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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:TrueCrypt#RE:_TrueCrypt.2... :

Give the nature of the "archival site" (truecrypt.org redirects to truecrypt.sourceforge.net) I suspect that TrueCrypt's website may have been compromised and this is a clever attempt to hack into people's machine. I say we wait for official word other than the website before claiming it's discontinued. —f3ndot (TALK) (EMAIL) (PGP) 19:29, 28 May 2014 (UTC) Hum, don't think it was hacked somehow. First, most of the page teaches how to migrate data. Second, the only available download is a "new" version, 7.2, that only allows you to decrypt data. Installing and running it on your computer won't open any kind of network connection. It doesn't create any new files, hidden files, nor modifies your registry. And don't think there'll be a official communication other than the official website, since the authors weren't known. Don't think there'll be a way to check if anyone claiming "I'm the TC author" will be provable. I'd take the official announcement as serious. Noonnee (talk) 19:49, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Noonnee, there are many reasons to consider this suspect: (1) the URL redirects to truecrypt.sourceforge.net. (2) The SIGs provided in the new binaries do not validate. (3) The keys provided do not validate under Web of Trust. (4) The timing is bizzare since there's an initiative to audit truecrypt and this is counter to the developers' Modus Operandi. (5) No other official information anywhere else? No. This is highly suspicious. We should wait for additional sources. —f3ndot (TALK) (EMAIL) (PGP) 19:53, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Noonnee: if that's true, you might want to post a malwr.com analysis of the file to verify your claims. Additionally, more evidence would be prudent before taking the claim as serious, imo. 173.13.21.69 (talk) 19:57, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I realize that, and live in Mountain View. I've also lived on the east coast, where it's common to live in north Jersey and commute to NYC. People live where they want, and attacking a supply and demand issue by starting with the demand seems like the wrong approach.

I'm not prepared for this debate, just pointing out why I can't understand the position.
Side point: beating up a female reporter doesn't make you a mysogynist (it makes you an asshole). Wasn't sure what you meant because of your wording.

Our tolerance for entertainers seems to be much higher than for executives. And I doubt many in the tech world think of Dre as a "real" executive. He's there for marketing reasons, but doesn't have much oversight of the day-to-day and the damage he can do is limited. This perception might be wrong.
I guess the new license only applies to the release it is distributed with and this latest version removed encryption features so I doubt it will make the truecrypt project more compatible with FOSS licenses.
I respectfully submit that you missed my point. I randomly picked C++ as a language you didn't mention.

My point is that you were being condescending.

I'll be more direct: please don't be condescending.

(I really don't know how to deal with the fact that you're seriously talking about who is and who isn't qualified to work on nuclear operations based on languages they've used.)
> beating up a female reporter doesn't make you a mysogynist

I guess I used that phrase because that's how everyone framed the Gurbaksh Chahal incident. At least in my Twitter feed.
I think I address this in the article.

If an attacker gets the DB dump of your "perfectly crypted" passwords, they can still bruteforce the easy ones (or sites would not tell users to change passwords, no?) while with pepper it would be really impossible.
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Sad this is the top comment in this page. Is feminism really the most important issue for a hacker community?
In general, perhaps not, but for a specific example, iCloud storage.

At a minimum, there should be enough storage for a full backup of each device.

NZ$125/year for 50GB is, to put it mildly, somewhat subpar.
As crazy as it sounds, I think you're right and it's just the developer(s) quitting (rage-quitting?) the project. Nothing else makes sense.

The Bitlocker thing seems strange until you realize that it probably really IS the best alternative for most users. The users who are paranoid enough to not trust Bitlocker can probably look out for their own security, so it makes sense to give instructions for the rest.

None of the explanations people have came up with regarding intelligence agencies and conspiracies really hold water. If the devs were compromised, I doubt they would be given the freedom to post something like they did today. If they were under some kind of NSL or gag order, this would almost certainly violate it.
We changed the url to this from [1], which was indeed "a link to yahoo news that got it from bgr that got it from businessinsider that reported on the talk". Thanks for both the original link and brilliant description.

Submitters: HN has a strong preference in favor of original sources and also a strong preference against blogspam, or whatever you call [1]. Please do your due diligence before posting. We'll all appreciate it.

