skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently there has been at least one instance of the FISA court rejecting a request, but we're not allowed to know about it.

From http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/justice-department...

the Justice Department was due to file a court motion Friday in its effort to keep secret an 86-page court opinion that determined that the government had violated the spirit of federal surveillance laws and engaged in unconstitutional spying. ...

But in July 2012, Wyden was able to get the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify two statements that he wanted to issue publicly. They were:

- On at least one occasion the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held that some collection carried out pursuant to the Section 702 minimization procedures used by the government was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.

- I believe that the government's implementation of Section 702 of FISA [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] has sometimes circumvented the spirit of the law, and on at least one occasion the FISA Court has reached this same conclusion.
To reiterate your point, there has to be a strong chain of authority for the life f the storage. And they probably would completely replace 3 racks of storage with 1 every 3 years given increasing drive density. So that would be a lot of opportunity for a contractor to bolster their income by selling drives off on ebay.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/diskdrives.html
I guess we can put away the pitchforks?
easy and quick to use.
The get-out-clause here is that they avoid "American's" phone calls. However if an American phones a non-American, or sends an email via a non-USA IP address, they'll hoover it up.

That is consistent with what Snowden said in the Q+A with the guardian yesterday:

US Persons do enjoy limited policy protections (and again, it's important to understand that policy protection is no protection - policy is a one-way ratchet that only loosens) and one very weak technical protection - a near-the-front-end filter at our ingestion points. The filter is constantly out of date, is set at what is euphemistically referred to as the "widest allowable aperture," and can be stripped out at any time. Even with the filter, US comms get ingested, and even more so as soon as they leave the border. Your protected communications shouldn't stop being protected communications just because of the IP they're tagged with.
> checkers is in fact the more complex game, to write an AI for?

I'm almost certain that's false. Checkers is weakly solved (There are AI's that will never lose, only win or draw)

I assume you meant Go, not checkers. And that's mainly harder for AI because the board is 5 times bigger.
The only reason VMs exist is because build systems are leaky. "Application built to run on Debian" means application depending on a myriad packages / shared libraries pre-installed on Debian. If your build system were hermetic, you'd end up with package that contains everything you need, which you can deploy everywhere you want, provided a comparatively tiny syscall interface.

The costs in complexity, incompatibility and pure byte bloat of running Debian & all are going to eventually be their death knell.
SmartOS has disk IO throttling for KVM guests.
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Criticism of the current state of affairs did not uniquely come from libertarians. Plenty of conservatives and liberals were quite concerned about security theater.
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nitpick: it would still be playing in Flash
5th Amendment, not 4th.
yeah exactly. One doesn't allow content to be captured, the other does, but only for non-american citizens, except when it is an accident... so when you combine all three incidences... yes they have full access and admit it several times.
1. I don't know that I would consider any of the 3 you mentioned as being so important to the haskell eco-system. Does anyone use Arrows? Lens is new, and there is widespread "whoa that is way too many operators dude" reaction to it. It is not widely used yet at all.

2. Because they are not the same operation. The fact that some languages make them the same operator is not an indication that doing the wrong thing is good. And I do not believe most mainstream languages make that mistake. Again, there is a name for the general concept of "things with an identity and some form of append operation". The name is monoid, it defines the exact operator you want: <>

5. I don't see the problem here. Of course aeson encodes to and from bytestrings, json specifies an encoding already. The entire purpose is to take data, and encode it as a bunch of bytes. You shouldn't be trying to split encoded json as if it were a string, so what is the issue? Your contrasting it with python weakens your point, as it makes it clear that haskell only has one more option than python does.
No, we haven't, and that was the reasoning behind the canary being posted on the individual storage arrays (not just individual foreign locations, but each individual storage array).

As of today, I know of no other firm running a warrant canary, and I don't think any of the librarians[1] were ever challenged with theirs. As with all of this, it is uncharted.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
Whats your source for those quotes? Is that from the hearing happening now?
I see the guy dismissing the dangers of Soy hormones...

Well, beside making chickens get ready to be killed much faster (a farmer I talked claimed that with normal rations his chicken took 4 months to be able to be killed, with soy rations, you could sell them to be killed after 40 days), I DO tested avoiding Soy like the plague, and see if it had any effect, and it had (including I did some testosterone blood testing to check).

Also, I think eating "industrial" food is a very fast way to miss important nutrients we don't know much yet about, but are present in our daily normal food.

But I get why someone would wish to do that, sometimes I feel tempted too, specially because cooking all my food (with SO help even) on Sunday takes a long time (4, 5 hours... mostly result of having shitty kitchen), and eating food while on my PC at night is not much easy... And I hate washing dishes.
Jon 'Maddog' Hall on Project Cauã and a server in every highrise
Congrats! Although I got less out of this article than an "if you build it, they will come."

