skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This dragnet surveillance violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens' right to speak and associate anonymously and guard against unreasonable searches and seizures that protect their right to privacy.

The use of "protect" near the end of this sentence confuses me. Do they mean "violate"? Am I wrong to parse the final "that" as referring to the unreasonable searches? Is there any chance of clarifying this language given that this has already been made public?
Nothing in the filing cited here even implies that any court found anything unconstitutional whatsoever.

This seems to be an instance of the old "telephone game" of blogs citing other blogs, in an admittedly emotional issue, although as far as I can tell the actual court activity here involves the rather technical issue of unsealing court records, not the merits of any constitutional matters.
I would want to say yes to both, and I might, right up until the moment comes. At that point I don't see myself saying yes any more, especially if it involved family.

So though I say yes, I also know it is most likely a lie, or just wishful thinking.
I heard it's a killer.
As others have stated, it's fairly apparent that the parent poster wasn't talking about actual numbers, and was painting an example where the number of requests is meaningless without the scope (i.e. does each request specify one individual, or 20 individuals?). That said, this includes NSLs (National Security Letters) which do not have to go through a court, and which I don't believe there are any published numbers for (either in number of NSLs or their scope).
Maybe you can make a setup of FOSS tools that hackers uses (OpenSSH, vim, tmux, Ubuntu, etc.) and make a big donation to them as a way to say "thank you".
I see how these articles don't have comments sections. FWIF they are not having the conversation - but telling what to think.

I wonder if there is some sort of way to punish these large publishing houses in terms of destroyed credibility etc. To produce news is a right and when you have large audience you have responsiblity and when you behave like an bumhat you make it worse for everyone.

my 2c.
Yeah, I'm not trying to point out hypocrisy or anything silly like that. Still, it does seem at odds. Certainly, if I were running an oppressive government in the US, the list of NRA members would be top priority.
> You must be new to the Internet.

Hmmm, 15 years, but I have never heard of Neotribalism - so thanks :)

The one thing that I've never seen before is the clear definition of the protagonist and antagonist in the epic battle of skeuomorphism vs flat design: Leather Weirdo Forstall vs Good Taste Ive (e.g. [1]). IMHO that made it much easier to divide people into camps (tribes?). And as if that wasn't enough, Apple used the keynote to feed the fire and polarise.

[1] http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672780/why-jony-ive-is-flatteni...
Ev has a lot of good productivity tricks. I think this is one of his favorite topics, plus he's had a long career with important things to work paired with tons of people trying to get his time.

I tried to get him to give his philosophy on saying no. He's apparently very good and systematic about it. But somehow he still manages to know when to say yes.
Um no. It is a horribly out of date BSD machine. And I don't run X11r6 on it.
To the public, with no technical background, it is very reasonable to question someone's opinion in a domain they have no certifiable expertise or experience in.

He worked for the NSA. If that does not count as certifiable experience, I'm not sure what does?

Additionally, if the public really believes he is incapable of the job because of his lack of formal education, why is there not more questioning going on as to why the NSA hired him in the first place? Why were they were paying him so much money (reports from $120-200K per year) for a job that he is not even able to do?
This popular ruby gem also uses gh as its interface:

https://github.com/defunkt/github-gem
I'm not a military strategist, and I know this isn't really an area where logic wins, but I like thinking of these scenarios at a top level anyway.

OK. Assume China cuts off shipping lanes in the Pacific. They position their naval fleets in some aggressive formation over major lines (likely blockading Taiwan or something). Assumedly, they have to sink a ship or at least fire shots and take one captive. The U.S. and Japan respond by moving their forces into aggressive positions threatening China. The situation either A. ends when China or the U.S. back down or B. accelerates into military conflict. The conflict is either small, likely involving only SEALs, drone/tactical strikes, or another group of special forces, or full scale, involving (initially) a Pacific strike group fleet. The only logical progression of a full scale military conflict between two nuclear powers is nuclear warfare, at which point it won't matter how big either standing army is. Again, some assumptions, but not unreasonable.

The same scenario without a large standing army has no "standoff." The "standoff" is MAD from nuclear weapons, and understanding on all sides that military action that threatens any nation's "security" will quickly go from tactical to nuclear.

I suppose I just see the massive standing army (special forces not included) like I see air superiority fighters. There's really no scenario where they are necessary for the defense of any modern nation.
Same situation is here in Serbia. Good developer salary is around 30k usd per year.

There are a lot of dev companies in Serbia too.

My goal is to start small and outsource projects to clients in usa.
Exec Hikes Hourly Rate For Errands From $25 To $30 And Triples Its Surcharge
> - you wonder how you turned into "the build guy" when you actually signed on to make great products.

