skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sigh … I already have email clients that do PGP on my email that is hosted on Someone Else's Computer. It doesn't seem like Mailpile moves me a single step away from the dragnet.

When I saw the "pagekite" username on github, I immediately hoped for plug-and-play self-hosted IMAP/SMTP. Here is what I envisioned in the blissfully ignorant moments until I read what the project was actually about:

The user gets to download/buy a USB stick image / raspberry pi SD image. After plugging it into a pi or other box and turning that on, user types in the URL "mailpile" on their laptop web browser and on first run, user gets asked by web app to plug in a big harddrive for storing email on[1]. The box runs some IMAP server (dovecot?), connected to some MTA that does TLS (postfix?). The user has paid for an already setup domain name, kept in sync with the IP address of that box (which runs a dyndns-like daemon), user also gets access to some server that relays SMTP without breaking TLS (since most mail servers will not accept SMTP from just any dynamic IP). So on first run, the user also has to enter the credentials for the service they paid for, these credentials are used to let the box get its SSL key signed by the CA, tell the dyndns service that this box gets to update this domain name etc.

Now if two users run this, they don't even need PGP to communicate in an encrypted way, it looks just like any other sent email. Nor can anyone requisition their mail without breaking into their house.

So the paid service would be to get a dyndns-updatable domain name with SSL, and access to some server that relays SMTP. The service would have to dole out domain names and either be a CA itself, or be able to intermediate in the SSL key signing process.

[1] For bonus points, dejadup runs there and user gets to say "send encrypted backups to dropbox/some ssh account/some other USB drive"
Mixed Active Content is now blocked by default in Firefox >= 23

https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2013/04/10/mixed-content-bloc...
I am mostly a systems dev but I have written my share of websites. They are all built with just jQuery. Can someone englighten me the need for data bindings and all these frameworks?

For example, say, github.com. Where in that website would I use data bindings? Or say gmail for that matter. The idea of bindings is not alien to me but I just fail to appreciate why bindings are useful for most websites.

(I do understand backbone.js but I just feel I can write what I want in a observer/listener pattern in 20 mins instead of bothering to learn all intricacies of a framework)
Got it. Good catch, thanks! We put the site together pretty quickly, so left the images at their original, slower server. I need to move them to gh-pages and check performance again.
Sure, I've never had to sign one (for any employer).
My understanding (and really, I was just a curious observer occasionally in irc at the time) is that the anons would submit the information anonymously, then the FBI would pass it on to LEAs in the appropriate countries or use the anonymous tip to get a search warrant in the US. I doubt anything grabbed by Anon would ever be used directly in court.

As for the timing, you may well be right. I simply remember Freedom Hosting being a target back in the day. While this case may not have anything to do with Op Darknet, it did ring some bells for me and arouse my suspicions of Op Darknet in general.
Twitter Updates rules, adds 'report abuse' button, staff to address threats
> They certainly know that sooner or later things risk coming to light.

General Michael Hayden, former head of NSA, said essentially that on Face the Nation a few weeks ago:

One of the results of the Snowden leaks is that it
launched a national debate about the balance between
privacy and security.

I'm convinced the more the American people know exactly
what it is we are doing in this balance between privacy
and security -- the more they know -- the more comfortable
they will feel.

So frankly I think we ought to be doing a bit more to
explain what it is we're doing, why, and the very tight
safeguards under which we are operating.

...

Here's how I do the math. In an ideal world, I would
keep all of this secret because any of it that I make
public slices some of my operational advantage away from
me.

But here's what I've learned heading up both NSA and CIA.
You may be able to do one thing one-off based upon narrow
legalness and the President's authorization, but in
democracies like ours don't get to do something over a
long period of time without national consensus.

So I'm willing to shave points off of my operational
effectiveness in order to make the American people a bit
more comfortable about what it is we're doing; otherwise,
the American people won't let us do it in the first place.

CBS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpfwjI9Eqy4
Ruby. Idiomatic syntax combined with an object model that makes sense.
While this isn't really the place to explain it. What takes you 20 minutes with observer listener pattern takes less than 1 in angular (can't speak for ember). It is life changing if you've always hand rolled your own JS.

There is not too much to either of these frameworks. A solid day and you'll be productive. There are many layers to becoming an expert, but (at least with angular) you can just use the bits you know, and refactor as you learn more.

i.e. You don't have to know anything about what "directives" are to build an app
This is an excellent basic strategy. I've applied it to my own work; obviously avoiding government or defense contracting work is a good first step, cutting out Wall St. proper and stock/bond/asset trading is likely a prime second candidate.

