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How can people not see the parallels between the anti Snowden crowd and Nazis who were "just following orders" when they took part in the pogroms?

Everyone who takes part in this latest abrogation of the US Bill of Rights is no better than the Nazi exterminators.

Some will say that the authors of the US Constitution had no concept of electronic communications ergo we should not expect the 4th Amendment to extend to electronic communications, yet the wording of the 4th Amendment includes the communications methods of their day, which would be "papers and effects," and that the lawful search thereof must be accompanied by "Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Others will say that the authors of the US Constitution had no concept of "terrorism," yet England viewed the revolutionaries as such.

Perhaps if our government weren't meddling in the affairs of foreign nations, those foreign nationals would not feel a need to engage in "terrorist" acts?

So, instead of using some fictitious son-of-the-invisible-sky-person principle, we could apply the "What would a Nazi do" principle.
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Seems like you are very bored.
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If you're running CPanel, security is probably not a priority for you anyway.
The migration libraries mentioned in the article basically are the "separate utility" that you describe. Yet apparently the developers of these libraries are unable to implement this functionality properly on their own, for whatever reason. So they want the SQLite developers to do so instead.
There's a keyboard sniffer they can activate in every copy of Windows and OSX.

and/or

They can listen into you at any time using your mobile _when you're not on a call_.
Ask HN: What am I going to do with my job?
Dear HN community,

I know many of you will understand me. I am a software engineer working in a big multinational company. Software has always been my dream. I love it, I spend my free time mostly for it.

Now I am middle aged, I have a family and kids. We are living in a non-english speaking european country as foreigners and kids are going to the school now.

What I daily do is to develop enterprise software (mainly web applications) using the recipe which many of you know. Jsp, application servers, synchronous servlets, heavy SOAP interfaces, many JEE beans, hibernate, thousands of threads and locks, JMS, one big expensive database in the backend.

I see that most the problems that we have are coming from architectural choices. Business units want to decrease the cost but no one wants to get rid of the license of that big expensive database. Everybody wants to improve backend performance, but no one is eager to touch the data modeling, access and storage or how we manage the traffic.

When I speak or demonstrate about possibilities I feel myself like an alien. Nobody is interested. Most people are years and years behind the world. Nobody has the ambition and courage to take and defend bold decisions. Most people are ok with living like this and finalize their career.

I feel myself trapped. I feel I am doing the wrong thing. It feels bad to work on something which you know it will underperform and become dissatisfactory in the end. I can not consider moving to another country due to family status. I am paid pretty well so I can pay my mortgage and others but that also limits my options to switch jobs.

What am I going to do ? Am I supposed kill my enthusiasm and just do whatever asked in the tickets without questioning or trying to improve ? What would you do ? How do you deal with this ? Is there even a solution ?
I see a lot of people conflating the messenger with the message.

Forget about your tendencies towards fascination with a "cult of personality" and see these abuses of our 4th Amendment rights for what they truly are.
Yeah, but most people in the US will be too lazy to type that character when writing about it.

Also, look at the author's own examples. They already have to resort to calling it "ci" in code and on the command line (and in URLs).
You seem to assume that you don't need to create and maintain costly networks for moving food, water and energy for people to live in rural areas. Not many people in rural areas farm their own food and sort out their own local water and energy supply.

Cities benefit because you can bring in resources using more efficient means in larger quantities.
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I'd prefer 3 hours using linux than 8 hours using windows.
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If you're using a given piece of software, and you run into problems, it's perfectly acceptable to complain. In fact, it's one of the most helpful things you can do. Even if it doesn't help resolve the problem directly, it at least helps make the problem more widely known. This can be very useful information for people investigating the use of such software.

It doesn't matter how much, if any, you may have paid for the software. If it doesn't work in a particular case, let it be known.
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Oh please, your comment is just as cringe inducing as the one you are responding to. 40 isn't even that old and you are talking like you are on your death bed, it's embarrassing. The world has, is and will be shaped by people of all ages, your ages are not your primary limiting factors here.
Old school is previous line.

How often do you print? It's not worth wasting a keystroke.
I would say that I like C++ more than I like C#. C and C# are entirely different beasts.
I grew up a Witness too (left some time ago). I like the spirit of the article but the inaccuracies do undermine the credibility of their sources. Here's what they got wrong:

"...talk about... New Light and the Ark of Salvation".

New light is the term used in Watchtower publications whenever doctrine is changed. It's not something that would be discussed with potential converts (householders to use their parlance). Ark of Salvation I'd never heard used in the over 16 years while attending (it could of course be a new or older term).

