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* Any folder in your project can have index.html and indeed it should have.

* Parent talks about static pages, not about rails-ruby/php/python project.

But i get your point : If somehow somebody screw with servers config, there is a risk to expose your apps files & configs. You can follow parents advice but set your root path in apache/nginx config to /var/www/www.example.org/public instead of /var/www/www.example.org
If Dropbox bundled a keylogger with the Dropbox client, I'm pretty sure it would eventually attract some attention...
I suggest we change the spelling to yodabytes and start naming subsequent prexifes after other Jedi. windubytes, kenobibytes, etc...
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Dead Hollow is a HTML5 game built like a typical website where animations and transformations are made by CSS3.
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Relevant, started in 2002: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
haha! most ppl in these pics are actually showing him their computers, cell phones, etc.

The ridic thing is that this has been happening since the beginning of electronic footprints and suddenly now ppl are outraged by this, but not by the nonsense they happily put up on facebook. w/e
And according to the other front-page post on the Netherlands on HN right now[1], because there are 22 American nuclear bombs stored there.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5853081
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Agreed. And it goes like that with politics. No party even debates about economy, privacy and so on. That doesn't bring in votes. Security does. The entire concept of right/left wing in Israel is based on how nationalist a party is.
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> Where are all the street protests?!

I'm going to interpret that question literally. A key thing you have to keep in mind is that in almost all of the US outside of a few very large cities, the "street" is not a useful public place. People don't gather and interact on streets in the US. They are merely channels for cars. Protesting on the streets would be as useful in most cities in the US as wandering around next to a shipping lane on the open ocean. The only people "there" are driving vehicles at full speed.

That of course raises the question of where Americans do congregate together. Churches are the answer for many, although I believe those are dwindling. Some go to bars. Neither of those is a particularly good venue for dissent.

One unfortunate consequence of the US being so car-centric is that we've destroyed public space, and consequently made public assembly much harder.
In case of fire, break glass. Or maybe not...
rsync.net. Zurich, Hong Kong. Warrant Canary[1].

Straight up unix filesystem (ZFS) so you can point duplicity[2] (or anything else) at it.

If you need something like dropbox, we are NOT for you.

We have special rates for HN folks. Email us.

[1] http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

[2] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
No, node.js needed to happen. Javascript makes it very easy to write event-driven code, which it turns out is a pretty good model for a web server, especially if you are routing real-time data between clients. It didn't just "go viral", it had solid proven performance stats.

Don't get me wrong, I started with PHP and it is solid, but yech I wouldn't call it fun.
> Why do people feel the need to use proof by authority anyway? Either a thing is right, or it is insightful, but attributing it to dead 18th rebels does not bolster the case.

There's at least one completely made up Orwell quote that gets kicked around quite a bit by conservatives. ("rough men") That one is weird: you'd think those people would be happy to NOT quote Orwell if they knew anything about his politics.

I assume it's less about argument from authority and more about just a lack of eloquence or confidence on the part of the person relying on quotations to make their point.
True but the problem is that FISAA and similar acts threat non-americans basically as non-humans, devoid of rights. There is a difference.
yes, but that doesn't make it not a dev problem.
That doesn't sound very useful.

Firstly, Persona doesn't have access to any such information. The only interesting information that could be extracted by owning a Persona server is that user X using IP Y wants to connect to some service - but Persona doesn't know which service. So you only get the IP.

Secondly, well, anybody can become a Persona identity provider. Do you want to host one in insert-your-favorite-country here? Well, that's quick and easy.
Opposing a strong US tech industry seems like a better bet for non-americans righ row. If the tech world were distributed across nations in a more balanced way the public would have more leverage today.
"Your point has little to do with my argument" - It's unclear what your argument is.

In addition to registering for an SSN, we provide images of ourselves as we age for driver's licenses, and some interactions with law enforcement end up with one's DNA being collected. Allegories to your dystopian state you feel people would balk at are already standard practice.

Bad stuff can be (and has been) done with this information (and that sucks), and as was stated above, so has exculpatory stuff (which is great).
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Ask HN: Appropriate Price for Qstack.com domain name ? 
Hello HN guys,

I am thinking to sell the domain name qstack.com, what would be the appropriate price to sell it ?

This domain would be good for programming related stuff. As it has Stack and Queue word in it.

I wanted to build a quiz platform on it.

Regards
Despite Sunny Summit, Challenges Remain for US, China
> According to an interview with The Guardian, 29-year-old Edward Snowden, whose revelations have created a political uproar, has stashed himself in an unidentified luxury hotel in Hong Kong, a city he said he chose as the best place to hunker down given its “spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent.”

