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Press Fails To Ask Any NSA Questions At President Obama’s NSA Press Conference
my irony meter is going off the charts here

Nothing wrong with showing commands and examples to be used. It's the cut-and-paste aspect that's an issue.

My first action was to search through my package repos (Debian) to see if that sandbox command is known to my packaging system (it's not, hrm...).
Do you enjoy being at the mercy of the credit card companies? How hard would it be to remove them from the equation?
> Having worked with video troubleshooting for a variety of people, some folks understand that the video is remote and some do not. PowerPoint definitely should be designed in a way that helps the user make the distinction better than it currently does.

Those who don't, can't use computers.

I mean come on. "PowerPoint doesn't work" when referring to a video on one of the slides not loading?
Ah, then we simply cannot agree. The ability to exercise a right is just as important as the right itself. The sudden termination of a job is more difficult for the employee than the employer in almost all cases so the law should help balance that out. Either it's harder to fire people or the government needs to arrange for basic-income & healthcare for the unemployed.
Consider trust as a spectrum instead of a boolean value.

For example, Switzerland's long run as THE place where you could put your money and have a high level of trust that it would be safe and it would be anonymous.

They've lost their reputation somewhat over the last few years, but what made it THE place where you could trust your money?

They had laws, a government, and a citizenry that valued those privacy protections. On top of that, they had centuries of history of adhering to those principles even in the face of consequences from foreign forces (except for travesties like their treatment of Jewish account holders).

I don't think many people trusted the Swiss absolutely 100%. It was a small country with little military power and lots of money - which made it vulnerable. However, it was the best alternative at the time if you wanted to store money relatively safely and anonymously.

It made the Swiss rich. It was highly lucrative to be THE place to store money.

It'll be interesting to see who becomes the Swiss equivalent for data privacy.

If it helps, you can think of hosting your email in Germany as simply restoring some of the rights that the US Constitution used to give you. The US most likely doesn't have unfettered access to the German mail servers. If the NSA wants your data, they would actually have to justify it to the Germans.

It would be far from perfect, but it could be a bit of a hack to restore some of your 4th amendment rights.
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No, he just had his own personal whoosh moment :-)
True. You'd need a defense in depth.
I think most people, even those who follow politics, buy into the emotional experience rather than the actual politics. It makes people feel good to listen to a great speech on paying back birth control pills, who cares that it's a really small issue compared to foreign policy or economic policy. The number of real 'political engineers' is really small anyway.

I don't even blame those people. For example I am a car enthusiast but not a car engineer, so while I may love the Porsche brand for the emotional connections it has in my mind, a car engineer who really knows what he's talking about may very well know for a fact that the tech for part X is better in a Toyota. I don't know and I don't care.

People just get disappointed in politicians because they operate in an incentive system that rewards them for not keeping their promises, because votes are a 'sunk revenue' once in office. If laws were made in a private market, they'd be incentivized to be more consistent.
The article is wrong. The official exchange rate is a phony rate. The real price is the street price, and it's relatively the same as in other countries.

If we take the official exchange rate in consideration, then EVERYTHING is more expensive in Argentina than in the US, because the black market is the only market accessible to regular people.
I think until we have a way of doing automated service discovery for REST (and OPTIONS is a very lame excuse, knowing what verbs I can use gives me nothing), having 10 bajillion verbs for slightly different semantics doesn't matter. Having a small and standardized set of verbs helps developers, and that's all that matters.

And even if we can do automated discovery, what does that really give us? What software is there that automatically crawls unknown APIs, discovers functionality, and then does something useful with it? The semantics of the commands matter, and it's hard to infer that unless you're a human. No amount of HTTP verbs will fix that. For now, good documentation is fine.
We had the green on black discussion in another thread, and "us old guys" will always remember the web in black on grey!

http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2011/0928-admin30html5-MA/i...
"Server can't be reached" gives critical, actionable information. Error messages can be searched for! If you can't search for an error message, you can't use a computer.
Well, I seem to be unique as well, but I have nothing to hide...on this machine.
Arg.. there goes my new startup idea. Foiled again. <rimshot>

Edit: Scrolling down reveals the answer, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6188918
They're a company that makes it easy to accept credit cards on the web. How can you remove credit card companies from the equation?
Tracking is tracking is tracking. What's wrong for Google is wrong for you.
http://grey.bikeshed.com/ is a good middle ground and definitely better than the linked.
everyone should now just use shwe, a combination of she, he, we.
The hair extension biz is chock full of fraudsters. Lots of people passing off synthetic as real hair, etc.
In light of Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project what is CloudFlare's argument that you are not "providing material support to terrorists"?
>"Mathematics of motion", which makes it sound so simple, has in fact perplexed philosophers and mathematicians for centuries and continues to perplex a great many people even today, consider for example the Zeno paradox (...) The ideas of Newton and Leibniz were hardly simple

