skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can relate all too well.

I once got hired in a startup my brother was in. I relocated to a new town (the capital), and got the chance to work in the development team with my brother and another guy I also knew very well. Things were awesome, and I couldn't be happier.

After awhile though, my motivation started declining quickly, and I found it hard to get up in the morning. By that time, I had almost stopped entirely doing projects when I got home. I just didn't feel like coding in my spare time anymore.

So, what went wrong? I loved my coworkers, it was exciting being in a startup, and I was somehow involved in the decision making, but, I just felt bored. Just, a complete lack of motivation. After awhile with this, I decided to quit, since I was going to start at university anyways. As the author of the post said, I also immediately felt relieved. I got my programming joy back.

What I've learned from this is, that I either

a) want a job were I do trivial stuff (like, working in a super market), and don't code since I prefer having a joy for coding as it is a thing I love dearly, rather than just getting payed to do it. or

b) be my own boss, be it freelance web developing, or, running my own startup. When it's my goals on the line, I get much more motivated.

I've had plenty of shitty jobs, and also had good jobs. This is what I've gathered from my (short) experience (I'm only 20 atm, but been working since I was young). This may also just be me, seeing as I get bored very quickly, and loose my motivation if I'm not feeling like it.
You need a warrant, but honestly we don't know if that isn't the case here. It's come up before that the NSA, FBI et al, serve warrants for encrypted data and can demand it be decrypted. Otherwise, services like lavabit are equivalent to Swiss bank accounts that are unreachable by any means, legitimate or otherwise. Realistically, this service was almost certainly hosting a ton a illegal activities.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6181081
You're talking about Assange. He's currently running for australian senate spot. Read his book, spread the word.
>Accountability and culture

The culture that brought us the SS and the Stasi.
Didn't Italy nail a mob boss a few years ago because they were using a common substitution cipher?
In my experience, one dose of acid will make you see things, but not things that aren't there. More like interesting patterns in clouds. You can clearly distinguish what's real and what's not. That being said, I'd rather not drive, but could imagine doing so.
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A world where everything is hackable
Oh, that. It's completely possible to do all of the verification locally, so you don't have to talk to our hosted verifier. We're working on building libraries to make that easier, but we still want to tweak our data formats a little bit before recommending local verification.

In particular, we're watching the IETF's JOSE family of standards pretty closely.
There's a whole lot of names to attach to Intellectual Ventures; Myhrvold is only the most visible. Their list of Senior Inventors may be particularly interesting to Hacker News members. I don't think there's any "run through the mud" here, I imagine these folks are all proud of their work at Intellectual Ventures.

Here's what's on IV's site today at http://www.intellectualventures.com/index.php/inventor-netwo...

Bran Ferren: Co-Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc. •
Daniel Hillis: Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Applied Minds, Inc. •
Leroy Hood: Co-Founder and Director, Institute for Systems Biology •
Muriel Ishikawa: Senior Scientist and Inventor •
Robert Langer: Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology •
John Latham: Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester, U.K. •
Eric Leuthardt: Neurosurgeon & Biomedical Engineer •
Roy Levien: Co-Founder and Consulting Inventor, Rax •
Mark Malamud: Co-Founder & Consulting Inventor, Rax •
John Pendry: Professor, Imperial College London •
John Rinaldo: User Interface Architect •
David Smith: Augustine Scholar & Professor, Duke University •
Thomas Weaver: Senior Interviewer, Fannie and John Hertz Foundation •
Chuck Whitmer: Software Architect •
Richard Zare: Blake Wilbur Professor, Stanford University
Yes. Daemons are the one implementation where Python's longish start-up time on Android won't make any difference (we're talking a few seconds here, versus under a second for native Android apps, just to be clear). If anything you need is missing from the API, you can use Pyjynius to do easy Java interop.

Another options for this kind of app is SL4A. They have a very complete Android API, but it's a bit harder to hack and not as well documented.

If you want to package an APK, I think this project (Kivy's Python for Android) is probably a slightly better option. You can package APKs with SL4A, but it's a bit trickier. Python for Android even provides a virtual box image of Ubuntu (or Debian, I don't remember) for building APKs, with all the dependencies included, ready to go.
does anybody know any alternatives to the lavabit free accounts?

man, i am so fed up with those mf'ing feds in the us. now i have to migrate all my website registrations to a new provider without being able to receive cancellations on the lavabit addresses.

F*CK!
The problem is that you don't sent to the destination SMTP server. You send to your SMTP server. That goes at least one hop via SMTP and eventually ends up on the destination's domain server.

So even if I setup and host my own SMTP server, and even if I verify the TLS certs on my side, I have no way to verify that I'll get (1) A TLS connection (2) with an authenticated cert all the way to the ultimate destination.

