skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does France also kidnap people and put them into secret prisons? Does it demand support for offensive wars, and do we live in a "post Eiffelturm tower" world? When, since Napoleon, was something like "either with us or against us" heard from there?

Also, yes, why not. Maybe the first step could be to stop spying on France, the second could be mocking the spies with baguettes? Because you have a point and fair is fair.
You can use offlineimap to do that. Every label is an imap folder. offlineimap allows what they call as "folder filters", using which one can write a short python function parameterised over the folder name.
The right answer. With a design that focuses on simplicity ( reducing the entry points ) you can be pretty well assured that if someone attempts to gain access to your data you will likely know.

For me that is an important factor. I rather dislike the fact that in scenarios like Gmail and other providers of their ilk -- access is provided transparently to a third party.

Running your own server can give you a reasonable expectation of privacy. Even in a hosted/colocated environment if you take the time and effort.
An addiction to financially sustainable problem solving or world changing.
Learn Clojure. Power, expressiveness, dynamic typing done right, Lisp, concurrency, and speed. Only real downside is the JVM :)
I thought Golang was the safer term.
That's why they take memory snapshot first, which is trivial with VPS and then pick encryption keys from it to access encrypted volumes. This is well known method and works with pure hardware machines too with physical access. It's great question when you get to server, to shut it down or leave on. If on, it could destroy data, if turned off encryption keys are gone. I think it would require some individual case analysis before deciding which one is better approach.
Normal people definitely don't want to manage a mail server though. Life is too short to waste figuring out why you're banned on Spamhaus for the 93th time.

GMail sucks, but a home-made contraption is not the alternative.
not something I have yet succeeded at.
1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
The issue is not what we know, but what we don't. Keep in mind, all we have is what was leaked. We only have a tiny glimpse into the massive amounts of post-9/11 surveillance. We can ascertain that the government is doing extensive amounts of surveillance on large amounts of people, and that the NSA has either refused to tell Congress the scope of the programs or outright lied about it (take a look at this (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/nsa-spied/) article from a year ago , and look at Clapper's "Not Wittingly" statement).

To ask for "Links? Data? Do you have anything that supports this at all?" is asking the wrong question, since the amount that is public is incredibly small (just a tiny fraction would be my guess, but all we can do is make estimates). The question is, Is it reasonable to assume that there is more surveillance? The answer is yes, and to assume that there is detailed email surveillance, either at the ISP level, through backdoors, or through direct cooperation is not unreasonable.
Not a secret club house
the alternative to unemployment.
Oh God you're such a programmer. I'm a designer dude. We're visual people. We don't do terminals, we don't do "sudo apt get". We do clicking, UI, colors, things like that. It's just the way we are. I remember what code looks like (color and shape wise) and where on the page it is, it's not in my head like it is in yours.
I strongly disagree that 000webhost is in any way comparable to NeoCities. Reasons:

000webhost has a complaint list long enough to circle 8 city blocks. NeoCities doesn't randomly delete sites or secretly try to funnel to paid services. It offers one service instead, and it's free. Considering the creator's goals, this is ideal.

ATM, 000webhost caps bandwidth for the free package which NeoCities doesn't.

Rather than providing everything including the kitchen sink and have it patched together poorly, NeoCities offers something very simple very well.

I consider NeoCities to be Twitter to 000webhost's Facebook.

(Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated with NeoCities)
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

Your apologia is as old as the Roman Empire, and made as little sense then - as Tacitus points out using Calcagus above.

The concept of a 'Pax Americana' is an absurdity given the wars instigated by the US just in the last few decades and manipulation of client states, and while other nation states are no different in many ways in being run for the benefit of those in power, I certainly wouldn't say the US is better in these regards than the majority of western states.

I'd condemn this sort of widespread surveillance no matter who the actor is (and in fact it seems the UK has been just as cavalier in their actions, to take one example). It's a very dangerous centralisation of power and will lead to the growth of a secret state, inimical to the values you appear to find admirable (though the American dream is a rather vague concept and could really mean anything).

Empires are not forces for good, on the contrary normally they civilise the world by subjugating it to their will. In our increasingly connected and mobile world, we should try to see past the concept of a nation state or empire building to universal values of human rights to basic needs, among which I'd place individual privacy fom state intrusion.
Actually that driver is specifically for 802.11 (wifi) XBee modules like these: http://www.digikey.com/product-highlights/us/en/digi-interna...

It does not cause 2.4Ghz 802.15.4 XBee modules to act like a normal wifi (802.11) chipset.

