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The 5th and the 14th amendment cover all people, not just citizens.
Here is an informative read on how and why and the history of the question of non-citizen rights.
http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
Found this after a discussion of the rights of Boston Marathon suspects as non-citizens. Pretty much they have every right of a non-citizen, except the right to vote.
Stalin's Russia is no longer the touchstone it once was, in other words. I don't think that you can't apply the critique in 1984 to current events. There is just a generation gap.

GWB is a kind of touchstone for the modern generation, helpless while events swirl around him, grasping for a measure of control at all costs. And what costs they were: torture, surveillance, war, a Manichaean division of the world into heroes and villains.

Instead of intentions of powerful men, you have the psychoses of bureaucracies created by individuals for all the right reasons, full of unintended effects, ultimately achieving the opposite of their stated goals.

In 1984, there is a malevolence at the back of Big Brother. In 2013, there need not be anything but a decentralized system, harnessing the latest technologies, manipulated by the knowledgeable, but ultimately storyless, aimless, and inhuman.
They did come up with a more space efficient jug in 2008 and it was supposedly adopted by both Costco and Walmart. The same size shipping container would store 50% more milk. There is even a NYT article about it - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/business/30milk.html - but I only ever encountered milk in a container about half way between traditional and that design for one week a few years ago in my local Californian Costco.
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Avoiding the overuse of classification doesn't automatically mean creating a live feed of all troop motion. You're using a strawman argument here, I think.

Knowing the location of the troops months or years ago isn't likely to cause much harm: A competent enemy can probably know all that anyway, if they care to.
> one must in the interest of humanity seek to understand exactly how that transition happened.

I suspect Martin-Niemöller had some insight into how this happened:

First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
>The government isn't really spying on us en masse

Actually they are.

>most people assume taht the government already has/had access to what you do on your cellphone/facebook/internet searches

I think that most people assume that email is just like mail: private, and protected by the 4th amendment. I think most people assume that their phone records are similarly protected. And I doubt that most people, possibly including people in Congress, know what is possible to infer from the data they are collecting.
If NSA open sources their implementation,

every country in the world,

every telecom org,

big-data companies like Google+Yahoo+Facebook+MS+Apple,

forum software like HN+reddit+phpbb

should run it on GPLv2 cloud linux boxes

with the help of ninja sysadmins

operating without laws

to fight

* spam

* trolls

* terrorists

* people who disagree with status-quo

* pedophiles

* credit-card fraud

* psychopaths on loose

* rapists

* Steve jobs haters

I don't think HN has an admin interface, to kick all the hatrz. pg should contact the NSA !

Best of all, since state laws don't apply inside organizations, we can have "Terms and Conditions" that say

> You guys trust us with your data ?

> Ha ha !

> No guarantees

> what ever
Check out http://linux.die.net/man/1/edac-util + http://buttersideup.com/edacwiki/Main_Page and look on some servers to see if they're seeing many correctable ECC errors. I've def. seen it happen on some Dell PERCs.
Absolutely right! (And you preempted my comment at the top level).

I think one reason for "monad hell" is unawareness about this kind of composable style.
You commit three felonies a day
Right now it's up 3,770%

Here is the movie on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDbWtbCHt7g

Edit: I can't watch old movies... needs more special effects.
Why the private sector cannot help us with warantless wiretapping
1. They are in on it.

2. This is systemic.

3. The American public is largely unaffected.

I post because there is a growing consensus that people are affecting change by switching hosts or such. The small gesture is good, but ultimately meaningless if systemic.

How can we combat this ultimate spectre!?
What gangs? Nobody I even know is involved with gangs or the mafia.

Oh, you're an anarchist, aren't you?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that a "pro" computer with no wired ethernet?

Who on earth would discard stable gigabit internet for some flaky wifi with substantially lower performance?

Edit: Corrected as requested. Thanks.
Ahaha, I agree. Abstract monad derivations are quite a foreboding introduction.
There are different kinds of people, some might learn by going the theoretical path you described (functors -> monoids -> monads). I am not one of these people. I learn theory by doing thing in practice.

I recommend starting out with IO and "learning monads" as you go. Too many people think they must "understand" monads first, but this might not be the right way to go depending on the person.

