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You're assuming he is even American. Not everybody can move to California.

Also, 'liking' 1.5 million isn't the way to go about raising funds. you need to know what the money is for and how it will be used. I suspect anybody who went to an angel/vc and said '1.5 million will do as an arbitrary amount' would get laughed out of the room.
This is very true, but to be a good engineering manager, it's hard to fit all the other things in: Representing the team in dreaded meetings, coaching, hiring, fire, career advice, direction, etc.

It is a very fine line to balance. 0-10% is too little. After 50%, you're no longer a manager.
Sure! By all means advertise to the world that you're about to make a trade. The HFT folks will love that.
What’s your current pain in dealing with financial projections? What kind of help could benefit you from a finance controller expert remotely? Would you be willing to share finance/spreadsheet knowledge with some coding mentoring?
Ok, but the guy takes antibiotics, and the pain goes away. Seems pretty clear-cut, no? How long should he wait in pain?

I get sinus infections like that. They drag on for weeks at a time, I take some antibiotics, and bang, better in a day or two. Those weeks when I'm miserable have costs in terms of not being able to work as much, not being as much help around the house, not going out/seen friends, and generally getting less done.

Naturally, here in Italy I can pretty much see a doctor any day of the week, so of course I get them prescribed.
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thanks very much. am i right in that the main reason for this is that forking is undesired? how is that helpful to an open system?
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Certainly the duration and density of secondhand smoke matters, but I doubt that any amount of it is good. I can go dig up the research if you really care.

To your particular example of being in a restaurant, the increasingly-popular ban on smoking in bars and restaurants was largely driven by the negative health effects on the staff. Though again, I believe the effects on other patrons were non-zero.

>>This is a problem with public healthcare, not smoking.
We're agreed there. But getting rid of the public healthcare doesn't seem to be a realistic option at this point.
"Weeeeeeeeee!"

The sound of Dell, Intel and other hardware tech stocks of US firms plummeting over the next 12 months as they realise they can now only sell domestically as nobody else in the World trusts them any more.

Tens of thousands of jobs lost here. And of course, they'll blame it on Snowden. It was classified in part because tens of thousands of jobs relied on it.

But you have to wonder if there isn't just a little bit of an air of the two-faced about this...
I wish the article would have stated what encryption he used for his data. Apparently not even GCHQ could crack (or so they say...).
yes but i wanted to keep the language natural. and if you naturally want to address dropbox on twitter, then you "@dropbox" them, and not "DM @ctrltwit do something with dropbox".

moreover i realized best usecases are replies to tweets (like liking an instagram photo, subscribing to a youtube channel, saving to pocket), and those wouldn't have been possible with DMs
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> "... there is no history of genuine mutual trust and support."

Trust is supposed to work both ways. Before dismissing countries such as these it's worth looking at the history of relations from both sides.
I tried to find where in the article it says anything that might back up "already been convicted of being part of a terrorist cell". The closest I found is where it says: "already in jail for being part of a cell that considered attacking a Territorial Army base in the town.". This sounds a bit like a thought crime to a laymen like me and the verbiage flags my weasel alarm. Also, could you clarify where you're getting the term "nation's infrastructure" because all I saw was: "discussing attacking the town's TA headquarters". If we accuse everyone who's pissed off at the town council / home association and starts talking about blowing them up of terrorism, then we'll need a much bigger prison system.
I doubt there are many UK lawyers specialising in this niche area of law stalking the HN forums right now. But you never know :)

I wonder if a big part of the reason for his jailing is that he actually did give them the password in the end - making it less likely that he had forgotten it, and that he was deliberately trying to pervert the course of justice.

Of course, it doesn't help that he did seem to have plenty to hide, and he wasn't in a great position anyway.
>>> and has used the technology to monitor units of the Chinese and Russian armies, drug cartels

And how is that going for the Drug Cartels? Doesn't seem to have an effect on them, considering they continue to operate with imprudence.
He chose his passwords well it seemed: $ur4ht4ub4h8 It's not entirely impossible to forget that is it? How are you tp prove you did in fact not forget it?
I guess this makes open city WiFi networks much more compelling. In most urban areas, how often are people not within range of a WiFi network?
There are two problems with that:

If someone is accused of terrorism (however flimsy the accusation), that's now enough to damn them in your eyes and strip them of their civil rights, that's quite dangerous and open to abuse.

