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> my point is that the technologies for strong crypto and decentralization have already been established

My point is that the technologies of your point are useless and irrelevant without means to create connections between people. Existing P2P and cryptoware hides stuff for all but the participating parties, but creating those groups of participation has, thusfar, always been the domain of centralized easy-to-take down services.

The mold you set, of speaking of this oncoming future, waving your hand about "next gen," is a massive dis-service and harmful uninformed PR against the work that needs to be done. The change you hope is in the wind isn't going to be a part of the technical evolution and flow of progress, it's a deliberate technological revolution, making the fickle changing mesh of us all self assemble in a behaved fashion to permit us to shoot content queries to everyone on the planet in search of a copy of XYZ audiobook, and find the two people who have it. That requires huge amounts of caching of the libraries available content out there (so we don't actually have to go ask everyone), or what Tribler calls their megacaches, which at this stage are far more local than global.

So we have steps. BuddyCast3, the social overlay that underpins much of Tribler, gets some of the way there, but it's far far from a global search, and most of it's content is populated by existing trackers. Magnets, DHT, PEX, these were all invaluable core decentralization tools, but finding what it is you want, searching through whatever content is out there, is a huge problem which, unlike better lithography technology, no one has a roadmap for achieving, and saying otherwise builds a false sense of comfort that betrays the cause.
"In other words, he got off a lot easier than a 19 year old carrying a bag of weed would on the West Side of Chicago."

As a person who was truly in the wrong place as the wrong time, I agree with this statement. A seemingly good call could turn into a bad call instantly.
And I wonder if they end up finding something (or think they do) will you be in more trouble for "resisting search" ?
With that you have to balance the threat to your network. There are many widely-supported encryption standards that are incredibly hard to break, hard enough that no one will reasonably try. However if you leave it wide open, you're not only allowing your access to be used by everyone for everything, you're also allowing them free access to every device on your network.

If you're in a densely populated area, someone could spend the time to break your encryption from their own home. But if they're doing that, they're going to be doing worse once you let them in. Open wifi will only compound your issues. If you're not within range of your neighbors, you'll probably notice someone sitting outside for long enough (weeks/months/years) to break your encryption. Long enough to call the police.

Basically, if you're worried about a possible legal case involving the use of your network and your defense strategy is to open your network, you might be in much more immediate trouble by allowing people in. You'd still be on the hook for the activities on your network, but now your bank account has been drained by the guys who did nothing more than drive by your house with a laptop so now you don't have the money for a legal defense.
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That's my point, although I'm not sure my argument is illuminating much. Why do they request applause for selling what is essentially an unchanging utility? Data goes to and from the handset.

Lower latency, cheaper, wider range, higher volume, diffserved, sorted, tabulated, billed, whatever, sure: if you define implementation improvements as "innovations" then the carriers are innovating. But the thing the customer consumes is the same as the first day they lit up the first network: timely data to a computationally-capable handset.
There is a movie on Netflix streaming that has some small plot feature tied to one of these these nuclear batteries in a far North Russian weather station:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588875/
Tribler is the only item mentioned that has P2P discovery, is the only one that is pushing decentralization to the last holdout preventing decentralized filesharing: trackers.

The other options mentioned here, RetroShare and VPN's, are about saying, fuck it, we give up, doing public p2p filesharing is impossible, we'll do it oldschool warez IRC channel style and build darknets for those that care to and know how to chase this stuff down into the deeper webs we're tunneling. There's -absolutely nothing- little new or progressive or decentralized or P2P about these solutions: they were done adequately when in 2003 Justin Frankel/AOL release WASTE (which itself was not supremely novel, just well done & usable), and before that IRC and FTP.

In other words, we still have no replacement for trackers (in the loose sense, given magnets), they make our p2p networks possible right now.
Fair enough I suppose, and I'd add the rest of online banking is a big improvement too.

The fact that checks are not anywhere near as secure as I would want (or apparently the bank's own tellers would want) just irks me, since they're much more convenient than bill-pay, which takes 5 business days to process while handing a check to my landlord takes less than 1.
People here are fixating too much on how he could have avoided receiving this overly harsh sentence. The article is trying to draw attention to the fact that the sentence itself is overly harsh, not that he could have gotten out of it had he played his cards better.

Teaching people how to properly interact with police and the court system is all fine and good but it'd be better to fix the root cause of the problem if we can. These consequences should not even be possible regardless of what mistakes the person committing the crime made in his interactions with authorities.
Apple gave a statement to The Verge, which basically says their licence from Google expired: "our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended".

I know Google are hiring iOS software engineers for YouTube right now in London, so I'm sure there will be some official native offering appearing in the future.
A submission from 20 hours ago is still on the front page and has significant discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342790
Yes he ruined his life. But only because the drug laws for possession are so over the top and counterproductive. The fact someone can do as little as he did and have it cost him his job and cause him so many problems is a sign of a broken system.
He asked his probation officer if he could attend school at night. His probation officer said yes. I imagine most people in his situation would accept their probation officers interpretation of the law.

