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You can't play Game A when you've loaned your library to Friend so they can play Game B.

This is a way to avoid telling people your steam password to "borrow" your account, not borrow a single game.

This would have been very useful to me when, in University, my roommates and all played our games on the living room gaming PC.

I can imagine this being useful for siblings to share a game library mostly bought by parents, or a spouse playing a partner's library. So certainly not useless, but it isn't loaning a game to a friend for a week, unless you're not going to play games at the same time as the friend.
waiting for someone to post her name and address
What makes you think Mossad isn't operating on US Soil? There is more than enough public evidence showing otherwise.
I really enjoy the more technical NSA commentary and discussion found here and not on many other sites.
"It will eventually blow over." -NSA
Did the girl leak the information? Like mentioning his name/twitter handle or something like that?
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This article embodies a sleight of hand: it assumes that the jobs the companies want to hire immigrants to fill are the same ones they've laid people off from. Is there any evidence that is the case?
But it is not an "urgent" story per se. Journalists have contacts of their own. Newspapers have published prior information that they'll include in the story. Some places value comprehension and coverage.
I'm surprised you're not a linux dude, from the way you feel about control
Do we actually get some kind of independent investigation on what really happened or have they closed the case now?
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Financial Analyst.

I personally think the funky job titles are silly and unnecessary. Regular job titles are broad and nebulous enough.
Agreed. This is one tragedy of software in general (not only opensource)
The FSF freedom is not about giving freedom to developers, BSD-style licenses give more freedom to developers. The FSF wants to give freedom to the users, not the developers, and believes that code which is not open and free is a threat to the personal freedom of the users and has every chance of being malicious.
I don't think it's reasonable to question that assumption. Humans are social creatures, and social networks make it easier to connect with people over arbitrary distances. To deny that social networking is not beneficial is equivalent to arguing that telephones and postal services are not beneficial.

Your analysis focuses only on Facebook. Of course people are leaving Facebook. But is the total user population of all social networking apps decreasing? I doubt it.

> First: a false equivalence and shifting goalposts. Your initial claim was "most of the academic research".

Poor phrasing on my part. My original goalpost was "the academic research like this," which is admittedly vague. What I meant was research projects focused on image processing and interpretation.

> Third: what you see as a useless toy has some pretty evident applications that I can consider.

I don't see it as a useless toy. I just think it's far less useful than social networking services, which have a very practical obvious benefit.

> Blindly claiming social media vastly exceeds the value of such research fails to pass the most casual of sniff tests.

It's not a blind claim, it's what I feel is an extremely obvious claim.
Philfreo > I think that the girl did share something with you that Justin doesn't know, such as something that she did accomplish in that school, like winning some kind of award, winning a competition or something similar. Then, you used that information along with the name of the school in Google.
This is a bit of a naive statement in light of the other information we have about the scope of collection of raw "SIGINT," as well as the errors that have been admitted to the FISC in targeted collection. And you're also selectively quoting that paragraph, too.

> In 2009, however, the New York Times reported on "the agency's attempt to wiretap a member of Congress, without court approval, on an overseas trip".
There surely are american citizens that are Arabs and Israel might want to reach some of them.
When I used ChromeOS for a weekend I concluded that I couldn't recommend it to my mother because support for playing (arbitrary format) videos and browsing pictures off portable harddrives was really lacking (in the case of pictures, it could do it obviously, but with a worse user experience than windows by far). Probably 25% of what my mother does with her computer is hook it up to her cameras and show her friends her pictures.

I think that Google has been neglecting the non-intensive tasks that people still perform on their computers locally, not through a webbrowser. Not supporting Crysis, SolidWorks, Microsoft Office, or Eclipse... that is all fine, regular users don't really need that sort of stuff. Not supporting something with the functionality of VLC or a good image browser seems like a big oversight. Those sorts of tasks could be done well with ChromeOS, with their programming model and in that form-factor, but from what I have seen that stuff just isn't ready.
Or scrolling thru a classmates friends list on Facebook.

And then scrolling thru all the friends lists of all their friends on Facebook.

(Especially if they have nicely sorted their friends into "High School" friends.)

Twitter lets you do the same thing.

I've seen entire classes all "Friend" and "Follow" each other.
> The only fact provided by the Guardian in this article is that NSA shares surveillance data with Israel.

Unfiltered data. The other fact shared is that Israelis are on the honor system with the data. As with any other spies, Israeli intel isn't known for its adherence to law or agreements.

