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Worrying about evesdropping is derailing your otherwise fine train of arguments.

Security against evesdropping comes down to one and only one factor: The evesdropper cannot distinguish the bytes transmitted by iMessage from a stream of random bytes.

This is a solved problem, and getting it right in practice comes down to the simple rule, "Don't try to implement a crypto scheme. Use an existing library."

That's so easy to do nowadays that Apple would have to be breathtakingly incompetent to get that aspect of the security equation wrong.
Nice to see a decent app designed by a fellow Bangladeshi on HN.
No. If you have Affero GPL (AGPL) licenced code, you have to make the source code available if you make the programme "accessible to the public over the internet", even if you don't distribute the code. It's a new licence from the FSF, designed for web applications and the modern 'cloud'/'internet' world.
The UK can't extradite him if he's technically not on UK territory.
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All my top priorities are mandatory. All 18 of them. Especially if they are contradictory.

That's usually how it goes. No sense feeling angst about it.
Extraordinary claims... A meme that has never made much sense to me. Anyway:

Think about this from the start: Assange has just become an enemy of the US due to wikileaks dumping a lot of official documents onto the Internet. Knowing this, Assange would be extra careful not to do anything that could lead to his arrest by a America-comliant government. Next thing we know, he's being accused of the one crime for which there can be almost by definition no corroborating witnesses, no forensic evidence, no signs of physical harm on the victim. What are the odds? And remember, they haven't even pressed the charges (that way they can deny the judicial system was actually compromised), this is just an excuse to get him into custody so he can then be officially extradited to the US.
Iffy about this. There's no option to change the gradient or shadow--these styles done here look a bit overdone, personally for my taste as a web designer.
Let me point out. There is at least _one_ conspiracy here.

Either some combination of the US/UK/Sweden is conspiring to bring Assange to the US. OR. Ecuador is granting Assange's asylum not because in their best judgement they believed it was warranted but for some more nefarious, maybe political, reason like spiting Sweden or the UK.

Or maybe there is no conspiracy and Ecuador is just as stupid as most HN commenters.
Very cool, will use it in the future. The one thing that gets me to use this one [1] is pre-selected themes that I can choose from, since I suck at getting the right colors/shades in order. Perhaps you can add that feature...

[1] http://www.cssbuttongenerator.com/
Cool! Any thoughts on sorting (and possibly adding a bit more metadata to sort with)?
Works great for me. Chrome 21.0.1180.79 m.

Nice work. :D
The funny thing is I think this is a great idea for employees and I'd encourage things like this even amongst my own (though it's just contractors for now!) But for me? I'd always choose to work longer and I love it. Maybe there are key differences between growth stage, finding-their-feet businesses and those comfortably bringing in 6/7 figures a month though ;-)
The funny thing is I think this is a great idea for employees and I'd encourage things like this even amongst my own (though it's just contractors for now!) But for me? I'd always choose to work longer and I love it.
Love the idea! I mainly use YouTube to find interesting music, and this would (will?) make that easier.

The interface seems sketchy though. Sometimes clicking on a song in the results list doesn't do anything. Other times there's a little flash, but it doesn't switch to playing that song. Sometimes it selects the song and the video appears to load, but it doesn't actually start playing. In general, the UI is frustrating because it looks clean and polished, but a gesture has the desired effect only about 75% of the time.

Another issue I found is that sometimes I get what seems to be the wrong video—it's not the song listed, and appears to be completely unrelated. Several times I got a video of somebody narrating a Dickens novel, and once an Asian game show of some kind. It could be wrong metadata on the YouTube side, but it happened often enough that I doubt it.

If you sort out these issues, this could be awesome.
Never heard of this. Thanks
You reminded me of a developer complaining about the XML bloat in our product. He said "Do you know how much overhead XML adds to your page loads?". I responded "Yes, roughly 60ms on uncached page loads.". Later he proudly explained that he didn't know how to write html tables because he only uses CSS.
Spotify and iTunes may have similar UI but this site and Spotify are identical. One can assume Spotify was inspired by the design of iTunes, since well, lets be honest, its how everybody now pictures their music players. This site on the other hand had done nothing new at all, its blatant theft of Spotify's interface.
Working on Chrome 21.0.1180.79 on Ubuntu. Looks really cool too. Great demos!
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A fashionable bike helmet isn't really "saving the world" by any stretch of the imagination, but it's a nice video.

