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I think a startup is pretty much 100% R&D. It's just not pure research.

Maybe you can't build a fusion reactor on a YC-style seed investment, but Etherpad, AirBnB, and Reddit have done more for my life than fusion research has, so far.
When you're "crashing" Scientific Linux (which I presume using a non-modified RHEL 6 kernel) then you're doing something wrong.

We run far bigger PostgreSQL DBs than this, and we've never had a RHEL crash. Ever.

Maybe there's something wrong with the hardware?

Additionally, if fsync = on in this test, then you're mixing a file system test with a database test.
Agreed, it certainly wouldn't replace VS for debugging, but it's just such a nice, fast, well-behaved editor... I almost want to try.
I have mentioned it before but this thread seems a good place to mention it again. I have an ASUS Slider which I thoroughly enjoy. Different form factor but identical software and keyboard / USB mouse use. Absolutely love it if anyone is considering this type of form factor (a keyboarded Android tablet)

I don't seem to have the same 'loss of state' issues the author does... probably just due to which apps I use most. Using the 'window list' to change apps isn't quite as quick as I'd like (small pause when I open it as it renders) but I haven't had any issues other than that.

Also don't agree with the author's view that this is meant to be a Netbook replacement. I think viewing it in that light or expecting it to be is setting it up for failure. It's Android with a keyboard so you can do textual content generation easier. The upside is it comes apart and becomes just a tablet at will, and runs for what... 15 hours when docked? It's not a use case for everyone but nor it is intended to be a netbook replacement.
It's working now! Before it wasn't even printing my user agent and info though.
Seems like now would be a good time to:

https://supporters.eff.org/join, https://supporters.eff.org/donate or https://supporters.eff.org/shop
Depending on what was inside of it, they would just have someone open it.
thanks! I got 1 and 2 before I saw this, but we'll see how I do on 3.
Wow, that raises so many interesting questions / loopholes / stupid scenarios.

1. What if I encrypt the drive twice? Sure, I'll decrypt the first layer, then they can have the "contents" of that.

2. What are the legal implications if I've "encrypted" something written down? i.e. replaced every letter with the next letter in the alphabet. Do I have to decrypt that?

3. What are the legal implications if I've written things down in another language, known only to me - can I be forced to translate it? I would think a nice defense here is to say they can have the disk, it's just in another language, which is their problem.

4. Further to point 3. what if I have the info on a drive with a File System that only I can read/write? Do I have to give them the tools to read the file system?

5. Similar to point 4, I write my own custom binary file format that only I know how to read/write - again, do I have to describe the file format?

This is about to get crazy.
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This is far from over. There is still the matter of "I forgot". (No, the judge might not like that, but on the other hand, if she did actually forget...)
No, I mean the on-foot areas.

"Levels" (for lack of better word) were extremely "follow the only road" in ME2. Yes, missions generally had a single start point and a single end point in ME1 as well, but the point is that the path from A to B was MUCH more free an unencumbered in ME1. It was, well, sort of the difference between an RPG and an almost-FPS.

Of course, I wish FPS games themselves would return to that kind of free-roaming level design. As put brilliantly in this image: http://www.geardiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/fps-desi...
Seems pretty simple to me: they have spare capacity.
I would too. County jail is a lot better than federal prison. (Anything that you'd want to encrypt is going to get you life in prison these days, so it's not like you have anything to lose.)
"The proposal above does not provide robust content protection, so it would not address this use case even if it wasn't unethical."

My thoughts exactly once you view the first diagram on the proposal.
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That's a good question. The article seems to indicate that there was almost a penalty.

FTA:

> In January, EFF advised Astrolabe that Olson and Eggert would move for sanctions if Astrolabe did not withdraw its complaint. Today's dismissal followed.

In other words, the complaint was dropped only after penalties were threatened.

Thinking about this issue, I see your point, but I'm not sure how far in that direction we should go. In particular, we don't want to create a mechanism that can easily be used to punish whistle-blowers (for example), simply by finding someone willing to declare their complaint to be frivolous.
I find that I'll often come up to a point of half-consciousness at about 8/9.5/11 hours, but as long as I don't sit up or get out of bed or start checking my e-mail on my phone, it's pretty easy to fall back asleep.

