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Not the best example of good css. The menu covers up the whole screen on my galaxy s2. Might want to think about responsive design.
I don't know what the solution is, but I doubt it's "switch my service provider to AT&T."
Dell Inspiron 15R - i3, 4GB RAM, 500 HDD + Win 8. Tried using a second monitor a while ago, didn't find any use for it.
Really, that's what my comment contains?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4875307
America, it's time to start making things again
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1984 could not come soon enough :D
Fellow Dutchman here, and I couldn't agree more. I actually helped building the electronic patient file in two major hospitals, and I can't tell you enough about the massive clusterfuck that is. The government requires you to finish it before a certain date, only they provide you with the exact requirements after that date. Basic security measures like encrypting data? No way!

To me, America is still the land of the slightly more free and little more brave!
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You reckon people are going to revolt? I have serious doubts about that.
I'm running Debian (old[1]) stable with Exim for incoming and outgoing smtp with greylistd for limiting spam, and dovecot for imap4 access -- all with my own SSL certs from cacert.org. At some point I'll probably have to set up more spam filtering - but for now it works surprisingly well.

Unless you really know Exim well I would recommend to keep "Debian's magic configuration stuff". It makes it easy to set up SSL/TLS:

http://wiki.debian.org/Exim#TLS_and_Authentication

Setting up dovecot is pretty straight forward, too:

https://www.debian-administration.org/article/275/

Note: I see no reason to enable imap -- just go with imaps.

Greylisting for exim:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/167

Both Exim and dovecot can use a separate password file (among other options) for "virtual" users. I just use pam-auth for imap, and separate auth for smtp -- imap does give access to user files anyway (at least in principle, it could probably be locked more down).

If you're new to Exim, there's no big reason not to use postfix -- other than it's the default for Debian (Postfix being default on Ubuntu).

If you're going to host a lot of virtual users -- you might benefit from dbmail -- I haven't tried it myself, but been following the project from the sidelines for a few years -- it appears to be a good solution for virtual-user email (email users that are not also system users):

http://www.dbmail.org/

[1] I'll be dist-upgrading "soon" -- hopefully nothing will break ;-)

edit: formatting
Root Strikers is fundamentally misguided, they attack the symptoms instead of the cause. The root of all this corruption is how large the federal government is, any organization with that much power and money will be co-opted.
I'd say the Tcl community has matured well, and considers Tcl a tool, acknowledging both its pros and cons - which is why no one there cares that you think Tcl is dead/uncool/why_anybody_still_uses_it!!eleven!?. Also my feeling is that most complaints about it were voiced by people using some ancient versions without bothering much to look for idioms etc.
For me Tcl/Tk was the easiest way to do a quick GUI program that was cross-platform, way long before Java was there.
Sorry for the dumb question but how does the GPU execute Javascript? Or is it done in a declarative language specific to the GPU?
Intercepting your network traffic doesn't count as backdooring your computer.
You have technical capabilities to monitor keywords, then profile people, build maps and responses from data easy.
I would be shocked if that is not employed already.
Unfortunately, the administration itself doesn't even score that well there. Remember sunlight before signing?

I suppose one could read it narrowly enough to include virtually nothing but then what?
A cocktail party is filled with smalltalk. I don't want that for HN. I wan't in depth discussion where I can learn something.

Removing all contrary points of view from a discussion makes it one-sided and turns it into smalltalk.

As hackers we should have an open mind and accept that there are opinions contrary to ours. We should embrace this fact and not stamp everyone who doesn't agree with our views as an 'intruder'.
We? You're the mâitre d'hôtel are you?
This is Hacker News; the audience is comprised of people who could re-write the core of Facebook in a heartbeat and they are extremely critical. They're also quite smart; they know Facebook lets you chat with your girlfriend.

What they're saying is that Facebook is not working the way it should. It's partially due to its popularity, but it has diminished its usefulness.

Try this: Open it up right now and read the first 10 to 20 status updates and then count how many you care about, then count how many are important in any way. After doing that a few times (and trying to manage what updates I see, to improve things), I closed my account. (And I'm an extrovert!)

