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Do you believe that we should all give up our right to privacy just in case it allows us to save a few people here and there?

I know that makes me sound like a dick at first glance, but do you really believe that if you answer "yes" to the question above, we are guaranteed that this system will never be abused?

I think the answer to that has already been provided in light of recent events.
I work at a DoD hospital. Trying to do some research. I have been told

1) Python is not allowed

2) Open source software is insecure

3 Perl is allowed

4) there is a list of approved software.

5) I can't see it

6) Enthought is on at least one version of the list

7) I can verify there are several python projects on forge.mil
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We should prosecute crimes the way we always have: presumed innocence until proven otherwise with evidence.

A right to be able to communicate privately doesn't make Plain Old Telephone calls not be easily traced, or make the police useless.

How about this example, to clarify the issue:

However pedophiles (or terrorists) get their content, be it a darknet site or the sneakernet, under the 5th amendment a person can refuse to give a password to decrypt harddrives with potential illegal content that could incriminate them in a crime.

Following your logic, should we not rescind the 5th amendment, so that people have to prove they don't have exploitative images of children?
Bizarre that they would have gone for PHP before Ruby... Anyway, App Engine just jumped the shark, so Rubyists should know they don't need it
It is fascinating to compare this (and the Jacquard loom) to the early electronic digital computers. In all cases part of the genius was to decompose complexity into a small set of operations which could be repeated and composed in many ways. There is a lesson here for software developers.
There is a big difference between the mechanisms of aging (how exactly it unfolds) and the state of aging (a measure of the damage). The research community knows exactly what the fundamental differences between old tissue and young tissue are, because they have listed them all in the process of investigating the molecular pathology of age-related disease.

I'm not sure exactly what you're point here is but if your point is we can get somewhere simply by directly manipulating the observed symptoms of age, I should point that while, of course, there are observable differences between old and new tissue, old and young organisms and so-forth, these differences aren't simply "symptoms of aging". Rather, observed differences are differences in the stable state reached between the continuous process of damage to parts and the continuous process of healing to parts. Changing X physiological state while changing nothing else is more or less as ridiculous moving hands around on a Swiss watch (not researcher don't try this - boo cholesterol drugs). Physiology of virtually any animal is very dynamic and still, still little understood.
That's a perfectly reasonable question, actually.

One possible answer is that communicating on the internet requires the use of a physical commons, which one could reasonably argue carries either innate restrictions or restrictions legitimately imposed by the owners of said infrastructure.
I bring it up because Reader was a product that nobody expected to ever go away, until it did.
Thanks for finding this. Calomel's website [1] gives much more information about how the scoring is done as well as security in general; very interesting.

[1] https://calomel.org/firefox_ssl_validation.html
Because secret documents are the easy targets. I can't shred everything that goes into the bin, and secret documents aren't the only ones that give away information.
Huh. I always thought it was illegal, much the same way opening someone's mail is illegal. I could be wrong though.
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Another article on the site (linked elsewhere in this discussion) does a pretty good job of explaining the graphs: http://entropymine.com/imageworsener/resample/

Basically: The X axis is distance in pixels and Y is the weight for the weighted average of the surrounding pixels according to their distance from the point being sampled.
Interesting, is that before or after taxes?

That's quite a lot than the range you would have to pay for a Software Engineer in Mexico, which goes between $18K and $27K (gross).

I guess that's why more and more USA companies choose to outsource to Mexico, to take advantage of the closer time-zones and somewhat more familiar culture.
Do you mean as a strategy, to avoid issues like (and unlike) this in the future? Or as a tactic to avoid exceeding the debt ceiling this month? The answers are different, and the former more debatable than the latter.
The only way to stop this is to dismantle the police state. We have no chance of keeping up with their anti-privacy arms race
I'm not sure if he's using an esoteric definition of "national government", "English speaking", or "default", but if you consider the "Failing to make a payment on a US government issued bond as agreed" then he's wrong. The US failed to pay out on inflation-adujsted WWI War bonds (paying them in nominal dollars rather than gold contrary to the bond terms, a substantial haircut) and during a previous unprecedented debt ceiling crisis in 1979 the US tried to dance too close to the edge and wasn't able to pay all the bonds due on time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_bond#Default_of_the_Fou...
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/11/137773341/looking-at-when-the-...
Yeah you are shill, actually

If the government needs to preserve the chain of evidence by controlling every step of information flow in every criminal case, well clearly the government needs to ... sniff/control/spy-on the entire Internet. Whatda-ya-know...
Instead of a household budget, why not compare it to a company's balance sheet? A company perpetually spending more than it takes in will eventually go bankrupt.
The Kanye quotes made me laugh, as it seems the two have been hanging out lately (https://secure.flickr.com/photos/jeremycastillo/9499335800/)
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"immediate government funding issues".

