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Not sure why you weren't specific in your first comment, and then when it became clear you had been confusing, you still didn't bother to name him in your second comment. Apologies if you didn't intend it this way, but just seems like you're being purposefully awkward.
Rand Paul may have its faults. Many people like libertarianism but they don't like the pro-religion/prolife and pro-rich aspects that come with it. That's why Bill Maher has distanced himself recently from the libertarian appelation.
However to say that it's not sincere coming from Rand Paul is not fair at all. If you know a little bit about who he is, who his father is, you couldn't say that...
Of course Rand Paul is building a political portfolio for 2016. The filibuster, the TSA, the balanced budgets and now this, it's all going into it. But all these political actions are in line with who he is and what he represents.
And still, after all that there's a very big chance he'll lose to a generic republican like Rubio or Ryan in the primaries.
> By the way, I don't know about anybody else, but for the first time I can think of, I'm seriously concerned about the consequences of posting support for somebody like this online.

It's telling, and terrifying, that this is a rational and common concern. Put plainly, it means we fear for the dissolution of our free society (yes, I believe we still live in one).
Permissive open-source licenses (MIT, BSD, etc.) are GPL-compatible. But I think the question here is more one of motivation: was a decision made for reason X which had the side-effect of making DTrace's license incompatible with Linux, or was the choice of license made specifically to cause that effect? There appear to be conflicting accounts from people who were at Sun at the time.
I'm kind of surprised he's 29. Generally, whistleblowers tend to be very young (and idealistic), or middle aged/old (with money problems, or facing political setbacks, or feeling they have nothing to lose).

I personally am against granting TS clearances to anyone under ~30 and S to anyone under ~25 due to the difficulty in doing background investigations on people of young age (illegal to bring in stuff before 18, and it's really hard to get useful information on pre-workforce people, both lots of false positives and false negatives).

I would have suspected someone like Binney (older, political setbacks) or someone much younger (PFC Manning).
If these people had significant accomplishments (or had tried really audacious things and failed), then maybe I'd care what their answers were. Looks like you eschewed the major leagues and went looking for folks to interview in the pre-triple 'A' minors :)
Yeah, I should have been more clear about saying that a SCOTUS decision is non-binding to congress moving forward.
I'd love to see a "who made that" google glass app, where you can look at any object and glass will generate a paragraph on the origins of the object.

If you could find a way to isolate the object from what the camera sees / white out the rest of the image, you could search for similar images on google to figure out what the object was. Then scan wiki / a few other sources to generate origin info.
Really? I find that to be entirely relevant. Subtract the bias to get an unbiased estimator...
Sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. At all.

Rand Paul was one of the very few, along with Ron Wyden and Udall, to try and stop the FISA Amendments Act from being renewed last year. They voted against them (and for FISA renewal) 92-7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIyLlXBcbjo

So HE HASN'T CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT ANYTHING. This is how he was thinking all along. It's the others that supported the spying.
A friend of myne who recently moved to Sweden said it was quite easy to move there and get working papers. On the other hand though he said that most non Europeans/North Americans will have trouble getting working papers.
As someone who was also homeschooled in Georgia (but was in the city of Atlanta), I don't really understand how most parents seem to believe that educating their children isn't their sole responsibility.

Sure, their kids' teachers are supposed to expose them to knowledge but the parents are ultimately responsible.

Perhaps one of the most important lessons I learned (other than how to teach myself) was the idea of personal responsibility.

That probably messed me up for life since now I'm fairly libertarian and also kept going to school until I got my PhD, but that's a different story.
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I guess, about the salary, that there's a multiplying factor when your job involves high-clearance national secrets. If the threat of persecution is not enough to dissuade you from leaking, then maybe a sweet $200k job on Hawaii is.
Shared folders work well for me & everyone else on me team. Perhaps you should file a ticket for your issue?

Also, if you use port forwarding for all your databases etc. then you could technically just run Python code on your host computer. Indeed, I do this myself usually -- I treat the Vagrant box more like a "deployment target" that just happens to also run the DBs I can use for local testing.
The fact that part of the fines goes either to the municipality that installed the things or their manufacturer puts them in a conflict of interest, and that is something that must be avoided at all costs. It's not enough that the law is clean, it must also appear clean.