You can now be jailed for withholding a password, without evidence that any crime was committed.
More, but not really because of who has what number of dollars. Honestly, I've been interested in them for a while, but the acquisition news made me interested enough to stop and play with one. They're pretty damn awesome pieces of hardware!
At least in the United States, this year's trivalent vaccine includes a strain of H1N1.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2013-2014.htm...
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>Kids don't magically decide that math or science or computer programming is fun

Yeah, they do. That's why it is so important to expose kids to lots of things. You never know what is going to capture their imagination.
Well it's rather inevitable that the first times this happens, the state is going to choose unsympathetic targets.

I am still bothered that I can be sent to jail for being unable to supply a password, even though I don't know or care much about Syed Hussain.
Interestingly, one value that fits in that blank is "your head."
In Australia, even if you have forgotten it, they'll just jail you for contempt anyway.
Your points are right on, and I think as technology gets better, civilian deaths do decrease. However what happens is we start to cringe at the effectiveness of a cruise missile or drone attack forgetting that the alternative is bloodier, more dangerous and arguably a lot less effective.

How do we balance our tolerance for casualties with our tolerance of more and more effective weapons?

My point was not to say that drone strikes were wrong or right, only that the technology shouldn't be on trial, the intelligence, effectiveness and purpose should be.

I'm sure when airplanes and modern firearms took over the battlefield many thought they were "unfair" and dehumanized the process or war. And I don't doubt that in the future we'll be equally scared of newer more effective weapons.
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Actually it is easy - to know how. Its just hard to have the discipline to do it. Save 10% of what you earn for 20 years. There you go, not rocket science.

So what's the gripe? Sounds like sour grapes.
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TLS has its issues and has some fairly sohpisticated attacks against it, sure,, but simple ciphersuite MITM is not one of them as co-posters have explained.
Except he eventually gave them the password, which means he didn't just 'innocently' forget his password. However, it looks like he was trying to cover up for fraud rather than terrorism, so maybe he decided that guilty fraudster was better than suspected terrorist.
I suspect the point here is more what if you had such a device and really couldn't remember the password. Most people would give slightly more of a fuck going to jail for 4 months for forgetting a password.

That said, if those GCHQ bums can't hack it, put the filesystem raw online and offer 50p and a jar of pickled onions to break it, we like a challenge.
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Ask how he could make himself more valuable to the company. Or look for a new job with 15% higher salary of course :)
We should always care about the breaches of freedoms we consider important, no matter who they are committed against or why.
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You can also post something on reddit/r/<yourcity> if it's a large city. They can probably help you with other local resources for you to look into.
Agreed. The guy isn't a sympathetic figure, but this is a horrible policy nonetheless. This is one of those thought crimes to me.
I think the pertinent question now is whether the FCC rewrites its rules to classify ISPs as common carriers. It seems to me, given the local monopoly or duopoly that the vast majority of ISPs enjoy, that this is an obvious move. But I have heard it barely discussed, which is distressing.
All good points. Sharing models without emailing spreadsheets around (now you have your version and I have mine) has probably been the best thing I've gotten out of it so far.

I've already had a few people email me links to their model with questions about implementation. Since posting on HN there have been more than 2,000 models created. If someone finds a serious bug in a formula or better yet, a new feature is added then they all get the benefit. There's not very clear path(s) to upgrading an Excel workbook.

And my straw man argument: I could make a case for building a lot of stuff in Excel that currently exist as successful hosted applications. Lowering the barrier to entry is one way to differentiate.
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You should care.

If you genuinely forget the password for any data you encrypt, you are now (by precedent) committing a jailable offence.

This may extend to holding random data. Since ideal encrypted data is indistinguishable from random: prove that you are not withholding the password. Good luck.
A bit creepy? More like damn creepy.

If Google stopped operations right now, we would still need a decade to catch up with their current technologies, and they leave behind a massive patent minefield that won't help the situation.

The speed at which they push forward comes at a high price in my opinion. Their dominance and the fact a lot of end users as well as companies are basically fully dependent on them scares me.

Right now there are few (worthwhile) alternatives to their products and god knows what this will be like in 2020 if everyone keeps ignoring that.
It's not impossible that he truly did forget the password for a period of time, especially at the beginning while he was still under a great deal of stress.
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Just to note, TA is the territorial army, a fully trained reserve branch of the military, so probably reasonable to count as part of the national infrastructure/defence.

I do agree that "considering attacking" does sound slightly weasely and like a thought-crime; hopefully they were seriously considering it.
I believe you have the right idea. To isolate audio/message encryption in one box, stream it via IP to cellular (LTE/4G/etc) towers in another box. Then, the customer puts those two boxes into one box.

It could basically be done today with an Android PDA running VoiP app only, connected over wifi to a cellular hotspot in one's pocket. The next evolution would be to replace the wifi with a wired network.
In my country(NOT UK) one is considered innocent unless proven guilty.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to compare units, and the whole example is a bit contrived tbh. The point was simply that in the metric system, when converting between units, all you need to do is move the decimal point, no math required.

