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I don't think that I explained well enough.

The number "specified" may be less than those information is provided on in the resulting report. "All devices in the US" does not specify any devices but it includes rather a lot.

In a more limited way a request for a specific users details could also include traffic information about first level contacts (and possibly more - try seven degrees and see how few requests you can make to get all the company's details).

Now a plain reading of "all the devices in America" would suggest that it specified millions of devices but the NSA like their wordplay and they might only mean when specific devices are requested rather than included in another request.

Note that Yahoo doesn't mention the number of accounts specified. Possibly they thought that might be too misleading.

[1] http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/53243441454/our-commitment-to-o...
Interesting that hackers instead of working or reading HN are very interested in fighting over the board (ie: gray color people try to erase it, pink color try to draw a board, and blue color trying to play the game...)
Ask HN: Freelancers, do you find the Elance services agreement reasonable?
I was just reading the Elance services agreement [1] when I came upon this paragraph:

9.Indemnification
Contractor will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Client against any damage, cost, loss or expense arising from a claim, suit or proceeding brought against Client (i) alleging that any Work Product infringes upon any Intellectual Property Rights, (ii) alleging that any Work Product misappropriates any trade secrets, of any third party, or (iii) arising from Contractor's breach of the terms of this Agreement.

I find this highly worrisome because my understanding of it is that if a client I did work for is sued for IP infringement, even if no IP infringement occurs, I need to pay for the client's defense. This is just one example of many possible scenarios under the terms above.

I.e. if I did mobile apps and a client of mine got harassed by a patent troll and the client wanted to settle, I would have to pay the settlement on behalf of the client.

Do you find this risk worthwhile? Why do you accept it? Do you charge more, to be able to mitigate this risk?

[1] https://www.elance.com/p/legal/independent-contractor-services-agreement.pdf
The biggest component of espionage is always industrial espionage.
This has always been their plan. They tried this with the original Macintosh and it's successors. Up until now the PC market was growing too fast for them to get away with it. Now with the "Post-PC era" they're giving it another shot. I think it's an interesting idea, each external peripheral does one thing well. It reflects their current advertising and their product lines.
I think it is having some good explanation about directives in AngularJs than in original documentation.
In that case this isn't journalism but propaganda (even if its the good kind). Lobbyists do the same thing yet we all hate them for it, these guys shouldn't get a free pass and get to call it journalism if they aren't portraying both sides.

Edit: fixed mobile typos
Do you reckon a machine could have a sensor that made it feel emotional pain when it thought about other machines feeling emotional pain, because they lost a machine that they were close to through an extreme level of physical pain?
The point is that even quadrupled, the number is so low, it's a drop in the bucket for the government.
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Yeah, I had the same experience, but in my case it was pretty negative actually. My fiancé went to the mac store with me looking to buy a mbp and while i was perusing accessories etc... mostly wandering around the store, she struck up a conversation with a sales guy. The sales guy's read was "this girl needs much less than she thinks" and he proceeded to try to downsell her to an air. Now I'm sure the air works just fine, but in her case, she's a web dev and works with video editing in her spare time. Not absurd to want a mbp. Anyway, the guy just thought GIRL = Macbook Air. No further analysis needed. Only when I showed up and talked to the guy did he back off... We talked about how strange it was that we needed to strong arm a salesman into paying more. Truly hard selling us on less. It was downright offensive for him to read her so poorly on account of her gender and it put us off. Not that it's changed my fan-boi status...
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Not to delve too deeply into a political debate, but I think a counter-point is fair:

1. Those elected officials are not elected by everyone - in the case of GWB's first term (which many probably think of in this military context) it wasn't even a majority that elected him.

2. Those that do elect officials have a very small choice (lets say 2-3 people who could practically be elected). Further, I'd argue that most only vote on a few key issues, while the elected official has dominion over a vast number of issues.

I don't hold citizens as not at all responsible, but I think its at least fair to argue (in the above context) that the elected officials bear more responsibility - and blame - than the everyday citizen.
Care to explain why you don't consider Haddad and PT (the Workers Party) leftists? I totally disagree.
The "other" metrics are customer satisfaction and volume of AppleCare attached. No wonder these very metrics define the behavior described by the OP.
Let's not forget that moving to thunderbolt actually makes the whole machine MORE expandable, because of daisy-chaining.

An existing computer may have something like 5 PCIe slots. That's your limit. But with these thunderbolt ports, you can hook up 6 devices per port. 5 PCIe cards vs a potential of 36? I really don't see how the new Mac Pro is less extendable.

In addition, now that there is no CD Drive, there's no longer any reason why this tower needs to sit where you do. You could theoretically have 40ft Thunderbolt cables drive your displays, and the computer can be neatly stowed away in another room, and just the interfaces (like these cool looking RME devices) and other monitors and editing equipment can stay on your desk.