"...lead Witness would bring along a different assistant. ...according to accounts from people who have left the sect - it’s quite deliberate and it’s designed to get you hooked."

This wasn't a tactic I'd seen used or was told to use for return visits (returning to an interested person's house) or bible studies (reading and answering questions with them from a Watchtower publication). It wasn't stipulated in the publications used to direct the ministry: Our Kingdom Ministry or Organised to Accomplish Our Ministry.

"It is forbidden to wear gold rimmed glasses in the Jehovah’s Witnesses"

Completely wrong. I knew several Elders (local leaders of the congregation) who did.

"Anyone who questions an order is kicked out for ‘disfellowship’"

I did question fundamental Witness doctrine (no blood transfusions, smoking, no birthdays) and I wasn't disciplined in any way. Just like questioning your bosses decisions at work it's at their whim how they take it: if you're disciplined or not. Disfellowshipping (shunning of congregation members) isn't rare and it does happen for questioning doctrine ('apostasy') but the extreme statement made is not correct.

"every member has many basic duties... sell crafts"

No. Jehovah's Witnesses don't do these typical church coffee morning/bingo type fundraising activities. They only accept donations from the public for publications and personally donate money as they wish.

"cannot... drink"

Wrong. Alcohol in the congregations I attended was treated in the same way the general public treat it.
The name of something makes a big difference in the USA though. If it sounds ridiculous or has a non-obvious pronunciation, people won't take it seriously.

Rationalize all you want...the issue makes it a non-starter for many people.
Care to share links to some of these insightful posts?
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Svbtle, while not free software, is on my domain, and Dustin will give a dump of my data at any time.

There is some level of irony, but this isn't about being a zealot. I have enough control over Svbtle for my needs. Blogging software is way different than my operating system.
Talking about migrating away from US-based cloud-services... In an age of NSA masss-surveilance and service-providers getting hit with secret requests for information, it seems the only thing you can actually trust is open-source software you host yourself.

Does anyone have a good guide or experience moving from Google apps to a completely self-hosted open-source solution for email, contact-management and calendering?

Can you make all of this (more or less) seamlessly integrate with mobile-platforms like Android?

iOS is obviously not a trust-worthy solution, and Android, while owned by Google is at least open-source. If you go super-paranoid you can always builds not integrating with Google's services in any way.
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Almost 18,000 pounds is amazing.

It just shows that when developers need something (database migrations) they are usually willingly to Kickstart something.

I hope these sorts of things continue for things that need to be done but aren't actively worked on.
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It's pretty horrible. I'm not even sure that's what it's called because I can't find the actual word "acute" on that page.

Furthermore - look at what they have to resort to calling it in code, on the command line and in URLs: ci.
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Thanks for spotting the typo.

I use and love Arch on my server, and was going to use it originally, but decided to give #! a go at the last minute.
It's on by default on OS X Lion+.
You need OS X 10.7 or later. To enable:

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To disable:

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Replace "communism" with "terrorism" and you see where we are now. There are some differences though, get labeled a "terrorist" and you might not even go to court.

It's just a lot of power to give to a few. Fear of MLK had a lot more to do with him being black than communism too, think about that. You think there is a reason the batman shooting and Sandyhook weren't called terrorism? Did you observe that outright odd exchange between Romney and Obama on whether Bhengazi was "terror?"
I'm running FreeBSD on a 4 + year old netbook for close to a year now, and before that it was various unix-like OS choices, from Xubuntu, to Kuki, to Tiny Core, to Fedora, along with too many others to list as I sought an OS to suit my needs.

I wiped WinXP (eXPloitable) off my hdd years ago, and haven't looked back ever since.

My only caveat is Netflix, but this is easily fixed by booting into a persistent Debian USB flash drive installation and running compholio's netflix-desktop.

As for those who complain about having to configure their unix-like systems, you can't really claim to be much of a "hacker" if configuring your own system is a task too onerous.

After all, if a moron such as myself can do it, genius such as yours should have absolutely no problem using unix-like systems.
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It's only an anecdote, but when I was fifteen I was very confident in my insights - and two decades later, I have completely different insights. It turns out my fifteen-year-old self was a comical little prat after all.

