skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Further, I believe that this strategy would be employed as an argument to not ever giving up the passphrase. You would tell the judge, or whomever, that the phrase is a literal confession of a crime, and thus, by doing so, invoke 5th amendment protection.

I'm not assuming the confession is for a false crime, but nonetheless uttering the phrase "my password is $string' where $string is a true confession is still not a confession.

In your strategy, there are two parts to your confession:

1. The information that your password is the string "$s", and

2. Your volunteering of the information to the judge that the strong $s is in fact a confession of a real crime which you did in fact commit.

Part 1 is not testifying against yourself, unless in conjunction with part 2. Since you voluntarily threw Part 2 into the discussion, you're voluntarily testifying against yourself, and there's no rule against that.

A physical equivalent to your strategy would be to write out a letter of confession, leave it in your basement, and tell the police that the existence of this letter means they're not allowed to search your basement. It's not gonna work.
Ever tried to obtain more than 10,000 of those US dollars? Not exactly "banned", but pretty heavily restricted, from what I understand, for just about that reason.
This was posted 22 minutes earlier at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3253920
Could be... or it could be an overly vague idea that boils down to nothing
In 2000 I worked for WebOS.com (site still exists, but you wont find a working product), developing a pure JS desktop environment much like the linked page. The development API was loosely based on Swing and sported a full SDK. There was no Flash involved at all, it was entirely DOM based and employed numerous techniques to improve speed. We even had a system for doing JSONp data communication, back before anyone even know what JSONp was.

Once the thing loaded it was wicked fast, as fast as any native interface, and this was back when IE6 was the top dog and JS engines were horribly unoptimized. If the code still worked it would probably scream in Chrome.

Technological limitations were not the problem, usefulness was. We completed the product and discovered that nobody had any idea what to do with it or a way to monetize it. We considered selling it as a foundation for other companies to build systems on (medical would have loved it), but we had no buyers. Then the dot.com crash happened and it all just went away.
Candid thoughts about a $200 million dot.com bust -- The CueCat.
How will you handle chargebacks? If my Twitter account gets hacked, will I be responsible for the cost or will you be?
Ask pg: Can we *not* use scribd?
Dear pg,

Scribd hates my computer. Google's viewer works /fine/ for PDFs and lots more than just PDFs.

It even has a better interface:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=(urlencoded link)

Signed, all those of us who view HN on 900Mhz P3's.
I know next to nothing about advertising online, so please don't think I'm being facetious by asking this: what is the actual rate of display ads vs. people that click and buy stuff directly resulting from that ad?

From what I heard it's sub-10% or even 5%. If 5% is considered good, doesn't that say something about advertisements, that is, that 95% of the people _didn't_ follow through, and probably ignored it. This to me screams that there should be a better way to advertise.
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I have the Nov 2010 MacBook Air, and that demo works fine under both Firefox 7.0.1 and Chrome 15.0.874.121
Native Apps are faster. Frankly, there isn't even a debate to be had. Native low level code will execute faster and be more efficient than web apps rendered in the browser using high level languages like JS. This is of course assuming the app is more than just a UIWebView, though.

Obviously it depends on the site and the quality of each app, but as a rule of thumb a half decent native app will beat out even the best web apps or mobile sites, which I might add are far and few between. Most web apps and mobile sites offer an awful experience.

A great example is Google Music. Why do I prefer the native 3rd party gMusic for iOS over Google's web app? Where do I even begin. How about, every single thing about the native app is better, faster, more responsive and less buggy without one exception, period. That covers it pretty well.

Even if we are talking about something simple like news, there are still huge advantages to native apps. For example, lets say I'm on the subway. I have two iOS devices. I launch the NYT app on one and go to newyorktimes.com in MobileSafari on the other. Which will actually have news on it?

Likewise, the subway goes above ground temporarily and I get a quick 3G spot. I do the same thing. Which will end up with more content, the mobile-fied homepage of NYT, or the much more efficient data pulled down by the app? Native apps still offer advantages that the web can't begin to duplicate. If they didn't, we would all be using Chrome OS right now.
In an article [1] from a brazilian website, the "classification director" of the brazilian Ministry of Justice said in the video that "Apple sent representatives but backed off", due to "technical problems when embedding the [classification] seal on their AppStore".

The explanation was quite vague, but below the video it says that every video game must be approved by the Ministry of Justice itself, and about 2100 are analyzed per year. I haven't checked the law here, but I believe this is the problem Apple encountered.

Also, there was some uproar about that classification a few years ago, before the AppStore, I believe.

And if I recall correctly, South Africa has the same problem.