To call this position as "non-participation" or "categorical rejection" is intellectually dishonest, and to say this stance is some kind of blanket protection from future ethical considerations is borderline trolling.
IPredator - VPN proxy to circumvent Internet censors
DevOps for a public company with SaaS cloud offerings.

iTerm

ssh to machines

chef/knife - look at config/status/recipes of servers

vi - edit stuff, esp. recipes or scripts (wish I learned emacs, never have)

scripts in bash/perl/python/ruby

graphite - store data

logstash - store logs, sort logs, quantify logs, send log stats and metrics to graphite

jenkins - continuos integration, take dev code, run through tests, test deployment

postgres - tuning, fighting, debugging, profiling

redis - checking

sensu/nagios - monitoring

lots of good fun!
Have your objects update from a form fields without having to select each element, assign it's inputted value to your JS object.

Turns 50 lines (if you're lucky) of JS into 0. (with about 10 characters more markup).
AWS predominantly doesn't use ECC RAM either.
Nope.

See Monster Cable v. everyone that uses 'Monster' in their company name
Yes. Don't most funded startups have 401Ks?
Oh oops. I left out the link to the sample in my last post: http://jsfiddle.net/BE6bR/1

Try it out =)
throwingaway78's account is banned, but they posted an interesting comment. Here it is for non-showdead readers: http://content.screencast.com/users/shawnpresser/folders/Jin...

They are apparently a pedophile, and they give an account of what life is like for a pedophile and on darknets. They also assert that there were little to no rapists / people selling CP on Freedom Hosting.

Here's a pastebin of his comment for screen readers: http://pastebin.com/9uuQK4ME
>Because I would argue that sharing of child pornography encourages people to create it.

Suppose that's true. Does that mean that sharing of child pornography increases the incidence of child abuse itself? I would argue probably not, or at least that the increase is fairly small compared to the resources that go into combating it. Public forums do encourage sharing, but that doesn't mean that what's being shared wouldn't have been done in the absence of the forum. It just wouldn't have been shared.

The main questions that need to be answered are these:

1. Does viewing child pornography actually encourage child abuse?

2. Does viewing child pornography discourage child abuse by giving pedophiles a sexual outlet that doesn't involve harming additional children.

3. How much more does it cost to catch and prosecute someone who produces CP than someone who merely views it?

It seems likely to me that, at best, we're wasting a lot of money reducing a factor that has a small negative impact on actual child welfare (people who view child pornography), when that money would be better directed at a factor that has a much larger negative impact (people who abuse children). At worst, we may be spending money going after a part of the problem which actually mitigates harm.

Whether or not it is the latter is unfortunately a very difficult question to answer. Most common wisdom about "sexual repression" and "outlets" is pretty much without scientific basis, as is the opposite wisdom that pornography encourages sexual behavior. The one correlation that can be drawn is that the results of studies on these matters tend to align strongly with the politics of their authors.

But in any case, yes I think it's safe to say that the focus specifically on pornography is wasted effort.
I'm a little disappointed. When I noticed the play icon on the tab I rejoiced and thought that was an actual control for pausing/resuming on the tab.

Sadly that wasn't the case.
> I'm curious as to how the hell Intel can charge huge license fees on a pci express passthrough port.

They aren't - they charge the fees for Thunderbolt. You can't claim something supports Thunderbolt without paying licensing fees.

> it doesn't sound like Lightning Bolt is similar

You can draw a venn diagram and find that all three have an overlap. A desire for fewer cables, to be able to connect lots of stuff, and bang for the buck. Display, storage, peripherals etc. Outside of the venn diagram, Thunderbolt does have low latency, but most don't need or want to pay for it. If Thunderbolt support was as pervasive and cheap as USB, it would be a different conversation.
Why You Should Never Check-in at Home on Facebook
It looks great. I wonder, with availability of project templates 1.4 onwards, how would this be seen.
Because culturally and instinctually for any parent it pushes all of the right buttons.
Like any other content industry, exploitative pornography (which includes child pornography, rape and forced bestiality pornography, hidden-camera pornography at brothels or stuck in toilets, etc.) has both a primary market and a secondary market. (I'm going to speak in these economic terms in the rest of this, because it's kind of disgusting to be more concrete.)

The original producers are part of the primary market, and only pay attention to the consumers that participate in the primary market. The secondary market--where open sharing of "used" content goes on--is ignored by the primary market.

The primary-market producers for exploitative pornography consist mainly of two types: individuals who film their own acts of exploitation to use as currency in trade for the films of exploitation-acts of others; and professionals, usually members of a crime syndicate that has humman trafficking business, who sell their content on the black market in less reputable countries. In both of these cases, the produced works are scarce goods: as few people will see them as can be managed.