Whether I want to depends on how much mental activity I've been doing; I'm far more likely to think "That was a nice dream, I don't wanna get out of bed yet" if I've got a thorny challenging problem in my head than if I'm like "Gotta get into work and start coding."
I've been impressed by what a hard job it must be to be an immigration official. If you're right and you process a visa application right... Who cares. I you're wrong... You face anger and rage.
What I find annoying is the use of the word "impossible". Really? If everyone used encryption, the number of successful prosecutions of these crimes would drop to zero?
You could also use objdump -d to decompile the binary.
If simple CRUD functionality in a web service is all you need, you are right that you shouldn't be writing this and you don't need to if you choose the right rapid application dev framework. I currently do Java dev and even for the bad rap it gets as far as rapid dev, I have used Spring Roo, which is sort of a Java-Spring knock off of Ruby on Rails and it can generate JSON web services for you for your model layer. You can then implement custom validators, etc but the boilerplate services, etc are all done for you. I believe other languages have similar frameworks that can do this as well
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I wonder what the penalty for contempt is?

let's say it's a high-profile murder case, and they need the info on the drive to make it stick. Without the drive, there is no case. If the defendant gives over the key, they get 25-life, what's the penalty for contempt?
They shut down the AIR marketplace http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/air_marketplace_faq... but it is worth trying again.
That line just bugs me on so many levels. Why can't they prosecute those cases without having the data on someone's laptop?
What can someone have on a laptop that can be so important that without it it becomes impossible to convince a jury?

Honestly, I think if the prosecution is unable to move forward without that data, then they had no hope in the first place.
I don't really think so, dividends are more like interest than capital gains, so why shouldn't they be taxed at the normal income? Even if you're aggressively buying high-dividend yield blue chips (6% APR+), with the higher tax rate you're still doing much better than you would with a CD or other type of savings/money market account.

I've been wondering what the effect would be if we restructured the short and long term capital gains period instead. I think the 1 year holding period is just too short in the perspective of economic cycles to provide the market with stability. What if we gave much more incentives for people to hold onto their stocks longer (more long term investment, less speculative):

Currently, the capital gains rate drops to 15% or so if it's a long-term gain. Short term gains are taxed at normal income rate.

What about?

Tax rate for holding period:

6 Months or Less - 50%
6 Months to 1 year - 40%
1 year - 30%
2 years - 20%
3 years - 10%
4 years+ - 5%

You could make the argument that a Roth IRA could accomplish something similar but there's a limit to the contributions. I know if this was the structure, I would convert more of my assets to stocks.
There is no one i trust with my data more than me, and large projects have a poor history with trust/privacy.

When I talk about licencing i'm talking about the future: where you could use the cloud to access full fat programs like photoshop (after getting over any technical issues with remote installs). AFAIK there aren't provisions in current licences for such things.

Even if you have to spend for (more) local storage/backup, it is very likely to be much cheaper, and i would have a strong preference for the buy-once (and own) rather than rent monthly model.
Why does HN generate unique URL's for the 'more' pages?
I'm not sure if this question has been asked but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. At least a dozen times I've hit the 'more' button to find the URL expired. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a page 2, page 3 etc?
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But this is nothing new. Remember Steve Jobs's FBI file that showed up here a week or so ago? The government visited all his contacts and compelled them to spill the details on what Jobs was really like. That's essentially the same scenario described in this story, and it's already happening every day. But not via Google search, via good old fashioned detective work.
How is this different than being forced to unlock something like a filing cabinet or empty your pockets, or open the storage locker as part of a police investigation?

this is investigating a specific crime. It's not like being forced to decrypt when the police are fishing for a reason to bust you. (or NYC's stop-and-frisk emptying of your pockets which I firmly oppose)
How could you prove that I didn't forget it? It's impossible.
I remember reading about a famous inventor (can't remember who, sorry) who purposefully induced this state by holding something in his hand which would make a noise when let go. While falling asleep, the object (say, a metal ball) would drop (into say, a metal bowl), making enough noise to wake him up just as he was falling asleep. If an idea came he would write it down, if not he would repeat the process.
Is anyone else disappointed with the icon? It doesn't feel very polished which is surprising since it is from The Iconfactory. I expect better from them.
man tree :)
Anyone else shocked to see that they were still using a "Netscape plugin API"? How many years old is that?
I love the apology because it sounds exactly like the apology of a man (or organization) who has had it explained to him exactly what a very very bad position his activities have put him in. Really like seeing a complete apology unlike the "We apologize if we caused any discomfort..." ambivalent BS we see all the time.
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Think about the amount of data the 70 people at Dropbox move. A couple hundred years ago that would have taken every single literate person.
Moving databases between clusters is no easy feat. Can you share more details on the man-hours it took to oversee and verify the migration?