All of which is besides the point (he makes), that they are simpler than the current formalism.
By your standards, we've probably never had such a thing. Look back to the election 1800: does this sound like a clean campaign to you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_of_1800#Campaign

What you're specifically alleging could be equally applied to elections in which Nixon was involved, which wer influenced by McCarthyism, when J Edgar Hoover was in office...we could go on tracing it back to the suppression of Shays' Rebellion in 1787 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay%27s_Rebellion#Impact_on_Co...).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_of_1800#Campaign
Yes, I'm afraid I did. The "my full name" part should have been an indicator, but I missed it :)
It works! Tx! :)
"I don't have the time."
Both are, weirdly enough, replete with fraud. I've no idea why -- human hair seems especially baffling. (Though I've heard suggestions that it relates to human trafficking.)

We can waive these when it seems reasonable (and we're not otherwise precluded from working with the business). If we ever do come across a legitimate business selling human hair, we might try to figure out a way to make it work.
hosted in Germany, you might want to look at

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> In the US there have been other parties that have put presidents in office

There have never been more than two nationally-competitive parties in the US. There have been times when a party collapsed and subsequently was replaced (the Federalists by the Whigs, and the Whigs by the Republicans.)

> Theodore Wilson was a Progressive Party candidate

Presumably, you mean (former) President Theodore Roosevelt, who, formed the Progressive Party in a factional split from the Republican Party over his dissatisfaction with his hand-picked successor.

And who didn't win, so isn't an illustration of your claim that parties other than the two major ones have put Presidents in office.

> and in the UK, which also has a first-past-the-post system, there are multiple parties and the country is currently governed by a coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats

The UK and US differ in that, in additional to FPTP voting for members of the national legislature, the US has a separately (and indirectly) elected strong executive using a means that is even more strongly favors the two major parties than simple single-member district FPTP elections do; this not only gives a greater tendency for a major party to win control of the administration by winning the Presidential election, it further limits the expected influence of non-major party candidates for the national legislature, which further reduces their prospects.

So, yes, there is a well-understood structural reason in the electoral that the US has even less representative government and a stronger tendency to a two-party system (even though it has weaker parties) than the UK, even though both use FPTP for the national legislature.
"social media is what advertisers want today."

Never mistake a means for an end. Today, just like yesterday and tomorrow, advertisers want to make money and/or get publicity. What changes is how they can get there (or, many a time, how they _think_ they can get there). Today, that's through advertising on social media.
If you want someone to show independence and to work more than what they are contracted to, then don't tell them they are just an employee and nothing more, pay them what they are worth, and don't renege on earlier verbal promises.
Travel agencies also sell a product that’s often delivered much later, when the agency or a supplier (hotel, airline, etc.) may no longer exist. This increases the risk of chargebacks.
What if it was a German court doing the gagging?

http://m.sueddeutsche.de/inm/sz/nwpxunrf8al6a;jsessionid=481...
For those who like subtle jokes explained, the URL accepts any color as the subdomain. Everyone can have this particular bikeshed in any color they want.
You're nuts. OBVIOUSLY http://orange.bikeshed.com is the correct URL for reading this on HN.
It's a bit like asking how you feel about being at the mercy of Linux, or web browsers, or SSL. We work with the technology that exists.

That's a little bit facetious, but though there are lots of aspects of the card networks that I dislike (and suspect will change), they work pretty damn well for most transactions. We could devote ourselves to usurping them, but it feels more interesting to see how rapidly we can advance the state of the art instead.
I keep them. Some of them I revive a few years later (possibly on a different OS). Some others that don't get revived may still have useful pieces of sample code.
Yeah, kits shipped in March. The hardware is incredibly polished for something that popped up on Kickstarter 7 months prior.

It's comfortable, tracking works wonderfully. The only downside is the relatively low resolution - which it's said will change significantly by the time a consumer version ships.

Still, I place it on a very short list of truly remarkable experiences involving technology.

The impact of the experience is hard to compare, this video [0] might give you an idea how convincing it is to put it on for first the time.

I'm very excited about what will come about as we move out of the stage of cool tech demos and existing games + head tracking to experiences fully conceived with the rift in mind.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oqazo3ZEnY
We got two rifts this last week. They really are incredibly immersive. First law is definitely on my list to play - we just didn't have an extra controller around the office. Some other good ones are the Unreal Dev Kit (seems it needs a special build though) and another called Titans of Space.
> that's dismissing Eric Schmidt's contribution

AdWords predates Eric Schmidt joining the Google board, let alone becoming CEO.

