skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The watchdog circuit is built using radiation hard components, but aside from maybe light shielding on the micro SDCards we'll be flying the modules as-is. The goal is to characterize them in that environment and determine failure rates to see if it's reasonable to then build a fault-tolerant system (using voting, as you suggest) later on.
See, this is the sort of thing that cheapens the word "terrorist", and which underscores the strategic failing and corruption of the US justice system.

By clearly being adversarial, petty, and unjust, we are in effect giving permission/encouragement/polarization to elements which would wish us harm. If we did this to aged protestors, anybody who is considering something similarly mild may as well try and up the ante--after all, they can only jail you for life once.
I don't mean to be cynical, but a mere petition is just the tip of the iceberg.

This is a government agency that is commiting widespread breach of privacy. A petition will not be respected. It's an OK start, but it will be essentially meaningless.

If you want results, riot in the streets. Civil disobeience. Historical actions and movements that achieve some measure of peace.

The ease of an action corresponds to what it can achieve. Do you want change? Show the government how badly you want it. Fight for your rights. Don't just click a link.

They've demonstrated they don't care for the voice of the people. So change the domain to something they do care about.
I'd be interested to know what areas jumped out as "fanboy-ish" to you.
Transfer your Spotify Playlists to Google Music: All Access
The best near-term result from this would be to end the reliance of NSA/IC/DOD/USG on private contractors and vendors of anything but the most COTS of COTS products. End the contractor gravy train. No services. All inherently governmental functions to be performed solely by current government employees, at defense, law enforcement, or civil service wages.

The overt purpose is to prevent leaks.

The actual purpose is to remove the profit motive from expanding the military industrial complex. This will both dramatically reduce the scope and reduce the capabilities of the military and intelligence communities, so they will have to focus on real threats with their remaining resources.

You also won't get anyone good to do anything they don't truly believe in for a GS-11 to GS-13 salary, whereas plenty of good people will do mildly evil or at least banal stuff for $250k/yr contractor salaries.
A lower ratio of workers to seniors is supposed to be a problem because the workers need to produce stuff both for themselves and for non-workers. It's an argument that there will be too much demand, not enough supply.

If you then say that consumers aren't buying enough and there isn't enough demand, then that could also be a problem (recession). But too much consumption and not enough consumption can't both be problems at the same time.
Point number 3 is irrelevant because if the companies implicated are involved with PRISM, they aren't allowed to tell the truth legally.
I 100% completely agree with you. Everything else aside, as I said elsewhere, I'm tired of being treated like a child and told to shut up and not question things. That's what repressive governments do. "Just trust us, we know what's best for your "safety"".
It's a trap by the NSA!
Ad hominem alert!

FWIW, much as I get annoyed by Michael's constant negative comments about Google (experiences which are fairly foreign to my own experience there), they are still his experiences. Take them with a grain of salt, but take everyone's experiences from the Internet with a grain of salt.

Also FWIW, I have a number of friends who are generally shiny happy people who were basically ground down into dust in their Ph.D programs. They stayed for the whole time and not just the first year, but around year 4-6 even the most mentally stable and cheerful of them start saying things like "My life is miserable. I just want this to be over."
"Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs."

If Edward Snowden murdered people that were not government employees or involved in PRISM, then that plainly would not be crimes related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs. If it was at all ambiguous, it could be argued in court.
The thing is, there are no good alternatives to IP addresses with the Internet, whereas with phone numbers, you can easily do without. Between SMS, e-mail, Facebook and Twitter, plus Skype/FaceTime, who really needs a phone number these days?
Danese actually _wrote the licence_ as per the requirements set to her by the Sun management. She is as such the foremost authority on this of those who has publically spoken on the subject.

Who are these 'other people involved'? Involved in what? Unless they were involved in the licence creation what do they really know?

She (Danese) is not 'wrong', she is either outright lying (to what end?) or telling the truth. Again she, as the person who actually wrote the licence obviously knows the truth.

And how is it an 'armchair conspiracy theory' that the Sun management did not want to allow Linux (their main competitor who was also eating their lunch in the marketplace) to use the technology they (Sun) was open sourcing?

From a business standpoint it makes perfect sense, and thus is entirely plausible.

That doesn't mean that there weren't Sun developers who had no interest in denying Linux use of Solaris 'tech, but they were not calling the shots, Sun management was. And again from a management perspective it makes no sense to give away your advantages to your main competitor.
Thanks, Spock.
When did dependency management get so complicated?
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PRISM Is A Mortal Threat To The Entire Idea Of Silicon Valley
Just to be clear, which law was it that you think they broke?

