skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most drives encrypted with TrueCrypt don't have a hidden volume, and there's no way of directly determining that a hidden volume exists.

If the normal encrypted volume looked particularly empty or unused, and the police knew the suspect used the drive regularly, they might be able to make a good case that a hidden drive must exist. But it's very dependent on the circumstances.
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The UK legal system can be characteristically illiberal in many ways. This is one of them, yes.
Firstly they would be pilloried for having a "proprietary" browser and being "anti-standards".

More importantly, IE can't run on your Firefox OS phone or your ChromeOS chromebook or your iOS tablet. 'Deflecting' to IE would mean buying entirely new hardware (and in the case of phones, probably a new multi-year contract). That isn't an accident. The best way to ensure your browser remains relevant (i.e. you retain veto power over any new standards) is to create OSs that can only run a single browser. You then have millions of users that are locked into your browser to use as bargaining chips.

A world where all user-facing software has to target a single standard gives vast power to the owners of that standard. Very few people seem to be considering this problem. No matter how benevolent you think Google or Mozilla are today, it is madness to place so much trust in them. Their interests do not align with yours, and there are very few checks or balances to the system: end users or independent developers have basically zero say in the web standards process.
This article is a flat out copy paste of the original New York Times article.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/magazine/the-artificial-wo...

edit: An article from 1996, I might add.
The entire post seems to be a copy of the source from NYT in 1996. I wonder what advances have been done in this field from that date to now? Not much on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_uterus)
I can hardly think of a situation where a centigrade is not granular enough. The example GP gives with the air conditioner is IMHO a huge stretch - a 1 deg Celsius difference is pretty negligible. Disclaimer: Fahrenheit is the most annoying and nonsensical of imperial measurement scales to me, so I am biased against it.
You did not. He was in jail because he admitted to planning a bomb attack. He was not charged for failing to provide the password until he later made it clear that he either lied when he said he forgot or remembered later and failed to comply at the point when he remembered.
Indeed, I’m reminded of a great Season 2 episode of the West Wing, and though fictional, points out that to go up against and wipe our a drug cartel in the jungles of Colombia would require a 10 to 1 troop ratio to secure victory. Many of these narcoarmies have over 20,000 soldiers, so we’re talking quite a large expeditionary force. Certainly something to think about.

Not to mention it would be a jungle war and likely resemble insurgencies. And as you note, someone will fill that void.
In America, wouldn't the 5th ammendant protect you in this case?
When I ran my own company as technical co-founder. I wrote POC's to demonstrate something was possible or what I wanted to habe built. I had no issue in throwing away all this code.

I didn't write production code. I fixed bugs or refactored...
Learn to lock it up better and get a new one.
I'm not sure why this article has been published in 2013; it seems to stem from the late 1990s, with it's speculation on the widespread use of technology 'by 2000':

"I wouldn’t want to push back the gestational age limit,” Shaffer says. ”I want to eliminate the damage.” He says he believes that this technology may become the standard. By the year 2000, these techniques may be available in large centers"

Picking one of the researchers named in the project (Yoshinori Kuwabara) suggests that the article originates somewhere between 1997 and 2000.

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/olc_linkedcontent/bioethic...

- describes his artificial womb technology from 1997
- published in 2000 but indicates that the researcher has died
Agree this goes against the Snowden trend. Probably not him.

But since they're claiming to hack the Chinese, Russians, Saudis, and Pakistanis, this very well could be an "authorized leak" to counter the Snowden leaks. Like, the NSA actually does go after their enemies (as well as their friends). Very few Americans would oppose to them hacking Chinese Army computers.
I feel quite stupid, but I just can't parse the following:

"At present, an ampere is defined as the amount of charge flowing per second through two infinitely long wires one metre apart"

If the wires are one metre apart, then how are they infinitely long?
Using Either in Haskell would require changing the program a little to add injections. But that exact program (modulo syntax) can be written in Typed Racket:

#lang typed/racket

(: choose : (All (A) (Listof A) -> A))
(define (choose e)
(list-ref e (random (length e))))

(define x (choose (list 1 "foo")))

Unfortunately, people tend to assume that "type systems" and "the type system in Java/ML/Haskell" have the same level of expressiveness.
But it's much easier and quicker to simply weigh your ingredients on a digital scale. Step into a professional kitchen and you'll never see anyone using measuring spoons or cups...

Not to mention, having everything in metric and by weight allows you to easily figure out ratios of ingredients, making scaling recipes much easier and quicker.
Atlas Wearables does activity detection from movement sensors
That seems like something that you could easily get someone else to finish as a portfolio project and split the profits(?) on. Hell, a few years ago I would have felt LUCKY if you asked me to help with it. It would seem silly to not pursue it a little further.
> Plus it is easy to wander around or pretend to exit on the next stop in case the situation gets too awkward.