Being "the build guy" is an important role in delivering great products. In fact, SaaS CI offerings in my experience cater to a small subset of real world apps, none of which are usually heavily used non-trivial apps. I helped build one SaaS CI product and really hope this changes in the coming years as we abstract more 'things'. But for the time being, 'build guys' or DevOps guys or whatever the latest word is play a vital role.
Great, now tha NSA have a direct pipe to waze too.
I don't understand what the difficulty is. You either act, or you don't actually perceive immorality.

People are not acting immorally at all times when they're not attempting to remedy the most immoral thing, as long as their moral framework indicates not acting (or continuing an ongoing action) is more moral. Should I donate all my money to charity? No, so long as, for example, I am concerting my efforts to use that money toward a greater moral goal.
I disagree that this is a problem limited to US companies. With the global nature of the tech industry, I think a product's or service's country of origin has seen a reduced importance over the years. I don't think the average consumer knows that Waze is based in Israel. I don't foresee anyone considering the NSA and choosing a Canadian designed Blackberry phone over a US designed Apple one. Instead I think this will just instill a general distrust of technology and the cloud. I doubt people will be discerning enough to focus their suspicions.
Yes, We forced the cake eaters to admit their power is rooted in gold and not the will of God.
So are you saying that the US is an example of how government serves its people and that there's every chance in the world it's heading towards a bright future not far away from today?
Oh, that didn't take long - plenty of illustrative responses here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861585
"Believing that dinosaurs could ever be cloned."

Well, you need to let that one go if you want to make a movie about dinosaurs.
Why are all iOS7 screenshots using the iPhone? I suspect iOS7's excessively-detailed icons will look better on a big screen device like the iPad.
So, will Mozilla be making ABP, Tor, GPG (for web forms), etc. standard features? Mozilla is actually in a position to help protect people from these sorts of intrusions. Are they willing to actually do something that might hurt their advertising industry friends in the name of protecting civil rights?
> One of our Mac-using editors notes that the current version of Safari consumes about 15 percent of CPU resources when running in the background, so these power losses can be significant.

Seriously? I can't say I've had an app use more than 3-5% of my CPU while it was sitting idle. I don't think it has anything with my OS. Is this what others are experiencing?
Tor doesn't really help you a ton, but its useful for avoiding local surveilance. It doesn't help you a ton if you go to a known endpoint a lot. All you need to do is go to the known endpoint while not on Tor and you're revealed.

As for VPN providers, there are YC companies who do security so they're known and ideally trustable. Rather -> The chain of trust is easily verifiable.
What about listening to the radio, talking to a passenger, or just zoning out and daydreaming?

These can all be just as dangerous as using a phone while driving.
> If the government actually were stopping constant terrorist activity (a) they wouldn't parade obvious entrapment cases as "wins", they'd pick something legit to make us feel safer and (b) someone would talk. One of the contractors, loud mouths, drunks, etc. would eventually leak something. A group as large as NSA wouldn't be able to keep their world-saving completely quiet forever, that's just unrealistic.

Consider for a moment how long they've kept the fact that THEY HAVE A REALTIME MIRROR OF GOOGLE a near-total secret. Consider the fact that private companies like Apple and Google have been able to keep their source trees secret with far lower penalties for accidental/intentional disclosure and much less attention and fewer resources devoted to OPSEC.

Also, I think you are confusing FBI/LEO with NSA/military intelligence. It's the former that does those silly things. NSA never parades anything, ever. It's like STFU is in their DNA.

As far as the rest of the military goes: the coolest plane we know that they've built is the SR-71, which was built in... 1964. It's fifty years old. Do you suppose they've sat on their hands since then, with all the advances in materials and computer/avionics technology since? To put the R&D in perspective, it is believed that the NSA's Utah datacenter is built to store a yottabyte of data. The mind reels. Where do you think all that classified budget defense money is GOING, building shit that gets press releases?!

Keeping secrets is pretty straightforward, actually, if you're willing to go to the (order of magnitude increase in) trouble and expense. USDoD is.
And the NSA is not the one that ultimately decides the interpretation of the law.
>I know the reasons why this hasn't happened, but I don't care. I want to know the real reason it hasn't happened, and I think it has a lot to do with every problem looking like a nail.

That doesn't even make any sense.

Hosting services are generally not for mom and pop to start a vps on demand. For that kind of cookie cutter service, they have something called shared hosting, and its already plenty easy and has more or less what you are asking for.

If a developer can't spend couple of hours (even less unless you are a beginner) learning their way around setting up a server, it just a disaster waiting to happen.

There are time and place for cookie-cutter services, vps is not it.
> You haven't even used the new OS

From TA:

> ...after seeding iOS 7 on our beta devices, we are all like...
The book's ridiculous claim is that you commit three felonies per day? So to rephrase your question, you should have asked "how many times per day do you travel back in time to commit statutory rape?"

Your examples aren't very strong anyway.

