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I think you'll find a lot of folks that will think that, while what you say may be true, this is not a good trade. I'd rather somebody be a d-bag and still have their dad than treat me well and not have their dad any more. I think there are viable alternatives to learning more about your humanity than losing a loved one.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying I don't think it's worth losing somebody you love dearly.

To each his own, I guess.
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As for mailing lists, Full Disclosure for sure, Bugtraq, all the big name security ones have really interesting posts.
Why not just enforce the username field to email syntax?
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I'm pretty confident that you have never lost anybody close.
I'll keep mine charged up then :) Thanks for the advice by the way.
There is a provision for not having to do CALEA.

You have to show it would cost too much and the US Government refuses to pay you to do it.
Early this year my father was diagnosed ALS. During one year his hand muscles are completely gone. Though the legs are still OK but the disease does progress rapidly and it's just matter of time.

This is terrible disease. I know how hard it is for his family.
I wanted to submit this simply because it is something positive, given all the NSA stuff.

Yeah, Im sure is not as clear cut as the title suggests, but at least it's some one, the ISPs, arguing the right way. Well, IMHO, anyway.
Very cool - you can see Mach diamonds in the picture of the X1.
I wonder why he is referred to as "The blond hacker" in the article.
The github way is pretty good because most businesses use some sort of virtualization (usually vmware) once they become a certain size.

But really it depends on who you are selling to and what you are selling, some companies just have the customer pay for a server and then the company ships it out with a guy to install it (better for small businesses that don't have dedicated sysadmins).
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Religion is almost another planet in UK politics.

This issue stems from a campaign by the likes of the daily mail (a right wing by UK standards news paper dedicated to the middle class woman.) With the recent murder trails of child killers, certain charities have tried to link viewing of illegal images and yearning to kill children.

Other interested parties have jumped onboard to manipulate to their own ends. To start with, the Prime minister was very anti opt in filters. However a front page spread from the daily mail was enough to change his view.

As he is seen as weak and uncaring, some grand gesture to "save the children" is what he's looking for. (especially as his recent idea to make political capital from the murder of a serving solder is resulting in needless community unrest) he also doesn't have the time (to schedule the debate) or the political capital to back it. As there will be the inevitable "prove that this will help" argument.

We have bishops in the Lords (the upper house) however they are a tiny percentage of the total membership. The lords is a revising chamber, and ironically is much more progressive than the commons (the lower house where the PM officiates and the main political parties do most of the battling)

Also the Bishops are from the church of england, who by definition are significantly more liberal than any pastor in the US. They also generally do not vote with any political party.

Religion is almost never an issue in UK politics. The only time it really came into the national conscience is when Tony Blair converted to Catholicism. Even then he was treated with a suspicious eye. (mainly because the UK have never forgiven him for the Iraq war.)

to British eyes, having the specific religion of a candidate on TV is very unusual.
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I thought my asteroids game in assembly was cool. Great job!
Any valid ID (free) vs. a Passport (86 euros, in France) makes a huge difference to many people I believe !
He's not dumb - i doubt he is going to answer a question from an official of another government.
As someone who has only played with Ruby briefly, and at that many years ago, I feel that this article could have done more to explain the author's concepts to those not familiar with Ruby.

From what I can see, how is this much different than a Null check? I agree it looks a bit better, but what is the real difference? Isn't there still a check for if the Person object exists?

In terms of C++ or C#, is it correct to imagine this as an iterator over one object where inside my iteration loop I am passing my object into a lambda? (Seems overly complicated so I am guessing this is the wrong interpretation?)

Indeed a post at the bottom of the page mentions using foreach, but since sane languages have closures now days (thankfully! Life is so much better now!), how would I apply this to, say, C++?
This was written a few years ago but seemed relevant to recent events and the whole privacy / freedom / security conversation.
"This is your opportunity to think big. Like, go skinny dipping in the methane oceans of Neptune."

I can't comment on his blog directly, so my answer to him is:

Find the nearest intelligent lifeform to our solar system, and let them know exactly where we are, and that we'd like to have a chat please.
"Piracy" is pretty anti-sharing language IMHO.
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Remember, the mainstream media is for entertainment, not to keep you informed about significant events.
Makes you think with this info on people who seem to be trusted with critical infrastructure, they would now be targets for people to gain access to their systems…
The problem with web filters is ████████████████████████████████████████. I didn't see any porn there, (and I'm fairly confident that I would have been able to recognize it.)
This link pops up from time to time.

