skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The speculation is only due to lack of information.

However, even if you indeed handed the keys to the US government, you will be bound by them not to disclose it, so there's no much point answering either "yes" or "no" as long as you or any of your company assets are in the reach of US government.

The same line of thought applies to any company connected with the US in any way, not just to Opera/FastMail.

Anyways, thanks for the update.
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Mind if I asked how you sniffed the API?
It doesn't really matter how safe a constituency is, there was an election, we voted, this is what we got.

To change that people will have to change the way people vote. Maybe one of the things the next candidate for Devizes can do is campaign on Claire's lack of understanding of technology and the impact that has on her ability to be an MP.
Logic is on our side here. Of course, that never counts for much in politics :)

The key problem is that there is no system of checks and balances, no matter what your personal congress-critter might say. Terms that are interpreted one way when the law is created get interpreted another way in secret. Going after certain people becomes checking up on everybody. Checking up on everybody becomes store-now, search-later. The government's natural oversight and regulatory authority over commercial businesses is being used as leverage to collect data on the population against our will. It's just out of control.

I'm concerned that a Constitutional Amendment is really what it's going to take to put this genie back in the bottle. Sure, you stop NSA, but does that stop the FBI from picking up the keys? Stop any of a dozen other agencies from creating similar systems? I'm optimistic about this particular fight, but the overall war is looking like whack-a-mole out there to me.
I'm on a mailing list with a bunch of nuclear engineers who think they are the future of power. Several of them are starting companies to try to make it happen.

The main problem in the U.S. is getting the NRC to let you try anything new. Kirk Sorenson is going after military funding, to bypass the NRC. There's a company in Canada working on a small, simple molten salt reactor, with the initial goal of extracting oil from tar sands with less carbon emissions. Last I heard, the Ontario government was being pretty cooperative.

There's also a major effort in China, with about a billion dollars in funding and several hundred researchers. They're working on both a molten salt cooled pebble bed reactor, and a liquid-fueled thorium reactor.

There are also smaller projects in various other countries. This is a long way from being just an internet fad.

Edit: This page at the Gen IV International Forum has a good rundown of recent MSR research: http://www.gen-4.org/Technology/systems/msr.htm
I've been a happy customer for several years now. I've had zero problems with them, but I also don't use the web interface for anything other than managing my accounts (one feature is you can easily setup and manage family members accounts).

I don't think that moving outside the US would make any practical difference. Any mail sent to their servers from my regular correspondents would pass through NSA monitored sites as they left the US and I pull everything off using IMAP over SSL anyway so there isn't anything stored there for them to seize.

Your email correspondence, unless encrypted with pgp, really should be considered no different than sending a postcard in the mail. It can be intercepted and copied at any number of points along the way.
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Tried Zoho lately? I played with it two years ago, but decided going with Google Apps free tier at that time. It might be interesting to people sick of Google, though won't help much with the NSA issues.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. Installing Mono from Git is quite straightforward. Whereas for MonoDevelop, I found its not that simple, at least for me. Installing dependency after dependency especially while building GtkSharp, pango has not been successful for me, yet.

I go at it every few weeks with renewed interest, but at some point I find myself wading through the forums where there is little or no response to questions similar to the ones I have at that moment.
Even if we ignore all the technical things she seems to be confused about, how can a government official think it is ok to publicly and childishly accuse and threaten this man on a social network. I'm not surprised by her technical ignorance at all, but the lack of professionalism and , well, manners is very worrying.
As levosmetalo mentioned, we're forced to speculate when it comes to NSA spying, since companies apparently can be forced to not disclose anything. Which is why I think FastMail should see this as a great opportunity to move all servers to Norway. That would stop the speculation.
I think it's even worse than that.

If the idea that maybe we don't need all this militarism and surveillance does make it through the layers of filters protecting Congressmen from reality, there is a general attitude that people saying these things are naive hippies, and that the fearless Congressmen are the 'grown ups' who can make the 'tough decisions' to spend trillions of dollars on defense and violate the odd civil liberty to 'keep America safe'.

It's not just that they can't hear the critics, it's that when they do hear the critics they feel smugly superior to them.
PFS protects you if feds get google keys now to not be able to decipher what you told google 3 months ago. But if they have the current keys nothing can protect you.
Chomsky: "The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies."

