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karolist got it right. Had you made two posts I wouldn't have complained and probably upvoted both. You hoped people would feel grateful to HN, and upvote your combined thank hn/show my product-post just as the last "thank you hn" post reached about ~150 points and would have driven thousands of leads for you. That's insincere and you deserved to be called out for it.
In Norway, we have BankID as well (works well on mac/chrome, though), but we also have a choice to use non-java MinID ("MyID") for logging in to do taxes/healthcare/education/etc. Signing electronically is still only BankID and java, as far as I know.

From a convenience-viewpoint, I think it works quite well, but I don't know how secure it is if an adversary is determined enough.
It's basically (birth number) + (personal password) + (either a key sent to your phone or a randomly chosen PIN from a paper you've been sent through regular mail)
PRISM works because data moves through US servers. That’s also why it could fail
It ain't over 'till it's over. Shuttleworth won't "close the gap", but there are plenty of other wealthy people who might really, really want this to succeed. I'm still hopeful.
"We’ll choose the fastest available multi-core processor, at least 4GB of RAM and a massive 128GB of storage."

My point is that smartphones today would still be a bit sluggish when used for typical desktop tasks. While basic browsing would be OK, I want to be able open thirty tabs simultaneously like I do on my desktop. And (in my case) run a compiler. Etc.
I appreciate your frustration, but I think you may be misunderstanding the security impact of browsers allowing top navigation. Either way, an exploit can still be launched from within the nested browsing context (be it a plugin or HTML frame). So, the risk here is that some of the content (no matter how deeply nested) is being served from the same location as known malware. And the risk is the same regardless of whether or not the nested context can navigate top.
Indeed! I saw this project yesterday and started wondering how I could get it into an Angular app. Thanks for saving me the trouble!
What happens instead of minor parties is that you get intra-party factions, which the party leader must then try to string into a coalition. So it's not completely as bad as it sounds, even in the U.S.
> they are either referring to medical products

Very few of these products are prescription only or even pharmacy only products. It is possible to persuade companies to sell to individuals. To answer your question - Ensure brand includes complete meal replacement products; the Fortisip range also includes suitable products. There are a bunch of others but these are easiest to obtain.

Most companies are very careful about selling these products. Some people think that's a good thing.
I'm sorry, but this is crazy science.

Looking at kilojoules and efficiency of energy, a bicycle is much more efficient on the order of hundreds, just looking at mechanical resistance and the energy needed to get the vehicle moving.

Also, while competitive/fast cycling requires large amounts of food to sustain, the extra fuel needed to commute by bike doesn't require much more than an extra handful of almonds or in my case, an extra beer in the evening.

The human body gets more efficient at a given exercise over time –– that's why calories-in/calories-out is never an equal proposition in a trained athlete (and regular bike commuting is in some ways "training.")

If you break it down into prices, bike commuting might cost an extra $1-$2 in food per day. OK, fine. However, that mitigates the $3-4 in fuel cost for mileage over a 20 mile commute. Maintenance costs on a bike are negligible compared to a car: $100 in chains, cassettes and brake pads annually vs. the $1,000-2,000 in usual car maintenance costs per year (PLUS, repairs).

As for environmental costs: yes a bike requires carbon to build and transport across the Pacific. But the heavy huffing-and-puffing C02 contributions of a cyclist is negligible to that of a car.
Let's bring back the clipper chip while we are at it.
The US government spying on citizens is not new at all. It has happened for as long as our nation has been one.

It may be more insidious now because the technology to aggregate spying on "we the people" is available. Welcome to the truly post-privacy era.

Furthermore, the average person is not outraged by this. Cue the shock and awe for one to ten minutes after the biggest breaking stories about it and after that, for the common (wo)man, its all yawns.

Plus, it is quite a dilemma. How does the government protect against terrorism while trying to protect the citizens' privacy when a citizen, or anyone moving among us citizens, could be a terrorist or sympathizer?

The intent is not bad but what could come of this kind of stealthy access is bad if it falls into the wrong hands or becomes guided by ill-intent.
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> Why is Google so silent now?

Because they are legally required to be silent.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732394990457853...
Someone has to be able to sudo on the box and administer the internal controls. It's pretty hard to audit that person.
"I had to LOL at the claim you need to live in the Bay Area to learn how to program, or somehow Khan Academy does IP blocking so only bay area folks can watch."

I didn't say or imply either of those things, so I apologize if I wasn't clear. Rather, I'm suggesting that such sites have a lot of potential to make a serious impact in areas where people are most in need of skills.

I did come across oil field roustabouts in my Googling, and if that's the primary definition of the term as implied in this article, I stand corrected.

"selecting a job you don't personally want doesn't make someone less of a person anyway."

Again, I'm not sure where you're reading this into what I wrote. In no way whatsoever did I say, or even suggest that.

