skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you have to build technical systems, the sole purpose of which is to sidestep laws"

Nobody is talking about sidestepping laws. You are not breaking laws, nor breaking the spirit of the law, if your users cannot store many years of their personal communications on your server. Encouraging people to delete mail would have the effect of limiting the government's surveillance power, in an entirely legal fashion.

"aren't the laws at fault here?"

It is not that simple. The relevant laws were written at a time when mail quotas were commonly measured in megabytes, when people had to delete their mail in order to stay under the limit. Back then, if a few personal messages happened to be on the server when a court order was received, it was not such a big deal; those messages probably pertained to very recent things anyway. Now, when a court order for "all of Joe's email" is received, that will very likely include messages dating back years, long before whatever crime Joe is suspected of was even committed. The laws have not been updated in light of these new privacy implications.

"If there is an action item on the list, it should be to change unjust laws not to circumvent them. The latter is both defeatist and useless."

Why not do both? Why should we suffer while we wait for the deliberately slow wheels of government to turn? Neither action excludes the other, you can both circumvent unjust laws and work to take those laws off the books.
I don't think it's meaningful to compare educational outcomes in states with large amounts of low-skilled immigration with the rest of the country. A quick look at education statistics will show you that outcomes are highly correlated with family income. Filter out[1] the schools in impoverished neighborhoods and you'll get a better idea of what kind of school your kids will go to.

[1] http://www.texastribune.org/public-ed/explore/filter/
What does Ecuador get out of offering him asylum? I could get Russia or China but don't see the appeal of Ecuador.
But then we would be less correct.
Techologists’ Role In Oppression
NSA "can – and does – listen to everyone from senators to lovers" (1995)
You see no difference between someone dying in a traffic accident and a citizens being murdered by acts of violence? A death is a death?
"No, tptacek is right... if you are a foreigner living abroad, the bill of rights does not apply to you:"

This is becoming abundantly obvious from where I sit, outside the US as a non-US citizen.

I wonder just how long it's going to take for non US businesses and governments to realise the consequences of that?

I look forward to the startup opportunities in what are currently considered "major player consolidated verticals" for non US based disruption?

Who's currently planning an ad network or web analytics service or auction site or microblogging service or social network or online retail conglomerate - all marketed to national government and non-US based businesses as "all data stored outside US jurisdiction, all data SSL/TLS with PFS on the wire to minimise consequences of interception", then lobby governments to advice citizens to switch away from "US monitored services" and for corporations to forbid use of "US monitored service" via corporate networks.

It's all but impossible to break into markets dominated by Google/eBay/Amazon/Facebook/Twitter - but what if the Australian government started recommending people use a secure local alternative, and big companies started blocking those services at the firewall?
However, the option is there, and you're a person who notices if the defaults are what you want but didn't read one of only three options presented to you when enabling IMAP, basically the only settings that were even important if you're not using web mail. It's possible that the options screen was different when you originally turned on IMAP, though.

However, because of the historical lack of an "archive" IMAP function, it's still not clear that the default isn't the correct one for the average user, just like PGP on by default with private keys managed by the user wouldn't be the correct default because most users would be locked out of their own email within the week.
> Content can be mixed in the same tree and hidden with a .gitignore file

Note that rsync also allows fairly powerful in-tree tweaking of details: if you give it the "-F" option, it will look for ".rsync-filter" files (see man page for details).
This is basic rep management and has been around for quite some time.

I don't really find it surprising - probably because I'm so plugged into the online ad space - but I'm a little off-put by how the author so clearly puts the actual names of people out there that he found.

Surely few, if any, are totally innocent, but was that necessary? "Chad", who spoke on the condition of anonymity, has had his cover blown (if he is presumably one of those the author already listed). How would you sleep at night knowing that you had allowed a source you let speak anonymously be found out within just a few minutes of amateur sleuthing in your article? I find it abhorrent.
His 'The Art of Loving' was hands down
one of the best things I ever read.
He explained a lot to me about
people, motivations, personality,
women, etc. A lot. Some of
his explanations were shockingly
succinct but from decades of
my checking empirically right on
target.

To me in that book, he is fully
credible. I can guess how he got
the insights: Be a bright guy,
have a good background in what
was known, at least empirically,
at the time about psychology and
psychiatry,
do a lot of clinical psychology,
listen to a lot of people, and identify
the main issues and forces in
common. Now I can look at
events A, B, and C, from Fromm find
the intuitive, qualitative version of the
conditional probability of
event X given events A, B, and
C -- P(X}A, B, C) -- when this
conditional probability is high, take X
as a candidate explanation, look
at some more data, and often
conclude that Fromm nailed it again.
Pelosi's defense of NSA surveillance draws boos
"If you printed out every letter you've ever sent to someone and put it in a filing cabinet, it would be totally fair game for a warrant to get the contents of the filing cabinet"

Except that people do not typically do that, and it is reasonable to expect that a filing cabinet will contain only important or current documents. With GMail, you typically see personal messages that date back years, probably long before whatever crime the person is suspected of.

