skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Undercover cop wrote leaflet McDonald's sued over
The author answered a related question on Quora:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/09/how-different-i...

Sounds like we aren't all crazy. :-) Also, the other posts on the blog (at least that I have read so far) are definitely worth your time if you liked this one.
That won't help at all. One vulnerability once and it's game over.
You fundamentally misunderstand what "privacy" refers to in this context. "Private" information is not everything that is not public. The assumption is not that the government can only access that information you make freely available to the whole world. "Private" information is that information that is within your personal sphere of privacy. The archetypal examples, specifically enumerated in the Constitution, are your physical person, your home, and your personal property. The farther away you get from these examples, the more other people that have access to your information, the greater the expectation that the government should be able to access that information without a warrant.

It is interesting you give the examples that you give, because the government can get, at least Constitutionally, your bank records without a warrant: https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/privacy, or your medical records: http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/faq-government-ac.... To the extent that such information is protected, the protections are statutory in nature, not Constitutional.

> For the government to search records that a citizen has made any effort to shield from public view, it much have specific and articulable cause to suspect that citizen of a specific crime

This is "alexqgb's interpretation of what the law should be" not what the framers had in mind when they drafted the 4th amendment.
You are acting like somebody should care that you have kids. Seriously, who gives a fuck. Either you are a good fit for the job or not. Your "poor me" life circumstances are your own and frankly nobody cares. There is a reason why it is illegal to ask maritl status, etc. They are not relevant to a job.
Riak 1.3.2 Officially Released
> If you are fingering somebody and then make a move to insert your penis, there is plenty of opportunity for that person to say no or pull away, if she/he does not want it.

In instances of sexual assault, this is not at all true and there are a variety of complicating factors that go into sexual assault situations that negate this statement. Just reading the stories of sexual assault survivors is enough to illustrate how not true this is.

> If every man followed the methods that you describe here and elsewhere in the thread, the human race would die out in one generation.

Ah yes, taking care and being sure of consent certainly means the death of humankind.
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The ugly side of contract to hire is when offers aren't made. That is why it is difficult to convince perm salaried employees to take contract to hire jobs (I'm a recruiter) based on that risk alone. Unless the person was considering a contracting career anyway, the likelihood of accepting C-H employment is much lower than the basic perm job.
I use a Chrome extension that is somewhat similar, but only for images : http://hoverzoom.net/

It's one of these little things that you realize how useful they are when they're not here ;)

Maybe you should try to implement it as a browser extension instead of a website extension? I think it would be more useful (because it is not expected behavior for a visitor of your website).
> Maybe engineer a service that is harder to wiretap?

You can't solve a legal problem with engineering. We're talking about the same agencies who had the ability to get all of the major phone carriers to install wiretapping services – there's no reason to believe they wouldn't do the same to anyone else of interest.
That kind of statement serves as a justification for action even if someone objects to what you did. This is literally the kind of thing rapists say about the sexual assaults they committed.
They could provide all the client software. Hell, they could even make ad targeting work by moving their mail-reading bots to the client and have them select ads from a stack of mothership-provided ads, with no feedback except following the link if you click.

But I agree with you that it's very different from anything they do. Also, too vulnerable to piracy or cloning. Aaand it may not be feasible to run their bots in a weak machine.
Dude, we need to talk! How can we make this happen?
This is less objectionable on a procedural basis than many of our current problems. WikiLeaks received classified information, which means someone in the US committed a crime. They went to a judge and got a search warrant based on a an affidavit establishing probable cause of being related to a crime they are investigating. The secret warrant is a little iffy, but far better than secret courts or wholesale collection of "metadata" on everyone.
Will it be hard in the future to find a job WITH a degree?

A college degree is basically a certification of a certain level of education, but more importantly, a certification of a certain level of willingness to jump through the hoops to get the certification. It's proof that you are willing to behave in ways business finds useful.

So it's not NECESSARY to have a great career, but not having one will close off certain paths for you. It will also close off the possibility of going to graduate school in the future, to study more interesting aspects of math and computer science, or to follow a path like law or medicine where degrees are required, not just helpful.
Can you imagine using OSX as a development box without homebrew?
Oops. Apparently, I've forgotten to include the joke tag.
* Without knowing your background and what country you're in, it's difficult to give the best possible advice. What might make sense in the USA might not be as logical in Europe or Asia.

