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I wasn't speaking literally of a stationary midpoint. I'm speaking of the American character over history, which has been to throw off the shackles of Kings and oppressive religious control. I think that character is alive and well, although advances in technology may have finally have given those in control the upper hand. We may be waking up to that fact now. I'll concede that it may be too late for remedies, but as an optimist I don't think so. I think we'll be seeing a big uptick in interest in encryption, the TOR network, online personality obfuscation, etc... For a good example, look at how people are concerned about their health information and how HIPAA was born. Having worked in health care I can attest that organizations and the govt are dead serious about it, which those who wish to develop mobile medical apps are now discovering.
At first, I was dismissive of your point of view, but your cogent reasoning convinced me otherwise.
Oh silly me, forgot to link! Thanks. You can AMA here too :)
This simply isn't true. Even if you (with likely a few orders of magnitude margin) overestimate total world computing capacity at 1e21 decryption operations per second it's going to take you about age-of-the-universe seconds to brute force a single 128 bit key. No amount of money or supposed 'exponential technology growth' is going to let any government brute force these anytime soon. And those are the smallest symmetric keys in wide use.
But a smart person is bound to think that this will happen to him tomorrow _regardless_ of the state today. If you were the president, wouldn't you think you are prone to surveillance despite being president today? I definitely would. I know that when my time is up anything can happen to me. Future presidents can repeal all sorts of powers the same way I as president did.
You need to find another wedding photographer. This is YOUR wedding day, and you need to have it your way, not HIS way.

Do a broader search for wedding photographers, and ask them to give you quotes that include:

* >= 12 MP JPEGs from their digital SLR, processed via Lightroom or whatever process they use.

* RAW files for those JPEGs.

* The right to use your photos in ANY WAY you please. This includes printing physical albums and books for your family. This includes the right to post photos to Facebook without the photographer's watermark. (Still, it would be nice for you to post a link to their website from your wedding gallery.)

That's it! If a photographer cannot agree to these three requests, they do not need your business. This is a matter of good customer service. If they provide you this great level of service, you'll definitely recommend them to other people looking for wedding photographers.

I don't understand the other photographers on this thread saying they'd NEVER give away their RAWs. It would be like a contract web developer only handing over JPEG screenshots of their final product, instead of the source code.
Keynote for iOS has been incredibly useful for me in the past. My office's meeting rooms each have a TV with an AppleTV connected into them, so I just use my iPad to stream the presentation.
Thanks for your reply, mrb. When you say that the wallet can be cloned, would it require another physical Trezor unit? If so, that would seem to be a potential downside vs. a regular paper wallet.
In Ember.js, templates get their properties from controllers, which decorate a model.

On Controllers: Controllers are used to decorate your models with display logic, not to handle business logic. Models have properties that are saved to the server, so they should be responsible for that.

On Views: Views should be used to create reusable components or for sophisticated handling of user events. For the most part, Handlebars should get you 90% of the way. You shouldn't be making too many views in Ember.
If something can make your body better without adverse effects, it is already there. You are not smarter than 3.5 billions of life evolution, period.
I am convinced that at some point some smart sod will figure out how to create a 'high' by using something along the lines of this. Put on a headband, flick the switch, and blam! high as a kite. Turn the switch off, and back to being sober.

When that happens, the world will change in a very unpredictable way. Billions, perhaps trillions of dollars that are part of the drug trade will suddenly have no where to go. All the social aspects of shared inebriation will still be in place but most if not all of the economic aspects will be killed.

I expect my kids will get to witness this change.
On what grounds and from whom?
Funny you mention this, because I don't see US Government, Department of Defense, or the Natural Security Agency on that list (not that I expected to find them there in the first place). Also, last I checked, the purpose of MAPP wasn't to allow MAPP-partners the ability "to exploit vulnerabilities in software sold to foreign governments"... And indeed, that would only compound the problem (have a look at the last question on the MAPP Application Request: "Do you sell or create products used to attack or weaken the security posture of networks or applications?").

> If you want to be outraged, check out all the Chinese companies on the list of partners!

Wow, really? :|

I might be outraged if I saw Government of China on that list, but the majority of Chinese companies on that list are large telecommunications companies (like Huawei) or Chinese-based antivirus companies. And even then, Chinese-based companies only make up a fraction of the (unsettlingly large) list.
People seem to forget that democracy and freedom are relatively new to the world. The Soviet Union collapsed 20 years ago, many European countries have been free for less than 40 years. Don't take freedom for granted, it's not the steady state system, tyranny is.

