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> Can you cite an usage that doesn't compensate for a missing feature of the platform?

A missing feature, such as your phone not running the server that you need to do light maintenance on?

> iOS offers wifi sync and backup (plus cloud if you want), and there is an ecosystem of products around it to explore/modify/share backups in the standard format

There is also an ecosystem of products to explore/modify/share rsync backups. Tools like cd, mv, cp, cat, tar... Sorry if I sound harsh, but the wheel can only be invented so many times. I agree that the iPhone backup system is a huge convenience, but if you really want your backups in a "standard format" you'll use a format you are sure Apple won't change at a hunch and that you can manipulate in the same way you do your other backups.
I suspect it is more a case of Cameron being lead by people who's hearts are not in the right place, but present it in a way that appears to be, so they can then reap the rewards of those 'unintended consequences' later.
Can someone explain those charts?
From the article
"I’ve come to believe that the problem with reading on a screen isn’t the backlight"

How cute and scientific. I'm trashing my kindle right now.
"you wouldn't afford me anyway"

Yes, and included in this price is the Sales person doing a sales pitch in site, the mountains of reports and price proposals, the hours of conference calls, the kickbacks to whoever makes the decisions and a nice margin so that the price can be negotiated

And unless you're doing something really, really hard you're overpriced anyway
Better just not to travel with your hardware, or if you have to, travel with something throwaway like a netbook without lots of personal data on it.

Otherwise you risk having all your hardware confiscated by border guards and returned months later. Your plan above won't work if they confiscate your hardware as you'll have nothing to download onto.
It's not the role, it's the organization that's the problem. There's an excellent thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7001929

It's more than just about vacation. It's about having a good work/life balance, something that's oddly missing in a lot of American companies. My current work/life balance is excellent (I'm Dutch, BTW): I work 4 days a week as a dev/marketing guy, I get to work from home when I want to and nobody bats an eye if I take 25 days paid time off a year.

The main thing in my opninion: be crystal clear when you're appplying for a job that you value your free time. Motivation does not equal time spent at the jobsite.

There are several companies that have a 4-day work week, Treehouse for example. Other companies like 37signals also propagate a healthy work/life balance.
Oh boy, so I started using Python first. I took "reflection everywhere" for granted so hard without even knowing it. I learned Clojure next, and while it had its rough points I never thought, "Man this is really hard!"

Then, I learned some Scala & Java. That's when I realized how for granted I took this thing called "reflection". Especially when it came to ORMs. Holy mackerel. I got over it but it is definitely a huge thing -- for better and worse -- that is so easy in Python that really spoils beginners.
Filters are not effectively applied by the majority of parents who feel unmatched to the task of implementing safe/clean internet for their children.

These parents want more help doing so, they don't want to have to learn more/new technology. That is the perceived issue this was designed to resolve.

You may think it's an abomination, many think that children being able to access any manner of pornography by default is more abominable. And if, as I interpret what you say, you believe that children are better off having access to everything online in order to feel trusted and respected? Well I disagree pretty damned strongly. That's ok, but there isn't really a middle ground.
>I genuinely don't understand how some companies voluntarily providing filters to their customers, that those customers can chose to use or not to use, can possibly be censorship.

1) That the companies provide it "voluntarily" doesn't matter at all.

For one, the government asked them to do it (and they want to have good relations with the government, it's good for business).

Second, the government threatened them that if it's not satisfied with their "voluntary" progress, it will make it into law.

Third, even if a single company, totally voluntarily, filters content, it's still censorship. Censorship is not just about totally blocking access to content: it's also about intimidating people that want to see certain content, which is what the need to go on record and opt-in does.

And that's just for the head of a household. Do you think their spouses or kids will have much say about if they want to opt-in or not themselves?

>It's fucking insulting to people living with real censorship.

Let's not pull the "there are people having it worse" defense. Shouldn't, say, blacks protest in the USA in the sixties because other blacks had it much tougher in South Africa?

What would actually be insulting to people living with real censorship (if they cared about us in the first place, which they don't much) is that we are ready to accept any form of censorship ourselves willingly.
I'm not aware of any flags of C compilers that would "fix potential cache-slot-collisions" for you automatically, neither of any allocators. Intel processors have some profiling registers that can point you to this kind of problems, but typically you first have to know what you want to profile.

Compilers are actually built to align the structures you write as there are a lot of processors which have significantly slower access to the misaligned values. Allocators also have to return you aligned addresses for each "malloc." The newest Intel iX processors are actually an exception in being able to amortize misaligned accesses.

