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Thanks, good suggestion.

I made the mistake of creating it before nailing the text.

Then it got booted off HN pretty quick, not sure why.
Mmm, no. I think there is a real and legitimate purpose for a government to be able to tell its employees that certain information shouldn't be shared.

What most of us are bothered about is the way that the classification process is bandied about like a cheap rubber stamp with no justification or review, and worse how it's being used to cover up some pretty alarming (and probably illegal) things themselves.

Classification is a tool, you don't throw out the tool because it's misused sometimes (or even most of the time).
Yeah it's a good point, and probably more relevant than whether it's Google or somebody else in the US.
Well, nothing demonstrates that they're the same people. Strictly, there could be a chunk of the populace that shifts their allegiance to whoever is more spy-happy.

... don't think that's actually the case, though.
Some of the responses in this thread remind me of our experience finding a wedding photographer willing to provide RAW images. The prospective photographers just didn't seem to understand that we were hiring them to provide a service to our specifications, and that we had no interest in justifying any of our choices to them. It was a very strange and sometimes frustrating experience.

Ultimately, we posted a detailed ad on Craigslist and (in-between hate mail and being flagged several times) were contacted by several interested photographers. The woman we hired did exactly what we wanted, for a fair price, and did a phenomenal job. We could not have been happier.

My advice is to post an ad on Craigslist detailing specifically what you're looking for. Prepare yourself for many prickly responses, and prepare to re-post after it gets flagged. You'll eventually find someone.

As an aside, we also required that the photographer assign copyright in the images to us, though we did allow her to use any images not containing people or names for her own promotional purposes.

Best of luck!
They didn't ship the first 64-bit CPU to run Windows either. Windows NT ran on Alpha (among other architectures). Granted the OS was still 32-bit, but the CPU wasn't.

But what do you expect from a press release? It's written by marketing trolls, not engineers.
Actually the government has a long history of releasing news they don't want covered on really hot days (especially before air conditioning), so that way the press is less likely to show up. That's how we got school desegregation.
So pronounce it like "Coke".
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Ask HN: YC companies that help identify online influencers?
Are there any YC companies (or other companies with compelling products) specializing in identifying online influencers / trendsetters and engaging with them?
IOS 7 to include support for game controllers
Sample size is 645 people - I don't think that's large enough to mean anything.
Conceptually it's the same mentality that leads smart people to think HTML5 style apps will win out against native apps. A significant misunderstanding of average users, what they want, and why.
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Cool. The Meteor package system seems very powerful, so I imagine you can do almost anything you want with the right packages.

The reason I said it's not quite ready for prime time is that some of the key things you want to do, like APIs or scaling, are currently available only through third-party packages and aren't officially supported.

Still, it's a cool framework that's come a long way, I think it might be a great production platform in a matter of months.
I feel for something like this to have a chance of holding up in court, the company would have to be less up front about the purpose of it. rsync tells the user that if they miss a day, or it stops getting updated, then something is wrong. I think without statements like that, and calling it canary.txt, they would stand a better chance of holding this up in court.

That's just my opinion though.
I think you're right. Cage's point was that silence doesn't exist. Much of his work was about denying the distinction between "music" as a predefined composition and "noise" as the other sounds going on. I remember an interview where he talked about how much he enjoyed listening to the traffic outside his apartment. It was clear that for him this was no different than listening to a musical performance; the thing that made it beautiful was the conscious attitude of the listener.
"Secret court" and "secret law"

What an absurd concept and a sad place for the US to be.
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Ellsberg was shielded because he was reporting illegal activity by a government official. If what you divulge is not illegal you have no protection.
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That's true, but according to the Guardian here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-record... Verizon handed over location data to the NSA (the original court order states "comprehensive communications routing information" and "trunk identifiers" should be handed over). It's reasonable to assume that the NSA will have that information, which makes their defence that "we don't get your name" pretty laughable since they can almost certainly just derive it.
traitor XOR patriot.

This is so narrow minded in my opinion.
Snowden has done something good to the world, because US administration is secrectly messing with everybody around the globe.

Stop considering it happened only within US borders or as an internal matter.
US and US media still are using a group (country) scale reduction to draw some bad opinion on Snowden, divide and gain some people to this spying dementia.

If you look on an international scale, the trivial question would be : hero or villain, and the answer is quite obvious.