We are Hacker News. We know that technology and its uses is in a constant dialectic. Our members include Zuckerberg and very probably his successor. It's nothing personal; it's just how this works.
Https://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?url=&pco=crx-200
All port 53/80 traffic is proxied through Harmony anyways...
The average is very important in a democracy. They can vote. Or choose not to!
I don't know if that was what you wanted to imply, but what Afforess said is precisely why there is a lot of people who think that Ayn Rand had, well, a warped and extremely cynical worldview.
Came here to post this. It's a great documentary that really made me like him a whole lot more.
the NSA cannot intercept signals within the United States

Oh, really?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s976iyaO39A

In the first few minutes of that Bill Binney says this:

"I was focused at foreign threats. The problems I solved, and the way I solved them, were directed at foreign threats, and foreign potential threats. Unfortunately, after 9/11 they took my solutions and directed them at this country, and everybody in it."
That's a fair point. Although in this case refunds were given so I don't suspect any malice on 37signals' part.
Spice Up Your Website With Live HTML5 Device Mockups
its on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDl6-lyfMY
Part 2: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Google-Visual-Assets-Guidelin...
Ask HN: Is there a mobile version of HN, or an app?
HN renders terribly on smartphones, particularly the comments with the fixed width content + density of text. An alternative mobile version would be great. Read-only is fine - I finding tpying on mobile devices slow and cumbersome anyway.
NOTE: I am not a lawyer. This is not a legal advise.

I am also in the same situation as yours as I am working on a peer to peer marketplace.

I am afraid of the lawsuit and liability. I think for starter, you can do DBA first, then if your business makes money (meaning it gets traction) and as soon as you get $800 revenue to pay tax, then you can go LLC to protect yourself. Why spend $800 on overhead (tax) if you don't know if your apps are going to make you money?

I think this is what I am going to do (unless there is a big liability on DBA)

Can anyone recommend good insurance for business that I can start looking at?

Thanks.
Which is why the government should not have broad access to your records and why "I've got nothing to hide" is a wrong attitude even for "good citizens": the government's definition of good and bad may shift (or become arbitrary).
National Security - destroyer of civil and personal liberties everywhere
No, not without some radical new insights :). But, why replace them? If you need something to replace them, probably you have a different need (e.g. hands-free, private communication, or expressing something that is hard to do consciously, like the level of pain, tiredness of familiarity of a face). Perhaps EEG can be used to fulfill that need instead.
> Every time a document like this is released, the logic is to assume that the document applies to all Verizon customers (which it does not), then to assume that all telecom companies have been given similar documents, then to assume that the government actually acts on this and randomly spies on people, then to assume that they are using that data for malicious purposes, and suddenly the government is evil.

The thing about that is that the government did those sorts of things in the past. When those became public, measures were put into place to check those powers. Some people feel that since 9/11/2001, many of those checks have been continually eroded.

More specifically:

> the logic is to assume that the document applies to all Verizon customers

Given the breadth of this order, it appears that there's no particular thing being investigated. It's just "fishing", ostensibly for national security purposes.

> then to assume that all telecom companies have been given similar documents

Once the government is asking "everything" from a particular company, using national security (as opposed to particularized criminal investigation) as the reason, what reason is there to assume they haven't ordered everyone else to do the same. Don't forget this is a secret order, the subject of which (a Verizon subsidiary) is legally barred from discussing with anyone. The document making the news here was leaked, and the leaker has committed a felony by doing so.

> ... then to assume that they are using that data for malicious purposes

I'm not sure anyone is arguing that they're doing anything malicious ... yet. But history as shown that this particular slippery slope isn't always a fallacy.

> Perhaps the country with the most powerful government in the world should have a little trust in it now and then?

One can, conversely, argue that the citizens of that country have a moral obligation to the rest of the world to keep their government's power in check precisely because it's so powerful.
news:yc is my favorite: http://newsyc.me/
Also, should I develop with Vim or Emacs?
Weird thing is, nobody seems to care. I care, it's one of the reasons I will keep voting for the pirate party.
10% of UAE E-Commerce is from Mobile
Obama's cybersec crackdown is driving fraudsters to Australia
Comatose is a good description. It's worth noting that those things you list are masks. Americans over-eat, abuse prescription drugs, etc. to hide from, effectively, the last 40 years (and what it has led to). The US standard of living has fallen massively since 1970. In the late 1960s our minimum wage was the equivalent of nearly $50,000 in today's dollars.

But you're wrong, the average American isn't stupid. You clearly haven't spent enough time with 'average' people. I know a lot of people that fall into the average camp in most respects, they're absolutely not stupid. Being drugged out on anti-depressants doesn't make someone stupid. Making poor choices also does not make someone stupid. In fact, you betray an embarrassing ignorance in saying so.

The average American is responsible for one the most productive economies in history (while simultaneously being the largest in history). Said average American manages to live in the most diverse large nation in history, while not constantly murdering each other in the streets by the millions. It's quite a feat that is likely to never be repeated again.

What you said isn't racist. American isn't a race.

