skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately, we've lost a bit of that in the last 15 years, but we're still only approaching Europe.

You say that with a degree of certainty that deserves to be challenged.

You can travel through large swaths of the EU without showing your passport even once. This week I was in France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany all by car, all without needing my passport (except hotels, but they do that everywhere in the world).

Although it has gotten stricter in the last few years, flights from Germany to Norway, Sweden, or Denmark could routinely be boarded without showing any ID until recently. I live near the French border in Germany, but you wouldn't even know when you're crossing it. In "heartland" Europe, there are often no border stations at all. Sometimes you just notice you changed countries because the street signs look slightly different.

Compared to a lot of other countries, including the US, EU police are doing almost no traffic stops or other forms of public "papers, please" checks. The last time I was in a traffic stop was about 5 years ago, and I accrue about 50k kilometers a year.

Compare that to a random Asian country where police are sometimes lying in wait near ambiguous signage in order to catch expensive-looking rental cars passing through, or compare that to a rural sheriff in a southern US state who likes to capture (and throw in jail for a few hours with great fanfare) people passing by in out-of-state cars when they predictably go a little above the draconian speed limit on the completely empty and straight highway. In Cairo, you can't even drive downtown from the airport without being stopped for ID at least twice.

Maybe I'm missing a bit of the picture because I don't like to go by train, but overall movement in Europe seems a lot less restricted than pretty much everywhere else I've been to.
Forbes has had a few good articles on this subject over the last year or two.
I use it every day on 10.8. Use homebrew and have less grey hairs: brew install macvim
Even if true, this seems like it's focusing on one tiny aspect of NHS administration and blowing it up to declare that universal healthcare is somehow ineffective. I'm sure you can find a multitude of issues in private healthcare where cost cutting measures are systematically impacting end patient health.

When looking at whole system costs and value delivery, it's really difficult to conclude that the American healthcare system is anywhere near as efficient as other national universal health care systems.
I was under the impression that the FBI (or SS or DHS or whoever) showed up at Noisebridge on a regular enough basis that there's a section on their wiki for "if you're the door-answerer, and it's the Feds again, here's the standard procedure".
whoa, I didn't think of that! It's true and that must be the reason why all the European ISPs try to sell you

3in1 Internet Bundles coming with:

* Wiretapped VoIP
* Censored and Tracked Internet
* Browser History based TV Programs and Ads

(Online-Shops already do income based pricing)
The first ones are laggy on my iPhone 4, but the one after "Colors can be changed too:" is quite snappy.
Most tracked keywords on Hacker News
I use Hushmail, not for security, but because I wanted to use a provider that doesn't use my email to build an advertising profile. Fastmail was also an option.

Personally speak, because it can transverse a number of insecure systems, I treat email like a postcard.
Most people are stunned by the way the internet email system is set up. I probably have to explain SMTP error codes on a weekly basis to people who don't get why it doesn't "just work".

A common conception is that it works like the telephone system - you make connections all the way through, then send the message. Bounces? Delays? How could those happen?

It's stunning to talk to newcomers about how things were before the internet came to exist as we know it. Mail routing via bang path with UUCP? How many people on HN even have seen that?

The problem is that we need a forklift replacement for SMTP and mail envelopes, both of which which have crypto built into it at a fundamental level.

Switching everyone over to SSL wrapped SMTP would be a good stopgap for the transport portion of this, even if it's just self signed, with some sort of HSTS style cert persistence.
Interesing. Thank you for the info.
I'd say that all this gov secrecy is right in the basis of the USA, from its start. Just remember that almost all founding fathers were members of the free masonry secret society.

