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I'm a government-should-leave-reasonable-people-the-hell-alone libertarian and a crypto-is-the-shit kind of guy. I also think warrants for searches of encrypted media are totally legit, and think the hair splitting over "typing in the password without anyone seeing it" vs. "being compelled to dictate the password" is completely pointless.

1. Not every vocal Utterance qualifies as Testimony, and the only person who gets to self-identify with an encryption key is Whitfield Diffie, and that rule only applies after 3 bong hits -OR- when he's doing Salvia with Ron Rivest as his sitter. Your weasel card-skimming ass ain't no Whitfield Diffie.

2. If you leak enough inculpatory evidence outside your encrypted hard drive, such that the police are now holding a warrant for searching inside your encrypted hard drive, the jig is up, son! Shouldn't have leaked all that other guilt-stench, and should have plausibly-deniably deleted that evidence.
Criminal contempt would have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and the elements of proving the defendant's failure to provide the encryption key would include (1) showing that the key exists and (2) showing that they key is in the defendant's possession.
Casting with Number is also acceptable.

I don't understand why he would recommend unary as a replacement for casting. It obfuscates the intent of your code, which is especially concerning since this reads like a guide for beginners.
In support of the notion that Under a microscope, everyone is a criminal I'll add this data point.

The police raided the house of a veteran here in town a few months back for possession of small amounts of marijuana. The veteran opened fire and during the ensuing shoot out one officer died and five more were sent to the hospital. The news continuously talked about this veterans limited criminal history.

Ultimately he had a speeding ticket and had been charged with something like jay walking which was dismissed. That was his limited criminal history.

I completely agree that if you look at someone close enough, almost all will have limited criminal histories.
Another good comment is by Paul Ohm on Freedom to Tinker

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/paul/united-states-v-jone...
Out of curiosity, how complex are these simulator tools? What sorts of physics and electrical engineering knowledge (in addition to CS knowledge for taking advantage of modern programming techniques) would one require to be able to write a minimum competing product?
What really makes me laugh is when so many critics say "derp dey shud just scrap BB10 and get Android". What a stellar and out-of-the-box idea. If they go under then so be it but the market could use something different.
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Congrats, guys! I had an opportunity to meet Garry and Aaron on a few occasions, and I was blown away with how smart, driven, genuine, and kind they are. Of course real experience building successful products helps too.

Being able to grab office hours with these guys is a massive boost to YC companies. Keep on rockin'!
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So if I call into one of these conference lines for 30 hours per month using my unlimited minute time, Verizon will let me out of my contract?!
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Thank you once again for distilling the legal terminology into something I can understand.
U.S. v. Hubbell, citing U.S. v. Doe.

For these reasons, we cannot accept the Government's submission that respondent's immunity did not preclude its derivative use of the produced documents because its "possession of the documents [was] the fruit only of a simple physical act-the act of producing the documents." Id., at 29. It was unquestionably necessary for respondent to make extensive use of "the contents of his own mind" in identifying the hundreds of documents responsive to the requests in the subpoena. See Curcio v. United States, 354 U. S. 118, 128 (1957); Doe v. United States, 487 U. S., at 210. The assembly of those documents was like telling an inquisitor the COMBINATION TO A WALL SAFE, not like being forced to surrender the key to a strongbox. Id., at 210, n. 9.

http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/530/27/case.html
Imprisonment for civil contempt can be of unlimited duration, but the purpose of it is to force you to give up the information. Once you have been in jail long enough for the judge to realize that imprisoning you won't change your mind, you will be released. That could be a very long time.
Right, well that underlies the exact problem--things change faster that law makers and/or the jurisprudence can accommodate to.
Sorry for the late reply, but yes it was a problem with my passport (it was wrongly reported as being stolen). When checking in in Dublin, the airline employee checking me in mentioned something about my passport but we were allowed on the plane anyway.

FYI, I was traveling on a 457 visa as part of my new job.
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Fogbugz, while not quite project management, has a 'startup' edition which is free. http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/StudentAndStartup.html
I believe that Angry Birds uses Box2d for physics. A kid could do the same. With such a library the task is much easier.
It didn't return results for "sessionStorage", but "localStorage" worked.
I'm sure they would love to hear an affiliate talking about their company like this.

And this isn't requirements of users who come in via affiliate links, that's how their entire website works... you have to have an account and deposit money in order to buy anything.
The current "Blackberry Bold 9900" is definitely at the top of the current generation of hardware.
I really think you need to simplify the registration process. Just ask for the bare minimum email & password. I saw the form and ran away. I think I understand the idea from your description but there is no way I would have got that from seeing it. You should make it very obvious as to what exactly people can do here.

