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I've started using encrypted partitions on DropBox/GDrive/BTSync (using encfs and BoxCryptor).

I've added JottaCloud - a Norwegian cloud storage provider, to get some storage outside US/NSA jurisdiction (and I'm using encjs encrypted storage on there too).

I've made sure all my published GPG keys are still working and have strong passphrases. I've started using GPG again occasionally just for the LULZ - so it'll not stand out quite so obviously if/when I need to use it in anger.

I'm considering my email options. I've got encrypting all non-encrypted email on the way into a mail server working as an experiment, but the questions of where to do that remain - my DigitalOcean VPS is no less likely to be under NSA compulsion than gmail, I don't trust my local (Australian) government to not be leaning just as hard on server hosting suppliers in Australia. I'm currently leaning towards hosting my personal mailserver at home strongly encouraging (or perhaps even enforcing) STARTTLS encrypted mail transport, running via a VPN tunnel to an internet connection at an inexpensive VPS with a non-US based provider. Since much of my mail is local (corresponding with other people inside Australia), I'm trying to decide whether an Australia based VPS perhaps under control of the local intelligence services but not requiring the bulk of my inbound (probably unencrypted) mail to hit any trans-ocean/crossing-national-boundaries backbones, would be a lower risk than a Norwgian or Icelandic based VPS which is more jurisdictionally difficult for ASIO and the NSA but which requires my inbound mail to cross those high-value-target-for-firehose-sniffing cross border backbones.

I've been raising cloud data storage legal jurisdiction based on the cloud's physical location and the cloud company's nationality whenever appropriate at meetings (which gets interesting responses with health/financial/childcare clients, and bored dismissiveness from just about everybody else… "Oh, you're storing PII patient data? Does storing that on Amazon S3, even if encrypted, meet your regulatory requirements?" I'm looking forward to the "Ahhh, so you're providing information to pharmaceutical managed mental health patients. Have you considered the privacy leak that Google Analytics represents? WHat disclosures and/or provacy assurances have you made to your users?" discussion next week…)
HECS isn't 73 years old. It was introduced in 1989.
Singapore and the degree of defence Singaporeans offer for their (obviously self-censoring and nanny-state) society give me the creeps.

I went there last week for the first time in twelve years, and it was shocking. I told them as much.

No sooner had I got off the plane and acquired some local cash than I was herded in to a long line for taxis. Walking down the demarcated isle toward the rest of the well-established queue, I mused "Would you like efficiency with your totalitarianism? Apparently not!" As I approached the queue, a functionary suddenly changed the demarcation belt between myself and the queue, causing me to have to walk for miles in one direction then double-back. It was so ridiculous, so Kafka, I burst out laughing.

Two days later at my hotel, I mentioned my eagerness to depart to an employee who was from the Philippines... his eyes darted aside, then looked me in the eyes briefly, turned around and mumbled loud enough for me to hear but nobody else "I hate this place too", while pacing off down a corridor.

The claim to multiculturalism is laughable. Wealthy Singaporeans clearly look down on neighbouring Indonesians, Malays and Philippinos, possibly also the Indians, and are largely ethnic Chinese, often living off the profits of dynastic capital accrued running businesses in those very same neighbouring countries. I did meet some Indians who were born in Singapore - but alas - had never been to India, and appeared to be basically culturally relegated to a sort of mid level service sector niche. It seemed to me that they'd never built up the courage or economic platform to leave.

I even met a wealthy Chinese Singaporean who smugly quipped that his family grew rich running palm oil plantations in neighbouring Indonesia - the same sector causing the smog in Singapore - but that of course they burned theirs far away and clearly had nothing to do with the recent air quality problems!

Sitting in the airport departure lounge, waiting to fly out, a state-sponsored television channel blared feel-good pro-state propaganda to weary travelers. Suddenly, the national anthem came on. Interspersed with its antiquated, politically-populist, Malay-pattois verbiage (you wouldn't catch the rich speaking the common language) were smoothly integrated, carefully contrived scenes of the Singaporean miracle: a multicultural table of youth happily consuming artificial foods, a laughing young man in uniform (doing his compulsory military service), and a couple of friendly, smiling police. That was just the icing on the cake.

Won't be back in a hurry. Sorry, Singapore.
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Welcome to NHK also explores the NEET phenomenon, complete with a main character who is a complete shut-in at 22.
Then we should start an initiative to get everybody to request their file (it's the old "I would do it if you do it" problem).

IMO, the only way to make sure this kind of mass surveillance can be kept from happening again, would be to set up a new government structure that guarantees that budgets are kept so low that it's not possible to create it again and keep it running.