My personal policy is that, if someone's misinterpreting me, it's probably my bad. I probably wasn't clear enough. But honestly, I think you're reading a lot into my post that simply wasn't intended and/or wasn't there.
How about actually clicking the links in those search results. Nothing in the first few pages even attempts to provide a food replacement. None of them provide 100% of known essential nutrients. You will develop a vitamin deficiency consuming any of those exclusively. That is in no way accomplishing what soylent claims to do.
Sure, but why isn't all data encrypted at rest? And access to the keys heavily logged? There are ways to allow sysadmins access to backup, and repair file systems, and yet still not have any access to the (plaintext) data stored on those systems. Sure, eventually the key server (whether it's Kerberos style or X509 certificate style) is going to be something where a single trusted individual can do great harm (if by no other means than by checking in some obfuscated code that introduces a bug that releases keys, and then gets this past the code review process). But you can limit the damage that can be done by "thousands of sysadmins".

It sounds like there are cloud services providers that are doing a better job at this today than the NSA. And we're supposed to trust them with their audit controls?

P.S. My undergraduate thesis in 1990 designed a symmetric key system that would allow data at rest to be encrypted, such that access could be controlled (and logged) via single key server system in which you invested all of your trust. This is not rocket science...
I also agree. The cue on the colored buttons is nowhere near noticeable enough.
Darn! How I hate those me-too posts :)

Another very happy N900 owner here, with a brand new N9 in reserve if that one croaks.

Even though there's hardly any new software available (which I knew when I bought it) it's probably the best phone I ever owned.

I didn't (yet) sign up for Sailfish, but I'm very interested what will come out of this project.
So, You've Started an MLM Business...
The Java implementation of BankID hasn't been used for years on any of the sites I use. At least on the Mac, Nexus Personal is used for storing certificates and has a plugin for all major browsers. There is even an app for iOS, and it works really well in my opinion.
That's weird. I'll be looking into it.
If FISA makes it illegal to discuss who is getting threatened via secret court orders, how would you remotely know if there are or aren't any chilling affects?

This is an important part of this argument. When we make it illegal to discuss the crime, the warrant, and have secret court proceedings, you can't just sit there on your high horse and tell us there is no abuse. You are not allowed to know of any abuse.
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You really need to read up on correlation vs. causation.
Hey folks, OP here, would love your input on what we can do better with this site!
What we found most surprising was the growth rate - 43%. If this keeps up all ads will be blocked by 2018!
Of course, this won't happen. But it looks like things are set to get a lot worse for publishers before they get better.
7 Key Startup Principles for Keeping Up With Change
Hehe, I was in the same situation and dedicated my night to replicate it into a Angular provider.
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Dogs are not highly intelligent omnivores with average lives of 60+ years.
Quite a high percentage of the people in the world with internet access live under governments with poor human rights records, too.
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Yeah I guess this is why app stores never took off, with their Draconian 30%-off-the-top fee model.
>the rational response for a non-subject-matter-expert member of the public is deep skepticism

And the response in question is not deep skepticism, but equally non-scientific and inaccurate nonsense. "Soylent will kill you because you need the magic spirits of whole foods!" is not skepticism, it is bullshit.
> Remember, there is a difference between not auditing access to their internal fileservers that they keep their PowerPoints on, and not auditing access to their wiretap data.

This will clearly be NSA's response -- whether it's true or not -- but Snowden didn't just take random PowerPoints and internal training docs. If I'm not mistaken, he also took copies of FISA court documents and other highly classified materials that were never intended to be shared among NSA staff.

I truly believe the lack of audits for these materials has destroyed NSA's credibility across the board:

1. We know that NSA hires/contracts incredibly smart and technically talented individuals who are experts at breaking into systems and avoiding detection.

2. The only way for NSA to provide reasonable controls in this environment is to create a culture of monitoring and accountability, and design all their systems from the ground up with auditing and security in mind.

3. But apparently they didn't do #2 (or never figured out how to enforce this for sysadmins), because Snowden repeatedly accessed restricted and highly classified material without an audit trail.

I don't see how they can credibly admit a Snowden sized failure but still ask us to trust them with our personal data.
The USPS contract is being led to have a contractor implement a solution compliant with Federal guidelines on authentication, though. The ideal is certainly that you'd eventually be able to use this same system to sign-on to other Federal government citizen-facing portals, if I'm understanding the article correctly.
You've mistaken me for someone else.

Corporations hold more influence with Congress than voters. Google has enormous power, but it lives and dies by its users. If we hold Google accountable to the point it has to act, its lead could trigger a movement among the Internet giants, and that's a mighty big lever.
I'm pretty sure the castle doctrine applies in most states?

