skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too would love to see a plausible deniability like Truecrypt provided. Entering a passcode unlocks the phone, but only files stored under that passcode is visible. There is no way to tell how many hidden volumes there are.

This does fall apart however. If I took an encrypted laptop or external drive somewhere and was required to unlock it, I would most likely be opening a filesystem that is out of date. During normal operation, you have to pay attention and ensure both volumes get files updated to make it appear current. For an external drive, you do this by mounting both volumes and storing your files accordingly.

On a computer, you have to be concerned about traces left within the OS itself. So you have to be really careful about cleaning up after yourself. Or, you setup two copies of your OS and occasionally boot into your "clean" one and load files onto it.

On a phone though.. the important stuff like call logs, sms messages, chat history.. that's what the authorities are after. If they know your phone is capable of "hidden volumes" and find that you have minimal/old history on your phones, they'll get suspicious. If messages or calls known to be sent to your phone don't appear, that is a pretty good indicator that you're not complying with the order.

I think the only thing that could really work is a built in "kill switch". This would be a time sensitive in-memory program that requires a periodic check-in by you to keep it from nulling out all the application data and factory reseting the phone. Essentially, this has to work with no action on your part. If it can happen without you ever touching the phone once it's in custody, that's ideal.
It's pretty heavily regulated (you won't really see any evidence of black-market bookmakers in the UK although presumably they do exist), and most bookmakers are pretty keen on "social responsibility". At least for the online bookies, there are algorithms which attempt to spot "problem" gamblers and attempt to manage them (eg by limiting how much they can deposit or bet or even by excluding them altogether) and I don't think you'll find a regulated bookie who you can end up in debt with (you need to deposit the money with them before you can bet - that's not to stop you from borrowing the money from elsewhere but there's little which the bookies can do about that).

I think the social stigma around betting is lifting a little in the UK, particularly in terms of the casual "I'm going to watch the match anyway, it'll be a bit more exciting if there's a bet riding on it as well" gambler. Celebrity endorsements probably help with that, as does sports sponsorship. I don't really know anything about professional gamblers, though.

I don't think anyone here in the UK thinks that the UK in general is mad about betting, but I could be wrong.

This is all entirely my own opinion...
Sign languages emerge when deaf kids (who aren't receiving other signed input) are together. To get the equivalent with spoken language, you'd have to put a bunch of (hearing) kids together on a desert island with no adult supervision. Deeply unethical, but that hasn't prevented people from proposing it.
Obligatory mention: http://russianroulette.sh

As a warning, it actually is dangerous to run, but it conveys the point succinctly.
Yeah, I'd easily pay $99 per year (or whatever) for some iCloud premium features, streaming music, iWork and (to lesser extent), Match.
He doesn't seem to get that his less crypto version = no effective crypto. It is a false choice.

Also, it is a bit late to suddenly notice the existence of this stuff. To suddenly want to rewrite the US constitution because iphones change how their key gets stored seems a little bit mental.
>That's the current-day Remote (for AppleTV)

Remote is also handy for driving iTunes on a Mac :-)

I wonder if some day it will drive the Music app on iPad and iPhone. I mean, why not, especially if you're wearing the Apple Watch.
You should question anything coming out of techcrunch.
Just bought the book today ($10 is too low!). After a few nixos hiccups today, so far so good :-)
It is subtler than that, but I am surprised by the ratios.

Journalists do not themselves uncover truths. They uncover material and details that can point to a truth. And the core of the problem is that journalism is slow. In the time it takes to fact-check an investigative article, the spinmeisters have had ample time to do what they do best. Namely, set up smoke and mirrors.

The power asymmetry is painful, and I have no doubt about this being even a recent thing. There's a quote attributed to Mark Twain on the subject: “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
How the Shawshank Redemption Became One of the Most Beloved Films of All Time
MARKHOR – 1800 Year Old Craftsmanship for Gentleman's Shoes
Almost as though Capitalism itself is against making the world better.
You get it. The one thing you're missing is that application-aware allocation is hard and something that Firefox engineers continuously have to work on (http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/10/memory-fragmentation/), even as they add new features and performance caches. The electrolysis/chromium solution makes the problem disappear entirely (along with some security problems) without any possibility of regression.
What, again? It feels like I hear some variation of this about once a quarter now.
Use the "RSS" icon in the top nav to slide it in and out. Not the most intuitive, I know. But in keeping with the minimalism... =)
I have found that due to my data price sensitivity that I listen to far less music on the go then when I had an iPod.
Yep, this just sounds like the language is at an early stage of development, still a "pidgin" and on its way to developing into a "creole" and eventually on its way to developing into a fully versatile language, by which time it will be much like any other sign language. The terminology I am putting in quotation marks here comes from studies of the origin of new spoken languages in communities that mix together people who don't have a common spoken language.[1]

[1] http://mufwene.uchicago.edu/pidginCreoleLanguage.html

http://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/sum07/myths/cr...

https://www.uni-due.de/SVE/VARS_PidginsAndCreoles.htm
Ask HN: How did ISP's with dial-up servers work?
Ok I actually used to work for an ISP back in 2000 that did dial-up but never got to work on that end of the business.

