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I think Java veered wildly off track with EJB. It's legacy lives on (unfortunately), but at, least it's not the de facto standard for enterprise dev that it once was.

So, in some senses, at least the rabid drive toward implementing the full spec has been deprecated, if not the technology itself.
PRISM slides: 100,000+ surveillance targets, mention of real-time monitoring
Let's see, an inconclusive pseudo war that ended with basically a negotiated discount to the original tribute demanded, but that probably cost a lot more than that tribute to actually fight.

You're right. We did set some kind of precedent and pattern there, though, of course, modern military power is capable of wasting ever so much more life and money on the way to an awkward inconclusive end.

But I don't think just because it was an old bad pseudo war that adds to legitimacy.
Nice stringing together of unixy tools to get this working. I had not heard of notmuch and its related ecosystem (afew, alot, etc.), so that's a useful discovery on my part.
It can show up anywhere — and in fact event handlers are a major source of leaks in general — but the point is that the leak doesn't occur as frequently as you might expect not that it occurs.
Here are 4 simple reasons why BFL sells the devices. I explain this over and over to non-Bitcoiners who don't understand...

Developing an ASIC requires manufacturing a lot of wafers to recoup your NRE cost, mostly the mask set cost. In the case of BFL, they manufactured 75-100 thousand chips in the first batch, or a few dozen wafers. Each chip consumes ~15-25W (there are two of them in a 30-50W Jalapeno) and each chip is capable of 3-4 Gh/s.

Firstly, if you do simple math on power consumption, you find out that running 75-100 thousand chips would need a datacenter of 1.1 to 2.5 megawatt! It would take many more months to deploy and maintain up to 2.5 MW of hardware, causing BFL to be unable to generate mining profits quickly. It is a lot easier for an electronics manufacturer to merely ship hardware to end-users, than to deploy megawatts of hardware in datacenters.

Secondly, if BFL mined with 75-100 thousand chips, they would mine at 225-400 Th/s. This is 2x-3x higher than the current global hashrate (~150 Th/s as of June 2013). So they would instantly cause the difficulty level to increase by 3x-4x, therefore reducing their mining profits to only 1/3rd-1/4th of what one might naively conclude by using a Bitcoin profit calculator today.

Thirdly, there is intense competition from other ASIC manufacturers, who are already up and running! A chinese company known as ASICMINER currently already operates 40 Th/s of ASICs as of June 2013 (roughly 150 thousand of their own 130nm chips), and claims they will soon deploy 250 Th/s to keep up with the expected competition. Also, Avalon has currently shipped their first batch of 20 Th/s of devices to customers, with their second batch of 40 Th/s being shipped as we speak (as of June 2013), and a third batch of 40+ Th/s in the next months. All this to say that it would be very risky for BFL to just plan to mine for themselves, when they are already late compared to competition. Combined with my points #1 and #2, by the time BFL catch up with competition and mines with megawatts of hardware, the difficulty level will have increased by at least 10x. At this point, clearly it makes sense to sell the devices to instantly reinvest the sale proceeds to build more, rather than spending 3-6 months to mine to (hopefully) recoup the manufacturing costs.

Fourthly, mining is extremely dependent on the exchange rate of Bitcoin. If BFL sell/pre-sell a device for USD as they did, they lock their profits right away. Whereas if you plan to manufacture, then mine, then sell the bitcoins, anything that happens to the exchange rate during this timeframe puts your future profits at risk.

Hopes this help.

(Edited version of what I originally posted to http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=24459357#p24459...)
I've never paid more than 12% taxes and I've always lived alone in 50-70 sq.m. apartments (actually I tend to take big stuff because I can, but when it's time to clean I hate it) . I used to eat 5 days a week at the restaurant (but I don't think it's good for my health). And I lived in Montbéliard, Besançon, and Montpellier. I think as a French software engineer I did not have bad material living conditions. And I'm far from skilled. I hired people with good salaries in Montpellier too. But there is one important thing: I move around the country when work calls for it. I don't defend my castle.
Just as a fyi - you can click on the language bar and it toggles the language breakdown info :)
Spying promotes stability. Having too many secrets promotes accidental armageddon. In fact, Germany is a signatory of the open skies treaty that allows military surveillance overflights.
It's the Tasman and the South Pacific, the latter being precisely where someone going from NZ to SE Australia is sailing.
This reminds me that it's 2013 and Xcode still doesn't have a built-in code formatter :(
Man is that last point true. Java sorely needs a neat, clean, and simple web framework. There is absolutley nothing inherent to the language that dictates that it cannot support such.
CPU mining is pretty much pointless now. And unless you're not paying for power GPU mining is pretty much a wash. Assuming an ATI 5870 uses 200W, and can do 400MH/s (which looking online seems about correct), you can expect to generate about .01 BTC/day, which is about $1 at current rates. You'd be looking at profitability if your marginal power costs are less than $0.20/kWh. And that's not factoring in the cost of the graphics card.

