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1) That's probably a perfectly reasonable option for my grandma. *

2) It provides Apple a fallback when some idiot loses 6 figures worth of IP. “We understand sir, you see, if you had chosen to backup your recovery key with us we would be able to help you”

* or would be, if the NSA wasn't spying on everything.
Like this? http://images01.olx.in/ui/7/00/01/1367512113_506979901_1-LG-...
I put the query in quotes and got it to work. Ddg reserves the "!" syntax for bang and ddhack searches. This is probably what you were looking for: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234741/ruby-gsub-regex-m...
Which cloud provider will snatch up market?
Will requirements for data privacy lead to a proliferation of national data centers across Europe?
I'm on ben <dot> fordnz at google's email service. Are you based in London?
Your Startup Sold For Hundreds Of Millions, Now Do It Again
No. A free trial is different than a cheap product. When we evaluate vendors for our multi-million dollar data warehouse hardware, we expect them to come to our site and demo their product for free.
Skype belonged to EBay before. But I agree, acquiring a global communication provider like Skype makes a lot of sense form a snooper's point of view.
Your account is 1334 days old, so you should be aware that berating someone with sarcasm & the search feature is discouraged here.
Janet Napolitano to resign as Homeland Security chief, to head UC system
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More information at: http://mashable.com/2013/07/12/snowden-russia-asylum/
I was asking myself, if (looking at the prices from Verizon AT&T and so on) this couldn't be a monetization strategy for the Facebooks of this world. Tap our users for a sweeping of 100 Bucks a month. Looking at the government spending in that sector and the amount of international users of said platforms, there might be a business-model hidden here.

[irony off]
I'm just not buying that.

It's well known that several hundred patents a year get swept up under a "secrecy order" and disappear. But most of these are from a) defense contractors working on military systems and b) nuclear research.

Occasionally (maybe 20 per year), an inventor unaffiliated with the government will attempt to get a patent, and have it get swept up under a secrecy order.

But a new type of data storage? I would surely think the government would let this get developed and refined in the private arena.

Cutting edge development is a sinkhole for massive amounts of money. Just think how many hard drives a billion dollars could buy? I don't think it makes sense economically, when there is a commonly available alternative.

What worries me more is the possibility that the oil industry has spies with control over this "secrecy order". The fabled "200 mile per gallon carburetor" type stuff.

It is quite easy for me to believe that a trillion dollar industry would attempt to protect itself by any means possible.
Absolutely agree, it's a terrible phrase.
There is a really good talk (short too) from Moxie Marlinspike on privacy. His talk is very much along the same lines. Definitely worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qzldtKV1PY
Sounds like write-only media.
I do not think this is a good idea at all. Take a look at California where voters are constantly being asked to vote on tax increases and ballot initiatives. It's hard to argue that the state is better off for it.

You could easily make a rule that MPs can't raise their own salary without changing the fundamentals of a representative democracy.
It's you and your friends who decided to make him an outcast by forcing him to choose to stay in a particular closed site when there are so many open options to organise meet-ups, including simply firing an email with CC/BCC to all parties.

Even now there are still simpletons who don't understand the reasoning of those deciding to stay away of these sites. I'm saying just understanding it, not necessarily agreeing to it.
Show HN: Your "spare" domains
Every now and then I see these posts where people post the domains they purchased for XYZ side project that is clearly not happening.

But considering how difficult it can be to find a good name, its always nice to see what people are willing to part with.

Post your domains!
I don't agree with this. I have had friends spread all over the globe and we still managed to have a call once a week and text regularly. Facebook does nothing to promote or enhance true friendships, it is social lip gloss at best. Yet too many people are to unfilled and shallow to truly see it.
The media surrounding the U.S. government spying on its citizens illegally supersedes any intangible enforcement by means of loosely written guidelines by HN.
Yeah it's insane to think that anyone would own some kind of device that has a microphone and camera accessible by a third party, right?

I mean what's next, they're going to make these things small enough that we can carry them everywhere?
As I understand the situation:
Mir borrowed code from wayland and this comparision does not make too much sense in light of that.

Most likely some patches to wayland would be enough to get what they wanted - instead now we have more fragmentation.
That's the first thing that struck me, as I have also lived in several different countries and even the ones with a similar Anglo-Western cultures, the differences to the approach of important things like risk, truth, trust, authenticity and authority is significant enough to be dangerous at times.

The other part is that I don't believe it's fictitious pilot folklore about the specific training to deal with the cultural issues that had to take place. Not just Korean, I've heard similar things about Vietnamese pilots too.
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Thanks for the comments and suggestions all; I've updated the post with some of the suggestions people have emailed to me (diff: https://github.com/SamWhited/blog.samwhited.com/commit/62f00...).
"Some people like cupcakes better. I,for one, care less for them."
It's crazy to think about the precedent this sets. I mean, what about public works, books, music & articles? Could this be considered a terrorist threat these days?

