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I'm curious what you mean when you say "official policy". Did you mean, that's how the machine works, people will always find/create loopholes.

Or did you mean there is a technical provision somewhere that somehow mandates the existence of such loopholes?
i live in sunnyvale, a few miles from where this occurred.

i first want to say that our 'police' are honestly the nicest and most caring of all departments i've dealt with. i've interacted w/ them a dozen or so times over the last few years. after a tragic event a year or two back, one of the officers took it upon himself to check in w/ me after a few weeks and again after a few months to see how i was doing and offer support.

additionally, sunnyvale's 'police' are actually 'public safety officers' additionally respond as trained firefighters and EMTs. they carry the gear for fire/medical in the trunk of their squad cars.

for your questions,

#1 it's a "santa clara county regional rescue vehicle".

#2 after an hour+ he came out armed. police are protecting neighboring houses in addition to themselves. i'm pretty sure the guy wanted to die.

#3 they did respond w/ just a couple of cars. they summoned SWAT after it was apparent he wasn't going to come out, and he's already admitted to killing someone in the house.

it's sad that he was killed, but he already stated he'd killed on person and he came out armed. SWAT did what they were trained to do, and neutralized a threat. 6 or 7 shots were fired from rifles of highly trained personel. in a dense residential setting, i'd much rather have SWAT pulling the trigger than by a hoard potentially nervous cops w/ less training. you often read stories that police fire 40+ rounds when someone makes a similar move.

for the record, i'm not a fan of the militarization of police in the US by large. but i just wanted to put in a word of defense for sunnyvale as they've been the most restrained and caring of all the departments i've known.
Regardless of the attitude of the author, I loved this article. I'm 30, been in IT since 1999 or so and recently I've thought that maybe the younger generation would start filling positions that I'd normally be a shoe in for. This is not the case, they're great at web apps and wasting time online, but when it comes to hardware, networking concepts etc.. they're lost. It's sad, but it also makes me feel secure :)
it looks countermail.com is a good alternative, has an interesting feature: Diskless web server and some other "unique features".
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In all seriousness, it will depend on who runs against her, either in a Democratic primary or in the general election.

She often seems stodgy and clueless, but I can imagine _much_ worse...
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Given the high price relative to the number of consumers that might be attacked with this software, I'd bet that it will mostly be purchased by people who want to do spear fishing.
Translated from German (via Google Translate), the first paragraph reads:

The so-called Dagger Complex ... is a base of military intelligence services of the United States in Darmstadt at the district border to the town of Griesheim. It is located at the south of the former way Eberstädter August Euler airfield. It is believed that the secret services operate in the United States spy here.
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I can't tell if you're being ironic or not. My question was honest, though. I honestly don't understand this feature.
I'd say presidents are generally better judges of character than the vast majority of the populace, given their position. It's fun and often therapeutic to assume that government officials and politicians aren't as smart as us programmers, but an overwhelming amount of evidence generally points to the fact that U.S. Presidents are, if nothing else, incredibly intelligent.

I'd also generally say that my (and likely your) first-hand knowledge is incredibly lacking, as I have never actually met any Presidents.
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I'll give you my reasons:

1) I've never had a positive experience with recruiters.

2) They have an observable tendency to embellish your resume for their own purposes, refer you to other recruiters, and network you in soliciting ways that you don't know about at first and don't agree to.

3) They obfuscate the hiring process so that you and a company cannot directly interact without going through the recruiter, and make it difficult to have a candid relationship in the interview process.

4) They only exist as a middleman, adding an extra step to an interview process which I am opposed to on principle.

You're not doing this, but I really hate it when people minimize complaints about recruiters because they think we're spoiled. Those people tend to really not know much about how recruiters operate.
A couple things I noticed:

- Validation is very slow. It was averaging out to about 5s per submission. This should be able to be done almost instantly on the front-end.

- The email input is validated with the type="email" HTML5 attribute. If you write something that doesn't pass, the notification appears (about) 400px above the form. If you write something that does pass, technically, such as "abc@abc", it is returned, by FormCraft, as invalid.

- It would be nice if the input button was clickable, although I can see that this would be more of a Bootstrap thing.

- I'm not sure how I feel about that Budget sliders reading "0-0" and, once clicked on, reading completely different numbers. If there is a minimum, why not show it?
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I donated money to Obama's 2008 campaign and voted for him twice. Now, my honest opinion is that some of his statements are outright lies. Saying he called for an orderly examination of privacy issues seems flat out wrong given that his administration has been trying to keep things hushed up. He comes off as trying to deliberately confuse and mislead the public. Open government - ha!

