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There's http://www.rdio.com -- The library isn't exactly mind-blowing, but they put up fresh music every week (Recently: Maximum Balloon, Engineers, Ice Cube's new independent album, Neil young, Lil Wayne, Clapton, Mark Ronson...) and seem to work with some decent independent labels (Ghostly comes to mind.)
Encryption and password privacy is an entirely unsettled area of US law. The courts can probably compel you to enter your password (to decrypt a drive, or what have you), while you can maintain that the content of your password can be protected under the 5th. So, for instance, say you had encrypted files of plans to build a bomb and detailed schematics of the White House. The judge can order you to decrypt the files without forcing you to reveal that the password was "K1llt3hPr3zn0w!"

As a practical matter, I've wondered what would happen if someone simply claimed they couldn't remember the password. Especially if one could make it look like the encrypted files hadn't been accessed in over a year.

TrueCrypt's Plausible Deniability (http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability) makes these issues even more complicated.

But yeah: by simply refusing, you'd be thrown in jail for contempt and your only way out would be appellate review of the order. You'd have to challenge the contempt citation on the basis that the original order was unlawful.
When an A-10 Warthog shoots a tank with depleted uranium (DU) rounds, it definitely leaves behind poisonous dust. Sure, they're 100% wrong that the Predator weapons systems don't do that. Are we really expecting these people (who don't have Internet access and aren't War Nerd fans) to understand the differences?

I'm actually a little impressed that these people even are aware of issues like that.

In the old days, you'd know when the war is coming towards you. And a guy shooting someone with a gun is an easily understood event to even the most uneducated.

However, in this new kind of war, you hear the buzzing of the drones, but you have no idea how far away they are (they are supposed to be hard to see). And then, occasionally (which is worse than regularly) something blows up, almost as if by magic. The Hellfire missle tops out at mach 1.3, so you're not going to hear it coming.

Those people are suffering the classic stress symptoms of people living in a war zone.
That's what I thought too. But then again, if they had the people to get that interface right, why haven't they done so before? The idea is not so far out, they simply don't compromise of ease and simplicity... like all good products.
If Google's plan is to use Simplify Media's tech then it will probably be a plugin for Winamp and iTunes.
And obviously, we're hiring: http://www.opendns.com/about/careers
Isn't this just wishful thinking? Everybody hates labels, and so wishes them dead (and for the record, so do I). But just because everyone wants them to die doesn't mean they will die.

Labels sit on content, and their monopoly is protected by the full force of the law. The number of startups in the field or the evilness of label people does seem a little bit irrelevant.

There is only one way labels can die: if they cease to have a monopoly on music content -- which means, either the world gets rid of copyright, or (young, new and aspiring) artists stop signing with labels.

None of this is happening anytime soon. (It may happen, but in a rather distant future.)
Relevant: http://imgur.com/0YHea
One of the best tech blogs was http://www.startup-review.com. Unfortunately it shut down. I prefer thought-through reviews as opposed to quick post about another investment raised as if that was a milestone.
I understand that in some areas, not only is it illegal to operate an insecure wireless access point (in the UK at least), you can be held accountable for the actions of people that use the access point.
Some integration with meetup would work well too, I would think - it already has an established audience of local developers in specific languages.
Intentionally destroying incriminating evidence is probably not something you should ever do. Certainly not in such a way that leaves evidence in the form of pulverized IC remains all over your kitchen counter.
The problem is that your assertion is not true for any arbitrary function. For example, consider a function(aka curve) defined by: f(x) is x if x is irrational and 1 if x is rational. This function is discontinuous and cannot be approximated by shorter and shorter straight lines.

The calculus concept you are reaching for is continuity. If f(x) is continuous, then for any e>0 there exists a d>0 such that abs( f(x) - f(y) ) < d if abs( x - y) < e. That's the famous epsilon-delta mantra of the calculus. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of_....

Continuity is a powerful property that enables much of what is useful in the calculus. Continuity of a function and its derivative is even stronger; continuity of the function and first and second derivatives is stronger still.
"50-character encryption password" - nice!