Every lawyer does that. If you have ever called one about this conflict or that the very first question that they ask who you have a conflict with. If they have dealings with that person they will tell you that they cannot take your business. I don't understand why cities think they are exempt.
Andrew Carnegie, Wealth, 1889
I usually don't see blatant communist / class warfare trolling, at least on HN.
I did notice ack is pretty slow and i may try ag but speed isnt a problem here for me i think

btw, heres what ive been using up until now:

alias gerp='grep -riHnT . -e'

and more recently:

alias gerp="find . -type f | perl -lne 'print if -T;' | xargs egrep -riHnT"
Please don't do this!

Especially inside of a python module intended to be imported by others.

There's a very good reason why the defaultencoding is removed from the Python namespace and you have to resort to hackery to access it.

http://ziade.org/2008/01/08/syssetdefaultencoding-is-evil/

You should be handling encode/decode explicitly; not resorting to changing the default system encoding. You will break other consumers.

As the other poster said, just move to Python 3 and stop worrying about this mess.
> If the facility hadn't been completely incompetent in their security, these people would have been stopped at the first fence and not even made the news.

That's like me arguing that if you'd had stronger locks, I would have only been charged with attempted breaking and entering. Going down that route opens the doors to defense arguing in many cases how if the police had arrested people on their first offense in a series, they wouldn't have committed the rest. Heck, just drive 5 miles over the speed limit and say "Hey, if the cops had stopped me, I wouldn't have done X".

> Why were they not immediately charged with such high crimes?

Because the prosecution was fine with letting them off leniently. But they wanted to make a point. Let's not forget that these people did break into and damage a facility that is a part of our national defense. Whatever else you might think, they did that. That they chose not to plead guilty of lesser crimes is their choice.

Why were they not immediately charged with such high crimes? Because the government was trying to be reasonable.
No, I do not believe him. He's lied before and committed perjury. Why should I believe him now?
I think you're example is a good example of how weak the arguments for privacy are. All I see are hyperbolic examples. My favorite ones are where people try to bring up how the lack of privacy lead to horrors like NAZI Germany or Iran as if the US is somehow comparable. And they say "But government can change!". Only in la-la land is the US government going to turn into Iran. No developed country in the past 50 years (even ones where privacy is not considered a god given right) has slipped back in totalitarianism.
Your response makes me wonder if we're even talking about the same issue.

> > It seems to have very little cost.

> Citation needed.

Yes you're right. I should have said "I think it seems to have very little cost".
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Just curious - why is Puppet not on your shortlist?
Because "strengthen international diplomacy and increase cooperation between peoples" is exactly what President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for in 2009.
The danger as I see it is negligible to the average Internet user, until they become a person of interest to someone with the power to use these programs - a journalist say might pursue their work for decades without being interfered with, but with all their correspondence stored, only to find themselves undermined fatally by their actions at the age of 19 when they broke a story which the administration didn't like, decades later. In the same way that Nixon abused surveillance powers to undermine reporters, someone high up in the chain of command could redirect the NSA for their own purposes - if there is no open judicial oversight and no respect for the rule of law, this is inevitable. I wouldn't want to live in a world where that is possible.

What I find disturbing about these tools is that they are far more suited to retrospective analysis, and therefore to discovering dirt on ordinary people and undermining the rule of law, than suited to tracking terrorists (the ostensible aim). They'd be far more useful to someone like Nixon than to someone genuinely concerned with promoting America's interests in the world and stopping terrorist attacks, because those planning serious attacks will simply use other means of communication (as in Bin Laden's use of paper and messengers). In addition to that they are so wide-ranging that the damage and danger caused by them far outweighs any possible benefit.

Also this sort of powerful bureaucracy has a way of ensuring its own survival after it reaches a certain size and power - after all if the NSA hears politicians are planning to shut them down, they might have to take steps to stay in business - a very easy task with tame secret courts rubber-stamping requests and a culture of little respect for the rights of those surveilled. Just a matter of digging up their surveillance on most of congress (who of course have all had contact with foreigners, so fair game), and deciding where to apply leverage. Imagine then someone truly evil in charge of the NSA, and the power they could wield, unfettered by quaint notions of international law or oversight by other branches of government.
I would be shocked if information didn't come out about him that will "discredit" him. More over, I am sure there are laws that if don't flat out make leaks like this a crime, there are laws that can be interpreted in a way as to make a credible enough case against him. That would tie him up in court for years.
He casually nested two "col-lg-6" within a "col-lg-9"

Isn't that a bit of big change? In the past, I don't think we could get two equal size cols filling up a 9.
I was expecting some questions about obscure old school HTML tags and what they were meant for originally. Like others have suggested, maybe rename to cover web languages / browser quirks in general?
This is how we achieve real change, by real heroes like mindcrime standing up and saying blow me. They are sure to fall.
I'm surprised he didn't go directly to Iceland, since that is his ultimate destination, it's neutral and it's possible that the government there would have offered him some safety.
You're aware US Intelligence is behind the development of Tor, right?