Of course, that would imply that this apparatus has to be stopped, first.

As for the kind of government structure required, I'm thinking:

Cut the central government to a strict minimum and give the states back their power: Decentralize as much as you can.

EDIT: As a bonus, this also leads us away from the single-point-of-corruption-and-failure which a powerful central government is (just like with the Internet).
Mayer realized that Yahoo's position is that of a big old corporation: High assets, weak on true innovation. Using the assets to absorb external innovative power is the logical consequence. As time is running out, they have to go for 10M+ opportunities, instead of trying too many too small projects.
The international version of the term Hikikomori is NEET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET
Can't send you a message. I've got a :
"Address doesn't exist"
Too bad, nice UI :)
"developing a language of knotted strings known as quipo, which has yet to be decoded"

Sigh, not this crap again. I bought a book in Arequipa or Cusco back in 2004 or so that described in detail a large amount of quipu that had been found in the area. Just reading the Wikipedia article would have been enough for this author to debunk this Incan mythical nonsense. It's pretty widely settled now that quipu are a system for counting and bookkeeping and is not a writing system in the sense that it translates words or sounds into written equivalents. E.g. you had to know that red knots represented mules and yellow ones baskets of corn (it's obviously much more complex than this). It's still a writing system and indubitably very useful and ingenious for and of the Incans, but we do know a bunch about it.
I bricked a mac the last time I tried to install linux on it. (one of the last pre-imac ones. one too few zeroes when changing the firmware adress thingy. Kind of a shame as it had a very nice A/V PERCH card). So it's not an entirely unreasonable question.
Techno-pup: Watching your cats and dogs by remote control
edit: re-writing my post; I... somehow misread you; I thought you were suggesting creating a service to do the negotiation for you. No, you were very clearly saying:

>That sounds like a business idea. Create retail services in a market filled with custom dealmaking. I'm guessing that might be hard in your case since it sounds like you have to deal with huge datacenters and network providers.

And this is, essentially, what "The cloud" is, and is why "the cloud" is so popular. The pricing is right on the tin, no wasted time negotiating.

I tried to do the same with raw rackspace and bandwidth, but really? re-selling rackspace when you don't own the datacenter is a really shitty business to be in. I mean, I'm not kicking off my current customers, but depending on how the data-center that my buddy will own turns out, I may or may not actually continue to sell co-location services.

Also, everyone expects the negotiation. In datacenter space and small bandwidth deals? (at the low end, they are sold in a bundle) there are middlemen who can funnel customers to you... for the low fee of 10% of the revenue that customer brings /for the life of the customer) Like I said, it's a shitty business; if you are leasing racks and re-selling them, you are /really lucky/ to be getting 10% yourself. (of course, margin (and labor) go up as you lease larger chunks from your provider and sell smaller chunks to your customers... margin on my quarter rack product was rather better; rack cost $600, and if it was full I made $800. Which isn't bad, except that I've gotta fill like 10 racks just to cover getting a reasonable amount of bandwidth into the facility.)

Man, I'm not very coherent tonight. But yeah, the 10% commission for the guys funneling you customers... normally? you make up for that; if someone comes in through one of the funnels, well, guess what, their final price after negotiation is just 10% higher than what you are willing to negotiate down to with someone who comes direct.

(the fucked thing here is that most of those guys that will point customers at you? they have websites that make them look like they are co-location providers.)
"Most people don't view accidentally stumbling into someone else's furry porn collection as an upside"

That's right. Most people don't, and they pay for eliminating that possibility by living in walled gardens where everything you wouldn't say at a child's birthday party is either already banned or always on the verge of getting banned as soon someone oversteps the mark and it causes negative publicity, i.e potential lost profit.

[Edit] And it's not just about online services, it's also politics. The principle is this: Everything bad that happens has to be prevented from happening again in the future at all cost. No exceptions. No grey areas. That's the principle that leads us straight into a suffocating, prude, totalitarian society.
But to be fair, Mr Clapper apologized. :-D

Seriously though: If this guy thinks it's a good idea to "apologize" for working against the People behind their backs and then lying about it, it means they take the People for real dumb asses, IMO. For me, this behavior creates even more outrage.

"Look, I said I'm sorry, ok?!"
I've always been startled by the word 社会人 which literally means "member of society" but AFAICS is used by people when describing themselves conveying the meaning of "I'm a full-time employee" (as opposed to student, part-time jobber etc.).

