skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as the UK government would probably love being confused for the US government, at least the visit to the Guardian and detainment of Miranda were both done by the UK.

And given how the UK government loves nothing more than to be the lapdog of the US, I have no doubts it was done entirely voluntarily.

Eagerly even, as an opportunity to show off just how extra exceedingly loyal minions they are.

Frankly, I have little doubt that the UK government participates so eagerly that just occasionally some of their US counterparts must be a little bit embarrassed on their behalf over seeing their total lack of self respect in trying to impress.
Tired, so damn tired of these stories.

If you're tired of these stories, then, perhaps, look to similar cultures that don't have them with the frequency the US does. You'll find that they don't see 'lock them up and throw away the key" as the answer to most transgressions. Rehabilitation and retraining keeps people as productive members of society, rather than lifelong imprisonment in which they become permanent burdens.

And now you're firing the Chief of Police for not having a pat answer when 'cornered' (article's term) by an investigative reporter. You're baying for blood because he didn't spout something off-the-cuff when he possibly didn't have all the details? And people wonder why public figures play their cards close to their chest. Not to mention that it can be a miscarriage of justice if the defendants don't get a fair trial because of something said by a public figure with authority over them. Similarly the judge's original warrant may have been justified given the information presented at the request.

As someone else in this thread mentions, what we have here is one side of the story. It happens again and again and again that the Internet Righteous Machine goes berserk over a one-sided story without bothering to verify.

Making a very very public example of them is plenty of deterrent value for future "medical professionals" who may be dragged (or otherwise) into any further situations like this.

Yes, because the 'deterrent' mentality is working so well for the US so far, what with the incarceration rate five times higher than any other western nation, highest in the world.

I'm not saying these guys shouldn't be punished at all, but the hysteria of your "fuck them all" response is hardly realistic or just. Let them be found guilty in a court of law, of rape and of inappropriate warrants and whatever else. But keep your head about you when discussing legal issues. Being dispassionate doesn't mean being uncaring.
Even if you love to run marathons, running marathons all day will destroy you .
OK.

I had laugh-snort reading the discussion on that page - at one point the original author, Mike Hearn, tries to argue that ad-based services are actually a good thing for privacy. Does Kool-Aid have a google flavor now?
In the title, s/37 Signals/37signals/.
I'm pretty sure that a government can compel you to be silent, but not to outright lie.
Looks good! But a couple of suggestions:

$ alienfeed funny -o 11 -l 11

Why do you need the '-l 11' argument here, surely the program can figure out you want more than ten items if you are asking for the eleventh one?

Also, it might be a good idea to provide a way of downloading by submission ID rather than number. After all, new submissions might appear (or the list may change order) between running the inital list display command and then entering the additional link open command.
Also, what kind of spy uses gmail? Sheesh.

The kind that is trying to maintain cover as a non-spy so uses the same email services as everybody else.
I hate to even say it but ... there were a set of trials that occurred in Europe in the middle of the last century. It seems like you would have been pro-defense ...
That is not true, however. While you can't withdraw dollars from Mt Gox, all other currencies work just fine.
But they could easily have agreements with every chip fab to build back doors into every piece of networking equipment.
If you think their is such a thing as objective truth in this world you must be some sort of postmodern miracle.
I guess I was more commenting on the general sentiment that rises when stories like this pop up: "destroy the perpetrators, then we can all feel sated" instead of "what's the best way to prevent this happening again"
That's odd. It should be fine, but here are some things to check:

- Make sure that none of the filesystems on the USB stick are mounted before you begin. Otherwise, the filesystem drivers might corrupt something.

- Use a larger block size that's a power of 2 (e.g. bs=4096k). The default is 512 bytes, which is too small. This should just speed things up, but using writes that are smaller than the actual flash erase blocks can cause a lot of extra erases, and maybe your flash stick breaks when you do that.

- Run 'sync' after using dd, and wait for disk activity to finish. dd doesn't flush to disk by default.

- Don't use an amd64 image on a 32-bit machine. Don't use ia64 on a 64-bit PC.

- Try using synchronized I/O:

sudo dd if=debian-7.2.0-i386-CD-1.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=4096k oflag=sync
There are probably thousands of articles on the topic.

I'd there any reason we shouldn't just accept the opinion of the FDA or AMA
Thanks for linking that. It appears that we've found the real reason the officers decided to put the man through this ordeal:

(Excerpt from complaint -- emphasis mine)
24. Plaintiff asked Defendant Rodriquez if he was free to leave, which Defendant Rodriquez contends that he found rude.
25. Defendant Rodriquez told Plaintiff he suspected Plaintiff of having illegal drugs in his car and proceeded to interrogate Plaintiff on the matter.

