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> More detail on how direct NSA's accesses are is coming, but in general, the reality is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same. The restrictions against this are policy based, not technically based, and can change at any time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-n...
Apple Puts 40 Percent of Tim Cook’s Pay Package At Risk
it is called: mary meekers internet trends 2013

http://allthingsd.com/20130529/mary-meekers-internet-trends-...
Nixon wasn't punished for what this article is complaining about, though. He wasn't impeached over his handling of the Pentagon Papers case, but because he paid some people to break into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters.

I would guess that if Obama got caught running an operation to break into the RNC headquarters, Congress would be pretty quick to impeach him, too. And conversely, had Nixon not organized the Watergate break-in, he wouldn't have been impeached over his (and Kissinger's) hardline view on prosecuting leakers and those in their vicinity.
Petition to prosecute James Clapper for lying to Congress
There is a difference between spying on potential enemies and spying on everyone to find potential enemies.
(2011)

Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2740432
ViddoBuy.com, where cool people can buy,sell, and trade...Will this work
People can buy,sell, trade things by using HD Pictures and videos they've uploaded. Also their creating a way for users to trade safely, and do local meet ups
Thank you.

> There are plenty other businesses employ lots of people but don't have so much protection from state laws.
>
> That may partly be due to the fact that car dealers have a lot political power. Dealers contribute a big share of state sales tax revenues — as much as 20 percent in some states — and they tend to be big local employers. That makes state and local legislators listen.

Interesting. So they basically are afraid of any dent in the system even if it wouldn't erode their own sells (of every brand but Tesla).
http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trend...
Firefighter/EMT, with roughly a decade of experience. I've seen many (at least dozens) of high speed crashes, and several (half a dozen) fiery wrecks.

> 1) He was going fast, really fast.

Yep

> 2) He ran a red light (there's always a reason for this: alcohol, bad judgment, being chased by someone, etc.)

Yep

> 3) Vehicle burst into flames - but when?

Likely at the moment of impact. There are a number of possible ignition sources. The most likely is some amount of fuel (this wouldn't need to be much) splashing on something hot enough to ignite it. Once it's burning, it wouldn't take long for it to spread to other fuel sources (including brush and grass underneath the vehicle).

> 4) Engine and transmission over 200 feet away from crash site (tree)

See point 1. He was going very fast. I've seen similar things happen at similar speeds.

> 5) That roof is gone, there's a big hole with flames shooting out - but this car has a panorama sunroof. That glass shattering + high impact collision = hole.

Makes sense.

> 6) Any arson specialists, chemists - feel free to chime in on the pattern, color, position, spread of the burns at 3:00 of the video.

The burn pattern is pretty consistent with most vehicle fires I've seen. The primary fuel source isn't the gas, it's the cushions and other plastic stuff on the interior. The gas likely started the fire, but it's extremely unlikely the tank failed catastrophically, so the amount of gas available to the fire was likely pretty minimal (just what was leaking out of a small puncture or something like that). Note how the paint is burned off the top 3/4 of the driver's door, as if the fire were coming down from the top. That's due to the contents of the car burning, not the fuel underneath the car.

> 7) The cockpit is intact - so is the drivers seat - the engine is gone, the car is badly damaged in the front, but if there was no fire, I'd say bad injuries but alive. Fire killed the guy.

There's no way to know what his condition was prior to the fire. If he was unbelted, he was dead. Even if he was belted, that's a huge deceleration for his body to deal with. In 'straight line' deceleration like that, the heart keeps moving when the rib cage stops (either after hitting the seat belt or the steering wheel), but the aorta is anchored to the rear of the chest cavity, so it gets torn, so the heart is no longer able to produce any meaningful impact, blood pressure falls almost instantly and some definition of death occurs within seconds. There are plenty of other ways to end up dead (or dying) in a car collision, that's just a moderately common one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_aortic_rupture#Featur...
Fantastic! A couple of thoughts: one is whether the lyrics can be shown and synchronized along with singing and with on/off feature, and the other is whether the video can be turned off for office users.
This is easily much worse than Nixon. Nixon was a paranoid president with a cadre of political flunkies willing to do whatever it took for him to stay in power. Once the bozos were thrown out, that game was up.

This is a systemic problem, not just one president. Obama's just the first guy really seeing how far he can push things. You can bet that the next president, no matter which party, will keep pushing.

This is much worse than Nixon. Nixon was a scandal. His own party deserted him. With Obama you still have millions standing by to make apologies for whatever has been done -- and whatever comes next. A very bad situation.

