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"What surprises me is that almost nobody complains about the lack of generics."

Strange. Lack of generics is probably the single most common thing I read/hear people complain about.

(Btw, I like and use Go)
That is why you should put your servers in iceland or similar places. With asymetric encription there is no need; Only the user knows and not the service provider.
That is the dominant narrative, yes.
The saddest thing here is that I read the top three headlines on HN in the morning (all of which were about this story), shrugged, yawned, mumbled to myself "well that's some news" and moved on.
> not counting your web browsing habits, and provided you don't have any spyware on your computer

You don't need spyware to do that: http://www.experian.com/hitwise/hitwise-methodology.html
I'd be really surprised if journalists who published leaks weren't well aware of digital fingerprinting, since protecting sources is integral to their profession.
If you get there and want someone to bounce ideas off of or help out, feel free to let me know. (chris at efficito dot com).

The one huge problem I see here is that designing a managed version which could guarantee security against a wiretap order would be quite difficult. In essence you would have to push all key management issues to your users, and that leaves you a lot less to actually manage.
I'm working on a modal, console-based, email-client. It's developed in C++ and has fully integrated scripting provided via lua.

http://lumail.org/

https://github.com/skx/lumail/

It is pretty different from the existing mail clients for the console (pine, alpine, mutt, sup, notmuch), partly for being modal, and partly because it only handles Maildirs. No IMAP or POP3 support at all.

In terms of functionality it is usable for sending, processing, and receiving emails. But there is still missing support for attachments.
You would presume that now, yes. Nobody who was presuming that when he said it, however, made much of an effort to speak up.

Sort of like how "everybody knows" it was Congress's fault campaign promises X, Y, and Z didn't pass, yet at the time, nobody stopped to ask how much these promises can mean if the position he's campaigning for isn't capable of fulfilling them in the first place. "I presume by 'guarantee' he meant he'd try his best, since obviously the POTUS can't even introduce laws anyway. And as a former Constitutional law prof., I'm sure Obama knows that." Oh, super. Thanks.
Which is a (cool but) fake website.
I've never seen a redesign keeping HTML code. Even when the code is very good and the separation well done.
I hate to use this tone but, so be it. Maybe now you morons who continue to vote in the pieces of shit into our government who are bent on taking more and more power for themselves will wake up and figure it out? How much more proof do you need? Does this make you angry yet or is Obama still your diety? Oh, and Republicans don't get a pass either.

The point is that all of you morons voting like robots along party lines are destroying my country, from the inside, one fucking vote at a time. And it is sad. And it is painful. And it is almost unbearable to watch. You are destroying what this country is supposed to be about and turning it into something our children will have to suffer with.

Terrorists won. You morons saw to it. Our way of life is, in many ways, unrecognizable from what it was before 9/11.

When are you going to understand that a conservative Libertarian (as opposed to extreme and nearly anarchist) approach is the only path to recovery? Ultra limited government. They are OUR servants, we are not their property. They need to get the fuck out of our lives, homes, businesses, bedrooms, schools and more.

Time to take it back. Peacefully. Vote with intelligence. Email. Write letters. Make calls. Let them know who they work for. Reboot the system.
I don't have a reference on hand to cite, but I recall more than one bit of reportage of studies of traffic analysis of this sort; the upshot was that researchers found in practice that it revealed a surprising amount about the network and nodes being studied -- more than they'd anticipated.

Encrypted content provides you no protection against this sort of analysis.
Technically it is well established that CDR's are not protected by the 4th Amendment. Cell site location data is another question and that is currently an area of evolving law with at least two circuits saying there may be 4th Amendment protections there.
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Holy semantic satiation, HN.
Would you trust the same government that instigated massive wars in Vietnam and Iraq? The one that spies on the planet without permission. Kills thousands of civilians with drones. Actively prosecutes a zillion dollar fake war on drugs and terror as an excuse to run huge military and police bureaucracies and enrich the insiders involved in it. The one that has a military budget the size of the rest of the world combined. The one that has actively put more people in prison - political prisoners - than any other country in history (outside of maybe Stalin and Mao). The one that has shown absolutely no respect for its own governing documents, with Obama lately using the IRS to attack his political opponents, spying on the Associated Press, running from a big scandal on Benghazi and Fast & Furious, to actively expanding unconstitutional domestic spying programs. The government whose President can only be elected with a billion dollar campaign. The one whose Senators are all bought and paid for by a lobbying industry so large it's bigger than all the lobbying in the rest of the world combined. And on it goes.

You'd trust that monster?