1. http://news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-yes-robots-really-jobs-1804...
Would he be "over it" if he hadn't saved for retirement? Why did they let him go? Was he not contributing at the same level as before?
...which is fine, really, because spending on consumption goods is the basis of the modern economy anyway. Giving money to the poor is one of the most effective ways to give money to the rich, and has the nice side effect of feeding a few mouths along the way.
One thing I've learned over the last 10 years in the tech world vs. the last 25 years in it, is that the mainstream (via its marketing catalyst) will override traditionally-held beliefs about the uses of technology and the words used to describe it.

Hence the public talking about "wifi" instead of "wireless ethernet connected to the internet."

The public doesn't know and doesn't respect the world as it was before the products became available which they feel express themselves.

I am/was with you in believing that high price doesn't mean "high-end," but that association has now become useless for communicating with the rest of the world.

The same can be said for the word "decimate." I've given up trying to use it properly and/or correct anyone. It's over. Also using "data" as plural. The world doesn't want a plan, it wants a dream.
> ... but would Steve Jobs have done this?

I wonder if Steve would have backed out of the deal because of the video that was posted online prior to the announcement.

Something tells me that Steve wouldn't have done the deal to begin with though.
As far as I know, its license is incompatible with other open source licenses due to an advertising clause (all derivative works have to state "based on Truecrypt" somewhere in the documentation or via use of the software). The old four clause BSD license had a similar issue.
Hi! This is Emily, the stats brains behind this. My research indicated that 80% significance was commonly used for A/B Testing (and of course any significance level >80% would be even more conservative). I definitely see your point of the advantage of a continuous test and I think for the expert being able to see the exact significance level for the test would be very useful. However, our thoughts were that the average user might not necessarily have the expertise to know what a "good enough" level of significance would be for any test. Rather than having to educate every user on what significance means and how to interpret it we decided that a "yes, significant" or "no, not significant" would be more easily interpreted by all, regardless of their statistical background. If there is demand for a more continuous approach, it certainly could easily be implemented.
<tedious_exposition>

This is a reference to a film from 1976, Logan's Run:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(film)

This reference is aimed at least a decade over the head of a thirty-year-old, which may be part of the joke.

</tedious_exposition>
Please do. Everyone I know is hiring. We're hiring.

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I'm extremely interested to see how Sourcegraph continues to define "right example" down the road. Collaborative filtering and more powerful heuristics both spring to mind as possible options.
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>The command to reboot the select set of new systems that needed to be updated was mis-typed, and instead specified all servers in the datacenter.

Substitute reboot with 'upgrade to win 7' and data center with university at get a story from a month? ago.

rm ./*.* - delete all files in current dir

rm /*.* - never do this

Can you spot the difference? A colleague did the later on our testing server. No clients were disturbed, but us devs were left working on things that can run locally (much more pleasant stuff for sure, yet the schedule suffered a lot).
I would say equal rights should be at the top of the list, yes.

Even for a special "hacker community".
Please don't stop commenting on Go. There aren't all that many mainstream (sort of...) language implementors who comment here, which makes your point of view rather unique and very interesting. I'd love to see you comment about more languages, not fewer. While I'm definitely something of a Rust fanboi, this goes for anybody with a depth of experience in actually working on a language - I love reading their thoughts about the trade-offs that their own and other languages made.
Oh come now, that's a bit ridiculous. Interiors are upgraded, accessories are upgraded, often the suspension is upped as well. Outside of that, many of the Lexus models have completely redone power trains (F line). The IS line is on a completely separate platform from whatever the equivalent vanilla toyota would be.

I would have gone with something like Ford and Lincoln, where they really are almost completely rebadged.
>As production techniques for hard drugs like cocaine and methamphetamines improve, cost of access has dropped significantly, leading to increased use of these substances in children. Technological progress is inevitable, so we might as well embrace it and accept the fact that children will be using hard drugs from now on.

Of course, that's an extreme example of the argument that has been used on HN a lot lately in favor of data collection, but it still gets the point across. Just because there's an industry push towards something doesn't mean that it's right.
> High end is all about perception as indicated by price. Technical quality means almost nil.

Sure, perfect match for Apple.
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True, but they likely intended it for all releases and I highly doubt the dev(s) are going to burn their anonymity to go after you even if they didn't.

Though I suppose that's not the best legal rationale, now is it?
> It only dawned on me as an adult how expensive that investment must have been for her at the time.