The corporate state is very much totalitarian, and the relationship with politicians isn't conspirational, they are co-opted into the "holistic system of systems" for the benefit of corporate goals. Individuals are enabled and allowed to attain wealth and fame through this scheme, and are allowed to choose drape colors, but that doesn't mean they run the show, at all.
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That all the stories occur in the same universe is a given. Oddly, The Pixar Theory gives no reference (much less credit) to the long-running proliferation of Pixar characters appearing in other Pixar movies. This includes characters from future movies, like Wall-E seen in Toy Story. The Pixar Theory, in its long-history view, fails to address proof most of the movies occur within a narrow timeframe, via facts like Heimlich (from A Bug's Life) appearing in Toy Story 2, and the Pizza Planet truck appearing in every movie (partial exception for Brave, where it appears as a carved-wood toy alongside a bas-relief of Sully).

The Pixar Theory takes a vague notion and just, as noted "post hoc, ergo proter hoc", creates an elaborate and baseless theory to justify it a la most conspiracy theories. Alas, there is a great deal of facts available to both destroy the theory as presented, and at the same time prove the "one Pixar universe" premise to far more comprehensive and compelling effect. Instead of a few vapid paragraphs, the website should be a collection of the dozens (hundreds?) of images tying all the stories together.
Yeah, I don't get all the hype about Fastmail. To me, every US hosted solution is like uploading your content to the US. As mentioned by countless blog posts, I don't have anything to hide, but I should have the right to privacy.

Until I find a proper email solution within Europe, I don't see any reason to switch from Gmail.
I just took a look at Jottacloud. Unfortunately, they don't offer a Linux client which is a deal breaker for me.
Don't rely on government for anything? What are you talking about? Almost 100% of scientific research and 100% of infrastructure around the world is funded by government. Almost all of education, health and welfare around the world (though less so in the US) is run by government. A lot of people are suspicious of government, but such fundamental disdain toward and alienation from government are peculiar American (and sometimes Russian) traits.
"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself" - Plato
Yeah, as I said, the farmland is within no-mans-land. It's farmed by permit holders who are allowed to go within there - usually subsistence farmers, some (no official figures, but met a few) of whom are stateless and have been trapped in the exclusion zone since glasnost. There are minefields wrapped around the security fences. You're welcome to go for a walk across there, and see what happens.
The only thing I get really spooked over, is that eventually it gets to a point where the government starts demanding passphrases for hard drives with no hidden encrypted partition.

Am I being paranoid? Someone sensible please dilute my paranoia.
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There is just so much more to public key crypto than public web SSL/TLS.
So, the light trapped in the crystal is stationary, and not just "bouncing around" inside, where we can observe it?

I guess the question could be phrased - is the light really stopped, or just confined to a REALLY small area (but the light still vibrates, wobbles, spins, or whatever else light does when trapped in a dark place)?
Very interesting service. At first it didn't occur to me why would I want to search the source code, but your examples were good.

What is the logic behind the search criteria? I entered `<div id="main">`[1] and the first result is LinkedIn with `<div id="main-wrapper">` highlighted, which shouldn't match my query directly as I entered a closed tag. Some of the other results also didn't contain exactly what I was searching for - e.g. `<div id="main" class="main">`, `<div id="main" class="clear">` etc.
A technical explanation on this would be great.

Also, one minor note - David's photo in the front page footer is broken [1]

[1] https://search.nerdydata.com/search/#!/searchTerm=<div id="main">/searchPage=1/sort=pop

[2] http://www.arc.losrios.edu/Images/Images-arc/Foreign_Lang_De...
There are some engineering challenges but no apparent showstoppers. With the right alloys, the molten salt isn't that corrosive, and Oak Ridge didn't observe much of a problem after four years of operation. They had some concern that the higher neutron flux of a larger reactor could make things worse, but they thought they'd figured out a tweak to the alloy that would prevent any problems. Of course we'll have to try it to be sure.

Also, it's not just one reactor type. There's the full-fledged breeder, which has some complex chemical processing, but you can start out with a simple burner design like the DMSR. An outfit in Canada is going that route.
Any mail sent to their servers from my regular correspondents would pass through NSA monitored sites as they left the US

Sure, but a lot of HN readers and potential FastMail customers live in places where traffic to/from FastMail's servers wouldn't be intercepted by the NSA (if the servers were in Norway). So while moving servers to Norway wouldn't make a difference to you, it would for a lot of other people.
Just to be clear, PFS does not necessarily equal repudiability.
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Hmm... what if user doesn't have javascript enabled in the browser? Head explodes?
It's one of a dozen-odd random projects i've got on the back burner because of school and having to make money, so time is an issue but i'm in no rush. Also though, since I'm doing it in Laravel 4, learning some of the framework's new features like the 'workbench' takes a bit of time.

