skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most American's don't care. They are too busy on Facebook or playing games on their iphone/android, taking pictures of themselves in the bathroom, etc.

The Native Americans gave their land away for beads. Modern Americans give their constitutional rights away for electronic gadgets that they can play with.
You don't think it is also worse because the US has legal jurisdiction over you, while China, Russia, and Great Britain don't?
A point for you sir: complaining is not the way of solving a problem. Still the complaining is symptomatic of discomfort in the community for this facts; and discomfort, my good friend, is rich soil for solutions.

The best way of moving on is enabling creativity.
I guessed this exchange of data was happening earlier in the week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861516

Though I said ASIO rather than DSD:

> But what if the NSA gave the PRISM tech and data feed to ASIO so ASIO could spy on Americans and answer any question the NSA asks (and vice versa).

> Now neither intelligence service has an 'illegal wiretap' on their own citizens. They just receive 'foreign intelligence' from each other.
Google has been killing most of its RSS-related products (most notably Reader). People are concerned FeedBurner might be next.
I recommend you use instantserver.io.
Mount what amounts to an elevator system on the linear motor, but it never goes up and down. So you suspend a standard otis elevator from the linear motor.

Power fails, linear starts to fall, lands on top of the traditional otis with its emergency brakes holding the whole works up. There's no reason the cable between the otis and the linear has to be 200 feet for the linear to build up speed... make it, perhaps, 3 inches and a nice spring arrangement.

I bet it would still be pretty scary to be in one of those during a power failure. So put hybrid batteries on the linear motor so it can just keep on running during a power fail, perhaps programmed to do nothing but a normal controlled descent to the bottom doors. if ($powerfail == 'Y') { ignore_all_floor_selection_buttons_higher_than_this_floor; }
SolusVM 1.13.03 Vulnerabilities
Poll: What's your favorite bug tracker?
debbugs
request tracker
If you want to run Linux, Macbooks are not that great, as it takes ages to get support for each generation. You could buy a second hand or refurb one perhaps. I bought an old cheap discontinued model Lenovo (X201i) a few years back and put an SSD in. It could use more memory, although you tend to use VMs less on Linux than on OSX as you can run code natively. Should be good for a few more years.
Cutesy || CuteC
How to Backup Your Latest Files on Raspberry Pi
I don't care much about licenses or which parts of my stack are OS and which are not. I just want to create things and if using [Proprietary OS] instead of [Linux Distro] lets me work more efficient so be it.
Ramnode down after SolusVM vulnerability exposed
I guess a real script with "curl zamfoo.com/?license=$ZAMFOO_LICENSE" | sh" was too hard so I'm better off giving my root password to strangers.
pff you ain't even out of the school yard yet buddy.
Ramnode's SolusVM was hacked earlier and attempting to log in gave you a list of every single subsciber's email address, name, and root password (plain text) to their VPS as well as IP address. Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1gga3n/ramnode_hacke...

http://localhost.re/p/solusvm-11303-vulnerabilities

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1276286

If you use SolusVM: http://blog.soluslabs.com/2013/06/16/important-security-aler...

"We are working to get things back online. We were hit with a SolusVM exploit late last night." (https://twitter.com/RamNode)

Happy Father's Day!
> Oh for fuck's sake the 360 was a PowerPC arch, and the new Xbox is x86.

And who's fault is that? The consumers? Microsoft is the one that's being "so dumb". People obviously care about backwards compat. and then they did this stupid bullshit.

> You know how PS3 used to support old games?

Ummm, the right fucking way? You know...by doing what it takes and giving the customers what they obviously fucking want?

Why don't you get your head out of your fucking asshole, asshole?
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Just noticed this yesterday, amongst lots of CAP theorem and lcokless data structures: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/06/antifragility-from-...
Affordable Care Act May Lead to Congressional Brain Drain
Where's the code?

I'd like to look at how you implemented this, and maybe at the rule db.

This would be a great thing to have in offline software as a library.
Hollywood's Completely Broken
a stitch in time saves nine.
Licenses Over Data: A Case Study with Github v BitBucket
If you’re the same felix as the comment author of the following comment, then it seems you meant to suggest it, but never did:

LaunchBar style file opening ! You are a god ! I was going to suggest this as a feature. You have saved us thousands of boring hours clicking on triangles.

Source: http://blog.macromates.com/2005/elevating-the-standard/#comm...

The feature in LaunchBar was btw an evolution of the LaunchBar author having a dozen shell scripts (or aliases) a la “ps=open -a PhotoShop” that he called from a terminal to quickly open his various applications and then later realized it could be automated.
You're very naive to believe that.

