skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a link at the bottom of the email to a PayPal page for donations to a Legal Defense Fund.

I do wonder if PayPal was a good choice for this, or just a choice of convenience. I have trouble trusting PayPal given how many horror stories about accounts being suspended, funds seized (or returned to the senders), and phantom account locks for fraud investigations.
That was my thought as well. Even in English, you can use "make up" to mean "create" rather than "build something fake", as in "make up a sandwich". It's not common usage, but it's a real thing.
Chunked transfer encoding in Rails (streaming)
The health page is still up:

http://lavabit.com/health.html
Actually, I don't think so, if he was a paying user. Everything on-disk was encrypted for paying users, and since lavabit had to shut down completely to not "be complicit in a crime against the American public", I assume that the NSL wanted them to make a change like Hushmail did in the past, to send the user's password to the server on the next login so that they can decrypt all emails.
My intent is to show turn cut costs into opportunity costs. If I can improve the efficiency of critical lead engineers by 5%, it's not that I'm saving 5% cost... it's that their effort could be going to positive work that generates more revenue.
Realistically, in the modern commercial Web, a user who doesn't want to provide an email probably has negative lifetime value.
Not a solution to a problem I have* but I like the choice to carve out a new niche and experiment with a different mix of features made prominent in the web/app server.

* Unless my assumptions about the control over the caching of various template fragments and rendering work is wrong, which is totally possible.
Uncertain Funding Jeopardizes US Satellites
I don't think it has changed significantly for the better with one exception:

By then, the cost of going to a top school was beyond what almost anyone could do to work through it (MIT used to be known as a place where working class parents could send their children to to become engineers, and they'd work on the side to put themselves through it; didn't Feynman do this in part?), and since academic inflation has been a lot greater than CPI inflation, it's only gotten worse. E.g. not too long after I started in the fall of 1979, as I understand it MIT's costs doubled in the space of a few years (no doubt due to Carter inflation plus MIT's horrible financial management which I detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6178931).

MIT still has the same needs based only financial aid system. Others have confirmed that if you don't need it as judged by FAFSA/College Board CSS PROFILE---which my parent would have refused to fill out anyway---you will get insufficient or no loans if your parents don't cooperate/co-sign.

The military eyesight situation has improved due to new procedures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractive_surgery ; the radial keratotomy available then was right out), although I don't know if my astigmatism would be a disqualifier now, or if it could be arranged or maybe afforded by me as my eyesight was back then.

Bottom line: if the military is not an option, the kids of uncooperative rich parents are still seriously screwed, and for the same reasons.
Nothing wrong with tax avoidance, drug dealing and certain other sordid pursuits.
10 Steps for Successful Security Incident Management
Great idea. If they're not already doing it, they should make sure they implement the URL rewriting needed to support HTML5 pushState routing.

(c.f. http://readystate4.com/2012/05/17/nginx-and-apache-rewrite-t...)
Use Google as an instant count-down timer
"just make up" makes this interpretation unlikely.

Additionally: it matters just as much how the grad student interpreted the statement, as how it was intended.

Even if meant with good intention, which I doubt, the use of language is in itself poor because the intent is not clear.
When Persona gets integrated into the browser, the browser will remember which email address you want to use.
How do you calculate the viral rank? How about letting users visiting your site, upvote/downvote articles? More importantly, for a sports website, I think the style/theme of your site is too simple. Check this for example: http://bleacherreport.com/. what I really like about your site is that's its ad free.
Except at startups, CEOs are paid out of revenues not investor capital. It's the employees that generate the company's revenue.
Usually contempt of court is used for not taking an action. Examples would be in situations where the court was attempting to compel journalists to reveal their sources, and contempt of congress during the House Unamerican Activities era for not revealing information they wanted.
There should be a bitcoin address for donations.

There's no reason to trust me, but if you send me bitcoins, I'll convert to dollars and send to the fund. You preserve your anonymity. I'll convert all donations at the end of each month.

