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> That's an extraordinary claim, so it requires extraordinary evidence.

Most of what Mr. Snowden has revealed has been pretty damn extraordinary. Upon first hearing many of his claims, I'll admit that I (more often than not) thought "no, surely not" and, shortly thereafter, government officials quickly came forward to deny many of his claims.

Then, almost without fail, Mr. Greenwald would publicize documents backing Mr. Snowden's claims and showing the government as the liars.

What it comes down to is, simply, trust and credibility. To me, at this point, Mr. Snowden has eons more credibility -- and I trust him much more -- than the United States government.

In the absence of evidence, I am certainly more willing to take him at his word than I am the various government officials who have proven themselves liars time and again over the last six weeks or so.
I don't know much about Twitter internally but from the outside they seem to have a pretty impressive stack. I personally love their Scala, Storm, Bootstrap, Twmemproxy, Cascading work.

http://twitter.github.io
I use Ubuntu on my laptop, and haven't touched unity. Just install something else!
>These people did not fight any holy crusade for their principles and, despite their accomplishments, will not be remembered by history (except perhaps to be immortalized by their old buttons and bumper stickers in a hallway in Mountain View).

One genre of history book that fascinated me was what I call the "ordinary biography". Biographies written about people who lived interesting lives, but never really did anything that would put them in a history textbook. I'd really like to see more of these.

The example that comes to mind is a book I once saw about a communist labor organizer in the 30's. Not a particularly famous one, just a guy (or was it a woman?) who went around helping workers form unions. It sounded interesting but I passed, and now I can't remember the title.
You can also just build tip on your own locally. Go has virtually no hard dependencies other than gcc (and mercurial to get the repo, unless you pull the code some other way).

hg clone http://code.google.com/p/go
cd go/src
./make.bash

(or ./all.bash if you want to run all the unit tests)

Same holds true even on Windows if you have a local gcc like MinGW (the only notable difference is you'll execute make.bat instead of make.bash if you're in a Windows cmd shell instead of bash).
Ok, so let's say you download a GitHub project... it has docs that run in a web browser, tests that run in python, some code that actually does something... it has some dotfiles for this and for that... well none of that DOES anything. It all depends on there being certain tools on your end of things...

I'm saying that instead, we just ship all the tools along with the code... and you can do that in browserland, and that's NOT the UNIX-way at all!

...it has nothing to do with HTTP, it has to do with the web browser runtime as compared to the runtime built on top of a filesystem!

UNIX land doesn't not play well when running any arbitrary stuff that comes it's way... sure, it might not have root, but, uhm, yeah if some code wipes out my entire user account, I'll be pretty bummed out... that's not gonna happen in the browser with it's sandboxed environment that has been battle-tested by trillions of page requests!

Find me another runtime that is as many places and is readily available to run third-party, untrusted code, and I'll happily jump ship! (aint gonna happen!)
If you get handed a turd, it's your job to polish it up and make it the shiniest turd out there.
I may have disagreements with their policy at times, but both the ACLU and the EFF seem to do an amazing amount of good work. I'm surprised that people perceive the EFF that way.
Interesting seeing the ACLU and Anonymous team up...
>I would take Snowden's claims more seriously in general if he were on United States soil

There is a long list of former gov't employees who went through those channels and found them sorely lacking. In other words, people who are in a position to know better, who disagree with you. Radack, Drake, and Binney, to name a few.

>Right now, part of what Snowden is saying with ghostwriting help from Wikileaks is not making sense.

You sound a lot like Walter Pincus, whose employer had to print a retraction[1] over the baseless accusations he made in this column: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/questi...

I suggest you have a look at that story from a critical perspective: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-spying-scandal...

[1]Correction:

A previous version of this Fine Print column incorrectly said that an article by journalist Glenn Greenwald was written for the WikiLeaks Press blog.The article, about filmmaker Laura Poitras and WikiLeaks being targeted by U.S. officials, was written for the online publication Salon and first appeared April 8, 2012. Its appearance on the WikiLeaks Press blog two days later was a reposting. This version has been corrected.

A previous version of the column also asserted that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, during a May 29 interview with Democracy Now, “previewed” the story that Greenwald wrote for the Guardian newspaper about the Obama administration’s involvement in the collection of Americans’ phone records. There is no evidence that Assange had advance knowledge of the story; the assertion was based on a previously published interview in which Assange discussed an earlier surveillance project involving the collection of phone records.The assertion has been taken out of this version.