Having sex before the age of 18 is usually not statutory rape, if the person you're having sex with is also under 18.

Very few copyright violations meet the standard for criminal charges. Casual copyright violation is not a felony.

You don't have to report anything on your tax return when you sell personal items for less than you originally paid for them. And not all tax code violations are felonies anyway.

Etc.
The first beta of iOS 7 is only available for iPhone. I'm guessing they're not done with the iPad version yet.
I agree. The more I use it, the more I dislike it. I'm not a designer, but having worked with several for extended periods, I guess their attention to detail has rubbed off on me. The initial welcome screen on iOS 6 was cool and usable. The new one on iOS 7 kinda just dumps you on a parade of "welcome" without any clear indication on what to do next. So I tapped. And clicked. Then I swiped around. Until, bingo, I found the correct swipe direction. Ditto with the initial lock screen.
https://vine.co/v/blZZqDX9dA2 (this is not me).

I was hoping for a common design language, but there really isn't one. http://i.imgur.com/zdMBUGT.png

As someone on reddit said, it looks like a Chinese knockoff of iOS running on Android.

*Oh yeah and the new calendar. Looks great, but now you can't see if you have any events coming up from the calendar view...Ok...That's a step backwards.
Brooks' argument sounds logical until you realize it applies to all whistleblowers. His world is one in which there is no way to shine light on evil without being disloyal. This extreme I do disagree with very much.
Edward Snowden fought for the Internet. Now the Internet's fighting for him.
Everyone seems to think that it is a coordinated smear campaign. I think it is basic human psychology at work. People tend to group other people into "us" and "them" categories.

When there is too much cognitive dissonance in relation to what people want to think about their country or institutions, the easiest way to appease the psychological tension is to move the promulgator into the category of "them."

The smears as are attempt by people to humanize Snowden.. make him less scary, and simultaneously one of "the other."
It's a great idea. What's missing though, is additional payment options. That is a major reason why HIB is so successful.
If this letter is ignored, then I think they should take it a step further and have another internet blackout (or something similar) for a day. If that fails they can make it a week, then a month, until it either becomes too expensive or the government gives in.
Camlistore (0.1 released) your personal storage system for life
If the Supreme Court makes a ruling and nobody follows it, does it really have any power?

If the legislature makes 10% as many rules as the executive, who really legislates?

If branches of the executive insist on their "independence" from elected officials, is the US really a Democratic Republic?

What kind of country do we live in, really?

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-24/opinions/39495...
not a few months, especially since facial-tumor resistant individuals have cropped up. (one of the principal investigators in my building has done some work characterizing the tasmanian devil situtation).
HTML5 is all about centralizing computation. It is pretty pointless to host a web app for one person's use; you can avoid many headaches and a lot of latency by running software locally. The only advantage network access has in that scenario is synchronizing data across multiple devices, but you do not need all the fancy HTML5 features or fast Javascript to do that; you just need a file sharing protocol.
Don is also a major contributor to the DMD D compiler itself.
Why doesn't he just have Jack Dorsey work out for him?
You can try this. For $0

http://web-for-pentester.pentesterlab.com/introduction/
A thread in the d3-js group on nvd3 vs. rickshaw vs. chartjs: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/d3-js/nvd3/d3-js/...
So why would dinosaurs evolve feathers before evolving flight?

I'm going by this diagram (however it doesn't show where early flying dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx would come in)
http://biology.unm.edu/ccouncil/Biology_203/Images/Phylogeny...
There was an implementation of git in javascript a few years ago; it withered on the vine (I've been trying to salvage the code for an in-browser distributed sync thingy, but it's pretty crufty). Why should we expect anything different to happen with this one?
The Pauls, and other reps supported by Campaign for Liberty (Justin Amash).
In practice, it fails miserably at that.
What do you do when your phone is lost or stolen (or broken)?
Perhaps not a good mix with all those offshore-for-tax-reasons assets!
Your phone company already knows where you are at all times and is already cozied up to the intelligence community.
> "employ crypto on the users side but that undermines the economics of much of their business"

This is true, at least in Google's situation. However I think there is an untapped market of people that want to be advertised to, provided the advertising is relevant.

Surprisingly I think traditional print magazines actually have this figured out. The advertisements for designer clothing, watches, and booze get a lot of readership in "gentleman/bachelor/whatever" magazines (not sure what the correct term there is, not trying to refer to porn (well, except Playboy)) and I suspect that removing them would actually damage their subscription rates. Now, these adverts obviously are not targeted to the individual, but I think they nevertheless demonstrate the concept.
Data from edX’s first course offer preliminary insights into online learning
but, but PRISM didn't mention anything about pot-maker companies
E3 audience offended by "rape joke" at Microsoft Xbox One event
why did it die? are there inherent problems with javascript that might make this infeasible, or did the project just fizzle?
Really? What law is that covered under?

