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We need to do both, and since I'm not a lawyer, donating to the Electronic Frontier Foundation means I can be fighting on two fronts. Legal and technical.
Think it through! Every politician, not just the conservative ones, was happy when somebody finally noticed this story. IRS agents have done whatever they wanted to private citizens, with no consequences, for decades. Then they questioned (they didn't fine, prosecute, garnish, imprison, or confiscate) political groups that claimed to be educational groups, and as a result the agents got censured, fired, and prosecuted. The media and most people are too lazy to think through the inevitable consequences, but don't dream that the politicians are. Will political groups ever be investigated by the IRS again?
lol @ the downvotes. Sure, please downvote factual history. Hilarious.
I doubt that. There are plenty of places in Asia or Latin America that you would probably have a lower tax bill in.
They promote personal security and are loud and reputable activists. Good enough for me.
Well, given how the administration has treated publishers[1], who can blame them?

[1] http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-13/world/39226618...
IIRC, they're legally required to deny it.

Plus, careful wording allows all sorts of out. Google says they don't provide a "back door", but this sort of thing could be defined as coming in the front door.
Don't apply legal standards of textual analysis to a news wire article; it only results in distraction. It's certainly reasonable to develop basic familiarity with a software suite during a plane flight.
Keeping the data available once someone leaks it has never been the problem (at least, not since the early 1990s). The only value of something like Wikileaks is in sourcing leaks, either by socializing the "whistleblower" values to make leaking more likely, or providing anonymous communications channels and scrubbers to make leaking safer.

In reality, Wikileaks actually set back government accountability -- PFC Manning going to get life, the whole drama related to Julian Assange, rape, and hiding in an embassy, the internal political strife within the organization, etc.
It's not worth anything because they have an obligation to both their shareholders and the government to deny, deny, deny.
>This seems a rather inappropriate aphorism, since most people here would very much like to deny the NSA access to information about their phone usage. This is an argument against censorship rather than one in support of privacy.

I have no idea how you interpreted it that way. The quote is in reference to the government. It's from a video game, which came out in 1999.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY57ErBkFFE
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You have to file taxes for 5-10 years even if you renounce your citizenship.
The only point I get from this post is that too much self-congratulatory navel-gazing harms one's ability to engage in any sort of discussion. This goes for both the logic-in-all-things capital-S Skepticism the post argues against and the post itself.

What we've got here is...failure to communicate.
It seems odd to claim both that:

- This government program is widely hated

- We have a functioning democracy
Ask HN: How do I resign as an unpaid Co-founder?
I joined someone in a startup 4 months ago and quickly realized I made a big mistake. And not having worked closely with her before (we were not close friends, but did know each other from around) I found many, many things that turned me off: her poor work ethic (consistently 1-2 hours late to our agreed upon start each morning, giving all matters of excuses, also lack of focus throughout the day), her dishonesty with potential customers and investors (saying someone is invested or advising when they're not), her general lack of business and sales sense, her lack of direction and focus on a strategy or target market. I could go on and on.

I want to leave this situation asap. But as an unpaid co-founder only 4 months in, is it still customary to give 2 weeks notice? Should I work unpaid for another 2 weeks? If not, should it be hourly or pro-rated based on the future salary we are supposed to take after investment? Due to the kind of person I think she is I believe theres risk in not getting paid for those 2 weeks even if we agree to it (we do have a tiny seed investment that could cover it with leftover).

What have other unlucky folks done in this situation?
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Fortunately, there is little relationship between the flight characteristics of paper airplanes vs. actual airplanes. Stability is achieved in design aspects of the plane. For instance, dihedral wings (upward angled) are a big factor in stability since they cause the airplane to want to level out when it rolls. This is positive stability, vs. negative stability, which is when the plane wants to roll more once it begins rolling.

Lighter planes are more easily pushed by the wind, which only really ups your difficulty level during crosswind landings. Pilots will usually have a maximum crosswind they'll allow themselves to land in before resorting to another runway - that speed would be lower on a lighter aircraft.

That is no reason to say that the SD-1 is not suited for beginners however. It has positive stability control and plenty of modern safety features, so it makes a great first plane.
I guess I'm not so surprised that it's happening and I'm more surprised with the transition from "yeah it definitely looks like they're doing it" to "we have hard evidence that they're doing it."
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It's true that there's always someone richer, younger, and better looking (and if not, wait a few years). But if that's what you pay attention to then you'll always be unhappy. Get a more diverse set of friends and you might realize what you have is already is pretty good.
If more people knew their history, they would understand that this is a modern age Star Chamber, tied into a network that would make the Stasi envious.
This really is the way to stop this. Support representatives like Mark Udall and Ron Wyden and vote everyone who's supporting PATRIOT and warrantless wiretapping out of office.