-- Oh, he is on conspiracy theory now! Let's ignore him.
Nope the chips were not Nehalem. They were E5-2650 Sandy Bridge. The whole box was for 2200 bucks at the time. Theyre still going for ~1000 each now.
Coincidentally, I also received a totally unexpected call from police earlier this week. I wasn't suspected of committing a crime. Apparently helping them get in touch with my flatmate - who unbeknownst to me had reported a crime - didn't incriminate me or my flatmate. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure a lawyer would rather I had that two minute conversation in their paid presence, but I'm not really sure where they'd have helped me avoid accidentally intimating that I might be a criminal: I think I'd have done that more effectively by automatically assuming I was being investigated.

Assuming instantly pleading the Fifth helps misses the bit where police and especially more powerful organizations like the FBI jump to and act on a lot of conclusions that aren't admissible in court (and of course have plenty of capability to find non-verbal, admissible evidence of wrongdoing if motivated to look for it, even if you're innocent). If they're casually following up a dubious lead, which they probably are if you're not expecting their visit and don't have pot plants or a server mirroring Wikileaks in your conservatory, you probably don't want to fit their mental model of a suspect, which probably means you being at least slightly curious about why they want to speak to you, and at least willing to entertain the possibility that you're not the suspect. Statistically, you're more likely to plead the Fifth if you're guilty.

(This probably doesn't apply when they're picking on you because you're a genuine suspect or there are political reasons for them trying to find out about your friends or organization.)
See my response to the other poster.
I don't think patent fees are meaningful to any organization filing for patents. Attorney costs are what, 50-100x the fees now?
> The surprising takeaway for me is that PGP is so astoundingly crappy to use that even Phil Zimmerman asks people to send him plain text mail.

I agree that that was surprising, but I can't take it without a grain of salt: he is the co-founder of a company releasing alternatives to e-mail+PGP for privacy. That's more than a small conflict of interest.

I'm also not sure I understand his point regarding email privacy vs. message-app privacy. Either of them could easily be subpoenaed in the U.S., and moving either of those services off-shore should theoretically provide the same protection.

Maybe the messages will be stored on Silent Circle servers in an encrypted state...?
Rumor says Whisper (anonymous social network) worth $100MM
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Ok, what about a new email spec. That as a part of it sends random noise at random intervals. This makes it hard to determine if you actually sent a mail, or if it was just the noise part of the spec. ...

Wait, that's so wrong. Why don't we just fix our laws. ...

Wait, we will always have bad actors or regimes, do we just design for that?
Best HN comment I've read in a while.
Ask HN: has NSA given commercially sensitive info to US companies
The estimates of 35bn loss to cloud companies - does that include the idea that companies might have their secrets handed over to US competitors?

Edit : I wanted to say is there any evidence but ran out of chars
If you set box-sizing: border-box [1], you don't need to worry about the latter.
Dominated? I just checked my cat's food, and the first ingredient is chicken and the second is chicken by product, then corn and the list of supplements. The dominant ingredient is chicken.
How is this different from using SMTP+STARTTLS with a DHE (or other forward-secret) ciphersuite? In currently deployed systems, if you have that enabled, it does exactly as you describe. The transfer over the internet is encrypted, but the receiving MTA decrypts the message and stores it as plaintext.
I see where you're going with this, but you're fixing that problem on the wrong end. If they want to rate limit with exceptions, they should rate limit with exceptions. Not insist all the clients limit themselves, with exceptions.

Following your analogy, we all have locks on our doors, despite telling thieves not to steal our cars.
I'm guessing that we have different assumptions as to what the 178 people employed there do. Instead of having 178 programmers (thus skewing my original guess), I would expect that a company like Tumbler has probably 50-75 "tech" people (programmers, sysadmins) with the balance being either management or lower level people (brand awareness folks, customer service, assistants, etc). There are going to be fewer management people than others, which means the bulk of their 178 employees in my guess would be lower-level employees. I'm curious to think why you guys think they have most/all of their employees as programmers/devs...
That sounds like a good point. Are you familiar with the laws in Canada regarding identification? Can you be randomly stopped simply to confirm your identity in Canada?
I can't tell if you are disagreeing with djao or not.