I can't fathom however, the arrogance it takes to call hundreds of millions of people stupid. What does that make the other 5.5 billion people with combinations of little to no formal education, running water, indoor plumbing, that are frequently barely literate etc etc etc? That qualifies a billion people in China as being, what exactly, retarded? It's impossible, and ignorant, to label individuals that way.
I worked at a financial software startup from 2005-2007, and the financial industry was already using big data pervasively. Hell, LTCM failed in 1998 because they were doing big data analyses of small spreads and forgot about some of the holes in their analyses, namely what would happen if a "black swan" event moved currency prices out of their historical norms. Quant hedge funds like DE Shaw, Citadel, and RennTech have been around since the 80s.

Heck, back in high school one of the math competitions I won was sponsored by INFORMS (the Institute For Operations Research and the Management Sciences), and I asked my dad "What's operations research?" and he said that it's where people with math Ph.Ds go to make big bucks. Companies like FedEx, Safeway, and WalMart have relied on their massive amounts of operations data to do things like minimize transportation costs or ensure that they're stocking items with maximum demand for decades.

The thing is, everybody who gains a competitive advantage from big data has reason to keep that fact secret, so that their competitors don't start doing the same thing. What's changed now is that the media itself is facing competitors that use big data themselves to make themselves more relevant than traditional media, and so suddenly it's a Story Of Consequence. It's not that big data is the next big thing - it's that big data was the last big thing that you are only hearing about now, and suddenly a bunch of folks that had never heard of it are now trying to play catch-up.
Yet more overreach in the conclusions people take away from studies such as this. So there is an environmental factor in what IQ tests measure; this should not be a surprise to anyone. The study suggests that one's environment growing up affects your abstract reasoning ability. This in no way suggests that it is completely environmental. Height is largely genetic, we all know that. Yet height is also strongly affected by environment. In fact, if you don't feed a kid, they don't grow at all. This does not mean that height has 100% correlation with nutrition and thus zero correlation with genes! People need to be careful with drawing convenient conclusions from a small amount of data.
Thats the real issue. People are really apathetic to the situation. Frequent response when brought up is that they have nothing to hide and it only makes them safer. But its not just the government's fault, we have news media driven by ad dollars. Fear drives viewership up and is good for business. If these programs weren't popular, our politicians wouldn't get elected. In our times, if your "soft" on terror, its like automatic disqualification in terms of getting elected.
You can't "store everything" for the simple reason that feeding all the traffic back to Utah would be prohibitive. The thing is, though, this is not any real comfort because it doesn't matter.

The reason we have the 4th Amendment is to keep general warrants like this from being issued, and to help retard the "show me the man and I will find you the crime" (to quote a member of the Stalin regime) from taking root here, or at least to make it more difficult.

The problem is, for the worst abuses to occur they don't have to store everything. They just get general warrants like this, inspect packets, filter "interesting subsets" out and send those back to Utah. So I think the actual strategy is two pronged, in a different direction, and both worse and more economical:

1. Vague laws that people can be easily prosecuted for[1] particularly when it comes to terrorism. Bonus points for allowing military enforcement of domestic law.[2]

2. Get general warrants that let them target whoever they want without recourse, which is what is going on here. Better yet, let's get retroactive immunity for any accomplices and make sure it is all really above the law.

The end result is the same, of course. The difference is that the above strategy takes a lot less time, resources, money, people, and hardware to pull off.

[1] See Harvey Silverglate (civil liberties atty, veteran of the EFF, ACLU, and FIRE), "Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent"

[2] This is a trend, particularly when it comes to defining terrorism but has been going on since at least Clinton. Note that Clinton asked Congress unsuccessfully for a terrorism exception to Posse Comitatus. See Kopel, David (former Colorado Assistant Attorney General). "No More Wacos"
So let us boycott the government! Oh wait, unlike Verizon, the government will lock you up for doing that.
This actually confirms that IQ measures intelligence, just not merely innate intelligence. Which we already knew.
Agreed. Imagine voting for you own major, sheriff, congressman and president! (This is no joke people, we can't. They're appointed from within their own ranks. We can vote for a specific party-leader and hope they win. But the always end up creating a coalition with 2 or 33 other party's and needing to compromise).
The trouble is, that's easier said than done. However, if there were any action feasible enough to do that would make it possible to: "get into the businessman's head that the NSA is bad for business." Then that will definitely be the way to go.
Yes, that is all your comment contains.
Way older than the Internet... still fun though.
Are you sure that's not a consequence of what your friends are posting and of facebook? Or are you implying that facebook promotes sharing banal information.
Whoa, noticing this only now !
Well, if enough people say "enough is enough"... what next.

My mobile device is tied to my phone, I have some work discounts attached to my service, I have a contract (which will gain fees for early termination). These issues make it highly improbably to truly do any action (when it comes to businesses).

However, there is a way politically to actually get something done, but that requires the masses to actually organize and take action.
One possible update the HN website is to be able to set the start page when you initial load up the website.

