skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, there is no public or secret law that would require Microsoft to backdoor Bitlocker.

What's worth remembering, though, is that such a proposal came reasonably close to becoming federal law in the 1990s. It was backed by the FBI and was approved by a House of Representatives committee, which I mention here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html

An excerpt from that article: "In the 1990s, [now-VP Joe] Biden was chairman of the Judiciary Committee and introduced a bill called the Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act, which the EFF says he was "persuaded" to do by the FBI. A second Biden bill was called the Violent Crime Control Act. Both were staunchly anti-encryption, with this identical language:
It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law...

While neither of Biden's pair of bills became law, they did foreshadow the FBI's pro-wiretapping, anti-encryption legislative strategy that followed -- and demonstrated that the Delaware senator was willing to be a reliable ally of law enforcement on the topic. (They also previewed the FBI's legislative proposal later that decade for banning encryption products such as SSH or PGP without government backdoors, which was approved by one House of Representatives committee but never came to a vote in the Senate.)"
Well it appears on the surface to cover cases where an SMS message is sent to a mobile phone. But it wouldn't cover stuff like having a swipe card + password, or having two passwords etc etc.

Edit: OK, further reading reveals that it's about per-transaction authorisation (eg bank to bank transfers), not authentication. So actually it's quite different from the SMS passcode usecase that Google, Facebook etc are doing.

The equivalent would be getting an SMS with a passcode before sending an email. Not getting it before you log in.

(IANAL, TINLA)
If you add ?share=1 to the URL, you can read any URL without logging in, not just the first answer.
Saw this at the ITP show, will be adding some Twilio apps
I find it tragic that content distributors like Apple do this kind of strong-arming, to the point of asking for limits on distribution through other channels (and in some cases, exclusive contracts).

I understand that I can't force the companies who produce a book, movie, or album to make it legally playable on my TV, computer, tablet, or streaming service of choice. No store has all the content, and in some cases DRM schemes make the content unplayable. There's no guarantee that I can read a particular book on my iPad legally, or put a Britney Spears song on the device in my pocket, or play my movies off a network share on my LG TV. Too bad; the company that paid for the content owns it. However, extortive contracts from the delivery companies add a deleterious force on top of that, like when Netflix or Hulu get exclusive streaming rights to a show and shut the other out.

At some deep level, the players in the content game are fighting instead of cooperating. In the future, I hope content producers learn to exploit monetization models where they don't have to be so overbearing about exactly how content is delivered, and in general they promote rather than inhibit distribution of their content. The Internet provides unlimited ways to discover, consume, and purchase content, so rather than a vision of the future, I expect "digital storefronts" like we have now to look archaic.

That is, if the customers really do have the power to "demand" a good experience, as Jobs puts it. Otherwise, we're just along for the ride, occasionally pelted by shrapnel from wars between giant corporations.
None of this would benefit anyone other than Mr Dotcom.

(Payback to who for what exactly?)
This is the problem with `Anonymous`. Literally anyone can claim they are part of it. Any group could use it as a cover.
psst: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratellite
Sure, thanks for the feedback.
Which is better? That it is publicized that the security hole exists and anonymous tips aren't truly anonymous? Or that people continue to trust the site, while criminal organizations monitor it for their own benefit?

No question that this was an action with the potential for short-term harm. But I'm not convinced that in the long run it will prove to be a bad thing to put police everywhere on notice about how important it is to better secure databases like this.

Heck, if they want to improve, they can do worse than to start with http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/stron... and see how well it serves their needs.
Thanks, it's the first version and I'll fix this problems asap.
The lack of in-app sales is overrated IMO. You don't sit down with an iPad and think "hmm, maybe I should buy a book". There's a great chance you're browsing the web when you get the idea, so you just hop over to amazon and do a one-click purchase.
He's had this patent for 13 years, and he hasn't done it yet. Why would he start now?
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Had to read up on that one! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form
Ops! Thanks, I'll change it.
oh, interesting! Good eye, thanks for pointing this out!
Possibly, but maybe it would be cheaper for them to pay for the service from google or whomever (depending on how frequent their network is overly congested) and not have to worry about having special staff on hand to manage something themselves (maybe even the not having to worry about it is enough to shell out cash in itself).
Ok thanks. I guess I'm confused about the gains with asm.js. Looks like it is in the same ballpark performance wise as regular JS (and slower in some cases). So, why would anyone write in a crippled C-like subset of javascript and get normal javascript like performance. In the future if threading and SIMD is standardized, won't regular JS gain performance as well?
Every Web 2.0 service has been "backdoored" (i.e. storing data in the clear on the servers) all along and very few people have complained. Perhaps inventing a scary term for an existing practice will catalyze some kind of change, but I doubt it.
This is well said. The thing is, though, that it was the non-Java version of Hushmail that was exploited by the Feds. The fact that it could be exploited shouldn't cast the end-to-end secure version in a negative light.