Isn't this so damn true about so many things, though? I have never contributed to a kickstarter before, but I sure as hell kicked a few hundred in here.
This has changed quite a bit. There are a strangely large number of companies (both startups and a-bit-older-than-startups) doing various large data analytics type things. Also plenty of adtech related startups.
True, but at one stage, Sony almost cornered the market for a specific pair of DJing headphones...until everyone realised they actually weren't too good, but still 'wanted to look cool'.
The whole point of the underhanded c contest is that the code looks extremely benign, and you wouldn't know that it's doing something evil by staring at it for a short time. Example: http://underhanded.xcott.com/?page_id=22

Anyway, it was a joke.

edit: But I'm not touching that binary with a 10 foot pole, thank you. There isn't even any guarantee yet that that source compiles into the given binary.
The incident was at Emory University: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2014/05/16/emory-university...
Hi! This is Emily, the stats brains behind this. I will definitely look into this and other Bayesian methods. Thanks!
There are a number of testing tools relying on this methodology. This is useful: Evan's Awesome A/B Tools (http://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/). It includes a Chi-Squared test, sample size calculator, two sample T-test, and Poisson Means test.
You're paying sales taxes in pretty much all of the US, though, though not as much(ranges from ~3% to 10%).
I agree but I think there’s a third reason. This Jimmy Iovine guy is no joke, he’s like the Johnny Ive of music and Hollywood, and the ability to work out deals with media companies is priceless.

http://www.dailydot.com/technology/apple-beats-jimmy-iovine-...
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>'In our experience, platforms with this network device will encounter this boot-time issue about 10% of the time. The mitigation for this is for an operator to simply initiate another reboot, which we performed on those afflicted nodes as soon as we identified them.'

This bit bothers me more than anything else. It's not just a die roll configuration, but a known one with an operator required to do the re-rolling.

Everything is a value judgement I guess, but knowingly leaving that one 'mitigated' would drive me insane.
Interestingly, an Infoworld review of the recent TrueCrypt audit [1] says: "One major issue was how compiling TrueCrypt from source required the use of an older Windows build environment that's noticeably out of date [...] using a shockingly old version of Microsoft Visual C++ released in 1993."

Align this with what the TC website says now: "development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP."

Could it be that the original developer is somehow unable to update the build process to work on newer OSes, or unwilling to do so? Maybe they don't trust any VC++ released after 1993, and that version is probably not going to work on Windows 7 or 8.

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/t/encryption/sloppy-secure-open-sou...
Honestly, it was the only interesting thing I could think of with regards to this news story and it's something I've pondered since the Apple/Beats rumor started. It was an honest question and I just wanted some smart replies–not the top spot.

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Unemployment is a goal for lots of people. Many people save money in order not to have to work in the future.

So the problem is about what to do with people who are unable to save money and thus need a job. The basic income idea seems to assume that those people should be assisted and given the capital they were unable to buy by themselves.

It's not much a different issue than with current unemployment and welfare programs. Only the scale is different.
I don't have a lot of experience with datacenters, and am trying to understand this sentence:

"Because there was a simultaneous reboot of every system in the datacenter, there was extremely high contention on the TFTP boot infrastructure, which like all of our infrastructure, normally has throttles in place to ensure that it cannot run away with a machine."

What does "cannot run away with a machine" mean? Why would you want to by default restrict the speed at which that system runs?
Except, before the ACA they could refuse to take you on because of "pre-existing conditions". I know several people who did not switch away from jobs they hated because they risked losing health care. And freelancers, even if they commanded high salaries, also had problems getting reasonable insurance.

I'm up-to-date as of 2011, I'm sure things have (and still are) radically changing - but the health insurance situation in the US was a horrible mess until recently - Everything worked fine until the day it didn't, and then you were possibly shut out of healthcare.
Yep, sounds like a safe bet.

Random NSA employee reading this, please don't steal my shit. Thank you
This is fantastic news. I love RubyMotion and can't wait to try it on Android. Especially want to learn how easy it will be to create wrapper objects to have a common API across platforms.
A good point there. I've noticed over the past few years a few SaaS companies offering both monthly and yearly. I think the pre-pay could be a good idea if the LTV doesn't reach 1 year with most people so by having that pre-pay of a year, you might actually increase your LTV and thus more profit. But doing it this way exclusively over month-to-month might drop your customer signup rate.

