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Old adage: "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." If the whole meets/exceeds user expectations, you don't need to list the parts. If you're listing the parts, you're trying to distract the customer from the inadequate whole by saying the parts are good enough.
But, in the hypothetical counter example where the prosecution had evidence of you using the encrypted volume (let's say, a convincing photograph or video), would you then grant the prosecution the right to compel the decrypted information?
Only news article I could find on it: http://domainincite.com/go-daddy-gripe-site-shuts-down/
Do you really think they'd throw anything less at it, if it were closed source?
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Changes I'm looking forward to:

* Integration with Google Reader.

* Group chat (why is Huddle a mobile-only function?).

* Photo/screen-sharing (like the youtube sharing) in Hangouts.

* More granular control (I'd like to see my stream minus the Following Circle, since that's all the people I actually know or have met IRL).

* Finer control over UI (I'd like to be able to see my Following Circle with the comments collapsed by default, so it's easier to scan for content).

* "Places" (blog post: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/7072771434/a-new-metaphor-for...)

Just off the top of my head.
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That's fairly accurate regarding the first-order consequences of hitting the debt limit. Second-order consequences come from:

-An abrupt drop in consumer spending due to paychecks lost in that 43% cut.

-Moody's and S&P have committed to downgrading the USA's debt from AAA if the debt ceiling is not raised. Remember the liquidity crisis the financial sector suffered in 2008 due to a sudden shortage of AAA bonds? There are a lot of Treasuries out there.

I'll leave third-order consequences up to the post-apocalyptic novelists in the audience.
I specifically said "near" to avoid this heckle. :)
Most vendors who have channel partners don't want to compete with them, but they don't want to leave sales on the table, either. For bigger ticket items, the company generally sends you directly to a channel partners; for smaller ticket items, the company will often sell the item at "list" price and let the channel partners discount off of list.

Pretty standard operating procedure here and highly unlikely to be a comment on their customer's web savvy. :)
Here's hoping this case gets to a published ruling so that we can move the debate forward. :-)
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I don't think you understand what a subpoena is.

A subpoena is a compulsory order to produce all documents related to a matter, whether the government knows they exist or not. So yes, if you believe in subpoena power, you agree that you should have to produce that box.
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You would have explained the origin of the encrypted data on the laptop, and they would either drag the person who was the origin into the case as a defendant or have him testify. It's really quite simple; they're not just asking "what is the password?" and ignoring any answer that isn't the password, as you seem to think.

If you were to refuse to give the password under the grounds that someone you refuse to identify sold you the computer with the encrypted data already on it, then you would rightly be considered to be lying because that's the most plausible case for that behavior.
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If nothing else, this is at least a huge step in the direction of having the mind be the body's "expiration date". And eventually that can be fixed, too, I'm sure.

The societal impacts of immortality are somewhat scary to contemplate, though.
It's not that simple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class
Interesting, this means the spammers will have to change venues to reach that part of their demographic. That should be giving them something to think about.
In all fairness, this has been rinsed and repeated a number of times in recent history. Reagan was a true conservative, but was held back by a democratic congress. Bush Sr. just wasn't a real conservative because he raised taxes. Bush Jr wasn't a real conservative because well, he spent like crazy.

The Democrats do the same thing: Clinton wasn't a real "democrat" because he signed NAFTA and reformed welfare. Obama "wasn't real" because he couldn't end the wars, close GITMO or reform the finance industry. (a number of other items)
The picture is even bleaker if you look at wealth instead of income - bleak to the point of 'hmm, I wonder how long we have before a violent kill-the-rich outbreak like those at the tail end of the 19th century?'
There's the integrated Gchat, as well as email. You can also address a post to a specific person only.

So... that's at least three private messaging options. You're proposing another one? How does Facebook do it, exactly?
Former employee, no.
Can someone point out which part of my comment is not true or is just stupid? Thanks.
Systems like PhoneBookFS, rubberhose and StegFS exist (or used to exist). They allow you to create volumes which can provide different data for different passwords, with no way to know the number of available passwords in advance. (You can look at the volume size, but there is some variability relative to the total amount of data stored, so that you can't really be sure.)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption.
I do think that G+ is going to have some very tricky issues to navigate ahead in terms of integrating with other services. Private messaging is a decently amusing one (I wouldn't be surprised if some thin layer on top of email is introduced for that), but what about something like Facebook Events? They're a very compelling, very sticky, bit of engineering. Google Calendar has the functionality required, but it's not presented in the right way for this use case. but do you want to go that far? How much of GCal gets pulled in to the G+ interface? How much of the GCal underpinnings do you expose? All/Some/None?