I think it's safe to assume that Israelis have high access to the same intel the NSA has on American officials.
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It's certainly different from an AirBNB posting in that it can be used by an unlimited number of people in variety of geographic regions, giving it much broader appeal. It's often the way I realize a new bundle is out, which triggers me to go buy it. Of course, the emails humble bundle sends out could also fill that purpose, so it's debatable whether that's a good reason.
I guess the only other reason is to see people's opinions of the games. I find that useful, but I could also see that it might be more appropriate for other forums.
Legally America can't look at that intelligence involving an American without a warrant issued under the 4th amendment. So you have to go to a court, and have a reason to target someone.

The position of the NSA et al is that collecting data is not an invasion of privacy until you deliberately look at it. And they never intentionally target Americans. So there is no privacy implication for Americans in their data collection. But if they are giving that data wholesale to foreigners, who then examine it, and then hand us back names to target, then it is harder to claim that our privacy is not being compromised by the initial collection.
that the extra information brought the result back "sooner" is intriguing.

If you don't mind me asking, would other approaches discussed here have brought the result nonetheless? or did they?
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I wonder what the resolution of the original image was?

The inside of her thumb is visible through the glass, so with enough detail it might be possible to record her thumb print. Even if you could do that, though, odds are against her print being present in any publicly-available database.
They ship a pretty recent zsh though :)
The fact that the agreement calls for Israel to "destroy upon recognition" communications involving USG officials is an acknowledgement that it might happen, which is, itself, an acknowledgement that it will happen.
HN tries to avoid that kind of rudeness, but it happens. Like I said, geeks can get bad habits from the locker-room culture online. You'll notice that your critic's posts are gradually fading to grey thanks to all the downvotes he's accumulating (established users get a downvote button).
I LOVE my ARM Chromebook. For $250 it's one of the best gadgets I have ever owned (in a class with my Kindle and the original moto Droid). I am very excited for the possibility of the same machine with a Haswell processor. My only complaint with the ARM machine is that its JavaScript performance could be better (it's tablet-level).
so a 10% markup on everything, which people have to circumvent by intentionally trying to play the game at the same time just in order to get the 'discount'?
> how can there ever be 'nothing interesting' in EXIF data :-)?)

If one strips all of the metadata a photo, or replaces it with metadata from another photo, or makes up some bogus metadata.
Re: footer – if you turn js off, it means that a 'more' link appears at the end of the page, leading you to older pages.
Kind of gives a new meaning to the term "data cleansing".
Some public visibility of the number of flags, with tunable viewing parameters, might be interesting.

Flagging has its place, and HN isn't Reddit; reactionary stories aren't the same as reasoned discussion. Algorithmically preventing activist flags while effectively suppressing true garbage from reaching the front page is hard.

I'd love to be able to tune the decay time constant for articles on HN. All scales, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years would offer new insights.
so... another reason to be scared of engineers?
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One of the things that looks like a clue to me is that this the lead engineer of close.io. Browsing through their site, it looks like they do "telecom in an API"; it reminds me of Twilio and OneBox.

So, here's a thought. Let's say the Engineer has access to the SMS logs (NSA-style) for Justin's phone. (Maybe his phone goes through their system. But even if not, maybe it's company-provided, so there's an admin interface provided by the telecom that lists this information.)

Justin probably doesn't regularly text people in Texas, since the team is based out of Palo Alto. So look through his logs for a number in a Texas area code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texas_area_codes) that he's been texting more often than usual.

That gets you the girl's phone number; probably a cell phone. Now, you need to go from the cell phone number to a last name. Reverse Phone Lookup probably won't work for this, although it's certainly worth a first try. More likely candidates: looking through the users table at close.io for a matching phone number, or doing a google search for the phone number. Or, try calling in the middle of the night and seeing what the voicemail says. Any of these approaches might work.

Once you've got a last name, grab a copy of the white pages. Most public schools publish their district boundaries, so go grab a copy of that. Look through all entries that match the last name, and see how many of them fall within (or close to, in the case politics made the boundary change) the district boundary. You probably will get a handful (maybe three or four). If you only get one, bingo!

If you get more than one, I'd call the cell phone to see if I can get a first name somehow. Then, I'd go through the landlines in the White Pages and call them one at a time, "Hello, may I speak to X? Sorry, wrong number." until one matches.
Take the risk, but try to protect youself--become judgement
proof if you can? I sometimes think if you're doing
something risky, with the real possibility of getting
sued it's not unreasonable to hide money in a tin can.
Ha--Ha. Yes, it's not conventional advice, but it
might keep you from being homeless, or despising all
lawyers.
Hm. Did you guys use the Prism API by any chance?
I'd kill for a simple, embeddable open-source browser with C bindings and proper JS/HTML5/CSS3 support (something like Awesomium, but free and with less jank).

Berkelium came close, but seems to have been abandoned.

