skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not only about people buying sense of safety at the expense of privacy and it's obvious problems due to shifting powers and vastly greater opportunities for abuse with decreased chance of ever being caught of such abuse.

It is about the faulty argument that the "nothing to hide" argument and it's various mutations are, as the paper argues. One of the problematic parts is that the faultiness of the said arguments aren't very obvious on an individual basis. Although the argument for "stopping 9/11 ever happening again"(or any other "fight terrorism" argument) is to "save lives", which inherently subjects to "any (American) lives", the "nothing to hide" argument acts on an individual basis unlike the argument about terrorism and saving lives which acts on a collective basis.

Because the "nothing to hide" arguments acts on an individual basis, it can be interpreted as "whatever as long as it doesn't happen to me" type of argument, yet it is used to argue for a collective matter.

If it were about the lives, banning alcohol would save tens of thousands of lives annually(assuming that "banning alcohol" would result in zero alcohol consumption, which is false, but brings out the point and even argued hypocricy regarding the "fighting terrorism" argument).
It never will:

Requirements
Django 1.5+
Python 2.7+ or Python 3.3+
django-braces
django-extra-views
django-floppyforms
django-rest-framework
Sphinx (for documentation)

Django comes all bundled together or not at all. IIRC, this was one of the reasons why bcrypt wasn't enabled for so long: the canonical Python library came bundled with C code.

I am excited for this, but I don't see it going into django.contrib.
Yes it helps. Thank you.

"[...] and at least in my case I have a not to exceed the cost of the work clause etc.".

Now, that makes sense. It would have massively changed my opinion of the elance terms if they would have included that as it would decrease the risk of personal bankruptcy by a mile.
Metadata is not (necessarily) located above data - they are (usually) located next to each other and the metadata augments the data.
Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims
The only PRE-BUILT option.

If you're willing to wait for a built-to-order, you can bump the processor, memory, and storage. I'm typing this on a brand new 13" with twice the default RAM and SSD; I didn't feel most of what I do is CPU-bound enough to bump that as well.
It wouldn't surprise me if this was deliberate by an entity to prevent unmonitored communications.
Privacy, Search Engines, and Government Monitoring
8 Major Mobile Carriers Join Ubuntu Touch Advisory Group
Being right about the problems is the first step. I would argue providing a bad solution for a problem you know exists is better than providing a good solution for a problem that doesn't exist.
Oh. Well, I guess that's a huge difference from a father finding his young daughter making things on paper that are just plain beautiful!

Parents have always found their progeny's output amazing. Crayon drawings are easier to put up on the fridge, too. But hey, iPad.
Do you know where that quote is from? Everything I saw seems to indicate it is from 3 musketeers but I could not find it in the project gutenberg edition or the wikisource version
Information Hiding in JavaScript
LinkedIn has a new service where they offer to centralize your contact management by importing all your contacts from wherever and giving you one central place to keep track of them.

It may or may not be a good idea, but it isn't phishing.
> they look at the number, if the number is foreign, it's good. If there's an error and the number is US (for example, a clerical error) the query results are IMMEDIATELY destroyed, and this event is reported to subcommittees and FISA court.

They've also said they are not allowed to monitor U.S. citizens living abroad. What if they have a number outside the U.S. How do they detect that a number belongs to a U.S. citizen or resident? If a non-U.S. person has a phone number from the U.S. but they are not a citizen/resident and are not inside the U.S., is that protected or not?

> The metadata is collected, destroyed after 5 years, but cannot be queried except under the stringent circumstances.

That seems to contradict what they also said today, that no court order is required to query the database and it just requires reasonable suspicion on the part of the analyst.

> Alexander said that 20 analysts and 2 managers (himself and Inglis) are the only people with access to this database.

Is that technical access or legal access? In other words, are there technical limitations preventing anyone but those 22 people from accessing the data, or is everyone else just not supposed to? If they have sysadmins managing the databases, surely they have access too, as Snowden and Binney have both said?
Pilot SSH is now available on Android
Those rights on that piece of paper have saved us from much government tyranny.

Really? Have you lived outside of the USA at all? Because I fail to see how anyone who has can make this statement. Life is no better or worse. The constitution does absolutely nothing.

Indeed, without the Bill of Rights, we would have lost many of them long ago. The founders were rightfully wary of government in this regard

This says more about American culture than it does anything else. Of course Canada survived without a constitution for most of it's existence, the UK still doesn't have one, and Australia doesn't have a Bill of Rights. In fact, most countries in the world don't have a constitution as America knows it to be. They seem to be doing just fine.