I normally do a quick scan of the front page, and then go the "New" page. I find stories there that are quite interested but failed to show up on front page due to the lack of upvotes.

edit: better context.
It is refreshing to see this kind of research promoted, particularly by an 'extremely learned person'. The submission reads to me as a sort of call to arms, as someone who feels that education has been a great privilege and bonus to their life. A privilege which is now unfortunately being sold off to the highest bidder in most countries.

From my own experience, learning second/third languages has had a noticeable broadening effect on thinking processes. Not in the proud sense of being 'broad minded', but noticeably better able to engage in abstract concepts.

Basically the ability to compare seemingly unrelated notions felt tangibly improved after learning how my speech in English was actually constructed, and how my words and phrases were just $variables for actual concepts. And I'm quite convinced that given the right chances in life, anybody can learn any of a thousand subjects that would have a similar effect.

The end benefit to society? Impossible to say for sure, but you can bet good money on the additional creativity being an improvement on the previous generation in terms of progress.

This article, and others like it, are great to read but one aspect I would like to see further developed would be the effect of role models and the origin of aspiration in a person. Is it even possible to give more people the desire to want to learn more? Are some people just naturally more 'competitive'? What role does gender play?

On a final note, Radio 4 this week interviewed a panel on women going into Physics, in particular. It was a ridiculously low amount, and one of the female panellists excused this with the reasoning that 'girls often prefer biological sciences'. These kind of assumptions, and a complete ignorance of any potential underlying social issues, are what get my goat. So many thanks, Colin, for submitting this.
> You can purchase one without your name and address but you can only add money to it using your bank-account. The system tracks all travelers' movements (departure and end points for each leg of every journey), in most cases combined with the traveler's identity. It retains the data for seven years

Not to discredit your whole post but is this really the case. You can buy those 1 hour/24 hour/48 hour passes for cash. With a 1 hour one you aren't exactly required to check out if you don't use it again (on tram at least).
I guess the money is that good.
Shutting down 2 out of 3 products
OpenPGP and similar strong encryption methods are widely considered unbreakable (with the current technology) and available as easy-to-use software packages. Is there any similar software which enables easy encrypted VoIP-style calls?

So if you want to keep a secret from the government, why bother to use non-safe communication methods (public telephone network etc) at all? Aren't people who actually pose a threat to the society smart enough to use such tools?
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Straw man.

At no point does the parent advocate for smalltalk on HN or stamping out contrary opinion en bloc. The point is purely about behaviour, respect and being considerate of others.
"You can purchase one without your name and address but you can only add money to it using your bank-account"

I used to live in Amsterdam and I clearly remember that it was possible to top up with cash, has this changed? (only some machines in some stations got this cash option though, maybe all gone now)
I'm reminded of http://xkcd.com/927/
Indeed... I hope these guys are joking:

«I just watched the video, but I'm confused: What program do I have to use to communicate with my computer like this?»

«This is not real and such systems do not exist.»

«You can't be serious»
> Find how how complete idiots maintain a lock on their power base, what techniques do they use if it is clearly not skill in their job.

While this is extremely interesting, it's not something that can be learned in a reasonable timeframe, and may never be learned if you don't have the right approach or luck into the relevant facts.

For example, one company I know of, the CEO was in charge for 8 years, while the company constantly lost money. They struggled to come up with new products, flailing around. They only stayed afloat through patent lawsuits, without which they would have been long out of business.
During this entire time, the CEO made mid-six figure salary. I use to remark, "If I understood why that company was still in business, I'd be rich".

Why did the CEO stay in charge? The answer is very boring. 2 of the 3 board members had already checked out, writing off the entire investment, and the third was personal friends with the CEO.

The answer is not always interesting, and there's not always as much to learn as you'd hope.
There are a good amount of people out there who just don't have anything nice to say about anything.

There are also a lot of people who are just giving their honest reply.

Key is to tell who is who. Someone who just rants and rants about how bad it is, versus someone who's giving some useful criticism.
Twitter Geolocalization is off, but the API status is OK
Sites to look at nearbys tweets like http://twitter-place-finder.grigio.org and http://localchirps.com are just empty boxes.
Only when the social contract is violated will there be revolt. That contract, roughly 75 years old now, is currently on death notice, being funded solely by a printing press. Simply put, the promises can never be met.

If interest rates on US debt were just a mere 5% (reasonable given the risk), the $800+ billion per year in interest would instantly 'bankrupt' the government (whether that default occurs directly or via inflation). If one understands much about economics, one understands this outcome is inevitable, and likely sooner than later. Cheap debt binged and not repaid, becomes an expensive anchor around the neck eventually.
If you search for "Hacker News" on the iOS App Store, you'll find 20-something apps for reading Hacker News. I like MiniHack[1], but I've only actually tried two of the apps.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/at/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id6...