We were warned by the founders about this, many times over. The warnings have become gradually unheeded. Washington in his farewell address warned against the kind of foreign entanglements that the US Govt. now specializes in instigating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Farewell_...
And if you lost faith in Congress, like 94% of Americans. You might also join a realistic effort to reform it:
http://www.rootstrikers.org

(ran by Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law prof who also founded the Creative Commons movement)
It doesn't take any work at all.

Just look at your feed. As soon as you see someone you don't care about just one click hide them or unfriend them (if socially possible).

If you see a post from a page you don't care about, then one click unfollow them.

It's really simple. Their newsfeed algorithms are actually really awesome at figuring out the rest once you give it a tiny bit of feedback like I mentioned above.
They are supposed to be spying on non-Americans only. Keep in mind the US has a long-standing distrust of a porous boundary between military and law enforcement embodied in things like our 3rd Amendment, The Posse Comitatus Act, and more. These have been eroding fast unfortunately since Reagan era (and maybe even arguably since Carter signed FISA), but they are major aspects of American governance.
Q for those of you with a legal mind: how could one "extend"/reinterpret the US Forth Amendment to make it apply to things like internet logs or credit card receipts? Why should doing something via a 3rd party business make the information concerning what you do less "intimate"?

...and pondering more on it: why should businesses not benefit from the same rights to privacy as individuals do?
There is a proverb in Russia (actually, it's a quote): "There're someone for whom even a mare is a fine bride". So, it's not surprising that for someone Facebook is fine too.
I have a simple online application which allows me to enter my recurring expenses and salary payments.

That allows me to compare my bank balance on any given day to the "expected" total.

http://static.steve.org.uk/expenses/

I've no patience for writing down every transaction, and over here in the UK there is no mint-like service I'm aware of. (Though I'd probably be unwilling to share my bank login details with a third party anyway.)
I noticed that too. That quote starts with him saying "A lot of developers that seriously tried Go are very happy with it." I imagine that Robert hears about generics an awful lot, so he seems to be saying that the people who complain about generics are not people who have seriously tried Go. Very likely, he's right. There's some selection bias, though, because the people who can't live without generics generally perform a flaming exorcism on the language before long.
Thats funny for two seconds untill you realise its a nightmare.
I'm so tired of hearing about the "death of the PC." Yes, paradigms are changing. Technology is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives. Smartphones are changing the way we interact with internet. Tablets are changing the way we consume content. But what about the creators? I'm a firm believer that for the foreseeable future computers will be the king of content creation.
The law already exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

We just need the laws to be followed.
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America was founded with an inherent distrust in government.
So roll over and take it like a champ?

If everyone thought this way, there would have been no revolution. At some point, enough is enough and I say that that point is way past.
I'd be surprised if this isn't a violation of Adwords's TOS. HN is also probably not the best place to ask about this. We're all about making things, not making money with shady techniques.
On the other hand, if you boycott Verizon to the point when (for an example's sake) they are broke, the next business the NSA comes knocking at the door will definitely be more reluctant.

If you can get into the businessman's head that the NSA is bad for business, they'll have a bad time pulling this kind of thing off.
Locking is a no go has we get 2 things: high frequency updates feeds (up to a couple dozen entries per second), which we need to constantly update. Locking them for even a fraction of time could turn into a nightmare and a huge backlog if for any reason a single entry takes a little more time to be written.
There are a lot of people who don't understand what this place is for. Hacker News is a cocktail party. It's a bunch of smart people getting together and shooting the breeze about whatever we see on the front page. If you understand that, you'll fit in fine.

Lots of new users here don't understand that.

If you spend any time on the internet, you're quickly trained that discussion forums are places for combat. The goal is to look as smart as possible while tearing everybody else down. To have an unrefuted comment is to win, and nobody is going to let you do that so they'll tear your comment apart line by line. Naturally, that person is a moron and needs to be told so, preferably by turning his own trick against him and tearing his comment apart. Stop me if this sounds familiar.

That explains why the hardened slashdot veteran gets such a strange reception here. Have you ever been at a party where there was a guy who just didn't belong there? The belligerent know-it-all butting into conversations? The drunk guy in a room full of sober people? The uninvited casual racist? We've all seen what happens. People drift away from him wherever he goes, sometimes stranding some poor soul talking to him, but generally trying as best as possible to continue the party as normal and hoping he doesn't disrupt it further. Nobody wants to confront him and ask him to leave directly, but they all sure hope he'd get the hint on his own.

