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Ask HN: Why not Tar?
Most web server configurations include gzip compression to send files to the client. Wouldn't giving servers the ability you tar package cachable static files so that all those files came down in one request improve the user experience further?

Any ideas why this hasn't ever been done?
Ask HN: Why not Tar?
Most web server configurations include gzip compression to send files to the client. Wouldn't giving servers the ability to tar package cachable static files so that all those files came down in one request improve the user experience further?

Any ideas why this hasn't ever been done?
You know, it would be nice to have a President that would veto in the face of a supermajority vote when disagreeing with the law. Especially after publicly disagreeing with it.

The reason being is that if the President disagrees with the law and Congress overrides his veto, then the President can state he has nothing to do with the potential negative outcome of the law. If Obama didn't like these laws then he should have manned up and told Congress to own their decision for themselves.

I also seriously doubt the Patriot Act will ever go away without some form of major effort because too many people find it useful for their needs regardless of whether that need has anything to do with terrorism.
Very nice. I was just reading yesterday that it's very common for spammers and the like to impersonate googlebot.
Yes it is! Based on the 0.6 branch.
The job of President is almost certainly one of those things that you don't fully understand until you have to do it, but Candidate Obama probably should have been a little more circumspect in his rhetoric.

Especially when he'd already had to decide (rightly, IMHO) to support telecom immunity for "warrantless wiretapping" as a Senator.
Man, you think you plan for everything, and then your whole TLD just stops working. What's the best way to plan for something like this?
someone who is a Mormon probably has fewer things to be blackmailed about—lewd pictures, drunken mistakes, egregious offenses to others and the law, hidden relationships (Sexual or otherwise), etc. are not things we seek out

You're presuming that non-heterosexual mormons are able to just "turn that off" easily, without fail. There are numerous examples of either religious leaders or conservative political leaders engaging in same sex activity to imply that this is not possible.
Your server's down.
Even Google doesn't follow it: http://www.google.com/alsfkj
If you think politicians nowadays are here for your best interest and will not go back on the their word, then well..... I got a bridge I want to sell you in Brooklyn.
And too many people that vote for the tall guy with the good hair, the sharp suit and a suite of meaningless platitudes.

Unfortunately we do get the politicians we deserve, though it's true they conspire to make us think our choices are limited.
What I was trying to say is that the problem is not some company, but the government itself.
Good news, I'd also very much love to see a new series based on the "second" incarnation of Star Trek (TNG/Voyager/DS9), which for me is "the real Star Trek".

I could never really suspend my disbelief with the 1st series...
As a European in the US, I can assure you there is very little love for the govt. here too. One big difference is the debate over whether one even needs a government, a question which seems self-evident and not worth considering in (most of) Europe.

I find it surprising that people are surprised by the NSA revelations. I sort of assumed the NSA is in everything electronic. Probably the Chinese too.

"We have always been at war with Eurasia"
I voted for Obama twice and can't say I've been universally impressed with his decisions. I look forward to seeing how the story develops. Everyone involved has denied that this is an accurate description of the program, but then again that is probably what you expect.

That being said, it does seem somewhat reasonable to me that the US is monitoring metadata about who is contacting who overseas. If you are making calls to and receiving calls from numbers originating in Afghanistan that appear on CIA lists of contacts associated with anti-American activity, that information should be used to get a warrant to listen to the content of those communications.

On the other hand, I would feel better about the surveillance state if there were some evidence that it was effective. In reality most of this surveillance is probably a waste of resources and potentially distracting to real law enforcement. Our rights are obviously already interpreted through a "prism" - it would be beneficial if people could make utilitarian assessments of these practices.
What if the data was obfuscated? You still could do analysis on trends without linking anything back to a specific phone number. If you see something suspicious, then you could obtain a warrant and only then have the phone companies reveal which numbers are actually in contact with each other.
From the article:

> For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and "wiretaps without warrants," he said.

As I said, regardless of whether wiretaps are justified, why did he choose to campaign on this issue? Why bother making these claims to the American public?
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> To build from the original comment: What if President Obama had ceased these programs, and a (preventable) terrorist attack occurred, that otherwise could have been stopped.