It's beyond my control to ensure that I'm secured when emailing to an arbitrary domain with arbitrary configuration.
> US corporate law makes it hard to really know who owns or benefits from Lodsys' lawsuits

As the director of a UK company every time I here this I am simply flabbergasted. In the UK all limited companies/partnerships accounts are a matter of public record.
> I would like to point out the hypocrisy though, of those who criticize a person for seeking refuge from the US in Russia, because he didn't instead choose "Unicornlandia" or some other similarly perfect utopian bastion of freedom and human rights.

Is it hypocritical to at least ask that he pick a nation comparable to, if not better than, the U.S.? Apparently this should be the easiest task in the world.

I've argued here before, and I'll repeat it again, that I would have no problem at all with Snowden asking for asylum in Russia (or even North Korea, China, etc.) as long as he makes it clear he's simply trying to 'beat the rap', as they say.

But Snowden doesn't do this, and in fact goes farther to claim that Russia is doing this to support human rights and tickle doves with angel feathers and even encourage privacy (which is just beyond ironic, but whatever).

That is either a flat-out lie to appease his host, or stupidity. And we all know he's not stupid...

> Critical self-reflection is an important step on the path to self-improvement. I criticize my country because it is the one that I personally have the potential and the responsibility to affect positive changes within.

We're going to 100% agree twice today! Wonderful progress. :)
This is not an orderly shutdown, this is basically a civil disobedience act. As such, the more people are pissed off, the better (as long as their rage is channeled to the real culprits, i.e. the feds).
I don't know about this. So far I've left jobs with nothing lined up 4 times. That's every time. So far, finding work hasn't taken more than a couple months of dedicated searching. Maybe I've gotten lucky, but it hasn't seemed that difficult. Uncertain and scary at times, yes. Actually difficult, no.
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See https://prism-break.org/
Very well stated, this is essentially what I'm getting at. I'm all for legalization/decriminalization, but there are serious issues with chronic marijuana use that need to be addressed.
He's most likely under a gag order. I thought that was pretty obvious.
6 degrees, though. The network of connecting one person to any other person on the earth is usually quite small.

Hmm.. here's a silly idea.

A peer to peer network, let's go with a cool web-2.0-ey name like Chaffr, that assigns you a GUID and establishes a stream of truly random (or pseudorandom) data which is propagated out via a P2P system kinda the same way Tor nodes communicate with each other.

This stream of noise is generated and runs 24x7. Might require a hardware dongle of some kind to keep the entropy pool full enough.

This data is random for the most part, but if you have the GUID of another user, you can send them messages which will be encoded into the stream and received by the other person either immediately, at a set time, or at a random time inside a given window.

Garbage, uncompressable, unusable data for the snoops (and the nature of the system as explained in the Snowden leaks will require them to store every useless byte), an anonymous, decentralized communication network for everyone else.
How effective has the "stop smoking cold turkey" campaign been? There are still people who smoke, massive numbers. In this wake is billions of dollars of smoking cessation products. Still, some people smoke, for reasons they have and are comfortable with. So why not have a middle ground? E-cigs are cheaper, seem to be safer, and help people out (including those who don't smoke). So why get all worked up over it? It's legitimately helping the problem. Smokers who use e-cigs are no longer affecting your life in any way.

Put it this way: cars are dangerous. Lots of campaigns exist to keep people from driving. Driving has economic, political, and environmental issues pushing against it. But still people drive, despite the risks. So rather than trying to force everyone to bike or walk, what's the harm in lower emissions, electric vehicles, and improvements in vehicle safety? Make it safer to drive, safer to be around drivers, and better for the environment when people do drive. Is that not an acceptable alternative?
No, do both.

Focus on encryption, to keep ahead and protect the data.

Move out of the US, because it sucks, is far from 'the land of the free' anymore and needs to learn that its place in the digital world is not at the top, but more around the center. Between lots of other states that fail and fail again, in terms of surveillance..
I saw a frustrating article the other day on a mainstream news site that was saying that the economic damage to the US for the Snoden leaks was in the tens of billions of dollars because of all the non US business that will be leaving US based cloud providers.

That's infuriating. It's the same as having an insecure system and then charging a hacker millions of dollars in restitution to re-architect the system to do it right.

Those firms wouldn't have to leave the US cloud providers if they had assurances that the US wasn't spying on them for no good reason.
Well there we go then, Constitutional Fourth Amendment protections restored.

But why do I get the impression that's not actually what we all were really asking for here?
I had just signed up for 2 years pro service, and had been wondering why thunderbird couldn't log in all day (and I've been waiting to send an email all day!)

I also recently had a chat with their support about this (before purchasing,) and they told me something like "don't worry, we're not big enough to get hit by this stuff, and if we are we'll tell them where to shove it!" -- it looks like they were telling the truth.
Can't emphasize this enough.

