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Perhaps those with the right type of political power/influence are able to shield their trading activity from SEC scrutiny. But trying to use this guy as an example of the "You commit three felonies a day" argument? Really?

Do we all commit three felonies a day unknowingly? Maybe. But the suggestion that tens of millions of dollars in insider trading falls into that category, is flat-out demented.
What about the low taxes you would have had there?
The sub-headline of the dead-tree version of the St Paul Pioneer Press yesterday bothered to point out that he didn't have a high school diploma. Sigh.

We must find SOME reason someone would report that America is spying on its own citizens. Couldn't possibly be patriotism. And there must be SOME reason that a guy who isn't formally credentialed by the appropriate authority figures could land a high-paying, important job. Couldn't possibly be talent.
I worked with Cody for awhile at Matasano. He's as smart and enthusiastic a teacher as I think you'll find anywhere for this material.
The ABC News Nightline video is quite startling too

http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/html5/html5lib/v1.6.12.27i/mwEmbed... (Flash required?)
designers need feedback from non-designers. a designers title doesnt suddenly give them encompassing knowledge over a business and how to treat every part of a project.
Yes, this is something that should be mentioned more and stated loud and clear.

I gather he was also a CIA employee, which is not granted to everyone and which -I guess- is subject to deep scrutiny by the very government...

Unless the CIA is just like in the films: a bunch of retarded authocrats.
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I am so tired of people abusing the phrase ad hominem -- it is not a fallacy to bring in personal details which raise legitimate questions about the credibility of what's being said.

Snowden did have a difficult time in HS and he does not possess a formal CS/technical education. He was a sys admin, not an engineer. His claims, in that light, do seem bizarre and uninformed. I mean, ffs he seemed to insinuate in the Guardian interview that the NSA keeps a list of undercover assets and he had access to it!? These are the people who created selinux -- if I extend him some credibility, I doubt greatly that he had any real idea what it is he was looking at.

Elsewhere he talks about every machine being bugged and things like that. And the tapping he claims to have intimate knowledge of -- that kind of stuff would be happening inside of some kind of data store, maybe like Apache Accumulo which the NSA also developed. Let alone the implications of what he's saying on the security of all crypto systems everywhere -- how many uneducated sys admins do you know who can inspect a data store and actually understand what they're looking at, and also understand deeply how consumer encryption works.

And this all presumes that the NSA's systems are so poorly configured that a contractor in HI could access all this. My verdict is that all he had was some slideshow that he turned over to the Guardian, the rest is a bullshit story.
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Well, it had to come from somewhere. But if that leak happened to be getting waterboarded by our freedom-loving allies in Khazakstan rather than a face and a name, it'd be easier to, um, keep quiet.
I disagree. Satire is a very effective form of political argument. There are probably many people in the politically apathetic masses who will have not followed recent developments. Unlike the regular media, gimmicks like this can effectively penetrate their consciousness.
Got super excited until I saw the 1k price tag.
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Was happening yesterday on my local talk radio station. "Isn't it a bit odd that this guy, a high school drop out somehow got into the NSA? Is he a plant? Isn't it odd that he's taking refuge in a COMMUNIST nation? I think he's a spy. How does a high school dropout get into the nsa?... High school drop out... High school dropout... communist... china..." etc..

Not very hard to see who controls the media these days.
Because of his job skills, Edward had a very small internet footprint. I can imagine this is making a very lazy press very cranky. "How dare this guy not have a FB page"!!

The press is going to have to do their job and hit the streets to get a background story on this guy.
Jailbreak tweaks are cool, but they certainly don't have the focus on battery life that Apple's implementations offer.
Are you saying that at no time in American history has the FBI or NSA intercepted someone's emails, telephone calls or internet use and used that information to either capture them or force them into becoming a mole?

As for the OP comment about the grandkids and child porn - that was a front page story a few days ago on HN.
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Some people need directives from their friendly public institutions as to what slavery is and what can be construed as such.

Some people would also be surprised to know that some colonists referred to themselves as slaves[0]…

[0]: http://youtu.be/3EiSymRrKI4?t=9m22s
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That post has no relevance. Ideas are what matter, not people.
It takes Assange-level arrogance to believe that the only reason someone would think that Assange is arrogant is that he's been the victim of a media smear campaign.
I'm sure this is a common thought. But if there was just one agency someone would be complaining "Why do we have MegaAgency? It's too powerful. It should be broken into smaller agencies with less power to abuse.".
"Chattel slavery"...I'm sorry, but what are you on about?