Leaks to the secondary market are bad for the producers in the primary market; not only do they increase supply for the consumers in the primary market (and thereby drive down demand), but they also make it much more likely that law-enforcement will get their hands on the offending media, and be able to analyze it for clues to the individual or group's whereabouts, or just as proof in a trial. Thus, the producers in the primary market tend to enforce a loan-shark-like "you break my trust, I break your knuckles" policy on the redistribution of their content.

The incentives are basically just entirely missing for anyone in the primary market to specifically release content to the secondary market. Anyone who "just wants the attention" and releases multiple videos will soon be tracked down and arrested.

Picture it like someone who is manufacturing some form of illegal-but-sought-after drug, like MDMA. Have you ever heard of someone who makes MDMA--not a redistributor, but an originator--giving away large quantities of it to people they don't know, just for the attention? That's just throwing away your assets, your safety, and your profitable business all at the same time, isn't it?
You don't have to reminisce about delphi as if it is long gone. Delphi still exists, and it's still being actively developed. They now have a set of opengl-powered ui controls called firemonkey so you can use the same components and code to build native apps with hardware-accelerated ui for windows, mac and ios, with android support right around the corner.

It is a pity that the perception of delphi is that it is yesteryear's technology, because in my opinion it is still the absolute best way to build windows native apps, better than microsoft's own tools, and technologically they are really onto something with firemonkey on top of their data binding layer (which does two-way data binding in a more powerful way than any of the web frameworks).

See this example of building an app in delphi xe4: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE4/en/Tutorial:_Us...

Note that i'm still doing web development though, because the era of the desktop is fading for the sort of software i'm making. I'm just aware that as good as frameworks like angular and ember are, they have a way still to go.
Still an alternative to nutch and friends
Second, merely distributing images doesn't directly harm anyone or conclusively promote harm.

Debateable. It's apparently a significant burden upon those who are depicted in such images, which are traded for years after the abuse occurred.

Fourth, animated simulations could be tolerable substitutes.

I believe there is some research to this effect, but can't provide a reference offhand. This would obviously be preferable to images of real people being abused, however long ago.
>CSA is quite honestly the most insane and awful aspect of Western society bar none

I'm not sure why you're singling out Western society. Erotic child-adult relationships seem to have been fairly common throughout history and throughout the world. Both in ancient Greece and feudal Japan, pederasty was common and accepted. Muhammad's youngest wife was nine years old when he consummated their marriage, and this wasn't really seen as notable until the 20th century.

The psychological impact on children notwithstanding, the stigmatization of pedophilia seems to be a pretty modern phenomenon.
There is a huge difference between a pension and a 401k. If my understanding is correct, an employer only contributes to an employee's 401k while they are working. There is no future obligation to the employee.

An employer who offers a pension effectively says, "if you work for me x years, I will continue to pay you y salary for the rest of your life."
Is USB 3.1 going to get faster charging for mobile devices, too? That should be one of their priorities.
I question the slide regarding trade secrets:

* the names are misspelled: first person is Sergey Aleynikov (not alinikov) and second person is Samarth Agarwal (not agrawal)

* in each circumstance, there was actual trade secret theft. That part is clear. The slide itself seems to suggest something beyond that, but they essentially took code that they wrote for their employer (and they signed contracts clearly saying that it belongs to the employers)
I don't think you see much about Knockout around here because it comes from the ASP.NET MVC world. It's a nice lib, regardless. I would not describe it as being similar to Angular or Ember at all, though.
What's wrong with "man date" ? ;)
Except of course if you are using Windows in which case manpages are a no-no.
If you're lucky you'll get 50% "hacker" threads. Most are political or fanboy threads.
Veto? Pff. The best part of being prez is pardoning your friends! (And in Clinton's case, brother).

Here's starting at Johnson, great reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_gran...
Bradley Manning case stretches credibility of US computer fraud law
Does anyone know what ever happened to Matt Wells' EventGuru.com project?
Not in the same way. It's written in the author's experimental objc based scripting language.
Probably they were told it was for the greater good, misled into creating a surveillance tool.
A pitty that the list is getting more and more English-centered towards the end. Contemporary literature has so much variety to offer, it is a pitty to ignore it.
Thanks for the tip! I normally use instapaper to read stuff offline, but some things are easier to read on the spot.

I wonder if printerfriendly can also help in combination with instapaper - some pages, e.g. paul graham's blog (and others) are not converted properly to epub on instapaper for some strange reason. Will give it a try.
It is not the NSA and endgame has no relevance at all.
Excuse the naive question, I just woke up and this is what went through my mind:

How do I change Playdoh's rendering to AngularJS, it's backend to NodeJS, to be used on top of CoreOS (http://coreos.com/blog/coreos-vagrant-images/) since it also uses Vagrant? A full stack like the MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS [http://mean.io/]) with an interachangele database. The point is to be production ready. Can somone do a writeup like: (https://medium.com/code-adventures/438bce155dcb) with proper yeoman integration.

