skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google assuredly gets info, just not from the user. There aren't any google requests from Firebug's net tab, either, so perhaps you are mistaken.
They already have expanded outside of the development community.

https://github.com/Chicago
The Guardian's original story http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-n... really does seem to be specifically claiming NSA root access or the equivalent:

> When the FAA was first enacted, defenders of the statute argued that a significant check on abuse would be the NSA's inability to obtain electronic communications without the consent of the telecom and internet companies that control the data. But the Prism program renders that consent unnecessary, as it allows the agency to directly and unilaterally seize the communications off the companies' servers.

As soon as people suggested that "collection directly from the servers" actually meant a FISA workflow-automation system involving an API and maybe dropbox servers, Glenn Greenwald indignantly denied, or maybe didn't understand, the possibility that the companies' statements could actually be compatible with the PRISM document https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/343421926057861121 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/343422182589870081 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/343423399609131008 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/343423727066824705 . Meanwhile both the Washington Post and the Guardian started backing down from the NSA-has-root idea. The paragraph WaPo added to its original story

> It is possible that the conflict between the PRISM slides and the company spokesmen is the result of imprecision on the part of the NSA author. In another classified report obtained by The Post, the arrangement is described as allowing “collection managers [to send] content tasking instructions directly to equipment installed at company-controlled locations,” rather than directly to company servers.

plus the later story it printed http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-com... both help to make clear that the Post did intend its original PRISM story to be understood as NSA-has-root.
My usual supermarket used to have a video rental section, and during the mid-90s they also rented PC games on CD-ROM.

They stopped doing before the days of CD keys being required for multiplayer, but right around the time that hard disks got big and cheap enough that you could just copy the contents of the CD to your HD and then bring back the CD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-state#Historical_examples_...
In my memory it never relied on both parties hanging up here in New Zealand, but on a trip to the UK as as child I noticed that the phone line disconnecting relied on both parties hanging up. I'm 31.
[apropos nothing, but since you're official, the linked page uses "unilaterally" in an odd way (to mean "uniformly"). imho. afaict. etc.]
I believe that the staffers of many elected representatives typically count the number of constituents who were agitated enough even to send a form letter.

Think of it like a poll. Would you make the claim that politicians are willing to write off people who respond to polls just because they all answer the same question or the question isn't somehow the "right" one? Probably not.

Of course, it's not a poll because people self-select. But even still, if the report to the representative says "this week, we had 37 letters about gun control and 43,742 about surveillance", well, it's clear what the politician wants to say that he or she is doing something about when he or she next sees a reporter.
One rule of thumb I've discovered: Whenever you say "why not X?", where "X" is some nonstandard construction, the answer is "because X is horribly broken in ways you can't even imagine".
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As with anything else, it depends on what you wish to achieve.

For FPGA programming it worked great.
LabView by design is fully parallel, which is exactly what you want in this case: it's like having 1000s of small, independent CPUs. With VHDL it took an order of magnitude more time to achieve the same.
Also it was easy with LV to tweak the low level details until everything fits in the 3M or so gates available.

Other use case would be when the customers of your app are only engineers who know LabView. They (might) accept the limitations in exchange of quick tweaking here or there.

For anything else I would avoid LV. Larger projects are very hard to maintain, the declarative programming will scare most of the developers away and I could not find any advantage over mainstream programming languages.
OR I rarely pay more than $1 for a phone game, and get a lot more cynical when I'm forking out +$50 for something that often has less replay-ability to the $1 game...

And by mine you mean 'ours' right? because a huge issue being discussed here is people sharing games, its not a individual issue, its a community issue.
The poor schmuck in rural Nebraska with 25kb service won't be able to play the Xbox One period- MS has already proposed a min speed of 1.5mbps. And if you are in an area (like pretty much most of the US and the majority of the rest of the world) where your service goes down periodically for more than 24 hours, you will be locked out of playing any games while it is offline. Or if MS gets hacked like Sony and their network goes down for an extended period (at least PS3 owners could still play offline!). Or when MS decides to abandon the platform ad turn off the servers... no pulling out your old Xbox One to play some classic games (I still have an old Atari I like to play occasionally!). Or if you have to cancel your Internet for a few months to catch up on the bills or while moving you have to wait a few days to get you Internet turned on- there are so many points of failure in this fiasco. As a (former) Xbox fan and advocate, I won't be going anywhere near this one.
How the Xbox One lost me, and then won me back with 24-Hour DRM.
The thing is I really don't see Sony as being on the "wrong side of history" though since they are still having day-one downloads of all titles. They are just fully supporting both models (traditional discs and one-copy-per-user digital downloads) rather than forcing everyone into one. They are literally doing everything that MS is doing with digital, yet still having discs (and therefore offline play) as an option.
I've always envisioned an encrypted system where only people you've authorized can decrypt things you share, assuming you haven't let your keys leak. Users area defined by a key-pair. But I really hope people get used to the idea that you can't control where information goes once it's in the wild, otherwise the social Internet will be nothing but pain.
I don't understand. So you can make side bets in real time with others who choose to do so. The point is that those who choose not to do so don't have to compete on millisecond scale response times to news postings.
I guess he was referring to the ddg bot answering your questions over XMPP.
"No sir. Not wittingly."

