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It doesn't seem like anyone outside of HN considers these abuses. If anything Congress will investigate how to stop all these leaks, not the programs being leaked.
If Assange or Snowden were Ecuadorian and would have exposed ecuadorian secrets, they would be in jail.
Our government does not pratice what it preaches!!!
Granting asylum to people like Assange and Snowden is just good publicity for them and distracts attention from what really is going on here.
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It is! Thanks for the heads-up on my (relatively new) short URL domain. I'm not certain why it didn't work for you, though. It seems to work from external sources I've tested (e.g., Google translate).
The last section on cultish teachings seems like a deal breaker for me. I've read this a couple times and I just want to go to this place, and meditate in a safe place.

I don't really want to be preached to.
No, it was not" clear cut case" - the Soviet Union was never actually a US 'enemy'. Therefore, they could not be tried for treason. But it was espionage indeed.
At this point everyone knows that the NSA cares very, very little about what is legal or not.

Actually I don't know that. My inclination would be to assume that. But the Snowden leaks are showing an organization which has come up with an interpretation of what is legal, and is following their interpretation exactly to the letter.

The first fear is that in any such arrangement their interpretation of what is legal and what anyone else will think is is legal will differ.

The second is that over time they will find ways to come up with ever more extreme interpretations.

And the final one, of course, is that eventually the safeguards get disregarded.

But for the moment they have gone to lengths to stay within their interpretation of the law. While recognizing and criticizing them on the rest, it is worth acknowledging that current (and somewhat surprising) reality.
Yeah, really. There might be some openGL-like libraries but the PS3's API is the GCM. And yes, Wikipedia is saying there is OpenGL ES on PS3 - this is how you can tell people who read the Wikipedia from people who do the development.

>But we have to agree to disagree, btw what were those PS3 titles you worked on?

I don't advertise what titles I worked on because I am not writing here in my official capacity.
That may be true for some definition of informed but I'm inclined to think that there are many informed people using gmail (and other Google services) and this fact leads away from your assumption.
Wouldn't Android and Google TV/Nexus Q be Google's foray into this space? Seems about right on schedule for a homerun on their part.

Apple TV doesn't need much to become a huge hit. Open up the SDK and the App Store, allow control of games with iPhone/iPad and with a good performance boost it certainly has potential.
I am all for the free market, but this should really be hashed out on the state level. You really don't want the federal government involved.
I'm not sure that it's the only reason why IE isn't supported, but currently no version of IE supports the history api, which is a bit of an annoyance if you aren't developing a site that you can block certain browsers from using.
Im 41, I might have been mucking around with the internet before you, and while a hell of a lot is fantastic about the internet now, yeah, Im kinda lost and homeless too. Know what you mean.

Not to say the internet , or web is or has gone wrong, just kinda forgotten something very important, very vital.

What Neocities is doing is good, and I hope it works, but I'm not sure how this addresses that our, er, alienation (not sure if that is the right word) though. I read that they want to, and that is good, but I don't see anything they offer that really does that.

What if we had some sort of SubWeb (have I just invented that word? I really like the sound of it!!!) which you have to use the command line to access? :)
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Exactly. I don't want exciting. I don't want magic. I want predictable. I want to be able to pump out high-functioning websites and add features where necessary. Let other libraries handle the bells, whistles, and doo-dads.
Doesn't the Church Committee still exist? It's the Select Committee on Intelligence:

[Senate, ex Church] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Co...

[House, ex Pike] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Permanent_...

The current chair is Dianne Feinstein, who apparently supports everything the NSA is doing.
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No, there is a difference. An old book at the brink of extinction still belongs to you. You can get third party services to preserve the book for you with the stipulation that your preservation work and the book carries decent privacy rights (it won't be broadcast to the world what you're doing). Remember the old days when you would go to a store to develop your camera roll? The service implied that your picture content is between you and the developer of the film.

It's fine if people don't see any privacy implication here by submitting their reading collection. But as far as my single individual point is concerned, I don't see why I should upload my OPML for the sake of preservation. I have hard time uploading it to any other Google replacement out there trying to compete.
I generally avoid buying games for the same reason. Few really advertise their core mechanics, and even the ones that do, I have no way to trust them on how well executed they are. For cheap games, I am willing to take the risk because even if the game is 'bad' I will still generally come out with a decent $/hr ratio. But the only times I get 'expansive' games are if I have seen a lot of people play it to the point where I have a good sense of how it works. Most games do not have a large enough network effect to get to that point.
> I suppose due to precedent that decision can't be overturned since it was over 60 years ago.

