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The culture that brought us the SS and the Stasi.

Really? Really? With an account that is as old as yours you cannot avoid posting a comment like this? Do you consider that mature? Useful? Reasonable?

I don't. You just disqualified yourself from any meaningful discussion, ever.

My wife treated people with mental issues for some time and I have the utmost respect for people that can handle this stuff.

You, instead, are without protection. You post stuff like this and shout out to the world that you have no clue, that you have no idea what your are talking about, what the topic of this thread is and .. just show that HN really should provide a feature to ignore other people.

Please - go away. You didn't contribute and you're a sad, sad idiot.
Probably worse. They'll often go after family members (siblings, parents, extended family) and their businesses until you comply.
Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (2007)
I wrote an article a year or two ago entitled "Don't Be Evil, or comply with the PATRIOT Act?"

The companies with the ability to move all operations out of US jurisdiction/coercion who don't do so are complicit in all of this.
>I think what happened here is that you overreached; you claimed that chiropractors could prescribe drugs, were corrected, and then scrambled to recover your argument instead of just admitting you were wrong.

It's a good hypothesis, but for the purposes of updating your model, I should inform you that your guess is wrong. This is a position I've given a lot of thought to. I know that a lot of people disagree with it, so I chose chiropractic for my argument, as it would have been a less controversial and more clear cut example - had I not been mistaken about their ability to write prescriptions. That was sloppy of me.

The difference between OMM and Catholicism is that Catholicism does not purport to be medicine and is not part of the medical curriculum. If it were a Pentecostal school and they taught all of real medicine, but also taught faith healing, then I would feel very similarly about that to how I feel about DOs.

Here's a test: ask the DO at your primary care office if he thinks that OMM is a valid medical practice.
This looks brilliant!

I was using hacker news as an example to espouse the benefits of a decent mobile design the other day... another user tried to tell me that Hacker news was perfect for mobile browsing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6171701). I present your work as compelling evidence to the contrary.

In all seriousness though - this is the sort of thing I have been meaning to get around to myself - thank you.
While it is true that seemingly complex phenomena may unfold from interactions between a few simple rules, and that the human brain is also a complex structure composed of repeating basic units, i.e. neurons, by no means we could also conclude that the intelligence housed in our brain is also an emergent phenomena.

Our intelligence could just as well be a complicated mesh of a huge number of 'rules' that have evolved over a long period of time in response to many difficult situations that had threatened the survival of our ancestors. They are also what we call intuition/pre-born knowledge/natural tendencies and reflex responses.

Having said that, we have not ruled out the possibility of intelligence (albeit of a form different than ours) arising as an emergent phenomena from simple rules. But if we were to replicate human intelligence on silicon, I'm more inclined to believe that we'll have to 'manually' encode a huge number of situation-specific rules, e.g. when you see wriggly thing run away.
There is really no media shitstorm about Michael Hastings. It's practically over now. What stays long afterwards is the chilling effect sensed by journalists and would-be-whistleblowers - the fear that by disclosing or reporting on the wrong story, they too might find themselves up in smoke.
I was thinking the same thing. Micro-virtualization for everything, to make it clear that the end-user owns their data.
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Ageed.

Is the OP an experienced developer?

(How many years does he have in a production setting? Would it be worth getting those critical 5 years of experience, despite bouts of boredom?)
Bad memories of those periods are a non-trivial part of why they are surveillance adverse today.
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>It's especially concerning because the propylene glycol helps make them sweet, which makes them attractive for kids and animals to drink.

I hate this argument when used to say why flavored tobacco, alcohol, etc should be banned (I'm not sure that you're making that claim, I'm assuming you are only referring to their use in anti-freeze. However, it's a common trend and is used against e-cigs as well). Adult things should taste bad because if they taste good kids will consume them? I like sweets too. Not everything has to taste like Arby's.
Why stop there? You can probably bully the smaller open source programmers who work on various utilities to backdoor their programs.
Yes, there is a strong parallel between pre-Nazi Germany and current USA. Of course, Americans will not literally follow Nazi ideology.

What we see in America is an increasing merger between industry and government. Finance is the most regulated sector; hence "too big to fail" and all the exploits pulled by big banks. Telecom is almost completely government controlled (through the graning of regulatory monopolies). The government spies on everyone all the time now. This is the fulfillment of Progressivism: regular people are ignorant, but we can fix all social ills through government control. It is also, literally, the fascist model. I sound like an immature teenager for saying that, but I mean it in the full, intellectual sense.

tl;dr the American Progressive movement occurred in parallel, but to a must greater extent, in Weimar Germany. American Neo-conservativism is Progressivism in a right-wing flavor. The modern USA is Weimar Germany all over again.