When it comes time to upgrade, you just replace the "brain", and hook up all the cables to it.
> Whichever square he picks, that’s the board you must play in next.

And what about the dual of this game, where whichever board you pick determines the square he plays next?
The Orwin Gambit actually doesn't go quite so far as to force the win, however if you forget about filling that last center and instead go for a corner, then you can continue to force them back to the same corner over and over. So the Gambit is fallible, but if you back it up one step, it can continue the force to the inevitable win.
But if you investigate something and a new suspect emerges, you want to hear and analyze his calls in the past, don't you? And how can you achieve this if not by collecting all phone calls?
Heh. I thought it was going to be a golang command that I sorely needed. Nice tip, though, for bash command line users.
Your nazi detector is carefully planted in you by the media. They try to turn off immune system of the nations this way.

History is always being written by the winners.
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If activists want a potential mass audience, facebook is an essential part of of that.

Well, why not clear it through an individual that will put it up there so that the private dealings of everyone else won't leak?
My Creeping Concern that Edward Snowden is not who he Purports to be…
The recent history of Hungary is very sad, and we must remember also that it was also a model in education in the past and the best minds, including John von Neumann, came from Hungary.
The list on Wikipedia is illustrative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hungarians

For a quick overview of the Hungarian history I recommend the film Sunshine (1999): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145503/
You think NSA can really fix their budget issues by stealing funds from your ample bank account?
'If I had to wager money on what future societies would condemn us for, I'd bet a lot on our treatment of animals.'

This. Times a thousand.

Paul Graham's article "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" has this quote, which I love:

"One of my tricks for generating startup ideas is to imagine the ways in which we'll seem backward to future generations. And I'm pretty sure that to people 50 or 100 years in the future, it will seem barbaric that people in our era waited till they had symptoms to be diagnosed with conditions like heart disease and cancer."

When I look to the future and imagine what will seem backwards, two of the big things in my mind are what PG mentions and what you mention.
Napkin math sure, but not at its worst. It's just an very rough estimation with explanations for numbers given and not claiming to be exact. I think the most valuable lesson here is that it's likely to be in the ballpark of millions of dollars and that in theory its possible to do it for $27.2 million.
I find this a bit ironic because the future of the web is a free self-organizing darknet. Someday data that users wish to share will be stored cryptographically in a true "cloud" sort of like bitcoin, and I'm not really sure what the value of facebook will be in an environment like that. Maybe the ability to store things temporarily or delete them somehow?

Facebook seems to connect you to anything except the future..
I'm curious to know what you think is in Rails that isn't in asp.net.
I didn't mean that brain made up of silicon cannot be conscious. We are trying to simulate whatever we have learned about the brain. And that understanding is not complete. So implementing that in silicon (circuit) will not be conscious until we figure how to implement it.
Adblock plus already handles Ads. Ghostery is for TRACKING. Your focus here is misguided. The whole point about Ghostery is: they want to collect data about the whole industry, which industry people want. So they design Ghostery to collect that data and have an opt-in anonymous feedback to them.

You can see that they are not trying to block the ads because the ability to block new trackers by default is absent from the setup wizard. You have to go to the advanced settings via the separate plugin settings to get that.

Again, Ghostery doesn't collect your personal browsing history unless you opt-in. The fact that it is proprietary means we can't absolutely verify this, which is a concern. But assuming it is as they say, it is much less an issue than you make it out to be.

And again TRACKING is a different beast than what the form of the ad we see is.
If you're a stickler for language, then yes. The word "can(not)" refers to the ability, while the words "may (not)" or "must (not)" refer to a policy constraint rather than ability.

But in common vernacular, the word "can" is used in both cases, so it's ambiguous.

"Mom, can I play on the Xbox now?" "No, you haven't finished your homework." Obviously Junior has the ability to play, but his mom won't allow him to do so.
I don't think external GPUs are part of Apple's plan. The GPU comes inside the Mac, and if you want to upgrade it you can buy a new Mac.
Dan Pollock's list of abusive IP addresses is useful for this (updated a bit more often than weekly):

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
There's a way to prevent the Orlin gambit. Allow the player with the last three in row to take another turn.

This creates a means of alternating who goes first.

I'm not sure whether this gives too much advantage to the other player or not.
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I think the point here is that its not some ridiculously huge number, like $100 billion. It is feasible for the NSA to actually store a substantial percentage of US phone calls if they wanted.
I would be delighted to see a book on Flask.

