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> The issue with security is that you're not competing with other secure solutions, but with the convenience of unsecured.

True, but that doesn't mean the convenient and insecure apps have to totally dominate the market. I'd be willing to bet there are plenty of people who want true, reliable security, and are willing to take on a little hassle for it.

> I've read that even journalists that face real risk communicating without pgp don't bother because it's difficult to participate in something that requires others to also participate.

The same could be said of the early days of email: It's only useful if other people are also using it. But we overcame that chicken and egg problem. The same could happen for PGP. It's a cost-benefit equation: People need to be sufficiently worried about privacy, and the friction of PGP needs to be sufficiently low. There must be some tipping point.

> Cryptocat...is probably a reasonable compromise.

Not if it can be cracked with the processing power of a mere desktop computer. I've heard claims to this effect. What are the use cases for a sort-of-secure app like Cryptocat? Certainly not hiding from sophisticated adversaries. So it's just about protecting your data from casual users then. But in that case, I'd argue that even your basic instant messaging client is adequately secure, in that a casual user doesn't know how to play man-in-the-middle.

> If Google generated public/private key pairs for each gmail user

Either you're encrypting server-side or client-side, in that scenario. If server-side, you're not much better off than just using HTTPS. Google still has your plaintext. So if you trust Google, just use HTTPS. And if you don't trust Google, then encrypting server side is pointless. Client-side encryption isn't currently viable: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
For the past four years, I've moved 1-3 times per year (I work in politics, and move to wherever the interesting elections are happening).

The only universally applicable piece of advice I can give is this: Your commute matters. A lot.

Seriously. Annoying roommates, beautiful balconies, new appliances - none of these things has had nearly the effect on my day to day happiness as living within a 3-4 mile bike ride from work.
As I've mentioned on HN before, I dropped out of high school and found my into a job in technology by way of a GED, public libraries and work as a landscaper, in the DC area coincidentally.

Everything mentioned in this article rings to true me. The transition traditional low-end jobs to middle-aged people and closed-circle of internships and job programs in particular.

That said, the first step towards mitigating this would seem obvious - stay in school. Unfortunately, anecdotal experience says the particularly bad situation for young black teens starts with a general de-valuing of education and victim mentality at home.
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Offering money to drop out of high school would cause the drop out rate to increase further. Besides, I get the feeling that most high school drop outs aren't really looking for work. This is a hard problem to solve.
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People react strangely and unpredictably in circumstances with which they are not familiar. I think her reaction was probably more along the lines of "This is crazy and you just happen to be filming it."
The issue is that plugins must generally be written in JavaScript. It's generally felt that, at least with the current state of technology, in-browser JavaScript interpreters haven't been sufficiently vetted to trust with crypto. For more details on this point: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
Your job - because the group would be more competitive in the labor force.
If you are an economist (a field is already more an ideology / spin machine than science -- the science part in it is basically math), and you are more into entertainment (e.g making the NYT best selling list of shallow books) than science, then you can "prove" a lot of things, without actually proving anything.

Start with a few unexamined wrong assumptions, select the data that fit your conclusion, dress them up with anecdotes and prose, and there you go!
The problem with that method is the recipient of your mail is still relying on that CA to validate your public key. The CA could (willingly or under duress) sign some other public key and claim it's yours, then use that key to impersonate you, and even trick recipients into using that public key to encrypt emails intended for you. That would form the basis of a man-in-the-middle attack.
It's unlikely to work if you've already been communicating using the real public key (depending on how the software handles new keys), but for new recipients in particular, it's possible.
i see it as a person ranting about their x religion, be it islam, judaism, christianity, or even atheism. Not HN material. This is good material for people who think Lebanon is a Muslim country for instance.
Well, believe what you want to believe.

I have friends who are police officers so it's not like I hate cops. I do hate the fact they close ranks and protect the bad ones though.
I found myself wondering about this as well. Some of this is quite likely legitimate unemployment, but I'm wondering what percent is laziness.

That said, it's pretty easy as a middle-income white guy to cast judgement on people living in a situation I can't even dream of understanding. This is a pretty complex subject.
This isn't true at all. You generally don't have to worry about credit card theft, you're not liable. ID theft is completely different.

If someone steals your ID and drains your bank account it's going to be much harder and more time consuming to get your money back. If someone opens credit cards under your ID it will be easier to correct than losing your bank account but can still be very time consuming. Often people discover the issue when they're applying for new credit, such as a mortgage. Correcting your credit issues can take months to resolve. They could lose a house they're trying to buy if they don't get approved.
I'm not a doctor, and I cannot speak for the ethical standards that doctors hold themselves to. I understand only that they are stringent. Quite possibly, I am on the wrong side here as far as doctors are concerned.