How did it work? Did they have to have huge pools of modems for every person dialing in? I am totally clueless to this and found little info on this on the web. Have been thinking about this a lot lately and would really like to know.
Same here. My old personality mostly comprised avoidance of any behavior that had occurred near a panic attack, which slowly began to cover more and more of the things I once enjoyed. My new personality is dominated by intellectual curiosity. Definitely an upgrade, though it also saddens me how much better my life would be had I started sooner.
These always make me wonder, but what happens if you genuinely forgot password and unable to reveal password?

I mean, I've had more than few occasion that I forgot password, and I observe people not being able to figure out their password all the time...
Agreed on "Liar's Poker". I read it after "The Big Short", and I was surprised at how disjointed it was. It was Lewis' first book after leaving finance, and it showed. But I just added "When Genius Failed" to my wish list, based on your all's recommendation.
In this post Kerr continues his exploration of the legal issues related to Apple's iOS 8 encryption changes. See previous conversations:

Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349006

Part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349568

Kerr asks two questions in this latest post:

> [1] In your view, can there ever a point when there can be too much encryption — and if so, what is that point? In other words, do you think there could ever be a point at which crypto is so widely used in so many contexts to protect so much data so strongly, that you would think that the marginal costs of more and better crypto begin to cause more harm than good?

It seems to me that in general any given person is much more likely to suffer a digital crime than to commit a crime. And it seems to me that it is generally better to prevent crime than to solve a crime already committed. Therefore better consumer data encryption should tend to have a net positive effect.

And I think that as long as there is a court mechanism to compel decryption--via a warrant, for example--then many "bad guys" can still be kept off the streets. They won't decrypt their data? Cite for contempt and lock them up.

Will this make it harder for police to solve some crimes? Of course, but we accept those trade-offs all the time. It's inherent in our culture and system of government. The cops could solve a lot more crime if they had cameras in all our houses too. Doesn't mean that is a good idea or net positive.

> [2] If the government can’t get access to contents, even with a warrant, and that ends up substantially shifting the privacy-security balance, the Supreme Court will respond by expanding government power in other ways to counteract that shift and restore the prior balance of power. We’ll get more privacy in some ways from more technological protection, but less privacy in other ways from having less constitutional protection. So here’s the question: What privacy tradeoffs might the Supreme Court make in response to strong encryption that would more-or-less restore the prior balance of constitutional protection?

In this question, I think Kerr is not thinking through the implications of what Snowden revealed. It appears to me that we have already suffered a dramatic reduction in our legal protections of privacy, due to laws, executive orders, secret court authorizations, NSA/GCHQ overseas hacks, etc. since 9/11.

From this perspective, Apple's encryption change is actually adjusting the equilibrium back toward where it should be, not knocking it out of balance.

edit: formatting
Ask HN: How would I get started with this project?
Hi Everyone!

So I am in a dev bootcamp and I am in my last few weeks which means final project time.

I have always been a big gamer so my idea was to build a mini-game where you simulate a hacker. Think the movie Hackers type hacker.

I am thinking a simplified front end with a few buttons as actions you can do. I think it's best to keep it in the style of a mobile game meaning stamina type counter and time management.

I am reaching out on Reddit to see if anyone can help me in getting started and going in the right direction.

I haven't done a full scale project yet we have just dealt with small projects.

Can anyone help me in putting together my next steps and what type of planning I need to do?

For reference I know the following in a junior level capacity:
> JavaScript
> jQuery
> HTML/CSS (I was thinking of using picnic.css)
> Ruby
> Ruby on Rails

My idea was to start it in Ruby only and make it a command line game but I think that is a bit counter-productive since I want to use all my skills so I can push my skillset.

