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I would stick to my position if it escalated to violence. The best strategy to counter terrorism is not to give up freedom. Giving up freedom is society acting as if it is terrorized. Acting terrorized is exactly what terrorist want.

Whether he wrote a song, a poem, a joke, a virus infected his computer and posted it, a friend wrote it while he wasn't looking, a hacker got in and wrote it, or any one of a million ways it could have come into existence or be interpreted, the government does not have to right to suppress his speech, set excessive bail, and seize his person. That is why we have the 1st, 4th, and 8th amendments. If all speech was happy-go-lucky speech, it wouldn't need to be protected.

I would rather die in a terrorist attack, then live without liberty. Look up the number of deaths caused by smoking, cars, alcohol, and obesity and then compare them to the deaths from terrorist. Then explain to my why we can't risk having a kid express himself. When did we become the land of the oppressed and the home of those scared by words?

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Really think about that. Think about what it means, why it was said, what the logic is behind it, what the philosophy is behind it. Say it over and over to yourself. Say it to friends and family. Memorize it. Live by it. It is the quintessential wisdom for our time, and for all time.
There are many options for individual (as in non-group, not as in non-family) health insurance, although to avoid the hassles of what you're talking about you might have to think outside the box. A typical major medical policy will increase premiums if you start to have medical problems, and if you try to switch you have to deal with "pre-existing conditions."

There are other options, but they work differently and seem scary to most people who are used to letting the company deal with it at a first glance.

Source: I was a health insurance salesman for a short period of time, and was licensed to sell for most of the insurance companies out there. It's part of why I'm not scared of going out on my own and freelancing -- I know enough about how insurance works not to worry about it, and can even sell myself a policy and get commission. However, it's been a couple of years, and I probably can't give you accurate, detailed information -- many of the insurance companies are revamping their business models and policies in anticipation of Obamacare.
I'm not sure what you're trying to communicate but I'd gently suggest that you worry less about what I think and more about the lawless agency that appears to have untoward power over our lives.
I don't think the author knows what a datacenter is
It seems pretty high payoff for people who might otherwise not get a phone screen. When I was tasked with shuffling through resumes and rating them (and seeing other engineers do the same), less than 5% of applicants had cover letters, and the presence of a cover letter almost guaranteed a phone screen. This included really weird cover letters that dedicate a paragraph or two to food or pets or something, but not cover letters that are obviously sent out to many companies with at most a few words changed.
More depending on how much detail you want to use to describe the atom.
I can relate so much. This is so true. Three years ago I was in a position where the only way to get into the business was freelancing. I quit my job at a place that I'm so embarrassed to have worked for I won't mention it (it was fast good) and started freelancing. I did it for two years and still take on side work now after getting a full time position as a developer at a tech company. I was lucky to make that transition and even luckier to have survived as a freelancer.

The Internet using public is changing. Websites are commodities to most people. They don't want to pay and its a huge hustle to get a gig that pays what you're worth. People see the free website they get with hosting and assume you should be able to do it as cheaply, quickly, and the only reason they come to you sometimes is because they just don't want to use the free website builder. They think your job is as valuable as the free site builder and often see you as a mechanical Turk that would just do what they'd do with the free tool.

I see the future of indie web dev being in services, not website design and development.
There is a verbose and enterprisy smell to the language itself. Just compare the hello worlds in java and python...

Apart from that, I agree with you.
datacenters != servers
Doesn't sound like you understand what the discussion is about.
Definitely not just you; privacy concerns were a very (very) small part of this (when Google has all of your data, they have more than the sum of the individual parts). In general, if I want more privacy, I'll say, use PGP instead of switching email providers.

This was about not relying too heavily on any one service provider. Plain and simple.
Sure they can say whatever they want and get away with it. If someone could get standing to ask the supreme court to rule on this I bet they would be required to follow the constitution. The trick is getting standing to file a suit.
Inside the Ring:  More NSA links
Every time I do this I get bottom-feeder work that doesn't pay the bills. :P
Totally cool. I understand that it's a custom prototype/ proof-of-concept project. Network topology is definitely the major factor determining any real security exposure of the appliance on a given network, but it seemed like an undocumented variable that exists outside the scope of this particular project, so I figured it's worth pointing out.

As zanny pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6030206), since we know the chipset, and can anticipate available features, given that we know the networked device is a Raspberry Pi, and that we have the source code of the project, this provides us with enough information to craft possible payloads to drop onto the system. It's certainly not a huge attack surface, but there might be _just_ enough wiggle room to bust in.

As for the QR Code concept, any chance of some plans for adding a small low-end camera?