What we're going to see now is what the world would have looked like if Nixon had gotten away with it.
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Oh! They just reach the seafloor!
The idea that a President who's DOJ would aggressively investigate the leak of North Korean nuclear intelligence is an indication of outside blackmail says more about the person sharing the idea than it does about the President.
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I wrote this after finding a bug in some of my code. Basically, I was iterating over a slice of inputs, processing each one. On occasion this processing would reveal new inputs to test, so I appended them to the slice.

for i := range input {
if newValue := test(input); newValue != nil {
input = append(input, newValue)
}
}

Of course, this doesn't work, and I figured out (and appreciated) why by reading Go's spec.

Hopefully this brief guide will be of use to someone.
Working intermittently (10%) from home. Checking in on a production system that's going to get its first big whack of data load later today.
Here
http://freshpeel.com/2013/06/mary-meekers-internet-trends-ma...
Obama has been in favour of the USA PATRIOT Act, and all the spying that follows from that, since 2006 [1]. He has voted for it multiple times as it comes up for expansion and re-authorization. Anyone who voted for him in the 2008 primaries was either not paying any attention at all, liked the USA PATRIOT Act too, or didn't care about this issue.

Obama has been very clear about this issue. He has always been a proponent of domestic spying and indefinite detention for Americans. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that people are only discovering this now, but it's odd to me that his approval rating has dropped. The only news right now is: "remember all that spying Obama promised? He delivered!"

[1]: http://votesmart.org/bill/3298/8450/9490/patriot-act-reautho...
This is the kind of comment one could have written without reading the article. Did you? What do you think about the Rosen case?
Before denying something as wrong, you should point out the concrete problems.

I agree that laws are made by men. But the US constitution was written for the living people. Corrupt leaders are corrupted because they in fact don't serve the living. Over time, the man-made laws have changed as well.

However, just like in math, it's possible to prove whether something is right or wrong by verifying on a fixed principle. All the answers are determined by the questions. So we can only tell if laws are right or wrong by evaluating them case-by-case.

If the equation in math changes, we will get many answers from a single question. That's why to evaluate truth and justice we need one principle, not many.
and yet, -sometimes- it's true
In my opinion, art is when you create things that have no actual use or value, but are there simply because they express you as a person.

Since we almost never do this with programming, I don't believe it can be considered an art as practiced by most programmers. That's not to say you can't use it as art, though! Any medium can be used to express art, because art is flowing out of you constantly. Art and humanities should not be separate classifications. Art is humanity.
Best figures I could find in a quick search was http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57566550-93/facebook-by-the...

618 million Daily Active Users.

4000 shards, 9000 memcache instances.

Simple math, 618m/4000 is 154000 users per database (this is a horrible metric but illustrates my point) and 618m/9000 = 68666 and a bit users per memcache intances.

I hardly think this is a "fate worse than death", When you have a billion users with 600,000,000 DAU's whatever technology you use is going to have snags as you are pushing the envelope in just about every way.

This article reads like a Microsoft Whitepaper about why only a Microsoft technology running on a Microsoft platform will solve all your problems.
It's funny because Facebook is actually where Cassandra was born. Now under the Apache umbrella, it's odd that they didn't even mention it in that article. It's got by far the most momentum in the distributed database league.
Obama's just the first guy really seeing how far he can push things.

How about Reagan?
You can't make a reporter doing his job a crime.

ADD: Further details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5924505
"Facebook, for example, created Cassandra for certain tasks and also uses the Hadoop-based HBase heavily, but it’s still a MySQL shop for much of its core needs."
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Yes, I'm thinking about consulting for non-profits in order to know what the problems are and what can I do to help. It's difficult to come up with ideas when you don't really know the people and her struggles.
Rosen hasn't been charged with a crime.
This was not an issue with Cloudflare.
It (steering control) is available for C Class.

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Why Facebook’s Recent Data Leak is Worse Than You Think
It is worse than that. The article ignores basic facts that have been widely reported elsewhere about the difficulty of doing this particular extradition. It really serves no useful purpose other than to draw clicks, and push for a drumbeat of complaints about Hong Kong and China for domestic political consumption.

See http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/22/edward-snowden-e... for a more realistic view of the difficulty of extraditing him.
Windows 7 with Chrome (Version 28.0.1500.52 m - latest version). I cannot see the scroll bar: http://imgur.com/bkHWj9d

Maybe album covers are better in general. It's just that on the OK Computer playlist most of the videos were imitations and it would have been easier to see if I could preview them (http://en-us.blynde.com/#!ok-computer)

Good luck with it!
Then it seems likely you're either correct and working with very poor engineers or making very poor and potentially incorrect assumptions based on your own lack of understanding of the code. I've been brought on to several projects over the years that simply could not move forward due to totally unsalvageable development failures; that's definitely not the case in every instance, but it absolutely does happen.
Just my 2 cents, but saying "paying one of the biggest taxes in the world" is really exaggerated
Achieving simplicity in code is an art.