Google has all the engineering bits and bobs in place for pretty much every Facebook feature, but it's unclear whether the vision is of G+ as a bit of glue between services, or whether it's the veneer on top of all the services. It's also not clear which would be best for users in the long-run.

It seems that, for G+, this is just the beginning, and I do not envy the G+ team :)

DISCLAIMER: I'm a Google Intern, but have no dealings with any teams here, nor do I know anything about future features.
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Their relationship clearly isn't a good one. With that context, and depending on the tone with which it was said (remember there were enough emotions involved to write a blog post about the slide afterwards), the question "Do you want to understand what happened during your speech?" might also be interpreted as "Do you want to sit through a personal attack?". I'm not defending his slide, but I'm also not surprised he said "No". It's possible he already understood, regretted his slide, and wanted to avoid what he perceived as a forthcoming attack. It's really hard to judge since we weren't present. I think it's clear neither of us would put that slide in our own presentations, but it nonetheless might be better not to personally attack someone in a public forum based on an incident we weren't present for. Even if he was in the wrong to say "No", attacking someone automatically puts them in the defensive and makes it harder for them to constructively evaluate criticism.
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The root cert is not in early versions of Android, due to a bug. I'm not sure when that was fixed. Unfortunately, you can't update root certificates in these versions.
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The speculation about how they do it is to measure the TCP TTL. If it's off by one from what you expect, then the packet originated with a tethered device, rather than the native device.
Not only that, but you can make a post that has only one recipient. Private messaging is a special case of "I can send this post to specific recipients." Facebook's private messages exist as a separate thing in part because of how hard it is to control the audience of your Facebook posts.
This is Hacker News, and you're upset that it has hacker-oriented news?
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More than the size of the increase since 2003 would be interesting to know what are the components of this increase.
Sorry, I was trying to play a little "devil's advocate" but my argument wasn't all that good.

"I'm for a world where as many people as possible can become financially independent."

So am I, so am I. I'm just not sure how to implement it.

BTW, your first point reminds me of an article here on HN on how stuff works in China (and the clones of big US companies): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2449491
And according to the GFS paper their are three copies of every chunk in a GFS cluster so that is 180TB, and they probably don't depend on one GFS cluster to meet their availability guidelines so if you had two that is really 320TB (180TB * 2).

And the amazing part is if you are in an open event where Google is talking about their infrastructure in general terms you will realize that that has to be mouse nuts compared to the amount of 'spinning rust' they have going on at any one time.
I think this bolsters the criticism. Making a big deal about Firefox 3 did more to spread awareness of the browser than perhaps any other thing Mozilla has done. Version numbers used to be this well-articulated conceptual unit that got people to care about your browser.

Now, there's more count-downs to the big release date. No more Guinness World Records for downloads in a day. There is a gimmickiness about it, but I don't have a problem with that given how hard it already is to get laypeople to care about these things.
None of those are reasonable or reliable indications that he/she is lying about having forgotten a password. There are fingerprints or signs of use? What if the defendant has been actively trying to remember the password, or has just done something as simple as moved the laptop's location to get it out of the way? Removable media present? What if it was left in there from when they did have use of the password and didn't have use for the media otherwise? And even if the computer is found on their desk, with the screensaver on, the defendant could have just forgotten the password, it happens and is expected especially if they tended to just barely remember the password before and just happened to forget it at that time.

The fact is, no matter how sure the prosecution is of the accused's guilt and the hard drive's content, the accused can still just have forgotten the password. That's it, just forgotten the password. and the accused could be innocent of the crime, and now facing inescapable prison time, all because they wanted to keep their personal financial documents safe and have an unreliable memory. That is not a reasonable way to carry about justice.
That's somewhat naive, as is this article, though I assume the author is being intentionally so.

