skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you're on Mint you're in the apt-* world. One of the Mint variants is probably best for a combination of minimal configuration and latest-ish packages in the repository. Debian itself (the final stop upstream from Mint) would be good if you want to be involved with your own system's configuration for whatever reason; its packages will be somewhat more out of date, possibly more stable.

If you're selling into an enterprise that requires RedHat, Oracle etc, then possibly CentOs for cheaper development costs as compared to developing on RedHat itself. Those are in the RPM world.

So many other ways to slice this pie, depending on what you need and how involved you want to be with your disto as opposed to whatever it is you're doing.
It's not just going to be hosting providers that are affected by this. It's going to lawyers, software engineers, sys admins, writers and graphic designers who are going to lose work/business from SAAS companies. Software is one of the few areas where the US economy is growing somewhat sustainably (as opposed to banking/gambling/housing speculation/medical expenses for elderly). The NSA and all those NSA contractors are taking money out of our hands and destroying our professions. We should be fighting this tooth and nail.

- Politically, we should punish anything associated with the NSA.

- Socially, we should shun everyone from this date forward who works directly with or as a contractor for anything associated with NSA/FBI/CIA/DEA/DIA. We should not hire any programmer who, from this date point forward, has worked in those capacities. They are destroying our profession and businesses.

- On the engineering front, we should be designing technologies for evading the NSA et al, and spread those technologies. We need to do everything possible to make them easy to use and make them widespread.

- Any person or company who stands up to these organizations should be lionized and we should try to patronize their businesses or employee them. Especially if the suffer consequences like jail and torture.

- Facebook, Google, especially Palantir are known collaborators and we should treat them as such
This looks similar to what http://chirp.io/ is doing, only more open. It's great to see interesting advancements like this, especially using web technologies.
I don't want to sound pedantic (but I know I do), but please don't call it an OS, it's a distro.
The technology isn't the problem here. Politics is the problem.
Due to the downvote, I'd just like to explain a bit further. Academia is designed with very unique economics which favor publishing over useful experimental results. As such, it can only be expected that rational actors will game the system by fabricating data in order to publish impactful papers, especially if the short term gains (tenure) outweigh the long term consequences (incorrect results).

It is a classic case of improper incentives leading to undesired outcomes.
Package { "bash": ensure => installed }
Awesome, thanks! I'll work on getting two-factor auth on it, hopefully it will be done by then.
Apart from science, which robots can do however slowly, I see little value in "Going to Mars" - even if we were prepared, which we're not.

No air, no water, no plants or animals, no fuel, plenty of radiation (on the trip and while there) and dust and extreme cold. Other than very expensive chest-beating (for which the Moon is a closer dead body), reason suggests that continued support of robotic exploration will pay off better for science.

In the meantime we can invent new technologies which will greatly ease the burdens and dangers - once we have invented actual goals to make of such journeys worth the enormous investment.

Long-distance tube transport seems more than a little pipe-dreamish. Regional OTOH seems inevitable.
IPhone buyers
I enjoyed the discussion here on HN regarding the 2nd article in this series:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6126926

This time around the early comments all seem to be negative.

I've now read the 5 published articles and have been really impressed with the this guy's insights. They have greatly aligned with what I've noticed, as someone who was born and raised in a non-tipping culture (I'm Australian) and who has come to live in the US two years ago (at the age of 34).

Back in Australia I had tipped in restaurants on occasion, to reward amazing service, excellent dining experiences and to be honest as a form of flirtation.

Coming to the US where you "have" to tip I noticed a real difference in the experience. Overly attentive servers, forced friendliness, expectations from both sides.... just different.

Trying to explain these things to my American friends was difficult. But I think these articles have really summed it up well.
It already exists. Use PGP, send messages through anonymous remailers. If you cannot use anonymous remailers, post messages to Usenet in alt.anonymous.messages using Tor. If not Tor, then via a proxy server. If none of the above, just make sure you are not doing it from your house. If even that is impossible, know that traffic analysis will be possible.

Why is this something that needs to be repeated to the technically skilled people on HN?
I've only reported a couple bugs in the past few years, but they got responded to in a somewhat speedy fashion. Maybe I just got lucky.
Totally depends on the market. For example, most e-commerce companies are very comfortable using SaaS and Javascript snippets nowadays, but if you try to pitch SaaS to a bank, they'll just laugh. Over time, I think more companies will get comfortable with SaaS, but it will take years.