I am so disappointed with Obama. I think that history will be very harsh in judging him.
Mr Obama said: "No, I don't think Mr Snowden was a
patriot."

IMHO the word "Patriot" has become the worst kind of weasel word. It can basically be twisted any way by the speaker to launch an ad hominem attack on someone.

Given the revelations of the past two months, I'm certain that many many Americans don't think that President Obama is a patriot either since he's basically sold out on the Bill of Rigthts, a core pillar of our nation. On the other hand, Obama's use of patriot at this PR event basically means someone who provides defenses for the country against perceived existential threats and does not weaken them. By that definition, Snowden would probably not qualify as a patriot according to many.

Given your values, the meaning of patriot can change between two definitions that are at odds with one another. This makes it a useless word that plays to emotion and lowers the level of discourse dramatically.

Besides those two defitions, many characteristics of someone who is patriotic are interchangeable with the characteristics of someone who is a bigot. Just like one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. One man's patriot is another man's bigot.
How about indicating that a day is not available before I click on it?
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I agree with that view. I think this is largely a bit of opportunist advertising, but also that this specific measure is actually useful. Like with more companies moving towards HTTPS-by-default, it's useful in cutting down the number of places where things can be easily intercepted. Even cutting down the number of places where non-government parties can intercept something is useful, because: 1) that's in itself good for privacy; and 2) non-government parties are a major source of government information, because some of them voluntarily turn over or sell the information to governments, and others end up being forced to hand it over.
CONNECT is used to get a raw socket connection through a HTTP proxy. There'd be no way to get SSL/TLS to work with a proxy without it (save using SOCKS instead of HTTP to talk to the proxy).
Deliberately? Which program does that?
"I called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before Mr. Snowden made these leaks. My preference, and I think, the American people's preference would have been for a lawful, orderly, examination of these laws. A... lawful, fact-based debate."

How could we possibly have a fact-based debate without knowing any of the facts?
I was thinking something more along the lines of proprietary extensions to HTML5. Isn't that what everyone's doing now?
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If America's founders had wanted the government to conduct secret tribunals, they would have made provision for such in the Constitution.

Instead, their intentions clearly were in the other direction.
So, 4chan, I guess?
Paranoid? I'm sorry, have you removed your head from the sand at any point in the past year? You've mentioned in previous posts that you're thankful for particular amendments to your constitution. Your government is currently engaging in a systematic and aggressive teardown of said constitution. Without consulting anyone outside of the state apparatus. And which arm of the state is largely carrying out these attacks? The repressive arm. Police and military.

Perhaps if you come up for air (and sun, it's good for you) you'll see that discussion about police states is both relevant and extremely important at this time. Many people don't want to dive head-first off the cliff with you.
Great post. Looking forward to hopefully having beers with you and Phil in Edinburgh sometime soon again.
It's not an artificial restriction, it's a design constraint that allows the resulting system to have certain properties that are desirable in some circumstances.

(And GET/POST/PUT/DELETE isn't CRUD.)
HTTP and HTML are two different things. If you don't like HTML you are welcome to use a different markup format.

This post is all about how the author thinks the other verbs are useless, and they are pretty much useless in the browser. However, HTTP is not just for browsers...
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So, again, would care to explain why my classification of content filtering as draconian is bullshit? Or in what ways the article blows?

You're coming off as a stupid troll, unable to articulate thoughts of disagreement and using cursewords in attempt to lend weight to an otherwise vapid position.

So, how about this: try to come off as a smart troll, and do a better job of explaining yourself than just simply bleating "bah pedantic bullshit bah bah". Use your words.
> The bill's definition of "journalist" seems straightforward enough.... "primary intent to investigate events and procure material"

well.. shoot... that whole investigate part sort of makes a lot of those so called "real" paid journalists not journalists after all. The fact that some people specifically use the term investigative journalism leads me to believe many don't do this. So they won't get protection now, right? :)
Take my advice with a grain of salt, but I think asking for legal analysis from Hacker News is like asking for technological analysis from Seeking Alpha.
That line wasn't an accident and that's the most disgusting bit about it.

