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I'm always surprised that more billionaires don't try interesting off the wall projects when they have so much money. What's the fun of having it, if you can't have the occasional mad scientist moment.
John Dvorak sounds like a tech version of those economic & political loudmouths that spread definitive and absolute truths with very little evidence (Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter). That's because their purpose is not to generate light but to generate heat; to cause controversy instead of inform. It is the journalism equivalent of the Rolling Stones and Madonna: scandal as a marketing tactic.

These people remind me of the Austrian writer Karl Kraus: "The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he."

The fact is that for almost all big corporations there is so much money, training and culture involved in MS platforms that a shift away from it is just to hard to do, unfortunatelly.
How does your friend do that? I'd be really interested in reading on how to setup a proxy like that.
How does that follow? It is not just about the cost, but the amount of utility for the NSA. There are plenty of free services that are not on the PRISM list and I am sure even Apple employees would freely admit their pre-iCloud user numbers were disappointing. They would not have bothered to rebrand the service in the first place if they had a significant userbase.

Looking at the PRISM company list, we are talking data service companies with users in the tens of millions (minus the oddball Paltalk). Apple just wasn't in that group until recently.
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Looks like it's iOS / Android only - will be interesting to see how easy this type of game is to play on a smaller screen.
You seem to agree with the linguistic consensus that Sanskrit, Latin and Greek are all related. You seem to depart from the consensus with the conclusion that because they are all related, they must share an ancestor.

If that's so, how do you account for the relation between Sanskrit, Latin and Greek (and Russian, and English...)?

Or do you deny the relation altogether? Do you have a competing theory that you could point me to?
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For anyone wondering what this is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
With this kind of thinking, how will women(or any less-represented group) be able to reach you?
And there is no formalization of Sanskrit in Devanagari - We (Keralites) still use Grantha script to write Sanskrit - And a lot of late Sanskrit works have their origin in Kerala. Infact Malayalm script was invented to write Sanskrit with ease on palm leaves.
I was interested in applying for an internship with them a few years ago. If I recall correctly, the pay was barely enough to cover the cost of living in London (if that), and it was a lot lower than the pay for any other developer internship I've come across, even some up north. If you'd have to relocate, you'd almost certainly have to pay out of pocket.

If they're not paying for travelling to interview in London, that's again worse than expected, since pretty much all companies, startups and corporations alike, do.
> Mistrust of commercial solutions does not translate into trust for open-source ones.

Well, how well can you trust the commercial ones ? At least with open source, you can look into it more easily and eventually find security holes. It's a step towards trust. There is no trust to gain with commercial solutions, but at least with open source, it's at least possible.

The fact that proprietary agrees with a sound market economy makes it somehow more functional and more attractive, but when you're concerned about ethics, it's a totally other concern.
Classy! https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/356779314043305985

"I really hate patents unless critical to company survival. Will publish Hyperloop as open source."
You're correct. If you're married and file joint I think that number is $130k. So if a dual income family makes $180 that means paying tax, a portion of which was made by someone who isn't and was never American.

Even the Mafia was never so cheeky.
Hack a Day's more of a hardware hacking blog, which is cool, but what about software?
There's no way to harvest the MAC address of a wifi device that hasn't connected to your network, is there?

Yes, there is. If you set your WLAN interface to monitor mode and run tcpdump or similar, you can look at packets passing by, even if you're not connected to a network at all. I built a Wifi tracking system this way when I was in school.
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There have barely been any IPOs compared to the 1990s.
I think you're being paranoid, and he's just comparing it to other Indian languages, and saying that a bunch of Indian languages descended from it (as they did, by way of Prakrit.)

While it may be common for some Indian people to "spread ridiculous ideas about Sanskrit", a lot of people who have studied Sanskrit do come away with the feeling that, compared to modern languages in general (English, and other European or Indian languages), Sanskrit manages to pack a wealth of meaning into a few words. I don't see why a layperson saying that should be labeled as "ridiculous" and such.
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This just showed up on Netflix : http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/70279456

It certainly kept my attention for an hour.
Odd blog post.

Talks about "NSA-proofing email" and doesn't mention PGP, GPG or S/MIME.

Should be titled "How to set up a mail server with SMTP and IMAP". Seems only peripherally connected with protecting email from snooping in any way.
>Should that person "blow that whistle"

Ask the people who are being cheated on. Or spied on.
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Scarily thats true

Single flight Krakow to London :130 Zloty or about 29 UKP
One week travelcard zones 1-6 - 55 quid.