Ciao from Utah ;) My mother is from Milano. I also lived there for a few years.
Ideally I'd prefer that people be authentic if possible, but I know in the real world there are various problems that makes this not always possible. I'd push for these problems to be fixed too.
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I don't have any inside knowledge, but it seems like RIM has some deep structural or managerial issues that are going to hamper any initiative they have in the near-term. Their recent quotes, as reported on in the New York Times and elsewhere today, on the appointment of their CEO, are way beyond corporate spin and into the realm of outright delusion. Markets/investors, developers, consumers appreciate honestly, but that's not at all what we're getting from RIM recently.
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I recently saw on HN a page (PDF, actually, I think) of suggested questions for engineer-types to fill in before an interview to give them more of your standard HR talking points. Self-promotional stuff, but grounded in numbers/reality and not "I'm a team player!"-type things.

Genius that I am, I forgot to bookmark it.

Sound familiar to anyone?
Once again - either providing password, or entering it without revealing password itself is a self-incrimination simply because this way you prove you are owner of this information.

Why this is important? It might be not yours information but you might know password. And this will make you incriminating yourself.

And most important, no matter what, right to not incriminate yourself should be remain untouched. Otherwise, nothing protects people from its government.
Ninja commenting here...

After more digging, I was able to find this. If you scroll all the way to the end, there is some verbiage about just setting TCP_RTO_MIN to 1. However, the author claims this causes issues with delayed ACK unless another (missing) patch is applied.

https://github.com/vrv/linux-microsecondrto
http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/Storage/sigcomm147-vasudevan....
When I was in bschool, one of the founders of Aardvark came and gave a talk about their early days. What it boiled down to was a few super-smart guys taking EXACTLY the strategy prescribed in this article (namely getting a landing page up and manually handling the backend processes).

They eventually sold the company to Google for $50MM. Great for them. Where is Aardvark today?

I said it then and I'll say it again- experimentation is for laboratories, not for businesses. At the core of a business is a product or service that people exchange money for because it solves a problem. Too many startups set out with the mission of meeting their founders' needs (ie, quick money and fame) as opposed to any real societal needs. The irony is that if the founders worked from the consumer need backward and took a more long-term approach, their chances of success would likely go up substantially. The Lean Startup Method to me involves some mix of laziness, lack of vision, and giving up on your product and vision prematurely.

The faster your product proves viable, the easier it will be for competitors to rip it off anyway (Groupon, anyone?). You want real, sustained traction? Do the things that others are too lazy or unwilling to do because they are too hard or involve some risk.

I'm not advocating over-engineering, and it is great that development tools have progressed to the point that designers and developers can perform experiments for free while honing their skills. But to put an initial idea out there and let the public bat it around and bastardize it until it has some weird mixture of users and you don't even understand your own product is a path to nowhere. Remember- tools are merely used to complete a task. Let the task dictate the tools, and not the other way around.
Why is this on the front page?

This isn't news, innovative, attractive, useful... none of the above.

This is basically a tumblr of theme photos that have affiliate links to make you money. This is just an affiliate landing page with a wood texture.

And as somebody who spends thousands a year on TF, this site is not useful to me. Sorry, just... this doesn't seem like Hacker News to me.
My experience was different; I found the site easy to navigate and able to deliver just the essential details rapidly. For technical details, we have MDN, Wikipedia, caniuse, and Google.
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Ciao, thanks a lot for your feedback. You are right, we have to simplify the process. There are some additional fields that we would love to add, such as sexual gender, interests, etc. but I agree with you that we should avoid asking these questions right at the signup process. Maybe we could ask them later or allow the user to update her profile whenever she wants to do so.

Btw, send "un caro saluto" (a dear greeting) to your mom! I am from Milan but I moved to the US four years ago...I miss Milan :-)

Thanks again for the feedback!
Ps. For completeness, here are all the other submissions:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=tit...
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>The assembly of those documents was like telling an inquisitor the combination to a wall safe, not like being forced to surrender the key to a strongbox. Id., at 210, n. 9. The Government’s anemic view of respondent’s act of production as a mere physical act that is principally non-testimonial in character and can be entirely divorced from its “implicit” testimonial aspect so as to constitute a “legitimate, wholly independent source” (as required by Kastigar) for the documents produced simply fails to account for these realities.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-166.ZO.html

They're not actually talking about a combination lock, but using that as an example of something that would be covered by the fifth amendment.