The column also does not mention Snowden’s past work in the intelligence community. The lack of this context may have created the impression that Snowden’s work for Booz Allen Hamilton gave him his first access to classified surveillance programs.
Yes, although there's a cutting-edge form of encryption called homomorphic encryption that would allow full-text search on encrypted data if an implementation is ever perfected. IBM is working on it, among many others:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/05/ibm-takes-big-new...
Fast? I don't think a suitable word exists to express the speed of MD5 on GPUs, but here are the numbers: 8213.6 M/s, AMD 7970.
The story behind 'OK Glass'
Nah. The third option is that both are telling the truth.

Microsoft doesn't do end-to-end encryption so it can be forced to turn over the cleartext. (Skype calls go through MS servers in unencrypted form, and Outlook/Hotmail messages are stored in cleartext.)

There are still legitimate questions to ask Microsoft, though:
https://twitter.com/declanm/status/357229483666837505
Speak for yourself, some of us thrive on customer interaction.
The company I works for has a great solution to that, it allows people that want/deserve to move into management paybands (they leave the union), but stay in their technical roles. The become managers without direct reports. Career / Pay advance, without having to take on managerial responsibilities.
When you talked about the yubikey, it's actually not too hard to built a two factor token yourself. Using an arduino, you could wire it in a way that would be convenient for you to operate.

http://lab.infoserver.com.br/wiki/index.php/Projects:arduino...

https://github.com/damico/ARDUINO-OATH-TOKEN
You are aware that MLK was assassinated by the USG, are you not?

Anyone saying that Snowden should be in the US "awaiting trial" is a naive utter moron.
You're really assuming your conclusion here. William Binney did not go to prison at all; Thomas Drake got a month's probation. Now I'm not saying that they were free to make their revelations, or that it was easy; they went through a great deal of stress, legal expense, and obviously their public service careers are permanently over. But that's still a very long way from 'having your life completely ruined.'
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I'm just questioning the assumption that RAII as a concept must be memory unsafe, specific language aside.

Edit: To be clear it's the latter question, but more general. C++'s implementation has many opportunities for errors, but I do not think the technique is inherently unsafe. (PL research has proven many similar systems based on unique types and borrowing to be type- and memory-safe.)
Not a very credible source seeing that onstartups.com is run by a co-founder of Hubspot, which is starting to become a rather big company.
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Interesting... but clueful site owners already strip all EXIF headers anyway, for performance reasons. Options for doing this abound (e.g. mod_pagespeed, grunt imagemin, http://smush.it, etc).
Here's the thing though - at the same time Ubuntu was being panned for going their own way with Unity and 'abandoning Gnome', both Gnome and KDE were also abandoning the traditional desktop with their 'visions' of what people should be doing. It was a horrible time to be looking for a traditional desktop that was also tightly integrated.
This is my point exactly. The game that will take off on tablet is certainly not going to be a shooter. At least, not a shooter that even remotely resembles anything on the market right now. There needs to be a paradigm shift.
I really grok this article. One thing that I found was that after learning to navigate office politics I really didn't like it. I made it a point in subsequent jobs to get a feel for what politics are like and if they seemed to be too toxic to avoid the company.
passive-aggressiveness?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5853639
But again what evidence is there that the NSA is creating these list of groups ? They could just be simply looking at which individuals a person is speaking to. It is a subtle distinction but legally a significant one.

I just seem to see a lot of conjecture but no actual evidence.
I disagree that their core product sucks. The negatives you mentioned aren't noticeable to 99% of end users; what is noticeable is that dropbox works exactly the way a product like dropbox should work. I'd agree that Dropbox looks precarious but I'd argue it's for the opposite reason: they got the product right the first time and they don't seem like they have anywhere to go from here.
Our existing mobile devices can be used in similar creepy ways, but we've learned to discern between the postures people use for taking photos with their phones, and their postures for doing everything else with their phones. We certainly pay an "attention tax" to maintain an awareness of nearby devices, but we've gotten over the creepiness.

It's possible that we'll learn similar patterns for Glass. While we won't know if the device itself is recording, we might still be able to guess based on where the wearer is looking and how quickly they are moving. On the flip side, Glass wearers might also change their postures and habits so as to avoid matching these newly-learned patterns.
Fipp might be relevant:

https://github.com/brandonbloom/fipp
I don't know what genres you're into but web-collaboration between strangers is standard in electronic music. Even among the professionals.
I'm rereading the Federalist Papers right now, as it happens. I can't help thinking that most of HN would dismiss Hamilton and Madison as 'statist thugs' if I were to start quoting or paraphrasing the views of those gentlemen on topics like national security.
If the suit succeeds, wouldn't ratifying the Constitution be the only way to actually make it 'legal'? A law the infringes on the rights of the people without due process cannot be remedied by any other number of laws except where those laws reduce the scope to those wherein more narrow warrants are granted (I think).
About the best way I can put this is via analogy.

