skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't know - and because the rules of this game apparently bless lying about key compromise, and allow prohibitions on the disclosure of key compromise, you can't rely on the absence of bad news to assume everything's OK.

You have the greatest allowable protection when keeping your keys on hardware where you keep physical custody - e.g., on your person, or stored in physical locations where you have exclusive access (e.g., not colocated/VPS, etc).

Ultimately, you've got to decide if it bothers you to have the government - and the corporations and individuals that act on behalf of the government - archiving/indexing/searching copies of your data.

I don't believe that it's appropriate for the government to invade our privacy without due process - but this view is not universally held.

There's a core problem that's tough to solve - if people have access to strong, unbreakable crypto, then it's possible that there will be circumstances where a legitimate warrant will not produce usable information.

On the other hand, if nobody has strong, unbreakable crypto, then it's possible that there will be circumstances where privacy is invaded without a legitimate warrant.
What if it was more like

- You owe me $25

- I only keep my money in bitcoin

- Well, I don't do that bitcoin thing, and I don't really want to set a whole thing just to transfer the money

- OK, I could get it for you in cash, but you'll have to give me a few days

...a few days later

- Uhh...so about that money

- Oh, haven't gotten around to transferring that

- OK, but I could use it. Or, I could borrow your phone and talk to Steve: he'll trade me cash for bitcoin.

- But then you could take all of my bitcoins.

- I'm not going to do that

- But I can't trust you

- Then why should I trust you to pay me?
Isn't the fact the cert was revoked showing that the CA system works? The FBI would love for it to be still chained back to a valid CA.

You were only seconds away from calling folks "sheeple", weren't you ;)
Well, I agree in theory, but I only chose industries where the major expense is people. So if revenue/employee is lower, either pay/employee is lower or margins are.

I suppose a third possibility is that software compensation may have a larger equity component, which would allow software employees to take similar overall comp at lower revenue/employee levels.
Not to mention, in many states of the US, you would have to have that wiring inspected and certified before you could sell the house.
> what do we do to help these people get work and stop relying on entrepreneurial trash collection as a living?

If picking up trash/recycling and depositing it at a centralized location is work when a garbageperson does it then it is still work when homeless people do it.
Yes, let's test this theory on 300 million people.
reading about tumor suppressor genes... fascinating stuff. Those do seem to get worse with aging.
they don't, and we should get rid of parties, or get a multitude more in power.
Yeah, but remember to pass the 0 to it; otherwise the sum of an empty array would be nil:

x.inject(0, &:+)

That's one of the disadvantages of not having a powerful type system to infer what's the "zero" of some type.

Still, the Ruby code is pretty readable and a good example of orthogonal concepts that compose well. E.g., getting the product of the numbers instead: x.inject(1, &:*). Or the least common multiple: x.inject(&:lcm).
Also the Netcraft Extension gives you this information:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/09/06/perfect-forward...
I wonder why this 404 page returns http 200 status code.
It's a disruption of the chain of evidence, but my understanding is that "fruit of the poisonous tree" is something different: evidence gathered because of information the police should not have had access to.
Perhaps even more important than strict valuation is that banks (and especially institutional investors) have strict rules on the type of investments they can make. One of the most important issues is the level of risk carried. T-bills have historically been considered a (or the) risk-free asset. Suddenly they are not which potentially leads to a lot of selling (lowering prices) or attempted selling (if markets freeze).
By that logic, doesn't Lavabit itself, or the entire SMTP system, serve as a black box? It's really not any different from the intercept features in telecommunications equipment.
Comparing revenue per employee between different industries doesn't make any sense, since profit margins vary so wildly. For example, a healthcare distributor like McKesson has $122 billion in revenue, but since they're just distributing goods they are spending 95 cents of every revenue dollar in buying those goods. Their profit margin is under 2%. Meanwhile, software companies, especially with digital delivery, have COGS of 10% or less, leaving room for operating margins of 20-30%. Thus a software company makes the same profit per employee as McKesson with one-tenth of the revenue.
(I see the author of the piece you quoted has responded also.)

Really, it's not just the SOC.

As described in @mikeash's piece, the 64-bit address length has allowed Apple to inline some per-object information (like reference counts) with object pointers, which is a big win in some key operations (2x faster object creation/destruction), which could sometimes make a big difference at the application level.
At this point, developer tools are essentially a required feature for a browser. All else aside, there's no way to debug a bug that's specific to a single browser without tools integrated into that browser.
The truth is very likely to be much closer to what Wall Street thinks than what D.C. thinks.

Traders and investors are incentivized to assess risk correctly and make good bets, while Congress is incentivized to engage in brinkmanship and make as much political noise as possible.
Bit more along the same lines: http://entropymine.com/imageworsener/resample/
Are you really alleging that CarrierIQ was installed at the behest of a government?

