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Backdoors for the government into all encrypted services required by law? I don't see what could possibly go wrong.
I've published 6 software patent apps, and I'm still against software patents
Yes, exactly. There are ways of communicating such that no one can possibly hear it but the intended parties. In those cases law enforcement has to "get to" someone. Why not just stick with this approach instead of punishing certain forms of communication for being convenient?
What are the open source problems they seem so concerned about?

I'm presuming all startups these days are building on open source. If your company happens to be an app built on rails, microsft won't buy it?
Time Likely To End Within Earth's Lifespan, Say Physicists
After reading the Times article, I don't see how TOR would be affected. Tor ensures Annonimity not Privacy. Tor just obfuscates who you are talking to, not what you are saying. A warrant to your ISP will get everything you say over TOR (assuming you aren't then encapsulating inside one of the other encryption mechanisms listed).
But computers aren't confusing; the idea of a block of N bytes memory containing M-byte sized elements is dead-simple, and the same whether it's statically or dynamically allocated.

The semantics associated with accessing those elements in C is anything but, especially for a beginner.
First of all, thanks for sharing your experiences.

I read the whole thing, but it isn't clear at all what really brought success on the third try. I did notice things about working hard together in the same room and getting insights and investment from good investors.

But were there clear, concrete changes to marketing and the product then? A few people would definitely benefit from what you could share on that. Thanks!
Millennial Media: Android Ad Requests Up 996 Percent Since January
There is some value in just forcing a backdoor on manufacturers without a ban. Plenty of people only get the benefits of encryption because it is on by default.

However, to be truly effective, yes they would have to ban other forms on encryption - this obvious inference was totally ignored in all news I read or saw of the clipper chip in the 90s. A sad illustration of the prevalent shallowness in mainstream tech reporting.
It's good to see something positive coming out of the Sun acquisition: a whole crop of very interesting startups are probably being founded right now.
Did you click on the confirm email link twice? The first time you click it, the email is confirmed. The next time, we should show a message saying your email is already confirmed. But, we have a bug that doesn't show the message and redirects you to the register page.

We will recreate this issue and get it fixed ASAP. Do let us know if you are unable to login.
1202 No Lcd Display Ways Problem
Package for download:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ttf-ubuntu-font-family
The southern state of India is where Rajanikanth fans are the craziest. His movie roles are larger than life and often defy gravity and logic. Here is a link to a video that might give you an idea of what you can expect in his movies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86g1sI3q1Fs
This will just push the encryption down from the service provider to the application layer.
Is the book a lot better than the website? Could you give us a taste of the additional content?
Is the code available for this or is it something you have written yourself?
FBI Drive for Encryption Backdoors is Déjà vu for Security Experts
I handle my mail with imapfilter (http://imapfilter.hellug.gr/#overview). Can I reuse the machine learning part ?
Dugg.
Twitter's Daily Deal Product Flops: Early Bird "Set Aside"
Thanks vkalladath for the feedback. We are indexing the entire content as well as have an Easy Reader that provides an uncluttered view of the page. Providing support for Kindle is a good idea. We are currently working on iPhone, iPad and Android apps. Will look into Kindle as well.

We do provide bookmarklets. Once you sign into the app, go to the "Account" tab and you will see "Bookmarklet" option.

We do plan on adding Facebook and Twitter streams as well as RSS feeds.
MooseX-Declare is a bit more than that. If you simply want signatures, take a look at Function::Parameters (for functions) or Method::Signatures::Simple (for methods with an invocant).
By the way, how is historious on the kindle? I just ordered one, so we might add a better interface for the kindle, so you can forgo instapaper altogether (there's "read later" functionality already, along with the custom bookmarklet here: http://historio.us/help/bookmarklets/).

What's not working on the kindle right now?

Thanks!
I like the changes. Best of all, the non-destructive substitution.
Yes, CACM is less crappy in that respect than it used to be. There's still a fair amount of cruft, though. (Queue has more non-cruft, but it's now online-only.)
I like the idea of gobo (I used it for a little while) but the packages they had available just weren't doing it for me. I'm an arch guy, now :-)
State IT security pros feeling big budget squeeze
i don't know enough about SL to make a good comparison, but here's an attempt:

you can die in minecraft, there are enemies (in the non-free version), physics rules are static, there are no scripts, and its not massively multiplayer.
Ask HN: How many of you continue reading a blog post after a popup ad?
it has happened to me couple of times today already on sites like http://www.businessinsider.com. I start reading a blog post and suddenly those damn javascript-css-popup ads comes bloging the screen.

