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The Palmer raids in the early 1900s arrested more than 10,000 people. Of that, 3,500 of them were held indefinitely. Almost all of them were innocent people.

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, 1,200 Muslims were arrested. Some were beaten (this is according to the Justice Department's own Inspector General of the time). Hundreds were held for months. Absolutely none of them were found to be with al-Qaeda.

These are just two examples of MANY. You know what's scary? The spying that the NSA, FBI, and CIA do gets people put on lists. There are lists of people to arrest in the event of an attack. Hoover of the FBI had something like 70,000 people on a list during the era of Communism fear. The vast majority of those people were innocent of any crime.

Over the past century, these lists have been kept openly and kept secretly when different administrations denounced them. But they have been kept (at the FBI at least. Hoover hid them illegally). Letting the NSA spy on us and treating us as if we were assumed criminals before innocent is a terrible way to waste away your fundamental rights.

And the scary thing is we wouldn't even have known that we were being spied on for sure unless Snowden said something.

These are crimes against the American people. You can't tell me that the FISA court not rejecting any warrants is a good thing. Out of tens of thousands of requests, not one gets rejected? That is a failure of the checks and balance system our founding fathers set up. THAT is definitely a crime against the American people.
> Applications can run code at startup, before Django does anything else, with the ready() method of their configuration.

I have been waiting for something like this for a very long time. No more wondering where signals should go. [0]

[0]https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/applications/#djan...
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Just for a purely hypothetical scenario:

If the FBI identified an organized crime hitman who killed 20+ people and left no evidence other than making incriminating phone calls, is it wrong for them to place a tap on his phone line once they have probable cause that he is a hitman?
> Well, it makes sense that she'd say that since she's one of the two that rejected that the program is illegal.

Per the article, what the dissenters appeared to have done is reject the inquiry into legality as beyond the proper scope of the board's review. Its a fine distinction, to be sure, but there's a difference between a 3-2 split with three finding the program illegal and 2 finding it legal and a 3-2 split with 3 finding it illegal and 2 finding "we shouldn't be looking at legality at all".
Is this website the result of your crazy iterations?

http://i.imgur.com/jqy2kwo.png
That's kind of chilling to think about.
Watching Stalker may forever alter your taste in cinematography, it's so beautiful. Solaris is also good (watching it back to back with the Clooney remake is an interesting experience); Lem pretty much hated all three adaptations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)), an adaptation that reflects the alienness that he wanted to underline would be an interesting movie. You might want to think about what repressed personification would confront you if you had traveled to Solaris.
Your hypothetical makes no sense. If they have "probable cause" before tapping his phone, that means that the "left no evidence other than incriminating phone calls" must be false.
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This is definitely the most likely scenario. Kayak and other aggregating sites have different arrangements with different partners in different regions. In turn those partners have different arrangements either with direct connect or the GDS themselves (who may also have different arrangements depending on the geographic market).

You can get the same effect with other GDS products also, try rental cars for one. The other crazy thing is that different geographic markets are generally responsible for their own revenues, so you can have different promotions, and yield management strategies depending on who is trying to hit their numbers.
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It turns out that you have a Flask-admin plugin:

http://flask-admin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

I haven't used it, but looking at the quickstart, you gain a lot of flexibility in exchange for a bit of boilerplate. As I haven't done any Django in a long time, I cannot comment on how complete it is, but it shows that you can absolutely achieve this kind of functionality in a framework with a tiny core.
Tarkovsky is my favorite 20th century film director bar none. Here's are some reasons why and why you might also be interested in his films:

(1) He described his art as poetry applied to cinema or "sculpting in time," a fundamentally different conceptual idea of the cinematic art that he went to a great length to clarify (in a book of the same name, highly recommended).

(2) His use of color is incredible. Some films, especially stalker, are near black and white with incredibly vibrant and poignant uses of green. This is a bit like Bergman at his best, but even better.

(3) He was deeply religious in a "mystical" sense, with a lot of respect for past traditions, but not in a dogmatic sense and with appreciation for both Christian and pagan elements (see Andrei Rublev for both aspects)

(4) He knew other European traditions extremely well. Ivan's childhood is a meditation on the war with Germany, including shots of Duehrer's prints. Nostalgia involves his time in Italy traditions including Madonna cults and important artwork. Sacrifice has Shakespearean references, Rembrandt, Japanese samurai, and magical traditions. In general, his films are full of long shots of important pieces of Renaissance art with profound meaning.

