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Heh, the power of words are interesting.

People will happily say that those people (like the illegals working as temps and cannot complain or get deported) are free.

And that slavery is always evil.

Yet, when you try to look at situations without using your pre-judgement of words, it become something else entirely.

For example, in Brazil, the laws for commerce workers was that the commerce owners needed to house the workers on their own home, give them food, take good care of them, and abusing them was illegal.

Also, it was common for commerce workers get tips, and the law allowed them to keep those (and the commerce owners frequently gave them more too).

Some cities reached a point, where most of the city business were ran by ex-workers, that earned enough to start their own.

This all, were slavery.

When slavery was abolished, all that people were dumped into the streets, and the money they already got from their employers now became wage, slighly higher, but not enough to cover the stuff they lost.

Who is truly, a slave? The one that works in crap conditions because if he don't he will get deported, or the one that although he could not quit (unless he was abused, the law allowed it in those cases) he had anything he might need because the law said so?

It is easy to label a word as evil, or good, but words are used to label and describe things, you should not use words to label other words.

I would describe the situations that those people face as evil, having almost no money, and forced to work, because although they can quit, the only result from that will be starvation.

I also think that student debt is evil, I am one, of countless people, that struggles to make ends meet without even having a family, people that when the debt is paid, will be far behind non-indebted peers, I think it is funny that during the high-point of my career in money terms, I earned more than some family chefs that I know, and ended with LESS money, purely because good part of my money was in studies expenses (paying student debt and other university related costs).

Free, is a friend of mine, that refused to go to university, searched for a low paying but permanent job as manual worker at night, and slowly built his career, debt free, while he still has a blue collar job, he has a motorbike, surplus money, enough money to start a family, and his job is stable. It pains other people that went with school with him, that they got into college, and are now forced to work in "well paying" jobs but with no chance of career improvement or stability to pay their debts, while the "dumb" guy that decided to ignore college and take his time to choose his first job, is the one well off.

Slavery == evil? I don't think so... it is a word, that describe many things, some of those evil, some not.
College == success? I don't think so... it is a word, that describe a institution, the context, the process, and many other things, define what happens to you.

Now why I am writing all that? I have no idea. I just felt like writing this after reading the article.

EDIT: I hate how HN wrecks formatting.
Possible reason why Poland was among those countries: The wave of anti-ACTA protests was the strongest in Poland of all European countries. We are historically a rebellious, freedom-loving nation (just think of the the anti-communist movement, many uprisings against foreign occupants). So Snowden might be hoping for some public support from Poland's youth.

But yeah, if you remember how stupidly long the Polish government held out in their support of ACTA (despite its having few advantages for Poland), you have to realize that the US Government can be very persuasive.
If you read my other comments, I have made the similar criticisms - I.e. Firefox OS doesn't bring anything better to the table.

I'm not misattributing anything and putting words like 'shilling' into my mouth is cheap.

The fact that Android was hailed as open by the community clearly diminishes the impact of the major selling point of Firefox OS.

Even if Firefox OS was on par with Android in all aspects of performance, people would still have no reason to use it, and the argument 'because it's open' is no longer persuasive.
That would be a crime, because then the email addresses would've been "possessed" or "transferred" "in connection with" another distinct and separate crime.

But giving them to a responsible journalist for whistle-blowing purposes is not a crime. It's a public service.
That is a really good writeup of the situation! Thanks
These tech companies are spending millions on high-priced lobbyists
Is there any mention on who wrote/composed the songs?
It's possible to regret the Reader shutdown, and to point out problems with Google's explanations, without also thinking that they were "wrong" to do it. This is pretty much my position. I think it's unfortunate, a strange decision, and Google's explanations don't make much sense. But I also think that they had every right to do it, and don't owe me a transparent explanation, which might reveal too much of their overall strategy. I was careful, of course, to use Reader in a way that would ensure minimal impact on me if it went away; and the week they announced their plans I switched to Newsblur.
Is the Term Sheet a Binding Contract?
Thanks, actually I've waffled again, I'm still trying to make Play work for a test project on the side. It seems version 1 supported deployment to Tomcat but not 2. If I run Play as the server I guess it's not a big deal though.
> He's pointing out that their stated justification doesn't make a lot of sense. Google says they're shutting down Reader to put more focus on a smaller number of products, but they're just as scattered as ever

You can't criticize Google for shutting down Reader and then accuse them of being scattered in the same sentence. By shutting down Reader, they are limiting their scattering, and Reader is not the only product they are shutting down.