Come on Mr. Obama. I expect better from you. Gandhi and Mandela were charged for all kinds of things. Lets not start making that the bar. I wouldn't want to start calling all those classy dudes on Wall Street patroits now.
Wish something like this existed standalone. Not tied to wordpress.
Somewhere in the book written by the founders of 37signals they allude to the premise that we should all remember that the term "start-up" is interchangeable with the term "business". As such, you have to protect your interests as if you are running a business, and not get lost in the idea of a start-up. Getting things in writing can be tricky prior to launch and proof of persistency, but at the point where you are hiring additional staff and opening satellite offices, the topic has to be addressed.
"I wish senators had karma"

They kind of do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections
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Intriguing. So why did GHWB lose his reelection campaign? Did he do something to upset his superiors or was losing just a smokescreen to better orchestrate things from behind the scenes?
I mean worry about more than the 90% who have been fired and (presumably) don't have access to NSA computers anymore. Also, I don't think leaking NSA secrets is the main problem. I think their main problem will be finding and retaining talent. Why would you go work a government job like this if you don't even have job security. It's not like there's a shortage of demand for sysadmins in the private sector.
I think we're going to get a bit of data, and say, good job guys, we did it! ... and nothing changes.
It could be due to some kind of garbage in garbage out. After all all the information he receives comes from the government stablishment. He doesn't have direct access to sourcess any more.
As I referenced in another thread, Obama himself voted for the FISA amendment[1].

How clearer must it get that people working for companies like AT&T and Booz Allen are complicit in receiving monetary remuneration for collaborating with various arms of the government in circumventing/intel laundering/routing around the laws and regulations said arms of the government were to be checking each other against?

Must there need be more details of local law enforcement letting Steven Seagal maraud around in federally sourced tanks? Booz Allen assisting local law enforcement in copyright prosecutions? Drone managing SAIC running private monitoring centers with federal fusion center support?

AT&T workers NOT going along with what management puts forward, revealing secret closets instead. Or services shutting down to prevent such hardware from ever being installed?

The US government, all branches, are corrupt by being complicit in each others deeds. Together along with employees within corporations that collaborate with the US government, law is being undone or outright ignored.

Refuse, resist.

[1] H.R. 6304 (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ) Obama (D-IL), Yea: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...
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I don't think it's necessarily all the stuff he's told but all the people he chose to surround himself with when he formed his cabinet.
I can't really argue with you if you've experienced this, but for what it's worth, all the developers I know professionally have legitimate reasons to dislike recruiters, and avoid them wherever possible.

I think it's unfair that people have their motives for disliking something called into question just because they're in a certain strata that has that problem and not everyone else does.
I've had some experiences in the opposite direction.

A neighborhood kid, about 12, asked me for some computer help with Minecraft. My jaw hit the floor when he started asking about stuff I didn't learn until college -- he was doing this crazy redtone circuitry (stuff like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc6spHvGPtQ) to program the doors in a castle according to timers and various inputs.

The kid was basically teaching himself hardware design just to play a game. And it wasn't considered that weird, this was just what you have to do in Minecraft.
My particular package it didn't matter why they fired me but anecdotes aren't data. There was a carve out that if I was convicted of a felony they could evaluate whether or not to pay me. I asked about the firing or not clause to our CEO at the time, and he said, "Oh, they won't fire you, if they want to get out of the obligation they will make you quit."

Which I supposed was probably true.
While very nicely written, I stopped using CloudFlare because of their analytics (which they seem to use in blog posts, and cannot be disabled.) They do watch your site and that is creepy.
what do you mean by the google model?
Is there some sort of bat signal we can use to get grellas to this thread?
Actually when they day comes for me to finally be social on the web, Google+ will be the best option. I just hope they do not make it impossible to use unless you are using Chrome.
Wow, those leading questions are particularly sneaky.
And many of them not for much longer, given the general state of the industry. And are out of work journalists not allowed to work on stuff to try and get more work?
I wrote this app out of necessity as I am currently backpacking around Australia and have made a good friend who can hardly speak english :) - Google translate was a bit of a headache so I wrote this to better bridge the language divide.
I select english as my language and he selects italian, our other friend selects korean and we all can chat to and from our native language.. hope you like it
I think this is actually not true. Anyone voted in to replace her would not have the seniority she has, and wouldn't be in charge of important subcommittees. In addition, if the person was a Republican, and the Senate still controlled by Democrats, they wouldn't be very effective.
You need to be prepared to take risks. The Democrats have known for a long time now that they can get away with being a right wing party because liberals are terrified that a right-wing Republican candidate might win. Feinstein is not an exception to this.

Take a risk: vote third party. If you keep voting for the lesser of two evils, you'll keep getting evil.
In their eyes your machine is their webmail interface which runs of course in the "cloud".
Don't use any of these email providers. First up, they are not trustworthy, especially Deutsche Telekom. DT is the privatised former state-owned telco monopolist, with a gigantic share of userbase and partial ownership by the German federal state. Most likely, every intelligence agency, domestic or foreign, that is operating in Germany with sanction of the government will have access to anything on their servers.