Again, I'm sorry, but I really think this is a bad idea. You're talking about making somebody to get up and move seats or cars to avoid you?

> chances are super small to meet these people again.

Except not if it's a commuter train. If you ride the same train at the same time, you're likely to see mostly the same people going to and from work.
I am with you. Nice job NSA. In fact, this "technology" doesn't really surprise me at all. If an article came out that said, "NSA can't hack a computer unless it is connected to their own private LAN," then I would be pretty disappointed in my tax dollars at work :)
Syrian Electronic Army has its *own* website hacked
He was convicted, not merely accused.
Can you say unibrow?
that line is there just to convince you. Anyway the law either applies to everyone or no one, independently of other things other way they will find a way to convict you just to get what they want.
On the 486, that chip was actually a full blown CPU there was no 487 co-processor. Instead, Intel sold a full 486DX chip labeled as 486 that disabled and replaced the already mounted 486SX. (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_unit#Add-on_FPU...)
it has been an criminal offence to with hold a password (when the court has requested otherwise) since the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.

http://www.legislation.gov.UK/ukpga/2000/23/section/49

note that forgetting the password is supposed to be a valid defence!
In what country can an accused not be compelled to furnish physical evidence?
That's the least troubling side of this law. The most troubling thing is that you can now be thrown in prison on no more evidence than the presence of a blob of random data on your computer that the police can just claim is encrypted data that you're refusing to give up.
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but working out before something like a speech where you can be nervous and have an elevated body temp is a bad idea because you will be much more prone to sweating. i've experienced this and it is terrible.
Bet on punctuated equilibrium. Both PNaCL and asm.js are could follies if you consider mobile games. There is no incentive for someone developing games for consoles or phones to use either of those technologies.
> Isn't this what they're supposed to be doing? I don't really have a problem with intelligence gathering against non-allied nation state actors.

Shouldn't you have a problem with them getting caught then?

I don't understand this defense of the NSA, no, its not what they are supposed to be doing. At least not anymore.

If you are in favor of the US bullying and spying everyone they don't consider an ally then you should be outraged they can't do it efectively. They got outed by a lone contractor and your "potential enemies", or however you get to call every single other country in the world to justify the spying, now have most of the technical details they need to thwart the NSA's efforts and hence make it spend lots of your taxpayer dollars in coming up with other forms of spying.
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On behalf of Andriy and the rest of the FreeBSD/ZFS community, you're welcome! :)
Why 'Follow Your Passion' Is Bad Advice
It really annoys me with articles like this when the chronology is unclear. If we was given 4 extra months after he gave them the password, then that's quite different than if he was given 4 extra months before.
Mozilla is an OS vendor.
Yes, in most definitions or terrorism, the key part is (trying) to create terror to further your goals. It doesn't really matter whom you'd attack, be they civilians, structures, organisations, armed forces, or whatever. The difference between terrorists and freedom fighters and (national) armies becomes blurred fast, though.
great idea! Can't wait to have a look at the code, thanks
The way I see this is that it is pretty much business as usual. I think that anyone who sincerely believes that capable states do not employ similar tactics within their spy apparatus is engaging in self delusion.

States have historically spied on each other (allies and enemies). I can understand the sensationalist aspect of this as 'news', but IMHO there is nothing new here; move on.

Perhaps, someone here with a much better command of history than I do could help out with the latest time in history where the relevant technologies of the day were not key parts of nation states' intelligence gathering systems.
If your parents were reading a VC blog, they'd get it.
Anecdotal evidence, but here goes. We sell software to countries worldwide - just recently we've had new customers state that they will not buy from us if we're hosting things on Amazon EC2 (which we do). They're insisting we distribute our software in such a way that it can be hosted internally on their own infrastructure.
Don't equate the term "accused" with the term "convicted". They mean totally different things. We have no evidence that detritus has been convicted of any crime, so is not in the same situation as the subject of the article.

Obviously it isn't enough to say "I reckon he's a bad man, strip him of his rights", but once someone has been convicted, there are certain rights that they rightly lose (e.g. if they are given a custodial sentence, they no longer have liberty).

There may be arguments as to why this should be a right that even convicted criminals should retain, but that is a totally different argument to whether an accusation is sufficient to remove someone of their right to privacy.
There's a subtle problem.

When people you don't like are prosecuted for a thought crime, or something else you won't like good guys being prosecuted for, you don't care. Bad guys may go to hell no matter what!

When people you do like are prosecuted for technically the same thing, you might start caring, but it might be a bit late then.

