skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you take into account a ~30% annual bonus (normal for BAH), a company car, and relocation expenses - all of which you can be sure he had, as they're also de rigeur for NGO contractors, that $200k figure is about right.
The most important line for me from the blog post was

Third, we’d rather not engage in an arms-race with US
government agencies. We’d rather focus on efforts to
change the Law to respect user data wherever it lives.

This effectively tells a lot about Mozilla's intent.
It almost certainly is, similar to Vodafone's solar charging umbrellas that they took to festivals[1]. Having seen the creator talking about it they're entirely unviable commercially, and were incredibly fragile.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/13/vodafone-booster-brolly/
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That's all well and fine. Share the best bits - but don't get all prissy over anyone else doing the same.
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So it is slowly. If it would be fast, all of them would be closed by now.
I've lived in Heidelberg for a while (with Germans) and I don't think the Americans there were really well seen. The MP cars in the streets (or the US imported cars in general), flying italian bottled water to US then back to Germany to avoid paying taxes, the fact that many American people born on German territory (children of military families) don't even bother to learn german, the gated communities etc. Plus the fact that the Iraq and Afganistan operation where headquartered there, the resentment seemed quite high.

(I just googled it and I see it's deactivated on april 1st 2013 actually)
Yeah, definitely the Safari icon! Why is it a round icon with a white, rounded square background? Couldn't they finally start using/allowing transparent backgrounds?
99.99% of Americans will not see that video.

99.99% of Americans will see their local TV news slamming the guy on any character assassination angles they can come up with.
I thought he was meant to be a vegan, surely he wouldn't have endorsed the leather - and if he'd be a 'proper' vegan not a leather effect either!
Prism is Hot but the same thing is happening in India For years
The last bit here is a reach. For starters, Persona uses SSL, so it's encrypted. But more broadly, if you're going to use centralized, third-party authentication mechanism you could do far, far worse than Persona. I'd go so far as to say if your site is implementing its own authentication system, you could do yourself even more damage with a poor implementation.

Your critique seems to missed an important part about Persona's design: "It’s also worth pointing out that we do take certain technical measures to limit the data we collect. We’ve designed Persona so that the identity provider – including the fallback Identity Provider that we run – does not learn your browsing history. We consider that a good security practice, not specifically because of surveillance, but generally because collecting data without a user benefit just creates risk."

Further, the main "centralized" risk would be their default identity provider. If you don't want to use that for your domain, you can provide your own, and host it in another country. In this case, Mozilla's servers aren’t even being contacted when you authenticate.
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As far as I'm aware, there is a big difference between travelling to the US (and many other countries) to conduct business, and seeking employment. I think it's the first one that is covered by ESTA...
Going off on a tangent, perhaps the Netherlands doesn't have serious terrorism or organized crime /because/ of these measures, quelling them before they even go public?
We Germans shouldn't forget that in 2009 our government tried to implement a similar kind of surveillance. This lead to Tauss leaving the social democrats and join the Pirate Party.

http://www.wedesoft.de/tauss-against-censorship.html
Seems like you can guess by the titles of each session here: http://interactive-cologne.com/schedule/. If they are en German I'd assume the talk is in German, etc.
Actually, they do that for all non-WebKit browsers. Firefox Mobile get this too.
Plus:

"Some have called on us to move Persona servers outside the US..."

But: "We’d rather focus on efforts to change the Law to respect user data wherever it lives."

What?! Who says it's an either-or question? IT'S NOT! IT HAS NEVER BEEN!

ANY and ALL means must be used, given the gravity of the situation!
good news, because there has been military help treaties between neighboring countries a long time before EU was really standing up.

Fun factoid: France lets Switzerland use part of its territory to defend Geneva. And also let it fly its plane over FR territory because CH is so small that it's not practical for pilots training.
>I feel like the redesign of their UI hasn't gone far enough

In 7 months (after Ive got in charge)? Let's see any team in the world do better in the same time. Not to mention that if they had gone further, people would also complaint ("oh, this is not the iOS we knew and love at all anymore").

People talk about Windows Phone similarities. It took Microsoft 4-5 years AFTER the iPhone was introduced to copy all the basics (that all modern smartphones copied anyway) and get something out there compelling enough to consider buying (and it's not like many people did buy it, anyway).

In contrast, this redesign took Apple only 7-8 months. Along with new features and lots of behaviour changes in the UI.

This is essentially version 1 of the new UI. It will be polished further in iOS 8.

>that there attempt to copy other trends is different than what apple has done before.