It can be and the Supreme Court has done it before, but you will need a slate of judges that will willingly curtail their own reach and that of the rest of the federal government. Good luck with that.
To upgrade will cost $15 or $30, depending on how long ago you bought ST2 when the full ST3 is released.

Source: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-beta
Wrote a paper on exactly such a website:
http://wybowiersma.net/pub/essays/Wiersma,Wybo,A_global_advi...
I know its like admitting that you wear your mums underwear, but I still like dreamweaver....
Think about adding a social aspect. "Following" cities for example and having a feed with updates (a la Github) of the stuff you follow. This way you will add user-to-user interaction and will help you with surfacing good content.
I hear this sentiment from Canadians in general. They know it isn't going well, but it is really hard to let go.
Google TV is still a steaming pile (I've owned one for a while now), and Apple TV has no industry support. It's just an expensive Roku with fewer channels/apps. As others have said, Google stands to gain nothing from this, especially when other manufacturers are already making an Android console. Apple could, but they have been rudderless since ol' Steve went.
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Whatever, having purchased six cars in the last ten years I never remembered a bad experience. Bad cars at times but on a whole if the system was so bad then how would you explain sales?

they cannot all be bad. Perhaps people confuse used car sales from no name dealers with new car sales or big dealers?

I am quite sure I can point at any industry and say the experience sucks when dealing with them if I look in the right places.

Even as I wrote this I was at a loss trying to think of even anyone I know who had a bad time.
>>Yeah, really. There might be some openGL-like libraries but the PS3's API is the GCM

If you had access to the PS SDKs how would you not know this? I just sent that to you to help you understand, you can use PSGL (higher level like OGL ES primarily use on mobile and what WebGL is based on) or libGCM (lower level), both part of the same existing PS3 graphics library. I posted a wiki article and many other examples to show you that it existed outside of just my claims which you were saying it didn't. Seriously? My point was platform lockin by differing graphics libs and you proved my point many times over.

>> I don't advertise what titles I worked on because I am not writing here in my official capacity

I develop web and mobile games (over 20+ titles) that you can easily look into and had a part in 2 console titles and was not talking it up like you so I figured you had a bunch because you said you don't work on games you don't play, I don't think any developer should. But I guess you were just trolling, ok I think we are done here now that the point of platform lock-in and costs on consoles point has been proven. PS4 is hopefully changing that a bit and self-publishing allowed so I'd love to do that. Right now for a small/medium company that isn't sponsored the only real choice is PSM or Vita, mobile markets, new consoles and web/desktop. Furthering my point that open markets allow more in and eventually allow more innovation not just of the hardcore movie type. Also look up Knack which is what they are using to demo PS4, mid core game...
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Interesting argument. I guess he's trying to emphasize the importance of selecting the right investor/ accelerator. Many startups see VC investment as confirmation of what they are doing is right (thanks to all the media hype) after which they may tend to forget basic principles.
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(OP here) I feel you, but did you read the caveat to all the criticisms? http://news.rapgenius.com/1620770

On balance, it's pretty chill. Even the people who totally buy in and devote huge portions of their life to this organization are mostly just really into meditation (as opposed to, say, devotion to the organization or the man behind it). Though some of tactics are kind of strong-arm-y, the emphasis is always on getting you to practice a very simple, effective form of meditation
"Slightly more risk adverse" is a vast understatement, and goes hand in hand with the culture problem. The near permanent branding of anyone who has failed in a business venture is horrifying from an American perspective. A lot of American business success stories had failed businesses in their past.

Beyond that, another major bullet point is:

* Ease of firing (inability to fire creates an inability to hire, you get trapped with terrible employees)
The Supreme Court is nothing more (or less) than the final judicial authority in the United States. They can still only rule on specific cases that happen to get appealed far enough to make it to them.

Courts can strike down unconstitutional sections of law, if they're implicated by a case before them. And the Supreme Court has the final say in a lot of those cases, because they're the final court of appeal. But they aren't a "Constitutional Court" in any direct or immediate way.
I wish there was an easier way to browse than just "recently updated" sites. Some sort of search and criteria filter would make it a lot better.
Some programmers prefer to not commingle functional code with procedural code; they believe in the separation of Church and state.
Oh, so you're not really worried about people downloading the content of the blogs, you just don't want anyone to connect the list of blogs to you? Well, you can just take the URLs out of the OPML file, and submit them one at a time. You can even use different IP addresses if you're that paranoid.
> Edward Snowden obviously loves his country and the people of it.

