skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Combating reflections (hence multipath) from moving objects is precisely the reason Wireless LANs use orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (implemented with an FFT). The environment leaves its imprint on the received signal and depending on your point of view: communications or radar, that imprint is either information to be retrieved (radar) or eliminated (communications).

If you look at one of the early WLAN papers [1] (I'm an author), Figure 1(b) shows a frequency selective fade, meaning there is a dip, or null, in the received signal and some of the frequencies are missing. The way we created that null was by a person walking through the room. With a change of emphasis in the signal processing, a WLAN is a very good person detector.

[1] http://wireless.ece.ufl.edu/twong/Preprints/00566198.pdf
so the EU is the US's enemy? I mean, I always figured spying was a form of warfare.

The definition is: "An agent employed by a state to obtain secret information, especially of a military nature, concerning its potential or actual enemies."

As far as I'm concerned, people should be more concerned about this, unless they feel like they agree with their governments actions as valid, thus confirming they do in fact believe the EU is a potential enemy.

If that's the case, I feel the EU should take some drastic measures against the US.
I believe gmvault.org should be fine for that.
Or use a tool that fixes your style instead of just listing errors: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
This is a proof-of-concept someone wrote, but I have no idea how tested it is: http://git.zx2c4.com/gmail-notmuch/

It syncs Gmail labels to notmuch tags.

As I understand it: by default, Gmail treats labels as IMAP folders, which means a standard IMAP exporter will end up with multiple copies of messages with more than one label. The workaround is to only export the "All Mail" folder, and then add support for Gmail's custom attributes, namely retrieving the X-GM-LABELS [1] attribute for each message and then doing something with it (in this case, storing it as notmuch tags).

[1] https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap_extensions#access_t...
Here's some advice for you: Stop being condescending. Implying that I am ignorantly expecting someone to give me a job I don't deserve is both arrogant and rude.

Good luck.
SpamAssassin and friends still do a reasonable job for me, and have for years. I delete a handful every day, but like the parent I've had my email address since 1996, and I haven't been too careful about using it. If I had to do it over again today, I'd look at rspamd. Getting people to accept your mail can be a pain in the ass, yes, but it's not impossible.

* Get a "clean" statically allocated IP address.

* Control your forward and reverse DNS and make them match.

* Set up SPF/DKIM.

* Fill out the Yahoo Bulk Email sender form

That last one probably isn't really necessary, depending on how much email you send to Yahoo.com addresses.
4 Ways the Internet Has Changed In the Last 10 Years
You don't have to reinvent the wheel. Presumably the "better" solution would be using most of the existing code under the hood. But wouldn't it be nice if setting up an email server consisted primarily of typing something like "apt-get install email-server" and then setting the domain name and adding a few accounts?
I have been spending more time than I care to admit playing this. Seriously. Hours on end. Possibly the most addictive game I've played since Tiny Wings. No idea why.
I have a dedicated server with encrypted partitions and admin backdoors turned off at ovh. So theoretically they shouldn't be able to access the running system, and if they take it down to access the partitions directly, they're encrypted so that won't work either.
I understand what he said. What I don't understand is how someone in my situation shows evidence of completion, budget, and time frame. I suppose my final project will hit two of the three, but I have no way to prove that I will deliver under budget.
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I agree with abraininavat; your perspective is an unfortunate one. Or you're being disingenuous. Roman empire and world peace? The Roman empire a) was at constant war, and b) governed over a tiny sliver of the world. And "keep a few guns in reserve just in case" != more military spending than next 20 countries combined; massive spying on allies, enemies, and citizens alike; etc.
Exim has had five serious vulnerabilities since 2010; two root privilege escalations and three remote code execution bugs. No confidence.
Who are you?

I'm always looking for new standup to watch :)

And separate from that, nice comment. I'll check out Jiro Dreams of Sushi in the near future, sounds like the kind of thing I'd like.
Facebook, etc., said their numbers included requests that were not in response to individual warrants, so could include requests that originated through PRISM.
Subtext: "Yes, a young white male, just like Constant Reader probably is. Yes, that's right. You. What happened to him could have happened to you. This wasn't racism, or sexism, or any other form of institutional oppression. Be afraid."

It worked on me, I have to say.
Oh, well if the companies denied complying with an order they're not allowed to even disclose the existence of, under penalty of treason, then that's the God's honest truth. Case closed.

There's nothing to see here, people. The participating companies are not actually participating at all, and a damage control press release is absolute, unquestionable confirmation of this fact. Nothing is more truthful than a press release.
NSA reportedly has secret data collection agreement with European countries
That's too bad, I'm a huge(huuuuuge) Parks and Rec fan, but I happen to also really enjoy some parts of his standup. I think some of his jokes suck, but some of them just crack me up. I watch a lot of standup and while I wouldn't put him at the top of my list, I definitely enjoy him.

