skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said anything was black and white, just that a very large amount of people have become complicit in what they acknowledge as wrong-doings.

As to working within the system, attempting to halt or mitigate what you view as malfeasance is indeed not complying. Merely suggesting though, that people are working within doesn't do much in the face of the number of those working for without care or question.

Yes people have to make the choice of being complicit or face going to jail in some cases. Most just need to stop defending their profiting from the murder/kidnapping/torture/rendition/detention/prosecution of others. Providing infrastructural support like telecommunications is indeed an enabler for industries like drone warfare.

It's called "The World" as you put it.
>I don't think Mr. Snowden is a patriot," Obama said, adding that Snowden had legal means to bring his concerns to light.

Such as voicing his concerns to a superior, getting his clearance revoked just because, and then ranting in a blog, just to have his accusations denied with weasel words by the administration? [EDIT] Or just dismissed in a press conference as paranoia from a lunatic?

>Even without the leaks, he added, the U.S. government would have made the reforms he was proposing, except it would have done so without sacrificing national security.

How did Snowden sacrifice national security?
Exactly. The utter lack of commitment to principle (i.e.: defend whistleblowers) is absolutely disheartening. It's made worse by the mental gymnastics to claim that Snowden is not a whistleblower.

Hope and change? Where and when do we get those?
Patience is a bliss. Epic wait!
This was also recently released. https://github.com/chjj/blessed
> “what? I’ve been in here for an hour?”

I think the "in here" is key. As everyone has been saying, this is a whole new way to think about HMI.
This kind of approach simply doesn't make sense

It was poorly explained there, but essentially that style of reasoning does work: http://www.amazon.com/Primer-Infinitesimal-Analysis-John-Bel...

And I at least find that approach easier and more useful. (I learned it from the Feynman lectures on physics, where he didn't axiomatize it; the above link does.)
Amen. And wouldn't it be more informative to be told how many browsers were found to be indistinguishable from the user's? Pretty sure my iPhone is completely generic. That should be a detectable category for them by now.
Tone affects the perceived meaning of content. The same statement delivered with different tones will come across as genuine or enthusiastic or sarcastic or puzzling etc
My good friend Teddy (who I co-project managed the HL2 mod Dystopia with) is the guy behind the Cover Shooter demo.

https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2915

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSoj9EU7pWs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CaUoAVck6g

I'm definitely eager to see what the specs are for the initial mass market release of the Rift is.
Dat: collaborative data
In a week? Not even the US. Over a normal time frame? Two dudes from Stanford built Google.

Get over your America-centrism. The only reason the American Cloud hasn't been duplicated more extensively than it already has is that there's been no business reason to do so - it was cheaper to use what was there, much of which was in America, I'll grant you.

But give it a year.

America is yesterday.
The number one reason to write CLI apps in node is npm. npm gets package management right, preferring local dependencies to global ones - this means no worrying about what version of a library a user has in their global environment.

You also get to bring node's parallel io-centric patterns to your scripting. Need to download a bunch of files from a remote host, process them, and write them to disk? Go for it.

But take it with a grain of salt: it's very much a use-what-you-know kind of thing.
Open novel...
I agree ... And the thing I noticed is that during the cold snap (which wasn't nearly as long but was just as cold), they hardly used any power compared to the previous year. Perhaps they wer on vacation? I think "occupied hours" would be pretty important for these measurements. And if you multiplied occupied hours times the inside-outside temperature differential, you'd (maybe) start to see some patterns.
I, too, propose reforms to surveillance programs. My proposal will have about as much impact as his.
This is so worth the 150+ slides. It's like a tour of, "Hey, so you know this, right? Well, did you ever think about what if THAT?"
would making public the legal rational for an illegal thing make the thing legal?

On the other side, they had legal rational for torture, and it did made the torture legal for some period of time - nobody was prosecuted for doing it, so de-facto it was legal at the time, despite later declarations.
(Always assuming that this hasn't just killed the very viability of the Cloud concept.)
Fun fact:
If you test it in normal mode and then incognito, you are no longer unique

Also, it might mess with overall statistics
Me too. I use Machform and love that it's not tied to WordPress, because I use ProcessWire most of the time. WordPress...sigh
There was no translation software, only project management and sales software and that was all written by me and my team. The free translation software was written by another company.

The stolen data was mostly taxonomical lists and some setup data for a project management system.

