skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can raise a pot of money, you can get politicians' attention. The bigger the pot, the more the attention.

Start a PAC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee). Yours would be a "non-connected" PAC, meaning it's not associated with a corporation, trade group, etc. This is just a matter of filing a form with the FEC; they even provide a toolkit (http://www.fec.gov/info/toolkit.shtml#nonconnected) with the required form and instructions on how to fill it out.

Now you can start raising money. Use your SEO skills to collect donations online. PACs are restricted to raising $5,000/year from individuals, but in the world of small-dollar online donations, that's fine. Your goal is to get lots of small donations, not a few big ones.

Now you've got your pot of money; what can you do with it? First, you can give some of it directly to candidates -- up to $5,000 per cycle to each candidate. That may not sound like a lot, if you establish yourself as a "maxed out" donor to a candidate, they will be very interested in your opinions.

More interestingly, you can take that money and make what are called "independent expenditures." This means buying ads that directly urge people to vote for Candidate X or against Candidate Y. The "independent" part just means you can't "coordinate" your ad plan with any campaign; so if you're going to run ads slagging Candidate Y, you can't work with her opponent to harmonize your ad calendar or message with his.

There are no limits to how much a PAC can spend on independent expenditures, so if you can raise enough money, you can pick a candidate who's particularly bad on your issues and absolutely carpet-bomb his district with negative ads. It may not be enough to cost him the election, but you'll win either way: if you unseat him, you have a trophy you can wield to convince other candidates they should listen to you; if you don't, you'll have made it very clear to him that you're prepared to make his life difficult every two years as long as he maintains his current position. Many politicians' positions are weakly held, so he may be happy to change his stance in exchange for you carpet-bombing his district with ads saying how great he is next time around.
Interesting - the animation for the unlocking is somewhat similar to the animation when swiping between pages in the app list on Android Jellybean (I'm not criticizing the copying, just noting the similarity). Given the focus on layers in the rest of the design (the control panel and notifications center, for example) I would have thought the unlock screen would slide off like a layer, as well (since they are using the visual metaphor of dragging the whole unlock screen, rather than sliding a specific unlock element, as in previous version of iOS).

Any thoughts as to why they did that differently? Am I just totally off base?
Yeah, use PGP. I can't break that.
Heartless, yes, but not outrageous.

If a young Mexican woman showed up at the border with papers describing how she intends to work as an illegal nanny, would we react the same way?
These aren't polls of the same thing, or of "NSA Surveillance" generally, despite Pew's spin on it.

The 2006 question askes about warrantless wiretapping ("listening in on phone calls...without court approval")

The 2013 questions asks about tracking calls (not listening in) under FISA warrants ("secret court orders to track calls").

Not the same thing.
"Spotify For Images": Interesting Take From Zwamy's Founder
A scarier time? The executive branch has been given the power to murder Americans without any proper civilian judicial oversight. The executive branch has been given the power to indefinitely detain Americans, without any civilian judicial oversight. All the while the Feds are tracking and recording everything they can get their hands on.

A few drone strikes? We've built drone bases around the globe and are murdering thousands of innocent civilians with those strikes.

Fund revolutions in other countries? We're doing that in Syria right now. We actively participated in the revolution in Libya.
The lowest hanging fruit is probably a simple way to get S/MIME certs for mail.app (osx/ios). There isn't really an easy way to get a cert right now as an individual. A "real" cert is around $20-30 from top companies, and maybe $5-10 for others. Obviously someone could do their own for free.
No, this isn't true this time. I have been using iOS 7 on iPhone 5 for a day now, and I have mixed feelings. I have always trusted Apple to 'get it right' and be delighted with thought-out details and just no-frills great UX.

I know it's Beta, but it honestly looks and feels like Android with a bit of lag here and there, some stuttering animations, confusing unlock and answer call screens, too thin fonts for my taste, icons and iconography aren't that great either (opinion), completely unnecessary eye-candy with animated parallax background which doesn't even work very well, etc.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that bad, but 'leaps and bounds better', I say no. I'm sure they'll redefine the design for final product though.
Ask HN: When I donate to the EFF via Humble Bundle, it is pseudo anonymous?
To elaborate, does an outside organization need to do a lot more extra work to figure out what I did regardless of whether I used a credit card or not? If so, I would love to continue doing it.
Keyword being "children." Starting in middle school through high school, you hear much less biased info.