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Please donate to their defense fund. It's not often you get a chance to directly support a cause like this. The link is at the bottom of http://lavabit.com/, but I'll repost it here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_b...
If you want to learn WebGL then you need to use WebGL. Using an engine can be a good decision for a project, but not a good way to learn WebGL.
Lodsys used to have a page denying it http://web.archive.org/web/20110618140937/http://www.lodsys.... but the URL is dead now.
He's not the head of NSA. He's the former head of NSA.
FLOSS after Prism: Privacy by Default
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3618082
I find that computers (and programming) are best viewed as means to an end than as the end all be-all. The real point should be building something. It could be a novel or a table or a web app and it can be made of software or wood or musical notes or whatever. It is the building of things that's the important thing for me. I find that software is a pretty good way to build things due to its inherant low barrier to entry and ease of distribution. But it is by means the only way hackers can hack. Try building other things, or even just other software things.

tl;dr:
Try to build other stuff.
Seems like a good time to hunt through the wayback machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130116102854/http://raganwald.p...
Only if the task is difficult. If it's a simple task, the phrasing is fine. I have no idea how hard this particular thing is, though.
I would also like to add that it is in the interest of the valuable employees to lay off the low value employees for three reasons:
1) Low value employees reduce net cash flow (profits), which can cause the company to go under when times get tough. This would cause difficulty to all employees, not just the marginal ones.
2) All employees add organizational inertia; in the case of low value employees, this is needless and prevents adaptation to changing market conditions, which can doom any organization.
3) Every non-value creating employee is consuming a salary which could be used to hire someone who might create value, growth, and possibly additional hiring.
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Some questions given the reasons why they had to shutdown:

1. Can Lavabit now set up shop overseas (with a different TLD)?

2. If not 1, can Lavabit license their software infrastructure in such a way such that someone overseas can set up shop for them?

3. If not 2, can Lavabit open source their software such that someone anywhere else in world can start their own Lavabit?

The point that I am trying to get across is that if Lavabit has been forced to shutdown through no wrongdoing of their own by the US government, a case can be made that certain American government actions are making American companies uncompetitive/non-viable in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.

TL;DR jobs are leaving the United States.
I travel for work, too, and have missed business meetings with clients as a result. We do not have the luxury of only standing up for our rights when it is convenient for us to be harassed by the police.
Only in this community would a bunch of strangers give a shit that another stranger got bored at his job and is trying something new...
EU is a very generic term here. There is very little consistency across member states on this topic; UK laws, for example, are probably worse than US ones in most cases. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe Italian ones aren't much better atm.

The short-term answer is to encrypt everything users have to store, and don't handle their keys, but it's a stop-gap: the only real answer is political and that's where things have to be fixed for good.
bitmessage may be our only hope.
Neat. Bookmarked!
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This actually did happen with hushmail. It's hosted in Canada, but the US leaned on them hard enough that they ended up backdooring the client to let the feds snoop on the targeted user.
> Let's start with Dropbox. What's the alternative?

Seafile maybe?
Ostensibly the US doesn't have that framework either, the Constitution would seem to preclude it (I realize we are talking about a myriad of offenses at this point so it may get hazy). But as you can see, shit gets ignored. Secret government agencies in Germany could ignore laws there just as easily as the NSA does in the US.
The following is a bit of a stretch, but the quoted abusive language from Hayden brings it to mind, as the movie "Eastern Promises" just came up in conversation the other day.

There is a scene in "Eastern Promises" where the protagonist, a "deep cover" police officer infiltrating the Russian / Eastern European mob in London, is compelled to have sex with an enslaved woman in order to prove that he isn't gay. (Because, up to this point, he has not shown interest in these "usual" activities.)

The quote from Hayden, after raising my ire, quickly made me think of this. So, Hayden is more or less saying that, um... "lack of demonstrated sexual prowess" is tantamount to being a misanthrope -- and worse, from the criminal justice perspective, a "criminal" (I'll refrain from using the t-word, including because it probably bumps the ranking of a post in today's data collection systems).

Of course, one might presume to take it as implied also, that if you're gay, you belong to this group.

That such a figure of authority can and does so loosely -- or perhaps purposefully -- bandy about such prejudiced language...

These are not consummate professionals. They are... apparatchiks.
Hushmail is a similar service. There's been some speculation that authorities could compel the owners to perform a sort of internal phishing scam to get the passwords.
They have in the past - there are definitely situations where you are required to lie, for example, when working on classified materials or covert operations.
I'd suggest Owncloud for that, on a server running in your own home. Encrypted file system (LUKS), the works.

Pretty much identical to Dropbox and just as stable, IMHO.

Pricewise? You can buy an HP Microserver for about $300 that's capable of 12TB of storage on the top end (more if you get fancy with external arrays), whack it into a APC UPS for another $50, and just run it off your home internet connection. Hang a free domain hame at afraid.org off of it, and run a script on the box to keep the hostname pointed at your dynamic IP if your ISP won't give you a static one on reasonable terms.
Possible, but unlikely given the nature of the service. It sounded like he wouldn't have been able to do that.
And now http://mediagoblin.org/ made it to the front page of HN today
Sometimes is the other way too. They have to convince you, that they are the best fit for the company.
I also have a bridge to sell you.
Accountability and culture. German intelligence services are "weaker" in the sense that they (seemlingly) still are under the control of the legislative body (secret contracts with the Western Allies sadly nonwithstanding). They are also regarded with deep distrust by large parts of the populace and by a significant segment of the legislature.