Interesting topic and I'd love to see data around this.
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overall, it seems like correct picture
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Just make sure you turn your phone off when you get home from partying. It might make Facebook updates you don't want heard or seen.
it is very easy - any googler i've met personally or what i see commuting in the morning (MV near Rengstorff) is usually a white and sometimes an Asian guy.

Similarly to Jobs's "A-people hire A-people" - top college kids doing well in CS algorithms (which would usually be white or Asian guys) would hire the same, ie. top college kids doing well in CS algorithms.
I can't think of a single headphone business that is anywhere near Beats. The headphones are crap, they used to be relabeled Monster headphones, for example. It doesn't matter. The brand is successful. Coco-Cola is just sugar water, it's the brand that makes the money. Same here. There aren't other equivalent brands they could purchase.
On a day like this, compare the entire key.
I would be absolutely shocked if there was some reason any VC++ lib would not install on any modern Windows OS.

Microsoft has many faults, but backwards compatibility is not one of them.

I doubt this would be the reason. (Also, TrueCrypt runs on OSX and Linux too, so a build environment dependent on Windows-only seems odd).
do these figures mean anything without knowing the racial and ethnic data of the entire industry?
There no "the tech world", there's just people who are, indeed, choosing what they do and do not want to fight about. If you feel so strongly about this, get people involved, get a Twitter campaign or boycott going, and just like in every other such situation, if enough people make noise then you may or may not get results. Much like open source, if you see a problem and do nothing, that's on you, not the community.

There's no inherent need for balance (like you seem to want: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7623043 ) in people exercising their free speech. If it bothers you, do something about it.
Yes, he played Geordi La Forge on ST:TNG. It's been decades but as I recall, there was even a crossover episode of RR where they went behind the scenes and showed him in costume, how the transporter effect was done and so forth. I still remember it vividly.
They got sued for pumping and dumping tech stocks. Andy Kessler's writings make both Mary Meeker and Henry Blodget sound like really shady characters. He made Meeker sound a bit thick.
Seems like those days, if they haven't received press release and a press package the only thing analyst can say is that they are puzzled.

Thankfully in a few weeks it will be time for the annual batch of rumour about the next iPhone. That has been almost a year since the last article predicting the 5in iPhone and the iWatch.
The extremely restrictive version of copyright that we have today is not necessary to get authors paid. Far, far from it.
Thanks for the reply. I guess it's a good reminder for everyone building statistical products (or even non-statistical products) that the goal is not an optimal formula, but a result that makes users comfortable.
As mentioned elsewhere, Apple Records no longer owns the rights to the name.

With Iovine involved, I think the above idea is a distinct possibility. Though it's funny how Macklemore made a song about his dislike for Iovine's attitude and hard bargains. The same could be said of Jobs for part of his life; he could be genuinely unpleasant, and drive very hard bargains.
No. And even then, you'd only be interested in the data among the top end of the industry population, i.e. people likely to be productive as Google employees.
One possibility: Apple intends to bring its quality and engineering expertise to bear on the Beats product line. They might be thinking that they can take the #1 seller and preserve that position indefinitely by decreasing the price and improving the quality. Apple's supply chain can probably result in better build quality (or a reduction in price for the current builds), and its engineering can probably bring better audio quality.

If "Beats Suck" turns into "Beats are Really Good, and Less Expensive", then they will lock up a good deal of the higher end headphone market.

There may also be some interesting exploration of what's possible with a headphone-based wearable. Plenty of room in that particular fashion accessory...much more so than in a watch.
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It looks like it uses one row per step. Excel supports finite rows, and hence this does not prove that Excel is Turing complete. A program like while(true); will eventually run out of rows and terminate.
I think they're trying to say that that machine has other duties except for TFTP and that the process is running at a priority low enough that it can be pre-empted by other processes. So if there is a lot of contention on the TFTP boot infrastructure the throttles limit the amount of work a single machine can do, which in turn can cause starvation.

The reason why is probably related to what it does besides TFTP, which under normal circumstances is probably more important than new nodes joining the network.

During a mass reboot that will bite you because then the chances of starvation will go up quite a bit as the throttles cause one machine after another to time-out and retry their boot sequence.
He was Geordi LaForge (the guy with the visor) on Star Trek: the Next Generation.