The gov't somehow manages to compel people to lie despite the absence of some "Federal Pants on Fire Act"

1. Place a Warrant Canary.

2. Receive NSL.

Even those who've conceived of the Warrant Canary know that it depends upon the notion that the gov't will not coerce the NSL recipient to leave the Canary unmodified.

We don't have to use the Warrant Canary hypothetical to see that the US gov't has in the past used force to compel individuals to lie in the furtherance of its goals. Police forced Rachel Hoffman to arrange a drugs buy and wear a surveillance device to the proposed exchange. This is a common police practice carried out by government agents at every level of government. If the government will use such tactics for drugs, they will most certainly use them for national security.
Man, this is so true. I think 90% of Germans would vote for Obama. Mission accomplished.
Not so much attacking the messenger, or the message, but rather the message medium. Making jabs at svbtle seems to be a HN favourite.
Coming from OSX, how do you handle the cmd + * to ctrl + * switch?
After years of cmd key combinations I always find hard to switch to ctrl key combinations.
The app switching with alt instead of cmd kills me too.
> the whole purpose of government is to protect us from that organization of society that naturally arose in the West (and east Asia, too) before central governments, namely feudalism

Feudal lords were the government. A centralised one, too, with a king or some other emperor at the top.

Democratic governments are not protecting you from the feudal ones any more than your ISP protects you from the telephone company.
Having just watched yesterday's RealTime (Bill Maher's show) as well as the mainstream news coverage of the week, I have finally come to the conclusion that no significant number of Americans has a problem with living in a surveillance state, not even the host and guests on a faux liberal talk show.

Except when I'm on HN, everywhere I go there just are no people who see anything fundamentally wrong with the entire premise, so I think saying that only 45% don't care is a very low-ball estimate. From the look of things, it's more like 95%.
1. Use an email client with end-to-end encryption.

2. Buy a notebook. They sell ones that have a calendar in the front and an address book in the back.

3. Use a stamp and an envelope. The USPO does not keep a record of all sent or received packages. Public drop boxes are also widely available, PO boxes which mask your identity from the sender, and third party mailboxes to mask your identity from The Man. I mean, really, if you're going to send messages to your mistress, girlfriend, lover, or wife, at least have the class to send paper letters she can keep in a lockbox for her great-grandchildren to find after she's dead.
I've used OS X since it was called 'System 6,' and used GNU/Linux on and off for years, so it's generally just a few days of 'dammit.... Dammit. Dammit.' and then I'm fine.
Just in case that's not clear, when people capitalise "Free Software", they're generally referring to the definition used by the Free Software Foundation.
Wow that guy is a complete nut. Google even recently said 7 days is enough time (after their employee released that exploit), and this guy had 2 weeks (which is actually more than anyone usually gets, if they get anything).
It doesn't quite answer the question but I've been thinking something like Open Stack could be the future. You write your cloud apps for open stack, then the user can select where they deploy it, be it in a family/community set of open stack compatible servers, corporate servers or some trusted local open stack service.
If you're concerned that the NSA will catch you in their dragnet...why are you using cloud-services at all?

To sync data with your mobile device? But doesn't the NSA already record all mobile transmissions? What difference to the NSA intercept program does it make if the data comes from Google Apps or your own open-source platform?

Would you still rely on cloud services for collaborative apps? Well, besides the issue of whether or not the NSA is catching all data packets sent through the fiber...you still have the weak point of any one of your collaborators receiving and transmitting information insecurely.

So if the NSA is a main concern for you, why are you storing portable data in anything else but a large flash memory key that you can use for any of your devices on the road?
bootstrap is horrible and your suggestion doesn't address the problem.
Cell phones inherently give away your location all the time. And there's some evidence to suggest that their speakers can be turned on remotely.

The only way to have privacy and a cell phone is to leave it at home.
Perhaps you're the only one? I have no problems reading and working out what's going on (I'm not even what you would call a great programmer)
This sounds like a tough situation but you have my admiration for being a middle-aged father in a foreign country with a stable job, yet still caring heavily about being a good engineer and craftsman.
The flip-side of relying on smaller companies, of course, is they may not have the cash available to challenge specious searches that a company like Google does -- assuming it wants to challenge requests, of course.

Then again, from what we know about the FISC it's hard to say whether legal challenges make much difference.
How is having magic behaviour good?
Start an OSS project, on something you like, in your free time
I primarily use gnu/linux and I'm planning to upgrade my laptop. Any recommendation? rMBP, Zenbook, Carbon X1...? Long battery life and performance are the primary criteria.
See this thread for their response: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1275572.

I tried submitting it to HN, but I receive an error "stop spamming us, you are wasting your time". Anyone knows why this is? (I'm most definitely not a spammer)
I'd say the admin app already looks a bit like Bootstrap, and it's hard to claim either in its default form is more or less "homely" than the other. Granted, I like both.