Give me some actionable metrics to work with.
This is interesting because it seems like they are proposing ways to decentralize existing services. Would it not be possible to add some sort of third party authorization in the app that registers your centralized ids in a decentralized database.

i.e.
(1) Open Trillian (or Adium)
(2) Sign in to each of the centralized services: AIM, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. For each authorization, save that user name in the decentralized database in some sort of cryptographically signed form. (Maybe some algo similar to Bitcoin's solution to the byzantine general's problem).
(3) Now when someone on another trillian client wants to reach you, they can use any one of your centralized handles to search for you in the centralized database and connect with you directly.
(4) Lastly, some sort of handshake occurs between you and your friends.

I see no reason why this can't be fully compatible with XMPP once authentication has been performed by writing to a block chain and lookup of friends has been performed by reading from the blockchain.

This approach basically rebuilds out the network effect of "skype" and other centralized services via a trojan horse approach.
yes, one less thing to debate and speculate about !
the chairman is doing it a bit. But some congresspeople are being particularly stringent (Check out what Schiff said concerning court oversight). Things are happening, and honestly what's being said here is pretty tempered, there's not much to get outraged about.
Try Protopage, which has Twitter support and email support as well as RSS - http://www.protopage.com
That is a perfectly reasonable explanation, and not what I'm calling conspiracy theory. I'll quote one from a reply to the current top comment.

>Google and Facebook are part of the military surveillance complex, it's as simple as that. They are privatized surveillance companies who serve the US government.

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5899813
I traveled in the Soviet Union in the 80's. Never once did I get subjected to the type of treatment that I get from the TSA, and I'm not on any DNF list.

Also, don't confuse having to register to aid in central planning with ease of travel. As an American, I traveled all over HHA and rarely had to show my papers. So, no, there certainly weren't questions...not like you alluded to.
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s/in/on/ ?
The premise of the article is false. It says, right in the first paragraph, that "[Western States] at least accept that they will be held accountable by the press and public alike." (By Western States I don't mean states west of the Mississippi river, I mean states of Western European types, description which presumably the US fits.

Alas, the US government seems to have lost that particular element. They seem to think that they will not be held accountable by the press and the public. They may be right too.

I find it most saddening and ironic that a United Kingdom journal is defending the freedom we fought to acquire from the King of England.
Somebody posted another tic tac toe variant on HN some time ago, where the squares were numbered 1-9 and the goal was to get any three squares that summed to 15. It turns out this is equivalent to playing tic tac toe with sides that wrap around (like a torus).
Meal replacement shakes can be useful when you're trying to control your calories while still getting what you need. Particularly good when per iodising your training, so you might still need measured amounts of protein and carbs but you're trying to lose fat after building muscle. Very easy to measure out 1,500 calories worth of powder a day vs guessing calorific content of food.

Having said that, I don't get why the current geek love for Soylent when there's really no shortage of meal replacement shakes out there that seem to do the same job but cheaper. I also love actually eating food, so would only use a shake for a short term goal.
Don't offer a discount. Give away more for free.
You might want to have your legal counsel look at the various reported cases involving asset protection trusts in the Cook Islands. In a situation such as yours I can easily see you cooling your heels in Federal prison on contempt of court charges. Your defense ("I cannot be held in contempt because it is impossible for me to comply" or perhaps "I told them to do it, but you know those silly Swiss, they ignored me") is unlikely to make a District Court judge happy. And I'm talking about REAL judges in REAL courts. I'm not talking about this Star Chamber bullshit that we live with now in the Land of the Free.

But you've probably looked at this and decided it is defensible.
I agree with you.

But before you get too far down this rabbit hole, consider that people's eating habits occupy the same emotional space as religion and politics.

In other words, it is possible but unlikely that you'll be able to argue someone out of their position on any of the three topics.
But they have no principled justification to refute it. So they're not helping the situation. They don't have any intellectual firepower.

(The libertarian are also not perfect on these grounds, but perhaps somewhat better.)
Heck, even a direct warning from Russian officials fell on deaf ears.

You're also the kind of person that would be up in arms when the FBI takes someone into custody because Russia says he's trouble.
Honestly, who cares if Facebook isn't blocking Tor traffic? They are only interested in mining your personal information to sell to advertisers; they don't care how you get to their service. In addition, Facebook will still ban you if you use pseudonym.
Containers have been mature for longer than the article implies (freebsd jails, Solaris zones).

Technology just doesn't work this way. Things don't simpler over time (and you don't shed support for different kernels, OSes, better isolation, etc.)

