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This is not really the most insightful comment, but anyway.

I found the article to be needlessly defeatist.

I am not a crypto expert. I've read Practical Cryptography and have a lots of experience with software engineering in general.

This article (yet again) loosely says "crypto" without specifying whether he's talking about "crypto protocols" or "crypto primitives" (I use "protocol" in a theoretical sense: saving a file piped through gpg with passphrase rememembered in memory constitutes a protocol).

It's well understood that mere mortals shouldn't create "crypto primitives". But I would argue that we're soon going to reach the point where many software engineers will have to understand crypto protocol creation.

Just like many software engineers in the past 10 years or so have had to become aware of multicore (NoSQL, horizontal scaling, Go/Rust concurrency, probably even async callbacks in Javascript etc are all different aspect of multicore, imho).

I don't think we as a profession should abdicate our responsibility to store/transport data securely by just saying "crypto is hard; so don't do it".

I also take issue with the claim that crypto code is either 100% working, or 0% working. From a crypto theory point-of-view, yes, that is how cryptographers think.

But in practice, there is a VAST difference between an attack that requires 2^32 INTERACTIONS with a remote server and one that requires 2^32 COMPUTATIONS on the attackers machine. A cryptographer would say both attacks are equally easy (kinda like O(n) notation).

Just my two cents.

And finally, re: the RNG vulnerability in Cryptocat, that is very bad and just sloppy coding. But even that vulnerability required that the attacker compromise the private SSL key of cryptocat's server. Defense in depth FTW.
Another problem is that if you just count time browsed then sites such as Facebook, Reddit and Kongregate get super high rankings.
I switch between iOS and Android, but the Lumia phones do seem attractive to me despite WP. They could have really differentiated in the android market, or at least forced Samsung to make some better hardware choices.
A certain percentage of the population would stop working entirely since they no longer need to.

True. The problem is, as things are now, a certain percentage of the population will be forced to stop working as they are made obsolete by increasingly efficient globalization and automation. As that percentage increases, eventually either society will collapse or something fundamental will have to change (such as implementing a basic income).
Kremlin's response to Snowden's revelations: switch to typewriters
Is it an inside joke to always say defcon is cancelled? (Not that you'd tell me if it was...) "Is Defcon cancelled" is in the FAQ: https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-14/dc-14-faq.html#Is%20DE...
It's also worth noting that this and the 38 MP Nokia 808 phone have a 1/1.2" sensor, larger than all but one fixed lens compact camera, including cellphones. The only compact with a larger sensor is the Sony RX100/RX100 II. Not quite DSLR quality, but higher quality than you'll get out of most compacts.

The high MP counts allows you do downsample/pixel bin for higher quality images and also allows room to crop, providing a digital zoom which doesn't suck.
The article doesn't mention recent/ongoing improvements to PyPy in the "speed" section, and doesn't mention concurrent.futures in the "asynchronous programming" section. Seems incomplete to me.
> do something to stop the things that are taking away your freedoms and liberties, or at the very least, do something to make it harder for those that want to take away your freedoms to do so.

Like what? (Last time I asked this question on HN I got about 5 answers that said "Call your Congressman," which I don't agree with.) I honestly don't believe there's anything I can do that would change things meaningfully, even if I dedicated my whole life to it, short of maybe starting a major political movement, which I highly doubt I'd be able to do.
My feeling is that corporations shouldn't have a disincentive to make money.

Rather all ways of extracting money from corporations should be taxed at a high income tax level (rather than the low dividend and capital gains levels).
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Not too long ago, the same kind of witch-hunts were going on against homosexuals (Alan Turing comes to mind). And now?
The worst part is that 14, 15, 16 were very common marriage ages for women in our own civilization until a few generations ago. Since being physically attracted to girls that age is now considered a perversion, the inescapable conclusion is that the majority of the great people in history, and of our own ancestors, were pedophiles. We are all descended from pedophiles, and our civilization stands on the shoulders of giant pedophiles. That should make people more than a little uncomfortable.
I think you guesses are absolutely right. We never intended to compete against other engines in the field of "Answers". I think you will always get a better result for ""Population of America" if you search for ai at DuckDuckGo or Google. But in the other hand if you search for example for "NSA" on Blippex (https://www.blippex.org/?q=NSA), we are assuming that you will get those articles about the NSA which is currently the most interesting or the most read.

-Gerald
Disclosure: I am the CTO of archify/Blippex.
Thats not the question. The question is how is a cert validated properly?

For example, you can have a parent CA certificate and iOS (just as one example) will accept the child cert no questions asked.

Also if you forego CA and self sign, how do you verify your OWN cert? How? A proxy can just pass it through to your client if you use server trust.