AAaaaand somebody is knocking on my door...
I wonder if they'd also have "secret police" were it not for the historical stigma?
Key quotes:
"Techno-boondoggles"
"The government is very good at spending money"
"Protect our domains: .mil, .gov and .com"
"This is a committee that is loaded with talent!"
"Rarely has a committee had so much talent!"
"We are in a cyberwar every day. Every time someone steals our identity."
"...continue to warn us against 'cyber', as a continuous threat."
"I bring to your attention, the President's budget document"
"The President has asked congress for 13 billion dollars in order to execute the cybersecurity strategy"
"Protecting the taxpayer, in their role as both citizen and taxpayer."
General Alexander introduced @ 8:00. General Alexander begins @ 13:30.
General Alexander quotes: "So this is a bright future that we have! But it's complicated by cyberespionage, by cyberhacking..." Interesting @ 18:30 .. General Alexander mentions operating lawfully and the chairwoman's evil knowing grin is filmed.
Wrappled Launches: The Online Store for Kickstarter & Indiegogo Projects 
Wrappled.com (Wrappled) today announced the launch of its online storefront, the first online marketplace for successfully funded Kickstarter and Indiegogo projects.

Crowdfunding projects have surged in popularity, sparking an array of new and innovative products geared towards consumers. While popular crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo allow manufacturers to bring their items to market, an inherent problem lies within for consumers who wish to locate and purchase products after the funding period has already ended.<p>“Because sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo have insisted on being identified strictly as crowdfunding platforms, Wrappled has addressed this issue by creating an e-commerce storefront for products whose campaigns have already expired,” says Lex DeLeon, one of the founding partners of Wrappled. “With Wrappled, consumers can easily locate and purchase their favorite funded products all from one website and location.”

Founded in 2012, Wrappled is the one and only marketplace for unique products and projects funded through crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Wrappled seeks to offer its customers the newest and coolest crowdfunded products on a daily basis, positioning itself to be at the forefront of innovation and an expert in everything revolving around the crowdfunding process.

Wrappled seeks to elevate the shopping experience by pairing informative and entertaining videos with each product so that consumers can gather and glean information that isn’t easily communicated via text and/or standalone images (e.g. how the product works, its various applications, where it works best, etc.).

Wrappled’s product videos provide consumers with an entertaining and interactive way of learning how each item can fit and be useful in their everyday lives.
Selling stock based on private knowledge of the company's deteriorating finances while trumping up the company publicly is not your run of the mill "everybody breaks the law" selective enforcement situation.

The SEC brings tons of insider trading cases (the page you linked to points out that the ones on the page are just "examples"). See: http://www.mofo.com/files/Uploads/Images/130116-Insider-Trad... (Page 3.). The SEC and DOJ together brought 86 insider trading cases last year. Two recent convictions were Raj Rajaratnam (hedge fund manager) in 2011, and Raj Gupta (former chief executive of McKinsey) in 2012. It's a favorite go-to for the SEC because it's relatively easy to prove as far as financial crimes go.
So the fight is for public disclosure of a decision of which the outcome is already known?
Wow. Play all _or else_ is what it sounds like they told him.. and then followed through :(
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but your honour, by definition my stream is not(the godfather).
> The most important "action" on that screen happens when you press a gray text on a gray background!

The "Send" text is gray because the input box is empty. When you typed in something, it will turn blue. Still not as intuitive as a button though.

> Also how can I reject a call?

It's exactly the same as in iOS 6. There've always been two different call screens since the first release of iOS. One is shown when your phone is locked, where you need to slide to answer and push the power button twice to reject. Another one is shown when your phone is not locked, where you have an answer button and a reject button. The screenshot causes the confusion because it is comparing the second call screen on iOS 6 with the first call screen on iOS 7.
Of course everything has constraints, and a social system will have political constrains.

Yet, those systems had "accidents" only after politicians overrided the engineers and acted against their recommendation. Using them as evidence that engineers create systems that are as flawed as the ones created by politicians is wrong.

Anyway, it seems that we still can't engineer social systems. It may be either because the political interference inherent on it makes it impossible, or because we just don't have the right technology... Or maybe we can, and PRISM is the kind of tool that makes it possible. Engineers create all kinds of systems, for all kinds of reasons, well intented or not.
I emphatically disagree on the photo app example. The only folders I use for my photos is by date and the only reason I do so is because of the limitations of the design of the computer on which those files are stored. Photos do not particularly lend themselves to hierarchies - one person's "Family and Friends" grouping might be arbitrary to someone else, that's why tags came along - they add information instead of putting items in silos.
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It's a promising sign. This is the sort of decision that Yahoo couldn't make for most of the last 10 years.
They judge won't have to compel you to lie. He'll simply instruct you not to communicate with your customers in any way about the warrant.
If you cancel the canary and your customers find out about the warrant, the judge won't care how you dressed it up.. he told you not to communicate a fact, and you did.

