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Sincerly, I do exactly that and others also do that. But because upvoting is democratic, it means that the majority will have another opinion. We lived with that right? But the HN audience changed thank to it's popularity.

Upvoting is no quality guarantee. I could throw up an algorithm that picks higher quality content and flags it as such, but that's overkill for HN. Sub-Threads would solve the problem that likeminded people like each other's stuff oly when they like it.

The theory is that quality per information in a randomly organized source cannot be measured democratically.

btw: I'm writing my thesis in a field of information management
>It is funny how the typical Linux zealots answer is go and implement the stuff one complains about.

I use OS X. Could not care less about Linux except on a server. Have started with Sun OS and HPUX back in the day.

>Everyone needs to be a kernel developer, a XWindows developer, a GNOME developer, a KDE developer, ... or just shut up.

Pretty much sums it.

>And even when something is done that goes out of the usual copying existing ideas, there is the uphill battle to get it eventually integrated and accepted, if ever.

And why would it be "integrated and accepted" if the people don't like it? Because it's "novel" and "out of the usual"? I'd say, "we actually want it in our kernel" is a far more compelling argument than "It's novel".

>I have been coding before Linus could even think about doing Linux, and have better things to do with my free time.

So, you "have better things to do with my free time" but the people doing Linux kernel work should implement novel things for your amusement? How exactly do you justify that?

(As for "coding before Linus could even think about doing Linux", should we be impressed by the timespan alone? Tons of dabblers and mediocrities have also done that).
Is Greenwald technical enough to understand the content? Or is it just going to be buzzwords that have no real technical meaning?

The slice deck already looks like someone was presenting to non-technical management - why would they have put highly technical details in there too?
Cost and value don't apply here. Honestly, I think they've provided very little value. The fundamental truth is that terrorists are still a tiny minority and while they may have disrupted an attack or even a few, they didn't stop Boston and there simply haven't been hundreds of legitimate plans.

That leaves insane costs with little to no intentional value and tremendous risk for corruption. Hard to shutdown but not impossible.
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BAH is pretty damn big in DMV (DC,MD,VA). The government would be hard pressed to fire them outright. And this is nothing to them, sliding a few campaign contribution checks to a few congress critters will make sure they'll still be on every bid.
The difference between Google Glass and smartphones is that with Google Glass it is much more difficult to know if someone is recording you.
On the other hand, how many people consider 'poor content' to be 'anything they would rather not read?' If people started flagging PRISM content now, that doesn't serve the pool of people who still actually want to read it.

I think tags would be a good idea. "ask hn" and "show hn" are practically tags already. Although that would probably just add another layer for people to practice political infighting over (particularly if users can submit their own tags and vote for them, and tags are weighted), it might also be simple if you want to see PRISM content, or want to exclude it, to just search by #prism or !#prism (or what have you.)

Thread folding inside discussions could also go a long way towards giving the perception of segregating content without actually doing so.
I'm glad that you really grasped the essence of the question. I didn't want to mention subreddit, because people would associate me of being a redditor, although I'm solely on HN and classical new sites only.

But I admit that reddit is a great, esp. when it comes to organizing urls/threads/comments.
Um... isn't releasing his salary (bear in mind he works in the private sector for a private contractor and wasn't a government or public sector employee) a violation of privacy laws? I love the level of irony of every layer of this story. It gets more comical by the day.
Am I the only one who finds the hero/traitor dichotomy that the New Yorker, CNN, etc. are advancing is unhelpful and perhaps disingenuous?
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If I had to guess, it's http://careers.boozallen.com/job/Honolulu-Systems-Administra... . At least you have a starting point for salary negotiations, and an easy talking point on ethics.
How does a yottabyte get leaked?
Just use the existing chef recipies out there for setting it up. Why would you try to get all the moving parts integrated properly when the work has already been done? Stand on the shoulders of giants.
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I don't think it's a defeatist position. The first step to devising an effective strategy is to acknowledge and understand reality. "Anything can change" is simply not true. Strategies based on fantasy will fail. This reality of ubiquitous surveillance is not going to change. The sooner we realize that, the sooner we can direct our energy toward changes that might actually be possible. It's not that outlandish to say that we can't prevent the information from being gathered. Can we exert some control over what's done with it? Can we add some meaningful accountability? Who watches the watchers, and how can they do so without invading people's privacy themselves? These are questions we should be addressing even if we think we can prevent or limit the data gathering, and if we can't then that vain hope will have distracted us from other approaches while those were still feasible.