However, to me, the methods of coercion are entirely relevant here, and make all the difference. From what these doctors weren't holding lengthened sentences or reduced meal quality over these women... I would describe it more as "convincing" than "coercing". Perhaps they were too persistent in seeking approval, but that is something that is subject to individual interpretation.

Regardless, even if what they were doing was clearly deplorable coercion, the headline is clearly misleading. I went from "What century is this!?!" to "eeeh..." in record time...
Is there an android client/driver/port?
Please don't be the guy who hides behind literalist excuses.

The intent is clear - to reference the "division of responsibility rule" in this context and then deny the obvious intent is disingenuous. "I didn't say public knowledge results in no oversight, I was just randomly pointing out that if everyone is responsible than no one is responsible. Just throwing that out there, your conclusions are your own."
I'll confess that I've followed this subject only partially, so I may be missing facts about what he had access to. Did he have complete access to everything at the NSA?
Store your compost bin in the freezer. :) We do that, on its own shelf - no more bugs!
It seems like it's a good idea if you realize the person next to you is doing something very important to make double sure they're aware this is the case.
Kind of annoying ad that doesn't really tell you anything. I think they'd be better off writing out the basics, then saying buy the video for more/examples/explanations/etc.. Not tell you nothing up front, but waste your time, like the current page.
"Minimum wages and basic income policies all do the same thing -- raise the floor at which most folks can enter into productive trade with others."

Can you elaborate on this? Because it looks to me (only minimally educated in economics) that minimum wage and basic income work in completely opposite directions here.

With a minimum wage, a person may be willing to do some work for $X, and another person may be willing to hire him to do that work for $X, but the law prevents them from entering into an agreement to actually do it. Thus, anyone not able to produce at least as much value as the minimum wage simply does not work at all.

With a basic income, you no longer need a minimum wage. If a person is willing to work for a penny an hour, let him. The floor drops, not rises, because people can engage in very poorly-paid work if need be, and still be able to survive. A person whose labor is only worth $2/hour won't have a job today, but could very well have a job in a system with a basic income.

Did I miss something?
Well firefox is obviously just an arbitrary name. IE is attempting to be a name that means something, except it's a misnomer.
There are hundreds of people who have visited every country on the world.

It definitely isn't an insurmountable challenge.
Do you mean we should build a good UX around S/MIME? It seems clear to me that none currently exists.

I'd be curious to hear from security specialists about S/MIME. How thoroughly studied is it? How are the libraries? I have hardly ever heard it discussed, so I'm a little hesitant at the moment.
Perhaps he read about whatever futile investigation they felt like doing on Obama's staff who leaked it to the New York Times.
Here's how I see the BI debate. The argument made against it is that it would generate a class of parasites at the bottom of society.

We, right now, have a permanent parasite class at the top of society and that's worse. They can treat labor like shit because labor has no other option, and this surplus generated by desperation makes those at the top extraordinarily rich.

BI is the only solution I can come up with that makes sure labor is respected.

However, any BI program should be tied to per capita GDP. Thus, if it actually does have a negative effect on society (which I doubt it will) the payments drop and reverse that effect.
I see a lot of peripheral discussion - But what do you think about the article? As an investor, I see the proposed solution as very interesting. I feel as though there is no reason that the funding effort cannot be entirely crowdsourced for a company trying to raise funds.
there is lot of unrelated junk on HN. Nobody cares to flag socialism vs kapitalism discussion. So why flaging this post?
There is no market demand for unskilled labor at $7.25 an hour. Even if you removed minimum wage laws, you would still need to pay people enough to eat and stay functional in the workplace, which nowadays I imagine isn't much lower than $7.25, especially considering the only practical unskilled labor roles today are physical toiling, since almost everything else can be very easily automated away, so you need to fix their broken bones.

So I'd argue the open market in the US don't have enough demand for physical human labor at the bare minimum cost to keep people alive. The consequence is a lot of people are just not working. We have nothing for them to do at the given price that anyone is willing to pay.

So if the market has no unmet demands for toil, then guaranteeing a minimum wage job means you are wasting that persons time on some task that nobody needs done, at least not for the price he is paid, and you are not only biasing away the labor market you are wasting that persons time on some task that isn't valuable to be done.

Even if you have some market demand, the given rate is dropping annually due to the cheaper and more efficient automation of physical duties. I guarantee you once automated vehicles are entering the market and are legally allowed, there will be an absurd displacement of menial labor driving delivery trucks.