I probably shouldn't have mentioned it but now i have this subtle prompt to get it done.
There's Runbox (http://www.runbox.com/ - servers hosted in Norway), but their web mail client is terrible, both on mobile and desktop. If you use IMAP/POP I'm sure you'll be alright, though.
Updated: He is in coma. http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&...
I use nosql stores for the same reason that I use a dynamically typed language (python) I like the flexibility and agility. I don't use nosql stores for performance
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Yandex specializes mostly on Russian-speaking countries and neighbours like Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan. Recently Turkey.
AFAIK, they never tried to market the service in the US.
No, that's losing. Why would anyone do this?
I'm certainly misunderstanding something (considering they did it), but what I don't understand here is how the change of state of the crystal could have spread faster than light could escape the crystal. Is the information spreading faster than the speed of light in that case?
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I've been a Fastmail user for ages now. As I abhor and abjure web applications, my personal calculus is different than that of someone seeking to flee the UI changes that Google is implementing. Their IMAP service is rock solid and very, very few spam emails get through their filters. That's all I want, and Fastmail's ability to provide is why I'll continue to send them my money.

I'm out on the edge of the email usage distribution, however, so I try not to generalize my experiences and biases too much.
If they have the keys they can MITM anything they feel like.
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I'm just amazed that someone would go through all the effort to plan an attack of terror and not do a single web search to see if their inventive cryptography system has any notable issues.

I think people can do their own crypto as long as they are exceptionally prudent in doing their own homework.[1] He clearly wasn't.

el oh el.

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[1] The authors of RSA and AES aren't demigods that descended from mount Olympus; they are people that did their own crypto, but with the right amount of focus and caution. It's clearly possible for a competent person to invent their own. Just like someone could invent their own operating system or programming language. It's just rarely appropriate to do so for a single task.
Depending on the definition of "getting paid", it's better to do it on the own time for free than bothering with oDesk or Guru if you are located in a developed country.
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There's also https://www.wuala.com/en/learn/technology which has a linux client
First off Stony Brook! Second, open crawl? Third, what's your stack?
I'm toying with running my own mail, calendar, and contacts on a VPS. Tired of being a second class citizen in Google's eyes for not using their apps.
Is he one of the Grillini?

The five-star movement in Italy seems to have largely rallied via the internet, so I would imagine there should be a few relatively savvy individuals in there.
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'such fundamental disdain toward and alienation from government are peculiar American'

This. If you're so unshakably convinced that a government full of people you vote for every four years is never going to work in your interests, you have serious problems.
No, he isn't, he's part of Monti's group.
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You missed a very big con

- Does not support push on mobile.
The next blog post he posted a few months later was all about how he spent the last few months playing this video game. Well, not entirely, there was a dig at google+ in there as well. But I'm guessing the study hall didn't happen...

Too bad too, because I also felt very inspired by his "I quit" speech and was looking forward to a follow up.
This article was pretty poorly written, leading to a couple of questions:

1) It seems to me that the scientists could have simply stored the energy from the light for a period of time? Which would not actually be "stopping" the light.

2) I understand a super position and quantum physics, but I still have vague idea of what happened in the experiment. If I actually understand the terminology and have done various experiments, research, etc. but still don't fully understand, how would the standard reader (without further explanation) understand the article?
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Realistically paranoid, I think.

Best plan may be to create a small encrypted partition, and put some data on it, so you can give them the passphrase when asked.

Don't forget the passphrase!
My experience is that I've been using fastmail for 15 years, and have no need to switch away.

It's interesting that the comments in the article made me login to the web interface for the first time in a long time. As I tend to just use IMAP between 3 computers and a few iOS devices. It works very well.

Back when I chose fastmail, the ability to set rules server side was a big deal, and I still use this, but haven't needed to change them in some time. I have all my notification emails (amazon, linkedin etc) go into a notifications folder so they don't clog up my inbox.

Also I can make mailing list subscriptions go into subfolders too. All very handy.