"I can't think of a single respectable academic researcher who thinks that the latest results threaten RSA." -- djao

Does Dan Boneh think that the latest results threaten RSA? Is there a serious argument in favor of that position?
Indeed, as stated, askpatents is not just for new patent applications. It's got a bit of head-wind right now, and the more people that get involved the better.
Dramatic Readings of One Star Reviews
It's very simple. Do not talk to them. Talk to a lawyer.
> On the other hand, it's 2013 and we're still trying to figure out how to center one element inside another.

100% this. CSS is a very powerful tool if you know its quirks very well, and there are a lot of quirks. I know a lot of incredibly talented developers who can pick up any programming language or technology in no time at all, but still occasionally waste half a day circle-jerking with CSS trying to make it do something incredibly simple like center one box in another or baseline-align a couple of pieces of text.
If batch downloading is de facto fraud then the military should have been monitoring their HTTP logs for this suspiciously fraudulent signature and immediately stepped in to prevent the leak. That they had a mandate to secure sensitive data and failed in that task does not make Manning's actions fraudulent.

Is security important to US military or not? Both having lax security at the time of breach and then severely punishing a leaker for using trivial tools does not inspire confidence in the competence of our military security.
I would have said something like this:

"My apologies. I understand it would be unwise for me to have a conversation with you without, at the very least, consulting with an attorney. I have no problem talking to you within the correct framework. If there's something relevant to your visit my lawyer and I should consider I ask that you submit it to me in writing in order to avoid any misunderstanding. I appreciate your time. Please let me know if my lawyer and I should contact you and how to go about doing so."

A little verbose, I know. Perhaps those with legal training on HN can suggest and help evolve a clear and concise non-threatening statement one could commit to memory for such illustrious occasions? It sure sounds like the tech world is intersecting with law enforcement with greater frequency these days. It would behoove any entrepreneur and their staff to fully understand how to deal with these events in a manner that does not generate additional risk or liability for anyone.
This no longer fits with the bootstrap aesthetic :)
If you need further evidence, check out this one:

http://overlawyered.com/2013/08/canada-man-ordered-pay-panha...

If you think country where such things happen has freedom of speech, your definition of freedom is very different than mine.
As far as "ludicrous end-of-life-procedures for old people", I agree Americans spend far too much on those, but the bulk of that is people who are 65 or older, which is outside PPACA's purview, since they are already covered by Medicare [1]. If you want to argue for Medicare to reform how it treats end-of-life coverage, I'd support that, but anyone who argues that Medicare should spend less on end-of-life heroics runs into hysterics about "death panels" refusing to pay for an extra 10 days of granny's life support. PPACA is trying to fix a fairly different problem, the under-65 segment, where end-of-life treatment is a much smaller proportion of costs.

[1] About 80% of Americans who died in 1997 were covered by Medicare at the time of death: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1282187/
thanks sixQuarks, I believe I understand your point, but our situation is more like a startup that is providing educational apps to elementary schools, like "learn the alphabet", they can't sell anything unless they have something that all the kids in a classroom can use, covery half the students makes zero money (this is obviously not a perfect analogy), so we need to have an android client, to be able to go live, we may not support older devices, or something like that, but we need to have something, at least something in progress,
Does it make sense?
Awesome! Thanks for posting. Are you the hacker that put it together?
sounds awesome and at the same time it's shocking how unique and identifiable we are online. Did you consider adding _buzz_and_words_here_ 3-Factor Auth (4-Factor for Gov. clients)? You could solve it in a way that makes it very comfortable to the user, yet very hard to crack for crackers.

1. Your Tracking Technique + DRM-based-License Tracking
2. One Password / ID (No username required, it's optional)
3. Typing Speed Tracking 99.5 percent accuracy [1]
4. (Bio-metric Data like Fingerprint or HD Iris Scans for Gov. Clients)

DARPA is also working on it, definitely watch this (Google alredy uses this!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgNpOzvwOiU

[1] http://csis.pace.edu/~ctappert/it691-08fall/projects/keystro...

