skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That the Swedish IRS would be given access to FRA is still only speculation. I haven't seen any article saying that it is even something they are planning to do.

They do a lot more that is let out in articles. I don't understand people that expect to be informed about what secret services and government covert operations do by the press. Any leaks to the press would obviously be the exception.

The only reasonable thing to do for such things, is to try to estimate and deduce what's happening from their (the secret services, government etc) historical behaviour, the times they've been caught lying and what little leaks are available. And, probably, fear the worse.

>It could happen, but I'm sure it will be a public outcry if it ever is proposed

As if the public will do anything about it...

Worse things have been proposed and passed.
So why didn't he go to Iceland in the first place? And would Hong Kong let him out if he decides to leave right now, before the US issued any warrant?
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Have to agree on this. USA has lost it's appeal for me for quite some time now. For me the countries that I'd like to live in the most are Switzerland, Canada, Australia (I don't know about the US influence there much though), maybe Germany or other similar Western European state, but certainly not US. I live in Eastern Europe btw.
Ah, interesting! Thanks for the counter-example.
Ask HN: Where in the world should I host my own services for privacy?
I'm considering what it would take to reduce my dependency on cloud services to see if I could tolerate the inconvenience. But one question is - where should I host it? Obviously these things change, but what are the good jurisdictions from a data protection point of view?
Gandhi's tactics weren't even effective then. Look up Bhagat Singh. The only reason everyone gives credit for Indian independence to Gandhi instead of Singh is that Britain didn't want anymore Singhs.
Yeah, it was Obama. He did it by himself. He just turned his evil black man powers on the internet industry and just blacked it all up. He did this because he is the entire federal government.

Jesus.
You don't want direct democracy. Otherwise the majority will rule over the minority.
The main issue is latency and cost. Try browsing the internet from New Zealand or Australia for a few weeks: you really notice the difference of being another 150-200ms away from servers in the U.S. If you'd like to host in those countries directly you'll be subject to higher bandwidth costs.
You're right, but why demean the word "promise"?

If they're going to manipulate us into voting for them, I'd like them to be held accountable differently for things they told us they "intend to do" compared to things they told us they "promised to do".
Pedantically they UK also had a terrorist organisation that was setting bombs and almost killed the Prime Minister ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing )

Though they tried to crack down very hard on them, and it just made things worse. You'd think they'd learn from that.
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The subheadings are not part of the law and are there for general information only. If you read the specifics of the law, as I said in my comment just above, the law covers giving money in support of a wide variety of crimes, not just KABOOM! terrorism, despite the title. The wide variety includes computer crimes.
If you do this, know that (in my estimation - IANAL) you're likely doing something illegal. Imagine the same situation for any other crime: "You killed someone I don't like; here's $10k".

If you choose to do it as an act of civil disobedience itself, more power to you, but it should be deliberate.
>Imagine if half the country suddenly decided to no longer respect American law. They refused to pay taxes, obey traffic law, etc. What would the government do?

Start beating the shit out of people, killing them, etc., etc. and the people would very quickly relent.
Yes, it was supported back when they used encfs, but now they've switched to their own internal rewrite which broke compatibility.
You're right that treason has been committed: the United States has become it's own enemy.
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Actually, no - it is far worse than nothing. It makes you feel secure while you are not.

I don't understand this line of reasoning - why would HTTPS be the cure for the privacy problem? So you can post sensitive data through HTTPS to Gmail and it will be "private"?
We are currently doing volume limiting. Traders can specify these in their advertisement settings.

Eg. first time you can only buy certain amount, after that the amount goes up as the buyer gains volume.

The problem with this case was that it was quite an old account, and already had quite a volume & several succesful transactions. If it was a hacked bank account, the real owner was quite careless with the transfers.

We are developing all kinds of methods for helping to make the trading less problematic. For example, we have SMS identification, and might add more like these. However these we will try to keep optional in a way, that the invidual traders can specify if they want to require which identifications or not.
There are two areas where SAR have little independence: defense and foreign affairs. Hong Kong will have its own money, postal service, justice, environment ministry, police, ....but it doesn't have a military and its foreign affairs tends to be limited to economic matters.
Also:

No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Interesting. Anyone got any experience with Jottacloud they wouldn't mind sharing?
True. Of course if a large segment of those whose connection of birth and heritage to the territory that Israel effectively owned were denied citizenship in the US, we might have a similar situation. (We do have this situation with American Samoa which I think is a significant problem but it's only half a million residents so not comparable at all.)