How many of you continue reading a post after popup ad ? Are you skipping already some blogs because those ads (like I'm trying to)?
This, unfortunately, is a losing war. With no mechanism in place for the "winning" side to stop the "losing" side from trying again, often with the same arguments but different ears, eventually the "loser" will turn into the "winner." More to the point, even if the larger picture remains the same, the losing side will continue to attempt to chip away piece by piece any such protections.

Don't believe me? Look at our park system. We've come out and said time and again that the trees in our parks are important. That is, until we sell 30 acres here to pay for this. Then 30 acres there to sell to pay for that. Eventually some of the parks are half the size they used to be. God help the redwood trees.
Good question. What's wrong with serious police, detective, or spy work in these extreme edge cases where encrypted communication is a crucial piece of evidence?

This seems incredibly lazy and irresponsible.
Microsoft Replacing Windows Live Spaces with WordPress.com
Common antidepressants can send our moral compasses spinning
Peculiar human sex differences
I'm struggling to see how this is relevant to Hacker News.

Yeah, I see the upvote rate on the article and I know who SUPERSTAR Rajni is, but still?
Quora is one of the first sites that I've allowed to connect via Facebook, and I was pleasantly surprised by how well it's worked so far. They haven't spammed my wall at all (like most other things), and the site itself became much more interesting as soon as I was connected to all of my friends & interests.
Anyone have a home-schooling related startup? I have always thought this was a decent-sized market that probably has some seriously under-served customers.
COO Tim Cook rumored to be leaving Apple for HP
From the sounds of it, this is a far from accepted idea that's just now coming out in like it's first paper or something, so don't start planning your End of Time Party. There's still a lot of verification and research and math between this being published and it becoming the consensus among physicists.
true, but from the phrasing in the story, it appears any company encrypting data will be required to provide the FBI a backdoor, including the application layer.

What I find interesting / related is Google, Yahoo and other internet companies and ISPs are pushing for less invasive probes from the DOJ (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002423-38.html), maybe the Feds need some draconian laws to bargin with.
I try not to get too worked up over press releases but it seems like they have a working prototype of this device - and that makes me excited.
I haven't browsed the website in a very long time, so I'm afraid I really can't. I heard about the book from somewhere (probably HN), remembered how awesome the site was when I browsed it years ago, ordered it, and devoured it. Didn't really bother re-checking the website since I was getting the book. Sorry I can't be more help.
Hm, the site is down for me. Did they already take everything down? :(
I guess it's on a light note and just for the occasional fun... :)
Which side is the winning side and which is the losing side?
The article says correctly that the number of homeschoolers is somewhat difficult to estimate. But Brian Ray and his colleagues have a known propensity to produce overestimates of the number of homeschoolers, so I doubt the figures cited to him in the article. My family of four children (one now an adult and living on campus at university) have always been homeschooled, but I know a lot of families that start homeschooling at about third grade age, and cease formally homeschooling by high school age. That age pattern is backed up by the statistics from the few states that gather homeschooling statistics stratified by age. See

http://learninfreedom.org/homeschool_growth.html

for some old numbers ("growing rapidly" isn't a correct statement anymore) and discussion of the data reliability issues.

The submitted article is correct that stigma attached to homeschooling has diminished considerably over the years.
Perhaps you should try something before you dismiss it.

Sites you log into using OpenID never see your password. (For that matter, any competent OpenID provider will never store your password in cleartext, so they won't know it either.) The only thing the site knows is your OpenID url, and when you sign in using that, it redirects you there, to enter your password.

Live example. I use myopenid.com to provide OpenID services, delegated via a link rel="openid.delegate" tag on my personal site, bbot.org.

When I want to sign in via OpenID on a site, say, livejournal, I type in "bbot.org". Livejournal looks at that site, reads the link tag, and sends me to myopenid.com. I sign in there, and it sends me back to livejournal, now logged in.
Should be poll. Only about 1/100 times will I dismiss a pop-up and keep reading or click-through a "skip this ad" screen.
"Well inside the terminal" comes as a surprise -- in the US, the carriers have traditionally tolerated everyone snapping their phones on within a few seconds of touching down. Which is really just another oddity, now that I think about it.
Thanks CWuestefeld. Yes, we did ask for it :-) That is why we love HN and the constructive discussions here.

You raise a very important point. We did discard all the heirarchical structure and the tags. Our initial thought was that tags and folders are not needed as we can search for a bookmark based on terms we remember from the content of the page. However, the fact is that there maybe additional data in the tags and folders and descriptions that may get ignored. We are looking at way to add this data into our index so that it isn't lost.

We are planning on adding the search within the browser extensions. That would make it easy for you to search your Zukmo account without visiting the site.