Other industries rife for that kind of displacement are farming (considering most farming tasks are procedural, automated farming machinery is practical, even if it needs high precision to harvest using computer vision), retail (with automated vehicles, you might as well buy all your goods online, shipped directly to your home, with no need for an intermediary store except in rare conditions like furniture and cars where you want to "sample" in person the goods), and construction (if you plant factory made homes, might as well build a foundation machine to excavate and lay a foundation without human intervention).

And then you have no use for human meat sacks moving their arms. We are already approaching that - it is why this problem even exists today. What happens when we get there?
The money would be unconditional, not in exchange for dropping out of high school. You may as well say that soup kitchens are offering soup to drop out of high school and are causing the drop out rate to increase further.
The other guys are also evolving: in some ways we are all young species,
Discussion from last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5750338
I have very little "work" experience, but from my limited experience I've noticed the opposite effect, the guy in a suit is way more likely to be a bully. That being said, I can imagine people acting how you say. I think that a company that has employees that act this way is seriously dysfunctional and I have no desire to contribute to that.
For me, it's a combination of passion, freedom, and potential.

'Going for it' is probably the most liberating thing you can do.

The path to implementation stems from a desire to leave a mark on the world and to create a positive net benefit for others. Not just to spin thoughts in your head, but to go out there and make something that has never been created. You may create something similar to things already out there, but your creation is yours.

This doesn't particularly mean your creation is about you, or for your own personal benefit... it means that you have contributed to the big pool of creativity.

You have shared something that may inspire another person to create... and this is the biggest gift of all (IMHO).

Action feels incredible regardless if it 'fails' or succeeds. Market research, monetary potential, and other factors can be vital to your success, but I say don't let these things slow you down in making something happen.
that's possible with PGP, too, if you don't verificate key in person. E.g. "hey Alice, I lost my passphrase, please use the attached key or ID xxxx on one of the keyservers"

It's even easier to do, because you don't have to trick a CA in creating a duplicate key.
Elliptic curve cryptography isn't vulnerable to quantum computing. EDIT: This is mistaken. I was thinking of lattice-based cryptography, which isn't currently vulnerable to quantum computing.

In the video game Final Fantasy, there's a spell called "Doom" which places a countdown over your head. When it reaches 0, you die.

RSA is Doomed in exactly that sense: it's just a matter of time before RSA offers zero security, whereas elliptic curve cryptography remains (for now) unbroken.
For example, use any SSN that can be validated, whether in use or not (I think there is a formula to validate SSNs)
Yes, that's a step in the right direction. (In terms of UX. I won't make any claims either way about its security.) In any case, I'd definitely want a solution that works on the desktop. I don't know if iPGP integrates with keyservers, but that would also be an important feature.
I'm moving to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.
"Nobody cares about you!"

That made me laugh harder than anything yet this month.
Oracle's recent licensing shenanigains aside, How is this different from BerkleyDB, or any of the old DBM variants, or Kyoto Cabinet?
I'd call out something I mentioned in my other comment in this thread: Enigmail + Thunderbird makes it pretty easy to get PGP up and running. Make an elegant doc on configuring that, put up a refreshing landing page, and you're golden.
It's already build in e.g. Mail.app.

We need no software. We need public awareness, tutorials and probably some easy to use CA.

I bet the adoption rate of S/MIME is way beyond gpg if you check corporations and large enterprises.

for example: Germany

https://gist.github.com/rmoriz/5945400
The countries with the highest minimum wages are the democratic socialist states of Europe which all have much higher youth unemployment rates than here. One of the lowest youth unemployment rates in Europe is Germany, which has no minimum wage law.
No worries. Perhaps as a long time reader it's easier for me to forgive this guys short hand. It is a blog not a academic paper after all.
You had a computer, and it took you five years to find A job?

I find that hard to believe.
Do you mean a browser plugin? Probably the biggest issue currently is that browser plugins tend to be written in JS. See this for why it's a problem:

http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

If we someday have an ecosystem of C browser extensions, in-browser crypto may be much more promising. Or not. I suppose there could be other problems besides the language.
It's possible to look at the antagonists of most dystopian fiction and find the noble intentions.

Rayiner's point wasn't that technology intrinsically subverts the social contract; only that some technologists seem to want it to.
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That 'pg decided the feature you're looking for is more trouble than its worth.
This seems like another argument for Basic Income. A lot of young, jobless people (males especially) isn't only a moral problem, but it's a sociological problem. The young jobless commit more crimes, are more likely to join gangs and are generally more of a drain on society. Giving them an income would remove the social pressure to constantly look for jobs that aren't actually there. People could focus on internships and other productive activities without having to resort to selling drugs to make a living.