I am playing devil's advocate a bit here. I actually do believe that we can stop data gathering on this scale. However, I don't have the certainty that comes from ignorance, nor the hauteur to condemn someone else for reaching a different conclusion. Let others have their say, even if you disagree. The urge to quash dissent is exactly what we're fighting.
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Same Error here Chrome 27.0.1453.110, and Firefox 22.0 both on Win7.
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That makes sense, but only when searching on a mobile browser. It seems like Google should show different results based on the user agent if penalising for poor support of that user agent.
I've been thinking about this, too (I think something built on top of Freenet is the answer, btw). But the trouble I keep running in to is: no one is going to use it. Relatively few people want to hide what they put into the Internet. Everything on Facebook is effectively public, and look how much information gets placed there.

We can invent wonderful and secure ideas all day, and have been since the '40s. But what use are they if no one uses them?

We need to break this down like any traditional problem and remove irrationality. What, exactly, is the problem we want to solve? What prevents existing technology from solving that problem?

Edit: I should add, I'm somewhat interested in discussing this seriously, if you wish to take it off HN.
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Google's "job" for the user is to take you to relevant search results. If a link isn't going to take you to relevant results, then it makes perfect sense not to present it to you as a highly ranked result.
Nice, every single network device ever with a web interface (think of your home's router) infringes this patent.

This is plainly bullshit.

PS: Of course also printers, but I feel like that is what they were actually trying to patent. Which is bullshit too, though.
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Well, the Publication Type is Grant so...

At least the priority date only goes back to 2006, so hopefully there's plenty of prior art.
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I'm really hoping they give us a way of organizing our repositories next.

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2323/create-a-way-to...
By your logic anything can get an apology because we can always point out to a worse alternative.
Speaking of wikipedia, another annoying bug is that when I go to a non-mobile URL with an anchor tag, it gets stripped out when it redirects to the mobile version of that page, so you end up at the top of the article and not the section you wanted.
iOS 6 added a swipe gesture on all navigation bar back buttons, and even in 6.1.4 it doesn't work in Apple's Messages out of all apps. I would be surprised if this new gesture ended up working consistently.
Well, John Yoo authored his torture opinions in 2003. They were only really repudiated in 2009, when Obama took office. That's not "very quickly", in my book.
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"In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve." - Alexis de Tocqueville

In a sense, Americans deserve what they got. They chose to re-elect the same party (Democratic/Republican party, is there a difference really?) over and over again when there is an alternative in the libertarian party which by the way, would most certainly not authorize or encourage what the NSA has been up to. Regardless of your political inclinations, I would strongly suggest you consider voting for them if only for the sake of shaking up the establishment.
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There are a few different thread-folding addons and scripts.

Here are a few.

(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...)

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1540722)

(http://alexander.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for-...)

etc etc.

EDIT: I would like a nice way to see "SHOW HN" posts, because these are often interesting and fun bits of stuff. I usually upvote these because I like the micro-encouragement. I guess having a separate "Shown HN" page risks people spamming it, but it should be easy enough to detect and ban those people?
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Then we should show up in the Google search results with different urls depending on the device used for the search. There is no 1:1 mapping of site to mobile "pages" with a RIA.
I don't know about you, but I tend to forget details that I don't regularly use. I have learned about Goebbels and forgotten his name at least once. I focus primarily on remembering the lessons learned because I know I am likely to forget details such as names. I can usually remember the overall lesson learned because it resonates with my intuition and world knowledge.
My sister moved to America about 7-8 years ago and the school where she got a job as a teacher found her website hosted here in Sweden, under a fake name. They demanded that she take it down because she posted about something the schools lawyers objected to. I'm not sure if it was amazon links or about her BDSM hobbies. Either way I was amazed by the fact that they found it, and traced it to her. She didn't even have a computer at the time so she had to call me who worked at the hosting company where it was hosted for free, just so I could take it down for her.

