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> Change one byte.

Most resubmissions are submitted by people other than their authors, who are typically not in a position to change any bytes of the content.

In the present case, speaking as the last person to submit this one (more than two years ago), I don't see that there's any harm in it at all. If this is still interesting two years since it was last discussed on HN -- which clearly it is -- then good for the submitter, who has provided the HN audience with something interesting to read.
Same in the London (UK), never had a problem. Or perhaps I'm just oblivious.
You can't do cryptography in Javascript (yet). There is no point in encrypting client side if

1) the server provided the cryptographic libraries (so they may be compromised)

2) every kind of javascript code external to the crypto library can modify it, modify the environment, read everything that is passed around

I don't know how the not yet standardized window.crypto will adress 2), but as of now you can't trust DOM level encryption.
Well, I read an Ask HN thread the other day about a guy using PGP, and what you have to do and give up to have secure email is just not worth it. Not for me, at least.
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I like these kind of services. But you're up against https://jetstrap.com/ and https://www.easel.io so if you don't mind me saying you're homepage could use a little TLC. How about jumping right in with an online demo or a short video demonstrating the tool? I like the fact you can use one project for free. That's always a good sales technique. Make people love it.
Kind of reminds me in some ways of the TermKit 'proof of concept': http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/
Look at where the charges were filed, it was Alexandria, VA. A town where the largest employer is the DOD. The vast majority of potential jurors either work directly or indirectly for the government and have security clearance.

It's no different from what any other prosecutor would do in any other trial (i.e. picking a favourable court/jury), but it obviously has a significant impact on outcome.
The concept looks nice. However, a video or other example of it in use would have been nice.
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To me there's something of the "if a tree falls in a forest" koan here.

"If an agency caches the data but doesn't grep the data for anything related to me has my privacy been violated?"

I would be a lot more worried if it was a US and not a UK agency.

I would also be a lot more worried if it wasn't GCHQ, but was a police force.

There are other databases in the UK that are a lot more concerning to me. All the stuff that supermarkets collect on people with loyalty cards[1], all the medical databases, the misuse of criminal records bureau checking. (These last two have real world examples of real world harm being done to individuals. But perhaps GCHQ's doesn't because it's secret and the information is shared with weird routes.)

[1] Many years ago some friends and I had a loyalty card for "Ivor Trots". He only ever bought loo roll.
If you stick to income tax then of course it wouldn't. The rich don't want or need a large income - they have their wealth already, and are generating more from it in more tax-efficient ways than conventional income.
And how many of these are UK owned? Which I took to be his point, given the dig that a French company will be building the new Nuclear power plants at Hinkley Point...
> This whole thing is a bitter popcorn-fest.

I believe this whole fest and keeping "Snowden" in the media light is deliberate, as we know people in USA have a goldfish memory concerning important issues and media, it appears that talking like this is the only way to keep the issue in the light.

What else would you like him or anyone to do? Keep quite and hide, just like the US government wants?

Better keep him in the light than on the latest North Korean threats.

Snowden can go to slience-mode once something concrete has been done and not just internet masturbation over it on reddit and hn. Until then, enjoy the popcorn fest.
I had a similar situation where I switched a 50 person charity to Google Apps. They had a 30 day trial period and during that time the CEO's credit card was stolen and replaced. I changed the information but the Apps interface said 'No valid payment information stored' so I called their support and they assured me the new card was stored and everything would be fine.

Surprise, surprise on the day the account totally shut down. I called in a panic and after a lot of fiddling about (and reassuring me that they had recorded that I thought there might be a problem) they got it back up with everyone's mail after almost a whole day of downtime.

To add insult to injury Google don't run a charity program in the UK despite the non-profit laws being a lot stricter than the US and it being easy to validate a charity - so they're paying full rate for Google Apps for Business.
This is similar to POP, I like POP so I was intrigued and installed Phototapper on my iPhone and iPad.

The feature that stands out is the ability to draw! You can take a photo or just basically draw the whole prototype, it's a fantastic feature on my iPad! Another good feature is the feedback from the website and app demo, I like it!

The prototyping apps space is getting intense now, that's always better for users.
German Post Office scans letters as well; cooperates with NSA
People on HN have been mentioning ECHELON and five eyes. ECHELON is a system from the 90s, and involved Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, and the US.
My mum always told me to tell people she was a 'domestic engineer' lol
> [2] If you think the US is the only one doing this, or if the world should just hold hands and sing Kumbaya: get a clue.