Seems pretty immediate to me.
No, it's not. He's making an assumption. He's assuming I think privacy should be restricted to select mediums, which is not the point of my comment. It would be the same thing as me asking you or him why you want to assist child rapists or people killing other people?

And yes, it might be a bit pedantic, but I'm tired of these childish games on HN.
one thing I have learned. proving your legal is very, very expensive .
Let's replace them with an app while they are in halt mode.
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Because companies cannot print their own money, unlike a nation.
> we should get rid of parties,

The US tried that in the 1790s, as I remember. Didn't wind up working out in practice. I gather the current electoral system (winner take all) trends towards a two-party system. At least, that's what the poly-sci folk say.
I don't think you understand that quote. Only security through obscurity is obviously no good, but that doesn't mean that security through obscurity is entirely worthless. It plays an important role in a layered defense for information assurance.
Are these rules in force on any host connected to the network? Do they have different networks with differing rules? How are the rules enforced? (That is, I can imagine switches and firewalls enforcing network rules, but "don't install python"?)
That is a reasonable response. I would counter by saying that I see that as a justification for why they [government, ISP, whoever] should be allowed make demands about the use of the physical commons, but isn't a reason why they should exercise this conceded right.

For example: I, a hypothetical bar owner, have a right to ban silly hats in my bar. Why? Because I own it. However that's not a reason that I should ban silly hats. Just saying "I'm the owner, so I can." doesn't actually explain why I should.

I do also disagree that the government specifically is entitled to restrict privacy on the internet because much of the infrastructure is owned or otherwise controlled by them. The government owns nearly all roads, yet while using that infrastructure I still enjoy certain privacies. For example, if a cop pulls me over and asks me where I am going or where I have been, I have no obligation to answer him.
But you can do hardware accelerated lanczos pretty trivially with a shader consisting of maybe 10 lines.
> But surely we can all agree there exist circumstances under which some lawful intercepts are justified

Perhaps, but there are means of communication that are impervious to interception, and that cannot be compromised the way Lavabit might have been.

Should such technologies be outlawed?
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Does asking for a site's private SSL key sound like a reasonable search? I realize "reasonable" is entirely subjective, which is why I don't put much faith in out justice system.
The intelligence court can if wants dish out secret punishment, so according to the Washington Post if they find you in contempt you will be held in a communications management unit, which is basically max security where they put terrorists. You are forbidden from ever talking to anybody while inside and nobody can know you are there, because it would leak the national security secrets of the specific case so basically the secret police make you vanish off the face of the earth until you cooperate.

How did this become legal
That is pretty cool. fopen is troublesome over the network though. Correct me if I am wrong, but writing to gs:// means that the writes are replicated to something like 3 physical disks in different data centers, which means it is probably 100x slower than writing to a local disk (but infinitely more durable).

gs:// seems like a great option for file uploads, but it could be a problem with thing like asset pipelines where stat can get called absurdly often. Any thoughts?
Impervious?
You could have just answered "I don't think that." Or, you know, given me the exact response you just typed....

It really was not my intention to ask you a loaded question. Instead of calling my question childish, you should consider the possibility that your comment is not nearly as clear as you seem to think.
One correction, in the Linux community, they are generally referred to as Huge Pages.
Bonds are a contract saying, "I'll pay you a fixed amount of money after a fixed amount of time". They then try to sell that contract on the open market.

Depending on how risky the market perceives the contract to be, the price could be a lot lower (increasing the effective interest rate)
Right but they can issue their own equity which is what a country's currency really is.
I guess that's true. It would be neat if they had pluggable identity providers. On the other hand I don't want to run my own. I prefer Google's.
Yeah. Boats.
"the adversary would have access at least to the envelope information."

This is a strawman, because Lavabit never did anything to protect headers. What you are missing is that Lavabit could respond to a demand for plaintext, if Ladar were willing to do so; on the other hand, Google cannot give anyone access to the plaintexts of PGP encrypted messages that I send through their servers because of technical barriers. That is the point of doing your encryption locally, and that is why security and privacy are not a service.

