skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roughly, this statement does wonders for people who believe in state surveillance: If the society you are supporting is a society in which committing a crime is not reasonably possible, then the society you are describing is totalitarian. Forget source. Works wonders.
So now he calls Linux the GNU Operating system? Not even GNU/Linux anymore?

Sorry Stallman, even though you have done fantastic things for software and intellectual freedom, you are totally wrong on this one.
I don't know, it seems to me that in the Western world, parents try to talk to their kids, or try to go counselling or something. It does not always work but they are not usually passive about it. In Japan there is virtually no dialog - probably because there is so much respect for the "private sphere" of the individual.

That's also why in Japan you never have "deep" discussions with anyone. All the stuff you talk with people is very, very superficial. Or maybe its just my impression.
It's a perfectly normal Japanese name.
Teufelsberg: An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain"
Well, it's pronounced "Hee-day" to be fair.

But yeah, ironic.
> Once you've started down that road, where do you stop?

Well. You don't. And that's the horrifying reality we are waking up to. The data gathering and political targeting by groups such as NSA and IRS are more than likely the tip of a really ugly iceberg.

I think the fundamental lesson here is to remain engaged and, as citizens, make sure that government always sees us as their masters and not their property.

Restore balance to the force we must.
Obviously it doesn't make sense to apply the wording directly to call detail records, it was written before the invention of non-paper telecommunications. Their intent given their context is pretty clear.

And people don't generally view their call records as something that's expected to be public. Many people would be rather embarrassed if their call records were made public. Same for their search histories, and they wouldn't feel comfortable with the idea that there's a person on the other side of the screen reading their queries if they didn't think it was all completely anonymous. The government is trying to break that wall of anonymity.
And the biggest flaw in contemporary liberalism is the idea that these very obvious flaws in human nature are somehow transcended by the humans we elect to office.
Pretty sure the answer is YES.
I do wish people here especially would stop looking for sexism where there is none. It just shows how sexist YOU are.

It's like people who call a brochure racist if it doesn't have every single possible race on the front cover.
Unfortunately for anyone who appeals to the Constitution, the government it establishes is also the government to which it awards the authority to interpret its meaning. In other words, the government can only make laws which the government decides don't abridge the freedom of speech, the government cannot require bail which the government decides is excessive, and the government must provide a trial which the government considers speedy.
What is the intended effect of that video? A proxy for human interaction?
anything is something

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_optimum
It was hinted at in the article, but the publisher sells the book to Amazon for less than the cover price. Of course, I have no idea if Amazon's purchase price is a percentage of the cover. But if it's not (and that's what I would have negotiated) then changing the cover price won't affect the revenue to the publisher.
A country's constitution isn't necessarily clear, because a country's constitution must stand the test of time. When the US constitution was written, there were no phones or telegraphs and there was no Internet. It's actually remarkable that the US constitution is still relevant today.

Truth be told, if the US constitution would be written or updated today, then the 4th amendment (or anything like it) wouldn't be there - you know it, they know it. The constitution is their only legal barrier in doing whatever they want to do.

Also, it isn't true that "unreasonable" is meaningless. A person subject to search without being a suspect in wrongdoing is unreasonable, unless you say that everybody is a suspect and that's also unreasonable.
The Gift of Initiative - giving with your guts
Annuit cœptis
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100598080
http://m.techcrunch.com/2010/02/17/google-continues-shopping...
And reflecting on this demo, today's XKCD is nice: http://xkcd.com/1234/
It's mentioned in the article as well.
That sounds like a business idea. Create retail services in a market filled with custom dealmaking. I'm guessing that might be hard in your case since it sounds like you have to deal with huge datacenters and network providers.
With a netherlands ip address it's $10.59 on amazon.com.
That's why people like you aren't cops.
Right. However, the platform is irrelevant if the programming is abstract enough, since you can essentially regenerate all previous programs for a new platform. Lisp can do this. Actually, any language can probably do this, but Lisp is said to be better suited for its IIRC introspective/reflective/code-data-indistinct (ie. ~typeless) purity.

The main shift for programmers is looking at code not as instructions (procedural) but as a combined cognitive/computational model, from which to assemble useful lines of thought (codepaths) on an ad-hoc/JIT basis.

It seems like the upshot is this: basically, code in Lisp. Use the code as a concrete, formalized model of abstract thought, don't enslave your cognitive capacities to attempting to model the computer's finite procedural logic.

