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Yes, yes, yes, yes, a hundred and ten times everyone, yes!

It's one thing to do it legally. It's another to do it without approval from Congress. It's another to do it without approval from Congress or the will of the people.

Although, between FISA and PATRIOT ACT, it more or less is "legal". Either way, you're on the right track. It's a slippery slope and as far as I'm concerned, PRISM is slippery enough to feel like I can say that without feeling silly for using the phrase "slippery slope" seriously (and even worse, three times in one post).

Well, he kinda left out the negation that would make that make sense:

""Hacker News hasn’t had a single link to Daring Fireball in months, so I presume DF is blacklisted. But why [not] Vesper?""

but he didn't say that... Besides, he's still misinformed either way :S

DF isn't blacklisted. I read (and actually quite enjoyed) "Google Versus" that was posted here three weeks ago. Additionally, a search reveals other decently upvoted DF submissions within the referenced time period.

Nice to see DHH spouting off some stuff. (I'm sure he'll apologize as soon as he realizes he and Gruber are simply confused) [DHH : HN :: Adrian Chen : reddit]. They ought to just leave well enough alone. Everytime they open with a blanket dismissal and comment on the participants of a site like reddit or hacker news, they really just make themselves look like angry resentful people.

I swear to God, I hope I never have the ego and name recognition that these people do. The paranoia that must cause someone to worry about their site being blacklisted from here and then assuming that a project they're involved with is ALSO blocked... is just a tad amusing. (And then taking to a soapbox without bothering with a 10 second search to confirm)

edit: Sorry if I got fired up, I'm having a hard time adjusting to my amazingly changed life now that I have yet another "gorgeous" "easy" note taking app that only works on one platform and doesn't sync to anything useful.

I don't care enough about some obvious troll with a three post account but I'm pretty peeved to watch this get upvotes.

We've got some good sexism and machoism right off the top, already know it's going to be a good one. That's where we get to the implication that women can't be coders and are all inferior in all tech roles to men.

Congratulations asshole and those upvoting him. You're the worthless pieces of shit that don't know what "privilege" means and when you hear it, all you can think is "what about us poor white straight men". People like y'all were born without the proper ability to empathize and fall into the same category as the Republicans that hate gays until their son comes out and then magically now they "get it". Jesus.

No, it simply means know what you're talking about. If you disagree with someone, argue and debate, don't resort to (GP, come on) shitty debate tactics of someone with their back against the wall --- it happens here, on reddit, in real life. If you're adamant about your position and the other person can't formulate a coherent or relevant response then you should be prepared to be accused of "being madbro." or have "Ad hominem" or "Straw man!!!" shouted at you as the other person uses that to "win" and exit the conversation.

I'm sorry but I just laughed at your entire post. I'm an ardent atheist so that little diatribe was cute.

There are plenty of reasons to not like religion, you didn't really bother having that discussion and instead resorted to a cheapshot driveby comment. That was what I was mocking.

And yeah, there's plenty of "fascist" behavior in American Christians too. To sit there and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about... in the same breath that you say you don't know or care about US Christians is a special kind of braggard ignorance.

Good riddance? I guess? I don't even know what your point against me was at this point.

These are in use... by Google. Additionally, every single icon on G+ follows the same trends

Mostly the stuff after that. I appreciate:

- mocking the stupid shit that is sold to VCs here (and the stupid shit VCs invest in)

- mocking the "holier than thou" attitude that people often have about HN/community/content

- mocking the need to have an extension to prevent yourself from reading something from someone you don't like

- mocking how worked up people get over this "superficial website"

I wouldn't want to knock the dev, I think that's tacky. I find the usefulness of the extension to be something of a reflection on the person who needs to use it. Anyway, I liked the bits of the comment that are self-mocking of HN, not the extension.

I've been arguing against it to anyone who will listen for 8+ years. What else am I supposed to do?

More relative to the topic, what about adults looking at pictures of clothed children that they find attractive (even with clothes on).

The problem with these mass hysteria "think of the children" problems is that they're almost all universally solved for in one of two ways: True thought-police or absolute control of media and censorship.

That's a very US phenomena.

""To respect [insert basically any {generally monotheistic} religion you want] is to disrespect all those it gleefully claims roast in hell, and thought itself.""

Fixed that one for you, if we're just going all in on senseless religion hate at this point.

Jesus this thread is vitriolic. I didn't see him slander an Asian person, nor say that he supported it.

I'm not even going to address your shit attitude and comments and just focus on the libel you're committing. If you're going to throw a fit because you're incapable of having a discussion elevated beyond "Kill everyone who ever looks at a child", at least try not to make false accusations of CP possession against others.

