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Exactly. How is this not censorship then? They pulled the same thing with Wikileaks cables. People should be suing them over free speech infringement.
More Americans killed in gun deaths than in terrorist attacks
Wonder if they would care (and attend) more if they were paid on the percentage of briefings attended.
Has anyone seen the movie The Net? I can't help but keep being reminded that this is what's going on and it's only a matter of time before it starts becoming obvious to the public.
One thing that doesn't turn up in that review: default key bindings.

See:
http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/docs/PyCharm_ReferenceCard....

vs:
http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/docs/PyCharm_ReferenceCard_...

You'll notice a few major differences, like control-N on windows == apple-O on a mac.

Just weirdly inconsistent and irritating when you're jumping back and forth between different machines.

I'll totally +1 for the terribly average support for themes too. Copy the xml files into my colors/ folder by hand? Really...?

Other that that it's fantastic though~
Yes, it was a little strange hearing them be called "subscriber identity module cards" as if that would be more familiar to us.
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That recaptured loss of revenue will only be used to fund the military and further oppress the people.

There are entire families on the streets and cities like Detroit are crumbling, yet tax payer money is siphoned into more prisons and spy technology.
Thank you. But the next sentence reads " It is also run against a large set of what are known as “dirty numbers”—telephones linked to terrorists either through American signals intelligence or information provided by foreign services. Even the Libyans under Qaddafi turned over huge stacks of dirty numbers to us."

So that seems to correlate with what I am saying - they have some flag generated offline that they use as a marker to find something online.
Questions Remain About Silicon Valley's Role In PRISM
Nice summary of theory. I hope we can get this on video soon.
If they only move a little bit in just the right conditions during the winter, why do they maintain course for so long before making sharp turn and then maintaining that course for a long period of time? Wouldn't the wind have to be mostly blowing in the right direction for years during the winters and then suddenly start mostly blowing in another direction for years? Or is it maybe some subtlety in terrain variation that determines where they'll move?
So classic damage control strategy would dictate something like the following: Make it seem like you've caved to demands, and give up meaningless things (while trumping them up to seem meaningful.)

Releasing a court order to invade the privacy of your citizens is not anywhere near ordering the cessation of privacy invasion.

I have to say: It's a good PR move, and will placate all sorts of people who don't understand what just happened.
The English civil war is a good example of continuity. Despite the violence, it was a war between supporters of the monarchy and supporters of parliament, two institutions that had existed for hundreds of years. Unlikr in other countries, nobody was trying to wipe the slate and start over.

It should be noted that we also had a civil war to decide the boundaries of powers in our government (between the states and the federal government).
BTW, Haskell only has (bounded) parametric polymorphism.

Don't confuse the two:

Bounded = Ad-hoc = Haskell type-classes.

Parametric = Universal = unconstrained type variables.

E.g. of parametric polymorphism: fst :: (a,b) -> a

E.g. of bounded polymorphism: show :: Show a -> String
Well thank-you for your comment I appreciate your dissemination of the source link. Here is another:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-nsa-secrecy-...

"A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the National Security Agency’s decision to withhold from the public documents confirming or denying any relationship it has with Google concerning encryption and cybersecurity."

If there was nothing to hide, why do they try to hide it?
And let's not forget Google's relationship with In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm, which provided investment to Keyhole, Inc - later acquired by Google (Google Maps). That right there tells you Google has a direct relationship with the intelligence community - at the very least CIA investors. Interestingly, that same 'wing' of Google is driving vans around our neighborhoods with panoramic cameras on top; snooping our WiFi networks.

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/287651-g...

If Google is in bed with the NSA, as is so blatantly obvious to many, they would be leading the charge on an aggressive PR campaign to discredit and distract people from this issue. Eric Schmidt's denial, Google's call for transparency, Project Loon, etc - rather predictable pattern here.
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Yes, but it stores the actual notes as txt files in a directory so you can use other software alongside it in a multi platform environment.
I'm the first result for googling my first name. I look at it as being a bit like Bono, or Cher.
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How does it compare? do you use it?
Isn't the logical conclusion of this (factually unsupported) argument that we should just stop paying and collecting taxes? You might as well give up on having an organized society if your criteria are things like 'no tax cent should be spent on something I don't like'.
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Is there anywhere online that lists the members that did attend? I would love to see if my state's senator was present.
Maybe PRISM is accessible to even lower level employees (hence why Snowden got a hold of it) and isn't relatively that much of a big secret within the organization, while the really "interesting" stuff happens behind locked doors and generally does not involve making silly powerpoint presentations.
It's a kludge that does more harm than good. Every other western country has ACLU-like organizations with comparable or better standing, and without the personhood nonsense.
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> Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), one of the chief critics of the surveillance programs, was spotted leaving the briefing.

