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>Danese is not actually the foremost authority on this

Who else would be? And yes, she did write the CDDL according to both herself and according to Simon Phipps, certainly it was scrutinised and possibly altered by Sun legal staff, but her writing it (as per the prerequisites made to her by Sun management) is undisputed. It doesn't matter if the licence was based upon MPL, the final licence is not MPL, it instead reflects the requests put upon Danese by that of Sun's management (and legal staff).

>but that doesn't make it so just because it's convenient to believe it.

You are the one denying the words of Danese while offering nothing whatsoever to support your claims.

All you are doing is to claim that trusting the words of the person who wrote the licence is akin to buying into 'conspiracy theories', nevermind that everything she said also makes perfect sense from a business standpoint.

If anything comes across as a 'fairy tale', it's the idea that Sun would allow Linux to incorporate Sun's technical advantages at a point where they were losing to Linux in the marketplace.

The person who wrote the licence claims she was told to prevent this, business logic strongly supports her claims, yet you pretend it's some 'conspiracy theory' while offering nothing to support your claims.

>I'm not saying that Danese is lying, just that she is wrong.

Come on, she is either lying or she is telling the truth, you keep trying to dance around this. She (Danese) wrote the licence (nothing has been put forth disputing this), she says that making it GPLv2 (Linux) incompatible was a prerequisite. She either lies or she is telling the truth.

I believe her because:

A) I can't think of any reason for her to lie
B) it makes perfect sense from a business perspective

>There are far more people that have said that Danese is wrong that are qualified to do so

How are they qualified?
Thank you for the fast response!

Well, this is sad. I just hope when the crawler stops abusing HN, the banned IP addresses will be unbanned back after some time.
Lastpass could be compelled to send modified JavaScript down to your browser which records your password when you enter it, and reports it back, meaning they then have complete access to your password vault contents. They would also be capable of retrieving meta data including the list of sites you log into, when you log into them, and from what IP addresses.
4473 and e-4473 (which both effectively follow the same process).

That said, the NICS system is managed and run by the FBI, so I can't speak authoritatively there. In dealing with them regarding it though, the impression I got from their tech team was that it wasn't storing anything past receipt acknowledgement, and even where it stored data, the implication was that it only stored the metadata there as well, uniquely identified by the NICS transaction ID.
> You seem to have selectively omitted "shall not be infringed." from the rest of your statement.

You missed the point: gun advocates only quote part of the amendment. Yes, the full text should be cited (I was being lazy).

Second point you missed: I'm not advocating for "gun control" or necessarily "anti-gun", just that in talking about "gun control" the omission of key details is dishonest.

Third point: you are high if you think that the Second Amendment is ever going to get modified.

> There is away to change the document. Use it or live with it. It is there for a reason.

Oh, really, that's how you change the Constitution? Maybe you need to review the process?
I alternate my work days:

On even days I ask "What can I do today that advances my work as much as possible?" and work long hours with little breaks and no frivolous web browsing, etc.

On odd days I ask "What seems like the most interesting and anxiety reducing things I can do?" and allow any music and frivolous web browsing I want.

Some of the benefits I find with this approach are (1) it weens you off of habitual web browsing, so even when you allow web browsing it's moderate and (2) I find even on my "off" days I end up usually being productive, though at a lower stress level, since luckily much of my work is genuinely interesting.
I wasn't commenting on total number of people killed by each government. We were talking about nuclear weapons (specifically nuclear subs).
I would also like to see Google and other companies specifically fund counter-surveillance technologies, like end-to-end human friendly encryption.

I would love it if Chrome came with a GPG chrome extension that worked with Yahoo Mail, Gmail and other popular webmail clients right out of the box. Mozilla should also have a plugin that comes preinstalled for this.

The limiting factor in adopting end-to-end encryption in email is network effects. Preinstalling GPG support in browsers is half the battle.
The court building janitors win too. I don't see your point.
> Note that these folks have the same college loans to payback

This isn't always the case: http://www.studentaid.ed.gov/sites/default/files/public-serv...

(At least employees of the ACLU foundation are eligible for loan forgiveness, and $59k is low enough that it would actually matter)
fyi: o(0,1) >> o[0,1]
That is one big reason, yes.
Is this for someone who finished the Stripe ctf last year? I think it is pretty much covered all the stuff what is offered in this course.
By the way, in Hungary $1500 is about two months of payment, if you are a simple dev (in most places), so I don't know if it is really worth it, if you don't want to move to another country to work later. So I guess this is not for everyone.
Booz Allen fires Edward Snowden, says they didn't pay him $200K
What lies have companies told?
16% of web vulnerabilities are still XSS
Just because something is a fact doesn't mean it's relevant.
Best part from the very end:

MR. SMITH: All right, Senator Joe Biden, thank you for joining us this morning; do appreciate it.