It's interesting how much personal image speaks to character in some societies. I'm not saying this is unique to the USA, it's just interesting how we judge people superficially.
Good mobile browsers make sure every column of text gets reflowed to the width of your screen. Isn't this possible on iOS?
Booz took zero risks hiring this guy. Zero chances at all. He has a TS/SCI clearance combined with whatever bullshit IT security certs gov't contracts demand, which means he is a guaranteed revenue source.

The risk that was taken was giving him a TS clearance at all. I don't agree with or like it, but the clearance process is supposed to eliminate people who don't like authority or the socially approved path. Somebody who drops out of high school despite being intelligent is clearly not someone who fits these criteria.
Definitely going!
At a certain degree quantification and comparing numbers is just stupid, and Bruce is still right we suck at this, and so is he.
> A government that is so efficient that it is basically impossible to even get into trouble with these kinds of administrative things can be a very good thing, as long as it is sufficiently good-natured.

Indeed. One route (the one that I'm trying to keep echoing in my head these days) to thinking about such a nicely-efficient government is to ask how something would go in Iain Banks' Culture.
It's just anecdotal evidence, but I can personally confirm this. I submitted a FOIA request to see what various departments had on me. Perhaps I should be thankful that I'm not interesting enough for them to have compiled any information on me, because all of them came back with a generic letter stating that they didn't have anything for me.

The exception in this case was with the NSA, in which case they stated that they weren't going to divulge anything, much like the letter in the URL above.
You, sir, are a true intellectual. I agree with you. I suspect a lot of the journalistic sniping is due to the fact that the writers invested heavily in pieces of paper, and years later have a significantly lower salary. Their bitterness and envy shapes their thoughts.
Like I care how hard it is for them to get warrants. My question to them is why do you even need all this data in the first place?
Yes indeed, legally declining to extradite someone totally justifies being invaded and occupied.
Hey man, I'm a zen buddhist, I know about the balance and the tradeoffs.

I'm also a realistic optimist, and you're right, it's necessary but often fruitless. But the way I see it, we're headed in that direction pretty surely. Ten years ago we couldn't imagine software doing anything different from Excel, and Excel (or, er, Lotus 123) was the most powerful way to solve any problem, and they were indeed amazing. But they have this problem of being unstructured. Now we have Rails and other frameworks that make it easier to make custom logic to solve problems in specific controlled ways. They're making it easy to let programmers specify how a tool works. We're in the woodworking and craftsman stage of software: we need people who can build the tools and painstakingly design every detail.

We may always need that, and we may always value it. But I can envision a future where there's some in-between: some way to let the computer be extremely smart about the problems we're trying to solve with these tools. I think frameworks like Rails are one giant leap away from being usable not by programmers, but by people just illustrating rules and relationships.

Would it be too generic? Would the tradeoffs be too great? Maybe. But I am optimistic these are problems we can solve and not great unsurmountable rules of the universe.

I know because I did it once. I made something that worked for everyone and allowed you to define complex multi-dimensional relationships between data. It would cover almost any business need, and in a stricter smarter way than excel. There were details that we missed and my business partner was an asshole; those were the problems. The software and the idea were sound and, in fact, incredible. I think the trivial problems are solvable. So, forgive me my optimism, but it's based on experience.
Yes, I got the same notion
Additionally, some group may be targeting a specific project on Github
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I'd like to also see downranking for sites that immediately send you to a splash to download their stupid app, which is maybe the 2nd most profoundly annoying mobile behavior. Most of these are doing this with JS overlays and not actual URL redirects, so they won't be affected by this redirect penalty, but lord how they should be.
I don't find such feature very useful. Without a way to execute code or run tests it seems too easy to break something.
Those who do not vote have the right to complain. And those who do, also have the right because everyone is brainwashed. Government is not some magical entity, it is a group of armed bandits who claim to represent the whole society for the "common good" at each individual's expense. It's just religious excuse. People do not deserve to be threatened to surrender property, secrets and liberties that they arrange freely between each other for some "common good" invented by priests and presidents.

Saying "you deserve your government" is like saying "you deserve to be raped because you didn't try to avoid it hard enough".