The USA is different than most countries throughout history,

No, actually, it isn't. The principles of the USA were in place in Athens and Rome thousands of years ago, the Magna Carta and the Republic of France more recently. Stop believing your own mythology.
Our brief highlighted the utter irrationality of the government's No Fly List procedures. The plaintiffs in Latif all flew for years without any problems. But more than two years ago, they were suddenly branded as suspected terrorists based on secret evidence, publicly denied boarding on flights, and told by U.S. and airline officials that they were banned from flying¾perhaps forever.

One of the reasons that I'm not too attached to the specific details of the Snowden story (aside from supporting him, of course) is that it's just a piece of a much larger picture. Snowden's "NSA direct server access" is but a tiny speck in an ocean of civil liberties problems.

In this case, the government is effectively using a quasi-military/police force to control who can travel the country. (Yes, I know you can drive, but for business travelers, air travel is many times the lifeblood of their work) People are banned from traveling, in many cases from performing their livelihoods. They do not know how they got on the list. They cannot get off the list.

In charge of all of this is an agency, best I can tell, that has a mission of making all transportation safe from random terror attacks.

It's insane. Aside from not protecting anybody, can you begin to imagine the ways such a system could be abused? It staggers the mind.

There are probably around 100 people in the entire country that shouldn't fly. But the way this no-fly list is constructed, it will continue to increase year-by-year, without any incentive to pare the numbers back. Is anybody doing the math on the kind of economic impact such a system will have over a few decades?

I've said it before. We need to completely disband the TSA. Structural adjustments are not going to fix its scope creep, conflict of interest with the military industrial complex, and lack of competence. It's just gotta go.
A Silent Film About TDD
FYI: I wouldn't be surprised if the parts of django-braces and django-extra-views we're using end up making it into django.core. As for the other dependencies (floppyforms and rest-framework), I'm sure there'll be further discussions if and when we start pushing for inclusion in django.contrib.
Can FISA warrants be used in situations where an Article III warrant would be required? I don't think that's the case. Also, tons of executive agencies have subpoena powers, e.g. the SEC.
What a nasty thing to write.

Like I'm anyone to talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5894298
Yep, you're right on it. This is exactly what I've been discussing in most of my comments over the last few days. You hear, just as in every other media-saturated issue, the same key phrases being repeated to absurdity, so as to both shape public opinion and debate and to divert attention away from asking more pointed questions and having to discuss the real reach of the programs.
well facebook won't be able to see you(your IP loc), but VPN is not completely safe as they are required to keep logs + there's also Money trail(credit card) leading directly to you, negating the effect of Tor whatsoever.
confirmed.

http://www.npr.org/2013/06/10/190160772/amid-data-controvers...

The estimated power of those computing resources in Utah is so massive it requires use of a little-known unit of storage space: the zettabyte. Cisco quantifies a zettabyte as the amount of data that would fill 250 billion DVDs.

"They would have plenty of space with five zettabytes to store at least something on the order of 100 years worth of the worldwide communications, phones and emails and stuff like that," Binney asserts, "and then have plenty of space left over to do any kind of parallel processing to try to break codes."
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They confirmed that a court order is not needed to query the database, only the reasonable suspicion of an analyst.
I was working on a blog post. Thought I would try out showterm. I'm now redoing this as a proper screencast, but I wanted to get it out there.
Installing/Configuring the Latest WAMP Stack under Windows 7+
> Compare the look-and-feel

http://grappelliproject.com/
...transcripted to text and compressed. even better.
How about the simple fact that you don't need multiple data centers with capacities measured in exabytes to store "metadata"?
How does Linkedin store the email password? Plaintext since they can't send hashes across?
The Worst Mistakes
Anytime you collect less info, it makes your fraud screen less intelligent. But it is all a balancing act and much more an art than science to keep consumer inconvenience to a minimum while not having more chargebacks than you or your merchant account provider can live with.
It's not an adversarial court because its powers are circumscribed to issuing warrants and subpoena orders, which are not adversarial processes in any court (at least, any court in the U.S. that I'm aware of).
Formation of Carrier Advisory Group for Ubuntu mobile development
> faithfully replicate the mistakes of php/mysql worst practices as interpreted by rails

I assume you're talking about things like snap-extras and restful-snap. Those libraries are not a part of the Snap Framework. They are simply libraries that I and my coworkers are using to help us ship apps more quickly. We put them on hackage because we thought others might be able to benefit from them. They are still very young and it is uncertain what direction they will finally take. The core framework still consists of just snap-core, snap-server, heist, and snap.

If you as a Snap user still think this is a sign that the framework is going in the wrong direction, we'd love to get your input and involvement.
How Balanced Built Its New Search System Using Ember.js
Showrooming, using an actual showroom. Well played.
I think the difference here is that the goal is more ambitious (100% diet replacement). Ensure is explicitly a dietary supplement. The marketing, cost, flavor, and nutrient profile reflect that.

