skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they have to be moved to really be considered "seized", otherwise they just have a copy which can be invalidated before they control the value of the coins.
I'm not really sure what posting this is supposed to indicate. Dreyfus didn't steal and "leak" documents: He was framed.

Or maybe it's just random Wikipedia link day and I didn't notice.

It's a shame that it seems many who took it upon themselves to flag all the repetitive drek being posted on the front page have lost their flagging privileges. I guess "anything good hackers would find interesting" has evolved in a wonderful new direction.
What do you recommend when dealing with an enemy that isn't interested in your good-faith efforts?
Clojure is incompatible with any other Lisp...
Some people when oppressed, rightly or wrongly, feel that they are powerless to resolve their grievances, real or perceived, within the social norms around them, lash out. Some are better at lashing out than others.

The most dangerous person in the room is the one with nothing to lose. One way, quite possibly not the only way, to stop them being so dangerous is to give them something of worth, then they'll have something to lose. Social security, good healthcare, foreign aid, and taxes do serve some purpose for the greater good.

There is justice and pragmatism, the best solutions solve both.
git is a SCM and should not be on production systems.

instead you should have a build server which builds up a package (rpm, deb, tarball?) which is then used to deploy across the production environments.

you should also not compile JS/CSS etc on production system that is what the build server is for.

anything installed on a production system should be 'required' for the app to actually run.

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that said, you can use capistrano (and other tools like this) to update 'demo' environments and dev environments (with git) however the actual TEST and STAGING environments should mirror the PROD environment (packaging).
They do when they knowingly break the laws and run away from the consequences like Snowden and Assange have (Assange's even more appalling given the rape allegations he also ran away from). Manning, at least, didn't do that.

I stand corrected about Wikileaks role in this particular aspect of the story as they do seem to actually be helping him elude justice. But they seemed to have nothing to do with his actual leaks, yet I've seen multiple 'statements' from them on the matter that seemed to only serve as a way to remind people of their existence. At least now they have an actual reason, I guess.
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They can augment their income by fixing broken power buttons, which is a growing problem that Apple refuses to touch:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/22136029#22136029
It appears that all they did was include kickass.to as one of the infringing URLs (presumeably because the kickass homepage includes links directly to the torrent files next to the links for the subpages for the torrent files). You can see the takedown letter if you search for kickass.to and click on the chilling effects link: http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=1009127

I'm actually surprised that doesn't happen in many more takedown notices, as it seems like an easy way to knock torrent/streaming site homepages off of google, and many of these sites (the torrent ones, at least) usually have a "newest torrents" list on the homepage.

This still works though: https://encrypted.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&q=a+good+day+to...
I'm participating in TechPeaks, worked on http://Feetlot.com today. Some other techpeakers decided to visit a 15th century castle in the Alps, but I wanted to implement some new features.
Shouldn't it be:

git --bare init

On the server?
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I could see how Chicago PD could use that APC/Tank vehicle, but not sure why the Nebraska highway patrol would ever need one.
Also, it is good to mention, that to change the code/algorithm would require replacing the code on the peers accounting for 50% of the network's hashing power.
Hacker News is the one place I've consistently found good information related to this extremely important case (that and Greenwald's twitter account itself).

I think this advice will more likely than not fall on deaf ears but I would caution anyone getting all or most of their news on this subject from just HN and/or Greenwald. I've found that most of the coverage on HN has been extremely one-sided, and of course it is the most sensationalist articles (like when the NSA supposedly admitted in a Congressional hearing that any analyst could start listening to any US Person's phone calls) that get the most upvoted, and the articles either refuting or casting serious doubts on those initial stories (Rep Nadler: "nope that wasn't what was said") get a fraction of the votes.

There are more sides to this story than just what is receiving the most upvotes and I think a lot of people are allowing the story to confirm whatever prior beliefs they had (which for most is that the US is a police state).

When you think about it, this story is still only a few weeks and old and it's way too early to think we even know enough to draw any concrete conclusions, yet alone get drawn into the "hero vs traitor" waste of time.
Evolving beyond being amoral nutjobs ourselves is the first step to eliminating amoral nutjobbery elsewhere. There's a lot of extra work that needs to be done on top of that, such as good-faith social programs to help their society recover, etc.
You can look it up ... :]

People / km^2 (all numbers obviously very approximate, so I've just rounded to thousands):

Manhattan lower-east-side 35000 pp/km^2
Manhattan average 26000 pp/km^2
Hong Kong kowloon 44000 pp/km^2
Hong Kong island 16000 pp/km^2
Hong Kong new territories 4000 pp/km^2
Hong Kong average 6000 pp/km^2
Tokyo 23-ku average* 14000 pp/km^2
SF chinatown 29000 pp/km^2
SF nob-hill 20000 pp/km^2
SF mission-district 10000 pp/km^2
SF SOMA 5000 pp/km^2
SF potrero-hill 2000 pp/km^2
SF average 7000 pp/km^2

* Tokyo population is very consistent; it's not particularly dense in terms of peak density compared to other places, but it retains the same medium-high density across an enormous area...
> It's way too broad.