"The problem is the amount of information consolidation modern technology enables and encourages."

I think for once, we might agree. The relevant laws were written with a very different model of communication in mind.
Oh absolutely they are the best so far, but they still aren't nearly good enough that we should just accept them and wait for their downfall or transition to come "naturally;" we must takes steps to ensure that the change occurs, not just wish it so.
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One thing the article unfortunately fails to mention is the motivation for this model. A branching model, as any other policy or technical solution, should be an answer to an existing problem. So decoupling the branching model from projects details makes no sense to me, although the article does a fair job describing the technical aspects.

I've been asked many times by units (big corporation) if this would be a good branching model for them when they are migrating to Git. I always tell them it's probably too complicated for their situation. Most of the units are trying to implement some form of Continuous Integration. Obfuscating that with complex branching models would only confuse them. Only when they encounter a real problem, that could be solved with this branching model, I suggest they try this out. I haven't still seen it happen.

However I must say, that the situation might be different in different types of projects. I've seen only these kind of CI-projects with a couple of hundreds developers with long lead times.
NBC's Gregory: Why shouldn't Glenn Greenwald be charged?
This addon prevents fingerprinting:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/firegloves/

Although for me it's breaking some sites.
fwiw, this seems to have been removed from the main feed (i don't see it in the first 200 or so entries) and "ask". you've got what appears to be a hellbanned thread.

oh the irony:

1 - hiding a thread "in support" of posts arguing for less secrecy;

2 - the people who would be most annoyed by this are the ones your script gives the bird to.
No one. Miners compute cryptographic hashes based on the previous block in the blockchain plus a nonce. If the hash starts with a number of zeroes (currently 7), it is considered valid and the miner who computed it is rewarded with a chunk of bitcoins by the network. Only 21M BTC will ever be mined (although each BTC is composed of 10^8 Satoshis, which are the actual "unit" of transaction).

As more BTC are mined, the difficulty of finding new ones increases and the reward decreases. Once the difficulty goes up, only those hashes that begin with 8 zeroes will be considered valid, so it will take twice as much effort to find a valid one. Currently, a successful block nets 25 BTC to the miner, down from 50 a while back. Soon, it will drop to 12.5 BTC.

Bitcoin is, by design, deflationary. All other things being equal, the value of a Bitcoin will continue to rise as the pool of unmined coins shrinks. There is no central authority, rather inherent scarcity and the effort required to mine the coins gives value. The exchange rate of BTC -> fiat is determined by the market, operating on exchanges such as Mt Gox. There is no mechanism for anything outside of market effects to alter the price or availability of Bitcoin.
Don't want mug shot online? Then pay up, mugshot extortion sites say
Realy when your next in London go to Holbourn and walk into one of the Inns of court and see what the offices of the £2000/ hour barristers look like.

Compare a medical Dr with say 15 years experience to an engineer no contest.

Or work in the city and have your end customer in fiance say oh I have a pair of shoes that cost more than your entire wardrobe.

Just because your paid well compared to a shop assistant doesn't mean the technical people are not second class citizens.
> a Trash folder as a first stop for deleted messages, and All Mail as a second stop

I was just trying this, I moved something to trash and then did a 'Delete Forever'. Nothing appeared in trash or all mail again.
The very idea of a secret law that cannot be challenged is certainly not what the writers of the Constitution ever imagined. Once one law can be successfully hidden from the people then in the future all laws will be designed in the same way. At that point it no longer matters what we want or what the Constitution says.
You imply it's intentional. People (both "the media" as well as HN readers) are focusing on Snowden because it's much more exciting and interesting to read a real life spy thriller than discuss an NSA spying program that we all knew existed (at least in principle) for years.
You're correct. Thanks for catching it.
I'm sorry you find a Wikipedia article documenting a historical event so beneath you. It must also be flippant remark day, and I didn't notice.
I found some interesting parallels. I like the idea of a few individuals rising to the defense of an unfairly accused person, working together to change minds/attitudes, transforming the political landscape, and eventually exonerating him. Your intellectual dexterity should reveal to you a modern relevance. I found the letters of Émile Zola inspiring, and I thought the affair worth sharing--in case anyone didn't know about it.
Why exactly do you expect some random person on the internet to patiently explain the value of literature to you?
Several years ago I was using it in production at a major CDN. I would assume they still use it.
The lack of an "archive" function is pretty easy to fix: create an "Archive" folder. That is basically what "All Mail" is, at least for me.

