skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Confirming the accuracy of classified information is what would be against the law. the Director of National Intelligence declassified parts of what were leaked but unless Sgt. Snuffy happened to be able to remember exactly which parts those were when discussing in public then he would have a difficult time being able to (legally) talk about which is which.

The statement from the 'guy at the top', on the other hand, would have been routed through his boss and the NSA General Counsel to ensure that it's only referring to declassified programs.
More people need to know about this. I think people get lost in his prose and lose the gist of what he's really trying to do.
They denied any hardware on their property as well:

> We refuse to participate in any program — for national security or other reasons — that requires us to provide governments with access to our systems or to install their equipment on our networks,” he said.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/google-uses-secure-...
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I think it's more complicated than this video suggests. The most obvious omission is where are the rights of non-Americans in all of this? Privacy isn't just something in the US constitution, it's a human right. As it stands it looks as if well known US companies whose users aren't exclusively American are being used as vehicles to abuse people's rights globally.

Also, I'm not sure that there is a business model fix for this. Presumably if someone from the government shows up and insists that certain equipment be installed at your company then you have no legal powers to resist that. If there are data retention laws then you have to store data for some amount of time.

Technology can go some way towards ameliorating the problems, but I think the ultimate fix for this bug is at the political level.
I think about this a lot - I made the jump from salaried worker to self-employed programmer/freelancer/contractor/consultant (depending on how you look at it). But I'm doing enterprise-level architectural programming. It's not very amenable to productizing, so I'm basically stuck being paid for my time.

What that means is that if I want to have a long-term high-security relationship with a couple of key clients, I basically hit a ceiling in hourly rate (a good rate, but slightly below what your general multi-person agency will charge) and I've been at that ceiling for a couple of years now - nowhere close to $250k .

It appears the way to transition out is to bump the rate up significantly so it doesn't appear you're trying to compete with agencies - maybe around $200/hour or 6k-8k/week. But the problem with that is that the long-term relationships can go out the window. They only want to bring you in for shorter periods of time, and you have to hustle more. So the marginal benefit isn't awesome. And I really like my clients and I hate hustling, so I stick with where I'm at. This higher rate I've had for the last 2-3 years is nice and all, but practically what it means is that I'm projected to be able to retire at age 65 instead of age 75. It's not a dramatic difference in lifestyle.

So instead, I've just been trying to amass a larger emergency fund outside of maxing my retirement savings every year. And then I'll do something with it... what, I don't know.

I know, first-world problems, but it seems that now that I finally have a bit of a nest egg, the income-maximizing move would be to use it to invest in one of these other careers the forbes article mentions. But what? Nest egg money isn't really the limiting factor behind a retail operation, it's the actual retail product idea, and I don't really think that way. What's left is real estate, but I'm regularly told I shouldn't even bother if I'm not a fix-it handyman sort, which I'm not. So I'm sort of in this state of perpetual mulling. I wonder if I could just find a talented-but-poor subcontractor, get my own general contractor license, and handle all the business and project management parts (which I love) despite knowing nothing about construction.
Well when the job is literally "National Security" then no, it's not weird that you would refer to the patriotism (a nationalistic term) of the workers.
Oops you're right! Of course there are intelligent justifications for IP. Blindness goes both ways.
"The US has to have a serious look at its secrecy policies..."

Imo, it's too late - the frog is done.
You should be able to run the desktop version on OS X. I don't have a Mac so I haven't tried it, but it's just a jar file.
Sorry, can't find the trash icon :)
Screenshot : http://imgur.com/cf8HVo6
(linux, iceweasel 20)
So could something like this replace Skype someday?
The word order speaks volumes as well.
Here comes the screenshot! http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreirobu/9175528523/in/photos...

We'll roll out a new round of invites in the following days. Last chance to import your feeds from Google Reader. Grab your username.
There is also the excellent Diceware: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
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>- Modern Diesel engines are very complicated due to their turbos, hence are more brittle and expensive to repair.

This is nonsense. Especially the part about turbochargers. It's hard to find a diesel without one these days. The technology is mature, and so widely adopted that it is the default.

>- Price advantage of Diesel is practically not there anymore, but the Diesel model is still more expensive.

Yup, takes much longer to pay for itself, if ever.

>- Modern Gasoline engines have caught up with Diesels in terms of mpg.

No. With a gas engine you can have lots of power, or good economy, never both. If that were true, I'd expect to see at least some adoption in trucking.

>No one bought a Diesel because it's a Diesel.