"Guess the number" and other examples from Imperative programming 101 make great exercises.
The terrorists had won the moment the "PATRIOT" act came onto being.
You could also pop this in a backpack, possibly along with a small projector and wireless mouse / keyboard :)

I wouldn't be terribly surprised to see these showing up on tours with bigger electronic music acts.
> "Unwarranted government surveillance is an intrusion on basic human rights that threatens the very foundations of a democratic society."

Close. It actually undermines the very foundations of a democratic society, not just threatens them. Without privacy there can be no anonymity. Without anonymity there can be no anonymous speech. Without anonymous speech there can be no free speech, as the Supreme Court pointed out rather eloquently in 1995.

https://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity
Given the sometimes arbitrary nature of these rejections, it would seem that a natural strategy would be to keep trying (with changes to meet their expectations) - at some point you should get it approved.

Is there some maximum tries that one get to show ones worth as a pubilsher?
This touches on a lot of the no-nonsense reasons why a VC would say no if you have some traction, but not explosive traction.

As someone who has gone through the process of bootstrapping, getting traction, and trying to raise money for the first time in a "consumer unfriendly environment," I think he touches quite eloquently and precisely on a lot of important points. Most VCs don't lay it out as nicely as this either.
If you scroll 'down' to the bit about expansion it says it has gigabit Ethernet.
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Thinner type and fullscreen layouts make the screen "look bigger" since they're too stubborn to make their phones human sized.
It does have wired ethernet, at least according to the presentation I believe.
It has two Gb ethernet ports (and you can easily add more through the 6 20Gb Thunderbolt 2 ports.
I understand that this story is old news for those who pay attention.

The title was in reference to the number of companies coming out against this, which is definitely great! But the large telcos and ISPs dominate the public forum and ultimately our dissemination of this topic.

The only way I have been able to combat it thus far is... educate educate educate. It seems to be the solution to all of our problems!

My name is now out there as a patriot, Hi NSA.
I do in fact use an external unit, but only because the internal units on every Mac I have owned have failed due to Apple using very low quality, poorly designed Chinese sourced hardware components. This same low quality internal "SuperDrive" unit is in the add on Apple external optical disc.

The external third unit is pretty noisy, has a large wall wart, and takes up desk space which contributes two cables, power and USB, as well as taking up one of the small number of USB ports on the Mac. This is an exceptionally poor design compared to the experience of using a PC which reasonable comes with an optical drive, something that I use very frequently, as do most computer users.
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It gets worse. In their design guidelines they say that instead of visual cues for buttons you should use COLORS. As a colorblind dude I'm fucking apalled.
Their main defense is that they operate within the boundaries of the law, which the Obama administration also claims. If they ever face a court order telling them to hand over everything, as long as it follows law at face value then their statement is true.
1. Gigabit ethernet is listed.

2. Thunderbolt to ethernet adapter, just like on mbp retina.
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That benchmark makes it clear Go has not caught up to Java in performance.

Out of the 10 tests that have both Java and Go results, Java is faster than Go in 9 tests while Go is faster than Java in 1 test (by 0.2%, so not significant).
I guess any customer using US Equipment in any part of the world is also accessible, even without a local law supporting it?

Interestingly I managed to discover a Huawei trojan that installed itself without me granting permission via a hotel router. It wasn't particularly well built back in the day which made it easy-ish to identify.

Makes me wonder where China is going with all the deals Huawei is making with Govts across the world too.
I flew over this area (going TX to WA) the day after this and saw a similar storm. It was absolutely mesmerizing. Discharges occurred every few seconds the entire time we flew around it--an even mixture of intra-cloud and cloud-to-ground. I've never seen anything like it.

On a related note, several days earlier, I flew from IL to LA ahead of a storm system in the Midwest and was in some roller coaster turbulence, so bad that the crew said it was rare for them. Not fun.
It'd be better to use EncFS in this case, as it does per-file encryption. With TruCrypt, the whole volume file would need updating once you unmount it, if I understand correctly.
Technical details are in the remaining 37 slides he gave to reporters which they are refusing to release
Not quite. Note that Thunderbolt 2 can do 2x20G/bits/ per second, vs PCI-E v3 at 32G/bytes/ per second (on a 16x slot).

Refs:

- http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/19/pci-express-makes-the-3-0...

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pci_express

- http://www.zdnet.com/intel-unveils-thunderbolt-2-7000016595/

- http://www.tomshardware.com/news/lucid-gpu-graphics-thunderb...