Also, the admin app isn't supposed to be client-facing; it's a very effective but not-extremely-user-friendly way to view data without having to resort to SSH'ing in and running ORM queries on Django's CLI (or, worse, the database's CLI).

You can use it that way (and many of us have; I'm not innocent), but encouraging that with a pretty application of Bootstrap will likely give a lot of new developers the wrong idea on the tool's purpose.
Confirmation from Ramnode twitter "We are working to get things back online. We were hit with a SolusVM exploit late last night."
Thank you. Slides don't do anything for me, I think it's a very tiresome way to make a point if there isn't at least a blog post or a video of the talk somewhere.
This is a really interesting project. However...

It's licensed under GPLv3 -- in my experience, that's an instant turnoff for most .NET (C#/F#/VB.NET) developers. If you changed the license to something like Apache 2.0, I think you'd get much more interest; not only new users, but new contributors too.
> And there's some evidence to suggest that their speakers can be turned on remotely

[citation needed] (and wanted, since I'm curious)
Not trying to be disparaging, but how much experience do you have working with Python and the libraries that are built with it? I routinely hit the source to see where things are going while working through stack traces or extending built-ins, and while it's not always crystal clear, I've rarely gotten the impression things were done in such a way as to be entirely unreadable or unforgivably abstracted.
That's really interesting, thanks for sharing.

As an aside, why did you choose to use cardinal numbering rather than what I certainly would have reached for first (pun intended)?

Back on point, I can't see anywhere in [1] that 5-ht neurons grow, rather they just seem to be more active.
Fascinating that this happens as a response to increased antigen load to something they have been immunised against. We really are a product of so many hidden interactions with our environment
This is part of what the developer released to fix the security vulnerability disclosed responsibly on WHT [1] tl;dr of that thread by the OP [2] . Beyond the ridiculous response of the developer in the thread, the fix released doesn't even fix the issue. Some other security researcher released the root vuln [3] and basically every install of this software is about to be rooted. And that's all before the ridiculousness of passing a root password over http, which strips "special characters" that is used to login to your box and upgrade their software. If you read the linked thread, it's like a case study on how to NOT respond to a security disclosure.

[1] - http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1275572
[2] - http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=8727714&postcou...
[3] - http://localhost.re/p/zamfoo-120-vulnerability
> That's about when it stops. Once you hit 30, it's all about having enough information to regret everything you ever did in life.

The NSA is on the case! ;)
It would also help a bit to user services hosted in other countries.

How so? At least in theory the constitution applies to US citizens and US companies. With a foreign service you have no such claim. Historically the NSA has always been concerned with communication into and out of the US, so if you live the US and use foreign hosting you're essentially stepping right into their spotlight.

Also you can guess that most other governments snoop as much if not more so than the NSA does. It's just the nature of the beast.
What's wrong with GPLv3? I thought the only thing that changed from v2 was preventing tivotization?
This is a good guide for setting up self-hosted email: http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/

Owncloud is ok for self-hosted file hosting. It's a little buggy still, but is improving very quickly. It also has Android and desktop apps.

Although Owncloud has contacts/calendar built in, Radicale is more polished and has more features. It's also easy to set up. Make sure you get the latest version through pip rather than your distros package manager.

On Android you can then use CardDav Sync / CalDav Sync to sync calendars and contacts.
How about email in general? These days, one cannot simply host an SMTP server out of their home, without it being automatically blocked by the big guys (i.e. Gmail's servers block any non-approved sources, for spam reasons).

Of course, email in general isn't secure, and there's no way of knowing what the recipient does with the message anyway, so this is a bit of a tricky problem.
The USPO does not keep a record of all sent or received packages.

I'm not sure that's true.

JUNE 7--A high-tech computer system that captures images of “every mail piece that is processed” by the United State Postal Service was critical in helping federal agents track the Texas woman arrested today for allegedly sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/woman-arrested-for-ob...
I don't like Forms/ModelForms.

It doesn't seem to be a common complaint, but I always end up fighting with Forms when I try to use them. Too complicated, too confining, and too unique-to-Django. I wish Django had gone with field helpers instead.
Sharing HBO Go Passwords Could Result In Prison
The nsa only collects information I send them over the internet via us-based services. I live outside the US.
When are the Apptivate 2013 winners going to be made public?
I know this mostly through activist oral histories, but here's one story: http://www.zdnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdr...
The availability of water varies regionally, but in many areas it is not a big deal to drill a well and have clean water (and septic is usually just a matter of meeting building codes).