For comparison, 2 USB asic miner erupters will hash at about 650MH/s, and use about 3W.

So in short, if you already have a fast graphics card and don't have to pay for power, it might be worth mining.
I recently thought that one of the most dramatic ways to frame this current debate would be for all the NSA data for a certain period of time (say one week) to be leaked. Everyone would be able to see that their email (or whatever) had been logged, and many would mine the data to show "interesting" connections between people involved in current political issues.

Just imagine the uproar!
Why is the "stealth hoodie" just chest-up?

BTW snipers have been quite aware of the issue for some time. Tales told of a sniper defeating a demonstration of an expensive automatic anti-sniper system by borrowing someone's umbrella...
How ethical and sustainable is it to earn money that you did not toil for?
Exactly. You'd think for a heavily programmer-skewed community, some users could do basic math.
WikiLeaks refutes media reports about 'Ecuadorean disarray'
There are a total of 41 slides related to this particular slideshow.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/29/4478572/prism-slides-surve...
Mining user profiles for targeted AdSense ads is just the tiniest part of the problem.

Massive government spying revelations based on tapping into centralized infrastructure at cooperative organizations that maintain broad cross-web and cross-mobile profiles of all users, along with their personal communications and data, and you don't see how big this problem really is?
I liked living in Germany, they have a good work ethics, I really like their service at the bar/restaurant, they come back from the office sooner than the French (I think we have a cultural problem with that), and they know how to have fun, chilling with a beer in the sun, enjoying riversides, simple joys.
When I last looked at Play, it seemed the tooling wasn't there and not much IDE support. They tout that a simple text editor is plenty, but who wants to go without features like code completion? As I recall, the dynamic code generation made this unworkable in current IDEs.
- BBC: complex characters that often do bad to do good, must fight against their peers/superiors, societal/gender prejudices, make big mistakes, uncompromising but ultimately win out (Prime Suspect, Inspector series, Luther).

Now, what I've seen of their intel shows (Spooks, MI-5) not sure how nuanced they are.
Please don't make this open source. It'll end up in the vast graveyard with all the other open source projects that went no where. How are you going to sustain development, make it better, hire designers, make a living if you just give it away for free. You are not Mozilla, Oracle, Google, Automattic. They make money in various ways which is how they can support development of their open source software. You don't.

Don't be afraid of asking for money and becoming successful.
Another relatively painless way to set up a mail server on your own box is http://www.iredmail.org. ( + http://z-push.sourceforge.net/soswp/ for ActiveSync push mail) So far I am fairly happy with it.
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1) I'm not familiar with intellectual property law and I'm curious: Can Clinkle's lawyers do anything to prevent such information from being published?

2) My inner conspiracy theorist says this is a clever posting from someone internal to Clinkle as a PR stunt.
From the article:

"The program is court-approved but does not require individual warrants."

So does this mean that the number of government requests released by Facebook, Microsoft, etc. within the last few weeks are essentially meaningless in regards to PRISM and most likely other top secret government spying programs?
It probably is not much popular.
Getting statistically useful data out of this will be difficult. A/B tests can tell you which of a set if options performs better for a measurable metric, but not why, and without no visibility into 'metrics' you can't easily measure -- of which there are a lot.
I suspect the statistics on feature usage are slanted toward trivial repos that are being used like SVN, or that are not being used as part of a distributed workflow. "Important" doesn't mean "used by the majority of projects."
I dont follow, what is the problem with "starting from 1993"? Why do you keep saying that?

I also failed to correlate the "rant about some technical problem in a web browser (or whatever)" with "starting something from 1993".

However, everything is showing up pretty nice on my machine (Firefox 11.0 running on Ubuntu 10.10).
To the author's point about friction: one of the things that I think has hurt Java is that some of its flagship tooling and frameworks have been overly bloated and complex. It's almost as if the more complex the technology, the more popular it became.

Eclipse must be the world's clunkiest IDE. EJBs were pure evil from the first day. And, the most popular web frameworks have been anything but simple (Struts, then Spring, etc.).

Contrary to what some may say about the language itself, I don't see anything in it that dictates tooling/dev stacks need to be so complex. It seems that it's simply the chosen architecture and/or implementation that's most to blame.
To illustrate the difference in visibility, I'd imagine.
1) it was on the Google Play Store ... 'nuff said
2) why would they make fun of the stitched wallet leather look and the key used to unlock the wallet?
Exactly. It also means that the statements issued by those companies after the initial leak were misleading at best, and arguably, outright lies.
Can he live in limbo?
Perhaps it's because I'm Canadian and have lived in a world of "constantly aware of US politics but not governed by them" but I find the attitude the OP is now discarding to be superbly and painfully naive. Basically delusional. Imagine the feeling you would get when someone tells you "I entered by credit card number in that 'check if your credit card has been stolen' banner ad and it said I was safe, so that's good news". Same feeling.