WTF is that! Synonymous with "No sir. Mostly." These weasel words are ridiculous, and the fact that they stand up in a congressional hearing, is mind-boggling.
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Hold on. Are you saying that being on the side of freedom, privacy and government transparency is now "subversive?" Where did America go?
Where privacy is the enemy? Really?
Intro to PhantomJS and CasperJS (2012)
It reads as though the performance problem was one of AWS vs Redis (or any other database). The noisy neighbor problem sounds difficult (impossible?) to tune for.
And how is that supposed to help?
Which is why we need to repeal the 17th amendment.
What to do when you've made someone angry
Actually, I really like UML; I especially like swimlanes. Of course it doesn't make sense for every design but I find that 12 months later, a map to what I was thinking during the original design is invaluable.
The only thing politicians really care about is their ability to get elected. That is something we need to target in a threatening way.
Wow, seems the hiring standards over at MS are lower than I thought. I read through all of that and it mostly sounded like ramblings of someone on the verge of a nuclear mind meltdown.

There were a few good points the anonymous poster made about the advantages of non-physical media like no scratches or brothers/friends losing your discs, people just aren't ready to have a mostly medium-less console. It works for an iPhone or eBook reader, but a console is something that is synonymous with physical mediums.

"Well, if you want the @#$@ing from Gamestop, go play PS4." — we don't have a Gamestop here in Australia but I presume Electronic Boutique is basically the same and while sometimes you get reamed on trade-ins, chances are if you are trading in, you don't care how much you are getting because you're parting with the game anyway.

If XBOX One games are cheaper as a result of the lock-in console DRM, then Microsoft might have a worthy advantage in the fanboy fight against Sony. But we all know games won't be cheaper (especially new and exclusive titles).

I think the problem with the whole digital vs physical debate is that bandwidth is an ongoing cost (especially if you go over). Although my Internet plan gives me 500gb of bandwidth a month (times that by the 5 people currently in my house who love downloading TV shows and movies a lot) and a digital game is chewing up bandwidth left-right and centre.
Same as the other reply. I'm using Unicorn behind Nginx. Sidekiq is eating the biggest chunk of my memory too, and I haven't tried tuning it yet. Haven't "needed" to.
>"how much of that signal are they (a) storing indefinitely, (b) DPI or SSL decrypting, and (c) merely keyword analyzing.

I think this probably nails it - but in reverse order:

They peel a stream off, keyword analyze it - in conjunction with other weights (i.e. who is talking, to whom, between where, what medium, when (i.e. the meta data)) and then they store the key ones.

If I am talking to my Grandma, the drop it. If I am talking to an unknown number in [foreign country] they test for keywords, if any are hits - they store it and add more meta-data.

I mean - the whole thing is what I understood the Mythical Project Echelon to be -- but there was never any concrete evidence of Echelon to the degree that it was rumored to be, until now.

Now we know that they definitely trap any packet they can wrangle.

The tech side of HOW they are seeing everything is inconsequential to the fact that they ARE seeing everything crossing the pipes.
I should probably make a throw-away for this comment but whatever, as much as it hurts to admit it:

I kind of like windows 8.
Okay, not to put anyone off crypto, as it's really really important, but the one rule everyone needs to remember: Use the current best practices for each situation, don't make up your own crypto.