"Indeed, it is not. If the hacker gets full control of your mailserver, at least your envelope information is completely compromised."

Except that with Lavabit, an attacker could also get all your message bodies.

"Security depended on adversary not having full access to the Lavabit servers, not on Ladar's "whim"."

Let's put it this way: if you were involved in a lawsuit against Ladar, would you trust your communications with your lawyer to Lavabit? Of course not, because Ladar could have modified the code at any time and without alerting his users at all to read any plaintext that he wanted to read. If he had been willing to cooperate with the government, he could have and nobody would have a clue.

"Assuming your adversary doesn't have full access to your service is kind of a precondition of using the service as means of security."

In other words, security is not something you can get as a service. The entire model is fundamentally and fatally broken.

"That's like using lock is assuming the adversary does not have the key, if he does, the lock is useless as a security measure"

No, it is like storing your key with the bartender at your favorite night club and assuming that he will not allow your adversaries to use it.

"As soon as Lavabit became essentially useless for the purpose it was created, it was shut down."

It was shut down because Ladar chose to shut it down rather than capitulate. He could have chosen to keep it going while the government eavesdropped on it instead. That means that, as I said, security boiled down to Ladar and his principles. That is why PGP and S/MIME provide you with better security: mathematics are not subject to the choices that human beings make, and with PGP, S/MIME, etc. your security is a matter of mathematics.
This is why greenlets exist.
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Maybe that's what they need a $600M AWS cloud. Lists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai...
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Or use Cygwin, limited only by the OS (32K path IIRC).
So you don't think law enforcement should be able to do its job?

If we lived in total privacy, and I were to start a ponzi scheme completely online, then I would not be able to be stopped because :

1. My e-mail wouldn't be looked at

2. My bank accounts couldn't be looked at

Almost all evidence gathering during criminal investigation involves a loss of privacy at one point
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So they should only offer it on the wired ones. Would be quite a good sell, actually (probably best left as an unsupported "hack" so Nest doesn't have to provide support for failed wifi topologies).
Ha, sounds a lot like most big companies. Why get and train competent staff to build a software development process when you can pay 10x as much to a vendor for software that doesn't really work.
> Does asking for a site's private SSL key sound like a reasonable search?

Considering that was far from the first thing they asked for, no. Were their goals reasonable? Yes. Was Levison trying to cooperate? No.
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What's more notable is that you can directly convert this to energy - the reaction yields charged particles, which will cut flux and induce current.
You act as if it's a binary thing. It's not all or no privacy. It's always been some privacy , and you have more or less depending on circumstances.

Nothing is guaranteed to be abused, but when checks and balances works, things get harder.

Try not to forget that before the FISA Court there was no court and the president did what he wanted in that domain. Things are getting better (even if at a glacial pace).
The perspective to keep in mind is "attempting" is the same thing we're doing with a lot of these things. I wouldn't want to be picking winners yet.
Sure: Strong encryption and ephemeral keys.

The only thing to do in that situation is to compromise one of the communicating parties. If the communicating parties have arranged a safeword to signal they have been compromised, even that technique is useless.

In the case of Snowden and Greenwald, that wasn't going to happen.

It is possible to make storage and communication immune to surveillance. So I ask: should that be illegal?
When I viewed this page running Chrome (Version 30.0.1599.88 beta) on a ChromeOS device I did not get any warnings.

Interestingly, when I used chrome on my Win8 PC (version 29.0.1547.76 m), I did see the warning pop up.

Doing some quick searching online revealed that chrome does not appear to do online revocation checks any longer by default[1]. You can still manually turn it back on with the "Check for server certificate revocation"[2] option which is what I did.

[1] - http://www.macworld.com/article/1165273/google_chrome_will_n...

[2] - chrome://settings/search#revocation
Agreed. The engineering involved just from execution is already quite complex.
I was referencing this part of the post: "Low income families return their own empty beer bottles and soda cans for several hundred dollars of crucial income per year."
http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-and...

In short, changing architecture is big and they changed multiple things. The new architecture is 64 bit but it's actually some of the other changes that will help the most. So what Apple changed will make a substantial difference, but most of the improvement isn't well explained by saying "now we have 64 bits".
Your observation is only true if aptitude is an independently measurable quality. If the only way to measure aptitude is to say that those same x% of people must have it because they succeeded, then no, it is not a fallacy.
Bwa ha ha! Right you are.
I have never worked on a high traffic site before, so I am just mostly talking out of my ass. But when I looked at the html source for the coveredca website, it had a lot of of basic problems: there were 3 DOCTYPES on one page, developer comments were still visible (you can actually see the names of all the developers who worked on the project), Java error pages were visible, they disabled the back button completely by enforcing javascript refreshing, they did not minify any of their assets (which would also remove the developer comments) AND they were actually loading many copies of the same assets multiple times because, like I said earlier, their site had 3-DOCTYPES in one html page.