No way would that be considered an over-broad warrant. If, e.g., you suspected someone of financial fraud, it would be totally okay to get a warrant for the contents of all the filing cabinets in his office.
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True. But Brooklyn actually isn't that much more dense than the Mission (36k ppl/sq mile versus 29kppl/sq mile).

http://www.city-data.com/neighborhood/Mission-District-San-F...
http://www.city-data.com/city/Brooklyn-New-York.html
This sums up my position. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1gvd45/z/caobk8t
Where does iCracked get the displays/glass? What's to prevent Apple from drying up the supply?
Wales isn't a huge fan of WikiLeaks:

“If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wiikileaks.”

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/18/jimmy-wales-wikileaks/
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You've contributed nothing with this shameless strawman of an argument. Nobody here made that claim, and probably nobody ever has made that claim. Who are you arguing against?
No, it's like "all documents in the office" which is fair game for a warrant. You think warrants require you to specifically mention every document?
No.
Date of writing article adds brief, but important piece of information about that article.

Date is very helpful in digesting article (by putting it in context).

If you make it harder to digest your articles - you directly subtract it from your karma.
At this point, if Wikileaks doesn't publish the docs Snowden has, this whole incident is a farce.
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I used to live in Georgia where there is a city called Warsaw. Always found that one kind of funny.
I doubt that his why he has chosen Ecuador as a place of asylum. It's because they won't respond to an extradition request.

http://www.cpj.org/blog/2013/06/new-ecuadoran-legislation-se...
Interesting. I guess that means the DEA has some technology people who have been tasked with figuring out how Bitcoin works, sufficiently well to understand what it would mean to "seize" it and actually carry that out.
Day 1: Hooray for Edward Snowden.
Day 2: No get the hell out of here. We've enough of you. You're boring us.
Thanks for telling us what should be important to us.
I don't know about the JavaScript code, but I did look at the uC code (EE459 repo I guess?).

Since you are already taking the flash hit with sprintf, you might be interested to know that you can redirect stdout to print all data through your serial line, i.e. just using printf. Saves going through an intermediate buffer. Looks something like this:

http://pastie.org/8073251
You can always make money out of broken stuffs/junks/trash. With the right idea, skill,and marketing; people can earn millions like these guys did.
"betterunix's g-mail account" is plenty specific as a "place to be searched" and "e-mails" is plenty specific as "things to be seized." 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. Or if you kept them on a hard drive, it would be totally fair game to get a warrant to get the hard drive.

In this case, the problem is not investigators overreaching the law. The problem is the amount of information consolidation modern technology enables and encourages.
Time to dust off the IP Over Avian Carriers RCF maybe?
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Speaking of spin...
I read a lot of political commentary on the web, from all sides. Most of it consists of long arguments about why party A is good, and/or why party B is bad. At times these articles can be spun as personality pieces, analysis, or commentary on current events. You'll start reading a story on pig farming and suddenly end up inside a "Candidate X!" commercial.

I'm not seeing that here. Yes, I am seeing quite a bit of annoying hero worship, pouring over each little detail of Snowden's journey as it creeps along. But I'm not seeing calls to perform some kind of political action. (Admittedly there was a petition drive. But AFAIK it was non-partisan) Nor am I seeing emotional content structured to make one party look good and the other bad.

I want to be respectful as well, because nobody wants another reddit. Startups and news of interest to hackers is why I'm here. I can get politics anywhere. If I wanted a political rally, I'd go elsewhere.

Having said that, we're in a bit of an odd spot with these latest stories. We're like a bunch of guys who make ceremonial swords, gushing over the details of how to construct a hilt, how to hone a blade, and so forth. People are now bringing us stories of these swords being used to behead people. Many of us are adamantly refusing to admit any connection between what we do and what is going on in the world.