Counterintuively, during a recession, the government is usually the only entity that's able to pump enough money into the economy to fuel growth and ultimately end the recession – i.e. the time that its spending is most critical is when its income is at a low. The Great Recession lasted so long precisely because the government tried to "live within its means" rather than getting out the jumper cables. This is also central to the current debate about the best course of action for EU countries, most notably Greece, at present.

The danger of simply cutting costs is that it may plunge the country into prolonged recession and ironically impair the country's ability to manage manage its debt effectively. Punditry aside, it's typically been the Democrats in recent decades that have put more effort into reducing the national debt (as Obama is proposing now through increased taxation).

At least in theory, if not always in practice, the entire American political spectrum agrees that US debt must be minded and that the current level relative to the GDP is sub-optimal. But the ability to repay debt is linked to the health of the economy, and the goal is to avoid being penny wise and pound foolish.
He sold it a week ago.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230458400457642...
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What I wanted to say is that protecting the idea is a very bad thing (and we've seen it).

I do agree with protecting the implementation (which is what most countries do).

I'm not sure on how to give the "small guy" a head start without giving him some protection on the idea, but I have a strong opinion that protecting the idea is bad. (I could be wrong, and I'm open to being convinced).
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People are not using Facebook List not because the feature is not important. Quite simply, it is because -

1. It takes 3 - 4 steps to get to your list page (depending on where you are on FB)
2. It is buried deep inside Friends page
3. List is not used anywhere on FB except Friends page, making it very useless.

Google + on the other hand -

1. Takes 1 1/2 step to put your friends in a circle. The 1/2 is the drag and drop.
2. It is right smack in front of your face.
3. Notice there is no Friends or Followers page on G+? It is the Circle page.
4. Circle is used more than just for categorizing your friends. You can use it on your stream and it is displayed on the left side of your stream. On Facebook, Groups are displayed on the left of your newsfeed, which is one of the worst mistakes Facebook has done.

Summary - To add your friends to a 'Circle' on Facebook, you can either:

1. Create a list, which takes about 3 - 4 steps and hit a dead end street
2. Create a group, which takes about 5 - 7 steps.

And you wonder why people are going gaga over Circles (1 1/2 steps)
When the middle-class in America was booming, you would have had to be crazy to leave America. Good job. Nice car. Family and a house?

Lack of old culture? Lack of proper healthcare for everyone? Lack of decent unemployment benefits? Being stuck in your own little bubble? (No tastful bread? ;))

Do not misunderstand me, I do like the US for its nature and kind citizens. But many would never trade their life for a life in the US. Even if they were given the choice of a 'booming middle class life'.
I think that's where forensics would come in: "This is a 2TB drive. All the data on the drive amounts to 1.5TB. QED, there is 500GB of data missing."

More interesting, IMO, would be how alleged steganography would be handled.
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> "and I do not envy the G+ team"

I certainly do. Seems like an amazing opportunity to do really cool stuff!
In the new Gmail there is a huge amount of unused space, even in the "Dense" view. This results in less emails on the screen at one time in the Inbox (I use Priority Inbox so maybe it works great in regular mode, but it should work in both). The might have been trying to avoid information overload but they achieved information underload.

Now the compose and search buttons are enormous and the only colored elements on the page. Eyes are drawn to them in a way that each competes for attention and eventually you end up at the Gmail logo. Great for Google branding(? I already use Gmail), not so good for me because it hurts my eyes and distracts me.

Next, with everything being white with a few grey highlights, it is unclear where each section of the page begins and ends. Some things start to scroll while others stay static with no indication of what will change. The browser scrollbar takes up the whole size of the browser window but only part of the screen scrolls some of the time.

Just a few of the issues I had.
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Yep, you are totally right. Making TA learn is high on my priority list - probably the next big feature I will release. One thing that could help in the meantime: if your contacts have last names, you can provide that to narrow down the search. Also, you can provide phone type. If you had "Anna A", "Anna B", and "Anna C", you could for example type something like "c a b m" to "call anna b mobile".
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I don't understand your last paragraph. Of course we should make good on what we can but if Medicare and/or Social Security (mostly the former) need reform to remain solvent, then why is it stupid to make the cuts that keep them solvent? A working less-than-ideal program is better than a not-working ideal program, no?
Did you really expect a $100K plus car to be as reliable as a honda? I mean, my expectation of any highly complex low-volume product is that I'm going to hit a lot more bugs than with a similar high volume product, no matter how much care was put in by the manufacturer.

