skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why you think this. Requests for the contents of communications are warrants (or effectively such). They're narrow enough that they target individuals, and it doesn't matter where the data is homed. There's certainly an argument to pick a provider outside the US if you're specifically concerned about US policy (although I'm dubious of that argument), but then you still have to investigate the provider's policies and the applicable laws in whatever jurisdiction you choose.
For the assignment that required Windows, did you try using WINE? If so, how did that work out? Just curious.
Lot of comments on what exactly constitutes free software (and the snarky insinuation that somehow only the FSF can determine what exactly that means).

Let's let Richard explain it :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPPikY3uLIQ
I wasn't suggesting you don't get it. I was just highlighting a contradiction, although one that I think illustrates a point; that there is generally a tradeoff between freedom and convenience. Different people have different levels of expertise, amounts of time and tolerance of inconvenience that influences their software choices.

One other point, in the article you say:

The PRISM debacle of the last week confirmed my fears and reasoning, and so I made the decision to accelerate the schedule.

If it is government spying you are worried about then using non-free web apps is surely a much greater risk than non-free native software. At least you can stick a proxy in front of your Windows box and block/monitor where it is connecting to and what data it sends. With web apps your data could have been siphoned off to some NSA data centre without you ever knowing about it.

Also I find it mildly depressing that being able to retrieve your own data is seen as the mark of a really 'free and open' webapp. Even with the most proprietary of native software I typically still control my data. Webapps took us a step backwards in that regard and partial reversal on that front is not a sign of great progress, it's a sign that we are struggling to even maintain the status quo.
Apparently there are allegation going around that it was done by a competitor, servercrate.

http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/284016/#Comment_284...
Chromebook Pixel is actually a really nice laptop that "just works". Even the touch screen has driver support. You can chroot Ubuntu, or, wipe and go all-in.

EDIT: Link to crouton: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
I actually fear this kind of stuff more than the NSA when it comes to cloud services.
This does not exist yet, but I've been thinking about it for a long time. I think we generally need to move away from a centralized cloud to a more distributed cloud, where you can host your own applications on your own server, encrypt and protect them as you like, and share them with whomever you need via a secure API. You can imagine having a photo app, a social networking app, video sharing apps, document apps, whatever people can build and deploy.

You'd need standards. Standard web service APIs, standard authentication, standard privacy controls, standard database layer, standard encryption between nodes. And that would take most of the effort off the individual apps for handling all this. They'd just say "I have this chunk of data, and it's accessible to these people" and if the everything checks out, the app can grab it from whatever node it's on.

There needs to be this sort of operating-system-for-the-web on which people can build distributed apps. Something like Diaspora is trying to be, but without the limited social networking overtones. A platform where security, privacy, distributed social networking, and sharing are the main concerns, and the apps built on top of it more general.

It might be interesting. I've had this idea since about 2001 but never got around to building something. Maybe it's the right time...
It's always a novelty before it becomes mainstream. Have the elevators run in tracks of some sort, rather than in a shaft. Elevator won't block the view until it goes by.
afaik the plain .zip doesn't support multi-part archives and that's what they needed due to the file size.
by citing 7-zip (site) I was of course suggesting the .7z file format that is opensource and there are softwares and libraries freely available.
or "The NSA" AKA "Nobody" as in "Nobody is listening"
Except you don't say moving towards, you say returning, which I'm guessing is also wrong because you never used "as much free software as possible" before.
That's a little extreme and useless to put only one app on the IPhone dock. I could see this becoming extremely frustrating in an emergency situation where you need to call someone quickly. Why not just practice self control instead.
Right now, their official fix (sent via email) is to '
rm –f /usr/local/solusvm/www/centralbackup.php'. Great.
I wonder if we can get that video in a format that doesn't require Flash Player.
Google could provide the best of both worlds with open endpoint software that encrypts data before it moves to or through the cloud. I would pay enough to make up for the NAS inefficiency and loss of ad revenue.
You know spys... a bunch of bitchy little girls...
That's pretty much what I had in mind as a "vertical cable car". Looks like somebody actually built one in ... um ... 1884!
Yes, UK involvement with US snooping goes back a long way. See this story about Echelon from 2000
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/820758.stm

Global system....
Hide bookmarks? Don't use them. Am I just a weirdo for treating the location bar as the sole navigation UI element?
The mastermind behind one of the largest online marketing frauds
Oh man - failure to use a framework or they worked around it - either way this was a big programming no no - direct use of SQL with NO sanitizing. Very bad.

