skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That might currently be the case for UK. Though it's quite reasonable to forget a password, especially in a high-stress situation of an interrogation. Extra hilarity ensues when there is actually _no_ password for a TrueCrypt volume that _does not_ exist, and one fails to provide a working password.

That is, while one can prove that there is no physical key to a door on the person, there is no way to prove that one does not know the password.
> Citation needed.

You're being purposefully obtuse. I'm sorry everyone doesn't agree with you. Your opinion isn't the only one. Your teenage angst driven post is sad, if only because you really believe what you are spewing.

> I reject this.

Big words for someone who clearly doesn't.

Really, if you're being honest here in this post, I can't help but think your a bigger fraud then the people who supposedly shun.
And kind of a pointless story. The guy sent off a couple of letters, and got a form letter response from everyone he talked to. And gave up. Not really HN worthy.
After getting tons of inspiration from the Hacker News community, I'm delighted to finally share what eldavido and I have been working on for the past few months. Let us know what you think!
But it wasn't said by a spokesperson for the police, it was said by a random journalist after reading a report.
This is from the "2011 REPORT TO CONGRESS of the U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION" report. Just giving a breakdown of the current state. This was not a flash message or a breaking news report. The time for the breaking news was in '07 and '08 not in 2011 ;)
Full-disc encryption is too good, complain CSI teams
Apparent cyberattack destroys pump at Ill. water utility
Brin and Page have compared themselves to gates and have mentioned they'd like to follow his example as far as philanthropy goes.
It's so important because most seizures are fishing expeditions. A political rival can be targeted with searches to find something that can be used against them. This could be anything from a misplaced comment in a chat log: 'I am going to kill that guy', 'man, someone should give that policeman the same beating he gave the protestor'. Likewise, a browser caches all manner of material, you can easily find your way into the wrong forum topic, or some vandal tweets you a link to child porn, or even regular porn that would be illegal in a certain jurisdiction.

I now see half way through posting that many other reasons have already been listed, so I'll end it at that. See the plight of Jacob Applebaum who works on the Torproject for a very specific example. I think it got to the stage where he had to replace his electronics when he travels because he couldn't trust what was returned, thats if he gets the equipment back at all from customs, or purchases fresh equipment in foreign countries to know they are 'clean'. I think he weighs is equipment too.
> "you cannot be constitutionally compelled"

The US government has frequent shown that they have no qualms against unconstitutionally compelling individuals...
Thankfully, not all branches of the government go to the $5 wrench solution as quickly, frequently and without fear of accountability.

While that's probably no comfort to anyone who winds up accused of terrorism [1], it does mean there's a large chunk of law enforcement officials for whom FDE is still a practical problem.

[1] The express-lane to the wrench-room, I'm sure.
> What's so hard about this?

I've been programming python for quite a while, and never seen anything like

main_iterator = 'abc'
inner_iterator = '123'
[c+n for c in main_iterator for n in inner_iterator]

It's just ugly. I guess it has its purpose (cross products?) but it's still ugly.

Once you know what that means, it's obvious what you mean by

[j for i in main_iterator for j in inner_iterator(i)]

But I've just never seen two loops crushed together like this.
Yes if you use a lock with a key you can be forced by the court to produce it (if they can satisfy a judge that its in your possession), however, if you use a combination lock you cannot be compelled to testify as to the combination. (IANAL, that's just what I've read)
High Bar Fail
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That scares me. I've forgotten half my Truecrypt passwords. I guess I should give up and delete those archives.
> This obviously assumes you are an American. If you aren't, then I really don't see the issue.

Let me start by supposing, as I think we all do, that this date-and-serial watermarking is indeed a form of spying on users of printers. Let me further suppose, perhaps more contentiously, that this international spying conspiracy of printer manufacturers is actually directed by some single nation-state (not an international conspiracy of nation-states), and that that state is the U.S.

EDIT: Regarding the leadership of the conspiracy, on the one hand the EFF apparently has FOIA responses that confirm that the U.S. is complicit, but otoh apparently the Dutch (and other countries) are using it too, so maybe I'm wrong to suppose that there's a single state at the head of the conspiracy.

It staggers me that you would not see why I would object to a foreign government (the U.S.) spying on me. Obviously it's not the _same_ issue as if my own government were spying on me.
Well first I wrote stack, queue and vector templates, but realized I can as easily write all of the functions as one template. Did that. Now I can use my container anyway I want and it can be safely iterated while deleting nodes. Though only problem I tried to overload operator= when character pointer is given to check how many characters in the data is and push them to the container automatically like you can do with std::string, but for some reason it gives me some ugly memory leaks, even though pushing normally works fine.
Just out of curiosity: what is it that makes you think the pictures aren't SFW? Is it the nudity? This a serious question, as I suppose you're saying it's NSFW in the US, but I don't think there would be a problem in my country.