Wish I had time to embark :) Maybe I'm getting there. Over 15 years I've noticed my procedural code has shrunk to tinier and tinier, more and more reusable and rigidly independent snippets. Perhaps the diving board for the great pool of Lisp draws closer faster than anticipated? :)
Learn another language? :-)
You cant flee anywhere nice, Snowden is trying to you and you see 99.9% of the world countries are willing to stuff their own constitutions and human rights treaties up their asses and stick their head in the sand at request of USA.
This npr article seems to quote the facebook post verbatim:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/03/198129...
Real page title: "Read 10 new books from O'Reilly for free". The "10" makes some notable difference.

That said, you may want to note that they are freely readable but only as online html; if you want an ebook, these are still paid.
No. It should be utterly clear to anyone with half a brain (And without sexism hangups) that "Shopping spree" is used all the time in the media, for either sex, to describe...... guess what?!!!..... a shopping spree!
That wasn't a strawman at all. The GP said visionaries are subset of crackpots and Prob(crackpot) >> Prob(visionary).
The ancient greeks had a steam engine and they used it for nothing. It was seen as a toy.
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=mawuood
The concrete example is a perfect use case for a macro: In other languages you have to understand and change the compiler implementation to achieve the same effect. That's most likely more work.
This exploit won't disable anything, you still will have any of those apps installed and shown
I'm not going into punch card machines. In the UK we write a cross in pencil on a bit of paper we can see and then put it in a box.

As for auditing computer databases and software that is hard enough with computers you control but for elections the people operating the machine are one of the threats and the process needs to be verifiable by independent volunteers and the parties contesting the election.
What would happen if a bunch of people were to tweet Justin's facebook message verbatim? [1] Since it would seem impractical to put everyone in jail, how does the legal system typically deal with such a situation?

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[1] This article seems to quote the intact message that got Justin in this trouble: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/03/198129...
Two minutes of Googling will find you plenty of writeups of companies with male CEOs on "shopping sprees". Have fun with the "intitle" operator, it's used there too.
Wow.

> WARNING: Unable to decrypt. One of you may have changed keys or might be an imposter. Run /idexch if you trust this person.

This may very well be the worst advice you could possibly give.

Suppose Alice and Bob already have a conversation. Then Eve wants to start MITM'ing during middle of the conversation and has already missed the key exchange (where she could easily switch Alice and Bob's public keys because your application doesn't even try to authenticate).
Now she just needs to corrupt the packages so your app tells them to do a key exchange again and now can easily switch alice and bobs public keys for a set of her own ones and read everything.

Key exchanging is the hardest problem your app would have to overcome to actually be secure, telling your users to just do it again over an unauthenticated connection is just ... stupid, sorry.

Plus from glancing over it it lacks things like session keys etc.? Though that might well be in the NaCl lib, so I'm not sure about this.

I'd just ask you to label this as POC or something, because no one should use this application for anything that needs to even remotely stay secret.
It surprises me, in retrospect, that Sun Microsystems didn't give Englebart an office, some equipment, and a couple of assistants, at least. This doesn't seem like a huge expense for a company the size that Sun got to be, and I was under the impression they had a few groups doing exploratory stuff, of various kinds, already.

But I know no specifics, such as whether he approached them or what they might have said.
I would strongly agree with the parent post that "reasonable" is very context-dependent and vague. In fact, if you look into the contention behind the Constitution and Bill of Rights as well, it would be clear that there would be incentive to introduce "weasel words" or phrases to pacify opposition.

The "Elastic Clause" is a classic example, which ostensibly constrains, but through the introduction of the phrase "Necessary and Proper", vastly expands the power of the federal government. There are numerous examples of similar qualifications throughout.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary_and_Proper_Clause
I think the strategy is to get as many new decent developers outside the yahoo echo chambers, in an effort to change the working culture inside the company.

For many years Yahoo suffered from mismanagement of CEO with short term goal to appease shareholders as opposed to building a company based on strong workforce and values. Despite all the PR speech by the previous CEO, I never felt that the previous leadership really knew what the hell they were doing.

One of the first thing Mayer had to do was stop the culture rot within the company, and you will see that a lot of her decisions, whether its buying up other companies and making new rules around favorable working conditions, is targeted on building a strong group of core developers. This obviously takes a lot of time, there is no magic bullet to fix culture rot.

Mayer is from Google school of thought, so she knows a thing or two on how good working environment works. You will see that while Google has a strong leadership to guide the company, a lot of its products and services started from and driven by not the leadership, but their developers on their 20% project.

So to put it in short, Yahoo is not in a position like Google where they can dictate long term strategy without getting its bases in order and fix decades of rotting.