> Pointing out that their words don't match their actions here is a perfectly reasonable thing to do here.

Very true, that's why I'm pointing out that your words are inconsistent :)
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You and sneak seem to be proposing a legal regime under which no "hacking" of any kind is illegal. If the system will perform action B given request A, issuing request A, no matter the intent, cannot be a crime?

If I'm missing an important distinction you'd make, I'd very much like to hear what it is.
Yes, many large businesses do some kind of expected value calculation when deciding what course of action to take.
I'm helping with the effort in Kansas City. If you're here, please come show your support on the 4th: https://www.facebook.com/RestoreTheFourthKansasCity
Finally, a song with lyrics about Jack Welch! I've been waiting for another one ever since the classic Wu-Tang track "Six Sigma Ain't Nuthing ta Fuck Wit."
Yep. Will add that info to the page. Will be very relevant.
> There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
That's a ridiculous comparison. For one, the courts didn't find everyone who was surveilled guilty of something for which surveillance was a sentence, and government actions are justified by law, not fiat. For another, your choice of murder is unnecessarily extreme and emotional. A better comparison would be opening someone's mail. It is illegal for someone to open someone else's USPS mail, but the NSA thinks it's not a big deal to open everyone's mail and construct a big chart of who knows who and what they talk about. Given that no one under surveillance has been convicted of anything, running a program of that audacity and scale is not what a government "Of the People" should be doing. In previous times of war, we have said that governments who do that should be removed.
Especially considering it looks like he plans not to be quiet post-asylum. My read of the Russian case is that they suggested he might get asylum there if he basically drops off the radar and stops releasing things or being politically involved, and he refused that condition. To be willing to give him an active base to work from going forward more or less requires a country that either doesn't care or actively wants to snub the US, and doesn't mind that he might keep doing things that will continue to antagonize the US for years into the future.

That's one reason I think the Bobby Fischer asylum was easier for Iceland: he was wanted by the U.S. for a one-time thing, violating sanctions by playing a for-profit chess match in Serbia. There was not much chance he would be an ongoing thorn in the side of US-Icelandic relations post-asylum, since he could hardly continue to violate US sanctions from Iceland. The main risk was just that he would say embarrassingly antisemitic conspiracy-theory stuff, which he got sort of a pass on because people expect chess prodigies to be nuts.
Thank you for this, this is the car that I got! http://imgur.com/376PB6X

So great ahahahaha
I've just realised that this is somewhat the inverse of the Science of Discworld books.

Those books are split into alternative chapters of popular science, and Discworld stories about the characters reacting to our science from their point of view as characters in a fantasty novel.

So you get wizards that accidentally create a "strange" universe full of "roundworlds" and then having them wondering why people don't fall off the bottom, cue chapter on gravity and planet formation. Or in the second one they meet the "God of evolution".

I avoided reading them for years assuming they were going to be full of Dorling Kindersley "Science of Star Wars" type books full of pop-up AT-ATs and cut-away diagrams of lightsabers, but they're among the best pop science books I've read (though, I'm a fan of Pratchett, which undoubtedly helps)
Watch the HBO show The Newsroom. It is quite depressing.
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It is a terrible disgusting shame that this whole thing is slowly fading into the backdrop. In a few years, it will just be taken for granted that the US government listens to / stores data on everything you do.

I would very much like, now more than ever, for services to build on encryption in a way that allows it to be used by everyone, with little to no barrier to entry.

I've wanted to encrypt all my email for a very long time, but the logistics of doing so when you interact with normal people are... rough, at best.
How to build a real-time photo sharing website in a few easy steps
Sounds like Vienna would interest you... Not sure you could import your feeds directly, but it is not hard to set them up...
This blog post describes how you can easily build a high-end, real-time photo sharing application using both PubNub's and Cloudinary's cloud-based services. Live photo sharing web application is included as well as Ruby and Javascript sample code.
I think I read that many books in high school. b^)

My rate has really plummeted recently, but it's not as though St. Peter is going to decide my case based on whether I read the seven volumes of À la recherche du temps perdu in the original French. When you read for enjoyment, no one is grading you. The "real literature" thing is odd.
Make what you will also, but BBC Turkish has been one of the very few neutral and dependable news sources in the entire Turkish Gezi events. They did their job so well they earned insults from Prime Minister Erdogan and Mayor of Ankara, both calling the reporter on ground, Selin Girit, "a whore committing treason". Which gave BBC Turkish a spotlight they ran with—they deserve it.
Will choose a milder color. Thanks for the feedback.
Ask HN: We screwed up our HN post. What next?
After 2 years of hard work on our web app we made the mistake to ask our beta testers to support us on HN.