So you have a problem, the OS cant validate your cert and you have limited means to validate your own cert. All you know is you encrypted something.

Any joe can buy a CA cert and fool iOS (just as an example) but not only that, the govt can easily forge CA keys and forge certs. So then what do you do? Your server cert can easily be forged or replayed through a proxy.
I don't think this is supposed to replace DSLRs or Digital Rangefinders. But this will replace the point and shoots and possibly MILCs.

I truly love the quality from my DSLR but it's hulking compared to my MILC (a Sony NEX). For most things the NEX is good enough. If the quality can come close to that of MILCs, then I might just carry this kind of phone for most uses and take the DSLR only for staged shots and the like (non-P&S situations) and forget the MILCs and P&Ses.
Like many others are saying, this does sure look like entrapment.

I cannot recommend the movie Outing [1] enough! It a documentary following a paedophile in Germany. Turns out there are a lot of "non-practicing" paedophiles that are recognizing that they shouldn't act on their desires, but they still have those desires. I think they'd be very easy targets for entrapment if someone approaches them like this.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076292/
Hmm...or maybe the worms are leaving an invisible trail of some kind which helps them find it again. Like ants.

Doesn't sound very rigorous.
Disregarding the fact this is from Fox News, would there be any reason to opt for typewriters over a non-networked computer?
Khrushchev is rumored to have left Brezhnev these 2 letters.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/05/25/735217/-Khrushchev-...

The anecdote was cited in the 2000 film Traffic.
$2,000 is a lot of money to a lot of Americans.
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So how does one go about writing crypto ?
I dont mean to be rude, or create doubt, but you must realize that SSL is completely insecure.
+1 because the source code for the plugins is on github which I didn't know
> The same can be said in this country with the absurdly low unemployment rate in North Dakota while the disability rate has shot through the roof. Unless you think people have suddenly and inexplicably become disabled this is clear evidence that people are willing to go on the Government dole rather than get a job in North Dakota.

Or, people who are able-bodied and unemployed have chosen to move out of North Dakota (perhaps due to work available elsewhere), and/or people who are disabled have chosen to move to North Dakota for financial or environmental or other reasons. Either of these would both reduce the rate of unemployment and increase the rate of disability without people "choosing to go on the Government dole".

> The question is: how many people currently working would stop working if they didn't need to?

The price consequences of BI are such that this is self-limiting. Once you set a level of BI, the more people choose to opt out of work, the less affordable it is for people to choose to opt out of work. Less people working -> higher market clearing cost of labor -> higher market clearing cost of all goods and services -> reduced standard of living for people on fixed incomes (including whatever point the BI is set at.)
'One bad move' is a charitable way to talk about Motorola. They required signed kernels for their bootloaders, promised unlocking, didn't do it, then promised newer versions of Android and didn't do that either. Then they released a new phone and repeated this.

Today, years after some of these phones were released, they _still_ haven't released the keys so that people can easily run custom versions of Android on their phones and not a year ago they released a software upgrade that kept you on Gingerbread and locked you out of some methods to install custom ROMs.

They will prove they are serious when this phone has Nexus-like hackability. Until then, caveat emptor.
We are counting the per unique URL, which is currently not a big advantage for the popular sites, because they are hosting so many URLs. There no domain based factor in it right now.

-Gerald
Disclosure: I am the CTO of archify/Blippex
> Can use a barcode scanner to look up cooking instructions from an online database

> There weren't any online microwave cooking databases around, so I made one

Brilliant.
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Hey guys. I recently launched a site called Vinstavids that shows popular Vine and Instagram videos and I'd love your feed back on where we should attempt to promote the site first. I'm torn between Reddit (video section) or Facebook. Anyone have any experience or have any thoughts? Thanks!

Here's the url: http://vinstavids.com
I was kind of hoping Ballmer leaving would be part of the reorg.

They seem quite lost, and this reorg a sign of desperation. Maybe Billy G should take on Microsoft as part of his new charity arm.
probably referencing the fact that it consumes alot of resources

takes alot of green spaces that could be turned into parks, only lets a few people use them

depending on where the course is you consume alot of resources watering the course

have to be fairly well of to get any use out of a golf course

not saying I agree, but I'm guessing thats the argument,

(had a gf that laid out roughly that argument)
> , not to mention Javascript...

JavaScript support has been improved on the upcoming iOS version, even interaction with the Objective-C runtime. Not sure about JIT, though.