Another nice feature: If I have an email to 20 people, and one of the email addresses is wrong, when I hit Send in Mail.app, I get an error saying which email is wrong, and the email doesn't get sent. So I can correct it an retry. This is much better, where the first mail works, but bounces on some people, and then others in the group reply to the bad email.
http://xkcd.com/1240/
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Well, I'd prefer the mobile web version anyway. Which works, but isn't as slick as the desktop version.
Wouldn't that mean Google would have to build a system to automatically send each key, for every session, for every user, to the NSA?

That would be an insane scenario.
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rather costly if you ask me.
Sorry! I downvoted you trying to upvote..(the arrows are damn close at the iphone)
1. Go Seawolves!

2. We built our own distributed crawler with a couple of dope servers.

3. Not ready to share our stack setup yet (work in progress) but we will have a write up shortly!
> but it benefits them enormously, allowing them to expand their powers,

yeah, I know, my personal opinion is that Cheney definitely did that; invading a country that had nothing to do with terrorism was evidence of that. I don't see this as Obama's motive though, I think he just wants there to be no terrorist attacks under his watch so that he doesn't sustain more political losses on that front alone (look how much flak he took for benghazi). If there was not such a huge political price for terrorism, I get the impression it would be easier for him to reign in the NSA/FBI. But I can't prove any of this, I'm a dem so I'm biased, etc.
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What, in your opinion, is the correct way to implement heartbeats in such a message oriented system?
Can anyone comment as to whether this is a normal phenomenon or not? I know the temperature is warmer than normal, but the article doesn't discuss whether melting on the surface of the ice is abnormal or not.

EDIT:

I did a quick look. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_Arctic
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No calendar is a pretty big downside. I would venture to say this is even more important to me than staying on Gmail now. Especially with shared calendars between myself and my spouse.
I treat email in Gmail as publicly accessible, same for almost everything I do on the web casually.

My business data lives in Amsterdam (Azure EU West), critical services we use are based in Europe. At least in my case I couldn't care less if the big US companies handed out SSL keys.
But the result of more people going is a side effect of raising prices; it shouldn't be the main reason. In fact if anything, prices are usually raised to decrease the number of people who pay out for it (ie exclusivity).

The issue here is bots, so the solution should be to make such reservation / booking sites unfriendly to bots. Then the event organisers / restaurants can choose to adjust their prices based on the actual demand and their long term vision instead of trying to play some silly price war with ticket touts.
You can pay up to five years in advance and save money.
You don't have to share the worldview (or drink the internet koolaid) to track everyone, search all the public data people post about themselves, mine location data attached to images, hire sockpuppets to promote yourself or smear your enemies, etc.
I look at this picture and think to myself that we're in a pretty bad situation here. White snow reflects heat back at a higher rate than water does... I wonder what effect this will have.
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That's where the above analogy doesn't really work. Without reading the paper, I'd guess that the crystal enters a different energy state. A bit like a jet of water that's been 'absorbed' by a sponge, rather than sloshing around in a hollow ball [1].

[1] I know that's a bad analogy but I can't think of anything better off the top of my head right now.
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That's one heavy duty course! Looks like it covers almost all of my 4 years of undergrad.
Couldn't find anything that looking like contact hosting. Also, Zoho feels a bit overkill for that scenario.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Not sure about the last one as I'm not sure about the way photons travel through glass.
Libertarian socialism is more popular in Europe than in America, and they, too, strongly disdain governments.
This is going to sound trite, but I won't pay for something sight unseen. There is no preview option and there are no screenshots on their website. I literally have no idea what their webmail interface looks like. How could I possibly sign up for this service?
All of these are taxpayer funded.
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Zoho Calendar (https://www.zoho.com/calendar/) is the only real alternative if you want something web-based, but let's face it; it's not as good as Google Calendar.
Ask HN: Given ChromeCast, how can we now kill hollywood?
For those of you unaware, chromecast (http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast/) is a 35 attachment to your TV that lets your basically puts whats on your laptop on your big screen.

Given that, HN, how can we now kill hollywood/use live video in a new way/make journalism new again?
Thank you so much! I maintain a gem for drop-in subscription support which integrates with Stripe[1], and improving test coverage and implementing more robust webhooks support has been on my to-do list for a few months now. Seeing this on HN is like receiving a pull request for half of that work. Thanks, again! :-)

[1] http://github.com/andrewculver/koudoku
Do results sort based on mozRank, Alexa, PageRank? Or something proprietary?
More importantly, can you answer the question ?
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There's a free 60-day trial, no credit card required. https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/personal.html. What more could you ask for? :)