This isn't true. I was being taught worthless fables at both of the highschools I attended.
What's Google’s real secret spy program? Secure FTP
Why is anyone anti-drone?
You are absolutely correct, I was not thinking about that aspect of it, rather the fact that the merest implication in anything that you might be coming to the US under false pretenses (even when the authorities have all the information which clearly shows both the intent and motivation for the trip) is that they will deny you entry.
One would assume that access is given to Customs & Dept of Homeland Security too. Some of the NSA leakers think this is wrong

Do you have a link to a source on this? What other leakers are you referring to?
I posted this as a separate submission but Nico posted the followup post [1] mentioned at the end of the opening paragraph:

> In particular, the existing borrow checker rules, which were aimed at preventing dangling pointers, turn out to be extremely well-suited to this task. I find this very interesting and very heartening as well, and I think it points to a kind of deeper analogy between memory errors in sequential programs and data races in parallel programs. I will elaborate on this theory in a later post.

[1] http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2013/06/11/on-t...
It is also worth pointing out that the occupation of Germany ended in 1955.

The US military has a policy of being forward deployed around the globe, so it negotiates agreements with may countries around the world to station troops in strategic locations.

The military bases are there as a result of legal agreements and treaties, not because they would forcibly resist any attempts to expel them, and there is no sentiment in the US whatsoever to change that policy and begin fighting to establish bases in friendly countries.

For a parallel, look to Uzbekistan where the US operated an airbase after 9/11. In 2005, there was a massacre by Uzbek government forces, and the US said there ought to be an international investigation. Uzbekistan replied by rescinding the agreement for use of the airbase, and the US left. No shots were fired.
Do the redemption keys expire?
Protip: add Show HN: to your submission title - it's the community standard for projects you personally created and will help it get picked up by various aggregators of hn projects.
BTW, Java has an incredible fork-join scheduler (was excellent in Java 7, and has gotten even better in Java 8), which both Akka[1] and Quasar[2] use for actor scheduling (and fiber scheduling in Quasar's case).

[1] http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dispatchers.html

[2] http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/49445260575/quasar-puls...
This is the generation in which freedom was lost.
It's not deceptive - he never indicated that the correspondence was seized, illegally or surreptitiously snooped on, or even that it was electronic until the message where he clarified it was a printed email. Until then, it could have been postcards for all we knew. His point wasn't about the wiretapping or even the search of her luggage - it was on the trivial reason they sent her back. She didn't have anything like a "bag full of resumes".

Your response seems very hostile - apologies if it's not, though in that case you may want to work on your phrasing. Nobody here discloses everything perfectly all the time, and there's no indication the parent was intentionally deceiving anyone.
plunker is at http://plnkr.co/edit/2gs53QBosgeeWIqkn0LY
Unless of course the monolithic productivity suite is written in elisp. ;-)
With all due respect, asking coders to weigh-in on marketing may not be your best move. It may be more productive for you to join some Linked-in software/digital marketing groups, then pose the question there. The simple answers to your questions are: don't just depend on ads, but tightly target the ads you do use; use PR to the extent you make key editors, podcasters, bloggers and twitter personalities aware of your site; make a Facebook fan/site page; open a Twitter acct., follow key people in the travel/hospitality industry, then get them involved... it's a lot of work. The alternative, fund marketing and hire a firm to do it for you.
I've read that laptops can be searched at the border. I wonder if her laptop was suspended with Facebook active, or had saved login cookies to Facebook, allowing customs guys to log onto the machine [1] to see what she's been up to.

I decided long ago, when there was the initial flap about post-9/11 laptop border searches, that if I ever travel internationally, I'll wipe the HD of any laptops I'm taking with me before I cross any national border, and just use scp to transfer files as needed.

If I need to use large files that are too large to upload or download with the time and bandwidth available, this strategy becomes...problematic. But that scenario's pretty unlikely since I'd be going as a software developer/tourist mostly working with Git repos, still photos and short video clips, not a documentary filmmaker producing hours of high-definition video.

[1] Or pop the hard drive out and put it in another machine (assuming it's unencrypted). Which is what they should be doing if these procedures were ever reviewed by a competent lawyer (less chance of accidentally destroying evidence or the user's data this way).
It's hard to know which depiction of the NSA to believe:

* Amazingly competent agency that is secretly reading all SSL-encrypted Internet traffic and thoroughly concerned with the messageboard postings of average Americans

* Amazingly incompetent agency that develops ground-breaking technology and shares it with low-level Customs officials to bust 18-year old au pairs
Or perhaps the generation in which freedom is to be reclaimed? It's too early to tell.
Aha, I have actually read parts 1-4 of this book. I will give part 5 a look. Thanks!
Ah, well, glad that is cleared up. "We never give the government direct access to our systems, nor do we have a server set up for them to obtain copies. Instead, we just use scp to send the data directly to the government's systems! Trust us, we respect your privacy while we do this -- it's even encrypted!"
"Why is anyone anti-drone?"

Some of us are actually anti-war, not just anti-drone.
Thank you. I just added "Show HN:" to the front of the title and updated the post. The "Show HN:" then disappeared.