I can't even call this a vulnerability - it's an open door.
SQLite is a replacement for fopen(), not a database.
In my experience, this is how the big defense contractors approach software. They will gravitate towards the most expensive proprietary tools in hopes that their engineers will pigeon hole themselves into that environment. I honestly had people tell me that I wasn't allowed to use anything open source (even through the military uses open source all the time) and that ClearCase is the most dominant version control system in the software industry.
The problem is that control of the company could be transferred to other actors, in which case the original founders' "intent" becomes irrelevant. So the best thing to do is to encode the intended terms explicitly in the contract.
SQLLite is "lite"

If you want alter table support, use a SQL database that provides it. There are many.
It's a technology for exchanging information in a decentralized fashion, in contrast to corporate services like Facebook or Twitter. By centralizing most online communication, these corporations gain control over information flow, which means that everybody else loses this control.
Related topic: http://prism-break.org/

Replace your workflow with open-source tools that aren't attached to Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple.
Look software either is or isn't free. The four laws were created by Richard himself for the FSF! What this blog talks about isn't free software. It is open source software.

It's like saying that you're a vegetarian but you eat meat every third meal. You're just not a vegetarian.

For the record I don't even like free software but I find people who use it is a buzz word as annoying as kids who claim to 420 blaze everyday.
This was, literally, a Great Contraction

I think the basic problem is that contemporary movie studios are publicly traded companies whose goal is to grow by 10% a year (or at least hit market growth rates). In some businesses, that's just not possible because of limits to the size of the market; book publishers, for example, have only rarely grown at market or above-market rates.

Books are an interesting example for a couple reasons: book publishers have been real businesses far longer than movie studios. In addition, studios for a long time set up businesses that relied on people repeatedly re-buying the same movie on different formats. Books have never really gotten away with that (although we might be seeing some re-buying like behavior in the shift from paper to digital). Now there's not an obvious successor to DVDs, and movie studios might become, or be becoming, more like book publishers.

* Further background reading: Edward Jay Epstein, The Hollywood Economist.
It doesn't come prepackaged with apache/php/mysql does it? I take it one would have to install those. Tonido does most of these things, but there are some limitations/complications when trying to install your own stuff I believe.
Any chance to find out, what this is doing, without having to install an extension?
Here's some marketing advice: Your thing sucks
Train Games
1) In Firefox get the "DownloadHelper" helper plugin.

2) Visit the page (hopefully you still don't have Flash plugin in the first place or have completely extricated it from your system)

3) DownloadHelper icon will start animating. From the dropdown select your resolution and download.

4) The video format you have downloaded is patented and must be erased quickly. Therefore, download Handbrake ( http://handbrake.fr ) which is open source and convert it to a free format.

5) Run a disk eraser program to ensure that the deleted offending technologies are in fact deleted off your hard drive.
But they can only get massive pipes of data via legally compelling a company, which means they need to either have a footprint in the USA or US employees willing to betray their company for their government.

I'd imagine using zero days to crack into foreign companies would only be for the most specific of information, making them theoretically safer from general abuse.
I brought up subselects because they are a solution some of the time to some of the problems.
Where exactly did the Guardian or Greenwald claim the NSA has root access on servers? I haven't seen that anywhere? Please supply a quote of the part of an article you're referring to so we can make up our own minds about what was said.

It's quite possible Guardian journalists and editors summarised some points in a sloppy way due to lack of understanding (in particular using direct access instead of directly from), but the broad thrust of everything I've read from them has been surprisingly accurate (as journalism goes), and Snowden's claim to have access to any account at will (given enough clearance) is now sounding far more plausible after these recent revelations that calls recorded and can be accessed without a warrant by any agent with the clearance to do so, and according to cnet, perhaps emails too. To an analyst asking for calls/emails, this would seem very much like 'direct and unilateral access', even if from google's end they only respond to lawful orders and don't allow universal tapping as the phone companies do.

I'm surprised that people are talking up minor quibbles over the interpretation of one slide as if all debate hinges on them given the scale of the surveillance which has been exposed. We don't know for sure exactly how the PRISM process works, and what matters is not the process but the legal safegaurds in place (or lack of them), and the extent of surveillance. Why not debate facts we do know and have confirmed?
I'm a fairly new father (two-year-old son), and I have explored switching careers recently. I am a high school teacher, and I have considered switching to programming. Switching jobs and switching careers is a lot different as a parent than as a single person.