For a long time, I was happy enough with the bit about "That's all politics. We don't do that." But at some point, you have to realize these stories are about us -- about other hackers. Snowden, for whatever else he is, is a hacker. Wouldn't surprise me if he didn't spend a bit of time here. As was Aaron Swartz. These aren't stories about what kind of politics we should choose for ourselves, these are stories about how the technology we create and the jobs we have are actively affecting (and in many cases doing great harm to) other people in the world.

So I'm not so sure the lines are as clear cut as some would like. For instance, out of the current front page, I see one Snowden-only post, one post about Google handing over chat records, one post about Chomsky prattling on about something or another, and 2-3 posts about how secrecy works in general in the U.S. That doesn't look like "Six Degrees of Separation" That looks like stuff hackers would be interested in. But, of course, others may disagree.

More in-depth argument here: http://freedom-or-safety.com/blog/techologists-role-in-oppre...
Am I the only one who skips web search engines and heads straight to torrent search when searching for torrent?

My favorite at the moment is torrentz.eu

The more authorities try to clean up search engines, the nmore people would learn.
Perhaps it is a cultural difference, and if so forgive me. But before the Assange affair would you have ever used the phrase "rape accusations" to describe a woman suggesting that the condom used in consensual sex may not have ripped in an accidental manner? If one uses such a broad definition of malfeasance, god knows how many notorious crimes I could have been accused of in my lifetime.
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Frankly, I missed the option, and usually I am pretty good with noticing if the defaults are what I want. The only reason I even noticed that "delete" was not actually deleting mail was that I had to search through All Mail one day, and I noticed some messages that I was sure I deleted. What makes this worse is the completely counterintuitive nature of deleting messages from All Mail: they just come back. I suppose it should have occurred to me that this is a setting I can change, but considering the other oddities I have seen in GMail's IMAP support I just jumped to the assumption that it is another weird "feature."

Really though, the point still stands: Google was not considering protecting its users from government surveillance to be a priority here. They probably had other reasons, maybe even well-justified reasons, for the defaults they chose, but those reasons only make sense in the context of their engineering requirements.

"Also, I hope your email client does secure deletes on local disk by default."

I do something better: whole disk encryption. Actually, since I use an SSD now, "securely deleting" anything is non-trivial; it is better to just negate the need for it by never storing plaintexts anywhere.
I don't follow this stream of logic. If you have to build technical systems, the sole purpose of which is to sidestep laws, in order to be good then aren't the laws at fault here? I find the acceptance that governments will do whatever this wants, we will just use end to end encryption , TOR and Bitcoin defeats the purpose we have regulated currencies, governments and democracies. 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. Because if you are not keeping a check on the government they will keep bringing in more laws that hinder your sense of justice and your technical system keep moving its architecture like a fugitive.
>if they can prove you rigged a failsafe, you're going to jail anyway

Because if someone is willing to go to those lengths on their own system, there's no possibility for the odds to be stacked in their favor…
Just how sick can a hacker get?
Ecuador has an very poor human rights record. One of my colleagues is a former Ecuadorian journalist who was blacklisted for criticizing the government and had to flee the country. Strange choice for Snowden, given that.
His safety in Ecuador seems highly dependent on the attitudes of the current ruling party/president. What happens if a more US-friendly group takes hold of power?
The glass on the devices appears to be "generic", not really "apple glass". They manufacture them in China. This is a great article on them;
http://www.inc.com/30under30/burt-helm/icracked-aj-forsythe-...
Probably just as well as any other form of circumstantial technology-based ID: IOW, it depends on the expert witnesses and the presentation of other identifying evidence by the prosecution.
Here's a phrase I feel comfortable using: It's a deceptive practice.
I could have chosen more fair words - that isn't what I meant to say.

Anyway sounds like it's generally a good guy move, just wanted to check what others thought.
Then you look at other options. But in this case a good faith effort could resolve the problem very quickly. The people attacking the US aren't really asking for that much. They just want the US to stop sponsoring violence and tyranny in their region.
Why talk about Snowden when we can all discuss flavor-of-the-week javascript and rails crap that few people in the real world actually care about?
iCracked repairs almost every aspect of an iDevice including power buttons!
"dirty bombs are a media fabrication" ... I don't know about this, once you factor in Green hysteria about radiation. I suspect a dirty bomb in e.g. Germany would have amazingly disproportionate results compared to the actual threat.

In the US, we'd probably do what they did in NYC after 9/11 WRT to the excessive claims of danger from asbestos, say "never mind" (after cleaning up hot spots). And "don't eat dirt" and the like, but who knows?