Presumably leaving out of disgust for Clapper's lies; but the media will leave it short like this to make it seem he's marginally apathetic.
Can someone elaborate on the 'encrypted online conversation' they mention in the article?
I would just like to add that treating a lot of things a classified information is useful as someone seeing top secret stamped on a report has no idea if it's worth blowing cover or even just opening to read.
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Erm. PyCharm?
I don't give a flying f about the President's thoughts, just his actions.

Thoughts, meaningless. Actions, concrete.
I was talking about combining all them three: Bitmessage through Tor through VPN.
Corporate personhood is the easiest way to allow corporations to enter into contracts and engage in civil litigation. I'd be interested in what opponents of corporate personhood propose as ways around those problems, which I think are goods. Having to renegotiate all contracts with a business if the owner dies doesn't seem very efficient.

With regard to tax law, accounting is generally different between corporations and individuals. Specifically, individuals use cash accounting while businesses frequently use accrual accounting. Furthermore, businesses can deduct far more in expenses than an individual. One can argue about that, but I think it makes sense when you realize that corporations are ultimately owned by individuals, but individuals cannot be owned by other individuals or corporations. Individuals are ultimately the "base case" of ownership, so I think the different tax treatment of revenue/profit/income makes sense.
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Well, how much easier is it to 'connect' in other settings? Do you connect more significantly with colleagues? random people you meet at clubs, bars, or other types of social events?

I'd say the 'connection' problem is equally real outside of meetups, and more an issue of post-college life:

First, there is almost no institutional 'mingling' (outside of work anyways). Second, we stop having the massive amounts of free time that we used to have in school and/or college to goof around with others. And third, we have less energy and often more responsibilities in the bit of free time we have left.

Add to that perhaps a general increase in weariness, 'emotional scarring', and decrease in energy and decreased need for socializing (for some of us anyways), and the whole concept of 'connecting' with new people in a post-education, full-time work life (for you AND them) becomes a serious challenge...
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Foolishly wrong about Google. Aside from G+, Google continues to do crazy new things--even if one is skeptical of Glass, one can't deny it's interesting.

And something like Facebook, with its artificially inflated value, cannot expand to advertise to everyone; it can only crash when its optimism runs out. He gets it right: it's only a place for sharing photos and links. We don't need Facebook for that, and we'll figure that out pretty soon.
congrats to redbus, seems like a big exit for a Indian firm. Though relatively to Flupkart, the presence of redbus, hasn't been felt till now. Lets hope it changes.
Misleading title: this appears to be an opinion article about why the Chinese government should grant him asylum.
I find that the decision to adopt a C library for a project frequently boils down to whether it is using a compatible naming notation. Especially for simpler libraries.

Linked library in nice, but how many C projects do you know that use camelCase() function naming as opposed to K&R's lower_case_naming()? If it were a complex library, like OpenSSL, then - sure, to the hell with the notation, just put a wrapper around it and use it anyway. It's barely an issue. But if it is a simpler library that is meant to be weaved into the code, like data containers, the choice of naming notation is always a thing to consider.

There is obviously an indent tool, but resorting to it means using a modified version of the original with all the consequences that follow. Perhaps, it might be the next thing for GitHub to tackle - "Download in Xyz naming notation"... I know I'd use it.
Accumulo is designed deeply with authorization and access control in mind. Every time Ive spoken with [edit: people at the] NSA, I wind up hearing about how much time they spend just jumping through hoops to avoid looking at information they aren't supposed to.

Accumulo is also a suitable data store for education and medical data, where there's also lots of regulation over who can see what.

The linked article is reactionary and has no substance.
As an employee of another part of the DoD, you can bet your ass we're answerable to congress, and not just for budget. There also happens to be this pesky little thing called the constitution. I'm not sure of the details (I took an oath to uphold it so long ago), but I think there may be some directive in there about the right of people to remain secure "in their papers", and it doesn't give any exceptions (eg, to future government agencies or to corporations).
I cannot be the only one who found this line to be amusing:

"Opinion articles reflect the views of their authors, not necessarily those of China.org.cn."
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There are also multiple satirical current affairs shows that alternate on BBC Radio 4, again broadcast on Friday evenings among other times. If you enjoy Have I Got News For You then The Now Show or The News Quiz are probably worth your time as well.
Kudos friend. I share your sentiment.

