skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
F.A.A. Panel Backs Easing of Device Rules
It's already known that they have attacks against Tor (i.e. Flying Pig)
Can I pay you to never put my data into Google/Gmail, if I'm the customer of your customer?
And the limit on the number of rows per query.

It does sound slightly crippled in that sense.
Relevant xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/386/
I was wondering why I couldn't find the post the author was referring to...
Would have been great with a bit more transparency on the chain of events. Most countries more developed than Zimbabwe would have provided that as a service to its citizens.
I've flagged this story because it just looks like someone is scaremongering so they can buy Tesla stock cheap. Isn't there laws against this sort of thing?
4) Don't use SOAP (the other 90% of it.)
From Tesla:

“Yesterday, a Model S collided with a large metallic object in the middle of the road, causing significant damage to the vehicle. The car’s alert system signaled a problem and instructed the driver to pull over safely, which he did. No one was injured, and the sole occupant had sufficient time to exit the vehicle safely and call the authorities. Subsequently, a fire caused by the substantial damage sustained during the collision was contained to the front of the vehicle thanks to the design and construction of the vehicle and battery pack. All indications are that the fire never entered the interior cabin of the car. It was extinguished on-site by the fire department.”
>> You can't wave off court orders just because you think ...

Some people like to operate by the motto, "Do no evil". So yes, he can wave off a court order. And millions of informed people will have his back.
This section jumps out:

BLOCK: Paul Graham is the kinetic founder of Y Combinator. He's constantly on the hunt for new talent.

GRAHAM: I find myself inadvertently noticing as I'm walking down the street, I see a couple of guys walking down the street and I think, oh, they look like they'd make good founders or bad founders, right, as the case may be.

BLOCK: What's the look? What are you looking for?

GRAHAM: The right kind of nerdy. Like, these guys in this room are not suits, but they're not schlubs either. These are fierce nerds. You have to be somewhat intimidating looking, and that's what these guys are.

BLOCK: They've got a lean and hungry look.

GRAHAM: Yeah, yeah. They're like the kind of people Julius Caesar was afraid of.

/edit - formatting.
congrats to them, never heard of them before. went to their website (after reading the note) and tried to find any documentation on how to use the app. found none other than you can "now use previous and forward". became immediately disinterested.
Haha, okay you win.
cool - and iOS ready
The reactions.. Unbelievable ! The TV report makes it seem like a frigging big deal. The "analyst guy" talks about it like a bomb or something.

Chill the f down. Overreacting like that ! No important news to report makes TV stations make a big deal out of everything.
Non-NIST Cipher Suite
Programming for good - the story of Code For India
What is the best open source Hamachi alternative?
Have tried tinc, OpenVPN, SocialVPN and few others. None seem to have the NAT traversal abilities of Hamachi. Is Hamachi still the best?
My one complaint about Windows 8 is that I can't use Win+# to switch to the fullscreen apps. I wouldn't even mind the fact that they took up the entire screen if I was able to navigate to and from them with ease. The way to navigate between the full screen apps is with Win+tab which forces me to use two paradigms for task switching. I'm sure this irks alt-tabbers as well.
didn't see that, but even so, this is still a horrible punishment
This is very similar to my project at http://qrauth.com
Another replacement for usernames and passwords:

http://dswi.net/

Note: the SSL certificate on the demo server has expired. I'm working on getting it renewed, but this is just a demo anyway.
Awesome! Looking forward to jedi controls in my Gmail. Great job guys.
Presumably, the holder of the master key uses it to unlock <storage_medium> and doesn't hand it over to the police?
The shutdown has saved us billions and continues to bear fruit.
You can't wave off court orders just because you think the Internet is some kind of libertarian cyber-paradise where mortal laws do not apply.

The story we've heard so far is that Lavabit had routinely complied with warrants and cooperated with targeted investigations against specific individuals. There are court records documenting at least some of these cases.