If you have an Apple account check the JavaScript sessions from WWDC 2013.
All these "crypto.... scary!" things are right of course. But somehow tiresome. They're ripe for satire... something involving Chuck Norris being the only one perfect enough to encrypt stuff, just as he's able to compress random data. 100%. With his biceps.
If I could get this on an Android phone, I'd probably go for it. I'd really like a camera on my phone which wasn't next to useless.
An easy way for NYC renters to schedule apartment showings
"For example, if the suspect does not appear to be enticed into having a conversation, the software can appear offended or get more insistent."
This is a bit concerning, this feature sounds like it may try and provoke people into conversation to purposefully trap them, I really hope that's not what happens...
But 'reasonable profit' isn't a constant. Just look at the airline industry - no single airline has had a consistent profit margin (most have not even been consistently profitable!). Thin margins aren't incentive to leave an industry - if they were then grocery stores would not exist (as they all have razor thin margins) and WalMart, Target, Kmart would all have switched industries.

In your example, if taxes of $0.50 are added, the firm may still sell widgets at the post-tax price of $5 and accept the reduction in margin from $1 to $0.50.
Does the phone OS really matter to the non-hardcore phone user any more?

I don't use much more than the core apps that are available on any of the major mobile OSes, and the differences in the UI between the big four (or more accurately big two and little two) aren't significant enough that I couldn't go from an iPhone to Blackberry to WP without many headaches at all.

The main headache (edit: a minor one at that) for me in switching platforms would be that I have to spend a bit of time retyping in all my passwords to the services that I use.
> If anything, taxing corporations is regressive -- the taxes ultimately get passed on to consumers through higher product prices, regardless of their income levels.

Actually, the studies show that corporate taxes are essentially a proxy for the taxing the ultra-wealthy - a cut in the corporate tax rate is very similar to cutting the highest marginal income tax rate.

After all, if corporate taxes truly fell on the poor, Republicans wouldn't be for cutting them.
Yup, there used to be an old ad campaign--"If you have it, a truck brought it." And it's true--although with modern supply chains today we probably should also throw in ships, trains, and airplanes.

Transportation costs are embedded in the cost of every physical good.
Unfortunately, JIT will never be allowed on iOS because it invalidates the security model of the iOS App Store.

The current security model requires that all iOS App Store executables are monolithic - with the only exception being Apple-provided Apple-allowed dynamic libraries. You cannot publish an iOS App Store app that includes separate third-party dynamic libraries - they have to be statically linked into the final executable, which Apple then encrypts during the signature process.

This allows Apple to have 100% vetting control over the native code published in their iOS App Store. You can't side load unsigned code / code they haven't seen. There was actually an exploit / proof of concept where someone published a financial app in the App Store that called home and loaded arbitrary bytes into executable memory. The bug was patched and the developer was banned from the App Store.

A JIT would effectively allow the same thing: arbitrary native code execution on an iOS device that isn't part of an executable Apple has seen / signed.

However! This does not mean python is unavailable in the App Store. Python for iOS, Pythonista (my favorite), and several other flavors of interpreter already exist. It's just that they're bytecode interpreters only - no JIT allowed. And any attempts to use ctypes to dynamically load a module actually triggers a segfault (it's an intentional part of the iOS dynamic linker that does this - segfaults loading anything non-standard).

So go ahead and enjoy python on iOS - just don't hold your breath waiting for JIT.
Although the unemployment rate is low in North Dakota there are actually only about 17,000 open jobs. This wouldn't even employ all the unemployed people from Minneapolis.

Compounding the issue are a lack of housing, and the fact that over half of those positions are low paying dead end jobs like fast food, walmart, etc. It's also very far away from almost everywhere - a four to nine hour drive from the closest major airport.
Relevant academic article: "Changes in Heart Transplant Recipients That Parallel the Personalities of Their Donors"

(http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1013009425905)

tldr; "Sensitive transplant patients may evidence personal changes that parallel the history of their donors ... We suggest that cellular memory, possibly systemic memory, is a plausible explanation for these parallels."
"But researchers admit that it does have limitations and will need to be monitored. Although it is has broad conversational abilities, it is not yet sophisticated enough to detect certain human traits like irony"

Luckily people using informal internet chatrooms never make ironic statements, so this software will be effective.
I think the important thing is what's missing: "software".

Apparently, Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, is no longer interested in software.

I wouldn't call this a great idea, considering "core competencies" and how well their products in the "devices and services" divisions are faring, but it is, at least, forward-looking.
We actually spend a lot of time thinking and dealing with security concerns, both from a software development perspective and from a devops perspective. You're correct that the data is very valuable, so a large percentage of our architecture and design decisions are dictated by security and privacy concerns.