You mean the place that has no political freedom to speak of and exists under the PRC's thumb?
to put my reply in context.

I live in NYC. I used to be in the WTC on a weekly basis for business. I was in Rockefeller Center when anthrax was found in Rockefeller Center (that was actually kinda scary). I'm aware that 'PRISM' purportedly prevented a NYC subway bombing. This isn't to say I'm 'so brave'. It's just to give the context that I'm not removed from the situation.

With that context, I'd much rather take my chances with increased terrorist activity than give the government expanded surveillance powers.

Also, I agree with this.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/06/09/i-am-so-fucking-over...

you want to see the villain, look in the mirror. It’s the pants-wetting populace of the United States, who votes for these assholes who pass bad laws in moments of crisis, because we have to do something and because Americans, unlike every other nation in the world, have a god given right to be safe at all times from all things.
> Based on this, why aren't movie studios creating trailers based on minimal treatments, releasing them with dates a year or two in the future and then only creating the movie if the data shows that it'd be a blockbuster? Basically Lean development for movies.

Because this might work for a little while, but then very quickly people would learn that most trailers were for movies that would never come out and start tuning them out.

Plus, getting cast, directors, etc., to sign on to a project when the only thing guaranteed is small payment for a trailer based on a minimal treatment would be difficult, and part of what the trailer promotes and audiences respond to is the cast, director, etc.

Lean in the movie business would look very different than lean in software (just as lean in software, while borrowing lots of ideas from lean in traditional manufacturing, looks different) because the context is different.
I've wanted to do this for some time now and I'm almost there...

I thought we'd start with an intro to programming course settled around the Python language...move into more advanced python topics in the next course, then hit basic html/css to teach them to build simple websites, then round it out with more web development topics like javascript and php.

Then go from there...

Thoughts or suggestions???

Please please (please!) help spread the word! I really want to do this right...
He's the president of the main right-wing party. People like that often remain head of their state for very long once they're elected (first they're sworn in and then get more mandates to "finish their job"). Examples from my home country: Francois Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac. It may have something to do with this but you can get a way easier explanation.
I don't think it makes sense. Like he said in his interview, he could have just sold the stuff he already leaked. Why then would he bother with the whole trouble of very publicly becoming America's Most Wanted? He sounded pretty sincere about doing this for the good of the American people. He claims he made a concerted effort to not reveal any information that could harm individuals, which appears to hold up.

I would think (hope) he has some cards up his sleeve to protect himself, but at this point I think all the double-agent/working with China talk is wild conjecture.
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SpiderOak.com is nice.
It's US-based, but its encryption is client-side, and they state that they never ever get the private keys, specifically to avoid being legally forced to decrypt and disclose info they store.
Can you recommend a couple of good automated security tools?
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> One day they bitch about invasion of privacy the next day they want the same people to have every bit of control over their health care. Well guess what, you cannot have it both ways.

This is just as flawed as the arguments that giving the government access to your email is no big deal because you gave access to Google, and they're a massive organization too, right?

I have no problem with Medicare having access to the health records of every American. Single-payer healthcare is a great system. This is completely tangential to giving the NSA/FBI similar access to information.

Comparatively speaking, it might actually be more difficult for the NSA to get unwarranted access to government medical records, since we have extensive laws on the books protecting such data. Your argument is an absolute red herring.
Except I wouldn't call it copying. The government here has never really cared about privacy and abuse. India has been strong-arming Blackberry for a long time now. When the government wants information from ISPs, ISPs give it away readily.

Things won't change. The people and the media seem to prefer the latest cricket scores and Bollywood scandals (or the other way around).
"Advertised as democratic" won't get you very far in predicting how democratic a country is.
I've seen that list many times before and was even going to post it myself. I'm guessing you just skimmed over it and did not read the notes.

So let me rephrase, how many school shooting can you count on your hands that you knew about? I'm guessing you won't make it pass your two hands.

I'm not going to count crime infested ghetto area school shootings that involve a 70% dropout and incarceration rate, where one student shoots another over some argument over a girl. Nor gang related violence in those same schools. They will do that in and out of school as much as anywhere else. It's not related to any particlar place or time.

I'm not going to count a depressed kid that goes into the school to commit suicide in the bathroom. Nor someone that purposely shoots someone else in the butt and gives up. Or attempts to murder one single person at school because they don't know were that other person lives and it's convinent... All those things have nothing to do with schools.

