skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree. The tech community (including most HN readers) seems to be too closed minded about this subject. Encryption like this is a drastic change in the legal landscape. It means that our property goes from 4th amendment protections to 5th amendment protections. Whether you think that is a good idea is a matter of your own personal politics, but that change can't be easily dismissed.

Could you imagine if there was some new lock technology that came along that forced everyone to abide by vampire rules. This lock would required police to obtain your express invitation to enter your home regardless of whether they had a warrant or not. Now imagine the uproar that would cause. That is exactly what this type of technology does for our phone.
Rather than just a link to Twitter, why not point out that this Whisper app is not the same as Whisper Systems, which makes TextSecure.
Copy the text displayed in the code block on the page, diff it against the fix-macos.py file in the curl link. It is character for character the same code. Why am I the only one not too lazy to do this?
>...considering the possibilities of the reverse piezoelectric effect.

The reverse effect is called electrostriction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostriction
Can the two be separated, though? It's not like there's some magic encryption system that only lets LEOs access the content.
Over 6 years = 54.3-47.1=7.2
2002-2007 = 46-35.3=10.7

Hmm. Now you can blame the great recession but growth did slow.

So lets take 2011 to 2013 [after the Great Recession]:
54.3-50.9 = 3.4
And 2003 to 2005:
42.7-37.8 = 4.9

Notice the difference?

You can't claim this supports your position without cherry picking the data. Its completely worthless.
Google Flash ads are rare, and I'm sure they'd be happy to move away from them entirely in favor of HTML5 technologies.
Trust me if you are not on Linux already, you never will. There is no shame in selling you soul to apple. Just be honest about it.
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Sorry, I typed quickly. I was referring to
encryption on the iPhone, not on some
cloud server. From recent media stories,
some people in law enforcement want to
be able to take a person's mobile device
and see what data is on it and also want
the right to demand that the owner of the
device decrypt the data. My view of this
part of the Constitution is that the person
and their device are protected and law
enforcement is wrong.

So, the way I read the Constitution,
if I have an iPhone
and the data on it is encrypted, then I
don't have to give the FBI so much as
a spit if they don't have one of those
warrant thingies. Even if they do have
a warrant, do I have to decrypt the
data for them? I'd guess and hope not,
but that might need a SCOTUS opinion.

But, for the cloud,
hmm, let's see: I write a very personal
diary and store it in a safe deposit box
at a bank. Now that diary is no longer part of
my "personal papers"? I would hope that
that part of the Constitution would continue
to apply to my diary, even though it is in
bank's box.

And if I type my diary into a computer file
and store it, encrypted, on a cloud server,
again I would think that that file on the
cloud server was still my "personal papers
and effects".

Maybe we need some SCOTUS cases.
See, my first thought about this was that it was an impulse control thing- people fail at saving money because somehow it always gets spent, and this solves that problem.

Except, you're exactly right- the stuff that the money gets spent on will frequently be wildly more important than the sofa. It should be saved, and then it should be spent on the more important stuff. And then you never get a sofa, but at least your transmission works and your kids aren't eating ramen six days a week.
That's good to know, thank you. I knew that they transitioned to DASH but I didn't think that brought HTML5 everywhere. For live stream events (e.g. Apple's announcements), do they still use Flash?
I use a Sophos Home Edition UTM.

It's mostly Open Source with some proprietary bits sprinkled on top. It also comes with AV software, though I won't speak to the efficacy of said AV software.

I would like to build an equivalent fully-FOSS system, but haven't had time to do that yet. It would of course need to be Ansibled (or equivalent).
Yep. OpSec is more important than encryption anyway and PGP ahs been around forever. People could just use TextSecure too.
The app contains third party libraries specifically designed for user analytics. Therefore, maybe it might be using them to gather information about how users use the app. Why else deploy them - for fun?

In the context of an app which is "committed to being a safe place for our users to anonymously share their innermost thoughts" (http://whisper.sh/privacy) that is interesting, if not conclusive.

I don't see anything disgraceful about publishing that information. A full security investigation of an app from a security firm costs $'000s - you can't expect a definitive rundown for free.
Given the police officers and law enforcement agencies are just as bad as the NSA in many jurisdictions, I'm not sure I see the difference.

Ever heard of civil forfeiture or someone's camera getting 'broken' after being seized for taking pictures?

It is more important the rights of the innocent are protected than the law enforcement system be enabled to catch the guilty.

Do realize I say this as someone who has had his home broken into with him in it and the guy was never caught. I've had family members who were robbed and no one was caught either. The cops responses was basically "Eh, we can't take the time to look for your $X,XXX worth of property" essentially and you didn't end up in the hospital.
From the friendly article:

Given how much time he had spent in line, however, I wondered how he felt about earning the equivalent of minimum wage.