I think Snowden's actions demonstrate a motivation more virtuous than preserving nationalistic ideals. His acted in the name of humanity! It wasn't just about American's 4th amendment, but the privacy of the people of the world.

> It's possible to love your country while not accepting that the actions and authority of your government

What is a country but the actions of it's government? A country without a government is just.. people?
Having views of only successful startups on HN will lead to select bias. I would prefer to see some articles here of the startups going through rough patches since they are so under-reported.
Cool, installing the applications on docker on my dedi.

I have a couple of question though:

Will the data remain archived on my system after it is updated? And what format will that be in?

Will there be a public API to access this data once uploaded, or for services such as Feedly to import back entries from feeds? (I would hope they would support that, but the public API would be enough for me.)

Thank you for providing this service.
Zing

>I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
No, I would say that area distortion is a flaw in the Mercator projection. Just because all map projections inevitably have flaws doesn't mean that they're not flaws. If you could have a map projection with no distortions, you would probably use it exclusively.
You say that now, but seriously... go play with a Windows 8 phone for a while. I am not the biggest Microsoft fan, but they designed developed and sold their vision and it's actually pretty great. I find that between having an Android and Win8 phone, I've been gravitating toward using the Win8 more, simply because everything you do is just smooth and seamless. I imagine the experience is what Apple users expect from their products. Honestly, Android fails to deliver on that. Still, I love tinkering in Android.
I believe it's "working with" in the same sense that I "work with" PL/SQL. You get the data you need, but it certainly isn't an amicable relationship. :)
> allow control of games with iPhone/iPad

Or with that SDK for third-party controllers they added in iOS 7...
> So where it's convenient, i.e. US citizens cannot be spied on, the concept of a nation state is invoked, but then non-US citizens basically have no right to privacy, not even the ones their governments give them, because the US can look at anything. Not cool.

Look, when a dog bites the hand of its owner and then bites the neighbor, the greater outrage is that it bit the hand that feeds it.

You're not looking at this from an objective perspective, because you're the neighbor and well, understandably pissed.

Now me? I would put down the dog. But that's just me and it's probably not going to happen.
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Wyden and Udall are already on the Senate committee that oversees the NSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Co...

They have been for years, if anyone's been paying attention.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/us/politics/democratic-sen...
No, your being advised to not to so you don't in the future confuse the source of information you are free to give out.

Having worked in a secure communications group before there is an art in knowing what can be discussed and what cannot. An important part of that is not confusing two similar sounding documents that are protected differently. They can both touch the same subject but not the same details. The danger is, you forget which is which.

So, don't muddy the waters for them unnecessarily.
When I read things like "it was teaching me to be an opportunist rather than a visionary" and "I thought that I could try to disrupt an industry" I can't help but think that there's more to this story than just an inability to stick to one's guns.

I empathize with the author, and I have no doubt that in retrospect he may have legitimate reason to question the quality of at least some of the advice he received from his investors, but at the same time, in my experience, most successful businesses aren't built by those trying to be visionaries and disrupt industries either.
This is my concern, as well. Their command tells them what is and isn't lawful. In this case, command is making explicit what will be considered unlawful. And the unlawful act isn't accessing DoD classified systems inappropriately; the unlawful act is accessing public, unclassified systems, which have been classified at large, in reaction to the leak.

I cannot overstate my concern that this is a classification of the Guardian as a whole to criminalize soldiers's accessing it. It classifies all of the Guardian at a TS level equivalent to the data leaked by Snowden.
Feel free to remove any feeds that make you insecure in submitting your feeds.

If you feel like you'd want to submit them, but hide.. I don't know, that some feeds might be relevant to each other? or something like that: then you could, split up your list of feeds and submit them in chunks that make sense to you. From different IPs or what not.

All of the historical data from going through all feeds through Google Reader, will be uploaded to the Internet Archive.

That means it will be available to everyone.

This is a non-profit service run by volunteers, that believe in saving data - because there's smart and creative people around the world (High concentration on HN) that can do good things with data.

I can think of one example: All of the new RSS Reader services could slurp this data in and provide you with a better service (and they won't know the feed URLs came from you)
There are places which might not respect civil liberties but which do not surveil (by the state) the population: third world. Is there a place where both are true?

I don't think there is a place where there is 100% of both (respect for civil liberties and do not do any surveillance) and also not sure a place free of surveillance would by any better in practice, except in theory (to confuse a Yogiism). As many things, it's a balance which needs to be struck and it remains to be seen where that will be or if it's pendulum-like.
If this does what I think it does(And it seems to be doing it now on my machine), then this is truly, truly awesome.