This comparison doesn't reflect the current state of affairs in the United States.

Yeah, the NSA did some shitty things that circumnavigated loopholes in the Constitution.

But you still don't realize how good you have it. Being in a Western country like the United States is spectacularly better than living conditions on many other entire continents, and sometimes many countries on others.

I agree we should fight the NSA on this. No doubt about this. But you're not convincing everyone of your point by comparing journalists and citizens to "chattel slaves"...come on now.

Journalists are still afford a lot of protections, and incidents like this leak in the United States are still outliers.

The very fact that this leak is an outrage, that we are not desensitized to this news, demonstrates the state of our society. We are afraid of it devolving, but it is presently many tiers above your implied quality of life.

There is no slavery.
There is virtually no indentured slavery, named or in practice.
We still have a variety of liberties the KGB never expected themselves to have, let alone fought for.

We are not anything like chattel slavery. It weakens your argument to try to argue otherwise.
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I would disagree with what you consider to be an insight. There are plenty of great architectures that don't have well designed slide shows to go with them. Come now, look at some of the old school web sites that hard core *nix hackers kept. An example would be the old Linux kernel website was a single text page. Sure, they've upgraded it in this past year, but it was a simple ugly site many years before that. If your argument about slide show vs arch is true, then Linux would have failed long ago.
Good article. I totally agree.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825087
This is why "nothing to hide" argument is wrong.
OK let's talk about Apple and their new NSA-sponsored iCloud keychain then :P
"brutal state oppression in Russia?
What the hell are you talking about?
It does have keyboard shortcuts. B is for brush, T for comment. Try it out.. We should put up tooltips for these. Thanks!
Booz says it is a much more plausible 122K: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/06/11/contractor-um-snowden-d...

ADDED: or The Guardian could have goofed, 122K in GB Pounds is 190K in US$.

A comment to the item I noted he'd only worked for Booz for 3 months.
This is a rule in every governmental agency.
I think @notatoad meant to write "he would have been disappeared".

The implication is that being known to the media means that any retribution by the US government will be visible. Whereas, if he'd remained anonymous, he could have been assassinated or rendered without anyone knowing.
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Can we conclude from this that it is better to leak anonymously? On one hand, anonymous leaks might be more immune to character assassination attempts. On the other, having a real live person stand behind the information adds some credibility and possibly deeper understanding of surrounding conditions.
You would possibly make money if people had the same information but came to different conclusions about the resultant effect of that information.
Yes. Noted. :)
Atlas Shrugged is set in the United States. I'm sure she wouldn't be surprised.
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I love when people put a lot of thought/design in their slide deck.... and then sprinkle in some humor. http://theycallmeswift.com/img/principle-philosophy/page0008...
Pretty sure that's not America.
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no. haven't you been paying attention the last few days?
Is the certificate that you get for completing the course an actual acknowledged certificate in the infosec industry?
Python 2.7 branch is up to 2.7.5, so not exactly the latest (at least, not in the same sense as Ruby, where 2.0.0-p195 is the absolute latest stable release build of Ruby 2.0).
Everything - computers are electrical, essentially billions of on-off switches. On and off is best represented by binary, so at the core of how a computer works is binary (on-off) math and logic.
Next up, pre-crime per Minority Report.

Agreed, this is alarming beyond belief.
At least from this announcement, it's not merely a defensive acquisition. Google is looking forward to integrate the user-based realtime traffic system from Waze into Google Map. I am a little surprised that whatever Waze provides now wasn't a complete overlap with what Google Map is also offering in its trafic related functionalities.
Although the Oculus Rift is exciting tech, I don't really have high hopes for a product that makes nearly every user feel nauseated.
I'd be surprised if the government was even behind any of the "smears". To some people, he's a hero. To some, he's a traitor. The people at either extreme have a reason to spread their viewpoint; those who don't care, or who want to wait for more information to come out, simply don't give a voice of reason for the most part. On the other hand, maybe the government can simply call up 5-10 journalists and run the "standard smear campaign".
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That is mostly because the "degree of relevancy" is highly subjective in travel and is never constant as places adapt new tourism strategies, new things get built and open. Plus, if you think about it, most world's destinations have pretty much EVERYTHING in each category of travel, if you look hard enough. Sure, some things may receive greater focus but in the end you can find something to your fancy pretty much anywhere you go.