Just an FYI.
acting on opportunities that others don't see.
Just to clarify, these are tweets from Correa's official twitter account. They read something like this.

June 26: Hypocrisy of the century: The Washington Post "accuses" Ecuador of double standards. See the power of the international press? They've managed to focus attention on Snowden and on the "evil" countries that "support" him, making us forget about the terrible things he reported against the American public and the whole world.
There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says (2011)
I can see how the purpose of structures of power is to protect us. I can also see how the purpose of a car is to transport dead insects on its windshield. But only temporarily, when I tap into the imagination of my inner child.
Shouldn't have been posted to Hacker News, solely because what it says is already obvious to most people who read here.
It's pretty interesting to look at the NSA leaks in hindsight, especially with an eye towards the foreshadowing and warning signs that exist today for the countless programs we don't know about. Take a look at this too, from a year ago: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/nsa-spied/
I am hoping to get some traffic to http://multiplx.com
I don't care much if the US finds out something about EU negotiation tactics or whatever they're after.

You're then very uniformed: there are a lot of issues where U.S. and EU have very different goals and where it would be of EU citizen's (and even the world's) interest not to "just do what the U.S. wants."
Patience and Perseverance.
To reiterate one of comments in that link, the drag equation for wind resistance used in the calculations is not valid for supersonic speeds.
By that logic we would all still be sitting in mud huts. Progress is about imagining a better future and then working to achieve it.
like living at home with your parents to save money.
> Wiki link to Murder_in_English_law

All I see is an RFC that (a) defines what counts as "murder" and (b) specifies what protocols the government should follow when murder occurs. AFAIK it doesn't contain any sentence to the effect of "persons MUST NOT commit murder", not even anything that amounts to "persons SHALL NOT commit murder". So I stand by my claim that such a prohibition is an assumption behind the law, not the content of the law.

The Ten Commandments, on the other hand, definitely includes the clause "persons MUST NOT commit murder". So do a lot of other religious texts. The idea that criminal law is comprised of a set of prohibitions, IMO, is a sticky residue from the days of theocracy when people thought there was a big guy in the sky who went around issuing explicit prohibitions.

> a conditional moral imperative to obey the laws if there are any

I accept that ethics may differ in different situations, but only to the extent that general imperatives allow. Every conditional moral imperative (hypothetical imperative according to Kant) is an application of a general moral imperative (categorical imperative according to Kant). Therefore the proxy analogy still holds, and I don't see any general moral imperative that can lead to the conclusion that I should obey whatever 51% of an arbitrarily delimited group of people say I should. The closest you can get is that the majority is likely to be right, but empirically, that's a rather questionable assumption.

In my view there is no general moral imperative not to steal. That presupposes the concept of ownership, which, as you said, is problematic. Rather, I think there is a moral imperative to refrain from depriving people of things they hold dear, which is itself an application of the general moral imperative to respect individual human beings.
Possibly some too-cynical questions…

Do you think ovh is any less beholden to GCHQ than Google et al are to the NSA?

Do you think your encrypted partitions and turned-off admin backdoors protect you much against people with physical access to the hardware?
not being afraid to fail
Well said. The key is to always keep an eye towards the future, and that is something which is easy to forget.
getting all the organs in the body to work at the same time
I don't think we should be taking cues on foreign policy from Israel...

We can, and should, strive to be better than that.
First my rationale behind loving this lil plugin. Not only is it a powerful interface for navigating my code, but it is a consistant interface. Once I get the muscle memory for navigating one thing (say buffers), I can use that to navigate all the things (say yank history).

Am I the only one that feels like vim just became emacs?
Reading HN at 2:26AM on a Saturday Night in New York City.
looking into the market and seeing a howling void, and having the audacity and bullheadedness to forgo every reasonable bit of sound advice and cultural standards you are exposed to and try to fill that gap using every last remnant of your fiscal and mental being--hopeful all the while (despite better consul) that you have enough material available for this construction and that you will not be totally consumed in its deployment, another dried-out tumbleweed rolling away on the winds of venture.
Curiously, I'm seeing a bunch of TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256 between one of my machines and google...

I wonder why/when the connections end up RC4-SHA instead?
None of it is impermeable, even your own server. It's just another layer of misdirection and/or difficulty.
It is possible that this kind of activity from European countries is in fact a direct result of similar activity by the US government.
Spying for your personnal enlightment is one thing. Using that information and interferring to bent the course of things in your own interrest is anotherr. There is no clear line between the two and it is easily crossed. So assuming it's only a matter of spying is in my opinon a little bit naïve.