So who at Google is going to code an encrypted Gmail in their 20% time? Paid, of course, because the server won't know what ads to show. (You could put that intelligence in the client, but it seems a privacy-sensitive clientele wouldn't like even that info to leak.)
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As a Xbox 360 user, I can confirm that Xbox Live Gold membership is required for Netflix.
Great, thanks for the reply. I'll take a look at your other comment as well.
No, look again at the numbers - asm.js gets much closer to native speed than normal JS, in many cases, especially large apps. In addition to the numbers in the article, you can see for example,

http://kripken.github.io/mloc_emscripten_talk/#/28

asm.js code makes it easier to get within reach of native performance.
What Must-haves were there on the current generation ? I was considering "Trico" as one of them for PS3 but it never came out... and will probably be cancelled or something.

Honestly, nothing much comes to mind, and most of the so-called exclusive titles like Alan Wake made it to the PC eventually.
Exactly. I think it's interesting how high the cost had to get to roughly equal the cost of breaking the "social contract". As in, to end up with roughly the same number of occurrences of late pick ups.
It would have been a search warrant from the FBI, not a subpoena. The FBI was notified about the Broadwell "harassment" in mid-2012, and by then Google had nationalized Warshak and was requiring a search warrant for the contents of email communications.
I would think that it would be a lot less likely for a group of people to all stay silent on that matter though.
Especially since the "next gen consoles" are about the same performance as today's mid-range gamer PC.
There a bug for V8 about implementing asm.js: http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2599
As for dropbox, its only upside is great mobile apps, for other tasks SpiderOak works for me. Actually, I have both and have SpiderOak put everything I often need on mobile into Dropbox.
His twitter account could be of some interest. He seems to primarily considered with the whole MegaUpload thing and is using this patent as evidence of his contributions to tech. (see https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/337358180914982912)

His most recent tweet is him selling this patent: https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/337410056859566080
All startup advice is wrong?
Designing for common sense
Yeah, there's a lot of talk but not many successful examples to make up for the speech. What has actually come out of Kickstarter yet? Not much. And most of the game-related projects are super late. Mmmm.

I am not sure that developers without publisher pressure is ACTUALLY a good thing. Sometimes you need constraints to do good work.
What do you dislike about the idea of asm.js? (You mention that some people think asm.js is evidence that you can't make things fast enough in regular JavaScript, but that is something you dislike about people's reactions to asm.js, not an issue with the idea of asm.js.)
The Xbox One runs on x86 hardware though, porting the CLR would be rather trivial. Indeed, the CLR probably runs as part of the apps VM.
I can't upvote this one enough. There is an astounding insistence among engineers that they should be able to dress like bums, swear in presentations, consume endless junk food and soda on the company dime, not be required to complete professional degrees ("judge me on my Github"), etc. etc. while simultaneously bitching that they're not paid like real professionals. Hmmn.
Not everyone can use Medium and Svbtle. Medium, as of now, is invite only. But they do claim they will offer it as a public platform soon. Svbtle is application only. See their website.

I would recommend SquareSpace, although it is $8/mo for a standard user.
I would recommend removing "7" from the board at all. The easiest opening move is to just start clicking all the 7s (since that guarantees you all multiples of 7 until you run out of 7s).

This strategy requires 0-thinking and is a bit tedious. If the board has no 7's on it, you're required to add from the get-go.

EDIT: Also, very fun little game. Thanks for sharing!
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Yet he's selling it?

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/337410056859566080
> Emscripten builds taking between 10 and 50 times longer to compile than the native code ones.

Hey, this is fatal. With this massively long iteration time, you can't run actual big projects. Only executing 1,000,000 lines of C++ code is not enough. We care the build time as well as the perforamnce.

BTW, have you heard that the next Haswell processors can get only 5% performance improvement? We should assume that we have no free lunch anymore. One of the UNIX philosophies is already broken.
"problem"?
They paid it off early because the loan came with restrictive agreements that prevented Tesla to stay competitive. This is from Tesla's own words, see my post.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5755082
Even if you had the same GPU and CPU (which you don't, there had not been 8 core/12CU GCN APUs two years ago, I doubt you can buy them even now) you still would be far away from the console experience because the PC games cannot access the GPU directly and rely on slow and inefficient APIs.
paid apps? (android market start with only free apps)

"if this becomes popular"

is a nice problem to have, in general
Usually in a case like that I'd edit it to add an update admitting the correction.

