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First, you are responding to a point the original poster didn't make. He didn't claim that he wanted to shut discussion down to "officially credentialed experts". He claimed that people involved were "unqualified to discuss them in any detail" ie. a polite (perhaps qualified and tentative) way of saying "they don't know what they are talking about and are just making stuff up".

Second, much of the truly offensive stuff I've seen on HN has been phrased in "qualified" and "tentative" fashion.

Sometimes the ideas expressed here are, well, shit, and putting a gloss of civility on it doesn't change that it's a shitty idea, it just adds passive voice and some extra syllables. One is reminded of the myriad of polite and civil arguments advanced in the drawing rooms of the nicest people in favour of slavery or against voting rights.
While I admire the effort and overall mission, the problem is that when an application promotes 'secure communications', there are people who actually may use it as such.

Mistakes are understandable, however I think in-depth code review and auditing in any environment involving cryptography is an absolute must. Potentially, peoples lives could be jeopardized (either legally or physically) if they believed their communications were secure, when in fact they were not.
That doesn't compute. Spending goes up, not down, to buy all the war toys and pay back the campaign contributers.

No one is complaining that the fire department sucks.
Oh, I'm glad your anecdote had a good laugh at my data. We should also query your anecdote what she thinks about medicine and call her answer science. That would totally be an effective way to arrive at true results.
The answer is that if you're prepared to off piste, mainly by using sun.misc.Unsafe, you can get within a gnat's whisker of C++. For example:

http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/native-cc-...

and

http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/compact-of...

It's interesting to look at what Java lacks to achieve this level of performance with less pain. The main issue, I believe, is control over memory layout. For example, avoiding boxing in arrays of objects. Avoiding GC is also an issue.

I think Rust is interesting as it allows the programmer to talk about these things without going "outside" the language like one must in Java, while still retaining a modern programming style.
The researcher set out to prove his own pet hypothesis, several of the experiments quoted are based on self-reported results (of "feeling warmer"?) and the whole thing seems wholly unquantifiable.

People "felt loved" and "that life is worth" living. Who asked them? Were those leading questions? Did they spontaneously report? What was the protocol? What about control groups?

This is an interesting article, and it does link to several (sometimes inaccessible) papers, but despite curiosity for the topic, I can't help but be surprised at how superficially some of the research mentioned seems to be substantiating the claims made.

I guess I expect more rigor from the NYT.
Sketch looks promising. But I would expect a couple of more features from an efficient screen design tool:

Reusable elements (FW symbols), multiple pages, something like Fireworks' "Master page", (basic) bitmap editing.
No one forgives them. But ultimately, destroying the lives of 10% of Americans is an epic tragedy, but leaves the vast majority unaffected.
I did look into that, and it seemed to fit into the "overkill" category for me, although I didn't try it first hand since at the time I didn't have access to a Linux box.

There seem to be a lot of editors like that, and the high end ones, that are really for editing together actual short films, movies, etc. The fancy non-linear editors have so many bells and whistles that I get overwhelmed and bogged down in features. I have the kind of personality that I would start tweaking the video forever if I did something like this, and video editing isn't really something that I want to put a ton of research into or learn.

I'm looking for something that's geared towards making simple videos to showcase pictures, text, and videos of the person in charge of the Kickstarter cut in between. I'm certainly not making a movie, and like I said, there are apps that can do everything I want and more, but I really don't want to spend hours trying to do something simple. While the number of trashy Youtube videos generally outweighs the good ones, I'm sometimes surprised at the quality of ones by people just doing something like a makeup tutorial that don't really seem like they have much of a technical or artistic background. There's got to be something I'm missing.
I praise this effort. Whatever the criticism may be, it's a useful site and it educates people. Folks like them do a lot more than us ranting here in the comments :)
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Then my comment didn't say your comment said that. But I want to add that I remember very few nicknames from HN, and yours is one of those. I remember it because you once said that Google takes their users' privacy very seriously, which is hard to forget. Ever since, I saw you defending Google, no matter what. Something isn't right...
Powerball shares winnings, right? So you better hope the play-rate is levelling off, and not increasing exponentially until jackpot.
It’s also good for advertising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus
If with "everything" you mean Photohop, then you're right. For everyone else there was Fireworks which initially was a promising screen design tool.
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"In the claims that proprietary software won't track you, I am assuming that the NSA will not compel (or has not compelled) these companies to modify their software to include secret tracking."