I've actually used hand-made unaligned "string" stores. As soon as you allocate some bigger memory block and store the character sequences of the variable size one after another, their starts won't be aligned unless you want that. For doubles and other fixed-size values it's still better to keep them aligned.

Moreover I wasn't able to extract some value out of the article. Something constructed can be constructed to be slow or fast, fine. But I don't see anything that would inspire me to improve my real code. Maybe somebody who reads the article manages to produce such examples?
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"Whatever" can include your personal server. And you can store a truecrypt drive, no need to put your datas uncrypted.
Reminds me of this recent editorial (which is hopefully not paywalled) in the Wall Street Journal about "the Good Intentions Paving Co": http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230402070...
Programs are powerful because of concepts. Whether or not you will be able to build a good 3d engine rests much more on the fact whether you know or able to invent a concept of a vector and have it guide all your future coding than it rests on whatever is visible from a block diagram. Both the course and the book linked to seem to focus on some abstract ideas of doubtful usefulness and never ever seem to touch upon those important things that historically have allowed us to build complex programs where other approaches have failed. Google can exist not because people invented new kinds of diagrams, but because large scale numerical linear algebra techniques were applied to the problem of search. This is the heart of Google's "architecture", not a class diagram of the crawler.

Picking arbitrary programs won't do. The point is to pick the really good designs and illustrate why they are good, and I think it boils down much more to knowing mathematics, algorithms, programming languages and having studied a lot of existing software, than to usage of any modelling techniques so far invented in formal software engineering circles.
The British are sitting ducks. The only recourse we have is writing to our MPs, which is as good as useless.
I must submit a third vote for Susan Cain's Quiet[1]. This book is a great revisitation (and arguably a more diplomatic treatment) of the topic of Anneli Rufus' 2003 book Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto[2]: introversion, lonerism, individualism, etc. While the latter - as its subtitle intimates - is far more geared toward introverts/loners, Cain's book is effectively an overview and comparison of both the inward as well as outgoing personality types.

For those who do not label themselves as loners or introverts I would recommend reading Quiet and perhaps skipping Party of One altogether. However, for the loner/introvert I would recommend Party of One as the prerequisite to Quiet.

[1] http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/about-the-book/

[2] http://www.annelirufus.com/partyofone/
The Mumsnet founders had to backtrack, and come out against the filter after an uproar from their users, who were widely again the filter.

So unless you mean the Mumsnet founders is Cameron's desired demographic, then no, you didn't fix it.
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With the recent history of topics here about the NSA having back doors into providers of services how is uploading your data where you suggest actually going to protect you?

If anything, I would go to the point of screwing with border agents by having tens of thousands of pictures of my dogs, kids, flowers, and whatnot, all with naming similar to PICnnnnn or whatever is the current default of most digital cameras. Having them given the wrong doc type would be a nice touch too.

Of course why not store your data on a SD card and just pop it somewhere they are not bound to look?
Are these formal ICANN rule-changes, or just how iwantmyname is choosing to enforce the verification aspect of domain ownership? Seems like what they're saying they may do is replace your domain with some lead-generation landing-page similar to what many domain registrars do upon registering a new domain prior to modifying the DNS settings.
Looks awesome. Any rails or Sinatra benchmarks ?
Please stop belittling Aaron's intelligence. I know many people on HN feel like they have to defend Aaron's life and want to find someone to blame but he's not an idiot. He knew as well as anyone that actual jailtime would be very minimal. He had lawyers and a brain (a smart one).

So claiming that he killed himself over a number that wasn't even a possibility is damaging to his image. To me it seems like a bright man got caught doing something illegal and couldn't face the music.
I'm very disappointed with UK people. They should've known better. They should've seen this coming from miles away. But they've been reprogrammed to think that surveillance, and to a degree even censorship is "okay" if it's done for "good". They should've known that censorship even for "good" always, and I mean always, leads to censorship for evil, too. It leads to politicians censoring anything they don't like. And the worst part about censorship, is that you may not even find out what has been censored, and what you weren't allowed to know.

David Cameron is nothing short of a dictator. It's just that he doesn't have all the dictatorial powers he would like yet. But he seems to be working hard to get them, and this porn filter, the charging of friends of journalists with terrorism, and other such things are only the beginning. Throw Cameron David and his party out of office, and go to the streets and demand the banning of the porn filters at the next elections. Otherwise, expect much worse to come over the next years.
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If you are a political activist, don't backup your files to Dropbox og GDrive, unless it's data you are happy to allow the government to look into. Better to host the files yourself, encrypted with a one-time-pad, for which you have the matching pad with you in a microSD card.