SEN. BIDEN: Thank you very much, Charlie.

MR. SMITH: Harry.

SEN. BIDEN: Appreciate it.

MR. SMITH: That's all right.
The only difference between a normal government and a colonial government is the degree of integration. If you live under any government you are ruled, not free. The countries we have now grew by conquering and accumulating territory -- that is except in the cases where territories decided to give up their independence like the states in the US.
What if one of Kim Jung Un's subordinates leaks details on "abuses" in the prison camp system? Technically he's breaking the law - North Korea's law - but I think it would be difficult to say that it would be the wrong thing to do. Also, if these reports are accurate, then I wouldn't necessarily consider that analogy too hyperbolic.
Google's statement is too stuffed with presuppositions and it comes off as manipulative, at least to me.

If it wasn't for this earth-rattling leak, Google would still be merrily handing over my emails to the NSA. Fail.
Terrorism's premise is that those in our culture were so self-absorbed in their private world, that they would be unable to suspend some of their privacy to achieve a collective good, i.e. safety from the terrorists. Luckily, most Americans are able to see the complexity of the issue, and have chosen safety. Not so Snowden. He is a criminal, period.
>The point is that security is a precondition to enjoying all of the freedoms you list.

the position you state was formed by Greek and Roman civilizations. Majority of people in these civilizations were slaves. And security was a precondition for the freedom of few at the top of these ancient societies.

The American revolution was a break in that order of things. It resulted in granting of unheard of freedoms while dismantling a lot of Imperial Britain security. And now we're sliding back to imperial level of security and freedom.
Is Edward Snowden Dating Manti Te'o's Girlfriend?
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The author said it himself, these errors were caused by humans, not excel. I don't think making excel "smart" enough to prevent people from making dumb mistakes is a good idea. In fact I think that would transform excel into microsoft word, which is the only thing that could make life worse for your typical competent office worker.

Excel already has a lot of this crap. It already requires an act of god to prevent excel from changing your string of digits into a number or date. It already shows you little exclamation point icons when your formulas omit adjacent rows or are different from other formulas in the same row/column.

A tool will never make it possible for dumb people to solve hard problems easily. It's like trying to design a knife that makes it impossible to cut yourself. Nobody with any kind of a clue would want that knife.

A tool should be straightforward and intuitive, but it shouldn't aim to be smarter than it's user.
If you think this is anything different from what has been happening over the last 30-40 years, (and probably longer than that) you are the one that is naive, not me.

There is nothing new coming from this, other than the fact that people seem to have had their bubbles of ignorance burst.

The internet is the same today as it was yesterday, because a large majority of people simply don't care. You may find this disturbing, but it is undeniable.

The circle jerk of the last few days has more properly resembled a university politics class than it has technology and entrepreneurship. I'm not saying politics isn't important though, I'm saying it is better discussed elsewhere.

There is nothing new or insightful being added at this point. It's all just meaningless twaddle.

If you care, get off your ass and go join a campaign for a person that will stop this stuff.
For a European what actually is the advantage in using US AWS instead of Ireland? If you are serving the EU why would you add the additional latency?
Yes, such bans only last a few days.
Playstation People will like this. XboxOUT.com
So... The army said so?
Is this the only news outlet with this story? How credible is this publication? Before I get worked up about this story, I'd like to know it's not bullshit.
Just as a side record, a recommendation on reading the original book from Michael Crichton is in order.

I found it engaging, including gore imagery, chaos theories and some insightful characters.
Similarly, if you do not change your opinions as you mature as an individual, and as you receive more information about particular situations and the world in general, then you are 'an idiot and part of the problem in this country'.
"Finally, the officials baffled Jana submitted a printout of the entire Facebook correspondence with their host-father. "

Maybe something is lost in translation, but could the officials just have received the correspondence from the family she was coming to visit??
How fucked is SSL?
thanks a lot for giving me some direction, I think I will take your advice, Raspberry Pi included
Dunno about myko, but every time I use an iOS device it really confuses me. Comparing it to a physical keyboard isn't fair, since on software keyboards shift is stateful. lower/UPPER casing the keyboard is a much larger (very convenient) indicator of that state than the altered shift button.
Hmm... Excel-like front-end to Haskell?
Perhaps you should talk to a Canadian then. Very few businesses have accepted "stored in US" data since the patriot act.

As for the people that didn't care before, this changes nothing, really.
This story seems highly unlikely to be true given the following 4 assumptions:

1) The US Government wanted to maintain the secrecy of the program.

2) Giving the data to a large number of border guards would have increased the chance of its dissemination.

3) It would be unnecessary to show her the data to refuse her admission to the US and showing her would violate #2.

4) She would not be a valuable enough target to expose the fact that the US had the data.