I mean you can sit there comfortably from the throne of hindsight and easily see where he screwed up, but that does absolutely nothing to further the conversation.
NASA has almost run out of U238:
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/20...

People promoting liquid thorium reactors have been pointing out that they could supply it: http://flibe-energy.com/products/
> You mean because of the modulo operator, presumably, and yes, the technically correct way to do it is to retry if the raw random number is larger than N*floor(UINT32_MAX/N). Still, that's a pretty minor bug considering what a minor deviation from uniformity it causes.

Yes, because of the modulo operator and this is not a minor thing in my opinion. Especially with small arrays his implementation will return the the 0th or 1st element much much more often than other elements.

I think the correct way would be to use arc4random_uniform(...).

> Yeah, this is a common mistake for people making "additions" frameworks, and it just strikes me as egotistical. When I was doing ObjC development, I'd even prefix my own private category methods, because hey, you never know.

Yes. He even did create about 30 functions which use the CG-prefix.
Running Haskell on Raspberry Pi
At Spreedly Core we see a lot of European and Asia Pacific customers sign up due to our API and flexibility to change gateways. However, no one outside of Stripe (and so far Stripe is the only one in the US) who has nailed the instant sign up piece.
Amazon Takes On Chegg, B&N And Others With Its New Paper Textbook Rental Service
Microsoft App Hub is out
I'm happy to hear that. I already made light table my main IDE for tinkering and solving 4clojure assignments. For the most part I've dumped emacs/SLIME for everything but lazy seq stuff which is problematic to run in light table - and for saving and managing project files.

Good documentation with examples, especially integrated R/W documentation is absolutely essential. Integrated clojuredocs etc.

I don't think PHP would be still around if the docs were more like docs in other langs. People can give additional examples there, describe bugs, differences in various versions, even small programs demonstrating the intended use or a workaround. It could be a lot better technically but it's very clear that it is super useful and a great time saver.
Nukes on Mars
The multiple-day clearing process? The need to transfer a physical item to transfer a couple of numbers?
Horcrux: Email backup solution for Mac OS X Lion
Yep - I'd use the service all day long then.
"In other words, he got off a lot easier than a 19 year old carrying a bag of weed would on the West Side of Chicago."

Proud to say that Chicago has de-criminalized small amounts of Marijuana. (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-28/news/ct-met-ch...)
Yeah. I always hated the built-in YouTube app. Being made by Apple, it was infrequently updated (only with iOS version changes), and it didn't let you do everything the mobile site did. It's good to see Google are finally in control.
Show HN: Wikipedia search chrome extension
Started picking up Javascript this weekend (using the awesome tutorials at codecademy.com :) ), and created this simple Chrome extension that lets you search Wikipedia from the address bar (eg, to search for olympics, gotta type 'w olympics'). Thought I'd share it in case there are people out there who are as lazy as me :)

It's at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nipjlcehkkalkjldekmkcaeeacmnhdee

P.S. I know chrome already lets you do that by entering the Wikipedia url and pressing tab, but saving a few extra strokes' gotta be helpful right? haha
Probably the best move for all parties involved.

The Youtube mobile site has better and more complete functionality. But that was completely missing on the native app.

Unless you didn't use suscriptions, check comments, etc. The native app, worked perfectly.
Airbus Could Reduce Plane Fuel Consumption 15% with Hydrogen Fuel Cell
I think the guy made a couple serious missteps here that created a bad situation and then made it a lot worse:

1. He got into the car carrying narcotics that he wasn't legally allowed to use.

2. He accepted legal advice without doing his homework:

"After being assured that the penalty would be light," James told Reason in an email, "it turned into a bigger ordeal than I could ever imagine."

The article makes it sound like the judge at the bond hearing advised him to plead no contest, assuring him that the penalty would be light, and he accepted that advice without any further thought. It doesn't sound like he even hired an attorney:

"The judge who heard James' case accepted the no-contest plea. Then he began stacking on penalties."

Were I in this guy's situation, I would not gone to my court date without a lawyer, a plan for getting everything dropped or sealed, and an idea of the worst-case scenario.

3. He was ignorant of the licensing requirements of his profession:

Having worked in finance for the last 2.5 years (admittedly, on the development rather than business side), it seems very unlikely to me that this fellow would have gotten his Series 7 license and started employment as a stock broker without being forced to learn the requirements for reporting legal problems like this.