But actually, I think BMW is an illustrative example. They spend dramatically more on advertising per-unit sold than Honda does, they have a dramatically worse reputation for reliability than Honda, and yet I believe they maintain a higher profit margin on a much lower volume vs. Honda.

Honda, here, has the "feature" of reliability; this is a big thing for nearly everyone, and it takes a /lot/ of marketing dollars to make people choose to pay more for a product that lacks that particular feature.

So yeah, if you can get rich people to pay extra for nothing more than good marketing, hey, more power to you. But, without continual and consistent marketing outlays, someone else will come along with a better, cheaper product, and unless you can outspend them, Honda will eat your lunch.
Perhaps Facebook just understand that for a social network to be successful you need to encourage sharing at all costs

Unfortunately it also discourages meaningful sharing. My G+ "stream" is already home to discussions and photos the likes of which would never have popped up in my facebook feed.
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While this is interesting, I think it misses the fundamental issue, our (American) view of wealth. If people looked at a home as a consumable with nominal value, this wouldn't be a problem. The article hints at the core issue, middle class families have on average $100K in savings. If, instead of purchasing large houses out in the suburbs with large yards, they purchased something more modest and within their means, the house wouldn't be the center of their financial universe.
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While giant organizations produce decent amounts of r&d, it's generally small businesses that come up with the commercial applications.

I'm not really sure that's true. Bell Labs produced a whole lot of innovative research -- how much of that actually ended up being implemented by small companies instead of by large companies or open source projects?
They aren't saying what changes, just that there will be changes? To a product that isn't launched yet?

Isn't that a bit of non-news?
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Things like women throwing food items? Yes, that does cast a negative impression on women trying to get into the tech industry and makes things harder for them. Even if she had a legitimate case, she lost credibility by committing such a juvenile act in a community full of professionals. Also, her writing about the day's occurrences is not exactly portraying her as mature or level-headed but instead temperamental and vengeful.

Sometimes, a good cause's worst enemies are from within.
"The real fiscal Armageddon that this country faces comes not from a delay in raising the debt ceiling, but from out-of-control federal spending and government debt.

If a little pain now helps solve that problem for the long term, it may well be worth it."

Great idea - you're pretty sure that everything will be ok if we don't raise the debt ceiling, so let's go ahead with it and just hope that you're right and it isn't that bad.

The only real threat to drive up US interest rates is not raising the debt ceiling. With the stuff going on in Europe, we will likely have more people wanting to buy US Treasuries - not less.

These guys are worried about an event that hasn't happened, and doesn't seem to be happening, so instead they're going to do the one thing that can actually cause it happen.

Insane.
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> This actually helps other shareholders a touch in
> the B round because the company has to issue fewer
> new shares

I'm not following this logic. If a founder sells their own shares in a B-round and pockets the proceeds -- that doesn't do anything to allow the company to issue fewer new shares because none of the money from those shares went to the company.
"Noah has taught me to ask for forgiveness and not for permission"

This. I speak as an entrepreneur: if you're crossing a moral line and using this as justification, you're using the philosophy in the "wrong" way.
My wife has always been an intermittent Facebook user, because she was never sure how private anything was, and the periodic UI changes confused her. She's perfectly intelligent and reasonably technically savvy, but not a huge tech nerd, and not willing to invest time into figuring out all the nuances of FB. So I was really surprised when, after trying Google+ for a few days, she said, "I think this is really going to make my family closer."

I don't know if there's a better measure of success for a social networking service than that.
A lot of people I greatly respect do a heck of a lot of work, and the G+ team fits in that model!

I'd love to work with them too, but I think maybe when things have calmed down a bit :)
No, it's not. It's certainly not about which evenly-spaced quintile you're in. It's about HOW you make your money, and what you spend it on.

Consider: do you really think everyone making 88K or more should be considered "upper class"?
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