I'm sorry to say but a lot of countries will degrade back to authoritarianism within the next 10-20 years due to economy and political problems.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Attack, or protest march?
Snowden used a USB Thumbdrive to smuggle NSA data
I may run into a lot of experts (from multiple fields) here on HN with strong opinions to the contrary, but here are my two cents.

If I could double my cognitive ability for 5 years, then die from an unknown complication with this type of therapy, I would do it without blinking an eye.
Pretty much :-)
> biology/chemistry

What are the low-hanging fruits I can aim for to get used to the problem domain? What are the relevant pain points that justify some hard thinking and coding?

In the end what I have in mind is basically this: http://biomind.com/AI_Against_Aging.pdf
Early access to the knowledge of vulnerabilities is just good customer service when you're talking about your biggest customer who is also very security conscious. It allows them to protect themselves. The fact that the same knowledge can facilitate developing of offensive payloads is unfortuneately unavoidable - but that doesn't mean that's the purpose of the program or that it should preclude any early sharing at all.

Most of the time (with other vendors, say cisco) these early warnings include general descriptions of the problem and remediation steps - but not explicit descriptions or code patches. While that can be enough to point someone on the right track and develop an exploit for it (depending on a ton of unknown factors), I'd say that 99% of the time the exploit doesn't actually get written until the author can get their hands on the actual patch, so they can see exactly what code was changed. Many of these vuln disclosures are enormously generic in scope. think "a parsing vulnerability in an xml format" and remediation - don't allow connections to xxx port or turn off major software component y.

It wouldn't surprise me if the us government gets pre-public access to inofrmation that makes it easy to weaponize 0-days (what the hell is the zero day initiative, anyway?) but you'll have to do a hell of a lot more digging and analysis before you could convince me that this is one of them.
I don't understand this. Unless all of your money is already in Bitcoin, just buy exactly 1 bitcoin right now and immediately send it to them, rather than sending 1 bitcoin from your existing holdings (or send from your existing holdings and immediately buy 1 more bitcoin, it's exactly the same effect).

If you'd rather speculate on the price of that 1 bitcoin, then you're free to do so.

If Bitcoin ever gets to the point where it's used for everything the deflation should be much more reasonable and predictable. Then maybe companies will offer a discount for prepaid preorders.
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Client-side, with a passphrase. A backup could be stored on the server or in your dropbox or wherever you'd like. It would be important, as part of the onboarding process, to communicate the need to keep the key safe and what happens to your old emails should you lose it.

As for using js for public key encryption, I've implemented it for a client and didn't have much trouble. There are libraries that workaround the usual problems. What have you seen out there that would cause a problem?
I think what you've just described is Larry Niven's "wirehead."

In Larry Niven's Known Space stories, a wirehead is someone who has been fitted with an electronic brain implant (called a "droud" in the stories) to stimulate the pleasure centres of their brain. In the Known Space universe, wireheading is the most addictive habit known (Louis Wu is the only given example of a recovered addict), and wireheads usually die from neglecting themselves in favour of the ceaseless pleasure. Wireheading is so powerful and easy that it becomes an evolutionary pressure, selecting against that portion of Known Space humanity without self-control. Wireheading need not use an actual brain implant; the pleasure centre can be remotely activated by a small device called a "tasp" (important in the Ringworld novels).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)
Which is what the US is already doing with Snowden. It shows what the UK would already do with Snowden if he did go to the UK.
> None the less, we can't make policy decisions about how you feel.

You shouldn't make policy decisions based on how you feel. However, you should make policy decisions based on how people feel. The former is something that can cloud our judgment. The latter is rationally reacting to a natural phenomenon that exists in the population.

Designing security policy in a way that ignores the fact that people fear, and have their lives disrupted by, sudden random death in a way they do not fear natural, predictable death, is a luxury akin to that of designing an airplane in a world where gravity does not exist. Yeah, it would be easy to design airplanes in a world where gravity was not a thing, but that's not the world we live in. You can't ignore natural phenomena just because you don't agree with the reasons they exist.
If you pre-order with one Bitcoin today, then you paid the dollar value of one Bitcoin today, plus transaction costs. Future fluctuations in Bitcoin value are irrelevant.
I guess our best hope is that at least one country can retain it.
Even if they just denied him entry and/or deported him, it would probably would be back to either where he flew from or where his passport's from. And Hong Kong might not want him back once he's been denied entry to the UK, so to the US he would most likely go.
Hmm... sounds like the other product was a Jawbone product :d- the up maybe?
The Libertarian movement is an extreme right wing movement.