That's where we are here today. Except it's a big room and there are quite a few uninvited intruders behaving badly. You'll notice that that guy at the party often doesn't realize that he's out of place. Look through this very thread and you'll spot a few of him, justifying their belligerent behavior and complaining that the rest of us don't get it because this is The Internet and that's how we're supposed to behave.

But we don't behave that way. That's why it's so good here.
Aw Jorge :), don't be shy. High five.
Perhaps as a label, which I guess is what's being referred to here, but the ethic goes back a much longer way.
The USD implosion will bring down the US Government, and it will end the unsustainable spending spree that pays for our expanding police state (and the NSA's Utah datacenter).

There isn't much time left on the clock. I'd say the Fed has less than 12 to 24 months before the next disaster hits, given the way the real estate and stock market bubbles have already been re-inflated. They won't be able to control rates much longer without losing control on the inflation wave flowing into housing and commodities (eg with oil now being 'normal' at $90). The next crash, which is inevitable, will be back breaking. It'll require the Feds to choose between over-funding the military and police state, or paying for social security and similar services.
As a big fan of Ruby who's always wanted to learn Python, this looks really neat! Any tips for getting started with Python with Ruby experience?
Me too. The official one feels clunky and cartoonish.

But Innovation has been a good addiction replacement:

http://innovation.isotropic.org
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Dutch person here with a little insight what's to come for you guys. Some information about our tiny little country (in Wester Europe, very pro-US) with just 17 million people.

Our government listens in on more calls every year than in the whole of the US combined. All our telecommunications providers are forced to have the capability to intercept all traffic (phone and internet). Encrypted data must be stored for an unlimited time to facilitate possible decryption in the future. Our 'Team Digital Expertise' developed software that profiles social networks on which a suspect operates to use it in order to gather crime-related information.

Our police buys TomTom software-data to see when and where they can get the maximum amount of money if they photograph speeding drivers. (Safety is not their first concern, money is). Local and national police now use drones. The army is training how to spy on it's own civilians.

Our 'Camera Surveillance Act' allows images to be retained for up to four weeks and also facilitates the use of cameras for law enforcement purposes, whereas before the main purpose of camera surveillance was keeping public order. They're working on a pay-per-mile car tax system but activating it stopped when it turned out they were collecting more (personal) data than was technically needed to run the system and using the data for purposes other than those for which was collected. Every important road is viewed by camera's with license-plate scanning software. You can travel by public transport but a special card with chip and login/logout is required. 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.

Our Dutch passport contains both fingerprints, facial recognition and RIFD. Every large city center is equipped with camera's with powerful microphones. Our Minister of the Interior announced plans to also store the biometric data in a central database. Dutch hotels are breaking data protection laws by photocopying guests' passports and identification cards because they are required by our government to do so.

The 'Electronic child file' records a child's development and environmental indicators from birth. Teachers are forced to build a profile of every child in their class along with a description of his/her family's situation. It received local media coverage when it turned out doctors are even recording when a child starts getting pubic hair. The government is also actively building a electronic patient file, containing all medical details of every person. Because of the workload they have asked insurance companies to help building this. (That got a lot of people's attention).

Privacy? There is no such thing.

Source: https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/netherlands
The second part will stay, while we hope to change the 1st part (pricing per item) really soon into another scheme!
Sadly, you forgot the most important factor in all of this: money. Vote with your wallet. Far more important and influential than voting once in 4 years.
They were warned last year, too, with the FISA renewal, and they passed it 93-7 or something. They don't care. In fact it may be exactly what they want. Sen. Feinstein, also on Obama's behalf (her words), pushed it heavily at the time, and tried to shoot down any criticism or chance of real debate.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/28/fisa-fei...

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/274689-f...
Probably the shadiest post I've seen on HN in a while.
That's the thing with the "average American" (or in my case, the "average Dutchman"). For every intelligent, free-thinking mind on HN there's a bunch of morons dragging the average down!
Read the Alito and Sotomayor concurrences (well, to be specific Sotomayor concurred in full, while Alito concurred only in judgement) in Antoine Jones v. United States (GPS surveilance of a car requires a warrant) and Douglass's dissent in California Business Association v. Shultz (a case that decided there was no 4th Amendment protection for bank records). The encouraging thing is that you can't read both of these and not think that maybe the court is slowly coming around to our side (pesky issues like standing notwithstanding, heh).