The rest of what you said was quite useful for people who didn't want to read a long article.
I think that the biggest takeaway here is that you can change your pricing. As the article says, it is a process. A lot of people tend to forget that.
I've thought about how you could probably get Siri to use SMS as an API to tons of services, like opentable, fandango, etc, etc - this seems to be a great step in that direction - which is actually the opposite of dumb, but instead seems uber smart.
"Bystander effect?" 20 minutes to get police on the scene? Jihadist attacks on public streets?
Talking regionally, I can say that Brazilians are heavy Facebook users, but it is becoming more and more common that people just loose it and over-share, or just totally forget the sense of usefulness. An increasing movement is people leaving Facebook (or threatening to).
I need some social validation here, I could be at this all day, but unless I know that I was better than somebody else it feels like a waste of time.

not /s
Tauranga? Did you get lost on your way elsewhere? ;)

(Says the guy who grew up in Palmerston North ...)
You already have everything you need to make your first app
Grooveshark filing a DMCA notice? The irony is palpable.
Why are they learning an awful language like Ruby on Rails instead of an awesome language like Python?
Lack of developers are due to lack of developers. If you loosen standards even a little you get faker developers who don't code and are planing to exploit 'political inneficiencies' rather than build products. If someone is not already coding at a high level I can guarantee their intentions are not to code, ever, if they can get away with it.
Notes On Programming Complex Visualization in Javascript, Canvas and SVG
Good thing I never released the source code to my project. (http://spiffyshark.com)
Plenty of prior art, though.
Switching to x86 architecture doesn't make it a PC in a box. These are highly tuned machines, designed specifically for developers to maximize performance. Yes, even the Xbox One.
People who report illegal actions inside private companies to law enforcement or regulatory authorities are still called "whistleblowers."
Strongly disagree. I have often finished a book and though, "hmm, that was great. I want to read the next one in the series". But wait! I have to pop over to the browser, log in[1], search and the book I want, buy it, then go back to kindle app, sync....

It could be sooo much better. Is there a next book in the series I am reading that I don't yet own? Show it on the "would you like to rate this book" page or something. Take my money amazon! Take it faster!

[1]: Which due to my own idiosyncrasies requires me to fire up 1password and copy my ridiculous password to paste it into amazon login.
But we do know how to handle bad latency, don't we? Speculative loading, which got a bad name because it makes wallhacks on FPSes work but really has almost no downside once the client can't do anything malicious with a little information the human isn't using yet.

If the real problem isn't latency but bandwidth or bandwidth caps, that will require other solutions.
Man, I'm really not sure that you could have missed his point any more. How could you read what he wrote and POSSIBLY think he was arguing that we need "more unqualified gushing"? You pretty much just made up a strawman and beat the bejesus out of it for no reason...

I'll be the first to call out unqualified gushing, but if that's what we're calling a factual account of a company paying back a loan I simply have to disagree with you.
I didn't read this comment nearly as negatively as you seemed to have.
You said "Those are combinations of things." French fries are not. What is difficult to parse here?
How the Internet Is Using Us All
It promotes that idea.

Also, asm.js negates the advantages of the nice web APIs and type-free programming languages etc.

Read what I wrote.
I've been using the Motofone for three years now and I love it. The texting doesn't bother me either. It's also the lowest common denominator of phones that call and text, so we test all our dumb apps against it.
Yeah I think it'd be okay, although LaunchRock also looks at Twitter and LinkedIn sharing.
I sympathize 100%, I feel much the same as you do. I have decades of experience, doing real work, creating systems, making products. Back In The Day, these kinds of quiz-cage interviews simply did not exist, and, having sat on both sides of the interview table a great many times, I can confidently say that they don't need to exist. I would no more ask a candidate to implement a quicksort than I would ask a candidate for a trumpet chair in my orchestra to recite to me the frequency of every note in the F major scale or demonstrate how to weld a new bell onto this extremely broken horn that I just happen to have with me. The whiteboard stuff you describe is -nothing- more than hazing, as you, I think, have instinctively surmised.

At this point I don't bother to apply to corporate jobs, or even to jobs at startups that are larger than a few people, because I know I'll get the same kind of idiotic hazing each and every time. I'll found my own company (there have never been more opportunities than now) or do freelancing for companies that will treat me with respect. In your case, since you sound like you're sharp, I think that freelancing might be a good choice in the short term. You can bring in some bacon while you work on product ideas, do some networking, and find partners.

