skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Civil rights would perhaps be a slightly better example simply because what was being fought against were largely government creations (e.g., legally compulsory discrimination).

And the "solution" was to exchange these for other government creations, like the EEOC. Which on net resulted in a massive expansion of the effective scope of government power (not least because many of the previous government creations were at the state level, but what we have now is mostly federal).
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The beauty of corporations is that they are still accountable to a much greater degree than than the NSA. Those who run Google have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. Up until a few months ago this always meant to many that if there was anything fishy going on at Google that they would quickly resolve the problem by firing the individuals guilty of any transgression and quickly instituting security policies to make sure something like that doesn't happen again. After all, individuals can mount class action suits, as can shareholders and the FTC or other some other regulator can come down on them.

The problem with what we discovered a few months ago is that the government can use fiduciary duty of the officers of these companies against the companies and they can do so in a way that guarantees that the executives won't talk about the abuse. They made demands for access and every corporation in the world knows that when push comes to shove, you don't want to piss off any organization that can unleash the IRS on your bookkeeping. And if someone does push back, its possible that there were additional threats of jail time for obstructing justice or contempt of court. Add to that the ability to gag anyone with an NSL and you have a situation that is wide open to abuse.

Unlike corporations, the people don't really have real recourse for transgressions of the NSA, CIA or LEO in general when it involves secrets that we are not privileged to, especially not any recourse within the capabilities of the common man (unless you are a common man within those institutions and you're willing to give up everything to whistleblow). Most attempts to sue get thrown out on state secrets grounds. All we have left is the ability to vote, but its pretty clear from some of the facts that that is unlikely to make any difference for most voters since the only people who knew what was going on were on the intelligence committees and even then both the ICs in both houses and the FISA court have admitted that they don't have any real oversight.

Facing this reality, I'm not entirely surprised people like pj at groklaw and ll at lavabit are checking out.
You couldn't have setup a worse strawman. Congrats for making the jump straight from employee/employer relations to Nazis.

Governments throwing you in jail, intimidating you, or out right killing you all disrupt your right to free speech.

An employer exercising his free speech by firing you in no way prohibits your free speech. You can still tell everyone you want that you should form a union. No one is interfering to keep you from doing so.

Please tell me you don't actually equate those two scenarios.

consequences != interferences
> What does that even mean?

A sealed bid auction is all fun and games until participants voluntarily disclose their bids to other participants.
HTML5 + Breaking Bad === this
> I do not live in fear of the police kicking down my door because I voiced an anti-government view online. I do not believe that if I openly start supporting the wrong party I'll "disappear" as happens in other countries. I believe that elections in the UK are free and fair (for the most part) and I also believe that if a party came along that tried to turn the UK into the kind of country where those things were a reality then they would be sharply booted out of office.

I was discussing this with some tech-minded friends on IRC the other day, and they pointed out the "chilling effect" you could get with massive surveillance.

And I have to say I see their point. But after thinking about it some more I've realized that I've not once ever been scared to say something bad about the government (and yes, that's happened a lot).

But I have been scared to discuss these topics with my friends, here on HN, etc. It's only a matter of time before I piss off the wrong hacker, so there is a "chilling effect" going on... it's just not the one all my friends are warning me about. :-/
> Kolab's webmail service is not free, although at $10 a month, it's not very expensive either.

I heard that an email-only offer is in the plans and should be available end of august/beginning of september. Expect the price to be around $5/mo.
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So, what you say is:
I don't care to implement an efficient solution, because the CPU cache will fix it anyway.
That way of thinking is well known as "The Java way of problem solving" (TM)
I would define it slightly differently. When facts don't back up their belief, conspiracy theorists will consider people stating those facts to be either manipulated or conspiring.

This is a very dangerous, "cancerous" position, although it is logically valid. One should be highly alarmed if the way to resolve logical contradictions in the world leads to conclusion that I am special. It effectively is shutdown of any outside facts, and from that, anything can be concluded.

Because it's a logically consistent position, it's very dangerous and can affect highly intelligent people.

I just had a lunch today with a coworker, after several months. It's a bit of pain for me, because it seems he has fallen to exactly this sort of process.
There's lots of interesting projects going on at Google and an internal system for applying to other teams, and usually no shortage of teams asking for people. There's not a lot of CRUD apps with the exception of Corp-IT stuff.
Even in C, setjmp/longjmp leave all non-volatile automatic storage duration variables on the current stack frame in an indeterminate state if they are modified between the two calls.

To get defined behaviour with regards to destructors, you simply have to make sure that the function calling setjmp doesn't internally use RAII. Call a wrapper function to do the setjmp and you're safe.