Civil liberties should be as big of an issue (if not bigger) during elections as the economy.
> I wonder whether he has ever written a blogpost that doesn't mention receiving his PhD at 20.

He's mentioned it twice on his blog that I can find: today and on June 1, 2011. Unless I missed a bunch, you are being rather ridiculous.
Here's the thing - all this and they've announced ZERO arrests.

Arrests for what? This information gathering is entirely legal. As I've pointed out elsewhere on HN, your telephone records (not the content of your calls) have been an open book to the government since 1979, by order of the Supreme Court. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland

I appreciate (and partly agree) that you feel this sort of large-scale data harvesting should be illegal, but it isn't.
Are you sure it is the amex card that supports shopsafe? I thought Amex discontinued their similar product _years_ ago.
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When it's out of beta, maybe.
I hate to be this guy but there are people lighting off bombs out there and as soon as a big one goes off people will demand they do a lot more than this. Would you rather have your Facebook scanned or see a car bomb go off in Times Square during rush hour? That's not hyperbole, that's the decision we have to make.
The other downside is that it is Bank of America.
Every kind of engineering is design and can't be put on an assembly line. Engineers design assembly lines. They don't work on them.
The New York Times did not write "The administration has now lost all credibility." You made a very misleading statement.

What they actually wrote was "The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue." (emphasis added) Quite a bit of difference there.

Edit: apparently NYT did some hasty editing, I apologize--You didn't make any misleading statements[1].

[1] http://www.newsdiffs.org/diff/245566/245668/www.nytimes.com/...
Wikileaks is not interested in confidence nor is it trying to compete with "the media".

It's interested in obstructing the ability of governments and organisations in power to "conspire" against it's populations through technology.

It should be judged on that, not on the aesthetics of it's delivery.
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100% agree here. I loath that she is has no challengers. I had heard that she was going to retire and not run in 2012. I was so looking forward to that primary and when I saw her name on it my heart fell.

Unfortunately, the best we can hope for is that she retires in 2018.
If he gets banned, the conversation is indeed over so his point stands, eh?

A funny thing about this "tone troll" business is that PZ bans people for asking for more civility in discussions, and he banned Thunderf00t for being incivil. Go figure.
Yeah, the biggest thing I’ve been trying to do is minimize the prototyping, and try to fail fast.

It is difficult to tell the difference between failing, and not trying hard enough.I feel it is a gut decision that should get better with time.
NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’
The "If you're innocent, you have nothing to hide" game is so old and tired by this point, we should be long past it. Privacy is a guaranteed right, not something that only criminals have a need of. Saying "if you can't unlock it, you must be up to something nefarious" demonizes normal law-abiding people who simply wish to preserve their right to privacy, and erodes the foundation of their rights.

I encrypt my stuff because if my laptop or phone or tablet is stolen or lost or rifled through, only bad things can come from it being accessible to the third party. It's possible that nothing bad would happen, but the options are "Nothing happens, minor bad things happen, major bad things happen." There is absolutely no upside whatsoever. I have company passwords, trade secrets, computer code, SSH keys, and other incredibly valuable things on my laptop. I have my own emails and email sessions, which provide unmitigated access to just about all of my online accounts. Failing to protect that means a huge downside risk with no upside whatsoever. Why wouldn't I?

When I travel, I don't carry the keys with me specifically for the same reason that I encrypt in the first place - in the best case, nothing changes, but in the worst case, being compelled to give up my keys could mean tremendous damage to my employer, my financial security, and my identity. I don't trust other people - especially people who have something to gain by my loss - to play nice or fair or right. It's simply a game of risk mitigation; it's not that I have anything particularly nefarious to hide, simply that I don't want to be able to be put into a position where I'm even able to allow my data to be owned by someone else.

It's the same reason why you use backups and exception handling - you hope for the best, but plan for the worst.
If you're taking advantage of the removable wings and not renting hanger space, operational costs are $12 an hour (fuel, oil, and engine maintenance included). At the 118 mph cruise speed, that's $0.10 a mile.
As a co-founder, the project just as much yours as it is hers. Is there a chance that you can reconcile your differences if you believe in the product? I thought the benefit of having co-founders is that you can pull each other into line when the other steps out.
The hardline evangelists yes the rest not so much and if you don't realize that I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
Public policy circles can (and will) think whatever they find soothing. The rest of us continue to roll our eyes inwardly, just as one does when listening to Tolkein fans debate whether the Eagles should've merely flown the Fellowship to Mt. Doom. (I say this not as a beltway outsider but as a man who grew up 7 miles from Langley, went to the Pentagon for TYKTW Day, and who lives and works in the area to this day.)