There's a lot to be said for stability and security, but there's also a lot to be said for keeping yourself excited to be alive, with your family. My parents worked hard to give my brother and I a good home and a good upbringing. But sadly, one of the clearest things I remember about them now is how much they stopped living when my brother and I graduated from high school. They stopped climbing mountains, they stopped taking canoe trips, they stopped being open to the outside world.

So, I am careful not to let myself "stop living" like this, and I'd be wary of letting yourself do that as well. What country are you in? How easily could you find another company that would value your skills? Even finding a different company, working on similar problems might be more stimulating. Finding a small company where ideas are not so entrenched would be even better? If there really are no opportunities in your country, are there any remote projects you could become involved in, that might lead to full-time remote work? Can you set a timeframe for how long you need to be in this country, so you don't feel like your situation is endless?

I've watched many people burn out in a variety of careers, and it can be a really sad and ugly thing. It's not something to take lightly and just accept, although I understand it doesn't work to suddenly just walk away from a job that pays your mortgage.
Sorry, 'moving towards' is how I've been describing it, but the title did end up 'returning.'

To be clear: this is a process. You can't do it all in one day. I have different priorities for different bits of software. Other than Ghostery, all the software on my machine is Free. Web services are a much trickier issue, and frankly, I'm more concerned about my usage of Gmail than I am Svbtle.
Ways to protect yourself from the NSA and other eavesdroppers
Why programmers will not join your startup
I think Richard refuses to do interviews unless there is an .OGG formatted copy available, if there was one it would be at RMS.org
> I call this out continuously and obnoxiously on HN because it is very much not the mainstream view on HN; most of the people commenting on the NSA story on HN say things that make it clear that they believe NSA continues to have the direct access to Google's systems that Google and the Guardian say they do not have.

Ah, I was wondering why you were doing this.

Personally I prefer to believe, when it is hinted that the NSA might have access to my emails, that this is true and later be proven wrong (which IMO hasn't been done conclusively yet), rather than the other way around: assuming everything is fine, and then piece by piece being proven wrong as more evidence trickles in.

Note that the above is a hypothetical example, since, being a EU citizen, I already know for a couple of months that the NSA in fact does have the ability to request any of my data without a warrant, given that it resides on a US server.

... Come to think of it, could it be that also influences your perception of what is "the mainstream view" on HN? A lot of people do not explicitly state they are not US-citizens every time they mention how upset they are the NSA can read their emails.
I couldn't help but laugh at this:

"Our tools have been getting more precarious, thanks to bugs introduced by the browser vendors"

Bugs introduced by the browser vendors? What? What?? Wait just second there, you think the global economy and power structure of the world is being affected by bugs in browsers?

This reads like a thinly veiled conspiracy theory. Actually, I'll just be blunt: it reads like crazy talk.

These things are not conspiracies against the stability of human society, they are the random results of a stochastic process of creation. If you want to say something valuable about the impact of tech on society, there are a whole bunch of directions you could go, but this ain't one of 'em.
Click "ratings" at the top of the page.
You have it backwards. Free with provisions (I.E. "You can do all of the above, except deprive X") is not free. Open isn't just what the blog talks about. The title of the thing is "Returning to Free Software".

BTW. I'm not a fan of GPL because I feel that too is restrictive.
There are a few tech startups in Hollywood trying to help build a new model. I recommend this recent post for a sense of where things are going http://briannorgard.com/2013/06/14/rewiring-and-rethinking-h...
Scroll down to see the ratings of some popular sites' ToS. The extension shows you that same rating when visiting a website.
Reinstall the Plesk PMA tables
CPanel Quota Issue
The ARM server apocalypse
Is there a plan in Google to create a more secure email protocol that's compatible with the current one but is used at least between the top email providers? Or just by using encryption at least.
That critique is entirely accurate, unlike the article. I second the Crisis of Conscience recommendation.
Modify so they can change and update the code when you push revisions or use their web based editor. They need to distribute it so you or others you allow can clone it or view it online. They need to use your code so they can format .md files.
Wait, what? What did I just read? I think the conspiracy theories has started to run a little wild in here.
That's easy to achieve:
https://github.com/tslmy/Grum/tree/starredItems
I was using it until it required additional rights for some reason. Then I suspected it to be making an online profile and selling it, so I uninstalled it.
You got me confused, your