I think going into a major back and forth though would be off-topic here. I do think the problem is not one side's fault but the fact that quite a number of sides (way more than two) want to see conflict continue because it is what they know best.
> I don't know of any 2nd amendment supporters who are also not strong 1st and 4th supporters

Are you sure? For instance, on cultural grounds, I'd guess that there are plenty of 2nd amendment supporters who would be happy to ban flag-burning...
Ugh, I really wish fan fiction would stop being "a thing". If you have talent then make up your own story, ffs. Why do you need to tell stories from someone else's universe?
You're totally right, that was the wrong link, and the example I found is actually 3 weeks which is so much more reasonable for a serious crime like sending your child to the local school.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8343865.stm

There are others and Wikipedia even has a special section on oppressive use : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Pow...

[edit: to correct the time frame]
We can't... but we will.

Never underestimate the apathy of the general public, their faith in authority, and their general willingness to write this stuff off as 'stuff that affects someone else'.

Yeah I know, I'm a cynic.
Cheers!

I'm a freelancer who does a lot of different bits and pieces, including very amateur game development and some limited web design/dev. I write about the tech industry for my main source of income, so I program mostly as a hobby, but I use my skills where I can.

I worked on this with some people who were working in-house, I wrote the content and created the tool as a relatively crude prototype before they made the polished final product you see here, but I'm still proud of my involvement.
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From http://www.wuala.com/en/download/linux:

> The package installs Wuala and registers our repository for further updates.

This is even more harmful that it sounds, as someone who has repo access (be it some evil staff member or, more possibly, inturder) may push not only malicious Wuala build, but any package with higher version number than in other repos (say, a linux-image-999.999 with a bundled rootkit) and if user was incautious it will be installed on system update.
> Experts told the Telegraaf the bombs are B61 nuclear weapons and up to four

> times as powerful as the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

Som expert. The Hiroshima bomb was 16 kilotons and Nagasaki was 21 kilotons. The B61 on the other hand is up to 340 kilotons, or up to 21 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb.

Why can't journalist newer understand that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was relatively small compared to the thermonuclear weapons we have today.
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This is contradicted somewhat by a different source. This one says Hong Kong is a very good place to seek asylum right now, because there is a moratorium on deporting asylum-seekers:

But there is at least one reason it could be incredibly shrewd: Hong Kong's asylum system is currently stuck in a state of limbo that could allow Snowden to exploit a loophole and buy some valuable time.

Simon Young, director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, told GlobalPost that a decision delivered by Hong Kong's High Court in March of this year required the government to create a new procedure for reviewing asylum applications.

Until the government does this, he said, asylum seekers are allowed to stay in Hong Kong indefinitely.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific...
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Target does something like this, when I worked in the corporate office it was a pretty regular thing to send employees to work in various parts around the store to get a feel. Though it was typically only for a week.
Yes, it's becoming a one government world. A New World Order.
This is a brilliant post. I was about to deploy a site before I read this. It's so easy just to forget that directory.
There great for hitting bases. Consider if all things being equal pearl harbor had been nuked the Japanese would have been far better off in WWII. Instead they sent a huge force which dropped a lot of bombs but failed to take out the base or kill a high percentage of the soldiers there.

There are also strategic value in that it forces a country to respond even if you only send one aircraft. Don't forget Japan did not bother trying to take down the the first atomic bomber presumably because they assumed it was just taking pictures but even still.
It's not obvious to Matt Yglesias, to whom McArdle was responding.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/11/26/walmart_wages...
There released an interesting paper regarding their key managment for multiple users, when they were a reserach project at the ETH.

Cryptree: A folder tree structure for cryptographic file systems -
http://boga.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/res/Docs/wuala-cryptree...
Oh please. It's common knowledge these things have been stored here, as well as other parts of the world. They're cold war relics, stored near the borders of the former cold war countries.

I mean, they had a complete air base (Soesterberg) here in the Netherlands, which was actually part of US territory. Complete with border crossings! They left the base in 2008, it makes for a pretty good museum about aviation history now.
The new icons look ugly, especially the gradients in the background. Psychedelic looking, should come with a warning.
Too many batman movies
> Hong Kong is the worst place in the world for any person to avoid extradition, with the possible exception of the United Kingdom

I'm British, and this both saddens and angers me. It's time for a change.
But non-US citizens can liberally have their basic human rights denied. 12 years after 9/11. That's the land of the free for you.

(Looking at how Bradley Manning was treated even shows that US citizens aren't treated much better. Being denied a lawyer and confined to solitary cells for months is not much different from torture.)
Well, warts aside I came to like Javascript.