I'd happily agree what the NSA did was just as wrong as, say, making it to easy to get mortgages. But the law and morality don't always agree.
You think NSA has a way to break AES/RSA?
I wouldn't bother mentioning it if I didn't see people claiming otherwise.[1] :)

1. Not necessarily in this thread, but in general. (I live in KY.)
what are the implications .. you can't have a conversation with someone without thinking that your thoughts and opinions right now won't be tied and assigned to you forever ..

Imagine a highschool student who liked some band or political movement on facebook or talked about it on skype that is somehow tied to a imbalanced person who shot up a school or committed a crime? how could this effect his applications to state universities or grants or whatever? who knows...

do you trust the goverment that feels the need to spy on everyone behind their back to make a decent decision?

I've been keeping all of my work notes/journals/thoughts in OneNote which is synced and stored on Microsoft's servers ... who has access to those?

I don't want the bureaucracy to use my private thoughts, my private information or my private feelings to make decisions about me for whatever reason .. what happened to having rights and liberty?

tl;dr the implications are that you don't have the freedom to be yourself as long as this is going on
To Whom the 4th Amendment Doesn’t Apply
Gandhi's approach is guaranteed to work for those who turn to it because the core values are, "I don't want to live in a violent world nor inflict violence on others." If it turns out the world is immutably violent, you will probably die at the hands of somebody else, but at least you were consistent with your values - you no longer live in a violent world, and you didn't hurt anyone to get there. Of course it is all predicated on the belief that after enough unarmed protestors have been shot, violence will come to an end, due to a combination of compassion for the victims, guilt over one's actions, and outrage against the aggressors.

Whether it would be effective for non-believers (i.e. the people who aren't willing to put their lives on the line) against other regimes is hard to say. I'm not sure it has been tested outside of India or ever will be, since it requires suicidal amounts of willpower to follow through.

So, while not advocating suicide-by-aggressor civil disobedience, I also think it's purely speculation as to what would happen if it were tried on a large scale. Closest thing that comes to mind is the Tiananmen square tank man, and that was one guy.
True, but more a demonstration of technology available to circumvent spying.
I'm not sure if Apple did a good job at keeping secrets, or whether there isn't anything to keep a secret about?

We're expecting new software, but that's easy for Apple to keep under wraps as it doesn't really have to be used outside Cupertino, unlike manufactured products like an iPhone. Nothing abnormally secret there.

We're expecting new MacBooks, but the rumour is a move to Haswell, which would only be a spec bump, no new major design, and we have had new model numbers leaked. Nothing abnormally secret again.

There might be a new Mac Pro, but this is supposedly being manufactured in the US meaning there is less of a supply chain to leak from, and my guess is that it's not in manufacturing yet anyway and if one is announced it will be a little way off (it was slated for 'later in 2013').

If there is an entirely new product (probably something TV related) then that would be a big secret that was well kept. But I'm not putting money on that happening. I'm not sure Apple has been any better at keeping secrets than recent years at all.
> The ease of an action corresponds to what it can achieve.

Well put.
Does anyone know of a good directory of APIs?
Why not anonymize the data and make a hackathon (the goal being to identify potential terrorists? i don't know)? Why not give it back to the taxpayers who paid for its collection? I know two wrongs don't make a right, but maybe something good could come out of this.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
I love the PBX analogy for alternative ideas. I mean, what if we were actually working towards a scheme which essentially put one 32 bit address inside another, and you explicitly specified gateways? It might work really well for real-world use cases.

Say I'm a small business and I sign up with the local cable modem provider and get a static IP address from them: A.A.A.A. Then I have my machines configured inside my network as 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3, and so on. Just like now, right? Well, now let's say I want those machines individually addressable from the outside world. We'd need some way to encode that in the headers, and by extension, into things like DNS.

serv1.example.com. IN A+ A.A.A.A:10.0.0.1
serv2.example.com. IN A+ A.A.A.A:10.0.0.2

So things change and now I want a second ISP. They also give me a second static IP address: B.B.B.B. I add this as a second gateway and use it to extend the possible ways to reach my machines.

serv1.example.com. IN A+ A.A.A.A:10.0.0.1
IN A+ B.B.B.B:10.0.0.1
serv2.example.com. IN A+ A.A.A.A:10.0.0.2
IN A+ B.B.B.B:10.0.0.2

Yep, my same systems are now accessible either way. I just "multi-homed" my network without getting an ASN, setting up BGP and peering, buying a huge router, or any of that. It didn't require any coordination between the ISPs, and I didn't need to get "portable" IP space.

Now, obviously, the clients would need to know how to speak this. But hey, the backbone doesn't have to change at all. To the rest of the Internet, it looks like (slightly fatter) packets flying around to A.A.A.A and B.B.B.B. They might have some extra IP options on board (to encode the internal address), but who cares?