Such a project would be of immeasurable use to all the folks who have cool native code that needs a nice-looking GUI.
I think it should rank naturally - even if some people would rather it didn't - if it's ranking, then people must want to see it.

IMO, if people are flagging articles to get rid of them, just because they don't like them - rather than just downvoting, then this seems like an abuse of the flagging system and there should be some sort of repercussion (flags/day? lower?)
>I mean, the web is pretty much an application engine now and we're doubling down on the document metaphor? What?

I've been thinking similarly lately too. They're hardcoding semantics into HTML that may or may not change in the future. Better to avoid hardcoding things that could change or have subjective meaning whenever possible.

Instead, keep HTML tags simple and enable optional, flexible semantics via attributes and properties, along the lines of schemas (http://schema.org/). Let the internet standardize among schemas, and replace obsolete ones with new and better ones as they arise. Or, if it's not requirement for your particular app, just don't bother with it at all.
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edit: I'm aware of the irony in criticizing online geek culture and then bringing out a foul-mouthed meme pic.
3. The content to date has been good and informative. I'm satisfied with the current amount.
Read the primary source if you prefer...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/11/nsa...
Of course... how many programs do you have running right now? Do they do anything to guarantee they can each use the main processor in isolation to the others? What about the ram? The keyboard?

That is, the recipe for a single dish could be seen as a subroutine in the entire process pool for preparing a meal. Considered this way, what is the largest dining establishment you have seen? What is a menu, but a declarative listing of the strategies that an establishment can use to satisfy a customer's desire for dinner?

More directly, all of the metaphors of programming have almost direct analogies into the real world. "Worker" threads. "Queues" of "tasks."

As I've said elsewhere, I don't think I'm being particularly grand here. Just find it curious that, though we commonly have recipes and other directions that are mixes of declarative and imperative, the current trend in programming is to be purely declarative/functional. I wish I understood why that was.
The article is pretty specific that the data shared is raw and unfiltered, that by itself is troublesome. Of course you and I will never know exactly what kind of data or whose data is being shared, but it is very troubling that apparently the NSA CAN'T GUARANTEE that the data shared doesn't include that of American citizens (including US officials), and asks the Israeli intelligence services to respect privacy rights without anyway of enforcing that they do.

Remember, Israel is a foreign country not bound by the US Constitution.
Saying she "doesn't exist on the internet" is a big assumption. First, she is on Facebook, so she's on the internet, easily accessible or no. Second, most people leave some internet trail through online forums, newspaper articles and newsletters.

I find it very likely that she was found on the internet somewhere.
I'll be honest and say that I'm a bit mentally exhausted from the NSA stories, but I think it's really healthy that they stay in the news so that people don't forget about the issues, and that we remain motivated to get those issues resolved. Flagging is the wrong solution, in my opinion.
Keep 'em coming. The more educated the tech community is, the greater chance we have of finding viable technical defenses to mass surveillance.
I'm pretty confident it would have, but we ultimately "stopped" it after getting the answer confirmed, so I can't say with 100%.
It seems particularly valuable for guidelines on when it's appropriate to flag a post to appear before you flag a post, and for a reason to be given for each flag.

Abuse of the flagging feature seems to be a big part of the problem here.
You looked on Instagram and other for pictures taken at the bar, and you found one either taken by the woman in question or one of her friends with the mystery woman tagged.

Or maybe you knew that she wanted him to meet her at an event and you found a roster for that event- or ie if it was a real estate convention you would have a pretty good idea that she was a realtor and could look at websites for realtors in Austin.

Or maybe you checked his recent facebook friends, looked at his recent twitter followers, and everyone who liked/commented on his recent photos/posts on Instagram and whatever other social networks he's on- as well as the photos/posts he liked/commented on.

I think you took a (relatively) low-tech approach to this.
So basically the engineers knew something specific about the girl already which narrowed their data set. Unless they tell you what that was, we can go all day long guessing how they "figured" it out. In fact with this information I am interested in the actual time taken to find the girl. They could have found her in five minutes after receiving the picture and you wouldn't know. Why? From the article:

1) They were running software on a computer for hours

They are engineers!

2) The first couple of tries didn’t work

Are you sure they weren't debugging?

3) They knew what high school she went too prior to searching

If they know the high school they only have to find one or two established teachers who were around for a long period of time. It is not unlikely they can call a name from a picture after all those years.

