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Mostly symbolic reasons (independence day, 4th of july, 4th amendment, etc), and it'll be nice because everybody will have off from work. There were some long, drawn out discussions early on in the planning phase from which it was agreed that July 4th would, in fact, be the best date on which to hold these protests.
Devils advocate - if an American radical islamist made a comment about bombing ______ but then stated "jk", is it crossing the line?

It's a slippery slope and I'm not a judge. I'm simply stating that I believe he crossed the line and I'm glad someone looked into it. No, he doesn't deserve to be in jail.
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Prosecutors are required to hand over all evidence to defense counsel on request, and almost invariably do (which is why it's news when a conviction is overturned on the grounds of a prosecutor concealing evidence from the defense). Likewise, a defense lawyer could subpoena this information from the USPS if it was likely to be probative.
It's a bit much to call bored security staff perverts and opening up the data to the public is guaranteed to attract the crazies - Would you want your (crazy) ex to be able to follow your new love life with a new partner via CCTV?

FYI it's not all bad: the UK automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) CCTV network run by the police (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police-enforced_ANPR_in_the_UK) is currently being legislated by the Coalition to bring it under statutory regulation - considering the revelations about police conduct over undercover cops it can't come to soon either.

P.S. Bless the UK gov, a full surveillance state can't happen because it's rubbish at IT: 'The current restraints on police use of ANPR data have been dictated by pragmatism rather than a concern for civil liberties. Giving every police officer free access to the system would overload the system, "make it unstable, slow it down", said John Dean, National ANPR co-ordinator for the Association of Chief Police Officers.'
Yes so true. People will still be spied and what is truly harmed by this spying revelation is US commerce itself. In a global economy you don't want to be known for being untrustworthy.
I can think of no legal or Constitutional arguments against this program. Yet, I am still deeply troubled by its existence. I call it unconstitutional by reason of scale.
For more info, read my article in this Summer's '2600': "How to Create and Operate a Temporary Free Autonomous Zone"
generating and modifying unix config files programmatically has been happening for nearly half a century

the only reason a web daemon has an API in windows is because the windows registry is opaque, error-prone and in general, a giant piece of shit.
I am genuinely curious to know if there is a county whose judicial system could be used as a good example.
>I've yet to see anybody claiming that G-WAN outperforms Nginx.

What about this?

http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/serving-small-static...

http://www.rootusers.com/web-server-performance-benchmark/
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Good job on shipping!
> Perhaps the client lives in another country so legal action is out. You’ve been proper fucked.

Most countries have low-cost fast-track law for this kind of situation. In the UK it's "small claims". Seems like a start up could make some money offering non-legal advice about how to use these simple cheap courts to get redress.
Python and Ruby are located at basically the exact same point in programming language space, so to me they're pretty interchangeable. Since these are Ops tools, the argument that anything is 'installed by default' scares me. Nothing should be installed by default; choosing what is installed and how it gets installed is one of the major responsibilities of the Ops team.
I'm conflicted about whether to upvote or downvote your comment. Calling Americans "fascists" just goes too far, but you have a point. (I'm German.)
I keep expecting LG to acquire Plex but maybe Plex has OEM agnostic plans.
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Agreed, although the top comment here was actually quite interesting.

HN has made an exception for all things US gov't spying related. I even lost my flagging rights for flagging all the snowden stuff (which I thought was exactly what you were supposed to do when you thought something was off topic... not my fault it was the entire front page!)

It's an important topic, but like you I preferred when HN was an oasis of tech away from this nonsense.
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I think there might be a disclosure requirement or perhaps it only matters if they take board seats or what kind of access they have to internal matters.

At latter stages it might arise if a company pivots into another space. See this on how Andreessen-Horowitz dealt with a conflict (Instagram v. PicPlz):

http://bhorowitz.com/2012/04/22/instagram/
Except I've never, ever heard of this used to solve a crime.

Reading the fine submitted article would solve that problem.
> Ok lets assume you're right and the US manages to splice into fiber optic cables in the country they target

I don't recall ever saying anything about the US managing to splice into fiber optic cables, or any other particular mechanism of gathering signals intelligence.
Yes, they might suspect that I value the freedoms that so many have fought and died for that I would, shockingly, moderately inconvenience myself to do so.
Why do they call it a "memcached" server rather than a "memcache" server? I realize that the daemon process for a server application is usually the normal name followed by a 'd', but that is not usually how we refer to the server or application. For instance, we say "mysql" server, not the "mysqld" server, even though that is the name of the long running process.
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Yes, but that's assuming there are people in the government with the will to deploy those weapons against the public. At best they'd only achieve pyrrhic victory.
this was a Linux system, I remember reading the articles taking about it (but it's been a while)...
Streets, there is no better place to protest and wake people up.
We've got to fight this, the world can't keep going in this extremely dangerous direction.
The problem is that Google built it to function like Facebook, and once it was released into the wild it was used more like a hybrid of Twitter and forums. Maybe they dogfooded it wrong.