What I'm going to do is only count real school shootings that involve someone walking in and trying to kill as many people as possible. And weight that against all the non-school shooting events in relation to the the number of pupils, schools, and days. Guess what happens then?

Data should always be filtered, outliers removed, then normalized or standardized.
He's haggling over your objectively incorrect claim that the police are not knocking down doors without warrants. They clearly are.

Whether these cases fits the reasonability test is another matter.
At Facebook we don't believe in memos, we just push to production. It's hacker culture.
> The "China is an oppressive regime" meme

It's not a meme. It's fact.
Actually I tried to post this URL earlier today and was redirected to the "original" (whatsoever) submission. That's what made me curious.
As stated elsewhere there's a difference between how Persona works now and how it eventually will work. Persona at this stage is stable and works very well, but it does communicate with and send private data to persona.org, which is owned by an American organization (Mozilla).
I didn't say 'Israel has apartheid'. I said that some Israeli commenters have compared the situation to apartheid. I used the verb border to be specific. There is a whole wikipedia page on the argument [1] if you want to know more about it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analog...
NSA is good at MITM attacks according to Snowden. Moving outside the USA won't stop them.

Unless it's just for politics, to feel better, then go for it.
Yeah, 4 years later when a whistle blower said something.
After yottabytes come hellabytes.
When I call a language fun, I generally mean:

1. It delights me by doing what I want.

2. It makes normally complex programming tasks easy (try metaprogramming in php).

3. It is simpler than I originally imagined.

1 & 2 generally means... it's a "hackable" language (ruby is another good example). 3 is icing.
Any thoughts on Americans studying for MA's and PhD's in Koln/Cologne?
Tim Berners-Lee hits out at PRISM
Seriously guys, how much of this is Obama's fault? Isn't it Bush that we all should be complaining to?
What they need is for the site to randomly generate a more unique phrase for each person that loads the page.

Basically, come up with a list of trigger words and then work them into innocuous sections of text in a random manner. That way "they" can't filter out the text being sent.
> NSA is good at MITM attacks according to Snowden. Moving outside the USA won't stop them.

If they do MITM attacks, it will probably be on US citizens. Moving Persona out of the US would at least stop the snooping on non-US citizens.
Obama has been president for like 5 years now. If he didn't approve, he would have stopped it.
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Look up the Battle of Athens. In a nutshell, some veterans returned home from fighting the war to find out that their local government had become oppressive - levying insane fees on speeding tickets, committing false arrests, taking bribes, etc.

On top of all that, the local Sheriff had rigged the ballot box to ensure that they stayed in power, denied some the right to vote, and overthrew poll-watchers through force.

The returned veterans recognized all of the above as tyranny, had put forth honest people for the election, and insisted that the election was done fairly be surrounding the Sheriff's office where the ballots where and mounting an armed resistance to ensure that tyranny wasn't done.
You have the order wrong. Voting is an end run around war. An election is a civilized war, meant to get the same outcome as war without bloodshed.
Appreciate :)
Damn it... this site looked legit :( http://www.whatourforefathersthought.com/Quotes.html but you are right...
It's anyway all a side issue. A tidy personal history and limited data collection provide some flimsy bulwark against petty tyranny. They don't do anything against arbitrary tyranny.

The solution to tyranny is to build robust and open societies and to spread those values. Not open societies in the sense of transparency, open societies in the sense that people are not attacked for who they are or for the choices they make (transparency is often a useful tool, it just isn't in itself any sort of sensible goal).

And I don't mean that simple personal steps are futile, I just think there is a larger picture to consider (and direct energy towards!).
It is revenge of the nerds. I don't know if it is a good thing, bad thing, or it doesn't matter but it sure makes a lot of people feel better. And to be honest, the MBAs do have a lot of it coming to themselves, not all of it, but a lot.
Just a bump to support this comment. Too many people do not realize that the privacy breaching laws (public and secret, if they are even adhered to by the govt) extend to any US entity wherever the data is in the world.

This is why data on Amazon, Google or Microsoft data centers in Europe and elsewhere are still open season for US authorities. The same would apply to Mozilla.
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No, you can read everything regarding this matter here http://wualablog.blogspot.ch/2011/05/wualas-encryption-revis.... Regarding your question, you'll find your answer here http://www.wuala.com/blog/2011/04/wualas-encryption-for-dumm... (3. Sharing)
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He was already retired when the article was written.
Just getting rid of DST would solve a lot of what this is trying to accomplish.
Hindsight is 20/20, so I am not looking to place blame when I ask - how much better off would we be if we put the money we spent on the "war on terror" to just about any other use?