Thanks.

EDIT: Okay, from the comments so far I now understand it's not so much that there's nudity in some of the pictures, but that some of them contain children. Even though it's still nuts I think (not all pictures containing nudity are pornographic, and none of the ones here are even close to pornography), I get the idea now. Thanks again.
> Why his stalwart supporters (and lapdogs like Gruber) continue to be annoyed when anyone's interpretation doesn't match their own is childish.

Jobs and Apple (for whatever reason) inspired in a lot of people the kind of religious fervor that companies rarely can. Jobs' death has only further amplified this.

There are a lot of tech industry icons. What I think sets Jobs apart is the level of devotion he was able to extract from his customers/fans.
Why is this not the default, with an option to DISable?
It probably went down like this:

Sergey: "hey Jimmy, how much do I have to pay you NOT to see
your creepy face on every wikipedia article?"

Jimmy: "Well...."
Indeed. Hence the "(legal) force" qualifier.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that targets had passwords "coaxed" out of them.
Reply from Senator Gillibrand, NY; RE: SOPA
Thank you for writing to me regarding S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act of 2011. I understand your concerns.

I am a cosponsor of this legislation because I believe that we must protect American intellectual property against foreign websites that infringe upon our rights. By empowering the Attorney General of the United States to go after foreign infringing websites, this legislation becomes a necessary tool to ensure that U.S. companies remain competitive in the world marketplace. I recognize that there are technical concerns with the enforcement of this bill that need to be addressed. I am committed to working with my colleagues in the United States Senate to ensure that this legislation protects the Constitutional rights of Americans and does not stifle lawful free speech or innovation on the internet.

Thank you again for writing to express your concerns, and I hope that you keep in touch with my office regarding future legislation. For more information on this and other important issues, please visit my website at http://gillibrand.senate.gov and sign up for my e-newsletter.

Sincerely,
Kirsten E. Gillibrand
United States Senator
Care to share how you did the setup? I guess there's something flawed. Sounds more like it's something fundamental. Is your credit card expired? Do other AdWords campaigns work?
I think he's suggesting that the US government uses pain up to and including the amount of pain induced by breaking a limb or organ failure to extract information from those it holds without trial. This assertion would seem to be consistent with the official position of the US government. Whether inducing pain equivalent to organ failure to extract information is a violation US or International law is probably a question best answered by the ICC.
I don't know where you saw the Microsoft-bashing in that paragraph.
No, this won't happen. Every major corporation encrypts the fuck out of their employee's laptops, because they are legally required to do so.

The ship has sailed. Crypto is a key component of the modern economy. It would be like banning US dollars because drug dealers use US dollars.
Netflix management has said they believe a simpler service is better, even if they are leaving money on the table by ignoring some options.
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> and I know from experience they can survive a fire.

LOL. More details please.
I don't doubt that you and people like you are out there.
I just wonder how many of you there are.

Again, even a 10GB plan might cleave off too many 50GB users for the numbers to work out.

And for 5GB, surely more people would spam their friends for referrals or make fake email accounts, than break out their credit cards to set up recurring billing.
I believe it's a commonly available theme.

Seen it in a few places. I also think its terrible.
Does the UK have an "innocent until proven guilty" provision? If so, wouldn't the onus be on the prosecution to prove that the accused does in fact know the password?

You can't prove a universal negative, so the only way that becomes a prosecutable offense is if the initial assumption is of guilt rather than innocence, no?
> On the contrary, I think it gets far worse. Think about your entire music library. How much of it do you actively listen to? How much of it do you still care about? Or is it left over from those 6 months when you just can't get enough hiphop, and now you can't stand it anymore?

Amazon right now doesn't know what I have or what I listen to. If they know what I have, it can't hurt things. They get listen data from your usage and can pick up further listen data from iTunes (the playcount data there is a great record of what I actually listen to).

Genius is great at finding similar stuff if I give it stuff I like, but the recommendations at the store are crap.
Wow-- thanks for the update Senator. I'll be sure to sign up for your newsletter so I can receive regular updates full of empty boilerplate.
I am not denying that Steve Jobs contributed to society. I'm talking magnitude of contribution.
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I think he's criticizing Issacson's book for being light on the details of Jobs' actual work, thus allowing Gladwell to write an article that is uninformed in calling Jobs a tweaker.