I'm increasingly feeling like the problem with Google+ is that it didn't start with a minimum idea. They went straight for the concept of 'Facebook' and didn't give users enough incentive to make the switch.

Maybe they could have made a "Facebook Export" importer to populate streams with existing posts, friends, and photos. Maybe they could have made it more social and personal.

Or maybe Facebook's momentum prevented people from actually making the switch. Enough people are satisfied by Facebook that they wouldn't abandon it for a couple of friends.

Google just didn't play the cards right, and I feel like Google+ has gotten too complicated for anyone to just jump in and figure it out.
Interesting points.

One thing all of this brings to mind is that we appear to be nearing a crossroads (perhaps we've already passed it).

That is, we'll have to very soon decide en masse whether we are OK with the demise of privacy or not. This is irrespective of whether our privacy is lost to companies, government, or both.

Because it seems that by default, people are simply becoming accustomed to a world without personal privacy. In fact, stories such as that referenced on this thread are coming out with such frequency and ferocity now that one wonders whether it has the effect of simply jading people with sheer volume (whether designed for this intent or not).

In any event, we've been moving in this direction for some time. And, after some point those who still care about privacy won't be able to summon the support needed to effect a return to its protection.
Not every US company is engaged in spying

Every company that is subject to NSLs and the like are either already spies or spies-in-waiting.
I'm an American citizen and I'd like to continue to live with my European wife, thanks.

Are you going to kick out Austria, too? They seemed awfully lickspittle today. I don't think it's the Brits that are your problem.
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Moral panic is no reason to go on a witch hunt.
Presumably a security room operated by the Russian authorities. If something bad were to happen to Snowden it would be a major embarrassment for them, and there are many who might want to cause that.
I've worked in industries where 30 days after invoice was standard; big customers could push it to 60 days.

Obviously the best situation is you paying on 60 days (or more), but being paid on 30 days (or less).

Someone chasing the invoices and getting the money is worth it if you have tardy payers.
If they start it, count me in.
You are right, I was/am very angry. I should clarify that I'm referring to the US government and, more specifically, to their "justice" and security apparatus.
I would _strongly_ consider doing this, if there were offers on the table.
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Weev owned an iPad. His iPad checked a url on ATT without him doing anything. That's really more than an invitation.
> I can't even imagine what they're doing now.

Not delivering as much mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service#Re...
Abortion protesters used to write down the license plates... just some publicly available meta-data, right?
> ...courage is what it takes to undermine a dictatorship

Yes, and thanks for a great comment. I'm going to read that link, http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsde07.html.

Anger and hatred after 9/11 is what led us down this spiral, and more anger and hatred would only change the names, not the system.
One of my tags had a . in it (asp.net) and gave me a validation error when I tried to preview the post, cleared out all the other fields.
Because of accountability. And I am much more confident about the EU than the US regarding the possibility of stopping the surveillance dystopia.

Yes, bad things happen over here too, but the indifference of the public has received a huge dent, with the lid now blown off the BND and GCHQ stuff. Also remember, that privacy is a huge issue for the general populace in some countries (Germany, Poland, Bulgaria).
1. Canadian woman saw post, reported to police to look into

2. Law went crazy overboard

I agree with 1, I think it was a smart thing to do. Similarly, I'd hope "jk" bomb threats would be tipped to police as well. I don't agree with 2.
It's pretty bad that I have to enter my HN password.
My views are painted by pacifism, so nothing is as bad to me as producing military technology, or providing talent for the military industrial complex. Your Facebook example harps on some of the evils of capitalism (manipulative advertisements and such), but given the way the world works right now, even if you live in North Korea, you are born into that (black markets, etc. which of course beat having no economic freedom any day).

Enabling surveillance is a distant second, but still certainly wrong because it is direct support for the robbing of privacy, a basic human dignity. There is no room for ambiguity or argument as in the case of economic theory and such, like in the Facebook example.
Maybe this is why they hire some drunk captain to conveniently "drop anchor" on the line somewhere else while they go about their work.
Chef 11 doesn't use Couchdb, though it uses those other dependencies. However, you do not go and install those dependencies. You install a single package that includes all of that.