* Your English isn't bad and your meaning is totally comprehensible, but it doesn't seem likely that it's your first language based on how you worded some sentences. Depending on what country you're in and how it might affect your job prospects, working on improving your English is worth considering and that might help your career more than a degree.

* Without a degree, you probably won't have as easy a time getting your foot into the door at larger companies who receive tons of job applications. Oftentimes, these large companies use certain filters and characteristics to weed down the interview list. If working at a big company is your goal, you'll have a bit more difficulty. But if you like smaller companies and startups, you're still ok.

* If you can demonstrate, whether through personal projects, past jobs, open source projects, etc, that you are competent you shouldn't have a problem finding a job in a startup or smaller business.

* If, after 5 years, you're not close to graduating, it might make sense to reevaluate and consider whether it's worth the continued stress and aggravation and cost if you're flourishing in your career without it.

* Ultimately, you alone have to make the best choice for you. Your parents and friends can give their opinion, but it's your life.
I'm sorry but rejecting form submissions that are imcomplete is not "giving legal advice."

Don't forget; I am still interested in hearing what behavior would constitute recognition that this is a "protest"?
A Culture of Greatness Breeds Success
Seems to be down. Mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20121017013957/http://peetm.com/b...
> I don't understand how this argument that the constitution of a country (which represents its highest thoughts and ideals) can be applied selectively (i.e., only to citizens). If the thoughts contained therein regarding the rights of human beings are indeed 'True', then surely they should apply to all human beings?

You'll get little argument from most 'Mericans for your statement that these rights are human rights. The argument you will get is the rationality of transference. The difference between the OP and any American is citizenship and history.

US citizens of today are beneficiary to a Constitution that was crafted and bled for, over 200 years ago, with nasty war for our independence and claim to self governance. I didn't fight this battle. My father didn't fight this battle. Neither did his father. But one of the dumb-luck results of not only being born in the US to American citizens, are the benefits bestowed upon me by the war that was fought for the benefit of future generations (i.e. ME).

Now... this is going to sound really pointed and "f* y", but there's no other way to say it. Those 200+ year old men and women didn't fight this war for people in other countries, they did it for their own sons, daughters, and many generations that would come.

I agree! Those rights that were fought for should be universal human rights for every single person on the planet. But that's why you have to fight whatever government collects your taxes for those very rights on your own.

Respectfully.
I hope it works out for you. I do like the model, particularly if you allow some rotation between clients for the developers (negative impact on short-term productivity, positive impact on long-term fit).
This Planet Money podcast:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...

and this paper (PDF)

http://faculty.som.yale.edu/FionaScottMorton/documents/State...

Should be a useful primer. It explains how the dealership/franchise structure came to be, and why automakers prefer this model today.
I would expect UPS to inspect and record anything that they would come across in the course of delivering the package. So taking pictures of the outside, recording the destination address, etc. Similarly, given that AT&T can't send your bits without at least temporarily storing or buffering them, and indeed does a lot more inspection of your traffic than that, I don't have any particular expectation of privacy with regards to the bits short of their actually decrypting them.
This is a failure of the browser manufacturers, not the users. I had no idea this was even possible until now- they should surface a feature like this a lot more clearly if they want people to use it.
You are missing the point. Even if erlang did support versioning of modules the problem would still exist. Package maintainers arbitrarily break things up because they immediately see a dependency and think it needs to be a separate package. They do this completely ignoring the big picture of shipping solid / tested code.
No, but homebrew doesn't break things up into an insane number of pieces either. In the context of this blog post, Riak on homebrew is a single package.
Facebook Technical Bug - Email/Phone accessible by Other Person
This is part of an email from facebook about the bug:
we recently fell short of our goal and a technical bug caused your telephone number or email address to be accessible by another person.

The bug was limited in scope and likely only allowed someone you already know outside of Facebook to see your email address or telephone number. That said, we let you down and we are taking this error very seriously.
Describing what caused the bug can get pretty technical, but we want to explain how it happened. When people upload their contact lists or address books to Facebook, we try to match that data with the contact information of other people on Facebook in order to generate friend recommendations. Because of the bug, the email addresses and phone numbers used to make friend recommendations and reduce the number of invitations we send were inadvertently stored in their account on Facebook, along with their uploaded contacts. As a result, if a person went to download an archive of their Facebook account through our Download Your Information (DYI) tool, which included their uploaded contacts, they may have been provided with additional email addresses or telephone numbers.