Of course it's a whole other question whether using setjmp/longjmp to implement "exception handling in C" is a good idea in the first place.
Can you comment on the difference between the 1st and 4th Amendment? It seems the current issues we face are reducible to the broadest interpretations of "reasonable" searches under National Defense claims from the Executive branch. It's hard for me to see how the Public has much recourse here. Even if they were to convince their representatives to pass new laws, this still seems like a fight between the other two branches. The Executive branch could ignore those laws under Executive privilege claims. And the Court seems more than willing to abide by that use of Executive power.

Am I missing something? Short of a generational movement to move the Court on civil rights toward information privacy (akin perhaps to medical privacy claims), I really don't see an alternative. The Executive branch has every incentive to maintain their power here (and argue as such under the War Powers). And the Court seems all too willing to cede that authority.
I don't support the right to make it illegal for someone to access this person's site if he's making it publicly available.

Even if I've sent the person a C&D letter? Accessing someone's site after they've explicitly given you legal notice not to is basically the online equivalent of trespassing.
Yeah, as long as the load factor is above 90%, the economy section of a plane pretty much covers the costs of a flight. Business and First Class are then almost purely profit. They could all be ID90s and still be profitable. (My information may be a few years out of date now... things _may_ have changed)
What's the runtime overhead on this? Aren't setjmp and longjmp considered slow?
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How Obama has abused the Patriot Act
SipHash is a cryptographic hash function (more accurate a MAC). It's designed like one and behaves like one. SipHash is significant in that it demonstrates that there is no reason to use a non-cryptographic hashing function for general purpose hashing these days.
I think the problem is that, by the time the NSA ask, it's too late. That's why these companies are prematurely shutting down, they realise this. The only way to avoid handing over the data is to get rid of it before anyone comes asking for it.

The short answer to the question is: nothing. You can do nothing. Apart from a film-style hitting-a-big-red-button-deleting-all-data-irrevocably-and-starting-a-small-basement-fire ... but that would probably land you a lifetime of prison.
Her reaction is not because of a sudden realization that email is plaintext. It is to her sudden realization that her faith in the rule of law is no longer warranted.
I am glad to finally find an article that has made it into the popular media, which will aid in debunking a lot of those false claims made by people/companies who just want to make money out of people’s gullibility. There are commercials on TV for some website that claim their mind games will improve your brain, possibly knowing there is no science to back that up, but you have people spending their $$/time sitting at a computer playing games, rather than at the gym or exploring our world’s beautiful outdoor spaces. The “funny” thing is that science is showing that the benefits of motherly nurturing, exercise, social interaction (not social networking online), exposure to sunlight, etc. are all things we all know too well from experience and yet, there are some people/companies still trying to sell us things/services to achieve things we can get for FREE.
Only 10% of UK citizens have never used the Internet?

That's not what ons data says[1]

[1] http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/rdit2/internet-access-quarterl...
Thank you for clear explanation. Any further reading (besides wikipedia)?
> For the last week, I’ve given up Emacs, and am writing Java code in eBay’s modified version of Eclipse, and I don’t hate it.

what a strange person ;p
Of course, the people who the NSA and GCHQ are trying to find and track will not be using email or other forms of electronic communication or storage for anything.

It remains to be seen what happens to the general marketplace. I suspect we may see a number of startups specialising in organising face to face meetings...
Melanin blocks sunlight which reduces vitamin D synthesis

http://essays.backintyme.com/item/4

> The lightness adaptation enhances calciferol (vitamin D) synthesis. Too much epidermal melanin for the latitude blocks UV penetration essential to the dermal synthesis of calciferol or vitamin D.

If you have less melanin then more sunlight reaches the lower layers of skin which increases vit D synthesis.
Bradley Manning will be sentenced tomorrow (Wednesday)
Actually it's not, like Karunamon says, stuff that is that off-topic will be ruthlessly killed by the moderators, thankfully.
"The US government makes a copy of anything you upload to the internet"

So accuracy isn't really something you're all that concerned with? It is my understanding (and certainly could be wrong) that the whole PRISM thing was the ability for the government to get their hands on any data they wished, not that they're making copies of everything. I believe metadata is stored, which is an entirely different animal.
Not only do we have libertines, we have the libertines.
I remember learning Haskell at Imperial College London - a very nice language. I had never tried a functional language before and just loved how "natural" if felt after getting familiar with it.
I would love to re-learn it but I am thinking that from a career point of view I am better off learning Scala/Clojure than Haskell.
>Yes, but, without taking advantage of Scala's powerful type system, is the improvement over Java substantial enough to justify the investment in learning a new language?