That's utterly insane

* http://www.ryanair.com/en/cheap-flights/krakow-to-london-sta...
(Airport tax not included)
* http://www.londontoolkit.com/briefing/travelcard.htm
Also see the first episode of the BBC series, "Space race (2005)": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race_(TV_series)

It explains the 3D technology being used to spot the V2 site in Peenemünde in great detail.
Is this really going to protect you? I get the feeling it'll just give you a false sense of security.

They will still know who you are sending email to and receiving from.

The recipient metadata is unencrypted correct? As we've seen recently—the metadata often reveals more than the message content.
I do not want to NSA-proof my email or phone conversations. I do not want to wear a mask to avoid face recognition and what more propositions are yet to come how we should adapt to the situation given.

While we are are from the ideal world where this behaviour would be without consequences, the matter asks for a change of the situation we are finding ourselves in.

Get loud, get political. Don't dream that you are holding a weapon in your hand because you can half assedly encrypt peer to peer communication. This is only confirming the status quo. Like n umbrella might confirm it's raining.

As side-thought: the same technical reflex might have occurred to that institutions in the first place: let's record everything and we will be more safe.
Ask HN: Considering a move to the Bay Area with a family. Where should I live?
I have what might be a very good job offer in the Bay Area. Not going to reveal with whom, but it's in the vicinity of Mountain View.

It would involve relocation to Silicon Valley, so evaluating the possibility of living there is a major part of evaluating the offer.

First, some background: I love tech and love to build things, but I also love other things too. I have a family and a five month old baby, and my wife wants to stay home while our kids are young and I support this as well. I am quite interested in developing my career, but I have no interest in becoming an unbalanced workaholic. I also want to have a life, pursue other things, and spend time with the people I love.

It's not the job I'm concerned about here. It's the real estate hyperinflation of the valley and the culture that this engenders.

So what I'm looking for is: if I want to lead a balanced life with a family, where should I live? Is there anywhere in the Bay Area (commutable to Mountain View in <30-45 minutes) that isn't unattainably expensive and where my wife and kids would feel comfortable living?

I'm looking for cultural insight, since financial insight is something I can do myself. I've already made a number of spreadsheets.

Edit: I'm more interested in the long view-- in neighborhoods we could eventually call home. I'm interested in areas where being a stay at home mom for a while isn't terribly weird, where our kids would have other kids to play with, and where the cost isn't so astronomical that it's going to eat up any advantage from the job's compensation.
(I've evaluated several wifi tracking systems) - your device doesn't have to connect to the network to be tracked; wifi just has to be on. While searching for nearby networks, devices constantly chirp their MAC address.
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Another good discussion of objc_msgSend() is:

http://www.friday.com/bbum/2009/12/18/objc_msgsend-part-1-th...
"too much" being $80k

The foreign tax exclusion for a single person is $97,600 in 2013.
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I can't believe I had to self sensor, just to hit the post button.

What do you mean?
Java does this a whole bunch, it's decently easy for compiler writers to implement and it gets a good speedup on most benchmarks.
I would love one! ryan@hackery.io
> This isn't really hard, you just make sure that while you are performing an animation or within a game level you don't make any allocations.

That seems like a big 'just', at least in a multi-threaded application...
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I'm sorry to hear that; that must be awful.
The reason I don't listen to women in tech presentations

I assume you mean "I don't listen to 'women in tech' presentations", rather than, "I don't listen to women, in tech presentations". The former is a political stance, the latter is excluding an entire sex for unknown reason, even if they are talking of emberjs or thorium.
Not if you're sending important emails to other people hosted on your own server.
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I agree - it's what I mean when I say that I think they got something in return for not fighting the FISA requests. Could be antitrust cases that were dropped, tax hikes that were cancelled or more personal matters.
FYI, Nicholas Zakas, the person who gave this presentation (which I attended) is a well-known JavaScript expert. He's definitely not complaining about JavaScript as such, just horrible misuses of it.
The problem is that Hollande is very left wing, yet France already had one of the best income equality ratios in the western world.

It might have been better if France got someone very conservative like Obama and the US got someone from the true left like Hollande (though he wouldn't get a single thing done in the US, it would be fun to watch people like Rush Limbaugh literally die on air).
What do you mean too many? there are so few legit servers that will not resend an email and you can whitelist those.
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He didn't say he wasn't willing to listen, he expressed that he wanted a forum for equal discussion instead of a one way message.
I've had hard drives go bad in a huge variety of different servers in many different locations. The Planet (now Softlayer), Digital Ocean (VPS ...), NAC.net, Atjeu, and others.

