but we don't know how rigorous they are or could be.
No they did not mention clearance
Anyone with a facebook account "trusts" him.
Yes. Not only that, but Google and Facebook, both of whom have been tarred by the PRISM story, have gone way out of their way to make SSL/TLS more pervasive in the real world, to the point where their efforts are resulting in huge improvements to clientside software.
It's an advert, it's not a the top of organic results.

Perhaps Google should reconsider the contrast of the box behind the ads? We want people to click ads, but not if they're being phished.
buro9, what email address did you forward things from? I searched my email for buro9 but didn't see anything.
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AFAIK 11km isn't far enough from the coast to be international waters.
... and then these big enterprises are surprised when they get outmaneuvered by a startup using technology which less than 10 years old.
It would be interesting to see the age data for services like SnapChat and Instagram (maybe this was included in FB's age range).
Still no 1200 line monitor in the system76 laptop line :( That's the only thing keeping me married to Dell.
Almost useless, unless you have the keys.
Prism might only be part of it, there are ways of breaking up projects in budgets obviously. It could just feed the data into another system
Here's a link about tube feeding from the medical point of view:

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My one gripe with DigitalOcean is that their customer support leaves a great deal to be desired. For days I've been unable to replicate images across regions (any droplet I try to create gets in a permanent stuck state and can't be killed). I filed a service ticket days ago and was told I'd receive a response shortly but have still heard nothing. I've even sent replies pleading for some recognition that my issue is being worked on, but have received no response and no indication that they are working on my ticket. This does not bode well considering that creating a droplet from an existing image is a major feature of their product, and is not properly working.

While I have liked DO when it works and their prices are great, it comes at a cost. In my case that cost is their product not properly functioning and their team seemingly having no intention of fixing my issue.
There's a major exchange in Asia that operates in discrete time, but my Google-fu is failing me right now. Anyone know what it is?
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It wouldn't do very well for American politicians to point out the power imbalance that happens to be in their favor...
Kind of wondering, did Clarence Thomas actually write this, or did it fall to some young law clerk that had to take a crash course on molecular genetics?
>but to be consistent with the existing patenting landscape, they should have allowed the myriad patents (except for the "method" of comparing a patient sequence with the reference sequence) to pass.

You are completely right that the biological molecules could be considered identical to small chemical molecules, and that trivial chemical manufacturing steps could be patented; I do not do synthesis but all the synthetic organic chemists I know are pursuing incredibly complex and difficult procedures that are not on the same playing field as any PCR reaction, and I did not know that simple and straightforward techniques could be patented (which would seem to be counter to the "person skilled in the art" bar that's commonly used for patents, but I am not a synthetic chemist).

However, and I may be completely out of line, I think that the most important thing with patent law is to go for maximum utility as opposed to maximum consistency. Patent law is legal invention intended to maximize innovation and advancement, there is no underlying need for consistency in different realms. The biological and chemical realms have completely different monetization strategies, and it would make sense for the IP realms to be different, just as there are completely different standards for patents of composition, methods and systems. If somebody is using cDNA of a particular gene as a therapy and selling that compound, I could see that being patentable. However, I can't see patents of cDNA for diagnostic purposes being patentable; there the cDNA patent blocks any innovation on the interesting part, the analysis of information.
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