skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if there was a way to give only the US government access to the data? For example, somehow have a shared encryption scheme where the user holds a decryption key to decrypt her data, but the government and the company can somehow use their keys in conjunction to decrypt the data as well. (This means company must be complicit in releasing the data, so they have the opportunity to verify/fight the warrant.) If someone came up with such a secure encryption scheme, would that be a palatable approach?

I ask this because I'm curious whether you (and people in general) believe that hackability is the only obstacle to giving government access to personal data (with a warrant, of course), or if people would still be uncomfortable with such a system.

Personally, I think such a scheme would be a good compromise, but I'm not a crypto expert so I don't know if it's in any way feasible.
Oh, c'mon. Bernie Sanders is an exciting candidate for you? Give me a break. Do Democrats have anyone, anyone, under 60?
Track record of results, corporate memory, facilities, and the collective wisdom and experience of the fellows.

YCR could be the same, one day. Nevertheless, it's a very long and perilous road from YCR the proposal, to Bell Labs 2.0.
Which lowest bidder?
Good point... I'll make the GIF a link back to the original YouTube video.

EDIT: Which is here, by the way! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6u4WjYaX2Q
Not a YC applicant or alum, but as a Waterloo CS grad - the co-op program was invaluable. 4 months study alternating with 4 months work in a real job = 6 different workplaces to learn from, and coming out of the degree with 2 years real experience. A lot of students, especially on the CS side, are getting jobs at startups for their co-op terms.
And to HFT simulation writers!
Nobody is quicker to criticise academia than academics. Mind you, nobody is quicker to defend academia when criticised by outsiders than academics too.

Academia has misplaced incentives here and there and can certainly be unfair at times, but I've never actually run into any large system which didn't have those properties.

Still, let's not exaggerate how screwed the incentives are. Ultimately the best way to succeed in academic science is to do good work. (Also, do a lot of it, and be good at writing about how good your work is and why it should be given lots of money.)
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There are many reasons they use contractors. Here are some of the reasons:

1) The agency in question has a hard cap on the number of employees, but has more work than it can accomplish with just this allowed staff. Contractors are the only option.

2) The government is building something and doesn't need (or thinks it doesn't need) to keep the experts around afterwords. For instance, you're building a bridge and won't need all of the construction workers when it's finished.

3) To get around the broken hiring process

4) To get around the broken union rules

5) To theoretically save money vs. doing it in house
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"It just needs a rich benefactor who isn’t, in the word of a former Sun-Times employee, a 'fuckwad.'"

I think what it actually needs is a business model that works. The whole "pageviews, pageviews, pageviews" is about chasing ever diminishing returns on ads from networks like Googles.

Perhaps the next owner can buy just the trademark for a small amount and build a zero-office, zero-print, paid subscription model which will fund an editor, some journalists, and a photographer to cover their beats. And perhaps a "better-user-experience-than-craigslist" classified section and a maybe a place to find out what is on sale in the neighborhood groceries and department stores.
I'm the only one who read 50 hours at the office? Poor Americans :)
the entire concept about calling federal prosecutors adulterous is also an ad-hominem by those standards 8^)
Perhaps I am not versed well enough in the subject, but I have a hard time envisioning any kind of system that allows government officials to get around the encryption and peer into the contents but not hackers.

There will always be some sort of secret only the government has access to, and once that secret is leaked it's game over.
I wonder how would you know you've got best Chinese engineers on payroll? If your company is only good enough to attract technicians, of course that's all you can get.
Probably investing some money into Hillary so that Trump doesn't become president...
I meant more what mjevans said. Sometimes two people just don't have anything in common, and that's too bad, but too often blame is placed 100% on the nerdy guy for having the "wrong" interests, when really it's nobody's fault.

Remember a while back when someone wrote an entire awful clickbait article about the horror of discovering that the guy she was on a date with played Magic: The Gathering? Not that he was unpleasantly obsessed with it, not that he couldn't talk about anything else, just that he was a frequent player.
to obstani's sibling comment:
It's not possible to make a secure encryption scheme only accessible by the government. That's the point.
Might be wrong, but the previous documents might be locally cached versions.
no, I would never vote for him. I'm just giving a reason why I don't think he has a chance.
Hi ntucker,

My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the folks who make 1Password.

That's a great suggestion, thank you. And thank also for the good wishes. It has certainly been a busy day!
I posted at 3 and now we're up to 8... Someone deleted we're at 7.
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Yeah, I am sure having met them they would have gotten in, im talking purely getting to interview.
This would be a lot more powerful if they posted an 'after' picture as well. Good to see all that data though.
Only onshore wind power is cheaper and it still costs about the same. Offshore wind power is about twice as expensive. Can you show your sources to solar power prices analysis since at this moment LCOE by Energy Information Administration doesn't predict the solar power prices to drop below nuclear power price by 2020?
A bogus claim like this is no better than any communist propaganda at all
Still the most powerful and richest country in the world.
Google Drive is down
Hi bognition,

Just to be clear who I am, I am repeating that I am Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the folks who make 1Password.