Basically, merely forcing one to reveal that one possesses the password can be regarded as self incriminating.
Neither is great practice, in my opinion. This page looks dated in its recommendations. Any sane JavaScript that works with DOM elements should use a DOM abstraction like jQuery. Leave document.forms.fooinput.parentNode.firstChild.nextSibling.godhelpme to die in the grave of DHTML and incompatible DOMs from the IE6 era.
I completely agree. It's a shame, I remember in middle school the excelerated writing class would be the only class that was learning about critical thinking. My problem was that the teachers were under-mining the capacity for other students in being able to handle that topic / skill.
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Ask HN: Location based messaging service?
This is my first post. Does there exist a service where one can leave a message based on location? Twitter is obviously great for message passing and microblogging. Facebook and Google+ certainly help bring us together. I'd say that the combination of these two services greatly help communities all over the world exchange messages. Throughout very recent history, it was made abundantly clear that these technologies amplified many voices that needed to be heard.

Here is my question: Is there a service that allows for messaging based on location? Like Twitter, but with anonymity and coordinates.

There was a post on a 'Show HN' thread that seemed very close to implementing this idea, but didn't. That post pointed to http://rround.me. This project looks great and ended up getting quite a few people excited. However, it's not what I had in mind.

I've spent some time implementing this idea. After several iterations, I like my prototype. However, I know that this kind of application (if popular) would require a stronger backbone and would completely destroy my shared host. I thought this idea would be great to implement by myself so that one day I could show it off on HN, but I think that that day may be too far away. I've decided to try and lead a team for my final software engineering course to develop this idea. I wrote an article today detailing more aspects of the project as well as my concerns about sharing the idea.
If you want, you can read it at http://cameronbriar.blogspot.com/2012/01/sharing-original-idea.html
And what exactly will fighting over 1 million devices per month with Samsung, HTC, Nokia and a few others accomplish, especially when they all have to use the exact same UI and almost the exact same hardware? That sounds like an even higher commoditization level to me, and it's not even in a big market - it's in a tiny one.

Nokia has already cut the price of the Lumia 710 by $100 a month after it started selling in US. And besides it's not like WP phones can live in their own bubble. They have to compete with Android phones, too, and they usually have lower specs than Android alternatives at the same price level.
It is also awesome that he did it as one person in a month. I'm sure it took a lot more time to develop the original and a lot more people.
Research funding could be socialized, I suppose. Or the patent monopoly period could be reduced. Or medical patents could get an exception of some kind.

But these are all suggestions that should be coming from Congress and from lobbyists while they're negotiating the terms of the deal, so they feel like they've accomplished some level of "damage control." Meanwhile they've wasted a lot of energy inching away from the ideal/extremist proposal and towards the compromise we actually want.
For what it's worth, it's very common for forensics teams to get memory dumps before the computers are turned off or moved.
I first heard of UX when I was looking for information on the secret society that maintains this quirky building in paris where Louis XVI used to hide. Anybody knows of this other secret society? P.S. Both are fascinating to me because of resonance with the Gibsonian.
Awesome. But Adobe is slowly moving away from Flash.

BTW, Google ported Quake II to the browser (WebGL, WebSockets, etc) back in 2010.

BLOG: http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2010/04/look-ma-no-plug...
CODE: http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/

Why don't we have something like a MMO-SimCity 4, instead of all those *Ville-s out there. Hey, EA, are you listening ? :)
To me, the impressive part is that the whole thing is (as far as I could tell) just 177KB of jQuery/Javascript code -- plus sounds and images.
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Yes, this is a very nice feature. I noticed that mine was autodetected incorrectly[1] but just for shiggles I changed the extension to `.js`[2] and it highlighted properly.

[1]: http://hastebin.com/qumirixiqo.lisp
[2]: http://hastebin.com/qumirixiqo.js
Longest jail term for contempt was 14 years for a man who said he lost $2.75 million, and therefore couldn't give anything to his wife.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=8101209&page=1#.Tx4s...
Elegance is the point! Okay, so you spend a minute reading the usage page. Big deal. Learn it once and you're done. Plus you get an awesome Ruby Gem for pasting from the terminal! Definitely worth the 10 seconds it takes to figure out.
In other words if my password is "I am guilty" I can invoke the 5th and tell the grand jury that I will not tell them my password.