I'm wondering ...
Person A refuses for - pure principle (and maybe some ripped DvD's)
Person B refuses for - let's say child pornography and a dirty bomb manual

Both will get the same jail time?
I've met a couple of people who actually deal with computer forensics for the police and they are seriously smart people and totally on top of their game. So while you're average cop might not understand the details, they have forensics guy who certainly do.

As to proving anything, my understanding is that it is theoretically impossible to prove, but sometimes bugs in the implementation or various user mistakes mean that you can, in practice, sometimes get a good indication that something is hidden,
:-) I doubt you read your local newspaper with the same zeal as, say, WSJ, Economist, etc. Local newspapers are quite irrelevant unless you are really tied to the community.

I think they already have the cap thing. However, it's not as simple as that. A lot of businesses possess neither the experience nor the theoretical skills to analyze what-if situations involving hundreds or thousands of new customers. When you say the companies are "only" advertising to their local market you are making teh same gross underestimation that some of these poor small businesses do: local can be huge! For example, AFAIK Chicago metro area is around 3M people, when you throw in the suburbs it around 9M. When you advertise to Chicago groupon, all those people have access (e.g. I live 30 mi outside Chicago but still bought the Tall Ship Wendy deal at Navy Pier this summer, they were quite overwhelmed with the demand.)
Good article. I'm inspired by the idea of branding myself.
How can you even prove that a file is encrypted? The whole law is baloney.
My understanding is that the "oops Agent Smith, my WiFi was unsecured" is not legally feasible, or is going away.. you are responsible for access to your pipe. Which sucks... heh.
Yeah, I had it after working with RapidSMS for a while ;)

Would definitely love contributors - my Java sucks. Have tasks in the pipeline like async HTTP reqs, a request log view etc. Email me at niryariv@gmail.com and let's hack!
Well, Germany knows what hyperinflation is like, so I'm not too surprised to see this.
> But I'm too introverted I think.

When it comes down to it, that's just an excuse. If you think being a recruiter would appeal to you, then do it. It's cheesy to say that you can do anything you can put your mind to, but there truly is no one holding you back other than yourself.

I think the whole recruiter/agent idea for young professionals makes a hell of a lot of sense, and I'd be happy to be one of your early clients :)
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Yes, of course any smart criminals will do that.

But my goal is not to be a smart criminal. My goal is to have a right to privacy to my own stuff.

That said, I don't see why the well-established precedents of opening locked doors and safes shouldn't apply to computers. If you subpoena my safe, I have to open it for you. Otherwise, I certainly won't.
I only talked about labels, not popularity. (I also think that Europe is at least beginning to be throughly disappointed by Barack Obama.)
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In general, yes. Though I thought more about getting a low percentage of income for as long as the job lasts, instead of a big percentage of the first annual income after three months.
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The barrier to entry in the recruiting industry is low, i.e. a cellphone, an internet connection and some available time.

It beats trying to sell real-estate for those "in transition" because you can do it in your pajamas or pretend to be a career coach.

They're so clueless because most recruiters just search the web for jobs you could have found yourself, and then try to work their way into getting a cut. Therefore a typical recruiter reduces a person's chance for a job.

There are some good one's out there. But they're few and far between. Because they have done their research prior to contacting you, their emails will be short, to the point, and designed to screen for deal breakers, "Would you be interested in a job in St. Louis?"
Any chance of genetic modification so that I too can utilize photosynthesis? I love food, but it'd be nice to not have to worry if I was stranded on a deserted island in the tropics.
You could definitely do this with KalSMS (at least the responding part should be pretty easy). Let me know if you go for it, will be happy to help out if I can.

Do u find Nexus phones on CL/pay as you go? Pay as u go would be great.
I'm a bit torn on this. I realize that you need to benchmark to really prove anything, and that optimization intuitions are often wrong, but on the other hand, you really need a wide variety of world benchmarks to approach any form of real world "proof". In the early implementation stages, I think clear thinking such as provided in this article is probably more important than spending 50 times as long setting up an array of benchmarks. Hopefully Salvatore has done some micro-benchmarks during development to guide his thinking, but even if not, it's hard to refute the thinking in this article.