The officer felt that he'd not been shown correct respect by the victim and then decided to make him pay. To be honest, I'm not sure how much I blame the doctors in this fiasco, because I don't know what sort of legal protections are available to them if they were to refuse to carry out the invasive operations. Do doctors in the US typically have a legal counsel who can advise them if a warrant is valid, or what operations an officer with a warrant can demand? I know I'd have no idea if a warrant were valid, or what the officer could compel me to do.
using bitcoin-otc as an exchange is pretty cool too: you do it through IRC (no web interface), there is a very well done WoT, and the wiki is excellent.
Good point, but the Greenwald-Snowden case is a little different. We all know the identities of the informants. The issue with the harassment of Miranda has nothing to do with espionage, it's just heavy handed.

In the case of the Chinese hackers, they were spying on reporters to discover their sources.

What they appeared to be looking for were the names of people who might have provided information to Mr. Barboza.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers...

AFAIK we don't have evidence of similar US spying for the purpose of blackmail, harassment, etc. because my concern is whether the NSA might use its sources for those ends.
You need browser support for them.
Don't take the numbers literally, and read it as "I believe every man deserves...". Merely an unscientific three-way split of a 24-hour day, with a liberal sleep quota and a traditional weekend. It's also the most defensible scheme against the old guard.

Commuting is a different problem.
funny thing is that OSX works pretty flawless on my Core2Quad hackintosh (zero issues with standby, audio, wifi, bluetooth) while Ubuntu 13.x on the same machine gave me some headaches and random behavior like standby not working properly from time to time etc.
Sure but only an idiot uses their personal email account for work, right? Especially if your work can get you killed.
Currencies aren't backed by anything physical; they're backed by the confidence that you will actually be able to buy something with them. Bitcoin doesn't yet have that confidence, so it basically has no inherent value. (Technically, fiat currencies don't have truly inherent value either, but I don't want to argue about semantics.) The value of Bitcoin today is purely speculative, because it doesn't actually have much of a practical use. Those investing in Bitcoin are betting that it's going to become a currency you can use as confidently as US dollars, but no one can accurately predict whether that will ever happen; it's all a gamble at this point.
You've missed my point, which is that I don't have to share the apartment. I can rent the whole thing.

A hotel room is not quite as good because a lot of people seem to think that "On Holiday" is secret dickhead code for "Be As Loud As You Like". Certainly, more such people than in a regular apartment block.
Git has had issues talking to the server, loosing credentials already stored, asks for the passwords multiple times, every now and then, a bunch of HTTP errors comes back when doing pulls/pushes.

The mercurial server is hosted on the same server and works without issues.
Just simple big government(s) v.s. big company - happened over and over again in history - remember how powerful Microsoft was in the end of the 90.

Governments don't like challenge to its power. They will find ways to control the Jedi Council.
I've never had any problems cashing out at MtGox, but I also trade in yen.
Ask HN: What is your credit strategy? Cards,Score,etc.
I'm a recent college grad, and figured there's a wealth[0] of knowledge about the subject in the minds of the HN audience.

0: pun intended.
That's very unlikely nobody would have noticed them by now, if it were the case.
Automated FreeBSD panic reporting
I love my job, and I love working extra hours on it. But on my own terms and as a means of building something more, not compensating for lack of planning or management.

> why the hell wouldn't you want to stay a few more minutes?

Strawman. Everyone stays that extra few minutes. Sometimes even a few hours on occasion. That's not what 'long hours' here refer to.
I'd add PeopleWare to that reading list, if only for introducing the concept that overtime is offset by "undertime".
I also noticed that the screenshots in the iTunes Store are not in the best quality. You can even see some artifacts on the tab bar at the bottom.
Indiegogo campaign for a Kickstarter campaign
Would you still feel Google had screwed up if the way the US government got the data was to burglarize one of their datacenters and tap directly into the machines' CPUs and memory buses?
Why is apple going all evil all of a sudden. I would have thought they would like people to know where to buy their stuff.
Opt-in, they get the default right!
Or work from home, and demand that work make that possible. :)
Indeed, you missed it. It was back in September:

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-06/business/41831...
A pretty good example to smack in the face of all those "Just Air-gap your distributed SCADA system!" devotees.
Nice Godwining, given that I've already clarified an hour ago (in response to Amadou) that I was not defending their actions, but trying to better understand motive to stop this happening again.

Thanks for calling me a Nazi for trying to better understand how people are motivated, by the way. I suggested improving protections for whistleblowers as a way to prevent this kind of situation in future. Clearly I instead should have been demanding permanent imprisonment (or even the death penalty) for specific people I don't like, all without a nod towards a fair trial. Then I wouldn't be like a Nazi at all!
I can't agree with that, this was on Google's on fiber connections between their own data centers, right? And no other company with multiple data centers encrypts all traffic between them, right? (maybe you'll find a small counterexample but no big one.) So I don't think this is "security 101".
You falsely accused us of refusing to offer a browser extension for fear of losing users. Again, that is false.
Do you think that since minority opinions tend to foster a community around then, this also biases people toward minority opinions?
...they should be exemplary in the way they deal with taxpayers.