You might be relatively consistent in your beliefs over time, or you might be like me. Just be aware that right now you can't be certain of either.
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What's a good replacement for Google Apps in a NSA-poisoned post-cloud era?
These days, anyone who values their privacy are probably considering migrating away from US-based cloud-services... In an age of NSA masss-surveilance and service-providers getting hit with secret requests for information, it seems the only thing you can actually trust is open-source software you host yourself.<p>Does anyone have a good guide or experience moving from cloud-services like Google apps to a completely self-hosted open-source solution for email, contact-management and calendering? What about productivity tools?<p>Can you make all of this (more or less) seamlessly integrate with mobile-platforms?
It's quite possible waiting for Haswell would make sense, but when I need a computer, I just buy one; there's always something new coming around the corner. Others with different tolerances may choose differently.
Thanks. :-)

(I thought "speed of light" at first, but didn't think of a way it could be applicable.)
Another who attacks the messenger rather than consider the message...
I made this decision before the NSA stuff broke, it's just convenient timing. It also made many more people interested in what I was doing.

I'm under no illusions that I have great privacy soley because I installed GNU/Linux.
As for mobile platforms, iOS is obviously not a trust-worthy solution. Android is OK, but has issues by being run by Google and core services provided through them.

I'd love for a third viable option to pop up, but for the same reasons as iOS, Windows Phone is out. FirefoxOS seems not quite ready at this point, and until proven otherwise I will consider Tizen vaporware.

That pretty much leaves us with Android. While owned by Google is at least open-source. If you go super-paranoid you can always make/get builds not integrating with Google's services in any way.

Does anyone have any experience with making opens-source solutions for things like email, calendering and contact-management integrate nicely with Android?
...we get rid of all these non-free web applications?

How you ask?

Build your own free apps. Publish. ??? Profit!
"I learned about PRISM two years ago". ;-)

Now, if you read that in 2015, you might have a case.
Ask HN: Snowden: When does ethnical whistleblowing cross into defection?
At first I fell in with the bandwagon hailing Snowden as a true American hero for blowing the whistle on the Prism surveillance program, as well as anecdotes of other unethical/illegal behavior on the part of the intelligence agencies.

However, the narrative of the ethnical whistleblower, the hero, started to fall apart once I heard he fled to China (HK, but still China). First - the supreme irony that he claims the US is a surveillance state while praising the China (suffice it to say, the one state with the most complete surveillance infrastructure on the planet -- and does anyone think that the Chinese intelligence services don't have their fingers all throughout HK telecom?). Second - now that his "whistleblowing" goes beyond exposing illegal domestic intelligence collecting activity to wholesale exposure of defense/foreign intelligence related work. If he wanted the free people of a free country to decide his fate, why not go to Switzerland or Iceland?

Daniel Ellsburg is an unequivocated american hero, by contrast. He uncovered the lie of the Vietnam War, but didn't produce lame justifications for defecting to the Soviet Union.

So to wrap it up - when/if Snowden sits down with a Chinese intelligence officer to tell all the dirty little secrets, is he still the "hero" he once was?
Nice catch! Straight-up error on my part.
Alternative history. White ghetto.
Yes, https://github.com/themeskult/wp-svbtle.
Ask HN: Crawl sites anonymously
I want to scrape some sites in order to share this information in a way it could help people make better decisions.

I'd like to get some resources how to crawl the sites anonymously.
I don't think a local alignment is helpful for Sublime's ctrl-p. I would go with Needleman-Wunsch.
I remember the amount of non-reproducible research was as high as 90 %? Google returns some hits from May 7th(and I remember the HN post from around a month ago, we talk about the same thing I think) or so with that title, but perhaps the actual number is somewhere between 60 and 90 %?
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> Omit the 'of' after 'all' unless you change the meaning of the sentence. (all of)

You mean like this?

"(...) but disappointed that all them have been wrong (...)"

Really? I'm not a native speaker, but that doesn't look right.
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indeed that is what in these days I would consider interesting and eventually title "Returning to Free Software" ... have you got experiences to share on the matter?

And speaking about practical solutions, I know of identi.ca and libre.fm , do you know of others?
...the cost to store all domestic phone calls a year in cloud storage for data-mining purposes would be about $27 million per year...

Ah, so that's why China has overtaken the USA in the computing power race... Wasting money on spying instead of building better computers.

All who support these abuses of our Bill of Rights should be ashamed of themselves.
Ah thanks. Yeah Crunchbang might look exotic now but I think it is an up and comer. It is currently #16 here http://distrowatch.com/ just above Slackware and basically offers a minimal UI on top of Debian.
It takes time and effort to make a good choice "from tens of good alternatives". Its great to have that freedom, but to many, spending that time and effort is an inconvenience. That is the trade off.
As it seems that you do not have the guts to leave the company you will need to try to change it from the inside.

This is what I did:

Find 2-3 people like you in the company. Make sure they are all respected people within their teams.
Implement a prototype.
Select the most ambitious manager you can find and show him the prototype.

