skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great question, but you should bear in mind that there's
almost always going to be a tradeoff between
security/privacy/anonymity and convenience.

Encypting your email and having to deal with key managment issues, and
hosting your own email server is going to be more of a hassle than
just using someone else's "free" cloud-based service.

Setting up and managing your own services is going to be a burden and
a time sink, even if you have the skills, knowledge, and copious free
time to do it all.

The question becomes: how much is your privacy and security worth to
you? Unfortunately, for most people the answer is "not that much".
Nevermind that most of them don't have the knowledge or skills to set
up and manage their own services even if they valued their security
and privacy enough to sacrifice so much time and effort to it.

The problems are magnified when you consider that most applications
are not built with security, privacy, or anonymity in mind. And when
you have to use these applications to interact with other people (most
of which probably won't be nearly as security or privacy conscious as
you are), you're going to have an uphill battle to protect your own
privacy. For instance, good luck getting your computer illiterate parents, friends, colleagues, and bosses to properly use GPG to encrypt their emails to you.

This doesn't even begin to address the issues of privacy and security
in the "real world" as opposed to the digital one, nor of the
digital footprints you leave as you consume online information and
media, and interact with others on various forums.

The end result is that online privacy and security are largely becoming the
mainstay of the super-paranoid technological elite and the ultra-rich,
who can afford to hire security teams to take care of their privacy
for them, and of the technological outcast, who (willingly or
unwillingly) manages to avoid using the net at all.
Yay, more FUD. But even your worst examples seem peanuts compared to something like the Iraq War.
Mail (i.e. the envelope) is scanned for address decoding. I believe the orange barcode is an index into the database of mail pieces and associated decoded address. Although this has a completely legitimate rationale in facilitating the delivery of the mail, it's easy to see that the scanned images and mailpiece database could be archived for much longer than is needed for mail delivery only.
Thank you for your email regarding the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC).

CSEC operates within all Canadian laws, including the Privacy Act, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the Criminal Code. CSEC is prohibited by law from directing its foreign intelligence activities at Canadians anywhere in the world or at any person in Canada. In addition, there are rigorous procedures in place to ensure that it adheres to this prohibition.

The Ministerial Directive on Metadata clearly defines metadata and specifies that CSEC may only collect and use metadata in support of its foreign intelligence and cyber-protection mandate. For intelligence purposes, CSEC uses metadata to isolate and identify foreign communications and foreign targets. The Ministerial Directive also outlines strict conditions to protect the privacy of Canadians. Under the National Defence Act, CSEC is mandated to provide technical and operational assistance to law enforcement and security agencies in the performance of their lawful duties.

All CSEC and law enforcement and security agencies’ activities are strictly bound by the limits of their lawful duties, including court warrants. Under such circumstances, CSEC activities are subject to review by an independent CSE Commissioner who is responsible for reviewing CSEC activities to ensure that all CSEC activities comply with the law and protect the privacy of Canadians. All information acquired under the warrant belongs to the assisted agency.

CSEC does not target the communications of Canadians anywhere and has legislative measures in place to protect the privacy of Canadians. As the CSE Commissioner noted in his 2011-2012 report, the focus of CSEC activity is foreign intelligence. In this report, the CSE Commissioner highlights that all reviewed CSEC activities were authorized and carried out in accordance with the law. The Commissioner also highlights CSEC’s culture of lawful compliance and for protecting the privacy of Canadians.
Not everything is a software problem, I think you are hugely underestimating how much more power is required for an elevator to self propel vertically upwards compared to a counterweight system. I'm not an expert but I'd have to guess its at least 10x if not potentially much more
If battery is your primary concern you should hold out for Haswell.
1. The people you collaborate with may use U.S. based servers and may otherwise leak your data, intentionally or unintentionally.

2. The NSA is not at all alone among national agencies tapping into their own country's tubes.
IANAL but this doesn't seem unreasonable. The exact clause is:

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.

For me, the key is "in connection with operating the Hosting Service". They will need to do things with your data as they move it between servers and storage and make it available to you. If you want it displayed publicly then you need to have given them a license to do so.
A service does need the right to store, process and display your data, and if their service makes use of third-parties then they need to assert the right to work with third parties.

That said, it would be comforting if Atlassian clarified this to make it clear they have zero claims on anybody's IP.
That thread is absolutely incredible.
Not true. The NSA takes advantage of any data from overseas that is routed into or through the US.
Then I stand corrected! One of the memes floating around was that snail mail was less tracked. I wonder if I assumed this applied to the metadata and people were only ever referring to the contents.
How would you ever prevent whoever gets the information to pass it to secret services agency?