Hell, 'stand your ground' applies in a decent plurality of states these days.
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NSA has Access to 75% of US Web Traffic
Are you getting feedback from customers abandoning your page?
wow, thanks for Vrapper... this is great!
I wonder how much interest Indiegogo are making right now? Do they share that with Canonical?
Well, has anything really changed? With the exception of a few small companies shutting down to "stick it to the man", what honestly has changed? No one has been removed from office and no revolution has started. We all sit here and watch as it happens.
> I'm glad that I'm not 'crazy' anymore.

Someone called me 'crazy' today for mentioning the Guardian hard drive story. I wonder.... how many people have blinders on :-(

The thing is I am not convinced the technology is actually good enough to make sense of what they get. They have to decide to look at someone first. This means that it is a way to discredit and jail or worse people who become sufficiently inconvenient to the powers that be.
This is the time when politicians pay back their masters, before the next election gears up. This gives time between pissing people off and then having to convince them to vote for more of the same.
Debt makes the world economy go round, didn't you know?
Having witnessed a party going from nothing [1] to becoming part of the coalition and the biggest party in the polls [2] in under a decade I'd beg to differ.

That's not even taking into account the influence tiny parties can have merely by virtue of having a seat at the table and engaging in the discussions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Freedom
[2] http://www.powned.tv/nieuws/politiek/2013/08/peiling_coaliti...
roundcube is a very good webmail client nowadays
Oh, yay, security with Java! That's something you definitely want installed.

>> According to the recently [Dec 2012] published Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2012, Oracle Java was the most frequently exploited software by cybercriminals during the year, with Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player ranking in the second and third places, respectively.

http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2012/Oracle_Java_s...
The battery makes a big difference. Since it's just a helper on the regular Prius, it doesn't have to be all that powerful, and I think it's only rated for something like 30-35hp. On the plugin, it needs to be able to drive the car on its own in a reasonable fashion, so it's much more powerful, as well as the obvious thing of having a higher capacity.

Driving my Prius v, I'm battery-only basically when cruising on surface streets, sitting idle, or maneuvering around small, slow residential streets. And maybe, maybe if I'm accelerating away from a stop on a decent downhill slope with nobody behind me.
It's not impossible. The low tech proof that it's possible is to just put a camera on them and their screen. There are better ways, obviously.
See who opens your emails
I have to respectfully disagree. They have unlimited financial resources, which translates into unlimited storage capacity etc. But NOT (IMO) unlimited technical resources in the sense of brainpower and creativity. When I say technical resources I'm referring to the ability to create new tools.

For example, I know for a fact that a large number of intelligence tools are written on top of open source projects. That base did not come from the technical resources of the government (in most cases) but rather the collective ingenuity of the hackers and programmers that built it for various reasons. You can already see projects springing up with the intent of circumventing government technical oversight. This is going to result in an endless game of technical whack-a-mole where one side is motivated by a paycheck and the other is motivated by ideals and the desire for liberty.
The impression I got was that it was nothing more serious than an identity authentication scheme, not an encryption mechanism... they don't need to "escrow the key" (nor would it matter), they'd already be able to reset your account whenever they feel like it anyways.
i find it interesting that the three links, one for each batch, stay very close together in the ranks on HN...
So, they don't know if anyone else has take anything either? Snowden could in fact merely be the one they know about. And on the face of it, Snowden has risked everything to let the world know whats going on, an act of human patriotism, where as others unknown may well just sell the data to actual enemies.

Maybe Snowden's error is doing the right thing as opposed to making a few Renminbi.
The problem with his website is the lack of functionality (even text) with active scripting disabled. The scripts don't even animate anything! ;-)
This is a throw away. My main account is about 2 years younger than yours.

How can you not see that the rhetoric here has declined drastically over the past year? Do you disagree that there are significantly more political/non-technical stories reaching the front page?

Even if you agree with the gist arguments being made, disregard your personal politics and beliefs in coming to an assessment.
I love using HN on my iPhone. It loads quickly even when the signal is weak and scrolls super nicely because of the simplicity. On mobile, I'm much more likely to read the comments before the articles because I know the comments will load super fast and the article will load super slow and be difficult to stretch into the screen.

EDIT: Go ahead and set up a site that implements your "slightly nicer CSS and HTML" that will make such a huge improvement. Publish the traffic stats so that we can all see when you get it right.
The java applet version isnt used anymore (or shouldnt be at least). The one that we have now is great and i haven't had any problems for many years actually. It works on all browsers ive used. What youre saying is very outdated i would say.
Reddit under DDoS attack
This is nonsense. The whole point of the audit tools that we (Red Hat) ship is to audit the sysadmins. This includes: auditing off machine to secure sites under control of others; having the machine hard power-off if the audit log cannot be written/sent; extremely fine-grained auditing of every command used, file read/written, etc.
On operamini HN scales great especially on the front page.
Lots of phones that look good, yes. I have one of the SIII clones, and while it's good value for money, and looks exactly like a Samsung (down to the wallpaper/screen saver, and optional fake Samsung logo if you want it) all the models I have seen are cheaper for a reason. E.g build quality and performance are substantially lower end than Samsungs originals.