It's like wanting to enter a high end auto race and you just buy a sports car off the lot. It will be expensive and slow. The fast cars are custom built because the market is small and the requirements are unique.
No, we definitely do not want to start selling user data. Our whole goal is to connect the applications and services that people use, making it easier for them to work with technology.
For those in SF, the San Francisco Hacker News (http://sfhackernews.com/) group is putting together a panel called "How to prepare for a seed round."

More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/563105847065967/?notif_t=pla...

eventbrite tickets here: http://sfhn-seedround.eventbrite.com/

We have Lili Balfour (Atelier advisors), Ash Fontana (AngelList), Hiten Shah (KissMetrics), Will Bunker (Match), Nathan Beckord (FounderSuite) on the panel ready to chat and help out anyone interested.

You should come out if you're a hacker/entrepreneur wanting to find out more about funding and meet great people!
Such comparisons are rhetorical devices to substitute emotional appeals for rational argument; its a good thing that people tend to dismiss them.

Make the case for what the problem is with what Bush or Obama is doing, fine; after you've made the case use an example of an act of Nazi Germany that is genuinely similar in the relevant respects to make the point that the problem isn't merely theoretical, sure. But directly compare Bush/Obama to Hitler ... well, unless your goal is to provide an emotional boost to people who have already bought into the substance of your complaint, you shouldn't do that, and its quite right that people start tuning you out when you do that, especially when you open with it.
My use of an ellipsis was to indicate that I cut some material from the quote. I do not understand why you quoted "..." My comment had to do with the reason why it is the number one downloaded paper.
Where Samsung ads go, Apple hate is sure to follow
If you're leaving the house/office I think the value evaporates. Unless you are a door-to-door salesman perhaps.
I hate this heat-map shit. I run an Tor exit node and a public wifi access point in my neighborhood. I encrypt all my drives. I use PGP. I have four cell phones because I do cellphone development. I bitcoin mine, and made a pile of money in the bubble, which I transferred in multiple thousand-dollar increments from a foreign bank to mine, to stay under my mtgox daily limit. I donated to Ron Paul once. I closed my Facebook account.

I haven't done anything wrong or illegal, but there is no way I'm not a big red flag on their map.
News: MySQL Cluster 7.3 Enables Faster Development of New Web & Mobile Services
Well, I know nothing about Hungary, but one thing I can say for sure. Positive discrimination is discrimination. If you want people to be equal, they must be equal. The moment you make people different, they are not equal anymore, and you are discriminating.

Positive discrimination doesn't fix wealth unequality, because it fights no cause of unequality. Doesn't reduce the etinic hate, it's the other way around, it causes more of it. And doesn't integrate groups.

There are policies that actualy solve each of those problems, but they are not usefull for dividing the population... and for some reason lots of governemnts prefer a non-solution that does that.
which Snowden says is also barely audited
The ASP.NET MVC Game Genie
So true. Even Target can make simple meta-data conclusions: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
People are protein...
the book website/author claims racket to be "the most unique programming language in the world"?

Is it really, I know that racket is a scheme implementation, I thought scheme is to lisp what java is to c++, a saner less powerful version

http://realmofracket.com/about.html
JavaScript: var functionName = function() {} vs function functionName(){}
Something about a frog and boiling water seems relevant somehow.
Great job!! Looks cool
The question I've been wondering about is how he'll get money to live on. Presumably it won't be long before the US will freeze his bank accounts, if they haven't already.

Has he set up offshore bank accounts in advance? Won't they get frozen too?

Is he planning on working in HK? He probably doesn't have a visa that allows working, and switching visas usually requires leaving the country. He's too well-known now to work under the table.

Did he carry huge amounts of cash?
Asking for my email password is phishing, period.

It may be phishing for a less nefarious cause, but how's the average enduser supposed to know the difference? We need to plant the meme that any site asking for another site's password is always wrong.
Tell us more about your ex-girlfriend, Michael. It's really entertaining and insightful. She would be such a better person if she would have just done what you told her, and her point of view is completely invalid. Tell us more.

I especially like how you channeled Ashton Kutcher. That really demonstrates how committed you are to logic and reason.
Nay! Don't be hasty! Find someone else to point them at. We live in a target rich world.
Why I never had LinkedIn. Back in the good old days the only way to prevent it from spamming you on behalf of your friends was creating an account and then unsubscribing from emails.

I had to contact costumer support twice to remove two email addresses from their databases.

Fortunately mass emails or notifications without a single-click unsubscribe button are forbidden now.
Warning: this article does not present any evidence.

Schneier is a great cryptologist, I've read his books, I've carried them around, I'm a big fan of his work.

BUT.

He's seriously lagging behind in his coverage of this scandal, it's like he's just reposting what others have already said and often stating the obvious.

So the NSA has the capability to store voice? No, really? Like since 1940????

