skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things this missed is that there are other laws on the books besides CALEA that do apply to electronic and digital communications. Some do not apply specifically to Apple or Google, while others will.

The FBI will often subpoena information from Apple and Google using 18 U.S.C. § 2703: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2703

* Contents of Wire or Electronic Communications in Electronic Storage.

* Contents of Wire or Electronic Communications in a Remote Computing Service.

* Records Concerning Electronic Communication Service or Remote Computing Service.

* Requirement To Preserve Evidence

For example, you can see Apple's handling of this in their legal process guidelines, where they admit to being able to give "subscriber information ... mail logs ... photos and videos in the users’ camera roll, device settings, app data, iMessage, SMS, and MMS messages and voicemail" information from iCloud synced iOS8 devices:

http://images.apple.com/privacy/docs/legal-process-guideline...

The Patriot Act:

* Section 202 - Authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to computer fraud and abuse offenses

* Section 204 ("Clarification of intelligence exceptions from limitations on interception and disclosure of wire, oral, and electronic communication") both removed restrictions put in place on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and broadened the law to include electronic communications. The FISA concerns itself with communications that travel internationally as sometimes happens with domestic electronic communications. It is also complicated legal issue with regard to foreign datacenters and international geo-redundancy.

* Section 2703, applicable to a "provider of electronic communication services" forces the disclose the contents of stored communications and in addition allows this to be done with a search rather than a wiretap order.

* Section 210 - "Scope of subpoenas for records of electronic communications" sets some rules for electronic records including things like IP addresses and session records.

* Section 211 expands the ability of the US to get records from cable television.

* Section 215 - Access to records and other items under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act expands the list of records to include 'tangible things' such as "books, records, papers, documents, and other items".

* Section 216 "Authority to issue pen registers and trap and trace devices" applies to electronic communications as much of Bush era legislation expanded 'pen registers' to the digital domain.

That's just the Patriot Act. Here's Wikipedia's first paragraph on the Stored Communications Act:

`The Stored Communications Act (SCA, codified at 18 U.S.C. Chapter 121 §§ 2701–2712) is a law that addresses voluntary and compelled disclosure of "stored wire and electronic communications and transactional records" held by third-party internet service providers (ISPs).`

The Stored Communications Act defines the legal framework used for digital pen registers and wiretaps on an ISP level.
It's easy to demonize and misconstrue people, but it's vastly more useful to actually understand them. In all likelihood, James Comey is genuinely worried about public safety.

Think about this from his point of view. As head of the FBI, his days are inundated with threats. Most of them are bunk, but a few might be credible. He worries his subordinates don't have the tools necessary to adequately follow-up on everything. If only they could tap network devices like phones (and really, there's no practical difference between the two these days), they'd be so much more effective. "Yes," he thinks, "there are privacy concerns, but we're the good guys. We could follow-up on so many more threats. We could keep everyone safer."

Now think about what happens if there's a successful attack. Mr. Comey is from Yonkers, so he almost certainly went to some funerals after September 11th. Think of how a repeat of that haunts him. He'd feel personally responsible for failing the American people. Lives lost, families broken, because of him. So he asks Congress for help. Maybe he punches-up the rhetoric a little to make his case more compelling.

That's a much more likely version of what's going through his head. He may be mistaken, but he's not malicious.
With IPv6 you assign a /64 to the network. All networks in IPv6 are 64 bits long, with 64 bits assigned to the host's interface ID. There are lots of ways for a host to generate an Interface ID - (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736439(v=ws.10)...) is a nice reference.
Part of that is by diktat - the CALEA law means that they're obligated to have backdoors for law enforcement. This is probably the angle that the feds are trying for, to get things like iMessage covered under the same law.
There really isn't one. I will suggest, however, that Dell Ultrasharp with the 5k pixels. I have seen one in person, it is a sight to behold.
I'm with you for the first paragraph but then what the fuck, man? Why present a worthwhile argumentative point and then supply cans of ammo for attacking it via your character?
i'm assuming clients and web servers that start to support http2 will also be backwards compatible with http1.1 which seems necessary
I am actually reading The Mythical Man Month but it seems to be more about project management than people. Peopleware was very very good for people management.

I have heard great things about "First, break all the rules" but haven't read it.

Good luck on your management adventure.
With IPv6, admins learn within a week or two that they have to allow ICMPv6, or their networks don't work. With IPv4 you could (sort of) get by without ICMP, with IPv6 it's mandatory.
This is not an important article, it is a rant against people with "tacky mansions", a turn of phrase that is more indicative of the author's point of view than the other conventional points about not understanding creative destruction. I think it is this overly nationalist view of economics that needs to die, not "capitalism".

