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No, it's predicated on exponential growth, of which Moore's law was one small part...
Can somebody change the title to be less clickbaity?
How will it being open source guarantee you that the app you downloaded from the platform's store is using the exact same code?
I've thought about this problem pretty extensively (as a lawyer and software developer).

My question is who are you selling this to? If it's just attorneys, that's fine. But if you want courts to adopt it, you will be competing thru a procurement process. This can be death for a startup - long timelines, complicated bidding procedures, and endless requests for customizations. There's huge amounts of money to be made, but by established players who are familiar with the process, built a basic CMS, and can spend thousands of hours of dev time customizing and installing it. Often for just one jurisdiction. Rinse and repeat for the rest of the country...

What I've proposed in the past is a "Wordpress for courts" - a free, open source case management system. It will be more quickly adopted by smaller courts with limited budgets. As larger court systems take notice, they will be attracted not just to the cost and better UX, but the extensibility. The country will benefit by having better, faster access to court records, case law, etc.

I've considered submitting it as a non-profit to HN. And you could easily create a for-profit based on implementation and customization services.
Speculation? Ha.

But Fidesz does this with everything. I mean, look at the tobacco sales permit thing. It's just that threatening the Internet threatens one of the few industries where Hungary is actually making good money, so there's some pushback.
Crash into both of them, problem solved. Or just pick one at random.
> I guess it is better now but for a long time you had to do some port forwarding

Nothing has changed for me. Did I miss something ?
Similar like we pronounce HTTP/2, just in the other direction.
1) What timelines are you looking for a prototype device?

2) What are your rough upfront cost estimates for the timeline you are looking at? IS this cost based on building-from-scratch type of approach or buy off-the-shelf-components-and-repurpose kind of approach?

3) Which country are you looking at realistically? (Some of the countries you have outlined are battling big economic, political and piracy issues)

4) What container materials are looking at - considering they have to withstand massive G-forces plus friction heat (air or inner cannon surface) ?
@rwmj who can disapprove of the middle classes getting "caned"? ;)
How long before “it” decided we were outdated and obsolete?
A draft version of the singularity is almost just one or two key insights away. With the advent of a different computing model (quantum?), we may knock one of them out.
I just restated what they said, if you are so convinced that XMPP would solve all their problems, then I suggest you go to them.

I dought that they don't know already [1], and I also think they have put a lot of thought into spending their money on devloping everything again.

[1] https://github.com/actorapp/actor-platform

Actor Messaging platform, modern replacement for Jabber/ejabberd
The first time this was submitted it garnered some interesting discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353767
I think so. why bother to learn some new language.
That is not extremely secure.
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Or should the Self driving car take into account that the passenger of the self driving car is, hypothetically, a male in his 60s who has raised his children already, and crash himself into the wall or drive off the cliff avoiding both of them, who are younger men with young children to raise?
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While I do have multiple cameras (SLR with long lens for sports, inexpensive Canon for times I'd be worried about dropping my iPhone - e.g. ski lifts) the reality is that old saying that "the best camera is the one that's with you".
We made some user interviews, and we think there is definitely major demand for this. Even without telling them the topic of the interview they already told us that they "need to find some time".
And of course this was sold as an anti-terrorism feature: http://444.hu/2016/04/01/a-kormany-buntetne-a-titkositott-ko...

As always.
It certainly helped.
Just wondering what EFF has to say about other Apps like Telegram since code is open sourced [1]?

[1] - https://telegram.org/apps#source-code
And the majority was never wrong, of course.
> Reputational damage is higher for entities with more money.

In what world? Big business figured out a long time ago that most of the time their bad actions won't be noticed by most people. The rest can often be fixed with some inexpensive spin and PR. Their reputation is only damaged when a scandal is very large and in the right place and time to be noticed.

A "billion dollar company" necessarily has a strong profit motive. It's also subject to the codes and regulations of the country in which they operate. The former damages their credibility (they will do what is profitable, not what is moral), and the latter makes communication platforms suspect (government involvement).

Of course, we don't have to speculate - this is Facebook. They are not only part of Prism, but their entire business is based on surveillance. Not only do they have zero credibility for respecting privacy, they are actively hostile.
Thank you - I am using it absolutely genuine. The used account is in fact linked to an AdWords account which has spendings in the five digits...
How does the WhatsApp encryption model differ from Apple's iMessage encryption model?

- In iMessage, Apple handles key distribution, so if I'm in your contacts, I know the keys for all of your Apple devices. (I'm guessing the private key stays on the device, but I'm not sure).

- iMessage seems to provide no way of verifying someone's key fingerprint.

- On the other hand, whatsApp seems to force you and your contacts to meet at a Starbucks so you can distribute and sign each other's public keys. Interesting.