(genuinely interested, because I did not know this)
I'm surprised OS X didn't already using Timer Coalescing or lower process priority of unfocused applications. The Linux kernel has used Timer Coalescing for a long time. On Windows, there are utilities like Process Lasso that enables user-configurable process priority adjustments.
I doubt that the NSA, or the executive branch, or the legislature, will ever be put in a position to have to claim that they've stopped spying.

There will be brief outcry, some half-hearted claims by a few in charge that they will look into it, and after the next shooting or terrorist attack it will be on the second page, soon to drop off the radar completely.

At least that's what I'd put my money on. They won't even be bothered to lie about it.
"Ancient Sage" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
One trick I have seen online merchants use is to credit a prospective customer's account a small sum of money, like $1.16. Then call the customer and ask them to tell merchant the amount that was added. If the customer has full access to the account, customer can answer the question. If the credit card is stolen, the customer will not know the amount merchant credited.
Looks like I'll need to delete another account.
Camels and Rubber Duckies - A lesson on pricing
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Correct. This is an awfully misleading title. The blogs cite blogs upon blogs, not any actual court filings, which do not reveal any ruling whatsoever about the merits of the constitutional matters. The coverage of this looks like an out of control telephone game.
Apple should hire this guy, he has a clue about consistency.
Maybe it will be integrated with the upcoming Google Dashboard(tm)
Joe Biden (2006) I don't have to listen to your phone calls to know what you're doing. If I know every single phone call you made, I'm able to determine every single person you talked to; I can get a pattern about your life that is very, very intrusive.

Video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5863823
Haven't had an android phone in over 6 month now but it wasn't really "stable".
500 a month. Yeah right. you know how companies and freelancers make that kind of profit? They control their expenses.
Why should I use this over DigitalOcean? One hour on the smallest VPS is .7 of a cent. Bonus: SSD.
There are several failed attempts. Most of them died because they were just side-projects and/or programmed in a monolithic manner and crumbled under their own weight. The two main devs on js-git are myself and Chris Dickinson. I'm working on it full time so it can have the attention it needs (hence the fundraiser) and Chris has a couple of failed attempts in the past and knows what bad areas to avoid.

There is nothing wrong with JavaScript itself that makes this infeasible.
Journalists don't expect that most people are willing to watch several 40 minute long pieces of unedited material in the evening news. That's why you will usually see editing.
It is great that Wikileaks also released the unedited material for those that are interested.
My startup has faced this issue -- but it's easily solved using American cloud providers (for example: AWS Ireland).

But, frankly, I don't know how Amazon would respond if they received a national security letter asking for data hosted by Amazon in Ireland.

It'd be nice to see a country take a very strong stand on data privacy. They could be to hosting servers what Switzerland is to hosting money.
But, clearly I can't have an opinion because you told me (and a lot of other people) to just shut the fuck up about it. Nice! Classy! Award-winning attitude!

Many, many, many companies make huge profits selling crap I don't like. So what? I don't expect anyone to give a fuck about my opinion. But I also don't expect anyone to tell me to shut the fuck up for having it. So why don't you take your own advice with your opinion. And we can go our separate ways.
Ugh. I would have hated that. I would have much rather learned a few simple math concepts than figured out how to build a bicycle. Not everyone has the same idea of fun.
Fintech, Media, VC, Cowork, Search judges announced for App Demo Day
Can we add Bradley Manning and Jeremy Hammond to the pardon lists?
Not sure about other features, but for Compressed Memory, there's zRam[1] in Linux that does something similiar if not the same thing.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRam
How digital currencies democratize tax evasion
http://stackoverflow.com/a/9138207 I think this is the answer I was thinking about.
There is nothing wrong with admitting it.
It's very funny when they say he is not educated enough, etc and it was not a problem when he was hired and got access to top level secrets. The more he is defamed, the more
Alienware 14 review
It was really closer to 10 years later. FUSE has been around for quite a while.
Data Parallelism in Rust
Data and Analytics: hero or villain? (PRISM)
This is not entirely on-topic, but there are a lot of comments on how journalism should be actually performed. It is advocacy journalism, but western journalists might use it as an example Anas Aremeyaw Anas: http://www.ted.com/talks/anas_aremeyaw_anas_how_i_named_sham.... Sorry, just trying to turn this topic into something positive.
Really cool product. If I may suggest, as your target audience is mainly designers, you should I think polish the design of the app. The tool is about refining design, but the app design could benefit from some love ( fonts alignment, shadows, color palette,.. ). There is some room for improvements, and by itself it's a great news ( btw, i'd gladly help ;) )
It's not about a few people using those encryption tools. It's about major companies like Google making them mainstream tools, and also making them very easy to use (as easy as it can get).