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This Hollywood effect is spread throughout the world (since Hollywood pretty much is spread throughout the world today). Here in South America if there was a movie about WWII on tv, it was with the US beating the germans. Never saw one with russians. Brazil never even made a movie about the brazilians who went over to fight in Europe. Hollywood is, culturally, very very powerful.
Why? Hong Kong still appears to have been a brilliant move. It's one of the few places he could actually travel to pre-whistle-blowing and it has apparently allowed him to travel to a countries that are even less likely to extradite him.
I've been using it for a while and so far so good. The only problem I ran into was when I wanted to use ansible for the provisioning and since it was not really easy to do so I just went with chef instead.

I really enjoy using Windows, so much that I'm dual booting it on my MacBook Air. I find it particularly odd when web developers make their sites and web apps look better in a Mac than on a Windows machine since (being generic here) most users will be using Windows. This is mostly noticeably in two areas: colors and type. Both look very different between Macs and Wins.
Why would it be? It's not my business to report anything to anyone, as long as he does not brag about criminal activities all too open ...
14 U.S. spy satellites watched Snowden on Aeroflot flight SU213
My instant thought is that the bold headings draw the eye away from the bit you are currently reading.

"You" read the first heading, and decide to read the plain text below. As you are reading that, your eyes notice another heading below what you are reading, and if the paragraph you are currently reading is not holding your attention enough, the next heading gets your attention. Your eyes then leave the paragraph you are currently reading because the heading below it now has your attention. So, you start on the next paragraph and the whole thing loops as you go down the page.

So, I would suggest that one should use headings and attention grabbers as little as possible, make the paragraphs worth reading, and try to get the message of the paragraph across in the first sentence or two.

Does that work?
Closest I can think of off the top of my head is http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

No discreet video though.
In your opinion what were some of the best benefits of having diplomatic immunity?
How have they infringed?
Fortune 500 companies use Debian, and mom and pop shops still have to deal with the fact that patches occasionally break critical services.

If you have never in your entire life run `apt-get upgrade` and spent the next four hours wishing you hadn't, then you are quite fortunate. Regardless of the size of your shop, if you're outsourcing patch approval blindly to any distribution, you probably aren't doing anything particularly interesting.
Absolutely. But still, the final goal is fine : if more people go to this museum to see this "haunted statue" and learn new things, then I guess it's okay.
Yes yes, I know it's about boycotting those companies.

Accepting the fact that someone only cares about PRISM and similar government spying: All companies are involved.

You can claim the OS money back, sometimes. I don't know if anyone ever actually did that, or if it's still something that people can do.

So, even if the machine has a bad OS pre-installed you can remove it and reclaim the money. OR there are a few hardware makers who sell machines with Linux pre-installed.

But, assuming the boycott is strong: What if those hardware makers also sell to governments? Do you add those makers to the boycott?

And, once you have the hardware: Where do you get Internet connectivity from? Because all those companies are happy to roll over and give the government data.
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When I see the freaking Education Department on the same list I have to wonder if something else isn't going on. Where is national security implicated there? For that matter, the Social Security Administration?

Now, there's good reason to suppress certain types of leaks from those organizations, they have a lot of private data on Americans (Obamacare put all government guaranteed etc. student loans going forward into the government, and a quick skim of Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_the_United_Sta...) indicates the DoEducation is naturally involved).

But that's not been a problem as long as I can remember, so I somehow doubt that's the intention of this insanely broad program. As I've mentioned in other akin discussions, I remember Nixon, and this feels like Nixon to the Nth degree.
More like they wanted absolutely nothing to do with any of this, and just let him get on the plane whilst panning off whatever excuse they could think of ("um.. your paperwork isn't in order").

They really didn't want to have to make a decision about anything, and now they won't.
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Or it could be that this is impartial reporting of a situation where little is known and nothing has been proved, which is how things should be done in a free press. But feel free to stick to your paranoid interpretation.
>If Senator Wyden says that something's unconstitutional and that is why he's voting the way he is, say, on the Senate Intel Committee, fine, but the courts and the Executive branch won't honor that yet. Or, for something hypothetical, the Senate could pass a resolution that the Patriot Act was unconstitutional, and then people would be surprised but otherwise nothing would have changed.

I don't see how that's different than it is for the courts. If Justice Scalia writes a book describing his theory of constitutional interpretation and how he thinks specific cases should have come out, that doesn't mean anything the same as an individual Senator's speech or a Congressional resolution doesn't mean anything.