Any help is appreciated!!
You could definitively answer how much he should have bet using what's known as the 'Kelly criterion.' Basically you need to consider the total wealth of the individual and the edge they believe they have (ie. bookies offer odds at 4/1 while the gambler reckons it's longer).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

Whether this was a rational bet depends on how good he thought is edge was (perhaps allowing for some margin of error) and how rich he already is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language_phonolo...
"The failsafe/wipe and timeouts are all implemented in software"
So is unlocking your phone, changing your password, decrypting your phone, etc. How is it easy for them to disable the failsafe wipe if they can't decrypt your phone (and presumable the settings file where that option is stored)?
I wholeheartedly agree with 1 and 2, but I'm less enthusiastic about 3 and 4. I can't imagine that you meant it this way, but it can sometimes come across as "you have no valid reason to feel sad," which then makes some people feel badly about feeling badly, and the loop closes in on itself. At least that's where I find myself in trouble sometimes...
What's the advantage over something like TypeScript which is a superset of JavaScript but supports types as well?
I have found one example where Euclidean wins:

http://imgur.com/FgQ04k0
Of course they are going to relaunch it. With U2 this time - http://fdrmx.com/u2-and-apple-reveal-next-surprise/
I guess putting the suggestion algorithm into iTunes will mean that android users will miss out
Tidbit inspired me to write my own web-miner, which I open sourced. It's hacked together as I was really just trying to learn how the cryptocoin&mining stuff worked. The mining rate you get with straight javascript is truly abysmal, even with web workers (much worse than the standard cpuminer).

I found a couple examples that do the scrypt part with GPU in browser, but your browser has to support custom shaders, I think (I forget the details), and the version most browsers support doesn't allow this (again, my memory is sketchy about the details).

Anyway Here you go, NJ! https://github.com/borlak/cryptocoin_scrypt_stratum
T-Mobile (at least in the US) doesn't count the data you use for several music services towards your data quota.

http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/free-music-streaming.html
Isn't it standard to do all decryption attempts on a clone of the phone rather than the phone itself? After ten attempts, just reset the copy and try again.
This is a really well written comment. You're dead right that sales isn't a specific thing, there's a whole range of touch levels.

When you consider this, the delineation between marketing and sales becomes increasingly blurred.
It's not cushy (to be an engineer). IT in it's current form is demanding (I like the "intense 24/7 activity" phrase). We are paid well for a reason and ofc it MAY feel cushy when you are on top of things. But this requires more than 8 hours a day, 5 days a week and some non-IT hobbies. I am even arguing on the side of "people just applying stuff" and ofc. the ones creating IT for them to use: No time to trim the beard (was prioritized down).
Ecommerce solutions?
We have a magento site and after 3 different platforms and some less than ethical 'help' our server is full of junk. We think we need to migrate to a new server and need some help to accomplish this goal. We have even considered Spree as another platform but know next to zero about how a migration from magento might work, if at all. We are extremely budget conscious as a small business. Anyone have some ideas on how to find a person to manage such a project? or advise on the project itself?

We are aware that our current site is inadequate on many levels.
Apple execs have repeatedly publicly praised the Beats Music service since the acquisition. There's absolutely no way that their plan is to just throw it away.
Again? :)

It does look quite cool though.
Everyone complaining or fussing about how primitive this model is on a browser, ya'll need to chill out and stop taking beautiful work like this for granted. Some of you may say this is easy to do or why didn't he also "do this" or "do that" - how about you help out and make it better ;)

@sethbannon Thanks for the visuals and hard work!
I tuned in just in time to hear a report of a child being shot. On the plus side, the relaxing music just makes this seem like the opening of a drama film.
Kerr's claim that "The Supreme Court tries to roughly maintain the balance of Fourth Amendment protection over time as technology shifts, so that technological change doesn’t give the government too much power (which would lead to abuses) or take too much power away from the government (which would make it too easy to commit crimes undetected)." demonstrates a misunderstanding of the purpose of the Constitution. The Bill of Rights are strict checks on government power, not guidelines on how much infringement on individuals is acceptable.

The Fourth Amendment reads "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." There's no exception in there that can be read as "unless it makes the job of the government really hard."

No individual criminals or groups of terrorists pose the kind of threat that an overreaching government does. Encrypt it all.
What percent of warrants do you believe are issued without justification? I keep reading this comment here but no one has shown that most (or even a large amount of warrants) are unjustified.
I don't see anything when running it from the command line :(

http://cl.ly/image/3u3X24292e12

Can I give you anything else to help you repro it?
Count me among the apparent minority that still wants to own my music. I only own about 400 albums and way too many of those get ignored for months, if not a year+, at a time. Streaming just gives me even more choices that I don't really need.
I don't think they've screwed up Typekit at all.
Deserves this status - it truly is one of the best movies ever made.
Actually, your answer is not an explanation, but one of the numerous symptoms of this condition.
Or Dart for that matter?
He wouldn't have made 22% profit in a matter of days investing in property (and would have paid stamp duty and capital gains tax even if he could). He could make 22% in a few years with no effort whatsoever investing in a relatively low risk bond.

Short term speculation with high returns always carries a very high degree of risk; that's why the very high returns exist. And yeah, bookmakers take a wider spread than most markets.
We are building humanity's public library: https://www.Outernet.is

We take content from the web and broadcast those bits over satellite; no subscription required to receive our data broadcasts. We are currently available in North America, Europe, Middle East, and North Africa (two separate satellites). We expect to be globally accessible by the end of the year and will start our mobile service in early 2015.