These days I just expect it to go bad, so I use ZFS within FreeBSD to watch for errors, and when they happen I ask them to replace a single drive, and then the other.

So far it has worked very well for me with no data loss. I've been fairly lucky in that both drives have't failed at the same time.
>"I really hate patents unless critical to company survival"

Isn't "critical to company survival" the same defensive argument that every patent holder uses?
I mostly agree but doesn't that slightly miss the point though? Because I presume you weren't invited to speak at a Spaniard only conference.

I'm not particularly sure the OP has had much of an epiphany either. She could've entitled it 'Priest won't be preaching to the choir, anymore'. And it would've had a similar message, but perhaps not reached the top of HN.
I don't understand what the money buys you. Just fork it, set up a new Hackaday and raise money for a specific purpose. Not to make the people behind the original site rich.
The feeling is that yes, EU/Schengen borders are much less surprise-ridden than US/UK.
Good Lord you do sound like you have a lot of issues with women btw.

Edit: My fault for not explaining further: Pasted just below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6045814
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The real issue here is not if voting machines are the perfect solution, it is about what is the better solution. And if anyone knows voter fraud in Brazil, these machines are a lot better than the manual system. At least it demands the people committing the fraud to be a lot smarter than they used to be in manual counting.
AFAIK, if you control the layer 1 fiber lines, it doesn't matter the OS, the vendor or the application in question. NSA will intercept your data while on transit. Of course, if you can have DLLs packaging everything the way you like, appending the right file extensions and cleaning all the metadata... that's more than welcome.
In the interests of full transparency, I've been looking for alternatives to rsync.net. I haven't found any - although tarsnap comes very close.

I have an existing account, how can I move to this?
> 1. I'm basically not allowed to voice an opinion that isn't completely aligned with the feminist status quo (I believe in equality, fuck me right).

Yes, because there is actually a single, unified, globally agreed upon feminist status quo who tries to silence the voices of brave dissenters...
It feels like the author just hijacked the topic to rant about Objective-C. No big insights into why web apps are slow other than: javascript is not the bottleneck, rendering the dom (which is a complicated process) is.
Could the NSA use some random hidden exploit and break into the machine if they really wanted to? Probably. But this is about all your emails not being easily indexed by Google/NSA and whoever else the NSA works with.

Obviously emails you've sent out to other servers/domains will be in the clear and will then be indexed.
I guess the money here buys you the domain name but more importantly the traffic associated to it. If you fork it, you need to do a lot of SEO and hope that one day you hit the stats of hackaday.
Question: when did we start trusting MS that we now can no longer?
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The costs look radically different. Which isn't to say the government doesn't need to change, of course.
how well can you trust the commercial ones ? At least with open source, you can look into it more easily and eventually find security holes. It's a step towards trust. There is no trust to gain with commercial solutions, but at least with open source, it's at least possible.

Ever heard of reverse engineering? It turns out you'd need even that approach even with open source as soon as you use binaries you haven't compiled yourself. And you'd have to verify the compiler and your disassembler that way too. It's all possible, but requires more than it's currently being done, at least on the level of the stuff openly available.

And even if you manage to verify everything you have to check the computer. Modern computers be it servers or notebooks start to have BIOS-es that can even phone home and allow remote access without your control (having the keys which you can't control!).
I see what you did there. It took me a while to get over the popular idea that marketing is evil. Turns out you can do some good things once you realize marketing is just a tool.
>Because the more profit Google and Amazon make, the more value they produce for society as in more work, better technology, better life etc.

Yea, because trickle down economics works fantastic: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/business/12scene.html?_r=0
But if your family/friends all have their email hosted on your server then it's "safe".
California <-> Germany : 200ms
California <-> Canada : 80ms

What's the problem?

If you need decent response-time everywhere in the world, you go and buy Co-Location. http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/racks
Yes but most of them are wrong.
There is always going to be an issue of trust at some point: the linux code base is public, but almost none of us compile linux and the packages we need to build a complete OS from source. We end-up getting pre-built packages from repositories that are often distributed all around the word.
How easy/hard would it be to compromise some packages or some repositories if you are determined enough?

You certainly could not compromise a base as large as the number of Windows users, but you could target your efforts on distributions that have key infrastructure roles, like servers, routers, firewalls...

