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> I want to speak to an important question, though: why DO we continue?

To add my own perspective, I'm not really driven by contributing to the betterment of humanity as a whole. Humanity in the small in the form of a community and/or a (potential) family, perhaps, but I'm not audacious or driven enough to consider that what I do has a rippling effect.

On the other hand, I continue because I'm so interested in what people can create. Music, indie games, a bit of programming, a new novels here and there discussing the tendencies of people and of nature, a modern philosophy for those unversed in its finer languages and arguments. I'm in a rather fortunate position that I can spend a non-trivial amount of time consuming and discovering the volumes of culture that a globally-connected people can make. When the barriers to creative expression have been lowered enough that all you need is an active imagination, the drive to set it to work, and the time to put it down - that's what I get out of life. I want to see what people can come up with.
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You can just go here to get the information for free:

http://www.coastal.ca.gov/access/BroadBeachCoastalAccess.pdf

They are just providing a better user experience and advertising, but it is public information and it is free.
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I sure hope that {Comment redacted by the NSA}.
It would have been a fantastic effect and win for computerworld.com if their site supported what this article talked about.
Here's what Carter thinks about Venezuelan elections:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/19/3460412/andres-oppenhe...

The voting part: "free and fair".

Does the US government want access to Venezuela's oil? Might they want to destabilize or stabilize a given regime there based on whether the regime is cooperative in giving the US what it wants? Would it make sense to portray Venezuela a certain way to Americans, in order to influence the public's perception and therefore their support of the US government's policies toward Venezuela?
The law he is abiding by is the Constitution.

Where in the Constitution is the right to flee the United States with laptops full of classified information you illegally obtained?

Snowden has clearly committed serious crimes. It's fine to argue they were somehow for the greater good—though I'm not sure what "greater good" carelessly exposing classified information to the Russians and Chinese might be serving—but it seems like the government could present a slam dunk case against him while entirely respecting his rights.
But it is legal ... that is the problem.
> from the water to the high tide line

That's what I've seen reported elsewhere. But this PDF from the state government claims that public access extends to the start of dune vegetation (where it exists) or 25 feet inland of the mean high-tide line otherwise, excluding in some cases a 10-foot buffer around authorized development. That would suggest a substantial portion of the beach is public, even above the high-tide line: http://www.coastal.ca.gov/access/BroadBeachCoastalAccess.pdf

edit: Some more digging turns up that the land up to the mean high tide line is publicly owned, but the right of public access may extend further landwards. In some cases the landowner is required to grant a 25-foot public-access easement above the MHTL, as a condition of getting a development permit. That appears to be what's happened in Malibu, or at least the PDF above is claiming so. In those cases the area above the MHTL is still technically private land, but the public is allowed to access it.
it means pssy and cnt too.
I think the argument being made here is that ultimately your biology dictates that you are a social animal (however hard you may try not to be).
Actually, most of the things that honey bees are critical in pollinating grow closer to the ground.
I'd like to know whether Snowden is still in one piece or if he has been tortured for information on every last CIA officer he might know something about.
Um, doesn't thin margins mean generally mean the industry is mature and most things have been tried?

No, it usually means it's a commodity business. Innovation can be a defensible competitive advantage. As mentioned in the article, because of operating leverage, a fairly small innovation can yield significant profit growth.
I'm assuming you read the article, in which it offers an explanation of how the NSA gets Google data. Are you disputing that very likely explanation for the theory that a Powerpoint slide somehow communicates more technically accurate and viable information?

Obviously, Google could be lying in their most recent denial that disputes such a claim. They are, after all, required to lie if they are directly and materially involved in the program.

On the other hand, were I the business owner of a corporation that held millions of people's information and the NSA approached me for access, I don't think it is at all inconceivable and unlikely that I would attempt to negotiate not having the NSA on my network, in my machines, so I could retain the ability to truthfully tell my users that the company did not allow direct access to company servers.

In the article, Mr. Horowitz suggests that, given other leaks and information we've had in the prior years regarding NSA tapping the internet, the slurping of company data is happening at the on/off ramps to the networks, where data is coming in/out. This is far more likely than Google shipping off deltas in cron batches. Thus, Google et al. can appear on the PRISM Powerpoint, which just says their data was added to the system. That can mean anything, you know. The Powerpoint presentation is hardly a source of empirical data presenting the technical architecture of the program.

This article is attempting to help educate and achieve protection at all hops, not just the hops between you and Google. Perfect Forward Secrecy is just for that purpose--it removes the ability to find your encrypted data crackable via single master key decryption by using temporary keys.