As the USA's societal ills continue to accelerate (because we're taking anti-corrective action instead of corrective action at every step), the USA will increasingly resemble a command-and-control system like Nazi Germany.
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We'll pop it on Twitter for everyone. Shame we missed that - sorry. Feel free to contact us at any point about events etc
Is the title here misspelled? Ultasonic vs UltRasonic?
So this is the reality. 100% proven that there is utterly NO privacy nor any "legal" defense against the spying of the NSA.

America has NO 4th amendment rights and encryption is now a criminal activity.
The 70GB probably includes attachments, so quite a bit of that number could just be certain users sending large attachments on a regular basis.
It is important to remind people that they _always_ have a choice, and that there will be support for those that make the right choice. So donate.
+1 for "Don't host it yourself, find a better hosting provider".

There are lots of very, very good providers of servers out there. Sign up with one of them.
That's a good argument, I'm a sort of a wierdo, almost always let everything I eat or drink cool down to room temperature first, so it seems hot to me.
They can buy hard drives much faster than the 2000 people who would run such a thing can upload data. It's a nice thought, though.
How in the hell are national security letters constitutional? It's mindboggling to me that they haven't reached the Supreme Court. I don't mean to sound like a hippie or patriotic douche, but it seem rather tyrannical that you aren't even allowed to talk about something that happened to you.
Vertu have been using sapphire for phone displays for quite some time now (at least since 2011).

Of course those are low volume, luxury handsets and if one shatters they probably just replace it, but I don't think 2014 is "too early" for a more widespread sapphire display by any means.
Sounds like Bolivia or Venezuela would probably be a better first stop.
Man, I didn't even know who Dr. Gupta was but I fucking love this guy after what his article did to the public.
There are multiple overreaches.

In this case the government is probably trying to pull a hushmail: getting the service provider to install spying equipment targeted at their users, and then sharing the spy data with the government.

1. The government should not be able to force this kind of spy equipment to be installed.

2. If we had good privacy laws it would be illegal for the company to even willingly share this data without a warrant.
This seems like it just adds another click for gmail/yahoo users? I don't understand. Added another step to the login process and I think I'll have to change around some of my javascript to prevent returning users from "magically" authenticating after Persona gets around to authenticating them.

Weird. Oh well. Can't bitch much with a free service can I?
Trust me, Python is doing very well at Enterprise scale. Here's a taster of what it's about in the below links, which are public information, but the Quartz platform is huge. I wish I was at liberty to discuss it in more depth. If you're keen on Python and willing to work hard, it's worth considering Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/presentation/155/

http://careers.bankofamerica.com/JobDetails.aspx?SearchPage=...
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This is 1000% anecdotal, but I spoke earlier with my niece who loves her iPhone 5. I mentioned that her brother was a big Android fan and she said, 'Oh no, that was before -- now's he's got an iPhone and would never go back.'

I do think (for better or worse) iPhone users are stickier due to the ecosystem whilst Android users are less attached (possibly due to brand and hardware fragmentation).

Though the really crazy and fascinating thing is how the mobile phone industry has become such an incredible economic force and, more trivially, a topic of conversation. Who could've imagined just 20 or 30 years ago most people (within certain demographics at least) would be carrying around $500 or $600 devices wherever they go?

Again anecdotally, my niece (aged 25) is moving and will only get internet service -- no landline (god forbid!) but no cable either. The latter is one really fascinating trend.
I did the same thing. Six months straight. I now haven't been in years.
There was a HN discussion about this two months ago [1]. The general consensus seemed to be that a court would not take the same kind of philosophical and logical approach that most HN types use, and would classify a failure to update the canary as effectively a communication that a NSL has been received. Since the courts only care about the facts that communication is occurring and that the court prohibited it, contempt of court would be the most likely result.

TL;DR: Judges don't philosophise about specific methods for circumventing their intentions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5871541
If Lavabit allowed large attachments, I'd say photos.

122KB is the average. The majority of emails were probably 1-2KB. Then newsletters, around 50KB. Lastly, emails with attached photos, ~5MB.

Probably follows a simple Pareto distribution: 20% of emails comprised 80% of the total storage required.
You would still have to encrypt that though, which reintroduces the problems of key management and authentication/trust. I'm sure that issue is resolvable though, although I would expect that most ISPs simply drop that type of traffic completely as it can only hurt their operations. So you'd also need to find ways to route around ISPs that don't choose to participate in this.
Swiss cheese holes in my education. Do I go back and fill them?
Didn't work so well for me on mobile. Not at all. However it is excellent on my desktop.
It's quite likely however that Lavabit, being a service that focusses on privacy, delivers enough emails directly to the target server over a secure protocol to cause problems for the NSA in this investigation.
No where in that headline does it mention OpenID -- and I have no idea what ClickPass is. Nor was it a persistent announcement; it was just a regular story. Perhaps I didn't even check HN that particular day?