Everybody seems to think that, but I don't believe it to be the case. A better statement is that "Libertarians are right of Right and left of Left". So depending on your existing world-view, you would probably see the Libertarians as either radically Leftist or radically Rightist, and - in either case - you'd be partially correct and partially wrong.

For example, Libertarians align with the left, and would go further than the standard American Left on many social issues:

Abortion - Libertarians tend to be pro-choice and the LP platform specifically says that the State should not be involved in making those decisions.

Drug laws - a typical American "Leftist" position might be "legalize marijuana". A Libertarian position would be more like "The State has no authority whatsoever to regulate what you put into your own body. End ALL drug laws".

Death Penalty - Libertarians are generally opposed to the death penalty.

Gay marriage / minority rights - Libertarians believe the Govt. should have no say in marriage at all, which implies that homosexual couples should be able to marry if they want. Of course, it also implies that others should be free to choose not to recognize that marriage, but hey... that's the price of freedom: You want to be free, you can't compel other people to behave the way you want them to.

OTOH, yes, Libertarians tend to be more closely aligned with "the Right" on economic issues: taxation, trade, business regulation, etc. But I don't think it's fair to call the Libertarian movement "an extreme right wing movement". If for no other reason, because a simple "left / right" dichotomy is not a valid model for representing political orientation.
As a webmaster you should also know your audience too. It may be cool for you to do this if your target traffic is hacker news, but for non tech savvy people it will only confuse them more.

Some people are also mistrusting of tech magic as well. I say this because one of our site deals with eBay sellers and I remember this duffer person complain that we were somehow hacking his ebay account getting information he never gave us (the title, description of his auctions when all we knew was his id)
Actually, he knows it'll be rejected and he then gets to say "Well, they obviously have something to hide!" The whole IRS non-scandal will get a little more daylight.
>> with a passphrase that is the users responsibility.

And there's the rub. "What do you mean, I can't ever see my data again? Why can't you reset my password?"

We know that true security means only the user has the key. But users don't all want that responsibility.
Yeah they will shut it down and then reopen it under a different name, problem solved.
Of course if they don't have a file on you, and you send them a FOIA request, they may open up a file on you just for the purposes of handling your request...
It would not require another physical wallet. The algorithm creating the Bitcoin addresses from the seed does not need to be made secret, and could be run on a computer, for example, then you could re-import the Bitcoin addresses and the coins into a software wallet.
This reads like a form of faith. I don't share it. Is there literally no potential for artificial selection to outpace natural selection?

I know this thinking can be dangerous and contains serious ethical problems, but the factual side of your statement I just can't agree with. Not without more to convince me.
I hate how something as interesting as this is ruined by partisanship and egocentric control-freakism. Why is this Congressman pushing the blame on Obama solely? He is part of the problem, and it's this "us vs. them" attitude in government that never lets us have any progress at all. Instead of trying to advance his party or career, he should have used this opportunity to illustrate how NSA and IRS should both be surveyed equally if the spying is justified.

But, no. He's just being a Grade-A politician, trying to claw at the Democratic party and trying to make an example out of them. I have lost respect for what he is trying to accomplish, if not because it's shameful and disgusting.

Before anyone accuses me of left-right bias, I support third-party efforts and am independent.
I despise arguments like yours, which logically lead to the claim that only the most important problem in the world should be worried about until it is solved, and then the new most important problem, etc. Not only is it ridiculous on its own, it also requires the arguer to break the very rule he or she is proposing, by spending time worrying about what other people are worrying about, instead of whatever the most important problem in the world is.
Well, you're a product of that, so your brain being able to come up with methods of augmentation that are faster than waiting for the "evolutionary process is the 3.5 billions of life evolution" is a product of all that evolution

We make our body better all the time, sometimes there are adverse effects, but that's just more to work on
HN adds progressively longer delays to replying to comments deeper in threads (to slow discussions down and (hopefully) prevent some arguments)
Sure, please see my papers on that subject.

the work is mostly on okazaki fragments, but a major conclusion from my phd thesis was that B-RNA is stuck because of a very low probability event (the breaking of a large number of hbonds simultaneously).

http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl...

http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl...

http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl...

http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl...
What specifically is he claiming that the US did against foreign governments, and what law did this activity breach? At this point, all I can gleam is that the US spies on other countries, as do many others.
Tone down the lack of clue.

