skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Encryption and password locks are pointless against a cartel, presumably they will employ rubber hose cryptanalysis to get any information they want.

Seems like one solution would be to have a web browser that keeps no history, and use that to log into Twitter and report about cartels instead of an app that automatically logs you in or keeps history, or gives away the fact you have a twitter account they will demand to know about.

There's also schemes like this which could be helpful to at risk journalists https://www.ccsl.carleton.ca/~askillen/mobiflage/ unless you are kidnapped while in PDE mode.

If it's any small comfort, whoever was seen involved in this kidnapping is now a liability, as this case has brought a lot of heat so they were almost certainly finished off in the desert by their own cartel compadres to avoid potential snitching. The blog borderlandbeat has countless posts of mass executions the cartels do on their own guys as everybody except the capos are disposable.

edit: Likely cartels have employees at telecoms in Mexico to look up logs for them, there's prob no easy solution. It wouldn't be expensive for them to hire anybody to exploit journalists with old carrier builds that are never updated either http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/09/16/shocking-android-...
A World War 2 training video for evading flak cannon fire is one of the best examples of graphical information presentation that I've seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP_-WUMi-nw

It features smoothly animated and highly functional designs as well as overlaying graphics on real footage to achieve a fashion of "augmented reality". The production quality is astounding and it is amazing to think that it was produced in the 40s. The entire video is an inspiring example of conveying information.
Do you also consider HN voting and flagging system to be nothing more than instruments of persuasion and control?
>Well, if you shop for it, a cardholder can get a minimum of 1% rebated back to them, more in cases of special promotions.

This actually makes it worse, since the people who pay with cash are typically poor and homeless who cannot get a credit card, yet the richer folks with rewards cards get cashback while they don't.

Edit: Downvotes why?
Because they put it on an extremely popular Twitter account that was followed by the American media?
Having read actual Samsung code I would guess it was written in India by someone who uses copy/paste instead of a small library. I understand that runtime dependencies are a problem in embedded programming, but the Bada platform suffers because it was written by lots of people who were all not talking to each other.
These guys ask for your Driver's License and Social Security Number during the on-boarding process: https://twitter.com/hasanahmad80/status/526551322523623424/p...

They say the information isn't stored on your phone like that's a good thing.
The link you provide is just the manual backup you make. Windows automatically uploads the key to OneDrive. Check it on the link below under "If your PC isn’t connected to a domain" in "How can I get my Bitlocker Recovery key?"

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/bitlocker-recov...
This is not about cybersecurity or encryption. This is about a country that has been poisoned by the brutality of drug cartels for decades.
While ISIS terrorizes Iraq and Syria. Living in fear has become the norm for Mexico. But cartels cannot be bombed by drones and Mexico cannot be occupied by foreign forces. There are only two choices for those living in Mexico: either flee to the U.S. or accept living in a country where drug cartels yield more power than the government.
He definitely seems confused and nervous at the start, but got better towards the end.
I need something related to gift. More specific someting you want to receive as gift, u know?
Didn't they let the other medical workers go?
If it was that good it would be addicting regardless of any physical effects.
They just need to tie it to store loyalty cards for discounts and coupons for it to succeed.

At the grocery store I shop, people even go to the trouble of entering their phone number to track themselves if they don't have the card, to save a couple of bucks.

Since CurrentC avoids the credit card merchant fees, they can give even steeper discounts to push it.
Snowden made this point at HOPE X - crypto is not going to obviate having some stones.
What? A cartel is the one that tweeted out the series of events that occurred after stealing her phone.
One of the things I like about taxi drivers is that they are accountable. If I see one behaving badly, I call up the city taxi commission and let 'em know. If the commission decides they shouldn't be driving a taxi, they will no longer be driving a taxi at all in this town. Good luck doing that with some rando driving for Uber, though.

For similar reasons, I'm also pretty sure the insurance situation is solid. In direct contrast to Uber, where they actively disclaim any responsibility for their cars and drivers.

There are a lot of problems with the taxi industry. It's in deep need of reform. But in my view, Uber's cure is worse than the disease.
Interesting article, but the title is pure clickbaiting.
Nobody is forcing their customers to give them money (save possibly the cartels themselves, I'm not sure). They could go with out or go to a country where it's legal, among other options.
It'll be interesting to see the balance between the free and pro version of Chocolatey.
Really nice answer to all the iWatches an alike hitting the markets right now. Awesome!
#3 and #2 are not compatible.
They don't as far as I know. Merchants are free to offer discounts for cash.
Hopefully 5 years is long enough for us to stop and take stock of the inevitable destination of the browser: an OS in a VM.