And by keeping to Javascript, only better and fixed, it would be easier to reuse and adapt huge parts of the browser ecosystem and toolchain.

Ruby maybe. Lua lacks proper unicode support. Python, I've used since 1998, but can't stand the lack of proper closures (and/or how the syntax makes them awkward) for web work.

And there's two more issues with all of them:

1) they are dog slow compared to modern JS JITs like V8 (and alternative implementations like PyPy are not as mature).

2) on the browsers, due to the sandbox and other issues, you can't use most of their libraries, that use native extensions and such, so you just get their syntax, not their batteries.
As a European I wouldn't say I see the USA in the same light as China and Russia, but I definitely feel uncomfortable when I have to travel to the US for work. Given the US's recent track record with human rights and the ongoing mass surveillance, I just can't be sure some innocent comment on some website I've made at some point won't flag me and cause me to be indefinitely detained. I know it's probably not likely, but the possibility is real enough that it makes me uncomfortable. I'd rather work in countries where I know I have rights that will be strongly upheld.

When I traveled to the US first time with a new passport (Chicago, year 200X) I was taken to a police station at the airport and made to answer various questions (I'm a whiter than white male from Northern Europe). The answers were entered into what I assume is some monster database, and I was never explained why this was done or what would be done with the data. It certainly didn't make me feel like I was entering the "land of the free", rather I felt like I was entering a police state.
But the second rule of macros is "they are very powerful", DO write them for the cases that need it.

Anyway, method_missing is not at all the same as macros. At least in Objective C that I know it's equivalent, it's very useful.
I wouldn't worry too much about it, it is all politics and all selective. A lot of Russians fled to the UK to elude justice in Russia. Whether they are political refugees or indeed committed crimes back home is another matter, but London is certainly a safe harbour for many of them.
I don't think the USA is comparable to the worst offenders unless you are looking at a list of bullet points instead of the big picture. But it is hard not to feel the USA is heading down the wrong path. As allies we are compelled by our national interests to follow down the same rabbit hole to some extent and to me it feels our country is morally compromised pushing for data retention laws comparable to Prism when we have no demonstrated domestic need for such things. However Aussies, Swedes, New Zealanders, many small countries rely heavily on the US for our security and there really isn't much option but to tough it out and hope the US turns it around from within.
I feel obligated to point out that you are ranting so passionately that you repeatedly leave reason behind.

It isn't accurate to say that any leak is "aiding the enemy" or "the enemy is the whole world". The US does not have a dictator. Laws are still passed by the legislature in the same old way they have been, and are not being applied ex post facto. It isn't actually true that "they could arrest pretty much anyone over anything at this point."
At list one need to be two (or three?) to launch a Trident from a submarine. The RAF used to use a simple bicycle lock: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7097101.stm

That "The Bomb is actually armed by inserting a bicycle lock key into the arming switch and turning it through 90 degrees. There is no code which needs to be entered or dual key system to prevent a rogue individual from arming the Bomb." isn't something one likes to hear when its about nuclear weapons...
Sure, maybe not to the same extent, but as long as the definition of an ‘enemy combatant’ remains unclear, American citizens can be arrested and held without formal charges or trial.
To be clear (it wasn't mentioned explicitly in the blog post), but it's obviously what the author was referring to, this is about people who are deploying web sites with static content which is being managed via git.
If he is sitting in Australia in fear of the US I think he needs more help than a few words will offer.
Could this be the reason why you've had the same PM for so long? I mean who knows how he used that information on his competitors, or the campaign funders of the competitors.
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Except for Yasser Hamdi, it took them a few months before they realized he was a u.s. citizen.
That is certainly a disturbing abuse of power. Here is the IPT's ruling on the case: http://www.ipt-uk.com/docs/Paton_v_Poole_Borough_Council.pdf
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.

Granted, I think we'd miss out on potentially great movies, but it seems like a way for the studios to further reduce their risk, so I think they'd be all over this. Perhaps they're already doing it and I'm just unaware.
I think there's nothing wrong with this if there aren't (and weren't) any secrets directly embedded in the source code and all configuration files that contain sensitive information are (and always were) properly gitignore'd.

Tech-savvy users can even be encouraged to pull the code and send patches. :)
>"bails out bankers while promoting austerity for everyone else"

How does that work exactly? Do banks operate in a vacuum in the economy?

It's my understanding that social program spending (and hence the deficit) over the recession was at all time highs. "Main Street" got its share of the bail out, as it should have.
You don't need to replace your entire anything, and it's not "just for fun".