I used to eat at Subway, every single day and one day I stopped going there. I have never been able to go there again.

Passion does not turn you into a machine, you are still a human and your brain and body has limits.
I'd say it's more than rampant speculation. Shutting down his company was probably his only legal way of informing us.
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=sneak+obama+fo...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090048

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5985100

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5978036
Much of the data traveling over the internet passes through NAPs controlled and owned by the USA.
Check out the docs under the "Identity Providers" heading here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Persona

Shane Tomlinson and I gave a talk about turning your own domain into a Identity Provider at FOSDEM this year, which might be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRq9LWnlBw

Also, if you'd like to source dive:

- Minimal, static, Mailinator-style IdP: https://github.com/callahad/mockmyid/

- Minimal standalone IdP: https://github.com/mozilla/eyedee.me/

- Mozilla Employee (LDAP) IdP: https://github.com/mozilla/vinz-clortho

- GMail Bridge: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-sideshow

And there's a Drupal module: https://drupal.org/project/browserid_idp
I think a card for the kids or a quick email is more what I had in mind.

We've received a box of twizzlers in the past. We don't eat twizzlers but it was a nice sentiment.
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Can you describe your workflow for aperture?
People like you make this world a better place Graycat! Respect!
All i can say to this is SERIOUSLY! It drives me insane that our customers who are just technical enough to be dangerous can figure out how to get iOS 7 and give us feedback. Its distracting for the team and not helpful.

Apple needs to sort this kind of stuff out, i'm seriously frustrated by how many problems (dev centre + iOS 7) we're currently going through that we have zero control over.
The root of this problem, I think, is that Apple requires the $100 membership fee (and thus provide a developer account) even for testing apps on one's own device. If Apple, instead required this fee (and gave developer accounts) only when somebody has submitted an app for publishing on the App store for the first time, then there would be a legitimate filter against people who like to download betas just for experimenting or are plain nincompoops pretending to be tech bloggers.

As an added benefit, by doing this, Apple would also invite a LOT more developers into its fold who would like to experiment with apps on their own device without committing to publishing any.
I am speculating because I am genuinely interested.

Assuming this event is the result of an NSL, what can the owners do next? An NSL would have to have been served against an organization. If said organization no longer exists, there should be no reason why another organization that performs exactly the same activity as the first could not be formed.

If the answer is no, then it's as if a coffee shop was destroyed by a hurricane, but now the government says you aren't allowed own/operate/license coffee shops anymore except the hurricane is actually an arm of the government.

This event really gives a new meaning to "invisible hand", except this time, it's in the shape of a fist[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand
Maybe, but expecting a false oath makes a mockery of the entire testimonial system.
My first instinct was also to assume the PI meant "put together". There is a comment along these lines from reader "J.J. Emerson"; immediately below the article. I reproduce that and the response from the guy making the allegation. Check it out.

(IMO: I find it completely irresponsible to "break" a story like this, presented as fact, and then promise to investigate the possibility that it might not be right. For shame!)

> J.J. Emerson Says:
August 7th, 2013 at 1:09 AM
Also:http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/make-s...

> Paul Says:
August 7th, 2013 at 1:20 AM
@J.J. Emerson: That is indeed a possibility. I have e-mailed the author and promised that his response will be inserted, unedited, in the main post (not as a comment). I have also linked to the primary documents related to this story to allow readers to judge for themselves.

I agree that the comment could be a benign misuse of English, but observations like the fact that the compound in question does not correspond to the one in the main paper suggest something funny might be going on. Also, I have much more information than what is posted here. I will be doing more investigative work in the coming days, and should it merit more reporting, I will write a new post.

With that said, I felt I needed to get a quick initial story up (1) before the SI was retracted or modified and (2) before my very able “competitors” broke the story.

Thanks for your input.
Any one can be charged with nearly anything, by a prosecutor though if unreasonable normally the prosecutor is considered over zealous.

Is there any US precedence to this? Mandating an innocent to work for an indefinite period of time against their will at least anything after we got ride of slavery and indentured servitude for the most part?
You didn't really read the post. When she started, it was like that. But eventually it turned into "just-another-9-to-5" with uninteresting problems. That's why she quit.
My family and I have started this process already and expect to be in Central America within the year.
He'd probably go to jail immediately and then spend years working the case through the courts in the hopes of getting a Supreme Court decision striking the law down as unconstitutional.
That's not how Lavabit worked.
Can someone explain to me why the former CTO of Microsoft, a person I assume was quite wealthy already, would become an infamous patent troll? Is he just trading his reputation and karma for.... an even bigger pile of money? Maybe I'm naive, but that seems bizarre.
The democratic solution is to get people to care about your issue. If the anti-abortionists can do it, so can privacy advocates.