This smells like viral marketing to me (too bad I still don't know what close.io is, should have added some information to the article. Or are you looking for new engineers? "Hey look! At close.io we seal bets with engineers. About girls! Come work for us!").
True but the H1B scheme is used by companies to drive salaries down across the board. I would argue that this is its primary goal. So if American workers want $60k for a position, but you have a stack of pending H1Bs, you can offer it at $50k and then when no Americans take the position you hire an H1B instead. But now the standard rate for that position in your company is $50k and that's what Americans would have to work at, so technically there is no discrimination. Do that at enough companies (look at the list of signatories) and you can redefine the salary range of an entire industry. Someone should (I can't find any references) calculate what the true, competitive salary for programmers in SV would be without companies using H1Bs to drive down prices. I would bet it would be significantly higher than it is now.
The difference would be using a foriegn intelligence agency to "launder" the intel, instead of just straight up giving the data to cops and then telling the cops to 'find' (invent) a plausible legitimate reason to have that data.
Well, consider offline mode-- you share your own library with a friend, then go into offline mode. Potentially, your friend can play any game he or she wants from your library, and you still are able to play single player (or non-Steam multiplayer) games yourself.
Even if it were the case, does it matter? Competition is becoming increasingly globalized. I don't think that's inherently a bad thing. Protectionism in the form of onerous immigration regulations is a losing battle and only delays the inevitable.
So much of what the NSA does is enabled by high technology, and their continued disregard of the US Constitution will continue via digital channels. We as technical experts of the younger generation (mostly) have a civic obligation to be informed, and as long as the conversations stay in-depth and not one-liner potshots, it's useful to have it everywhere.
Yeah, now that I think back on it, Trine 2 had been out for some time by the time I got it through the Humble Store, which was what Frozenbyte used to sell the game outside of Steam and other DRM'ed distribution channels.

And I just got it again, apparently. Not sure what the 'Complete Story' edition is all about, but hey, more content can't be bad.
post pic on craiglist/similar in Austin area. Say you found wallet/purse/camera/etc with her picture. Anyone that knows her please call/email w/ Name/Address for you to send back. Use highschool for validation when contacted. Might have some error.
I worked at an HFT for several years as a developer on the quant lib team. I'd say the algorithm side is the hard and interesting part, while the math is relatively straightforward and solved. For example, it's well known how to price an option - but doing that efficiently and at large scale is the challenging aspect (think kd-trees, etc. for sophisticated caching, messaging protocols, dbs for organizing data). I also built a sophisticated graph algo for relating securities, which built the core of one of our most successful strategies.

So technically, I found it very appealing. However, my experience wasn't so great otherwise. You really get the sense that people are only in it for the money - everything revolves around the year end bonus. And at least where I worked, this kind of huge money drove a lot of really nasty politics.
The NSA stories have to do with some of the most important changes in the world since the last world war.
> Right now H-1B visas are like handcuffs that leave the H-1B holder in a position akin to that of an indentured servant.

Which is why it'll never change, as the companies with clout sure as hell wouldn't want H-1B to be anything else.
Abusing the flag seems to result in losing your ability to flag. I think that problem is addressed silently.
Until someone gets your account banned.
What I would like to see would be a comprehensive list of confirmed NSA practices that have been revealed since the start of the Snowden leaks. One of the problems that I have (and I feel that the majority of people have) is "crisis fatigue"- that is, an inability to appropriately judge the severity of an ongoing problem in the context of its continued development (and also within the context of the noise of other news that it has to compete with).

So, the best thing that could be provided, IMHO, would be a list describing CONFIRMED NSA practices that have been revealed. This would aid by filtering out the noise of continued speculation (will the NSA have info from iphone fingerprint scanners, etc. etc.) such that readers may be sure that what they are reading is relevant and factual, and may make better informed decisions based on it.
Agriculture probably does have a huge number of opportunities for startups, actually. There's some international protectionism and subsidies, but overall, it's not too bad.
> But it is not an "urgent" story per se.

It's urgent to a lot of Americans, judging by the non-mainstream legs this story has.
I feel compelled to give kudos for by far the most readable of the "as program" directions here. Don't get me wrong, I can read most of the other examples, but this is the only one that really reads more true to how you would describe the process to someone and really underscores where I think a lot of the functional advocacy falls flat.
> This is the notion that one size does not fit all–a radical idea for the brand.

It's hardly even that though, at least relative to the product lineups of competitors. For one, the size itself is virtually identical. As the author mentions, the 5c differs very little from the 5 apart from the plastic colorful case. Apple could reasonably maintain to assert the philosophy of "one size fits all," because the form factor and feature set of all their models are still virtually identical, just like they were before the introduction of the 5c.

Also, "iPod Video" actually was the formal name used for the fifth-generation iPod.
But Google, can't you please make us a Chromebook that can use a Nexus 10 or similar device as a second screen?
Justin had another photo of her in his tumblr with metadata?