Energy and food are still a big deal, but the mix today is that shipping fuel has less impact on food prices than real estate value (that is, the food at rural stores isn't particularly expensive and they usually aren't that far away). They may be less economical than city stores, but they seem tenable.

I sort of think the trick is to figure out a set of policies that lead to healthy medium-high density areas, as it is most 'great cities' seem to be at least partly accidental.
Because there's no Kindle version of "Proofs from the Book", I didn't order it. But I did see in the recommended list a book called, "How to Solve It"....which is apparently a popular general purpose problem solving book that, according to a reviewer, was given to Microsoft's new programmers. Less than $10 on Kindle so hopefully this will scratch the proof-solving itch for me:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-It-Mathematical-Princeton/dp...
Remapping is very easy. Many resources recommend the xmodmap command, but I've had much more success on recent distros by setting xkbmap options in the Xorg config.

A big list of possible rules are located at
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst

Changing alt+tab to ctrl+tab is easy with most window managers.

(I find the alt/command physical key much more ergonomic than the physical control key.)
> 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

I agree. There's a lot of avoidance of criticism for fear of "negativity" on HN. Not only does this hurt the (very positive) constructive criticism by regression-to-the-mean, it also causes us to lower our collective bar, from a "collection of smart people" into something more average.

The only non-free software I can't find a replacement for is a good sound/wave editor, something with an intuitive interface. Audacity's navigation controls are just terrible.
In some cases there was a king at the top, and in some there wasn't. But in any case, the king's powers were far from what we call "government" today. His authority was limited to whatever form of self-interested allegiance he could get from his lords.

A centralized government tries to have a monopoly on power, in the sense that it can limit the power any citizen, or a group of citizens, can have. Of course, some governments may choose to limit power selectively, and allow some individuals, or small groups, obtain almost as much power as feudal lords. But it's the democratic government's duty to protect us from feudal lords -- in fact it's the only weapon we have against feudalism -- so there's a fine balance to strike between a government that's despotic and one that allows feudalism to flourish.
The dark side of Wall Street: An insider’s tale of illegal trades and substances
If you're truly paranoid about it, you could keep you phone in a Faraday cage or something like a Mylar bag to block all external signals. But that would really only be for those moments when you want to be off grid. That would otherwise defeat the purpose of having a phone.
I agree that the probability of Canadian communication getting swept up in the NSA net is high, but I don't think I can agree with your portrayal of the government of Canada's interest in surveillance as low.

First, the article says: "And where Washington has demonstrated its commitment to the NSA with the construction in Utah of an immense $2-billion base said to be capable of processing a zettabyte of data, the Canadian government is building CSEC a gleaming new $900-million, 72,000-square-metre compound in Ottawa" - that's $900 million/35 million citizens, or more than $25 per person. The US figure is $2 billion/319 million, or approximately $6 per person. That's 4 times the money per capita at the current exchange rate.

Second, just months before the PRISM controversy the US government began considering requiring interception capabilities for service providers ( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/caleatwo ), among other requirements... Sadly, Canada beat them to the punch. We (our government) tried to push something similar a year ago (called C-30, which caused quite an uproar) and our government still wants to bypass warrants to snoop with a bill called C-50.
I'm in the process of moving more stuff to a self hosted server right now. Sadly, this is almost impossible if you're not a seasoned sysadmin or willing to learn a lot.

My setup looks like this:

Mail: Postfix/Dovecot/Roundcube

Setting up a Mail server is the hardest part i think. It's essential to implement measures against spam and abuse. In my setup, this includes:
- Get a valid certificate for your mail host and enable opportunistic TLS for SMTP and SMTPD.
- Implement DKIM and SPF (and DMARC, http://dmarc.org/)
- Use Blacklists: policyd-weight, but look out for changes to public RBL services
- Reject Spam in the SMTP session using Milters, never bounce SPAM.
- Use spamass-milter and clamav-milter to Filter unwanted stuff.
- Use http://sanesecurity.com/ ClamAV signatures, in Debian use the clamav-unofficial-sigs package

Instant Messaging:

http://prosody.im/ is a breeze to configure and it just works.

Telephony / Video calls:

Repro is a secure and simple SIP proxy: http://www.resiprocate.org/About_Repro

But: Resist the urge to install a VoIP PBX like Asterisk and connect it to your phone line & the internet. It will most likely be hacked and abused.

Security:

I've set up a self-signed CA using XCA (http://xca.sourceforge.net/). With a client certificate on a smart card which i embedded into a USB token (http://www.gemalto.com/products/usb_shell_token_v2/), i can run around and plug this USB token in random machines and instantly have my client certificate available in Chrome. This is especially nice if you (like me) don't trust PHP software like the Roundcube Webmailer.
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