If you're going to use an appeal to authority, then Bruce Schneier is not the way to go. He's a cryptologist but he does make many unfounded claims.
I've just spent the last hour or so at this site ( found via reddit/math ) and it is pretty amazing. Well worth a look!
Also the link at the end to mathics was new to me and looks interesting.
Surely we've found that using technical means to thwart a large, well-funded organization that is targeting you is useless.
First thing I wanted to do: play with those graphs. Is there a way you could embed them?
Sam,

Well written article.

Just one small typo.

"Quick and painless fundraising, without advice necessarily being part of the package, is what many founders what."

want
For mobile devices I've been using the WhiteNoise app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/white-noise/id289894882?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tmsoft.whi...
> I am a US citizen and therefore cannot be denied entry to the US

That's what the no-fly list is for.

There have been some court cases where they have ruled that forbidding a US citizen to fly on his return trip to the US is stranding/abandonment[0], but... even then, it took a while to get those rulings, and things were pretty messy for the person in the meantime.

[0] I'm blanking on the legal term but there is a specific term for this.
Let's not forget that the people we now call Jews (Judeans) were members of a group that called themselves "The ten tribes". Their history begins sometime around the end of the stone age and beginning of the copper age. They appear to have had some special skill or affinity with mining of minerals. For instance the Jewish high priest wears a hoshen or breastplate with samples of 12 different minerals attached to it. At that time in history people lived in tribal groups that migrated a lot in particular those which herded sheep or cattle. This means that out of the 10 tribes, one or more could have originated very far away from modern Israel. Over time, commerce between the 10 tribes would have led them to settle on one language as their lingua franca, and eventually this language would become the language of status even in a tribe that spoke a completely different language. And then the individual languages disappear altogether.

Let's not forget that the people of Europe came from somewhere else too. 12,000 years ago, all of Europe except a small part of Spain, was covered under a thick Arctic ice cap. Nothing lived there. So this study could be showing that ancestors of the Phoenicians (who spoke a language very close to Hebrew and were renowned travelers and traders) were the first to repopulate Italy when it reemerged from under the ice.
Surprisingly, not really.

{-# OPTIONS -fglasgow-exts #-}

class BuildList a r | r-> a where
build' :: [a] -> a -> r

instance BuildList a [a] where
build' l x = reverse$ x:l

instance BuildList a r => BuildList a (a->r) where
build' l x y = build'(x:l) y

varargs x = build' [] x

main = print $ ( sum $ varargs 1 2 3 4 5 6 100)

$ ./Test
121

http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/vararg-fn.lhs
Thanks for that. I stopped reading at:

"Unless otherwise noted by Google, material changes to the Agreement will become effective 90 days after they are posted, except if the changes apply to new functionality in which case they will be effective immediately. If Customer does not agree to the revised Agreement, please stop using the Service."
Totally agree on this. Reader was a free software. They may not be making billions out of App Engine but a lot of fortunate 500 are moving to this kind of platform and Google has probably invested tens of billions and thousands of engineers into GAE. No way they will kill this in the next 10 years unless market crashed.

That kind of cynical thought should be eliminated.
Hey Rob- I wanted to but not with wordpress. Interactive one is at http://blog.joshlaurito.com/inc5000.html
Cool, I graduated from there in '07, but at that time none of the incubation stuff had even been started. Would you happen to know Albert?
Free services are not guarnateed to remain open. Paid services can continue to live for a long time until market share shrinks so low. GAE can't. It has a deep root in the market.
A New Type of Growing City
Agreed. I limited the sample to Advertising, Media, and Software only for just that reason: they have similar (though not identical) expense structures.
Lessons from my father: Shit is best eaten in small bites, as it is served.
What is this monolithic government you speak of? Are you saying that the FBI and the NSA are synonymous? I'm sure plenty of FBI investigators would take exception to an accusation like that.

I can play this game too. Dread Pirate Roberts used StackExchange, so therefore StackExchange users cannot be trusted to build websites that don't host drug deals and supposed hitmen.
This is why I visit here regularly. Even though I have been tinkering with Unix/Linux/BSD for years, I was unaware of named pipes. I might never have a need for it but it is cool to know.