Glad they stopped the bombing that would otherwise occurred in Boston during Boston marathon! You may have not heard because government does not like to say they did a good job, but thanks to spying on all americans they stopped that plot made by 2 Chechnyas to kill 3 Americans and amputate legs of 20 others by using bombs in pressure cookers. Good job, well done. Power to the government!
You're missing the point. There are court orders behind these "wiretaps".

"Warrantless wiretaps" refers to the program authorized by Bush in 2001 to do these wiretaps without ever notifying the FISA court.

What Obama was campaigning against in 2008 was the executive branch deciding what it could and could not do in regards to surveillance in secret without any input from the legislative or judicial branches.

What is being done now is under the FISA, an act passed by Congress and just re-authorized in 2012, and a law that the courts have upheld (at least, when they've allowed a lawsuit in the first place).

I am not defending the practice, but let's at least be strict about the terms we use. Surprisingly, no one in the government seems to mind a wiretap that has a warrant behind it.
> No, there's really nothing suspicious about the almost instant complete mass denial.

True, because there was no "complete mass denial". There were very focussed, specific denials from different providers of certain procedural and mechanical claims (that they provided customer information as part of a "voluntary program" or without court orders or that they provided government officials direct access to the providers servers to access customer information), but no denials of the central allegation, that each of the providers has been providing the government with a collection of information for their entire customer base and that that information gets pushed into the government collection directly from the providers servers.
It's much easier to redefine a problem away than it is to solve it.
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I'll be trying this out next week. Great thing to have.
Cheers for the reminder. I've definitely seen this before, but had completely forgot to set it up on my new laptop. Good post.
Hopefully it doesn't log the messages... or does it?
11 competitors give you a little more than a search engine results page for the search terms you're all interested in, so don't panic yet - it's not like you had hundreds of competitors.
Of course you should allow yourself he freedom to pivot at any time during your startup phase.
Being scared is a good thing: only the paranoid survive.
Or worse still, what if the definition of what is "safe" changes, following some sort of incident (9/11?)

Once they have amassed all this data about you they can mine it to their heart's content and use it to make predictions - those books you read before the "incident" that seemed innocent now get you flagged as a potential terrorist.
I like how the URL input type not only spellchecks its contents, but also helpfully marks "http" as a misspelling.
It's really important if it is a degree that is practical and vouches for your credibility like CS or Engineering. Not only will you learn at least something getting a degree, it will separate you from the masses for your entire life. Take something along the lines of a limit case: the Physician. At 60 or even 70, he/she can probably find employment most anywhere. I doubt our field offers that kind of guarantee, but still, at middle age an engineering degree is nice to have.

That said, way back when I was a founder, I mostly hired smart people without a degree or without a relevant degree and paid them the same as long as they were equally valuable. At small companies you have a better chance of getting that kind of opportunity, but making a career of it might be difficult.

Hopefully you can fund yourself through eventually completing a relevant degree. Definitely one of the best investments in yourself you can make. If you feel you lack people skills as some technical people do, that's another, much cheaper but equally important area to address on your own.
Well, 51.5% is better than the small minority that would be served if he weren't an elected official - and the threat of losing his next election keeps him at least moderately accountable.

[insert Churchill quote here]
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Carnivore definitely was, and it wasn't really kept secret. If you worked long enough in telecom or Internet service, you probably got to install a Carnivore box in your data center.
Actually Lincoln was a pragmatist and had to deal with prioritizing things accordingly.

On August 22, 1862, just a few weeks before signing the Proclamation and after he had already discussed a draft of it with his cabinet in July, he wrote a letter in response to an editorial by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune which had urged complete abolition. Lincoln differentiates between "my view of official duty"—that is, what he can do in his official capacity as President—and his personal views. Officially he must save the Union above all else; personally he wanted to free all the slaves:

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_and_slavery
Ugh, wonderful timing. Thanks for letting me know

Edit: Fixed, for now
US Spy Chief Slams Leaks on Surveillance Program
I saw a comment last week on HN that mentioned how incompetent and generally stupid FBI agents are, and cited as evidence failure to prevent the Boston marathon bombing.
Yes, you're taking on a bit more risk in the short-term... but everything's a trade-off, you're getting much back for a slightly elevated risk in having a short, concise, very meaningful (in our case) name that influences adoption. There's no other alternative -> .COM is a limited resource, only reasonable assumption is that reliability of other TLDs must improve in the long run.
>By the time they're using these extreme powers to smother dissent, you're fucked. It's game over and your ability to speak out using the first amendment is non-existent.