Short of full on Basic Income, we could at least continue a much larger version of the government teen jobs program mentioned in the article. Money given to low income youth tends to find it's way back into the economy quickly. Much of the money from a government jobs program would be spent at the mall or walmart, some of which would end up in the hands of vendors and suppliers, which could get spent on apps and web services run by hn users. In short, poor people don't save a lot. Some percentage of our tax money will come back to us.

Capitalism is a great system, but it isn't perfect. The best predictor of future income is parental income. Direct action is the best way to break the cycle.
I wonder what fraction of the (let's call it) hopelessly unemployed would take up such an option if it's offered to everyone who wants it. As a whole our society has become much more entitled than back in those days, and the way in which we've been brought up, I wonder if some would see it as patronizing and reject the offer, even if it really would have meant a better future for them.

Then again I have been incredible throughout my life, winning the birth lottery pretty big and probably can't hope to truly understand the psychology and desires of much of my own very diverse country. Maybe I am wrong. Hopefully I am wrong. After all I can only really see this world through my own biased bullshit perspective.
Why would a company have an environment that its employees didn't like to work in? Or did you mean employees from other companies?
Iran is in a specific situation right now. Unlike Saudi Arabia or Lennon, Islam practices are mandatory in public. Things like wearing hijab. As you might or might not expect, this have reverse effect in practice. It also lowered islam's repetitation in our culture. I would say more than half of Iranian yought do not believe in Islam. As a result you will see less violence against women from Iranian people. it's hard to find young Iranian in the USA or Canada that still practices Islam. It peobably means that person is from a family with strong religious belifes. It's hard to deal with both your family and enjoying your freedom. I appreciate your understanding on this.
Are you saying that the high school dropout rate is 1%? Because that's not anywhere close to being correct. It's over 25% in the United States according to this: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/high-sch...
I find that "slandering a president" phrase a bit odd. The idea that W was stupid or irrational is the kinder interpretation of his presidency. The alternative explanation is that he was just plain evil.

It's also odd to point to his performance in politics as evidence of his rationality. Politics is a deeply irrational field, and I wouldn't consider becoming President an indicator that a person is rational any more than I would consider becoming head of the Flat Earth Society such.

I'm not saying these specific conclusions are legitimate, but I don't think it comes down as "slander", really.
I don't disagree, but you see how fuzzy a concept "mainstream" is, right? CNN is owned by a massive media conglomerate. NPR isn't. In that sense, NPR is independent. Meanwhile, there's plenty of outsider content to be found under corporate umbrellas, too. The Koch brothers, for instance, fund Cato.
Yes, very good point. I'd probably be in favor of having two ways of doing it:

* Some kind of "sync" for people who hate dealing with files.

* Copying a single file by whatever means you see fit, such as a USB stick. Many people, such as myself, prefer the simplicity and transparency of a good old file.

Each of these has potential security pitfalls. Those would have to be thought out.
I'm not going to question you, because the plane did indeed have enough energy to the "flip". I'm just going to suggest things about the speed. The approach speed a 777 at 250km/h, is correct, that's 134 kts which is maybe a tad bit slower then what it should be. However, the NTSB confirmed today that the aircraft was significantly slower than that – which why the plane ended up coming up short and stalling. Furthermore there is at least a couple seconds of the plane skidding on the ground which would have slowed it yet even more before it did the "flip".
Do they record videos too ? I don't think so.
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Only if they have the same family/friends situation.

If you're white, you're more likely to have a father present, and not a single mother struggling with two jobs.
All of those stories should be flagged too.
Blocking Google Analytics seems to be the issue, just looking through what was/wasn't loading.
What human interest story isn't of interest to hackers? Hackers are human beings.
It is [1]. Quantum computers, using Shor's algorithm, polynomially break any specialization of the abelian hidden subgroup problem; see [2] for a fairly complete list.

Whatever reason to prefer elliptic curves over integer factorization or discrete log-based schemes must be classical.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/quantph/0301141

[2] http://pqcrypto.org/quantum.html
I might be missing something obvious but... Why not ask the pilots for their reasons? They are fine right?
you're welcome! i had a lot of fun writing this.
What do you mean ... after all what do you always ask right after a client says "it doesn't work"?
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It's strange that he named it unqlite which is the logical name for what Richard Hipp didn't/might've developed had he developed a JSON database build on his unql spec.

I understand that the author got the nod from Richard Hipp, but it's still hard to understand why he named it thus.
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8 hour flight, written over international waters!