Also he has mentioned on one of his AMA's that he loves standup more than acting/anything else so it's too bad that some folks don't like his standup. Oh well, to each their own!
> it is not the US Government's responsibility to secure them

no-one is asking the USG to secure anything (though it seems happy to jump in and do so when it suits other objectives) - the issue is direct, willful, and secret violation of human rights considered inalienable by the USG itself.
The similarities to Aaron Swartz were being noted.
I guess it is a gold rush approach, some people are probably genuinely trying to offer an alternative to Google reader ,but I'm afraid the rest is just a gold rush issue
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If you want to play with Ruby and not Rails specifically, may I suggest a less monstrous framework, like Sinatra [1] or Ramaze [2]. Both come in one gem and have only one dependency - Rack (web server gateway).

You do not need a version manager to give Ruby a try. Although, it's a nice thing to have. If you decide to use one, you basically have 3 options: 1. rvm (most popular and bloated), 2. rbenv (simple), 3. chruby (even simpler).

If you can, I advise you to switch to Ruby 2.0. It's faster, got a lot of new features and it's becoming the default in the community.

Last piece of advice, do not mix up Ruby and Rails :)

[1] http://www.sinatrarb.com/
[2] http://ramaze.net/
Harvard Prefrosh Declare War on MIT Counterparts
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Clojure is a programming language. Ur/Web is a web application development system. You'd have to compare Clojure+database library+web library.
clang-format exists to do the same thing http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
Palantir stores an audit trail that shows exactly where each piece of data comes from and who has accessed it. This allows citizens, courts, regulators, etc. to see precisely how data is being used.

These features are a deep part of the platform (i.e. they can't be turned off) that powers a lot of the other features (entity resolution / de-resolution, for example). Say what you want about the people collecting the data and the data they are collecting, but civil Liberties and privacy protections are an inseparable part of Palantir.
The World Says Yes To Snowden, No To Obama
> And no, people are not going to innovate anything if they are getting taken care of.

HN is full of people who are effectively taken care of yet innovate. For example, many people here have great jobs that provide all they need, yet they are busily spending evenings and weekends working on their own innovate projects.

There are others here who have made enough on start ups to cash out, and never have to work again--and they are busy making new companies.

Very few people innovate because they need to have their material needs taken care of.
I've just registered FastMail for free trial. Its speed is amazing, much faster than Gmail. And its UI looks great, too. Thank you for your work.

It would be better if you have a more desirable .com domain name. I will probably buy an Enhanced account to use my own domains after free trial.
Sketchy is a massive understatement.
Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement's Adoption Obsession
You don't have to be the first one to invent something, to invent it.

It doesn't suddenly become imitation if you came up with it on your own.
I never said you didn't deserve a job, that's an invisible script of yours... all I'm saying is that you're doing it wrong by focusing in the wrong things.

Nowadays telling you the truth is being arrogant and rude, oh well... good luck to you boy, I'm not the one in need for a job.
Ask HN: Entrepreneurship is ________.
> There was a safe pass drafted on Pres. Correa's order. Snowden even used it to fly to Russia.

Have either of those things been confirmed? I'm not sure his passport was revoked before he left Hong Kong, and I certainly don't think we ever had any official word about any travel documents from Ecuador.

Even if we trust Assange, he's not there and can't know everything. He could easily have been mistaken about a number of facts.
The pace is set reasonably well, but after a while it gets too slow and I have to give up. Mad props for good amount of polish, though!
>>civil Liberties and privacy protections are an inseparable part of Palantir

Other than the whole 4th Amendment thing. Everything you just described is at the very least the bare minimum for chain-of-custody.

So cheers, they aren't apparently "just making stuff up."
I don't see how open source and profitable are mutually exclusive. Cloud9 and others have open sourced their software while staying profitable.

I don't know about you, but I'd much rather pay someone x dollars per month than going through the hassle of setting up a server just for hosting an app.
if you deliver on time, you deliver on budget...
As jaggederest said, you're not the target customer for Heroku. They are interested in hosting apps that have thousand's to hundred's of thousands of visitors a day for companies like RapGenius who don't want to focus on managing servers. It seems like you don't realise that Heroku is giving you a free dyno to run your apps on. If what they're offering for free doesn't fit your needs that's fine but don't be ungrateful about it.
I think the comments were removed, but one of them said that she should build a body-powered vibrator and she would be millionaire.
France spies on Germany. Should Germany take "drastic" measures against France?
Barr seemed to think the CEO of Palantir was the kind of person he could share a plot to disrupt/destroy a journalist's career with, didn't he? (That journalist being Glenn Greenwald, now the Snowden leak publisher)
Homelessness is one of the hardest professions out there, since it consumes every waking and sleeping moment of your existence. Where do I sleep tonight so I don't get robbed or hurt? Where can I find something to eat? Where can I go to get out of the weather without getting into trouble? Where can I wash the dirt and grime off me that comes from the life. Homelessness is a constant process of learning and adapting for those homeless that possess the mental faculties necessary.