The actual translation was given to real people to do for absolute bottom dollar prices
These numbers don't make much sense to me. Only 2.5% of the site's users are running 1920x1080x32? Only 4% of people going to an EFF website are in the Pacific timezone?
The blog doesn't do a very good job of explaining why this should worry us. For shits and giggles, try replacing every instance of "computer" with "car", and every complaint about not being able to reinstall the OS with not being able to replace the carburetor.

Guess what? The vast majority of people don't need to know how to replace the carburetor, or know how to reinstall the OS -- they're happy with something that Just Works 99% of the time, and to consult professionals the rest of the time. And that's just fine: in the same way that not everybody needs to be a car mechanic, not everybody needs to be a computer guru.
Yet another article typical[1] of the tech punditry which frames discussion of every interesting product segment around what Apple is supposedly doing

[1]http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/07/27/the-apple-reali...
I would actually spend the money to buy Thinking with Type, if you're really serious about learning typography. Having the tree version lets you get really up close and personal with the various types, and it's easy to flip between pages to compare letterforms, etc. Another one to check out is Elements of Typographic Style [1].

1. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0881792063/
>Tracking all the issues & bugs I fix at work to prove my productivity.

I really like this idea, so frustrating that fogbugz doesn't have a "all the issues I modified today" filter (that I can find).

As an aside, there's room for improvement in this area but check out our (HelloSign) extension at http://hellosign.com/gmail, simplifies your first bullet point significantly.
From what I gather going by this site that I consulted (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/unique) it seems that anything less than 2 would qualify you as unique.

You may feel that as the sample set grows others may join your party but you have not told us why you believe this to be the case. I wouldn't be too sure, I would be more hesitant in reaching that conclusion.

As it stands you are a unique snowflake and so am I.
The 6 months is only for performance issues. I'll say that showing up to work without pants generally falls in the "extremely wrong" things to do, like punching a coworker, setting your cubicle on fire, sending a nude image to an email-distribution. All fair-game for instant termination.
It doesn't have to be 6 months if something "extremely wrong" happens during those 6 months. Maybe 6 months is only appropriate for at&t. I'm just saying they need a "reasonable chance" to give you enough data to measure performance change. That's different for different industries/companies. For a start-up with lots of coding, maybe only 1 month is needed to measure any change in performance.
But some of the blame goes to the employer as well. In theory an employer should almost never have to deal with an unfixable bad employee. If a company really keeps having repeated problems with bad employees, the interview-process probably needs some fixing.
I re-watched Brazil a few nights ago for the first time in a few years, and you couldn't be more right.

Harry Tuttle probably happens every day.
So, reading many of the replies in this thread, they all cover good points, but I have a slightly different point: The current encryption libraries make the "easy" stuff hard. If we assume that all the hard work of actually doing things is taken care of, and just looking at the API of the command line tools (the C api's are generally worse).

The NSS command line tools require you to provide a provide a entropy file of "sufficient size". "Oh!" you think, "I'm on linux, I can just use /dev/random". No, it tries to read the entire file, and thus hangs infinitely after using up all your entropy. "Ok, I'll do something like: dd if=/dev/random of=- bs=1024 count=1 | .... --nonce-file /proc/self/fd/0", nope, doesn't work, because it tries to read from this file multiple times. (Also how big is "sufficient"? 8196 bits of entropy seems overkill worth of entropy I just threw down the toilet, but the opposite case is even worse.)

The openssl command line tool has a simple "ca" command, which appears to be the "State of the art", but doesn't support revoking keys or even concurrent access. The openssl command line in general is confusing and difficult to remember.

PKCS#11 is a nice C api, but there's no standardised config to tell the machine to use PKCS#11 for everything, so you have to specify it on every command line. Forget it just once and you've possibly just created a key thats not in your HSM and you might not notice that.

A little bit of UI TLC would make the world much more secure. SSH sees high levels of uptake because while it has strong crypto, it's relatively easy to use.

Exploits with people using TLS and then not properly verifying the far ends cert is usually down to the fact that library that they're using doesn't provide a "just verify the cert for me" but expects every developer to implement it themselves. Most libraries will default to ridiculously stupid ciphers, even if the other end will let you negotiate stronger ciphers, again requiring every application developer to make sure that they have overridden the defaults to something sane, and perhaps just offloading the problem onto the system administrator.

djb's NaCl has a nice API, but it's incompatible with everything, so you can't use it to interoperate with the rest of the world. (Also djb has a history of abandonware, and licenses that prevent other people from continuing to maintain the software as the realities around it evolve, so it's probably not useful for something that's going to last >3-5 years.).