Dude, you made me curious, I will implement this after my thesis! :)

(I'm watching you DARPA et. al /24/7/365!)
Top 400 Python Projects on Github + Alpha PythonHackers
I wonder if an NLP-driven scraper could confirm your deja-vu... ;)
Silent Circle controls the client for Silent Text, so the messages can be encrypted end-to-end. For email, the same thing isn't true, so messages can be decrypted on the server (otherwise the mail client could never read them). Hence the discrepancy, and the deletion.
This has existed for ages in the form of GNU Screen. (Or Byobu, if you want a variation with bells and whistles.)
I would say that the burden of proof, and accompanying legal defense costs, should rest with those who seek a state-backed monopoly of an idea, rather than with patent "infringers" as it is now.

If it's a legitimate patent, it's likely to hold up, and/or be seen as too tough of a target, and so be seen as a waste of resources to go after.
Awesome. I could use this.
Lavabit founder closed email service to 'protect the privacy' of its users
Have you considered using hunch.com to help with this?
There is also a _.throttle
I bought Synthesia and a decent keyboard a while back for this very reason.

eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxbNtOfM-n0
Also re secret jail time: http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-la...
There were two links - http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-la...
This is great! I'll be using it in the coming weeks!
> I almost think it would be easier for somebody to come up with an entirely different "web application/dynamic document layout" technology stack ...

It was called Flash. Or Java applets.

See history.
Why are people still stupid enough to talk to police without a lawyer present

So when you get pulled over for a speeding ticket, do you refuse to speak, demand to see your lawyer, and plead the fifth?
Everyone who has a chronic condition has heard no shortage of "magic bullets" for treating their condition from strangers, so apologies for being that guy.

I've read in /r/paleo that some have managed to improve auto-immune conditions through a modified paleo diet: http://paleospirit.com/2013/what-is-the-autoimmune-paleo-pro...

Anyway, good luck. Hopefully someday our society views health care as infrastructure rather than entitlement, and persons in your situation can start a business without fear.
Marco estimates an entry price of $3,500.
Any guess what a Retina Display will add to that?
thank you. and thanks to alex too ;)
I heart MEAN Stack
The problem is that, especially in recent years, law enforcement doesn't act in a manner that reflects that idea. They hold on to false positives quite strongly and often ignore evidence contrary to their already determined judgements. When you mix in the significant militarization of law enforcement, you get a very scary worldview.
> If they are talking to you given the time management the job requires, you are already suspicious.

Or they think that you are likely to have evidence of a crime and have no suspicion at all about you. Its pretty hard to investigate any crime if your view of "time management" requires you not to talk to anyone expect suspects.
NodeCloud is great for scalable and custom tailored Nodejs infrastructure - http://nodecloud.io/
Previous discussions on the presentation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6191171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155502
The boring, frustrating answer is that Kickstarter forbids it.
You can just ask them to hand you the speeding ticket?
A littlebit confusing. I still need to set it up correctly, I think. First, C-<left> moves me to a different desktop space here on my Mac. So I didn't play with it much more after that. I should try it out again.
I don't see anyone in this thread saying that that is the archetipal text message sound.
Massachusetts already has much of what PPACA provides as "RomneyCare", a.k.a. the Massachusetts Health Connector and MassHealth. It's exactly what allowed me (as a Type II diabetic) to strike out on my own without much concern.

I pay ~$430/mo (early 30s, single) for a high-deductible plan with low co-pays from a major carrier with no co-insurance. Do I wish my costs were less? Yes. Is it better than having to be someone's employee? Hells yes. Providing this to the entire country isn't the ideal solution for everyone, but it's a big step in the right direction.
> For email, the same thing isn't true, so messages can be decrypted on the server (otherwise the mail client could never read them).

I'm not a crypto guy, so forgive my potential ignorance.

Are you saying that because the crypto is being done on a potentially untrusted client (whether a web interface or third-party email client), that the end-to-end encryption could be compromised?