That is why as European I find the whole PRISM discussion overblown as if people weren't aware secret service agencies have been doing this for years all over the world.
Most people don't realize that the NSA is about ten times larger than the CIA. This allows them to aggregate data on a scale that is unprecedented. Being such a large organization, they still don't have the manpower to process so much data. Thus, the solution is to acquire and store this data for future use. I would imagine that even they don't know exactly what they have.
In American English (and perhaps other dialects), Italian 'ciao' is an allophone with English 'chow'. (Really two allophones, 'ch' and 'ow'). Most Americans won't be able to hear a difference.
I got the same response.
Seems[0] like that message is shown when you try to submit an url to a (known) spamming site.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3030992
You tough it out like a grown adult hacker, and don't whine about it during the 2-3 days it might give you trouble (cursing is fine, and in fact encouraged).
Ask HN: Programmers - from Good to Great. How do you make it?
After working on numerous projects, with a bit less of actual theoretical knowledge how will make your way from being a good programmer, to a great one?
Why does any service need to assertively state they don't own your IP? They don't own your IP. And can't claim it. Whether they mention it or not doesn't change that fact.
> "....He looked at me incredulously, as if to say, Haven’t you run a studio? Then he said very emphatically, “The implications are— you’re seeing the implications—the implications are, those studios are frozen. The big implication is that those studios are—not necessarily inappropriately—terrified to do anything because they don’t know what the numbers look like.”

Regarding tech advance crushing DVD sales, 50% of profit.
I think you've approached the question in the right way. There is no such thing as security without a tradeoff...everyone who's ever traveled through an airport knows that. The cloud is useful because it's so easy to share things -- and that "leakiness" makes it inherently unsafe.

The NSA had its own easy-access problem lately...Snowden reportedly snuck data out using USB drives, something that was purportedly banned after a 2008 virus incident...and yet, some sysop apparently thought it'd be a good idea to let a few USB ports survive, because the things are so damned useful. And now look at what that wrought the NSA.

It's not just inconvenience that you have to put up when going for security, it's the risk that the inconvenience will cause you to enact blind spots to ease your day...and easing inconvenience was exactly the reason why people use cloud services (and USB keys) in the first place.

I'm not trying to espouse fatalism (i.e. everyone just give up their data to the G-men). Just pointing out that what the OP wants is basically a unicorn.
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No, it didn't.

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_to...
No, like this: "(...) but disappointed that all have been wrong (...)"

As non-native speakers (I'm one too), we have a tendency to use English inelegantly and stuff too many words in sentences.
Why do they need to modify the data? And why do they need to distribute it (assuming this is different from copying), and for that matter why do they need to use your source code?
I'd be surprised if Atlassian inserted that phrase out of malice. I've been told by lawyers more than once that "it's necessary to prevent someone from suing you for doing exactly what they asked you to do". (display content they uploaded)

The lawyers also use it for covering all their bases. By uploading, do you automatically give them the right to feature your repo on their homepage? Or is that advertising?
The team builds it
I think he means commercial use in closed-source projects. So it's not v2 vs v3, but GPL vs Apache or MIT.
But they do seem to say they have many rights to your code. Rights they shouldn't have.
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People that are overweight can find a number of advertisements, which will encourage them to try products that claim to be effective methods to getting back in shape. History proves that people generally fall for tactics that are accompanied by high-profile advertising and claims which are backed by several testimonials. Manufacturers of such products generally look forward to targeting gullible individuals who they feel could be looking out for quick-fix remedies. Unfortunately, it must also be mentioned that they have been successful in their leaving people doubting the veracity of the claims made even by reputed manufacturers.
A quick Google search turned up this: http://cipherdocs.com/
Why would you want to avoid using real english? That's just silly.
Our continued commitment to combating child exploitation online
Which editor is that?
Ramnode was hacked as a result: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888309
I don't know what gave you this impression.

The NSA are interested in any and all sources of information, and probably collect just as much or more of it from foreign sources than domestic ones.

Yes, the recent media hoopla has been over the NSA collecting information on Americans in America. But that does not mean that the NSA is limited to collecting information in America. Quite the contrary. Historically, they have been more about collecting foreign intelligence abroad (ie. spying on the rest of the world).

This reminds me of a quote: "You have a choice: you can live under US domestic policy or US foreign policy". If you think you're safe or exempt under either of them, you might have some surprises in store for you.
>“The DVD business represented fifty percent of their profits,” he went on. “Fifty percent. The decline of that business means their entire profit could come down between forty and fifty percent for new movies.”