I think in the next 12 months or so will be interesting time to see what comes out of Yahoo.
Resize that shit
Play with responsive design
"in free countries such as the United State" - that's a joke
Americans forgot what freedom looks like.
You may be surprised by how cheap it is to do. You could retire forever on even just $100,000.
They are handouts just like taxes are handouts to the government: sometimes unfair, but they serve a purpose of sharing risks and profits. Some societies do share more (Denmark is a stereotypical example, you don't have to go full commie) others less. Calling them handouts overlooks that range of possibilities.
Of course terrorism is the way to get the foot in the door. Once total surveillance is cemented and the possibilities for public outrage have diminished enough, it will be broadened to murderers, pedophiles and so forth.

For pointers of where it'll stop, I think we can look at society today. Where the people in power are very careful not to threaten their privileges. Milking the people as much as they can while not to cause the public to seriously demand change. (of course the milking equipment gets more and more sophisticated)

So in the end those surveillance tools won't be used for petty crimes (except where it concerns the least powerful) but everything that could send you to jail for half a year or more.
With very few exceptions, firearms are strictly prohibited anywhere in DC. Ironic, huh?
I don't think any culture really teaches how to help shut-ins, at least once it becomes a legitimate mental health issue.

In the western world, however, parents will very quickly make their newly reclusive child's life miserable (taking away TV, games, computers, etc.), and even kick adult children to the curb if they refuse to support themselves. And because this is done almost from the start, most kids aren't yet so far gone that they can still reintegrate into society themselves, if given enough incentive.

So a lot of potential cases don't develop severe mental health issues like they would if left alone.
Actually 'zillions' is probably the most accurate translation.
The article states that the expert thinks it's a problem in Korea and Italy, too. I can't speak for Italy as I've never been there, but it is definitely not common in Korea. Yes, Koreans live with their parents until they're married, typically, and yes, some Korean males are kind of shut-ins, but it's definitely not a phenomenon here like it is with our neighbors across the East Sea.

I can't say for certain what caused the differences between Japan and Korea despite the countries have very similar cultural and historical backgrounds, including economically, but for whatever reason that's kind of unheard of here.
This makes you no better than her, not one hair.
But then again, can we trust them to give us the "the real thing"?
No, it just makes you a bad person.
It was marketed as behavioral therapy, to help people get over psychological aversions to e.g. eye contact. This may or may not have been a smokescreen over other reasons why people would purchase that video. (Source: it was covered in general Japanese media some years ago.)
Yes, Namecheap has been socially responsible and somewhat of a rebel. They're one of the few big name companies that joined the Stop Watching Us [1] initiative. None of the PRISM companies have, as far as I know.

https://stopwatching.us/
Did you ever try finding funding for an ambitious project? Companies generally laugh at you, unless you can achieve something within 3 months (which is a typical time scale) or already work there and do other jobs. Speaking from experience here, despite the fact that my stuff is nowhere near as interesting as Engelbart's.
Yeah, I agree. Violence is basically unavoidable at some level. I prefer true non-violence as the solution to problems, which is why I have a problem with labeling Gandhi's version of violence as non-violence. I think it's better understood as extreme passive aggression.
We chose Go, even though we're traditionally a Python shop, for a few reasons:

1) It compiles to a static binary, which makes it very easy to drop docker into an existing ops stack with very little hassle and without having to drag a whole language-specific toolbox along. This has made it easier to adopt docker for devops teams of ruby, python and java persuasion (among others).

2) the language itself is straight-forward, easy to learn and familiar to a lot of people. It's basically a more accessible C. As a result it's been easier to get people from different programming backgrounds to contribute.

This is in addition to, you know, the language being good :)
Same director as some of the Ghost in the Shell stuff (stand alone complex stuff) I believe. Also, everyone should check out Denno Coil. It is a super great post-cyberpunk drama that revolves around this cyberpunk ghost story. The main tech is the story is AR stuff, it is creatively drawn, and it brings new sci-fi stuff to the table as opposed to just more terminators and teleporters.
Steve Jobs:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1563818/feisty-steve-jobs-ponders...

http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/978263-tribbda/197291-the-...

Bill Gates:

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1997-01-12/bill-gatess-q...

Jeff Bezos:

http://gawker.com/287019/jeff-bezos-restarts-amazons-shoppin...

Larry Page:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-google-investor-apr-12-20...

There are also plenty where a company is named rather than the CEO, but the CEO at the time is male. For example, HP:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/h-p-s-pricey-shopping...

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/13/hp-continues-shopping-spree...

http://markets.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/news/read/14673193/hp_con...

http://qz.com/29535/autonomy-is-just-the-latest-bad-egg-in-a...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/09/13/hp-acqu...