Additionally:

It is much more likely that if the border guards were using the NSA data, they would simply receive lists of those that could not enter. She would have probably been a target for that since she was trying to obtain work in the US illegally.

Alternatively, and even more likely, boarder patrol could have searched public websites for her name and seen her occupation and the rest could have been an exaggeration.
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The Guardian (.uk), Der Spiegel (.de), Le Monde (.fr), La repubblica (.it), The Mail and Guardian (.za). Quite a few well respected news media outside the US are less dependent on the parties involved.

Or you could just read The Onion of course.
Right, this girl was clearly a terrorist and part of the threat to the USA that these NSA dragnets were built for... </sarcasm>
Ha. Apple removes some gloss and all-of-a-sudden it looks like OSes that post-date it.
Not surprising. With the Gestapo, and then the Stasi, the Germans have an extensive cultural memory of the effects of comprehensive government surveillance of their lives. They are still surprisingly tolerant of the long term military occupation of their country by the US. It would have been interesting if Snowden had holed up in Germany instead of HK. I wonder if the inevitable US military extradition would have tested the tolerance of the Germans.
Actually, having been around long enough to watch the fall of the Berlin wall on TV and not only remember it, but understand its significance, the more I hear of this story, the more it seems exactly like business as usual.
The way he spoke in the video from Hong Kong, his articulateness, the vocabulary used, and demeanour, attests to his honesty, integrity and character. It is saddening to see so many journalist-stooges come out of the woodwork and attack him.

Shame on these "journalists". Julian Assange is a journalist, not these pathetic talking heads.
Having worked in nyc financial world, I can say excel is here to stay - at least for foreseeable future. Heck, the only reason I have windows running in parallel in my MBA is excel. We use to have what we called "excel test" for all quants and analyst positions. We use to QA our excel sheets just like any other software application. I am surprised that many companies don't do that - it only makes sense.
I don't know what's supposed to happen.

Do you think federal agents of some flavor would pass up the arrest? I think they'd do it no matter what, and then a judge will give them a stern talking to and uphold the arrest. At best the guy would be in prison for years pre-trial, possibly convicted and prison, and then when his useful life is over he'll win a Supreme Court challenge. Chilling effect served.
My experience with Mac connecting to Linux file servers, is that OS X NFS client performance is fine (110 MB/s over Giga ethernet), and SMB performance sucks badly (70 MB/s on GigE, comparable to the poor old cranky windows XP). AFP performance with netatalk is comparable to NFS, but much more resource intensive on the server. Therefore I always use NFS shares between Linux and Macs.
Does anyone have a link to a human translated version of story?
I'm surprised that the authorities are using their access to her facebook messages for something so trivial and this openly (if they actually did). Additionally, she was not even an american citizen or resident.
The new book referenced at http://www.functionaljavascript.com also goes into serious detail on many of these excellent points.
There are many other ways to store data locally that vary by platform. They range from full filesystem access in node.js to html5 fs apis in modern browsers and chrome apps. Winfs has it's own APIs ported over from C#, Firefox os has fs. Also there is IndexDB in most browsers. LocalStorage is probably the only thing I'm not going to try to use.
Also, keep in mind, in 1932 Germany was a democracy.
Ya, I borrow some of the ideas from that gem :)
Slight nitpick, if you have limited quantities of something list the total remaining instead of just saying "limited quantities".
I think I'd actually find it quite distracting while I am typing.
I wish people would stop carrying on about "Godwin's Law". It's completely meaningless and references to it are no more than just another Internet meme.
Given that the article claims that it happened to another girl, too, this is unlikely.

Obviously, the problem is not that they were denied entry (as far as I can tell, they did violate US immigration law), but how the US authorities learned about it, namely by accessing private Facebook correspondence.
With PRISM "virtual private" just got a whole new dimension.
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I think the idea was that people should feel outrage because they found out about this kiddy, small-time, mockery of a fraud by reading some random civilian's chat logs.
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Thomas Jefferson had an interesting strategy for activating the consciousness of the nation prior to the revolutionary war. It's important to remember that divorce from england was a final step- they were british subjects trying to find justice until it finally became apparent that secession was the only solution.

We were under conviction of the necessity of arousing our people from the lethargy into which they had fallen, as to passing events; and thought that the appointment of a day of general fasting & prayer would be most likely to call up and alarm their attention. No example of such a solemnity had existed since the days of our distress in the war of '55, since which a new generation had grown up. With the help, therefore, of Rushworth, whom we rummaged over for the revolutionary precedents and forms of the Puritans of that day, preserved by him, we cooked up a resolution, somewhat modernizing their phrases, for appointing the 1st day of June, on which the portbill was to commence, for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, to implore Heaven to avert us from the evils of civil war, to inspire us with firmness in support of our rights, and to turn the hearts of the King and Parliament to moderation and justice

I'd love to see a day of fasting over prism. It might help people move beyond just posting their opinions on facebook/reddit/twitter/the bar.
Thanks for replying! A little while ago I watched part of your Bacon Conf talk (http://devslovebacon.com/conferences/bacon-2013/talks/bring-...) and read the slides.