Didn't Apple adopt the Delicious Library skeuomorphic real-life look around 6 years back? Including snatching the Delicious Library graphic designer from the company he worked in?

How do we know this is about "copying other trends" instead of what Ive would have liked to do all along, if he was in charge for the UI?
Decentralisation can happen gradually.

By using a browserId enabled user agent/browser and an email provider who has implemented the browserId -protocol you already have a fully decentralised Persona experience.
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Storing voice (audio) data is not what the article says. I'd imagine you transcribe the audio to text and search in that. Storing text is incredibly easy. Besides you can throw away 99.9% of the data almost immediately.

I'm actually curious how much text data this would be per day; number of call minutes * average number of words per minute. I'd be surprised if that wouldn't fit in a reasonable cluster.
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Weren't both Vietnam and Korea wars the US was simply involved in, instead of them declaring war against someone / a nation / a government? Similarly, Iraq and Afghanistan, iirc the US merely cooperated with the UN to er. Do something with those countries.
Speaking of Stasi, I would like to recommend a great movie called The Lives of Others

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/
I think you're missing the point. This isn't about penalising having a separate mobile and desktop site, or even automatically redirecting phone users to the mobile site. It's about penalising sites that automatically redirect all mobile visitors to the mobile version's homepage, even if they tried to visit a specific sub-page (eg an article on a news site, product on an e-commerce site etc) through Google search. Which already falls foul of Google's existing rules against serving completely different content to Googlebot and real visitors.
> But if you ask the right questions, what we've been fed as the official theory comes out as an almost laughable story.

Wait, what?

Are you talking about the actual 9/11 attacks? Or about events after it; about going to war with unrelated countries?
Still happening for me?
Following what trend? "Non-skeuomorphism"? This looks like what Ives would have done all along, even since 2006, if he was in charge of the UI.

The most important features of the new UI are the behavioural and conceptual changes.

Not the icons or the hues. Those can and will be fine-tuned easily in upcoming versions, just as OS X went from lickable glowing candy buttons, pronounced stripes and metal windows to today's look.
See? It works :)
How about Siri on the iPhone4? AirDrop on the 4S. The upgrade works, the most important features don't.

I understand hardware is required for the features to work. But to suggest zero fragmentation is reality distortion.
One great thing about Persona is that it doesn't have to get involved every time I log into some website. The keys can be cached, so Persona doesn't need to know which websites I visit the most frequently, how long I spend on each site, which pages I read, etc. Persona just provides the identity and stops there. In that sense, Persona's very design makes it an unattractive target of surveillance. Not much data there.

Right now, Mozilla knows my email address, my (hopefully salted and hashed) password, some keys associated with said password, and the set of IP addresses from which I ever accessed Persona. Maybe also the set of IP addresses from which its key was requested, but that's not a particularly useful piece of information when NSA is trying to figure out what I'm up to.

However, Two of the planned changes to Persona gets me worried a little. The first is that Persona will allow people to add multiple email addresses to each account and choose which one to use at any given time. This means that if NSA gains access to the contents of a Persona server, they'll be able to link several (seemingly unrealted) email addresses to the same account. If you're a heavy Redditor, imagine that somebody will be able to find out every throwaway account that you made and abandoned over the years to talk about things you don't want traced back to you. That's the sound of the Eureka! that the NSA agent utters when he finds out that the person who has been posting anti-factory-farming comments all over the place is actually the same guy who retweeted some anti-Esso catchphrase, who is the same guy whose personal blog contains pictures from a recent trip to Pakistan.

My second worry is that Mozilla expects email service providers to serve as a Persona provider for their users. If I'm not sure whether I want to trust the Mozilla Foundation (the good guys) with information about my various alter egos, I'm definitely going to be wary of giving Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft the same kind of information. Although it's possible for you to be your own Persona provider, realistically, not many people are their own OpenID providers at the moment, and not many of them are going to be their own Persona provider, either. Decentralization is often advertised as one of the better features of Persona, but I suspect that it's going to remain little more than an advertisement. Everyone else will just use Google-hosted Persona with their Google-hosted email, with no real improvement of privacy.
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You got it wrong.

It is about, say, an article page, being redirected to the mobile home page instead of the mobile version of the article page.
There have been plenty of middle class martyrs.

There are many religious people who openly explain that freedom is evil, and everyone should convert to Islam or face death.

You're essentially claiming that I am brainwashed, and you know the real truth instead. I'd like to claim the opposite.
Well, at least this sets some balance against Brooks and (have just read it, what a shame...), Friedman! [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/opinion/friedman-blowing-a...
No. I told them if they gave me a subpoena I'd give them what they wanted, and they promised a couple of times that they were working on it, then I never heard from them again. Which is exactly the way I handled every other request to pull back the veil of anonymity.
Realistically and perhaps sooner than you think They are finishing up the LDAP based provider, once that happens, you could hook it up to most company-wide authentication systems.