The details given here are beyond sketchy. Your characterization is hyperbolic and as far as I can see, unwarranted.
Found a bug:

1) Select an amount (I picked $25 as a test)
2) Advance to 'Step 2'
3) Go back to Step 1
4) Pick an amount again
5) Go to 'Step 2'
6) Fill out the form in detail
7) You'll be unable to hit the 'Continue' button

Edit:

Repeatable on other fundraiser pages.
It seems that they're ditching the NIST crypto suite for the Schneier suite. </joke>

I can understand the skepticism of anything NSA-related, but I'm skeptical that switching is better. These are two algorithms that aren't as thoroughly analyzed.

One of the problems is that AES and Twofish were introduced 14 years ago at this point. AES has been hammered on by everyone since then, whereas interest in Twofish waned after it didn't win. We've seen a little bit about Twofish since, but an order of magnitude more on AES. The scary thing is if modern advances could be used to attack Twofish, but because Twofish hasn't gotten enough attention we don't know yet.

Skein is probably at least as strong as SHA-2, but again, we've hammered on SHA-2 much longer than Skein.
I just donated. If you want to fight government abuse of power, you literally have to start somewhere.
It is never IN Google/Gmail. It is loaded via a chrome extension and injected in after Gmail loads.
For the record, Lavabit routinely complied with search warrants, including one just months before this incident [1].

So what was different about this one?

1. https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Maryland_District_Court/1-...
This looks like a much less polished version of Clef (https://getclef.com/). Clef is a really awesome app and they're already powering this type of integration for a few hundred websites. One of the founders is an HN regular, although I can't remember his username (Jesse, reply if you see this).
I was going to mention this. Stiction was the bane of my effort fabricating even the simplest components as an undergrad. My favorite part was how you can realistically suggest using diamond ablative layers and the like. Made for fun conversations to listen in on - invariably it sounds expensive and high tech, regardless of if it's just sacrificial carbon.
I haven't used it yet, but check out http://www.freelan.org/
At first I was more on the Lavabit side on this. But it is looking more like they started the whole thing when they defied the initial court order to provide connection info for that one specific user that was the target of an FBI investigation. When served with a warrant, you can't just tell them to fuck off and expect the matter to be over. They will simply go harder... and not go home. I'm concerned that our outrage over "mass surveillance being used for fishing expeditions" has clouded our judgment when it comes to "law enforcement legitimately gathering evidence for an active case against one specific person." Once they have a person of interest, their job is to continue to find evidence to bolster their case. That evidence will take different forms and come from different sources. I have no problems with companies complying with search warrants and court orders by providing evidence regarding illegal activity of a particular suspect. This is different than providing back doors for law enforcement to go looking for suspects.

A commenter on that story makes a good point: Forget for a moment that the user they were looking for was Snowden. If the FBI had been looking for info for a case against a serial killer or a child porn ring, would we still hold Lavabit as heroes for not following the court order?
Not so much that Corba/IDL were intrinsically more limited than SOAP/WSDl - more that they were less tightly integrated with development environment and platforms so generally, in my experience, seemed to be used with a bit more care.
I don't know, man. The question of "Would you pay/buy X" seldom has any value.

Most people would say "Yes" because anything "interests" them and there's no money on the table. Put a price on that, and you'll see people have cold feet.

In my opinion, it'd be more pertinent to have some page where there's actually a button to "Buy" the thing to actually see how many people made the mental decision to actually pay real money for it. Not just "hypothetically".
If they used parallel construction, then why didn't they list how they got the information about the location/IP of the Silk Road webserver? I would assume that they would have ParallelConstruction'd a reasonable way for them to have obtained that information, no?
To better understand the scale of the detectors, look at this picture of ATLAS: https://www.google.com/maps/views/view/streetview/cern/cern-... . There's a _crane_ reaching up to the beamline which is ~1/2 of the size of the cavity the detector is in.
BitTorrent Sync For iOS
The servers are still hidden, it's simply proxy software that trades user anonimity for convenience (and speed I believe, since the tor2web software uses fewer tor relays in its circuits, not trying to be anonymous)

See http://tor2web.org/
We had a lot of users emailing about the beta price so we decided to adjust the pricing to $5 for unlimited beta access.