I'd think this would start showing up in systems which are mass-produced and which nail up a bunch of connections to servers - game consoles, cell phones, that sort of thing. The fact that only the endpoints need to know about it makes it even more obvious. And hey, the servers don't even need to know about this scheme if the gateway manages that for them.

(Sound familiar? It's because I wrote about it in April as a "half-baked idea": http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/04/22/ipspace/)
Exactly. The FISA court probably ok'd it, which makes it legal (as far as that goes).
Got a recommendation of a novel of his that is available in audiobook format? :)
Are you 100% certain that the definition of violent crime isn't a moving target? It sounds so cut and dry, but is it?

Also, are you 100% certain that this doesn't reflect a change in what people are charged with, rather than their actual behavior? Have you any experience with prosecutorial discretion and how that affects what people are charged with, and hence, the "crime rate."
I'm usually against whistleblowers...but given Snowden's risk, acknowledgment and sacrifices, FOR ONCE (Bradley aside), I do believe in Snowden's character and motivation!

I do agree that it's only a matter of time before some media outlets demonize him. Given his current position, I understand why he would disclose his identity.

1) He has to know that they would suspect and/or discover him as the whistleblower.

2) For his safety. The gov may not send a seal team in after him (esp. in China territory), but nothing stops motivated bounty hunters.
In the span of ten years (2001 - 2010), they brought Unix computers to the mass market, revolutionized the smartphone, and introduced mainstream tablets. Saying that there's a lack of innovation there is ridiculous to me. I am extremely pleased that Apple only rarely embraces change for the sake of change[1].

I get the sense that people like us tend to want to see lots of changes, and are too quick to write things off just because they don't look that different from last year's model.

All that said, I certainly don't think iOS is perfect. I think Apple needs to add user accounts to the iPad, and allow for some IPC and replacement of system components on iOS, among other things.

[1] cf. this god-awful skeumorphic thing that is finally being put out to pasture. And the Flower Power and Dalmatian iMacs. And that whole "It's called iTools, not wait .Mac, no wait MobileMe, no wait iCloud!" thing has been a total disaster.
"Years".. as in just over two of them?
>> "We're expecting new software, but that's easy for Apple to keep under wraps as it doesn't really have to be used outside Cupertino"

I would assume they have to use iOS out in the field to test things like Maps and any changes they've made to the software controlling the radio signals.
Exactly. This is THE law in America. Not some crap that the congress du jour baked up
I hope we see a modern, case-sensitive filesystem, for once, without resource or data forks of any kind.

Second, I hope we see better graphics, new OpenGL is a must.

Third, maybe a fresher UI similar to iTunes 11, would be nice. Aqua is dated.

That's all I hope for. Just wait for it, the announcement is tomorrow. It's only 21 hours away... just wait.
Participation requires "A policy requiring your employees to report misconduct"

Looks like Sonwden's off the hook, at least with his empployer!
> If you want results, riot in the streets. Civil disobeience.

How do you define "to riot", and "civil disobedience". They sound mutually exclusive to me.
If you're working in Node, definitely check out rem.js @ https://github.com/tcr/rem
I am happy if they add a share button like the Android one. It's a small wish but it's clear that Apple is falling behind in many areas except performance and battery life on tablets.

Relaxing App Store rules to include programming languages/VMs will give a little boost to our community too. If I want to learn Haskell I want to do it on the iPad.
I don't think it is about food. I think it is about respect. People are violent most commonly where their dignity has been threatened. Although that is obviously true on a case by case basis, noone seems to see a correlation between the humiliation we make a person go through to get welfare vs. our crime rate. It isn't that they are poor, it is because we shame them for being poor.

Just one man's opinion.
I don't understand this sentiment. Apple is releasing groundbreaking new products at the same rate they always have. They are certainly innovating no slower then they always have.
That's all you've got? You feel free to call a man irrational, but provide nothing to support that position. Dare I say that comes across as belligerent ad hominem.
Either evidence that has come to light only now the guy's face and name are in the news -OR- fabricated evidence made to look like that.

e.g. the police weren't able to find the coked-up hit-and-run driver who crippled my adorable child but I'd recognize his face anywhere, and that guy on TV is him for sure.
PRISM, as described, is a warrant-based program. But you're right...we shouldn't let facts get in the way of a proper angry mob.
True, but let us give them the chance to ignore yet another petition and truly prove to us that we as citizens have little say in the status quo in the government that is supposed to represent all its people. More fuel for the fire couldn't hurt eh?

Besides it's summer time…
For any tech opportunity you would actually want to be involved in, everyone you work with will speak decent enough English for you to get by without Portuguese. This is pretty much a universal rule for software development and applies to most if not all software opportunities in any country. If you are going to work somewhere where many if not most of the team doesn't speak English, be very very wary of taking that opportunity.