A bad law is a bad law, no matter if a bad guy or a bad guy becomes its victim. The law seemingly does not care about your notion of 'good / bad guys'. It's not unlike a contagious disease hitting a bad guy. Not caring about this disease is a poor policy, even if you sincerely wish that bad guy to die. The virus is not going to discriminate.

When you protest about a bad law doing a bad thing to a bad guy, you're not doing it for the benefit of the bad guy (unless you're a saint). You're doing it for the benefit of good guys that risk to be hit with the same bad law.
True, but in this case the prosecution didn't know whether or not the drive contained anything relevant to the terrorism case.
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You don't have to testify against yourself. Giving away password is exactly this.
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Or a new technology is invented to read the human mind.
So are his grandparents going to catch a cold from the trees? If they don't have contact due to blocked roads then I think they can rule out viral infections?

Or have I forgotten something.
So now am I supposed to give my passwords for my encrypted bitcoin wallets, and all my banking access codes? And be happy and relaxed when the police tells me that they will not steal anything?
If It’s Too Good To Be True, It Probably Is
Ask HN: What are some non-obvious traits of a good coworker/team member?
I'm starting my first technical internship today. In the past, the jobs I've worked have been menial and temporary, and I haven't put that much effort into creating a long lasting presence or becoming a true team member.

I really like this company and want to be well received despite my lesser technical ability.

What are some traits or individual actions that have made you respect and value somebody as a part of your team? What are some big things to avoid as a new member of a tight-knit company?
This is also from Kuwabara (1987): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3619696

And some follow up research I think:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3054922/
WTF an experienced and "good" developer doesn't know how to do a select from a table!!

Forget get fizbuz maybe getting people to do a simple join of two tables might be a better weeding out exercise.
But I was told if we legalize weed here in the US, we'll put the cartels out of business. . .
True, but I strongly believe zxcvvcxz started his/her comment with "Not the point of the article, "...
Whether they know it or not, and they probably do, their actual business is replacing individual human decision making with the ultra-optimal decision making of the cloud.

The best metaphor is the Navigate function of Google Maps.

Not only does Google Maps know more about real-time traffic patterns than your primitive human senses can access, but it can also best crunch that real-time data into optimal route finding way better than your primitive human brain.

Extrapolate from there into all areas of human life. Not saying this extrapolation is technologically straightforward, but this is what is happening.

Google isn't the only one in this space obviously. IBM and medical decision making is another big example.

Computers can make better decisions than you can. Not yet, but soon.
I'd love to see the series updated. This would be a good opportunity for a young filmmaker because the technology has advanced so much and the issues are more relevant now than ever.
No-one is making it the standard, but it is relevant seeing that NATO and the US were the only things that guaranteed West Germany's safety from Soviet Russia.
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Jezebel is like a typical Gawker property: perpetually Internet-mad about something of little substance for the express purpose of generating more clicks.
In the US you have the right not to answer questions (yes, occasionally you don't, but in most cases you do). The police is free to take possession of everything you have, sure, but you can't be forced to answer questions about it, at least in principle. I believe this applies to other legal systems. No such luck in the UK, and not just about passwords.
It's a copy paste from the New York Times website.
I would recommend you course from NYU: http://pentest.cryptocity.net/

It covers most modern aspect of software security.
How is that more troubling than:

"you can now be thrown in prison on no more evidence than the presence of a few pieces of paper in a filing cabinet that the police can just claim is evidence that you're refusing to give up"

?
You're reading too much into my post. I'm neither advocating nor opposing the current model of who gets to prescribe antibiotics and how hard it is to see the gatekeepers (currently doctors). But I do endorse some sort of system in which there are (hopefully somewhat enlightened) gatekeepers. Plenty of miserable, painful infectious diseases are not bacterial in nature.

This is an issue that pits public health against the perceived (not actual) self interests of people who want antibiotics. Public health is not medicine, though it does guide medicine.

Also, "Fuck you doctor" is a greeting that I've never seen before. Hilarious.
What? I don't use any Google services besides Youtube, and for that there are many alternatives that are technically equivalent. I have zero issues living my day-to-day digital life.

In what way exactly are they a decade ahead?
> First of all, Columbus rediscovered America a good century before Galileo.

Well, "encountered" would probably be more accurate. Discovery -- even rediscovery -- requires recognition, and Columbus insisted he had reached the East Indies.
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Try breathing like a sleeping person does for five minutes.
just backup your data to blueray (25 GB) or use PaperBack 1.0 for a 1 or more MB per A4 depending on compression. http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/index.html
My girlfriend is already printing out the family pictures as she doesn't trust me keeping the backups of the jpegs.
Garlic, colloidal silver, MMS, etc...
Apt username given this display of judgement and hyperbole.