Once that's working @university.edu and @bigco.com would authenticate directly with the organization. That'll be huge. This is a very very high value feature, I expect it to be the driving force for adoption.

One of the big challenges of large organizations is shutting someone off once they've left the company. This provides very unintrusive way to do so for applications that use Persona. I could see large organizations requiring that all logins use Persona (and the @organization domain).
Tell HN: We separate the wheat from the chaff
Hello dear HN folks,

I've subscribed to all of your ideas, wishes, projects, startups, failures and successes thanks to HN and I'm grateful that I could remotely participate with all of you creative and innovative people. You're truly awesome, keep up your spirit!

The founders of Hackernews have interviewed so many innovative heads, listened to so many ideas, but still don't understand the fundamental concepts that platforms exchanging information have to obey. Here's why HN is losing it's initial spirit and distracts many thousands of people all over the world: "Categories & Sub-Threads".

We're seeing an increasingly large amount of surveillance, security and other remotely related topics to Startups. That's ok, unless we have to pick ourselves what we want to listen to. This work could easily get removed by creating a dropdown with categories that's added to known our title/url scheme.

Please don't let us peasonts separate the wheat from the chaff on HN. Do it for us instead and let us focus on innovation and helping others innovate.

--
Thanks

a HN reader
Interesting. Does point to another reason why I've struggled with Haskell so far though - not having done university-level maths, I regularly hit terms (such as Kleisli categories) that mean absolutely nothing to me, and looking it up on Wikipedia makes my brain bleed.

I appreciate this is my problem rather than the language's, but I've worked in a huge array of different languages in the past 30 years and it's only ever functional ones where I hit the "what the hell does this even mean?" wall whilst trying to learn them...
Also the fact that he is a supporter of the IRA, both in his statements for the past 40 or so years, and also materially (back during the Troubles). How the hell does a guy like that end up as Committee Chairman for Homeland Security?
U.S. disrupts al-Qaeda’s online magazine
Commercial speech compression algorithms are hamstrung by the need to only add milliseconds of delay: they can only compress over a 'window' of tens of milliseconds. You can almost certainly do a much better job of compressing speech in batches of an minutes or tens of minutes: there is much more redundancy to remove. So if the spooks wanted to store massive amounts of speech data, they may have invested in such algorithms.
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My problem is with the "email provider" part. In the real world, it just means Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and handful of firms (like Rackspace) that provide hosted email solutions for a fee. You might call it "decentralized", but I'd call it "mostly centralized".
And yet the iPad _is_ going head to head with laptops and seems to be destroying them, despite their obvious differences.

You're right: a watch != a HUD. However, in the current iteration, people would be using a watch for pretty much the same purpose as Glass (which can't really do full on augmented reality either) so, despite their differences, they would definitely be in direct competition with each other.
Games tend to be the most likely apps to be ported between systems, so the appeal of a single OS API seems limited to me.
>The "Can't quite put my finger on it..." piece is in reference to a common catch-phrase for bloggers who have mocked Android, Samsung, and Microsoft for "copying" elements from iOS.

Only this is not a copy. It's just a different flat design, just as Windows also uses a flat design.

It doesn't copy the look of Windows Phone -- it just uses a similar flat visual language.

We cannot say the same for, e.g., MBA look-alikes that you cannot tell apart from 5 feet away.

It's like the difference between two manga comics by different artists (of course there are similarities: they used the same visual language) and a cheap rip-off of an animated series (e.g Power Rangers vs Powerful Rangers).
That is not a WTF.

A real WTF would be the opposite, two arrays comparing as equal because their values match. Like the brain-dead PHP comparison.
So you're essentially asking for subreddits?
Personally, I think it is a great thing (I'd ship a certain former Prime Minister off to it) - but I'm not American.
As if anyone has ever had 8 hours of sleep in one night at a music festival...
I think it goes a bit far to call a couple of nutjobs 'jihadists'. And the fact that someone traveled through one of our airports doesn't mean we have a structural problem.
It seems like many have missed some things about the slides that were leaked. Only five pages of the 41 page presentation has been released so far[0]. The fifth page was released after the initial release and contains the phrase "directly from the servers"[1]. The rest of the presentation allegedly also contain more technical details[2].

[0] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/snowden-powerpoint/

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-server...