Someone who's altruistic (thanks for the new word HN) can launch a bitcoin crowdfunder (https://bitcoinstarter.com/) or an indiegogo / kickstarter but this definitely needs to happen. Especially NoFlo supporting it. This will help a lot of visual learners and the k-12 demographic.

Edit: Is this considered spam here or what because I got downvoted.
Actually I take it back! Ms. isn't short for "Miss". Miss (no period) used to be the default title for a woman, but now it's Ms. (pronounced as you say), and like Mrs. & Miss, derives from Mistress.

Good reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss#Use_as_a_title_.28honorifi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms.
Even comparing Backbone (by itself) to these two is futile. It's thin, doesn't prescribe much, and doesn't even promise to offer what Emb/Ang do, so to compare them is unfair to all involved IMHO.

I'm reluctant to try something big with Angular because of its insistence on dirty checking, which just ends up being an annoyingly leaky abstraction half the time (see $timeout, for example).
The article is indeed very confusing about the charges aginst that person. Is he directly actively involved in child porn or is he only the owner of a tor hosting site ?
I signed them when I was younger, but have been able to avoid them since a couple of years. In my opinion, the law should be enough in most cases.

Recently I was offered a good and well-paying job. Late in the recruitment phase there was this far-reaching NDA I would have to sign. I asked to be given two days to read and evaluate it, which apparently labeled me as someone very strange, I should just flip through it in 10 seconds and sign like everybody else.

Two days later when I questioned their HR/Legal about some of the clauses they got very uncomfortable, and tried to avoid making a big deal out of them, saying it was "standard" and "at this site, they had never taken anyone to court based on it".

I didn't sign, and hence they could no longer offer me the job. Oh well, their loss, they would have to do without the value I could provide to their business.
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So your implication is that going after child pornography is a wasted effort?
The article linked earlier in this thread concludes: "after adjustment for response rates and definitions, the prevalence of child sexual abuse was not found to vary significantly over the three decades reviewed".

If that conclusion is indeed correct, then apparently our efforts to put a halt to it haven't worked. There are then two possible conclusions:

1) We haven't done enough yet. Doubling the available budget will improve the situation.

2) Our current methods are pointless. No amount of effort will do the trick, and going after child porn is indeed a wasted effort.

Personally, I think it's a combination of the two. The advent of the internet has made sharing illegal content orders of magnitude easier. Even if our efforts at curtailing child porn are effective, those efforts have largely been outpaced by technological development. In this it's similar to general internet piracy.

On the other hand, it is questionable whether going after child pornography is the right way to combat child sexual abuse at all. The jury is still out on the question whether watching porn increases one's likelihood of committing sexual assault, though recent studies seem to conclude this is not the case, even for violent porn, and that there might even be an inverse relation.[0]

If that is indeed the case, then child pornography is not a trigger for child sexual abuse, merely a result thereof. Then going after child porn is justified to prevent the abuse of the children involved, but no more important than preventing the abuse of children whose abuse is not recorded and distributed: we should be focusing on preventing child abuse altogether, and place less emphasis on whether there's a camera present or not.

[edit] In my comment, I implicitly assume that (violent) legal pornography is to sexual abuse as child porn is to child sexual abuse. That may not be entirely accurate. See derefr's post[1], which discusses some of the differences in economic incentives between the creation and distribution of normal porn and those of child porn.

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[0] http://www.tamiu.edu/~cferguson/pornography.pdf

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155015
Yeah they all try to infer meaning from html structure but none can be perfect. I switch from printfriendly, readability or simply disabling css in firefox.
Anyone knows how far this 'basically external PCIe' actually goes? If it's really PCIe, does this mean I can get any of my current PCIe cards, solder a TB cable onto them and use them as such provided I have proper drivers?
This has already been discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5463888 from http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/03/darkened-...

I wish we could go lighter on nighttime light pollution.
Really wish it had areas too, so we can get a feel for how big they are.
San Francisco's Privately-Owned Public Open Spaces
"The place of choice is an awful forum called WebHosting Talk."

I do not get that quote.

I have been a WHT member for years and in that time found dozens of excellent server and collocation providers.
I fail to see how charging would be a priority of a protocol essentially designed for data transfer. I mean, it's a nice idea and there's enough consumers that would benefit from it but imo they'd better focus on the communication part of things instead of cranking up the amount of mA it should be able to deliver.
Obama Administration Vetoes Apple Product Ban