The rest of your argument is just silly reductionist wankery. Whatever the "core" of their business really is, they do have people working on those things. If you're going to make an incentives argument, make it; arguing where to put the "core" label provides as little insight as repeating "you're the product" ad nauseam.

The GP is exactly right. Yes, you do have incentives to maximize for advertising revenue. But if you want to maximize revenue over any length of time beyond the next quarter, you neglect things like having a product that's actually useful, usability, intrusiveness of ads, trust in your ability to keep information private from advertisers and the NSA, etc etc at your extreme peril. You can have all the advertisers in the world and it does you no good if everyone stops showing up to look at their ads.
in an ideal world, I would agree with you. We do however live in the real world.
It is very unlikely that this is accurate, or there are substantial externals that are not being accounted for (e.g. stopping using a desktop as much as a tablet gets heavy usage) -- the difference between 2012-01-01 and 2013-01-01 is just way beyond what even the biggest Nest hyper claims.

Outside of savings that grossly exceed even the best expectations, when questioned whether they used a programmable thermostat already (the absolute bog standard $20 variety automatically dropping the temperature in a manner that is close to optimal for about 95% of people), the author gave a very wishy-washy answer that didn't actually answer the question.
Physicists propose Higgs boson 'portal' as the source of this elusive entity
I will never forget the morning I walked by the Waltham Upper Crust location on my way to the commuter rail and watched as workers stripped the place clean. It felt like a victory for everyone who has ever been screwed by an employer and I couldn't help but linger even as I could hear the bells in the distance signaling the inbound train arriving at the station.
Yes, it was just for fun, and to show my nieces and nephews that sound can be canceled.
haha... because it was so hard to read I thought it was submitted that way to answer why you should care about the color of the bike shed. Clearly color DOES matter in some cases. But I see it was just a repost of an old idea... just with a horrible color scheme on accident.
What Do Vaccines, Software, and Shipping Containers Have in Common?
This might seem unfair...

If it were unfair, your ToS would categorically prohibit itself, under B.5.56 "any... service... that is... unfair".
I have heard this point made by many of my friends. Another example is: the TSA pat downs are met with outrage precisely because some of the people who are subjected to them are not accustomed to that sort of treatment. Treatment that many members of minority groups have been enduring for decades, at least.

The outrage implies that the member of the newly affected group is either unaware of the position of privilege he has enjoyed thus far in his life, or is aware of it and thinks it is the natural order of things. Otherwise, why hasn't the person been outraged for decades about these policies which target less powerful members of society?

Taking it further these violations being committed have been paid for (taxes), voted for (elections), and therefore tacitly endorsed, by many of the same people who are so upset when it happens to their in-group.

Which is the greater violation? Someone reading your private email, or the imprisonment of a young mother for 40 years because she was associated with drug dealers? Because the latter had been going on long before the former even could exist.
If I lived in New York, I'd be more active in opposing stop-and-frisk too. Most Americans don't live in New York.
It's a good problem to have I guess :)
The other (albeit largely theoretical) possibility is a Constitutional Convention.
Quantum computing, the story of a wild idea
I think what he's saying is that the poor and minorities have been suffering under a regime much more oppressive for a very long time. It's not that he approves of NSA surveillance, he just finds it indicative of a privileged point of view when one finds the former acceptable, but the latter some sort of new low.
Yyyyyyup, that's a lot of comments by people complaining about the tone of the article (and misunderstanding it to boot) and ignoring the content.
Is there any way to hide things like Browser Plugin Details and System Fonts?
Is there a reason to build a command line application in Node.js? It doesn't really seem like Node is the right tool for the job...
Given your feelings regarding analytics, your response (stopping the use of Cloudflare) was entirely reasonable. If you don't want someone to manage your dataflows/cacheing, then you probably shouldn't ask them to.

Your labeling of analytics as "creepy", though, is entirely unreasonable - every hosting company and ISP on the planet that I've ever dealt with, regardless of their politics or privacy position, has always had hyper detailed analytics regarding my sites / racks bandwidth utilization - typically down to 5 minute increments. Furthermore, if I engage them as a provider of Transit and or CDN services, they always have very deep knowledge of who/where I'm sending data to. That's the entire point of why I acquires those services from them - so they can manage them for me.
First Law dev here - I'll have a new build coming out soon that has better support for more controllers and keyboards. Hope you enjoy it!
Although I see where it's coming from, I don't think Ubuntu's role in this "history" is very fair. Ubuntu isn't the slowpoke of the group.
Not everyone thinks Canonical is that virtuous or inspiring. Note that they can do whatever they want, but that doesn't mean the rest of us support them. Some examples.

They have a contributor license agreement, which is unpleasant enough on its own, but it also allows them to take code proprietary. Note that contributors can't take Canonical's code proprietary, so this is an unequal relationship.