Elsewhere I've touched on how I'm not as sanguine as you over the real nuclear threat.
"the outcry from users from not being able to undelete an email would be much louder than those wanting instant deletion."

[citation needed]

Seriously, I have trouble believing that anyone would complain about "delete" carrying any meaning other than "delete." I also find it hard to take such people seriously, given the existence of a Trash folder as a first stop for deleted messages, and All Mail as a second stop (and what is the default for deleting from All Mail? Having the message come right back to All Mail! Brilliant...).

Thanks for the tip on how to fix this behavior. It is an easy option to miss...
You could have made the same point without saying "Stupid title".
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Well, OK, then. Snowden is rightfully a hero to your ideology. But I think anyone who's read history can argue that the institutions that currently "run the world" are among the most beneficial to mankind ever to emerge. They're not perfect, but we should think twice before tearing them down.
>The state knows what it needs to know about bitcoins in the sense that it knows it can stop them easily

Really? Because whatever they're doing doesn't seem to be working very well.
The mining pools (groups of miners who've joined forces) control it in practice. This effectively gives a very small number of people control over significant things, like transaction fees.
> As a person who actually used to live in a former Soviet republic

> Sure. Poland.

Poland is a former Soviet satellite. It can also be described as a former Communist republic.

It is not, however, a former Soviet republic, as it was not one of the 15 constituent republics of the former Soviet Union.
Nope! Bay area (which btw, does not have bad traffic relatively speaking; I've been in traffic jams in the NE and they are way worse, same with LA).
I meant the ratio between the two communitys here.

Or are you saying the SF tech companies has a noticeable difference in Indian expats employed compared to SV as whole that is interesting.
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Oh, that's funny. Shit Reddit Says is a sub-reddit that calls out offensive comments on Reddit. They've been called the PC Police and the like, and they appropriated "fempire" after people got sensitive about being called out for sexist comments. The rules say not to downvote the linked comments, but people think they do, or that they upvote stupidity just so they can highlight it. So research was done [1], and no evidence of that sort of misbehavior was found.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/prcpf/a_shor...
Thanks for the tip! I'll try and implement this once I get the parts in for my new board.
They could ignore it anyway.
The warrant should detail the nature of the crime being investigated, the dates under which they believe a crime was committed and the range of dates that are reasonable to investigate based on the aforementioned facts.

That's reasonable. A blanket warrant impacting all emails since the beginning of time is not reasonable.

If the cant name a crime and give a date or dates then they shouldn't be asking for a warrant.
That's a bit simplistic, no? Sure, you might only come back to your farm in one piece, but what if the alternative to going to war is never coming back to your farm? What if it means leading a life that is far worse that what you currently have?
> business and governance in the UK doesn't seem to be particularly corrupt.

Read any issue of Private Eye and you might form a different opinion.
No, it doesn't. Obviously, actual violence is much worse than graffiti, and antipathy towards tech workers hasn't reached that level. But the fact that other people have it worse doesn't make it right.

Update: The root of the issue is that San Francisco has a political problem. The city's voters and politicians can't seem to enact policy to deal with the changes that the city is going through. The influx of tech companies into the city recently is the most visible part of those changes, but they're not the largest part. Rather than looking for scapegoats, San Franciscans should be talking about how to lessen the impact of growth on their way of life.
Sweden's a different country with different standards, but you're also wildly over-simplifying.
Competitive acquisitions often result from this kind of development.
No, it was probably fallout from a controlled delivery or something. There have been multiple controlled deliveries in the past for SR users and so far zero honeypots or other fancy traps (see my collation of arrests/prosecutions in http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road#safe ).
Tall buildings survive earthquakes better than low rise (odd but true) Though it does depend on ground in the area.
That law was only used a few times, and even fewer times successfully. It was overturned in '08, but it was very rarely used even before then.
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i know the hacker- she's high end for HP in UK and has made my life miserable since march. need preferably a masters to generate a brief statement for the FBI. desperate... remote access-everything! was swiped once, and she remotely jail broke my iPhone. i have a loaded hard drive- 48 hours. good pay.
USER'S, not USERS'.

Very meaningful difference here.
Schaaf first posted about Imgur on Digg, and when it didn't gain traction there he posted it on Reddit. It was disingenuous of him to call it a "Gift to Reddit" in that post.
It's funny to me that people will happily spend $40 for a t-shirt, $100+ for a pair of shoes, $300 for an ounce of weed -- but ask them for $200 for a professional development tool and they won't budge.

I for one, think the price tag is reasonable.