I get what you're saying. Politics is a choice between the unpalatable and the disastrous. Duh. Of course the Eagles should just fly them there.

What Tolkein geeks and policy wonks alike force themselves to ignore in order to have these mine vs. yours logicality debates to begin with is that the premise of their debate is a fantasy world. "If we want blank, we should vote blank" tacitly assumes that voting blank and persuading others to vote blank can sway the outcome of an election. Any thinking individual can see immediately that this is untrue.
Well.. uhh... Now we know what this project was specifically used for.

But seriously, usage concerns for the project notwithstanding, it looks like a cool K/V storage system. I wonder how it performs compared to similar systems and how it handles failure.
In fact most PATRIOT Act "sneak & peak" searches have been for drug investigations.
Posse Comitatus Act

Dubious.
He habitually fires inconvenient people. If they leave gracefully, like Susan Rice did, he brings them back as something else.
So what do you do? Sit there in your room and just type you can't do anything about this. EFF at least represents your voice - they might not be as effective as we would like but they are trying none the less. It is still better than being cynical and not doing anything about it.
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I doubt that Steve Jobs or Ballmer would "go to prison instantly" if they had disclosed the existence of these programs. Yes, they might have been prosecuted under statute, but they wouldn't vanish. In fact, the high visibility of Brin, Jobs, Ballmer etc would probably have been a deterrent against prosecution. Can you imagine the outrage if Jobs came out with a statement saying that the NSA was requiring that Apple grant access to all user data, and he was then incarcerated?
I don't contest any of that (in fact I agree completely), but that's all a different topic. This is about whether software developers are overpaid, not about happiness or social circles.

All I'm saying is a developer getting $150k/year in one of the most expensive cities in the world working for a company with tens, hundreds, or thousands of millions of dollars in funding or revenue should not feel guilty or overpaid.
Yeah, it is really too bad that there are such few jobs in the GTA that allow for more flexible working conditions. Guess things haven`t changed much since I left. I hope employers` attitudes will change once more and more startups mature, or do they not even allow a flexible schedule?

Thanks for the info, appreciate it!
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how does this compare with 0mq?
I'm not sure to what extent you've talked with her about these issues, but I think talking with her about these issues first is vital. Give her some feedback and tell her what your problems with her are and see if that helps.

That being said, if you ultimately decide to quit, I don't think you owe anybody 2 weeks of free labor in an unpaid gig.
Precrime. Minority Report becomes more real every day.
The odds are very high that users on HN have helped implement these systems. The more we know about how it works and what can be done to stay secure would be of upmost interest...
Monetizable to whom?

Too much corporate control over our lives as individuals is a problem a small family business can monetize a small piece of a solution for, but is not a problem a VC can, because the problem goes contrary to any VC exit strategy.

Now the second point though is that corporations may end up doing some of that anyway. The movement towards open source/free software and open data is helping establish that in at least some cases this problem is monetizable even on a corporate level if one realizes that the corporation is subject to the same restrictions as an individual. If we look at software or data as potential means of production, then this is a welcome way in which the industry is moving towards spreading around control over means of production.

But what I am advocating is not solving the important problems but building business with the important problems in mind, seeing what one can do to help with them in one way or another, either through operations or through product development. They don't need to be the primary focus (and maybe shouldn't be the primary focus) but the idea that we are living in a new world where virtue is not a prerequisite to value suggests two words to me "speculative bubble."
I've been monitored too, but did you really believe that all of the activities we do online weren't monitored...or do you just believe (like I did before I got convicted), that the gov won't bother with us.

This is just more reason why bills like CISPA need to be revised or blocked. The gov already knows what we do, but it just comes down to what they can prove in court.
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When the fellow who introduced the Patriot act goes against something in the name of American privacy you know you've crossed the line that is political suicide.

And they don't have a 9/11 as an excuse this time.
I used to write letters and call up my congressmen. I feel it doesn't have impact that it used to. It seems money talks in todays politics. Donating to EFF will probably be more effective.
That's quite an assumption.
If you know what the asker is asking, and you choose to interpret it differently to allow a more convenient answer, you're still a lying scumbag.
How does any of that make you calling people "entitled" for not wanting to work unpaid internships remotely rational?