Everyone who buys a diesel, buys it because it is a diesel. Nobody buys one on accident. I still maintain that diesels got their bad reputation in the US because of the awful Oldsmobile 350 diesel experiment. I expect the persistent lack of diesels in the US has more to do with shady trade shenanigans than anyone's fear of diesels, despite the price.
So... about that 512 qubit D-Wave in the works... How far are we from breaking RSA?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreirobu/9175528523/in/photos...
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"...in certain very specific areas." I grew up near quite rural areas and a certain level of mechanical innovation was expected. You need to use the power take-off on a tractor to run an irrigation pump temporarily until you can buy a new one? Break out the welder. The snow plow broke beyond reasonable repair? Break out the welder.

For further evidence, watch any TV show making fun of rednecks. You'll typically see things like an excavator used to create a waterfall for everyone to swim through, or someone fastening a lawn chair to a beefed-up, self-propelled push lawnmower to make a riding mower.

City life very well might increase innovation in certain fields. I'd posit that country life increases innovation just as much, but in different areas.
... and perhaps more important for HN, we're also thinking about going full-time on the project by building some services on top of it.

I'd love to hear if anyone would be interested in:

-- web-based data visualization on mobile that is 50X+ faster than libraries such as D3

-- massive visualizations on the laptop with ~1MM data points real-time
People who disagree with this comment and say it's false would do well to read this book http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104810/ Manufacturing Consent, by Noam Chomsky. It is very well researched, carefully documented. At least look at the information and think about it. The people don't have nearly as much control as it seems.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
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Thanks!

We wanted zero setup for devs who may just want to get something up and running right away. The video shows the basics, and we definitely realize there is much more to building a web app than that.

We want to make configuring your app and using common services easy without Kite getting in the way. That’s our mission. Although we showed direct shell access to your app in the video, our end goal is to give developers a machine they can call home as their development environment - root access and all.

For databases, we’re making it a simple click to bind a database to your app. Similar to Heroku, we plan to expose different options as a service and they will be connected to your app through the dj_database_url python module (for Django). For beginners, we’ll try to edit your settings to help make this seamless (your settings.py files in this case).

For other services such as email, task queues like Celery, memcached, etc. we plan on taking a similar approach - offer it as a service on a separate machine that can be easily added to your app, or alternatively just install it in your environment if its something very lightweight or serverless (like sqlite).

Like other hosting services we’ll provide storage for things like storing user media, static files.

We’re really aiming to start with development, since there’s this large gap between development and prod that creates serious time-wasting problems that each member of our team has felt. Companies like Heroku are solving the production problem very well, but developers are still left to setup their own environment and deal with problems leading up to prod.

That being said, we see the serious benefit in using the same stack for development & production, and, like others have mentioned, testing, staging, CI. It’s definitely on our mind, and we’d love to see this kind of fragmentation disappear.

Great to see that you’re interested, and we’ll definitely be following up with you soon.
People need to stop trying to turn this into a cartoon. This isn't some good vs. evil, heroes vs. villains BS, and continuing to present it in that manner ends up making your opponents look way smarter than they have any right to be. This is absolutely something people should be up in arms about; I've been deeply disturbed by the weakening of the concept of civil liberties going back to Patriot Act. This isn't anything new, this stuff has been going on for a long, long time. This is the consequence of people buying into the War on Terror, among other things.

All of this stuff happened for a reason, and that reason was not that the NSA chief or Obama or Bush or anyone else was an evil person drunk on power who just couldn't help themselves because they're just that bad (or stupid, or whatever). This stuff happened because the electorate and the media and politicians went apeshit after 9/11 trying to point fingers and figure out why none of the intelligence services were able to "connect the dots" and prevent 9/11 from happening. Absolutely everyone was convinced that it was such an eminently preventable catastrophe, and everyone was blaming everyone else to deflect blame from themselves or make it look like they're on the ball.

The electorate demanded it, ate it up, and demanded more. This is why we have Gitmo. This is why we have torture. This is why we have the Patriot Act and why we have to take our shoes off at the airport and why we've had so much more domestic wiretapping in the past 12 years. None of this stuff is news, and if it is news to anyone they haven't been paying attention. Like, at all, on any level. If any of the Snowden stuff is revelatory to you, you have been woefully oblivious to current events for like the past 12 years and are part of the problem.

The thing is, none of this stuff is the product of individuals so much as it's the product of the system and the electorate. If people were half as vocal about civil liberties as they've been about perceived security then we wouldn't be in this situation. Demonizing the people in charge is a natural response, but for the most part they're just people trying to do their jobs to the best of their abilities. The real problem is the system itself (meaning, pressures within the government and between the government, the media, and the electorate) and the general lack of focus on, or understanding of, the importance of civil liberties among the population.