About signing in through Facebook, it is just an option some users may find useful. They don't have to remember another password. Personally, I find the Twitter sign in option as I don't mind giving out my Twitter credentials. So, we decided to provide all three options: Your own email id/password, Twitter or Facebook.
The thing is that running ToR requires much more bandwidth than running a DNS server. So, people may not mind running a DNS server on their computer, as replies fit within a single packet (it was designed that way).
This is Chris, one of the authors of Climb It. I just want to clarify that it isn't yet available for purchase as it hasn't been accepted in the App Store yet. We'll certainly let everyone know when it is and we really appreciate any prior feedback Thanks!
Words That Google Instant Doesn't Like
I've been wanting to see proper support of combinations of column-height, column-width and column-span for a long time. I would definitely be a user of a library if it could give me these features.
What chrisbolt said, but this also notifies you via growls, allows you to control whether each screenshot is posted and allows you to specify a filename. :-)
And, of course, copies the link to the clipboard.
From the comments it sounds like it's related to string theory, which itself is on shaky theoretical ground. Guess we have to think out the box to progress physics, just need these kind of articles to use appropriate language to give a good idea of how far off many of these types of theories are to being proven.
I found this link discussing using Perlin Noise to generate artificial terrain:

http://www.vterrain.org/Elevation/Artificial/
Oh man, maybe that's why I didn't understand a damn thing about the article.

And yes, I totally would.
Thanks for the feedback Warwick. GPS integration is definitely on the development path.
The concept album that effectively killed the cyberpunk literary genre
I could see Google Docs replacing OpenOffice for me if it were available offline. An online-only document service that doesn't let me sync and edit/read offline isn't that useful to me though.
Worked a treat, cheers.
I agree, but once, someone flagged an article about SUPERSTAR Rajinikanth on HN, and the article moved even further up the front page.
Internet Wiretapping Proposal Met With Silence
That's what they're trying to avoid needing to do.
This sort of attitude is not the norm in the general population (citation needed? Ask your non-programmer friends).

No one is forcing you to use a site that requires Facebook, but obviously (based on the comments here like yours) companies requiring it should probably rethink this if their primary audience is tech-savvy geeks.
Australian footage of Neil Armstrong's moon walk
yeah, I really should have put in an Edit: in that, sorry. It's time to log off.
I brought the Kindle 2 for total of $400, thought it was a ripoff when apple introduced ipad..but it looks they are progressing slowly.
With CPAN (and local-lib and/or perlbrew) I can have per-user libraries, per-application libraries, and it doesn't interfere at all with the dependencies of the system. If a library that both my application and the system use, and they fix a bug that includes an incompatibility, I can upgrade my applications without fiddling with the system, I don't need to take care to break APT in the process (fun times). I'm not even talking about possibilities like copying someone else's local-lib to my own environment to help them debugging, while still having my own setup stay untouched.

So, I guess I disagree. These tools provide a lot more than the usual package management.

To me it seems backwards to try to manage libraries globally when their use-cases are often already localized.
Here is a list of changes since 5.12 (thus far!):

* http://search.cpan.org/~shay/perl-5.13.5/pod/perl5131delta.p...

* http://search.cpan.org/~shay/perl-5.13.5/pod/perl5132delta.p...

* http://search.cpan.org/~shay/perl-5.13.5/pod/perl5133delta.p...

* http://search.cpan.org/~shay/perl-5.13.5/pod/perl5134delta.p...

* http://search.cpan.org/~shay/perl-5.13.5/pod/perldelta.pod
As cliche as it is, the old saying "If X is illegal, only law-breakers will use X" applies here.
The enumerated powers clause of the constitution does not give the government the power to mandate standards for communication. Further, the first amendment makes it clear that such a law is a violatiin of rights.

Finally, it is worth noting that the fourth amendment requires a warrant, and existing wiretaps are done without warrants, just with "court orders" because getting a warrant was too much of a burden.

The inclusion from all of this is that the act of enforcing this law, if passed, would be itself a crime as there exists a federal law against violating constitutional rights under color of law. Further, passing the law jugs shows who illegal our government has become. If the government is not in comolaince with the document that authorizes it's existence, then it is not a legitimate government.
I think the future of Illumos is safe. They've already got a lot of heavy-weighters behind it, ex-Sun/Oracle and others.
the link seems to be down at the moment
it's a neat idea but why use Gobo instead of other distros? The intro page doesn't really explain its advantages and benefits.
More info available on TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/twitter-setting-aside-early...

It does seem as thought Early Bird wasn't getting much attention from Twitter. I don't understand why, because daily deals are looking pretty good right now. I wonder if they would have seen far more success if they had localized the offers.
Rewiring a damaged brain
Thanks blntechie for your feedback.

The categorization of bookmarks was started with a set of seed urls. It will get better as more and more pages are categorized through it. We will continue to fine tune it.