They don't have an instinct for free (as in freedom). eg they kept launchpad proprietary for years, landscape still is, ubuntu one server is etc. ie the vibe that comes across is that company advantage takes first priority, and freedom second. In some places this has helped - eg shipping access to proprietary drivers has meant that Ubuntu just works for more users.

While design by the public would never work, it is possible to be more inclusive such as letting anyone subscribe to mailing lists even if everyone can't post.

The Amazon issue and others in the past (eg media player affiliate) was another symptom of Canonical first, everyone else second. Canonical essentially took all the money raised, rather than acting as a clearing house and only taking a finder's fee.

The problem with current cell phones is problems with openness. Unless you have open drivers for all of it, you are the mercy of other providers and it isn't really your phone. Mark Shuttleworth in Reddit AMA "So in this first generation Edge, no, we didn't look for open hardware specifically".

Ubuntu is not Linux, and don't mistake their agenda.
Ask HN: Advice for Canadian looking to move to US for IT work
In a nutshell, I've decided to see just how hard it would be to obtain work south of the border, but I have absolutely no idea where to start. I keep getting told that it's both easy (because of NAFTA), and yet quite difficult (from personal experience trying to obtain work in the US) to be sponsored for employment. So I'm wondering if anyone has any advice for how I should proceed, and if it basically boils down to "no job offer, no chance".

Thanks for any response to my inquiry.
If it prevented me from punching the wall next to the godawful current Carrier thermostat, it would be cheap at twice the price.
You remind me of the guys I knew at Eli Lilly. Those unfortunate enough to end up in technically oriented departments are warned not to learn too much - it will limit their career to learn about things instead of making relationships.

I was happy to have the door hit me on the way out. I learned a lot there. I wish you all the luck in the world.
Ex-Microsoft VP Dies In Plane Crash
I'd rather them know how to install Linux than write well. It's far more useful.
Touché. We should probably remove that term.
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Ubuntu is becoming the FOSS Google and trying to outreach its goal. Not saying it's bad; I'm just skeptical on how it will work out.
1 in 3.2 million doesn't really seem that unique to me. Once the sample size is larger by a factor of 10 - 100, I think this will be more valuable.
He should have configured the DHCP server to send proxy settings to clients (option 252).
Yeah, they've fixed some issues in the tf2 rift mode that haven't been moved over to the hl2 build yet. In the forums they mentioned that they should be coming soon.
I do think it's exceptional in some ways..photo management for example is very good.
One FISA judge ruled that one particular program (or perhaps part of one particular program) was unconstitutional. I don't believe we know any of the following:

1. Whether or not that is binding precedent on other FISA judges.

2. Whether or not that program (or that aspect of that program) continued after the ruling.

3. If it did continue, whether or not it was modified to address the concerns of that one judge.
Sure, they'll still have the US market

Why? Do US citizens not like privacy?
Some payment companies accept credit cards to reduce signup friction and then try to switch users over to ACH to reduce fees.
Search for an error message when you can't use the network. Nice.
I've got a bit of a gripe with the "Job Application" form. Asynchronous saves aren't really intuitive to a lot of users -- if you're a web developer who understands AJAX (and the fact that there's a server with a database actually storing the data somewhere), then it makes sense. But if you're an average person who doesn't immediately know the mechanism it can be confusing. At work I recently converted a portion of our UI from this style of saving to an explicit model specifically to avoid this problem.
I disagree that this argument involves a fallacy. The following statements are not equivalent:

1. It seems like at that point it should deny every single request going forward until the illegal activities have stopped.

2. Every request going forward is illegitimate.

(2) is false, but I believe that (1) is plausible, especially if there are any difficulties for FISA to determine whether any particular NSA request is legitimate or not.
Richard P. Feynman

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
Yes, disable JavaScript.
Nope. My preference is for whatever discussion and debate proves most truthful and transparent. Having all these documents in the hands of Greenwald and Snowden means that the have no choice but to participate honestly or risk being outed as liars.

If they really wanted an orderly, lawful examination they should already be in the process of indicting James Clapper for perjury.
Congress must take seriously the idea that upholding the Constitution is a central duty, and that the existence of the Supreme Court does not in any way eliminate that duty.
Wow! That's just... nuts!

I had no idea that PHP had such a completely insecure inclusion vulnerability. I'm not sure if Suhosin protects against these, but the feature list does mention limits on request variables :
http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/a_feature_list.html

As always, yes, it's very difficult to guarantee only harmless functions are called. One of the simplest ways would be to prevent execution of code in the web root directory. Usually, we put the code files outside www and disable file uploads (separate instance for that which will exclusively handle PUT requests).