If you're pitching SaaS to an industry that doesn't usually go for it, it sometimes it helps to avoid PII. Even banks are somewhat open to using SaaS for products that don't touch customer's names, transaction info, etc.
Political change on it's own won't work. They will still keep the infrastructure in case they need to spy on someone(with a court order). But if they have the infrastructure , conceptually it's just a press of button again to full blown illegal surveillance.
I'm using hem, with a heroku hosting, which is doing the same kind of job basically, does harp provide any kind of value added ?
The US doesn't need a 'secret warrant' to ask for information from another country. They don't really need a warrant at all. They just ask for it. IIRC, even the NSA isn't legally bound to avoid spying on American citizens when they are out of the country.
This is great; I have got to find an excuse to use 'M-x spook'.
Nothing special about the USA. Hushmail is a Canadian company and they were strong-armed by the DEA.

Do not let some third party hold your keys, do not use some applet to decrypt your mail. This is public key encryption 101.
Nice pivot guys, congrats on finally launching!

Weren't you originally supposed to be similar to site44? i.e. Static site hosting using dropbox.

Why the change?
Don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of the 80s.

For context, most of the clients I talk to are focused on being entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, lawyers, etc. They believe they'll make their fortunate by focusing on creating value through their profession, not by beating the market.

Wealthfront is a solution for people who don't have the time or inclination to manage their investments themselves, and who want an inexpensive & trustworthy solution.
Microsoft’s Bing Removes Several Hundred Thousand “Pirate” Search Results
I always wanted to do something like that, great to read from you guys!
Maybe we should all just start writing letters again. Snoop that mutha fucka!
For SMB, you might try some of the "New Enterprise" models described at http://brandonb.cc/is-your-b2b-startup-new-enterprise-or-old.... Square is a great model to follow. For a deal size of $4.5-$6k, you can scale with inside sales and go pretty far. I'd avoid field sales entirely!
Apple’s Board Concerned About the Pace of Innovation Under Cook
What are those assumptions? What problem do you have related to caching template fragments and rendering?
No BitCoin? Well, here is the PRISM query to find out who contributed: SELECT FROM PayPalTransations WHERE hosted_button_id='7BCR4A5W9PNN4' AND referral_url like '%news.ycombinator.com%';
It would never get that far. The "jury selection" process weeds out average people and leaves only the most boring, dumb, and/or untruthful jurors.
Job link updated to make job description non-lame:

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/38420/build-our-cloud-...

- Mark
Good point. While controversial, this is exactly why, too.
(Fed's don't want to tip their hand).
Tile App does that.

http://www.thetileapp.com/
That sounds useful. I'm also a huge fan of Mark Suster's PUKKCA methodology:
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/06/13/why-your-start...
Could explain all the advertisements for Hooked on Phonics.
Oh man, don't get me started on pubs. I've actually had it pretty easy, but yes, a minefield. I could publish used toilet paper if it had the right names on it.

The big annoyance for me has been dealing with academics as managers (they're not very good, IMO; there are some phenomenal exceptions, but they tend to leave for industry).
100% correct. The original quote was "...gain control over what they work on and who they work with."
I remember bumping into CouchApps a few years ago and saw Kanso [0] and what appears to be a revival around Node.js, and how they both meet this "now Javascript is server-side too" way, even if they are almost completely unrelated. How hard was it to make CouchApps? Also, are you using PouchDB [1] syncing and how well does the mobile syncing and federation work, if you are using them at all?

[0] http://kan.so/
[1] http://pouchdb.com/
There is no best, there is a specific distro you will like using and find a better fit for your needs.

Take this example, some years ago I tried Debian, SuSe, Mandrake, and a few others, ended up using Gentoo and it is still my distro of choice, I won't say it's the best for everyone, but so far has been the best for my needs.
Tor is funded directly by the US govt. Something like 60-80% of their annual million-dollar budget.

Maybe being superstitious isn't helpful, but in this instance, I'm not so sure Tor is able to be relied on.

A proxy server won't work for the same reason a personal server wouldn't work. It's tied to you eventually, either through a paper trail or a packet trail.

Oh, and drop the condescending attitude, okay?
There is a huge difference between "forgive" and "forget".

As parent notes "forget" isn't going to happen. That is a relic of the past. So we need to "forgive" (or even tolerate, or accept, some things that maybe aren't so bad after all.)
Fabrication is a bit amusing.

This factory fabricates iPhones.

vs.

The fabricated iPhones came from this factory.
Yes, please. Anything but C++. The progress of Rust and Go make me hopeful for the future.
Agreed, these US Gov contractors and agencies systematically destroying our industry and our prospects.

As a community, let's shun and shame all those who continue work for those agencies (NSA/CIA/FBI/DIA/DEA) both directly and as contractors from this date forward. If you didn't quite in August 2013, we don't want to hire you. If you quite now in disgust, we should view that in a positive light. If you or your company stand up to the US Gov, that should view that in a VERY positive light and we should be looking to hire them.