The assumption that the NSA would never compel software vendors to include tracking code seems completely unjustified to me. It makes no sense at all to accept all the inconvenience that comes with avoiding NSA tracking and then use closed source software.

But I think many of the suggestions on this list are completely unworkable. Using Tor isn't just a little slower. It's unusably slow for regular browsing. Using noscript is nonsense. It breaks almost all websites nowadays.
People still puts locks and alarms in their house, even though they could avoid being burglarized through community watches and educating the public about the morals, ethics, and long term costs of stealing people's stuff.
You seem sort of pathetically proud of what happened to him.
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Is there any comparable program to use for windows or linux users?
This gets awkward. Scold me for blaming the victim, but here we have a case where the victim has refused to desist from specific criminal behavior despite multiple citations, and who fired a weapon in a populated room at someone who was neither identified nor holding a visible weapon.

When I hear about cops shooting dogs when they get the address wrong on a warrant, I worry. But in this case, well, don't go bear baiting.
Two school friends finished school, maxed out about 5 credit cards to get a deposit and got a big old house and large mortgage. They worked 2x jobs each and had 5 flatmates. Both say it nearly killed them. However they both won out big time as the property went up heaps in value and this set them up very very nicely. It's easy to see the holes in this scenario as a plan, and both say they would never ever recommend it to anyone.
If you were building a system with legacy firmware (so, for examole you couldn't rotate keys in case of a breach), how would you mitigate against situations like this? Can anyone give a brief overview of how to architect a more secure system?
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There is no easy secure way of having audio and/or video chats? Like we had with skype before microsoft stepped in.

XMPP is here, and we have no real good clients either for desktop and for Android we got basically none that supports Jingle.
I am based in Cairo.

1. Egypt's tourism sector got hammered after the revolution, especially in the "Ancient Egypt" route. The beach based tourism remain high.

2. Head of local governments keep changing every 6 months or so. The same thing applies for Cabinet Ministers.

3. Egyptian 25 Jan revolution lasted in full 18 days. It's quite short for a revolution although the repercussion ripples.

4. Basic infrastructure such as electricity and gasoline distribution got affected which adds cost and uncertainty into manufacturing.

5. There are tons of political motivated persecution such as the NGO trials which really scared off Western investors.

6. American Chamber of Commerce invited a hundred US businessmen for investment and arranged them to meet President Morsi only to be evacuated the next day after the Anti-Islam YouTube video.

7. The whole MENA region got engulfed in revolution which really affects the movement of goods and people.

8. Investors from the Gulf really eyed the MB with suspicions. UAE officials routinely publicize sharp comments against the MB.

Anyway, I expect the economy to bounce back strongly in the near future. I am not Egyptian myself although I've lived here for many years. My country Indonesia went through similar revolution 14 years ago and now we are a trillion dollars economy.
I've been using Inkscape on my Mac for quite a while, but the team doesn't seem to be willing or able to support the platform well. The download page still has 0.48.2 which is pretty ancient; I'm not too optimistic 0.49 will see good mac support either.

I like inkscape, and if I migrate to Windows / Linux I can continue to use my assets there.

But this app looks very nice; I wonder if anyone can briefly mention the areas where one app is stronger than the other.
That's a very fair point. There's certainly nothing bad about making privacy conscious technology choices.

I also think that the very URL of this project - http://prism-break.org/ - invokes a certain over-focus on NSA's PRISM. As a UK citizen, however, my Internet traffic itself is being stored and monitored by GCHQ. So to me it seems especially futile switching from Chrome to Firefox, or from Google to DDG, or from Facebook to Diaspora.
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Not practicable in Germany. A few weeks and the police would raid the hacker space and take everything that looks like a computer (for a very broad definition of computer) with them. End of hacker space - even if your equippment is returned (which happens usually after 6+ months) when the charges are dropped.
...files located outside the agency’s headquarters that contain several thousand additional pages...

Several thousand pages?
For one person who is obviously not a terrorist?

This is the sort of thing that the US government would point out in other nations as being unacceptable while I was growing up...

Now we're the bad guys.
This is the thing that scares me the most. If the self driving cars need to cooperate for maximum efficiency what if there are some cars that don't do it and exploit that?
Yes, such a client would be cool, useful and more trustworthy.
Privacy group sues UK government over surveillance programs
I'm talking about the home console business. Read my post.
Locks and Alarms are the lowest common denominator of security - it stops people from walking in but more than anything just gives an illusion of security.
For Portuguese speakers you also have "saudade", which is also hard to express in other languages, as it means a mix of nostalgia, home sickness, to miss something, depending on the context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade
Uncertainty is the single worst thing for investment. So it's really no surprise that investors are avoiding Egypt, and that the economy is hardly growing...
You completely missed the point. The NSA is tracking everyone. They're building a database of everyone's activities. Nobody knows who the "terrorists" are going to be 20 years from now. The moment you become a suspect, they can bring up everything they've recorded you saying or doing and use it against you.