Not to mention the fact that virtualization has gotten dramatically better since EC2 was launched, since that seems to be the benchmark here (they are still running Xen 3.X first released in 2005). Modern virt hardware+hypervisors is blazing fast and (I believe) will eventually outpace bare metal for specific workloads on big boxes due to the improved isolation for many performance critical operations (I.e. separate TLBs for flushes, smarter cache invalidation). Even if they don't reach parity, the gap certainty wouldn't justify giving up all the benefits of full virtualization.
How about you create something for a change instead?
It seems as though the time it takes to engineer Soylent could be used to cook and freeze a bunch of food.
Yes, but at the very least it elevates the process out of a simple rubber stamp court order. One way or another, we'd get our "day in court", even if you never hear about it, and that's worth something.

We are more optimistic about how such things would play out, but even in that worst case scenario, there's some value in slowing things down and forcing that review.
Your genes don't care.
This mix is completely devoid of BCAAs. Soy protein has no branch chain amino acids - meaning it completely lacks THE fundamental building blocks used in building all bodily tissue.

Look more into different kinds of protein. You might also want to do this for your carbs. Suggesting that brown sugar is a good way to "top up" our carb load is terrible advice - all cane sugars are simple sugars, meaning they jack up your glycemic index and then crash you after. Complex carbs have a completely different rate and method of metabolism.

Please don't offer this as an option to people until you've done some substantial (read minimal) research. At least Rhinehart’s project is presented as an experiment and not a hobby-kit. Theres an ethical responsibility involved in projects like this that the OP is blatently neglecting.
The US is a lost cause for anyone on the bad side of the government for any particular reason, crimes committed or not.

What really gets me though is that people are truly shocked that the piece of paper held up as some illusion of rights is, like everything else, simply not worth the paper it is printed on.

This is a document that has been used to justify slavery, prohibition, woman as property, Jim Crow laws, the "sanctity" of marriage etc. If history shows us anything it is that regardless of whatever is written down, the laws of the land will be made by the popular opinion of those that have power, and how they interpret things. The USA is no different than Rome, feudal Europe or France under Napoleon, despite the best intentions of its founders.
There's a new release of Racket to go along with the book. It comes with a library ("collection" in racket-speak) with the source code of the book examples. http://blog.racket-lang.org/2013/06/racket-v535.html
Illumos has KVM support, Solaris does not. The distinction is made because Solaris and Illumos have diverged into different operating systems.
I did not see this, posted a reply to the top comment myself, upvoting you and deleting my comment, I agree this should be the top comment to stop us from going on* debating and speculating with little to no information.

edit: typo
> It is equally plausible that the diagnostic center told the patient that results were negative, and the call to the mother was to reassure her and to the surgeon to cancel a preemptive appointment made by the doctor.

The metadata would not end with that phone call - the pattern of continuing activities would make fairly evident what the prognosis had been. (Of course this doesn't meet the "beyond all reasonable doubt" standard of criminal court, but it meets the standard for justifying digging deeper into their affairs, or setting insurance rates for that matter.)
Looks interesting indeed. However, i am not sure i will buy it due to the price of the ebook-only option, which is what i am interested in.
It is well known by people who pay attention to Financial markets, that government officials from the Treasury often end up working at places like Goldman Sachs, Fannie Mae and a myriad of other "private" and quasi-governmental corporations. This is often a two way street... look up; Tim Geithner, Hank Paulson and more. These are the big notable cases. Go read http://zerohedge.com or the http://market-ticker.org they point this stuff out all the time.

There is ZERO reason to believe this doesn't happen for ALL sectors of government. So, I would say, the burden of proof would land on the shoulders of those who say that it DOES NOT happen.
I question whether the FISA court has as little power as you describe.

Under the FISA law, a FISA warrant may be issued against US citizens if they are believed to be engaged in or preparing for acts of international terrorism or sabotage. Those warrants are beyond the power of the President.

Furthermore anyone at all, US citizen or not, under suspicion or not, may receive a FISA subpoena if the government claims that it furthers an investigation. That goes WAY beyond any authority that the executive is supposed to have.
Snowden and the NSA reflect a millennial climate change
At a caloric equality that would be about $3-$4 per meal of this (3 meals = ~2000kCal, which would be 8 cans of ensure)
Not really. You wouldn't use TOR and have a sign saying "hey I live here", that obviously defeats the purpose.

Imagine you're in Egypt and you lead a political party that is targeted by other parties or even the government. People will still follow your stream and information (facebook also has pages) it doesn't matter if you filled out a "profile".