>Also, Congress could repeal the Patriot Act, saying it was unconstitutional, on Monday and enact it again on Tuesday without mentioning constitutionality and give any reasons they want or no reasons.

So can the Supreme Court. For example, Plessy v. Ferguson has since been overruled. Conversely, the modern interpretation of the commerce clause is a lot broader than it was prior to the New Deal. Granted the court is supposed to give a reason, but they don't actually have to, and in many cases the "reason" is just that they now disagree with the previous precedent (and the real reason is often that different people are now on the Court).

>Or, I can say something's unconstitutional and so can you and so can anyone, but when the Supreme Court says so, it really sticks. To me, this is a difference in kind.

I don't see how you're distinguishing this from when Congress "says so" by enacting legislation or the president "says so" through an executive order. Obviously they have to do so in their official capacity and (for Congress) have a majority in agreement, but so does the court.
> Surprised the cab to the airport didn't "break down" (or blow up) or he didn't get mugged on his way to the airport.

He's in no danger of being assassinated. There wouldn't be any point.

Killing him to "make an example of him" doesn't make sense. Killing him with plausible deniability wouldn't send a message and killing him openly would just would just make the CIA look bad.

However the US government can, publicly and openly, make his life very difficult.
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It already has ended with a tragedy. Our privacy rights and 4th amendment protections have been thrown out the window. The making of Snowden into a Kardashian spectacle is to distract us from this fact.
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Cipher punks used to urge everyone to run encryption software as often as possible. This was to make sure that privacy and anonymity because the default, and that people wanting to breach that privacy had to justify it. Those people couldn't just say "only the bad guys try to hide what they're doing".

It feels a bit like TV crime shows. In reality you never talk without a lawyer present. On TV it's only the bad guys who lawyer up.
In other words, they are trying to prevent what happened with Assange. Speaking of which, is he still stuck in te Ecuadorian embassy?
That is what we all should do. Imagine when lot of internet users globally used Tor and encrypted all their messages. Just because. NSA would go nuts trying to target them all.
I did which is quite strange since it's where I live. Maybe I just got used to it by now, interesting thought. Thanks for bringing it up.
It seems to me that he always characterized Hong Kong as a stalling tactic. He likely bought himself months or even years of time by exploiting the diplomatic situation and legal red tape. It turns out he only needed a few days. That's not a sign that he's in trouble - it's a sign that he's leaving an appropriate amount of leeway in his plans.
I think we all know that the true intentions of the countries involved in this matter and the public statements are not going to line up here. They would be absolute fools if they came out and said "we stalled to let him leave the country" but when you look at the situation it's almost undeniable that is what they did (not that they would probably see anything wrong with it).

Asking for sources is completely inane.
Even better solution to traffic: develop real high-speed rail in the US, live closer to where you work / need to be (stop suburbs / sprawl), ride bikes or even just motorcycles / mopeds in California where filtering is legal, or walk.

This has a lot of other nice first-order benefits like real communities, decreased pollution, less time wasted commuting, and tons of second-order benefits.
Try reading the actual statute. I even linked to it. It requires gross negligence. Making wild assumptions does nothing to help our cause.
<< A Defense Security Service online pamphlet lists a wide range of “reportable” suspicious behaviors, including working outside of normal duty hours. >>

Certainly the only plausible explanation that salaried gov employees are working overtime is that they are spies -- at least we can all agree on this.
This is a smart move. There is no way the US will use force against a passenger plane just to get Snowden, so the pilot can safely ignore any US demands and continue on to Havana regardless of air space and threats, though it will take guts. Perhaps there will be a last minute shift change and a GRU pilot will end up in the cockpit.
For it to be impartial the journalist would have given equal weight to his status as a whistle blower and as someone who is wanted by the USG for blowing the whistle and taking some government property in order to do so.

First impressions count. What you lead an article with serves as the context for the rest of the story and is the part that's most likely to color the reader's judgment. Also, most people only skim the first part of an article; the abandonment rate drops precipitously with every passing paragraph, which is why you put the most important things first, and the least important things last. This idea is succinctly conveyed by the literary maxim: don't bury the lede.