To contrast this with music, where a song will always stay the same and the 3 minutes of it are, arguably, easy to deconstruct into components, classify by genre/rhythm/artist/etc., and then index.

Disclaimer: we too are building a "trip planning tool" but I think we've found a good angle to approach the problem with to avoid the situation most "inspiration"/"social"/"planning" travel startups find themselves in.
It's not new to Americans either, despite how stupid we're considered by the rest of the world. There's been news articles noting the same issues with the complexity of the legal code since even before 9/11.

Any student of the law has undoubtedly been aware for decades prior, when they had to research volume after volume of legal decisions and statutory code to establish what precedent (if any) to use in helping decide a later case, and what laws (if any) applied.
He could be both telling the truth and working for/with/whatever the PRC. Others have noted the timing is convenient for the PRC's maximum leader visit here, where the latter was supposed to be confronted about their "cyberattacks" on us.

ADDED: And now that, if there is some link, he presumably needs them a lot more than they now need him, he may find that his arrangement with them has ... changed.
I think you might be attributing motives where none exist, vertex. We are a US-based company, of course subject to all the same laws. The EU datacenter was in development prior to this news breaking. The effort was solely in response to customers in the EU experiencing latency due to a transoceanic hop. The hop negates much of the benefit of using a full-text search server.

Of course, privacy expectations are set by the customer, who controls access policies.
No, but do you imagine they would have discovered his name or have been aware if a strange accident had befallen him had he not put himself in the spotlight? To not imagine most of the character assassination occurring is related directly to the NSA seems odd, that is the kit of clandestine services worldwide. I saw an article with Booze saying he only made 122k a year, so basically appearing to try and make him appear to be an exaggerator or liar in something relatively inconsequential to the whole affair. Nice move, hopefully he has hard proof contradicting that, since otherwise people start questioning what else he exaggerated/lied about, which is precisely what they are angling for with publishing such unrelated bits of trivia.
It speaks to his ability and/or issues with the explosion of government work done by private contractors. Both can be true.
I guess I'm looking for an example of the FBI or CIA misunderstanding an email and "declaring someone an enemy combatant".
What? Where are you pulling this from?

The only form of arguably existing slavery in the entire United States is the lack of social mobility exacerbated by a lack of education in lower income classes, which becomes both a self-fulfilling prophecy and a cycle.

Other than that - and I note slavery would be a passionate, emphatic term for that, not anything close to a literal one - there is no slavery and there are no slave masters in the United States.

I'm not singling you out, because others are doing this, but it vastly weakens your point to make statements like that. Journalists are allowed to pursue stories and leads aggressively and practice freedom of speech.
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What's the example that most sticks out in your head of the US throwing out its own laws?
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Feedback from the client:

Thanks for sending this over, it looks great. Could you just add a few tweaks?

- Add the seal

- We need the "top secret" stamp on each slide

- We think the grey is too bland. Could you make it pop more?

- Did you get the PRISM logo from us? I am attaching the Word doc in case you missed it

- I am not sure you left enough room for the bullets -- will they go on separate slides? We need to see those.

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And how do most of these "personal details" actually have anything to do with his credibility? Considering that we know almost nothing about how the NSA/CIA and their ilk actually work internally, the high-school diploma bit may or may not factor into this at all.

At any rate, we know the basic details of his story are true, as BAH confirmed that he worked there, and the government has not denied that the PRISM slides and the FISA court order are real. Given what he has shown us so far seems to stand up to scrutiny, I'd say his credibility is fine. A few random people on HN speculating about what the NSA would or wouldn't do, versus now well confirmed knowledge that he did work for the CIA, and for the NSA as a BAH contractor? I'll take the latter as having more weight.

And if he didn't have some fairly serious access, how did he get the PRISM slides and the court order in the first place?