Or maybe you just want to follow that political page without anyone finding out. Create an account with fake information, it's simple and useful.
Tiny Tiny Rss, over a year ago
I don't think we know enough about how the FISC works to jump to that conclusion. I'd say let us know how it works out, but...
You are not suggesting, are you, that they cannot refuse to accept the changes to the contract, which by itself is said to be a condition for the employment?
A couple, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5900067
All you said was SAAS-for-cars.

What you're suggesting here is a mandatory car disposal/recycling fee that must be paid for by the car manufacturer along with an additional parts tax/fee to incentivize improving longevity of the original parts.
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If you're on facebook under a false identity you can and will be kicked off more-or-less at random whenever you happen to trip the right flags.
Very important to note: it's not so much an issue for private companies (non-telecom carriers) as to whether they can get their hands on something like phone calls. It's extraordinarily illegal to mass record / copy phone conversations (that are not yours; and sometimes even when they are yours, depending on states and notice given) if you're a private business or individual. I can't emphasize extraordinarily illegal enough. If you wanted to get into deep shit real fast, and you're a mid level Fortune 500 company, start tapping into all the nation's phone calls and save a copy of said calls. The Feds would literally destroy you, not an exaggeration; you would never walk right again.

I'm assuming in my example that the government isn't the one giving the calls / data to a private company, and that said company is doing the spying itself.
If proprietary software is why I'm not buying an FPGA (and if there are a lot of people like me) there will be much more to be made opening things up than keeping things closed. Not saying that this is the case, just that it could be, so "always" might be an overstatement.
I can only speak for NYC having lived there. I paid $1100 for an apartment on Avenue C in the East Village. In Paris, for a comparable area, I'd be hard pressed to find the same space for less than €1000 per month in an area like say, Belleville. Having said that, in NYC, I was making about $60K. In Paris, I make about 30K€.
Come on! We just recently sort of came to agree that watching people getting tortured is not the best kind of fun. Give us few centuries to manufacture something tastier.
Mobile's becoming increasingly important. If you saw the Mary Meeker slide deck, it's clear that growth isn't abating. It's an exciting space to be, and it's great to have more tooling around the area.
Tech can help the middle class
Apparently on sale today with coupon code RACKETEERS making it like 23.97 for both print and ebook! I feel like I am a marketing shill or something but for real that is a great deal and I have been looking for a racket/scheme book to use for teaching!

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To follow up - got the book and have been reading through it. Already super impressed with the tone, pictures, lisp history lesson, and particularly the cartoon of guy and gerry!
Whether or not FB is deliberately blocking Tor now, how out-of-line would it be for them to eventually block it in the future?

It doesn't seem in their best interest as a company to allow Tor connections...but other than that, what ethical obligations do they have to allow anonymous connections? FB already has a policy more-or-less mandating real identities...so for them, this is kind of a non-issue, right? By using FB, you're already identifying yourself and agreeing to implicitly under the TOS.

So does that mean activists are screwed? Well...I'm interested in the use-cases for activists using FB...I mean, if you're in a situation where you fear the authorities tracking you down...then you hopefully have better sense than to conduct business under your social identity. If you're managing a FB account from a fake identity and fear the authorities tracking your IP...then maybe do your work from a public wifi? Facebook isn't your biggest enemy here...the enemy is, ostensibly, the government...and the secondary enemy is you (or your collaborators) attracting attention to yourself inadvertently, whether you're using Tor or not.

I guess the tl:dr of my question is: if you must conduct sensitive work, why do it on Facebook, a network that is committed to sharing things in public?
Feedly devs, injecting HTML into every other browser page is a complete turn off. I paid for Newsblur instead.
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Feedbin.me and Press as a Feedbin android client.
I'm not sure if anyone else clicked through to the article expecting a tirade on the evils of Hungarian notation. Needless to day, I was disappointed.
I think several "political analysts" on tv owe Snowden an apology for saying his claim of being able to read the President's email was grandiose, given this prior proof.

And just imagine what unsupervised contractors do.
Facebook is not forcing you to give them your personal information ? I understand and pretty much agree with most of what you say but can we agree that Facebook is simply another company trying to make money and be a thriving business and not an evil organisation trying to take over your life and destroy your liberties ? capiche ?
Or even better: "We said we aren't listening to your phone calls. We didn't say we aren't listening to a lot of phones, just (probably) not yours.

Their word manipulations are sickening. I just wish all of this went to a trial already and to the Supreme Court. Let's see them lie through their teeth to the judges then, who will actually understand everything they're saying or avoiding saying (unlike most of the press, or people out there).
The MPEG-LA is for profit and they will be asking for more licensing fees once their domination is complete. Trading freedom for convenience is probably not a good thing on the longer term.
if you must conduct sensitive work, why do it on Facebook, a network that is committed to sharing things in public?

You might as well replace "facebook" with "the Internet".