The moral of the story is:

1. Do your homework, especially on criminal legal matters.

2. Do not blindly accept legal advice (or narcotics!) from strangers.

3. Mount an aggressive defense to any criminal matters.
Drug law in the US, whatever its original intent, is now largely a fiercely-defended welfare system for police and prison guards. Any time the subject of sensible reform comes up, these groups fight it vigorously.
It's worth noting that we're talking about "degrees" of PCI compliance vs "I'm on the hook or I'm not on the hook" Implementing Stripe so that the data never touches your servers still requires you to complete a SAQ-A. That's just a LOT easier than if you are handling the data and have to complete a different SAQ.
really its cause the old mac guy was in die hard and this new guy wasnt
How the Islamic world gave us coffee and democracy
The DoJ has recently ruled that recording the police is a constitutionally protected right. If you want, you could record the K9 unit outside your car. If anything improper happens, this is cause to throw out the evidence in court.

Of course, if the dog finds drugs because there are drugs in your car... well, don't carry drugs in your car.
This kind of tone is generally looked down on here at HN. I think there's an argument to be made on your side, but you're doing an exceptionally poor job at making it in a civil and friendly way. I'm genuinely interested in the other side of the story, but you have to have the discussion in good faith.
this article is wrong on many things.

one being that the rover can drive during night.

the small power output of the "nuclear battery" is not used to drive the rover. it used to recharge batteries during day and night so that the rover can operate on the batteries during the day.
I think the reason this has received such attention from HN isn't the sympathy it could garner (there isn't much), but rather the empathy. Only a small minority of HN can truly identify with those who are in intractable pain; they can understand their plight, but they don't feel it themselves. But when thinking about someone with a great job who was "on their way to the top" making one bad (and harmless!) decision, and then losing everything they had worked for because of it, and having to start from scratch with a nearly-indelible black mark on their record--well, I can imagine the mirror neurons of a lot of HNers are firing at that pain.
otterley - for that, you can take a look at http://datadoghq.com. We do all of the above.

Our service isn't free beyond 5 hosts, but is quite a bit cheaper than rolling and running your own or flying blind and facing the consquences. It's a hard problem, and we're on a mission to solve it for companies that don't start with goo* or end in *ook.
A lesson from Curiosity
MakeGamesWithUs (YC W12) Wants To Turn High School Kids Into iOS Game Developers
It depends on the state, but there are definitely states where carrying prescription drugs outside of their container is illegal even if you have a valid prescription.
Facebook Bears Garner 500% Profit From Structured Product Bets
How to Find Anyone’s Email Address
Upgrade Shared Database to PostgreSQL in Heroku
I find that using good aliases for common git command is quite useful.
Here are my gitconfig to show some examples. https://github.com/alexcp/gitconfig/blob/master/.gitconfig
Google records show book scanning was aimed at Amazon
For a bare-bones approach, this shell command would also do the trick.

cut -d\ -f1 ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

(Note: There should be two spaces after the -d\ .)
There is no "stock" 4.1 image for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. The factory image is still on 4.0.4.
"Resisting search"? I'm not sure that means anything.

You have absolutely no right to "resist" a search. If the cops demand to unlawfully search your vehicle, let them. Even if their search is unlawful, you will be charged if you in any way attempt to physically prevent them from conducting the search.

Your protections against unlawful searches come later in the legal process, when evidence obtained from those searches is thrown out of court.

Meanwhile, you can (if you are an idiot) bellow your refusal to consent to search at the top of your lungs, laced with expletives, and (apart from whatever comes from gratuitously pissing off the cops) you haven't committed any crime I'm aware of.
Using git commit -m is a guaranteed way to write useless and ill-formatted commit messages.
Exactly, it's news when it ruins a middle class white man's life, but nobody cares about the millions of people born in poor urban neighborhoods whose lives were ruined from the day they born, because their community was ravaged by drugs, crime and the revolving door of incarceration, and where they have no role models except drug dealers and prostitutes. I think it was Lupe Fiasco who said, if you have no chance at life, why even try?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccx7xYBArBc

The solution is always to crack down harder with stricter penalties and longer sentences to maintain the permanent underclass.
Of course one would imagine that the date of expiration was known at the time they announced iOS 6 with YouTube in it.
It's odd to me that no one seems to be noting that the video doesn't show a single second of actual use. It's all mockups and pre-rendered scenes. Is that not extremely concerning to the commenters saying that they already want to buy one?
You're quite right. My problem with the term 'consumption' is that it's almost always used negatively, as opposed to 'doing real work'.

A better word might be 'passive learning'.
>>>He did straight-up break the law, deliberately. He was carrying around recreational narcotics.

One pill. Have a sense of proportion. And go read Les Miserables. You are being Javert.
NameMedia Launches “Wholesale” Domain Name Sales Marketplace
We designed pup to be first and foremost accessible to developers, but it will work just the same on production systems.