I realize that e-mail (by protocol) is sent over plaintext, but if the entire content of the e-mail is PGP encrypted, how is that less secure than actual end-to-end encryption?
Employer insurance probably isn't a mega steal, but that's why it's called a benefit, not compensation. It's very nice to have.
Which $1500 PC? This sounds interesting.
Hrm, that's interesting. Thanksgiving was almost certainly too easily to be dumping Sandy Bridge Xeons; they still haven't been replaced. Does the model of Dell still exist?
I'm not sure that CSS is has the "Turing completeness" equivalent for layout that a programming language like Javascript has for computation.

That is to say, it's not possible to create any conceivable layout with CSS alone. It might be possible if the thing spits out Javascript as well.
Just so no one else gets the wrong impression - solar screens don't ruin the view, unless your nose is right up against them, they look like window tinting. Also it isn't just about saving money but also increasing comfort for the same amount of money.
Why use jQuery for this when it can be done with CSS?

http://codepen.io/freshyill/pen/KavfD
Thanks, I missed the first discussion and was inspired to write only by the second discussion.
I'm sorry, but you both don't understand it. The police has training in identifying persons of interest or suspicious looking people. Tourists are more routinely controlled, but I believe that black persons are more often controlled for their passports (because police suspect them of staying illegal in the country, or it's simply racism, idk). I can say that, because I travel a lot, with all types of public transportation. WIth a car you only have ID-Checks at borders, sometimes.
Well, in America we have widespread political and legal
illiteracy as well. I'm not talking about citizens not
reading the Constitution, I'm talking about most people
being unable to paraphrase the Fifth Amendment when asked.
Aside from "plead the fifth" most people in America
probably couldn't tell you what the amendment means. Yes,
it applies to more than just courts. You won't be held to
incriminate yourself, your property can't be unjustly
seized without compensation, you must have due process and
a jury, etc. etc. etc.

The right to a jury trial is not actually present anywhere in the Fifth Amendment. (For criminal cases, it is in the Sixth Amendment, for certain civil cases, it is in the Seventh Amendment.)
Yeah; for this, certainty, the US issue wouldn't be very relevant. Intel charging OEMs up to 3k for the processors will be more of an issue.
This now gives an edge to all the big internet companies that offer messaging services that aren't based on email.
HTML/CSS is generally quite flexible when it comes to operations on text. No surprise since it was its intended purpose to be a format for documents.

Making any layouts and god forbid centering elements has always been a headache for me. Even by looking at the CSS examples provided by the link my first thought is how random they all seem and how ugly they are not to mention difficult to remember and use. There should be a single way to center an element. It should be an obvious operation given how important and common it is.

Some very useful CSS properties might take a lot of code and be hard to implement in native GUI toolkits like floats, overflow, height/width with percents, text wrapping etc. This is a sweet spot where HTML/CSS shines.

I have been playing with QML lately and decided to implement the Dialog (Absolute center within viewport) that pops after visiting the linked page just for comparison:

Here's the dialog equivalent that just fills the entire screen of an application done with QtQuick 2.0 for Desktop.

http://pastebin.com/mnN3Zr6N

Layouting is easily done by anchors. Filling a rectangle to match a parent's container, centering an element inside a parent, etc. Other containers such as Rows, Columns or Grids are also provided. Property bindings are used for centering the dialog even if the viewport changes. Text wrapping is also done explicitly and binding was necessary to limit text width to the ScrollView for it to work.

One big difference compared to CSS is that by looking at the source I can see at glance what the layout structure is and what might be happening with the element.

Another cool thing about QML is that it's as simple as taking the code, creating a new file 'Dialog.qml', adding a few properties, a signal and some functions and we get a reusable standalone component:

http://pastebin.com/CSbxrnK3

that is very convinient to use:

http://pastebin.com/XKnhW4wN

result: http://i.minus.com/iGTQhAxP55bBP.gif (3MB gif)