Because of this we got reported and removed from the front page - which is understandable in hindsight.

We believe in our wireframing solution and would like to share it with the world. Is there a chance to post again on HN without getting banned? Or do you have other suggestions to go public?
> Why are we acting like AT&T is an innocent victim?

No one here is. I'm not sure why no one has done anything to them, legally. It'd be interesting if someone who actually knows what they're talking about in terms of the legal system about could comment on it.
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So you're happy to read things other than "literature". (Quite right!)

Which makes it a bit strange to say "don't read this, because it isn't literature". (Not your actual words, but I don't believe I'm misrepresenting your meaning.)

As you clearly appreciate, there are many reasons for reading things. Some of those reasons are best served by reading highbrow literature, some by reading technical books. Is there some general principle that makes it obvious to you that there is no good reason that would be well served by reading HPMoR?

Perhaps you have read enough of it to know you don't like it. Perhaps you've found "fanfiction is always junk" so reliable a guide that it would take an enormous amount of contrary evidence to change your mind in any instance. Fair enough, in both cases; but in both cases the actual reasons are much more detailed than "it isn't literature, so away with it".
Yes. I believe it has been added to a temp whitelist. But it is not clear if is domain based or somekind of signature based.
If it is domain based, then whitelisting is not useful (This is hosted on various domains as noted by others). If it is signature based, it will be more effective (though the signature will change as the server code changes and since there is no idea what gets into the signature, there is no way to avoid).

Also, dev1.codelathe.com was re-setup specifically to trigger the warning (It was determined that if the login button has the keyword "Connexion", it was pushing the phishing score past 0.5)

The main thing is, if there is a clear way to contact the team responsible for this to resolve such issues, that will be the best way for anyone with similar problem and at this point there is no such avenue.
(Besides deciding whether to title the book AI, machine learning, data mining/science, applied/computational stats) There's a number of books that take the "short equation/inequality" only approach to presenting the author's subset of his/her appelation. Marsland's is pretty good. But I'm not sure they impart much intuition before you dive into the traditional texts (usually one chooses from the Big 6 of Murphy, Bishop, Barber, Mackay, Hastie/Tibshirani/ or Koller/Friedman).

Note 3 of those have content freely available to read online, as well as free stats texts from otexts.com, UMass' Lavine and CMU's Shalizi and Kadane (2 separate books), and UCSD's Levy (specialized on stats for linguistics/CL). Note also the ESL guys (+ 1 additional author) have released Intro to Statistical Learning

http://www.springer.com/statistics/statistical+theory+and+me...
You're right, the law can't. That's why we should let the final verdict for authorized/unauthorized lie IN THE CODE DEPLOYED BY THE OWNER, not the law (or the owner's retroactive statements).

It's pretty simple, really. This would be a non-issue if you programmed your cyborg to go pick up milk from the store and it started handing out $20s to strangers in the dairy aisle. Obviously that's no fault but your own.

Why is it different for a webserver?

It is massively unfair to expect someone to make assumptions about the intent of a remote system, programmed, configured, and deployed by people they have never met or communicated with, in order to avoid criminal liability.

I'm not sure what the problem is here. It seems like simple common sense to me.
How to know if you're cut out for programming
> Russia wants to have him as a possible tool to press the USA in the future

Have you been following what's going on? It's becoming clear that Russia wants nothing to do with him.

And it's understandable: harboring Snowden would damage their relationship with the US considerably, and the US and Russia are too close allies to let this happen, especially since there is very little for Russia to gain from Snowden.
I was actually questioning my current design process yesterday while mocking up a landing page in Fireworks. "Why not start the process in HTML using CSS3?" I thought. However, beyond basic layouts, I find it hard to programmatically mix and match colors, fonts during the creative process.

With that in mind, I always felt Photoshop was the wrong tool for the job, hence my preference of Fireworks over Photoshop. Moving to a fully code-based workflow would probably work better with some additional tooling in place.

I've been looking at Sketch and Edge Reflow. Any other suggestions?
Interview with Pat Yongpradit from Code.Org
Sorry. I do not believe you deploy ruby apps of any significance. Your opinions are way out of alignment with the rest of the community. You're trying to paint yourself as some kind of "voice of sanity" security-wise but it is unavailing IMO.