No problem, he said. He’s hoping to start his own consignment shop and sees the long waits as practice toward delivering on his promises.

“For me, I think it’s worth it.”
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This is true inspiration. One area of this article struck me... "Herr was a middling student, but consumed math textbooks" and soon "caught the attention of MIT".

We can do anything, but doubt.
That depends on how the package is specified doesn't it? You can snapshot the full chain of versions with dpkg and explicitly specify them all. It should be too hard to wrap this into something like Gemfile.lock
Nike is masterful at making its brand appeal to the very hip and the very lame.

Go to a kids soccer game, you'll see dads wearing Nikes. Go to a hollywood red carpet event, you'll see stars wearing Nikes. Different models of course, but nike has a shoe for everybody.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out Apple studied Nike's approach when they first made the s3 available for super cheap with a contract. Maintaining luxury status, and selling to everyone just seems impossible. Nike is one of the very few successes.
>>> hyperbolic titles like the one used here hurt their credibility unnecessarily.

>> That text does not appear on the website

> I could be wrong here

RTFA.
It's worth noting that HLS is still currently being used for live events on YouTube, which requires the Flash player on Chrome.
Long time user. Looking forward to pay for this excellent suite.
> So if hotels produce the same kind of externalities, why are the regulators only focusing on Airbnb?

They aren't. Regulators are focussed on the externalities associated with short-term tenancy operations in general, which is why they have imposed regulations imposing safety and other constraints on such operations to mitigate the externalities, as well as imposing taxes to internalize the unmitigated externalities by shifting the costs on to the operations benefiting from the activity that produces the externalities.

What you perceive as focus on Airbnb is just the general focus on short-term tenancies being made manifest in a particular way because of a high-visibility group of people flaunting the rules that result from the more general focus on short-term tenancies.
The NIH Director said they have two isolation rooms at the hospital where they relocated the first nurse. Maybe he meant they have two that are available.
There's no point separating the two technologically, if one can legally say to the other "give me the data you found".
>(iOS 8) virtually eliminates the possibility that the encrypted data can be unlocked without the passcode.

I am not the first to point out that it is stupidly easy to bruteforce passcodes that are based on digits (like many phone passcodes are). The FBI lamenting unbreakable phone encryption and the accompanying media buzz borders on farcical and is disingenuous given that there is still a backdoor on the iPhone[1] on port 62078. Am I missing anything?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8057470
The Full Video of Jony Ive Talking to Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter
Yes, that's basically what I think actually happens. That physical particles in the brain don't behave according to currently accepted physical model – but the non-physical mind has the ability to "push them". For example, the supposedly random quantum phenomena may not be random but affected by our mind. It probably sounds crazy but I believe there is a reasonable argument backing this. A very brief summary – 1) mind is non-physical (see hard problem of consciousness) but physics can affect the mind 2) and the mind can affect the brain because otherwise I wouldn't be realize that mind is non-physical.
as far as cravings - that's a bit strong of a word but here are some things I missed and was glad when I found a substitute:

* there's a really good pizza recipe that is just cheese for the crust. amazing. Its better than regular pizza, really.

* lasagna/spaghetti you can use zuchini or spaghetti squash as noodles, and can eat in a bowl (just a tad more soupy), still tastes great (again, I love italian)

* I went through a phase where I ate cheese crisps (microwaved cheese, super yummy like crackers) and made flaxseed wraps (like bread). I don't make either any more, just pointless work.

* Pork rinds are amazing - good with soup, like a cracker, like croutons for a salad, with guacamole, nachos, hummus, or peanut butter. (note that the last two are easy for me to indulge on, I just have to watch)

* I Make 24 eggs at a time as a fritatta, make a pork shoulder in the oven, braised chicken thighs, oven roasted whole chicken, big batches that have many servings.

* I used to eat cereal every day, I but got over that quickly enough - now it's just 2 eggs each morning (slice of fritatta).

* I like hamburgers, but usually just eat them plain with a few pickles on top. less messy, and frankly you taste the meat more.

* I gave up beer completely, which I used to drink with pizza. Now its just red wine once in a while.

I don't go out to restaurants much because frankly we have better food at home and admittedly they're not usually low carb oriented. But you can always get a burger without the bun. Or a gyro plate. Mexican fajitas (hold the tortillas and chips) are a winner too.

I started off reading the wheat belly blog, and after I lost 10 pounds I bought his book. I also recommend "The art and science of low carb living". There's also great vids on youtube of atkins & LCHF stuff. I also read william banting's old pamphlet for inspiration.
sorry, i had to lol quite hard and painfully at 'cutting edge graphics'

its an interesting project...
Except that this kind of encryption is in the public interest in terms of law enforcement.