Is this as expected or should I make a new post? Sorry for the newbie questions, it is obviously my first time here.
Thank you, I will check this out.
Even if these are just trends, we now see Apple following trends rather than setting them. That's a significant change.
The mind of a Savior of Humanity.
I'm shocked, shocked to find that the NSA is spying on a foreign terror suspect in a foreign country communicating with another foreign person.*

Actually, I am shocked. Why'd the lawyer use Facebook for privileged communication? Why does the NSA care about someone who posted a threatening video in Norway? Hint: they don't. If they looked, it's probably because Norwegian Intelligence asked them to.( Which might well be a huge legal problem, for Norway)

In fact, it seems there is little evidence that any of this happened. Marking messages as spam does not seem like something the NSA would do and as to denying him entry into the US: if US gov is in the habit of denying visa's to those who represent a foreign terror suspect, they didn't need Facebook to establish that.

*Note, attorney client privilege doesn't apply to cases completely out of US jurisdiction with lawyers who are not lawyers in the US
See page 18 (section 11) of http://www.slideshare.net/pastinson/u-oss-simple-sabotage-sm
Isn't client-lawyer communication privileged? Similar to husband-wife communication?
Look, you either install the special bugging equipment -- and deny that it was ever installed -- or you find that you are suddenly guilty of wire fraud, insider trading, tax evasion, or similar.
David Brooks: the Last Stalinist
Matz' Keynote at Ruby Kaigi 2013
My apologies, I should have stated that I was referring to the French speaking[1] on-line press.

[1] Actually, the ink and paper press. But on screen. Mainly.
Government contractors with active security clearances command far more than 70k-100K - an active TS/SCI clearance can take over a year to process - and the number of hurdles to clear is daunting for the average person.

An enlisted E-7 just coming out of the military with an active clearance and some technology experience is going to bank with the contractors out there and probably do very little real actual hard work.

That security clearance really is the willy wonka golden ticket...
Just to follow up on this, I'm a little confused by your response. You say you would pay attention to a course "like this" but in other replies say that you pay no attention to certificated courses that are... like this.

So do courses like this catch your attention, or are you exclusively interested in the takers of this particular course that happens to be offered by someone you personally know? I'd appreciate the clarification.
I'm curious what the other big reasons are. I send & receive GPG encrypted messages via Gmail occasionally and it's no different than using any other mail provider (of course, I'm using mutt, GnuPG, and SMTP/IMAP and not web-mail).
There is nothing wrong with it. Unless of course you claim you revolutionized the space with your original designs - which is what Apple and co. do. I simply have a problem with people lying.
I don't think scripting languages, of themselves, are the real barrier, after all, excel formulas are not too far off from what one would use in a language like R. I think the barrier is the data import/manipulation phase. Scripting languages loose out to the ease of copy/paste and data inspection that spreadsheets offer. It's not that using scripting languages for these tasks is very difficult, it's just that spreadsheets are, comparatively, much easier to use.

I worked in a place that used both, and the programmers were successful in preaching the benefits and converting some of the excel users, where it made sense. However, I imagine a large majority of analysts using excel in the corporate world do not have that exposure and don't realize there are other alternatives out there, or if they do know about the alternatives, they get quickly turned off from them when they try to import/manipulate the data. I don't think any tool, by itself, is going to push individuals to change. People need to be exposed to the benefits of approaching data analysis as a small software/programming project over the long term. It is short term thinking that pushes people to use excel in the first place.
I'm curious; did you turn in the guy who insulted Mary?
I think you have to distinguish between a change in the actual or understood facts vs. only a change in the party controlling the presidency.
>Let's face it; look to the Samsung vs. Apple case to see how it is the laymen making billion dollar calls.

The damages were reduced to $600 million after the judge ruled that the jury's used an "impermissible legal theory" to award damages, and ordered a new trial.[1] The jury foreman had a technical background and lied during voir dire by failing to mention that he had history of suing others for patent abuse.[2] He was the one he told the other jurors to ignore prior art and assume that Samsung had violated the patents.[3] So it isn't fair to say that laymen decided the damages.

After the trial, a patent('380, bounce-back) that Apple relied heavily upon during the trial to prove that Samsung was "infringing on their innovative designs" was invalidated by the USPTO.[3] This means that if the jury had been competent and searched for prior art (which the foreman with technical experience told them to ignore), or if Samsung had been allowed to present evidence demonstrating prior art, it is probable that no damages would have been awarded at all.

[1]: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130301161659602

[2]: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20121031200136965

[3]:http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130402121308772
Be you a lawyer talking privileged to a client, a priest talking privileged to a follower, a hot-line worker talking privileged to someone thinking about suicide, or a social service person talking to a child who been sexually assaulted, every ones communication is equally collected.