(5) He spent a lot of time thinking about the integration of technology and the rest of life. Solaris is the futuristic spaceship version of this. Stalker is the apocalyptic version of this.

I think in a century Tarkovsky will rightly be credited as inventing a whole new type of cinema, his way of approaching it was fundamentally in tune with a "mystical" sense and integrated with other forms of visual art (i.e. the long gaze you have at a painting), and the punctuated, rhythmic reading of poetry.
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A decent amount of cash.

I however believe he could easily have sold it on the black market for more. (Not saying that one should do such a thing.)
It should be: Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and those involved must be imprisoned.

Anything less is unacceptable.
No, probable cause is not the same thing as evidence. His hypothetical is actually how warrants are supposed to work. Law enforcement have probable cause to suspect someone of being guilty. If they can make a strong argument about why the person is probably guilty, they then get a warrant to search for evidence in homes, phone calls, emails, whatever.

His hypothetical literally described the standard for getting a warrant.
As a techie libertarian, I love Dogecoin. It's Bitcoin for people who hate Bitcoin.

The libertarian, crypto-anarchist ideology is inherent to all cryptocurrency, not inherent to Bitcoin.
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> You're still confusing the burden to pay taxes under the penalty of law in one particular country with value.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what "value" means.

It is true that it's stretching it to say taxation gives an 'intrinsic' value to us dollar. Really I would say that the phrase 'intrinsic value' should be reserved for things that are useful for some survival purpose directly, like food, water, shelter, machetes, etc.

However, taxation does mean that there is a continued guaranteed demand for us dollars, placing a floor on the price. There is also the fact that having a store of something considered to be legal tender gives you some extra rights to protection from the criminal justice system in that country.

So 'intrinsic' is perhaps too strong a claim, but it's guaranteed to have at least some value as long as the US government endures, which is still a pretty good guarantee.
The NSA has committed no crimes. As an organization, they've acted within the bounds of the law and done exactly what they were supposed to do. This watchdog report is saying that the law is not in the interest of the people and it should be changed. But until that happens, the NSA is in the right to continue with business as usual.

Our constitution prohibits ex post facto law. This means that someone can't be charged with violating a law that was not in effect at the time of the person's action. ie, if the the speed limit is lowered to 50mph on Tuesday, you can't be ticketed for having driven 55mph on Monday. This should apply to the NSA in the same way that it applies to citizens. We may not like the law, but we can't call them criminals, dictators or all around bad guys for playing by the rules as they were written at the time.

It's also important to note that the NSA currently has the support of the people and the people's representatives. If 80% of the country hated the law that allows blanket collection of business records then it would have been changed long ago. The issue is 50/50 at best among the people and much more lopsided in favor among members of congress. Changing the law will be difficult at this point, as it's supposed to be. The whole point of a democratic bureaucracy is that they are stable and slow to change. We can't routinely re-write laws that are disliked by 40% or even 50% of the people and lawmakers. In general, it's bad for business. It's difficult to plan for the future when a relatively small group of citizens can throw out the rules in a short time period.

If the NSA had some kind of effect on the life of the average citizen this law would be rescinded immediately. If that doesn't end up happening, it's going to take a lot more than personal interpretations of the constitution to get the federal government to give up capability and assets it spent a lot of time and money building. This law may change and the country may be better without it. If anything it will be a long time until the majority of people make up their minds or even form an opinion on this issue. Until then the NSA is going to what all of us do: pursue their goals while acting within the boundaries of the law.
When I first read about Django's documentation, I found its notion of "apps" brilliant. It turns out that Flask introduced blueprints a while ago:

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/blueprints/

Like the rest of Flask, it's well thought-out and flexible.
> No, probable cause is not the same thing as evidence.

Probable cause is based on evidence.

> His hypothetical is actually how warrants are supposed to work.

No, its not.

> Law enforcement have probable cause to suspect someone of being guilty. If they can make a strong argument about why the person is probably guilty, they then get a warrant to search for evidence in homes, phone calls, emails, whatever.