While most of my work is in Django, there are times I use Flask. And... while Flask is simple enough there are times it would be nice to have a go-to reference for common tasks.
There's a question of "which people?" Sure, there are some cases where people will want their own OSes / images / kernels. But there's also a huge group of "people" who would prefer to make the whole issue of "image" disappear. They're more happy to deploy to heroku / dotcloud / something similar where they can have the NoOps environment.

And for those providers secure containers will have a much lower overhead than full blown virtual machines.
+1 for the extinction of cards and slots.

One of the most nerve-wracking moments of my (former) life as a recording engineer was installing a brand new Pro Tools card into a brand new Mac Pro at Aereosmith's studio. For whatever reason, the fit was way tighter than normal and I literally had to put some of my body weight over the thing to get it to slide in. All the while, just wondering how I was going to explain to Joe Perry that I had snapped a $6k Pro Tools card in half. Luckily, I didn't have to.
A user-guided force layout and the algorithmic check would be fine aesthetically if it were implemented well. For one thing, it would bring more attention to the mathematical abstraction by removing an unnecessary degree of freedom.

Seems like the sort of thing that some clever hacker could put together in a d3 fiddle.
I wound up doing this myself, after spending an undue amount of time struggling with a morass of insanely written Javascript. Fiddler proved indispensable for observing the actual interaction with the web server.
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I think that the larger your project gets, the more Haskell will prove to be a win compared to other languages. The value of Haskell's type system in aiding the management and maintenance of large codebases is difficult to overstate.
That would seem very expensive.
Fair enough. But it's incompatible with the claim made in the article - that cryptography is science and not engineering. It can be both. In fact, it's likely that it will split to two disciplines in future, much like probability and statistics.

Cryptography reminds me of cellular automata in that both are made up concepts that you can have lots of fun with, if you enjoy that kind of thing. I prefer CA because of its visual nature.
Agree with them that it is very likely that animals have conscious experience, I believe it to most likely be the case as well.

But it seems irresponsible, and possibly self-serving for the NCC research crowd, to escalate this evidence to the level of proof on consciousness in animals. There is just no way to know what it is like to be any creature other than yourself. It seems reasonable to assume other humans with the same anatomy and physiology, with whom we can communicate extensively, are also likely conscious. But we just can't ever tell what the experience is like to be any other creature.

Signing a such a statement smacks of an attempt at bullying policy with scientific credentials. This is bad because then in other areas, such as global warming, it gives opponents with ulterior motives fodder for claiming scientists shouldn't be trusted since they are prone to the same irrational belief systems as other people.

It would be better to present their story for mainstream consumption with an attitude of Isn't this a compelling story? Maybe even educate people and attract people to the field of neuroscience in the process. But claiming they've figured it out and we all need to get on board will only have negative repercussions.
NPR Planet Money has a great episode on the history of car dealerships: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...

Basically, everyone in this thread is right.

- Local dealerships were originally founded because in the 1920s, cars were big/expensive and hard to move around the country. Cars needed a lot of repairs, so local dealers to service them made sense.

- During the Great Depression, car manufacturers continued to make cars despite no one buying them. So they forced dealerships to purchase cars, or else get banned from selling their brand ever again (effectively terminating the business, obviously bad if you have loans and other capital investments). This was before overseas competition from Japanese/Korean manufacturers existed, so losing your contract to Ford meant you were pretty sunk.

- Dealerships fought back by getting legislation passed to protect them legally, slowly granting more power to the dealerships over time. Now the balance of power is far, far on the side of dealers - manufacturers cannot shut down dealerships, cannot control who runs them, must provide cars to dealers even if they are in poorly profitable areas, cannot tell the dealers what to sell, no real way to incentive dealers to not be "car salesmen" assholes, etc etc.
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Altruism is not a required part of the explanation.
> Hiding everything inside of the beautiful box keeps it pretty, so I've never really understood why Apple loves external devices so much more than internal.

If you mean this criticism in regards to the Mac Pro, expansion cards usually have cables coming out of them as well, so the Mac Pro is no different from traditional desktops in that regard. SSD on PCI is obviously an exception here, but that's a relative newcomer.

As far as laptop computers, the reason you have a dock and others don't is that you purchased a dock, and the others didn't. So perhaps the Apple users you know care less about aesthetics than you think they do.
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This really reminds me of the original iMac. When it came out, USB devices were pretty rare, but this got better pretty quickly, especially regarding printers. Firewire wasn't as successful. Although, if I understand correctly, you can just hook up an external PCI-express bay via thunderbolt, so you don't really need special hardware (like e.g. USB audio devices). So apart from the usual series of external hard drives, you'll probably find a few expansion bays docket to your central ash tray.