The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day. Learn to swim,
I'll see you down in Arizona bay. Some say a comet
will fall from the sky. Followed by meteor showers
and tidal waves. Followed by faultlines that cannot
sit still. Followed by millions of dumbfounded
dipshits. Some say the end is near. Some say we'll
see armageddon soon. I certainly hope we will cuz I
sure could use a vacation from this Silly shit,
stupid shit...

I'm sure there are better examples, more scholarly ones, but that was the first off the top of my head.
"Why does the NSA have full access to your servers?"

Because they ordered him to give it, and he elected not to go to jail.
I completely agree with you - as someone who is deploying the same technology system, with the same team, in eight different countries (USA, Brazil, Luxembourg/Germany, UK, Portugal, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia) - I can tell you that having a clear understanding of the culture prior to engaging with the customer significantly enhances our chances of success in each endeavor.

One example - Germany has a reputation as being a rule oriented/structured country, so taking an extra few days of preparation prior to deployments, was very much appreciated there, and we went to the extra effort to do so (and totally enjoyed having an appreciative audience for our wonderfully laid out test plans).

We also discovered in Brazil, that if the customer showed up 5 or 6 minutes late for a conf call, that we shouldn't stress or be concerned that there was a problem - but that culturally, meetings/calls don't always start exactly on the minute. We also learned to be careful to leave an extra 30 minute window for meetings to end a little later than they were scheduled.

Contrawise, We were always careful to dial in within a 30-45 second window at the start of a call when working with the UK. And those meetings (almost) always ended precisely on time.

These are things that you need to be aware of if you want to work effectively in different countries. Don't always expect that other people's expectations of what's appropriate are the same as yours.
It's my understanding that Korean pilots did deservedly have a bad reputation in the late nineties, but got their act together and in 2008 came top of the ICAO league in aviation safety (including pilot training).
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Well, being in irony-mode, I was just asking myself, if I could not ask the NSA or our local branch (German BND), if the would send me a backup of my Emails from the last 4 month, as my hard-drive crashed and I lost everything.

As a tax-paying citizen, I feel, that this would just be fair.

[irony off]
In addition to that, you can purchase smart power strips that detect the drop/increase in power on one plug and turn off/on the other plugs.

I've been using one of these for several years now for our entertainment center. You just have to be sure you turn off any devices you don't want the power hard cut from before you turn off the television.
I have a good friend who is an American who has lived all over the world as an airline industry consultant. He spoke Chinese well when I first met him in the early 1980s (I hired him as a reporter for a trade magazine that published English-language articles based on Chinese-language interviews with sources) and he has since learned a lot of Japanese, at least. One of his lines of airline consulting business over the years was cockpit resources management (CRM) training for airline crews to ensure better communication among pilots in commercial passenger airlines. His statement about his business experience is that cockpit resource management training was most needed among the airlines operating in Korea.

AFTER EDIT: Anyway, the fine submitted article here is an extended rant about Malcolm Gladwell's essays that later get collected into Gladwell's books, but it has too little to say about the latest airline accident with pilots trained by an airline operating in Korea, the FIRST-EVER fatal crash involving the 777 aircraft. When news reports mention that a cockpit command told flight attendants to tell passengers to stay in their seats rather than evacuate the aircraft after it came to rest off the runway,

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_23637529/flight-atten...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/09/world/asia/asiana-flight-a...

we know that that at least one pilot on that flight was using extremely poor judgment even after the plane slammed into the ground. There was a human factor in the most recent crash, and the investigation will have to find out what that human factor was and reduce risk of recurrence of that human factor in the next several hundred thousand passenger airline flights around the world.
I think you missed the part where I said that it's not a guarantee.

Obviously, it's not a guarantee. They can still profit both ways. But if they have another means of profit, then there is the possibility that they're not dead set on profiteering on your data.

This is still not good enough for me though. Self-hosted or nothing as far as I'm concerned (Social Networks).
Unfortunately I've never heard of such a thing. Let me know (by email) if you find anything though and I'll happily add it to the article.
I've never understood the logic behind that. As long as you don't violate your bail provisions, why wouldn't all of your bail be refundable?
PaRSEC: Designing software for the exascale supercomputer generation
Not really. My friends are spread out all over the globe. I do not use Facebook. I still manage to email and IM them without any headaches or complaints.
Thanks. Hacker News is censoring me, limiting me to 1-2 posts a day, and quickly flagging all my posts. (This post was flagged also).