There are many ways they could have notified OpenID users that would have worked -- this wasn't really one of them!
Quite right--but the utility of actually learning WebGL is questionable.
Well, I am not like-minded and I will try to advise on solving your problems, if I may.

I would suggest you two things: embrace imperfection and try, if it is not possible to completely change what you do, at least change the rewards you get from what you are doing.

I have something in mind here, become a startup founder. You will not be connecting pieces that don't fit, but creating something from scratch, the way you want. You will decide where to focus on perfect solutions, but also deciding where you wouldn't bother to have a imperfect fit covered up. Having an interest in the final outcome, in terms of business, not code.

This is the other part that may help you. If you are developing for your business, your goal is about the consequences of the system you are building, not the system itself. I don't know how serious is your aversion to working with computers right now, but maybe just a change of approach to them help you.

And you would have a LOT of work that is not related to computers, you would have to do all those "things that don't scale" and this would provide a lot of different challenges for you.

Good luck!
As developers perhaps the most effective thing we can do from a long-term perspective is baking strong cryptography in to all of the products we create, and opting for open source whenever possible. (After all, open source is the only way we can guarantee that the software we're using really doesn't snoop on us.)

If crypto were easier to use and presented as a default, more regular people would wind up using it and we'd slowly start stymieing the NSA and similar organizations.

Playing politics and calling your congressman isn't going to work in the long term, as you said. We might get one or two laws changed in the short term, but things can change back in the scale of decades and we could be even worse off. The only real solution is to make it mathematically impossible for agencies to read our communications now and in the future.
This is terrible, I'm thinking about migrating my personal stuff out of Digital Ocean to some VPS host under the Netherlands legislation or other... any suggestions?
You put your data into a server owned by someone else. Game over.

The real solution, I think, eventually incorporates HSMs. There have been reports of EU authorities seizing racks if servers while keeping them powered up for forensic analysis (presumably key recovery out of running RAM).
Yup, that's the guy: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/mafia_boss_sec...
This may have something to do with it: http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/so-apparently-edward-snowden-use...

And he references his troubles over the past six weeks, which would be pretty much perfect timing with this.
Huh - it does work, as you say. I guess I misremembered.

EDIT: Now I remember my use case.

My email is actually myname+randomstring+website@otherdomain.com, and so I want to sign in with the same randomstring every time. Previously when signing in to Persona with my Gmail email address it would suggest all alternatives, and I'd choose the appropriate one. Now it logs in with Gmail directly instead.

Of course, this is such an edge case that it's probably not worth doing anything about. And I can simply sign into Persona with myname@otherdomain.com for the previous functionality.
I didn't say they were inherently bad, but they can be. They often keep people thinking in old ways.
I'd colocate if you have a proven/reliable revenue stream, predictable growth, you anticipate more than 6-RUs worth of servers, or need very high speced servers (e.g. 192GB of RAM in one box). You can build entire servers for the cost of one month of PaaS/SaaS in many situations. There is a whole strategy that addresses every single issue that has been brought up (e.g. hardware failing, sys admin, being on call).

Feel free to connect. I can speak to how I do it with about ~1.25 racks worth of servers for my company for ~5 years now. I've also done it for MUCH larger international companies. No, I am not trying to sell you something :)
Interesting thread, thanks for sharing. Huge difference between page 5 (when people still believe it's just a badly-handled storage system problem) and afterwards (when the true story is revealed).
Everyone you converse with uses gmail.
> Kudos for standing up for his users,

Where did you get this one from? I think its a bit of a stretch to say he is "standing up to his users". I would rather say he is standing up against the GOV, and that's nice for a change, but we have no idea what has happened with all the emails residing on their servers.

Knowing just a bit that I know how the us gov operates, I am pretty sure he was given two options at exact the same time: either you accept our black box, OR you will not. If you not, then you are not allowed to delete or alter any messages on your servers. Given the business lavabit was in, I am sure Feds will punish him to the extends of the law (or more) if he decides to "stand up to his users" and delete content of their mailboxes.
This presumes that the host has an actual warrant filed against them. I assume that if the feds want data from a service which is ultimately hosted on Amazon they'll just go straight to Amazon.
It has implications for certificate pinning (like that used in Chrome) if you can only pin to CAs that operate in a single regulatory domain.
I use Firefox... and I don't think I wan't to be logged into multiple accounts - it's just that now Persona requires it.
Yeah I agree with you. It is utterly implausible that he was not previously aware of every last thing he mentioned in the article. There's just no way. Oops, I ignored all of this evidence and all the worldwide recommendations of doctors prescribing it to patience this whole time?