I don't think the NSA views itself as a facilitator for "turnkey tyranny", just yet. If you think you're fighting for freedom, then why wouldn't you hire people that feel the same?

Maybe this whole thing will help wake people across all levels of the CIA and the NSA, and there just might be some actual change.

I know, I'm dreaming. But clearly I'm not the only one.
Do you honestly think his employers aren't aware of that fact? LISTEN to what he's trying to say: no one - not even POTUS - is safe from being spied on.
For us it was the realization that our kids did a ridiculous amount of learning before age 4 without school, and we thought free of the distractions of school and prescribed, regimented curriculum, they could continue at that pace.

It turned out they could, and they did.
But clearly not everyone is going to know that. And your second comment, you were clearly talking to people who didn't know it, yet still wrote something that would cause those same people to have to google who that was.
That's a great quote, and articulates something that's been bothering me about the web and why I've increasingly withdrawn from it. I find the web is a great tool for fishing for stimulus to further thought, but at some point I need to get away from it to develop skills in a way that feels slower, but is actually deeper.

To use an office metaphor: it's a great water cooler, but you can't write your report at the water cooler.
Blog spam. No original research - just paraphrasing the Guardian article.
What is the most worrying about the revelation that Edward Snowden was the whistleblower, is that he is a relatively low level employee, especially in respects to security clearances. The material he would be able to get his hands on is just the tip of the iceberg in regards to what the NSA does that we would be outraged over.
``He has had "a very comfortable life" that included a salary of roughly $200,000, a girlfriend with whom he shared a home in Hawaii, a stable career, and a family he loves. "I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."``

Shame on us if we don't act and let this man's sacrifice go to waste.
agreed but that means he probably can't go anywhere outside of certain places in the dc-metro area
Danese is wrong. Ask the other people involved; they don't agree with her.

Almost any copyleft license that Sun could have chosen at the time would have been incompatible with the GPL; and multi-licensing wasn't seen as a viable option.

It's all a moot point now anyway, but I wish some individuals would stop acting like Danese is the sole truthful source on this just because it fits their armchair conspiracy theories.
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Ahhh...fluid vs not fluid:
http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/scaffolding.html
It would be an interesting way to turn this into an international incident. I rather like it for that alone.
I'm replying because terms like "chef", "knife" and "recipe" sometime yield funny results on Google.

Keeping the long story short - it's a configuration management system. Have a look at http://www.opscode.com/chef/
You're making an ad hominem attack. A list of substantive errors and inaccuracies in the article would be more convincing.
You can "prove" almost anything with a sample size of one.
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I agree the parent comment's insinuation of antisemitism was nonsense.

>it's utterly vital for Israeli survival to have the threat of American nuclear reprisal at their beck and call

(1) Why exactly do you think Israel has US support at their beck and call? I can tell you Israelis definitely don't think so. (2) Why does Israel need it, when - following the collapse of the USSR which was the main lifeline of other Mideast forces - it now has the most powerful military in the region? and (3) Israel has its own nukes since the '60s.

American support for Israel started only in the early '70s, after Israel proved itself a useful asset by winning the Six Day War, without any US support and as counterbalance for the USSR support of Arab nations. Israel is one of very few nations in the world (certainly the western world) which the US didn't have to send its military to protect at some point.
I think, perhaps, that the problem with terrorism is that the distribution of terrorism event impacts is likely heavy-tailed -- i.e., the probability of one "black swan" event (nuclear, biological, chemical) is higher than a normal distribution model of event impacts would suggest.

But, to me, this means that the national security apparatus should be exclusively focused on reducing the probability of those most-terrible events, and instead leave the small-scale stuff to standard law enforcement. I.e., if the # of deaths is almost certainly < 200 (say), normal law enforcement procedures apply. If more than 500, then every resource can and should be brought to bear to prevent it.
Do I need a warrant to get Obama's data for my data analysis project?
300k manuscripts were saved from rebels in Timbuktu, but now face a slow death
Cells certainly don't have "new physics". But chemistry is the manifold interactions of well understood physics - look up what we're currently studying there to get a sense of the scale of those permutations.
A global ban of US technologies might be coming.
I was surprised he didn't do this interview from Iceland... I don't think he is going to find a non-stop flight from Hong Kong to Reykjavik without it being privately chartered...
> Permissive open-source licenses (MIT, BSD, etc.) are GPL-compatible.