This is how revolutions are started. There's no "game over." A population always has the option to rise up against their brutal regime. Especially in a place like the United States, where individual freedoms are highly prized and there is a rather large contingent of heavily armed and often angry population.
So...

- A grocer who uses plastic bags within the city of Seattle is breaking the law

- A mass murderer is breaking the law

- A mass murderer is acting like a grocer who uses plastic bags within the city of Seattle

Magnitude matters.
You are a fool and an idiot if you think that you can fight the agencies (and by extension the state) and win. 90% of winning is choosing your battles wisely - do not choose this one. You. Will. End. Up. Hurt.
Maybe they can skip the first segment of the Robocop story for me. I'm okay with losing the parts I don't need through a nice, clean, anesthetized surgical procedure instead of through violent crime.
We had this happen before to our .st domain. http://blorn.com/post/29851770158/beware-cutesy-two-letter-t...
> I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home.

You are not solving the problem you just ignoring it. And I am not sure what's worse...
It's far past the time when Obama's apologists make references and comparisons to Bush. On the one hand we hear things to contrast him from Bush -- now it's that he's no worse or different than Bush.

I'm curious what the phrase "initatives have matured and the technology has improved" means. More comprehensive spying? Quicker retrieval? Increased complicity by firms accumulating personal data?
I'd say rather that you took it as a "shut up and move along". Others didn't. So it may have been a less than perfectly effective expression of my intent, but that's as far as I'll go.
Exactly. This is the cost of being a free society. You can not and should not rely on the government to sacrifice liberty in the name of security. Security is first and foremost a responsibility of the people. The role of a government of a free society(regarding security) is to enable it's populous to defend itself, not necessarily do it for them. This is why the second amendment refers to a "militia" instead of a government ran military. Unfortunately, America has truly lost it's way and I don't know if things can be fixed at this point.

No matter what the reasoning or circumstances surrounding it, does this look like the image of a free society ran by the people: http://static1.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/a_...

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Great insight into what the CIA is doing - and where they think it's going.
UX. It's much faster to have JS return an instant error because you forgot an @ in your email than to have to do a roundtrip to the server and watch the page flicker (reload), especially on a crappy connection.

Not so big a deal on one field, but if you have 5+ errors in a long form, it can add up.

You of course still have to validate server-side to stop ancient browsers or people trying to hack your site from submitting bad data.
Not so. The program everyone's complaining about this week collects only metadata, but on fully domestic calls. The "warrantless wiretapping" program was targeted at actual content, but also at cases where one party was believed to be outside the United States. Of course, the Obama NSA has continued the latter program as well, under the statutory authority of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which Obama himself voted for as a Senator. You can claim they have "warrants" now, since the FISA court has issued a warrant approving the program, though not individual wiretaps.
I agree. Really well laid out, easy to understand for lay person without using too much technical jargon. I enjoyed the long code pastes; rather than a github repo link.
Oh, that makes it all OK then.
They may be bought, but they cannot be fought -- taking risks is one thing, but you need to weigh the risks and the rewards: this fight is all downside.
Wow. About a year ago the the entire .st registry went down for about 8 hours:

http://blorn.com/post/29851770158/beware-cutesy-two-letter-t...

I guess the title of the blog post pretty much says it all.
>This is well and good, but the process is not efficient enough to deal with the sheer volume of leaks in a timely manner.

You seem to imply that anything that can be leaked should be leaked. There is no morality in haphazardly leaking any and all classified information. This is precisely why established news organizations are effective. They have the will to actually vet classified information for things that would count as whistleblowing. Wikileaks has no such motivation.
All working for me too, same ISP.
Actually go through and look at where the money comes from for campaigns and you will note that very often the names in common of the Republican and Democratic donors near the top of the list are quite striking. Calling Obama the Goldman-Sachs candidate and McCain the Morgan-Stanley candidate would be incorrect because these two donated to both candidates...

