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The web isn't for you. If you want an authority figure telling you what tools to use, those platforms exist but it's not the way the web can or will ever be.
So I just wanted to shamelessly self promote something I've been working on.

http://soylog-staging.herokuapp.com/recipes/1

This is my RoR apps that I was developing, but which has recently lapsed into inactivity, which allows you to create, modify and fork recipes in a very similar way to github. It will also (soon) allow you to track your usage, supplies and health. But for now, the project is on standby.
I could and would argue that sleeping is a good use of time.
The worst part of that life cycle is being one of a minority group trying to explain what's really going on. I had the top comment on 3 different NSA stories at one time, correcting misinformation in each. I still don't think it helped.
> the UK still doesn't have one

The UK does not have a codified constitution. There still exists a set of laws and conventions that make up the UK constitution.
Exactly. And if you have enough evidence to charge them with a crime, then you should do so and take the person to court. And if they are found guilty by a jury of their peers, punishment should be assessed. If not, the person is innocent and should not be inconvenienced or harassed further.

No citizen should be victim of unknown charges and/or evidence that impacts their free movement through society.
LinkedIn sent me an email saying I had a new contact. When I clicked the link in the email, it put me on the LinkedIn site. As an afterthought on the "we added your new connection" page, they tried to phish my email password.
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I wasn't talking to you at all. You seem to have your comment threads mixed up.
Good luck, man. The app looks awesome and I hope BMW gives you their blessing to publish it.
Odd they referred to these other whistleblowers as "Former NSA Employees" in the headline. It seems disingenuous to leave that out of the headline, but then I suppose "Fellow NSA Whistleblowers Praise Newest Whistleblower..." probably doesn't sound as interesting.
Core principles: evidence against me must be obtained under warrant, presented in court with my notification, subject to challenge, evaluated by a jury of common citizens, and the verdict subject to appeal. This is absolute front-and-center core principles of our government.

A secret list limiting travel by common means, with no more visibility than a bureaucrat's perfunctory "you're on the no-fly list, go away", with no way to confirm or challenge it, is absolutely a hallmark of life in the USSR.

It's not spinning the argument. It's the point of the argument.
The problem is... They are trying to place you at a job and taking a commission by obfuscating the actual salary paid by the company. I've personally hired developers, salaried under big recruiting firms, who were getting shorted 35% of their potential income just for allowing someone with a marketing degree forward over a resume. With demand as high as it is for skill sets in the tech fields... you are foolish to believe they serve any purpose other than spam. Especially when spending an hour or so shotgun emailing your resume personally with a cover letter would net you nearly double the salary.

Alas the core issue in this blog post has nothing to do with the abundance of recruiter contact. Anyone with a Linkedin has already managed to figure out how to manage the difference between spam recruiters and the good guys.
It's good that there is healthy competition again in end user video codecs. H.264 is a nearly 10 year old video codec, and HEVC's complexity means implementing it as a high-quality open source library will take a really long time.

Google's different incentives will at least force HEVC development to accelerate.
It would be interesting to provide them access to a fake email account and monitor activity.
Apple really gets that in their stores. too bad they also try to hold you with non-standard things and lock-in tactics.

maybe they now that too well.

But for people that research before reaching for the wallet, it's all the same.
Wow this is so out of line.

I can't believe you'd write something this awful as a direct personal attack.
Congrats man. LinkedIn isn't all that useful to anyone but recruiters anyway. I closed mine long ago because I simply never used it.
Well, this story is higher than the old one for me. Do people get different views of the front page?
mhmm.

i would feel better if they go through the trouble mint does to store credentials:

http://www.quora.com/How-do-mint-com-and-similar-websites-av...

but i doubt they do
hey — we definitely remain committed to doing this. we just won't have it ready for launch. i personally think being the dumb syncing API is a smart play for any business. it's not as sexy but it's a more critical role.
Netflix Ice: Cloud Spend and Usage Analytics
I did. Their response was the same as what I found: service through an intermediary at the DOJ is required.
Ask HN: Fellow entrepreneurs to work with for Startup Engineering project
Hello,

I'm a self-taught professional programmer who didn't have the chance to study computer science in a decent university (I'm in a 3rd world country), but have been studying medicine for several years now hoping that I'll start my own healthcare startup as soon as I'm ready.

I'm very excited about the new Startup Engineering course that Stanford started today and strongly feel that this course will put me on the right track to strengthen both my entrepreneurship and technical skills. Although I feel this is a great opportunity, I think working with other entrepreneurs/developers on the final project will help me vastly. If any of you is interested in working with me in a team, or have any idea how to find fellow self-taught entrepreneurs to work with, I would deeply appreciate it.

I'm a lurker here for a long time, and I need your help.