Imagine a patient with appendicitis who goes to a doctor, and the doctor just hands over a prescription for pain medication and says "no worries, this will make you feel better right away".

The pain meds will make the patient feel better for a bit, but really they're just masking a symptom of the underlying disease, which is still there. And sooner or later that appendix must be treated or got rid of, or the patient's going to die.

The pop-feminism practised in places like SRS, Jezebel, Tumblr, etc. is the social-justice equivalent of giving the appendicitis patient pain meds. "Smashing the patriarchy" will still leave the underlying disease of which it's a symptom (essentialism and roles assigned on the basis of gender) untreated.

Of course, that's an oversimplification, since the popular conception of "patriarchy" is deeply flawed in other ways (it lacks the explanatory power to say anything more glib than a 101-style "of course it hurts you too, sweetie" to men who are also being harmed by the deeper disease of essentialism, to take one example).

But I've long since given up trying to get this through to most people on internet boards, which is why I now do it under throwaway accounts.
I also think exactly the same thing of you, given that you think I'm stupid enough to believe that being called a douche is 'constructive criticism'. It doesn't require profanity to insult someone.
I tend to agree with you, but it's possible the places with budgets to allow for high-quality graphic design and production (let alone conference attendance) also have budgets that allow for the salaries high-quality people often demand.
> Does not mean they did not provide the mechanism to access encrypted data in transit.

they are required , by the law , to deny any involvement with the NSA if caught. They are required to lie ,by the law. So at this point you cant believe anything they say.
You can configure your server to log usage of deprecated features in PHP so that the attack would ultimately appear in the log. Admittedly, it would still take a pretty vigilant Sys Admin to catch it.
I remember going to Denali in high school and the mosquitoes you have up there in Alaska shouldn't even considered in the same genus as the mosquitos most people deal with.
The goal Ubuntu appears to be aiming for is that you dock your phone/tablet to a workstation setup with a full-sized screen and keyboard, and all your apps and content seamlessly carries on in the new environment. That's a bit different from Surface's model of attaching a keyboard and using the same touchscreen.
Well, my point is that there are alternate ways of ensuring the data doesn't get out, not just by being really good at resisting torture.

Other methods:

A) Alternate password that destroys the data.

B) Cyanide capsule in tooth.
A large company (revenue > 100m) generating per employee profits in the million plus range?

A large company that is efficient, fast to react to threats and opportunities, can monitor and measure each and every part of its own behaviour in real time, and have that feedback passed to all employees

Just a company that is large acting like a well run small outfit
You can start making moves at even 100, so long as the people on the list are into you and what you're doing (rather than fly-by-night joiners, or people bribed into joining your list).

But 500 is great (with that same kind of audience), and by the time you get up to a few thousand really engaged, interested readers, you're set. You may not make a livable wage right away, but you'll be making SOMETHING, and from there all you have to do is keep doing good work and publishing it (and as you build a back catalog, each new release can lead to a big boost in sales of your past work, as well).
I don't think smart has anything to do with it. I believe that this issue transcends normally antagonistic parties. This is something most of us can agree on. Left/right/liberal/conservative/anarchist/socialist/capitalist/whatever - we all expect a certain base level of privacy w.r.t. our private communication, both contents and metadata.
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Both Google and Microsoft need to offer end-to-end encryption/easy to use client-side encryption without having any access to any keys themselves, wherever possible (chat, e-mail, cloud storage). End of story - if they really do "care about our privacy".

Otherwise they're just disingenuous at this point, because they know that while they say that in public, they give access to spy agencies all over the world to a lot of those accounts, that probably have nothing to do with "terrorists". Even if they think all the requests the US government is doing are "legitimate", do they really want to make it just as easy for the Saudi Arabian government or others to do the same?
Article III section 2:

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution...
I'm not sure when you last surveyed every CxO at every large company but I think some of them have moved on since then. After scores of aborted "internal startups" some of the more mature CxOs have realized that emulating startups is the worst thing a big company can do.

The dangers of informal VC money is another factor that drives experienced managers away from that strategy.
JVM path not feasible when the goal is O/S security
Not exactly. I'm assuming that Snowden doesn't believe what he did will hold up in courts. Do you really feel that is an unfair assumption?
As a user I am under the impression - and I do insist that it is a subjective, unsubstantiated point of view - that the moment those companies went on their first talent shopping spree they stopped innovating in significant ways. Am I the only one to feel that way ?
Regardless of his skill or importance to the development of the Linux Kernel, Linus is a real dickhead. You can't treat people like crap and expect no static back. There are numerous examples of him being a bully just because he can. I'd like to see how far this behavior would be tolerated if he didn't hold the keys to the Linux kingdom.

