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> "I just love it how you folks always give it to the "zero spelling mistakes" website and all. You're simply giving no chance to other websites to evolve. I gave that source because they were first, not because they were exclusive."

I'm all for promoting smaller websites. In fact I manage a few myself. However I don't see why people should read an article that's just a rewording of someone else's article, where there's no individual research going on, and where it also manages to get the fundamental core of the article completely wrong (ie the scale of Microsoft's serving infrastructure). That's inexcusable given the whole point of news items is to inform / educate the readers.

I was happy to ignore how poorly written the content was as I assumed that either English isn't your first language or that you're dyslexic. As someone who's dyslexic myself - I completely sympathise with how hard formal writing can be. And if you are either of the aforementioned, then I think it's credit that you're not letting it hold you back. However it costs all of 2 minutes to run a spell checker and the improvement that has on the overall "feel" of the article is massive.

*> "and it wasn't a reinterpretation of that source only."

I labelled it as such because of the factual errors present in yours that didn't exist in the original. In essence, you read the original, then rewrote it as you interpreted it.
It's a low level, hardware only capability. It'll even work when the Xbox isnt connected to the internet. You're making an unfounded statement that simply because the XO can listen for an "on" command while hibernating that it's being used to listen and transmit everything it sees and hears. This is explicitly not true and again, just your personal unfounded fear-mongering assertion.
I can't quite tell from any of the articles about this if it's write-once-read-many or read-write. Given that it's about "fused quartz" I am suspecting write-once.
Keep a static "emergency mode" site on S3
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> "you hadn't made the case" the NSA is lawless.

I don't need to. Their actions define them. They're not acting lawfully so therefore they must be lawless.

I have my own methods for keeping a low profile on the net. I wish I felt comfortable sharing them in a public forum, but I don't.
Also, his family has lived in NYC for a while now.
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It's not likely, it's factual http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-s...
Well considering targeted advertising is fundamentally based on surveillance, it's pretty much the same thing.
All those conspiracy theories sound a lot more reasonable today than they did back in 1999.
If you mean all information, enough data to recreate the volume particle-by-particle, then the answer is by definition HELL NO.

If you mean "all the data" as in "all the important data we actually care about", that's been feasible for decades.

So basically, any new or exciting sense of the question leads strongly to the answer, "No".
Ran this on Android 4.1.1 in chrome and it was 913ms. Desktop was ~40ms on average.
There's nothing like that happening. They are paying Telstra and Optus a pretty good deal to migrate customers off legacy HFC and copper telephone networks though. But no forcing is happening...
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He's a technologist; if he's allowed to work, there is obviously work.
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I'm not going to remark on the topic of Internet job annihilation because I feel like I have nothing else intelligent to say, but I wanted to add I do feel the Fancy Hands thing. Something about that entire proposition struck me as disturbing from the beginning.

"Not an elite? Then pretend you're one with your very own anonymous slave!"

How much clearer could it be that even those anonymous slaves will be replaced by robots the second that it's technically feasible.
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Well the NSA's activities have strong bipartisan support (at least as long as as the public doesn't have a great idea about what it does). No member of the intelligence committees has changed their position as a result of these recent disclosures. Both republicans and democrats have rushed to defend the NSA.

The problem isn't a rogue agency that doesn't have oversight. The problem is the law that allows the NSA to do just that. Take section 215 of the patriot act for example(it allows the government to obtain business records aka the verizon phone provision ); it is written in a way that makes it laughably easy to use for almost any use at all. The FBI doesn't even have to go to the FISA court but can choose any magistrate judge they want. The only restriction is "that such investigation of a United States person is not conducted solely upon the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution." Wonderful......
Is Smith v. Maryland really all that relevant?

Isn't there a big difference between collecting data from "a" pen register, and putting pen registers on every single phone in the nation? (And claiming that's not "collection", collection is only invoked if and when they decided to look at stored data?)
I understand you're getting a lot of criticism and I sympathize, but if you're going to make comments about what it means to be a journalist, you should probably have someone proofreading your articles. There are some pretty distracting errors in your writing, such as words missing from sentences, etc. Also, if you don't know the difference between a server and a datacenter you should be very careful when writing articles about the state of the industry. Spreading false information without doing due diligence to be informed is irresponsible. Again, I sympathize with all the criticism that's headed your way, but you would do well to not respond too defensively and to learn from this experience.
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It doesn't matter what the layman price website building at. If it did, gasoline would be 5 cents and movie tickets would be free with your $10 popcorn.
OK, IMHO if you keep gmail, you have not left google. Having one service with them and having multiple services with them are essentially the same.