You can't game your way around that.. the court will care about outcome, not method.
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The gag order prevents you from communicating the existence of the NSL. Whether you do so by e-mail or smoke signal or elaborate semaphore (the canary in the article) is irrelevant. The gag order doesn't compel you to lie, except to the extent you contrive to set up a situation where your only two choices are to lie or reveal the existence of the NSL.

Not that I agree with gag orders attached to warrants, mind you. But saying that it's just "stopping a process running on my computer" not "communicating information" is just wrong from an information theoretic point of view. Lots of things can be used as a semaphore to communicate information. I bet in other contexts (say insider trading), you'd agree that it doesn't matter whether some CEO tipped off his buddy about insider information by carefully varying load on a server to modulate response times on a web page, thus communicating bits of information.
You can't reveal that you've been served. What you actually tell people is your problem, not the courts.
I don't teach seniors per se, so I can't answer "professionally" but I have taught two of my grandparents how to use their phones (one old Motorolla flip phone, one on my old iPhone) and computers.

I found that they were very hesitant to engage with the phones, they have a preconceived notion that touching the wrong thing could break the entire device (which is generally an incorrect assumption but not completely).

The way to get around that fear, of course, is to make sure all the steps are followed in order in the way they were taught, eg: To Make a Phone Call: 1. Press the green icon with the phone on it at the bottom left 2. Press the picture of the star to bring up your favourites 3. Press on the name you want to call. 4. When you're finished, press the big red button.

In that example the four steps are largely unchanged, and every identifiable interactive element (green icon with phone, star, names, red button) has the same general description.

But everything has changed slightly - the green icon isn't the same colour, the star is a bit different, the names now have photos next to them and the red button is a big red strip.

This isn't a big deal for you or me, but it is certainly a big deal when they're looking for the clues in the interface that they are used to.

But things like "Slide the grey button to the right to unlock the phone" and "slide the green button to the right to answer the call" have changed significantly. There's no more grey or green box - there's no box to unlock and the green box is now a big green line.

My grandfather is doing pretty well with his iPhone by muscle memory, but he literally has a piece of paper in his phone case with all the steps written down in order so he can refer to them if he gets stuck.

Changes on this scale break the muscle memory that they've been trained to use, but more importantly makes the steps he's been taught incorrect. It's no small feat to have to learn everything over again. Especially so when things aren't brand new anymore and the changes are only slight.

Does that answer your question?
I had this strange thought occur half way through the article.

The US government is storing, analysing and recording all internal electronic transmissions so that US civilians can be protected from external aggressors. Doesn't that then provide a hypothetical aggressor a simplified target. If they can access these data hubs then havent they hit the motherload?

I wonder how secure the governments facilities are in retrospect.

Furthermore, doesn't this make the task of detecting or hunting non-state aggressors that much harder now that they know all electronic transmissions are recorded (and thus forcing them into an electronic darkness where they can't be spied upon).

I think PRISM and all these internal external spying facilities are inevitable but the ramifications of their public knowledge are going to be interesting.

Edit: Im also surprised by the complete lack of interest by the general US population. Maybe because HN readers are educated and technical they understand the implications but you would think there would be some kind of public uproar over this, especially considering the myths that Americans are brought up upon (freedom from tyranny etc.)
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You're comparing the performance of the respective top of the line models. That only matters for bragging rights. Most people don't buy that one, which leaves AMD open to sell chips to people who would have bought midrange Intel chips -- or people who are willing to sacrifice 312.4/300.88 -> ~3.8% performance (which is almost certainly within the margin of error) in order to keep competition alive or because AMD offers a lower price.
It seems to be blank to me.
Great explanation - sounds like a very reasonable/educated guess!
It's over 9000!

(goodbye karma)
I can easily imagine an authority issuing a warrant to rsync.net without knowing that there is a canary in place. It seems less likely for an NSL with an attached gag order, but still possible.
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I'v been working on a non-hierarchical filesystem (if you want to call it a "filesystem") called Library Transfer Protocol. It created a new type of file called a "library item" which is different from a file in the sense that library items are immutable. An image, a video, or a finished blog post can be a library item. Since all library items are immutable, we don't have to worry about the CAP theorem, and therefore the "filesystem" can be distributed. You can see the code here: https://github.com/priestc/Library-Transfer-Protocol Click on the presentation at the bottom of the github page to see more info.
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If you say they didn't hear about it from you? They can figure it out any which way. You simply issued a statement that you neither confirm nor deny you have been served. If you put an ad in the newspaper every day and then do not do it when subpoenaed, you are at fault for not putting the ad?
We have the "secret service"...
I hope what makes the traditional filesystem obsolete is something with better support for non-treeish data, including tags.
Sadly, this probably would not hold up in court, if the government ever tried to challenge it (why would they, though? The last thing they want is a ruling against them; better to just threaten ISPs with more regulation). On the other hand, a company might get away with a plausibly inadvertent side channel e.g. something like this:

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcoms-gaming-lag-hints-spying-...