TL;DR Linus is a dick.
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This article was written in July 2007. Relevant?
It's happening. My article from May disclosed that Google is litigating two NSL cases against the Justice Department:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57587005-38/justice-depart...
So if this is true, seems like a pretty significant detail for online advertisers - ad rate inflation.

Alternatively, seems like this could be a problem to solve for a startup - reliable ad delivery.
The Main Core database is reported to contain a list of 8 million people. You probably want to avoid associating with them.
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In this four-part talk, the facebook designers show us how they combined their high-level goals with an iterative process and interactive design tools such as Quartz Composer
How is this different than this?
https://github.com/norisatir/go-gtk3

They also set finalizers.
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I find it amazing that they react to this problem at all. It's just an another hull breach in their failship.
If you play a chord into an arpeggiator, it... well, it arpeggiates it. In other words, it plays each note of the chord individually in a particular rhythm (e.g. 16th notes) in a particular pattern (e.g. up/down, up, random). Very, very common in electronic music.
widely disapproved of by the general public

[citation needed]
Vijay is, as usual, correct. It's typically better to rely on mathematics than the law to protect privacy.

But I would add one thing, and that is that court decisions can be influenced by public opinion. And if public opinion turns significantly against the NSA by the time this is up before the 9th Circuit or the Supremes, this will prove a worthwhile exercise for EFF et al.
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He's talking about the preg_replace /e modifier not eval, the function.
I know, but does that really feel right? Sort of the height of arrogance to me. "Let's take something super prevalent and remove it entirely and I'm sure we'll have a zero sum gain" Maybe it's true though.
It leaves more in the hands of the developer (some would call this "power"), which presents opportunity for programmer error.
Unity got a lot better with Ubuntu 12.04, it sucked when it first came out. I used to hate Unity but after some updates it's now my favorite desktop.
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I love FOSS but GIMP is ridiculously bad.
There was a non WfW 3.11 though that I think didn't include VSHARE.386; by the time 3.11 was around I think I had my 386/40

Also, WfW did not initially ship with built in winsock implementation, WfW did ship all the networking apparatuses other than that, just needing a drop-in winsock.
I'm late to respond but hopefully you'll see this. Let's look at what I actually said and the context in which I said it.

theorique: This article is full of bias. The writer has an anti-business agenda and cherry picked a group of examples in order to make these kind of services wrong.

I think most people, regardless of their opinion of theorique's comment, would agree that this is a fairly political statement. If nothing else, it's saying the OA is political.

The response by minikites: What a rosy Econ 101 view of the world. In reality, tons of people are desperate for money and put up with a lot of predatory business processes. Lots of people work without healthcare because they're purposely scheduled for just enough hours to make them less than full time. followed by two links to the motherjones.com domain

Also a fairly political statement in itself, even disregarding the sources.

However, I commented specifically on the source. Motherjones.com. A site owned by the Foundation for National Progress. It'd be hard to come up with a more political name that doesn't include Republican or Democratic. From their own FAQ page you can pull out several nice-sounding phrases that are thinly veiled Democratic talking points.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a bad site or that liberalism or progressivism is wrong. What I am saying is that you don't try to disprove someone saying a Salon.com article is biased (in favor of the Left) by providing them with corroborating sources from a website even more liberal than Salon.com. It's like combating the Tea Party by providing a Kucinich speech calling Obama a warmonger.
I don't think it is the case that they had always planned to build a whole new software stack. And that's not even what they're doing - Ubuntu runs loads of 'Linux ecosystem' applications, which Android never aimed to do.

On the system level, only last year they were talking about one day moving to Wayland - which they later decided against for reasons I don't know enough about to judge. My understanding is that they only made Unity because they felt they didn't have enough influence in the design of Gnome 3. I don't think there's as much of a master plan as you suggest.
Not yet....we could call it eertami's law though....
Interesting article for much more than just that problem. So pay up for the dirty work? That seems in line with what I believe. Internal markets are good for companies.

There's a bit of a question of "Where do you draw the line between being a manager just coordinating freelancers, versus actually having a company?" Perhaps it's the time horizon of employees?
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"you can't put a corporation in jail but you can tell them that if they do something you will put their leadership in jail [an imperfect analogy])"

Does leadership, from a corporation either private or government (NSA, CIA, FTC, etc) ever end up going to jail though? It seems like after the banking industry was pretty much caught red-handed breaking all kinds of laws and/or causing all kinds of programs to end or start, none of them ended up behind bars. I have to think the NSA would be better at avoiding jailtime than bankers...

Maybe I'm just pessimistic but it seems more like the best this could hope for is the NSA stopping Prism and then finding out 5-10 years later (or never) that they started Diamond or some other program that does the same thing except doesn't record the first 5 seconds of phone calls, or something else that "obeys the new rules"...