jeremyflores's comments

Oh great, another race/gender-based discussion to elicit the best that the HN community has to offer.

There's OpenEars, which is free: http://www.politepix.com/openears/.

Basically, you can define vocabulary sets to check against, and you provide a callback to know when a word has been detected. Depending on the complexity of the vocabularies, you might need to spring for the Rejecto plugin to improve the results.

FWIW, Apple has frowned upon the browser cookie check approach and they might reject a submission using it: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/25/apple-rejecting-apps-using-...

Do you guys have any estimates as to what the rate of error might be for the fingerprint approach?

Excited to see where you guys are going with this product!

I'm really curious about this as well. Last I checked, Safari is sandboxed w.r.t. session data, and something like time/IP seems really difficult to use reliably, e.g. if the user is interrupted and waits a while before installing the app. Or they could instantly install the app and wait a week before remembering to open it.

I'd love to use this service, but is the tracking guaranteed?

I worked on the OLPC during my undergrad at MIT (worked on mesh networking their DSP engine and ported cocos2D to Sugar/PyGTK/PyCairo).

Things that impressed me: the ambitiousness of the project, the fact that they started with some definite opinions and made something that matched those opinions, the group of talented people that flocked to be part of it and the energy in the building.

Things that did NOT impress me: Negroponte's aloofness with the team, his refusal to see the corpo-political implications of the project. I've always wondered what would have happened if had been more aggressive in defending his project by generating bad press about Intel's and Microsoft's attempts to tank the project.

Really amazing product! Is the form on your site the most expedient way to get in touch/get access to the SDK? Also, is the error accumulation small enough so that you could use the product continuously for extended periods of time?

Recently saw this movie a couple of weeks ago. I really loved it--the recording Hackman captured is itself a character in the film.

Possibly grandalf is referring to the Times publishing personal details of Snowden and his activities abroad vs. the actual contents of his leaks.

The source, Wayne Madsen, apparently has a history of unsubstantiated claims, including that Obama is secretly a homosexual[1].

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-guardian-wayne-madsen-nsa...

> only one side has taken actual action so far to hurt those civilians... and it was the government charged with protecting those same civilians.

A meaningless technicality. You can't seriously be arguing that the US' continued hegemonic paternalism toward Ecuador isn't a major source of their population's problems.

I must have misread the name in your comment. The greater point I was making still stands: as far as I know, neither Kerry nor Kerrey blur the lines between public service and military industry as much as Cheney does. If Cheney had at least served and been consistent, his opinions on military actions and these recent leaks' effects on US defenses would at least have some backing.

Please re-read my comments. It has nothing to do with military service or the number of years served. I'm making a general point about each individual's credibility and motivations for speaking out on PRISM. Drake gains nothing from his outspokenness, Cheney stands to profit quite a bit.

As I mentioned in response to davidhollander, Cheney's personal background is extremely important. If Kerry came out in support of PRISM et al., that would absolutely give me some pause--he actively served in and was a vehement dissenter of the Vietnam conflict.

If Cheney were simply a chicken-hawk, then there would be no issue. If he were simply a profiteer, there would also be no issue. But his active role as both is worrisome: he stands to profit from his direct ability to shape public opinion as a once-elected representative of the population.

As our society discusses this issue, it is important to take into account not only what is said, but why it is being said. This is what is meant by assessing credibility to speak about a certain matter. The sum of a person's actions informs the listener about his or her credibility and Cheney is no exception.

The comparison between Drake and Cheney should be based on the metric of credibility to speak on these matters. Drake has military experience and has put his career and freedom on the line for public disclosure. Cheney actively avoided putting himself in harm's way, then sent people to their deaths, directly profited from it, and will continue to profit off any future militaristic endeavors the US pursues.

Cheney is defending the need for state secrets but has a proven record of benefitting from intelligence that has been obscured from the general public. Motive is extremely important here.

I think Cheney's draft dodging status is fair game. He did, after all, co-architect our erroneous invasion and continued occupation of a country that did not actually attack us, so he has no problem sending others to war. Something other draft dodgers were not as directly responsible for.

> While companies are offered powerful inducements to cooperate with U.S. intelligence, many executives are motivated by patriotism or a sense they are defending national security, the people familiar with the trusted partner programs said.

Their fervent patriotism certainly didn't stop them from demanding immunity as a prerequisite.

From a strategic role, what Greenwald's doing is a smart move. If they were to dump everything out in the public in quick succession, the news cycle (and, by extent, the public) would absorb the information and move on. Timed releases would continually stoke the fire and prevent people from forgetting about it.

Really cool--congratulations!

The iPad hardware itself speaks toward a consumer culture. We have a cultural obsolescence for their older devices: who even talks about iPad 1 or iPad 2 nowadays when there is iPad 3?

A nifty replacement category: https://github.com/gekitz/UIDevice-with-UniqueIdentifier-for.... It generates a different token than the UDID, so you will have to migrate users.