The problem with this default is that it makes no sense. Most email clients already have an option to "delete" mail by moving it to the Trash folder (which Google has), and most users expect that deleting something from Trash means deleting it for good. I am just not seeing the use-case for someone wanting to "delete" a message from Trash or All Mail just to have the message reappear in All Mail (why on Earth would anyone want a message deleted from All Mail to come right back to All Mail?!).
> "Nobody is talking about sidestepping laws"

> "you can both circumvent unjust laws..."

and

> "aren't the laws at fault here?"

> list of reasons why the laws are at fault...

you have a point in there (work to fix laws while protecting yourself), but you're being weirdly (and ineffectually) contrarian in this thread.
Maybe so. For mediocre ones, perhaps. I'm not a software developer anyway. Sorry if this will disappoint you, but I'm actually in mktg/sales.
No. But would you justify your government if it were to preemptively invade the crazy guy's homeland to stop him from potentially doing something bad?
One of the neat things about bitcoin that hasn't been talked a lot about is that bitcoin makes it possible (with a little planning) to create seizure and "civil forfeiture" resistant money. This can be done if you want to save your money for later (perhaps for your defense, or for after your eventual release), or alternatively merely because you believe that civil forfeiture is unethical and dangerous to society as it accelerates the militarization of the police.

Imagine a system where the private material of a wallet is shared among one or more trusted individuals (using secret sharing) who are under instructions to cooperate with each other in destroying or moving the money if you are ever arrested or fail to check in after a certain period of time. If your aim is to merely destroy the money, you could also get away with having a secret VPS running somewhere that does the deed (it would not matter if it were later found).

If you go with the "destroy" route, then you would not even be destroying the evidence from an ethics standpoint (thanks to the nature of the blockchain). However the authorities, upon being denied their "prize", would undoubtedly throw a childish hissyfit and assert that you destroyed the evidence anyway.
Using the default Gmail settings of (a) Enable IMAP and (b) Auto Expunge on, I just deleted an email via Sparrow (IMAP). The email instantly went straight into the Trash folder and is not visible in All Mail. I expect the email to be auto-deleted in about 30 days. I agree that the behavior you're describing would be weird, but I'm not seeing it. Can you please double check?

No, I don't have a citation, but is it so hard to believe that lots of people want an undelete? I accidentally delete emails all the time and I go into the trash and fish them out. Not giving users an undo seems ... unfriendly.

EDIT: I see, it applies to Custom Folders and delete only removes the label; doesn't move it to the trash. Here's what Google has to say about it. Is this a default IMAP behavior or Gmail-IMAP specific? https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78755?hl=en
> Yeah, and so? That doesn't make those actions right, nor Snowden's actions wrong.

It makes those actions necessary, and his actions absolutely wrong.

> It's he-said they-said right now, but Snowden has documents that allegedly corroborate his story, while all we get from the ISPs, telecos, and the government are simple denials.

What we got was clarifications and specifics to the media's sensationalism and falsehoods. But you've already made up your mind...

"Direct pipes" turned out to be nothing more than FTP accounts at google and facebook, were data has to be requested first, looked over by lawyers, and then moved to. And "unlimited wholescale spying" turned out to be extremely specific targeting of a few hundred phone accounts. Not to mention that US citizen targeting turned out to be completely against the rules.
Feedback needed. Cool Geospatial data combined with MLS listings.
No, because it needs to be checked out (that's the deployment). As a usual git server, yes --bare is the way to go. In this case you could alternatively use --bare in a ~/repos/example.com dir and set the $GIT_WORKING_DIR environment variable to ~/www/example.com for checkout.
I've yet to see someone follow them.
Omnigraffle. Illustrator.
> My single tiny car had erased miles and miles of stop-and-go traffic. Just one single "lubricant atom" had a profound effect on the turbulent particle flow within the "tube".

I did this in the 1970's. It gets rediscovered constantly.
Mbit, not mbit, there's a huge difference (about 1000000000x)
Was this removed from the front page? It was in the top ten maybe 30 minutes ago, and now I can't find it in the first 4 pages...
YES! It never occurred to me, but the limited interfaces of smartphones are a perfect arena for interactive fiction without the grossly expensive visual collateral of so many modern PC and game station games.
On casting the first cyber-stone, USA declares cyberwar. Everyone loses.
Ecuador's President was very close to Hugo Chavez and his open hostility towards US influence in South America helped him consolidate power.