Anyway, airbag vests already exist for motorcycles... There are various designs, protecting the body and the neck. I've never owned one, but it looks like they typically operate using a cable which is attached to the motorcycle and a CO2 cartridge. Cost is similar, maybe $500, and they are usually reusable assuming they aren't actually tweaked in the crash.
It seems to have turned out that way but officially it's always been "developers and designers" with a slant towards front-end work.
oh boy. can we just please deal with the reality of now? I can't stand these glum little articles ala how xyz could have been prevented, or, what steve jobs would have done different. all these futile/meaningless intellectually masturbatory what-ifs that contribute zero to the tragedy over there as we fiddle around about it from our privileged vantage point. move on!
"If there was a conspiracy at this point"... If there was a conspiracy at that point, then why did Assange go to Sweden at all? Why does a (postulated) conspiracy have to be well organized and able to operate at the spur of the moment? How long does it take to get the jurisdictional pieces in play/place? How often do the (hypothetical) people involved get a chance to practice for this sort of event?

I have very little experience with such matters. In reading various historical events (I'm reading about the founding of Panama now), it seems that a lot of luck is an important factor.
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There is a BSD port for TECO as well. I'm running it on a PPC Mac via Macports.
No please don't think like that. Assange even said today he would agree to go to Sweden, if they promise to not send him to the U.S. He's terrible afraid of being send to the U.S, and rightly so. The U.S. repeatedly demonstrated, that when it comes to political prisoners they don't care much about human rights, the law, or habeas corpus. Look how Bradley Manning is being treated or may I just remind you of Guantanamo Bay? These things really happen.

Now Assange believes, that the extradition to Sweden, for whatever reason, is just a false pretence to send him to the U.S. What makes the whole case dubious is the timing the case came up, which was right after WikiLeaks's diplomatic cables release, and also that Sweden immediately issued an InterPol warrant, which is kinda unusual for the alleged charges. So I'd be highly suspicious, too.
"Apps that use location-based APIs for dispatch, fleet management, or emergency services will be rejected"

Sounds to me like that would get Uber rejected?
Nice, Ash! Coming with playlist functionality soon.
Nice work but one comment: it's not clear to me why this is a jQuery plugin. In the setup you simply install a constructor (ie new $.BigVideo()) and that's it.

Unless there's more to it than that IMHO you'd be better served making it independent of jQuery. As popular as jQuery is, it's not a given.
I'm saving $100k+ a year by using GAE and not having to hire a fulltime sysadmin (or pretend to be one myself). When I hear 'my company had me switch to AWS/Heroku because of GAE costs'... I keep thinking... well, they could probably stick with GAE and get rid of you (and your manager) and save even more money.

A bit of sub optimal design expense is nothing compared with hiring employees and it is relatively easy to refactor code to fix parts of your app that are costing money. I'm sorry the OP has to actually spend a bit of time thinking about how much implementing this new feature is going to cost, but that sounds like basic sound engineering principles to me.

In the end, I'd rather focus on adding features to my webapp than getting paged in the middle of the night when AWS/Heroku goes down or my site suddenly gets a lot of requests. From that aspect, GAE has been a lifesaver for us. =)
Contrary to my expectation, this post was quite upbeat. Good for him.
This.

Slightly different though.

HN has made me a lot more comfortable with the fact that I have chosen not to move back to the bay area yet.

I did an internship at Yahoo out there before I finished school. I'm in Austin, Tx now and thinking about moving to New York
I disagree with the second part of your comment, but didn't intend to criticize Matthew Green.
No, if you need to ask for phone numbers by using a facebook group you are doing it wrong. This just serves to encourage more people to do the wrong thing.
> “I like the BlackWidow Ultimate: it doesn’t have proper buckling springs, but it’s backlit and I like to code in dark rooms”

You... need to see your keyboard?
> The part of this story that seems to trigger the most emotion is the notion that Ben brings this guy in, then drops this requirement on him with the consequence that if he doesn't do it in 24hrs he'll be out of a job. That level of clarity in direction is rare in my experience. It also read a bit like Ben was taking no responsibility for not communicating clearly the importance of this requirement. If I were Steve I would want to understand that better. But we don't know what sort of 1:1s that Ben and Steve had prior to this one. Perhaps it came up often and Steve made vague affirmative noises about how he would get around to it soon or something. And only after repeated nudges did Ben come out and make this clear delineation of behavior and consequence.

