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> However, I've heard murmurs over the years about analysts passing off information in an unofficial capacity to federal law enforcement if what they come across sufficiently bothers them. Those agencies then figure out a way to legally obtain the data they were passed so it's admissible in court.

Its trivial to see how such evidence could be laundered if the NSA wanted to -- all the NSA has to do is make anonymous tips to law enforcement that provide the basis for regular search, wiretap, etc. warrants. To do this, of course, they may need to provide information that can be confirmed without a warrant to demonstrate credibility, but its hardly as if the NSA is going to have trouble doing that. The receiving law enforcement agencies could be completely in the dark as to the actual source.
Except you forgot to fast forward to the part where politicians, having even more funds at their disposal to try to gain more power, decide to use that extra money to increase spending even more.

And contrary to the faux Mother Theresa like notion of government that some people like to project, that money will not mostly go towards relatively positive things like feeding hungry children, giving a helping hand to out of work people, or building libraries. This extra cash will mostly go to agencies like the NSA to spy on people more, subsidies to big farming companies, payoffs to the right corrupt dictators, to the FBI to throw more people in cages for consuming a plant, or to corrupt military contractors to build more useless bombs for the next war.

The 16th Amendment (income tax) was only instituted in 1913 and the whole income tax is based on the disgraceful concept that you don't own the fruits of your labor but the government gets it before you do and only allows you whatever cut of it that they can decide on. The US was incredibly prosperous up until that time and was completely functional mostly running on limited tariffs. We would be even more prosperous today without the government sucking up such a large portion of creative wealth that exists in this country.

The IRS should flat out be abolished not just for economic reasons, but also for political reasons. It is unacceptable that they are spying on people even more and that their power can be used to target political enemies.
Or you could do what I've done (and I'm guessing many other HN users) and engineer the results that come up. Search for my name and you get what I want you to see, at least for the first few SERPs. Obviously this isn't possible for everyone (very common names, celebrities with too much coverage) but for those who can it doesn't take a lot of effort.

My opinion is that it's far better to get the information out there you want people to see than have nothing at all.
This article really removed some of my enthusiasm for Jetbrains products, even though I like them a lot.

It's incredibly ignorant and blatantly false to anyone knowledgeable about both.

As an example, I don't know how the author could claim that IDEAVim is comparable to the emulation either EVIL or ViEmu has, and that claim would not be so bold if IDEAVim was not a facsimile of even VI.

And using Python as an example to use in a lie is not very smart as it is one of the better supported languages in VIM for those trying to emulate an IDE's features to an extent.

It's not as though Jetbrains is trying to sell itself as a VIM replacement, that angle is nonsensical as one is an IDE and VIM's quite antagonistic to merging non-text editing features into the defaults.

Plus, lets assume the author's claims are true.

The author claims VIM is horrible, but then concludes by championing what the author just finished deriding as something PyCharm is a paragon of (VIM's design), what?

The article is incredibly distasteful and tries to sell a lie to an incredibly technical audience deft at parsing nuanced information that is much more knowledgeable about the domain than the author portrays.

There is no reason for Jetbrains to promote such base trash instead of continuing to stand on its own merits, which it has been doing well so far.

I hope Jetbrains has the integrity to at least apologize for the blatant stupidity on display in the article soon as it is horrible in all facets and very insulting.
However, I also believe that these facts are smears. They are being published not to inform but as ad hominem attacks on Snowden.

When Snowden bravely outed himself, the media was in a race to find as many details on him that they could. If they could find people saying that he saved kittens, they would report that. If they find people saying he dropped out of high school, they report that. If Ars Technica discovered that he posted there, of course they're going to capitalize on that and post summaries of the sorts of things he said.

It required no conspiracy or concerted attack. It happens for spree killers. It happens for "hackers". It happens for politicians. It happens for heroes.

I just don't buy the ad hominem/smear angle when the things reported thus far have been rather banal facts that thus far have gone uncontested.

Now if the NSA suddenly claimed that they found child pornography on his workstation, or mysterious women appeared claiming to have been raped by him, a serious consideration would be in order. That hasn't happened (yet, at least), and instead people are seemingly acting knowing and world-weary about absolutely standard media reporting.
Works on my Nexus 7, with Firefox (nightly) and Chrome.
Firefox seems smoother.
Just because congress secretly approved it doesn't make it legal. If congress secretly approved gulags where prisoners are worked to death like in North Korea, it wouldn't be legal just because congress said it was.
Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure
I was going to suggest that isn't the fact this information can now be seen by the public mean it is by definition unclassified but I see there are different levels of classification.