This is after all the result of ubiquitous surveillance. When people learn about it, the reaction is very simple. people stop talking. They do not call the lawyer. They don't call the priest. The person thinking about suicide won't call the hot-line, and the sexually assaulted child will stay quiet in fear of people finding out. After Germany introduced their ubiquitous surveillance law, this was exactly what the statistics ended up showing. I wonder, while hoping not, if the same result will happen in the US too after the current wave of news.
"reading" doesn't necessarily have to be done by a human. As PRISM has shown, the government has capabilities we weren't aware (or at least sure) of. Would it be that ridiculous that they would have algorithmic scrapers running through all the FB data they have available? They say they aren't, but they've already proven we can't trust them farther than we can throw them. Even if they aren't, she's a foreign national, who they have almost no restrictions on investigating, so they may have been "reading" her messages, even if those of US citizens were left intact (which I personally doubt).

Long story short, it wouldn't necessarily waste much time to go through her records, and it would probably be completely legal.

The part that seems unlikely to me is that they would show their hand by using PRISM for such a small thing, unless there is some bigger reason they want her out of the country. It's hardly a sure argument, though.
While only some people may care about the size or design of their workstation, I suspect that nearly everyone cares about how noisy it is. The design of the Mac Pro should make it relatively quiet I would wager.
Of course the NSA would do nothing against anyone, and it only gives access to this data to the people that need and deserve it, and it would never fall in the hands of someone who would betray our trust, or their trust, like this Snowden guy, and...

Oh, wait-.
I am working on a SCRUM project management solution: http://scrumptious.io/

Why? Well, in my current company where I am doing my internship, we wanted to use SCRUM, but couldnt find a resource that was light weight, integrated with 3rd party tools like google cal, github, etc, and was cheap at the same time. As a coder, I decided to work on my own solution for this problem. I know that it may not be very monetizable, but in the long run, I can be proud of it as something I built.
The Vain Media Cynics of the NSA Story
Furthermore, college graduates are more likely vested in the system -- less likely to rock the boat. And college graduates learned to conform.
It's hard to say without knowing what was said, but the fact that his visa was withdrawn on the basis of a conversation between a laywer and his client is alarming.

In other words: did the US government consider him a threat, or was it a tactic to infringe the alleged terrorist's right to a fair trial? If the latter, then it's an abuse of surveillance privileges.
Google never said it doesn't send data on user accounts when proper legal warrants are served, it publishes these facts in the yearly Transparency Report.

What people were worried about, a "dragnet" that allows arbitrary access and intercept of any user data by the NSA turns out to be false.

Unless you think you can use SFTP to upload, in real time, all traffic on Google services.
Why can Hiroshima be inhabited when Chernobyl cannot?
I know this isn't an opinion shared by the current US administration, but having a fair trial for one's crimes is a human right. It's a right guaranteed by articles 10 and 11 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Part of having a fair trial includes having legal representation, and the ability to communicate with your legal council in confidence.

Eavesdropping on privileged lawyer-client conversations, regardless of legality is outrageously indecent and should be illegal. Revoking a lawyer's visa because he is representing a particular client is equally outrageous, especially due to the chilling effects it causes upon the legal community making it much more difficult for suspects of serious crimes to find good legal representation.
There are so many contradictory stories and explanations of this program, I really don't think we know enough yet to pass judgement (or at least informed judgement).

Personally I'm going to give it a few weeks to shake out before determining how offended I am, either by the program itself, the fact that a Booz contractor leaked that deck without context or knowledge and the media ran with it, or both.
Never underestimate the impact of the entertainment media in shaping public opinion.

If SNL did a recurring imitation of Biden in an unflattering light, making up things he didn't really say or just repeating the really dumb ones over and over - Biden would be perceived a lot more like Sarah Palin or at best Dan Quayle.
How else would one comply with data requests?
My guess is that that only extends to american lawyers. I could be wrong though.
Have you had a chance to beta-test any of the previous iOS releases? It is possible that other iOS releases had lag issues that were fixed before the release to the general public.
Noone should see this as Apple copying anyone.
There are designs that work well with phones - and to be honest, there aren't too many of them within today's technology. If something works, designers use it.

There should be no better argument that software patents (in most instances) are idiotic.
I upvoted this because everything is better with blackjack and hookers.
Exactly. If Google jerk up Maps on IOS with that noise I'll be back to Apple Maps in no time.
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From the news I've read, my understanding about FISA is that if someone asks you whether you've been subject to one, you're legally obligated to lie and say no. Right, or am I missing something?
Well on that note, Conservatives haven't had a guy in office since Reagan.
Liberals aren't against it, but the most fanatically religious people tend towards conservative candidates, which was what I was (ineffectively) trying to get across.
Xerox wins!