There were a few things I thought were a bit odd about the architecture, as I recall it.

IIRC you poll Graphite for metrics. Why not push them from StatsD directly into Skyline? This would probably be more efficient. If you used incremental / online / streaming algorithms you'll have a compact summary at each time step, so you can throw away the raw data. 250K metrics would fit in memory quite easily (we're just talking approximately a number and a string each, right?) and you have 4000+ cycles per second to process them, which should be sufficient.

Python lack of good threading would possibly be a problem. I would use the JVM (Scala in my case). Apache Commons Math is pretty good (http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-math/). Java's verbose interfaces are a bit annoying, but the JVM is damn efficient, and you can wrap the crap is something more aesthetic. It's a solid choice no matter what the hipsters say. ;-)
I'm the author - just thought I'd see what HN's thoughts and feedback are. It's a fully responsive, retina-capable, AngularJS web application.
The point is that she was caught only because the authorities had access to her Facebook messages. That's obviously why this story was submitted here.

The only justification the executive branch has given for all these spying powers is anti-terror efforts. If the US border agents indeed obtained her private messages from Facebook (and not from her prospective employer), then this would show that the government's access to such data is being abused.
It seems as if she lied to the immigration officers. From the story it is not quite clear how it was discovered, but it seems probable that the story is biased and that there are no secondary sources. Also the comments suggest that. So ??
And here's the flip side of Google Translate. German doesn't react well to n-gram statistics; too many long-distance dependencies. Also translating the city of "Essen" as "Food" is hilarious.
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Asking government to allow Google to publish more national security request data
Another, perhaps overlooked fact, is that the path to the Supreme Court often starts with a lowly lawsuit claiming damages. Without somebody filing an initial suit at the local level, the case won't ever have the opportunity for SCOTUS review.
The real question (assuming this story is true in the particulars) is why were they accessing her private messages in the first place? Was there any kind of flag, or do the border police just do random spot-checks into people's private correspondence?
Big variance in vulnerability seriousness across that spectrum... but if you've found 100K+ vulns and 2.5% are SQL injection, that's a lot of big holes!
In praise of American English
iPhoneOS/iOS has been around for 6 years. 600 million devices have been sold that all have the same ‘slide to unlock’ mechanism. Now that the majority of phones being sold are smartphones, Apple must’ve felt that it’s OK to remove some of the training wheels. Whether that’s wise remains to be seen. Microsoft finally removed the ‘Start’ button from Windows, but that has been met with quite some resistance, from new and experienced users alike.

Few people read user manuals, which Apple knows. It doesn’t even ship a physical user manual with their iOS products (just a thin quickstart guide). There are in-depth user manuals available for download[1], but the percentage of iPhone owners who read it must be negligible. I often meet iOS users who don’t know that double-tap on the Home button brings up the app switcher.

As the OSes on these mobile devices become more capable over time (and the interaction model grows more complicated), users may need to start treating them as computers that require learning beyond trial and error.

[1] http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iphone_user_guide.pdf
These guys are right about OWASP - great resource. A great high value tutorial for password storage can be found here: http://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm

Beyond that, it's all very searchable.
> mistrust of the government has extended to this industry

I'm sorry, are we now taking the opportunity to blame big evil government for this?

The mistrust of this industry has always existed as a completely separate issue due to the utter lack of respect for privacy and privacy related laws, an attitude of which Google is one the most prominent exponents. This is a company that lobbies governments against privacy protection.

An industry that has for years tried to convince the public that surrendering your privacy to them for profit is perfectly okay has zero credibility in this matter.
(W.r.t. his interview with the Guardian reporter in Hong Kong,) I'd say his articulateness attests to a level of intelligence that goes WAY beyond the "people who can get things done but don't necessarily have the appropriate depth of knowledge" stereotype.

He comes across as a person who asks questions, a person with genuine curiosity. In fact, I'd say that his lack of high school diploma is actually a positive attribute in light of the fact that he was able to do his job enough to get paid $200k, i.e., the skills to perform his job came out of somewhere, didn't they? Without formal education, it shows that he picked them up himself. (On the other hand, the most robotic, unquestioning, confirming do-anything-for-social-glory types are almost always the "well-educated"; they perceive that they have a lot to lose by asking questions and have excelled at playing the hierarchical authority structure game, i.e., doing what pleases parents, teachers, professors, etc; in return for good grades and appreciation, which ultimately builds up to being the boss' pet in return for a good bonus).