This usually means "use whatever is in OpenSSL, Keyczar, etc", that's what it's for.
Heh, I was wondering if that might get noticed. :)

On the one hand, don't take my word for it; I also have not found anyone I trust who has verified my explanation directly. On the other hand, I did do my best to read the primary sources very carefully, both for what they say and what they don't say, and I was confident enough to implement more conventionally strong ciphers on the services I'm responsible for, so my money is where my metaphorical mouth is.
In that case he could have planned everything in a much better way. He could have gone to a much safer place such as a European country like Iceland or Sweden or he could have simply got lost in the crowd in India.
Indefinite Detention Of Americans Survives House Vote
Most Congresspeople clearly remember this famous email retention incident
Wait, really? What are we including in "US newspaper industry?" Also, source?
Do you have any idea what sort of things PL researchers study?
Malaria killed 660,000 people last year alone, with 219,000,000 cases. From the WHO 2012 Malaria Report:

> Between 2000 and 2010, malaria mortality rates fell by 26% around the world. In the WHO African Region the decrease was 33%. During this period, an estimated 1.1 million malaria deaths were averted globally, primarily as a result of a scale-up of interventions. [1]

Malaria is a far bigger problem than e-waste. I'd suggest that you are the one with the backwards priorities, not the BMGF (though I disagree with some of their methodology, their goal makes a lot more sense than "eliminating e-waste" would).

[1]: http://www.who.int/malaria/publications/world_malaria_report...
Motivation? In other words, a focus on market share seems to me like it's a much more selfish thing, and that Sony is perhaps only going in the direction that they are because they perceive that it will be better for their bottom line in the long run and not because they care whether or not their customers are happy. It's hard to see how they would not be the same thing, but at the same time I think there is an argument to be made that there have been times that Sony have done things that decreased consumer happiness (e.g. removing the ability to install Linux on the PS3) which did not have a particularly adverse effect on their market share (how many people actually stopped using PS3 or decided not to buy one when Sony made this decision? I do not actually know the answer, so my argument might be way off base, but I had the impression that it was some insignificantly small number).
To my knowledge, the BRCA1 mature mRNA sequence has not been shown to be reverse-transcribed during any part of the life cycle of any retrovirus.
Sony will have digital sales too. But that doesn't mean they will neet to put restrictions on Disc Based transactions. If steam selled Disc Based games I very much doubt they would adopt the same model.
There is no such thing as "the market" to time market opens and closes around. For instance the S&P futures contract which is impacted by this is only closed from 4pm-5pm. You can trade equities on several platforms during this time.
> Not a very helpful way to express the advice; if you tell people "don't hash secrets" the natural interpretation is "send them in the clear".

Yeah, a better title would be "Don't just hash secrets."
since most people probably haven't heard about it, I would say it is..
And have the majority voting for what ever is pushed on Fox news?

Direct democracy can only ever work when a significant majority of the population is well educated and engaged in the process of government. Anything else and they will vote for what every makes their immediate lives more palatable.

It is very rare for somebody to make a decision that will make life more difficult in the short term in anticipation of the greater good in the long term.

The whole point of representative democracy is that our representatives are supposed to be wiser than the majority of the public, and therefore be able to make the difficult decisions on behalf of the people, whilst understanding that the people themselves may not, due to self interest, be able to make those decisions themselves.

Even in Ancient Greece, the bastion of all things democratic, only a very small part of the population were able to vote. You had to be a landholder with a fair amount of money. Sound familiar?

I would love to live in a world where individuals were able to take the long view and vote based on the greater good. Unfortunately we are a long way from that. What we have, whilst suffering form increasing influence from well funded interests, is the best that the world has seen.
You can turn that on/off in the settings dialog, essentially it is meant to hide the search queries from the target website.
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Comrades! Only enemies of the United States of America would ever sign a petition like this, and thus so such enemies should be rightly targeted for increased scrutiny given their increased risk of threat to the state.
It's not just metadata – the NSA is getting everything
Nice work on pulling this off!

One could question, who would want maps on github? Sometimes one cannot know what something can be used to until being able to actually use it, that should be the whole point on technology.
On a tablet or desktop?

I have it on a desktop and every affordance it makes for tablets and touch interaction is annoying to me. And its desktop UI is ugly.

It is fast though.
"literally" :)

and yes, agreed - analogous on so many levels - a publicly admitted places where secret government things happen, which can be invoked to give an aura of reality to conspiracy theories true and false alike.
The problem is that Facebook, like the www, succeeds because it is not a private platform, it is mostly public, and it has arrived near ubiquity. This is a feature, not a bug, as they say. It seems to me that encryption is totally incompatible with these two aspects. Unless I'm missing something...
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Last I read, storage capacity per dollar has been increasing faster than Moore's Law over the last decade or so.

I tracked down what appears to be the origin of these yottabyte claims: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/nov/05/whos-in...

Based on that, it sounds like the yottabyte claims refer to raw, unprocessed data collected. Off the bat, I'm willing to believe in a 2 orders of magnitude decrease after data reduction techniques are applied to the raw data. My experience with data collected from telescopes was that we got about 100:1 reduction on the raw data versus what went into permanent storage.