But given the additional power bricks, wires and boxes you need for this, it seems they're optimizing for the non-extended situation and/or want to give their other computers equal footing.
How is Israel threatening your country?
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> I came here meaning to be all snarky and cynical. I was going to say there's no way Apple trained him to do that, and they'd probably fire him when they caught on to what he was doing.

And now for the real challenge: Figure out why you were convinced that there was no way that was true. I know you won't actually do this, who has the time? But it's worth considering nonetheless.
it is not free?

edit: Apparently it is free. Your website is incredible confusing and misleading. I read through it, saw the "Pay what you want" bit. Entered 0$ but nothing happened, no new button or something. So I assumed it was not available for free. I also did not see what browsers were supported.

I only found out that it works for Firefox on Github. That is also where I saw the GPL. And then I got curious what the "Get Disconnect" button might have done so I returned and clicked. And to my surprise it gave me an extension installation prompt...

The UI of the extension is completely opaque to me. What is "secure Wi-Fi"? I am not using Wi-Fi. What means "secure search"? No mouseover tips and https://disconnect.me/d2/help helps me nothing. I am not even sure what the things are that page talks about.

What are the Facebook, Google+ and Twitter counters/buttons for? I am not using those sites and I thought your extension would block their tracking. Why does it reload the current page if I click on those buttons?

I loaded a random page. There is a 8 on the DM icon but if I extend the dropdown it just shows 1 Analytics item. In the list that item has a ticked checkmark. Does that mean it is allowed? I do not want that tracker allowed. I thought you blocked automatically?

Please consider having a feature stop and work on the UI next. Right now I could not recommend this to my most technically versed friends because I am not understanding it myself.
According to this article (https://sumanrs.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/youtube-yearly-cost...), about 76 petabytes is stored to Youtube per year. (calculated from the released info, that "one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second."). So Petabytes/day is probably doable for them.
Yeah, Seattle's real estate market has really heated up just in the last year or so, like a 20% gain. Mostly because MSFT, AMZN, and GOOG have created so many new jobs here, and there's been almost no new home construction since 2007.

Still, like a quarter of the houses on the market are short sales though.
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Just to put such claims in perspective, people are currently struggling a lot to build reasonably accurate models of single neurons. We are at least decades away from simulations of any value even of rats. People who claim otherwise are the ones that haven't seen any actual biology...
Writing on FB using Tor kind of defeats the purpose, no?
It's not a joke. It's life. Get on it.
It's safe to assume these kinds of estimates are "order of magnitude" estimates, meaning they could be off by a factor of 2 or more. The goal isn't to build your own system or to bill the government, it's to put the numbers in perspective. Case in point: if you had asked me if phone recording cost closer to 10 billion dollars or 100 million dollars I would have guessed 10 billion; now I know better.

Being able to quickly do order of magnitude estimates (especially in your head) is a very important skill IMO. I've heard McKinsey makes it part of their interview process.
The comedians I names are among the better known, and are just given as current examples. There are others, including those who spoof the news (the Yes Men for example), or who would critique it (George Carlin, Lenny Bruce).

The more general point is that humor can sweeten the bitter pill of truth.
Because it isn't necessary for the future they envision. It's like including a DVD drive on a laptop: some people might use it now, but it's very clearly on the way out.

Apple generally make these decisions before it's very clear what direction the industry is heading.

Their decision here is to position the Mac Pro as a tiny, powerful computing hub that has the bandwidth and controllers necessary to drive a crazy amount of professional hardware at high speed.

This unifies their products relative to external accessories (if everything is Thunderbolt, you can plug your hardware into your laptop when required). It also lets them stay focused on making the best 'pro' computing hub they can build. (That it also happens to be quiet and small is a very nice plus.)

Edit: That said, who knows whether this is the right direction for the pro industry.
Or inject an exploit into the stream and compromise the system being used to view it.
This is what I said about gravatar when it first came out, the ad networks/analytics software are just obvious.
No. You lost the initiative (the ability to force their next move) when you sent them to an open board.
When these "scientists" can get lions to stop eating gazelles, I'll stop eating cows, chickens, and fish.

That being said, I am concerned about how animals are treated during their lifetime.
Napkin math still gets a ballpark notion.

Let's compute an outer limit: record everyone, all the time, CD quality.

44100 samples per second * 2 bytes per sample * 2 channels * 60 seconds per minute * 60 minutes per hour * 24 hours per day * 365 days per year * 313900000 people * $100 per terabyte / 1 terabyte = $175 billion per year. That's an absolute outer limit for cost.

That's less than 5% of federal budget, and we haven't started on the obvious ways to cut costs by several orders of magnitude. Reduce it to 4410 samples/sec, 1 byte per sample, 1 channel, 1/10th the time and we're already under $0.5B/yr, without even addressing audio compression (much less voice-to-text).