We are working towards putting a library in every village, home, and pocket.
Science fiction a step closer as Oculus virtual reality headsets near release
Calling this an "operating system" just seems like misdirection from the actually cool problem of visualizing distributed systems. I mean the whole thing about the Metaverse is that it's simply a vivid realization of what's already happening on the internet --- it's not some extra layer on top.

This technology is pretty impressive, and I get the marketing speak that will appeal to certain folks, but I'd rather call it what it is --- an impressive, distributed, rendering engine.

IDK, maybe I'm thinking about this all wrong.
I'm sure both of the beats music users will be in tears.

At any rate, no one is surprised that apple is taking a big 'ol BM on Beats Music :)
I agree that the UK being 'mad about betting' is a gross exaggeration, but bookmakers being 'keen on social responsibility' - other than as a figleaf - seems like an exaggeration in the opposite direction. In fact, betting shops appear to derive a lot of revenue basically from money-laundering:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/08/gambling-mach...
After reading the article I don't think the author has actually worked BS jobs. I have. BS jobs are more stressful because all you do all day is battle others with BS jobs, directly or indirectly. You're the footsoldiers of empire building. (edited to emphasize, we have a centrally controlled economy focused on limiting freedom, so rather than having 100 competing firms where footsoldiers would be highly advantageous, we have the .gov paid off to limit the marketplace to maybe 2 competing firms, each of 50 departments fighting tooth and nail with whichever department is weakest, lets say 25 of 50 of supposedly friendly internal departments, and the locals are a lot closer and more fun to fight than the competitor, so most of the foot soldier fighting is internal, not with customers or competitors)

Humans are strong worthy opponents and battling them all day is tiring, either directly or indirectly as what amounts to being a toolsmith. TPS reports and such.

A "real job" is much more asymmetric warfare. You, with high technology, cheap energy, financial capitalization tools, an advanced mechanized transport system, and health care support, vs a poor defenseless forest of trees. I wonder who will win?

Even retail vs customer is fundamentally asymmetric warfare, not person to person warfare.

Nationally, as per the article, we probably do spend only 10 or so hours per week working on average. But we also spend maybe 30 hours per week national average fighting other people, either directly or more likely as support troops.

The purpose of this new procedure or report or process is solely for exec A to screw over exec B. Don't worry about the customers we have .gov on our side to eliminate competition.

I don't feel bad about working these jobs. Some high level crook paid off the government to collect a huge amount of money in an unfair market. If I don't collect my share for basically doing nothing, the crook will get it. The system is designed so its completely outside my control other than accepting my cut for doing not much. Well OK then. My carefully designed TPS reports or new procedure or whatever will report my feudal overlord is better than the other feudal overlord. Whatever.
My cardiologist once said that simply standing up for 30 minutes would do better than any SSRI. I didn't get it at first and ended up taking SSRI for almost a year due to panic attacks, until I managed to replace it with surf fishing. I'd wake up early, go to the beach, watch the sunrise and stay there for a few hours standing up...
The phone company operates trunking lines, which multiplexes some large number of phone lines over a single physical medium. T1 for example is a common standard to deliver 24 voice lines over a single physical medium. Historically, you'd have equipment at both ends. One at at central office and one near a group of subscribers, like a street full of homes.

Basically the dial up server just had hardware that directly terminated the trunking line into it. The modem part might be done in software, might be done in hardware, or a little bit of both. By doing this it is practical to have a single machine serving 100s or even 1000s of customers.
Just guessing, but I would say that's because "git" is only derogatory in British English, and wasn't popular (if even existent) in American English until it's use as the name of a DVCS.
Kind of makes one wonder what relationship T-Mobile has with the companies listed at http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/music-freedom-list.html, especially in light of recent net neutrality debates.
Pretty far. We have only so far been able to simulate a part of a rats brain. Not even in real time.

I'd love to present sources but i can't find them ATM. If anyone got links or corrections please do correct me.

EDIT: Just ignore my previous statement. This is probably much more relevant:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157157
http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2013/20130802_1/
Thanks! That was great feedback. I never really thought about that phrase beyond the surface level. I guess I'll just get writing!
As someone who has family in the UK and Australia, I'd say the gambling system is worse in Australia (New South Wales). Pubs with wall to wall one armed bandits (pokies). The most you'd see in a pub in the UK is one.
The article claims differently and also claims to have multiple internal sources (at both companies).

Why are you and the other poster above pretending like this comment thread isn't about the article which you're both ignoring?
If only there was a way for employees to unite, to increase their bargaining power with employers... ;)