This is not about technology: This is about power. Explain him that he can save tons of money, that he can reduce the number of outsourced people,
reduce the operational costs, stop some providers (i.e. big database vendor) from ripping money off from the company and that you think that he is
the only one with the guts to stop all this mess.

I was in this same situation 9 years ago. I made my guerrila war. Lost it. Quit the job.

I did not have the guts either, but this whole process (9 months) made me a better person. Lots of stress and lots of work. Quitting the job was easy as pie.

Now I have my own IT company. This is no paradise, but I will not work again in a big multinational company.

Good luck.
Ask HN: How do you decide what to learn next?
Whether it's a new programming language, a new database, a new way of building software, or more fundamental such as compiler design, etc...

Do you consider how you could apply it? Do you look at market demand for this skill? What questions do you ask yourself before you choose to learn something.
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sure it is better than doing nothing, except in my perception HN isn't a place for average non-tech guys so I get bored by this kind of posts

About me, I'm planning (and practicing) not to release any non-free code and also looking for alternatives to a few web apps which I'm still unable to replace (as per first post). That would be a much nicer topic to discuss for me.

Installing gnu/linux, no really. Again that is 20years old story.
I had no problem understanding the many nuances of 1984 the book, and that was over 35 years ago.

I also had no problem seeing a problem with the central banking system and fractional reserve lending.

Perhaps you disliked "being forced" to read classics, but many of us contemplated these writings thoughtfully.
Yes, and what I'm demonstrating is there is likely prior art in the form of cDNA molecules identical to the Myriad molecule that have existed in cells at some point in the past. That fact, which SCOTUS convenient ignored, is sufficient to override the idea that cDNA molecules can be patented.

Anyway, your comment about oncogenes again shows you haven't read Biology of Cancer. if you read the first four chapters, it works out the history through which we worked out the understand of oncogenes. And the history is different from what we know now to be the prevalent mechanisms. The use of tumor viruses, which is nicely explained, demonstrates that scientists had already described the phenomenon I'm cited in the mid-1970's. That phenomenon wasn't really followed up on after the mid-80s, when people got better mechanisms and a larger understanding of cancer. But if you go back to the tumor virus literature and really understand it at a fundamental level, you have to acknowledge that BRCA cDNAs identical to the Myriad patent have almost certainly existed in both free (nucleoplasm) and integrated forms in at least one cell in the past. Whether that cell survived, is irrelevant.
Best would be to use a CyanogenMod ROM. I hear in the next version they plan to introduce some extra privacy options:

http://www.androidcentral.com/easy-privacy-may-be-coming-soo...

Then TextSecure for SMS/chat, RedPhone for calling, and some other alternatives you may find for other apps.

At least for now it might even help if you use services from small, unknown companies, as opposed to services from the big ones, which are a given to be the focus of NSA. But it may be a matter of time before they collect the data (even if encrypted) from those, too, if they aren't already. It would also help a bit to user services hosted in other countries.
A good question.

From what I've seen, there was no interest in it by manufacturers so they've went silently with Ubuntu Touch route.

As a side note, I'm amazed at how little love by hackers Ubuntu Touch has. It's what we've always wanted - a "full" linux stack on your phone/tablet that's also a desktop. What's there not to love? Do we really need to hate Canonical for integrating Amazon? It's removed by a single command ffs.
From my experience:
Don't include your community college, unless that's where your degree is from. Even then, if you got an AS at a community college and then got a BS, just drop the AS.

Include your GPA if it's better than 3.0/4.0. That's the cutoff point for most companies, and unfortunately some will be 3.5, so unless you know the hiring manager you'll just get filtered out. Some people try to tweak this by splitting out "Major GPA" versus "Overall GPA", but if your school was like mine then your community college work just transferred as credit, and doesn't impact your GPA outside of fewer classes in the calculation.

Don't include your transcripts; this isn't a scholarship.

My question is at what point do you drop your college GPA from your resume? After your first professional job, after 5 years, more?
FBI's stated motivation was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order.

So the only way to progress is...how again?

I wonder how they view innovation, startups, and Silicon Valley.
> Care to share links to some of these insightful posts?

Implying that the writings could only have been online?

There once was a time when we wrote on paper, with pencil and pen, or if you were really well off you had a typewriter.
I think you have a real possibility to make large amounts of money from water cooler jokes alone. This could make big money with office inner circles. Also, the random funny, odd, and cool imgur pic-of-the-week shirt could be very lucrative. Just think of all those college and high school kids wearing the Reddit best-of each week.

Good work!