However, when the grand jury says "produce the crooked accounting books we know you have (witnesses have testified that you have them) that are stores on your laptop", am I required to somehow produce them or do I just say "nope, not going to happen." In the latter case, if those books are the difference between an acquittal and a conviction, do they just let you go, or do they hold you in contempt until you give in?

Lastly, what is the difference between using the contents of my mind when entering a password vs telling the police where I left the key to my safe?

Very lastly, just do not talk to anyone ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I thought you might be referring to that. That ruling isn't really a precedent for "Public works being re-copyrighted". It was a little more complex and related to a treaty the U.S had agreed to.

The works in question were still under copyright in other countries.
Perhaps I don't understand some dynamic here, but what prevents someone from just stating that they no longer know the pass phrase? I thought that was more or less a free pass, as no one can prove what you do or don't remember. Hence why the phrase "I'm sorry, I don't recall that senator" is used so often when everyone knows they're lying.
A little naive to think that's the only form of bribery.

Campaign contributions are probably one of the biggest forms of bribery in the US. Regardless of whether you "ask for direct action" it is implicit that if the Tobacco industry gives you money, you don't go shitting all over the Tobacco industry, unless you don't want/need that money any more.

It's still a bribe/corruption, but it seems it has become 'acceptable' in the US.
It does seem crazy. One can play devil's advocate though...

In a museum situation there is always tension between preservation and restoration. The aim of a museum isn't to have a (boring) collection of items restored to brand spanking new condition. It is to record the story associated with each object, and that story can be lost by restoration. A particular bit of damage might be significant as a record of the events at the time, for example, marks on a building due to a record flood, a bullet hole due to a particular battle or a significant piece of graffiti. It gets complicated when one has to choose which story to tell, such as a painting with two layers. Which to display?

Granted that the description paints the clock as being in a state of decay, not preservation, so the above argument probably doesn't apply in this case. There's an argument though that UX shouldn't be blinding going around fixing everything!
They make devices that can safely transfer power from the wall socket to a UPS so that they can take the device with them.

Take a look at this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erq4TO_a3z8
Why dump memory when you can do this instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erq4TO_a3z8
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1. Pollutes the DOM

2. Violates separation of concerns

3. Complicates maintainability

4. Events are bound directly to elements rather than bubbling and being managed via delegation.
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Why are programming languages so formalized and structured?
That's a nice touch I hadn't thought of. Any ones you like in particular?
See also: "Growing a language." http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415 / http://cs.au.dk/~hosc/local/HOSC-12-3-pp221-236.pdf
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No problem. With enough money you could set up a dead man switch to erase your laptop if you step more than 3 feet away from it which is bound to happen if the FBI drags you away. Or set up a voice recognition system that would listen for the words "Open up! Police!".

My point is that with all these amateur lawyer "I can outsmart them on a technicality" schemes I think it needs to be said that you probably don't want to do any of that. Instead, if you do have something that you feel you don't want to expose, use whole disk encryption with hidden volumes, duress codes, etc. but keep your options open. The worst possible scenario to be in is where the only way to prove that you are innocent (or to enter into a plea bargain) is to decrypt your drive but some crazy scheme of yours now prevents you from ever recovering your passphrase.

EDIT: Can someone please explain the downvotes?
Are you not using some sort of caching mechanism? a million queries to a db is probably going to kill it no matter what the front end.
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I've read that it's tied to a particular grand jury session, which is something like 18 months.

Either way, the longest contempt sentence ever was 14 years, which is nothing compared to what you'll get if the government convicts you of laundering money, selling drugs, possessing child porn, or all the other crimes that you might have documented on your computer.
I'm currently working at my first internship where I negotiated a ridiculous lowball into a substantial lowball. I didn't have any other offers on the table and was worried that I wouldn't get anything, so I settled. I think my point is that it won't hurt to ask.

I later found out that I wouldn't be an employee, but a 1099 contractor responsible for all my taxes, making the rate even lower than I initially thought. Needless to say, they will have to more than double my hourly rate when summer comes for me to stay.
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Great analysis by Paul Ohm. I love his summary of Sotomayor's separate concurring opinion: "Wow. And Amen. Set your stopwatches: the death watch for the third-party doctrine has finally begun."
So are you agreeing with not teaching reading to people (such as yourself) who struggle with reading, because they don't show an interest/aptitude?

If that's the case, which subjects are the "essentials" that should be 'required' and which ones are 'elective'?

I'm not sure I think coding is up there with reading, or arithmetic... But it's probably more important than some currently required subjects.
One example would be a witness sees you enter your passphrase and unlock your system, no?