I was under the impression "classified" meant secret and the two words were interchangeable. If I can trust Wikipedia it shows there are five classes information can Top Secret, Secret, Confidential, Restricted, Unclassified.

Now I understand that if a document is classed as Secret it's still Secret even though it's leaked to the public, the information doesn't change just because more people can view it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information#Classif...
But we don't even know for sure yet whether they had a choice and how this all came about. They're not allowed to talk about it. They could compromise DuckDuckGo and they would be legally bound to not say anything either. At this point I'm just waiting to see if they take this seriously. If they don't. I have to find non-US-alternatives to practically everything I use.
everyone knows that hn users like python, so no surprises
It tells AWT to use anti-aliased fonts, same for Swing, and then set the LookAndFeel to GTK.
It doesn't seem like a particularly smart thing to do, since for the sake of $400 they've ensured at least one customer will never use their $10-$50 / month service again...
What is "loon" about this? We've been flying stuff outer space for over 50 years.
"Open to all contributions, as long as we agree with you" is a pretty slippery ethos.
As some of the comments on the linked article point out, Apache Accumulo is one of several implementations of BigTable; another one, also hosted by Apache, is HBase. As far as the fundamental technology goes, this particular cat (key-value stores scalable to very large data sets) is out of the bag, and used by many people besides the NSA.

Would Apache dropping support for one particular BigTable implementation meaningfully hinder the NSA?
Terrorism is bad. Tax cheating is a serous loss of revenue. Online privacy is a much more abstract concern for citizens than having their entire office building blown up or even a few tens of billions of annual tax revenue being lost.

You know how people complain about the DMV? That's because they don't have to wait in line as long at their bank. It's the same thing with the IRS and Big Data, when a government agency doesn't use the latest technology, they can rightfully be accused of being antiquated. It just so happens that people are much more supportive of shorter DMV lines than they are of paying sales tax on Amazon purchases -- go figure.

Furthermore, if government uses big data to catch polluters, that good. But if government uses big data to catch someone planning a bombing, that's bad?
I am not sure about Bitmessage. It is a very new project and has not been subject to any deep security test. Also, VPNs are as safe as long as the VPN provider is on your side. Tor is your best option.
Well, it concerned IBM enough to ask Crockford for an exception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCimLnIsDA
I think the US government is not on the list because they don't need this program. The NSA finds its exploits directly from the source code, which Microsoft shares with them and many other governments, not second-hand from Microsoft.
Interesting. I remember once upon a time the Australian govt wanted to shut it down (under Whitlam). But it still goes strong, probably the reason why the ANZUS agreement exists.
That's why we've moved onto sorting other countries out! Afghanistan, Iraq. Next up - Syria!
Visibility is an issue. If the album artwork has a white background the time and date are actually impossible to discern. But even in the image I posted it's unacceptably difficult. In fact even with the default background and no album artwork it is unacceptably difficult (in my opinion) with the text being white, with no shadow or outline and such a thin typeface.

I do assume that the album artwork will be repositioned or some other measures will be taken before release though, given how egregious the issues are (specifically regarding the album artwork). I'm less hopeful that they'll add a layer between the text and background as in the old version, or just a text shadow or outline, but that is what they ought to do.
Anybody remember the West Wing episode where a reporter wants a story about the President calling a lame-duck session of Congress?

He asks the press secretary "has he considered it", which she knows is a trap -- sooner or later the reporter can escalate it into her asking the President if he's considered it. And as soon as she asks him that, it will be factually true that he will have "considered it", since the thought of that as an option will have been in his mind. At which point the reporter can write the story he wanted to write, saying "the President has considered calling a lame-duck session of Congress..."
Last I read the IRS is not part of the legislative branch, the NSA being part of the DOD may not be as well. Which mostly seems to be true from the stonewalling both agencies are able to do in regards to Congress.

You have to wonder, if an agency of the government is not answerable to Congress who represents us, then why do they exist?
>This seems like an awesome way to get around the 'Great Firewall'.

Who says you can deploy them over china?
Protesters urge Hong Kong to protect Snowden, demand answers on US spying
> The 16th Amendment (income tax) was only instituted in 1913

The 16th Amendment was instituted in 1913, but the first US federal income taxes were adopted during the Civil War, and the first peacetime federal income taxes were adopted in the 1894.

The 16th Amendment wasn't passed to give Congress the power to collect taxes on income, it was passed mainly to expand Congress well-established existing power in that domain to include the power to tax income from on sales of real and personal property without apportionment according to population as a direct tax (and to avoid future similar problems that might apply to some other sources of income), in response to Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust, 157 U.S. 429 (1895).
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Re: “...It’s hard to get this story out. Even now we have this big briefing — we’ve got Alexander, we’ve got the FBI, we’ve got the Justice Department, we have the FISA Court there, we have Clapper there — and people are leaving,” she said.