I don't care about losing money because of taxes. But if government kills people and I cannot withdraw financial support for it, then it bothers me. Then, its real mafia face is exposed. "Go vote for change, but still pay for our activity."
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I fail to understand why I shouldn't use my favorite editor, I'd call it a non-feature (useless, not available from the competion because it is useless).
It's owned by Samsung but I don't think they'll use it. They've been in many law suits and most if not all companies suing them are infringing this patent. They could just counter-sue with this but they haven't.
Even if they sue some one for this I doubt a judge would take it seriously, but I don't live in the US so I guess anythings possible.
Similarly, what's with Youtube videos that tell me "the user has chosen not to make this video viewable on mobile devices". Why does Google offer such an option, and why would anybody choose it?
The problem is (most) people seem to be ok with the have-nothing-to-hide argument. Unless the public opinion on this is inverted, there's not much hope for change I'm afraid.
>You sound low here, but if the above were true then it'd mean that people are willing to live under a dictator too. That's simply untrue.

It's true now. But it might be true in future. Hate to sound pessimistic but there are benefits (however perverse they are) to dictatorship.

You aren't pestered every year to vote (unless it's a democratic dictator that rigs the elections). You aren't asked about lot of things. You don't have to worry about saving the environment or your impact, just what he does.
Things most people dislike like gays or immigrants is taken care of by a dictator. As long as he doesn't piss off too many people or too influential people, he's golden (and even then). Also dictators are more predictable then a nation to deal with.

Dictatorship are great if your nation is compromised of lazy, mostly irresponsible people.
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"without requiring the world to go into lockdown, without having to invade several countries and without having to molest every traveler?"

Have you ever been here? There are cameras on all highways that recognize license plates and track the movement over every car on the road network (cfr: the ease with which they tracked the whereabouts of the father who killed his children a few weeks ago), it has the most phone taps per inhabitant (to the extent that if you look at the data, it seems like somebody accidentally types a few numbers too much when typing it into Excel, that's how far we are removed from the runner up), and in general the amount of information the government has on every citizen is staggering (e.g. the age at which you first grew pubes (!) ).

At Schiphol you are searched at will - a few years ago I was on a flight back from the Caribbean and everybody on the plane was searched - thoroughly, more intense than when you are searched e.g. at sports events. Every city has autonomous authority to designate certain areas as 'search at will' areas - police can (and will), without cause, search you and your belongings (including your car - US doctrine about the car being an extension of a man's house? Hahaha, yeah, in the sense that it doesn't take much to search your house, either...). Most train stations are such zones, but most of the city centers of the bigger cities are, too (let that sink in - there a whole city center where police, without any cause, can search you and your belongings!)

Oh, not carrying ID (anywhere)? €90 fine, and you can be taken into custody until you have proven your identity. No cause necessary for asking for it, either.

Invading has never been a strategy generally employed here, the Dutch are merchants, war is bad for business (I'm sure there's a fitting Ferengi quote here...) Plus a country the size of a flyspeck on a global map just doesn't generally have the muscle.

Look, I still love my country, and for all its flaws it's still the best place on earth to live for me - but let's not kid ourselves, the surveillance state is alive and kicking here, and the 'OMG the terrorists are coming' sentiment is, too.
Oh, whoops, my bad.
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Dude, what the hell are you talking about?

The only thing those in power would find out by looking at Mozilla's servers in charge with Persona authentication would be your freaking email address and that's it. This is by design.
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Prior art much? It's fascinating how the system feeds on itself and frivolous "inventions" are patented to protect companies from similarly frivolous claims (and also that the patent office grants them). Of course, none of this is new, but the issue continues to manifest itself and waste billions of dollars in settlements to frivolous litigation threats and to support the whole legal machinery associated with patents.
I'm thinking of Harold Coyle's appropriately named The Ten Thousand (http://www.amazon.com/The-TEN-THOUSAND-Harold-Coyle/dp/06718...), just in case we wondered what inspired it ^_^.

The Anabasis has inspired more than a few: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_(Xenophon)#Cultural_in..., and if you're read it the words "the sea, the sea!" never fail to inspire.
It's just a start, I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to add these features in future for popular languages if there is demand for it. It's pretty exciting IMHO.
I'm sorry, but do we really think that machine transcription of millions of cell phone conversations is worth anything? How can anyone believe that after using google voice?