You picked a terrible example to try to make your point.
Also.. you should drop the "short term" employers like commitment.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/29/4478748/california-license...

Throwing more light on the controversial use of police license plate readers, a new report from the Center for Investigative Reporting reveals the development of a new California database under development with the help of Palantir, a Silicon Valley firm whose data analysis technology is in wide use by the US intelligence and defense communities. According to the report, the company is party to a $340,000 contract to build the new infrastructure. The project is being spearheaded by the Northern California Intelligence Research Center — an office set up after the 9/11 terror attacks to enable police and intelligence agencies to share data.

The new database will collate records coming in from 14 counties across the state, will be able to handle at least 100 million records, and will be accessible to both local and state law enforcement, according to the report. It also notes that license plate records will be held by the new database for two years, regardless of the data retention policies of local law enforcement agencies. The database's total size is unknown, as is the identity of the government organization that administers it. However, LA Weekly wrote last year that a precursor to the new California-wide database in use by Los Angeles police had logged more than 160 million data points.

Despite their undeniable effectiveness at identifying stolen vehicles ("100 times better than driving around looking for license plates" in the words of one San Leandro police officer), license plate scanners have come under sharp criticism from privacy groups like the EFF and ACLU, which sued the LAPD and County Sheriff’s Department in May for access to a week's worth of records from its license plate readers. Since the devices permit automated scans of some 14,000 plates during a single shift, privacy advocates argue that strict data retention policies need to be put in place to stop a useful law enforcement tool from turning into a comprehensive database of citizens’ movements. And while the Supreme Court ruled last year that warrantless GPS tracking violates the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search, automated license plate readers don't face the same legal restriction.
Except that, you know, they don’t actually work. Even the creators admitted to as much.

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/26/coffee-joulies-review-the-e...
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https://twitter.com/MashiRafael

Rafael Correa @ MashiRafael June 28

No more time to demonstrate "spying" of Ecuador. It is shown that it was just another farce as "punishment" for "rebellious".

Rafael Correa @ MashiRafael June 26

Things ... denounced against the American people and the world. "The world order is not only unjust, it is immoral."
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International ...? They have managed to focus on Snowden and the "evil" countries that "support", making us forget the terrible ..
It would be incredibly useful if there was a mail service that received email over SMTP, encrypted it straight away with a public key, then just dumped the encrypted email into a general-purpose online storage solution (e.g. an S3 bucket).

That would IMO provide a good base for encrypted client-side apps to build on top of. Open source would better be able address the problem of writing a client once the money needed for hosting and storage is taken out of the equation.
A good compromise is to just run the actual machine in your house and rent a VPS for the sole purpose of installing a VPN server to provide your machine at home with access to a static IP address that doesn't have outgoing SMTP blocked. That way all the VPS is doing is forwarding data to and from your machine at home and it doesn't have access to anything your ISP wouldn't, and TLS/PGP/etc. goes a long way to help with that as well.

That should keep anyone from reading your email (assuming you and other senders are using TLS), but the next problem is that an ISP-level observer can always tell who you're corresponding with unless you use something like mix nets or Tor. And allowing that requires some cryptographic authentication method to distinguish legitimate anonymized senders from spammers without leaking the sender's identity to an intermediary. Having the sender sign the message and then encrypt the message, the signature and anything else that identifies the sender with the recipient's public key ought to do it but I'm not sure if there is any existing software that will actually do that. It might be possible using a combination of PGP to authenticate the sender and SMTP TLS over Tor to actually transmit the message, but the missing piece is for the sender authentication to be integrated with the spam filter.
I don't see what's wrong with pointing out deficiencies in the free tier. It's not as if Heroku is giving devs something out of the goodness of their hearts. It's part of their business model. He's just telling us that he doesn't use Heroku for his projects anymore because their dyno's take so long to warm up. I don't work at Heroku but I think their strategy is to make it a great / cheap platform to start an app on so that you pay them when your app gets traffic and needs to scale. If the free offering isn't compelling then the freemium business model doesn't work.
There are friendly nations, but no friendly intelligence services.
"Trust, but verify"

It would be foolish for a country to blindly trust bureaucrats from other nations, even allies. That's why it's common for friendly nations to do extensive spying on each other. Any government who didn't at least try to do so would be doing a disservice to its people.
There are quite a lot of old-school BBSes configured for telnet access.[1] There's even a telnet/SSH client called SyncTerm [2] that emulates old terminal modes with authentic fonts.