Convenience vs security is always a tradeoff. You advocate a total lack of convenience, for a minimal, at best, gain in security (any issues are likely to be at a far higher level). I find your arguments unconvincing, to say the least, and I would decline to implement your suggestions at the 4 or so companies my opinions hold sway.

> it's down to Rubyists to demonstrate why it's better, for instance, to gem install directly to production rather than build packages

Great, an easy one. Ruby has its own packaging system and uses bundler to determine dependencies. Using this system I can install the dependencies - which may include complex custom compilations against local libraries - immediately and conveniently. I can update it any time I want.

You can't. You have some crazy manual system of packaging these compiled libraries then distributing them via some private repo. For what? You gain nothing. Now all deployments are some house of cards game of trying to get the sysadmin to package up the right X when you need it. Instead of the devs being able to deploy directly. Why would you even bother?

> I get that it's comforting to travel in a herd.

Stop trying to paint yourself as the sole voice of reason in an insane world. In this case, the herd is doing the right thing.

> We can, and do, push out several ruby app deployments a day via apt-get, when we want to

Bullshit. Sorry, but I don't believe a word you say. You have never deployed apps for a company who cares about speed and efficiency, like a startup. If you had, you wouldn't hold these ridiculous beliefs.
That's why Greenwald has been releasing the revelations slowly. Don't worry, this has all been thoroughly planned. Another leak coming soon [1] describes an NSA program that records the contents of every single cell phone call being made.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/29/glenn-greenwald-nsa...
What's harder to accept: that a 20-year-old is still a child or that a 20-year-old is not old enough to buy alcohol legally?
Seriously - I have Kerbaled that exact same launch sequence a few times!
Configure debian mail server to reject unencrypted messages?
If I wanted to configure a debian mail server to bounce any messages that are not encrypted with my PGP public key ... is this possible / feasible?
Resets also often change the android ID that much software uses to identify phones. So resetting may mean you have to opt-in to the beta testing again since it appears you have a different phone from some methods. It's pretty nuts this guy expects everything to work as normal when he reset the thing 21 times over. Resetting even once is a rare thing that many services won't be tested with.

Something not working because he reset actually proves why it is useful for custom support to have data on resets. Not that I would expect any hardware use data to be protected if I opted into a beta testing program. The whole point of that is to see how the hardware handles beta software.

Often with these programs the updates are just sent out at a certain time, so it's entirely possible to just miss the update period. Heck, I've seen that done with production updates, let alone beta ones. A friend with a Droid from Google IO didn't turn it on for a couple years, missed an update which was no longer available, and missed the termination of the free service to boot.
I switched to USAA too. Overall I've been happy, but I must admit it's a pain in the butt to get money in there. The only easy way to get money there is direct deposit.

If they'd fix that somehow, it would be fantastic.
Huh? Of course I can accuse them of being scattered when they shut down Reader, if they still have a ton of other projects without any particular coherent goal, which is absolutely the case.

They want to shut it down, fine, I don't really care. But the result is not "focus".
Android of Microsoft?
The debate of which operating system seems to go on and on, but what do the younger generation of mobile users prefer?
We all know that business to business users have always preferred the likes of Apple and Blackberry, but what are the young school, college users preferring?
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I will refrain from asides poking fun at my political group in an otherwise serious post in the future. Well, maybe not. :)
Thank you, that is so much better. The CNN coverage was embarrassing, especially since someone could have easily been killed.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/05/getting-s...
I think that the problem with this thinking is:

(a) Even altering a parameter once in the address could be considered illegal under the current laws.

(b) The access of information in and of itself would not be illegal alone. Say I kept a bunch of people's information in paper files in file cabinets. Then I gave you access to retrieve yours from the file drawer yourself. It is sleazy, but not necessarily illegal to look at other files in the drawer, as I have given you access to their container.

(c) Even if you want to make the action in (b) illegal, the reasonable punishment is almost certainly not a double digit prison sentence.
The point is about dragnet surveillance. Since info is centralized, it can be copied without too many people being aware that it's being done. E.g., the copying of info from Google etc was done without any "hacking" or backdoors.

Whereas doing the same scale of info copying by individually accessing users' computers/phones would be WAY WAY more detectable.

Typing in a hurry, sorry if the point isn't clear.
Why do you use criteria besides your happiness and fulfillment?
> Yet another more cynical view is that after the huge Axis loss at USSR

"huge Axis losses" in the USSR didn't start happening until 1943 though. Even the Nazi defeat at Stalingrad wasn't until the end of 1942.

So that view is not merely cynical, it's also simply inaccurate.