Even if the camera is not very good (maybe a $20 USB webcam), and the picture is poor quality (perhaps a ~0.3 megapixel image), as long as the image of the QR Code can be captured, the software that attempts to discover the QR Code and pull the information out of the low-quality image will do the rest. Then, it's just up to the user to print out some QR code stickers. Actually, come to think of it, I bet there are probably some burritos out there with QR codes on the wrappers, pointing to some burrito website, that could be re-purposed to trigger the microwave.
I know, and so does Steve Ballmer, I assume
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The total cost of all champions available right now is 443100
and the average number of IP per game won is 110.5 and 72 for loss. This gives a total of 4855.9 games at 50% win rate. Sounds high, but you may still need triple of that to actually know how to play all those champions ;)
This is the same as the British Stamp Act from the American Revolutionary War. If the Stamp Act was an argument for revolution because it was evil, this is too.
No, thats not what I had in mind, thats a little bit misogynist, thats precisely what he does not show in the picture - pissing contest and power games, it looks like concerned cooperation devoid of pissing contests and sex.

The importance of the woman is to show that Snowden is not alone, he has people that care and are concerned about him. No stuff like Ana Chapman style.
Randy Barnett is a libertarian activist, and generally writes in that style, fwiw. He also has a legal background, and can make use of it in court briefs where necessary, but most of his writing is more from the perspective of, "what I think the law ought to be, based on libertarian principles".
Well worth an upvote. Surviving after your plane disintegrates at 78,000 feet is pretty lucky.
Lots of reasons. If someone were employed by, say, the Gestapo then it's pretty clear you would want to discriminate against them.
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You could say the Civil War was a revolution necessary for the passage of the thirteenth amendment (and potentially the 14th and 15th).

Maybe the rise of organized crime under prohibition could be considered a revolution prompting the 21st amendment, but that seems quite a bit of a stretch...
I'm curious if his PGP signature was redacted from the email with the cell phone number.
Anyone charging less than $100/hr is probably underselling themselves.

The only time you should charge less than that is on very long term contracts with hundreds or thousands of hours, and then, only hesitantly.

People make assumptions based on what you charge - frankly, I've found that people tended to blow me off when I charged much less than this, and actually listen when they know they're paying a decent amount for your advice. There's a whole psychology to pricing that needs to be taken into account.
(Hopefully) they won't. They said that having either fglrx or nVidia's binary blob installed would cause the system to fall back to plain X.org.
Over the last ten years, I've read a lot of code. I maintain my own code, and I maintain others' code. Because I am not that smart, I try to simplify everything--to make large problems tractable for my little brain to reason about. In this process, I've come to the conclusion that good, maintainable code is:

1. As simple as humanly possible, so that the algorithm is easy to understand and change. Each component is isolated and can be understood and modified in isolation. Boundaries between component and environment are clearly thought-out.

2. As simply expressed as possible: broken up into distinct, well-organized functions, with descriptive, regular names for functions and variables, in context.

3. Well-documented; each function and each namespace come with contextual docs explaining their motivation, arguments, consequences, invariants, etc., with examples.

4. As short as possible, because humans have trouble holding large amounts of context in their head. Minimize the amount of scrolling or jumping between files necessary to understand the algorithm.

5. Well-tested, so that changes can be made freely. The test suite needs to be fast, so one can get feedback within seconds of making a change to the file; ideally a few milliseconds. A balance of typechecking, logical tests with mocks, integration tests, and full stress tests provides a continuum of safety.

I don't see these goals as particularly constrained to any language, but I will say that I feel best able to achieve them in a Lisp. Dunno whether that helps you project your problems at work onto me personally, though. ;-)
Ask HN: Do you need to know Algorithms and Data Structures in your daily job?
>...Mr. Snowden could stay in Russia only if he agreed to “cease his work aimed at inflicting damage on our American partners.” Mr. Snowden told the gathering of activists that he did not see an obstacle in this condition. “No actions I take or plan are meant to harm the United States,” he said, according to the activists present. “I want the United States to succeed.”

A few days ago:

>Edward Snowden has withdrawn an application for asylum in Russia, apparently deciding that he couldn't abide by President Vladimir Putin's insistence that he stop leaking U.S. secrets, a Kremlin spokesman said Tuesday.

http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-edward-s...

First, Hong Kong is a perfect place to avoid extradition. Despite that, he then goes to Moscow. He applies for asylum in Russia, then revokes it, then applies again.