Here is your contact Information (inadvertently accessible by at most 1 Facebook user):
@.com

We estimate that 1 Facebook user saw this additional contact info displayed next to your name in their downloaded copy of their account information. No other info about you was shown and it's likely that anyone who saw this is not a stranger to you, even if you're not friends on Facebook.
Am I right that a) applies only to direct communications between the end user and Google's servers?

Actually if someone sends an email to my Gmail account using his ISP SMTP server, is the connection between the two SMTP servers likely to be encrypted?
Erlang applications get versions, and you can specify them when you build releases, which are the Erlang's way of packaging self-executables, through a mechanism that is platform independent.

The thing is, Erlang assumes that things work from said releases, and find the newest available applications in their library path. This makes sense because it is entirely possible for an Erlang application that was upgraded without ever being shut down to want to roll back to older versions.

When this happens, this application has a path with all the libraries and dependencies it ever needed and can rollback to an older one (without shutting down), or start fresh from the newest one automatically.

Other metadata may be added by each release as required.

The thing is that Erlang developers who are experienced and will write and ship products and Erlang will know this and try to build releases and packages that respect this. Then package managers will (often) undo it to fit whatever pattern they have in mind. They did it, for example, with Ubuntu, removing one of the test frameworks that is part of the standard library and setting it in a different package.

Users who tried the language for the first time couldn't run things that depended on the standard library because it was separated in many different packages.
> He's not a US person, but instead a well-known citizen of Iceland, living abroad, and is thus not protected by the Fourth Amendment

Again, that actually isn't particularly obvious in this kind of situation. The US property of non-resident aliens enjoys constitutional protection against (for example) expropriation. But there's no equivalent protection for their US cloud data? Oh Well.

On the other hand, as far as I can tell (IANAL) the fellow just got served a warrant, or at least a pretty ordinary court order of the kind that isn't related to foreign-intelligence loopholes or restricted to non-USPERSes. That's roughly the kind of thing that will happen to you in any jurisdiction if prosecutors have good evidence that you have information material to a huge criminal investigation. Maybe the secrecy or the breadth of the order was dubious. (I think it's also very likely that his GMail was scoped out with a FAA702 before the government decided to re-request the information using a means that would allow it to be introduced by the prosecution in a US court case.) But fundamentally it seems </sunglasses> he just got served ... I'll get my coat.
For applications its easier for sure. I've always liked how easy it is to installed statically linked applications. Still, bugs happen.

Development libraries, command line utilities, interpreters-- bread-n-butter developement or unixy stuff or in otherwords, the things the average user don't see-- is usually a a lot easier to get and keep up to date when you have a package manager.
Respectfully, what is this accomplishing?
Is a D-Notice what was used to gag the media about footballer Ryan Giggs having an affair, or was another type of "gagging notice" used there?
Erlang releases appear to be their solution to this.

I fail to understand how, exactly, packagers' choice to not use the release is erlang's (or riak's) fault.
It's actually dudette. You can email me if you wish. But please do note I am discontinuing my health site and bitter about the experience. So I am not exactly an example of wild success.

Peace.
Yeah, seriously. If IBM is good at one thing, it's selling solutions to entities antagonistic to their citizens [1].

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
I think it looks really good. There needs to be more in the hero text, maybe the types of projects that are commonly created with it. The blinking of the menu expander is a bit much for me, somewhat disorienting.
This just seems like a variation of the argument that you should get out of the way of the bullet instead of demanding that the gunman not shoot you in the first place.

I should be able to give whatever data I want to Google without worrying that the government is going to take it from Google in secret.
Why Do Americans Have the Worst DVRs?
Thank you for providing that link!
If you were interviewing for a software engineering position, that question makes sense - that reads to me like an algorithm problem (albeit a three-dimensional one). There's also a couple of other roles for which it would make sense.

The big problem with that question is "cake". Mappings change our entire perception of a scenario (The mass-grave-filling problem of Tetris being a classic example). Cakes have tops, bottoms, fillings, decoration, and so on. This makes a perfectly reasonable question into something much more nasty
AFAIK this is how Stripe works as well.