Also there is Quellen-TKÜ, which means that every single one of the three gives access to their servers to German law enforcement. If I remember correctly, the Quellen-TKÜ law says that any online service provider that has more than X users (10k?) has to provide access to law enforcement in such a way that the provider operators themselves don't know about the individuall access operations.
I donated money to Obama's 2008 campaign and voted for him twice. I am very disappointed with him.

Now, my honest opinion is that at worst he sometimes flat out lies, or at least cleverly tries to confuse people. He says that he had an orderly plan for reviewing privacy issues, all the while, I think that his administration has consistently been trying to keep things hushed up.
I don't think anyone wants confidence. We want guarantees and actual oversight. We're simply going to get the oversight theatre that gives false confidence to people.
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That's why you should be careful about adding concepts because you can't remove them without breakage.
The "serious" endeavors, like glasses and self-driving cars are not their core business. Not even search or email are. Their core business is advertising, and social media is what advertisers want today.

Google is largely associated with innovation and they make everything to keep this image, but at the bottom their business is actually pretty boring: finding ways to show you an ad.
"Practically speaking there are only two HTTP verbs: read and write, GET and POST."

And thus spoke someone who has never built a REST API, never used curl -I, and probably hasn't used anything other than a web browser to access HTTP content.

Sure, for the most part, we're all kinda new to REST, and we're slowly learning to construct good REST architecture. Sure, there's some redundant weird shit like SPACEJUMP. But we should aim to improve education and encouragement of the use of verbs such as PUT and DELETE, rather than abandon best practice because "no-one's going to use it" or YAGNI, when we can clearly see in talk after expert talk that these are the practices that are being recommended and already put to good use.

Not to mention the plethora of proxies, web servers, and tools that already support these accepted, recognised, standards-defined techniques.
There's good reasons for that, unless you're trying to hit a particularly hard target, like the Cheyenne Mountain bunker that's now on "warm standby", really large nukes don't gain you anything, you get diminishing returns as additional heat liberated just radiates back into space.

Hitting a modern city with 3 low-centi-ton yield airbursts will do a lot more damage than one megaton class one.
About that, recently I started to watch some videos about SELinux, and I tought it could be a good idea to use it for isolating some likely-to-leak software (e.g. Skype).
Or take it easy for the next 4 years. A couple of acquired CEO's I met at Google when I was there seemed a bit useless if you know what I mean. Great people but basically putting in their time until their retention clause was met, or at least it seemed that way. I don't discount the possibility that I was just envious though.
You can tell them whatever you want. The point is that you're saying, "No".

I don't have time to be fixing friends and acquaintances computers and I have no qualms about telling them that. I've never had anyone give me a hard time about it. A lot of people assume that because you are knowledgeable that you may want to fix it, a point of view which is only reinforced when you gladly take their broken computer and return it to them repaired without putting up a fuss about it.
Telekom has actually been selling their own cloud services with "German privacy laws/not hosted in the US" before the NSA stuff. It was a very noteable point of emphasis for them when selling to small/midsized corporations so I'm not surprised they are all over this.

They are a pretty crappy company in general (imo) but they got this right very early. And by got this right I mean that they are using it for marketing/sales. I mean yay SSL but German mail providers tend to be...meh
I'd say the general population is not the bar we should be holding people to, particularly not high-ranking politicians. Not by a hell of a long shot. I mean congratulation, they are better than a group of people in which racism, sexism, and various other forms of bigotry are still massively prevalent....

You don't need to meet a president to hear what he has to say about people. Presidents are often quoted you see...
I think a big part of it is that presidents don't really think for themselves. They are essentially at the behest of their advisors and the heads of these various organizations. If the head of the NSA tells you that the program is constitutional and we have X, Y, Z safeguards in place to protect Americans, why would he not believe it? It's not like he can evaluate the implementation himself. I doubt he would even have time to if he wanted to dig into the gritty details.

The fact is, there is a machine that exists beyond any sitting president, and that machine is adept at getting its way. Convincing one person, who does not have any former experience in these matters, that your way is the right way, is probably the easiest part of their job.
Why is India thought of as one big city?
the article is interesting i guess, but every other place has a city listed, but number one is India. Just India... can't be a little bit more specific? I'm curious if anyone knows if this is on purpose that the whole of india is growing in tech or this guy was just too lazy to find a single city that really emerged as a new "silicon valley"
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