[1] http://macmagazine.com.br/2011/03/30/ausencia-de-jogos-na-ap...
Insider info about meetings and dealings with Microsoft, Warren Buffet, Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner, and how the technology now powers more than 150,000,000 devices, yet the company still tanked. Very interesting info that has never been revealed before.
I don't know. Apparently a lot of the people here are master criminals, because they seem to be awfully paranoid about the idea that police detectives can, if sufficiently motivated, deduce some information about their activities. (These sorts of folks must really hate Sherlock Holmes stories.)

Personally, as a law-abiding citizen, I'm really not too concerned about being the target of a police investigation, and if I ever am the target of a police investigation I'll be happy to hand over as much evidence as possible since it will assist the police in ascertaining the truth that I am not, in fact, the guilty party.
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This doesn't seem likely, since Scribd is a YC startup.
We get it, you don't like Google+. That doesn't mean you have to take every thread tangentially related to the product and make a point to criticize them for not releasing engagement metrics barely two months after launch.

If you have any facts or statistics to back up any of your claims I'd love to continue the discussion. Wild speculation and opinions stated as facts? Not so much.
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A lot of our data isn't mission critical, so it wouldn't make sense to do daily backups for it

disk is cheap enough for daily backups and it's simpler to backup everything than make a big project out of slicing and dicing your backup script.
Yeah, I agree the law's been misused and SOPA will almost certainly be misused to. My point is that this argument over the representative is kind of petty. This shouldn't be about who's doing what and who's got some double standard. Instead the discussion should just focus on the bill on its own and framing the discussion like has been done in the post makes our side (yeah, our side, for some reason people think I'm for SOPA) look petty or like we've run out of good arguments.
There is not one 'European attitude'. French attitude would be different from British attitude. Despite what the Daily Mail says, UK is 'European'
Or because as civic-minded folks they're happy to help the police to do what they can in order to catch criminals and protect the innocent?
PayPal handles all fraud.

The problem for the hacker is that in order to get paid their fake Twitter account would need to be connected to a real PayPal account which is connected to a real bank account. The entire chain of transaction would be very traceable.

If your Twitter account is hacked you are going to immediately realize you are transacting over Twitter. You'd see pay tweets and transaction tweets occurring in real time. You could then easily just shut off your PayPal connection to Twitter in your Sell Simply account. We do not store any Twitter or PayPal login, password or account data at all.
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I'm amazed that the concept of "air gap" isn't standard operating procedure at any utility.
what version of netscape are you running?
Except Brin is not paying for his past sins. Microsoft became a giant by doing a lot of very reprehensible things.
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Did anyone else see this email? Looks like Netflix and Walmart were sued for anti-competitive behavior. Netflix got Walmart to drop out of the online rental business if Netflix would stop selling new movies. The settlement is worth $28 million and people can receive cash or Walmart gift cards - the amount will depend on the number of claims.
You have to put yourself in the shoes of a normal iPhone user. Many users don't even know how to download apps and therefore never do.

The people who do know to download apps never imagine an "app" can be a "website". Therefore, they look to the "App store" as their first choice whenever they're searching for a solution to their problem (e.g. "oh, I need to know the latest news, let me search on the app store" or "oh, I want pictures of cute kittens, I wonder if they have those in the app store").

Which if you only have a web presence, you're never going to get discovered. That's why many app developers make native app wrappers over their HTML5 webapps - just to solve the discoverability problem.
"child porn" seems to have replaced "terrorism" as the new universal argument.
This is one slide from my W3Conf talk. The accompanying video and full deck are here:

http://cdn-smooth.ms-studiosmedia.com/events/W3C/Day2/Web_St...

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111116/
#1 Senator Gillibrand is not a cosponsor She is a well funded unindicted co-conspirator It time to Flush this Bitch out our political cesspool along with all the other corprate encumbered 'treasonous pieces of shit...
Hey! Nice work! I liked it! Downloaded the Lite version and will buy the full one as soon as I have some money in my account.
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Mozilla developers are not volunteers. Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit company.
Sorry but IMHO, this is the classic "product looking for a problem" example. There are several things I believe make products like this tough to succeed, most important of which is this: for a transaction-based model to work there needs to be buyers and sellers who go to a marketplace to buy or sell. Without this focused ecosystem, its really tough to make it work. I understand that one could argue that sellers can broadcast across all channels (twitter, facebook etc.) and create a buyer ecosystem in a distributed fashion. But I feel it is merely good theory and cannot work at scale in practice (barring few examples of flash sales, deals etc which have short shelf life and apt for viral / social spread).
Aw geez folks, are we getting so offended nowadays over a flippant piece of exaggeration?