Good points about the Search lens and about changing the left panel when there are no pages found for the search terms.

We are part of Vembu Technologies. Sekar Vembu, our CEO was one of the founders of Zoho. Vembu Technologies was founded in 2004.
ASK HN: Help with how to breakdown a project 
Let me start with - I am not a tech person at all.

I have a start-up web application that I need to build, and I'm looking to outsource the development of an initial prototype.

My question is this... is it better to break down the entire project into small milestones, or is it better to explain the entire project at once and work with the developer to create it all?

My gut tells me, break it down into small milestones that build upon each other. But, not being a tech person I don't know the answer to this next part...

as a developer are you able to work with small pieces of a project without knowing what is coming next? Is it easier to know the big picture so you can plan for what is coming up as you go?

I think of building a house.... I wouldn't want to build a basement and foundation of a house if I didn't know what the floorplan was? I could build a square foundation, but the house could be cirle? Same with this... I could tell a developer to build a registration page, but if he/she doesn't know what that info is for, it is going to work?

Thank you.
Alias Your Mom, and 4 Other Tips for Productive Development
The iPad Needs A Kiosk Mode
Yes, Google stores this preference in Cookies (which is wierd). So if your browser clears cookies on exit, 'instant' is again enabled by default.
IIRF is a good replacement for htaccess on a windows server. http://www.codeplex.com/iirf
Wrong. Tor encrypts the channel from point to point. ISP doesn't know what you're saying.
Gems have the bizarre feature of allowing you to install multiple versions simultaneously. This is really hard to represent in a deb. :)
I would say 1/3 times I will just close, instead of clicking through. I would say in video it's different though, I will often sit through many ads, even ones that are clickable (e.g. hulu), because the content is more passive.
Does anyone know why they won't release full books on the web? Seems like the demand would be strong.
Thank you. This is a great name considering the enterprise market's demographics. Much better than BlackPad.
(yeah, would have but "Sorry, you need 20 karma to create a poll.")
Woit's take on the Not Even Wrong blog:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=3185
According to the nytimes article, the proposal will likely include the requirement that you MUST have a backdoor in your encryption scheme. That effectively bans schemes without backdoors.
Ask HN: How can startups accept payments from users who don't have credit cards?
I'm looking for interesting ways that a startup can accept (non-recurring) payment from users. Greendot and other prepaid cards are an option, but the initial/monthly fees are very high for people who may only be looking to make one purchase. Western Union/MoneyGram are very expensive. Kwedit (PayNearMe) has been discussed here in the past; that seems like one option, but that's limited to 7-Elevens, and it requires customers to have a decent quality printer. Checks and Money Orders require mail and manual processing.

What other options have you seen/used?
Real v. Imagined wealth distribution in the US
This theory is well across the line from science and into religion.

How is this:
"we'll run headlong into this catastrophe before we can observe its effects on anything else."

any different than this:

"But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."
http://bible.cc/matthew/24-36.htm
PSP2 Hardware Now In The Hands Of 'Numerous' Developers
Living, Growing Architecture (Literally)
While maintaining cross browser capability, I couldn't agree if xmark could work with dropbox or my own server.
And also (and definitely not last!) there is Method::Signatures (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Method-Signatures/) which adds both function & method signatures.
"If the universe lasts forever, then any event that can happen, will happen, no matter how unlikely."

That's just plain mathematically wrong. There are many kinds of infinity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number), and the set of all possible events has a much, much higher cardinality than an infinite axis of time. This is similar to saying that, since the set of integers is infinite, it must contain Pi.
thanks. seems to work now.

Any plans on using the structure of one's bookmark files to tag bookmarks being imported?

I've got a ton of folders categorized properly viz. A Scripting folder with sub folders like PHP / JavaScript / Python etc. Would love to see those translate out to tags ..
It took less than an hour for someone to figure out the Partner and Venture Firm Steve Blank was referring to in his post that was approximately called "You're Just the Founder". Now admittedly he tagged the post with the name of the company so it was easier, but still.

Anonymising information while leaving it usable is hard to the point of (near?)impossibility
In my opinion, for what it's worth, you absolutely must either become technical, or must work closely with someone you trust. Trying to break down your project into pieces without knowing how these things work is a great way to get a partially implemented, completely broken, useless pile of non-functional code.

At the very least you need to get tutored on how to break these things down, and tutored by someone with experience.

This question does come up a lot on HN - a search and browse may repay you.

PS: It's generally preferred if you preface the title of a submission like this with "Ask HN:" so we know you're asking a question, rather than pointing to an article that discusses the issue.
Curation beyond social media - and Licorize
They make too much money selling kindle, to release a full reader any time soon.

As long as I need to have some special reading device, I won't buy any ebook.