>If a studio’s margin of profit was only 10 percent in the Old Abnormal, now with the collapsing DVD market that profit margin was hovering around 6 percent. The loss of profit on those little silver discs had nearly halved our profit margin.

This actually explains a lot about the studios' rabid antipiracy campaigns and their unwillingness to make everything available streaming. DVDs aren't a huge slice of the pie, but as a percentage of profit, it becomes a huge deal.
Part of the problem is that there aren't enough people building such things. We've all had the luxury of a 'free' offering, which can understandably stifle progression of alternatives.

There are other challenges too. Decentralised services are probably the way forward but that creates a new set of problems around identity, communication and connectivity (things that are easier when everything just 'dials home'). User experience and design are also something that would have to be considered for such products before most people would/could switch. Keychain management will also be important to ensure security. Think of it like vaccines, where you need to have a certain proportion of the population inoculated before you can benefit from herd immunity [1].

If you're interested in a google-alternative that would deal with mail, contacts and calendars then get in touch with me (email in profile). There are a few of us who'll be building something and we'll need feedback.

Despite all of the above, I'm pretty sure that Hotmail is still the biggest hosted email provider, followed by Yahoo and then Gmail. I can't remember where/when I heard this though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
Copy: obviously, I want them to store my data and move them from HD to HD.
Distribute: This is what a distributed version control system is for.
Perform: Yes, please, format my .md files as specified.
Display: show me my code please.
Store: already covered.
Modify: this is dubious but if I upload a change, they need to modify it.

So I want to give them those rights if I want the service to work as desired, otherwise, it would not be bitbucket.
That's a good way to have something blow up on you once you realize that you've based everything on something with the wrong licensing, and now you're on the hook for a lot of money.

Software often has very strong lock-in effects - what you choose today may what you'll be stuck with for the next 5, 10, 20 years.
I doubt name makes a bigger difference than usefulness.
I can relate. Switching to Linux and then having a project crop up for Windows/Mac can be pretty disheartening. I suppose you can always run a VM for Windows, but it seems to be a "cheap" solution to the problem you initially decided to try and solve.
At no point do you disagree with me.
USB Power Supply/Charger Tests
Please don't be so simple minded. I mean that for your own sake. The English word 'free' has more than one common meaning.
I was sitting on a swing today, thinking about this line of thinking. UML is getting out of date, I've thought so before:

http://www.kite9.com/content/muddle-uml

I've also thought about what I would like in a modern visual language, but all of that was from a strongly-typed (typically Java) POV.

Having spent a lot more time with JavaScript & Ruby recently, I am now thinking that surely there is a need for a notation for dynamically typed languages. What the hell would that look like though? Anyone interested in trying to figure it out with me?
I know outlook.com wont block or more accurately auto assign mail to spam if your domain has spf enabled.

Try this wizard for TXT record to assign to your DNS
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/...
You really don't get it... Why should one software be less free than another.
"courts have ruled that “in connection with” covers indirect connection as well as direct connection."

Which courts?

The question matters because while Github is located in San Francisco, Atlassian is an Australian company.
> It's great if the HN community can config their OSes to get every watt out of it, but the truth is the lay man doesn't know, doesn't care and doesn't want to know how to do that...

How is this even relevant? We are the HN community, right? Where are these lay men? I don't think the OP as targeted at lay men.

I'm starting to think all this talk of "the end user doesn't care" or "the lay man doesn't want to know" are all just euphemisms for "I want it to be easier for me".

Which is fine, but then just admit it, instead of hiding behind a hypothetical end-user.
> End User hereby grants Atlassian a non-exclusive license

The title of this post needs to be changed to reflect the title of the post. Right now it's disingenuous link bait.
If I ever create a programming language, I will call it either ♫ (pronounced music) or . (pronounced dot).

That's one thing brainfuck didn't get right. Even they couldn't predict how incredibly stupid programming language naming would become :)
He wrote command t and then when I tried it I suggested doing the multi word matching trick. To the best of my memory, could be misremembering. i had some back and forth with him about it and he revised it to its current state.