Would any of you prefer an integration with Sales Force, Zendesk, Desk.com, or Helpscout more than a Gmail integration?

We are looking to expand out of Gmail eventually, so if you would use one of the existing CRM tools and would like Accordive for it please let us know by email - contact@accordive.com
google did this last year:
http://www.zdnet.com/googles-open-sesame-login-ditches-passw...
Show HN: Hyro is a cross-platform, real-time HTML5 editor
I interned at SM two summers ago. Getting a reliable accreditation service was a huge hurdle that they crossed, and it's very valuable. They have a really interesting product and they were even involved in shaping the JOBS act in the first place.
> The filings show that Lavabit was served on June 28 with a so-called “pen register” order requiring it to record, and provide the government with, the connection information on one of its users every time that user logged in to check his e-mail.

How is that different than previous warrants? How is that sketchy?
Here's where I get confused by this economic justice:

I have a little personal project and there's a piece of it that could be hired out on mechanical turk.

The project isn't worth much much money to me, it really is just a point of personal interest. And the little task is interesting enough that a few people might actually do it for free.

So I could ask for volunteers. Worse things have happened: how many times do people fill out surveys completely for free?

Surely no one would say I'm exploiting anyone by allowing them to volunteer their time? After all, it's their free choice if they want to waste a few minutes on my silly project.

But apparently I would be exploiting them if I offered a modest sum as a small "thank you".

Why?
Gyazo 2.0 adds Instant Gif Support, Takes Under Ten Seconds to Create and Share
First line of the article mentions that they came from unsealed court documents.
Morning University
Congrats Navneet, Mehul, & team!
If you click through to the eventual source, the cost is the predicted amount that will not be added to GDP. I am not sure that really qualifies at a cost.
Remember when they took down Napster, and it ended music piracy?
If by "millions of informed people" you meant "dozens of uninformed people" then we agree. What is evil about a court-ordered pen register?
Something that you would otherwise get that you don't get because of a particular action is a cost of that action. I don't think that's particularly controversial view.
The source seems to refer to a reduction in gov payrolls/spending as a reduction in GDP as a cost. That seems like a stretch.

The only costs I would consider are costs directly related to having folks stay home and lost revenue related to closures.
"If he's doing serious work, then he's probably using OpenCL"

He doesn't indicate that at all, and I assumed if he were doing "Serious OpenCL work" he'd be using a later-generation card.
As I recall there weren't a lot of 'clones' made.
What I was pointing out was that there was a confirmation of some sort presented to the user that indicating something that personally identified them was being shared.

Stack Overflow does take a "full name" (in OpenID attribute exchange terms) as a user name if provided by an OpenID provider, though we explicitly don't demand it (it is not "required" in AX terms). Exactly how a provider deals with "optional" attribute requests is up to them, in practice I think most everyone ignores it unless it's also public information on their service (ie. full name == user name).

Offhand I want to say Facebook is the only login option used by > 5% of our users that provides a name. I did not actually confirm that by testing, just working from memory.

You are correct in that Stack Overflow never displays user emails during normal operation, excepting employees and moderators (who are bound to an agreement before accessing such information: http://stackoverflow.com/legal/moderator-agreement ).

Disclaimer: Stack Exchange Inc. employee
Perhaps it was small by todays standards but I remember my first Windows 95 PC had a 290MB Hard Drive. A fresh Windows 95 install took up maybe 30MB or 40MB if I remember correctly so even if Hover was only 1MB it was still a relatively significant amount.