If you think about the problem space of Redis vs Varnish, it's intuitively obvious that Varnish deals with a wide variety of general data without many opportunities to optimize beyond general purpose algorithms such as an OS provides. Whereas Redis has specific data types often with small footprints, and very careful attention paid to the details of optimization for memory and disk usage.
Can you provide some citations for your claims here? I'd really like to review them.
technically no, but that's the beauty of extraordinary rendition.
Wait, so he's been charged $6.7 billion, and "no one realistically expects him to pay it" ... "it's more symbolic"

Hogwash. I smell foul play. How would a $6.7 billion fine prevent people from doing this any more than $100 million? They made this number big so that the PUBLIC would see it and think "yay, someone has taken responsibility for it all" but allows the bank to get away scot free. He was definitely a fall guy.
I just recently got on with Linode for some personal projects and to learn a bit more about administrating a server. Can't recommend it enough. What an excellent service.
I've been pushing to implement this for our application, but I'm told that we used to, and had to turn it off because it would saturate the IO of the logging server.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it just a simple configuration tuning problem?
How long will it take for...

"tech blogging is a race to the bottom" and we're "going for something that doesn’t exist in the market"

...to turn into...

"tech blogging is a race to the bottom, and we intend to win that race"

The problem is that pot-stirring, half-wrong stories, and superficial snap judgments bring the eyeballs, inlinks, discussions, and ad revenue.

A new online journalism needs specific ideas to break or reverse that entropic cycle -- at least locally (even if it persists globally) -- rather than just high-minded goals.
Thanks. I was wondering where the title from that other one came from, even though I remember what the rant was about.
Usually in the banking sector, it's not uncommon to have a private agreement before going into court case. Especially when this is a mutual benefit between the employee and the employer (the bank). As the "fraud" within the bank has always a negative impact on the bank's credibility (a key factor for operating a bank), a private agreement is usually better for everyone.

But the period was bad for the trader, Société Général was in a bad shape due to their subprime losses. So it was easier for SG to charge the insider trader than willing to find an agreement. Especially that would cover the current subprime losses as not originating (even if the banks lacks controls or auditing) from the bank itself but more from the "evil" trader.

The surprise is now more coming on the judgment itself where the internal bank operation was not deeply analyzed. If you are old enough, you may remember the Crédit Lyonnais fire in Paris destroying the whole archive in 1996. Maybe the appeal would go more in the archive of SG and re-balance a bit the judgment...
A question, honestly: have you ever visited or spoken to anyone at a label?
There are several reasons that "signing" is the next, big logical step.

Larger venues (most of which are owned by Clearchannel) will not give you the time of the day if you don't have a label behind you. It doesn't matter if you consistently sell out of venues a tier below them. Their booking agent won't even take your call. Sell a million mp3s of your song online? If one of the subsidiaries of the Big Four aren't behind you, forget getting to play a place like Bowery Ballroom. The "break-in" venues like CBGBs don't even exist anymore.

In order to tour, and I mean really tour - spend six, eight months on the road - you need a lot of money. To haul equipment. To pay people to schlep your equipment. To deal with contracts with venues. To deal with venue management. To make sure you don't get screwed by the venue management. To book the shows. It's really, really hard for even a locally established artist to tour. That's where the label helps out. I'm not talking stadium shows. I'm talking about shows that break even, where 200-300 people show up.
It would be a neat value add for InstaPaper to add this to subscriber accounts.
Reminded me of this thread- about unethical things people did to get their startup off the ground.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1589257
Going through some of the things people confessed doing, this almost seems mild!
Spamming(quite a lot),Free Porn(Bit Torrent), Crashing competitors server.. you name it!
Something like paging virtual memory for Redis is going to be a core feature. I can completely understand why they would want to keep core features "in house". It's not "not implemented here" syndrome if the entire point of your company is to implement things like this.
Absolutely. I think this is a great win for crypto; this guy is truly free from the prying eyes of the government.

It's good for society, too -- instead of convicting someone based on evidence on the guy's own computer (bringing into question context, chain of custody issues, and so on), the cops will have to build a solid case to convict him. When the police are forced to cross their ts and dot their is, society wins.