I can count the number of great, productive software engineers I've met that don't have a decent command of English on one finger.
While these are all valid reasons to be concerned about future abuses, none of them are implications on the average internet user resulting from the uncovering of PRISM.
Previous instances of abuse don't legitimise abuse.
It certainly has been odd watching Apple this year. Normally the company announces something significant every few months, but in 2013 they've gone (almost) completely silent. The last product release of note was the 2012 iMac, which was announced in October. So that's seven or eight months of silence.

Something has been brewing at Cupertino, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow. Between this and E3, this week is like nerd Christmas.
A FISA court stamp doesn't give them some magical ability to suddenly ignore the 4th amendment.
> brought Unix to the mass market

Not really. 90% of Mac users don't care or know what Unix is. They don't know that OS X's toolchain and userland are based on FreeBSD. All they care about is ease of use.

Developers like OS X because it is Unix, and if OS X wasn't, they would just be using GNU+Linux or BSD anyway.
I'm hoping for indisputable proof of misuse, such as eavesdropping on politicians, activists, judges and corporate espionage. It needs to be something so damning, that no one, not even the most diehard supporters, can legitimately defend the program any longer.
The Tea Party faction of the GOP is a pretty vigorous libertarian movement-- Rand Paul is the most libertarian elected official of either party.
I think almost all of his books are available as audiobooks.

http://www.audible.com/search/ref=sr_ab_1_1_3?searchAuthor=I...

I'd start off with Use of Weapons or the Player of Games
PSA: You and I might think that it's unfair to throw the book at somebody for minor infarctions. That doesn't mean the government wont.
He knows that a legislative branch approach will fail without making any waves what-so-ever. That's very obvious. Too many members of Congress are openly fascist in their beliefs when it comes to supporting the police state (eg Lindsey Graham and Dianne Feinstein).

The judicial branch approach is meant to spur action and interest on the part of citizens. It's meant to create waves. He's intentionally looking to bypass the legislative branch because the outcome there is already known.
How about in front of Diane Feinstein's SF office?
This could be useful but I'd be cautious about giving an app my Google password.
Nah, they know that the people who'd sign a petition like this aren't a threat whatsoever.
Ray Ozzie's comment about Lotus Notes on HN
The number 1729 is "famous" among mathematicians. Why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzjaDKVC4iY
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They never responded to the Aaron Swartz petition and it reached twice the required signatures to "guarantee" a response.
They're already configurable variables in LESS: just change @gridGutterWidth etc.
This is false. The FISC found the NSA spying to be unconstitonal.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/government-says-secret...
The fact that countering protest strategies (as distinguished from philosophies) are absorbed by the state and its authorities is the reason why marching in the streets and White House petitions and any other marginally (or not) effective approaches no longer work.

Though the repercussions remain to be seen, this week we find that leaking is possibly the most effective form of protest available today, and certainly more effective than picket signs and camping in parks.
Yes. Your genius of humor is unrecognized by the base masses. That's entirely what this is.

(That was sarcasm.)
That's why I chose JS and to distribute it as ready-to-run app with app.js. Everyone should check the code and make sure I am not doing nasty things with their passwords.
You're right - but Phelbus stands out to me because you get almost no internal culture perspective - you are almost entirely embedded with a person who does not simply dislike the culture, but is actively working towards its destruction. Its a bold choice given the Culture was (in Banks' own words) the closest thing to a Utopian ideal.
Helicopter takes to the skies with the power of human thought
Exactly, China doing nothing is a free PR win for them because they look tolerant while the US is clearly attempting to close down discussion.

I think he made one of the best choices he could but, as he says, he can't ensure his own safety anywhere really.
Very cool, thanks. I'm envious of your assignment.
A warrant that applies to everyone, and is not based on probable cause, quite clearly violates the Fourth Amendment.
It would be very difficult to know if the person near you is using a secret version of the software.
> Not every critique of Israel is antisemitism

Most are. People and organization who make a point of criticizing every injustice they know about can make that distinction.

But for virtually everyone else criticism of Israel is just thinly veiled antisemitism. And pretending it's not also doesn't have any place in reasonable discussion.

It's especially obvious from counties that criticize Israel for kicking out and/or not allowing back in Palestinians - and simultaneously have expelled thousands for Jews from their own lands. (Or from people who know about it, and yet don't also criticize the Arab countries.)

I've heard rebuttals along the lines of "I don't have to criticize everyone for my claims to be valid". But when the only county they focus on is Israel the true feelings are obvious.
Just as I was about to sign the petition (I've only signed 1 other one before to revoke the Westboro Baptist Church, lol)....I plan to run a "successful," startup someday soon, do you think it's safe to sign a petition (esp when I don't believe Aaron Swartz's demise was self-inflicted).
So Much for Subtlety.