Skeptic in this context is slang for a atheist who has no ideas that deviate from mainline US Democratic party; Against sexism, against Islam-o-phobia, "pro science"

yawn. you are a product of your environment.
I have been impressed by Netflix's willingness to push forward into largely uncharted waters (at least in the U.S.). I had cancelled my subscription when they split their service, and while I still think it would be better if they were combined, I have since re-instated the streaming only service when House of Cards and Arrested Development appeared on there. In doing so I can at least support their desire to make the web a first-class citizen when it comes to movies (eventually?) and television. Now if they can just get rid of need to figure out what I want to watch before I can watch something I'd be completely enamored.
A tweet.

Mostly because this title will garner more debate about The Wire v. The Sopranos than feed readers.

Feed readers aren't being killed off because they lack usefulness. They are being killed off because its tougher to drive traffic to your particular ecosystem if people can pre-screen why they want to visit in the first place.

Facebook and Twitter continue to lead the charge on locking out their data in the post 'Web 2.0' world and Google is simply following the trend.

RSS is useful and pragmatic. RSS is not a currency printing machine for the sites that have to provide feeds ergo it goes.

Sad, really.
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Bradley Manning - already fragile psychologically - was thrown in solitary for years pending trial and subjected to treatment the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture deemed cruel and inhuman.

This for someone without a Top Secret clearance... I'd be nervous too.
Clarification - Digital Abuses please.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmill
I think this is a matter of the way an individual person writes code, and not something that can be generalized by saying "this is never useful" or "this is always useful". Some people will find it annoying, others not.

I personally find it annoying because I compile often. In my workflow I write code for a few minutes then compile it and run some quick tests or even run it through the debugger to make sure everything is working the way I expect. If everything checks out I start on the next bit. I may be adding a feature that I know in advance will use libraries xxx, yyy, and zzz. The natural thing to do is to add those imports when I open the source files that will use them, then get to work implementing the feature.

Another useful reason is to import a library just to make sure it's installed correctly, before writing the code that uses it, although that's less common.
Agreed.

A provider can give you all the assurances in the world, but the real assurance is using your own encryption with your own best practice and controlling the data store as it exists on the providers filesystem.

This is why it's important to give users a raw, open filesystem that they can manipulate any way they see fit, and not a fancy, highly abstracted backing store with a pretty GUI on the front.

Without a substantive commitment to open standards and open platforms, this is just a PR move.
I love this example: http://prinzhorn.github.io/skrollr/examples/gradientsmotherf...
Thanks for the tip! I guess covering my tracks with a fire isn't a good option.
Yes, let's attack his personality instead of talking about the mass surveillance that's going on right now. While we're at it, let's talk about his girlfriend.
The Guardian approach to this thing is infuriating. There's little useful information from it. eg this question and answer

Question: Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id my data protected by standard encryption? Answer: Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

Pfft. What size RSA keys are unbroken (2 048, 4 096, 8 192)? Is there a backdoor in the ECC NIST P256 (or similar) curve? How many TOR exit nodes does the US government manage and how good are they at in/out correlation?
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Ask HN: lawyer needed for unpaid invoice (NYC)
Currently I'm looking at an unpaid invoice, for close to $10K, for a successfully completed freelancing gig at a certain very well-known interactive agency in NYC. By "successfully completed" I mean there's no dispute here about the work being unfinished, late or not up to spec -- actually my work was very well received, the vibe with the team was quite good overall.

Which is why I'm quite dumbfounded by what's happened since then. The promised payment date for the first leg of the project came and went two weeks ago, and they simply aren't communicating in any helpful way as to when (if ever) they intend to make good on it. They won't even respond to requests for partial payment. In the first week I got a couple of tepid apologies, and promises to call or write the next day with an update (no one did). In the second week (last week), dead silence.

Compounding all of this is that I suffered a major financial disaster back in March (details won't fit in this post), which left me completely bottomed-out, cash-wise. This April-May gig was supposed to be my "rebound", but I haven't yet received a dime of the promised compensation.
Having gone down this road before, it's getting close to the time to hire to a lawyer, preferably a posh and menacing-sounding one, to at least write a Demand of Payment letter. So what I would like would be a recommendation for someone who might feel inclined to work with me for a promise of future payment. I can see the first letter costing $200-$250 or so, and hopefully one and only one letter will be required.