If the outcome of this is nothing more than a bunch of people get pilloried or lose their jobs, but the core legal framework that allowed this to happen remains in place, then all of this will have been a huge waste of time. It doesn't bother me that the NSA exercised powers that they were given and were instructed to use, it bothers me that all of the lawyers who went over this stuff with a fine-toothed comb concluded that this was all perfectly OK given current interpretation of constitutional law.
If people cared about surveillance, they could simply vote in an anti-surveillance policitian(s). The fact that this cursory act hasn't occurred would suggest that sub-100,000 person ISPs will have zero traction.
How do I use this without importing from Google Reader?

It seems that there's no way to bypass the import screen.
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Here are the diffs between the various versions:

http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/658994/diff/0/1

Here's Wayne Madsen's comments:

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20130630
I doubt the Germans will side with the Russians in preference to the US. And the Russians are preventing Snowden from leaving because it suits their interests, as would some possible range of deals to turn him over to the US.

I'll add that if I were Snowden, I would probably avoid long-standing US allies like Germany - particularly those full of US military personnel.
AFAIR, William Morgan also used Mac OS X, so I am surprised it doesn’t work for you.
Being over your head.
Much of that is actually a decade or more older. It was then called BBN Lisp. The BBN team then went to Xerox PARC. There they also moved this Lisp onto the new personal workstations.

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/bbnlisp

This gives the impression what they had in 1971:

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/bbnlisp/Te...
MongoDb singleton connection in NodeJS inspired by Mongoose
I use the canonical notmuch-emacs frontend, because all the others are not as good as the emacs one (I was not an emacs user before that).

Search is as fast as it was with sup for me, which is not a surprise, given that both use Xapian :).
The slides do not say that. They only show real time monitoring of chat login/logout and email send/receive. The content only appears to be accessible to the analyst through the paths on the right side of the slides, which are for accessing stored data, not live data.
Not to quibble, but that kind of misses the point-- I don't know how many artists and designers are earning 400K in the first 10 years out of school.
> make it all but likely that you're going to forget your own password and write it down.

Writing down your password is usually less risky than picking a weak password.

As always, assess the risks.
It's very much like an early version of Smalltalk: monochrome, with an early-80s style GUI. There's a popup main menu with a surprising number of options, plus several editors, debugging tools, and a Smalltalk-like 'Transcript' window (for output). The system is image-based, so the running image could be stopped and restarted, even from a different machine.

More intriguingly - and again, analogous to Smalltalk - Interlisp is more than just another Lisp dialect: it's a complete operating system running atop a Lisp VM, with Lisp as the system language, from top to bottom. Awesome!

By today's standards, it's clunky (as one would expect), but if development had continued, I suspect the comparison to Symbolics Genera would be the analog of comparing a GUI desktop environment to a console-based one. Considering the richness of modern environments (have you seen Pharo or Squeak?), that could've been a seriously cool Lisp development platform...

Incidentally, ParEdit is based on Interlisp's SEdit (in Taylor Campbell's words, 'a real structure editor, not a cheesy imitation like paredit').
germany being pissed off at america is like siblings being pissed off at one another. some critical articles in germany and a few harsh words from merkel and it'll blow over. they're not going to make it into a real issue by taking in snowden.
Django 1.5 (latest stable version) requires Python 2.6.5 or above, so it doesn't matter.
How do physicians and non-physicians want to die?
If you are really worried about government or government contractors building quantum computers in secret to break RSA in order to read your email you can just encrypt with either NTRU or McElice schemes which have been around for a while and aren't known to be breakable with an efficient quantum computer.

Of course if you are truly paranoid you might believe that the government knows how to break these schemes as well. In that case I have a great deal on bulk orders of carrier pigeons that might interest you
Yet we have from those enumerated rights strong protections that the rest of the first world does not have. There is a disincentive to conduct illegal searches, for instance, without a warrant or one of the cases where a warrant is not necessary: the evidence obtained in that search is generally suppressed. If the government wants to win their case, then they need to play by the rules. Britain, as one example, has no such protection.
Who cares about the invites? I already have an account and I can't use it. May I know why?
A Sign For the Times: Digital Wayfinding Adapts to Your Needs
So, the moral of this story, as I see it, is something like:

Start the process of creating a false identity (or two or three or ten) right now, if you think you may ever be in a position to need to flee across international borders. Obtain multiple sets of credentials, including passports and related documents.

I know this isn't an easy process, but it's at least theoretically possible. Neil Strauss gets into it a bit in his book Emergency[1], and there are dozens of other books[2][3][4][5][6] out there on how to obtain a new identity, forge documents, etc.. And if it takes a little "black hat" hacker action as well... well, so be it.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-This-Book-Will-Save/dp/00608...

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Back-Alley-Man-Construction/dp...