You sound like a good developer and the problems that you have with these interviews (which I share) are no reflection on that fact. This may sound a bit odd -- but do keep an open mind about leaving the field. There's a lot of interesting work out there in the world, some of it creative even. Software geeks tend to live in this very narrow, ant-farm-like world, have a hard time seeing outside of its walls, and assume that beyond the glass is a land that can only offer just drudgery and pain, which is simply not true. Best of luck.
These are all great ideas. Case insensitivity has come up a few times and it's an easy fix. We should have it in soon!
If it doesn't draw blood, its accepted business practice in China. If it does draw blood, it might be accepted business practice.

Seriously, I've never seen a place where cheating was so accepted: just about every other taxi ride attempted to take me the "scenic route", almost every business deal ended up with them trying to screw or defraud us.

What a nightmare of a place to do business in - never again.
Do you mean the interface of the website, or how you use it on your phone?
Porting from console to PC is trivial. Getting it working well on an infinite number of configurations is not and supporting it is expensive.
A very similar concept has been around in India - http://55444.in/
Getting features into Django
Wow. Thanks! We will be studying this thoroughly. I hadn't heard about it before.
How could you verify the code is actually theirs in just one hour, and not something they've been coached on? The stakes are so high that we already have an awful lot of blatantly unqualified people trying to bluff their way through in-depth interviews, and making that easier is a huge step backwards.
Bothers me to no end that Apple does this same shit with FaceTime, presumably to appease the carriers. They already bypass SMS when both are iMessage users - why the hell are they not doing video calls by default when both have cameras?
Neat idea. I might recommend allowing at least the first letter (of the app) to be case-insensitive though, since lots of things auto-capitalize. Also I'm not having much luck with 'dir', and some error messages or something would help, but meh - the concept is great!
"If they pass great if they dont offer them feedback."

I've only personally encountered it once, but if you ask someone to spend a few hours of their free time on your coding challenge you absolutely owe it them to give them feedback, even if you don't like what they've produced.
guys guys guys. . .

"It's made of people."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE

This is marketing genius
Auto-delete all messages that contain the phrase "my client" and you'll eliminate 90% of spammy recruiter emails in my experience.

That's the goal, right? If the recruiter had an amazing, what you've always wanted kind of job for you, you'd probably want to hear about it. But if that were the case he'd take the time to find out what that opportunity looks like, and he'd probably just tell you the company instead of all the "my client" stuff.
Interesting. I thought that Orkut was the dominant social network in Brazil?
Your Firefox crashes with more than 4-6 tabs? That's definitely not normal. Check for misbehaving addons and malware and file a bug if it's reproducible.
Interesting, but GitHub is the place I'm least likely to want to email someone--since GitHub's staff is actually willing to deal with things like username squatting by defunct accounts.

On the other hand, if someone could tell me how to get someone's email address from their Tumblr or Twitter, I'd be eternally grateful. Stonewalls from both on the username-squatting front.
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The Art Of Goal Setting
of all spam - I like job offers (however misguided) the most.
Ha, so far I like it here! Nicer weather than my hometown (Dunedin) :)
According to their video, little turbines in the wing generate the electricity and transmit it through the tether. So probably the tether is attached to a ground unit that doesnt allow twisting (i.e rotates with the tether)

http://i.imgur.com/UoEfnyW.png?1
I'm doing my best to find change on the ground and in fountains and mailing them to Twilio.
If you found this interesting, you would probably also find Fabien's articles on writing your own framework on top of Symfony2 components interesting as well.

http://fabien.potencier.org/article/50/create-your-own-frame...
How much did Tumblr’s VCs really make?
Should I give up?  
I'm 31 now, and I left my job a while back because the work did not excite me.

It was a nice job and paid well, but I had no love or passion for anything in that industry

I have lived a nice life. Probably too nice. My expectations are too high probably.

I made myself into a millionaire (barely), had a lot of fun, did a lot of traveling, dated pretty women, lived completely like a bachelor my whole life, but I want a lot more.

I want to have 100's of millions of dollars. I want to be an angel investor and political figure who helps propel this world into the place we deserve and our kids deserve.

I've been trying to start, but I don't know what to start on. I am just spinning my wheels. Every time I sit down to code, I can't even start. All I see is that it will probably take me 10 years to make anything legit. By then, I'll be in my 40's. It probably won't even work out, and the chances are so slim that I'll ever be as successful as I want to be.

I guess I should just go back to what I was doing before and accept that life is a bitch, and I have it better than most people. But I just cannot see myself doing it.

Part of me just wants to enjoy life right now until I run out of money, then just peacefully go. I don't really have a desire to live a regular life, all of my daydreams and aspirations are grandiose.

I feel trapped and I feel stuck. Which sounds like a hell of a statement from a young 30 something who has plenty of runway to get something started. I just really don't know where the hell to begin, and everywhere I do begin feels like such a long haul or impossibility, that I give up before even really doing anything.