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Do you have any products at all, is there is a product in the pipeline that will be finished or scrapped or is it an all out talent acquisition? How rare are your skills you say development and design, but is it Ruby, Java, Objective-C? To me if it is totally a talent acquisition and your company has no product and no product on the horizon then you really have nothing to lose other than income from contracting (assuming that is what you are doing). That being said and if it is the case, I would figure out what I believe that I could realistically earn annually, take out health and other perks, make sure their are some options and ask for that rate along with some up front money say a half a years salary for the risk and lost opportunity. IF you have a rare skill and are in a tight market you could ask for a years salary up front. But this is very subjective, if you have some very rare skills that they are in need of, you could be underselling yourself even at that rate.
Based on the biography I would say Steve's magic sauce was
the ability and willingness to build a winning team and get everything out of it. He was a "generalist" who knew enough about various things (design, marketing, electronics, software, etc) to be able to judge people and to challenge the experts opinions.
When is a startup fundable?
Do you mean bank debt or VC-style hybrid debt?

No bank in their right mind would give millions of dollars to a "coder" with a "great" idea.

A bank (or any rational debt holder) has little interest in upside. Their interest is capital protection and repayment.

Debt is typically divided between "asset lends" and "cash-flow lends". You can get serious leverage with an asset lend, maybe 80% of equity, but that assumes you have assets (less debt) as colateral. So if you want $3m, you need at least $3m in equity.

As for cash flow lends, rational debt providers won't go anywhere near even 5 times for an unstable/unproven company. 5 times what? Usually some proprietary measure of earnings (EBIT, EBITDA, EBITDA-C, NPAT, cash flow, etc, adjusted for whatever the bank decides). So for $3m, you usually need $1m in cash-flow already. Even then, you have to deal with monthly or quarterly debt covenant reporting.

Most businesses who qualify for cash flow lends are relatively solid. That's because the covenants are restrictive (and especially frightening for an inconsistent business). A 5% drop in revenue can filter down to a serious drop in the proprietary cash-flow calculation and have the bank calling its capital the next day.

Compare that to a VC scenario. Imagine you've burnt through $3m, sales have dropped, then the bank calls the entire $3m loan. Maybe in the US that stuff flies, but in most responsible financial markets, that means you're toast for 5-7 years. You won't even get a mobile phone contract in some countries.

Of course there are business suited to traditional debt, but I can't imagine the typical HN reader would look for serious capital from credit institutions, unless of course they made serious money and they couldn't get VC for market size reasons.
I just did a quick literature search and didn't see any published articles on the subject be either of those two.

And, frankly, I'm dubious it isn't snakeoil. Perhaps well-intentioned snakeoil. Biologically speaking, the electromagnetic waves would have to discriminate cancer cells from normal cells.

Except cancer cells are basically identical to normal cells, with the exception of a handful (of very important) mutations. Otherwise they are fundamentally the same.

On a similar and more hopeful tangent, there is "magnetic hyperthermia" which is being developed. Essentially, magnetic nanoparticles are targetted to tumor sites and then subjected to alternating magnetic frequencies. This causes the nanoparticles to heat up and destroy the surrounding area (tumor cell).
Does he? The video shows a few short clips of Biden attacking attempts of other governments to control internet content and applications, but he never names SOPA and PIPA, or otherwise indicates that he understands that the US government's actions could have similar effect. (Which would mean that they're being logically inconsistent, but in Washington, logical consistency rarely gets in the way of the interests of a major donor.)

Without context, it's hard to take this about a statement of Biden's positions on the bills currently in Congress, much less that of the administration itself.
It sounds like it hurts fishing expeditions. They can always get a warrant and hide a tiny video recorder somewhere pointed at the screen, or install a key logger to capture the password (maybe not on a notebook?), or work with the *-baron's ISP to capture evidence that goes over the internet.
BTW, the America Invent Act prohibits treble damages for failing to seek opinions of counsel on patents:
http://techwildcatters.com/2011/09/a-little-info-on-the-amer...
"Most people want freedom". Yes. Also, most people want their technology to just work. So how about we add: Complicated Technologies Lose in the End.

But we can use Occam's Razor to shave both statements down to the truth: most technologies lose in the end. Because most things go obsolete.

That includes open technologies.
Your hard drive is probably not vital. But that's not necessarily true for others.