With any luck we might finally realise that we're not dealing with "documents" anymore, that HTML, JS, and CSS do not a good UI framework make, and that JS simply isn't good enough for what we need it to do and how we need it to do it.

ECMAScript 7 will be pretty much ready to implement and the standards committee will realise that they've run out of syntax for ECMAScript 8, forcing a rethink. Fingers crossed a neckbeard will arrive and point out that a LISP would be ideal for both defining the "DOM" and providing a base language for targeting by other languages, who can just (ok, "just") serialize their ASTs and pass it in.

Seriously: if, in 5 years, we're still perfecting the dominant user-facing runtime by tweaking an arbitrary XML spec, a language with only one kind of number, and a styling language so inept it almost requires auto-generation tools, well I might just kill myself.
There's an advantage here people don't think of: credit cards are, in their current form, a danger to society. It encourages people to spend money they don't have and creates debt that doesn't create new value. You could say that credit cards raise consumption and so on but at the end of the day the interest actually decreases your consumption ability.
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What a disastrously bad user experience.

But I have to say, I feel sympathy for the guys who designed it. Just like the conventional wisdom tech entrepreneurs are taught -- "take a problem you encounter in your daily life, solve it, build the solution, and sell it" -- this seems like the same thing happening on the corporate side.

Mike Cook and the retailers have a problem -- they don't like paying 1.5-3% to the credit card companies. And I can't blame them -- there's a huge financial incentive to solve problems like that, and if you're the guy who saved WalMart 2% a year, well, you're getting a big bonus, massive internal recognition, and likely a nice promotion. So I commend this group of retailers for trying to solve a problem they have.

But - man, what a terrible solution. And they've made the huge (and common, and classic) mistake of thinking that by solving THEIR problem, they're also solving our problem. The thing is, we love our credit cards, and now we're loving ApplePay (which genuinely improves on the credit card experience), but there seems to be very little to love about CurrentC.
A photo of some sort of abstract looking network graph.
First offense for using coke - diversion to a work gang picking up dead migrants' bodies on the border

second offense - one way ticket to Reynosa or Cd. Juárez or Sinaloa for six months. Think of it as "Survivor: Edición Frontera"
CALEA requires a guarantee that customer traffic can be decrypted.

S215 of the Patriot Act extends the larger body of the act and prior Acts to include "other artifacts". Though not specified, this presumably extends outside telecommunications. The Stored Communications Act similarly requires key (or data) escrow mechanisms.

Here is a Microsoft Cloud Key Escrow system that

"Once a request comes in from a third party (e.g. a user, a business, a legal entity or governmental entity, etc.) to access user's data, the data storage system may send..."

https://www.google.com/patents/US20120321086
Transparency is one of the keys - a very effective key. However, even transparency requires all actors to behave honourably in their transparency (not skewing the truth with white noise, not misdirecting the public to slip through unwanted policy, not manipulating or deleting data, etc).

Also, there always comes a point in government where a certain level of information must remain secret (such as spy activity between states and within criminal organisations). If we were to force government transparency, I think we would see a marked rise in stonewalling due to 'national security' - the phrase itself is so general that anything could be under it's wing.
It's also a reason why we need to be able to delete our online activity permanently. Everyone who ever corresponded with felina's twitter account via private messages that didn't hide their own identity adequately is at risk. Before the account was suspended, I'm certain they went through the data.

I wouldn't be surprised if they exported all her facebook data as well, which IIRC includes content marked "deleted".
We've created a monster with the War on Drugs.

It will only get worse unless we reverse course. Unless we do, the violence/terrorism on the border could increase dramatically. We have a historical model in alcohol prohibition and know what it does and what happens after.

We blame Mexico, Central and South America for much of this but policies and our actions there are creating these black markets where only criminals get the revenues. How is that the best solution we have? We are actively creating armies south of the border that aren't state associated, I believe that is terrorism.
But you can change what you will. Are you saying you never change your opinion? Or you never change your wants or dreams?
some may also enjoy a 3d-printed triple gear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9IBQVHFeQs
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Very few merchants do that. I am talking about the end result of the current setup where a typical consumer pays $400 per year in credit card fees while buying things. This is because the true cost of using cards are hidden from them because of the merchants, just carriers do for a $199 iPhone.
It occurs to me that blind people who are proficient at writing braille would likely be able to learn steno with relative ease, because they're already used to routinely pressing several keys in one stroke (up to 8 at a time in 8-dot computer braille). Also, braille has several contractions, including dot combinations that don't map to single letters but to common two-letter sequences like 'th' and 'st'. Steno, being syllabic, requires fewer keystrokes per word than braille, but at least proficient braille users would already have the dexterity and some of the concepts.