So I see this as good for everyone, even the children he may be abusing. They will get a fair trial that leaves no question about this guy's guilt. (If he is really guilty, of course.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G3dzddZ6WE
This has happened before, although the details aren't clear.
It was reported last year (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/11/ripa_iii_figures/) that two people had been convicted for similar offences. It seems that most people don't comply, but not all of them are charged:
"Of the 15 individuals served, 11 did not comply with the notices. Of the 11, seven were charged and two convicted."
Essentially, you can't true-crypt anything that can't run TrueCrypt before you need access to it. So you wouldn't be able to run TC and enter your password prior to logging in, which requires your home directory. Perhaps this could be sidestepped, but I'd think it'd be a mega-hack unless you can boot to a USB drive which can decrypt things and then boot OSX. I haven't heard of anyone doing that though, probably because Macs are a bit different with their bootup. You're essentially stuck making a file-as-a-volume or a hidden partition, though I don't know how / how well hidden partitions work in OSX.

Once your file / hidden partition is mounted, it's just another mounted volume. Anything which can read / write to a volume it's not on shouldn't notice a thing.

Also, it looks like it might just be Windows which gets the hidden-OS capability, as it requires a TC boot-loader on-disk or on an external booting device. Which means it should be possible for others as well, but it sounds like they haven't done it yet.
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-operating-system
Let me rephrase, since I am interested in the answer and am not sure why I'm getting downvotes. Why is graphene awarded a Noble in Physics, while buckyballs were awarded a Noble in Chemistry in 1996? Is it because fullerene occurs in nature?
Ask HN: Sponsor my travel for Startup School
I have been accepted to Startup School (yaaaay!) but I don't have any money for travel (boooo!). So I am looking for someone to sponsor my travel expenses from SEA to SFO. According to http://www.hipmunk.com/startupschool the total cost of the flight will be between $220 and $320.

I have thought of several possible exchanges for the sponsorship but I am open to negotiations.

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* A workday of consulting/contracting from me.

* Time spent coding or contributing to an open source project of your choice.

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http://antirez.com/post/redis-virtual-memory-story.html is an interesting contrast to this story.
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I have been mentoring several startups recently, and helping people build their prototypes/betas. I want to put together a more formal program to help recent grads get their first startup off the ground. I have a laundry list of things that a programmer needs to know how to do, but I am coming up short on the exact skills needed by the business guy/gal. From my personal experience there is no shortage of things that they could/should be working on, but I am not sure what the most critical things that someone coming out of a business program would need to learn to operate in a beneficial manner in a startup.

Just to clarify, I don't believe the business person in a startup should ever think of themselves as the boss, or the idea person, etc. Eventually they may grow in to a CEO / captain of the ship type role, but initially they need to focus on very practical things such as finding customers, getting feedback, potentially pitching to investors. Even more practically perhaps they should be answering customer emails, doing the bookkeeping, etc?

I would love to get a list of the actual skills and day to day things that someone who is not a programmer can be doing to help a tech startup get off the ground.

Thank you!
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No - it was a requirement a century ago.
You do have to describe a workable implementation, you can't just patent 'a time machine' - but you don't have to show that it is practical today. So you can for example assume future developments in CPU power or battery capacity.
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Do you think the NSA is going to reveal to foreign governments that they've broken AES by going after some guy with child porn on his laptop? I personally doubt it.

Could the NSA cooperate with the FBI? Yes. Will they? Not if it means they can't spy on Russia anymore.
I started using OpenDNS years ago and I'm glad to see you continuing to do well. Congrats on the office...that's an awesome milestone.
It definitely helped to separate the incoming queue from the actions queue on the central loghost. Unfortunately, I don't have good data comparing the two. At this time, our loghost is an EC2small, so relatively susceptible to I/O disruption, and we haven't had any problems.

If you're running a whole datacenter's worth of logs into your loghost, then you might want to consider a distributed approach. For medium sized companies, I don't see why rsyslog wouldn't do the trick.
I started using this strategy yesterday: http://sivers.org/how2hire

From the CD Baby guy. It's pretty straightforward and so far I'm getting decent responses.
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