There is not less productive work to go around, it's just not being done in the US. We are in a difficult situation because we have free trade with lower cost labor markets. Until labor market costs in free trade enclaves reach equilibrium, capitalism will continue to raise more people out of poverty, and prevent wages from rising in places where they are above the demand level in the global market.

The extraordinary amount of government debt being created is an interesting phenomenon, as it is failing to cause inflation in most large currencies as they are increasing the money quantities in a correlated fashion. The financial entities are spending a lot of energy pricing these various instruments, and can make low risk money on the spreads.

Japan did have a real estate bubble. The thing about bubbles is not "coming back", it's that the wealth wasn't real in the first place. We weren't as rich as we thought we were. Their problem is demographics, an aging population, low birth rate, and a society that is not practiced at encouraging positive immigration.

"What capitalism gives us by default is a small number of rich people and a large number of poor people competing for a shrinking pool of low-paying jobs." This is just wrong in every way...the number of rich people in the world is growing, the number of jobs in the world is growing. Just because every country is not moving linearly up and to the right does not mean things are falling apart.
Buying a CD is still buying a license. You don't own the data in either case.
I think the proper term is 'checks and balances'
Rip 3D Blu-ray to 3D TS
Oh come on - it's not like we think Google abandoned their "do no evil" mantra or their mission to organize the world's information simply because they went public...or Apple stopped designing great products and revolting against mainstay ways we view our relationships with technology. Granted, there may be additional considerations, but I doubt any person who has worked there would say that optimizing shareholder value is #1 priority

(though I do believe the former was abandoned for other reasons, but that's a separate discussion...)
So, you don't actually have any data to back up your claim that your proposed fix would fix anything. Here, let me edit your first statement to include your data:

> All of the countries [have] growing inequality [and] heavy-handed socialist policies in place.
The Great Mortification: Economists’ Responses to the Crisis of 2007
Wait, this is a link to a blog that reposted, in full, a story from National Journal that this guy didn't write.

Could someone please change the link to the original?

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/the-fbi-s-secret-house-m...
It's not just computer nerds who thought that The Soul of a New Machine was a great book. Tracy Kidder received the Pulitzer Prize for it.

But that Eclipse picture is boring. Here's how a computer should look. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:360-91-panel.jpg
This is a complicated issue, and no one can give you a concrete solution. A lot of business, especially startups, is flying by the seat of your pants. There simply isn't an answer out there, which is what makes it fun, in my opinion.

(Full disclosure: I skimmed your post, but the advice I'll give you is universal.)

- Look for someone mature and experienced. You said you gravitated to the college student. I strongly recommend against that. You want someone who has built a ton of products like yours before and can iterate fast. You also want someone with real success stories on their resume who can act as a strong source of wisdom. Always try to partner with someone from whom you can learn a lot.

- Having lots of time is incredibly important. If your product isn't her top priority, your CTO is going to become your bottleneck. You want someone who can go without a salary until you (ideally) make money or (less ideally) raise money.

- This is minor, but stop calling the person a CTO. Until you have lots of employees, you're not chiefs of anything. You're looking for a technical partner or technical co-founder.

- What is your product? Come up with a vision and plan for MVP, and then recruit a technical co-founder. A lot of the best technical people are drawn to the vision, as well as access to an interesting market. They don't care much about money. If they wanted it that much, they'd work for one of the large tech companies.
There are some projects that got much more donations and users that got more tips. You can check the list https://tip4commit.com/users It was a mistake to bother you with this tiny tips. Sorry

Also, if you claim your tips by specifying your bitcoin address, tips will never be refunded again.
I'm with you on paper voting being a small input, but (arguably) a more important part of the "freedom" part of our "free societies" is the ability to vote with my time, dollar, and feet - decide where I spend my time, my money, and where I live.

So howsabout this rephrasing:

> people who through [their free actions] can shape their societies as they see fit...
> This poor guy needs to be educated if he thinks that avoiding taxes, regulations, and credit card fees are the only applications.

I think he very clearly understands all the applications. The point is that _for his case_ it doesn't provide any value, and he believes in a lot of cases its drawbacks outweigh its advantages (which is an entirely arguably point).

> Common decency dictates that if you openly state you are unwilling to learn about something, you should refrain from posting opinionated articles about that thing.