Once you get addicted to metrics and want more aggregation / graphing / alerting / analysis capabilities, there's a number of open-source components you can pipe your statsd data into. Or you can use our own http://datadoghq.com service for that.
That's still one less person doing the same category of work, even if his specific position was filled.
I wonder if this is going to muck up the ability to post a video to YouTube natively from the OS. Meaning that rather than posting from the photo / video viewer you will now have to open the YouTube app to post.
you do have to remember though, that its much easier for a lawyer to get the charges dropped if you refuse to consent to search regardless of being innocent or guilty of breaking the law.
Marijuana law in Chicago remains a tool by which the police can arbitrarily take people off the streets. Dealing weed remains a felony. The thresholds at which possession becomes intent remain arbitrary.

I am sympathetic to the police here (there are probably many very good public policy reasons to get West Side dealers off the street) but the law itself is a bit of a clusterfuck.
How Well Are You Feeding Your Bacteria?
This is normal. Think of incentives:

* Police pull guy over -> have to make it worthwhile

* Guy pleads guilty -> throw the book at him

* Writing the book -> Employs many people

This is normal and occurs in every area of law. Your first and last statement to the police should always be "I'm not saying a word until I talk to my lawyer." The police are not your friend.
"I wouldn't make a blanket statement and say "all designers are equal", which is essential what you are saying."

I said the best on 99designs and guys who want $5k to do a logo are equal. Not every designer is equal.

"You can call it entitlement if you would like. I call it I've worked my ass off for many years and now have the luxury of only accepting gigs that I want."

This is what overpaid people in dying industries always say and think. The market doesn't care how hard you worked or what you think you deserve. Of course, you know this, which is why you made this post and why you want people to think designers doing spec work are 'one step above useless'.
>I guess I just come at this from a different angle. I never really felt that I was entitled to media that I didn't produce myself.

I never felt that an organization had the right to prevent me from accessing a piece of our culture because they have a piece of paper.

Copyright as it exists today transfers ownership of culture from artists to corporation; subsequent bartering of ownership means that the price _you_ want to pay goes nowhere near those what made it.

It is a travesty that Apple was _bragging_ that the Beatles music was in the iTunes store, as if that was some accomplishment of openness instead of lawyerly bickering.

Which is all to say: it isn't the paying for it that makes people oppose copyright. It's who we'd have to pay.
How did he screw up by pleading 'no contest'? What were his other options?

Remember that he was in possession of a CII substance. That's plain and clear. There was no way out of it.

I don't think the option of pleading not-guilty, asking for a jury trial, and crossing your fingers hoping for a hung jury or jury nullification would have been wise.

I also see why the judge made him notify his employer, considering he was a bonded stock broker.

After that, the "process" took over.
(disclaimer: this is my link/blog/software)

If that doesn't work for you, this might:

history 1 | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr

What that doesn't give you is the command tree, for example "git commit" vs "git checkout". It just does "git".

[edit, added gem link]
The gem is here https://github.com/paulmars/huffshell
About time, I have always stashed that in an unused folder. It's a nearly useless app that can't be deleted, so it's in the unused folder along with Stocks, Compass, iTunes, and Game Center. Having the browser jump to the app just because you click on a link was very annoying, doubly so when the mobile site was just as functional.

Worst case the perfectly usable website will be there, but Google's YouTube app will likely be a lot better and have the ability to be updated.
Because it doesn't require the other person to use anything technological.
Obama May Go Alone On Cybersecurity
Ah, it's a different Galaxy Nexus... That's a pity.
Plutonium 238 is NOT Uranium 238.

There's shitloads of U238 in the world.
PJ: "It does seem to be a deliberate Apple strategy, to just knock out as much of Samsung's ability to tell its story as it can, and in fact, that's what lawyers are supposed to do, if it's all true and fair. But forgive me if at least one eyewitness, me, concludes that this indicates that Apple is pretty sure it can't win _unless_ it excludes a great deal of Samsung's evidence, both for its defense and for supporting its counterclaims. If I am right about that, it means it feels it can't win fair and square."

This paralegal's idea of billion dollar boxing matches is that you should keep your hands down and offer your opponent your chin, just to give them a sporting chance? That if you keep your hands up, it must mean you feel you can't win? What happened to "float like a butterfly"?

Pardon me, miss, your bias is showing.
Such a heartless view at the top of an HN thread is one of the disappointing things I've seen in a long time. If you cannot feel any sympathy for a man who hurt no one and yet lost his job, prospects for future jobs and even prospects for renting a place to live... that speaks more about you than it does about the writing at Reason.

This story is about not only a wasteful, inefficient system and a six year injustice committed against a productive and from all accounts harmless man. It's about an the creation and perpetuation of an entire underclass.
Reuters Twitter account hacked, false tweets about Syria sent
FoundersCard Kicks To Expand Global Membership [Lifetime Discount Code]
What Obama had to say about the Curiosity Landing