As an aside... I also remember Windows 95 was available on floppy, I think maybe there was 10 floppy disks in total (?). I seem to recall that they used special floppy disks that held more than the usual 1.44MB.
I did not get my refund.
My previous employer was a MEMS sensor company. Let me tell you, stiction really is a huge issue for every single player in the industry.
The stairs and their levels also make me a bit dizzy.
Well GPS was always shitty on mine, as well was wifi stopped working (on stock software) so I had nothing to lose. No issues with it yet.
> It's ironic the shutdown is because of there being no money to spend

The shutdown is not because there is no money to spend. The shutdown is because there is no authority to continue to spend money. The two are not the same thing.
Valve's Steam Box won't challenge consoles, says 'Borderlands' studio boss
But is a reduction in GDP really a "cost"? To who?
I downloaded the Mac version, ran the installer, and it immediately said it required Java 1.6 and launched a JRE 6 install.

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_25"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_25-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)
Is there a way to donate bitcoin?
They should have wrapped it with jetty-runner or something that makes it easy to run it without having to fire up Tomcat.
The author is answering questions on reddit:
https://pay.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1nl5nk/i_worked_wi...
You can see the kind of things that RMS wrote from the patch directories in the final version of the MIT sources.
>> You can't wave off court orders just because you think the Internet is some kind of libertarian cyber-paradise where mortal laws do not apply

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
>you lock in a certain tariff for many years (20-25 years) so the amount you get paid vs market rate diverges even more over time.

Isn't that only true if the market rate for power goes ~down~ over time?
I remember thinking back when they first launched that a Google acquisition could be good for both parties. Congrats to the team, can't wait to see how your technology gets developed and deployed!
Can you explain how they are different as it relates to get OP calling it ironic?
Show HN: Break Your Facebook
They go on to say that it was 2,560 characters. That many chars at 4pt type should not have taken 11 pages. That is roughly 233 chars per page. Even at normal point size, 1 page will hold more than 233 chars. at 4pt I would expect it to all fit on one page. Am I missing something here?
Lavabit didn't know who they where protecting. This has a merit
I don't think that is a reasonable distinction. Anyone who has a copy to the source code can pretty easily compile it. The "means of production" in the analogy you're drawing is the compiler, and the source code is the instructions on how to operate the compiler. The big social problem that people are trying to tackle isn't access to compilers, it's access to those instructions. We've gotten to the point where most programs are written in common languages, and most common languages have free (as in freedom) compilers, interpreters, runtimes, etc.

It's true that some people have definitely tried to write programs in their own languages with their own secret compilers just to make things even more difficult for potential copyright infringers, but thankfully that practice is not common because it has way more drawbacks than it does advantages.
Banksy Surfaces in New York With New Work, Playful Telephone Hotline
That's retarded though. The absence of getpeername calls in their frontend does not constitute an inability to comply with a pen register order.

There are costs of doing business and one of the costs is the ability to comply with lawful court orders. You are completely wrong about the government lacking the means to compel compliance.
He compares PostgreSQL (Open Source) to MS-SQL (Proprietary) for one feature (initial setup), but I don't see him comparing things like sqlplus (Oracle/Proprietary) to psql (PostgreSQL/Open Source).
Do you think it's more common for businesses to studiously avoid making promises that they might one day be unable to keep, or to make promises for temporary competitive advantage without worrying if 'unforeseen exigent circumstances' might require these 'promises' to be broken? I think your conclusion is correct, but my assessment would be: personal integrity or business success, choose one.

Edit: To tone that down a bit, "Moral Mazes" by Robert Jackall is an excellent although academic work on the ways in which corporate and government ethics differ from commonly espoused personal ethics. I find it a valuable key to trying to understand attitudes toward conscientious leakers such as Snowden. I am implying a value judgment, but realize the details are complex.
"That estimate, from economic consulting firm IHS Global Insight, covers just the cost in work and services the government is unable to perform as it furloughs 800,000 federal workers. According to IHS, pay for federal employees is considered part of the Gross Domestic Product, which is the total value of all goods and services produced in the nation each year."

