skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry to be critical, but that was terribly written.
Let's see:

1) Served over raw HTTP so that Uncle Sam can add your request to his database.

2) Twitter and Facebook buttons up in the top right-hand corner in case you feel like associating your real-world identity with trollthensa.com.

3) The Big G's analytics running in the background just in case Twitter and Facebook didn't collect enough data.

4) All Javascript and typefaces served from CDNs.

5) Email hosted on... GMail. Because Google haven't been accused of granting the US Government carte-blanche access to their users' emails. Ever.

But don't worry, because they got their domain through DomainsByProxy, notable champions of Internet freedom!

This is why the PRISM leak won't change anything. It's all well and good to say "I'm OUTRAGED over what's going on", but it doesn't absolve you of the responsibility to start taking privacy seriously and reducing (or eliminating) your dependence on services which could trivially compromise your users' data.
Yes, but you're missing the point - people talk about the time of day, almost universally in relation to the standard 9-5 working pattern that most of the industrialised world follows.

What does 'this morning' mean in SUT? 'This evening'? 'I'll speak to you tomorrow'?
I'd vote for Mail, with its strange inverted gradient.
True. But the "monetize THEM" is not the perfect choice of words.

You don't monetize the users. Either a third party pays for their attention, or, they pay for their own access. No one owns the users. That's why they are so valuable.
This is a content-free article.
Me too, I stopped using that plugin because Facebook and Google would constantly change their certificates, so I'd end up just clicking OKOKOKOK, never looking at the certificate, defeating the whole point.

At the time, I assumed it was just a snag with the umpteen layers of caching and content-distribution networks that they must be using. Now it looks quite a bit more sinister.
I found the excerpts from the fictional The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism some of the most interesting parts of 1984 as although straight infodumps about, as you put it, the nature of the system.
Microsoft: "Your Privacy is Our Priority"[1]

I know the advert is based around Internet Explorer rather than Microsoft as a wider organization, but that level of misleading advertising has to be in breach of trading standards (in the UK our trading standards laws are pretty strict).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt51MWll1oY
"Another interesting observation is that if the government claims to have not broken the law and has nothing to hide, why are they getting all mad from the leaks?"
Silverglate talks about a number of cases, some of which have been addressed either before the book was written or after, but the overall problem is still out there.

For example, see the honest services fraud charges against Jeff Skilling (of Enron fame), on the idea that anything dishonest any corporate executive might do would be depriving the corporation of honest services. Now the Supreme Court reversed Skilling's conviction on the grounds that this was just too vague and that honest services fraud was limited to kickback schemes and the like.

However consider many more:

Lori Drew was prosecuted for unauthorized access to computer servers for violating the terms of service of MySpace (iirc). The subsequent directed verdict of acquittal (after the jury convicted) however did not really eliminate the possibility of ToS violations turning into federal felonies. This was not covered in the book but it is worth noting.

Many of the examples in the books are profession-related. Silverglate goes into detail on the Hurwitz narcotics case where a doctor who operated in line with emerging best practices for chronic pain management was tried and convicted of drug trafficking on the grounds that he had statistical knowledge of the likelihood that at patients might resell the drugs on the street. Hurwitz's conviction was later vacated, but they tried him and convicted him again of a smaller set of charges.

He goes also into medical billing disputes (I have family members who have been on the losing side of these regarding the government and can attest that these are still significant issues).

Another case he does not cover is the Joe Naccio case (covered in the link).

Another case he does not cover was that of my mother's uncle, who they accused of purjury for claiming never to have been a Communist, when their evidence of his lying was that he was legally representing the Communist Party USA and others as a lawyer. They lost that case but came back one tax issue after another until they found something to stick.

There are cases after cases to those of us who follow these things. It is a systemic problem.

Keep in mind that under some of these theories of law, checking Hacker News from work when you should be working is a federal felony, and if not honest services fraud, certainly something they could try you with for wire fraud (it is financial in that you are billing your employer for your time!). Moreover if you check a site for non-work purposes which has a note in the ToS which says that unlawful use is prohibited, then you have committed felony computer trespass (because you "accessed" their servers in excess of authorization provided by the ToS in pursuit of criminal or tortuous ends).

TL;DR: What felonies you commit are unimportant. If they want to, they will find something.
That is not a mere thought, it is an actual thing called UKUSA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukusa
But the system is not the government. It is an emergent system created by the interaction of people. You don't have to accept the government as the primary authority that determines how you live your life. If enough people do that the culture changes and so will the "system".

I mean look at how inefficient governments are… Have you ever seen one make a solid economic plus? Those archaic structures are pretty much already crumbling.

