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Yes. I never ever, EVER believed in 'panic attacks' until it happened to me. And when it set it off, it happened three times in a day. Horrid. Shaking, unbelievable, hyper ventilating, and so on.

The best thing you can do is speak to someone. Whether that's a friend, family member, or a doctor - talking helps. I didn't talk to anyone for ages, and that's when the panic attacks started.

Also (and this is hard depending on the situation) - try and reduce stress around you. If it's say, a bad boss, well unless you quit there's not much you can do, but you can do other things - reduce coffee, get more sleep, and find ways to unwind - a sport or something. I personally enjoy going to a coffee shop after work (to have a tea!) and catching up on some fun sites on the internet. It's my time, and I can be 'alone'.

Hope you get some help from either the comments on here, or someone close to you, or a medical professional. Even a counsellor can be of some help - just someone listening. Doesn't have to be a shrink.
So look at total returns for the past 15 years. Would you have been a happy share or option holder?
> If I'm building programs that last decades, I don't want to build them upon Apple's quickly changing landscape.

There's definitely a niche for "write once, run forever" (for a more extreme example, see the IBM 360/70/80/90/z/Architecture; a modern z/arch mainframe can run binaries made for a 360 half a century ago, unmodified), but it generally isn't that exciting to consumers, and even the enterprise market seems to be getting a little more cautious of it for internal stuff.
As I understand it, TOR uses encrypted layers each of which tells the node where to send the partially unwrapped message on to.

So, if I encrypt something to, say, three layers and sent it to some TOR nodes:

1-2-3

1 knows it came from me and knows to send it to 2

2 knows it came from 1 and to send it to 3

3 knows it came from 2 and to send it to wherever

No one point on the system, IIRC, is meant to have the information necessary to compromise the entire chain. Though, if you could compromise a sizeable portion of the network, you'd be in with a significant chance of compromising any given message - which I find hard to believe that the government hasn't done.
My major hassle with my Nest thermostat is the WiFi password. Try entering a long password into a device with no buttons.
I may do that, not sure yet though, since I want first to check with the person who would get the domain name.
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You should only have to do it once, though.
This tweet doesn't tell us anything. I'll upvote when there is more than 112 characters of detail.
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Why is the text on that page so enormous on an iPad ?

http://imgur.com/1gzE8qE
Indeed. Absolving him of any wrongdoing in the first place would have been appropriate, but pardon may be the only recourse to push through the House.

Ironic that we now have Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Elton John, two men who would have met the same fate in Turing's time.
Still, we can't blame Yahoo for that, right? We can't blame them for peoples Internet incompetence. We can't blame them for the limited scope most service developers have.

As I user, I have to update my email address I use and other services should delete inactive accounts, too. Or at least notify inactive users. I know, especially the latter option is more or less inexistent. But although think of all the data that users have no access to, because of lost passwords etc. I rather see that deleted.

Also, if Yahoo is doing things right, they would only delete accounts with no activity for a serious amount of time, e.g. no access, not even POP3 since over 2 years.
I like it that way (and I don't have an iPad to test it on)
> My distilled opinion is that they are not significantly better than a simple programmable thermostat for most people.

I'm only one data point, but my bill's been down by about a third over the last year.
Why not pardon all the other men who were persecuted? Their criminal records should be cleared.
The usage of "anti-PRISM" is becoming meaningless. It's like the new rockstar node.js on rails ninja. Just a buzzword. If you think that using your own server instead of DropBox, switching from Gmail to another email provider, and encrypting the content of your files and emails will protect you from PRISM, well, you just don't understand at all what PRISM is all about.

First, nothing prevent government to listen to what happening on the backbone cables (and they do, we now have the confirmation, they don't just ask a finite list of service providers for the content of their users). Hiding the content is one thing, but what these government programs mostly consist of is to recreate people's networks. This is the main point. Sure it's always good to encrypt stuff, but it's not sufficient to be called anti-PRISM. Most of the "anti-PRSIM" thing I read about are not anti-PRISM at all, it's just used as a buzzword. And it's a shame that a community such as HN fells for this.
> They need to keep the value of Windows tied to the value of Steam.

The same Steam who has done more than anyone else to make MacOS and Linux viable gaming platforms?

The trouble with games is that there's really no lockin, and porting is not that difficult, so if the publishers see MacOS and/or Linux becoming larger platforms, they'll put out more stuff for them (this is already happening, especially with indies and Valve), and few will stay on Windows because they really need game X from 1995 to keep working.

Microsoft's real strength is the enterprise, where people do need terrible internal app from 1995 that no-one has modified since then to keep working. You can't do that on Linux or MacOS easily; both are pretty happy to break binary compatibility when it suits.
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Well, jokes have value. Mediocre FX do not have value. Heroes I can't tell from each one do not have value. Spupid love lines do not have value. Everything I've already seen does not have value (except for huge battleships in space, those do).