And that "strong argument" is based on factual evidence that was either received through mechanism other than search and seizure, was the product of prior search and seizure in conditions that do not require a warrant, or was the product of prior warrant-based searches and seizures.

If there was no evidence left other than what was sought in the warrant, there would be no basis for probable cause to support the warrant.
Facebook must be one of the only large sites that hasn't been hit directly with serving malware, closest I can recall are incidents like this:

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002172.html
I'm also interested in this and would like to include in the comparison other companies which may (or may not, hard to tell as an outsider) be in the same space: Square, Dwolla, Braintree, WePay.
I'm not so sure iterating like crazy is a good thing.
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In September 2012, he first discovered XML External Entity Expansion bug in the Drupal that handled OpenID. OpenID is an open technology that allows users to authenticate to websites without having to create a new password. He found similar bug affecting the Google’s App Engine and Blogger. However, it is not critical as he wasn’t able to access the arbitrary file or open network connections, he received $500 reward from Google. He found out plenty of other websites implementing OpenID are vulnerable to RCE.
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I guess most folks do know the difference between their own local timezone and UTC. That would have really saved me a couple of seconds to find out the difference between PST and UTC first.
I have a net promoter score of 10 for your product. (it means I am telling people about your product - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter - ignore the criticism, I have inside information)

I don't like the big icons. It takes longer for me to read the same amount of information. Don't take my word for it, but there you go.

Is there anything like a standalone version we can run in a large multinational? External cloud-services are no-go for legal reasons. It's really annoying me that my wife and evening-work colleagues are super-sophisticated with kanban and then I come in to work with a shitty to-do spreadsheet.
> Event view is pretty cumbersome for managing things, as it shows only 20 events at a time.

Here's a secret URL for you: https://manage.stripe.com/events?count=100 :)
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I know, and Bonobo is as pleasant to use as COM with C.

While it is possible to do so, it doesn't mean it is sane to do it.

But GNOME guys always hated C++ with passion anyway, from what I remember in my GTKmm days.
Post for last year competition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5022167

Just in case, like me, you fail to notice it last year. ;)
Meet your deadlines but reduce the scope of the work rather than delay release or lower quality.

Short term thinking in development probably stems from short term oriented management incentives. Of course, for many companies, the short term is all there is.
> If 80% of the country hated the law that allows blanket collection of business records then it would have been changed long ago.

Source?

If one thing I've learned from this whole thing is that the general public holds a very dangerous belief in some high-functioning state of representative democracy.

A combination of crippled public dissent and (state-supported) public ignorance makes me highly question a strong majority of opinion would make a difference in real-life politics. Let alone active protest among a minority.

This isn't SOPA where it's people against lobbyists and special interests. This is against internal government power. The stakes are much higher.
There certainly are ORMs available with Play!

I'm using one called Activate (http://activate-framework.org/) in a few of my latest projects and it's really simplified things. There's also Squeryl, ReactiveMongo, Slick...
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Citation needed.

There have been many vulnerabilities in YAML parsers for ruby because they let you encode actual objects / code.

JSON, despite being "Javascript object notation", can't actually encode full code/objects. You only have a few datatypes: (off the top of my head) bools, strings, numbers, arrays, key/value dicts. None of these are dangerous or difficult to parse.

What you might be thinking about is the recent Ruby on Rails vulnerability which was caused by transforming JSON into YAML and then parsing the YAML. It would be more accurate to say the YAML parser was vulnerable.

Your claim that "JSON parsers are notoriously vulnerable" implies that this is a common occurrence as well, not just a single incidence.

I personally don't see it as likely because JSON has pretty much no features compared to xml; the surface area is tiny.
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I finally got a small number of teaching hours which paid way better than bar work (non-tipping country), and thought, great, now I can study weekends too.

Instead, I did absolutely nothing on the weekends. Slept. Hung out with friends. Played guitar. And my productivity, quality of work, and concentration span went way up for the five days of the week. Way up. Honestly, I actually feel I ended up spending less hours in the five days to do better work.
There is a lot of teenagers with high enough karma around :)
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>It's also important to note that the NSA currently has the support of the people and the people's representatives. If 80% of the country hated the law that allows blanket collection of business records then it would have been changed long ago.

That's ingenious. We didn't know about these secret courts. We didn't know the extent to which we were being spied on. The extent to which laws were being manipulated. Obama's administration even claimed that their interpretation of these laws and therefore what they could do with them were too vital to national security to let us know!