I actually don't think the third party doctrine has that much to do with call detail records. The issue is not only that they are held by a third party but that, at least when this was originally litigated, they weren't really that expressive, and there is already a major question as to whether historic cell site location data (also covered by the order btw) is protected, with already circuit splits forming on the issue.
Is it just me or is HN receiving a lot of submissions on gesture and EEG based technology recently? Not complaining, just curious if anyone's started noticing a trend?
Yeah, like this other paragraph about a future announcement, one of the top 5 cities by population: they are all asian. Is it Tokyo? Only one of these that publishes GPS data for its transit system. Or is it "global" = US?
> When history has thrown away the chaff they'll be visible

Tolstoy was famous in his day. As was Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Picasso, etc. Sure there were a few, like Van Gogh, who died before becoming recognized, but they were fractional exceptions.

Show me one great artist living today -- anyone who can compete with a Tolstoy or even a Hemingway. Below Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Franzen are mentioned, but I don't think anyone in their right mind would put them remotely at that level. You're waiting for history and there's no sign that you'll do anything but keep waiting.
uh, no. Applying DST or not does not change the time zone I am in.
I am using adsense with youtube only and getting around 5-10$ a month. However nowadays Iam not uploading anything.
I've got payment only once since the payout limit is around 87$, but when I got it I've also earned a singing youtube-bonus which payed me a 126$ sum.
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Certificate Authority change at HN from Comodo to Entrust. No warning?
I pin my TLS certificates with the excellent Certificate Patrol browser plugin because otherwise it is just not safe. I just noticed that the certificate of HN changed from Comodo to Entrust, but saw no prior warning. I don't expect it to be a hack, but can someone confirm?
(obviously I would have a problem trusting information posted back here as I'm questioning the potential veracity of the whole domain, but I'm willing to take the bet that I'm not really that interesting to mess around with)
I wonder if this could be used to allow ASL input to a computer - automatic transcription of conversation and such? I think it really depends on how accurately it can sense actual finger position rather than just motion in that muscle
Reddit != reddit. You are comparing a pretty small focussed subreddit to the front page of HN. Actually there are a few subreddits I'm subscribed to where I expect more insightful comments than on HN.
As a non american, my theory about why your state is allow to abuse it's power to such a degree is that your democratic system disincentivize multiple parties and so a fair competition. I understand that the ruling party is the one with the largest share of votes rather than whatever group of parties who can agree to work with each other comprising the majority of the votes. You should need 50% of the votes to rule. That means making compromises with minority parties. Compromises is a good thing in the political sphere, not something to avoid. And it incentivizes voting on small parties. It may lead to some bad apples but at least you have slightly better environment for competition.
There's no real oversight, and they are using "secret Courts" and "secret interpretations" even of these obscure and very vague laws.
I'm glad that there's further evidence that IQ doesn't correlate with intelligence. I've never been a fan of quantifying intelligence or other characteristic attributes.
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More interestingly, it has been cited 9 times.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9396708367921284731&...
My pet project at the moment is programmatic battleships. Write your own client - play against other users running automatic games and see how we'll your client fairs up in the leaderboard
I read it as serious, but that's the lovely thing about art, everyone can have a different interpretation.
Have Congress pass laws to make such surveillance illegal.

Arguably it already is.

Nobody cares.
Now I really feel stupid. For the unenlightened, can someone shed some light on what this means please?
Yeah, I've tried several times to get some feedback from the HN community (most recently for flatnik.com, if you're interested I'd love to hear what you think!).

Simply posting with the "Show HN: " prefix puts you on a couple of twitter feeds/meta-sites. Reddit is normally a better option, because you can post to the niche subreddits and get a bit of interest, even if you don't hit the front page of the whole site (good luck with that, if it's not an image).
Same message here (Ubuntu, Dell, Chrome). But it worked on Firefox.
I am not American, so I am not an as immersed in your politics as many of you so take it with a grain of salt but this is my opinion.

Obama is about the most dangerous thing that could have happened to your government. Why?

In most of the world outside from the US, after Bush's second term, you simply couldn't defend him. My family tends to be very pro USA (blindly), but with Bush, it got to the point that it was not "politically correct" any more to defend him, just about anybody criticized him.

But then comes Obama, likable and with a promise to make things better, everybody likes him, and in between promises and small steps forwards, he/his goverment/others/whoever slip in huge blows to human rights, privacy and freedom.

In my eyes, Obama is Bush with better PR.

And why is this dangerous, because with bush at least most people knew they wanted better, and now for most, this is good enough or even good, and it's not.
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Now if only they would copy the separate master process (Heck, put all the renderers in one process, I don't care) so I can move tabs around without waiting five seconds per tab.
His morale, not his moral(s). If an organization is affecting his morals... that's REALLY bad.