[3]: http://www.amazon.com/Acquiring-New-ID-Easily-Technology/dp/...

[4]: http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Identity-Changer-Privacy-Person...

[5]: http://www.amazon.com/The-I-D-Master-Identity-Change-Profess...

[6]: http://www.amazon.com/Make-Drivers-Licenses-Other-Computer/d...
I completely agree with you. I went to art school and studied programming in my own time and have found it to be the best way to establish a well-rounded interest set. Art school helped me develop critical thinking skills that could apply to nearly any field. However, from what i've seen many art school graduates do not realize this.
BAH was hiring in quantum information as early as the late 1990s, if I recall correctly. Certainly they were doing so by the early 2000s. It's not surprising that BAH is interested: the NSA and DARPA have been funding research on quantum computing since the mid-1990s.

(I worked in the field from 1992 through 2008.)

Edit: See, for example, this 2004 article on "Quantum networks: from quantum cryptography to quantum architecture", with several BAH authors, including the lead author: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1039117&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFI... This took a few seconds to find with Google, I wouldn't be surprised to find earlier examples.
They look like bigger fools now for giving him the Nobel than they did when he hadn't accomplished anything.
Does public need to mean federal?
A (bit.ly) linked article at http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/06/fake_drug_c...
quotes an assistant prosecutor: "Vitantonio said that if Peters had not given police permission to search, they would have had to let him go."

That said, it is possible that a trained canine might have alerted from
outside the car, generating enough probable cause for a legal search
inside of the car without consent of the driver.

This is an area that has seen a lot of litigation in the last 30 years or
so, for details google "probable cause" "canine" "Place" "Jardines"
"Harris" and "Caballes".
Email me if you want a copy... I also have it set up in a Debian image, ready-to-run.
mutt cant display the first few words of an email in index view like sup does. i love gmail therefor.
One problem that would hinder the adoption of diesel cars in the U.S. is the availability of diesel fuel. Not all filling stations carry it, since in the U.S. it's predominantly used by trucks and buses. If you live in an area that doesn't have a lot of truck traffic (such as a suburb), you might have to go far out of your way to fill up your diesel car.
2013.06.30 Your monthly privacy balance calculated by NSA:
ZERO.
> Do common people in the US really identify with being a patriot?

Patriotism originally meant you were willing to sacrifice something for your country. Presumably the smallest measure of that sacrifice would be spending your time developing well-founded opinions about how the country should operate. (Just take a look at the federalist papers: 85 long, dense articles arguing in favor of the minutest details of the constitution. And the expectation was that people would actually read them!)

Unfortunately patriotism doesn't mean sacrifice anymore. It means something akin to a fingers-in-the-ear, uncritical fanboyism. Just plaster everything with flags and soaring eagles and call it good. It's not sacrificing everything (like Snowden did), it's something you do instead of sacrificing _anything_, even the time it would take to educate yourself on what your country is doing. And as a bonus you get to flaunt that very ignorance as an additional point of pride.

And yeah, common people here in the US definitely do embrace it to a nauseating degree.
Excellent collection of quotes. Thanks for the link!

It is possible to find solitude in a city, though. One has to make a point of it, but it can be done.

Also, don't overlook the #2 habit, per this same essay: participation. The mind does need raw material to chew on, and there's plenty of that in the city.
No free trade agreement if charges of espionage are true, warns EU Commissioner
>You can read an interesting wiki article about ultra low sulfur diesel and the transition issues etc.

Yes, a disaster. I have 4 vehicles with diesel engines. I've replaced[1] all of my seals and O-rings with Viton. Let those SOB's change the fuel again. I don't care. Nothing fucks with Viton.

>Its hard to stomach buying something you may need to scrap or repair/replace in such a short term.

They have rarely made changes to diesel fuel formulation, and only the ULSD change was catastrophic. Gasoline is reformulated seasonally, with varying amounts of alcohol. This has caused problems as well, but fewer people seem to notice or care.

>Another problem is ignoring progress. "Those 1970's diesels really sucked compared to 1970s gas engines". "Oh thats OK 2010 diesels are better than 1970s diesels." "Sorry dude I'm comparing a 2010 diesel with a 2010 gas engine, not a 1970 gas engine." "Oh... in that case I guess a gas engine is better".

Gasoline engines are far better than they used to be, no doubt about it, but so are diesels. I still prefer diesels, but for most people it's moot anyway. They either don't need a huge pickup truck, or there is no diesel available for purchase in their market segment.

[1] Still replacing and fixing leaks years later.
Nevermind life outside our planet, why isn't there other non-related life on our planet (independant biogenesis)? From what I gather, evidence at the molecular level (things like molecular chirality in various cellular structures) point to all life being related.