Crypto is notoriously difficult to get right, but the API of the current tools (both the language bindings and CLI tools) makes it far harder than it needs to be, inviting a slew of additional errors.
Banks move slow and you called on a Friday. if you don't get a call on Monday do a Google search for

security site:bank.com

and see if you can find any email addresses for someone that handles it. If that fails, try searching LinkedIn for engineers that work for the bank and emailing them.

if all fails, search for a CTO or CEO and CC them everything.
http://treeofmamre.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/obamas-new-sloga...
Sure, but unlike foreign countries, the US gov't and most US businesses have little or no motivation to get off the US cloud.

There will be private citizens who care and a few companies, but I don't think it'll impact the internal US market much. If you're in the US it's probably more effective to pursue political action rather than boycotting US businesses.
Exactly. The doctrine of judicial review wasn't even part of the original plan.
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> every time my phone rings it inevitably interrupts something I am doing.

A former employer of mine sent me to a "working efficiently" course offered by Microsoft (I know, I know), and the one piece of advice that really stuck with me was don't be a slave to communication.

Their advice was to only check your email three times a day (when you get work, after lunch, and before you leave for the day), and to set your desk phone to do not disturb.
Definitely check out Inquirer.js if you're using prompts in a Node CLI application. It's the prompt utility used by Yeoman generators:

https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js
Perhaps, support on Bitcoin transactions with a caveat emptor notice for those that are full of fraud and regulated by card companies. I'm not sure what you can do about the legally regulated industries outside of operating via a joint partnership with an organization in a different jurisdiction than the US.
I don't see anything that would stop you from implementing it in that framework. It does have a some users, and if shopify uses it then it must be fairly stable and useful.
He just gave the least untruthful answer he could give ;-)
Halfway true. Setting the tone for how they want their company to be viewed is the technique that 500 pound gorillas like Coca-Cola and Microsoft use. It's the atillery barrage approach to selling, and works well if your product is in store everywhere. But in all honesty, tell me how often you've walked into a store and thought to yourself "I feel young and hip today, let me buy some coke".

The thing is, these guy's aren't 500 pound gorillas. I suspect even with funding, they're struggling to make ends meet. That's the point at which they should be using more targeted advertising to get their product out.

For example, someone is looking for measuring tape on Google via their iPhone. That is their ideal customer. Now give them an ad to click on and sell them on your product, get them to order one. They've just aquired a customer at the fraction of the cost they would have in conventional media.

I see startups on here all the time that try to revolutionize an industry by doing things differently, but they'll take over their advertising techniques down to the detail, advertising techniques which are completely unsuited for a company at their position.
These actually sound like good measures. I'm not convinced they will be sufficient, however; in particular, many of Americans (myself included) are now highly skeptical that the government will actually be following its own rules instead of abusive, secret reinterpretations thereof. These reforms coupled with something that addresses that, I might accept (but don't hold me to that...).
It will. I bought a house 3 months ago and it had a terrible thermostat that was difficult to program and even programmed it would reset itself occasionally. We bought and installed a Nest and it programs itself by learning your patterns.

I don't know if it's saving us money because I have no baseline to compare it to (other than the previous year's electrical usage comparison on our electric bill), but the device is a breeze to use. The app is nice as well when you are laying in bed and it's too hot or cold in the house - just grab your phone and change the temperature.

I wouldn't hesitate buying one again.
That will be amazing - I was just reading your blog earlier - I like how you're going about things and it really seems you're on a great track. Let me know if you need a beta-tester! Keep up the good work.
He is making a fool of himself.
Nothing at all. Working with the data industry, I've been blown away by the links every advertising network is trying to make between the crumbs we leave all over the place. Expect your TV (not even a smart TV) to be displaying ads based on your browsing history in the near future, all linked by your IP address. The data industry will absolutely whore your data all over the place. Datalogix, BlueKai, and many others have raised millions to do exactly this sort of thing.
Good move. Another thing along these lines that's worth mentioning is jury nullification. You can believe that the person is 100% guilty as charged and still vote "not guilty" if you believe that the situation merited the actions or even if you believe that the action was wrong but the punishment will be too harsh. It's one of the checks and balances we (citizens) have over our government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
Yes, a better experience would be to show me in advance what dates were available, rather than letting me suffer trial and error.
FunnyOrDie: NSA Wiretapping Public Service Announcement
I never said a week. This will obviously take years. It's just starting - that's the point.
github.com/dpweb/cli-node
Snowden improved national security by informing the American public about the activities of its most dangerous enemy.
Thanks for pointing this out. Many people think we're a "yeehaw" state, but we have more wind farms than California to the tune of 2x more [1] thanks to oil money. I guess you can say cowboys like their texas tea, lower taxes, and greener pastures.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_farm
> I just want to read a discussion that really cuts to the heart of the issues, instead of generic outrage, vague calls to action, and outright inaccurate statements like calling the US a police state.