Notice my comment "posted about" the Guardian LIVE BLOG two hours ago, and yet the LIVE BLOG is only now reaching HN a few minutes ago, by another HN user. That's because HN disallowed my submitting it two hours ago.

Keep in mind, I work/research fighting Chinese censorship.
> it appears this particular judgeship was granted erroneously.

This particular judge, Jack Robison, was elected. Repeatedly.

He was also reprimanded by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct in 2009 after he ordered a man jailed for 30 days for calling him a fool (in a public restroom, not in court) — which is self-evidently true. http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/judge-reprimanded-f...
3) If attacker has physical access to machine, and
machine is powered on (direct memory access via
Thunderbolt or Firewire)

This may have changed, but turning on FileVault used to disable DMA in many situations (laptop had been suspended being a key one) until the user logged back in. Not that this isn't a vector, but it's actually a very narrow one; you basically need the person to already be logged in at the time you want to steal the keys.
Have you looked into OsmAnd [1] for Android devices? You may find it not as slick as Google Maps, but it does have Points of Interest search.

[1] http://osmand.net/
I highly recommend living abroad

I agree with the overall suggestion. Where have you lived abroad?
It happened before MS acquired them.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/project-chess-hel...
Actually, if you could somehow use balloons filled with human-breathable air as floating devices, you could float about 50 km above Venus surface, in a nice earth-like 1 atm pressure and 0–50 C temperature range.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#Aerostat_...
Sorry this is news folks? Really? See this from 2011/12

from http://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2012/01/microsoft-office...

However, the Patriot Act, introduced to protect US national security, can require that any US company (wherever data is held) must disclose data on demand to the US Government without the knowledge of the owner of the data, which is contrary to the UK Data Protection Act. Microsoft has been up-front in acknowledging that they cannot give that guarantee and this applies to data held in all their hosted solutions. As a result, in December 2011, BAE ditched plans to adopt Office365 because Microsoft could not guarantee the company’s data would not leave Europe, in spite of operating a data centre in Dublin.
Nothing always works properly ("Perfect is the enemy of good").

A paper calendar and pencil simply doesn't scale if you need to share & sync calendar events with a team or group of people. Or simply want to keep your phone's datebook in sync with the one in your email client, etc.
It is important for me as a customer of Microsoft. This means I will end all future contracts with them, because I'm not a US citizen.

NSA needs no warrant to wiretap me as a European and I'm not going to send my money to Microsoft so they can use that money to help a foreign government agency , that I or any of my fellow citizens have no oversight over, to spy on me.

That would be totally absurd.
Good writeup, and I appreciate the section on deploying to heroku. Have used middleman before and had issues getting it running on Heroku.
With his email, thank you, now commence the spamming by NSA.

What is this 1999, when 99% of the people seem to be computer illiterate? On her facebook wall she posts his email and letter in full!? Well, seems we are at the point of frictionless sharing, let the hacking begin people - nothing is secret, no respect for anyones privacy!
oh hell yes! This is the biggest one in my book

Oh, there is one more tiny matter: taxes. Make sure to
take a 1/3 of each invoice you are paid and put it into
savings for taxes. Seriously, you don’t want to make this
mistake.
This article is trash, the discussions on this issue are trash, and everyone is running around like a headless chicken.

A Law Professor, writing an argument about law, without discussing the relevant cases? No discussion of Smith v Maryland? No discussion of FISA 702 or Patriot Act 215? Did he even bother to look up any relevant information with regards to this controversy?

Call it unconstitutional if you want, but I want to see an _argument_. Call yourself a law professor or a lawyer, but if you write under the guide of a legal expert, I demand to see a high level discussion on the issue.

Instead, I get a rant about libertarian ideals, applying the 5th Amendment to property you clearly do not own. I see vague descriptions of the 4th Amendment, with no regard to context that is going on in the debate in Washington.

Any "Law Professor" that writes about this subject... but FAILS to mention Smith v. Maryland is horribly horribly ignorant on the subject. And does not deserve to be writing under the guise of a legal expert. And he has failed to do his due diligence as both a legal expert and reporter.
We're getting off topic, but you do know that it's perfectly possible to write decent Java or C# without it being "enterprise", right? (whatever that means)

I'm starting to get sick of this "ruby/python/nodejs = cool, java/.net = slow bloated enterprise crap for men with suits" attitude that keeps reappearing here on HN.

Whether your work environment is cool, whether your code is decent and snappy, all that has very little to do with your programming language choice. Admittedly, if you compare modern Ruby to VB6 you might conclude that VB sucks, but that's an unfair comparison since the technologies are a decade apart. It's like saying Python rocks because you hate COBOL.

