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You don't get to determine whether you have something to hide or not. That's not up to you.

It's up to whomever is targeting you to decide whether they want to turn something you consider irrelevant, into something that puts you in prison. For example, something not considered a crime today, such as having this conversation, can be a 'thought crime' tomorrow.

Oh, I see here film42, that back in 2014, you partook in a conversation that was negative of the regime's glorious goals. Guilty by association. 40 years hard labor.
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do you really think that the people who get the parasite are knowingly eating pieces of cat feces?
I watched the interview and when he said that, I assumed that he meant something like "getting the device when the subject was using it", giving them access to everything. But your reaction makes me wonder if I was mistaken.
You're missing out, there's some really tasty stuff in there.
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Does no one else see the irony in Snowden warning everyong to avoid Google.. via a Google+ Hangout?
The downvotes are probably because "The nothing to hide" line is such a tired argument.

Do you have blinds on your windows? Do you mind if we place a camera in your bathroom? Why? You have nothing to hide.
I figured you meant something more subtle than a big red flashing light, but here's the thing:

A) The difference between a clean hit and a dirty one is a matter of milliseconds. Players who dish out the hits can do very small things at the very last moment to try to hurt an opponent and I don't think any sort of warning system will help you with that. The time needed to react is way too long and you would need to be able to detect 'malice' in someone's intent, which is not exactly easy.

B) Pro sports players are known to hate additional equipment, gizmos, protection extras, etc. even if it means reducing their own safety. Hockey players get hit in the face with sticks and pucks going 100 mph all the time, but still prefer to not wear a visor because they find it "more comfortable". They don't care if they're completely toothless (they actually see this as an honor - many don't get work done until they retire), as long as they can play unobstructed. Same with braces and pads, players will never wear them (and players' associations will side with them) if it means gaining half an inch on the pitch.

Unfortunately, I don't think any amount of technology will help here. We need to change the way people think about contact sports (someone in this thread mentioned its likeness to wresting) and change the rules to protect the players better.
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The nest seems like a poor compromise. It's easy to wire up but pricey and the benefits seem questionable given the price. As the Animats points out one option would be to add a lot of home automation given the amount of processing power the thing has and save a significant amount of energy.

However, a vary dumb thermostat with a humidity sensor could save you a fair amount of energy in humid areas over a simple temperature sensor. After all a humid 80 and a dry 80 are different, not just in feel but also in how fast mold grows. Basically, set a max temperature for the humidity level, and decide if you can just vent outside air, or if you need to dehumidify incoming air, or even if you need to heat/cool the air. The other option of simply running a dehumidifier uses a lot of energy and tends to create an overly dry environment.
I think the term is Spyware when it's distributed for this purpose.
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Don't we have some examples of such court orders, basically "Acme Telecom is ORDERED to reveal ALL THE THINGS"?
I have no problem with probiotics. But this is _not_ an easy pill for me to swallow.

Can they please figure out which bacteria are actually important and then I will take that? Instead of eating actual shit. Thanks.
I agree with your principle, but I'm confident that I don't need to worry about a hard labor sentencing regime.
If i do all of these how do i share documents or search for information on the web? What ever the alternative is going to have the same issues as Dropbox, Facebook or Google. I cannot build my own versions of these!
It would be interesting to read an objective analysis of Israel's airport security screening, to compare with what Ekman and the TSA have concocted. There are plenty of glowing articles [1] about the Israeli "gold standard", but I'm sure there are also plenty of glowing articles about Ekman.

It's certainly a field with many shades of gray. Not sure if most on HN can relate to any of this, engineers are mostly about facts, about black and white. Emotions don't have a lot to do with coding or debugging (except for frustration, no shortage of that!).

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-wagner/what-israeli-air...
... and he advocates ditching Dropbox in favor of a closed source, proprietary encrypted file storage service...

... and he tells you not to use Google, but gives every one of his remote appearances through Google Hangouts...
I've been around here for a while, and Less Wrong is pretty well known. It's also very much the zeitgeist of this site.
On the other hand, It Might Just Save Your Life!

... though one hopes that if you were planning on doing anything for which that would save your life that you'd already have a good idea of just how likely your day was to be spent dodging rapidly moving glassware. But hey, great lede for my little reply here, right? If this programming thing ever gets old maybe I can get a job writing the 11 o'clock news.
I guess they could distinguish his father's remains from those of a slave. Checkmate, Diogenes.
PRISM specifically isn't about revealing ALL THE THINGS. The documents reveal it is for ingesting specific users' data.
Whilst I agree in some parts, the main character being exceptional is kinda the entire point of a heroic fantasy novel.