The lawyer doesn't have to be local (to NYC) but that might help of course.

Hopefully someone will respond soon -- my situation really is quite dire at the moment. So I'd like to get the process moving by the end of the week, if possible.

I can be contacted at needthatcheck at yahoo.com.
What you're saying is, you'd like to host your servers in a venue where NSA doesn't even need to ask permission to access them.
He may have guidance about the types of things that auditors are looking for.

For example, checking out your neighbor, girlfriend or a public person's records for curiosity is probably a big red flag.
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You would to a point. However your facebook friends could verify you by signing your public key with their private keys.

Private keys could be stored on facebook's servers but encrypted with a key that is not sent to facebook (so all client side). The signing interface could be built into the facebook UI (like a verify button).

So hopefully the FB API could expose public keys for use by other apps.

Not perfect, but the advantage is that people already have FB accounts linked to their real IDs.
At least he and Obama would have something in common then.
The article seems to purport, however, that the skeptic community has its own sort of mythology, and is no better at questioning it than any other group of believers is of its own.

For a skeptic, of course, them's fighting words. But it's an interesting concept.
so please explain why cm would differ from aokp and why google would even make this distinction. They are both the two most popular roms at this time, that support the most devices. With Paranoid Android very close. Saying that Google would block play market access to CM for doing something another incredibly popular rom is doing is ridiculous.
> We don't know what the mind is

We're pretty sure the mind is what the brain does.

> nor how it works.

We don't need to, for this purpose. This is a low-level dump of all the information stored, to enable (much) later analysis.

As I said, current cryonics is perhaps too crude. But the idea itself is not unsound. IF current procedures are not detailed enough to preserve the details then perhaps throwing a few millions into research to find better cryoprotectants or procedures could solve the problem.

> We've only recently discovered that your unconscious self does stuff before your conscious self decides to do it

I don't see the relevance. Your unconscious self is still made of neurons and other material stuff, not magic.
Some of the programs that it said that were supposed to be installed were not. Very little documentation exists to get familiar with that distribution.
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I've actually a different experience so far. For example in 2009 they flattened the price of sms [http://www.telecoms.com/10693/europe-cuts-costs-of-sms-data-...].
"This country is worth dying for."

I find that a very perplexing notion (I'm not American)

How bad would things have to get before it wasn't worth dying for?

Do you find it scary that the citizens of any country your country is at war with think the same way?

Personally, I have no interest in dying for any country. If my country were doing something that required me dying, then I'm leaving for a country that doesn't require my death.
Unless you're a democratic activist: http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2011/eap/187483.htm (Section 2(a)). (" Democratic activists claimed central government authorities closely monitored their e-mails and Internet use. In a Netizens Power survey, 33 percent of users of Golden Forum, a popular local Internet community forum, said they had some of their online posts deleted over the past year and almost half indicated this was because their posted content was 'too politically sensitive.'")

Also, the system they have in place for surveillance of telecommunications seems exactly the same as the one the U.S. does: "The use of covert surveillance and the interception of telecommunications and postal communications can be granted only to prevent or detect 'serious crime' or protect 'public security.' The law establishes a two-tiered system for granting approval for surveillance activities, under which surveillance of a more intrusive nature requires the approval of a judge, and surveillance of a less intrusive nature requires the approval of a senior law-enforcement official." (Section 1(f)).

Indeed, the U.S. system is a bit more stringent, because "surveillance of a less intrusive nature" requires a law-enforcement official to get a FISA warrant (from a court that isn't an Article III court but is composed of Article III judges).
also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cake3bwnY
Snowden says that NSA employees (and presumably, NSA subcontractors) are expected to file notices of intent to travel 30 days prior to departure, and notes that they will be tracked while they're away. He also says he took a huge risk by traveling without notice. It sounds like he discovered a (soon to be closed) loophole in that people subject to this rule aren't placed on a no-fly list by default.