The NSA is above the law and the rules they follow are set by a secret court appointed by a single man who has his position for life.
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How is that any different, am I missing something?
This more or less addresses all of the major complaints I have about Bitcoin; you know, minus the whole insane deflationary spiral which arguably is also its' main feature.
Wasn't that bridge intentionally designed to not only be robust, but to look as imposing and robust as possible, in order to reassure the public since the previous bridge in the location had collapsed?
It's probably best if it's something that you've run across in your daily life and found the need for personally. It probably just won't be interesting or would be confusing otherwise since, if obscure enough, the data returned may be easy to mess up.

Think back to stuff you've done recently. For example, recently I needed to do some wildcard searching and pattern matching on a list of last names for a writing project. This turned out to be much more of a pain in the ass than I'd thought to even get a hold of the right dataset. More of a SQL thing than a REST thing, but you get the idea.
MT is not suitable for crypto because after observing 637 values you can predict all further values. 637 is the size of MTs internal state vector and the output of MT are basically just values from that state vector run through a tempering function. That tempering function is invertible, thus by looking at 637 values you get the full state vector, at which point you can generate the next values as usual.
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I've been using Sketch exclusively for the better part of a year, and it's not just a better tool for designing web and mobile UIs, it's a real pleasure to use.

There are still quite a few bugs, but even with those, the Sketch workflow trumps Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks. Version 3 should also address most of these, and is supposed to include support for symbols as well.
I like a lot of the ideas, but I wish I could turn of the slow typing animation. Also, is there a way to have multiple tabs?
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My issue was in talking about quality of graphics by qualifying it with screen resolution and frame rate.

My point was that these are irrelevant: we've been playing games at higher resolution than that for a while.

It was a rather pedantic jab, and for that I apologize. My point stands, however.
I don't think the analogy works. This is using consumer-grade retail padlocks to keep out the world's richest and most well-equipped criminal organisation. The fact that the shops don't sell strong enough padlocks to stop them isn't the real problem: the deep-seated corruption in law enforcement allowing them to steal with impunity is.
Is it a crime for a hungry man to steal bread? None of your proposed solutions would address his needs.

America's government is so corrupt it is no longer democratic.

Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g
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Apparently I'm wrong. Wikileaks had some cables talking about how Martinelli asked the US to spy for him, but they denied him[1]. He did however, end banking secrecy for Panama/US in 2011(?), with a tax treaty. I probably misunderstood after reading some expat sites and connecting lines that perhaps are not connected.

http://www.cato.org/blog/wikileaks-cable-martinelli-threat-r...
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http://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/ is still in beta phase, but it could be a good place when you face any problems.
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Perhaps grab 5 bytes instead?
This could become a new Proof-Of-Work function for Bitcoin itself.

Dan Kaminsky assigned 0% probability that the current proof-of-work function will be used by the end of this year, due to problems with ASICs and the centralization of hashing power: http://bitcoinnews.io/dan-kaminsky-predicts-the-end-of-the-c...
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I'm starting to think people should begin to create "crypto-selves". I've seen a lot of talk saying essentially "get off facebook! get off gmail!" But that's a lot of persistent effort even for fairly technical people. Plus even in secure, anonymous environment interacting with your real life friends, purchasing your favorite books on amazon etc will reveal who you are anyway.

In non-web life we have private and public spaces and there's plenty of study on how these two play together and how important they are. Most people have erroneously thought that because your computer is in your private physical space that it's also 'private', but that's clearly not the case.

What people need is the education to create the technological equivalent of locking yourself in your bedroom for the afternoon to clear your head.

Gmail is like sending a postcard, facebook like chatting with friends at the mall or park. Tor/truecrypte/pgp etc for parts of your life you want private. Separate usernames, interests, tones of voice, etc in this private space.

Trying to hide your real (ie public) self is silly as should you become a target of the nsa & co. they'll find a way to dig up something even if you've been completely hidden from july 2013 on. What people need is a reasonably benign public self and a hidden crypto-self.