Conductor, thanks for posting the link.
Show HN: WESAWIT helps venues aggregate, curate, and display fan social media
Strictly-speaking, there are probably more people that know Rails then there are jobs requiring it. Even given that, the balance of power in the labor market is still supply-side. A Rails engineer can easily get jobs in just about any other platform fairly easily, and probably already has on occasion. But a company can't magically turn a need for a Rails coder into a need for a Java one.
As long as the spankings remain within the "Chandrasekher Limit" I don't think we are in danger of dwarfing the larger issues.
If I had to pick one, it would be the global recession set off by the United State's last financial crisis... and the risk that another crisis could cause the collapse of the nascent global recovery.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/us/politics/default-threat...
... did you just say that the thing that gives particles mass acts as though it's taking a massless particle and adding mass?
Isn't this an argument against comparing profit per employee since it is the margins that vary so greatly between industries? Also, it seems you are mixing terms here. You started talking about revenue and ended talking about profit.
not completely: the image resource urls are fine
Nice link. Since switching back to Linux recently, I have started playing with Vim, and this is a helpful article.
Yes, or also not investing in it. GAE already feels like they're more interested in adding features that result in new customers over fixing bugs for the benefit of existing customers. Of the ~6000 defects ever opened for App Engine, ~1400 of them are still open. (issue tracker: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list)
The parent poster does seem to have recognized this - hopefully they will provide something better when they are less strapped for time.
Tesla's $110,000 Model S is now Norway’s best-selling car
Let's say you're a bootstrapped startup.
Same thing for me, in both Chrome and the default browser. This is troubling.
His argument is clearly that people have a right to privacy. It says so in his next sentence.

The 'no, sorry' is him discarding the emotional plea that often justifies invading a person's privacy in the first place ("please, won't somebody think of the children!").
Samsung announces the Galaxy Round, a smartphone with a curved OLED display
tilt to wake up, useful?
Crucially, the login form itself isn't included in the high-volume (http) landing pages, but is isolated behind a (https) link from those pages.
I have bad experiences with Amazon, so I don't think I would ever use this service.

A couple of years ago, I was a seller on the Amazon marketplace. My account got banned and there was absolutely no way to talk to a real person to try to resolve the issue.

They shuffled me around to different customer service reps (all through email, no phone support) who would give me cookie-cutter responses. Eventually, they just stopped answering my emails and told me not to contact them anymore.

Luckily, I got my remaining account balance back in 90 days.
WhatsApp chats should be 'considered compromised', researcher says
That would be true if we were using C++. Unfortunately, all our code is in Scala and we use Java NIO libraries to memory map our files. AFAIK, they don't give us the option on using these POSIX calls.
That's perfectly valid, since those examples were first trotted out prior to that with no argument. If it's so obvious why we should treat those as special cases, it should be trivial to explain why.
Stop this stupid ruby python library is suffice. If you don't bother to read my comments above how libraries are not enough, then forget it.

Why do we even bother to teach linked list or any algorithm if we can just rely on all the libraries out there?
This is both chilling and depressing. The only reason why the general public is barely phased or even cares about this nonsense is that they don't even understand what a SSL Cert is or what it means to have it taken away.
"The problem here is Lavabit was specifically designed to disallow lawful intercepts of individuals."

This is not True.

Lavabit made it clear in their TOS that they had no interest in concealing illegality, they complied fully and willingly with all warrants targeting individual users.

Their premise was to protect your privacy from untargetted blanket surveillance.
I use Stripe for Draft, and I know I'm losing money. I get emails everyday from people outside the US who can't use a credit card or they don't trust any vendor with their CC. I'm probably going to have to add Paypal too :/
So which language does a person of your knowledge use?
It's the cause for it.
You can use IMAP from smartphones, and from Apple Mail:

> Mac OS X users can directly set up an IMAP account in Apple Mail 4.4. After entering a full name, email address, and password, hold down the Option key. The Create button will change to Continue, allowing one to manually configure the account settings.

> Apple Mail 5.0 included with Mac OS X Lion supports easy and direct IMAP account setup.
XOR is addition mod 2, which is the same reason you get Pascal's triangle mod 2 is sierpinski gasket.
Russian designer Artymy Lebedev visits North Korea
You can use IMAP from smartphones, and from Apple Mail. How to, per Wikipedia:

> Mac OS X users can directly set up an IMAP account in Apple Mail 4.4. After entering a full name, email address, and password, hold down the Option key. The Create button will change to Continue, allowing one to manually configure the account settings.

> Apple Mail 5.0 included with Mac OS X Lion supports easy and direct IMAP account setup.
Regular Pentagon does not tile the plane.
I really have no idea what this comment even means. The entire ordering and sign in pipeline has been https forever. Once you are on https it stays https until you explicitly got to http://, iirc. Lastly theres no content, that im aware of, that is available plaintext and not https.
I'm sure this comment will be buried, but I sleep better at night knowing HN can still get its panties in a wad over tramplings of freedom and the abuse of the system -- long after the main stream media has lost interest. The young and old hackers reading these posts will no doubt start spending frontal lobe CPU cycles on solutions that will find their agile way into the public sphere in months, not years.
> If the engineers who designed and built the internet cared about privacy

I believe Vint Cerf cares an awful lot about privacy. But, as he has stated countless times, this internetwork was supposed to be an experiment. Who would ever design a real network with only billions of addresses?
It might also have something to do with their focus on hardware acceleration. Switching to D3D using bilinear scaling. Possibly also switching their software fallback implementation to match.
Why should privacy be restricted to select mediums?
Is it the display that's curved, or just the screen, ala Nexus S?
Endogeneity refers to the causality loop. The markets are judging the probability of the U.S. defaulting. The market's judgement, in turn, affects the probability of the U.S. defaulting. This will tend to produce a system exhibiting self-organised criticality.