No, not all poor people are pumping out a dozen crack babies. But they do seem to find it possible to have children in rather inauspicious circumstances while those of us further up the social food chain bite our nails and prevaricate about breeding under any circumstances other than perfect. And that's not a good thing on either end.
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That's not really true in LEO or above geosynchronous orbit. Small objects can't stay in LEO for vary long because of atmospheric drag. And above geosynchronous orbit most existing satellites don't have enough energy for pieces of them to reach that orbit. Realistically, you can also design redundant systems that can withstand a lot of impacts without failing. So, while you could destroy a lot of what's up there after a few years people could start putting things back into orbit.

PS: I would look at a lot of this stuff as a combination of misinformation and requests for a larger budget. The single most important hacking indecent involved a few small group of teenagers that exploited some mail servers and caused enough havoc that nuking the city that the attacks seemed to be originating from was on the table. Read up on "Solar Sunrise" and don't fuck with NORAD they don't feel the need to play nice.
The encryption key could be a function of his login password and it could be stored in-memory after he is logged in. The issue is to have a trigger which wipes it from memory by logging out the current user when the police shows up, and unplugging the SD is a nice trigger for that.

That's at least what I imagined, his setup might be completely different (a keyboard combination for logging out might also work better).
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Americans, in my experience, don't "freak out" about it. It's really all about litigation.
> the FBI, CIA, and NSA, also have a problem cracking encrypted hard disks — and according to a new research paper, this is a serious risk to national security.

Imagine what would happen if people could hold information in their minds without putting it computer files. That would be a very serious risk.
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another point not mentioned is the benefit to society out of this automation. It makes products cheaper. This means although people may make less money, they are able to buy more with that money. This is the old "would you rather be a rich person in 1900 or a poor person in 2000?" question. With every additional efficiency gain, a person's dollar goes farther.

In traditional economic terms, this is shifting the supply curve down. Quantity of a product consumed goes up, price goes down, and there is more net benefit to the consumer.
If they did this, people that normally would just pay $10/month to watch one movie a month would only be paying $1. It would definitely eat into their current business model.
Reading the description that was given, if it did go down as described, that sounds every bit to be torturing a prisoner until he confesses.
"They" is a very broad pronoun. Ban encryption, and sure, detectives will genuinely be able to catch more pedophiles. That's almost certainly true, and I wouldn't dispute it.

But there are trade offs, and you also get more insidious elements. Certain officials in the government care about who you vote for, what websites you visit, what software you have installed, who you communicate with. This isn't new and has been par for course since time immemorial.

I'd liken it to freedom of speech. Most people, if they use freedom of speech to say something controversial, use it to say stupid and socially damaging stuff. Bush personally planned 9/11, Obama is a Kenyan Muslim plant, etc. But it's still worth fighting like crazy to make sure they have the right to say it, because as a society we do better if there is that ability to say whatever you want, even if people abuse it. It's that way we can fight against the government when we need to.

In the same way, encryption is a valuable tool that prevents government power from being exerted when it should not be. This can range from more effectively avoiding government attempts to undermine counter-establishment political organization to opening up markets that should not be being shut down by government violence.

I don't know if you'd even disagree with any of this. It's of central importance, though, to make sure that people know the debate isn't about whether we should allow child pornographers to avoid punishment.
The court is not interested in your passphrase, they want the information that it is protecting. The court will simply compel you to provide the information in another manner if you claim that revealing your passphrase would be a 5th amendment violation (although I doubt they would even buy that one to begin with.)

1) tell you to provide the pass phrase to your lawyer (which makes it protected via attorney-client privilege) and then tell your lawyer to unlock the system and provide it to the court

2) out-geek you and notify you that since your encryption system does not actually use your passphrase but instead passes it first through a strong hash function you are to provide the court with the hashed passphrase so that they can use a decrypt method which skips the hashing step.

The short version is that claims that a passphrase alone is protected via the 5th is unlikely to succeed.
That is precisely what it is.
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You keep making statements about what "the real population" and "the majority" like or do, but the only study I've seen actually cited in this thread contradicts your assertions.

Do you have any actual numbers to contribute, or just your personal intuition?
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Interesting idea. Wonder if it is too abstract for average users though
Heart was and is in. BI was not...fully informed.
>He made it all happen.

Steve Jobs made a few cool stuffs, but this ain't true by a long shot. The man died. Move on.
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> facebook made really really easy to investigate the live of everyone as never before. I'm not the one that says that, the FBI chief officers said that.