It is quite possbible that, come September, some of the government parties might lose a few percentage points due to the citizens being annoyed about the erosion of the rule of law. We'll see.
You're not a "shitty employee". Maybe you are just not in the right role. Most companies I've worked for consider developers to be just cogs that type code into computers all day. Many developers are just fine with this, but some of us want to do more. Like I said in another reply, the way I fixed this was to change careers and move over to the product management side. Unfortunately, I kind of had to leave development behind to do that, but in the balance, I've found the product side more rewarding.

It would be great to find a place where you could do both, but my understanding is these roles/companies are very rare. I suppose you could start your own company and then you'll definitely be doing it all, but that's kind of a risky way to get job satisfaction.
The answers to that game are obvious -- Oddjob and the laser.
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He's using the same logic that's used against extremists: if they're disenfranchised then they're a threat, and if we're disenfranchising them then they're a threat to us.

Why does the military have indefinite detention? It's simple: as a matter of policy they torture suspects, but since they were tortured then it stands to reason that they will become radicalized upon release, so they're held indefinitely.

Let me spell it out again in simpler terms: the military holds them because the military tortured them.

Not torturing them isn't even an considered an option despite the dollar cost of maintaining an off-shore super-maximum-security prison for hundreds of people guarded by a large military presence.
I actually had a very different situation. I felt knocking on doors was easy as a missionary and terribly difficult post-mission when I tried doing door-to-door sales later on. In the end it's where you heart is on whether or not you're going to be success at what you're doing.

I did however, think that missionary work gives you a certain level of maturity that most 19-21 year olds lack at that age.
Quitting without any kind of a plan other than "jerk off for three months then find a new job" is stupid. If you want to continue working for other people, find a new job first, then quit.
> I'm in the process of moving any Saas offerings I use off USA-affiliated companies, but it's actually more difficult than I first thought.

You should try finding a SSL cert retailer that's outside of the US. The only ones I could find that would actually sell me certs without a phone call charged at least $200 for a basic certificate. https://swisssign.com/en were the most sensible looking ones I could find.
dear god I hope he open sources his codebase.
Probably not trendy and useless enough to get funded :)
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http://profiles.google.com/xistence/

Or that was my Google OpenID at one point, not sure if it still acts like one or not.
Moving services off USA-based companies is like using two bicycle locks instead of one. A determined government is still going to get your data, they just need to spend a bit more time.

Focus instead on encryption.
"hey, lazy grad student, we're in a hurry. Just make up the table from the data you have, already."
A company build upon a work-around. I think this is a new level of epic cruft.
If it gets to the point that a judge is not impressed, at least the public has been warned.
You have no 4th amendment rights. You're still a US citizen on US soil though, and they have to let you in.

The following link is not mine.

http://knifetricks.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-am-detained-by-fed...
Question on mobile/Android starts at 42:30: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EBR...
Maybe this will help:

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

"Marcinko was the first commanding officer of this new unit, which was first called MOB 6 (Mobility 6) and Sixth Platoon. Eventually the unit was dubbed SEAL Team Six. At the time there were only two SEAL teams. Marcinko named the unit SEAL Team Six in order to confuse Soviet intelligence as to the number of actual SEAL teams in existence."

And what makes them so special:

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

"Candidates are put through a variety of advanced training courses led by civilian or military instructors. These can include free-climbing, advanced unarmed combat techniques, defensive and offensive driving, advanced diving, and Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training. All candidates must perform at the top level during selection, and the unit instructors evaluate the candidate during the training process"

In in short - they're the best of the best. Also, they haven't been defunct since 1987. They were renamed the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group. The Army equivalent is Delta Force.
Collapsing comment is not for thread, but it is side effect of the feature. If you visit the same thread again after 5 mintues. It will only display new comments since your last visit. All other comments are collapsed by default.