That's also the reason why spying people is something to worry. Who controls what is done with the inormation ? How could one defend against abuse of a state? This will be like drones killing civilians ! No one cares. Until it's your turn, and no body will care.
I think you are missing the point of the free tier and fundamentally misreading the target economics of apps running on Heroku.

The free tier gives you an opportunity to try out the platform very quickly for free and perhaps host an early web only scaffold of a pre-launch app. It's not meant to host any app in production (except maybe an internal copy of Hubot).

Any app with meaningful functionality is going to at least need 1 web dyno ($36 a month) and a background worker, plus a database (Crane @ $50) and likely some add-ons such as SendGrid/Redis.

Heroku is not trying to compete with Amazon EC2 -- it's built on top of it. The real value of Heroku's platform is that it greatly reduces operational overhead spend for businesses hosting their apps on the platform. Rather than paying consultants or dedicated ops personnel, your business can pay a premium for the PaaS and keep the dollars focused on value creating development activities.

Heroku's target market is also not bootstrapped tech start-ups allergic to spending <= $100 a month. These projects have a huge failure rate and very low expected lifetime value. You would be a fool to try and target this market -- it's tiny and unprofitable.

If you take a broader view of the world, there are tons of businesses with technology needs that already have profitable business models and steady growth but are not technology companies themselves. This is the huge market that Heroku is truly addressing. They know that these businesses turn to consultants or hire developers and empower them to drive the technology decisions. That's why developer mind-share is so valuable to Heroku -- it's not that they want you to host your next bootstrapped startup weekend side project on the platform, but instead they need Heroku to be top of mind when somebody with profitable technology needs hires you.

I would bet that applications starting on the free tier and seeing organic growth is a very tiny sliver of Heroku's revenue. Most applications are built from business needs, not ideas. These businesses are not scared to spend when it solves their problems or grows revenue. $100, $1000, or even $10k a month is nothing when you find yourself in such a position.
Wow... blindly speculating yesterday about what Clinkle might be doing -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5956736 -- I'd thrown in "ultrasonic acoustics" as a random wild guess. Great to hear that's part of it.

Though it'd also be kind of cool to do the transaction in the hearable range... so your phone playing a merchant could make the same sort of 'honking' as old dial-up modems. Not just a novelty, that'd promote the service to everyone within earshot.
Amen to that, brother.

Then again, if it were easy, would it be worth doing?
I think this is so often mentioned, because of AI/Lisp's common history. I am in natural language processing (which is sometimes seen as a subbranch of AI) and I have rarely seen anyone who used Lisp (mostly Perl, Python, Java, Prolog, and C++). Also, most machine learning software is written in C, C++, Java, or Matlab, with a strong and growing Python presence (via NumPy/SciPy).
Nothing in life worth doing is
Isn't the pure hardware method for memory snapshots some ridiculously complex mechanism with freezing the memory and quickly transferring it to a reading device?

If you're going to pull this, you need to know in advance that it's necessary, that's not some minor thing that everyone is going to just do automatically, it's an extra, complicated step it's easy to screw up.

That said, I acknowledge the possibility of compromise in the aforementioned scenario, but once again I don't understand people who always jump to the "I am vulnerable to this narrow threat model, ergo, I should not bother to protect myself against any threat models". Especially when the measures you can take to protect yourself most likely will address the actual threat models you are liable to encounter.
Hushmail and Lavabit sort of do this. They encrypt emails before storing them. However, as far as I can tell they handle the public/private keypair on their own, so the security only goes as far as you trust them.
Golang > Google Go :)
Tags would be useful, but the UI aesthetics could be better too: now it's too plain and minimalistic. Look at Yandex Mail for example: it's just less boring. I guess you could attract much greater audience by adding theme support and proper marketing in light of this outrage.

That said, I like fastmail very much: keyboard navigation, search and overall speed are great!
>Anyone know what the actual Palantir accomplishment is?

Gaining Government contracts?
>The existence of 'security theatre', the only example I can think of being the TSA, doesn't preclude the possibility that there are real threats.

A related thought: Just because you have spend a lot on security, and there haven't been much in the way of incidents, doesn't mean the security spendings are sensible.
The most natural, diameter based, definition I can think of is, for any given point on the circle, the distance to the farthest point is a constant, D. You probably need to add additional restrictions to make this rigorous (such as requiring the circle to be form a continuous, closed loop).