I see you mention several days for the data to be copied, but how about the time to put your solution together and verify it? Also, did recomputing checksums take less time between passes, proportional to the size of the remaining changes?

We didn't find much published material about the best way to do this,

You may want to have a look at our live migration solution: http://chronicdb.com

It goes beyond checksums: it guarantees the data move is atomic and data consistent.
For all anyone can prove, its random data. What are they going to do next time I safely erase a file? Throw me in jail for contempt because I can't magically turn the random data into incriminating evidence?
As a response to #1, I'm pretty sure that wouldn't hold up. Unless they specifically state that she will "Run the XXX Algorithm on the drive" It's probably legally sound that she has to fully decrypt all the data.

#2 probably holds similarly. The remaining ones are just getting more ridiculous.
frivolous is one thing, fraudulent is another. they filed a copyright claim on information that not only do they not own, information that it is not possible to own. this sort of behaviour should be punished.
I would certainly prefer that science is carried out in the open rather than in secret.
i've found it really hard to find older mentors. people who are "like me" - that are like many HNers - seem rare, and the ones who become successful tend to be SO successful that they're busy, hard to meet on purpose - and i don't feel comfortable with cold calls like Warren Buffet did.

so I'm 26, and on accident I've met one or two people "like me" plus 10 years. By active community participation, and deliberately doing things to stand out, i am gradually meeting a few more. They love to do lunch with people "like them", but they're inevitably busy, and they have other relationships as well, and I don't have a lot of value to them other than as an employee - so I don't get to interact on a regular basis unless I literally go and change employers. which is sort of like dumping the current mentor. It sucks.

I've never met someone "like me" but 20 years older, or 30, or 40. That would be incredible. The current strategy is to continue developing myself and meet people as life takes its course, like a leaf on the wind. I wish there was a way to accelerate this - who knows, by the time I've found a mentor who is 66, retired, who gives a shit about me in the midst of all the other people who want to interact with him - I'll be 56, not 26.

ideas?
impostor syndrome sounds like modesty to me.
Should we all be storing our hard drives in a lockable vault, such that we can get the legal protection that physically sealing it would do?
Economists qua economists broadly support socially optimal allocations of property rights. Whether they are Pareto-improving or not is beside the point, from a strictly economic perspective, because any socially optimal allocation can be made Pareto-improving through transfers. That this doesn't actually happen is a political problem, not an economic one.
The decrypted data could be random, but afaik, encrypted data does have patterns that are evident of encrypted data.
I imagine with enough willpower or strength any safe can be broken into. Not so much with encryption.
You're both right, in a way.

It was priced closer to cost than most imagine (SSDs were still very expensive at the time and it used much more expensive parts that were underclocked to reduce heat buildup before Intel had good ULV processors) so a top of the line 1st generation MacBook Air ordered in the first three months of release would cost you $5500. I know because I bought one for someone.

It was very expensive, but it wasn't ludicrously priced. Pioneering that CNC technology wasn't cheap and if it didn't work out, that loss would have been all because of the Air. You can consider it putting the burden on early adopters, I see it as more people paying the actual product cost plus profit like Apple always prefers. They aren't ones to launch something at cost if they don't have to. They would rather move less units and instead make a profit from day one.
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Wouldn't an obvious case be possession of child pornography?
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Hah, the Uberman's sleep schedule (six 20 minuted sessions totaling two hours of sleep per day). I remember trying that for a few days after seeing the kuro5hin article way back when. Supposed to take two weeks to adjust, but it was so painful after a few days that I lost faith and feared I getting caught in a hoax.
Thanks, that was very interesting. Android looks to work very well with a keyboard and mouse, especially considering it is almost unused in this way today. Everyone ranting that android is a mobile 'toy' platform should definitely watch this first.

I was surprised how many programs had keyboard support (GTA III looked great, i suppose i shouldn't be surprised since it is a port of a desktop game.. impressive none-the-less).

I could definitely see myself using this on an extended vacation or such, and with some more time for google and application developers to get used to this usage type, i can really see it working very well, and it's not impossible it could start to encroach on windows' territory.
See this patent: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6205469.html

Also: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=expired+lin...
I have to second the "Spark" recommendation. It presents the very compelling research behind exercise's cognitive and mood benefits. I've read many of the articles and books on this topic and Spark still included new information for me.

After reading it I decided to finally get on a religious exercise schedule and I've been on it for two months. The improvements to my will-power, focus, and mood have been tremendous.