So while I'm glad the realization has been had, and the childish notion has been discarded, I'm really worried that this is some kind of common idea among educated non-Americans. Is the ability to read newspapers or follow politics (actual politics, not the circus of party politics) of any kind in that much of a decline?
On the other, ironic, hand, then, the court might then somewhat rightful hold that congress' intention was "do whatever the heck you want and then lie and mislead us about it". And low and behold...
Personally I'm still trying to put together a bitcoin machine that can be marketed as a cost neutral electric heater.
Setting up a server in any hosting environment at this point comes with the assumption that its contents can be read at any time by the operators and whoever they let in without you ever knowing about it.

That's still a lot better than Gmail.

Setting up your own mail server is not a terrible woe-inducing undertaking if you have a working recipe to follow and are comfortable with the Unix command line (e.g. http://www.exratione.com/2012/05/a-mailserver-on-ubuntu-1204...).

Organization and categorization are the sticking point features, given what I've seen of most open source webmail applications. But worth looking around. If you have a basic mail server image, you can keep trying out applications on top of it to see what works for you.

Going beyond that to something with a whole lot more encryption and less of an ability for hosting providers to read your data would really require a product dedicated to that end: that is hard to get right.
I think it's a bit naïve, because transcendental number have no exact finite representation in any integral base.
Having arbitrary precision helps only in some cases.
Facebook blog: "Growing Beyond Regional Networks (June 2 2009)"
https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?topic_id=216284525139

Facebook joined PRISM on June 3, 2009.
Did you ever try only the first 19 or 18 or 17 or 16 of your 20+ password in the past? Just because they are alerting you to something now does not mean that in the past they did not silently ignore any chars past 16.
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Just a general fyi, there are $10 credits for Digital Ocean if you decide to sign up. The one I used this month was OMGSSD10, but it may only work for this month.
why not just right click->view element, and hide/delete the overlay?
Moreover, how economically viable is it for the generation of currency to be proportional to wasted wealth (i.e. electricity spent mining coins)? Isn't money supposed to track created wealth?
No longer part of the program? Ha!
Some prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5891383
"Lots of people have very strong feelings about the New Jersey Devils or the Miami Heat."

Which would probably be important if you were interviewing them to be local sportscasters in those markets, no?
No more RVM! Fantastic news!
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Really seems kind of amazingly stupid to release those statements if the details being published here are anything close to accurate - wouldn't they have known the WP knew and could prove they were lying? The amount of trust in these companies going forward should be zero.

There is going to be a huge market in replacing essentially any/all of these services with ones physically and legally outside of the USA, with companies that vow to never voluntarily cooperate with the American surveillance state.
At $6 this is a no-brainer impulse buy. But I wish it was in Go instead. I use to code in java, but I have no interest going back to it.

I want to get better in Go and it would have allowed me to kill two birds with one stone.
Ask HN: Whats the Biggest Lesson You've Learned With Your Startup?
I like RVM - and I donated $5 to the maintainer. I guess it's better to not always need it, but it's saved me a lot of time.
Anybody know a similar piece of software for C or Python?
I don't think they should wage war, but couldn't they put economic pressure on the US? Revoke the Nobel Peace Prize? Put pressure on the US via the UN?
Please don't let that tempt you to use system Ruby. You should always build your own, especially on a system like OS X.

System Ruby is not there for you, it's there for the system to make use of (and yes, OS X does ship with quite a few Ruby scripts and a couple of Rails applications). Apple makes no guarantees of keeping this Ruby up to date.
Don't you folks get watched by big brother everywhere you go? Isn't London the CCTV capital of the world?
What is interesting is the cost of the program is surprisingly low compared to their budget.
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Even with obfuscation you tend to just end up with the code, but all the identifiers are replaced with a, b, c, etc.. I've still been able to figure Bluetooth protocols and other things without much trouble. For pirates, impersonators, and malware creators, they often just have to find free/pro/goods counter/license check/sig check or add in a call to their own extra code to run. So a little tougher for them, but not the end.
OP here. Fastmail had 4 out of my required 5 features. I used it for a while. I'm still a paying customer (I paid for a bunch of years). Tags were a deal breaker. It's just not sufficient for how I want to organize things.
I don't know. I tried what seems like 100 different tools for this but Asana is amazing and I never looked again. Basecamp != end all of these tools.

That being said, your work looks great and I wish you the best of luck.
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I thought it was fairly sleazy of them to offer the hashing "upgrade" for 100 dollars when from what I can understand it's a firmware only thing, and should have been done for free for forcing people to wait anyway.