The San Antonio site was news to me, though obviously no big secret since that book was published years ago.
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I guess what this highlights is a big opportunity for developers willing to invest some time in growing markets. The recent apple film "Making a difference one app at a time" highlights this. Most of the apps look incredibly simple to make, but because they serve a purpose in the markets they target, they take off in a big way.

The video that apple posted can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtP6ZQ6Lt8
I know Italy's fuck-ups were a pain in the ass for the nazis, but did it bother Japan much? (honest question, not rhetorical)
Great post, Dan - really well written.

Personally I'm still conflicted about using so many different classes for different breakpoints, but I'm finding that the whole "No grid for < tablet portrait" isn't always the best solution.

Quick heads up, the responsive mixin is missing a bracket:

@include respond-to(small-mode) {

For anyone out there using Rock Hammer, here's that mixin converted to work with Malarkey's breakpoint controls (also with my own custom breakpoint sizing comments, feel free to remove):

https://gist.github.com/iamtyce/5778876
Just as an aside, I usually see LMGTFY as a snarky, condescending way to send people in the right direction with some chiding for not searching for themselves.

Your post suggests just the opposite, as you seem genuinely happy to help and point people to the blog. Why didn't you just link to your blog rather than the LMGTFY?

Maybe my cynicism detector is tweaked too high today. Congrats on your success with StormPulse.
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Belgian mindreader scares people through NSA(-like) knowledge
"Nothing to hide" or "None of your business".
That's a perspective I hadn't thought of, and will try to apply to other situations.

On the other hand, if the 100,000 people who already signed have now identified me as a subversive, I'd better go ahead and sign, in the hopes that it will maximize the odds of reigning in the NSA before they come get me.
What program or tool were you using to see the diffs side by side ?
Who says the cruise line, insurance company, bank, agrobusiness and so on are going to get outmaneuvered by a startup? They're going to get outmaneuvered by another big company in their line of business with less-stupid IT policies.

Getting these sorts of issues (and bigger ones) right is something big companies call "IT strategy" and they'll often pay consultants real money for it. That's because, done well, IT can be the foundation of significant competitive advantages. Is using a more modern browser going to create an advantage all by itself? Almost certainly not. But the kind of IT organization that can't even handle something that simple is going to struggle mightily with the bigger fish.
Is one to conclude that there is either
a) only one App Store with significant buyers or
b) way too much piracy on Android to make a non-ad-based business model viable?
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It's not true that NSA-has-root was simply Greenwald's interpretation. Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras took the same interpretation in the Washington Post's first story http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-06/news/39784046_... (the paragraph suggesting that this might be a misinterpretation was added later). Greenwald did also have a coauthor on the Guardian story too. What does seem to be true is that Greenwald backed down from the claim more slowly than WaPo or even the Guardian. Still the decision to focus on Greenwald here does seem like someone's rhetorical ploy, if it isn't simply glee at the chance to get at a much-disliked figure.
At least I have provided clear arguments. You have continued to make assertions (such as pharma being corrupted with respect to patents) without any kind of proof or even a clear argument as to why this is the case. I suggest you consider not taking any drug developed under or protected by US patent law in protest.
Why support either DRM lover? Why not go PC and/or Wii U or abstain?
I wouldn't be surprised if Sony did something like a trade in for Gaikai. Warner Bros trades physical DVDs for Blu-rays here: http://www.dvd2blu.com/

Would you send in your PS3 games for a licensed online copy?
I can't remember which interview it was, if on Democracy Now, or his MIT lecture video, but Bill Binney stated that the NSA in fact does decrypt HTTPS.
I'm pretty sure the world has always been like that. I mean, if you didn't already know it was real and someone told you about Watergate...
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I don't think that is correct. I'm not even sure how they would go about determining that since hacker news profiles do not include age information and the site does not use any form of analytics.

According to the latest poll, most people are between 21 and 35. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734
> Now we're going to have to add support for at the very least IE8 ....

> Most IT admins I've dealt with refuse to install any other

> browsers on their systems, but don't have a problem

> with browser plugins for some reason

Why don't you just deploy Chrome itself? Google has made a version of Chrome that can install without admin rights.

I have a feeling this was Google's plan all along: 1) get everybody dependent on Chrome with Chrome Frame, 2) make version of Chrome that installs without admin 3) remove support for Chrome Frame 4) $$$ profit from massive switchover to Chrome inside the enterprise as developers make an end run around IT by using the non-admin install.
Or what every pro-PRISM person should be shown & aware of: even if you have "nothing to hide", it can be used against you...
They do still have those screens! I spoke with one of the engineers that worked with them, and he said basically anything triggered by SafeSearch is excluded.