I am trying to do the same thing. Problem is, I used my gmail address everywhere already. My contacts know me by my gmail address. Dropbox identifies me by my gmail address .. you know what I mean.

I moved my custom domain emails to fastmail. But my @gmail account can't be moved. I really don't know what to do with it. I am stuck.
We've been making noise since 2001 before the Patriot Act was passed, then in 2007 when they granted retroactive immunity to the telecoms who where assisting with the illegal wiretapping, and now again in 2013 when we received some PPT slides that confirm what we thought in 2001.

I'm not trying to be a negative nancy, nor saying stop making noise, just that it's been going on for 12+ years (if not longer) and the powers that could stop it can hardly tie their shoes without an argument on how to tie them correctly. Hopefully more people will wise up to the blatant disregard for the law and demand further action.
What's with this obsession with jobs? If all we wanted were "jobs", we could create 100 million real quickly. Just go destroy a bunch of stuff and get people to work, rebuilding everything again.
Is that just a typo or is the actual domain spelt incorrectly? (It ought to be “happiness” with two “s”es.)
To be fair, I'm not sure I would endeavor to make a mobile-only web app load 10000 elements to the DOM all at once. When I set to 2000, for instance, I can get below 200ms on Android 4.1.1 in chrome.
That's a very interesting take on it, thanks for the explanation. Whether or not is intentional, you're probably right about the effect on the audience.
Thanks for the time you took to correct me

Indeed, the were some errors inside the piece that I almost never make

My mistake was to write and then submit it here, NOT KNOWING NOR EXPECTING that it would get so quickly picked up on the front page.

Quicker than I realized, I was confronted with the mistake I made, without having time to re-examine the article again.

And yes, I did research. Initially, I wanted to write something about Microsoft's focus on the cloud and then I found this piece - http://rcpmag.com/blogs/scott-bekker/2013/07/wpc-microsoft-1..., which is 3 days old, so, most likely, that is the initial source, but not Zdnet.

Then, I linked Microsoft's focus on cloud with the expansion in Iowa + another article with a funny, side fact - http://www.greenm3.com/gdcblog/2013/7/11/microsofts-new-orga...

then, I found this one - http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/07/10/micro...

Therefore, I stand for my work and I accept the errors that I made but please don't label my effort that quickly
Maybe I'm missing the source, but where's the source? These people keep writing stories about what's being revealed and "according to secret documents" this and that is shown. So where are these leaked documents?

If these media outlets are holding on to them to dribble and drab them out to make a buck, there's a huge problem with that. Everything should be out on a torrent or wikileaks for all to see.
I think you've been hell-banned as all your latest comments are dead.
No you weren't, but are you saying that nobody who sympathized with him had the money until now?
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Thanks! Please read above, I always check my articles. This time, it was just unexpected for me :)
"I've pretty much grown up dealing with multiple virtual contexts, so it's natural to me (and other people in my generation) but its definitely not natural to my mother.

I'd be really curious if there's actually something physiologically different between our brains?"

Given the amount of effort spent "saving face" and "keeping up appearances" by the older generations, as well as oftentimes truly sprawling protocols for dealing with different subgraphs of extended family ("Don't talk about this to your aunt, unless your cousin is around, etc."), I'm pretty sure that mankind has had virtualization of social networks for quite some time.

I highly doubt that we're special snowflakes.
So Michael McFaul, the US ambassador to Russia, called a member of the human rights delegation today and asked her to pass on to the message to Snowden that he is not considered a whistleblower [1].

This is deliciously ironic timing -- just yesterday, the US Embassy in Russia released a statement condemning the posthumous conviction of tax fraud whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/RyanLizza/statuses/355704161536450562

[2] http://moscow.usembassy.gov/pr_071113.html
Did the author mean "fire quickly" in the sense that he should determine quickly whether a person is a good fit, or did he mean when you make the decision you should do so with some expediency? It seemed like the former, but the conclusion didn't seem to follow the premise.

Additionally, it seemed like his business was set up to avoid friction and is going to be fairly homogenous in terms of the composition of its people. I think a lot of employees would be petrified about pointing out poor direction for fear of being voted out.

Sometimes you need a little bit of friction to make the better decisions.
I'm never sure if this is a generational thing or just a who-you-happen-to-know thing, but the concept of being an "outcast" because of not using Facebook just sounds ludicrous to me. Your friends wouldn't IM you or email you or text you or call you or talk to you in person if you weren't on Facebook?
No plumber thinks they live in the pipes, but "online" people can feel like they live in a separate place called "online".
Jaron Lanier's "Who Owns The Future" is worth reading on this subject too, fwiw.
Available data will expand to exceed capacity. The amount of data created (or desired to be stored) will always exceed capacity to store (and process) it.