No, of course not. He knew full well - probably on his initial pass of the data a decade ago or whatever if he's at all competent - of all the things he "discovered" in this article.

He merely sacrificed the health and comfort all of those people who could have benefited until now, in order to further his career.
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Why did you not make backups?
Average, not median. A thousand 50KB email are easily offset by a few 30MB email with max size attachments. 122KB average isn't unusual.
You never know where those fixed-service-percentage money go to.

I've visited quite a few 10% "service" restaurants and I often leave a small tip on top of that because I'm entirely not sure whether waiters see any money from that "service".

The whole scheme is ridiculous: If you pay 18% for service, what are you paying the rest of 100% for? It doesn't make much sense. Just name your final price.
And what happen if the goal is not reached? My money gone?
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Would anyone actually buy unfinished projects? I'd rather build my own dream than someone else's.
I know what you mean. Nevertheless, there are USB controllers which feel like the real thing. Mupen64plus behaves just like the original console so this might be a start. Here are some memory locations I found: https://sites.google.com/site/jamesskingdom/Home/video-game-...
They'd probably put him next to a child molester who is server less time just to complete the circle of irony.
He's not the one who pointed it out; you did. ;)
Hey! We're actually running ZFS on FreeBSD: the HybridCluster stack is built on FreeBSD jails. We're looking closely at ZFS on Linux though - when we started work on our HA stack ZoL wasn't nearly ready, but now it's looking promising - so we're going to be working with Brian Behlendorf on that. If/when we do a Linux port of HybridCluster, we'll be looking at using Docker for the container part, so HybridCluster could be stateful HA Docker with live migration before too long ;-)

In other news, we're gonna be hosting open-zfs.org on behalf of Brian, Delphix, Joyent and all the other community contributors. Keep an eye out for that, we'll be announcing it on HN as soon as it's ready.
Snowden isn't a general purpose tool. As far as Russia is concerned, he presents no threat to them; it's not like they are going to let him pursue a career in the FSB.

This service however is a general purpose tool. It would attract the attention of the FSB immediately.
Did you respond to the right comment? He said the goal was not security, it was political change.
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from what I know you never give your private key away, they just sign your public one. so that would be irrelevant.
I don't want to sidetrack that thread as it was about Clojure. Just a quick correction: Java has no type inference, higher order functions, coroutines, implicits (it has some standard implicit conversions but not implicit conversions that can be added by the user) and no Turing complete type system.

And of course: Using a statically typed language is no excuse to not write unit tests. Unit tests serve as a safety net checking if the behavior of the implemented unit is (and stays) correct. As a side effect this will also find all type errors a compiler will find. I have programmed a lot in Java and also in dynamic programming languages and in my opinion type errors just don't happen often enough to justify the additional amount of work and complexity that comes with static type systems. However I'd agree that if you want to get the best possible performance you probably need a statically typed language as the compiler can then optimize the generated code better.
Or donning my tin foil hat, Monsanto is preparing the PR for its GM Cannabis
We are pretty much forced to set this high bar because of the rate at which organizations large and small are adopting Docker. We will do everything we can to live up to the expectations!
I have been wondering the same thing. They very clearly abridge on one's freedom of speech, so if they have been tested in the courts at all (?) then some mental & legal gymnastics were no doubt required to justify them, probably invoking analogies about "tradeoffs" of dubious validity in the justification.

If someone knows of any court precedents here, I'd genuinely be interested in hearing & reading about it.
Funny how the Fourth amendment still applies to the primary form of communication we don't use.
>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'm sure he would go to Unicornlandia if he knew how to get there. And, yeah, it is pretty silly to ask him to expose himself by travelling through places where the US arguably has enough control to cause his detainment/extradition.

>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).

I don't really care what symbolic gestures he makes when he may be under duress.

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

It's arguably true! A person has the right to asylum from political persecution. Only a few other countries have the willingness to oppose the US. We both know that Russia's motives probably aren't rooted in an altruistic commitment to human rights, but as I have said before Snowden isn't in a position to look gift horses in their mouths.

>We're going to 100% agree twice today! Wonderful progress. :)

Let's not make it a habit. If we both agree all the time, that means one of us is redundant!
Actually, open source provides plausible deniability where a programmer would be able to provide information about a backdoor to the community anonymously.