I don't care about not having to pay unemployment/benefits. The reason I like it (or rather, need it) is because our organization is little more than the employees we have, and I want to make sure that they are awesome.
I like it. Know if there are any good keyboard shortcuts for navigating between the new tabs?
"Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft (MSFT) and other software or Internet security companies have been aware that this type of early alert allowed the U.S. to exploit vulnerabilities in software sold to foreign governments, according to two U.S. officials"

From this and other assertions made in the Bloomberg piece, it seems very fair not to read this as conventional patch management, but as a special arrangement with intelligence agencies. And to read this as, yes, from time to time Microsoft's help does get the NSA into Windows boxes.

Now, we all know that tech reporting often leaves something to be desired. If you're saying the officials were wrong or quoted out of context, then that's fine. But it's not reasonable to dismiss this out of hand as some outlandish Alex Jonesian conspiracy theory.

BTW, obviously I'm not saying that Microsoft's bug bounty program is an NSA plot. It's a good program that every major company should have. I'm also not saying that they don't share bugs with other partners ahead of time, they obviously do. Just that from what the sources in this article (which again, did not originally appear on infowars.com) say, Microsoft does have a special arrangement with intelligence agencies and from time to time has shared bugs knowing they might be exploited by said agencies. The bug bounty program could find the sort of bugs that would (incidentally) be shared as part of this arrangement.
Again, no. And as your own links demonstrate, this is not simply what I personally believe. It's also what the ACLU believes. Seriously, did you even read what you posted?

For instance, the one about medical records is discussing warrants, and whether the government needs one IN ADDITION to clear and articulable suspicion pertaining to a crime, and not just suspicion. Even in cases where the constraints on searches are eased, the reasonable expectation that privacy exists remains very real. Indeed, if there weren't a reasonable expectation of privacy, there wouldn't need to be clear rules describing how and when it can be pierced.

The article goes on to discuss the additional exemptions to the need for warrants pertaining to national security concerns, but as it points out, the existence of these provisions in law IS NOT to be interpreted as a validation of their constitutionality. In fact, the whole point of the link you provided is to underscore how dubious the claims to constitutionality really are.

Here's the crux of it:

Q: Is it Constitutional for the government to get my medical information without a warrant?

A: The ACLU believes that this easy, warrantless access to our medical information violates the U.S. Constitution, especially the Fourth Amendment, which generally bars the government from engaging in unreasonable searches and seizures.[viii] However, because the Patriot Act and the HIPAA regulations have only recently gone into effect, their constitutionality remains largely untested, although at least one legal challenge to the HIPAA rules is underway, and more challenges are likely.
What you say is technically true, but those procedures also exist because it's better, from the company's perspective, to have such demonstration in place than to have to prove, in court, that it did nothing wrong. Companies don't want HR data of any kind (even if it will prove the firm's case) seeing fresh air.

For one example that can be played (by employee) to a win, the most common case of a good person being fired seems to be one in which he's seeking transfer to another team, and the manager decides to punish the "disloyal" report, often with negative reviews and "performance improvement plans" that block transfer outright. In that particular case, it's arguably retaliation (over a legitimate use of internal mobility procedures) and harassment (negative communication interfering with job performance) for the manager to be doing so.

Technically, if a manager interferes with a report's ability to transfer, that is harassment, and bad performance reviews qualify in companies that use Enron-style reviews (i.e. reviews that are part of the transfer packet). That's why Google has secret calibration scores: it's a CYA move. Managers can give positive verbal feedback and annotate it with a smear that the employee never sees. This makes it less likely that a report's lack of mobility will result in a lawsuit.

That's why if you ever see a PIP, you should never sign it, and in fact leave the room immediately. "I have to go to the bathroom". Then you start your internal mobility search immediately. If you do it properly (this includes that you were never there to see the PIP) then the pursuit of transfer happened before the PIP, which hints at a retaliatory context.

This move doesn't work under a probationary period because anyone who seeks transfer when on probation is (reasonable man standard) deemed unwilling to follow workplace policies-- or, more informally but to the point, a flake.
Food Network will not renew Paula Deen's contract because of racial slur
Ah, good point. IANAL, can you tell? ;)
Ah, yes, the Silvermont series should be amazing. It looks like it might have virtualization extensions, too. I can't tell when it's supposed to come out, though.

Should rock for NASes too. Right now only certain i3/i5 NAS seem to do AES acceleration, so the cheapest are around $2k bare from QNAP or $999 from iXSystems.
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