- http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pci-express-graphics-thu...

TL;DR external video cards via Thunderbolt help but can't hang in terms of performance with real internal cards.
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Because "you can't fight the system."
"You just became the mayor of Snowden's Hiding Place, congratulations!"
Maybe not 'news', but interesting since some of the founders of Kazaa also started Skype. I can understand their morale at first: "Skype wouldn't share any information at first with the agencies, but since it's owned by Microsoft they have full access"
Social networks must be the ultimate winner-takes-all product. They're probably great investments for VCs. They're high return, and they bleed money until the magic inflection point so you can probably get good terms. I think they're crappy products for founders, because the risk is so high and you don't have the same opportunity for diversification that an investor does.

Speaking as a founder, I feel it comes down your own risk/reward preference. I'd rather have a good chance of a $50M exit than a miniscule chance of $1B.
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I would add to that, any company bidding for government contracts has to accept that all bids in that tender process, including the winning bid, are to be made public after the tender process is complete.

Here in Australia too many governments agencies spend tax payer’s money, issuing big contracts to private companies and the all the contract details remain secret.

One example was a company awarded the right to build a cross city tunnel toll way. The contract included a $100 million payout to a government body in exchange for massive road closures designed to divert traffic into the (toll paying) tunnel.

All the road closures did was create traffic chaos and the secret collusion was only revealed when the tunnel company went broke.
Right on spot.

The icons are middleway between photorealist and pictograms, and end looking neither, just childish and unpolished.

The lack of affordances (no obvious buttons) will hurt usability a lot, as will the pale white backgrounds on everything.

It looks like UI designed by graphical ("paper") designers. Awful.
>GWB

Help with this acronym?
So use UTC instead. It is already there, your computer, phone and alarm clock can already handle it, and the issues of leap seconds, leap years, a changing length of day and accurate time keeping have already been addressed.
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It's definitely a questionable javascript library, I wrote it back in 2008 after reading the wikipedia article :)

It was designed to interop with OpenSSL's default command line AES crypto, which has some weak points, mostly around the IV selection.

That being said, the biggest weakness will always be that it's running in the browser and open to injection attacks.

But while I think there's definitely better crypto chat solutions out there, it's nice to see people taking an interest in the subject. And let's not kid ourselves, the vast majority of NSA data collection is probably less about sophisticated encryption attacks, and more about the clever application of political/police powers.
Somehow I have a feeling jemfinch really didn't know that was his middle name.
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Will they be shipping something like XNA? Will they be using C# or other managed languages at engine level?
You don't have to leave if you don't want to. But your choices are to do nothing (which includes meaningless actions like online petitions) or get directly involved in politics. At this point I'd say there is literally no one to vote for, so if you want to change things you'll need to run yourself. If enough of us do that we could make a change. I see literally no other possibilities at this point.
FCP was never the only solution in the pro video editing market. Avid has been the traditional choice since the mid-'90s, but FCP was encroaching.

Unfortunately the botched introduction of FCP X sent Apple back a decade in this market. FCP X was too different from 7, and it didn't even support many of the workflows that pros needed. Since users had to learn new software anyway, a lot of editors went to Avid or Adobe (Premiere is quite good nowadays).
> Someone who truly cares about their security will learn how to use them.

Needs are relative. People have a lot of cares in this world and for most people, online anonymity and confidentiality don't rank very high. That's why convenient, cheap solutions are important. Solutions that require people too much won't be used. Think of digital cameras. Most people will use them if they're included free on a phone, but they're not willing to pay $3000 for "quality."

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I largely agree with this post, and I feel like the UX changes he addresses will make it a bit more confusing for first-time iOS users, while experienced iOS users probably won't even notice a difference.
They already know where the subs are:

Submarine Spotting

Now a report in the magazine New Scientist says the probable reason for the action is that the scientists are all study bioluminescent plankton which can reveal the whereabouts of submarines.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/525113.stm
I think you meant "since it's owned by Microsoft".

Also, if anyone is wondering, this article is actually from one of the most respectable Dutch newspapers.
So, they don't do it like google etc. don't do it? Encrypt your disks. Only allow https. Don't let their support anywhere near your kit.

Although then again they could stick a physical intercept in a box.
And then you keep a list of work hours in each friend's contact card. So Sally is in New York, her work hours are 14:00–22:00. Frank is in Amsterdam, so his work hours are 09:00–17:00.