I wonder if one official response will be to change that rule, so that the 30 days advance notice becomes "hand your passprot to your employer, and don't expect to get it back without making a request at least 30 days in advance."
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I'm not complaining about anything, I'm just pointing out that for some people saving money isn't their first or only priority, but doesn't mean they have no priorities.
What matters is that the message suggests that a German MP 'responsible for the supervision of the intelligence apparatus' is not certain whether German intelligence has access to PRISM and other related programs' data.
While we should of course be concerned about the privacy implications these programs hold for ordinary American citizens, it's also important to think about the implications these resources have on the class of people who are most likely to be targeted: the immediate competitors and enemies of those who have access to them. While everyone's privacy is threatened by these surveillance tools, there are 300,000,000 everyones. Only a tiny subset of that pool has direct, palpable influence into the political power elite. They are the ones most likely to have this infiltration of their lives used against them.

Those at the top of this informational food chain who are able to abuse it are most likely to abuse it in a way that benefits them most directly by blackmailing and otherwise undermining the influence of their competitors. In this manner it makes the consolidation and perpetuation of political power more efficient by orders of magnitude compared to those who have no access or very limited access to these surveillance programs.

This is dangerously destabilizing to a democratic society. If we have no real competition for authority, there are no real checks on that authority. The US is grooming an autarch.
From the point of view of simulating actual users, the fact that some random third-party resource on the page failed to load is not particularly relevant. That happens all the time as I browse around the web, and I never have to care about it as long as the site continues to function. So it very much is an edge case compared to the page itself failing to load.
The phoniexs and palaces is what the officer who is your handler says you will get :-)
Using the word "direct" again like that would probably not have the effect of improving the general quality of discussion. It would be a pretty "troll" move at this point.

Maybe he should have said, "Not wittingly."
Yes - Unless you are parsing static HTML you will need the rest of the browser's functionality which is implemented as a JavaScript engine. You will also need the original content from the website which will be in JavaScript.

In theory you could recreate this in another language such as Python but you would have to both parse the JavaScript from the website and implement a full browser.
He may view that as beyond the scope of what he's comfortable releasing, if he knows it. Remember, he's not supposed to be bashing the NSA and releasing all secrets, but specifically blowing the top off what he believes is an illegal program. Releasing unrelated secrets from the NSA would probably have a negative effect on that.
Well, when you consider that round trip tickets from the NY area to Chicago were going for $280 and now they are $360, the difference can make anyone think twice, especially if you are doing this 3 or more times a year and for 2 ppl. The cost per person + car rental + gas + hotel costs add up to much more than the math for driving (even with hotel, car, and gas costs), such that driving, although slower, becomes a money saving option. I would think that most people travel within the country they live in, and mostly for vacation, so paying more money to get to the destination faster, is not a good option vs saving the $ and getting there a little later. Then business people don't care to be at a location earlier for longer, they just want to go do what they have to do and call it a day of work, even if they only actually worked 1 hr and traveled the rest.

Unless emergencies or extreme situations, I do not see much incentive for people to want to pay more to be at a close location faster. This is somewhat of a bummer for ppl who would like to travel at high speeds, but think about it, it is definitely expensive.
Well, that the most horrible thing I've read in a long time.

So we'll have to agree to disagree that fucking death is a gift.
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Ask HN: HN RSS feed links to HN, not original source
Looks like the RSS feed for HN was changed recently - all the "articles" in the RSS feed point to the HN link (and comments), NOT the original article.

Previously, the RSS feed was set up so that the title linked to the article, and the "comments" link below linked to the HN article.

Can it be changed back? I liked the previous setup that made it easy to get to the original article AND the comments with one click.
He answered the question that was asked.

He didn't answer the question that the person asking probably wanted an answer to, which was about direct access in regard to Prism. But that's the fault of the person asking not being precise...

You have to remember there are tons of programs going on. To the people who have been paying attention to the Prism "direct access" debate, it's probably pretty clear what the person asking the question was getting at. But it makes total sense that someone as familiar with the programs as a whole would answer about "direct access" in general.
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Or one Nobel Laureate jailing another.
Seems like much ado. If I was bitten by a tick (or twenty, as has happened before) I would pull it off and flick it, then immediately forget about the whole thing.

Do you see a doctor after every time you get into a car? Because that is far more likely to kill you than just about anything you can think of.
Wow, the non-drama drama comment. Very slick.