Let's shun and shame FB, Google, et all as collaborators. Let's make it a point to avoid google app engine and other Google services.
I have a hunch that mentioning jury nullification as a potential juror will get you removed from the pool pretty quickly.
There's also https://mykolab.com hosted in Switzerland. What's more: It is 100% Open Source, so you can host it yourself decentrally.
I assume he means one that is user-friendly enough for regular people to actually use. There's tons of ways to be totally anonymous, just very few that are practical for my day-to-day use.
I think HN people are looking for a profitable business solution for those not technically inclined to know but want to be able email anonymously.
My comment was directed to the repeated claims that free riders mean the only viable way to pay for universities is to bill parents. I am apparently not able to make that clear after staying up to four in the morning.

Is MIT actually that expensive, inflation adjusted, compared to 1960?

Bureaucracy is not just about labelled bureaucrats, but about the well-meaning organizational structure that tends to spring up over time. Take an axe to the budget and the excess structure often disappears with no ill effect. (I'm looking at you, committee meetings and approval processes.)
I think you should also consider the risk of getting bored when you do everything yourself. If the stuff really helps, you might not want to risk stopping because it's too much work.
"It was recommended you do not do that, and use the provided Java applet"

Which is equally insecure, as the company could easily insert a back door the next time you load the applet. Hushmail was and is snake oil.
I can accept a company complying with a warrant and divulging data for some customers.

I will not accept a company that promises complete security and then sends a trojan to customer computers. Anyone that betrays the security promises made to the entire user base (eg. hushmail) should be ostracized.
I found the series of articles as a whole to be an enlightening account from the perspective of a restaurateur who tried new things in San Diego.

This was Part of 5 of a series that begins here:

http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...

Prior to this aside from being a patron of restaurants my only knowledge of the restaurant biz was based on Setting the Table which Fred Wilson blogged about here:

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/01/setting_the_tab.html
Google's Chrome Password Security Said To Be Flawed
agreed. I'd add the condition that it sorta depends on who you're working for.
10 yrs at Google will be viewed differently from 10 yrs at at&t. The former will still leave you with a good chance, but probably at salary level nobody could match. The other one, you better never lose that job without starting your own company.
So unless I'm missing something, this is more/less Jekyll with generalized capability and less blog-focus? Looks interesting.
[discussion] Distributed everything against multiple jurisdictions
Distributed cryptography/services in multiple jurisdictions is the only permanent solution to continuous pervasive government infringement on peoples freedoms. Where keys or parts of data or encryption or generic computing services rely on a chain of services distributed globally in a tor/onion style chain comprised of computing resources guaranteed to reside in multiple jurisdictions. Something like the Ceph file system but for everything.

(Un)fortunately there will be a technical solution to eliminating or severely limiting any governments ability to perpetrate mass surveillance on their own or other nations citizens. The current situation is untenable. I wish it didn't have to be this way but when the "beacon" of freedom, especially Internet Freedom of the sort the USA has been fostering and encouraging over the last few decades, has undergone such a complete turn around what other choice is there?

Thoughts?
> hey would charge him with violating the terms of the NSL and the jury would acquit him anyway.

You're assuming he would have a trial with a jury.

I think that's a big assumption.
#1: GNU projects are not all under GPLv2 or GPLV3. Some are under X11, LGPL, and even perl license (for a non-complete list, see http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/GNU).

#2: GNU only have recommendations for GNU projects regarding licensing (posted at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html). In it, AGPL is the license of choice for software that interacts with its users over a network, but it is only a recommendation. Project leaders and project communities are the ones who decide.

#3: News articles rarely mention license in the title, except when the linked website is titled as such. Do we really need to title every software article by its license?
Should not be that hard given the expanding power rating in the USB 3.0 specification.
The measures you describe are not exactly trivial.
>Do you think every country, and every country folk, would let the government pass a bulldozer all over their rights like this?

If your government is not willing to pass a bulldozer over its rights, the US are more than willing to bulldoze your government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Brazil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9...
The data may have been protected, but the senders and recipients probably were not. Similarly to SSL, it encrypts the traffic, but does not hide which websites you use.

I bet that data are still valuable to the government.

I have been thinking of starting a business in the privacy space. This has shown me that that all customer data needs to be periodically obliterated in safe way and that a kill switch or nuke button is needed as well to destroy everything on a moment's notice.

Where and how to host is a major concern. Cloud, etc., is obviously out of the question.
I wonder if there's been a solid breakdown yet of the sorts of products that get funded via crowdfunding markets vs angel investment vs venture capital. It would be very interesting to see what sorts of differences in hardware projects, for example, you see across these different funding methods.