There are some monumental things that can be done for a trillion dollars (see http://costofwar.com/ which doesn't even include the TSA or other homeland security operations).
No. We split our files and store them redundantly in our datacenters in Switzerland, France and Germany.
> Finally its highly unclear why anyone uses SSL for these apps

Huh? The reason you use SSL for Google and Facebook is so 15 random strangers don't get access to your accounts just because you go online for five minutes in Starbucks.

PRISM is awful and all but that doesn't mean non-state adversaries stopped being a thing overnight.
> I assume it's less about argument from authority and more about just a lack of eloquence or confidence on the part of the person relying on quotations to make their point.

That's probably right. Hell, it's part of the reason that Hallmark greeting cards will always have a viable business model.
> you need to have a Mac to develop iPhone or OS X apps

This backs up my previous point. Why can't I develop iOS apps on Linux?
This is a really great counterpoint to the "if you have nothing to hide..." crowd.
I have started using PGP to encrypt/sign my email. It's relatively easy to set up and use. I have successfully set up my wife and mother with it for both email and xmpp, and am working on convincing my dad and brother to do the same.

Take a look at Enigmail for Thunderbird and Psi for xmpp. Both work quite well and are reasonable to set up and use.
Quick question; what's the flag link do? Because I don't have enough karma to downvote this link but I feel I need to do something to save others the time of having to read this.

No disrespect to zerply. I'm sure there are other corners of the internet where this link would be appropriate but it just feels woefully out of place here on HN.
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Here are a few tactics to try:

- Create a resource/freebie that would be of value to your target audience. A whitepaper, an eBook, a guide or template of some sort, etc. Offer it in exchange for email signups.

- Start an Adwords campaign to get people searching for related terms - you can usually find codes from Google for $100 free Adwords budget after you spend $25. Use the keyword tool to find related keywords, with good traffic, but affordable CPC. Send them to a landing page with a tailored pitch and a request for email signups (possibly in exchange for your freebie above, or a discount coupon).

- Once you have an email list, send useful things to it, along with marketing-related things. Try to engage with people on the list.

- Continue meeting people in person. Ferret out their pain points and see if your product would really solve problems, or just be something interesting. Try to really gauge whether they would spend money on your product.
Sorry, I supposed that gadders quoted you accurately due to the quotes around "Israel has apartheid". I apologize.

I'll edit my reply to maintain the legitimacy of the question.
I know. That's why I wrote in the article that they will need to move "both the legal entity behind [Persona] and the servers involved" to another country :)

They don't necessarily need to move the Mozilla organization, but then they'd need to make Persona an organization in itself and move that organization.
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It makes sense to me on some level. I realize that not everyone is a fan of Emacs but there's some truth to the old jab: "it's a decent operating that just needs a good text editor." It's more like a decent lisp that provides a kernel for implementing a text editor. I think it would be interesting if the web took that bottom-up approach (what I call the, "Emacs Philosophy," for lack of a better word): establishing a kernel for implementing a web browser. The interesting thing about Emacs is that there are several implementation of web server that are fully capable of interacting with the rest of the "environment" inside of your running Emacs process: it can serve up a web page that renders your currently active buffer for instance.

The problem with this approach is the trade-off with standardization: some vendors will implement things in different ways and libraries may not always work together without a little effort on the part of the user. Standardization does have its benefits... we almost went down the rabbit hole of active-x and "this site is made for Y," in the web world and it would be a shame to repeat that nasty bit of history (but we're already looming fairly close). The problem is that not everyone will cooperate and fickle web developers concerned with elegance and prettiness will go off and write three different incompatible implementations of the same thing. Users don't care about that stuff.
Ask HN: How is the NSA snooping exposure playing out in your country?
Of course on HN, this story has been big news, with related posts seemingly taking up most of the front page over several days, but here in the UK the main media response has been pretty underwhelming, with just seemingly casual mention on TV and newspapers with no sense of outrage that I can notice. A few important politicians have posted statements that it is all very legal etc. Very disappointing.

What has the media coverage and sentiment been like in your country?
You were very selective and general in your question while the OP was a tad more specific on what he meant. He isn't saying you have a moral obligation to do something about EVERYTHING you find immoral. That would be incredibly hard to work out in your day to day life. If you come across something that affects millions of people that you find morally repugnant, you start weighing whether you actively do something or walk away. Both of those are "doing something".