So, while Google can only do so much in resisting NSLs, perhaps there is a little bit worth appreciating here. Google can't stop the NSA from slurping up traffic. But they can prevent that data from being massively decrypted via a single key.
One user (https://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&uid=215784313754106091...) added many of them to Google Maps in early May: http://goo.gl/maps/YO1O7
Task management, GTD, etc. helps but honestly, that level of productivity is somewhat of a prerequisite - it confers no advantage when playing ball with the big boys.

to me, "burnout" is about staying too productive for too long. i personally work to prevent that through disciplined unproductivity: i force myself to have down-time, get enough sleep, exercise as much as possible, i've even picked up reading books again and watch the occasional TV show. a good significant other also should help keep things in balance - and perspective.

this is a marathon not a sprint - and it's never as easy as it looks on techcrunch. ever. not only that, but a large part of the value you derive at a startup should be from the journey and not just the destination - don't forget it's the meandering off the beaten path that often yields unexpectedly huge rewards. keeping these axioms in mind every step of the way helps big time.

it helps to be doing this "startup thing" for the right reasons (there's nothing else you'd rather be doing - or could be doing), rather than to make money. it also helps to have an amazing team you love spending time with, complex problems you love solving, and good customers you love talking to.
Puppet is mature and has tons of cookbooks & community. You may not like it but saying it "sucks" is not right. It works and is used tons.

Chef doesn't run over SSH in any environment I've used that wasn't a toy (vagrant w/ chef-solo). Please fact check.

Fanboy article.
If you define theft as non-voluntary taking, then I would argue that theft is not always unethical. The traditional example is that of a father stealing bread to feed his children. I would not call this to be unethical. Why, then, would I call it unethical to steal of funds to feed a nation?
You told us what it "isn't" but you didn't tell us what it "is". Yes, I could just google, but I don't care enough. I think you missed out on a little bit of marketing here.
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Why don't you focus on the people alive who condone something, rather than an entire nationality or ethnicity or religion including a majority of people who do not condone that?

Why don't you focus on helping people who are disadvantaged with respect to their current disadvantage, rather than on shaming or punishing categories of people resembling abusers of the past?

If a Puerto Rican living in the US has been crippled by corrupt police, it becomes irrelevant that Puerto Ricans were not as historically disadvantaged as blacks. That person should be helped as a person, not moved down in priority for being a Puerto Rican. And so on.
Asking to keep OpenGL up to date through bug reports just because Apple don't care to do it in timely manner themselves sounds waay far from perfect to me. But developers have to deal with what exists of course.
Chrome should change the lock icon to something weaker for sessions that don't use ephemeral keys.

This may be the most important article on HN related to the NSA leaks. Fact is, most of us haven't paid enough attention to the details of https.

EDIT: "something weaker" - didn't mention color. People dont need to understand "forward secrecy", the browser just needs to raise the bar for what's considered secure. The goal is to change server-side behavior, not consumer behavior.
The remarkable Nicholas Easter, with Marley, did the same vast premeditated infiltration of a similar monolithic evil in John Grisham's 'The Runaway Jury'. Anybody who can get the entire courtroom to spontaneously stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance, should receive the heartfelt support of all Americans.
I mean, I guess you could boycott their services and products if you're deeply disappointed with Google. These concerns probably aren't relevant to this because similarly to the OAuth playground, it's simply a developer usability tool. Like the webdev tools and other web-related Google things.
Inspiring read for designers feeling "stuck"
A rather large amount of videos and screencasts can be found at ShowMeDo: http://showmedo.com/
No-one favours the pure Python version at the moment, because we're used to it being unworkably slow. In terms of the actual code, I do prefer pairwise_python in that example, because I can see roughly what's going on. pairwise_numpy is kind of like writing in Perl - it's short, but hard to understand. I use the SciPy stack, and I don't fully understand it. How does slicing a 2D array into three dimensions work?
Emails don't have much effect. I used to email my representatives regularly, to no effect. I always just got an automated response presumably picked out from a set by keywords in my email, and the response was usually praising the thing I was writing to urge them to not support.