There are many more, for many companies.
to play devil's advocate: consider the extreme absurdity of einstein's theory of relativity, the theory that time may speed up or slow down depending on your velocity.
Can't search Yahoo Finance app on Google Play Store (get Google Finance instead)
Yahoo Finance app URL - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.finance&hl=en
It has never occurred to you that what's really wrong here is that such comments are ever, under any circumstances mundane, normal and to be expected?
First of all, there is no such thing as a requirement for a blogging licence. I can blog, my friends can blog - and we all don't have to get a blogging licence. It is irresponsible, given that the author claims to have "read an article", that he decided to summarise it in two words - a "blogging license". This shows that either he doesn't understand it, or he is deliberately trying to mislead people.

While the term "Blogging License" may be be slightly hyperbole I feel that you just denying that such a thing exists is disingenuous, at best. Specifically since you then gloss over a real onerous requirement that each "news" website (whatever that is), which reaches more then 50k unique viewers per month over a two month period indeed is required to be licensed.

So if you have a puny little blog with a couple dozen, or hundred readers then, yeah, you don't need a license. But if you run an even semi successful blog you damn well need to be licensed.

In my view it's really self evident that such a law is rife for abuse if a site doesn't toe the governments line.

I quote Human Rights Watch on the issue :

On May 28, 2013, the Media Development Authority, which is controlled by the Ministry of Communications and Information and is responsible for regulation of Singapore’s media and publishing industry, announced that all “online news sites” that reach 50,000 unique viewers per month over a two-month period must secure a license to operate. The licensing regime took effect on June 1, and the Media Development Authority released a list of 10 websites that will initially be impacted, including AsiaOne.com, Business Times Singapore, and Yahoo! News Singapore.

(http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/06/07/singapore-licensing-regim...)
"Today's computer systems are essentially what we had with time-sharing mainframes in the 1960s and 70s: personal workstations connected to a large central computer system (server farm), able to communicate with each other and run spreadsheets, word processors, and apps."

Well I guess we can't expect journalists to know much about computers, but anyone who writes something like this ought to never write a word on computers again, nor should they be publishing attention-seeking articles like this one.
Or: how to be flagged, forever.

Then again, since all info on everyone is stored, forever, you can be flagged and reviewed at any point in your life.

Even if you decided one day to not carry a mobile device, it wouldn't help, because that would also make you suspecious and they would have a drone track you 24/7
PHP 5.4.17 released
Since the NSA is allowed to lie to congress under oath, we have to assume they are pretty much allowed to break any law.
I think the strategy is to get as many new decent developers outside the yahoo echo chambers, in an effort to change the working culture inside the company.

Unless I'm wrong, qwiki had 9 employees. To pay ~$5M/developer seems incredibly expensive. Yahoo could simply offer $500,000/yr and I'd reckon they'd attract talent at same caliber or better than qwiki. In that sense, this seems like a disastrous acquisition if purely for talent.
Yeah, my question is what is anyone supposed to do? What if we want something to be secure? Are we supposed to just say "well, I'm never supposed write anything involving crypto"? How do we do things right? Seriously.
That's a pretty strong claim to make, have a source?
That wasn't a very well-written article. First off, the anachronism of quoting James Madison to discuss internet privacy. Did you know that James Madison also owned slaves? Is the author condoning slavery?

Second off, the intrusions he discuss already happen in the private sector. Having your credit card transaction? Wake up, that already happens. Child pornography; I'm fine with the state creating a system to find child pornographers.

His point about the cold war is also inaccurate. Nuclear war with the Soviet Union didn't happen because each side was basically assured destruction. Our surveillance there was to figure out what they were capable of (satellites, U2 / SR71s) not local communication as is the case with terrorism.

So a bunch of vague talk about our privacy with bad comparisons. The fear of terrorism? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XELamUnF0EU

Society has already moved beyond what this guy is talking about. Look at the Anthony Wiener case; he could very well be the next mayor of New York.

We have more freedom and more ways to talk than ever before.

There are other points he should have made better, specifically whether the archive could be manipulated. Snowden also mentioned this but this could easily be handled by simple hashing. Maybe they should propose it but I'd bet it's already being done.
"Seizure" comes to mind, though.

Those data are seized. Either they are 'mine' or they are 'Google's' but they certainly are not 'public'. In any of both cases, it is unreasonable to seizure them (even if what you get is just a copy) arbitrarily.
He's referencing what's been front-page news for the past month. Choose your favorite newspaper, turn on a TV, or type "NSA lie congress" into Google News. It's not even an assumed lie; the Director of the NSA admitted he lied.