The implication being that people who're not working full-time are not considered do be part of society?
An interview with a ShareDesk founder.
There are no more wild frontiers until we move into space, unfortunately.
Does acquiring companies for injecting 'young blood' actually work? I feel an acquisition means the founders and early employees would want to kick back and relax in the comfort of a big company job for a while. The examples I've seen are where they wait out their vesting period, and then quit and start their own company.
They were discouraged and discouraged and discouraged, as if they were conditioned to be discouraged. They've decided to escape the loop altogether, by shutting off the sources of discouragement, or social interactions.
Yeah, definitely got a few groans when I brought it up in my speech today in front of Restore the Fourth SF. But not too bad!
Use AdBlock Edge instead of AdBlock Plus. ABE is open-source and consumes much less RAM than ABP.
...no, the point was that it wasn't a ship of theseus situation.
The part the author picked out as vacuous was, to me, a main substantive theme of the piece:

If you are busy making everything,
How can you perfect anything?

We don't believe in coincidence.
Or dumb luck.
There are a thousand "no's"
For every "yes."

That's an explanation for why Apple's product range is so small, and their product releases so comparatively infrequent. That philosophy is what other tech companies with their plethora of confusing, often poorly conceived products lack.
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Unfortunately I wasn't the one that set it up, so i don't know the details. The coder who set it up left, and the other coders who picked up his project were complaining about the time it took to push changes to staging. After trying it in puppet, it turned out to be much faster, and we moved onto other things. I don't know any further details, sorry.
The problem is that your argument is based on false equivalence.

The counterpoint is the classic trade-off between usability and security. I would (as would many) argue that charges against the Cryptocat team of poor cryptographic implementation or indeed knowledge are rational, appropriate and correct.

Charges of unbounded incompetence are irrational, inappropriate and incorrect. The cryptocat team understand usability, UX, general architecture and programming. That does not chime with sweeping statements of incompetence. Where they fail (and you may see this as a fatal flaw, it may surprise you to see that others may not but it appears that others do) is at crypto.

When it comes to real world attacks so far, it seems that Cryptocat is dangerous, but as dangerous as using any other TLS website. I totally accept that there is substantial evidence pointing to a lack of understanding of cryptography, but unbounded claims of incompetence only undermine a cryptographer's position.
Ask HN: Would you consider this as a valid path to learn web development?
Last week, I wrote what I believe is a very valid path to teach yourself web development, starting with no prior knowledge. It can be found on my blog here: http://bit.ly/1246qMU

Do you think I missed something? What would you consider a newbie web developer should learn as well?

I plan on writing a follow-up with your inputs.
"The problem with using a goroutine as a generator is that if you abandon it, it will not get garbage collected."

It's also slow.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/v6m86sTR...
NEET is japanese terminology, not international.
NEET and Hikkikomori refer to two different behaviour types.
Yeah, exactly. It is not cool and many people know it well even if they are not using it on a daily basis.
They should know it because it is a significant thing with all the technologies around it - and you should know it from all the things built with Java.

You can ask the same question for C,C++ - people use those too. And right; will we talk about Ruby and Python in the next five years?
There is no point - the browser SSL model is as b strong add the weakest link and the CA certs are sold on the open market.
It's more than dysfunctional, it's self destructive. If you stop going out completely you can't have a job and you can't ensure your subsistence later on in life either. That calls for action, in my watch, but I guess you can have a different point of view.
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I am not going to pretent to know how hiring process on big companies like yahoo/google works but here are some of the reasons I think for a company in Yahoo's position acqui-hire is the best way to go:

- In general, top developer are more likely to work for more interesting companies with interesting problems to solve with good pay to boot. I think most good developer would rather work for Google or their own company than work for Yahoo. Since mooching top developers from Google is out of the question, acqui-hiring seems to be the next best option.

- You can't play with 500k/yr strategy because they are other top companies with deeper pocket and can throw more money at employees than yahoo, also because it creates a bad precedent, where current employees who might be more talented but getting 1/5th of the pay. It also artificially increases values of developers IMO.

- Getting acqui-hired employees from small companies/start-ups means hiring people who used to working under pressure and delivering/shipping. This might not always be the case for Yahoo current group of people. People from outside the eco-chamber might help them change the working culture.

- They had to pay that amount, doesn't mean thats how much they value they employees, it also means thats how much they had to pay the investors in order to get employees to work for them.
There is no point - the browser SSL model is as strong add the weakest link and the CA certs are sold on the open market.

Get the cheapest one or self-sign. Latter might be safer if it triggers leap of faith style UI in browser (like ssh).
For the last five or so years, I've used an encrypted primary partition, and the occasional TrueCrypt vault when necessary. I also have recently moved most of my personal storage to Dropbox and Google Drive, with no encryption for the usability benefit.