We have rights against unreasonable searches, we have rights to freedom of thought and expression.

We would not have had a civil rights movement if the FBI and local law enforcement could have been monitoring everyone's communication. We would not have legal alcohol today were it not directly because of the polices limited effectiveness against crime. Our greatest reduction in crime came directly from legalization of alcohol and that would not have happened if the government had the control we're talking about handing over to police forces.

It's in the public's interest to keep the public safe from the government. We have the lowest crime rates in history, this is not the time to hand the police more power. This is the time it will be abused and used to imprison people who do not deserve it.

Do we want every college kid going to jail because he texts his friend he's got a fresh Oz of weed?

It is every single persons moral duty to commit civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws. We will not have civil disobedience without freedom against unreasonable searches.
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That unicycle doesn't fit the rider. His knees are quite bent even at the bottom of the stroke -- they should be nearly straight.
Automatic document destruction devices have been around forever without causing a crisis.
Well, sure, but buying sofas and iPads at a 200%+ markup certainly can't help.
I got all the endings and I still don't really get it...

SPOILER

So she had a gaming addiction and we had to help her out?
If you are a Unix user, you almost need to know enough vi to edit a simple file. crontab -e is considered a minor sin in the Church of Emacs, but only a minor one.

ESC:q!
I realize there's some harshness to it, but you make implicit promises when you set up a public service. Twitpic chose to make themselves an important part of the Twitter ecosystem, and they have a moral obligation to not be assholes when they need to close up shop.

Not getting with Jason and the rest of archiveteam very much falls under "assholes" in my book, especially when other people are offering to pay for the data you're happy to destroy.
If you just want to know where you put your fingers to make the same sound as some other guitar made in a recording, tabs are fairly reasonable. If you want to know what's going on musically, staff notation is much better. Also, if you want to be able to play melodies from fake sheets, or arrange music originally written for another instrument, you'll need to know staff notation.
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> The smart criminals, the ones we truly want to catch - like sophisticated terrorists, organized crime, hackers, are already encrypting their communications.

I'm pretty sure that most people want the non-smart criminals caught, too. I certainly have not heard too many victims or relatives of victims of murder, sex crimes, hate crimes, robbery, gang violence, and the like say that they don't truly want their crimes solved because they were victimized by non-smart criminals.
The point that James Comey was trying to make is that we don't want to live in a world without warrants. The prosecution in a criminal case has the burden of proof. It's difficult to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt if key evidence is encrypted and cannot be retrieved, even with a lawful warrant. This means that more criminals who are legitimately guilty will walk, which means that all of us will be less safe. The entire system is built around the idea that law enforcement can search and seize evidence if they have a lawful warrant from a duly appointed judge. Unbreakable encryption fundamentally threatens that framework.

An example the FBI used is a stupid criminal kidnapping a child and leaving their encrypted phone behind somewhere. Even if the FBI got warrants from multiple respected judges, they couldn't go through that phone to look for clues about where kidnapper may have taken the child. There are ticking bomb scenarios and other time sensitive situations. It's reasonable that the law enforcement should have some ability to access information with approval from the judiciary. We don't want to endanger ourselves in order to protect the banal communications on our cell phones or dissemble our legal system for the sake of keeping our sexting private.
A16z Podcast: The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
Ireland ends tax loophole that saved Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook billions
The article doesn't note that at least for the major networks the news divisions that weren't expected to turn a profit. They were allowed to run at a loss and revenue from the entertainment and sports divisions was used to make up the difference.

At some point in the 80s profit became the be-all end-all of corporations, including the media. The news division was no longer allowed to be purely a cost center, it now had to at least break even in its own revenues.

While this doesn't help newspapers -- they pretty much are going away as printed ad revenue disappears -- it still matters to TV and online sources. As long as the news reporting function is expected to be a profit center it will be at the mercy of whatever ad revenue it can directly generate. Thus you see click-bait stories and instant "rehosting" sites overwhelmingly growing because they generate the revenue.
What do you mean? The content is the majority of the web page... You can copy it from there, or if you're paranoid you can run:

curl https://fix-macosx.com/fix-macosx.py

Before the suggested:

curl -o https://fix-macosx.com/fix-macosx.py && /usr/bin/python fix-macosx.py

That said, at this stage just set the correct preferences. I had already done that before seeing this script, it's pretty simple.
Thank you for this comment, seriously. I hear a lot of producers talk about the importance of music theory, but I've never actually seen anything useful. All it is is notation. Notation by itself is meaningless and does not make anybody a better musician.
When you set up a public service, you do have a moral obligation not to abuse your users, as well as not to abuse the public good. There's an implicit contract with your users to do right by them, especially with a service that has, no joke, a ton of legitimate, important historical record to it.