What other differences are there?

(to make this easier, let's assume that both companies implemented the system the way they claim they did)
I am still trying to wrap my head around privacy in the modern age, and this triggered something for me - this is the end of the privacy-at-a-distance problem.

There is a large body of law around making distance communication private ("secure in ones papers" I think is the phrase from American law. Not allowing people to steam open your letters etc)

This move, which I am including the inevitable "pgp emails using whatsapp collected public/private keys"
seems destined to end the problem - two hundred years of law, one code release.

Really sure an email app will be next now they are building a base of secure keys

Edit: it's now the purview of regulation to require me to keep / handover private conversations as pre-Snowden and that seems a good thing. It forces surveillance to be active and open once again
Me too, but I don't click on links that look obviously bad. I open the half-dozen or so most promising links.
They implemented a known & vetted encryption protocol with expert consultation from the outside.

Its one of the most widely distributed apps in the world & thus likely to have lots of people looking at it.

If you don't trust it, is there any possible encryption scheme you would trust?
Thanky you. I indeed han a chrome extension doing this. Removed and will check!
Apple and Sony? Doesnt Sony make ~$20 per iPhone because of their camera parts contribution. And Apple has 8pp engineers on the camera alone.
We are also applying for YC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447417
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Hey Hacker News,

We've been developing backyard-sized aquaponics systems for the residential market.

(Aquaponics is a system with a fish tank and soilless veggie beds. The fish waste fertilizes the veggies, and the roots filter the water for the fish. You get both fish and veggies for consumption.)

Our goal is to make it easy and simple: easy to buy, start up, maintain, modify, and expand. We would like to see every household with a bit of a backyard eventually become ~self-sufficient with AutoMicroFarm systems.

We're currently working on our fourth prototype, destined for my backyard. We also finished two experiments with using mushroom media that did were not successful, unfortunately (more on those experiments in this blog post: http://blog.automicrofarm.com/post/142436464771/mushroom-med...).

We have half a dozen friends and neighbors interested in the system, after they see the fully functional prototype. After completing the prototype, we're planning to find ~10 alpha/beta customers in my new-construction neighborhood of about 400 houses, then expand to the rest of the Triangle region in North Carolina.

Our website is http://automicrofarm.com/

We've been recording our efforts so far on our blog http://blog.automicrofarm.com/

Ask us anything, and thanks in advance!
This should give everyone pause when choosing to use Skype.
Recently, I wrote a chrome plugin that saves information of all of the songs I listen to on youtube to amazon since youtube's history API is shit. Theoretically, I could write a nightly job that runs YouTube-dl to turn all of those videos into MP3s. Taking it even further, I could run a nightly SyncMe job on my phone to copy the MP3s locally. A setup like this would be good for people with limited phone bandwidth. Imagine not having to search out MP3s anymore. Is it still considered pirating if a robot does it?
The proposition to mandate backdoor is http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/amendements/3318/CION_L... . It was supported by Mme Kosciusko-Morizet, M. Martin-Lalande, M. Cinieri, Mme Duby-Muller, M. Sermier, Mme Rohfritsch, M. Straumann, M. Abad, M. Salen, M. Morel-A-L'Huissier, M. Ginesy, M. Mathis, M. Degallaix, M. Hetzel, Mme Grosskost, Mme Lacroute, Mme Genevard et M. Saddier.

NKM is not ignorant in technology. IMHO, she is evil.
statistically speaking , you are the only commonality , so it can't be that ALL companies are bad :-)
>runs on iPhones

Anyone but Thomas and this would be dead
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I agree that getting all this browsing data from users will rather decrease the signal-to-noise ratio early on.
But, that simultaneously provides a way to explore much more content on web that remains simply unknown to most people because of a lack of discovery medium. From personal experience, Most people share a mere fraction of stuff they discover online. So, even though that might find some rare gem on web, they will share only items which they would be rather associated with in contrast variety of things they might be interested in.

Although, I haven't ironed out exact details, IIRC, Deep learning techniques have improved significantly to make sense out of data if fed a huge chunk of it. Basic Video and Image comprehension techniques are pretty advanced too. I'd like to believe that this system will evolve to serve the purpose too.
> For the record, my friend was a C-level executive but not CEO, did not get a multi-million dollar severance (less than a million), and for someone who based his entire identity on his job and company, it was a very serious blow that sent him into major depression and alcoholism.