But jokes - jokes are usually new and usually worth it.
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I don't think its really fair to deny people a chance at a better life as they see it, simply because it'll negatively impact the original community they came from.
Ugh. Yet another example of why you should never meet your heroes...
What could be really nice would be a kickstarter to get that poor Snowden out of Russia on a private jet and onwards to one of the countries offering him asylum.
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"In what can be termed as one of the most heated arguments in the tech world".

For Linus, this is not a heated argument, just another annoying conversation where he has to explain to someone why they are wrong. :)
Okay so you just plug this in to storage on one side, and internet on the other. Then it works on LAN, but apparently also outside your LAN? They showed that in the video. So there must be some sort of udp/tcp hole punching to get through the NAT?

And then the files sync at the speed of my 832kbps upload speed? So much for "one memory on all devices" when you barely reach 100KB/s reading speeds from your "memory", divided by the number of users/devices, except for any cached files. But the whole point was: no more moving, copying, downloading or uploading, so caching files (which they showed) is in direct violation with that vision and should not needed to be used.

Seems this product is just not for me and it's going to disappoint a lot of users (500k backed shows they put a lot of trust in it). I'm happy to store things in a cloud, but files will be encrypted before transmission and it has to be open source software (preferably even already existing utilities).
I always request them for email, but never reply to them. But there is a really annoying feature in exchange server: Opening a mail via Active Sync on your phone or as I heart even over IMAP will trigger it!
So sad that this cannot be stopped, unless maybe by a header filter for incoming mails
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Indeed - the current proposal suggests that the persecution was only wrong because he was a war hero, and not because of the injustice of it.

I'd imagine there must be some victims who are still alive today.
I'm fairly certain grabbing an unused address doesn't give you the old e-mail...
Even before Oracle acquired Sun and therefore Java, they had some excellent free tools they developed and which kept getting better. For example, SQL Developer.

I've been pleasantly surprised by Oracle's stewardship of Java. They actually succeeded in getting the further development back on track, after it seemed to have descended into a quagmire in Sun's last years.
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I just reactivated my old Yahoo email account to prevent this scenario.

I was hoping they had retained all my old emails so I could go trough and find any exposures. Unfortunately, once an account is deactivated, the emails are gone - even if you log back in with the same password. Deleting the emails from the dormant account is probably the right thing to do, but it makes it impossible to see what sites I may have used the Yahoo email account to register with.
> I hate to sound like I'm preaching open-source

Why feel bad about it? It gets straight to the crux of the problem. If you're running closed-source software that is presumably taking updates from a third party outside your control, how much of an improvement is that over SkyDrive or Dropbox?

As far as I can tell the only problem with these services is snooping by intelligence agencies and the consequences of that (potential espionage, etc.). One could hypothetically argue that the NSA would be less willing or capable to snoop on data that is stored inside hard drives in citizens' houses - but from the outside we can never know that.

We need to have pretty damn good confidence that we have control over our own gear and data, and that means using open source software that is popular or interesting enough for third parties to review it.
I noted in the video that the House is almost empty. Is everyone on a summer leave?
Looking at it, fuck, I dont think you really link baited enough.
What are they thinking!?!?!?!?!?
I can almost no benefit to this.
Start a new domain if you want to free up usernames.
Representatives notwithstanding, I think ever member of the community has a right to make their own informed choice.

I never liked the prime directive in any case. Culture is not a tangible thing to be 'lost' nor something that need be preserved at the cost of the health and comfort of human beings.
I hope no one was hurt.

Yet to be honest that is not a "Huge" explosion.
It's an inexpensive way to create a SAN with some software to tie stuff together. Assuming your router doesn't already do most of this, I suppose it could be useful for home users. I find the anti-Prism claims to be getting old quickly, and probably dubious in this case considering users with no security knowledge are being encouraged to create a single access point to all of their data. This obviously resonates with people, but I'm rather surprised at the success so far.
That features list doesn't give me much information. Can you tell me a few highlights that would make me say, "WOW" if I tried them out?

(I ask as a IntelliJ devotee.)
The weird thing is that I never experienced this rage in my long time in HN. I understand the first downvote but not engaging in a "downvote hunt" without saying something. So I think the person/people involved in more than two downvotes is an HN outlier.
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Having the scientific value of their society trump the need of their people to have better health and livelihood seems a bit utilitarian to me.
The fact that we have "Sirs" Ian and Elton is proof that we have moved on. It is a different world since Turing's time. We also used to burn people alive for heresy. An official apology was gesture enough on this matter.
Why would one's status as an Arab depend on public statements about Israel?
> ... which of course has no equivalent in Clojure, Scheme, or really any other language I can think of.