They are exceptional by design. If they weren't amazing swordsmen, or magic users, or highly intelligent, or highly determined, they'd be dying at the first hurdle in the story - which is equally ridiculous for a novel. The alternative for underpowered fantasy characters is either a non-perilous story or a lot of "deus ex machina" moments where the character survives by "random" chance. Neither of which are particularly interesting.

Narrative imperative does have some demands on story characters, but it's all down to the quality of the writing as to whether you can suspend your disbelief.
In case you use an Android device, I wrote an app to use encfs on Dropbox/GoogleDrive:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mrpdaemon....
You could build your own dropbox. It's not that complex. A social network and a search engine would be a bit harder.
Neither of those are PDF encryption, only restrictions. PDF encryption is bad, yes, but it's not that bad.
In English (en-gb) colloquialism "I ran over the cat" would be perfectly fine as "the cat" is understood to mean "our/my cat". "Your dinner's in the dog", "I locked the keys in the car", et cetera.

Similarly in a sentence like "Why don't you and the family come up to the house sometime for tea.". "The house" substitutes for "our house". Now all you need to work out is whether tea is afternoon tea, a cup of tea, or an evening meal and if the offer is sincere. I gather the response is supposed to be "That would be lovely." rather than actually trying to arrange the proffered social meeting.
In hockey, there's the additional element of the incremental penalty for being the aggressor in a fight while wearing a visor. So, "enforcer" players choose not to wear a visor...

Rule 46.6 in the N.H.L. rule book: “If a player penalized as an instigator of an altercation is wearing a face shield (including a goalkeeper), he shall be assessed an additional unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.”
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The keys aren't stored on the phone - that's what's caused all of the recent controversy. A warrant to install a keylogger isn't very useful after the suspect has been taken into custody.
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Hopefully not.

All you need to worry about is being put on a terrorist watch list and black listed from being able to fly anywhere in North America easily.

Either way, the correct answer to "I have nothing to hide" is: you are not in control, and do not get to decide whether you have something to hide or not. You have no power over that matter. Once you understand that to be a indisputable fact - no matter what country you're in (as a citizen is never the one making that call) - then you'll stop saying that phrase, as it is equivalent to saying: "I am in charge of the FBI"
When I started using DropBox, I made an encrypted directory (using EncFS) for the stuff I cared about keeping private. This keeps the real-time sync element of DropBox, and avoids needing to reupload all of the encrypted files whenever one changes (although it does prevent incremental updates on individual files).

As an added bonus, these files are now encrypted on my machine as well.
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So, I get what you're saying. I have no intention of abandoning Google either. In fact, I still see Google as the good guys as odd as that might be to many people. In the short term I understand what Edward is saying, but I'm about the long-term game. Doesn't matter what trendy tech company has your data. Yesterday it was Yahoo & Myspace. Today it's Google & Facebook, tomorrow who knows... but the one constant in all of this is a corrupt government. I'm only interested in fixing government and fixing(or destroying) the NSA. Avoiding the victims(Google,Facebook,Apple,etc) of bad laws I don't think solves things in the long term. But, if you're an activist planning a revolution or becoming another whistle-blower in the near future... then by all means do what Edward says so you can at least attempt your plan and not get preemptively stopped.
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I see your point, but I was addressing the Snowden quote from the article where he said, "When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’"

Also, I really don't like that counter argument. I think it's supposed to instill fear. Everyone has a blindless-window on the internet. Like, what happens when you google: "<username> freenode"?
The problem is that the answer may be "literally thousands of different types of bacteria".

Your digestive tract is a jungle, with more species than man will ever fully know about. When too many of certain types go extinct, the ecosystem breaks down, and bad shit starts to happen (come to think of it, literally).

It may take decades to figure out all of the specific species that matter most, and in what proportions. We aren't even certain which bacteria are common to all people, and which are specific to certain cultures / races / geographies / genders / who-knows-what-else. I bet people who eat a lot of KFC have a very different personal biome than I do.

In the meantime, here's 'one weird trick' that seems to just work.
Although basic and lacking a bit in depth, the book I found most helpful when transitioning from confrontation to questioning was "Demystifying Counseling" by Arlene King. It's short, clearly written and jargon-free.

Most therapy manuals are awful though - and so much of my progress since then has been helped along by reading bios or analysis's of the greats in the field, and adapting their methods to match my personality. It's very much an art and not a science - and my progress has been determined as much by my self-knowledge and the strength of the integration between my conception of life and my practice as my knowledge of specific methods of inquiry.