It is exactly the same as UTC, just using decimal. So just use UTC, or the time zone support in your calendaring software.
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>Were violence added to the mixture, I'd not have felt more sympathetic to a movement I perceived to have no practical goals.

Occupy needed to remain peaceful, no doubt about it. But without a large alternative group that wasn't afraid to use violence, Occupy was always going to be marginalized away. They had coherent messages. You and most people don't know them because they were bottled up, discredited and shut down. Exactly what will happen to any peaceful movement.

Personally, I think there's still time for a peaceful alternative though: we all need to start getting directly involved in politics.
Stallman isn't completely disconnected, I see an email from him probably every other day. He's very aware of what's happening in the world. He still has email and he can get the news through various websites as long as they don't require non-free software.

I have trust that they are indeed public servants, apparently a lot more than people here. I don't see them going after the every day person with the data they have. For that to happen a lot more bad laws would have to be passed.
Is it me or does that look like something out of Tron?
Oh, so one of the people involved in this immoral, illegal spying program says it's not that bad? Well never mind then! I guess it must all be ok. No oversight needed.
Larry Page about Google and PRISM
Also, you know, the possibility of the NSA having all your passwords is kind of uncool.
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You might be interested in this:
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Hi, it's not so much a feature request than a bug report (sorry if it's not the right place). Since a few days ago the comments link in the RSS feed is wrong, it contains extra spaces. Example:

https:/%20%20%20%20/%20%20%20%20news.ycombinator.com/%20%20%20%20item?id=5859307

As a result clicking in a link in a RSS reader will fail to open the page in a web browser.

The story link is fine thought.

This is while using the feed:
http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

I can't pin down the exact date when it started, less than a week ago for sure, possibly this WE?
>If a company does not cooperate, an agent 'activated' who has access to the information of the company. "Within businesses and institutions everywhere activate waiting for a request for information. Agents are"

In other words: the problem may be as much the fact that personal data exists in the hands of third parties at all as it is that there's any formal framework that enables law enforcement/national security agencies to legally access it.
If it is a cylinder, won't it be easier to roll off a surface and fall down?
> Also, if anyone is wondering, this article is actually from one of the most respectable Dutch newspapers.

Not quite. The NRC is one of the most respectable newspapers, yes. It is however citing another newspaper, the Telegraaf, which is not quite as respectable. That said, they probably wouldn't publish this unless they were somewhat confident about the story.
Note that The Telegraaf is one of the most unreliable newspapers in the Netherlands.

According to Larry Page Google does not give access to all your data within 5 minutes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5860313
Also the Dutch are the really tall ones
There's also my personal favorite, "A Nice Cup of Tea."

http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm
Go work in industry for a bit before you go to grad school.

Why?

You already know academia, but not industry. There is a good chance that you will like working in industry, and after a year or two will think that going back to school would have been a waste of time. And if not, you can always go to grad school later.

Even if you are already set on going to grad school, having worked in industry will give you a much better idea of what really matters to users and applications in the real world and will probably give you good ideas about what direction to take your research.

And on the practical side, you can make more money in an industry job, so you can save up some money, and spend the time in grad school not having to worry about finances.
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Unreliable maybe, but they definitely embellish stores and the wording of stories and headlines to draw in more readers.
I was trying to get this across to a few people in various forums.

The mere fact that data is gathered in places allows and ultimately engenders its exploitation. You can't fix the laws. You have to fix the humans somehow. Or write systems that, by construction (as in, a lot of research into dependent type systems where a "bad" program cannot be compiled) do not allow data to be abused.
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Ask HN: Will iOS7 redesign alter the design of big companies apps?
So a couple of years ago when the first iPad arrived we had to wait for around 1.5 years to get Facebook for iPad, until we had that, we used apps like MyPad and similar 3rd party apps, which tried to create an iPad experience for our favourite services. Now we have the same situation. Something radically new and unknown. Will that flat design trend push more big companies in the rush to create similar apps to the UI?

Even the sceuromorphic icons look bad on the new iOS7 front screen.

Will you try to redesign your app for iOS7 ?
But the "most respectable" newspaper quotes in this article the least respectable one.
Very informative for slides. I'm used to worse.

Quick UI feedback, I had to use the keyboard to get to the next slide, it seems not possible with purely the mouse. Might want to change that.
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