Had Issacson done the task justice, we would all have insight into Jobs' work, which in Gruber's opinion, rises far above the level of a tweaker.
Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Rejected By Y Combinator
One reason is because keyboards that small are hard to type on and take up valuable screen real estate. Another reason is that there's something about writing on a pad that seems less intrusive, more casual, than typing. If you take a few notes at a meeting on a pad of paper you're more obviously still mentally present at the meeting - less involved with your note-taking process - than if you type at a keyboard.

I still miss the Newton Notepad app and want something like it - including the stylus and handwriting recognition - on an iPhone and iPad.
Clarifying the "secure boot attack"
NSFW means Not Safe For Work. There are places where nude photos on a work computers can get you fired immediately.
Folding@home client can now run on supercomputers
I doubt that the Secret Service will get there quickly enough to arrest you. I also doubt that they would have enough evidence to arrest you for anything. Putting a $20 bill in a copy machine is not a crime.
Or even easier: if the encrypted drive is mounted, just use cp (or the overpriced forensic equivalent). Cold boot attacks are sci-fi.
Neat. An interesting alternative title is 'Old me, New me'.
I've been playing prototyping a completely unrelated project using graph databases, but that really gets me thinking... drop me an e-mail if you'd be interested on collaborating on something like this.
Good luck with that. AdWords is notorious for being difficult in this regard.
He gave up in the end, but he did persevere for three months and escalated it up to the president of Lexmark Canada. I found the story pretty interesting.
Talk about living in the shadow. I doubt her relation to Mark was a contributing factor to her rejection, yet his full name is in the headline.

Whew boy.
> there really is a big difference between a representative supporting legislation we disagree with possibly technically violating that same legislation with a seemingly innocent video embed and a website that provides a search feature allowing you to access hundreds of thousands of copyrighted files. Big difference.

Existing law has been misused, as mentioned in other places in the thread.

There's nothing to say that this law will not be similarly misused.

See, for example, the fact that Google has digital-finger-printing to prevent copyright material being used, even if it's legitimately being used under Fair Use.
Oops, I missed my chance for the proper witty response. I should have said:

Think different.
Agree. Even pbs.org (broadcast) which works with donations from individuals and foundations typically does a pre-roll before any show touting the donors. And I've seen things that border on mini ads on certain shows as well for certain donors. They are not just a logo but convey a message with some video. (Sorry I don't couldn't find links to examples).

Additionally, they sell items off their website which have nothing to do with repackaging their content:

http://pbskidstoys.shop.pbskids.org/

http://pbskidstoys.shop.pbskids.org/school-supplies/back-to-....

Here's a page with an ad for "argosy university" which says "support provided by". The logos for the major funders appear in the bottom right of the same page (this is what is typically done in a pre-roll). I'm pretty sure the reason that Argosy does this is for ad value.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

While certainly appearing more tasteful than typical ads there is still ad value that these companies receive for their donations and support.
> Whether inducing pain equivalent to organ failure to extract information is a violation US or International law is probably a question best answered by the ICC.

No doubt this question has already been answered on numerous occasions with respect to such violations in 3rd world countries and enemies of the US and its allies. However, the US government, for all practical purposes, is above international law.
US CERT is NOT an intelligence agency. Very misleading title.
The text changed from 250 to 500, also my available space doubled. I didn't even get an email to tell me, it just happened.
So, I flagged this post as not relevant to HN, and normally that would be the only action I would take. But I'm kind of curious as to why this is being up-voted so much.

Is there some element of this site that is legitimately within the purview of links appropriate for HN (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)?

It is getting enough votes that I am curious if there is some deeper element that I'm missing other than just the ascetic interest of it.
No, but they may lie, coerce, and otherwise try to convince you to give up the password without laying a hand on you.

This might not sound so bad on paper, but I personally don't know what I would do when locked in a room with a professional interrogator.
The trouble with these articles is that they actually affect some folks' lives. No doubt, for years to come, there will be couples sitting there and planning out how they want to space their families based on a half-remembered article that they read in the New York Times one day about how they'll ruin their kids' lives if they're spaced less than three years apart. Some of these couples will no doubt go on to delay their second child until they wind up infertile. Others will probably delay their second child until they're so old that the second child winds up with Down's syndrome (that being vastly more common for older than younger mothers). And basically, it's just another one of those random factors that really don't matter much for middle-class parents to agonize over (while lower-class parents keep pumping out a dozen crack babies to get more welfare).
I kept getting faked out by the &bang, thinking that it was an incorrectly typed HTML entity.
Or so they want us to believe...
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Hrm... I was aware of the research but thought it was just a proof-of-concept; didn't realise it was quite that polished.

Even still, I would doubt whether or not your average digital forensic investigator would be using such esoteric techniques. Most of the stuff they do is pretty routine using off-the-shelf products like EnCase. Thankfully, for the rest of us law-abiding citizens, your average criminal is pretty thick and therefore the level of sophistication required to catch them isn't that high.
I'm more surprised that Zuckerberg's sister even applied to Y! Seems she should have enough connections to pull this off herself.