As a society, we can build buildings like regular old boxes, so long as it meets our needs for sheltering capacity. We don't do it this way because we've come to appreciate the ability of architects to create a more elegant building (elegant in cost, design, environmental effect).

Most of the programming we do is just building big blocky buildings that most will never see. If we were to spend the time and make it more elegant, we'd only be doing it for ourselves and other programmers, as we are the only ones that can appreciate it for the time being. Trying to simplify code is an art simply because it's unnecessary, but when it's actually achieved, yields some form of value to those that can appreciate it.
About the blackmail possibility, the NSA wiretapped Obama in 2004:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama...

Another possibility is that Obama is under a lot of stress (like any president) and those who advise him and were in power before him (NSA, the Fed, etc.) end up persuading him. This is perfectly possible if you are under stress and suffer constant interruptions that don't allow you to think long term. This is another way of saying that he's in fact a puppet, even if he doesn't realize.
This is wonderful, they're broadcasting live from the bottom of the sea!
Stonebraker is known for posting ridiculous things like this in the SQL/NoSQL community. Look at the marketing hype for VoltDB for an idea. He also loves to rag on Riak, which is a pretty solid KV store. This is ridiculous
>At any rate, aren't we venturing into politics and opinions?

Because politics and opinions are something they do in Washington and they don't affect our lives / the tech scene?
Article is two years old, FB apocalypse hasn't happened.
HN doesn't have tags and filters. Isn't reddit a better forum? If we fill the front page with "NSA stories", politics, opinion pieces, etc., it will drown everything else out.

As a community we can be anything we want it to be. The majority will decide.
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For the record: among many other things, Reagan's CIA ran a covert war in Nicaragua, over the direct, statutory(!) objections of congress, in contravention of a law Reagan himself signed. Tens of thousands of people were murdered.
I agree... what were they thinking?
Snowden an eccentric, but hardly stood out at NSA
I'm not sure what kind of inside-the-beltway myopia it would take to think that controversy over who gets 501(c)(4) status is worse than dragnet surveillance.
> How can someone make such a drastic 180 degree turn on his principles

Those were not his principles, it was his marketing strategy and it worked. There is no honesty in politics, it's a game of manipulating the masses, not of winning a prize for morals.
This is a purely political article; it's literally news about a poll. Some people need to re-read the site guidelines; they're linked below.

Flagged.
Google does not belong to the US government.
Except that they have dumped Cassandra and continue to use and grow MySQL and HBase.
Really? Then why did the Whitehouse itself considered 25,000 people relevant enough to set them as the limit for petitions?

And then QUADRUPLED it to the current 100,000?

Also, it's not "0.03% of the population" that agree with this. Only the ones that (a) know about the petition and (b) took time to sign it.
I, personally, would not suggest that intelligence services don’t need to exist.

I would however suspect that civilian intelligence services are overly large, ambitious and funded for the goal of informing America of threats.

That’s a debate I would like to see happen.

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People sometimes forget that although espionage is indeed a crime, Snowden did not release these classified documents to an enemy of the state, but rather the American People. Our founding father, Benjamin Franklin also committed the act of espionage in 1772 when he exposed and printed letters from Thomas Hutchinson, the royal governor of Massachusetts, detailing information about the revocation of civil liberties of the resistive American colonists. This act alone is one of the major linchpins that broke into the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the revolutionary War.

Without American heros such as Snowden and Ben Franklin, this country would not exist.
The great firewall of China is seeming less totalitarian and more pragmatic. The US at least has to hack to get chinese SMS messages; allowing its users visit Facebook/Gmail/etc is like giving data away.
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Not really "spy vs. spy." Rather spy vs peace activists, swat team vs. animal rights groups, fbi vs. striking unions.
He says one thing [1] and does another. For those not keen on his voting record (i.e., most people), it's not a surprise at all that this is coming as a shock to many.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrVq6eZbJpA
Number of deaths due to US wars of aggression since 2001 [1][2]: 400,000 - 1,000,000

Number of deaths due to North Korean wars of aggression since 2001: 0

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_cas...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_war
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The article discusses the political consequences of PRISM; you don't think that's relevant to Hacker News? I'll agree that this post likely does not strictly follow the guidelines, but then, neither do about 99% of the front page PRISM posts.
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This petition wont change anything.

We have REAL petitions every 2/4/6 years. It's called an election. You want change, that's how you get it.
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Ask HN: What would it take to setup a server farm in Haiti
First let me say that I'm an American. I was doing some programming work in Haiti with a friend who's Haitian. We were building a text message tool that ran off of GSM modems and netbooks.