Then, upon reaching your destination, and knowing that no one had access to your random bits in the one-time-pad, download your documents from home, and decrypt it.

No amount of processing power by the NSA will be able to help them get your files, and the only way the bits of your documents pass through the internet, is if you can confirm that the key to decrypt the file hasn't been touched.
> These parents want more help doing so

If that was the case, why have these ISPs not previously seen a business case in offering a "family friendly" account providing this as a service?

Instead the major ISPs were strong-armed and threatened with legislation if they didn't put something together.
I'm not aware of any US-based company with an unlimited pool of sick days. Maybe I'm wrong though, would love to know.
Is it possible to encrypt two files together with two different keys? Say I have my class notes from freshman Latin and I have my plans to take over the world. I encrypt them together into a single file "dont_read_super_secret.encrypted" and if I enter "fuzzykitty98" as the key then I see only the notes. But if I enter "downwithfreedom2000" then I see only the diabolical plans. Is that possible?

If anyone builds this app, I'd like a slice of the pie, please :-)
DayZ, on the other hand, does almost nothing to teach you how the game is played, much less "won."

That's because, with the internet, you can easily look up tons of information on how to play the game as well as getting tips from other players on optimal strategies when you start out. Games are no longer played in nearly as much of a vacuum as they used to be.

If you encounter a group of survivors that is better equipped, you are likely to die.

Unfortunately, the more common response to these situations is for the player to immediately log out and switch to a different server (your character persists across any DayZ servers). You can also do funky things like scope out a player, switch servers to place yourself in a better position to fight them and switch back to the original server.

I'm not really complaining as much as explaining the current situation that people are running into, since the game really is still fairly early in development.
The "MIT defenders" in this thread aren't trying to say MIT played no part, because they did. So did the justice system, so did the computer cabinet owner, the person responsible for locking it, his close friends to urged him to continue, etc. The problem is that people are placing BLAME on MIT. MIT is not to blame for his suicide. Aaron took a risk and got caught. Aaron is the only person to blame.
I'm really disappointed with this whole situation. The government. The parliament. The people & the media. I resent all the apologizing and explaining and the "don't attribute to malice…" excuses. I also think that it's very possible that unrelated "side effects" like surveillance and control of the internet "media" have always been an intended unstated goal.

This article is right on the right track. This is an attempt to control the discussion, the definition of normal and public morality. It's is not a response to an actual problem. It's old fashioned conservatism and paternalism.

The bottom line here is choice. Parents everywhere have easy solutions for voluntary porn filters. You can have them set up by your the people you buy your internet from or the people that sell you your computer. It's cheap or free and it's available. I do not buy the "it's too complicated" argument. This is parents responsibility and it just ins't that hard to meet that responsibility.
I am taking the second sentence as sarcasm.
I believe this is possible with something like Truecrypt.

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/plausible-deniability
oh so, we must upload custom encrypted files somewhere obscure and scrub our electronics before traveling; then download them again after we reach our destination. and then this border seizure non-sense is really a waste of time.
This cilter is aimed at people who are so bad at Internet that they cannot search for, buy, and install any of the existing parental filter software.

They don't know what a website is. While you answer is sensible (not sure who downvoted you) it's no good for the people asking for these filters.

Obviously, what has been provided is also hopeless so there os that.
We need decentralized DNS (like Namecoin) systems. Properly implemented cryptography and decentralization is the only hope for the free internet to remain free.
To answer your question: almost certainly. However, they are outwitted and therefore put-off doing so as it is near impossible due to the unfair proportion of trolls playing the game.
There's a second flat-out lie, the bit where Obama claimed his executive order would have protected Snowden.

There's also the part where Obama tells him that the "avenues available for somebody whose conscience was stirred and thought that they needed to question government actions[0]" are talking about it with his superiors. Problem with that is, as soon as Obama accepts that these government actions were in fact wrong or unlawful (and at least a couple of them very plainly are), he also has to accept that actions should be taken to address this situation. Then either Obama is very very stupid because he believes that talking to superiors about abuses of this scale would be met with anything but utter silence, or he is in fact playing dumb and lying through his teeth because he doesn't actually want any action to be taken.