Chef client does not require RabbitMQ, Solr, or CouchDB. It too has an omnibus package that embeds all the dependencies and isolates it from the system.

Both server and client are now one-line installs as well.
Or live long enough to become the villain…

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Schoolyard bullies think they can get away with anything, and they can, right until the day one of their victims strike back.

And yes, I hate it too. I love the US (even though I am not a citizen) and all the good your country has done for the world, but somehow the last 3 presidents went completely of the rails and went into full-blown paranoia. As a result the US is loosing the respect and hope of the world, for no good reason. Point out a genuine threat and the EU and the rest of NATO will stand with you, spy on Iran, who is your enemy, but understand that the EU is not your enemy. We are your friend and wants only the best for you.
The only issue with that is being able to prove said item didn't go through NSA/CIA, or rather, that said server (no matter where it is) isn't somehow directing traffic in some form to the NSA/CIA. This is basically the issue I see for Americans, too. We can petition for abuses to be stopped but we can't prove our possible success. PRISM may be out of the bag but I'd guess most developed countries digitally spy on their citizens in some form.
True, but given the facts of the past few weeks, it's completely reasonable to set up such a system like this now for yourself as a hedge for what the political landscape may look like in the future. I know what is illegal today, but I have no idea what may be made illegal tomorrow or 10 years from now. Implementing such a system is a hedge/insurance against dystopian futures that are becoming reality.

As long as such a system is in place and significantly predates (on the scale of years) any crime you are accused of, this argument of hedging against a dystopia makes a lot more sense and is far more defensible.
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Why would he be surprised? For all this talk of the jeopardy Snowden is in, we forget that in China a policeman can send you to prison without trial, and that executions are so common they send round mobile vans to perform them.
Joel Spolsky's Stack Overflow answer to this question is to date the best single explanation of this issue I've read:

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...

Also: keep your eye on the ball. When a software company gives equity to an investor in exchange for money, most of that money is going to employees anyways; salaries dominate the expenses of tech companies.
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"Hacker" now optional.
Yes, I do not feel comfortable giving this site my HN credentials.
Zork?
WTF that's horrifying, this should be taken down it's a honey trap!
It is probably because most people (whether they work in the language or not) don't find Java very interesting, and people don't have any incentive to post about uninteresting topics.
> Maybe you view the scanning of the outside of people's letters differently now... but it's not a new story and the article says as much.

I guess it's the context of an all-pervasive spying culture that lends it a new relevance.

And who cares if it's "new". We might only realise the relevance of an old story years later. We might only realise a whistleblower was telling the truth after years of dismissing their tall tales.

edit: eli deleted the post I quote. Oh, don't like things you say online being used against you later? That's not new either.
Because that's how memcached brands itself.

http://memcached.org/ -- the URL has a d (unlike mysql)

"What is Memcached?" -- it's how they talk about themselves.

It's even in the logo...
My understanding is that npm defaults to putting its install directory somewhere that requires root access. So you see this with the -g option since that puts it in the root npm directory.
It really is. I used to do embedded software for controlling mailing machines and the technology for paper handling is amazing. You mentioned paper dust: the printer we used was based on a Canon print engine with wipers added to periodically clean off accumulated dust and ink goo. IIRC, we ran a wipe cycle every two minutes to keep it clean enough to not clog the jets. It was a real problem because the ink had to be a fast-drying composition to avoid smearing as the mailpieces stacked up.

I moved on before I got to work on the sorting machines: the intricacy of that stuff is truly mindblowing for a mechanisms geek like me ;-)
The -g option in NPM means "install globally" (i.e. system wide) instead of in this projects modules directory. You will always need root privs for that, for any module.

Without the -g option sudo is usually not required.
I use chef-solo with Vagrant, I rarely use chef-server/client with Vagrant. My dev box rarely needs to separate out environments, for example.

You do not need to bootstrap Chef 11. You download a single omnibus package and run a single line to install it. All dependencies are already embedded into the package. Under the covers, it bootstraps itself, but from the end user's perspective, It Just Works.
By putting another letter inside that may or may not contain another letter ad infinitum, where each letter is sent to a random address except the most inner letter which is sent to the actual address. In each outer letter you put a five dollar bill and the words "Mail this or else, I know where you live!"
It's saving them in memory now so there are no files to corrupt.