Also, we have no idea whether Lavabit's operator's real situation is (though I certainly fault the government for the ridiculous NSL scheme that prevents him from spilling the beans). Is he objecting to installing a PRISM-style scheme, or to legitimate wiretaps?
I want to be my own identity provider, which ever web technology, php, ruby, python, JavaScript.
Infuriating? It's awesome (if you extend it out further). Pocketbook damage is the only thing that governments and mega-corps understand.
> I hope you can see where people would think this post adds very little to the discussion

Yes, but it's a crap link so all the posts are worthless.
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The problem is that all of the people you correspond with use gmail, which participates in PRISM. No amount of transport encryption or storage encryption on your own end will stop Google from sharing that data with US authorities.
It's in the linked article:

"I’ve spent about 200 hours on the matter and Sabrina about another 80. My comparable market hourly rate (partner at a top NYC patent firm) would be $750 and a comparable rate for Sabrina (senior associate at a top patent firm) would be about $500."
Because the Central American governments so wonderfully respect human rights.
Why It Might Be In The US's Best Interests To Give Snowden Immunity
He goes to prison.
Love it! Nice work. Can I suggest you wrap the web app up using trigger.io (or something similar) and place it on the app stores. I'd happily pay a few squid for this!
>Really, you're banning it because people might see it and decide to light a real cigarette?

I can actually see where they're coming from on this one, and in part, it's the fault of the e-cig makers for producing and pushing look-alikes. With some popular brands (mainly gas station disposables, but not always), the e-cigs actually look like cigarettes. The problem isn't that it puts the idea in the smoker's minds, its that the smokers think the other people are legitimately smoking. If he's got a cigarette, I can have one too, right? The e-cigs that have blue tips or don't resemble normal cigarettes won't give off this confusion.

If I saw someone smoking in an area, I might think it would be okay to smoke there too.
He moves (or rather has already moved) to Russia.
I haven't actually ran into someone wearing them yet so I can't report on my personal response.... but I suspect I'll dislike them instantly.
I'm a 'he' :)
I just never understood the grand benefits of imposing NDA on iOS/OSX pre-release versions. I can't picture this giving Apple a big strategic advantage over its competitors in mobile OS.
Be likable; send people candy on their birthdays

I've heard this kind of thing before, but something has always bugged me... how do you know their birthday? I have a hard time picturing a point in a business relationship where it would seem natural to ask someone when their birthday is... and if you did ask, I can't escape the feeling that it would feel "phony" or something, exactly like you were just going to use that knowledge to try to game them to buy more, by, say, sending them a birthday card.

So how do you deal with that? Do you just ask people what their birthday is, and they happily tell you, or do you at all try to "disguise" your intention by just working it into a conversation somehow, etc?
They do have a bug tracker to which any registered developer can submit.
Iterated prisoner's dilemma isn't exactly a 'perverse' way of looking at war. Taking the high road helps you more than it hurts you. And remember that a country taken with minimal casualties is going to be much less rebellious.

Killing is not the goal of war.
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> Western countries at least might theoretically not spy on their own citizens but the exchange data with partners intelligence services.

Hoping that this is true, moving to services from one’s home country would make some sense. Of course, this is more easily possible for people from larger countries than, say, Luxembourg.
This is a NodeJS personal project that I use to host my identity: https://github.com/ozten/hostedpersona

https://ozten.com/.well-known/browserid (a static website)
delegates to
https://hostedpersona.me/.well-known/browserid which I run on an ec2 instance.

This clearly isn't as polished as aptitude install, but feel free to fork and play.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Provenzano
Reviewer responsibilities are generally volunteer hours insofar as the peer reviewing the article isn't getting paid, or compensated in any way for the many hours/day(s) it will likely take to properly vet a piece of work. Therefore reviewers eventually blow off some articles, choosing instead to do a quick analysis and hope the other reviewers perform a more thorough analysis. Apparently, in the case of this paper, all the reviewers blew off their jobs.
If there's any upside to this news at all, it's a confirmation that encryption in general does frustrate the NSA's mission to some extent.
A lot of outliers are screwing with that average. Think emails with powerpoint/keynote attachments, rich pdfs, photos, etc.
I asked in the referenced thread for any US precedence of forcing an innocent to work against their will. I do not know of any.

If the courts, NSA, congress has been forcing innoscents to work against their will then it will greatly change my view/ understanding of the US government, the problems faced by the american people and the world.
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Background:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/
Yep, just followed the twitter link. So disappointing.
My understanding is that he'd disappear somehow, either silently or violently.
Is MEGA (https://mega.co.nz/) an acceptable company? What's the HN consensus on this? Kim Dotcom does appear a bit sketchy.