As someone who has never worked on a huge site, I don't want to naively say that it could have been done better. But I feel like those are basic issues that could have easily saved them a lot of bandwidth.

Also, it seems to me that if they had so many issues on the front-end, it's a hint that maybe they also had many similar issues in the backend as well.
It's certainly slower, and more durable, than local disk for writes. For reads/stat()ing this is mitigated to a certain extent by optimistic caching in memcache.

You also get the advantage, for asset pipelines, in that GCS can serve the generated file directly.
"that contractors built a system that could handle 50,000 people using the site at once"

There are over 100 million families in the US and they build for 50,000???

Is that number at least 50,000 pages / second? (Which would be reasonable.)
Which is _exactly_ what you expect if this was a case using parallel reconstruction…
That wasn't a very useful article in terms of explaining the potential benefits of 64-bit on mobile. I get that the reasons are a bit esoteric; "a larger address space makes ASLR more effective" is tough to explain to a non-programmer reader. But a writer's job is to get people who understand to explain and then write that explanation in a way that readers can roughly understand.
Illegally bet on a possibly illegal currency the same week Silk road gets raided... What could possibly go wrong?
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Sorry, but is this sarcasm?
The only issue with running yourself is that you need enough funding to generate more propaganda and PR than the cartel you're up against... and you forget that lobbyists run your country anyway. Don't delude yourself into thinking that your vote actually means anything. That "democracy" you think you live in is theatre designed to make you feel cosy and warm, just like the TSA does when they "protect" your air travel. It's all just a sham to keep you and everyone else from rocking the boat too much.
> Except there is no right to engage in total privacy.

There is, in practice, an absolute right to privacy. If you combine strong encryption with plausible deniability, you can reliably secure information from law enforcement. There is nothing anyone can do to access it against your will. You can always make the plausible claim the information does not exist and/or is inaccessible to you.

So, should strong encryption be outlawed?
I explained exactly why wasn't going to answer your question in my response.

"That's a loaded question and I'm not going to play that game"

I picked the words carefully and precisely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question

> you should consider the possibility that your comment is not nearly as clear as you seem to think.

I realize that people might not be native english speakers. I make the assumption people will ask if they are unsure or not clear. You made no indication you were either. Another commenter was not clear, and so I clarified.

If you didn't find it clear, why didn't you ask for clarification on why I thought it was a loaded question? Or, what I meant by calling it a loaded question?

> It really was not my intention to ask you a loaded question.

But you did. And I explained as much, and left it at that.
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I really cannot see how one can dismiss the tagged pointers and runtime changes out of hand. Add to that the non-word size changes and Qualcomm's sour grapes is just a "not there first" PR statement.
Neat idea. I was expecting the tool to search the dictionary and insert vowels for me though. Feature request?
Does developer mode come with a c/c++ compiler ? can you change the boot loader ? how about install a new shell ? replace the browser ? lets say you come up with a cool hack while in developer mode do you have to convince your friends to run in developer mode too ?
You are a perfect example of why I mostly stay out of HN discussions.
We're working on logins with payments for SASS apps at http://authic.com

That said, our offering is pretty different from what Amazon is doing. We are more about letting apps customizing their login/payment experience so that customers don't realize they are not interacting with the app.

We let you integrate with your Braintree account (Stripe support on it's way). Our aim is to make take away the common developer drudgery of setting up signup, signin, password reset, recurring payments and sending out pdf receipts that are common to building SASS webapps.
More generally the problem is a lack of standards in technology management.

Malpractice is endemic in the IT space and nobody, either technologists or managers, are held accountable.

For instance, the issues @vinhboy talks about are "bad smells" that reek of unprofessionalism -- like the primary keys that aren't unique, the predictable race conditions, and all of the problems that recur again and again.
And you decided to go be awesome. Which is awesome.
I hope to see the Telsa become a big hit in Australia.

Right now I couldn't have one since my apartment complex wouldn't support charging - however if the government ran a subsidy program to retrofit complexes I would definitely look at buying one!