That's technically possible, but that's pretty much opposite to how Ben himself told it. Here's the condensed version of the backstory:

> one day while I happily went about my job, it came to my attention that one of my managers hadn’t had a 1:1 with any of his employees in over six months... I did not expect this.

> I thought that leading by example would be the sure way to get the company to do what I wanted... why didn’t they pick up my good habits?

> Given the large number of things that we were trying to accomplish, managers couldn’t get to everything and came up with their own priorities. Apparently, this manager didn’t think that meeting with his people was all that important and I hadn’t explained to him why it was so important.

There is no hint at all of the situation you envision. That isn't to say you're definitely wrong, but you're certainly on shakier ground than Ed.
It automatically takes over the screen of my iPhone when I navigate to it. Great for desktops, and a killer way to Rickroll iOS users.
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Is he not a persecuted whistle-blower?

Ah, the hypocrisy of the NY Times is enraging. Didn't they publish the leaked documents as well?! What cowards.
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How have you implemented the queue and manipulation on lists like previous, next, shuffle? would love to know about it
Well my response wasn't really a blog post about why I want the UID system. It was simply an example of where it might be useful. I don't see how that's a bait and switch, it seems like you're more concerned about what I didn't say than what I did say in my post.

I come from a defense background, so lets just put that issue to rest right there. Are you bothered that I didn't say that in my first/second/third post either ?

It looks like you are plainly against the UID system, maybe that's coming out of your frustration of needing one for a gas pipeline, or maybe it's borne out of something else.

I acknowledge all your points about how the UID won't help in many situations. But the one thing it surely will enable is simplicity of documentation, and like I said before, I certainly welcome that.

There is a definite problem in India with 'proving who you say you are' - I hope the UID system will solve that to a certain extent.

What countries are you talking about ? Brazil, Chile, UAE, countries in the European Union, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, etc. all have UID systems in place. These tie in their ID, tax info, etc. into a single card. I've seen first hand how their IDs help them go through life and get out of the documentation hell that we suffer from in India.

In every response you are suggesting alternatives (hey, I could give my driving license for that, or there I could give my ration card, or wait in that other place they might accept my voter ID) to a UID system. The idea of documentation simplification is that you need just one ID for all of those things. (education, health, banks, etc.) Not only is it easier for the person presenting the ID, but it reduces the back end processing required for the service provider. When we talk of numbers as large as 1 billion, those inefficiencies stack up pretty quick.

You can go on talking about the failings of each scenario but the fact is that many Indians have no IDs (my grandfather didn't have any legit ID until he was 92, when we applied for a passport for him to go to Egypt). Maybe your domestic help have ration cards but please don't project your limited experience onto everyone else, that hardly makes for a valid argument.

Not to mention the authenticity of people's ration cards, voter's IDs, driving licenses, birth certificates, transcripts, transfer certificates, etc. That's a whole can of worms in itself.

It appears that you're afraid that our government will bungle up the whole initiative. Well, that of course is common in India and a risk with almost any initiative. Still, that's not a reason to not take initiatives in the first place.
Needs a favicon ;) Very cool!
That's so easy to do nowadays that Apple would have to be breathtakingly incompetent to get that aspect of the security equation wrong.

No.
The video not playing properly is an issue with the Youtube Chromeless player I used. I probably messed up the javascript somehow. I'll have it fixed when I implement the new UI.

The wrong video issue is simply the result of the first video result from youtube being wrongly tagged. I can't really do anything about it.
Not really. The large number of deaths caused directly by the tsunami weren't preventable, unless you're willing to permanently desettle the coast.
The worst case scenario of a natural disaster is also catastrophic, and they don't even have significant benefits.

I, too, am opposed to natural disasters. (?)
Again: There are no charges. There is an arrest warrant to question him on suspicion. Charges would be the next step if they decide to proceed.

The UK courts found that the Swedish prosecutors unilateral interpretation of the evidence as stated in the EAW would amount to rape under UK law.

But this description has not been used to file charges with a Swedish court, and the woman in question have previously claimed to the press that she refuses to sign the statements that the prosecutor has based this description on. So at this stage it is pure speculation whether or not the prosecutors even believe they have anything that amounts to sufficient basis for a rape charge.