[2] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/343410562245480449
Because an operating system is a good idea, and a monolithic do-everything productivity suite subverts the point of an operating system by creating a very limited, hard-coded, non-extensible OS on top of the OS, reimplementing half of what the OS already does, but poorly, failing to interact with any components not distributed with the suite, and not allowing for any of the things modern OSes allow for (multi-display MDI support, for example, or package management.) There is no justification for having two redundant layers of OS; anything the suite does in terms of integration (for example, a clipboard implementation), could be converted to an OS feature of the parent system and used to integrate anything with anything.

And if you really think the do-everything productivity suite is the one with the right ideas and the OS you're running is the one that's screwed-up--well, then, there's still no reason to run two layers; instead, what should be done is to expand the productivity suite into an OS. Like Chromium OS and Firefox OS are currently in the process of.
She was planing to get a "salary" and didn't tell the immigration office about it and didn't have the right visa for that.
-> She didn't play by the rules, so why should this be any more outraging than any other illegal immigrant?
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Its a survey. It would be unlikely that the government would fund the work of asking every hot line, every lawyer, every priest (and so on), and get the exact data to produce perfect data.

Its true that polls and survey can be wrong. Media can hype, and people can lie. However, polls and survey tend to point correctly where the trend lies if enough people are asked. This is why government and companies use those tools when creating data for decision making.

In the end, one is of course free to interpret a poll in what ever way one want, including ignoring it. There are numerous famous quotes about the failing of statistics (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Statistics). But in my view, this is as expected before actually researchers digs down, funding is paid, and someone starts to go through enough data sets to create something better.
What? No. Because it's the whole point of a government to take care of its citizens. American gov takes care of Americans, Brazillian gov takes care of Brazillians.
In my honest opinion, I truly believe that this ship has sailed. It is too late to turn back now. Too much money and too much value has been had from these systems for these black projects to be switched off.

They will not budge and those systems will never be switched off. I would bet my last dollar on that premise.

Our only choice is to accept this and live in the knowledge that we are always being watched, or go as dark as the modern world currently permits without hindering day to day life.

At a minimum, we now know that we are being watched and listened to on a massive scale. Previously we only suspected the worst. Sadly, the worst was not anywhere near how bad it actually is.
Um, that one was extremely pro gun control. Read it again. "Gorilla Sales Skyrocket After Latest Gorilla Attack". This is making fun of people who buy guns in the aftermath of shootings, and who seek the preservation of 2nd amendment rights. It argues (by analogy) that such people are silly to fight for such antiquated rights, and that there would be complete chaos if everyone owned a gun.
At last !
Of course some government services have blanket permission. Example 1: the (dutch) IRS.
Allowing 'sub HN' pages is risky. People are already reluctant to flag poor content. Sub HN pages would probably see even more reluctance to flag poor content. It also means that some threads will be diluted, because people are discussing something in thead_A or thread_B, but not both. Threads A and B might be in different subHNs too.

Really what is good for HN is an active base of users, upvoting the good content; providing great answers[1]; and flagging content that should not be here.

Filtering is tricky, but achievable. There's probably an extension or plugin or script, or perhaps someone could create one?

All the privacy stuff is a bit overwhelming at the moment. I can understand people's frustration with it. I've noticed a few people dragging in irrelevant comments to other threads. Downvoting those may help keep privacy stuff in it's own group of threads?

The political aspects aren't so interesting, but the technical stuff can be quite detailed. Keeping something secret, or anonymous, or both, is actually very tricky. Designing better secrecy and anonymity tools for normal people to use should be a priority; and building in privacy to your startup idea may be a useful selling point now.
Beautiful, but really hurt my head!
Yahoo! Weather was a winner of The Apple Design Awards this year: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/events/awards/
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Before the Breaker 101 course starts, I invite you to take a quick (15 questions) quiz about web application security practices and quirks:
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topic concluded.
I was thinking of submitting the Friedman article too. Sadly what Friedman fails to acknowledge is that a whole generation is entering puberty now for which 9/11 never happened. But Friedman has always been naive of full of crap depending on the interpretation.

Both Brooks and Friedman have one great problem though - they fail to show some real and tangible harm brought to the US or their allies by this leak.

It is also interesting that the Editorial can be used as rebuttal to those articles.

Schneier is sober and sensible as usual. But sadly among the connected people the opinions are strongly against the leak.
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Same as the article, you are adding properties to a. A is an array, not an hashmap. Any index that is not a number will create a property, not a new index.
Haha, in other website this link might have got many appreciation and likes. But in hacker news, "dude you have this javascript issue on your site, look I can fix it too"

Nevertheless nice one @haycranen