Edit: On a more software-related topic, the interaction between Plover and a screen reader (assistive technology used by blind people) would be... interesting, particularly if the user is using text-to-speech output rather than a braille display. Plover simulates individual QWERTY keystrokes, and a screen reader often speaks in response to keystrokes. So to take the example of entering "Python", the screen reader would notice the backspaces produced by the second steno keystroke and would try to speak the backspaced characters, interrupting itself all along the way, before speaking the newly constructed word (assuming the user has word echo enabled). The response to the asterisk key would also be suboptimal. I don't know how best to solve that. On Windows, the best solution would probably be an add-on module for the open-source NVDA screen reader (http://www.nvaccess.org/), which is in Python.

Edit 2: I belatedly remembered the correct answer to the above problem for Windows. On Windows, Plover should be using the Text Services Framework as an alternative to simulating keystrokes, where the TSF is available, which includes Microsoft Word and standard edit controls. I guess I should implement that.
> If we had the right information and enough reasoning ability, we would be able to turn the dials just right. That's in theory.

Alas, not even in theory, because other actors are generating new information. Some of that new information will specifically be in response to your actions.

Even if over time skill and knowledge increase, that will be true for everybody. So luck will continue to be as important. Possibly more so; it seems to me that increasing knowledge reduces the opportunity for individual skill to make a difference.
It's an exciting future for web apps – I'm more interested to know who's going to take us there. It will require a significant collaboration between the browser makers and the operating systems – and while sometimes they are the same people, the major players have a conflict of interest.

When the iPhone launched without an app store or sdk, apple pushed for web apps. Yet [this article](https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/referencelibrary/...) hasn't been updated in over five years. And Apple has very little incentive to do so now. The Chrome web app store is a promising concept, but I'm not convinced it has great traction.

My fear is that as web apps gain access to native app features, standardization will go out the window as each operating system (or maybe browser at that point) competes for market share.
This is the funniest shit I've ever heard in my life. The CIA that can't run human intelligence worth shit from Amman to Kabul? The CIA that took 10 years to find Bin Laden after being led around by the nose by the ISI (_nath dalna_, as they say in Urdu/Hindi)?
From that link:

>There are several locations in which your BitLocker recovery key might have been saved.

Keyword: might.
To be fair, websites are distributors of physical goods because it's so, incredibly easy to type another URL or for that matter search for other sources.

Monopolies in physical goods or even operating systems (per the late 90s) are quite different; the analogy doesn't fit well.
How is this any better than BrowserSync [1]?

[1] http://www.browsersync.io/
Former Walmart CEO Lee Scott reportedly once said “I don’t know that MCX will succeed, and I don’t care. As long as Visa suffers.”

I want Visa to suffer, too. So, I'll likely use this. It's not clear to me if it is point of sale only, or if it'll work in an online context. The QR code thing would be an intolerably bad experience online, of course (and it's a pretty clumsy experience offline)...but, if the payment network is not intimately tied to the method of verifying the owner of the account, I could see it being possible to handle payments without the QR code.

And, if the people implementing this stuff aren't entirely incompetent, I'd be surprised if they don't implement a non-QR code method in the future, including NFC. The end user app really isn't the hard part of this equation.
Please put the year (2000) in the title, along with the author's name, Bill Joy; to prompt the few that haven't read this to reconsider, and to prompt those who have read it all those years ago, to read it again.
Thanks for the feedback. Still working on the sales page. You should be familiar with HTML/CSS/JavaScript to get the most out of the course.

Having said there are quite a few students that have gone on through the course without any background at all.
This may be in our near future as well. Did you see the Audi R7 piloted driving stuff?

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOYsI1cqUrw or the long version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeWriarFlsU
> You'll know if you're celiac -- "vague" and "nonspecific" "maybe feel slightly bloated" are not symptoms of the disease.

No, that's not true. My daughter has celiac disease; she has a severe version, so we found this out when she was about 4 years old.