There's also a site called Telehack that's an attempt to simulate what the internet would have been like for the typical user about 25 years ago - pre-web.[3]

There's a lot of stuff like this out there that satisfies itches for nostalgia, creativity, and an open frontier all at once.

[1] http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

[2] http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/

[3] http://www.telehack.com/ (or, for a more authentic experience, telnet in with SyncTerm)
I'm guessing they can do just fine without a pile of customers who blanch at paying $20/month for managed hosting.
Er, why not? rvm was originally made for production use!

I've used rvm in production for major sites for years with no problems whatsoever, in fact I believe it is best practise. Do you have any reasons for your preference for packaged ruby?
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp/30328082#30328082

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Harman
Have you seen gmaxwell's thoughts on a similar subject? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53855.msg642768#msg6...
To play the devil's advocate, what exactly is the practical use of all this if most of your family and friends are on Gmail (and couldn't be arsed to figure out pgp)? From what I can see, your emails will now be sent in the clear over the internet, instead of staying within google's servers. Either way, the government's going to get your data, but at least you're protected against... /more/ unscrupulous people snooping on your stuff?
Like Weebly?
You are missing the point. I don't mind paying $20 or even $50 per month for managed hosting. The problem is that I have to pay that kind of price per site. It will quickly add up to a hundred dollars a month or more for all of my sites.
I think the best solution would be to have the NSA and other security apparatuses stop or significantly scale down their surveillance programs for a few years.

Two scenarios would play out:

1) Nothing happens or a maybe Boston Marathon Bombing-style attack once a year at most.

2) Bombs go off in a major shopping center or movie theatre every week, perhaps a few in the Bay Area. This is similar to what happened in Israel in the 90s.

In the first case it would mean that the surveillance really was for nothing and the matter would be easily resolved.

In the second case, we would at least be in a position to make an informed decision about whether the surveillance programs were worth the security it gained us. I suspect people would have a different opinion about the surveillance programs if scenario two came to pass - because preventing the second scenario is ostensibly the motive behind them.
NSA Spied on European Union Offices
>They can't even do what Aaron Barr was asking of them.

For that matter, they can't even do what Lessig was gushing about:

>>there's a company called Palantir who's built a technology to make it absolutely, make you absolutely confident that a particular bit of data has been used precisely as the government says it's supposed to be used. You can find out exactly who's looked at it and for what purpose it's been used at. So the point is there's a way to build the technology to give us this liberty back, this privacy back. But it's not a priority to think about using code to protect us.

Wha? There's always been code that can tell you who accessed what and when: the problem is trusting it to be set up right, not the technology.

Anyone know what the actual Palantir accomplishment is?
I'm not missing the point; it's just not profitable to run managed hosting at $4/month/app. If you are price-sensitive but time-insensitive, Amazon is the perfect place for you to go to host lots of low-traffic applications. That's not the market they are trying for, and their success or failure doesn't hinge on getting that market.
JUDUS: Justice Department of the United States

"...But Obama’s Justice Department, like Bush’s, has not been above an opportunistic (and occasionally downright Procrustean) reading of particular statutes to permit whatever it is that the White House wants to do."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5961518
Back when I bought my jalapenos they were only $150 and I chose not to do the upgraded pricing to 7GH/s for $100. The speedup I was referring to was simply a bump in the base model from the original 4.5GH/s specs to what the units I received actually ran at.

Given that the units have almost paid for themselves in one week it's hard to be upset about any lost income. On the other hand I still have only received part of my order and am waiting on multiple 60GH/s units that are just now starting to ship to people who ordered in June 2012. Depending on how long it takes them to get to my order I may have some regrets I didn't just order all jalapenos instead.
Since nobody seems to have been paying any attention or have a memory, 9/11 was sadly the information about scenario two. It's not a bloody experiment anymore.
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Sell everything
http://theody.net/elements.html is a beautiful essay on the topic: "in a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
If you were an NSA contractor, you could just punch it up and listen whenever it struck your fancy.

Maybe that's why Biden has to take a hard line; he can't afford to offend the NSA.
Ask HN: Would someone in Australia mind pinging 3 IP addresses for me?
I'm trying to decide where to host my 2 websites, one of which is targeted to Australians and the other to North America.

Would someone who is in Australia mind pinging these 3 IP addresses of the hosts I'm considering and telling me the average ping time?

Quadra Hosting 202.146.213.3

WPEngine Tokyo 106.187.98.41

WPEngine US 50.116.56.20

If you could also tell me where in Australia you are that would be great!

Thanks!
U.S. Army Restricts Access To 'The Guardian' Website