This doesn't mean metric is more accurate over imperial, it just means that on a day-to-day, conversion is easier. Also, you can work out the relationship of units simply by their name.

deci = tenth, so decimeters means there is ten of them in one meter. deciliters means ten in one liter. so on and so forth.
centi = hundred...
milli = thousand...

etc.
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This guy had been arrested as part of internal terrorism investigations, i.e. the stick was handled by GCHQ. I bet that they can spot a TrueCrypt or similar scheme in a heartbeat (if anything because it's been a refrain in most pseudo-security fora ever since this law was passed). So no, I don't think it would have helped. That sort of deniability is only good for lighter situations.
Gathering intelligence and taking action based on that info are two vastly different things each with their own pros and cons.

Sure the US could take military or covert action against the drug cartels, but then where would American and other customers get their drugs? Who would then supply them? Sounds like a recipe for a new turf war (simply replace the existing cartels with newer, and possibly more ruthless groups) I'm not saying the US is allowing this, just that dismantling the cartels may bring a whole host of unwanted side effects.
Before I had health insurance/well-paying job, buying fishmox was the standby plan if I needed antibiotics. It occurs to me now that, even though I haven't taken many antibiotics in my life, it wouldn't matter - the bugs I would catch would be from other people and would have built up resistances to whatever I took.

Unfortunately, I told my mom about fishmox a long time ago (during same salad days) and now I sort of wish I hadn't. It's her standby plan and I'm not likely to be able to convince her otherwise.
TA is the UK Territorial Army, approximately equivalent to the US Reserve Forces or National Guard.

The group were convicted of discussing the idea of driving a bomb under the base's gate attached to a remote controlled car [1]. They didn't actually do it. They also discussed obtaining weapons, but didn't do that either. They did arrange to attend terrorist training camps in Pakistan, but its not clear from the news reports whether they actually travelled there.

EDIT: According to [2] one of the group did go abroad for training.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22178105

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/18/four-jailed-toy-ca...
"That's Tron. He fights for the Users." :)
Cool, let's bomb their women and children, blow up their weddings and funerals, and then let's hack their computers because they don't "trust" us.
It would be worth asking your neighbors, but honestly, I would just come to terms with it. I had a motorcycle stolen a couple years ago and never heard anything back. These people are able to do this shit because they're good at it and generally do it in a "safe" (for them) way.

You could try to set up a bait bike and hope they're greedy/stupid enough to do it again.

Also, sorry for your luck.
> monitor units of the Chinese and Russian armies

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cryMVK1PwuQ
Still unsafe because I'll reveal it if they (e.g., NSA, CIA) torture me, threaten to kill my family etc.
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It sounds like some other people in the terrorism case pleaded guilt, and there are even details of the planned attack. Technically a thought crime, but the kind of thought crime you want to stop becoming a 'reality' crime.
open source drivers don't have full 3d support yet.

Also, you can change your power profiles and specify a few custom configs.

But typically open source drivers are still not as good as proprietary regarding 3d support.
"You can hand them Inform 7 and it'll still end up looking like Fortran ate the csh manual and vomited all over an APL keyboard."

You have made my day.
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'The World of the Matrix' involves a lot more than artificial wombs.

Regardless, it is nice that one day, hopefully soon, men will be able to start their own (biological) families - just as women are able today.
>> In TLS 1.0 and 1.1, the Finished message is protected by HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA1. (RFC 2246, sections 5 and 7.4.9.) (By the way, while there are attacks against MD5 and SHA-1, there are no known attacks against HMAC-MD5 or HMAC-SHA1. Don't freak out.)

Yeah, been reading up on HMAC lately. I had to implement a MAC algorithm due to a weird failing by an embedded platform vendor. HMAC(sha256) was it, until at the last minute we switched out for iso9797 algorithm 3, pad 3* because a second vendor we have to work with couldn't support 32 byte keys. It's always a bit sad to write beautiful code and then discard it again within days...

(*why yes, it is a retail application)
When you are asked what date it is, do you think hardest about the month or the day? For most people it's the day, so it makes sense for it to come first.
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Yes, herring is the honey bee of the seas. That's why they are so useful when building a bridge.
It would be a bit crazy to use incriminating information as your innocuous message after going through all the trouble of using plausible deniability though?
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Regarding the planned attack on the TA base, he plead guilty to that: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22156243

EDIT: Though as the defence counsel for one of the four pointed out, they remained free for another 7 months after the alleged plans, so it's questionable how likely they were to have been carried out.
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He gave them the password after he had been jail 4 mounths for not remembering, if i got the article correct.
You could use this, to launch a remote browser or something, saw it in this article a while ago: http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/docker-desktop-your-desktop-ov...
Enterpreneur: I plan to launch an encyclopedia that people can edit, and it's better than Wikipedia

VC: Well, since Wikimedia Foundation has already convinces telcos to provide their data for free (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mobile_partnerships), we are passing.