I really didn't want to comment on this article, but I must object to the use of the word "taxpayers" where "human beings" would be much more appropriate.
Quite clearly you love your job more than you love your friends and family if you're happy staying back because you love your job as opposed to going home to your husband or wife, or catching up with your best friend who you haven't seen in 3 months because you've been too busy working.

Overtime is expected in the design and development industry. It's when companies factor in overtime into their estimates in order to quote lower than other agencies competing for the same work because they know that the employees will pick up the slack to get it done, that's when it's not alright.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love my job and where I work, but if overtime is an expected thing every single project, that's taking advantage of your own employees and a sure-fire way to churn through workers like butter and eventually get yourself a reputation in the industry for being a bad place to work. People talk and reputation matters in the design and development industry more than people realise, it's everything.

I have a family and friends, you might be okay with working overtime, but what about your wife, is she okay with it? What if you have children at home wanting to see their father? You might be okay with it now, but you'll regret it when you're older and realise you missed out on your children growing up.
Can I just say that, while the scrolling worked without issue for me, it was useless and annoying, and the number of problems other people are having with it made me wonder why you'd go to the trouble. As respectfully as I can say it, this is the very definition of dancing baloney. You had to put effort into this dorky effect that is arguably worse than a plain scrollbar, and to add insult to injury, now you're having to take bug reports because one of the oldest, most fundamental features of a web page (scrolling to see more) is complicated to the point that it doesn't work cross-browser.

Please just let the scrollbars work the way they're supposed to.
Unity and Gnome3 drove me to lubuntu. Really happy I made the switch.

And I've heard the same or similar from many other people.
Indeed, but that's not how many sites will linkify it.
With the increasingly alarming NSA plans being revealed, if someone thinks NSA is doing a good job, they deserve to be fired. His thoughts and opinion doesn't give him the rights to have public data available to governments. This, ofcourse, assumes that he is into Security Team at some well known company.
Isn't that the point? To get people to pay for better service?
You can always do

[alias]
glog = log --graph

I guess.
Doesn't this apply to anything you can buy from multiple places? Milk may be $1.50 from a corner shop but $2 from a supermarket. What price is the "real" one? Taking a mean average based on trade volume seems to be the most logical way to value it.

I guess as good becomes more liquid (like USD and gold) then the gap gets reduced.
As long as the fad diet isn't too crazy. (You won't lose weight on a caloric surplus, for example.)
Isn't this just like Getaround? Or are you suggesting that the startup buy lots of optimal used cars just for this purpose?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/politics/nsa-snooping/

"In one 2004 case, a civilian employee told NSA security that she had spied on a foreign phone number because she found it on her husband's cell phone and suspected he was being unfaithful."
The point being made isn't that they would send sensitive data using gmail, it's that if they were compromised the NSA would most likely be reading the emails, and hacking Google would theoretically let the Chinese know if cover was blown if they could see evidence of the NSA listening in.

Of course, that means the joke's on them, because the NSA was listening to everyone...
> Lets start from the beginning: the NSA "hack" became possible because Google (and its security team) made bad assumptions about the security of the connection between Google's data centers and did not encrypt the traffic.

The assumption isn't bad - it's a private network line, not a public internet connection. Nobody else had access to that line, at least they weren't supposed to. Splicing a fiber line is a bit outside the scope of your random attacker. You can't blame Google for not anticipating a hostile break-in by the government. The discussion should absolutely, 100% be directed at the NSA here. To accept that a private network connection is open season for the government to tap is batshit insane.

> Moreover, it is not clear if other governments or criminals also had access to the users' data (e.g. in Google's data centers located outside of the US). So far Google did not produce any public post-mortem thus we have no clue how bad was the problem.

How is Google supposed to tell you if they themselves didn't know?

Although from the leaks it sounds like everyone is fucked thanks to the GCHQ and the NSA getting friendly with each other.
You need to opt in three times, really: First you need to install the code; then you need to turn it on; and then when you get an email saying "this is a panic report, please submit me" you need to forward it to the right place.
From your link:

> Eight months before being bought by Microsoft, Skype joined the Prism program in February 2011.

Article regarding the change to a centralized super node model[0]:

> "It's pretty good for security reasons because then you don't rely on random people running random stuff on their machine,"

Now it may be due to the fact that the centralized super nodes provide intelligence agencies with better capabilities - but to claim "Why did Microsoft sabotage Skype so that governments could more easily intercept communications" is somewhat in-genuine.