I'm getting more and more skeptical of any claims that all of Snowden's actions are part of some brilliant plan.
I see your point but also believe this is more about some sales/marketing guy in one of samsungs/nokias of the world will sell this idea someday to their higher ups. Well by number of devices, Samsung anyways launches around 15 models in an year (actually more) a mix of both android and Windows.
Why not just launch a Samsung Galaxy S4 with versions in Windows and Andorid. What is difficult here? #SavingOnDeviceDesign
Can you share your experience? How did you get started contracting in the UK? Did you contact a head-hunter or do you find your own contracts? How?
App.io acquired for $1500
Meh, I tried to explain in another comment thats not what I thought the first I saw the image, its the caring and concerned attitude the women show, as well as not being part of a pissing-contest.
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Because no person has two cellphones.
Of course they do, but that's not the entire article.

For much of the article, the author is saying that Gladwell's hypothesis is a big stretch and it displays the Igon Value Problem.
I'm not sure if the Internet is destroying or just amplifying current general trends.
It was interesting to read that omega-3s were elevated in these individuals. These lipids are typically involved in shutting down inflammatory induced immune responses (i.e. when you get an infection, local inflammation recruits your immune system to fight off the pathogen). The author hypothesizes that these lipids may be recruited as a result of the tumor, seemingly going against the current notion that you need dietary supplementation to offset inflammation. The study did not appear to control for dietary intake of omega-3s, or look at signs of systemic inflammation like c-reactive protein levels. This study was quite small and should probably be ignored for now until the details are fleshed out in follow up studies.
It ended up with fragmentation everywhere, code full of #ifdef spaghetti to cater for all UNIX variants that one needs to support and increased development costs.
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There is truth to the fact that we can't completely choose who we work for. But none the less, you are responsible for the choices you make. If a man is repeatedly raped and abused as a child we still hold him accountable as a man who rapes someone.
Now all we have to do is scale it up and we'll be ready for when the kaiju attack.
"We know that the Redmond company has recently announced that they are planning a $677 datacenter expansion in west Des Moines Iowa"

Maybe they have a million datacenters because they're super-cheap? I can't even paint my house for $677.
I read too much into your previous statement then, apologies.
Pretend I choose that the risk of me sharing something with you (that you might make it public) is worth it.

By doing that, and using any given media that I don't entirely control and that I can't guarantee I can perfectly secure, I'm also accepting the risk that either the provider of the service(s), or a hacker, could also make the information public or share it with the government.

Think about the risk of my friends making the information public, intentionally or unintentionally (they have lousy passwords, or share passwords with friends, or don't use SSL in a cafe, or have an easy to guess Password Recovery answers, or they forget to log out on a computer someone can sneak onto, or they get hit by a keylogger and don't use two-factor authentication like I do, or they get hit by phishing).

I think that risk is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more likely than the risk that the media provider (Google, Facebook) will, intentionally or unintentionally, make the information public. Or somehow use it to harm me.

Also, the damage, should that risk occur, to me, is very low. (Based on the type of information I share.)

Now, every layer of the service provider is also demonstrably sharing with the government. That's happening.

And many people here are blaming Google (the victim) rather than the government (the abuser), which makes no sense to me.

I accept the argument that we ALL need protection from government spying. I really do. But I have yet to see someone propose how to avoid using an ISP. And many of the people abandoning Google are still running Windows. Or how to abandon a major cell provider.

Dropping Google, while continuing to use major ISPs and Cell providers is like changing which STAMP you put on your postcard, and expecting that will somehow stop the postman from reading it.
Is there a business selling ads on Minecraft?
I am not a pacifist. I do not excuse the actions of the terrorists, I denounce them in the strongest possible terms. There can never be any justification for what they have done. But I have less standing to criticize their actions than to criticize those of my government. Part of my job as a citizen of this country to hold opinions on its behavior, and my opinion is that since 9/11 we have been largely fighting the wrong people, and that the fight has been expensive in cost and in civil liberties. I believe the cure has been worse than the disease, and that the severity of the disease has been, and continues to be, overstated.

You are, of course, right that it's easy to criticize from an armchair, but representative democracy is all about finding a balance between the opinions of the experts with the most skin in the game and the wider populace, of which I am a part. I don't need to be a direct participant in the struggle against terrorism to be entitled to an opinion on it.

I'm very sorry about your friends.
mjn: That's actually suprising to me; among my friends most of the non-techi people use Google Talk (a few on AIM and Skype as well, but not many). Most of my techi friends used Google Talk as well but started moving away after federation was killed off. Now many of them use a mix of other XMPP providers (DuckDuckGo, Jabber.org both being popular) and direct messaging on IRC.
Has been updated, as well as the "server" issue

thanks!
Do like strings, lists, dictionaries, stacks, trees, and priority queues count as data structures? In that case, all the time.
I don't think that thing would fare too well outside in the wind, unfortunately.
State Dept spends over half a million dollars to buy 'likes' on Facebook
His transit through Hong Kong did not get him returned to the US, despite many efforts to make that happen, so it doesn't seem to have turned out so badly.