1) Governments spying on governments, sure. On foreign businesses even, sure, if they're big or important enough, I've heard that too. But does any other country do indiscriminate mass surveillance on the entire US population? Make no mistake, this is the informational equivalent of carpet bombing other countries. And not just your purported and declared "enemies" but even your friends and allies. You should not wonder if you end up having none.

2) "It's right because other people do it too / did it first." Hm, grow up?

3) "It's ok because it's always been done like that." Don't I love this time-based argument. So it was ok to have concentration camps in 1944 because they've been there in 1943? Or where is the line? And who determines it?
This isn't the same America that fought in WW2, or survived the great depression. We're suffering intense culture rot, for a variety of reasons.

To stop the surveillance state at this point will require a fundamental reassessment as to the proper role of government and its limits / restraints, and that will only be possible with a collapse or significant cultural rebirth.

The spying is part of the military industrial complex, turning inwards. Talk about intimidating. Challenging that monster would be a daunting task for even the most staunch of civil liberties warriors, much less for average Joe that doesn't even understand what's going on. The President himself couldn't even dent it if he were to flex every ounce of power his office commands. If you really want to permanently roll back the spying, you'd have to dismantle the military industrial complex, because this outcome was inevitable with its birth in WW2. Can't have a highly aggressive, $600+ billion juggernaut roaming the globe, spying on everybody and everything, and not expect it to come home to roost.

Simply put, Americans don't want to wake up and deal with any of this. For the most part, the spying doesn't actually change an average person's day to day life at all, they literally don't notice it. Practically speaking, it's very difficult to get 'drowning' people to care about something that doesn't seem to affect them, when they can hardly pay their bills and are struggling day to day (3/4 of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck now).
It's not a #27000 debt in any meaningful sense. It's a slightly higher tax rate and some smoke and mirrors.
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Because nobody takes the law seriously anymore. Not the cops, not the bankers, not the president, not congressmen, not the underprivileged public, not the entrepreneurs. The judges can't even agree on what is constitutional. The illegitimate wars drag on, since before 9/11.

Because the way the bill of rights is treated now is farcical.
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Check the links posted in the comment you replied to, it's not cryptography in JavaScript: it's JavaScript posting to a httpd on user's localhost which bridges GnuPG. It's not for doing cryptography in JavaScript, it's for doing cryptography in GnuPG and passing it through a httpd which the js talks to.

But yes there is JS crypto in the project, as a planned separate optional driver.
Or $19/month get a Mailgun.net account (also run by Rackspace) and use it as a redirection service into individual free gmail (or google apps) accounts.
not sure whether to congratulate Rap Genius or Heroku,
This article was 2 year ago. I guess the poster of this thread aims to compare this article blaming China with our great peace loving US government when Snowden event is still hot.
Fortunately the authors have addressed this in the paper:

"Legality:
In general, it is illegal to broadcast random signals on
spectrum reserved for TV (or cellular) channels. However, battery-free backscattering devices (e.g. RFID tags) are unregulated and not tested by FCC because the emission levels from such devices is very low [7] and because they are only modulating their reflection of a pre-existing signal rather than actively emitting a signal in re-served spectrum. Ambient backscatter also falls into this category, and would therefore be legal under current policies."

And the tolerance levels are not set at _zero_, but at a specific decibel level on a specific measuring setup. (I've been researching this professionally lately, especially ETSI EN 389-401). Pretty much all high-speed digital electronics in plastic cases will be radiating on the TV band, but at an extremely low level that passes the regulations.

This system modulates by switching its antenna between grounded and ungrounded. At no point does it inject transmission power into the antenna. Your house is already full of small metal objects that are slightly resonant in the TV band - such as cutlery. You could probably replicate this experiment by attaching a switchable ground to a fork and holding it _right next_ to a TV antenna. Thanks to the inverse square law the effect is so weak that it really does have to be right next to the antenna; in the paper they report no detectable effects at a distance of more than a few inches.
I don't know though. RapGenius seems to have broken down crowd sourcing of understanding context/word meaning into very small bits. This could be absolutely huge for a machine learning input that you really cannot get with Quora or Answers.com, where the data is just not focused enough. Here it's down to the word. That's nuts and people will do the work for free. Bigger than Google? Maybe not. But bigger than pinterest, sure.
No reason not to use a 3rd party IMAP/POP and still use the Gmail front-end.

Best of both worlds.
VB did an incredible amount for the industry, and version 6 is still in use (as are versions of Delphi which I consider very comparable.) Simple interface building, easily comprehensible connections and events, along with an easy build/deployment process. I owned both and they definitely played a role in my personal evolution.
This is interesting, if true. Do you have references or proof of this?
> Have we been given evidence by Snowden that they do this inside the US and/or to US citizens?