However, in later life my mother suffered from serious food sensitivity problems. She wasn't diagnosed with celiac because that was 15+ years ago. Given my daughter's medical history, I'd bet even odds that celiac was exactly what my mother had, even though the serious problems didn't occur until old age. There is a very strong genetic component to the disease. Wikipedia discusses this at length, but I'm certainly not qualified to know how accurate that information is.

So it's quite possible that with less severe celiac, people only have mild symptoms or only develop severe symptoms late in life.

Sorry to quote Wikipedia, they're hardly authoritative, but I think this is a reasonable summary[1]:

People with milder coeliac disease may have
symptoms that are much more subtle and occur
in other organs than the bowel itself. It is
also possible to have coeliac disease without
any symptoms whatsoever. Many adults with
subtle disease only have fatigue or anaemia.

Edit: just wanted to add that information in this field is changing rapidly. When I requested a DNA test for my daughter about 8 years ago, her gastroenterologist was reluctant. He was admittedly quite surprised when my daughter turned out to have the problem alleles. So it's all "relatively new" even for one of the "experts" in the 19th most populous MSA in the United States.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease
When wall street and silicon valley come together
If you look at the parent company (hola.org), they created a p2p "free" network where people join it and then their traffic gets routed through each other.

Sounds like a voluntary botnet that they are monetizing.
There's nothing at all to love.

At least with my credit cards when I have a dispute, the bank isn't wholly owned by the company with which I have a dispute. Under the CurrentC solution, these companies would have direct access to my bank account!

Anyone who uses this is a fool.

ps -- also, when this inevitably gets hacked, instead of sucking money out of your credit cards, your bank account empties. Awesome!
The way the teaching was sequential really made it an understandable to a layman like myself.
We don't have the same pace of innovation happening on the big screen that we did in previous decades.

Desktop apps are the same except for upgrades to their UIs and engines. Web apps are the same except for an explosion of .js libraries - some production worthy - and a shift in popularity away from php.

Most of the innovation is on smartphones. Those in turn are most like the desktop, but with more interesting I/O - at least for a developer.
"With its new approach, Salesforce may have a tricky time convincing dominant health record vendors like Epic Systems and Cerner Corp to share information. Their cooperation would be vital in serving some major customers."

The only way Salesforce or anyone else will usurp entrenched players like Epic, Allscripts, Cerner, etc. is if they can provide an equal or better product (not that difficult) that ALSO is open in bidirectional programmatic data access. Open access to EMR housed data is the next revolution in health care as all current health data is locked in data silos. Open data is the only real differentiator in the space. That said, it doesn't seem like Salesforce is entering the market with an EMR. They seem to be providing ancillary services like secure messaging.

Here are some of my thoughts on health data integration:

http://siculars.posthaven.com/health-data-integration-regula...
I know some entrepreneurs who I think would do well in any era with any idea of the time. My office neighbor 20 years ago was selling vinyl phone book covers and did well. Now he's in SEO. And he's looking to get into healthcare devices next. His entire life is about finding sellable ideas and immersing himself in them until he's an expert.

Kind of like the idea that a bank loan officer should avoid business loans to people pursuing their passions and instead focus on the loaning to people who have hard data about why their business will make money.
For personal use this is most certainly the case. Here are quotes and links from both Microsoft Technet and tech media coverage.

"Unlike a standard BitLocker implementation, device encryption is enabled automatically so that the device is always protected. The following list outlines the way this is accomplished:

* When a clean install of Windows 8.1 is completed the computer is prepared for first use. As part of this preparation, device encryption is initialized on the operating system drive and fixed data drives on the computer with a clear key (this is the equivalent of standard BitLocker suspended state).

* If the device is not domain-joined a Microsoft Account that has been granted administrative privileges on the device is required. When the administrator uses a Microsoft account to sign in, the clear key is removed, a recovery key is uploaded to online Microsoft account and TPM protector is created. Should a device require the recovery key, the user will be guided to use an alternate device and navigate to a recovery key access URL to retrieve the recovery key using their Microsoft Account credentials."

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn306081.aspx

"... because the recovery key is automatically stored in SkyDrive for you."

http://www.zdnet.com/surface-bitlocker-and-the-future-of-enc...

"BitLocker provides support for device encryption on x86 and x64-based computers with a TPM that supports connected stand-by. Previously this form of encryption was only available on Windows RT devices."

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn306081.aspx#BKM...

Device Encryption is supported by Bitlocker for all major skews including Windows Server 2012 R2.