Again, I think you misread the article. It isn't that he is unwilling to learn something. He's learned a great deal and concluded that it makes his life more difficult. More importantly, he's pointed out a significant problem with it: there are a lot of things that can happen with Bitcoin that would otherwise be prevented and you'd want them to be prevented.
For comparison:

28" 4K monitor (above) - 157 ppi
24" 4K monitor - 184 ppi
15" MacBook Pro Retina - 221 ppi

Source: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/07/26/4k-monitor-retina-ma...
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"

Hopefully we'll be able to do this in a less-than-literal fashion.
Programming with Nothing (2011) [video]
Yeah - those honestly-not-at-all-over-reaching "gotta catch the terrorists" data retention laws for criminal investigations. Which will "absolutely" be used against copyright infringements: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/02/oz_gov_lets_slip_tel...

Time to reassess the paranoia again...
I don't understand the problem. Why is free so important? For $1/month you can get 5 email accounts with 2GB each at 1an1. If you go to $5/month, you can host your domain on Lunarpages and have unlimited email accounts. There are other services that offer similar possibilities at the same price points. With email accounts so cheap, why is free so important? Am I missing an obvious use case?
I'd really love to see a micro-kernel with just enough drivers to run on modern hardware, then tied to a higher level platform. I know it may seem really weird, but would love to see node running on something like this. I know there's been some work on getting something like node working with embedded systems via translation, or communication channels, it'd just be nice to see this micro application to something larger, and removing the extra overhead in said system.

Again, just a weird, warped thought here... Hell even getting golang or or rust would be cool. Something you can run some code on without a lot of baggage that you aren't using. I love where coreos is heading, and would love to see something even lighter.
I was looking through his site. Seems like he curates news articles relevant to a couple stories he's following and this one is just one of the ones that made it in.

Agreed it should be changed to reflect the original source.
1. Do not be fooled into purchasing a TN panel. They have improved in quality over the years, but IPS is the way to go.

2. The pickings for IPS 4k monitors are very slim. I'd wait until everyone's making one in the hopes that competition drives down price, and ups quality and features.
You're not addressing my post, where I tried to highlight the silliness of your earlier claims.

How does consumption "have to" match production? How do you figure "money has no value"? Now you're talking about "intrinsic value" but earlier it was just plain "value".

People save money for a reason you know. If money has no value, as you originally claimed, then there's no reason to save or possess it. If money has no "intrinsic value" that doesn't make your original claim any less confused.

But to be precise, value is purely subjective. We've been using the word somewhat ambiguously. Value is utility as a means towards an end. Money, as a medium of exchange, has utility as a means towards countless ends, and that's exactly why everyone wants it.

You say people have a disincentive to invest because it's risky, but I don't see a point there. It all depends on the investment opportunity, and the investor's tolerance to risk etc, ie. the circumstances. Some people do invest, some don't. So what?

You say that not investing doesn't "solve any consumption problems", but what the hell might those be? Again, why does consumption "have to" match production? What does that mean? What's a "consumption problem" and whose problem is it, and why?

Why is (price-)deflation a problem, considering it means our purchasing power is increasing? Do you really want to claim people want less stuff for their money?

Don't pretend you're giving me an economics lesson.
> The author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation, but he doesn't point out what specifically would cause problems here.

I should think that would be pretty obvious. Go ahead and try collecting regular currency for a charity of your choice without ever getting sign off from that charity and only ever giving them the proceeds if they ask. It will end very badly for you.

> You can declare tips as income, no problem.

No, there are a lot of potential problems that stem from this. In particular, it raises lots of flags about whether those tips are accurate, whether it is some form of money laundering, and whether they are really tips or something more nefarious. Unlike in the US, in a lot of other 1st world countries, handling taxes is incredibly straightforward (less than an hour of your time a year and zero risk of liability), but once you throw tips in to the equation now it's as difficult as it is for many people in the US.

> So he has a generalised feeling that Bitcoin is bad because it's popular and has vocal fans, and that regulation is good yet also complicated, so anything which seems simple must be unregulated and therefore bad.

No, he's pointing out that its vocal fans have a distorted perspective and often don't really buy in to its virtues... but those problems are not why Bitcoin is a terrible currency.
"push 'tombstone' record to invalidate cache"

For that /alone/ this is technically superior and that's frosting on the cake.

Now if only we could also get DNS servers to reply with similar packages of useful data.
Note that 'electronic storage', 'electronic communications' and 'remote computing services' are already required.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2703
Ask HN: Can we decipher Greenwald's written messages at the end of Citizenfour?
The last scene in Citizenfour is of Glenn Greenwald writing notes to Edward Snowden about the "second leaker". Some of the notes are revealed to the camera, but others -- including some of the ones which elicit the largest reactions from Snowden -- are not.

Although we don't get to see the contents of many of these notes, we do see Greenwald's hand writing them, and we hear the sound of his writing. Figuring out what he wrote down based on this doesn't seem impossible to me, so I wonder, has anyone tried, or have the contents of these notes been otherwise revealed?
It's possible that this will change in the near future with things like https://getfinal.com/. Their product video also happens to be one of my favorites made by Sandwich (http://sandwichvideo.com/).
Amazon makes money, but it doesn't have margins worth a damn. That said, Ballmer's business acumen is questionable.