You can work at a scrappy startup and code lean C#, and you can work at a bureaucratic departmentalized hell and code AbstractProxyProviderFactoryProviders in Python.

And, yes, you can even work at a bureaucratic departmentalized hell and code decent Python. Or Java. Or C#. Or Ruby.
> A world where Ron Paul gets elected president and/or gets any of his legislation passed is a substantially different world than the one we live in today. Hugely different.

Sure, but the ability to build a minimum winning coalition on eliminating social security is pretty much irrelevant to finding a minimum winning coalition on eliminating income tax.

> If it were possible for the general population to somehow wake up and realize that Social Security is a ponzi scheme and that it's not sustainable long term

Its not possible for them to "wake up and realize" that because its not true, but its certainly possible for them to be convinced of that; indeed, that's a fairly common idea (at least, if you take out the "ponzi scheme" part) now. What is less common is the idea that the best way of dealing with that is to eliminate the program entirely rather than addressing features that make it nonsustainable. [1]

> then it's ENTIRELY conceivable that said people might listen to the "income tax isn't constitutional" argument as well.

Sure, its entirely conceivable that people might listen to that argument. That's a bit different saying that it is likely that he would also be able to eliminate the income tax (there is a big gap between "conceivable" and "likely" and another big gap between "listen to" and "agree with".)

> The political landscape would have to be so incredibly different for social security to go away I can't even really comprehend it.

I have no problem with that description, but that's an argument against any assertion you might make about what would be likely in that case, not an argument for it.

> You can speculate that people wouldn't both abolish social security AND the income tax.

I could, but I haven't. A statement that your claim that a particular outcome is likely is not supported by the argument you have presented for it is not a claim that the outcome is impossible.

> I speculate that such a thing could reasonably happen.

There's a difference between speculating that a thing "could reasonably happen" and asserting, as you did previously, that it is likely.

[1] E.g., http://www.gallup.com/poll/1693/social-security.aspx
One annoying thing about this article is the "born" aspect - it seems to be a synonym for "old" and "young". It's a gross generalization to equate old people with technophobes.
Citing of cultural differences is often (I'd even say usually) code for citing racial stereotypes as if they were common sense.

I'd say that it's worth discussion that the cultural differences cited by Gladwell about Korea are the same as 150 year old stereotypes of Chinese culture.
Secret ballots make it easier to pull off.

How so?
Chinese farmer builds bionic arms for under $500
Oh, there is one more tiny matter: taxes. Make sure to take a 1/3 of each invoice you are paid and put it into savings for taxes. Seriously, you don’t want to make this mistake.

Also, you will have to pay taxes quarterly (well, more specifically, to make estimated payments each quarter). Withholdings at day jobs abstract away the quarterly obligation, allowing you to file once a year (and, usually, get a refund) but freelancers aren't allowed to hold money owed for 9 months and collect interest; they have to pay more quickly.

Here's the solution I came up with for the brokenness of the freelance economy (especially the time wasted in marketing). http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/fixing-employ...

It does require you to sell some of your upside, but that's actually a really good thing, because the option holder (who is probably richer and better-connected than you, and therefore requires an order of magnitude less effort to market you) now has an incentive to participate in your marketing process.
This is fine, since you have the option to decide. For most people it's okay to store the key on Apples servers. You are still protected if your computer is lost/stolen, for example.

And if you want to be safe from the government, just select "No".
Facebook tracks your external web browsing history through the use of their embedded buttons, and links that history with your profile. So even if you don't post private information to Facebook, they're tracking your private activity unless you take measures to block such buttons across the web.
I wonder if there's a market for a power strip of this type that also presents a standard serial/USB UPS interface to the hardware, giving it a grace period to shutdown before the hard kill.
Actually, air travel doesn't really fall prey to the law of large numbers.

Air travel in the US is so safe that it's actually getting difficult to measure it and difficult to identify problem areas. The last fatal airline crash before Asiana 214 was years ago. Some people are most emphatically not dying every year anymore, despite thousands of planes in the air. We go years at a time without a single airline fatality in the US.

And yet, those few accidents that do happen all have identifiable causes with clear remedies. This Asiana crash may have been pilot error, but it was definitely not just random chance. Pilots letting their airplane get too low and too slow on landing with no adverse factors is a clear failure of training and proficiency. One fairly obvious remedy for this one would be to require all airline pilots to hand-fly a purely visual approach at least X times per year to ensure that the skill stays fresh.

I dare you to find a first-world airline crash from the past couple of decades that has no actionable outcomes from the investigation. Shouldn't take you too long to go through all the crashes, since there won't be many to look at in the first place. I guarantee you that every one had actual, useful recommendations come out of the accident investigation, not just bureaucratic CYA "recommendations".