Im amazed why do you US citizens always derail the debate towards this question "us citizens or not"?

Are you guys more important than us? Dont you think US citizens are spied upon by UK, New Zeeland, Canada, Sweden, Germany etc and then exchange of information happens with those countries?

Does it matter that much how many laws NSA broke and how many lies they told you? Would you be fine with all of this if NSA had lobbied for a law, like FRA did in Sweden, to make all their activities, spying on US citizens included, perfectly legal? Just suck it up and accept "democracy" then?

Is this legal, who broke what law. What theyre doing is immoral no matter how they twist the law and how much they talk about what direct means in direct access.

Please, avoid discussing legality of minor details and focus on the implications for democracy, power and inequality. How do we fight back?
IT's a big issue for the new model for authors to find good editors at the right cost. Non-industry people don't know how that works.
One of your examples is about a private business. All but one of the others describe simply the brutality of colonization. It wouldn't be good propaganda if it looks 100% squeaky clean.

Think about what meaningful questions are left unanswered. Why is it that any serious examination of the US' covert wars across the world is skipped entirely? Why is the entire era 1945-1991 painted in communist vs capitalist terms? The US participation in WW2 is reduced to "we saved europe and asia from hitler and japanese imperialism".

The overarching theme is of American moral superiority, unassailable founding principles, and a government by the people, for the people.

None of those are true, and I am thankful we live in an age when access to the writings of accurate historians is just a click away for those who care enough to discover.
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The UK does (at least before the recent recession) more manufacturing that ever - it's just that the whole process has become super efficient that it doesn't employ very many people:

"A 2009 report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, citing data from the UK Office for National Statistics, stated that manufacturing output (gross value added at 2007 prices) has increased in 35 of the 50 years between 1958 and 2007, and output in 2007 was at record levels, approximately double that in 1958."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_Kin...

Our problem is that we got too good at manufacturing!
Cash money trumps good intentions when it comes to systemic corruption.

A bit off-topic but related to law enforcement: http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/“why_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_...
I do the same thing for free with my domain registration company and then pop all my messages off gmail using fetchmail for good measure. I then send through an external smtp server. All the fun of gmail, no reliance on Google. I actually also tried to pay them before setting that all up and they couldn't sort it out.
Was the "full take" system in the UK mentioned previously? That's the scariest thing, to me. They're literally saving every bit of data that enters or leaves the UK, and they can store three days' worth already.
Nothing new? Did you even read the article?

"Tempora is the first 'I save everything' approach ('full take') in the intelligence world. It sucks in all data, no matter what it is, and which rights are violated by it"

The other systems have always been given some degree of plausible deniability by government doing some hand-waving and suggesting that they have controlled methods by which wiretaps are only placed on specific targets, for specific reasons, etc. etc.

When you start saving everything, especially stuff that you know you are not supposed to, you are violating UK law (Human Rights Act of 1988) as well as international law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive)

Trying to pass this off as nothing to be concerned about means that you are not paying attention, or don't care.
This whole 'pay-to-win' thing has made the free to play games go downhill in quality so much in the app store. I don't download free games anymore because I know the majority of them will bombard me with push notifications and 'incentives' to get me to cough up £19.99 for some magic keys.

Here's a novel idea: Charge me £4.99 for the game and let me play it. I don't mind paying for a decent quality game. I would rather pay for a game than download a free one that's unplayable without a tonne of in app purchases.
Wow.. this looks awesome, i am waiting for a new generation of terminals with more context integration.
Is "outage" the right word? That suggests that it's an error, or down for everyone.

They really screwed the pooch, here.
Not having seen, read or attended "Bandcamp" (not American so not sure exactly what it refers to), can you elicidate your last phrase?
I've seen my fair share of white people that have the same attitude described above. It isn't necessarily a racial divide, and not everyone is motivated to do/be better.
@jaekwon

You sound frustrated, as a lot of people are these days. Is it helping to be reactive to all of the things you mentioned? What if you instead were proactive, and defined a new law & helped promote it?

For instance, you mentioned illegal wars. What if we created a new law, that required a popular vote, yearly, to continue any war? That would be awesome, right? :)

Let's write some good laws, and get them passed.
Another thing that Linus says is:

> I have a soft spot for Andrew Tanenbaum’s "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation".