Also I'm all for fighting the surveillance state, but I'm extremely cynical of it's success. I see no feasible way to reduce the power and authority of the militarized aspects of our government(s). I can't think of a single example of where public knowledge and outcry has changed anything other than getting a few puppets punished anywhere except the non-militarized parts of government.
I no longer believe a word spoken by any government shill, based solely upon the preponderance of the evidence.

Ergo, their credibility doesn't exist.

What was it that "Dubya" mangled when he said it?
"You can fool me once... But ya can't get fooled again..."

http://youtu.be/eKgPY1adc0A
Nice post - Sketch is revolutionising UI design workflow. Really well thought out product — we've standardised on it for all our products at work, and I haven't even installed and Adobe products on my newest laptop, 8 months in.

I'll admit that I was initially frustrated at the constant crashes etc, but there's a very responsive team, constant releases, and I haven't had a problem in months.
Unfortunately, https://prism-break.org/ was registered before Snowden's revelations about Tempora. I'm working on adjusting the site's wording to apply equally to all governmental surveillance.
> This is the sort of thing that the US government would point out in other nations as being unacceptable while I was growing up...

This seems unlikely to be a recent phenomenon, what with McCarthyism and all.
I'm outraged that I can't wear a ski mask during a riot/unlawful assembly...

Seriously though, while this is concerning, our privacy is still protected far better than places like the US or Singapore, and our political system and atmosphere is such that we can easily get rid of our politicians or bend them to our will. We've had quite a few coalition governments, upstart parties that became the opposition, and Canadians are generally much less attached to political parties than Americans.
There are multiple pages :)
is there no form of bitmap editing at all?
So what does the author try to say? People should bend over and accept dictatorships and such, lest their economy takes a hit?

Compared to having the government you want and social justice, who the fuck cares for "investors"?
True.Read something very recently about 'voice' and 'exit' - two responses to situations like this - http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/06/24/13062...

Hirschman pointed out the ways in which “exit” failed to send a useful message to underperformers. Weren’t there cases where monopolists were relieved when their critics left? “Those who hold power in the lazy monopoly may actually have an interest in creating some limited opportunities for exit on the part of those whose voice might be uncomfortable,”
Nice, especially the zoom-approach, have anyone seen this being implemented?
However, I disagree with the whole idea of typing commands. For power users that's great, but for casual users, it's nearly impossible to know which commands exist, what they are called or what they will do. The menu based interface has the great advantage that it categorizes commands and allows the user to see what can be done, and use deduction to pick the right command. There should be no need to remember any command names or key combinations for light users.
My only gripe with Rackspace is how long it takes for them to push out a new version of Exchange when they're released... Was something like a year and a half after Exchange 2010 was released before it appeared on Rackspace? Curious to see how long before 2013 appears...

Otherwise I love them.
I am tempted at this time to post the source from where I personally learned the word "saudade."

Dinosaur Comics:
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2129

The alt-text for the comic is particularly fascinating as well.
To know that Brazil celebrates a National Saudade Day is reassuring and romantic.
Sketch has multiple pages support, and symbols/reusable elements are to be included in v3
When you build a public key into firmware which isn't easily updated, you need to put a lot of effort into securing the corresponding private key. The correct way to do this is to have a separate credential for your actual admin users who then use that to authenticate to an HSM or similar system which controls the actual widely-deployed keys. Humans should never be able to access the important private keys directly, and there should be a logging process which shows those keys have never been exported (and have technical and policy controls against being exported) without proper multi-party control (so, you back them up in k of n shares, and distribute those shares across corporate officers in multiple sites in the event you need to replace the HSM).

Shorter lived keys and more frequent updates, provided you also have a secure way of authenticating the updates (hard) is often preferred.
More importantly, they make the distinction between a welcome entry and forced entry much clearer, which is very important from the legal point of view. It's not an illusion of security, but a precondition for a safety and recovery framework to kick in (police action, insurance, etc.)
With iOS apps, I'm never done. You can make a virtually unlimited number of updates to apps.

I love it that way, because I quickly respond and reiterate based on user feedback and a freelancing/consulting job generally allows for reoccurring business with the same client.
You can put the private key on a few HSMs, and have the HSM enforce a security policy (eg - access must be authorized by a quorum of operators). Never allow the private key to leave the HSM, ever again, except when initializing a new HSM (in which case, it had better be encrypted by the new HSM's unique key before leaving the old one).

Then you go fix your legacy firmware.
That's a great answer, thanks for that!