The probability of the critical point being tripped could be heteroscedastically distributed. But that's not the same thing as saying the market judgement is endogenous to its prediction.
Write a program to find 100 largest numbers from array of 1 billion numbers.
I've been expecting something like this to happen. It is expensive for small bands who often can hit only a few venues. But Tunetable should arrange for studios other than NYC. There are plenty of places around the world where bands could play and livestream.
Well, what about the children?

Serious question.

I say it's an incomplete argument because there is no mention of how we should go about prosecuting child pornographers and terrorists, rescuing missing persons when phone/email records are our only clue, and so on. There's just "no, sorry", the right to privacy trumps these things under all possible circumstances.

The question remains.. why?

Why is a world with ideally zero ability to prosecute child porn (to pick one) a world we should want to live in? Laws don't mean much without the ability to enforce them, so are you advocating living in a lawless world? Police powers can be abused, but does that literally mean we should end all police, at least as it pertains to crimes involving communication such as plotting murder, child porn, etc.?

That's what's missing from "no, sorry".
> The statistics don't support the idea that people disable their smoke detectors permanently over nuisance alarms.

So when people die, it's rarely ever the case that the alarms had been disabled for some reason?
The Firebug story is a good and a bad thing. For starters the only reason I still use Firefox is because Firebug is awesome. In the article at least Firefox gives credit to Firebug where it's due, but it's a bit like OS X notifications taking Growl's idea and leaving Growl to rot. Maybe that's a bit dramatic, but it's a common story now a days. Indie developer develops something awesome for big companies eco-system. Big company takes idea and leaves indie dev to die. I am not privy to the entire story but it sure would have been nice if mozilla could have at least done an acquire-hire for the Firebug team (assuming they wanted it). You know show some love for the greatness they gave to the dev community.
Why the constant influx of throwaways?
https://www.amazon.com/ redirects me to http://www.amazon.com/ as does every product page. This is one reason why that's a problem: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/
Just so I understand, you want me to explain why it is just to wiretap child pornographers and murderers. Is that right?
WPF Master Detail By Example
So we can use them as shibboleths when interviewing people for Rails and Python jobs, apparently. But evidently I triggered some anger management issue of yours, so I'll just walk on eggshells from here on out.
Working part time seems a decent compromise. There's no reason you have to live off of savings only.
Traders are inscentivized to follow the herd and make big bets because when they lose they get bailed out or declare bankruptcy or (individuals) just find a new job and don't get a negative commission on losses.
Meh. The world has suffered enough from "the classic intellectual type with strong affections for humanity in the abstract and the people around him not so much". I'd much rather listen to someone who's attached to others and behaves decently towards them.

(I've got a particular bias against Gandhi for what that so-called "moral paragon" famously said about the Holocaust.)
Samsung and Google working together on 'Gear Glass'?
Fylr lets you share any file of any size for free
Apparently not the companies making games like Turbo Turd Launcher 5.
Twitter’s female “problem”
Miley Cyrus Underwear Video
His/Her point is that profit is what matters. If you can get the same profit per employee with wildly varying numbers for revenue, then it's pointless to use revenue as a metric.
While I don't agree with the parent to your post, I will say that a more 'efficient' jobs program would be one that teaches them useful skills in the job market (e.g. a skilled trade like welding). An example would be the Hoover Dam, which was a jobs program under FDR's New Deal (thought maybe not an excellent example as many of the jobs were high-risk).
Am I reading into this right? The court declared he must hand over the private key to the SSL encryption on his server so the government could do as they wished with the traffic... and then Levison revoked the key, thus making it useless to everyone?
The Treasury Secretary is charged with paying the interest on the US debt.

It doesn't need the approval of President Obama, nor can he explicitly prevent it.
What's your source? That conflicts with the New Yorker reporting on the trial proceedings.

It also belies common sense, since Lavabit offers a form of encryption that even they cannot decrypt.

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/how-l...
Digging through dumpsters and being ignored... sounds like we're training a bunch of PI's?
64bit move comes along with ARM v8 move. It wouldn't make sense for apple to move to ARM v8 staying at 32bit. As far as I remember apple hasn't said that 2x performance improvement came from just 64bit. They included new ISA and 64bit compatible iOS 7 too.
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