I too liked VB6/VBA. Actually a really productive language and development environment. Joel Spolsky describes his part in designing the language: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html
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I just read the component chapter and its the clearest article on components I've read so far, I wish I had read this 2yrs ago!

BTW in my game I do some component communication by having a GetComponent method on GameObject that takes a component identifier and returns the component. This is a compromise between messaging and direct reference and I think many engines offer this :)

Thanks!
Perhaps it's the late / early hour, but after signing up, I couldn't find a way of getting into editing a project / creating a new one. Really wanted to test this product... simply couldn't find a way to do so, what am I missing?

Got an email saying "You can get started by accessing your Project Dashboard. You will have free access to most application services during your trial period. Learn more by visiting the Help page."

The help page is just pointing to uidojo.com,
And in the project dashboard, I see indeed that I have no projects, but no button to create my first project.

Am I missing something?

EDIT: I was missing something apparently, the help page actually helped, but the UX for creating a new project is confusing (at least for me). 'Projects' looks like a tab, not a button. It should say what it does: 'New Project' and not just 'Projects'. Just in my humble opinion...
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I was wondering how many weren't arms industry related as every engineer I know in the UK is doing arms work. I was pleasantly surprised.
V interesting. I found the reference (please add next time, it's useful) here, and fortunately it was that easy to find: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8g8rAEkl5-UC&lpg=PA92&ots...
Modern planes have multiple video cameras attached to them, I'm not sure if they are recorded, though. They help with taxing.
Yes, this is what we should talk about.

How do we create, maintain and support companies that guarantee our privacy? What do we do when those companies and its employees receive threats, blackmails and various attacks by the feds? When they become infiltrated? When they buy them up like Skype and close its security down?

Facebook, Oracle, Google all seemed to crap their pants when PRISM came out, can we increase the heat on them to stop what theyre doing?

What methods do we have? What can we, the good hackers non-NSA-employed hackers, do?

We have various encryption technologies, mega made some fine client-side encryption kind of easy to use, what else?

Whatever we build will not be a perfect solution, it will require agreements and legal frameworks and support from a major group of people. Isnt this what GNU is about, the FSF and freedom box project?

EDIT: Its kind of tiresome that HN must always have a critical comment at the top, no matter the issue, someone always tries to tear any story up to pieces. Id like to remind you people of this awesome quote;

""It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. ""
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this reminds me of some other fun terminal experiments too like hotwire-shell

https://code.google.com/p/hotwire-shell/wiki/GettingStarted0...
{EDIT: I meant to upvote you, but I might have accidentally downvoted you. Sorry.}

Yes, it has been mentioned previously.

UK media is under a notice from the Department of Defence - a D notice - which is an informal arrangement where the DoD asks media not to report things which they think are strategically important, and the media agrees.

The Official Secrets Act is the legal framework for secrets. People "Sign the Official Secrets Act", but all that means is that they've been made aware that the act exists. You can be prosecuted for revealing secrets even if you haven't signed the act. (I seem to remember some protesters being prosecuted for publishing photographs of missile transport in the 80s?)

So, while the D notice system is informal and is not a prohibition I guess it's a warning about what is considered really important. There's interesting discussion about why a free media pays any attention at all to D Notices.

I think the D Notice for the full take system is an abuse of the D Notice system. (Location of troops during war, for example.)
Nicely developed. but its a bit slow to sync the projects.
very similar to POP. feedback is useful though. could save a lot of time.
> 1

If they don't, it's probably because NSA is actively preventing it (albeit while doing it themselves). Anyway, we're not disagreeing here.

> 2

Like it or not, it's how the world works.

> 3

...and Godwinned. One would hope that it's conversations like these that allow us to call out the slippery slope between liberty and (overbearing) security.
it's really amazing, but I'm experiencing some issues with tmux.
Hope development pace keeps up on this, and I look forward to giving it a go once it's stable.

No mention of unicode support on the page?
Does it matter who owns the company if it's British engineers?
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Now I just need someone to explain the history of subnets. Never worked out how they ended up as they are.
>> You sound frustrated, as a lot of people are these days

You're still in the denial stage. I've been there. You've got a long ways to go. Keep reading about recent history. Next you'll get depressed...

I'm actually quite happy nowadays. Every day is a day full of purpose. I'm not reactive, I'm proactive. I see the patterns and I know what's coming. I know what needs to be done.

I agree with Lessig on one point and one point alone. Code is law.

Not saying we shouldn't try the traditional approach, though. Here's some good news:

- http://www.reddit.com/r/restorethefourth/comments/1htaqf/the...