It would be disruptive, same as every other couple of orders magnitude storage in the past and in the future.
>Why shouldn't technology impact how we organize our society? Politicians and civil servants, who have the consent of the governed, take an oath to uphold the constitution and put the interest of the people above their own.

I just read oath as oauth. I guess I've been conditioned to expect oauth as a more likely word than oath on Hacker News.
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He never said it -does- transit data, and is just implying that it -can-.
Not to defend their approach, but...

The chatbot could be used to harmlessly engage with people in chatrooms, and flag 'grooming behaviour'. Then, those conversations could be stepped into by an actual person - saving having actual people monitoring the chatroom full time. The police move in when the IRL meeting takes place, and the suspected paedophile arrives full of evil intentions - at which point, the police have plenty of profiling experience and the guy probably takes a plea.

So the chatbot is more about whittling down the suspicious participant list, without soaking up police time.
I find the cult of 'oh my god you can redefine undefined' hilarious. Yes, you can. You can also redefine Array, Object, and so on. If you're writing a script to intentionally disrupt a system, for(;;); will also do. This doesn't happen in sane environments, so it really isn't a problem.

The Crockford quote (characteristically dogmatic, to the effect of 'void means something different in JS than in Java, so AVOID VOID!') is also a kicker.
The whole thing just showed that Pax Americana is over.

And the damage was made by US government alone. The leaks were small enough to just let the whole thing die down. But by wasting enormous amounts of diplomatic efforts and capital they managed to lose face in front of the whole world.
Hmmm. This title says "working class," but the title of the linked article is "The Internet’s destroying work — and turning the old middle-class into the new proletariat." (capitalization as in the original, btw). Get prepared for another mental jerk when you read the subtitle of the article, which puts the responsibility for destruction on the new _economy_, which is distinct from classes. (Which aspect of the economy, deficit spending? new welfare laws? reduced military budget? bailouts? who knows, who cares! -it's all about people with money and power that I don't have, so they're Bad-) Someone needs to get their terms organized...

The article itself is full of phrases like "seems like" and other wishy-washy half-assertions. Before we get up in arms and wield terms like "destroying," let's see if we can clearly document the changes the internet is creating... Oh, but then we wouldn't have sensationalist web-magazine articles to validate middle-class guilt... :)

SO, with that in mind, perhaps we can narrow the discussion down from leviathan topics like "internet, economy and classes" to the topic of "Fancy Hands," which is the web-facilitated service referred to in 90% of the paragraphs of the article. So often, that one would be forgiven for believing this article was ghost-written by FancyHands.com in the first place.
David Hume said it first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_conjunction
Thank you Edward Snowden. You are a true hero.
Agree about the umbrella company! Should be your last option! But something worth considering if you are not 100% sure about contracting and whether you want to do it for long term.

I'm with SJD and yes, they still do have that horrid excel spreadsheet!
I don't know. This pretty much looks like the Terminator to me. It just needs some good software and a gun. Google's self-driving car technology could be adapted into a formidable killing machine brain.
Such an approach would also lead to better security. GSM used to be sent un-encrypted, but because anyone could intercept it the security was improved. Compare that to the level of security typical on DSL.

A simple starting point would be to put GPS trackers on every government owned car.
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I really like email lists. Everyone has email. Most get it on their phone. I feel your pain... and this is my suggestion for a work-around.
Disclaimer: This is not directed at disposition in particular, it's more of a general observation.

> I'm not trying to be a negative nancy, nor saying stop making noise, just that it's been going on for 12+ years (if not longer) and the powers that could stop it can hardly tie their shoes without an argument on how to tie them correctly.

The length of time that something has gone on does not change the fact that it is fundamentally wrong. The only difference is that I am now, 12+ years later, more disgruntled than I was back when it started. I feel like some people use the fact that this has been ongoing as some way to say "Oh, this isn't as big a deal as you're making it out to be." No, screw you.

Also, we as a population have to stop with the "it's never going to change, why bother?" mentality and get involved. It's definitely never going to change if we continue to be so apathetic as a group.
Let's not. Unless you think we should also be comparing memory footprint, performance, etc of said 'Hello World'.

Language pissing contests are dumb. Languages are tools, each serves a specific job.
Until they get caught again, potentially facing an even bigger crapstorm.
But most of them link to essentially the same thing, not different perspectives on the same event. It just fragments the discussion.
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Senator Select Committee on Intelligence members Mark Udall and Ron Wyden may not have changed their opinions, but these leaks have changed what they can say about it, and that's not exactly complementary, e.g. try this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=senator+wyden+nsa
The translation of the script above doesn't accurately show the nuance between the pilots.
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> "My mistake was to write and then submit it here, NOT KNOWING NOR EXPECTING that it would get so quickly picked up on the front page.