It's really not a paranoid interpretation. It's well known you can sway a reader's view on a topic by the order information is presented, and being aware of this tactic is useful for thinking critically about a news story. Every news outlet has a particular bias; the BBC is no exception. This isn't in any way to say it's a disreputable outlet.
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Any ideas on why he have chosen Venezuela over Russia? Is russian government more likely to trade him for something with the USA? Or maybe he just was unable to obtain asylum in Russia on reasonable terms(e.g. russian government demanded him to disclose other classified information)
> that the future of interface is essentially data visualisation

Does that imply that ideal framework would be a data visualization layer? Something that transforms a generic representation of data into markup with style? Could we build an interface out a descriptive layout of domains with associated actions? (Here's some photos, here's an action to create a new one, now build an interface. These actions apply to a user account.)
Just make sure the laptop has a hardware off/on switch for the wireless card. Then flip the switch to "off" for PRISM-free mode.

/snark
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I guess I would consider exposing our next-generation fighter plans to the Internet gross negligence. That's all I'm saying.
I will take all of this at face value, but the greater point is something that she mentioned at the end; that the political smearing/prosecution of whistleblowers has to stop. Good on you Ms. Jonsdottir!
Ask HN: Should there be a 'big topic' filter for days like this?
This has probably been brought up before, but I couldn't find it.

I understand that 99% of the time the upvote method of reader filtering works just great, but would it be good if, very very occasionally, when there is a dominating topic such as Snowden or Aaron Swartz the mods could flag high ranked submissions as related and then either have an option to view with these stories filtered out, or for them to be pushed over to a 'big topic' page?

Obviously the up votes on submissions such as they are at the moment show a lot of people are very interested, but it feels a bit like watching a 24 hour rolling news channel right now.

I don't think anyone wants HN to start branching by topic all the time, that way the slippery slope to reddit lies, just a once on a blue moon feature for these really dominant topics.
Actually, it's satire.
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Unfortunately that is a huge point, since I need to program using Nvidia cards.
I hope this is a sarcastic comment.
Brilliant: I put in a question and it returned "405 Not Allowed".
Snowden on the run, seeks asylum in Ecuador
I disagree. It was Iceland which did not bail out its banks, said a nice "FU" to its foreign account holders and has now economic growth (Iceland expanded 4.60 percent in the first quarter of 2013 over the previous quarter).

It was also Iceland which gave Bobby Fisher a passport.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Asylum_in_Iceland

You must give the vikings one thing: They've got balls!

Looks like a perfect destination for Snowden in my opinion.
The way I understand it, the ballot by itself does not unique ly identify the voter -- however in addition to the physical and electronic ballots, an electoral notebook records the vote and links the ballot to the voter's identity. As part of their "audit", The CNE refused to include the information from the notebooks, and thus irregularities such as an individual voting multiple times as a deceased person would not be able to be detected.
Wouldn't it make more sense to sue him for libel?
I'm quite curious what you did to piss him off so much, the overprotective father is a well established meme but going to such lengths to destroy a person's reputation and livelihood takes it to the next level.
Because he is starting at China, one superpower that is an antagonist of the US; taking the first leg of his trip to Russia, another superpower that is an antagonist of the US; and traveling through one to three countries (Cuba, Ecuador, and/or Venezuela depending on the the report) that style themselves as enemies of the US. His travel itinerary is strong evidence that he was a spy for a foreign power this whole time.

Incidentally, every one of the countries on the list plays the Great Game as aggressively as the US does, and spies on and oppresses its people more aggressively than the US. These are not places where someone with an interest in peace or human rights can seek refuge.
Now the New Yorker is posting articles like The Onion. The world really is upside down at the moment.
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Discussed and declared dead yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5925294
Andy Borowitz is a well-known satirist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Borowitz
You seem to misunderstand how static linking works.

If P statically links to its own version of L2, then L2 is just a part of P. The fact that there may be a dynamically linked version of L2 elsewhere on the system is irrelevant.

Consider:

L -> L2 -> P

L -> L2 -> Q

L -> L2 -> R

If the authors of L2 release a new version that P and Q are happy with, but creates an extremely subtle segfault condition in R, then what?

The packager could just wait to release the upgrade to L2 until all downstream packages have compatible releases.

The packager could backport a subset of the L2 patches that is still compatible with R (Redhat does this a lot).