It is politically beneficial for him to embarrass the US government and make them appear weak.
Source: NSA leaker Snowden's passport revoked
That honestly isnt my impression of any Brit police office I have dealt with. Granted they do like their power, but generally, I have found them to be mostly OK. High on the power, jobs worth, arrogant, yes, but not that dumb and/or brutish. That said, I have not been under any sort of crowd or riot control. So, possible they roll out the big dumb heavy wing of the police force there.

I assume you are talking about US police? I have no experience of them. Well, apart from watching US TV and movies!!!
> Just wondering: What would be the appeals process if he were actually kidnapped by the US government in a foreign country.

The appeals process that would go through a system with the power to matter would be through the US courts and would almost certainly be unsuccessful, see U.S. v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 US 655 (1992) [1].

> Is there some court by the United Nations that is mediating such cases even if there is an extreme power imbalance between both nations?

A case could be filed in the International Court of Justice by the offended country against the US alleging violation of a treaty or some other element of international law within the competence of the Court, but for consideration of how much that would be worth even if the offended country won the case, consider Nicaragua v. United States [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States
Criticism: https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/do-we-really-...
In theory it's actually the "economic majority" that matters: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority
Yeah, right. I cant remember the last time I used google or any other search engine for torrents.

Seem odd to me though that google can search torrents it's self....

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=003849996876419856805:erhhdbygr...

... if tottents are so evil.
Outside of using AQMP, what does this get me over using Gearman?
Neurons do not divide in adulthood. There are some new neurons being born, but the rate is low. I believe that the central nervous system neuron turn over is much lower than the cells in the rest of the body.

However, neural connectivity and the hormone levels change as we age, which probably changes our emotions and reactions and attitudes.
For the "better cruise control" aspect, I can envision the user interface giving the drive the illusion of driving in a rut in the road. So that when the car drifts to one of the lane edges, there would be a slight tug on the steering wheel similar to what you would feel if the road was cupped -- but something you can easily overcome if you intend to.
I must say, I quite enjoy how so many countries are eagerly playing a game of "pass the Snowden" by throwing him over U.S. reach. It just goes to show that the behavior of the U.S. post 911 isn't winning over many friends -- in fact, it is a bit ironic to see us go from being hated by a few groups of extremists/terrorists to feeling like the whole world is, quite frankly, becoming sick of our government's actions and attitude.
The comparison is quite spot on. And troubling.

And this, I find really quite alarming...
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/21-3
Nor does Russia, which seems like the most logical choice.
And as such, content submitted within these subreddits are regularly featured on Reddit's front page each day and capable of being clicked on by more than 1 billion people.

What an odd thing to say. That same hypothetical line of thinking could lead you to say that I'm capable of receiving a trillion dollars tomorrow, simply because I have a fedwire destination address and that much money could hypothetically be transferred to it. Neither has even a slight chance of actually happening.
Narcissistic babble.
Jobs at Culture Japan
How is Celery different from RabbitMQ ?
The problem is that the default behavior for people who use an IMAP client is for "delete" to actually mean "keep a copy in All Mail." The server will also give a false OK status to the client following the EXPUNGE command (see the IMAP4 RFC for details), so the user is not alerted to the fact that messages are not being deleted.
Try doing an exercise that is incredibly useful for those talking about terrorism--remove the word "terror" from what you're saying and see if your question remains reasonable.

"And how do you plan to stop the next attack?"

Suddenly the supreme vagueness of the question becomes apparent. After all, attacks in general provoke terror (at least for me--some random guy can rush at me on the street and I'll feel terror). So what attack are you talking about? By whom? The U.S. already has a framework to prevent "attacks" in general-- the CIA, the military, the police, the NSA, etc. Like with all security systems, it's a matter of calibrating them so they don't undermine our way of life.

As a micro example -- I can prevent future (terror) attacks on myself by burying myself in a sealed metal casket. But my way of life would be seriously undermined. So how do I want to calibrate my safety vs. how I want to live?

The exercise of removing the word "terror" is useful in almost all situations, because it actually makes things a little more accurate. For example, the "War on Terror" becomes the "War on ...". Which, as it panned out, more accurately describes the outcome.
Reminds me of this old Red vs. Blue PSA on tattoos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2pSt2gACrc

"Take your current age, now subtract 10 years from it. Were you smart back then?"
I agree with this observation. I cringe when I hear other comments talking about people driving through traffic trying to smooth out traffic waves. I am very suspicious about the claim that this speeds things up for anyone.

People accelerating hard and braking hard is not good for traffic, but if there is some guy moving slower than possible on a highway with a lot of commuters, many people will need to change lanes to avoid that obstacle. That is not good for traffic either.
I'm not ashamed to say that I still play Hamurabi/Sumer after all these years...
Yes, you are right, I used the wrong word here, sorry.