8 years ago, yikes.
One high-throughput system is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster. Unfortunately, it looks extremely dangerous, and in fact has caused a large enough number of accidents that it's banned in most modern countries.
That sucks, I'm sorry to hear that, but I'll make an observation and you can take it or leave it: You didn't properly evaluate their position and what is expected of them. They are held to a certain standard they may personally disagree with but their careers are on the line. Students have a hard time realizing this.
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Yeah, worrying about Feedburner is not new.

http://css-tricks.com/lets-say-feedburner-shuts-down/

This recent NSA stuff may help with motivating people to actually switch, but it's not really needed as a reason.
Why do tall elevators use cables at all? Why not a system with a motor driven gear wheel on the car engaged with toothed rails on the sides of the shaft. You would not have counterweights but you could recover energy used in lifting on the next descent, and store it in supercapacitors for use on the next lift, which would achieve the same ends.
(plug starts)

Can I also suggest Kite9?

www.kite9.com/kite9/gui.html

Which does automatic diagram layout. It's not quite doing UML yet, but a reasonable approximation thereof. It's more visual/drag-and-drop than UMLet.

I intend to include a suite of actual UML symbols within the next week or so.

Hopefully this will be useful to you!

(end plug)
As an aside, like most of the health information we share, the idea of lactic acid building up and causing soreness is a myth. (Lactic acid levels return to baseline an hour after exercise)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness
I don't see what RSS has to do with anything, really.
Lots of discussion here about ratios of usable space in tall structures. Why don't we solve that by putting the elevators on the outside of the building?
Yes, that's what I meant.

Most -- nearly all -- major open-source projects written in C# (or other .NET languages) are permissively licensed. Yes, that means people could just grab the code and use it in their own closed-source projects without giving back; but, as far as I've seen, most devs are happy to contribute back to the projects they use in whatever way they can.
This isn't true unless you limit yourself to key exchanges that are entirely online. Offline key/certificate exchanges will still be resilient to online MITM. Attack vectors on implementation notwithstanding.

Of course SSL-type stuff is out. My guess is that many governments have their hands in the CA cookie jar for a long time now.
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In the context of the Cold War/struggle with USSR...

But you're right, they're still out there causing havoc.
Someone in the thread above suggested the same. This needs doing.
An aspect of the NSA call monitoring in the first Bush administration that I hadn't realized until now was how immediately it was set up. If allegations in court filings are true [1], it was initiated in February 2001, barely a month after Bush was sworn in, and not in response to 9/11. So it really does seem like something the administration wanted, not a hasty overreaction.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=abIV0...
It seems like you have a lot of misconceptions about cities and there health and environmental impacts, which have been proven multiple times to be lower in per capita then suburban and rural communities, often by great amounts. I'd like to understand why you think the decentralized model is more sustainable, It requires cars and roads to live outside the M25. Other comments have dealt with these numbers already.

Anyway, to my point. I see no reason why new technology and interconnectedness is going to lead to the decline of the western city. My Experience suggests its more likely to lead to a greater desire among young adults to move to the urban cores (as they always habe), for Sex/Marriage, Culture and Nightlife as they see there own friends partake, so to speak. At the end of the day, extremely few people would find the internet an acceptable replacement to living amongst ones peers
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You're assuming they are getting the data from Google. They are getting the information from the internet backbone, not the service providers themselves. Assume EVERYTHING on the internet is being recorded, regardless of service provider. Setting up your own email solution does not even begin to solve the problem.
Between 8 and 14 sysadmins.
Yep, and I said in the article that I'd be happy to pay for adding other ALTER TABLE methods... if someone ran a funding campaign, I'd donate quite a bit of money. I still suspect that if such a campagign was run, we'd see a good set of money come in from the community for it.
Ignoring the dubious baseline assumption that your data really is at risk of exposure, why do you think what you're proposing would make you safer rather than put you at more risk? You still need to actually home your servers somewhere, which means a colo or VPS that is subject to the exact same laws. Do you expect the providers of those services to have the capability to fight such requests better than Google, given that Google has a full time legal team dedicated to doing so? What about the basic security of the provider itself? Do you really expect that to be anywhere near the level of what Google provides on its own systems? To top it all off, there's the maintenance and securing of whatever you're actually running, which requires significant expertise and takes quite a bit of time if you don't want your box popped and turned into a zombie host (which is what is most likely to happen).

I've actually done what you're proposing for several years, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. And I'm a well respected security professional with the right background who knows all the tricks I'm supposed to do. It was still a huge pain and time sink, which meant I often let patches and updates slide more than I should. The real cherry on top is that all the three different colo/VPS providers I've used were hacked at one point or another, causing disclosure of my personal data and significant outages of my ability to communicate.

My point here is that you're not being honest with yourself if you really think you can manage this as a side project better than the full-time teams at Google do. If you want to pick another provider of email, etc, then investigate carefully and find one you're happy with. But I'd strongly discouraging running your own services.
It makes no difference if you are using cloud services or not. Everything on the internet is being recorded by the NSA. Foreign & domestic.