What investment? You just write the same code that you were writing in Java. You can do that on day 1 (at least, assuming your IDE and build system have scala support already) - on day 1 your productivity is just as high (or slightly higher, because of the cosmetic syntax improvements) as it was in Java. On day 2 your productivity is higher, as you pick up a little bit of scala. So there's no initial cost - just an improvement. I know this is possible because I have done it.
>The goal is […] to share high quality content on Google+ and build your influence through this channel, and this can lead to real world success.

i.e. if you don't use Google+ you will lose out in rankings compared to sites that do.

So the SEO advice about "make good content people want to see" needs to be amended to "make good content but make sure you share it on the closed proprietary social network run by the search engine".
DDD with Symfony2: Making Things Clear
I don't see that it represents a "claim on the issuer" though. Although you could claim it as issued by the entropy of the universe in a double entry system...
An excuse to retire?
The Most Powerful People in Your Organization Are the Software Developers
Interesting thing is that when using geenlet + proper event framework (gevent / eventlet) you don't have all this issues about different callback styles / methods / objects, and what is more important, IO libraries support (like DB drivers). I know there are ways to use twisted drivers in tornado, or use `deferToThread` - but they doesn't seems as pythonic as monkey patching + python drivers (like with eventlet + <your pure python DB driver>)

It's worth nothing that PyPy has a great support for greenlets with his JIT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtgTcoT1yRo
They've acknowledged broken hovers as a bug, good ones are slated to return in 3.0.1 https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/9879
Cloud Simulation Security
The idea is great, but unfortunately it won't work for the majority of Americans. Paycheck-to-paycheck is a reality for way too many people. I know a lot of people who are opposed to Walmart, and wish that they could afford not to shop there, but they can't. The price is just too compelling. Feeding their kids is a lot more important to them than making a political statement.
Are You A Bad Developer If You Don't Take On Side Projects?
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Without sounding trollish, I believe there is a need for a completely new 'transfer of information' protocol that is as immune as possible to NSA (or other agency) snooping. She's right, the internet is broken. So rather than posting endless articles about how it sucks, and suffering heart-breaking tragedies like Groklaw shutting down, why don't we build something new, something truly beautiful, by which I mean something truly private?

To summarize my point, quoting PJ, "privacy is vital to being human, which is why one of the worst punishments there is is total surveillance..."
It is interesting to reflect upon the phrase "I have nothing to hide". The first thing to note is that it is very selfish and self-centered: "I have nothing to hide". People who say the phrase don't seem to realize that other people may be doing perfectly harmless things in private that are illegal, or at least would get them ostracized.

The second point about the phrase is it has an implicit timeframe: "I have nothing to hide right now". Those who say it regularly seem to lack any foresight (or memory of history) or imagination and can't seem to visualize a future in which they might (even unintetionally) do something which will put them on the bad side of the law. They also don't seem to consider the possibility that the prohibition against ex post facto laws could be suspended.
At first I thought, pj is using the "NSA" scapegoat as a copout. Email is the reason??? Use GPG! But then I remember how difficult it is to get even my most technical friends to care about secure communications. GPG is a two-way street; for pj to communicate with groklaw constituents or partners or partners of partners, they'd ALL have to be using GPG. Otherwise, someone without it is going to leak what was assumed to be a secure thread. The weakest link conundrum.
I was more referring to the Bieber nonsense. Geopolitics as they relate to technology, though, would seem to be welcome here.
And NSA will just have to buy one of these for each PC sold. And when buying in such bulk the devices will be times cheaper than what comes to the user.

And for 4 billion USD they could create their own foundry. And then costs begin to plummet once again.
The default American workplace as imagined by a programmer, I'd say. " Productivity vs. time spent in office..."

a) Not all workplaces are offices.
b) In some workplaces, employing highly skilled personnel (hospitals, say), time spent in the workplace is critical.
If that's the case, then fair point. But I've seen a lot of articles that talk about the ostensible benefits of simply having Mozart (etc.) on in the background. It was hard to get a sense of which approach this article was talking about when mentioning the subject.