Note that some Facebook investors have professional relationships with the management of In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit VC firm created by the CIA in 1999.
You assume that the police care if you are guilty or not. They don't. The quality metric that police work towards is not finding the actual perpetrator, it is finding someone who can be convicted, or, even better, strongarmed into confessing and/or accepting a plea bargain. As a (mostly) law-abiding citizen myself I wish it were otherwise. But it isn't.

See e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
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How many users does a water pump have?

Hell, this probably shouldn't have been networked in the first place.
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Netbooks have replaceable keyboards. You'd never know.
I think almost everybody has a story like this. when I was in grade 12, I got a job as the sysadmin of three linux labs at my highschool. I didn't have a lot of sysadmin experience, but part of grade 12 comp sci was to give students a chance to learn something.

One of my first perl scripts (c'mon. it was 12 years ago) was to adjust something about user accounts. I dont remember what it was, just that the result was deleting the home folder of every single teacher at the school.

a very honest mistake.
The point I am trying to make is that people's actions and feeling about advertising are very different.

You are absolutely right that people consume advertising and react to it.

I think you are wrong to conclude that this means they love advertising. Perhaps it is just my bubble, but I can't imagine many people saying something like "I love advertising, I wish commercial breaks were longer".

IMO the difference with the techie internet crowd is that we are aware of what is an advert online and we also know that there are ways to avoid it.
taps are finicky but they're faster than click events. the iphone waits for a double click on click events - several hundred milliseconds i believe.

you can make jqm better by coding very thoughtfully - making sure you transition to a new page before doing an ajax call, for example. in fact, waiting for any ajax response before giving the user visual feedback will sink your app - give the visual feedback first.
This is the greatest business idea ever
This.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
For example? I guess they could save a lot by cutting out hosting.
Yup, I was only talking about the "fish operators" as he calls them.
5% would mean that for every 20 pages viewed on the Internet, advertising is leading someone to make a purchase. I can't imagine that ever happening no matter how fantastic the ads are. Don't think of it as a percentage hit rate; think about how that number fits into the way we use the Internet and live our lives.
Everyone needs an excuse to justify not measuring up to their own expectations, and group-difference excuses are the easiest to make because they don't require hard evidence. The only cure is to take a step back, admit failure, and learn from it.
What I mean is, it doesn't provide much of an advantage over just using the hotel lobby computer with your data on a USB flash drive. Connecting it directly to a monitor via HDMI, on the other hand, does seem quite useful.
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Violence is far easier and much less expensive. No need to hire a PhD in physics/math and purchase expensive equipment. Why bother? Violence is universally understood (no language barrier). All you need is a few guys who have no feelings. They could buy the equipment they need at Walmart. A few hammers and some pliers. Job done.
Had he seriously not heard of it before?
Yeah. Agreed. I didn't get it at first until I zoomed out and saw what they were doing in sf. Could be useful if they got more users and figured a way to manage the noise.
In 200 years you think we'll have moved past the light bulb? Or AC electricity?
Make your passphrase something like "I respectfully decline to reveal my passphrase." Comedy ensues.
It's also not a bad idea to follow in your father's footsteps if what he did was amazingly successful. Also, keep in mind that if getting that new Mercedes or the size of your trust fund depends on following what your dad says it could be a significant point of leverage.
Litigation because of freaking out.. but I just have the image of the Simpsons in my mind 'who will think of the children'. The U.S., love 'em, admits violence but is prudish. Always found it a strange thing but hey, it's cultural so we'll accept their quirks. The internet is mature enough to handle not forcing cultural change.
If that's true, and they manage to crack your password, then they will hold you accountable for two crimes :)
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I think it's more likely Microsoft knew and didn't care.

The parent to your comment - by mhw - is pretty darned close. At Microsoft, legal and engineering are in different silos and don't talk to each other, except through senior management with limited bandwidth and legal/engineering understanding and also - in my experience, and to some extent - program managers.

Developers (at least) are told not to look at patents or patent applications. I'd be surprised if PMs were told differently.

Does MS Legal have engineers on staff to determine if something is worthy of a patent and to look for prior art? That's a possibility. But your "more likely" (granted - it's your opinion) doesn't seem incredibly likely (in my opinion.)
thanks for the feedback. we definitely need more users. HN is denying me another post because i'm posting too much but i'm actually curious of social startup hackers on here have good ideas? mashable won't write us up so we're trying to figure out how to get the word out.

also on the noise - we hope that eventually we get enough content that people will vote and help us sort through the noise.

again, thanks for trying the site