As a side note: one thing that has helped me keep up the 5 to 6 exercise sessions per week is reminding myself that I'm only exercising for cognitive and mood benefits. This helps me personally not get distracted by other factors like fat-loss, improving running times, etc. If I added other non-brain goals, then it'd be easy to get bummed out and discouraged if I didn't achieve them, so I keep my goals purely brain focused. If those other benefits happen as a result of the exercise, then great, but they are not why I'm doing it.
As a handful of quotes, and an unsearchable PDF of handwriting few would read.
I want to echo Thomas's sentiment here about asking questions of the interviewer.

It really is of tremendous benefit while interviewing to be the one driving (or at least steering) the interview. Even aside from any psychological power dynamic, it's a really good way to make sure you get to cover the things you want to cover.

If you've ever come out of an interview and said "Oh man, hopefully that went good; but I wish they'd asked me to talk more about area 'X'.", you know it can be nerve-wracking.

Being able to have an actual conversation, where there's interplay between the interviewer and interviewee will do wonders for your anxiety level (which considering how stressful interviewing can be for some people, can be a big deal).
Honest question: by that definition, how many YC companies have been big successes?

I scanned this list, and don't see many public companies...
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With all due respect for people working on these ideas, I am kind of sick of the me too's. It's like X for Y is getting to be a frustrating strategy as it essentially kills innovation.
Most browsers have user profiles and syncing.
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in 2004 i turned down a job with MSR because they had no compelling story about how the stuff they design turns into shipped product.
Future solution: Create a killswitch password that completely erases specific directories when used.
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> Why? Most of the big porn studios are as trustworthy as any other Internet business of the same size

The probability of a leak may be similar but the downside isn't. It's no problem whatsoever if your name is linked to cheapprogrammingbooks.com, you cancel the card, get a new one. The situation is somewhat different for spermgarglingteens.com.
Try SHA1_Pass. I'm the author. It's open Source. Runs on Linux, Windows and Macs. It generates passwords, it does not store them.

Edit: Here's a link (no ads or other junk). http://16s.us/sha1_pass/
Technically yes, but you can use elasticsearch as a distributed key-value store. I use it in production and it works amazingly well for me. Yes, searches may return stale data (one second old by default) but that is not much of a problem in my app.
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It's impossible to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, but there could be a preponderance of evidence that you didn't forget it. For instance, someone could testify that they saw you log in the day the computer was seized.

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

However, you could argue that you didn't log in using your PGP password that day, but rather your OS level password. Your habit is to never shut down your computer, but rather to let it stand by, so very rarely do you ever use your PGP password. Earlier that week you changed your PGP password, but you can't remember it. The password went something like blah blah blah. This way you are cooperative, without turning yourself in.
You may want to take a look at PixelQi Displays, they already built a hybrid. It is not perfect by all means, but it gets really close. There is a tablet based on it as well, the NotionInk Adam [1].

[1] www.notionink.com
We have that in iKnode. You can create your own logic and access it through the REST service. You can even upload your own assemblies as well.

You can see the screenshot here:

* Editor: http://iknode.com/images/tour/appeditor.png

* Assembly Upload: http://iknode.com/images/tour/asmupload.png

You can create your application that becomes a service endpoint and then just call your logic.

You can call your application using a REST POST like this:

https://api.iknode.com/Applications/execute/<application...

And in the body just put your parameters:

{ parameters: "{ myParam1: myValue1, myParam2: myValue2 }" }
A lot of that unwillingness to change is not having the energy or mental capacity to do adapt to those changes. 80 year olds with the bodies and minds of 22 year old athletes will be very different than the 80 year olds of today.
yes - but
implement it in opera, ie, or firefox - you'll find that you've to rearchitecture a lot of your browser - or might as well just grab webkit (of course, in our case you can just try firefox since its the only open source one of the 3)
I largely agree with your statement. In a perfect world, I would prefer to see no state actor with control over the Internet, but alas there must be some regulation on some level. As it is, I would prefer the US over any other state entity, except perhaps for a few European nations. Idealistically speaking we would see internationally distributed regulation, preferably from non-state, non-commercial actors, but I think this is unlikely without monetary incentive or support of some kind.
This is different than being a complete stranger to an app requesting your Facebook permission since the other students in your school likely knew who you were and where the app was coming from and decided to trust the Facebook auth based on that.

With a user being completely unaware of the app or brand I would say that the bounce percentage is actually very high.
I pledged my $100 after the SOPA saga. Still waiting on my hat, though...