I hope and think that the kind of shit these systems are doing right now are just the death throes of an obsolete institution desperately trying not to fade into irrelevance.
Sorry what? A giant megacorp cares about the people they made this for? I very much doubt it.

If they had learned their lesson and cared at all they'd reinstate linux on PS3, apologise to George Hotz and all the others they sued (and reimburse them for their costs), and maybe apologise for the rootkit fiasco.
What on earth are you talking about! Centralized is always easier to kill than distributed. I guess what ever startup or company you work for doesn't have to worry about scaling.
I am strong advocate or privacy, and I think I was too vague with my comment...

Father, as in in Tim from CERN.

Big, as in big brother, the government.
And the felony history never goes away now.

Just think, a child who gets their first smartphone today, will have their entire phone history recorded until death. Their geolocation saved. Their email saved. All their financial transactions. All their friends and family will be known. Every intercontact in society. Where they shop, eat, etc. Who they date.

I mean why would the NSA ever delete it? They can just get taxpayers to fund more and more storage.

I am also starting to wonder about the new requirement to digitize all medical records and how many contractors will have access to that as well and when all the databases will be allowed to intersect in the name of "security".

But I suspect the NSA doesn't know how many guns you own. That alone is somehow seen as a violation of your rights.
By the way you can start to read the book here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=9Au2t9ZOtnAC&printsec=front...

Or find it in your local library:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/three-felonies-a-day-how-the-f...
Windows only?!?
Horrendously-written and incoherent rant. I didn't get anything out of that other than the fact that the author, for reasons unknown, really doesn't like iOS 7.
1Password, last time I checked, is not only for OSX and iOS. But yes, to stay relevant and in business they shall have to show their love all the platforms(they are hardly noticeable outside of iWorld) they are on and maybe they need to tweak the price a little. No, they are free to price it at whatever amount they wish but LastPass is almost everywhere and it works like charm and on iDevices there's iCloud KeyChain now.

Pandora, Spotify share the same fate. The entire world is not buying iDevices. Well, it's a small portion actually. So if they also focus their energies to lesser worlds maybe they have a better chance and if they make it a point that "no, we are going to cater to the class only" then they will have to compete against Apple on Apple's turf and within Apple's rules and laws and one fine day Apple can simply them to get out which it has done before.

Instapaper might be killed actually depending upon how many Mac users actually use Safari as their full time browser. I don't know any and among the people I know - pocket and Pinboard are the services they mostly rely upon and this kind of service(Instapaper included) are not much dependent on Safari either.

I don't really think any app or service is going to be killed until and unless they become totally dependent on iOS and OSX and I don't think there's any except like Instashare.

The author either assumed there isn't an ecosystem without an i in their names or with an X in the end; or it was directly towards iWorld which despite of being a MBA user I am not a member of.
Spot on. Everything is more insidious, which does not translate well in the form of movie, books ... or political agenda.

And why arguments like "I have nothing to hide" are harder to dismiss than "jews control the world".
I expect Linux and Mac versions to follow. They have released windows version first on new products in the past.
Sony takes on Microsoft, prices new PS4 below Xbox One
I'm guessing it will start somewhere between $2,500 to $3,500. It will be probably more than the top-end iMac. I can't see it being a lot more expensive than the current low-end Mac Pro.

It would be nice if they had a less expensive version, but this is Apple we're talking about.
This is why the web will win.

Not the web of FaceBook and twitter APIs, but the open web of documents and apps interacting without restrictions. There is a fundamental lack of control and instability in building on a platform owned by a corporation, be that on the web or mobile development.
Hypothetically, I mean I'm sure he's got it all planned out, but he could convincingly change his appearance, stock up on supplies and a backpack, and grab a ferry over to one of the nearby islands to hide out until the news dies down a little bit. Then it's pretty trivial to make your way south-east. I mean he can't expect to get back safely to any Western country any time soon..
Right, but one has a nexus to punitive power by the government and the other does not.
Driverless car in India
was down.
My take on the whole NSA PRISM thing
I'm kind of disappointed by the first-launch experience: there's no configuration wizards for common email providers, not even for fastmail which is an Opera division AFAIK.

Edit : Actually there is, but it's not very discoverable.
Mac only?!?

It sniffs your platform :)
Or the US teen who has been incarcerated for posting stupid rap lyrics on facebook:

http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/teenager/

Don't mind the petition though, last I heard was that his family was getting him out of jail with him not being indicted for anything. The authorities seemed to get a good amount of public pressure.
So, instead of having:

.git
some_page.html
some_css.css

You would advocate:
.git
web_docs/some_page.html
web_docs/some_css.css

?