I guess I have a problem characterizing them that way since the traffic is going to be purely one-way. The GPL code can't be used by the projects with more permissive licenses without some kind of dual licensing, can it?
The Ikea Effect -- People tend to think the work they've created is more awesome than it actually is.
By the way, since it is perhaps an underrepresented voice in this community, I don't mind saying that I am still a Christian, and if/when I have kids I hope they come to the same faith, since I believe it's the most important decision they can make in life (and after -- heyyyo).

But I wouldn't homeschool them for this reason.

Being (or in the case of kids who were raised in a Christian household, remaining) a Christian is and always has been a personal choice, and to implicitly undermine this by trying to ingrain Christianity into somebody is ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst.
Hah, well, urm, this isn't quite finished yet, hence it being all broken in lots of browsers.

I guess I should have made this a private repo :D
I just want to comment that this is the most moving video I've seen since Obama's nomination to the Democratic ticket as a presidential candidate.

The irony of that is not lost on me.
The one we have here in Sweden have recovered quite a bit since the lowest lows, but it still isn't above 2.0 per woman.
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1. He went out of his way to obtain that information because there's no point being a whistle blower without having some evidence to back up your claims.

2. He's a college drop out, not a high school drop out (or at least that how it reads to me - a non-US citizen. I may have misunderstood how your education system works). Also, his family also works for government agencies, so that probably added weight to his application.

3. Because of the secrecy of his job and the clearance he had. It doesn't sound to me like he was your typical sysadmin.

4. He actually addressed that one himself: On May 20, he boarded a flight to Hong Kong, where he has remained ever since. He chose the city because "they have a spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent", and because he believed that it was one of the few places in the world that both could and would resist the dictates of the US government.

I can actually sympathize with your skepticism there. Some bits of his story does sound quite hard to swallow. But on the whole I'd say his story seems more plausible than made up. Personally I find it less likely that the US government aren't recording and monitoring that amount of traffic, even if the whistle blower does turn out to be a hoax. And I'm sure many other "democratic" counties are doing the same as well. We've seen how the content industry can basically buy police time and have servers taken unlawfully (in the case of Kim Dotcom) - so I'd be astonished if the government themselves didn't have even further reaching powers.

edit: I really wish you hadn't deleted your comment because while some of the questions had already been answered in the Guardians report, you did raise some worthwhile points. I just hope it wasn't kneejerk down-voters that made you choose to delete your comment (as such voting -in my opinion- hinders discussion)
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> I clarified that I mean at CIA

No matter if you're CIA, Google, or Facebook, you're still competing against each other to find competent sysadmins from the same pool of limited applicants. When a promising applicant finally lands in your hands, you don't dismiss him just because he doesn't have a piece of paper.

> That's not a surprising figure to me, but $200k is

That's a nice perk, along with Hawaii relocation isn't it. It's basically a little something to make his life so comfortable that when the decision to be a whistle-blower is being measured, the amenities are a factor in the equation against it.
How else to change a companies ethics and culture if not from the inside?
Because not all people get all cancers. There are a lot of different types of cancer. If you get really really lucky, you get a benign tumor which can just be cut out and is pretty much gone forever.

A lot of people, and Mr Banks...not so much.
China is one of the very few countries that has enough power, especially over the US, to be able not to cooperate if they don't want to and it is reasonable to expect that they might not.

Furthermore Hong Kong specifially is somewhat independent from China when it comes to oppression.

I also wouldn't be surprised, if a NSA analyst with that clearance level travelling to Iceland would raise a couple of red flags.
Home schooling was the education hack before hacking things was a thing.
I think this is misleading. I now believe that the NSA has the private keys for substantially all SSL certs in use, and I expect that a non-trivial percentage of Tor nodes are run by the government.

SSL certs require cooperation of a trusted registrar even for the biggest companies -- Google's is signed by Equifax, for example. Given what we've seen in the last few days, requesting keys from the root CAs is a no-brainer.

For Tor, a bunch of attacks are possible by owning only a small percentage of all nodes. Recently, Tor was issuing a "call for relays" due to a dwindling number of participants that was endangering the network. Considering that Tor came out of Navy research, if you don't think they have a statistically interesting number of nodes, you're crazy. If they don't, it's only because they don't think that Tor is an interesting source right now.

TL;DR: Security depends on your threat model, and while I think that Tor and HTTPS provide strong protection from run-of-the-mill attackers, I don't think that either provides meaningful security if you're worried about the NSA.
These camps are not the same as state sponsored execution.