When you run again it gathers all the facts from the hosts.
Fascinating. It is encouraging to see students to so intelligently rebuke the NSA for its actions. I don't think I myself could have responded so aptly them.
It sounds wrong to me to refer to Apache and nginx as "alternatives" to IIS. They're the web servers, and IIS is the "alternative", kind of like how Excel is the spreadsheet application and LibreOffice Calc is the alternative. I'm aware that I cocoon myself in something of an anti-Microsoft echo chamber, though. Does reality match up to my prejudices?
Good comment but in any case.

"never enter business relationships that you cannot pay the legal costs for."

More or less would indicate not to enter into a business relationship that is very small which of course does make sense since the amount you would lose is very small.

"you can get a court order for payment pretty quickly"

Can't speak for the UK but have won court orders in the US. Doesn't mean you will actually get money. Could be entity folds or further delays. Or there are extra time consuming steps required to get the money. Once again, at least in the US. Also in us something called "confession of judgement" but once again can't get blood from a stone or a moving stone.

"clients are silent because _they cannot pay_ "

Exactly. No money doesn't matter who is compelling what.

"don't need a contract as long as there is documentation of the process. A signed offer by the client goes a long way."

Agree. A contract is an agreement. Can take many forms and be ultimately enforceable. Doesn't have to necessarily have a degree of formality either.

"But I often threatened taking legal action"

Would say thought that one thing to consider is that in certain organizations threatening legal action can be seen as a bluff or simply make the recipient able to pass it off to the legal department where it's not their problem anymore and all motivation to settle is lost. What I have found that often works is to be a "pain in the ass" where the person simply wants you to stop pestering.
You just can't talk about it.
and https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
its incredibly slow on my mbpr with chrome 27.
It was kind of hard to be sure - the top post on this thread is literally calling for the expulsion of all Americans from Europe.
Seems like it's just for convenience?
It does get inconvenient to not install things globally with npm and having to run:
./node_modules/.bin/<packageNameHere>
every time (or to alias every package)
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...by examining information from the front and back images of 60 pieces of mail scanned immediately before and after the tainted letters sent to Mr. Obama and Mr. Bloomberg showing return addresses near her [Ms. Richardson's] home.

Those are some powerful tools for investigators.
But you said "citizens".
This is more of a function of so many utilities written by Red Hat and Canonical folks use (and require) Python. And that's part of the reason Python is so popular among systems applications. One of the earlier starts to this was the system-config-* toolchain, and of course Anaconda (which isn't so much installed, but a great example).
I think a better approach would be to have the user enter a token into their "about" section, then when the have the site could scrape their profile and then the token could be removed after.
Wonder if it would make sense to have two categories: Tech and non-tech. Though some topics would definitely straddle the line.
If someone is in Germany and has access to the right ears in government, you should pitch this idea.

I would love to see some country champion any and all startups and open-source technologies that promote decentralization. We need more projects out there that are consumer friendly and use DHT based solutions like Kademlia for mutually shared data.
The fact that some people are "naive" does not imply what they expect to be stupid or unnecessary.

Anyone could argue for censorship and for reading your letters: "it is because of the children"... You are putting them in the hands of the USPS.
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By the way, at least in California, $500,000 is the recommended bail for... perjury? Threat of violence? Assault of a police officer? No: that's the recommended bail for an attempted assassination of a public official using a machine gun.

Presumably, the bond is this large because someone behind the case was afraid the kid might attack the school. On the one hand, this is understandable (though not excusable) because of previous events in that area. On the other, this is what leads to thought police and such behavior from courts needs to be destroyed at the core.
The US is growing weaker, (and that is not a good thing), I don't see how it will ever export oil, its economy is a disaster, the hole in its public treasury is legendary, etc.

Meanwhile China is growing like weeds.
Dwarf Fortress?

I guess it's not really a text adventure, but still...
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Not as interesting as the last time a developer evangelist left SendGrid.
Because the US' problem originated in hypocrisy. This world will only change into one that is for the living people when everything that is in truth and falsehood is revealed. To engage in action that is connected to falsehood is to make a relationship with falsehood. To do so under the guise of acting to solve these problems makes oneself a hypocrite.
Please show me even one example of someone being arrested and successfully charged in the US for exercising free speech.

Hint: If you use Snowden as an example you automatically forfeit your right to participate in any reasonable discussion on the matter.
I hate this happened, it's a black eye to those who hold this country to a high standard and love it. However, if you know you have to travel through various allies of your enemy - don't let your plans be known if it undermines their agenda. You WILL be a target.

There's a line you have to draw between keeping it real and getting it done. What's going on a gross misuse of power - but President Evo knew who he was going against when he publicly made note that he would consider Edwards asylum application.
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