Thank you. mihaip, if you are ever in Houston I will buy you a beer/ and or a steak dinner.
This is excellent, thank you for making this! I'm using it right now to make an offline archive of my Reader stuff.

My only gripe would be the tool's inability to continue after a partial run, but since I won't be using this more than once that's probably OK.

All web services should have a handy CLI extraction tool, preferably one that can be run from a CRON call. On that note, I'm very happy with gm_vault, as well.

Edit: getting a lot of XML parse errors, by the way.
infographic- you are dead. No idea why, your 5 comments seem pretty tame. Over-aggressive link filtering? Email the admins.
Unfortunately the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is only univeral in so far as it's universally ignored whenever that happens to be convenient.

I would be truly surprised if there is any country that does follow through on all human rights. The US especially probably breaks more human rights than any other first world country by a significant margin.
I wrote some bad python to save my own copy of all the cached content from the feeds I subscribe to:

https://github.com/epaulson/stash-greader-posts

It doesn't upload them anywhere, but at least I've got my own copy of them if I ever think of something I want to do with them.
I wouldn't say the gains are entirely unknown. Perhaps as yet unrealized in your learning efforts. But assuming you're building web applications, the two languages you cited (Go and Ruby) are effectively opposites on the performance spectrum [1].

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r5&l=fsw
I wanted to reply to you because you struck a chord with me - yes, emphatically I must agree that command line interfaces have forever been a sieve that collects a certain mentality. I don't want to label this subset of people because I will not do it correctly, but I believe it is assured that a predilection for CLI invokes precisely some sort of human artifact that is aligned with being a geek.
I think that the word visionary gets taken to mean, someone who can see and gap in a market/process/product and fill it. Rather than, someone who has a vision and is driven to see it through to completion.
"Bad cars at times but on a whole if the system was so bad then how would you explain sales?"

People consider cars to be necessities. There is significant legislation already in place that protects the dealer model. Thus, if you want to buy a car, you have few options other than dealerships.
What does being 20 have to do with anything? I'm 34 and I've been deeply acquainting myself with Go over the course of the last month.
You're making the mistake of assuming that someone who is going to end their life is thinking in any kind of rational way.

They're not. This isn't a problem that you can't apply normal logic to. Instead you need to look at what works and copy that - and last-minute disruption/difficulty works.

Here is an example of a suicidal thought process, from my own experience: "I don't want to die, but given the situation I'm in I can't see any other option. I don't want to do it. I just need a reason to keep going."

When you can't find that reason, you do something fatal. The reason can be anything, the smallest thing can keep you going.

Some people kill themselves for different reasons, and I think people that have never suffered from depression have that kind of suicide in mind. The guy who kills himself rather than live with the shame of blah blah blah. (Or for the insurance money for his family.)

That's not a depression-related suicide, and I suspect they're pretty rare. Someone with depression isn't thinking that rationally. If they were, they wouldn't be suicidal in the first place.
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I think it is a little unfair to oversimplify the Ouya to just indicating "people were indeed interested in a cheap console that plays phone games on their TV." In addition, one of Ouya's biggest draws was its openness which Google and Apple will have a harder time competing with than just releasing a cheap console with better polish.
temperatures of the last 12'000 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Varia...
Punching data on computer cards [1969]
In fairness, for tools you use everyday, you want constant upgrades if only so you can use it on newer hardware when your old rig dies.
No, the data will be uploaded - first to an staging server run by ivank/"ArchiveTeam". Then it will be uploaded to the Internet Archive (Some has been uploaded already: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_greader)

No, not currently. But the Internet Archive will provide the raw data and anyone is free to setup such an API :-)

Thanks for helping out!
After the greader*-grab programs upload data to the target server, it is removed from your machine. All of the data eventually ends up in WARCs at https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_greader

As for an API, someone will hopefully write one to directly seek into a megawarc in that archive.org collection, or import everything into their feed reading service.
> But you'd never buy one yourself, because there's just nothing there you can't get on an iOS or Android device, at leats not enough to make any difference.

Being someone who picked up a HTC Surround on launch day, followed by my Samsung Focus S, Nokia Lumia 900, Nokia Lumia 920 and soon a Lumia 925, along with a family that exclusively owns Windows Phone devices, I can say safely that you are 100% wrong.

There are plenty of things you do not get from Android or iOS that WP8 has to offer, especially if you already live in the MS ecosystem (Office 365, Windows 8, Xbox). People just care too much about Instagram and Zynga games, they ignore all the features and cool apps that are already available on the platform.