And yet instead of the usual 100% noise of naive brogrammer narrow political relativism, you are seeing some more interesting replies from people who say they have actually lived in police states and that this is where things are heading.
So like [1], for entire rooms?

[1]http://www.trimensional.com/
Let the 1st annual Open SBC Games begin
Compared to most languages you'd use for a commandline application, node has a simple, usable async I/O interface, and the libraries you can get for it actually assume async.

If you need that, there are only a handful of choices and node is one of them.
Sadly, me too...
> I don't see how FPTP prevent the election of Congressional candidates from outside the two major parties.

It doesn't prevent it, it just makes it extremely rare. The reason is, essentially, Tragedy of the Commons: for each individual voter, the most strongest result from voting for a minor party candidate rather than the least-opposed major party candidate is to make it more likely that their most-opposed major party candidate will win over their least-opposed major party candidate.

> There are usually a few independents in either chamber of Congress

Since WWII, there's sometimes a few independents in Congress in total, but rarely more than 1-2 in either chamber, and often none in one or both chambers. Things were a little different earlier (in part because the two-party system in each state was sometimes not the same as the national two-party system; e.g., in Minnesota for a considerable period, the two competitive parties were the Farmer-Labor Party and the Republican Party.)

And even the very small number of independents in Congress overstates the non-party influence; very often the "independents" in Congress are either people who were elected as members of one party and then defected after being elected (sometimes being re-elected as independents once they have secured the advantages of incumbency), and at other times they are independents that one of the two major parties has chosen not to oppose in general elections. (Note that the two independents currently in the US Congress, both in the Senate, include one of each of those descriptions.)
It's good. My result on the other hand:

'Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 3,230,650 tested so far.'
I don't completely buy it. Your proscribed list includes "(49) weapons and munitions", yet at least in the US, outside of a few slave states, there's no regulation of ammunition once it's imported or manufactured besides the usual ORD-M shipping requirements (ground). And I know for an absolute fact Mastercard has no trouble processing payments for mail order ammo, and the sites I use say they accept , Visa, Discover and Amex. Ditto for knives (e.g. see how many are for sale at Amazon).

For guns you're refusing to do business with Federal Firearms Licensees, the BATF even has a nice page allowing you to verify them: https://www.atfonline.gov/fflezcheck/

I am not aware of any case where the authorities have gone after a payment processor serving a store selling any of these items. It's certainly not common, we watch this because of all the illicit efforts by them to shut down gun stores and manufacturers.

In the long run you might find this policy politically crippling; e.g. it says something that 42 states, with Illinois joining them in a few months, have shall issue concealed carry regimes.
A better suited title would be: 'Press Paid To Fail To Ask Any NSA Questions At President Obama’s NSA Press Conference'

This fits entirely into the US government putting a noose on what journalists are and how they must act:

"The person also must intend to report on the news at the start of obtaining any protected information and must plan to publish that news."

"Feinstein suggested that the definition comprise only journalists who make salaries, saying it should be applied just to "real reporters."[1]"

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130807/13153224102/sen-fe...

edit: Amused myself by imaging a panicked Glenn Greenwald clutching a bunch of print-outs, shouting to a camera that he doesn't know what these are but by god they are SOMETHING.
hilarious. thanks for making me laugh going into the weekend.
Let's not whine about this. We all know the press, politicians, military and corporations are all in cahoots with each other. Let's figure out a way to solve the problem, the same way SOPA was defeated, by swaying public opinion with creative campaigns.

We need to be forcing the issues, equipping people to ask the right questions at every opportunity.

Techs need to get into the political arena and fight the same way the NRA does, with votes in the booth and dollars in the coffers. Otherwise we're going to have our careers sidelined by suits who still think the Internet can be controlled and censored.

I for one am ready to get behind someone we as techs all trust, who can lead the debate and rally the troops. Who are some names? Shirkey? Lessig? Notch? :)
Me too, unique … users of Chrome dev versions are obviously not that common.