When you bet on both sides (and get to pick the frontrunners), you can't lose.
You might end up getting more traffic to your 404 pages than your site. I just spent 5 minutes on the 404 page, haven't seen the contents of the actual site yet.
Compared to Linux distros 10 years ago Ubuntu makes setup/use dead simple. I remember when I first tried Linux (Slackware) many moons ago it was like an epic achievement to get it up and running. Then Ubuntu came out and it almost felt like I was cheated of the whole Linux experience. Everything seemed to just magically work which is why I think its the most widely used Linux variant today.
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Is the headline trying to mislead?

A) Phone records are not wiretaps.
B) They weren't warrantless.

However, secret warrants can be misused, and gathering data on domestic calls needs further scrutiny than this collection of every call.
I honestly fail to see how monitoring telecommunication metadata is an infringement of rights. The government has not stopped you from taking any action. I agree that it COULD be used for evil, but that's not a very convincing argument. Many technologies we enjoy and rely on enable evil acts.
Apparently more than half of the voting population of the US. And most of the media. A ton of bloggers. Maybe Europe.
Well, at this point voting for the lesser evil is voting for the loser on a race to the bottom. I cast protest votes.
No, having identifiable form elements is freaking important, computers are hard enough for a novice to learn without the basic idioms change shape and meaning because designers want to get creative.

The real world needs consistent form inputs.

Also. Damn you firefox, Implement the bloody date input.
Have an alternate domain using completely different infrastructure.

Having a .com or .net as a backup domain, even if it isn't as sexy looking, doesn't hurt.
I would also consider paying for this. However, as pointed out in the comments below, a social network like Facebook only works because a majority of the majority of people's friends are there.

But, I think the more interesting point is that even if the system were hosted outside of US jurisdiction, or anyone's for that matter, they'll just find a way to make it difficult for you to access, as they do with thepiratebay - by blocking access through the ISPs. The inconvenience/complication of working around these ISP level filters, means that a lot of people won't know how or can't be bothered to work around them. The same would apply to a social network.
because the browser has to be abble to unpack it, and it's not the case ( with a tar)
When election campaign advisers are making a "list of promises to make" they never considered with possibility of fulfillment, but focusing on a percentage of electorate which could be "taped" by such and such promise.))
The only thing that is being disputed is the meaning of the term "direct access". To a technical person, and to a technology company like Google, that would mean shell access and ability to run arbitrary commands on Google's server. That is the only thing that these companies have denied in their statements. It was a somewhat misleading description in the original slides and original reporting, but it does not really change the scope of what we are talking about.
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Watched a few minutes and decided it's worth bookmarking.

Maybe it can wash out the awful taste in my after watching "Into Darkness".

I have to wonder about the IP issues. I didn't see anything on their site regarding what will stop CBS from going after them.
This is why you should actively abstain instead of staying home if you truly don't like any of the candidates.
Meh, it's novel for about 10 seconds... But seriously, did you complete the level? I dabbled with it for about 10 seconds and then realized how long it would take and lost interest.
Well as a person hosting a service under a .io domain I must say that it's next to impossible to find a decent domain under .com these days. They are all taken by domain sharks hoarding away and running link-farms. The .io landscape is a refreshing one, it's well recognized by it's typical audience (tech people), expensive enough so that it's not attractive for the domain-sharks, and there's plenty available.

Why exactly do you hate them?
I have to hand it to the whistleblower in this case, he leaked what he thought was objectionable, leaked nothing else, leaked it to a very few other reputable parties instead of INTERNET at-large, and what he did leak had an obvious public interest and little threat to national security otherwise. This is both because any foreign operatives worth their salt should already be assuming that their naive electronic comms are available to Ft Meade, and because the program is so similar to prior programs which have been known to posterity.

Thanks, "career intelligence community worker" for showing how it's done.
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> Do you think they're worried about losing votes over this?

I think they'd like the controversy to die, not stoke it.
This is one of the most important points in the wake of this scandal. Be pragmatic, and look at the incentive system. The truth is, not only will most citizens never find out mass spying programs like this, but a great number won't even care, because they have "nothing to hide". However, there is a massive negative reaction to acts of terrorism.

If we want this to change, we will first have to, as a people, seriously disincentives these actions from politicians—which is hard to do, considering neither major party has been the "better" one on this issue—but perhaps more importantly, we must understand that there is only so much government can do to keep you safe, if you want to keep your liberty. The sense of entitlement to both has to go.

I think this was a good write up on the issue:
http://www.libertylawsite.org/2013/06/06/the-security-state-...;