So all that to say I don't have much - although you've motivated me to look around for it. Feel free to drop me a line so I can share when I find something.
I agree dropbox would be easier of these and i can live without Facebook but definitely not be able to build a google. But more importantly is it worth it? I have a feeling from hardware to layers of software in the tech stack we use is all compromised to give access in one way or the other or they can be cracked brute force with the enormous computing power these organisations have.
Ya Diaspora is excellent. Extremely boldly going. I've read it like 3 times (it's hard to find good sci if).

How about that online stuff that I listed. Have you read any of that? It is of comparable quality. I'm serious.
Controls:
On desktop WASD to move, move mouse or arrow keys to look around, space to place block.
On mobile, move device to look around, one finger touch on the bottom of the screen to go forward, two to go back, tap on the top to place a block.

Browser support could be iffy or partial.

Get a few other people to go on with you. You should be able to see them and their actions real time.

I haven't done significant load testing, so it may get slow.
Some additional examples: http://www.businessinsider.com/scariest-parasites-in-the-wor...

The Sacculina genus of parasitic barnacles--which has dozens of species--is spectacularly creepy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacculina

They infect both female and male crabs and completely subvert their biochemistry, to the extent of feminizing the males. They then lay their own eggs in the crab's carapace, the way the crab normally would, and the crab--male or female--behaves as if it was carrying its own eggs.
> There’s something about the software businesses built in the last 30, 40 years that works incredibly well for actually capturing value

What the fucking fuck?! This must be why RMS, Linus, and everyone else who has fostered Free and Open standards have their own personal yachts.

My observation has been that the value provided by a piece of software is inversely proportional to how much its creator is able to extract value. A tool that can be relied upon and built on top of is invaluable - this end of the spectrum is Free software (in the modification sense. unfortunately this seems to also imply the price sense). Meanwhile, inserting yourself as a needless middleman is exactly what allows one to set arbitrary terms to extract value from users that come to rely on you.

This is why every hot new area of development is a cesspool battleground of proprietary shit - it's in no individual manufacturer's interest to support an open standard if they they think they can possibly triumph through marketing and then extract licensing fees (and these days, API access fees).

Hopefully for the benefit of society, over the long term the proprietarians will continue to be reverse engineered and otherwise overthrown by the noble people working to build solid foundations that can be relied upon by everybody. I just wish the economics were lined up.
> I'm assuming that most people are more interested in happy marriages than stable ones (at least before they've made the commitment).

That's a very reasonable assumption. But it's also reasonable to analyse divorce rate data. You can't just assume that anyone studying marriage will only be studying how to keep marriages happy. I don't see any claim that this study is the ultimate study on marriage.
“Dropbox guys who are unjustly maligned for being affluent.”
Right, but the Snowden revelations showed that the FISA court was/is? a rubber stamp circle without any real due process - and in fact they can search the data and afterwards make a request via the FISA court. The data is also collected and stored and processed by algorithms without any court oversight, it is just when they want a contractor to look through the data manually that the minimal paperwork is involved.

It would be misleading to include that half sentence without also mentioning this.
> You could build your own dropbox. It's not that complex.

It would be incredibly complex to build your own Dropbox. Maybe it wouldn't be "complex" to use rsync to automatically copy files over to some other drive if that's all you wanted, but Dropbox does way more than that and I don't plan on dropping Dropbox for some half baked solution that requires more effort to set up, maintenance and ends up in lost data because on the one in a million chance the FBI might want to look at pictures of my pets.

I don't know how I feel about government surveillance, but I sure as hell don't see it worth to trade some supposed imperceptible theoretical harm with tons of actual effort and inconvenience.
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The Standard .zip Crypto (know as "ZipCrypto") is 100% trash.
However, it is possible to use AES-256 encryption in 7zip (and even WinZip, not that anyone actually uses that anymore...)
I would love some far east too - I have no experience with that though, so if someone has some advice I'd love to hear it too.
An even more cynical view is:

50% of marriages end in divorce,
the other 50% end in death.
Mazel tov.

I just had to post that, one of my favorite quips. I'm in my 20th year of marriage.
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With most companies, the center of gravity is obviously on the customer side. The customer, and the market, is ultimately the boss. With the customer lies the product/market fit, the fickle and life-giving revenue stream, the demand that drives features and product and ultimately existential corporate strategy.