ADD:

1. Lost business from unavailable infrastructure, e.g. BEA numbers being unavailable.

2. Long-run increased cost of doing business from the political volatility this sets a precedent for. This also includes any risk-premium that may be built into future Treasury prices (unlikely to be anything but zero, barring a default).

SUBTRACT:

1. Recoverable damage, e.g. if you can't get a passport this week for a vacation in a month you can get it in 2 weeks without compromising any plans.

2. Saved government spending. This reduces the deficit. This reduces expected future (a) inflation, (b) taxation, or (c) default risk.
It ran ok on my Pentium 60MHz with 8MB ram. :-)
"Do not attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
> I think it is an arbitrary comparison. Possibly 10,000+ years in jail and who knows how many shankings vs maybe 50 of no existence for one person. You are right that, in a basic scenario, killing is a disproportionate response to a lesser crime, but this is an active threat versus a past event and who knows what jail would bring for these hundreds of people who could be convicted.

If you are simply arguing the most utilitarian point of view for the sum of the actors involved, surely paying him off is the most moral thing to do. $300K to prevent 10,000+ years of jail and shankings versus killing someone. $300k is much less than the life of one person.
"Lavabit shuts down, because it turns out that hosting email for the criminal class carries real risks and isn't terribly lucrative."

Perfectly summing up your bias on the matter.
Are you saying that the Pen Register Act is on par, morally, with Jim Crow?
What productivity is not
If you can't work curl you are not the guy to be running an illegal website trying to hide from professionals that most certainly do know how to use curl and every other tool properly. If you can't figure out an environment variable, should you really be building something to handle BTC transactions? No you should not. But he learned that the hard way.

Edit: removed profanity
I did this with my company. After working for 9 months I proposed to cut my hours to 32, with a 20% pay cut, and let me become the first remote employee. They liked me and thought I was a good enough worker not to say no. My advice would be to go for a small company where you can get to know everyone, prove your worth, and then propose a mutually agreeable deal.
Flash is dead! Long live Flash!

I've been hoping this was going to get pulled into Firefox soon. Honestly the sooner the better.
Well, yeah, he can do whatever he wants. He coulda put out a hit on the agents investigating him and significantly delayed the proceedings. In terms of free will, possible. In terms of practicality, a really bad idea.

And sure, millions of people could have his back, but unfortunately those aren't the people with the guns or militaries, they're the people who tend to stay home posting comments on the internet.
Eye Contact Can Fail To Win People Over
I don't know. Maybe if we knew all the details of this case and the previous cases, we could say. Maybe it has something to do with the architecture of the service. Maybe Levison felt that turning Lavabit into a real-time tracking device crossed a line he hadn't crossed before.

I just don't think it's right to call Levison rude names and all but convict him on these vague reports.
The law is an arbitrary human construction. Why do you follow it blindly?
But they knew they were protecting someone under investigation for violations of the Espionage Act and theft of government property. It seems kind of shitty to not help find that person.
This would be very beneficial and of great value to me and my team. A/B testing is something I would also love to learn more about.
Can/Should Computers Replace Judges? [1977]
Feel free to tell us more, if it isn't too personal. Sounds like an interesting life-story.
Switzerland's is interesting in that it goes a step further than Obamacare and really makes it compulsory, rather than simply fining you for not having insurance. A colleague was a postdoc there for a while and didn't understand the system, and after ignoring a few letters telling him he needed to buy insurance, he got a follow-up letter telling him that, as he had not yet enrolled in a plan, a default one had been chosen and he was now enrolled in it.
>> Are you saying that the Pen Register Act is on par, morally, with Jim Crow?

No.
I posted it because there's strong interest in Tesla and Musk on HN. Are all the positive stories only posted because someone is trying to increase the value of their holdings? It was in the news. I posted it. I don't have a dog in the fight.