I am not sure the best way to implement comment collapse with thread collapse.
I have to agree. Fortunately, in my experience, we had only fixable bugs with iOS7, nothing blocking.
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I think you are being a bit thin-skinned. I only mentioned it because it was included in a round-up of articles at PHP Weekly, so it caught my attention. I assume if they include it then it's because either it has traction, or it's from someone notable (which I wouldn't know). It's notable for appearing to be an outlier. The quote was included because I thought it humorous.
But you have to get the data there. It most certainly isn't protected in transit.
The difficulty is that most recipients of your message will not be willing to use whatever crypto technology you've chosen. PGP is probably the most popular email encryption system, but good luck finding people who use it. I work in the software industry, and I don't regularly correspond with a single person whom I know to use PGP.
It's not speculation:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/

> a federal prosecution of alleged steroid dealers reveals the Canadian company turned over 12 CDs worth of e-mails from three Hushmail accounts, following a court order obtained through a mutual assistance treaty between the U.S. and Canada.
I'm in the same boat. Anyone know of other services similar to Lavabit?
The EU has minimum standards for surveillance and most EU member states are clearly American vassals. Even France proved to a vasall in forcing the Bolivian president's aircraft to make an unplanned stopover in Vienna … and even the neutral countries are full in favor of surveillance – Switzerland for example is just revising its surveillance laws and many other legal areas, for example copyright, see an increased level of surveilance too.
You know, all these counter measures we come up with are just 'patches' to a set of bugs in our society. We need to rewrite the damn thing. This will just become a cat and mouse game against our own gov't and indirect defensive movements are meaningless without some sort of offensive to change policy. This is becoming a full blown arms race over people's private information. The funding, the computational power, the human capital used to create these things... if the gov't can't or won't listen to the people's will and the situation is bad enough, then something will rise to replace the broken system. Someone's got to spearhead a defense of the individual.
No, he's saying that there are groups on the Internet known for lashing out at companies for various politically motivated reasons, and this Snowden story is going to be one such reason.

His choice to call them terrorists isn't something I'm going to really defend, but if it makes you feel any better, he hasn't been in charge of anything for 4 years.
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Assuming you're using (and lavabit supported) custom domains, all you'd need to do is sign up for a dummy email address for now and go to your domain settings and reenter the MX records. But if it was an username@lavabit.com or something like that, then I'm afraid you're out of luck.
I wonder if there is some historical regularity here. After all, my own country, "Das Land der Dichter und Denker" turned on its "Dichter und Denker" when it was at (or close to) the apex of intellectual achievement.
Anything that I really care about will be. And if this is just bulk data, there's tar -czf | gpg -e | ssh
There are no countries where you are allowed to go public on surveillance measures applied to your customers, user etc. – at least not before the surveillance has been completed. And while traditional surveillance measures have an end, today's +/- total surveillance is continous.
Don't choose Germany. We may have strict privacy laws here, but we also have the BND cooperating with the NSA, tapping directly into the main internet nodes (Frankfurt). And don't forget that part of the method of the NSA is to use a mule inside the target company, which would be very easy in Germany given its status of being a wannabe ally of the USA and the longstanding sympathy of the german public for the USA.

And Germany has also laws which force every mail provider to install an access point to the German authorities and intelligence agencies. I am not sure if also a generic saas platform would have to do it, but it is quite possible.

Better pick Switzerland or Island.
Also because submitting a binary built with prerelease/beta tools is a guaranteed instant rejection. This should be well known for anyone running iOS 7 beta, since they're supposed to be "developers" :-/
I don't think it will be, but it would be a landmark case if it were tried here in the US and the decision went in favor of the bank, I believe.
He may not have been in charge of anything for four years, but it would be nice to see General Alexander condemning such specious reasoning and fear-mongering.
If that's the case, why is it in the Supporting Information section? In my most recent paper, I used the SI for results that would be of interest to some people, but do not fundamentally affect the interpretation of the data. In the bad old days before journals were online, having a Supporting Information section wasn't even an option---either it's in the paper, or it's not. If it is crucial to the interpretation of the paper, it ought to be in a major figure/table, and the reviewers ought to have asked for it to be. Otherwise, it's position in the SI indicates to me that it's potentially useful, but not critical.
I listened to it and don't recall Lodsys coming up. The shell company in the story was called Oasis. In court filings they were forced to disclose that Intellectual Ventures was getting 90% of their proceeds (which were considerable—hundreds of millions) from troll lawsuits.

A plainer way of putting this is that IV outsources its dirty work for a 10% cut while retaining plausible deniability.

They would have gotten away with it in the Oasis case, except that a couple of brave victims fought back and (as the broadcast told it) were saved by a fluke: a document from 20 years ago that contradicted the patent filing. The patent wasn't invalidated because it was laughable, but because the "inventor" lied about it being all his idea.

Since IV has a similar murky connection to Lodsys' patents as to Oasis', and since they have put out the same non-denial-denial verbiage about both entities, and since we now know that they were taking 90% of Oasis' winnings all along, it's reasonable to suspect that they have an analogous deal with Lodsys. But this hasn't been demonstrated. The OP is arguably being a bit of a troll by titling his piece as if it has, then adding the word "allegedly" in later.
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