But when you achieve the dominance and size and cash hoard of Microsoft, that center of gravity shifts -- the company becomes so powerful and massive that it generates its own gravity. There is the luxury of a cushion so large that it recedes to infinity, distorting strategy to the point where the necessity of its convergence with the customer may no longer be explicitly contemplated. The wooing of the customer is supplanted by an eternal dance of indoctrinated partners in the ecosystem ballroom. The objective financial success of the arrangement trumpets it to become ever more like itself, unfettered and unfed by the market forces and demand that anneal smaller and more nimble competitors.

And so, numbly disconnected from the healthy signals of the natural customer-centric gravitational pull, this dominant entity finally reaches the ballistic apex of its trajectory, unpowered by the thrust of customer focus, and begins its gradual descent. Maybe the law of large numbers, with respect to enterprise growth, is really more of an inward-looking organizational behavior problem than one of stock market psychology.
I'd say it's more like posting Wikipedia's front page. "Everyone" knows about it; you need to post a specific article.

(I would not say LessWrong is in the HN zeitgeist, but the zeitgeist is definitely aware of it.)
Yet another open-label study posted on HN. The placebo effect will play a large part in every patient treated with this, so how do we know if the pill had any effect over and above placebo? Really, this study is a waste of time and money.
The fact remains that much of the world does have just the very same issue of different places being named the same. Texas has a town called Paris, France has a somewhat larger and more amount town also called Paris. There's a La Paz, Mexico and a La Paz, Bolivia too.

From my perspective, nowhere else is the duplication of names quite so big a deal as it is in the context of Macedonia.
Hmmm, can be quite useful to thieves. Is this guy at work now? Yeah, than it's time to steal some stuff from his home.
Broken for me in Firefox.
"The data is also collected and stored and processed by algorithms without any court oversight."

This is false. PRISM doesn't get any data that wasn't specifically requested with a court order. It sounds like your understanding is still based on Greenwald's original reporting, which has since been shown to be inaccurate.
People are more important than promises. The only reason we value promises is because they make life in general better for people. I've personally experienced and seen multiple others in the situation where ending the marriage really truly was the best thing for both parties. In these cases, your strict adherence to word/contract is patently absurd and creates nothing but pain and suffering.
And guess what, Stripe is paying taxes.

I'm rather confused as to how you plan to convincingly argue that a company organizing a purely for entertainment sports league should be exempt from paying taxes.
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I think there is a subtle distinction between the "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear; ergo privacy invasion is good" meme, and what was said above ("privacy invasion is bad, but I am not concerned with invasion if my privacy because I have nothing to hide"). Which is not to say there's nothing to object to in the latter.
I've found that a lot of hacker types have this problem. There comes a point where it's really beneficial to put your nose against the grindstone and jump through a few ridiculous hoops. Is it stupid? Sure, but at the end of the day if it benefits you to play the game, you play the game.
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Our startup is in the ed-tech space so we obtain customers by meeting with Principals and Superintendents. A task we have found difficult since they are very busy and constantly solicited. We try to get meetings with email but that is not as effective as showing up at the schools and catching them with some free time.

We are using a product created by another startup called SnowShoe. You may have seen them recently featured on Product Hunt. Fans say SnowShoe dabbles in "black magic" by making 3d printed stamps that have unique digital identities, which touch screen devices can detect. The SnowShoe Stamps are just black pieces of plastic so the appearance is not as unique or magic as their abilities.

I am lucky to have been born into an artistically gifted family. My Mom and sister have started hand painting the SnowShoe Stamps, making them even more unique. The painted stamps are much better than a business card and are also a cool way to acknowledge the teachers that use our system the most.

When a principal or superintendent expresses interest in conducting a one month trial we let them pick out a painted SnowShoe Stamp to keep at their desk as a reminder of our awesomeness!

This unscalable gesture has increased the number of referrals we receive from every principal. Being able to start an email with "principal X said you might be interested in our product" has made getting the initial meeting with new principals/superintendents much easier.
without Philip , Alexander would not exist

Haha, you wouldn't need to know much about history to know that sons would not exist without their fathers ;)
Ask HN: What do you use for PDF reports these days?
I am creating some entreprise software and almost every other information needs to be sent by email in pdf format. Reports, invoices, etc. I am using whtmltopdf right now, but it is far from ideal.

My idea setup would be to create some template with fixed parts, growable parts (texts that can vary in size), repeatable parts (lines in a table). And then just feed the data to have a nice pdf built.

The closest I found was using LibreOffice to convert a document to pdf (http://railsblog.kieser.net/2013/04/part-ii-creating-beautiful-reports-in.html).

It seems PDF generation should be a solved problem. Maybe, Adobe LiveCycle is doing exactly what I need, but it is not open source and I do not have $50k to find out.

What are you guys using?
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