If that happened to me, I would be starting at least one new business (or help a friend start one financially), buying my first house, buying the tacos with steak instead of beef, starting at least one long awaited personal project. The idea that somebody could have so much more than me and do so little with it is depressing.
The drive for fault-tolerance, distributed computing and on the other hand, speed, are all becoming prominent leaving Erlang in a good place right now, but in need of other major changes in the computing world. Wrapping languages or 'dropping down to C' is no longer going to cut it, even if it is low-hanging fruit. Rust or Pony's guarantees only hold if you stay in their pen. We need a way of marrying PLs like Erlang/LFE/Elixr and Pony to newer hardware paradigms to take advantage of all those multicores, and potentially custom FPGA vs. ASIC chips rigs that will be arriving to market. Why Erlang matters is that it showed you can allow for failure, albeit brief and inconsequential failure, to succeed. No zero-risk or failure here. Acceptable bounds that are easy to see now, but revolutionary at the time. Custom hardware is already in use at HFT and bitcoin mining companies. The U.S. is going to try and beat China's Tianhe-2, that is currently the world's fastest supercomputer. I'm not sure why, since the Chinese scientists say it would take a decade of programming to utilize the potential of the Tianhe-2's hardware. If you think I'm calling the spirit of Lisp Machines from the dead, you're close ;) I think the von Neumann HW architecture, and its straddled type of OS, are straining at the edges of high-stakes usage, not the common user. We don't need supercomputers, we need new hardware architectures at a lower-level than 'super', that can be programmed in months not decades. Programming languages in the OTP/BEAM category, old, battle-tested languages like APL and J, which have always dealt with the array as their unit of computation, will be the basis for new languages, or they will be adapted in an new one. The money, big data, and mission-critical business needs will drive it to market.
Unfortunately, the robot only does what you tell it to do.
Yup! This is the answer that we came to from our research. If we could save the defenders (or courts or prosecutors) even a small amount of time per case then we can generate enough value to charge them a $/per case fee. We're still honing in on what the exact sweetspot for the case fee is, but based on what other folks in the market are doing it seems to be somewhere between $2-10 depending on who and where the client is.
Anyone could've created a movie. Only those given rights could profit off of it.
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I feel there is no relation to privacy here. It's also the practical choice. Emails can be easily created to by people pretending to be someone else. If you have someone's number on your phone, there is a good chance you have communicated with them before and have thus done some authentication. You can keep creating new email ids to spam people. That becomes very difficult with numbers.
I don't think that open source is considered a requirement by the professional security community.

Which makes sense, we've known for a very long time that you can't trust the source, so you must verify the binary one way or the other.
8pp?
This is called the "trolley problem". Here's a good read about that: https://backchannel.com/reinventing-the-trolley-problem-85f3...
TLDR: such a scenario will NOT happen. A computer is not likely at all to find itself in such a situation.
My opinion: study of such scenario is there just to give more confidence into self driving cars. Just to show people "See? We thought hard about this. Trust autonomous vehicules".
You're disputing that it causes reputational damage, not that reputational damage scales with money.

I'm not saying that they'd lose reputation from "not respecting privacy". That's not considered that bad by the general public. I'm saying that they'd lose reputation from "claiming to release a feature while lying through their teeth about it".
The opportunistic Guardian strikes again.
Signal "runs on iPhones" which you've deemed to be a bad thing for some reason, so surely that should be tier 2 too. In fact, most things "run on iPhones" so it's kind of an odd argument. What's terrible about running on iPhones?
Planes don't fly like birds do, but we certainly learned something about good wing design from birds.
Well, it all sounds nice in theory, but nothing is that easy in practice. People don't have computer that are always one. Do you want to run it on peoples routers? That will be hard/impossible.

Even if you imagen that everbody has their own server, they would not have very good uptime. What do you do with the messages? Updating potentially millions of server to new version of protocol is hard. Devloping a protocol that is both backwards compatible and secure is very hard.

Just look at Bitcoin for all the problem peer-to-peer networks have. Something as simpel as chinas firewall causes a hole lot of problems.

I would really like to see federation, but even then I don't think 99% of users should run their own servers.
I think your plan just has the AI god more likely to be fond of you.
Isn't this the best course of action for AI anyways? Creating intelligence through evolution rather than reverse engineering the brain?
> I was under the impression that since Google started publishing x86 builds of Android the "emulator" is now much more like a simulator (unless you choose to run the ARM version, of course).

They're both still emulators. The difference is that when using x86 images, it now uses fast, hardware-accelerated virtualization under the right conditions (e.g. HAXM[1]) so it doesn't feel like there's a fat middle layer anymore.

Virtualization has come a long way in recent years, and the new emulator reflects that. Of course, there's still major hurdles when emulating different architectures, so ARM emulation is still a pain.

[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/android/articles/intel-hard...
So if you're using literally any messaging app on Android, you're using software by a company cooperating with PRISM?
Presumably it would plug into legal data to estimate which option would be less financially risky to the car company.
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You're getting 100k around 6 years sooner, and your degree postponed indefinitely.