Regardless of jholman's allegiance - you elude to an important point that should be understood by anyone reading HN. There are people on the payroll of military contractors actively engaged in discussions online via fake accounts on all the major social networks. "Operation Earnest Voice" is has reportedly a budget of $200m.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-oper...

A lot of the discussions on HN these days really do look suspect.
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Depending on your carrier, SIMs weren't really used unless you were with AT&T or T-Mobile. The subsidized phone system here made switching out SIMs between phones kinda pointless so fewer people knew about them.

Now, with LTE, that's changing a bit.
Other sources have mentioned it's just that she had a GPG public key she could give him as a result of her previous communication with people involved in Wikileaks.

It's a real shame that even most investigative journalists—people especially likely to be targeted by the government and others—aren't properly encrypting their emails.
I don't think I would want to be an ex-NSA agent with "asylum" in Russia or China right now or at any time in the near-future.
Not an excuse at all but part of the problem of our system, why they run home so fast, is they are constantly fundraising for their next election. They spend a massive amount of time in office just fundraising.

Not sure how this can ever be fixed.
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Lot of companies are doing 'take-home' tests these days. It's a great way to see what a candidate will do, but they're time-consuming in the aggregate. I've got to be really interested in the job, but it's hard to tell because you're usually asked to do it before coming in for an interview. Any suggestions on a demo project that hits many areas of interest for a full-stack web developer? Massive bonus points if it would help out some community. Some skills I've seen enough that they probably matter:
- Front end javascript graphical challenges.
- Back end parse an api stuff
- Testing / Specs
- Algorithms (Binary search trees seem to be popular)
- SQL - demonstrating knowledge of how to do various joins, in particular.<p>The sky's the limit really, so long as the skill is marketable. I'd love to use this as an opportunity to learn/give back, rather than just show-off. :)<p>2.What suggestions do you have to pack June 23-28th as solidly as possible along the lines of networking/meeting people, interviews, hack-nights, etc? Here's what I've looked at so far:
- angellist
- indeed
- glassdoor
- linkedin
- http://startupdigest.com/silicon-valley
- a recruiter
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"....Software like that exists. One of the oldest is PGP, e-mail encryption software released in 1991. Others include OTR (for “off the record”), which enables secure instant messaging, and the Internet telephony apps Silent Circle and Redphone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5880596

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/14/n...
Once you start getting vengeful there's no going back. And if I must say so myself, Apple has failed at Flat icon design - Heck, even the DesignModo guys had better icons than the ones Apple put out.

Apple seems to be losing its edge. I'd be looking keenly at how the next version of Android shapes up, and if HTC continues its awesome hardware design, there's no reason not to get their next phone.
They are paid for attending the meetings that are important to their patrons'. The rest of the meetings are strictly a PITA for them.
this is so crazy, never knew my 2007 macbook could have the accelerometer utilized via a browser.
Hi,

Quick comment from the author: #1 has already been addressed by emitting Source Maps. With a supporting browser, you can debug your Scala.js application easily. You get positions in the original source code, breakpoints in the original source code, stack traces in the original source code, etc.
easy solution: term limits
It's an official (propaganda) editorial, from the highest level.

Many of the top foreign journalists in Beijing tweeted this official post.
> Like a triangular piece of glass, Prism takes large beams of data and helps the government find discrete, manageable strands of information.

I don't think that's the basis of the name at all.

Much more likely, the rainbow part represents all the sources they pull data from, each so different from the next, and the white part represents the single unified feed it provides the NSA agent using it.
Isn't it his job as the elected Senator to call out Clapper on his 'lies' as he says them? If all Sen. Paul was going to do was watch the video of his testimony later then why schedule a hearing at all?
>"Do people actually Google names expecting good information?"

Anecdotally, no.

In my experience, the people who are quick to Google the new hire/candidate are salivating for a way to pre-emptively discredit "the new guy".

I've encountered several people who are pretty obsessive about this and not only Google everyone they meet but have alerts set up for their own names.

I have a relatively unique name yet you won't find anything about me in the first pages of Google results. If you dig, you'll eventually hit a LinkedIn or G+ pages which I've been very careful about sharing anything on.
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Our government is broken. It is no longer by the people for the people.

Politicians are skipping out of their responsibilities.