Sorry, Bruce, but this article is shit.
Recent evolution of a story on Hacker News:

An incorrect story is posted, and quickly rises up the homepage.

Hacker News commenters wave their torches and pitchforks.

Somewhere between a couple hours and a couple days later, a correction is posted.

The correction never attracts the same amount of attention, and multiple people inevitably post comments saying something to the effect of 'just because this time proved to be factually inaccurate doesn't mean our rage isn't justified, since this could conceivably happen in the future.'
"Privacy, then, is not the trumpeting of the individual against society’s interests, but the protection of the individual based on society’s own norms and values."

Was it intended to be "Privacy, then, is not the trumpeting of the individual against society’s interests, but the protection of the individual FROM society’s own norms and values."?

I want to make sure I'm understanding the concept. The original means to me that the individual is protected by the norms and values of society. The revised version means the individual is protected from society's norms and values. It seems like both should be true.
I think this redesign is pretty bad for UX but great for design (e.g. it's pretty but useless).

1.) You cannot make a PR from the main repo page anymore, you must go to a branch.

2.) The number of commits is emphasized over the number of pull requests, WTF? This one just blows me away.

3.) The whole PR process itself is largely more complicated and requires many more clicks (e.g. trying to swich repos is a bitch, and you have to click just to see the drop down, which then disappears after you select one).

4.) The right hand navigation bar is more or less worthless and too small.

5.) Moving the link to clone/co to the bottom right of the page is silly and totally makes it harder to find/use. I still don't see how this can be less important than the number of commits...

I still love github, it looks nice, it's just totally unusable. Feels like an April Fool's day joke come early with bad taste.
The interview he's talking about [1] was posted here [2] and it really is extraordinary. I highly recommend watching all the videos—unfortunately, they carved it into pieces and you have to scroll down the page to get at them. But it's worth it. The transcript doesn't convey how dramatic the discussion was, or capture William Binney's muttered asides ("including content! including content!") or show the meaningful expressions on their faces, or how the others react as each one is talking. I found the whole thing riveting and I'm still surprised that USA Today put it together. Having all four of them around a table created something entirely more compelling than one-on-one interviews.

Edit: also, the transcript is incomplete and leaves out some of the best parts, such as Binney's story of how he called "Tom" (i.e. Drake, whose phone he knew was being tapped) to let the government know that he had evidence of malicious prosecution. Plus the endearing smile on his face as he points out that his prosecution was dropped after that.

USA Today should put up the whole unbroken discussion. Apart from the obviously important content and the obvious authoritativeness of the speakers, it's just a great piece of television—and it's not even television. It puts actual news TV to shame.

1. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5891101
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Good point. The first step should always be to implement the process. Automating it from the get go can result in more effort than it's worth, when you decide to change and iterate on the process as you move forward.
Personally as a web developer I honestly wished this sort of tools started to get more and more traction. I'm getting a tad tired of using "dozens" of different languages and tools/frameworks to get a freaking website up and running by using good practices.

Quite frankly, I think web developers are, among all the IT people, the ones with more fragmented and disposable tools there is. If you look at a Mac developers, all they have is Xcode, that's it, one language, one framework to rule them all. Window developers have .NET. Game developers, they use one language/engine and that's it ! Not saying it's easier in anyway, just saying they don't worry about what tools to pick, they just do it, almost with just one language.

Web developers on the other hand have to work with a back-end and front-end language, deal with front-end JS mvc frameworks, maybe Coffescript instead ? CSS frameworks, or just use SASS ? cross-browsing issues and hacks, picking the right web server, database, VPN or CAP, on top of that you better have a task runner for all those "compiled" JS files and css, and a watcher so it compiles when you update a file..See where this is going ?

Plus web development tools are so volatile to change. Just look at Backbone for instance, last year it was the best thing for JS standalone apps. This year it's Ember... It's freaking insane IMO. So I really wish either OPA or something even more clever to come along and give us a little and let us just worry about building an app and not having to learn dozens of tools every year.

Having options is awesome, but needing to pick lots of options it's frustrating sometimes
Its not about whether you "like food" or not.

• Not everyone has access to proper ingredients/tools/knowledge that are required for maintaining a proper diet.

• The vast majority of food is perishable and does not transport/keep/distribute well.

• Lots of people like food too much and overindulge.

Your analogy of sex would be more appropriate if you made it analogous to sleep.

Many people out there love to sleep. But I don't think anyone would argue that sleeping is a "good" or "efficient" use of time, nor do I think anyone would be opposed to providing more or better sleep to those who currently struggle with it.

Soylet is flawed, but subjectively arguing that Soylent is stupid because you like to stuff your face makes you as ignorant as those "40% of people too damn fat for their own good" that you so readily attack, it just means you have a better control mechanism.

Stop trolling.