Do you feel angry at all that you lost so many months of potential income?
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I meant to reply to the post yours is a parent of sorry. I get South Pacific as a description, its just Southern Ocean that seems a stretch.
I love FastMail. Thank you for your work!
If you're doing that you can allow object names to have "/" and get directory simulation for free.
I tried that, it wasn't nearly as slick as pycharm.
It really seems like these companies and the government are seriously underestimating the amount of information that Glenn Greenwald and friends have. This is why I love the strategy of slowly leaking out information. It let's us catch the government and companies involved lying and making contradictions.

I agree. Also companies that fully embrace encryption and not having access to your data. I deleted my Dropbox account the first day they were implicated as a "work in progress" or whatever. I've been using BitTorrent Sync and it's working pretty well. There is still some work to be done, though. I've been meaning to take a good look at SpiderOak.
wow!! This is crazy. Been sleeping on this idea for the past 3 months or so. But for my day job, I would have definitely taken a stab at it. kudos for starting this.
Der Spiegel says US bugged EU offices in Washington
> Setting up a server in any hosting environment at this point comes with the assumption that its contents can be read at any time by the operators and whoever they let in without you ever knowing about it.

How exactly is that any different than it was 6 months ago?
My goodness, I have very little experience with Ruby and I'm currently in the process of trying to get a rails 3 app from github running on my osx system (1.8.7 default ruby version). I have spent the past several hours fighting with ruby versions and dependencies with the only glimmer of hope being successfully getting a hello world rails 4 app running.

Seriously I thought ruby was supposed to be a beacon of simplicity? Someone please tell me there's a light at the end of this tunnel.

Edit: Some folks have mentioned getting the RVM. I think I was unclear when I just said I've been fighting with ruby versions - I meant that all of this was done with RVM/gems/bundle/etc, but it's still been a p.i.t.a.
While I don't necessarily trust an external company with all my emails, I also don't trust myself to maintain the myriad daemons involved in this setup without doing something subtly wrong that results in my server not sending/receiving all the mail it should -- or, worse, being used for spam.

What would be useful is a pre-assembled virtual machine image or other form of appliance that allows you to deploy and test a mail server within about an hour or so, without having to duct-tape any of this together yourself.
Absolutely, but they haven't been dropping 25% every year. You still get short-term rises and falls on long-term trends.
This is not an interactive fiction game. While primarily text-based, it uses rich UIs based around that text, and the input mechanism is not command-based, but instead generally button-based (or in the case of the third and fourth parts of the game, partially arrow-key-based). In addition, the end of the game isn't actually text-based at all.

The developer would have to ship their own custom engine, at which point you have unsandboxed code running under your user account on your computer, instead of code sandboxed in the browser (which is probably the most generally available and secure sandbox for arbitrary code that exists right now). You are quite unlikely to give the game a full code review to make sure it's not making any analytics requests or shipping your data off to the program author, so that is probably worse from a logical security standpoint.

Now, if you're worried about the request to load JQuery from ajax.googleapis.com, you could've pointed out originally that this is a concern for those who worry about their privacy, and most on here would agree with you. I'm not actually sure why the author of this game decided to use the CDNed JQuery, when the rest of their scripts are unoptimized and loaded from their own server.
You're right: http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/?id=7007

It must have been just over a year ago I last checked, and it looks like it's been available since last July!
If you are just trying to hack something together - don't worry. 1.8.7 has worked for a long time, and it will continue to do so for a while.

But if you are actually trying to build something to use long term - as crappy as it is to hear it now, it is not a great idea to use the system version of ruby. since it is likely as you get into ruby that you will have multiple projects which amy or may not require different subversions of ruby, you should always use rvm. it allows you to install multiple versions of ruby side by side.

also, check out https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp
I have this book. I forgot which edition; it's an excellent read. Thanks for updating it.
It's really not that puzzling. Incarceration rates have skyrocketed in tandem with the drop in crime. What's puzzling is the number of analysts who keep on missing this most obvious piece of the pie.
Couldn't you deter that by just putting a rock in your shoe?
NFS is good for hosting text and layout, and works wonderfully with the idea of a small useful site. But don't make the mistake of storing bulk images on a host that charges 100x as much as S3 for disk space.

Edit: I did some math for fun. Assume 500 users storing 1GB each for one year. They'll pay less than $600 on S3, and roughly $60k on NFS. For reference, the price of a high-end dell poweredge with 512GB of ram is $15k.
I'm being serious. HN is nothing if not ultra-rational (or so we claim). Evidence trumps all. Prove surveillance works, that it's necessary, works better than any conceivable alternative, and that the damage to society is worth it, and your empirical proof will be accepted.
There doesn't seem to be any reason to believe these slides and whatnot are close to accurate at all.