We got to talking about tech in low resource settings. As far as we can tell, there are no server companies in Haiti. This is a problem because all web services are very slow. All traffic has to go to US servers.

Aside from reliable electricity, what would be needed for an MVP? What types of internet connections? Just a static IP and decent bandwidth? In terms of servers, could a bunch of raspberry pis ever work?

I'm more of a programmer than a server person but I'm interested in testing this idea out some day.
> And while I sympathize what many of these causes, the lack of a proper, unified list of demands makes the whole thing completely worthless in the best case, and quite dangerous in the worst.

"Represent us, not yourselves" is the message delivered by these sorts of protests. It's more effective than an itemized list.

> And then my own friends and coworkers who supported the whole thing trying to explain what they thought it was about (each one with a different explanation).

This makes perfect sense amongst people who aren't being represented at all well by their government - the government isn't just doing one thing badly, so of course there isn't agreement over what they're doing wrong. It says something kind of ugly about you that you think it's "funny."
I agree with you about most of the PRISM posts, too, but haven't been flagging them because the argument against them was too fuzzy. Here, the argument is clear: this is pure, naked politics. As you can see now: it has no place on HN.
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In a two party system they won't understand why you voted that way.
The concept is decent enough, but how well it's implemented is what really matters. Until there's anything more than a half-finished marketing site up there it's impossible to really judge.
Is it legal for a foreign government such as the UK to spy on Americans and then hand that data to the US and vice versa? I bet they are doing that.
Sophomoric comments like this are why we'd be better off if all politics stories were kept off HN, wholesale, like the guidelines suggest.
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This is the charitable reason. He has all these possible risks brought before him and has to make a decision quickly -- why not err on the side of "safety", especially if the ultimate responsibility for that safety is in his hands.

Plus a little blackmail if it's on tap.
It may have been relating to the Pilot Operating Handbook procedures the Airlines' Air Operators Certificate requires.

They still have the means to manually calculate the weight/balance etc. Some (most?) airlines require the pilots to do a manual cross-check worksheet of the fuel, weight/balance and a few other safety of flight items, before they take-off. This helps avoids mistakes like over-rotation on takeoff etc.

One particularly amusing case was in a 767, where the Captain handed a copy of the worksheet to a young girl who loved math problems, and was travelling in first class as a VIP. The young girl found a mathematical error in the worksheet. It turned out the flight computer had the fuel CG incorrect by 2-3% in certain cases, and both were incorrect.

A quick call to Boeing, and 20 minutes later, fuel transferred and the flight proceeded.

I suspect the Southwest aircraft returning to the gate, was a procedural abort, than a safely-of-flight issue.
At the risk of sounding Zen, the philosophical stuff taking a backseat is the progress. Even if you wind up in the same place doing the same job as before, there was progress if you no longer wonder 'what if'. It's when you believe that the grass is greener on your side.
I see that hyperbolic headlines are going strong, however.
I love reading things like this and it inspires me to travel and be different. However, as much as this appeals to me and I want to quit and travel, doing something like this is definitely a career wrecker. That and student loans are my biggest hindrance.
Yes, I think this is the main problem with the idea: it doesn't make sense for someone who already has a job to do a trial job.

That's why I think you already do see it with one large category of tech job-seekers where that isn't a problem: students. Tech companies hire student interns for a summer effectively as a trial period, and both sides often like that arrangement.
Looks like he is bordering on treason. Be careful snowden.
Don't forget lawyers and juries with insoluble volumes of constantly shifting rules and regulations vs. the illiterate and economically/educationally marginalized.
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Protection of citizens matters much more strongly to politicians when a politically-connected citizen is targeted. When people are targeted en mass it is less of an existential threat to the two-party dog and pony show.

Would Watergate have been much of a scandal at all if it weren't for the fact the offices Nixon broke into belonged to the Democratic Party?
Nice!!. Sheep complaining to the butcher. Who are the all these ppl wasting their time on these,are ppl that naive.
> "Anytime an engineer tells me that the only solution to something is to "bite the bullet and rewrite everything," I lose all respect for them"

Pretty closed minded approach. Just because it is usually not a good idea to do a rewrite, does not mean it is always true.

Here is an example which indicates you are probably wrong with that type of thinking:

What happens if a shop decides to store all their data in flat text files initially because it was easier and they were not expecting it to scale much. Later on and after huge expansion they realize that flat text files really is not the best solution, in fact it is pretty much the worst solution and decide that a rewrite with better technology is needed.

At this point you say you lose all respect for them? Does that attitude make sense?