Python, for example:
def cross(xs, ys):
return [[x, y] for y in ys for x in xs]

LOOP in disguise :) (at least to my (very possibly faulty) understanding.)
Yea, that would be a wee bit more accurate.
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That's the beauty of marketing, you don't have to tell users the whole truth and you can make it look extremely easy to use. I'm curious to see how this will work out for users in the real world.
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No I wouldn't say it's a huge problem. The tweet was bizarrely melodramatic.

I mean how bad can a thermostat be exactly to be classed as a "disaster". Did it explode ? Did it cause the temperature in the room to approach 50C ? Did it cause an electrical short that resulted in the wiring needing to be replaced ?
s/everybody/some people
They say that they couldn't because it would also have included men who had non-consensual sex or sex with minors.

Turing's is largely a symbolic pardon to at least help address this concern to some degree. It's not perfect, but I'll take any steps forward I can get.

P.S. The video in the article is a pretty good / interesting review of all the events surrounding Turing and it's relation to this bill.
I understand your explanation but I think people can also talk, this is an important step towards peace.

Also, I never seen this rage in my past engagements in HN, so I think it's very rare to receive this series of downvotes without engaging in a short talk.
Well I just googled my name and one of the results is an obituary. I guess I should be getting my affairs in order...
If the 100mbps connection is low performing to you, then I'm wondering what kind of files you want to stream.
Yahoo could append a text header in the mail body reminding it's a recycled email so caution has to be taken and it should not be trusting it upfront. It adds it to the first 10000 mails sent or the first 6 month whichever comes _last_

That will sufficiently annoying so that only people that really wants back their email and commit to it will stay.

It's not without flaws but it's a tad better than their current plan.
You can't blame Yahoo as-in "they are technically and legally allowed to do that".

But on the other hand, Yahoo is a falling behemoth that is trying to earn itself a new image; and doing such a stupid move can and will earn them the mark that they still "don't get it", and rightly so.
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I don't really understand this argument. Other cultures have survived contact with technologically superior civilizations. Examples are listed in your own post: Africa, Japan, etc.

People can negotiate how much an outside culture influences them. Even in cases where campaigns are made to stamp out culture (e.g. W. Africa, wherein anyone in schooling was given Western names and forbidden to speak their native language in school), the old mores still prevail if people where were willing to fight for it.

And how can you measure that the parts of the culture that are lost, are more important than the practical benefit of say.... modern medicine dropping the early childhood mortality rate by 90%?
So its a closed source freedom box project with smaller scope, through it has an prototype app-layer for the phone and other similar devices.

I really hope someone would just make a competing kickstarter project to make a similar app-layer for the freedom project.
Yeah, talking of design ...
>destroying their history

Can you explain how this specific 65,000 years of history, in the context of a history that may go on for millions of years in the future for these people, is any more important than any other, and vital to protect?

Maybe a million years from now their ancestors will look back to the time they "joined the real world" as the biggest, most important positive development in their history. Kind of like how the spread of language, the alphabet and math worked for us.

There seem to be two types of people in this world: those who romanticize about the past and think that everything was better in simpler times, and those that think that things are just getting better as we go. I'm of the latter.

Do you ever wish you were still a hunter gatherer? I don't, nor do I know anyone who does. Why is that?
I think Nest is far beyond the beginning. They have a shipping product in use with 1000+ reviews on Amazon. Investors aren't going to care if one investor had a problem with the unit.
In this case what exactly does anti-PRISM means? How I see it it would be PRISM 2.0, since the NSA will now not only have access to your cloud files, now it will have access to your personal physical drives.

will I need to have a Plug account to access my drives? Will I be able to access those drives from outside my house or office? Will my users/password for that account will be stored at some king of Plug centralized server?
This is a "USB NAS Dongle", with different software.

The hardware is already made and available. Here's the manf listing for the Wanser-R: (http://www.mrt-communications.com/WANSER-R.html) Here's the Alibaba page for the MRT communications NAS Dongle device (http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/103191249/NAS_Dongle.htm...)

Here's an Amazon listing for something similar (http://www.amazon.com/Addonics-NASU2-NAS-Adapter/dp/B001OC5J...) and the manf page for that (http://www.addonics.com/products/nasu2.php)

I'm not sure I want someone doing weird things to my file system.

I really hated the way they described what it does. I also disliked the "new technology" to "instantly transfer files, no matter how many".

I have no idea if they've implemented the encryption in any kind of sensible way. I guess we'll hear later if someone breaks it. I guess it's nice that there's more encrypted traffic going over the Internet - regular people using encryption means encrypted traffic is not automatically suspicious and needs the same legal process of warrents to intercept it.
Shakes fist at SVG and his inability to implement it properly.