"You grant to Assembla a non-exclusive, royalty-free, paid-up right and license to use, reproduce, display and distribute such Content on Assembla.com in connection Assembla's provision of the Services to such persons as you may authorize"

sounds much more like Atlassian,

"End User hereby grants Atlassian a non-exclusive license to copy, distribute, perform, display, store, modify, and otherwise use End User Data in connection with operating the Hosted Services."

not at all like the Github TOS.
I agree with all these points, which is one of the reasons I'm working on this transition and talking about it publicly.
It's talking about the auto-generated root password that gets emailed to you upon creation of your VM initially. Most everyone would, hopefully, have changed his/her root password manually, upon receiving it in email via cleartext.
The upgrading process seems easy
Just have to send your IP address, root user name, password, and license key through a form...and you can do it through the fast http scheme rather than the slow https.
Charles Saatchi and a dehumanised society
That's the thing with disruptions. The new business models can't support the old cost structures, but they can support the new cost structures from new businesses built around the disruptions.

Hollywood would have to adapt, which means doing things in a very different way than they've done it so far, and that's not something they'd like to do. They'd rather try and hold on to what they have now for as long as possible.
Rights they need to have if they want to host your code. You asked in another comment why they needed certain rights, and now I see you commenting here as if you know what you are talking about.

You are admit you are ignorant of the needs, but you go around commenting as if you have a clue.

Github needs the same rights as bitbucket to do what it does.
Do the contracting math.

How much an hour/how many hours a week would you need to pull even with your current pay and benefits package? Do you need that much or would your own hours from home with your family mean you'd trade money for time to an extent?

Could you land a client or group of clients to get there?

If not, it is free to put out feelers. Here are places to get started:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803767

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs...

While looking over your options, consider mine:

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No. If your blog post is anything to go by, almost none of the software on your machine is Free. Especially your OS!

Every program must fulfill the following requirements:

The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

If you can listen to an MP3 on your machine, chances are it is using a licensed codec, breaking freedom 3. If anything more restrictive than GNU GPL is used for any of the hardware drivers then it is in breach of freedom 1!
Unofficial RamNode PostMortem: https://gist.github.com/ElliotSpeck/66943b70c8b98e5b2afb
It would be more like if robots searched your house and no human was allowed to look at what they collected without a warrant.
This is not surprising at all. In their client API for checking server status, they can't even report memory usage correctly.

It's been a bug in their API for a very long time, with multiple requests for a fix. I made a new request for a fix about 2 months ago and they're still "working on it". Not difficult to look at the correct line in /proc/meminfo.
It's not. S/he meant it's an excellent point that the magic behavior in Django is 'ugly'.
Nodes appear to be back up.
Data Mining for Terrorists (2006)
From github's Terms of service : "You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the Service, including your Content, may be transfered unencrypted and involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices."

In other words, the end user grants github a license to copy, distribute, store, modify End User Data (without encryption even if the user marked this data private).
Kevin Mitnick on NSA Leaks
Mitnick, who probably knows something more than the general public about the topic, has recently retweeted this link

http://blog.knowbe4.com/bid/297153/did-china-leak-prism-deliberately

source: https://twitter.com/kevinmitnick

(see the comments for an active version of the links)
Individually analyzing each incoming email is impossible. So the NSA automates the minimization procedures as much as it can. Based on dynamic link analyses done by computers, scores are assigned to emails and associated profiles inside the system. Every bit of data associated with an email address that might belong to a U.S. person "updates" the score. Analysts can query the system for individual names, and email addresses, and even subject lines. They can add, if they want, the place and time that the email was collected, too. If the "score" associated with the email indicates that there is a 51 percent chance or higher that it belongs to a person overseas, the analyst can start monitoring content right away and not do anything further. If that score is less than 51 percent, the analyst can, if directed by a superior, start to access the content, if it's available, but the large team of lawyers the NSA has will be instantly notified, and a FISA order will be sought.

As I interpret this:

1) analysts are able to access email metadata without a specific court order or warrant

2) analysts are able to access email content without a court order or if there's a 51%+ chance it's a non-US person

3) analysts with the approval of supervisors are initially able to access anybody's email content without a court order, although the FISA court then has to approve it