Regarding Russia, were Russia going to grant him asylum they would of course want to smooth it to the greatest extent possible, so it's entirely possible the earlier dance was a part of the show (Russia showing itself as a concerned partner, perhaps hoping for some American demonstrations of overreach that would legitimize the asylum request, such as attempt to harm or abduct Snowden). He is in Russia, so neither side has any need to rush things.

Not saying it's all a part of some brilliant plan, but things seldom are as straightforward as they seem.
But the discussion was about vote selling. I don't see how open ballots make that harder. The opposite seems to be true.
So, what are his prospects for supporting himself post-asylum/defection? Intelligence asset? Puppet for a leftist government?

Besides the White House petition, what organized efforts are underway to bring this guy back without rebuke?
Innotop 1.9.1 released
From your article:

We have something over a million servers in our datacenter infrastructure

They do not have a million data centers, they have a combined million servers in their datacenters.
To me, those threads sound like old people complaining rather than an actual problem. "Back in my day..." You still did not answer my question: how?
The photons look about the same to me. At the other end of the data hose, someone is using information about me for their benefit. Governments are one form of enterprise by which individuals may strive to accumulate and express power, corporations are another.

I am ambivalent in regards to ranking one over the other because I cannot file a FOI request with Microsoft or Google or Apple or HP or Yahoo, etc.

Microsoft just makes great headlines, particularly in the tech community where people such as myself, who very likely never planned on purchasing an Xbox One can express outrage over its design. I thought the architecture was crap from the beginning.
I don't disagree. There are other potential problems also, such as protection of minorities. But right now I don't have the OPTION to vote directly, even if I do know more than my elected official. Online election systems can provide such options. Was my elevator spiel for one possible method perfect - no. But hopefully it got you and other readers thinking about the general concept (it appears it got you thinking about it), possible challenges (it definitely got you thinking about it), and possible benefits (yet to be seen).
I don't think I would have the stomach to run. He clearly faces a possible execution if he comes back to the United States, but I think at this point he's garnered enough support from the populous that there would be MASSIVE riots if an execution was passed or even being considered.

Plus, personally, I would rather come back to the U.S. and stand for what I did because (1) South America isn't exactly the most healthy place. (2) The socialist governments are using Snowden to get back at the U.S. and some of the rhetoric the south american officials said upon accepting his request would scare me more than facing a public trial. (3) If it was actually attempting to show the world what the government is doing because its morally wrong part of standing up for what you believe in is looking your enemy in the eye. He's made his point, clearly the rage the world and Americans feel is continuing to grow, festering under the surface. His best chances at survival are actually to come home and face the enemy, than run and get murdered in his sleep or simply disappear.
Good points, but there is a domain of these claimed problems which are covered by automated testing, that's all I'm saying.

And no, you can't find security holes with tests (unless they are random-input style tests, I guess), but you can at least cover the hole afterwards with a test.
Even the updated article is completely wrong!

"Microsoft Has 1 Million Server Datacenters" - Uh, that's not what Ballmer meant.

But as a link bait, this article must have been super successful.
I feel like the op-ed is aiming to "spread the knowledge" more than it is trying to dig deep into the legal issues surrounding NSA's activities. I recall reading polls after the Snowden leak showing how a fair amount of the US public did not fully understand what was happening. It seems like this is Barnett's initial attempt at speaking out in some official form and creating some dialogue around this issue.
I'm not talking about what you think but what you've said in this discussion, or rather haven't said, that "you hadn't made the case" the NSA is lawless.

Which I think is a very important point: if they are subject to the rule of law, we have a variety of legal means to deal with them, some of which I've outlined.

If they are truly lawless, our options shrink down to the unpalatable choices of avoiding getting stomped on (which neither of us chose, given our participation in this discussion) or by definition extra-legal action. I'm not going to suggest that's what you're saying, but if you truly do believe they're lawless, do you have any ideas for action vs. "worry" and other forms of inaction?
I have to give MSFT some credit in this situation, for once. The acquisitions of Yammer and Skype, and evolution of the Azure and Office 365 platforms, are cornering the cloud collaboration market in the enterprise. MSFT has set a clear strategy in the cloud collab market up and down the stack, and it's paying off.
I understand the difference now, thank you!
TIL Microsoft has 10x as many data centers as they have employees. Every employee gets 10 all to themselves!
They persuaded a lot of big companies to collaborate actively (i.e. Microsoft, Blackberry etc subverting crypto). Personally I don't see it as legal or ethical, and would resist it, but a large government can bring a lot of pressure to bear. So if tarsnap got big enough to be a problem, then perhaps we'd find out.
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