Thanks.
Not saying that. I just wished there wasn't so much fragmentation as there is.
It's also not necessarily correct or trustworthy. However, if you not only say "Honey, I may have cancer", and then go to the doctor and do research and go to the doctor again, and call your loved ones more often than you used to, and continue going to the doctor, now we know it's not just some conversational sarcasm or paranoia that the surveillance programs need to sift through, now we know you're serious, and you're worried, and you're dealing with it.
It's called a revolving door and regulatory capture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

This isn't exactly here say and speculation.
"Snowden can't access the data , according to this testimony."

How do they stop him? It sounds like "can't access the data" means "the rules say he cannot access it, and if he is caught he'll get in trouble." Given that the people we are talking about think in terms of "the least untruthful statement" they can make, I would demand as much detail as possible.

"I don't have that much of a problem with this because the warrant is needed in order to actually do anything with the information."

Today a warrant is needed. Tomorrow, maybe not. What if tomorrow, the law changes, and the government starts hunting down anyone with leftist leanings? The first thing they'll do is query the database.

Laws are not sacred. Laws can be ignored or changed at any time. When we have to worry that the list of people we speak with today might be used against us tomorrow, there is a chilling effect on free speech. That is the danger of these databases. It is not enough that the data is held but can only be touched with a warrant; the data should not exist without a warrant.
I like inserting (Mechanics) in between classical and world. Very interesting video.
I got an "Application Error" when I tried to load
The post has nothing to do with public exposure. It has everything to do with identity security via third party integrations.
Creating P2P Napster successor with no downloads.
You'd be a great user to have when doing stress testing :)

Would you mind sharing your opml (if there's nothing sensitive or that you wouldn't want to share in there)? I'm one of the developers of lector, and I'm having trouble finding people with enough feeds to put some real load on our servers.
I'm close to 55 and have no problem reporting to someone much younger and have done this on numerous projects. As long as we have mutual respect there's never a problem as we both have the same goal completing the project successfully. There are a few things though I don't have in common with the younger generation (e.g., video games) but I make up for that with my "in my day" stories about life before the internet.
Nokia surges 11% after Huawei says it is ‘open’ to purchasing
By their measure we should wiretap everyone in government to prevent graft, corruption, revolving doors and regulatory capture.
> Currently Windows supports graphics cards via Thunderbolt but OS X doesn't.

Citation? From a software perspective, Thunderbolt is just hotpluggable PCIe. There's not much that can be done to prevent compatibility with a GPU connected via Thunderbolt, especially when the OS already supports switchable graphics. From what I've read, the biggest challenge to using an external GPU enclosure with a Mac is getting a GPU that OS X has drivers for, not anything Thunderbolt-related.
You're basically right, but other courts have processes for review of incorrectly issued warrants and subpoenas. With the FISA court, if you were incorrectly watched, you'll probably never even know.
I was about to post the same thing. I can't believe they get away with having this feature. If I click a Linkedin link on Google, oops I'm logged in, my viewing history is for sale.
I disagree with ending where the author claims that Facebook should be the most lucrative advertising platform. They don't have intent like Google has, they just have people using a product that tries to integrate ads as seamlessly as possible. I'm not saying there aren't glaring issues in the business as a whole, but for many businesses advertising on Facebook provides greater ROI when they can't compete with the CPC of certain Google keywords.
I agree about VMs for VPS offering. But i believe no improvements in hardware or (para)virtualization will get VMs closer to Containers in other (non-VPS) scenarios
Warning:"Price-related Backup Space" on Hetzner serverbidding page is misleading
Show HN: We're releasing SoundBrush, an app that lets you draw music
> There is an entire world outside of the US, with a number of countries having significant economic and food shortages.

Often due to policies of the US or other imperialist nations.
Where does that line get drawn nowadays? Clearly they can intercept my communications and remotely search my hard drive (if they can get in). Is the limit solely that they can't bust down my door and search my cabinets?
Three thoughts:

1) I'm not sure if this article has accounted for the one massive achilles heel of paravirtualization (containers):

Corrupting the core OS by way of upgrade or patches, can take all containers all out.

2) I have used VMware since the early betas in 98. The motivation was simple:

Replacing servers sucks.

The day you buy or lease a server, in essence, you purchase it's death and dealing with a hasty or painful migration.

3) From my 7th or so generation of server migrations in doing complex hosting since 95, one thing is clear:

The single most valuable thing is a hard separation between the bare metal and the OS.

So much so that you can move the VMs at will anywhere, because, you just bought the death of your server the day it's brand new. I ran a CentOS box with a BSD VM as a firewall, with Windows and Linux VM's behind it to serve one project because each did their unique and highly valuable part.