This constant drone of Clapper-speak unbridled lying is taxing for even these people.
Suggest you update the "We Do Not Track our Visitors." part of your privacy policy to state that whilst you yourself don't track your users, you do allow Google to do so (google-analytics.com)

Also, where you say "the only cookie we use is to keep track of the most recent inbox that you've visited" - This isn't true. You use Google Analytics, so there is a cookie in use there too.
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I posted that comment.

I run Fedora 18 with KDE on a 64 bit machine. When the new Android IDE came out based on IDEA I downloaded it to take a look at it. I opened it up and much to my surprise the fonts looked pretty good. I opened up PyCharm and it looked good too.

It had been a while with a lot of updates to Fedora including KDE, Java and so on. So I don't know where the problem got resolved but it seems pretty good now.

I think it is worth noting - I never had a problem on my 32 bit system running the same OS and what not. This was also an issue for all my swing apps on that machine - not just the JetBrains stuff.
...(2004).

Did they not have SIMs in the US in 2004? The article takes an awful long time to identify these 'chips' explicitly as SIM cards, as if the intended audience wouldn't known about them.
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So we want them to be more open but we don't want to host their open source code for all to see? Believe me, I'm sharpening my pitchfork and lining up my torches over this thing, but that just doesn't make any sense.
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But wouldn't any new innovator simply be bought by one of the three as soon as it becomes successful?
If it's age, you're getting more farsighted, and need to go to the "increase text size" setting, which works considerably better than anything in iOS6

You might click "Increase text legibility".

I'm stoked for this ability for some relatives who's otherwise whip out reading glasses for email.
Maybe they figure that each new person on the internet will have a good chance of being a Google costumer. Or maybe they'll charge for access in rich countries, but give it away in poor countries.
On the other hand, it's a dumb thing to get upset about. Their equipment got destroyed while you were responsible for it, that means you're on the hook for it. If you had insurance, it'll cover it. If you didn't, then you're deeply screwed far beyond the cost of some TV equipment.

Neither side comes off looking at all good here, although DirecTV is definitely in the right, even if not necessarily smart.
I use Evernote for all my serious text storage needs, but nvAlt (a really great fork of NV linked elsewhere) is just so damn fast that capturing whatever random bit of information is frictionless.

I tend to use it these days as a scratchpad: git SHAs, URLs to check out later that I don't want to save to pinboard, tasks for the next hour (try putting @done at the end of a line!)...

Make nvAlt save its notes as txt files to your Dropbox to get syncing across computers.
When I originally tried these, they did nothing for me.

And now that I think about it, I wonder if it had something to do with my KDE setup and how it handles GTK stuff. That could be another thing that changed for me that fixed it. Because it did get better recently but I don't know why.

The issue is with Swing, not JetBrains products alone and I sympathize with them but I can say it was bad enough for me that I just couldn't use their stuff on my primary work machine.
More isolated heroes surfacing, coalescing, and encouraging popular outrage and opposition.
dumb Q: is this for apple OS only?
This stance made more sense with the WikiLeaks cables, because declassifying would confirm that they were real, and there was a lot of content discussing foreign affairs. But with this leak, they haven't confirmed that the documents are genuine, but they have confirmed that the subject matter is which is really "good enough."
That's pretty much what my company told me. They went so far as to block any access to sites that even mentioned NSA or terms associated with whistle blowing.
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In addition to the legibility enhancement, check out the larger text sizes.
Tell that to IBM
A normative statement that you disagree with is not a "fallacy".

Also, seeing as there is no legally enforceable way that Google could ask anyone to surrender their right to vote, it's an odd hypothetical to base an argument on. Especially an argument for restricting people's freedoms.
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The picture this article is painting is almost completely wrong on every point that matters.

First of all, the NSA has not sponsored development of Accumulo for more than a year. The gist of the story is that companies that charge to support other implementations of Big Table-like systems argued that the government support of Accumulo directly interfered with their ability to compete. Their main point was that the government's job was not to compete in an already-thriving industry, and their lobbying was successful: in summer 2012, the NSA was formally ordered to halt production on Accumulo. Some of the employees left to start their own company, last I heard.

Second, as other users have noted, this is not the only implementation, and dropping it will certainly not make it impossible to do what they do. Remember that Accumulo was started when no OSS technology could do what it did. Now is a different time, and arguably it is actually behind.