When you abuse the public trust, you get flak for it. That's a feature, not a bug.
I hadn't seen your first post on parallel universes, [1] so I'm glad I found this one and could read both. I've often wondered how many times I've returned to a state before entanglements have occurred ('traveled back in time'), but remain oblivious because I did not retain the information gained from those entanglements. I really enjoyed reading both posts. You helped me better understand and fill in a lot of gaps I was missing even in my own theories. Thank you very much.

[1] http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/09/are-parallel-universes-re...
On Android, Whisper requires permissions to read your device serial number, and the phone numbers you call or that call you. This is in addition to many other permissions.

Is there any legitimate need for Whisper to have serial numbers and the phone numbers that users call?
The body seems relatively cool compared to what I can find of the space shuttle, despite not quite knowing how long after touch-down the image was taken. I wonder if some new heat-dissipating technology, or similar, was amongst those being tested?
When I read this, "As the controversy around Anonabox grew, Germar told WIRED earlier in the week that he had never intended the project to be aimed at normal, non-expert users, so much as developers who would contribute feedback and continue to improve the router". What I hear is, "I never thought people would investigate me and call me out for lying".
Your information passing thru Apple servers can be subpoenaed by law enforcement when they have a warrant signed by a judge. This isn't new news to you or I.
One thing is setting your logic to follow a certain way of thinking, and a completely different thing is the language you are using to think.

Furthermore, programming languages are written in English. A real language cannot be written in another language.

I'm not a linguist nor a programmer, but I'm trilingual, and I have scripted at a basic level. And honestly, although I see the resemblance, I don't think that programming languages and real languages work the same way.
Death of the Double Irish
I would really like to know what happened to the idea of saving. I'm sure I'm going to sound like some old codger (OK, I'm almost 50, I am) but my first 10+ years out of university I had secondhand furniture and the cheapest bookcases I could find, and I was a network manager.

My parents taught me not to buy things I couldn't afford to pay in full immediately, because loans cost you. With the exception of my house, I have never taken out a loan. I pay my CC in full every month. Why do poor people feel they must have new, quality furnishings? I can see the rare splurge on something nice, but it seems everyone has to have all sorts of nice stuff regardless of whether they can afford it or not. Craigslist makes it ridiculously easy to find affordable furniture.
Effectively unbreakable encryption [for the statute of limitations length of time] has been around for decades. This just means it easier.
> * use the Memory Clean app*

Don't do that.

No seriously, don't do that.

These kinds of apps do nothing but prey upon the gullible. They're worse than useless; they actually decrease the performance of your system.

The OS is actually remarkably good at managing memory. Like, staggeringly good. Especially in Yosemite. Beyond that, the OS actually wants to keep as little RAM "free" as possible. "Free" RAM is wasted RAM. It uses that RAM to store memory that might be used again in the future. That's what "Inactive" is; it's memory that is not currently being used, but contains stuff that may be used again, and if it's not, that stuff can be thrown out in order to provide the memory to another application.

And yet, the application you linked says that its primary purpose is to "purge" this inactive memory. That's counterproductive. If another app needs it, the memory will be given to that app whether or not it's been "purged". The only thing that "purging" it does is remove the ability to reuse the original contents of the memory.

I'm guessing this is why Activity Monitor in Yosemite doesn't even list "Inactive" memory anymore (or "Free"). Instead it has "File Cache". On my iMac right now, with 20GB of RAM, the "File Cache" is "11.02GB". And that's fine. That's great. It means if any of the cached file data is needed, it's already in memory. That's vastly better than leaving it around as "free" memory.

Every modern OS behaves this way. It's deliberate, it's absolutely crucial for good behavior, and "memory clean" apps do nothing but hurt the performance of your system.

So don't use it.
I agree that there's a very slim chance, realistically, of this being exploited. But StartSSL doesn't have to be hacked for a user to be MITM'ed and served malicious JS. Especially given that their site (at least the homepage) loads over plain HTTP.
The app is worthless. Actually, it's harmful. Throw it out. See my other comment for a detailed explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8474107
It doesn't seem that mysterious. It's almost certainly involved in reconnaissance.

[T]he military spacecraft was passing over the
same region on the ground once every four days,
a pattern he called “a common feature of U.S.
imaging reconnaissance satellites.”

In six sightings, the team has found that the
craft orbits as far north as 40 degrees
latitude...In moving from as far as 40 degrees
north latitude to 40 degrees south latitude,
the military spacecraft passes over many
global trouble spots, including Iraq, Iran,
Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/science/space/23secret.htm...