"Your honor, we went above and beyond the law, creating a special system for handling lawful surveillance requests by the FBI and NSA. Unfortunately, the expanding volume of surveillance requests has overwhelmed this system, resulting in unintentional increases in latency experienced by surveillance targets. Our technical support staff is developing a solution..."
I wish it were as easy as that, but the thing is that there is always a human in the loop to design such a system, and that person does not have deniability. For instance, say that on days without subpoenas, bob@google flips a coin, and only updates the canary if it comes up heads. With a subpoena, he doesn't update the canary regardless of the coin flip. If I were a government prosecutor, I would simply subpoena bob@google and ask him under oath whether he ever disregarded the coin flip.

Of course, this all assumes that this disclosure even comes to the government's attention. But that's a calculated risk any canary-user will take.
How would talking to the police help, though. Under your narrative the police don't believe your spouse's denials anyway.
Running threaded floating point workloads on bulldozer-derived architectures is just folly. If you have parallel floating point code you should in general be running it on a GPU.
DOJ Misfires on Jobs Email in Apple E-Book Case — It Was a Discarded Draft
I love the Threat Level articles that Wired produces, but if I see the word "cyber" one more time, I am going to go nuts.
It depends on how they drew the sample. It's certainly large enough, statistically speaking.
Give it away. Setup an org bitbucket account. Give other devs access - it's up to them whether or not to use it.

1) You have an out if others wreck the ship
2) At the very least you've backed up your stuff (good even if you're the only dev)
How would property rights fit into this? Does vandalism cause harm to people?
I donated money and bought some stickers on Friday. They can definitely use our help! The EFF also helps us in our fight for jailbreaking rights.
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Classic Music Publishing, Slow Feed, iOS 7 and a Language Called ATS.
AMD literally defined the 64-bit x86 architecture that everyone (including Intel) uses today.

That's "first".
The short answer is law. But even with a good system, it seems very difficult to maintain.

In the U.S., the idea was that its founding legal document, the Constitution, would put some very strict limits on the power of government. Thus, there would be many things the government could never do, like restrict one's freedom of speech or unreasonably search and seize a person's belongings or effects. A process was included to amend the Constitution in the future if that was ever necessary, but as one would expect, it takes a very large amount of agreement to do that.

Under these strict limits, three different branches of government would often work adversarially to keep one another in check. The Congress would make laws, but it had no power to enforce them. If the Congress was not happy with the execution of a law, they could repeal it. The President would execute the law and set up a system to enforce the law, but could not change the law and was not given the power to interpret the law or determine whether the law had been broken. The judiciary would interpret how the law applied to specific situations, determine whether law was being followed, and make sure new law complied with the country's ultimate law.

In theory, each branch doesn't have enough coercion to abuse it, and the other branches can stop the excess of a single branch.

It appears, however, that currently this isn't the case in the United States. The executive branch interprets the law to mean whatever it wants the law to mean. Then it claims "national security" at every attempt to subject those interpretations to judicial review. And it doesn't tell Congress its interpretation of the law or how it's carrying out the law. The Congress and judiciary aren't acting adversarially enough to restore the desired balance

Can this be prevented or corrected? Is it really a workable solution? I think we may be about to find out...
You must be Dutch where surveillance is assumed.
Show HN: Terminal-based "AppNap" for today
Pause with:
ps -cx | grep -i $1 | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -s SIGSTOP

Unpause with:
ps -cx | grep -i $1 | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -s SIGCONT

[the difference is SIG{STOP,CONT},
also this is for convenience, so I prefer -i ]

Hope this helps someone, as with anything terminal-based: USE WITH CAUTION
Do any of the representatives passing these inflated budgets have any idea what their five billion dollars is buying? I have to imagine that all of our elected officials hear about our "cybertroops" supplying "cyber-fire support" enacting "cyber-kinetic attacks" and they might as well be hearing about stealth bombers without knowing what radar, explosions, or airplanes are.

Are there some kind of Congressional training sessions where basic information about computers is disseminated and explained, or is it all really just a bunch of hand-waving for all the individuals involved? I assume the latter, but I'd love to be pleasantly surprised.