No, the question is really "EC has these benefits (lower CPU and memory usage) - why aren't these benefits attractive enough for someone to start experimenting with it?" - with those someones probably being companies like Google, Facebook, Dropbox etc that have very substantial amounts of SSL traffic and could surely benefit from saving on memory and CPU.
I recently discovered that I had been serving .git on my blog for a couple of years. All it took to fix was a simple rule in my Nginx config:

# Don't expose hidden files to the web
location ~ /\. {
return 404;
}
Isn't a luxury hotel the worst place to hide?

I'm sure there are cameras and one is easily recognized when getting out of the room.

Or is this just a 48h maneuver to clear up the political situation and then if needed move to one of the embassies in HK that is more supportive?
And it only applies when the document root is also the git repo root. If the document root is under a subdirectory, the .git directory won't be served.
For what it's worth, what you need is:

-- a company with no connections to the United States. Ideally, it should be privately owned by a foreign individual known for strong privacy views and who has promised never to sell.

-- local encryption

-- open source ("trust but verify")

-- actually works

Wuala, from the comments here, meets only one of those four requirements.
That's where we are going.

Now granted the US and Israel are products of very different histories. The Jews have been persecuted for centuries in Europe and to a somewhat lesser extent in the Middle East (the grass is always greener to some extent but the Muslims have been slightly better to religious minorities through most of history than the Christians were through the Middle Ages). The constant problems have lead to a very specific way of looking at things and I don't think one can have an historical perspective and say that the Jewish perspective is wrong in the Jewish context. The Jewish paranoia (and I mean paranoia in the security sense) is fully justified by the weight of history.

We in the US have extraordinary protections for free speech. You can stand up in a Neo-Nazi gathering and say that the time will come when people will have to finish what Hitler started and kill all Jews, and this is fully protected speech, but it is protected only because of what we went through in the US following WWII with the use of the Smith Act to prosecute people for sedition when all they did was distribute Marxist literature and try to spread Marxist ideas. So there is no such thing as a false or hateful idea before the law in the US because we don't trust the government or the courts to make that determination (interestingly if I mark bacon as kosher, the courts cannot interpret Jewish law to determine that in fact it can't be). An equal American paranoia --- where the government is the threat --- is also more than justified by the weight of history.

But what terrifies me is that since Oklahoma City, the US Government has been playing the security card all the time, and is taking more and more of our liberties. Freedom of association and the AEDPA? Security! Militarization of law enforcement? Security! Administrative detention? Security! Privacy concerns? Securi- you get the picture. And we are slowly forgetting why we have had our own different perspective.
He seemed to say he made a good deal of money too, so I doubt 15 grand will be a life-changer for him.
Maybe he knows something we don't? Just a guess.
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Wanting to watch Bourne Trilogy again with the P.R.I.S.M news
Not forget the Guardian Journo in the movie.
According to Snowden the NSA is very good at MITM attacks.

No parody needed to something that alarming.

And joking about it only dilutes an extremely serious concern.
Come on. Within six months, we're going to find out he raped someone or molested a child and needs to be extradited. Then people on this site are going to say "you're a bunch of conspiracy theorists. He raped that lady/kid and he needs to do the adult thing and go back to the US to face his charges. What is he so afraid of?". Watch it happen.
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I make it a habit to put all my public files in directory such as www/, where as .git and other non public but site-related files/directories are contained above this.
>So... having one sigil to distinguish a class variable isn't irritating, but another for a variable accessed by an accessor method is. Got it.

I'm not sure you did (get it).

One is part of the language's syntax. The other is an ad-hoc convention you have to remember and check for.

>You're welcome. Use it like so:
obj = {
thing: prop('thing')
}
when you want your accessors

My eyes. The goggles, they do nothing!

>(I’ve yet to hear anyone convincingly argue that JavaScript’s version of OOP offers anything in addition to or distinction from more traditional versions;
"convincingly"
Convincing who?*

The author. Isn't it obvious? Also me. So make us two.

And presumably ALL the other people that write frameworks and workarounds to get traditional OOP style in Javascript.
There will be costs to all of us, but at some point the US is costing more than it's saving us. I think we must be close to that point if not already past it.
My favourite story about the wonderfully shoestring UK nuclear weapons program (even better than the chicken heated nuclear bomb or the H-bomb that wasn't) is the fact that for quite a while the communication channel between the PM and the V-bomber fleet relied upon the AA (yes, the Automobile Association) radio network:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/in-the-eve...
Another alternative is hubiC. It's run by OVH, perhaps one of the most "techno-geek" companies in Europe that you can find… I don't see them feeding content to governments without any reason.

In fact, they opened a DC in Canada and not the U.S. and one can guess why.