Anyway... not saying every detail of his story is true, but all things told, I don't see how carping about his high-school education is relevant here. In fact, I don't see how talking about Snowden much at all is relevant here. The story isn't Snowden, the story is PRISM, rubber-stamping by the FISA courts, tech companies possibly in collusion with the NSA to make our nominally "private" data widely available, etc.
I'm using Chrome on Windows and it was fast for me. Worked as expected. Might be a connection issue?
> not requiring an arcane process

Xcode?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList and it's pretty clear its still running in some fashion.
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I wouldn't call David Brooks' quotes smears. His whole article, perhaps, but not the quotes. The quotes are pieces of evidence in his thesis, which is that Snowden doesn't participate in a community --- Snowden has isolated himself, and that this leak is behavior consistent with someone that has isolated himself from a community. Brooks' outlook on the world tends to be built on models of culture, community, and psychology, and this article is just an application of those models to the particular topic of Snowden. Someone that writes columns tends to have some models that they've developed, and produces new columns by applying those models to current events. In that sense, he is profiting from Snowden's dilemma, and taking advantage of it --- if what Brooks says is true, then what Snowden really needs is support.
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No, it's not -- this is a brand new course. However, I personally will put my weight behind anyone who completes this course successfully, as it will put them in a prime position for many positions; I have no doubt that they will be perfect for those jobs.
>They cant even make good slides, how can anyone be sure they're keeping the data they collect...

When I was in university, my professors made and taught from slides of roughly the same quality. Does that mean they cannot do their jobs? Obviously not: they have proved important theorems, published significant papers, worked on interesting patents, and successfully trained their students (all the while updating and reusing shoddy slides for years and years).

I am a little surprised at the surprise/snobbery over the quality of NSA's slides, as if it mattered. In my mind, blustering about colors and fonts in a case of this import only serves to highlight the triviality of designers: they are a luxury.
I've only ever heard a difference for sure in one song: Who Said (Stuck in the UK) by Planet Funk. At one point there's a synthesized high frequency warble that MP3 at any bitrate is apparently unable to encode properly.
you don't need an oath for that, being a decent human being already covers it.
Blind test? HydrogenAudio forums will tell you that if it's not a blind A/B test you can fool yourself very easily.

You might also like to try AAC (or ogg) at a similar bitrate: MP3 has a couple of encoding peculiarities that are an unavoidable function of the format & if you know what to listen out for they're fairly obvious even at higher bitrates. (I'd still be surprised if you could tell the difference between flac and 320kps mp3 in a blind test though.)
I know very little about how Linux works internally, and I use proprietary video card drivers in Ubuntu. Given Linux's internal handling of driver binaries, how much damage would these be able to cause if they contained malicious code?
It was only considered insider trading because the gov't cancelled all of the contracts in retribution and then claimed that he sold knowing they would cancel the contracts and tank the stock. Can't they make this claim of any company that they do business with? Wait to an insider makes a sale, and then cancel their gov't contracts and arrest for insider trading.
Well, that's essentially what these comments are.
"British weather", "barrister", what gave it away? RTFA.
Yes the starting idea is not the same, but in the end it looks you could use mural.ly to a very similar effect, that's why I was asking :)

Anyway, good job and good luck!
Because your apathy (well, not yours in particular, but of all the people behaving/feeling like you do) has an effect on everyone. Imagine if most people would be active in demanding their privacy be respected instead of just a minority.

I find your rhetoric of relaxed indifference "I don't care much about X reading my mail" very similar to the "I've got nothing to hide" rhetoric. It pisses me off because a couple years back when everyone was grilling me about not wanting a facebook account and me mentioning all the privacy implications, their response was: "oh, I have nothing to hide!" but at the same time they didn't feel like sharing with me their computer password.

Finally, in 2008 when I was looking to buy an apartment I had to pay the inflated price just like everyone else. It didn't matter that I paid cash. Why was the price inflated? Well, because people didn't bother to care much for the price of the apartment as long as they could get the loan from the bank. I had a friend that wanted to buy a house and all he could think about was what to do to be able to take the highest loan he could get. Never mind how he was going to pay for it later. Fast forward a couple years and now all those who bought apartments with the bank's money are looking for my sympathy because it's so hard for them to pay their mortgage and the bank might take their home.

I wish there was a country for people who cared. I'd move there.
Great news for both Google Maps and Waze. From my understanding, Waze negotiated a 3 year period where they would be allowed to continue independently, but I imagine there will be quite a bit of data sharing between the two (Waze can now use Google's maps and POI data, and Google can use Waze's data to improve its realtime directions)
I think the design absolutely requires its motion to be considered in connection with the visuals.

A lot of the stuff is not much to look at until you start moving it — the Messages list, for example, is particularly impressive with independent physics applied to each message within a table cell (causing them to stack and bounce as they inherit the scroll velocity).

That said, I'd be happy if they tweaked a few of the icon designs (Game Center is bizarre). But there's an incredible pleasantness to the motion that seems to suit the lighter choice of visual design — most elements seem very appropriate.