I agree that it feels good to stick it to "the man", but let's be realistic here. This move is accomplishing nothing.
What's wrong with corporate personhood? Without it, the ACLU, a corporation, doesn't have free speech rights without the consent of Congress.
Especially when you bought it on black friday or christmas or whenever they had 75% off :P

I am considering buying IntelliJ next time they have such an offer..
"Musicians" and "Bands" are a bad example for this. A band obviously has more than one musician. But a musician may belong to more than one band. And also a musician may be a different kind of musician in each of his or her band...lead singer in one band, guitarist in the other, etc.

Also if this is a many-to-many relationship, it gives you the flexibility (in the joining table) to define when a musician was part of the band and when he/she left and other such metadata that might be useful in a band app
Those don't seem to really expain how , why or when it is used.
So has so called "evidence". Can't google right now, but recently someone tried and failed to reproduce ~60% of celebrated cancer results published in Science & Nature from the last 20 years. Also, ionaddis has shown most published research in medicine and nutrition to be wrong.

"Publish or perish" has replaced the gold of gold standard with tungsten, with everyone related aware of it, but no one doing anything about it.
Absolutely true. What you said means the NSA has the capability to put whoever they wish under the microscope and effectively bury them by proxy. The only way that doesn't work is if they either have an irreproachable system of oversight, or whoever they're targeting has as led an extremely boring, uneventful life.

In theory, senior employees or executives at NSA contractors may even utilize similar tactics for anti-competitive or corporate espionage purposes.
The point is that many people don't have the political clout to use the Whitehouse/NSA's own arguments against them. This guy does - who cares what he's using it for if it achieves what each of you would dearly love to do yourself.

... the enemy of your enemy ...
I'm currently looking to adapt vim for Python development. What are the other plugins that you use or would you possibly even share your .vimrc?
Do people actually Google names expecting good information? My name is not extremely common, but it is shared by a few people more prolific or well-known than me, such that the results are useless. I know virtually nobody with a unique name.

But search for my email address and you'll get much more interesting stuff.
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Same. Pretty decent. But it flogs its point a bit too hard. I find 'Peak' a bit of a 2004 buzz-word. I mean, the trinity the author speaks of are megalithic corps now on a downward trajectory. Agree with you that Google is the stayer. Page is streets ahead of Zuckerberg (Gates-lite) and Cook (a caretaker at best). The potency of Apple and FB will dissipate, but Brin and Page will remain fairly vitalic. One only has to look at the relatively Kurzweil hire to see that the Google spirit of old remains somewhat unfettered by the billions in loot.

Personally find the blogger's writing and ideas a bit second-rate, reaching out to the giants (Fukiyama, Moore) yet making no case for a reason not to "panic". As for his call for FB and Google employees to "exodus" and bring about change - seems rather mad and deluded. The shape-shifters are the hungry ones like Karp and Spiegel, not the Apple desk-jockeys and Facebook inner-circle.
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With all the PRISM & NSA news coming out, I can't discard that this might be yet another tool to go after remote 'Jihadists' and people of interest. Whether Google is doing it wittingly or not is yet to be determined.
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Just standby for the next travesty.

What's the specific travesty here? The IRS already looks at and analyzes your private financial data both as reported by you and others and this is generally considered acceptable and a necessary part of them doing their job. So say now they noticed you reported $20k in gross annual income but are buying Ferraris on eBay. It seems pretty reasonable to assume, from that piece of public data that you might be mis-stating your taxable income.
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> That it will allways become corrupted, sooner or later.

Systems of governance will always fail. This is just the way things are.

The very best one can do is what was done in Philadelphia in 1787: design a flexible system of checks and balances.

It will not last forever. It will last for a good while. Such a system may allow for a peaceful revolution into whatever sucessor form of governance happens.

I suggest one valid successor to American representative democracy is anarcho-capitalism.

Consider: if government is going to fail us in novel and horrid ways perhaps the solution is to remove the concept of government.
I agree, but it doesn't make it the whole thing look any better.
I wonder how cheaper it is to conventional landlines ?
This is an absurdly reductive argument.

No one is saying the governments use of Big Data is bad except in the circumstances where our government sees fit to hide its usage or utility even when it directly impacts its citizenry.

It is not the use of modern technology or even the goals, which many on HN will admit are admirable. It is about the path used to reach the end just as much as it is about the end.

I believe that we have very smart law enforcement officials who don't need to routinely violate the privacy of Americans to do their jobs.
Given the Father's Day weekend, it wasn't hard to guess that the attendance will be low, so the question is why the briefing was still scheduled for that particular spot. I bet they are trying to tell us something...
Of course in reality they'd just answer "no" and be done with it. The White House doesn't play silly games unless it's to their benefit.

I'm all for extreme transparency, but the public doesn't really have any right to know every thought that passes through the President's mind.