This does not mean that it's not possible that they will file actual rape charges. It does mean that it is worth pointing out that the only clear cut accusation of rape so far comes from the prosecutor, and that only in a document she has every opportunity to ignore the contents off for the future should she so choose.

It would most certainly not be the first time a Scandinavian prosecutor have used claims in an arrest warrant only to end up with no charges at all or much reduced charges once they actually have to file documents backed up by the evidence in front of a court with the power to actually investigate the evidence.
I'm looking for a good API to use that provides enough metadata. Spotify is probably a good choice. I'll add the sorting.
I haven't read the OP article, yet, but as I vaguely recall from past media reporting on the topic, I believe one of the reasons such sites were chosen is that the were economically fairly poor. The jobs were welcome and outweighed residents' safety concerns. (Perhaps safety concerns were also somewhat diminished by said residents having on average a lower degree of independent information and/or education.)

This is from memory; feel free to correct me if and as I'm wrong.

Such approaches can also be spun positively as "economic development packages/projects". Whenever such is said, the observer should look critically at who is really benefiting -- as often as not, I think, the project owners' interests come ahead of, and sometimes at the cost of, those of local residents.

Ideally, all parties gain. But to do so, amongst other things someone has to keep those in power from cutting too many corners.
I find it actually terrifying that so many people can fail to apply common sense to this matter.
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Of course you might dismiss this link as pro-assange but I found it quite informing on the different extradition scenarios.

http://justice4assange.com/US-Extradition.html

I personally will be glad to see Assange in Swede to face his accusations but I'm also concerned by the risks of extraditing him to the US.

For instance this week the Ecuador said they asked Britain and Swede for assurances of not extraditing him to the US and they said No. Even if their argument is that their justice is independent and therefore cannot make such promise I find it very convenient for them to use this argument.

So am I deluded in conspiracy theories? I don't think so, the best proof is to see the treatment Pvt. Manning received at Quantico, I therefore think there are big powers behind the scene trying to shut down this new whistleblower movement by making examples. I'm not approving all of their actions but I really think they are not criminals and it should be easy to find bigger fish to fry.
I believe due to the need for cooling water nuclear reactors are almost always built on a large body of water, either a lake or the ocean. I believe the only reactor in the world that isn't built in such a location is the Palo Verde station in Arizona, which uses (partially treated) municipal sewage for its cooling needs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_S...
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That was my first thought when looking at the boxes. If they were implemented here in Mexico we would have the problem of the random guy wanting to piss but not wanting to get out of the pre-paid sleepbox.

So, he decides to piss in a corner and continue sleeping until he gets out.

Who is going to clean that?
I moved from England to San Jose for the 3 months (rented a place from another YC founder).
A red interpol warrant, no less. Qaddafi got an orange. My views have changed.
Thank you. I already use something similar calles Red Shift. But I still think it would be nice to have a reflective display.
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Escape. Normal mode is for navigation. :)
The sponsored hackathon is the new 40 year old guy throwing on a leather jacket attending indie shows to sign bands.

The value of the hackathon is rapidly diminishing. In fact I'd venture to say once they started to be formally organized they started to devalue.
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In the current form, yes HaLVM requires Xen, therefore Xen on ARM support would be required too.

Xen on ARM [1] support is ongoing and from what I can tell, the repository [2] is flagged as unstable therefore certainly still requiring work.

[Edit] RaspberryPi has an ARMv6 CPU. The Xen site reads: "The Xen ARM Project, led by Samsung, is responsible for the direct port of the Xen hypervisor to the ARM processor. So far the focus of the project has been to use Xen Paravirtualization (PV) for a range of processors (ARM v5 - v7).".

This means that it should cover ARMv6 of course. As for the status, I have no idea.

[1] http://xen.org/products/xen_arm.html

[2] http://xenbits.xen.org/ext/arm/xen-unstable.hg/
This reminds me of songza from several years ago.
Look back - I think you will find that the NY Times did indeed publish some of the leaked documents...
But it doesn't have to be an online database. See Octopress[0].

[0] http://octopress.org/
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Github's project pages present a really nice, standardized, easy way to find out what a library does. I am always relieved when I find out that a 3rd-party python library I want to use is hosted on github, as it means I can very easily read the documentation, browse the source code, and examine outstanding issues.
They did suggest it and I understood it like that as well.
Politics will trump public safety almost every time. Why do we keep rebuilding communities in flood areas, for example?