In any event, I suspect we'll continue to see interesting semi-taboo products such as this come to fruition and reach greater market penetration.
Gonna name drop: I spoke to Phil Zimmerman about this yesterday. He says Hushmail had no choice, and they didn't willingly do anything. They had a well-known insecure access method which meant they had access to the content. The government simply required them to hand over content they had access to. So slamming them for this is not really appropriate.
Google et al. should be donating to them. This would be a nice, indirect, low risk way to establish legal precedence, wouldn't it?
> dogfooding-via-self-bootstrap

Very rare thing. Ok maybe not in language design. But rare otherwise.
Cool, but can it render its own site? Click on this article from within the app...

..... No: http://o7.no/11PNaX2

Just shows the menu links and "Loading"
Turku here, which is also considered to be a cycling town. I was really shocked to see Finland placed fourth on the list of bike friendly countries. I'll admit that most bike lanes on the countryside are great but the bike lanes in cities are generally not safe to ride on. Both pedestrians and drivers have no idea that they should take bikes into consideration when moving around. Most bike lanes are poorly marked and are blocked by bus stops, dooring areas, stopped cars, pedestrians, snow dumps and dead ends. There's no consistency and impossible to follow all the rules and not get killed if you bike as your primary transportation.

Ranking countries in terms of cycling friendliness is also kinda misleading as countries are on completely different levels. The Netherlands and Denmark are leaps and bounds ahead of Sweden, Sweden is leaps and bounds ahead of Finland.
For sure, but can I fault idiots for inability to read the documentation and caveats? Maybe, but not really lest most on this site could not "do computers" professionally.

Unfortunately, the trust problem you mention is pervasive. It was a signed applet IIRC, but we both requires you trust the original and modified applets from the developer. I am wishing someone released an auto-encrypting PGP service and client, open-sourced on purpose.

We all know only four people would read the source of that, and two of those would verify the dev key given with the release. :-)
The only difference is that fiction is funny, reality is horrific.
Hard to say because no one knows what they can and can't decrypt.
But that additional access would probably include various keys that would let them decrypt previous communication. Maybe the order was to log passwords on login, or something like that, that would allow recovery of the key and decryption of stored data, which may not be possible depending on the original architecture of the system.
Hell, do it for your own self interest. If a country with indefinite detentions, broad spying on the public and government strongarming of businesses for "national security" reasons is a place you don't want to live in, help fight against it.

The group dynamic of "yeah, someone will stand up for us" is what creates situations like this in the first place.
I learned that my strengths were different - almost the mirror image - of what I had imagined them to be, and the direction I needed to take was very different than my education and career to date. Briefly: more creativity, more words, not so much numbers/analytics. It was a big surprise.

I have followed their advice, and while it's difficult to turn one's career on a dime, I'm happy with the results so far. What I'm doing "feels right," and I'm much better at it. I think about this every day.

Your aptitude profile will be different than mine. At this point, I've referred about a dozen friends to the center. Some have got value from it, others haven't. The ones who benefited the most were those who were open to making changes. (Some people will spend $700 and then throw away results that don't fit their self-image. That's a waste.)

I specifically recommend JOCRF to apparently intelligent people who have a hard time settling down in a career, or say they are bored. Perhaps they don't "know themselves" well enough - that's where the test helps.
Thanks, this seems plausible. Is it possible that they've actually convinced themselves they are doing something justifiable with their own IP? I'd find that hard to believe, but who knows?
That doesn't work as well if the culture has been inocculated.

How does one do that?

Well, I don't know if this is still done today, but when I was in 7th or 8th grade, they (school) drove us, by the busload, to visit a concentration camp.

We were shown the lampshades and wallets made of human skin. The place to stand where inmates would be executed during what they thought were medical examinations. And so on and so on.

It is quite possible that the next "Western" genocide will happen somewhere in Europe. But as somebody who has grown up here, I can assure you it won't be in Germany.

I just wish that history was thaught like this everywhere.
Host in Brazil, we're never at war so spying, national security and etc budgets are always low, besides, we can barely handle basic stuff like education, security, public transport, so if there's a BRPrism, part of the money probably goes to some corrupt, and then it must be shitty!
Why should you care about long-term contracts?
ROT13 is ready for enterprise.
Do not use webapps.
Nope, only that companies trust Microsoft's crypto implementation.

But as it happens, yes, I trust our crypto developers. They're much better at it than most of HN.
The worst case (that I can talk about) I saw involved requiring a specific employee be demoted due to improper care of a company's systems.

Would you expand on this? Are you saying that a court was meddling directly with an individual company's hierarchy?