Ultimately, for me: Paravirtualization not only uses the host os, but shares it between multiple configurations. This is in my mind still introduces risks that should be minimized, if not avoided.

I'm sure PV is improving all the time. It's simply newer to the game than what VMware started. If VMWare isn't for you, suites like ProxMox are serious options to consider. Hosting isn't somewhere to have preferences and opinions. If I'm wrong, I'll change at any moment.

Issues with PV might be decreasing, but I've been ultimately burnt by PV every time I used it in production for a prolonged time.

An example of where sysadmin time cost way more than a little bit of more ram for Virtualization: Parallels Virtuozzo, corrupted itself so badly during an update to the core OS that all the containers on the server were rendered inoperable. Parallels support had one of their high level techs login from Russia to manually install corrupted DLL files so the server would at least boot, and we could get the heck off it. At the end of the repair we were told the VM was no longer upgradeable and all updates would have to be done manually.

The customer had taken on PV at the behest of the hosting company who insisted it was amazing despite my concerns. Said hosting company also now has switched over entirely to VMware.

The unforgivable kicker of PV for my customer: tons of customization and creating re-usable containers were all lost when leaving, because moving to something like VMware meant having to set them up from scratch again.
Be careful when you choose your enemies. You will become them.
Brilliant..!!! Seems like all JS Devs jumped into explaining.
First explanation is incorrect for sure.
Good point. I clarified the comment you're replying to; I added the words "And, again:".

If you think there's some personal problem between us, you should know that I'm pretty easy to get ahold of; my contact information is in my profile. You might find that I'm a lot easier to argue with when I don't feel like I have to stick up for my whole profession in public.
Could you revoke the public key used to sign these messages (i.e. publish revocation cert to keyservers) when you get a warrant served?
That way they won't be able to force you to sign anything with that key anymore, all you can do is create a new key, but the timestamp on that key will make it obvious that something happened on that day.
> That's not true -- Linux has had local root exploits pretty much at ALL times. If you're in a container, you can break out with one of these exploits. You'll be root and have access to all other containers on the machine.

Isolation strategies involving syscall filtering and mandatory access control (MAC) tools like selinux dramatically reduce the attack surface. For example, I know several recent root exploits were not possible to run on Fedora with selinux enabled.

People also discover hypervisor exploits at a reliable clip, too. Virtualization isn't a panacea of security isolation.
And what about their "we can search everything you have within a 100-mile radius of the border" policy? That's a huge civil liberties abuse too and one that must be dealt with.
This. If you are showing off a more visual oriented project, screenshots are a must.
China now has the world's fastest supercomputer
Yeah, it's more hope than expectation; it just seems unlikely not absurd though.
I don't find this to be an extremely compelling point, though.

There's infinite bad things that can be committed by anyone, from the government or otherwise, where the only thing preventing it is policy and procedure. The only thing preventing an Apache helicopter from firing on schoolchildren under order of the president.... is policy. Theoretically, as commander-in-chief, the president has the authority to order that, right? But what's important is that he doesn't. What's important is there's policy that prevents it.
If you read Evgenia Ginzburg's writings, she was convinced -as were many many others- that even in her case the Gulag was for the greater good.

Just calling it a "commie gulag" does not minimize the fact that for many people they were "for the betterment of the country and its protection."

So: yes, one needs to take the worst to memory in order to prevent the bad from happenning. History is filled with good-willing governants.
>Making money is just a happy side effect of creating actual value.

Pretty much Google's MO as well.

Aside: People really need to stop bandying about the word "evil" as a value judgement, it manages to be inaccurate, non descriptive, subjective, and emotionally loaded all at the same time.

Every time Google changes the slightest facet of their service, the idiot crowd starts up with "WELL SO MUCH FOR DONT BE EVIL HURR DURR!!1" Facebook much the same, except it's just become hip to hate on them after all this time. Familiarity breeds contempt, I suppose.
Ok, I just installed it and took a screenshot!

Here you guys go!

http://imgur.com/AmKrYDN
You can get more technical detail on these CALEA backdoors by Googling around for "cisco CALEA". The Cisco 6500 CALEA configuration guide is great. Several documents from several vendors are publicly-findable.

Here's one example to get you started:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/bts/4.1/comman...
Yes. You'd have to remove the stock heatsink and fans from the card you were putting in, which would surely invalidate its warranty straight away. Then you'd have to somehow mate it with the heatsink bases on that side of the Mac Pro's thermal core, not something that's not likely to be straightforward if the replacement card's make and model don't closely match that of the stock card it's replacing. And that's just the beginning of the possible problems.
Fred Wilson: Venture capital as we know it will cease to exist
Ah, that's an interesting detail.
> US citizens aren't typically prohibited from travelling

Anyone on the no-fly list is effectively banned from travelling, just because the US are such a large country and the alternatives are plainly too exhausting.