Imagine you are buying goods denominated in euros and it takes two weeks for them to be delivered. You don't want to incur any P&L due to the change in exchange rate between now and delivery.

The exchange rate changes all the time. You would use a currency forward to hedge out that change.
> There can be a whole list of languages in the Accept-Language header, in the order the user prefers them! Use that data, it's there for you to use.

Yet it takes only jumping a plane for a few hours to get Google to think I can and want to read Georgian. Google's i18n for anonymous users (I'm not logged in on my phone's browser) is the most ridiculous I've experienced, every border I cross I get a different language.
Mine used to (via S/MIME). They fell a year or two ago back to a CYA boilerplate text that reads "email is inherently insecure blah blah blah".
I'm not going to deny that our weather is awful :) but there is a lot of good too - a relatively free democracy (aside from all the questionable stuff listed above that let's face it is likely occurring in every western country, though we might be leading the way on CCTV) which is far, far less infiltrated by religious nuts than many countries, London which alone counts for a HELL of a lot :), lots of history, good cheddar cheese, and most important of all - weather-induced sense of humour! ;-)
> NSA does not have to answer to anyone, including congressman requests

Do you mean officially or de facto? I was under the impression that no one was above congressional subpoena.
Can you back these calculations up with a known scientific source?
Evolution doesn't find a global optimum. It probably doesn't even find a local optimum, because constantly changing environments create a moving target for selection pressure.
Not exactly, the NSA has to come to Congress to get their budget appropriations approved. No budget, no money. It provides a useful check against them.
If you're doing public key crypto on the client side in javascript, then the client side JS must necessarily have access to the private key (unless you have a TPM _and_ browser hooks to use it). This means that suddenly the private key is vulnerable to any XSS attacker that can inject itself into the same origin as your javascript crypto code.
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I'm actually a PhD student studying this exact technology in Germany. I can say without a doubt that this type of stimulation has proven potential in enhancing cognitive functions (if proper protocol and safety aspects are respected). This is a really exciting field which I think will really explode in the next few years once the montage and paradigms are optimized (which is exactly what I'm working on!)
I regret that I only have one up vote to give.
Lol, ok I'll take you up on that.

1. You must have read a lot of books on the topic over the last few months/years. What are your top (5?) books to recommend to a budding entrepreneur (while we are waiting for yours to come out)?

2. Have you considered doing an Audiobook? (I'm a fan of non-fiction audiobooks and find they work particularly well for the sort of book you have written)
I get what you're saying, and basically agree. But... A) how much of an adverse effect? And B) Plenty of medical procedures can "make your body better without adverse effects" (at least not as adverse as the medical condition continuing on unchecked).
One would just need one seat in the US Senate to really make waves. Every contentious issues that came down to one vote would look at the Pirate Party Senator.
Yes, I tend to be optimistic about what big corporations and governments can do. After all, they are the people with the resources to change the world if they wanted to. Call me naive.

I remember the Bush Wiretapping Laws (seems like a successor to FISA).

After saying that, I am not "for" any organization (political or business) to misuse personal information. Personal info is personal, and it should stay that way. But the fear some people are portraying seems irrational and overblown, and this will lead the tech community to self-impose some harsh "laws", which will not play out well.
> given their small user base

All the distros are switching to MariaDB.
Although I'm sure Go would still be faster than Ruby, this is comparing Go (and actually the Revel framework) to Rails.
The glib answer is that it's a matter of triage - given usability, security and cost, choose any two.

While that is an influencer, the reality is a bit more complex. That social drive we've been going through for the last ~5 years means that developers focus on customer value. Also, while there's little new after Snowdens' leak - other than absolute proof - there's not been much demand, and hence incentive to make things secure.
This, of course, is no justification however. Criminal acts don't cancel each other out. I punch you, you punching me i return doesn't make my violation any less significant, instead both violations should be considered equal and treated with equal justice.

Why is it okay that US government institution is above the law in this regard? How can people feel okay with governmental institutions breaking the law?
Some statistics would help here, and ones without source are as useful as none at all.
I've known for a while that Perl is really common in biology, and some Googling led me to a project called BioPerl[1]. It might be worthwhile to port that library's functions into other languages that could be beneficial to scientists, or use them to build specialized compiled tools that don't necessitate writing any code.

[1] http://www.bioperl.org/