Written letters have greater impact, and actual phone calls have far more yet. I don't think recorded voice messages will have as much of an impact as actually calling and interacting with someone in their office. They can ignore recordings just as much as emails, but it's harder to ignore someone who is actually conversing with you, especially if there are many such people doing so.

stopwatching.us and others have put together a phone number you can call which will automatically connect you to your legislators and give you tips on the sorts of points to make. https://call.stopwatching.us/
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This problem won't be solved until software engineers organize, go to Washington DC, and demand reform. If we don't do that, our competitiveness over the next decade is going to take a hit. Its not like everyone in the world is loaded down with the same kinds of legal costs that we suffer here in the states. Chinese, Indian, Australian, New Zealand, Latvian, Estonian, and Brazilian startups are not a huge threat to us now ... in the future they will eat our lunch if our country fucks us in the ass like this moving forward. Why is an investor going to give me money in Silicon Valley, knowing I'm going to get taxed by a dozen or more trolls. He's going to take his money and shop for a foreign team first ... not now ... but in the future when economic incentives bring those teams into existence abroad. Little things like this start the snowballs rolling down the mountain that turn into an avalanche. We think we are the center of the world right now. We sleep on our success, tomorrow someone else will eat our lunch.

Right now these patent laws are being used to tax engineers in order to pay lawyers. The lawyers produce nothing. The laws are set up so we can't do business without shelling out thousands and thousands of dollars to them monthly. This makes it so its harder for us to bootstrap. When we try to get to MVP our attention is divided from the things that matter to all this other bullshit that the lawyers have cooked up. If you are lucky to get a good lawyer, maybe you don't have much of a headache.

But even with the best lawyer, if you see some modest success, the leeches come out of the swamp to suck at your blood ... I mean the patent trolls, and various other lawsuits. The laws make you a criminal no matter how honestly you do your work. You could sit in a clean room and make something all on your own. When you emerge, the leeches will still be granted a right to suck at your revenues. That's how this blasted patent system works today.

Are we going to organize ever and reverse this trend? Probably not. We are all too busy trying to run businesses. You know who isn't busy? You know who has every incentive to spend every waking hour in Washington DC to make sure nothing changes? The patent trolls and the patent lawyers.

As we say after playing a game of Starcraft: GG.
Generally there's debris left from the high tide - seaweed and what not. It's usually pretty easy to tell.
It seems to be easier to do good in theory than to do good in practice.
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Show this button as a reminder that sharing should be a choice.

Is it not a choice anymore? Who is forcing you to share data with a company that might be legally required to turn it over to the authorities in the country's they operate in?
why DO we continue? This is a discussion of the rational justification

the two aren't really connected. we continue because it's hard to think of something that is more strongly selected against, in evolutionary terms, than not wanting to do so.

we are bred for survival. all our ancestors survived long enough to have offspring...

so we continue because, generation after generation, that is what is selected for. rationality isn't that relevant.
it’s the thought behind the most famous speech in all history. To be, or not to be.

In high school I started memorizing that for no particular reason. Upon completing a test, I idly doodled it in the margin waiting for the class to end, and handed in the paper. The next morning, the teacher cornered me in the hall and delicately asked if everything was OK. Bewildered by the time & tone of the question, I suddenly realized what Hamlet's soliloquy was about.
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You can, certainly create an AMI preconfigured with all of your libraries, packages and services ready to go, but the issues arise over time with package updates, system updates, one-off configuration changes .. the list goes on.

The actual configuration of your system will drift further and further away from that templated AMI, leaving you to constantly have to build a new template every time you deploy a new machine, or manually make all of those differential changes to your new system.

Config management can be tailored to rapidly update the configurations of certain classes of systems at a greater interval than the constant cycle of blowing away machines, updating templates, redeploying, etc , etc.
Agreed. It's different than "just doing your job" and uncovering evidence of waste, fraud and abuse.

What it sounds like instead is that Snowden decided there must be waste, fraud, and abuse going on and took it upon himself to go on a fishing expedition to find evidence supporting that; exactly the kind of thing we stridently guard against the government doing to us.

Now I'm wondering whether Greenwald being so incredibly off about PRISM itself was due to Greenwald being not technically savvy, or due to Snowden himself misunderstanding what PRISM did and leading Greenwald and WaPo astray.

And if Snowden was misunderstanding, was it because he was incompetent, or because the evidence he found seemed to support the conclusion he'd already come up with?
As a senior dev who's just started to dabble in games I've found Game Engine Architecture by Jason Gregory to be very useful and high quality.

Oh looks like there's a second edition coming out at some point http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466560010
Record setting, as in, It's the largest extent on record.
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If you are supposed to have special consideration for human life, it's strange that you don't focus on much more lethal campaigns of firebombing, or ground campaigns.
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The "implicit" open source in that statement is more than a little important to state explicitly. You're correct (AFAIK) about open driver support, but many many people use Linux, support free software, but are willing to install the nvidia or amd drivers for the performance benefits they bring so they can get work done. Especially if you're willing to cave and just use a Mac, I think the comparison to nvidia's closed drivers is a fine one.
I tried Feedly but I didn't like how slick & clever it is. It seems to decide (based on popularity) which new posts to show me, when all I really want is a categorized listing of everything that's new. I like a good old-fashioned list where some things are 'unread' and some things are 'read', but in Feedly this seems to be fuzzy concept.