And I've changed almost nothing since the "PRISM revelations". In fact, I've begun to post more under my actual name, without any anxiety over "NSA" activity.

It may have become a cliché, but I always identified with the logic of continuing to fly after 9/11 to not let the "terrorists win". Us vs. them-speak aside, the sentiment holds true that the best means to oppose a new "threat" is to hold course.

If "government overreach" is really as bad as some claim, someone will be jailed for posting some innocuous musings, and will serve as proof and catalyst for meaningful change. But the far worse outcome would be to suppress free expression based on a nebulous fear of government surveillance (the NSA was formed from a WW2 era signals agency that at one point inspected almost all telegraph transmission to and from the US). And yet we still have a tendency to idealize the past as an embodiment of more pure "American values".
Truth be told, I haven't changed a thing. Even before PRISM, it was always a good idea to assume that any data uploaded to the net will be public. And as a non-American citizen, being spied on by Americans is nothing new.
Yes that sounds about right, it's horrible to not have space.
My design relies on pre-loading the channel's buffer and doesn't use a goroutine.
I also used it for a couple of projects and I found it extremely useful when I was a beginner at PHP and web development in general.

Yii shows the patterns used every day in web development now and therefore it is extremely useful for people who want to start web development with PHP. Also it has some disadvantages (or it had at least, I am not aware of the framework's state now) - e.g. testing (tdd?) is not so straightforward like it is in other, let's say "newer" technologies.

And my advice lastly: I do not know how good you are in PHP or web development but if you plan to use PHP in further developments then Yii is a good choice - I have not used it in the last 2 years but it was good 2 years ago as well. Maybe there are some other good frameworks now but give it a try at least on a smaller project.
What you show is what golfing does to readable code, and has nothing to do with the comment of the GP.
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You say "no way" as though you are an authority on the subject to a hypothesis put forward by a man who is an authority on the subject.
> Prove its correctness

That's probably an overstatement :P
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I don't think most Americans truly understand what's at risk here. All they can think about is "oh, they'll just monitor my useless chats - no big deal". The author does a pretty good job defining how far they could go, and I don't think most Americans even consider those scenarios, which is why they don't care. Or they do, but "they trust Obama", or they don't believe anything bad from it will happen to them, as if it wouldn't be bad enough if the power was abused against many other people or leaders.
Not that I disagree with "It's just that I prefer being home.", but in my own experience, thinking what are the things that every human being should do, I get to a few points :

* reproduce in a healthy manner ( have healthy and well supported children )

* socialize with real people ( we got facial emotions and beautiful speaking capabilities that mammals use for this )

* sport ( the other way around is unhealthy, since your muscles can become useless and you can have big healthy issues if you don't do that )

Of course that's not a complete list.

If you are afraid of doing some of those things ( not that I don't feel that I prefer to stay at home sometimes ), I think that you should consider reading some motivational books about that or change stuff in your life that suits you and make you happy. You don't solve your problems without a fight, that's just the way we live in this e-society.

I'm sorry if my comment sounds harsh.
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Crypto experts are not beautiful or unique snowflakes, armchair or otherwise.
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I notice they've continued their defense in an update to the blog post:

"One more small note: Much has been said about a line of code in our XMPP library that supposedly is a sign of bad practice — this line is not used for anything security-sensitive. It is not a security weakness. It came as part of the third-party XMPP library that Cryptocat uses."
Interestingly, this very same hypothesis was the basis for a novel by french author Bernard Werber called "le père de nos pères" (the father of our fathers), published in 1998.
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Symbolically, 4th of July was a good choice, but practically it wasn't, because it seems people would rather celebrate the concept of freedom, instead of actually defending it. Or maybe they just wanted to enjoy their day off, and has nothing to do with freedom and whatnot.

Hopefully the protest will be repeated soon. This was kind of bad timing, because now politicians all over the world are also going to start their vacations, and it's summer and people don't want to think about "serious issues" anymore. But I agree it's still depressing.
I suppose you can make some effort to get credit for them, but in a lot of areas trying to own and monetize everything can significantly distract from actually making progress. You end up spending all your time worrying about trade secrets and licensing and patents, and less of it worrying about science or engineering. It's actually a common failure case ("failure" from the scientific POV, at least) for inventors who come up with genuinely good stuff and then end up sidetracked for years with all their energy focused on ownership and licensing disputes.
Wikipedia article http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Père_de_nos_pères
I would like to second that with a simple fact that people who are good with monetizing and people who are good with science are often (but not always) a distinct set of people.