Makes sense. It will require some reorganisation, but it seems (from everyone's comments) to be best practice. Thanks!

(Still kinda bugs me that I can't work out how to prevent lighttpd from serving individual files, though!)
It is also a RSS reader. I don't really get it.
copyninja, I have nothing against friendica, please promote it on its own merit. There were problems with diaspora development community, but we have sorted it out and now diaspora is a completely community run project. How do you say it didn't do well? Yes, we could have done more, but that doesn't undermine how much we already have done. We are not looking at people already using friendica to use diaspora, but to people who are using neither to start using either. Friendica and Diaspora are in the same team, if you like friendica, more power to you, we don't want to pull you to diaspora. We want everyone to move to any decentralized network, be it friendica, diaspora, gnu social or pump.io.
I agree with the point you are making. In the spirit of agreement, I would suggest that the right question is "what is it about your relative's blood test that you specifically want to bring to the attention of the NSA, government, contractors, and lobbyists."

Privacy should be the default state and expectation, and disclosure should be by exception when necessary, for exactly the reasons outlined in your post. The argument that privacy only matters if you have something to hide conceals a number of assumptions, and misses the fact that one doesn't know what one might one day wish one had hidden.
I get a download link on a Mac. Can't see the Windows or Linux link, presumably only shows the Download link for your OS.

http://www.opera.com/download/get/?partner=www&opsys=MacOS&p...
The point being ?
Drawing DOM objects into a canvas
War is peace?

Ignorance is strength?

Freedom is slavery?

And my favourite, in Big Brother Iron (a 1984 "sequel" by Charlie Stross):

Trust the Computer

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/to...
While text based weather app is a 3-hour project, I challenge you to make a well animated one in 3 hours. You would have to be pretty well talented in both coding and design/animation to do it in 3 hours.
Top of the list, Game center. The only one with reflection on it in the entire icon pack.
If you want to please proof read, my written english is horrible.
Serious question: How do we know PRISM is real? The only source I could find is The Guardian and the PPT of the so called PRISM project.

Some facts:

* The Guardian is the only source.
* We don't know how they verified the authenticity of the PPT.
* We don't know anything about Edward Snowden.
* All companies 'involved' never heard of PRISM and also don't know how the NSA does gather user information without a warrant.
Ah, the irony: 1984 was the first book to be removed from Kindles using the remote Amazon kill switch [1], another plain violation of many basic human rights (first of all, the "right to read" [2]).

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090717/1559425587.shtml
[2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
I'm curious why would he not send the files over to Wikileaks? At least for safe-keeping. If The Guardian suddenly gets a gag order, it's done.
How do you know Edward Snowden isn't a lier?
I've become more bearish about the idea of electronic medical records. The ability for a bureaucracy to keep those safe seems far, far off in the future, no matter what technology advances come through.

And guns: well, if you're pro-gun-control, this mindset (justified or not) should help you understand why the NRA is so passionately against gun registration of any kind.

In terms of the NSA: I don't think they care much for your felony record -- that is, the ones you've actually been convicted for -- they're more concerned about pre-felonies, of course. For the average citizen, though, the persistence of criminal history is going to be felt in more everyday situations, such as job searches and landlord background checks.

If I ever have a child, he or she is going to have a name like "Pat Smith", regardless of my or the mother's last name.
How to Monitor Blog Downtime
Can't you also read RSS using the OSX Mail.app?
>> I'd be immensely wary of Sony declaring themselves open to indie devs. When I was a teenager I did homebrew development on the Sony PSP. Sony did every damned thing in their power to stop it. To run homebrew, you had to either run an older version of firmware or root the device. Every time an exploit was patched, a new one was found.

>> This was then followed up by the PS3. After releasing with both the ability to run Linux, they removed both. You paid for a device with X, then they removed X

I'm not denying those were some pretty dick-headed moves from Sony, but in all fairness, none of it is even remotely related to Indie game development. Hacking the firmware to circumvent security features -no matter how noble the intentions- has nothing to do with serious game development, and Linux on the PS3 was explicitly marketed as unsuitable for game development. You couldn't even use the GPU for anything.

Indie developers don't want to mess around with hacked consoles, they just want to write games, get them in customers hands, and make money, through offically supported channels. It has nothing to do with homebrew development.
Nothing new really, acting via proxies to stay within lawful bounds has been used for years, inteligence agencies do not hesitate to pay for or exchange services with sometimes very shady people to reach their goals.
The most common example would be the outsourcing of "interrogation" to 3rd parties.
I don't get it, why didn't Page, Suckerberg, etc just say "no comment"? Their denials are beginning to look farcical.
Yep, stupid people exist. There are a lot of them actually. What was your point again?
The Mac Mini is the low-end, cheapest mac. I see nothing low end, nor cheap about this one.