I did 5 year double degree in finance and software engineering finishing at 23. The education helped me gather $100+k by 26, (and looking like $200k by 27, unless I get fired and can't find a job for the rest of the year starting tomorrow).

If I could go back in time with a guaranteed ticket to be a Thiel Fellow I don't think I'd take it. The knowledge I learnt at my university is invaluable, and continues to be useful everyday.

Your experience may vary.
That is the EXACT same problem they had me work on! We should start a club.

I tried to impress them by not using any libraries, that may have been a mistake. It was a couple years ago now...
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Thanks for the question!

We plan on charging firms on a per case basis.

Eventually we also plan to to sell to other customers, particularly courts and prosecutors, but we have to start somewhere and this is where we felt there was the biggest mismatch between need and current tech.

Both prosecutors and courts have more money than PDs (generally), but they are also much much harder markets to crack since they tend to be more directly integrated with the governments IT and contracting infrastructure.
An Uber driver in India was shot dead by his passengers
Purely in terms of reach or acquiring customer, we will do following to promote Love & Care Shampoo:

- We will make sample shampoo available for subsidized cost. So customer will be able to try it before getting into subscription.

- We will promote shampoo in general clinics, hair clinics, skin clinics, hair salons.

- We will do door to door promotion.

- We will offer shampoo to Stylebee beauty and wellness professionals. So they can promote product to their customers.

- We will also focus on African American women as most of them spend lots of time and money styling their hair as they want style that last. Our Love & Care shampoo offers the exact benefit of long-lasting relief from dandruff, including flaking, itching and dryness -its active ingredient adheres to the scalp's proteins, so it keeps working in-between washings.

- Social media promotions to get new customers.

- Uber like friends referral program with discounts.
Are you worried about your kids becoming alcoholics? Or obese sugar addicts? Or chainsmokers? It seems that society has been increasingly successful at regulating those vices, both in the legal sense of the word "regulation" and in the broader sense - by being able to openly study and debate the drawbacks/merits of various "vices", we've been able to come to honest consensuses on each issue that even a teenager can respect.

If weed is forbidden/taboo, there's a good chance that your child will come across a successful/popular/intelligent peer that completely discredits everything you've ever told them about "stoners". My fiance is in medical school at a highly selective school and from interacting with a lot of her peers socially I've been again amazed at how many regular smokers are highly intelligent, driven and successful. Once it's truly out in the open, these successes can have a lot more context and we'll truly be able to study and discuss what truth there is to the stoner stereotype.
They explicitly stated that it was close source and Signal should be preferred,.
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what i the world were they waiting for?
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Every time a new platform or a new device gets launched there are low-hanging opportunities aplenty. It is easy to overestimate how big the opportunity has to be in order to be worthwhile for a single programmer. Those opportunities don't get pursued by established businesses because they are too small, leaving the field ripe for the picking.
It was a really thin article anyways, I don't think it belongs here. The whole article can be summed as "smartphones have tanked camera sales because smartphones have cameras, here is one chart showing this".
And one way to increase confidence in the binary is to compile it yourself.
Too bad 8/10 of your contacts have automatic backups to iCloud or Google Drive enabled. Kind of defeats the idea of "end-to-end". More like end-to-end-to-cloud.
"it's too narrow to justify the investment into building specialized hardware for it"
FYI, if the only way to improve perf is to build custom hw, the cost and complexity of building custom hw will drop.
Thanks for the comment.

This is an interesting idea and something my brother (who has done more IT support than me in the past) has been badgering me about for quite some time. Most likely we will end up hiring someone to help handle this full time once we have more than one client, but for the first go around I just plan to do it myself. (Do things that don't scale says the church of PG)
Telegram wouldn't fair very well. It has weak home-grown encryption and doesn't enable it be default.
Yeah but how are they gonna detect it. Streaming a video is pretty much indistinguishable from downloading since that's what you actually do. If there's no claimant, there's no judge. I'd say things like that are de facto legal since it cannot be enforced.
Was wondering how difficult is to code a UI like this? i.e. SVG with draggable boxes with the connections/lines?
Encrypted streaming, eg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsWrShXPDPo

4 year old bug https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/343
Twice, using 2 different compilers. That you have also audited.

Or you could observe what the original binary actually does, which you need to do anyway.
Has the WhatsApp code been audited by trusted third parties? I know it's not quite as good as it being open source, but if we had people we trust audit it, that seems like a good step. Also, disassembly and teardown.

I think something this big needs people to really really scrutinise it.
Not so economical if you want to brute force a login page.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging

Sometimes you want plausible deniability, sometimes you want to sign something for all the world to be able to verify.