Passive/ambient listening may have some benefit to a small baby, whose brain is much more plastic and is generally responsive to interesting stimuli. But for adults, a more active and taxing activity is probably in order. I agree with you that the loci of improvement are probably concentration and recall.
When sites.google.com first came out it ranked their own pages much better than a new site (they've since turned it down a bit). Many tech reporters say the only reason they use Google+ is to post stories on there because Google will rank it more highly than their own site.
Seems like you're kind of putting words into PJ's mouth. Her reason at the beginning is exactly because e-mail is not secure:

"The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum."
Historically Southwest used "point-to-point" routes heavily. Basically the plane would go A->B->C->D over the course of a day. These would be fairly short hops, maybe an hour or two typically, and passengers going all the way to D would stay on the aircraft during each brief stop. I don't think they have any nonstop across the continental US; you must make one (or more) stops.

This may have changed somewhat since the AirTran merger, but I haven't flown recently.
Come to the NYC Haskell meetup sometime! There's really really good interesting (yet accessible) tech talks and really nice smart folks.
Do you have expectation of security if you don't lock your house, then? I'll rephrase it this way - do you expect that no burglar will enter the premises just because there's a law that says that it's illegal to do so?

I didn't meant it's OK to sniff upon anyone's plaintext communications (although I'm unsure whenever prohibiting so is more of a good or bad thing, but let's leave this thought aside). I meant that it's just extremely unwise to expect that nobody but the intended recipient will read your envelopeless postcard. Especially because we know governments really have a thing for that.
For the most part it's true they could quickly generate a file, but they could have done that in 1998 as well (modulo the lack of things like Facebook at the time).

Being able to instantly pull up email contents would certainly be different in scale and scope though!
it makes sense, but do they plan to make some?
> ordinary email is like a conversation in the park.

That's really, really distant from how the average non-technical user thinks of email. They just drop the e and think of it as mail.
I do enjoy this author's flagrant disregard for Google's NDA they require you to sign and promise not to discuss the interview questions. I'm curious if they'll enforce it.

For what it's worth, my one experience with Google recruiting last year was the polar opposite. They were curious and professional, of more knowledgeable recruiters I've dealt with, and timely in scheduling interviews. I had my first and only phone interview within a couple weeks if contract (which I needed and used to go through the extensive list of prep material they provided). Then I had an onsite interview a couple weeks later. Bam. Done.
Google Webmaster Tools - CRUD
Adwords console - CRUD
Google+ pages - CRUD
Google Analytics dashboard - CRUD
Google Merchants console - CRUD
DoubleClick dashboard - CRUD
At the end the original article states pretty clearly what the alternative is: "Everyone wears the same great clothes, but pay different prices for it."

Even the quoted $15 (all JPKab could afford) is more than enough to meet Nike's manufacturing cost, for example, so under the suggested scheme he could wear the same clothes others do; and if Nike could charge different people different amounts, it would prefer to also receive the $15 than not receive it. (If it wouldn't impact its ability to charge its normal prices.)

In practice every company strives for price discrimination, by making something for every price point without hurting the higher ones.
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Website made by the speaker to address this topic http://www.devpressed.com/latest/more
Wow! $17 and I can download a list of names of programming languages, computer programmer salary information and links to OTHER services that cost MORE money that I could have found using a simple google search! Thank you programcomputers101.com!!
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> They'd made it clear the story could and would be reported from anywhere. And the only response these GCHQ goons could come up with was to smash a Macbook?

When "the family" sends around Big Tony with a baseball bat to express their displeasure at an overheard disparaging remark from the restaurant owner regarding their operations on the sidewalk outside that his cctv recently picked up, do you think he's going to have the intelligence necessary to understand when he smashes the surveillance system that doesn't imply the evidence is actually gone?

The only difference in this scenario is that because it's a government actor people credit them with a surfeit of sense and a deficit of malice so try to make them understand the futility of their actions, whereas everyone already accepts such actions are useless vis a vis big tony and the family.

Consider this a frame correction; The state is actually much more foolish, malicious and incompetent than you think.
I'm not sure what to think about this. Never mind that there are many ways to establish private communication, such as encrypted email, which, even if stored, is unlikely to be decryptable in five years or twenty: Groklaw is a site whose purpose for existence is to post long public essays and then have public discussions about them in the comments; I don't remember it ever dealing with confidential information or sources, since it mainly covers public court battles, so I find it hard to see how even a total lack of privacy for all communications would be a rational concern for such a site.

On the other hand, a large part of the argument surveillance is fundamentally emotional. There are only a few emails I've ever received that could possibly used against me by anyone, and even those aren't really a big deal, yet I would still feel vaguely violated if I knew anyone was reading my email; and some of the things I've felt guiltiest about in my life were (small) violations of other people's privacy, even though they did not harm them in any way. So I cannot disregard PJ's claim that the existence of surveillance makes it impossible for her to feel comfortable publishing, though I do find it hard to give it too much weight.