Also, I'm sure if you were anything but a net positive they would have kicked you out immediately.
I hate it when people say "but our government is democratic" as an excuse to justify opposing limitations on its power. This is the same argument made by Prop 8 supporters in California, the same argument used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in justifying some of the worst civil rights abuses in early twentieth century. Fortunately, the "activist" courts of latter years have (for the most part) rejected this horrible logic (that majority has a right to put any of its ideas into law, irrespective of the rights of others).

Yes, our government is democratic: it is not, however, an absolute majoritarian government where any action that majority favours can and will be put into decree and acted upon. Democracy means "rule of the people", not "absolute rule by a simple majority/plurality".

Yes, we have elections, but we also have bi-cameral legislature, separation of powers, and a constitutions. We hold elections and let majority (at times a simple majority, in other cases -- like amending the constitution -- a supermajority) of our elected representatives decide which laws will pass. We don't do so because of an a priori commitment to majority, we do so because we haven't found other forms of government that respect civil liberties and other human rights to the same extent that a representative democracy would.

In other words, elected government is the means to an end (a society where the strongest individuals or the biggest gangs cannot violate others' rights to life, liberty, and property without repercussions), not an end in it of itself.

I realize this isn't an invalidation of your points: while I disagree with you (yes, intelligence agencies should be allowed to exist; no, they can not be allowed to snoop -- even accidentally -- on US citizens or permanent residents without due process), your point is salient and doesn't require making such a dangerous argument ("as long as our government is a functional democracy, we shouldn't worry about governments' intrusion on our rights to x" where x in this case is "privacy").
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The 'Patriot' Act was written 8 days after 9/11. It is time for it to go and be rewritten in saner times.

The founders and framers of the Constitution and Bill of Rights knew the tyranny that can happen, but they have never seen what abuse of technology can be in terms of privacy.

The people that say 'they have nothing to hide' don't realize that personal, business, ideas, private, market information can really be used in many other ways beyond helping fight terrorism.

Strong anonymization and approvals to access the individuals responsible for the info need to be rethought and it should be a public discussion if all our data will be accessible.
Apprenticeships and unpaid internships are two completely different things. Apprenticeships are completely common in modern society and are, in fact, paid. So no, that is a rock bottom terrible example...
The pun is two-fold and juxtaposes Modern English and Classical Greek, which is part of what makes it relevant to my point ;-)
But Marco didn't say it would not succeed. So if it does, he is not wrong. He said it takes balls to launch Vesper as-is, today. He can be right and Vesper can still succeed. Those two are not mutually exclusive.
Aren't you suddenly getting terrified about what the dossier created by data mining every phone call, every email, every article on every website you read, every comment you've ever left, every book you ever bought, every library book that you ever took out, the magazines that you subscribe to, every cent you've ever spent by card and where it was spent, every place you've ever lived, every place where you worked, every place you ever made a phone call from, every classmate you've ever had, how much electricity you use, and the same things about all of your probable friends - w/different data sources starting 7-15 years ago?

Are you even more terrified of the executive summary? Is it just me?
We do not provide direct access to our servers. We just have a system that sends copies of our data to their servers. We really do care about your privacy!
If you agree on payment for the last two have it paid up front, you already shown your commitment. If that's not possible then just leave. The hardest part of a startup is to find people you can really work with.
If they're proper backups then they're offline and you don't have to worry about them getting hacked.
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IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Why aren't the rest of the companies on that list issuing false denials if that's the case?
The "I have nothing to hide" meme needs to die with a stake through the heart, garlic wrapped around it's neck, and with a gallon of holy water poured over it.
Google, Facebook And Apple Deny Participation In NSA PRISM Surveillance Program
"Every politician, not just the conservative ones"

Are there any other politicians in power at the federal level these days?
But the incentives the intelligence apparatus have to not use any data collected here against anyone for reasons less than "real" terrorism are strong enough

How do you know this?
They have to. The first rule of NSL is you don't talk about NSL. Until someone decides to be a Bradley and show and tell.
His entire career is a PR stunt. That doesn't mean it isn't meaningful.
Interesting to note that Apple held out until after Steve Jobs' death.
oh please. like this has a thing to do with POTUS. I worked at an ISP in 1998 when we were contacted by the FBI and required to install carnivore. This has been going on a very long time.
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Someone could write a horde of snapchat bots that'll spam you when you follow them (and a local client to chatter back), thus pushing your real "bestfriends" off the top list.
I don't think this is helpful or productive -- it's not the companies at fault, but rather the government that is making this compulsory.
These are obviously not actual denials given how carefully they're worded.
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Infographic: Alternative perspective on Turkish protests.
Seem interesting considering it appears to show the complete other side of the issue. I pulled this off reddit but there aren't any sources so it could be a disinformation campaign.