Now wait a goddamn minute. This doesn't make any sense. The alternative is even worse: no free access to Wikipedia. Is this what you're arguing for?
Google is currently burning R&D cash at some $10 billion+ a year. This money goes towards developing things like smart glasses, self-driving cars, etc. Calling these niche products or flippantly discounting them as 20% activities misses the whole notion that Google has been diversifying, for a very large price tag, for as long as they've been Google. There is nothing at all new in this, doubly so given the much larger purchase of Motorola (which the article flippantly writes off as a panic purchase for patents. I said Motorola had 10x the revenue of Nest, when actually it has about ~28x the revenue).

Have people not seen the mainstream Nexus 7 commercials? Chromebooks are being pitched to every-person.

There are too many write ups like this that want to take a complex and shifting reality, melt it down, and then make clear delineations and pivot points. The world doesn't work like that.
I have self-medicated with antibiotics in the past, when circumstances warranted. It is indeed an access problem (at least for me), but not caused by the cost (I have good healthcare insurance). Rather, it's caused primarily by the delay before one can see the doctor. And all evidence suggests that the results of the USA's current healthcare initiatives will exacerbate this waiting problem, and therefore also the self-medication issue as well.

I also think it's a pretty good idea to carry emergency medication when traveling abroad. You won't know where medical care will be available, and indeed how to avail yourself of that care. Having a Z-pack and a couple of other things handy can save a lot of trouble. This has been a big boon to me more than once in the past. One one occasion the wife got a UTI, which is easily treatable with the right meds. On another occasion I helped out a fellow traveler, a doctor as it happens, by giving him an Ace bandage for a sprained ankle.

I actually have some fish meds stored in case of emergency, but have never been desperate enough to use them. The extra stuff I have on hand I acquired while traveling abroad, in countries that have looser restrictions on pharmaceuticals (this used to be Mexico, but they recently tightened up their laws).
Is it still terrorism if you attack the military, rather than civilians?
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also, prepare for cotton mouth. it's really hard to talk when your mouth is completely dry.
Buy a new bike.
You must have missed this part of the story:

"He was already in jail for being part of a cell that considered attacking a Territorial Army base in the town."

or this part of the story:

"Hussain and three other men were jailed in 2012 after admitting discussing attacking the town's TA headquarters by placing a homemade bomb on to a remote controlled toy car."

Not exactly a flimsy accusation. They had ample reason to believe the USB stick may contain additional plans for other attacks. Without knowing if there were others involved, I'd say they were right justified in what they did.
In many cases I'd like it to be.
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There is long-established precedent for compelling the provision of testimony and/or physical evidence within our legal system. Do people seriously think that USB sticks have some special privilege?
It looks like he refused to reveal the password because he knew it would have incriminated him for something unrelated to the original case. Once they got wind of his other activities, he realised the gig was up and disclosed the password.

From a legal perspective, this is a troubling side-effect of a poorly-crafted law. His lawyer should have had the power to negotiate immunity from prosecution for unrelated charges that might have spurred from disclosure during the original process.
A really determined person could probably do almost all of those at home if they really wanted to, with the exception of the sensitivity test and PCR. A makeshift incubator wouldn't be that hard to fashion, TSA plates are cheap, gram stain kits are relatively cheap, and you can do a catalase test with hydrogen peroxide. I guess you'd need a decent microscope, but the hypothetical person that's gram staining their own cultures at home surely has one, right?

So the MRSA diagnosis is hard to swallow, but getting to staph aureus might be doable.
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Well at least Adobe is consistent. The Flash Installer is awful on OS X as well. For example, say you've disabled the translucent menu bar - you'll notice it's drawn translucent when the Flash Installer is the foreground app. (Nevermind the fact that the installer is a just an annoying wrapper around the OS X installer that seems to do nothing more than force you to quit your open browsers before it will continue. With some digging you can actually find where it's downloaded the real installer pkg, double-click that pkg to install it, then quit the wrapper.)
As long as we are appealing to emotion here, let's not forget that Saudis composed nearly 80% of the 9/11 hijackers that killed our women and children and blew up our workplaces.

Saudi Arabia has done little to engender trust.