Another vector used to compromise free software is to participate in it. Paid agents can actively participate in open source projects and allow clever exploits that could pass as bugs if uncovered.
I honestly hope they raise the cash. Some of the comments point out that they might not have thought the whole thing through ("basically it appear to me that you would want us to buy hack a day, and offer it to the current redactors, which means they would win a $500.000 company.").
When someone says they believe in equality, why do you then say they have an issue with women?
SpaceX don't patent anything because they thought the Chinese would steal their technologies using the patents itself.

It's a different story for Tesla Motors, though.
Yes, it allows them to be gatekeepers. So what? What exactly is forcing you to pay money to go through that gate?
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1) The corollary of that, of course, is that the company should be happy to pay the flight for the interview if the candidate sounds good after a phone conversation, if perhaps not for the relocation itself.
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You want me to compete with a theory that made up an imaginary language?
In this case he has promised: "Will publish Hyperloop as open source." I didn't see a catch here.

In the same context, SpaceX have not applied for many patents when compared to the work they are doing. However in this case the prime motive could be keep the tech secret.
Oh, User CSS is something you do in your browser to override what site authors do.

Here's the docs for Opera, although I think this is also a feature in Firefox (and maybe Chrome; I'm not as sure about that one).

http://www.opera.com/docs/usercss/
Hmmm. I'm not one of the people you're really looking for here, but I could take a stab at reasons why I haven't been beating a path to your door...

a) I haven't really heard of you. A few words here and there over the years, but how much do you get out there and tell the geek community you exist? I'm guessing it's specific to a few specific tech areas - which I haven't seen.
b) You're in London, you talk about "working hard" and being in your "Clerkenwell office". I've worked round there before, but really? I want a company who's more about working smart - and not in one place all the time. How much do you really need to physically see me? Commuting, plus a little bit of a tiny hint of "macho hard work culture" (probably unfair, but...) is enough for me to take a place off my list. It's a sellers market, generally.
c) Also... money. London is expensive. Everyone knows London is expensive (and they're right). You don't say anything about money - no hints, etc. My reaction (being picky) is that it probably isn't enough to make it worth my while (and also that you may try and make me the lowest offer you think you can - I'm assuming you don't have open pay scales).
d) Effort. You talk about your tough hiring - multiple rounds, tests, a day working with you (you don't say whether you'll pay me for this...) Why would I do this? If I'm smart, capable, good at what I do, I probably know people who want to work with me already - why jump through these hoops for a possibly good job then?

These may be unfair points - I hope not, but perhaps - but finding good people right now is about attracting them, not throwing up barriers or making them work for it.
37signals is one of them. They were in the software consulting business and built applications for in house use to manage their projects. They later realized that their clients need those applications as well.

I believe tumblr was a side project as well while the founder was consulting
Entirety of the HTML standard? Who says they are? We're talking about one little part of the standard that has little to do with day-to-day HTML. Are you suggesting that Netflix is attempting to influence the future of the span element?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the suggestion is a unified approach to deal with plugins or extensions, not putting DRM inside HTML itself. If you oppose the idea of a plugin or extension then don't install it and don't use the service that they provide. A service that everyone who uses it voluntarily and willingly agreed to use it under the provider's terms.
That comma shouldn't be there - Horse drawn CSS

:)
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There's a difference between her goals, and the goals of a women-only tech event.

Her goal is to change society by introducing new ideas about how society works. In order to be most effective in doing this, she wants to talk to as many people as possible. In particular, if she does not go to all-inclusive events, she'll eliminate the very people who are in the best position to do something about it.

Women-only tech events have the goal of encouraging individual women to engage in technology. Their hypothesis is that there is something about society (either at-large, or localized to technology) itself that discourages women from engaging. So, instead of changing society as a whole, they create a new space which operates in a way that they think is more conducive to engaging women in technology.

I think that both approaches are valid and commendable. I think it's a mistake to confuse the two, or to say that having one means the other is not useful.
Just so we're clear, I'm putting money towards it so someone else can buy it & make profit? Not sure what I'm getting out of this deal that I'd get it some private company bought it on their own.
I'd like to see this setup coded into a proper server provisioning tool like Chef/Puppet/Ansible.
Certainly not. There are many different arguments for patents, most of which just boil down to "I deserve to be compensated for the work I put in to inventing this."
Should be titled "How to make yourself feel secure with a mail server that isn't".