I shouldn't have to provide specific examples, because you seem to basically be arguing that if I have nothing to hide, I have nothing to fear, but here are a couple anyway:

My doctor has a laptop; I sure hope that any medical records pertaining to me that are on that hard drive are encrypted. Ditto for my lawyer, accountant, etc. I carry around business data and keys to various production servers as well that my boss wouldn't want exposed, too.
I agree that the service is questionable. It is not clear that candidates will really be screened very well.
No you construed correctly...I think it has to do with the nature of the charges being pressed here. The feds can build a case in which there is discrete factual evidence. Either the logs show Swartz's activity or they do not. Either the computer closet was broken into or it was not. Either those documents were on Swartz's computer or they were not.

None of those facts require MIT or JSTOR to testify. A charge related to a denial-of-service, would require the cooperation of a victim...I assume...because if the "victim" isn't going to say that their network was terribly inconvenienced, then it's a hard case to prosecute.

The feds may be pursuing this hard because even if JSTOR doesn't care, there may be many people (i.e. the authors of the journal articles) who feel ripped off.
I agree the temptation is there, a number of people have accused Google of falling into this trap (sellind ads on search results gives them incentive to manipulate their search results).

That being said, a subscription service would be good, and some folks would cry out voiciferously that they can go read the encyclopedia in the library for 'free' why not on the web.

Culturally I think the world is coming to grips with the notion that information has intrinsic value, and that compensating that value achieves the goal of creating additional supplies of information. Interesting process to watch.
Python's default interactive shell have history, but it only keeps it for the current session. Once you kill it, the history is gone forever. Once I realized what I'd done, I checked to see if Python keeps the history anywhere. It doesn't, but I found several wrapper scripts that do (and IPython).
I don't want my company secrets to be leaked out if someone steals my laptop. The same mechanisms for preventing thieves from reading my data also prevent the government from reading my data.
Yes I know I can legally be compelled to hand it over, but it's a Micro SD to SD card converter. The Micro SD card can be quite easily be broken. I've tried. I could also make the script to automatically delete all necessary data if the system was booted without the card.
The Samsung Galaxy SII has been the inflection point for me. Such a great device, beats the iPhone in hardware and matches it in software (except in polish of some apps).
Yes. It's Micro SD with to SD-Card converter.
> However, physicists do make extensive use of unit tests, so that may be some consolation.

Ehm, well some do. And those that do, endlessly complain about most of them that don't.

Fact of the matter is, most physicists aren't trained in proper software engineering methods. Quite a few, but not nearly a majority are very interested in computers and computing so they may pick up a thing or two or actually bite their teeth in doing things the right way, and then there's most of them who love Physics for being Physics and Science for Science and see the computer as just another tool next to their pencil and paper, and just "get things done" and screwed be the next PHD that has to pick up on their research.

At least, that's what I hear from a friend doing a PHD involving analysing huge datasets coming from apparatus measuring high energy cosmic particles.

Of course the LHC is a much more prestigious project, so you might expect somewhat higher quality, but you can't change the culture. Physicists are generally not Software Engineers.
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I noticed that too, but I stuck with him and didn't consider it "going off the rails" so much as just being the typical Siracusa obsessively-detailed critique. Have you ever read one of his reviews of new MacOS X releases? They're agonizingly nitpicky, and the presence of any particular criticism doesn't really imply that this particular detail has as much weight as any other criticism he has. He was clearly reading off of long, detailed notes that he had organized into sections. Still, he does also obsess about how he writes and edits his work, and had he written a review of the biography rather than stepping up to a microphone for a podcast, the thing about PA Semi may not have made the cut. Who knows.
It depresses me to see BBN Technologies referred to as Raytheon. Although they were acquired, it's as if Bell Labs were referred to as Lucent or Alcatel.
Well In my case the data actually is in the laptop and encrypted, but the SD card only disables logging in on the PC, even if they crack my password.
Make sure you destroy the copier too. :)
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> The US government is made up of people like you

The whole is not merely the sum of the parts. And the people making up the government are nothing like me. For one, they believe government is a means to itself, while I do not.

> If you really want to enact change, you can

Citation needed.

> you choose to live beneath ithh

A one-possibility choice is not a choice. Your unstated assumption is that my personal life should be dependent on the government. I reject this. Also, there are not many places on Earth which aren't controlled by the US govt.

> If you don't like the rules, you can work to change it

And waste my life endlessly fighting others who wish to enforce their differing will on everyone, while we all perpetuate the democracy virus? That's how to become part of the problem!
I wrote a small script to keep checking if the SD card is mounted and if a certain key file exists in the SD card.