Oh, wait. They did this to prove a point about women applying to Y! Ok.

And the reason why they weren't accepted seems to be that they didn't have much to show for. Guess that's what happens when your heart isn't into it.
What country do you think most of the advanced microprocessors are made in? The US has a lot of experience building super-expensive fabs and mass-producing amazingly complex microprocessors, which is why if you look into your computer, you'll notice that your processor was made in the US, not China.
Why aren't smartphone app developers going where the sales are?
Thick walls and windows and door locks do make it harder for law enforcement to break in and catch criminals. If technology drove the cost of fortified residences down to the point where random common criminals were more likely than not to live in nearly impregnable vaults, law enforcement would quite rightly have a reason for concern.

It is a fallacious nerd narrative that LEOs want super powers to keep track of what kind of anime porn you watch. They don't care. The day-in day-out of LEOs involves crimes so banal (embezzlement, narcotics, counterfeiting, &c) that they don't catch your attention.

What's changing is that technologies that dramatically raise the cost of investigating those crimes are now the default. As a civil libertarian, I'm glad of that. But as a citizen and a counterparty to the social contract, I can appreciate the underlying concern.

The thing you "just know" is false. They care a lot more about child pornography (which happens a lot more than you appear to think it does) than you think they do.

When they try to outlaw full disk encryption to increase their chances of catching child pornographers, let's all share outrage together. Until then, try opening your mind a little bit to LEO's concerns. They have real ones.
UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/
I am a dummy
What this 1 year old child can accomplish using the iPad? I'm really curious. Would it be different with any other large touch screen interface?
"Most", or just enough to keep advertising a sustainable business, like spam email? Services like Spotify and Pandora actually make money from people paying them for an ad-free experience. I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who actually likes most advertising, as opposed to simply tolerating it as a means to an end.

If anything it's antisocial for websites to promise me valuable content, only to resell my attention to advertisers.
Not just in the US, but also in Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Syria and Iran.
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I'm a Ruby developer, and I know and use RSpec, and I still couldn't tell what it did. I know it's an RSpec formatter, but nothing on the page tells me how it changes the format, or why I care, other than that it invokes one of the fastest birth-to-death memes in recent history. I'm not going to install $RANDOM_GEM without actually understanding the value proposition.

Take a look at the announcement post for rspec-fuuu (http://sjackson.net/2011/08/30/rspec-fuuu.html). It says "Hey, it turns 'FFFF' into what you're really thinking: 'FUUU'". I understand exactly what the gem gets me, and why I should be amused. Your gem provides none of that. No examples, not even a sentence explaining how the output format changes. Even your lengthy blog post (which does a good job of explaining how to set up a custom formatter) tells me nothing at all about what your gem actually does. It's a bad sell.
I don't know how to do this for the MySQL client, but a very useful trick for your the PostgreSQL client is to turn autocommit off, which basically turns your session into a transaction that you have to manually commit before closing the client. So if you do a "DELETE FROM important_data WHERE condition_that_is_always_true" or something and it says "Removed 9001 rows" you can just ROLLBACK and your data is still save.
It's quite creative. As developers, entrepreneurs, etc., shouldn't we be nurturing this very hard to qualify talent?
What about commercially supported open-source projects? probably higher
Windows 8 does not require Secure Boot.
Senator Gillibrand's Response to Protect IP Email
right to remain silent. Orally, in writing, keyboard typing, or through any other means of communications.
Your honor, it has been more than six months since I was arrested and I can no longer remember the encryption key. All I can remember is that it twenty random letters/numbers.

Even if you lie in court it is very difficult to prove it.
So the Blackout was due to a SCADA hack?
Are you guys saying that a person that use full disc encryption doesn't lock the computer when leaving it?
I do not know what the technicalities are for bank debt, but it seems that VC money is easier to get, but has one million little hooks. With debt there aren't usually hooks. You pay a fixed interest rate.
Because it's against the SQL standard (not that MySQL cares very much for that anyway). Just like SELECT * FROM table returns all the rows, DELETE FROM table deletes all the rows.
Years ago I developed the habit of writing WHERE clauses first and then hitting the home key to write the query.
Amerika
obama using us military to go around to shoot hackers? what about obamas 30,000 hackers he uses to hack Arab owned puters and people against his marxist agendas????or is he going to shoot the chinese hackers for hacking amerikan satelites???????
I just about upvoted you until you threw in that last parenthetical comment.
So people must live in fear of clicking on links that contain a few nipples?

[Edit: Presumably just female nipples?]