Please try to remember that the law is blind and is meant to both protect people who do and don't share your ideals. What if some day this law were used against somebody who shares your ideals, what then? Or are you also part of the, "if you've nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear" brigade?
> when I build things it's useful to divide in half a few times

Fahrenheit adjusted his earlier scale, changing from 30° to 32° for freezing, and 90° to 96° for body temperature, in order to simplify constructing thermometers by bisecting between the calibration points.
How infamous Unsafe should be considered is really relative to what portion of it you want to use.

If you want to use Unsafe to munge on heap objects and arrays, well yeah that is pretty unsafe because the gotchas are subtle.

If you want to use it to play with native memory and work around Java's elitist (yeah I'm a little bitter) attitude towards memory management it's pretty reasonable. It's only unsafe to the extent that you aren't going to get tools like Valgrind to help you.
Most of the drug cartels have left the jungles and are now operating back in urban areas:

http://www.vocativ.com/video/colombian-cocaine-factory/
the dude looks like a terrorist. glad they got the password
Actually, I wouldn't recommend that at all. Well, if he is interested in learning fron-end dev I wouldn't recommend that. In my opinion, the best way to learn is to build something. If you want to suggest Bootstrap or Foundation than I would suggest he tries to build another Bootstrap/Foundation. Learn grids, learn CSS psuedo elements and media queries, learn HTML5 semantic markup etc. etc.
I totally agree, all I'm saying is that the numbers aren't there yet for most software shops, especially if you consider the added costs.
Seems like a good way to ruin a subsection of international commerce to me! Good job guys! A++ Would trust again!
As someone who bakes, I loathe imperial measurements. For one, measuring by weight instead of volume is just much easier and more precise. (I'm looking at you "cups of flour.") For two, it's a lot simpler to scale recipes given in metric amounts.
This sort of thinking is natural but incorrect since cryptocurrencies are divisible to many decimal places. It's just as easy to tip BTC, but tipping .00001 Bitcoins doesn't feel the same as tipping 100 Dogecoins, even though it's just as easy and exactly the same. It's just another one of those things that matters for adoption that nerds would never consider.
Here's a story that recently came to the forefront of my internet feeds: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

It's about what happens when privately controlled interests use computers to optimize human decisions solely for business purposes. I'm not quite sure what to think of it yet.
"What is with the paranoia over Nest's data? ... Nest doesn't collect any valuable data that google doesn't already have ... Google already has your cell phone, they know where you are at all times"

In the first place, only a small minority seem to be seriously concerned about privacy at all.

However, there is no basis for assuming that that minority are giving Google their web or cell data. To the contrary, precisely the person who is prefers not to give Google his home data, is less likely to be already giving them his/her web, cell or other data.
Totally agreed; I don't doubt that anyone on HN could do this in their own apartment with the right tools. Many HNers probably have done this in bio lab back in high school or college. I'm just doubtful of the actual claim of self-diagnosis of MRSA.
Mexico isn't Columbia, and 20K poorly equipped and trained "civilian" fighters are no match for well trained, well equipped US military personal. We've heard the same arguments for years about the terrain in Afghanistan and our (I'm from the US) guys seem to do quit well even on a level playing field (see the early days after 911 when the US dropped in small groups of CIA special forces).

I loved the West Wing but feel they relied too heavily on the "Vietnam/Jungle" angle when proposing the feasibility of an actual "drug war" in Columbia. Also, the West Wing was aired before many of the US's major military actions in the middle east, which have arguably proven that the US can combat an insurgency (if they care enough to that is) and can operate in an "unconventional" manor.

I think the worries of getting sucked into another Vietnam, or getting bogged down like the Soviets in Afghanistan have been debunked. As long as the political will is there, the US military can operate successfully in almost all combat scenarios.
no prob! Things are still a little rough, but hopefully being open will accelerate the state of the platform. Any feedback is welcome.
What if he had really forgotten the password? There can not be any way of proving the opposite. Such laws should not exist.
I like Mike Janke and all, he's a nice guy. But, he has backed out of RSAC '14 yet [1]? I find it a tough sell to call yourself a privacy advocate and legitimize and fund RSA by speaking at their conference. It also doesn't help Blackphone's cause.

1. http://www.rsaconference.com/speakers/mike-janke
I think implementing "obvious intentional styling" is an AI problem. Suppose you copy a header, click in a normal paragraph, and paste. Keep styling information? Case 2: copy styled text from Keynote, and paste. Keep styling?

Maybe, the logic in a word processor should be to keep character styling, but not paragraph styling, but I think there will be many edge cases (for example, the user might be using the word processor as a document layout package)

I doubt those edge cases can be programmed away; user intervention is required. Microsoft solves that after the paste. That may be the better solution.
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Funny how there's a twitter link at the bottom.

Jokes aside, I think it's a great initiative, looking forward to see what comes out of it.