You can get iPhone clones too, down to about $20. Naturally they're nothing like the real deal - the cheapest are feature-phones, and you'll find quite a few Android phones, some even with a skin mimicking iOS...

In other words, going by looks tells you nothing in that market.

Phone models that are actually Samsung level quality also cost about as much as the Samsung phones do in equivalent quantities.

(Dual SIM is pretty much "standard" on the Chinese phones - some have up to at least 4 SIM's)
Lets look at a model. You are making the claim, so you provide the cited numbers to fill it in.

To begin with - lets assume all joules are equally polluting. This isn't true, but we'll get to that.

Jp = the number of joules needed to move a person a distance.

Je = the number of joules needed to deliver Jp to the point of use.

Jt = the total number of joules for a mode of transport

Simply:

Jt = Jp + Je

Therefore a first approximation is to compare Jt(bike) with Jt(car)

However there are other factors that must be accounted for in this equation:

Jm - the total number of joules needed to manufacture the transport (full supply chain), and deliver it to first point of use.

Jl - the number of joules needed by a person anyway - farming can't just be eliminated, people require food to remain people. (Jl stands for joule's life)

Jl' - the number of joules needed to transport the minimal "keep people living" joules to point of use.

It should be noted, that Je and Jl' are related in the bike case, so Je in the bike case will only be the extra energy required to deliver additional food, not the energy required if the Je for a bike were delivered in an entirely separate manner. With Je for a car - the energy source, energy delivery etc are an entirely different infrastructure.

So factoring those in we get:

Jt = Jp + Je + Jm + Jl + Jl'

Of course - at the beginning I mentioned not all joules are created equal. So we need some sort of pollution index. I don't know a simple polution index formula, but assuming it exists, we will call it P. The output will be a normalized value that can be simply added to understand total polution. So:

P(Jt)= P(Jp) + P(Je) + P(Jm) + P(Jl) + P(Jl')

I want to note about the pollution function - the pollution of
P(Jp) is essentially 0 in the bike case, because it is just metabolism. P(Jl) will most always be close 0, because it is metabolism again. The polution from delivery is captured in other variables.

This model could be further refined into pollution per travelled km, rather than the pollution per joule used. It could be better refined by including the Jm costs as an amortization of efficiency over the total number of travelled km. Etc. But for now, the model as stands is a good way of determining the claims first order validity.
Just saw this one: Troll the NSA :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzUxY0j-Y0A

On a serious note however, I do not think people who've worked in the Government long enough (i.e. those who stand to gain from snooping.) will budge. It'd take a lot more effort to displace the tyrannical succession because it is kind of 99.99% in place already.
They either need to learn how to use their macs or switch to Windows. Fixing ignorant OSX users expectations isn't and shouldn't be a webdev's problem.
I think it looks fine. Everytime someone wants to make a mobile experience better, I want to kill a kitten.

More often than not it makes vastly worse. Why can't people just keep it to themselves.

Steve Jobs and Co. gave me a real browser so I didn't have to use a sub-par web. Now everyone is forcing it on me anyway. Stop. Please stop. Half of the websites I use have been ruined by responsive, and or enhancing, the mobile experience (GitHub and StackOverflow are worthless with their mobile defaults, text cannot be read because it overflows and zoom is disabled, formatting looks like shit).

Why, dear world, must people insist on fixing things that are not broken?
At what point in "Waiting for Superman" do they explain that the propensity for trees to fall on lumberjacks is caused by a nefarious cabal of teachers?
Wrong. Read about audit tools in RHEL. They are entirely designed to cope with this scenario.
You joke, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Mail

The drugs that were consumed when they came up with this must be government issue only. Stuff's too hard for the streets..

Also, the crypto is as secure as a wet paper bag..
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Found a slick and simple feed reader. Pretty cool.
Stripe is now available in private beta in Belgium
Automated Virtual Box install of IE VMs (for testing of course)
> And once the government starts operating outside the law, answerable to no one but itself, there’s no way to rein it back in, short of revolution.

Exactly. Or can somebody think of an example in history where a government gave up some of its rights? These sorts of authorisations (anti-terror laws and whatnot) don't go away, because they are too convenient for those in power.
I love the idea that the broke USPS awards a contract meant to secure our ids to a foreign company.
I agree with you but I think doing things like eliminating table layout and having some sort of improved experience on mobile would not affect usership at all. You could keep the look and feel the same. There are profound technical issues with the site that affect everyone that could literally be addressed in an afternoon if anyone cared.
Those PowerPoints are classified! Why would you think it's ok not to audit access?