After trying a few other services and apps, I switched to NetNewsWire, which is a client-side Mac app that does what I want. Pretty happy so far.
Manning is in the military, so his case exists in a totally different legal system (which I personally don't think is a good idea, ie: separate system for military justice).

Revealing the spying system gathering US Citizen data is probably the whistleblower part that might be protected. I don't think that the surveillance of foreign citizens at universities in HK or wherever is going to get protected, and revealing that type of stuff is going to be prosecuted.

Your viewpoint on spying may be that it isn't right, however, I believe the only legal defense for Snowden is in the US Constitution, and it grants no rights to foreigners, as far as I recall.

I find it unfortunate at this point that the main story is starting to revolve around Snowden and his attempts at finding sanctuary instead of whether or not what he revealed is important.
On #1, see Wikipedia: A work of the United States government, as defined by United States copyright law, is "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. federal government as part of that person's official duties."[1] In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act,[2] such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law.

It seems the PRISM logo isn't copyrighted unless the US gov't pirated it.
This is how you debug parallel real time systems everywhere. No debugger can trace multiple processors (of different architecture and speed) simultaneously.
Of course, no nation other than the US ever makes this terribly fraught decision. The Axis, for example, always erred on the side of not hurting any civilians. And no nation other than the US today would do something that could even inadvertently hurt civilians.
A thin margin is a little like being highly leveraged.

Spacely Sprockets buys sprockets at about $9.50 and sells them at $10.

Cogswell Cogs makes cogs from scratch for $5 and sells them at $10.

If these companies are "the same size" meaning they generate roughly the same profit, then SS is selling 10x the volume of CC. If they can both cut costs by 10%, then SS's profit almost triples, while CC's only increases by 20%.

This cuts the other way too -- if you are operating at thin margins, a small change can push you into unprofitable. If you have fat margins, your profits just decline.
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Funnily enough, only one of those two FirePros are connected up as a 'graphics chip'.

The intent of the Mac Pro, when you look at it, is to be a small, lightweight, ridiculously powerful OpenCL workstation. It has a single Xeon to handle systems tasks, two FirePros (one of which does graphics and computation, the other does only computation), and PCIe SSDs to keep the OpenCL cores fed and store their data.
Generally those who look to apologize for their white/male privilege say "I'm sorry" through support for a Rawlsian redistribution system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_as_Fairness:_A_Restate...

Libertarians rightly believe this is incompatible with liberty, and thus reject this view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy,_State,_and_Utopia

On the whole, I love Nozick's argument but think ultimately anarchy is a utopian (unrealistic) end that ignores history and presupposes too much. Thus I lean Rawls.
I tried - dragging something using only a trackpad (many people just use a laptop) seems to be quite challenging for the computer challenged people.
Are you saying no one in all of eastern Virginia is able to get a fair trial? If true that would be a far worse crisis for civil liberties than an automated FISA-compliance system.
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I don't think Mitchell really needs to worry much at this point about marketing Vagrant. Everyone in the DevOps space is already plenty well familiar with it (mostly because it's incredibly awesome). Also, TFA explains what it is: “Vagrant is an established project that wraps around a number of existing virtualization providers to allow for extremely quick provisioning of disposable, consistent environments.”
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All that might be true, but nothing is stopping President Obama from ending any of these programs he's reading about in the New York Times with a phone call, followed by an executive order.

Maybe other programs would wiggle their way through the bureaucracy without his notice, but the fact that he hasn't made a big show of publicly terminating these particular programs suggests that he is responsive to the concerns of the public. Unfortunately the concerns of the public don't appear to line up with yours at the moment.

And to get back to my point, they don't line up with Snowden's either. Which is too bad for Snowden, but it doesn't give him the right to do whatever he wants with the classified information he was trusted and paid to protect.
I downloaded and merged the individual PDFs into one file, you can grab it here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6428759/merged.pdf

Edit: I did this using commands mentioned in some other comments and some Googling (this only works on OSX):

curl -O http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs/ch[01-14].pdf && /System/Library/Automator/Combine\ PDF\ Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py -o ./merged.pdf ./*.pdf
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Well, think again. You really think the NSA can't make the SSL cert vendors turn over the keys? I wouldn't count on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5933784