This script is auto-started before my gnome Login screen.
Geez ExtremeTech really needs to do something about their iPad support. That is without question the worst iPad viewing experience I've ever seen. Just give the iPad visitors the desktop version. Whatever mobile system they are using is horrendous, unusable, and should be abandoned.
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You're being downvoted because hacker news seems to have been taken over by refugees from reddit, and bizdev "hustlers" and "idea guys" who don't understand what used to be the culture here.

About the time that these people started showing up, we lost the ability to see upvote and downvote counts, which made it difficult for new users to understand the "rules". They copied the customs that they used at places like reddit and digg (upvote what confirms your biases, downvote what doesn't).

What you're saying, while disagreeable, is an interesting and well stated point. You're not spamming, you're not flaming, you're contributing to the discussion, and you absolutely shouldn't be downvoted for it, certainly not to the extent that you are.
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First off: fuck them. That's why. You have a right to free speech, including speech in numbers, which is all that is. You also have a right to not incriminate yourself so they can't get your password.

But a line for people suffering from pragmatism would be this: In many, many cases someone has a secret. Sometimes even the secret that he has a secret within a domain is secret. For example, a CIA agent if arrested for child porn. Does he give up his password to the disk drive violating his top clearance status or does he shut the hell up. Or what about someone involved with a psychiatry practice that is arrested for child porn. She is legally obligated to keep those records secret. Or what about someone that signed an NDA with a tech or defense company?

The list goes on. Information is the most valuable resource on the planet. It's probably the most valuable resource in the universe. The most valuable information is the information that only you know. They do not have a right to destroy your wealth or to even know that you have any. I'd rather live in a society with a couple extra perverts.
For me it did happen instantly.
The Fifth Amendment precludes that.

> No person shall...be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself

Courts have previously upheld passwords as self-implicating information, which you cannot be constitutionally compelled to provide.

> in In re Boucher (2009), the US District Court of Vermont ruled that the Fifth Amendment might protect a defendant from having to reveal an encryption password, or even the existence of one, if the production of that password could be deemed a self-incriminating "act" under the Fifth Amendment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Boucher

Boucher ended up having to unlock the hard drive, because he had previously unlocked the drive for border agents. Had he refused, the court likely would have held that he could not be compelled to produce the password or the hard drive contents.

A warrant gives law enforcement the right to gather evidence, but doesn't compel you to provide it. If you won't provide it, they are authorized to take it by force. In the case of encryption, they don't have enough (legal) force to take it. Therefore, they are entirely dependent on the accused cooperating to gather that information, but the accused cannot be compelled to cooperate under the Fifth. This is scary for them, because it means that they can't legally compel you to give up the information, and they can't gain access to it by force. A wholly uncooperative defendant is effectively unassailable.
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I'm assuming he was mocking the ignorance of the article as it addressed live memory acquisition. The author jumped to something obscure (RAM freezing) when there are forensics tools (memorize, etc) that can be used to image memory on a running machine in hopes of getting a decryption key / other passwords.
I don't understand the Brazil part. It sounds like Apple just didn't want to go through the certification process for every iOS game. Do Android games somehow avoid the process? Or do only paid games have to be certified?
Anyone who subscribes to the FT can attest to just how great their ipad site is.

I thought it was HTML5 site?
Tweaker. Inventor. Visionary.

Could we get a few more subjective terms in the mix?

This is all about interpretation, and a highly subjective one at that.

Jobs is cemented as an industry icon. He is different things to different people. Why his stalwart supporters (and lapdogs like Gruber) continue to be annoyed when anyone's interpretation doesn't match their own is childish.
how many users does your home system have? what is your budget like to support them? what is your pain point for "at this overhead we just go out of business?"

it's a lot more complicated than "just do it right".

I'm not saying we shouldn't take effort to do it right, but right now the market doesn't price for security so ...
Serious question: what ideas is Woz chasing that is more interesting than what Apple has done in his absence?
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Indeed. I think he looks kind of like Larry Ellison but I'm not great at recognizing faces and I haven't put them side-by-side yet.
Correct me if I'm wrong but that was just the journalist giving one of two examples for when we want law enforcement to succeed in their goals - it wasn't the Government covering up real reasons for anything.
You have a fifth amendment right not to incriminate yourself, which the article mentions by noting that you don't have to give up your password when asked.