Congress wouldn't have had hearings where Keith Alexander had to explain and defend what he was doing if we already knew what he was doing. These wiretap laws also run contrary to an older Supreme Court ruling. You know how the government got around that? Bush's administration claimed that Congress told him to use military power and he considered the NSA a military force so they could ignore the Supreme Court ruling. The FBI did the same. These are twisted versions of laws we allowed that we weren't even allowed to know about. Fuck secret interpretations of laws.
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> The NSA has committed no crimes. As an organization, they've acted within the bounds of the law and done exactly what they were supposed to do. This watchdog report is saying that the law is not in the interest of the people and it should be changed. But until that happens, the NSA is in the right to continue with business as usual.

From the article, quoting the report:

The program “lacks a viable legal foundation under Section 215, implicates constitutional concerns under the First and Fourth Amendments, raises serious threats to privacy and civil liberties as a policy matter, and has shown only limited value,” the report said. “As a result, the board recommends that the government end the program.”

Now, you could mention that two out of the five representatives disagree with the idea that the program is illegal. That would be fair enough. Saying that the report finds nothing wrong law-wise with the program isn't.

> This means that someone can't be charged with violating a law that was not in effect at the time of the person's action. ie, if the the speed limit is lowered to 50mph on Tuesday, you can't be ticketed for having driven 55mph on Monday.

No doubt. But if you were to be caught red-handed doing warrantless wiretaps, on the other hand, retroactive immunity would automatically follow.

> In general, it's bad for business. It's difficult to plan for the future when a relatively small group of citizens can change how things work in a short time period.

I don't know what ordinary US citizens think about having their privacy violated and have the head of the NSA lie about their activities. You may well be right about them not caring, it's certainly the case here in Europe. But saying that changing the law would "harm business" is grotesque. I'm pretty sure you'll be hard-pressed to find any support for the activities of the NSA in the US IT sector, short of security/defense suppliers, who bloody well know which side of the bread is buttered. The rest is scared of losing non-US customers and of the EU implementing stringent laws about transferring data outside of the EU borders.
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> Not one American has been found who has been demonstrably harmed by any NSA program.

First they came for some foreigners and I did not speak out - because I was an American.
> The NSA has committed no crimes. As an organization, they've acted within the bounds of the law and done exactly what they were supposed to do. This watchdog report is saying that the law is not in the interest of the people and it should be changed.

No, the watchdog report is saying that the actual program was not within the statutory legal basis on which the Executive Branch, in the past two administrations, attempted to justify it, and, beyond that, is not within the bounds of the Constitution.

> This should apply to the NSA in the same way that it applies to citizens. We may not like the law, but we can't call them criminals, dictators or all around bad guys for playing by the rules as they were written at the time.

We can call them whatever we want (see US Constitution, Amendment I). Further, the report is saying that the program was not within the laws in place at the time, both the statute laws governing surveillance (and, since there are criminal laws for that, outside of the statutory allowance, the conclusion that, if the report is correct, they are criminals is not unjustified) and the fundamental laws limiting government power in the Constitution (from which, again on the assumption the report is correct, justifying the description as dictators, or at least agents of those usurping power in the manner of dictators).

And "bad guys" is a conclusion that doesn't require a violation of the law to support, since something can be bad without being illegal.

> It's also important to note that the NSA currently has the support of the people

No, it doesn't.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/01/20/poll-...

> If 80% of the country hated the law that allows blanket collection of business records then it would have been changed long ago.

Aside from the mistake of assuming that the US is a direct democracy where public opinion is immediately and infallibly reflected in policy (which is decidedly not the case), this errs further in arguing that if there was current widespread opposition, that opposition would cause policy change in the distant past ("long ago"). This is an astounding claim of retrocausality, and is simply implausible.
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I finally got rid of my last domain on network solutions. There's a form for requesting the authorization code, but despite submitting it out multiple times on various occasions I never received anything. The support docs indicated buttons that didn't exist. I finally called support and they gave me the code right away - at which point the transfer button mentioned in the support docs magically appeared for my domain.

I found it annoying but the guy I spoke with was pretty cool on the phone and didn't hassle me at all about the domain or selling me other products.
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