This actually becomes even more complicated when you think about maintaining blinding, aggregate-only blinding, and some of the other features we need to support.
So corporations should have literally zero disincentive to make money? Is that what you intend to argue? Because that seems to imply that corporations should be completely unfettered in every conceivable way, be it legal, economic, ethical, or otherwise. Am I missing something there?
> basic authentication (nobody uses this one)

Huh? I use that all the time.
Yes we do = )
Presumably the individual pixel size is smaller though? So where's the true advantage here vs having fewer larger pixels which would presumably have less noise anyway.
>"corporate taxes are ultimately passed onto people"

I don't really get this argument. It's always made as if the taxes are applied in a vacuum where market forces no longer exist.

If corporations are operating in a competitive market, they will seek cost advantages and continue to compete for market share. Raised taxes represent an additional expense (for the purposes of this discussion), much like raised energy prices. It is not always the case that these costs are passed on to consumers. Rather, smart companies seek to become more efficient, reduce costs elsewhere, or even realize a slightly lower profit margin per unit in order to maintain or increase market share vs. other competitors.

There's also the option to reduce executive compensation, decrease shareholder dividends, and a host of other options available in the interest of remaining competitive. A smart company could actually outmaneuver other competitors, wind up with more volume, realize the same net profit after taxes, and pass lower prices on to consumers.

I mean, there are just a ton of other variables here. And, those who advocate low or no corporate taxes are frequently free marketers. So, it's very interesting to me that they all but completely ignore very relevant free market mechanisms that can countervail the effects of raised corporate taxes.

IMO, it's just an oft-repeated meme that "higher corporate taxes are automatically regressive because they automatically create higher prices for consumers".
Every single adult member receives a weekly payment from the state, which is enough to live comfortably on. The only condition is citizenship and/or residency.

Sweet! None of us have to work anymore! Party at my place every night for life!

You get the basic income whether or not you’re employed, any wages you earn are additional.

Few, that's a relief. It'll be nice to close all of the school's down and tell kids they can go home, play video games indefinitely, and never have to worry about their future again.

The welfare bureaucracy is largely dismantled. No means testing, no signing on, no bullying young people into stacking shelves for free, no separate state pension.

Down with welfare, up with communism!

Employment law is liberalised, as workers no longer need to fear dismissal.

Hey boss, fuck you! Why? Because fuck you, that's why! What are you going to do about it? Fire me? Ha!

People work for jobs that are available in order to increase their disposable income.

That's cool. Make sure to tax them high enough to pay for all of my house parties.

Large swathes of the economy are replaced by volunteerism, a continuation of the current trend.

Who wants to volunteer to clean my toilet and mow my lawn? Anyone? Even if I say thank you when you're done?

The system would be harder to cheat when there’s only a single category of claimant, with no extraordinary allowances.

I can't figure a way to game it either; it's mathematically and economically perfect!
Without having to depend on the job market, people are free to move to areas with no work and a very low cost of living, and not be bunched up in the areas with the best handouts.

The net result will probably be higher costs of living everywhere, but in the US there is so much space that the effect is diluted.
This sort of bot has a better chance of passing the Turing test than an average girl.

Unless, of course, the evaluator understands TXTinese.
No, I'm suggesting that the government should offer only the bare minimum with very little freedom of choice if anything at all.
The problem with phone cameras (mostly) ins't the sensor, it's the glass, or lack there-of.
Considering what's happened to motorola over the past year?
This is an unrelated security measure, but you are correct.

And if you pull the card out, you can't access anything anymore that requires it (and on a Windows domain that DOESNT lock / terminate the session, you'll be able to access things until your kerberos ticket expires or you need to get to something you don't have a ticket for).
This is a good point, and it goes the opposite way too.

I'm a smaller than average guy (5 foot 4) and people that don't know me are often started when I'm vocal and assertive in meetings. I'm a working professional with opinions just like anyone else, and just because I'm short doesn't mean I don't want them heard.
The upcoming Sony i1 should please many people. It's rumored to have a 1/2.3" sensor - while smaller than the Nokia's sensor, it's still quite large for a phone.
> It misses the fact that work is fulfilling for (most) people.

No, it doesn't, instead, it leverages it. Basic income increases labor mobility and increases the ability of people to find the most fulfilling work (which may not be the most financially rewarding, especially in short term analysis.)
Could you please send me a link to the header modifying addon. So I can fix that.

gb@blippex.org
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
Why have just one?

I have three business cards presently; one for my web project, one for my overall business, and one hawking just tech support (don't knock it, it pays the bills).

It's easier to hand out a card focused on what you want to project to the potential client than a generic card where you have to explain what it's all about (which they promptly forget).

If you want to go for all in one - Here's one of the ultimate business cards: http://larrymade.tumblr.com/post/53856373481
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No, no I don't.

Any chance we could choose how to protect or not our own work? Flickr for instance has a very useful set of licenses to choose from including all rights reserved. I get that this isn't quite like Flickr, but giving up the above rights seems a little too much.