In my mind (IANAL), if I don't have to give up information about myself, then I have the right to encrypt my information, and to not be presumed a criminal merely for having encrypted my information.

Note that the 5th amendment is not about protecting your criminal activity, since you're presumed innocent unless convicted. It's a right that you have regardless of your character or activity.
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I don't think Isaacson could yell at Jobs to come back with four different answers to a question so Isaacson could choose the one he liked, and keep requesting new answers until he was satisfied.

I think it's a little funny that people who don't personally know Steve Jobs have so many strong opinions on what he exactly was, and don't seem to want to give much credit to Isaacson for writing down what Jobs "chose" to share. I started reading Mark Twain's autobiography, and his assertion is that basically any autobiography is incomplete, as a person will end up backing out of telling the unflattering truth. So, while I may not be a huge fan of Jobs, the fact he let Isaacson paint a picture that wasn't total flattery is probably one of more impressive things about Jobs, in my eyes.
It uses that, yes, but it's marketed as being for iPad/iPhone, and I believe it uses iOS-specific code.

It's hosted at app.ft.com and is seperate to their main website.
It's a legal gray area because a password is something in your brain and compelling you to reveal the password can be interpreted as testifying against yourself. If you refused to give the police a key they could use physical means to extract the safe contents but there's no way to take data out of your soft tissue.
I think you're joking, but for what it's worth, that doesn't work. You can claim that the encryption key itself contains self-incriminating data, but then they'll simply say "ok, we completely understand. Go ahead and type it into your laptop and decrypt the data and you don't have to reveal the key."
The parent comment was about the man himself. In the case of the iPad he may have the guided the process but the real work wasn't by done by him. It was done by the very skilled people he hired.
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Huh. Did the text that says what you get change? Like from 250 to 500? Maybe I just don't know how much space I had heh.
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Well they could, but why would I give them If I seriously had something dangerous in my PC? Though I've secured my system more for theft, though It would be good to have guest account which could login normally, so that the thief would not just reformat the drive right away and I could actually trace the thief when he's using the PC before reformatting like some of the success stories, but more than that I don't want my files to be seen.
the difference between Communist Party bosses back in the USSR/Germany and right wing conservatives in the US today is only superficial. So, i'm not sure how you can have it both ways.
> Unfortunately my screen session doesn’t have enough scrollback to see what I entered earlier in the day.

`defscrollback 100000` is probably the single most important thing in my .screenrc. And if you're working in production, you should really have `deflog on` too.
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From the EFF pages linked to in this discussion and Brahm's first post, it seems only colour laser printers have the watermark. (Also http://seeingyellow.com/). So black and white laser and inkjet should hopefully be fine.
> A company who needs you can't screw you.

When you combine this with the famous Charles de Gaulle quote ("The graveyards are full of indispensable men"), you properly understand the predicament.
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Unless your SD card contains something vital to access of your data (encryption key, etc), all that setup does is protect your data from people who try to use your laptop in a coffeeshop while you're in the john. Still nothing stopping one from taking the entire laptop, removing the drive, and mounting it in another system.
One could mess up "the system" by printing several times on the same sheet of paper (possibly also changing orientation top-down).
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Note he didn't point out crimes like embezzlement, bookmaking or murder. When spokespeople for the police say "We can't do X, which makes it harder to stop child pornography and drug dealing", that's PR-speak for "It's bad, trust us and don't think about it."

Also conspicuously absent is preventing terrorism, which is a scenario where obtaining the password is more likely to be impossible, because the owner is most likely dead.

My layman's understanding is that the law doesn't consider being compelled to reveal a password to be self-incrimination. Failing to reveal a password will get you held in contempt, or result in an "adverse inference" ruling from the judge.
Are you talking about the physical value of the target or strategic value?
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Edison you could make case for.

Turing, not by a long shot. In 200 years we'll still be talking about Turing machines and decidability. I don't think you can say the same for any of Edisons or Job's ventures.
Are you suggesting that the FBI tortures every suspected pedophile and spammer who uses FDE?
That's not even it though? Shouldn't systems like this be air-gapped?
To add to the constants list: rsync, some sort of firewall (iptables, apf-firewall, etc.), netstat, sed, awk, logrotate, lsof.

Hanging out with other sysadmins is better than a book. I find that information in books becomes outdated pretty quickly. Try new stuff in a development environment, and then pray they work the same when you go to production (often they won't - so follow the golden rule - back up everything).