Politicians spend much of their time in office fundraising for re-election.

Politicians raise much of their election financing from corporate interests, not the people, and thus have a diminishing obligation to the people.[1]

A vast minority of people elect our politicians because 50% of eligible voters don't go to polls.

Most are rich old white men, not a representation of the people.[2]

We can do better.

[1]http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_S...
I don't understand what you mean by "kludge". Either people who form legal entities retain their individual rights regardless of what laws are passed or they don't. That's all "corporate personhood" is. It doesn't mean their corporation gets a vote or can collect food stamps.

And I'll put U.S. free speech absolutism over most of Western Europe any day.
He may have been leaving because the briefing was over. We can't tell from the article.
Just don't work for a company that insist on b and c. I have lot of friends in SV who make iphone apps on the side.
Thoughts can be somewhat predictive of future concrete actions, and I may want to take concrete actions in the present that reflect that. This is not to say that we therefore have a right to read the president's mind, just that "meaningless" isn't quite right...
Which itself leads to a permanent issue of elected public servants with no long-term experience on the very important function of leading the nation.

That leaves the expertise in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, who could easily maneuver the constantly-inexperienced politicians in the direction they wish.

Pick your poison...
A handful of police departments in the US already have constantly floating omni-directional camera drone balloons. The technology is only getting cheaper.
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On first reading this, I had to check the date to make sure it wasn't April Fools because I thought it sounded a little silly... The more I read it though, the cooler it sounds...
As the poster of the linked article, I'd like to respond.

antics' "First of all" paragraph is completely consistent with what I wrote. The "Second" paragraph is an "If I don't do it someone else will" argument: it's not acceptable for arms companies and I don't see why it's more acceptable for open source foundations.

cartershonwald's first paragraph is also consistent with what I wrote. I am sure that the NSA takes more concern over privacy than, say, Google or Yahoo. But that's not really relevant here is it? And the fact that the technology is also useful for other things - well, we can say the same for internet filtering technologies and deep packet inspection, but we still criticize Blue Coat and others when the sell that to authoritarian regimes. I believe what I'm saying is consistent with criticising those companies.

_delirium's comment is also "If not Apache, someone else will do it" as above. Not good enough for arms manufacturers, and not good enough for the Apache Foundation.

I don't understand showerst's comment.

Pherdnut - I don't think the main argument with NSA is that they are being secret, it's that they are engaging in massive and illegitimate surveillance.
"But do consider that in Eastern Germany, for instance, it was the fear of a machine of surveillance that people believed watched them at all times — rather than the machine itself — that drove compliance and passivity. From the standpoint of the police state and its interests — why have a giant Big Brother apparatus spying on us at all times — unless we know about it?"

-Naomi Wolf

http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=35659
This isn't to say he left early, only that he left. Meaning he attended at least part, which is more than we can say about virtually anyone else as names don't appear to have been released yet.
Why would you presume that?

And more importantly, how does leaving in disgust help anything, even if it was the case, and that was prominently reported by the media?
> Corporate personhood is the easiest way to allow corporations to enter into contracts and engage in civil litigation.

Most opponents of corporate "personhood" aren't really opposed to juridical personhood of corporations and other non-natural persons, they are opposed to the effect given to corporate personhood in certain domains; corporate personhood has never been fully equivalent to natural personhood in the law, and there are quite different ways in which corporations could be treated as juridical persons without directly holding the particular rights that have recently caused a lot of people to get offended about "corporate personhood".
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Published the exact day Google announces his Loon Project? I can't say for sure, but if this project is successful, I'd call it a major innovation...
Agreed - very dangerous for Snowden to be in China, considering that torture is routinely used in interrogation.
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I interpreted that simply as an indication that he attended the meeting.

i.e. "We know Rand Paul attended, since we saw him leaving"
Part of me wants to protect my purchasing decisions from public view. Another part of me wishes the IRS would use that data to just calculate my taxes for me so I don't have to do this ridiculous paper dance every winter.
Sure. If you don't have any facts, by all means, work from innuendo instead.
You responded to the NYT story, not the court order it linked to, and thus didn't address my argument, which was not about the NYT story itself.
> Our government is broken. It is no longer by the people for the people.

Are there good grounds for thinking it was ever much more "by the people for the people" than it is now?
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If you consider offensive using an option just because it’s under the accessibility menu instead of the fonts menu you are being offensive.

Please note that I never mentioned the design choices being discussed, I may love or hate the font but it’s irrelevant to my point.
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