The small form factor just means there is less air inside than in your typical ATX tower. I really don't see your connection to Mac Mini.
And as soon as you are not in the U.S. or aren't the citizen, they don't need any order at all, not even the broad one, it's lawful for security agencies to get as much as they can and for Google to not even log which queries were made.

Google can even help agencies by automatically informing them if the "target" fits "free to access" criteria. And everybody is still not breaking the law.

Moreover, the amount of belief by agency that the data are "free to access" is enough to be only 51% to make it lawful.

Please write if you know more nuanced details about these limitations. Everybody should be informed about the laws, that's why they exist and why they are called laws.
Experimenting with a 7 day work week
We should all today make a pact to name our children "Spartacus" with no last name.
The 20th Anniversary of Cricinfo: How the web got live cricket in 1993
From Atlas Shrugged:

“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. [...] There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
نتيجة اعدادية الدقهلية
You have no rights
"Centralized is always easier to kill than distributed."

Tell that to Al Quaeda. You wanna depend on Ecuador/Cuba/China to protect your data? Yeah, they've got your back.
I'm on Ubuntu and with Firefox and Chromium I get offered the windows download. It doesn't sniff very well :)
Or any other mail client really. What I don't get is why they stripped it out from the browser (I didn't take up any disk space really).

edit: I really hope they don't take out RSS reader functionality out as well. I never got why other browser didn't support such basics when it came to browsing.
i could care less about pissing off google, yahoo, etc

but it is less clear what else i should be doing to try to change things

i am all ears
"NO CARRIER"?
Didn't the Cube have overheating issues?
Great news! Thunderbird was horrific on my aging Windows machine last year, so always had Opera open just for email.
All non-Apple icons.
It looks really weird to me to have some flat icons and some glossy ones.

Unless I am on the first page of the phone, where I normally keep all Apple native apps, it seems to me I have still the old iOS version.

It will probably take some time before I get used to it.
Obama has confirmed its existence.

But you do raise an interesting point. Does anyone know exactly what PRISM is, from a technical point of view? It seems that everything we know about it comes from the leaked powerpoint slides.
like it's not his real name?
They are building a completely new browser based on chromium. So they didn't really strip it out, they just didn't add it to the new browser.
Opera Mail (previously M2) is probably still using the Presto engine (and the old interface) as they seem to have just extracted it from previous releases. Thus it is incompatible with their new version and Chromium.
Your bullet #1 is not accurate. WaPo was the first source Snowden contacted. WaPo lost its exclusive when they didn't agree to Snowden's timetable. Both WaPo and Guardian released around the same time.
The stand alone Opera Mail Client is out and looks great
Anonymous leaks NSA documents linked to PRISM
Not sure I follow you there actually. Is that a legal concept?
While it's nice to have a great machine for editing photos, or writing software, it's more a "nice to have". As long as you don't run out of RAM, most of the time you aren't limited by CPU speed. And a lot of those tasks tend to be harder to parallelise, so having 12+ cores isn't a huge deal. Video editing is much more likely to be limited by CPU, and it parallelises nicely, so a better machine saves tonnes of time.

Have a look at the current options Apple is putting out. If you need something that's cheaper than what Apple puts out, or something that's bleeding edge, then you're out of luck. This is especially true with video cards.

Apple used to offer the best value workstations on the market. They got lazy, or maybe the Chinese / Taiwanese started undercutting IBM, Dell, and HP; which forced prices down to a point where Apple wasn't interested.

And Apple doesn't have a very predictable upgrade cycle. If you're spending $5,000 on a machine, only to see the next version come out a few months later, it's not going to be very fun. Nor is holding off upgrades, because you just don't know if a new model is around the corner.

Video requires a heap of grunt. Apple wasn't offering machines with enough grunt, or cheap enough machines. They looked at the cost of switching, vs the cost of sticking with Apple, and a lot decided to switch.
Other than animal skins, the examples given seem to be dominated by lighting.
while i find some of the comments are very objectionable, these kind of militant anti men pseudo-feminists like femfreq who do not want equal rights but oppression of men get on my nerves a lot too.
There's quite a few processes that allow the production of metal parts. The big advantage comes when you produce titanium parts using Selective Laser Sintering. Titanium is very hard to machine using traditional processes, and the waste produced means it's very expensive. SLS deals with both of those issues. The principal downsides right now are inconsistencies in material properties and surface finish. It will be interesting to see if we can solve those problems.
German Justice Minister Criticizes US over Prism Scandal