> "Quicker than I realized, I was confronted with the mistake I made, without having time to re-examine the article again."

I hate to say this, but the title drew a lot of attention because of it being inaccurate. eg I clicked the link because my thought was "wow - that can't be true. I wonder where all these data centres are and how big they are". I'd guess many others did the same - which is why someone accused the article as linkbait.

I think this is one of those occasions that need to be chalked down as "experience". And a good reminder to all of us to proof read the stuff we post online. :)
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> With Airplane pilots, Crashes are so exceedingly rare, and the backups, both mechanical, human, and training so well designed to prevent them, that the issues associated with a crash are typically systemic, and little to do with an individual.

That's a weird assertion. Generally, that events are extremely rare outliers in a system is an indicator they are the result of unique special circumstances applicable to that event (of which, the combination of involved individuals would certainly be a plausible candidate for an event where a small group of individuals had a major direct role the way the flight crew does in aircraft operations), rather than systemic problems. This is pretty much the basis of statistical process control.

It turns everything on its head to consider that extremely rare outliers in a process are a particular indication of systemic problems rather than special causes.
And before someone else says this is bollocks, I've worked at a company with shared source access to Windows and there are still bits you can't get at like the CSP implementations so there may still be stuff like that in there.

No open review for any crypto functions in Windows is possible.

That's basically a fucking massive red flag.
Holy cow. I can just imagine having one for the kids, then trying to avoid talking about anything important in the living room, then...

It's a telescreen.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen)
Any web service could "go at any time", in fact, the smaller players are more likely to fold up shop, not give advanced warning, and not offer something like Google Takeout. It's happened before. Some smaller players in the past didn't even have good backups, and simply lost user data. You could self-host, but again, unless you want to put a lot of labor and money into reliability and security, you can also lose.

I'd call the reasoning used in this article "Reader Derangement Syndrome".
Not really - it would just continue the trend of offline local storage and maybe make the Internet more distributed. Pretty much only cloud hosting providers would be affected.

ISPs would probably be pressured into finally going big or going home with their bandwidth, too, which is a good thing.
Maybe such a thought-provoking Weltanschauung could be constructed across the Looney Tunes cartoons. The language of the environment Negroni picks up on here doesn't seem vastly different from the traditions of running/recurring gags in those toons. Animation of any dimension is labor intensive, and reusing pieces comes pretty naturally. So it's no surprise that, intentionally or not, these pieces can create metanarratives.

It's interesting to compare the dynamic between humans and animals. Humans, like Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam, are hunters or otherwise violent antagonists (of course there are animal hunters like Wiley E. Coyote), while the animals, like Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, are the hunted, ever evading not only the hunters, but also, in the process able to elude constraints of space, time, technology, and gender (although not the omniscient brush of the animator, in those episodes where they tear down the "fourth wall").

Buy-n-Large is an interesting contrast to Acme. In Looney Tunes, if you need anything, from a hammer to a nuclear bomb, there's only one company you can get it from, Acme. Unlike Buy-n-Large's insidiously ubiquitous perfection, however, everything Acme makes is junk (consistent with Pre-Chicago School antitrust economics I suppose). It literally falls apart if it doesn't blow up in your face. But Acme did excel at documentation. Impressively huge blueprints and manuals always come in the box.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5953345 for a discussion of a well-done performant mobile web app.
Author here.

I meant get the person out of the job that doesn't fit them well quickly, which involves making the decision and following through.

As for people being afraid of speaking out, that's never been a problem here. The rule is simple -- get all the arguments out in the open, but once the decision is made, everyone has to be on board. It's ok (and desirable) to have a lot of friction in the first part of the process, but is detrimental to have friction in the second part (after the decision has been made).

EDIT: also, it's extremely helpful to periodically re-evaluate things, and and debate flaws in direction. The trick is to keep it constructive (as opposed to having one person not play ball and derail development). Getting this process running smoothly is very difficult and requires a lot of trust, but once it works, it works phenomenally well.
Late reply, but just saw this. So would you go as far as saying it never makes sense to use apache anymore? Is there any negative tradeoff to nginx?
Um, wouldn't 50-100 USD per hour correspond more or less to an average annual salary divided by 1000 ?

I assume the annual salary is already a good summary of what an employer is willing to pay you based on your area,skill and experience, and the "divide by 1000" is just a rule of thumb to translate it to your rate.
I find this administration so infuriating. They are truly living down to my expectations.