Again: most constitutions guarantee freedom of movement. The reason it is written there is because the framers had experience with travelling restrictions and how they were used against political opponents. This last lesson seems to have been forgotten.
That's insufficient. If you call enclosed areas (including the one 'at the putside') faces, you sometimes can draw an edge A-B either through face F or through face G.

For example, in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brussel_Sprouts_Game.png, position 3, you can draw a 'diagonal' vertically through the large enclosed area, but you can also draw a graph edge between the same two vertices 'around the outside'.

Similarly, you can have disconnected parts of the graph, where it is essential to know in what 'face' they lie. For example, starting with 3 points A, B, and C, draw a circular edge from A to itself. There are two ways to do that, one where B and C end up in the same face and one where they do not.

If you store the graph as a pair (V,E), you lose that information.
We've had two George Bush's; but, I think the context suggested you're right.
Well, to be fair, the boston bombers' carelessness and naiveté might have been what helped them pull it off.
cgroups are the method of doing fair resource sharing.
Congratulations to the team. I love Ink née Filepicker, it's easy to implement, robust and their support team (i.e. the dev team itself) is quick and very knowledgable. I would like to pay for the service but my volume is too low to exceed the limits of the free plan (too generous?).
Another good article from The Atlantic.

ps. Can they start using other photos of Snowden? I mean come on, is that the only one the media has?
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I'm not sure this principle works in reality. It seems to entail that somebody who fails their driving exam must still be allowed to drive and that somebody with no training should be able to advertise himself as a surgeon.

(Just in case anybody didn't follow the above: Failing an exam or lacking training are not crimes you can be charged with, so under the principle "Either you have enough evidence to charge them with something or you have no business restricting them from doing anything," we have no business restricting anyone from doing anything on those bases.)
"Exactly" is too detailed of a request. Currently in the US the "exact" definition depends very much on the activity, organization, and person involved.

For purposes of this discussion, a reasonable definition might be "a person who releases information about internal activities when 1) the information concerns illegal activity of an organization, and where 2) there is a strong and reasonable belief that internal mechanisms in the organization is insufficient to address the activity.

This is an incomplete definition. For example, someone who reports to a supervisor about possible fraud case and is punished for doing so because that person's supervisor and department head are actively participating in the fraud, should have whistleblowing protection, even if that information stays entirely within the organization.

Of course these can be abused. But as with all cases of power imbalance, the lack of whistleblowing protections means that people who might report fraud or other illegal activities may decide that it's not worthwhile to risk one's job, personal safety, or threat of jail, and therefore allow the crime to continue.

Note that "concerns illegal activity" is of course the issue here.

The reference everyone uses in this discussion is the Pentagon Papers. The NYT wrote that it "demonstrated, among other things, that the Lyndon Baines Johnson Administration had systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress, about a subject of transcendent national interest and significance." Quoting from Wikipedia, "The most damaging revelations in the papers revealed that four administrations, from Truman to Johnson, had misled the public regarding their intentions."

If you believe it was appropriate to publish this classified information, then under what guidelines do you think it's appropriate to break the laws regarding the release of classified material. If you think that Daniel Ellsberg was wrong for doing so, then do we now have a mechanism in place which is able to detect and correct systemic "misleading" by a presidential administration? If so, what is it? If not, then I'll assume you think it's okay for an administration to mislead Congress and the public.
Any B2C calls are reflected (well, half-reflected actually) on this sheet and B2B don't talk so much anyway, I guess.
Pluggr.com Official Launch
Pluggr.com has officially been launched!
Yes. And on their website they have pop-ups to nag you to do it constantly.
BlackBerry Z10 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - The Hacker News
And it reads to me as if the Chrome extension still requires Oracle Cancer.
> because the sysadmin time of updating and patching all VMs I own

There is a key difference between your circumstance the person you are replying to: you are managing a farm of your own VMs so that admin time is your's to find. If the VMs are sold to thers so you are just hosting them, then the VM updates are someone else's problem and the admin time that becomes your problem is dealing with people whose VMs that are (accidentally usually, but not always) abusing shared resources. This is something you don't have as much hassle with when all the VMs are your's: you have presumably planned the likely resource needs carefuly and if something out of the ordinary happens you won't answer back to yourself like someone who has bought a cheap VM would answer back to you when you tell them they seem to be doing something wrong.

Selling containers/VMs to others is a very different kettle of fish to running you own private farm.
This, totally. They basically have to make a custom app for every platform/browser, when a single responsive website would have done the trick. I really don't understand the rationale here. What does a plugin platform give them that a simple website does not, if not additional tracking behavior? Does their monetization strategy involve selling data?