First, there's no evidence to suggest that Microsoft were the instigators in switching to a centralized model[1] (that I'm aware of). Secondly, to claim NSA interception as the primary reason is, at best, a guess.

I'm angry at what the NSA is doing - especially since I'm not an American, and I'm not "protected" by any law. Microsoft appear to be the worst and most blatant offenders being discussed. But I don't think it helps the discussion when claims are exaggerated. It gives fodder to deniers and to the opposition to use your claims against other, more correct claims.

[0]http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...

[1]http://www.zdnet.com/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-supernodes-f...
Indonesian brands need to catch up with the booming mobile device penetration
... but that's sort of a stockholm syndrome; it's because you know SQL and it makes you feel comfortable, and you can think of worse options (like JSON).

But SQL is really a bad option in the moodern world, especially since (I estimate) about 90% of SQL statements are built programmatically; Thus, a query language that is easier to construct from code makes a lot more sense. (And not, that's not JSON - some form of algebraic notation or LISPish notation makes much more sense).

Also, SQL semantics are horrible if you have order involved (as you always do in time series).
Yes (search for SSAE16 or SAS70). However, I would not feel the same way if US government would have used Area 51 technology to hack 4096 public key encryption. The difference from my perspective is that in "burglary" scenario (and un-encrypted traffic scenario as well) Google failed to protect against well known threats. And in the "alien technology" case Google did everything you can at the known security/technology level and the failure came from aliens (aka an "unexpected technology advances").

Basically, I think Google's decision to do not encrypt the traffic is a gross negligence and I would love to see how someone would sue Google for it.
How a Founder's role changes over time?
If you think about it, the largest typical object people would buy in terms of value is a car. A house can last a last time but less so a car.

I think the reason for investor's optimism in Tesla is their vision is to get everyone a car.

If you look at the design of the Model S it can allow for a very cheap & safe car (The Tata Nano had issues with safety at first).

I would say this is still a baby as a company even now. If you saw GM's size before the financial crisis things would get more into perspective of what the potential is here. I think investors get that and this is why the premium is so high.

This is a company that can outdo GM because of the different structure. Tesla is very robotic/automated in its manufacturing & the car's drive system is just the floor. When GM wasn't so much under attack as it is now it used to regularly get under the record annual profit for a publicly traded corporation.

These crazy volatile drops are because there are lots of speculators trying to get in on the action (options, leverage.. etc). These volatile moves keep everything in balance.
Oh, the hypocrisy....

> "Bypassing that system is illegal for a good reason."

Yes, so is invasion of privacy. Yet Google has no problem breaking the law and violating civil rights for profit.

> "Unfortunately we live in a world where all too often, laws are for the little people."

Yeah, like tax laws and privacy laws...

If you want to get on this high horse, you shouldn't be working for Google.
There is one. The Chilling Effects database has collected them for some time, though the contents aren't collected automatically, they're submitted voluntarily. The database contains mostly DMCA takedown notices, but also several other types of cease and desist orders.

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi

You can search by field[1], including sender, though note that many won't contain a law firm as the sender since many companies farm out their DMCA complaints to companies that do nothing but file mass automated complaints (which gets you things like Microsoft demanding that Google remove links to pages on microsoft.com[2]).

[1] http://chillingeffects.org/search.cgi

[2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/microsofts-copyri...
Well, I do :) Moreover, I encrypt all the traffic even inside the same data center.
How likely is it that Loom will go out of business in a year too?
If you work for yourself that's something. But I really hope you don't work for someone else with that attitude because in that case people like you are making it difficult for the rest of us.

If you work for someone else and your attitude is "haha I love this job so much I'm willing to do it for free" then everyone else starts discounting everything on you "because hey that guy loves doing this stuff".

Don't bring your love for the job into the equation because that will only hurt you.
Cool info, thx!

But do you think it would actually be viable to make a protocol algorithm transition?
Which kind of work did you do that wouldn't have been more effective if it was split in two (or even three) shifts (assuming it would've been possible to find qualified people to help/hire with/for the workload? How much of that time is for breaks/lunch etc? Genuinely interested in what an 18 hour work day consists of.

Personally I can absolutely see "working" long hours -- but then that'd probably be something like 6 hours effective programming/planning/implementing and 6-8 hours of studying.

Either that or doing some form of manual labour with which I'm familiar/skilled enough that slips in concentration wouldn't be damning. But even for those kinds of jobs, having three (or four) shifts to 24 hours would probably be much more effective (again, if possible).
Additionally, one of the glaring inaccuracies of this post is the amount of time spent on pitch practice. One of my team mates is a YC alum. He mentioned that YC gave his company brute force focus on customers and product.
have you seen/heard about mailpile?
I don't think anybody said that this is revolutionary but it is really evolutionary. This technology really has a lot of of areas where it can and will be applied.