What a stupid, rude thing to do.

I can't tell if no one got your sarcasm or if they're admonishing you for it. I think it's spot on and great though.

To be fair, the carriers aren't the only ones being misleading or opaque. Apple quite happily chips in (with a good second-long shot of their logo, no less) for the already blatantly false ads declaring "iPhone on the fastest network [AT&T]".

Sigh. MtGox != Bitcoin. It's so painful to the community and cause to perpetuate this sad meme. I for one welcome whatever might make MtGox more reliable until someone else competent comes along.

Thanks for the downvotes, sorry I said anything bad about poor ole Tim Cook. Yeesh.

Maybe you're right, but Google has the personal data from me that they don't, across a variety of services that allow for integration and knowledge about me that is hard for me to really wrap my head around.

I've used this example before, but Google Now already recommends destinations based on what I Google Maps at my desk before I head out. It also knows what is on my "grab when I go by the grocery store" list before I quickly use Google Now and say "Google: note to self, pick up milk" and it's in there.

[soon] So now, when Google's autonomous car is driving me home and I'm watching the road attentively, Google Now pops up in Glass and offers to redirect the car to the grocery store most minimizing the way out of my route (or the one that has the best deals listed with Google Shopping, or that has the best coupons, or that Google Wallet has my rewards card for). And it reminds me to grab my milk. [/not yet]

And then on the way out of the store it again offers directions back to my house.

This is all there (except the Keep intuition bit that I sincerely hope is coming and will really prove Google Now). (And sadly, and I'm whining, but I didn't get into the super special Glass program :[)

Sorry, I've rambled, back on point: I don't doubt that those you list have the power and smart people to build the tech, but I don't think they have the data. I think Apple Maps was but a small example of the advantages Google has in areas of data.

Look, I'm not a fashionable guy, but come on:

"Nothing that's going to convince a kid that's never worn glasses or a band or a watch or whatever to wear one."

I'm kind of embarrassed by Tim's comments. He won't even make a non-pessismistic comment about watches, which, I guess everyone could be wrong but it seems they'll introduce one soon; it's as if he's already pushing the notion "Apple iWatch is magical and people want to wear it and not the three competing Android watches that better integrate with your phone and have more features".

Who knows, it's taken HTC years (and losing tons of market share) to design fashionable looking hardware. Maybe Apple will win purely on design and Tim's comments will be vindicated. Either way, I hope he's not putting all his eggs in that iPhone basket, unless iOS7 just prints money.

Hm, interesting point. They've effectively made themselves the perfect gate keeper. Even for people like us on HN, I highly highly doubt hardly anyone outside of mjg59 has ever enrolled their own key.

I'm even highly interested in PKI and SecureBoot and have been quelling FUD about it for sometime but if I ever buy a non Pixel/MBA device, I'll leave the MS key in there almost assuredly.

I should have of course said "some" :)

If you think Glass is the end product that matters, you're not paying any attention. Tim Cook wants to start shit-talking Glass and talking about how they're going to bring out watches? Cool. So are three other Android manufacturers.

Who is the only person with the AI and data sets to power things like Google Now and really make form factors like Glass or Watch practical? You don't hear anyone talking about that. They're talking about SDKs or users or app stores or whether or not I can set my own default browser on my phone.

Google Now is the big deal here that everyone glazes over when talking about Glass. They're already putting it into Google's web interface (for the desktop, yeah), Chrome (though it makes more sense in Google.com rather than Chrome to me), Glass and I'm sure more and more services will continue to feed into it. They announce more every few weeks.

That really should not be an issue at all on that device... (although once you are booted, you'll need to do some work in dmraid on account of the HDD situation)

"always". What is this always scenario look like if MS decides to drop the "must allow legacy boot / disabling SB / enrolling key" requirement and only enroll theirs?

Not saying that will happen, I honestly don't think Microsoft cares that much (my own opinion, speculation based on Linux's market share despite my own love of it).

Just... "always" is a strong word. People used that word when talking about secure bootloaders on devices like Droid2, etc. Things that were ultimately only circumvented by kexec. Something that would be much different in a SecureBoot scenario.

I'm so, so, so glad that new languages are banning braceless if/else bodies.

Sure. So is PHP. Yes I'm making a somewhat sarcastic point. Yes, I'm also quite serious.

Or just use a proper OpenPGP card.

As stated by Google officially, and by all accounts of everyone using external clients, XMPP works fine. Federation doesn't, just like with Facebook as mentioned above.

Seriously? I have 20 different Git repos for various things that either can't or simply don't make sense to be public. Sure, GitHub's great and I have a paid account with them (not even the minimum), but I certainly have to rely on BitBucket as well.