It should be fixed now.
While it could be somewhat a little better (or would it ? people tend to not pay attention to warnings like that) for emails sent from the "claimed" account, it wouldn't help at all alleviate the issue of email sent to the account.
According to the video 16.000 of them are still alive and it seems they apparently already have been granted some form of pardon.
It seems you don't know what PRISM is either. AFAIK, PRISM allows them to retrieve data from several companies that have given them access to do so. One of the leaked slides also mention the capturing of data from the fiber cables, but that wasn't part of PRISM

I do agree with your point however, I'm just nitpicking
What makes you think I'm trolling?

People seeking refuge from persecution because of [TRAIT] in a country where [TRAIT] is legally protected are being shoved out to a different country where [TRAIT] is persecuted.

(This is entirely orthogonal to the HDI issue, and arguably more significant because it completely undermines the fundamental principles of asylum based on respect for human rights. Put it another way: poverty and lack of development can be ameliorated systematic persecution is another matter entirely)
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It doesn't seem like hustlers, at least in the sense of the article, have low self-worth. It's fairly easy to put people with low self-worth off.

Hustlers are, I think, more like those really pushy boyfriends who you go out on one date with and then they try to call you 15 times an hour. Same sort of behaviour -

"ME ME ME, MY WANTS OVER YOUR RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE! LISTEN TO ME! PAY ATTENTION TO ME!"

I suppose you could consider that a form of insecurity. But if it is, it's insecurity coupled with incredibly strong selfishness.
I think it would be better to move your older version to free or very discounted, and put up some alerts when they start the app (and before they purchase) telling them about the new version. Tell them how to migrate their data, if they have any. And be on your way.
Oh for Microsoft, maybe. I'd love to have rounding errors like that! A more salient question for now is, is that a rounding error for Amazon, Rackspace, Heroku, etc. as well?
Yes, the real magic here is not the technology....it's their marketing. I'd love to find out the particular shade of lipstick they put on this pig...it would be interesting to know the referrers for the traffic to that page.
I don't think so, at least not directly. Paid google apps requires you to use your own domain name as far as I know. Even so, you can set your old account to forward to your new, and add your old account as a sender on your new and make it the default. That way all email you send/receive on the new account will go to/come from the old account.
It's a USB NAS dongle.

> With Plug, all your devices are connected with each other thanks to a zero-configuration, private and encrypted VPN (asymmetric encryption based on RSA-2048/SHA-1 keys). We had excellent speed benchmarks on this network. It goes through any main NAT & firewall we tested, it's decentralized when possible, and it doesn't require any user configuration. It's safe and does the job.

> When Plug is installed on your computer, our application intercepts all the input/output operations performed on your files, using several patent pending technologies. When Mac OS X, Windows or Linux want to store or access data, they ask our application instead of manipulating the hard drive. When needed these operations are redirected to Plug. Thanks to this, we give you the best experience possible. We show in your OS all the files you have in your Plug, even if they're not actually in your computer. We use your local storage memory as a cache, to store both the files recently used and the ones you want to keep for offline-viewing.

I don't blame you for not knowing what the heck it is; I had to plough through a bunch of nonsense to find the above two paragraphs.
yea-I agree. It seems like his story is getting buried?
Okay, if you call PRISM just that part of the big picture, you're probably right. But then what's the point of being anti-PRISM? It would be like saying "this meal is anti-food poisoning because one of the many ingredients has been thoughtfully tested against known problems.", not that convincing to me.
>Why feel bad about it?

My experience with open-source software is somewhat a love/hate relationship. Most of the tools I use (vim, nginx, go, etc...) are amazingly high quality but others are seemingly poor - i.e GIMP vs Photoshop, Pages/Word vs LibreOffice Writer. They look pretty awful, they have unintuitive UIs and generally I have a bad time using them. As such, my attitude towards open-source software is it's "shit" because it looks terrible. The code may be solid but the UX hasn't been refined. This is the main reason why I run OS X; I get to use vim and Photoshop.

In some small way, I feel like I'm forced to use software I genuinely do not enjoy using. I like using Windows and I like using OS X. So far, every Linux distro has forced me back to either OS within a few weeks. Even Elementary OS; practically a clone of OS X ships with sub-par software.

Almost all software I run is closed-source/proprietary. I'm making an effort to adopt better software but it's difficult to find high-quality open-source software. I'm currently looking into contributing so I am actively working on the issue rather than sitting here complaining.
retrieve data from several companies

Doesn't this list of companies include major ISPs?
I don't really follow. Does he mean those?
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Working for a year almost full time and get "new car" revenue is not a financial success. Sorry.
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