[0] the belittling, condescending tone of this phrase makes me throw up a little. But that's been the US government's attitude during this whole episode "tut tut, don't you worry your pretty little heads about this". More like an elitist aristocracy.
This episode was definitely very well done. Made me think about how Tesla is subverting the traditional dealership model by opening up their own salesrooms, despite strong opposition from these dealers. I wonder who will prevail in a world where price comparisons are instantly done over the internet. The podcast even highlights the fact that profit margins have been squeezed because of this.
The OP is plotting the ratio of page-aligned vs. unaligned access time against problem size. So, on the y-axis, a value of 2 means the page-aligned access took twice as long as the unaligned access.

Took me a few moments to grok the charts too, since I haven't had my coffee yet.
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So it's like laser tag that you can easily do out in Streets and carry around?
"Or you can scrub your laptop clean, storing everything on an external hard drive that you leave at home. Then you know you are safe from prying authorities, at least at the border."

That is unless you believe that those prying authorities have the will and the way to leave an undetectable backdoor in your laptop. Breaking the chain of custody in any laptop today is akin to destruction of trust in that device. Who is responsible then for paying for this damage?
My GitHub profile got me a job interview with Google, is that "real world"?
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Not a problem at all. You lose some peak performance but barely any endurance on short fasts.

When I was getting ready for the prom I was working out, swimming and fasting for two weeks (only protein 200-400 calories). It was uncomfortable but totally manageable.

Warriors have waged whole wars depraved of adequate nutrition.
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Truecrypt supports multiple encrypted partitions, and if you've got the details to decrypt one, you still can't tell if there are any others.

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/plausible-deniability
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Hi bambax,

Not at all - I'm just trying to keep my comments balanced. By drawing attention to the insurmountable obstacles involved in achieving Cameron's stated goal, I would hope people can draw their own conclusions.

I personally think censorship is both unworkable + immoral, but I think the HN crowd can draw their own conclusions.
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And it's also taught anyone who use TPB in the UK that the first thing to do if you can't get to a site is to search for proxies. Every extra hurdle makes people better at avoiding the next one...
I'd be curious to read be your response to this - genuinely asking here (skip to 37:30)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RXvBveht0
So, if they set default to opt in to the filter, can we end the conversation?
It's almost certainly just them. You'll note that you haven't heard of any of the other registars talking about this.
Of course this is possible.

You can even take it a step further: full disk encryption, one key will give an innocent Windows install, and another key will give the diabolical plans.

However, information is only compressible to the extent of redundancy involved, so this can be spotted: compare the amount of encrypted data with the size of the innocent data.
> like some of those American Indian tribes that tried and failed to build corn-based civilisations in pre-Columbian times

Do you imply that corn had negative effect on Indians? From what I've read [1] it actually allowed Indians to maintain their population levels without having irrigation technology comparable to one developed in middle East and Europe.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technology-world-civilization
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> it's no good for the people asking for these filters.

Are anyone asking for these filters? If there was a lot of demand for them, you'd think the ISPs would have long ago offered equivalent filters as a service.
HGH? Human Growth Hormone? Just curious, what benefit does this provide?
I've spoken to Timo and the others on the team at iwantmyname before and they're all pretty laid back so I can't imagine them doing this unless they really had to.

Edit. This seems to be a more legal-like explanation of the relevant rules from a registrar called enom.
http://www.comprotex.com/icann.html
My biggest complaint with tmo was their lack of international calling once I drive north into Canada or hop the Atlantic. Now, at least they offer inexpensive calling and texting in Canada, and I'm looking forward to testing the service on our next Canada trip this summer.

Coverage isn't as thorough as the majors, but everything else about tmo is good: easy policy about bringing your own device, tethering, promoting Nexus, responsive customer service (in my experience, and top rated by Consumer Reports, year after year).

I'm intrigued by the lifetime data tablet offer; sounds too good to be true. Amazon revoked their lifetime data for Kindle, so I'm wondering whether tmo can be relied upon for an entire lifetime.

The CNET article mentions the idea of buying out customers of competitors. Now that's disruptive. It's a bit ironic that people are loathe to pay $200 to break a contract, yet spend $2 a day, 250 days a year, for coffee. Anyway, brilliant idea because they'll make back the buyout costs over time, and there are more than a few customers who'd love to stick it to ATT and Verizon.
"During their inspection of your laptop, the authorities will disregard files that are not germane to their investigation, says Rosenzweig, explaining that the official policy is to 'flush all non-criminal data'."

How exactly do they tell the difference, what if I use steganography to hide stuff in my family pictures? They won't flush anything, they will keep everything in case it's relevant.
It's only them, the upline we use hasn't said a word to us about it. I just asked support and he seemed shocked I would even ask ha ha.