The packager could silently curse the author of R for not statically linking the necessary frozen-in-time version of L2 and thus bypassing this problem entirely.
I know very little, but on the surface, granting asylum for a chess player is a different beast than granting asylum for someone who dispelled NSA secrets.
Unlike most of us just commenting on the story, they are doing something, and I applaud them for it.
Ill go a step further. Snowmen is really a bellwether event created by this administration to either provide a redemption story for the Obama administration, should the public object too strongly-- or to test if surveillance can be taken much farther (if the public remains apathetic)
Thank you for adding nothing to the discussion.
You can consider whatever you want to be gross negligence. The legal system, on the other hand, would look to things like the exact circumstances, the reasons things were done as they were, and whether and to what degree the relevant actions deviated from relevant rules, regulations, and standard practices in similar situations.

And unless you have all of that information, you can't possibly make that judgement.
Their gambit is likely if there's lots of press there, less chance for some clandestine CIA op to capture him.
Venezuela? Oh no. I feel like this is going to end badly for Snowden. Its hard to imagine him not getting scooped up in a black helicopter now.
Many times a day I'll just open my stream and read a few tweets. Usually I'll find great content like links to blog posts and job opportunities. I've gotten a lot of real value out of Twitter.
Google translate: Snowden has landed in Moscow on the way to Oslo, Gardermoen. Pirate Party mobilizes support in Oslo when he arrives.

https://twitter.com/PiratPartiet_No/status/34878871367489945...
I just took this screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/sjNd5Z7.png

It seems excessive to me. Yes, Snowden is absolutely a huge news story. But the level of duplication between those different stories is staggering.
Did you even read their statement? They're the ones trying to provide him safe passage to a place of refuge. Remind me again, as its a common refrain, how shamelessly self-promoting WikiLeaks is? To my knowledge, everyone involved has made great personal sacrifices (basically given up their lives) to expose the truth to an indifferent public. Bradley Manning has been locked away for years, denied almost all human interaction. Julian Assange is holed up in an embassy. Snowden is the most wanted man on the planet. Do such people really deserve your derision?
> 8 spaces is fine.

I'm not talking tab characters, I'm talking indentation of whole paragraphs with plain spaces, as seen in the article. Most existing viewers just wrap long lines so that the wrapped content is unindented: this makes any indentation hard to notice and mostly useless. For your proposition to be viable, viewing software has to detect indentation and keep that indentation in wrapped lines.

> Asterisks are fine.

Ok, but usually you want to indent the wrapped contents by 2 columns otherwise asterisks become hard to notice. This is only possible with special magic in the viewer.
Was just logging in to post the same.

It looks like their nameservers went down? All my sites hosted behind GoDaddy domains are all down too.

Anyone else have a more technically complete explanation for the outage?
Well seeing as how they are using it in Star Trek and that takes place in ~2265, we've got a few hundred more years.

As far as "confusing and boring" I think that depends on the implementation. I've been using WinMo8 for the last 6+ months and there have been a few gotchas but for the most part, the interface is a lot easier to use than iOS6. Although I think that has more to do with the UX and not the UI. I love apps that TapBots make but I don't have the patience and artistic talent to create interfaces like that. My developer hat says it's definitely a lot easier to program apps Flat, but it's very easy to do it incorrectly. You're not alone, but now that Apple opened fire on Skeuomorphic design [1][2] and lots of people look to Apple as design leaders, I feel like you're going to se a lot more flat.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIQ5zGOo6qE#t=2611s
[2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIQ5zGOo6qE#t=4950s
I don't think he's facing the death penalty. According to this article he faces a maximum of 10 years on each charge:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732368350457856...
Same. I don't know if it's a real NSA website that contains a bug (maybe because I am not based in the US?) or just some HNer who set up the whole thing as a joke.
> Snowden is really a bellwether event.

Why would Obama sanction deeply-embarrassing revelations and expose the staggering depth of warrantless spying?
It would make an excellent add-on feature for HN. You're right that it has been brought up before; I think there is actually a good filter extension for HN. I can't find a link now, but I'll keep trying.

There are other useful additions: There's a "thread folding" extension, so you can collapse sub-threads that are not interesting, for example.

One thing I'd like to see is something that highlights anything over 80 characters in the Title submission box. The combination of not being allowed to change the title too much, and not having any idea how many characters are in the title unless I count them, is a bit frustrating.
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"Always assume that some of your employees (or co-workers) can’t be trusted."

And always assume that your employer can't be trusted.