You could also imagine rotating a line segment about its center. This has a nice sense of symmetry, as we are rotating about the center, not an arbitrary end. This also implies a generalization to off center rotations.
"The answer is yes, and to assume that there is detailed email surveillance, either at the ISP level, through backdoors, or through direct cooperation is not unreasonable."

I'd suggest _not_ assuming that might be considered negligent.
Yes Golang is the "complete name", at least way more than "Google Go", since Go isn't affiliated directly with Google anymore.
India not willing to play by the rules: US lawmakers
Google serves up static content uses DHE. We've noticed only Google sites using DSA certs with ECDHE. A report on what we found http://trisul.org/blog/dsa-xdrill/post.html
Yea, for Russians to hire him as an expert to help implement PRISM-like system in Russia. </s
I think his point is that the labels needed to risk a significant sum of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars, on a band that is not obviously commercial.

This investment had to happen for a period of years, and surely many bands that received that kind of investment ultimately failed. Labels acted like angel investors, not just in the 90s, but in the 60s, 70s, and 80s as well.

Without that investment structure, it is very hard to get anything interesting off the ground. Pop music can be profitable fairly rapidly, but more interesting music, whether it is The Doors or Pink Floyd or Radiohead, take a longer ramp up and more risk.
> the USG does not need and has never needed and probably will never need a warrant to spy on a foreign entity not on US soil

The older i get the more these artificial boundaries of nationalism bother me. Nationalism is cultural racism. I'm convinced that people will at one point look back on it the same negative way we perceive genetic racism today.
You can use http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ to see if your domain or IP have been blacklisted by any ofthr public lists. Also, if you get blacklisted you should receive a bounceback email telling you who blacklisted you and where to go to get yourself removed.m
All law is based on value judgements, and, therefore, on moral principles.
> Hmmm, no Perfect Forward Secrecy on RC4-SHA...

Actually dont see how you can have PFS on DHE either if one of the endpoints doesnt co-operate. You can simply dump the master keys and provide those to the decrypting app.
> Do you think ovh is any less beholden to GCHQ than Google et al are to the NSA?

OVH maybe a little more, because at least they're not under the direct auspice of the most megalomaniacal state in the world and will act according to their economic incentives in being a reliable and trustworthy service provider, which in a purely free market would align their interests with my own. However being as they are subject to various hostile state entities that have the ability to exert deleterious effects on that self interest, to the extent that they are forced to, they will cooperate with those entities.

I take action to protect myself from those threats to the greatest extent that I am able in either scenario whilst acknowledging that every theoretical threat model can never be entirely negated, coupled with the fact that at the end of the day, bothering to break through all of my measures and taking that trouble, they would find basically nothing that they were interested in.

I despise the state, sure, I'd like to see it dissolve into something like the system outlined in the machinery of freedom, sure. However in my view, taking any violent measures to expedite this process would both make me as bad as the enemy, and compromise the goal of a better world even if it actually contributed to the downfall of the state.

> Do you think your encrypted partitions and turned-off admin backdoors protect you much against people with physical access to the hardware?

"Much" more than non encrypted partitions and not turned off admin backdoors? Absolutely. Completely and utterly impenetrable to any attack by any means at all? Not likely, I can think of one off the top of my head that would work; freeze the memory, get an image, power off the system and extract the encryption keys from the image to re-mount the partitions. That's 1) not automatic 2) not easy 3) easy to screw up 4) not undetected
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If we’re talking about the majority, then the same can be said for PC games, yet no one says all PC games are awful. There’s a reason why the games I mentioned sell better than 99% of the games in the App Store: they are GOOD. There are hundreds of good games in the App Store, and even though that number may seem minuscule compared to the total catalog, it’s more than many other platforms have to offer.
taking on the risk of starting a company.
Wow - can I have my evening and morning back?
If you "have no problem with keeping software up-to-date" then don't complain about these type of changes. As developers we either are responsible about version policies or we're not. Let's take Ruby 1.8.7 as an example:

If you were responsible you went through several patchlevels of Ruby 1.8.7, you're using the latest release (to fix security issues if nothing else) and you had five years to migrate to 1.9 (which most likely meant changing nothing in your code, just testing it).

If you were not responsible and you're running on something different to the latest patchlevel version then you're already running on faulty/unsecure software. Killing support upstream (again, after five years!) is not likely to change whatever you were [not] doing.

PS: Please don't refer to people like the ruby-core team as "cool kids who easily get bored". We all have our biases but name-calling doesn't add anything useful to discussions.