If I wanted to be really snarky, I could say basically Ballmer is admiring them so much he tried to slice Microsofts margins to even thinner than Amazon's in a bid at imitation?
> production can't be saved in general someone else must borrow

What's that supposed to mean?
> I've always run as non-admin, what OS X calls a Standard user.

Ditto. Only difficulties that come to mind are some installers failing to escalate, Adobe in particular.

Using separate accounts for dodgy and financial sites is a good idea, but I don't know if I'd stick to it. I fell out of the habit of using a separate account for building software.
Greenwald is not the sole possessor of the documents. The Guardian also has a copy. The reason the documents have not been given to Wikileaks is specifically because of a request Snowden made regarding the way the documents would be handled. He asked Greenwald and Poitras to be cautious about disclosures and to not just give away the whole cache to the entire world.
So 911 honestly believed the thieves were armed and dangerous and refused to dispatch? There's a lawsuit right there.

If they thought the victim was going to get shot, then you should have said, I am going right over there now to 123 Main Street to confront them in so-and-so colored car.

Then you wait and when the police show up at that car THEN you go over and make the theft claim.

Victim was entirely too polite with dispatch.
I am from China and I can't agree more.
The mass-examination system seems to promote equality, yet the ignorance of individual differences led to the failure of discovering specialized talents, who are potential leaders and innovators of the future.

Bertrand Russell already pointed this problem 90 years ago(http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13940), but the problem still remains till now.
It's because the US is no longer a Capitalist nation; as such it no longer derives the maximum benefits of Capitalism. It was a mixed economy 30 or 40 years ago. Today it's a welfare state that depends on its central bank to remain solvent, with hyper regulation, high levels of debt, and high levels of taxation. The number of economic regulations and general laws passed each year in the US is truly astounding, and literally impossible to either keep up with or manage (this includes the laughable tax code).

A century ago there were hardly any regulations or taxes. Today every segment of the economy is highly regulated outside of tech and nearly everything you can taste, touch, smell, eat or look at is taxed (often multiple times).
A third of the population in the richest nation on earth lives in poverty. According to you, that's not a problem because even poorer people in Bangladesh are slightly less poor than they would be if American companies had never employed them. What kind of callous person could look around at all the suffering and think this system's working great? Or do you not look around at all, holed up in a tacky mansion of your own?
And when anyone talks about it, they get rather aggressively ignored.

This proves my case rather nicely.
This being Hacker News...I'm really interested in hearing what people have to say about RASCI, something I had never heard about until the parent comment's link:

> Taibbi and other journalists who came to First Look believed they were joining a free-wheeling, autonomous, and unstructured institution. What they found instead was a confounding array of rules, structures, and systems imposed by Omidyar and other First Look managers on matters both trivial—which computer program to use to internally communicate, mandatory regular company-wide meetings, mandated use of a “responsibility assignment matrix” called a “RASCI,” popular in business-school circles for managing projects—as well as more substantive issues.

That doesn't sound much fun for managing business/IT projects, I can imagine journalists just hating it.
I wonder what's QUIC's role in this? An UDP based multi-home roaming protocol looks so much better for today's mobile internet world.
There's a very simple solution to this. Use strong encryption and obscure or otherwise hide the private keys. We're trying to develop a future conscious messaging client:

http://emp.jar.st/

Is it NSA proof? Probably not, but it will thwart most prying eyes, including LEOs. The idea isn't to make data impossible to get to (this in and of itself is impossible). But rather to make it exceptionally expensive to get to, this forces the people with prying eyes to be much more selective.
Malware Investigator
Thanks for the info, and kudos on the good work in general!

Abide looks quite nice, although I'm a very occasional user of Scala so far, so I'm not sure I'd be very good at coming up with and implementing rules. I'll definitely spread the word to some friends who use Scala more frequently, and may be able to contribute.
> I agree that Bitcoin is more or less irrelevant to the controversy

It's relevant insofar that tip4commit likely couldn't get away with what it was doing without it.
I think it's not so bad given the context. And she does have a very legit background. Per her Rose Hulman profile... http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~berry123/CV.pdf

I view Rose Hulman as one of the hidden gems in our educational system.
> Probably in Syria, calling for reform of radical Islam.

What you say makes no sense.Of all the countries in middle-east,Syria is one of the least islamic and did a good job at protecting minorities like christians.

Your saudi folks on the other hand are no different that what ISIS is preaching.But your government loves saudi money.
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