And to answer your question, yes. We have put all of our apps (including our in-app purchases) on sale for 40% off.
Does this mean if I wait long enough, I won't ever need to figure out what exactly Docker is?
Concentration of power in the hands of a single social class. Decentralized, direct democracy. Not very likely, but I see myself benefiting from the disruption.
I use Segment at work and think it's great. Their enterprise options are pretty hefty and impressive, good on them for raising the round!
Apparently unikernel images can be as small as 200KB.

http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/01/13/unikernels-library-operat...

That might be only for niche cases, though, but others seem to say it can be under 5MB for more general uses, too:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/unikernels-offer-a-strip...

This is a nice talk on unikernels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHcHTFleNtg
I used Google Drive/Docs yesterday to do some homework filesharing/editing.

Also just tried to get into Drive and Docs and was able to just fine.

I live in US - so maybe a location-based issue?
I think the poster's point is that a unikernel may have an overall lower attack surface, but it now has a different, unique attack surface.

That seems like it might be a legitimate concern.

There's also support considerations to taken into account as well from a vendor perspective.
I really hope the product continues to exist and get better. Their enterprise offering works well enough and is very useful, even though the UX is a bit ancient and awkward at times.
"The poor rising up against the rich" is pretty much most of history. Look at the american revolution, the russian revolution or the french revolution.

When have entrenched elites ever given up power or let the poor rise voluntarily?

Either the poor would stage a revolution or some outside invaders would come in.
Was talking to a Presidential Innovation Fellow, and probably just misunderstood what they were saying, or perhaps the Fellow had incorrect information.
>We've already hit the wall regarding how much energy we can squeeze out of a unit of liquid fuel (most of the energy gets wasted as heat).

far from it. Just for example - the gas turbine reaches 50+% efficiency and in sequence hybrids there is no limitations which killed gas turbine car 50 years ago. Of course gas turbine is expensive, so we aren't going this way.

>Note the VW emissions scandal.

A BigCo stuck in old ways tells nothing about what is technologically possible. I'd say you can't do worse than current typical gas or diesel engine which basically hasn't changed for 100+ years :) Even well known Atkinson cycle was implemented en-mass only recently. Once i file my patents, i'll tell you in more details about other efficient designs and improvements :)

Without the efforts like CAFE and CA emission/efficiency requirements, we'd still be stuck with 20% efficient carburetor gas ICE. The increase of the regulatory pressure creates market opportunity for efficient designs, and you'll see what will come when CAFE hits 50mpg :)
I thought Obama was suppose to deliver.

Didn't we hear the same aspirations and justifications 8 and 4 years ago?
Sam

I don't have any particular questions for you. I just want to let you know that I appreciate for the work you put in, both to HN and to Y Combinator.

Perhaps I speak for the whole community on that point. Best of luck.

-tomrod
On their own, no, purely economic systems don't have anything to do with morality. This is why the Islamic system is different, it is not a purely economic system, but a comprehensive one, which does include morality.

You are right, it is the people. But, left to their own whim, people will do terrible things. We have seen this time and time again, all throughout history.
I think you mean shellshock, but people were only vulnerable to shellshock if they were actually using bash for something. And anybody using bash is, by necessity, going to include it in their virtualunicontainerimage.
It'd be more interesting to see a ranking by only the average competitiveness of their undergraduate school students, and I bet you will see lots of Chinese and Indian university on top and American Universities are not anywhere close.

America has so many good universities but at the same time just a small talent pool.
Reading between the lines in sama's comment - I think his objective is to replace academia, such that in 20 years, nobody will either attend or work for a university. Except he can't say that, because a.) he'd be laughed off this thread and b.) it's not to YC's advantage to alert competitors that they are, in fact, a threat.

The way it'd work out is the same way YC itself started: attract talented, smart people who have no patience for academia's politics. Let them make their own decisions. Build a brand on the discoveries they make, which attracts more people. Change public opinion about how research should be done. Eventually, the "top academic talent" realizes they've made a horrible mistake, and scrambles to join the new system that's replaced the old.
I dunno. Right now, we seem to be headed for Trump vs. Sanders. Bush and Clinton both imploded.

It's hard to tell, though. Polls don't work any more. Gallup recently admitted this. Not only do half of Americans not have a landline (they can only call landlines), on 9 out of 10 calls Gallup makes, the other party won't talk to them.
Hi junto,

My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the folks who make 1Password.

For Windows you are eligible for an existing customer discount. Just go to our store at http://agilebits.com/store and click on the Upgrade button under the license you are wanting to purchase. You will be prompted to enter your 1 Password 3 license code and then you will see the discounted prices you are eligible for.

We have also changed our sharing policies to match Apple's Family Sharing plan. Now a family living in a single household can have up to 6 users on a single 1Password for Mac or Windows license.

As far as Android goes, we have put the in-app purchase on sale for 40% off.
It's a question of liquidity: If you stand to make $1m but have to put up $200k right now, that only works if you have a liquid $200k right now, and are willing to risk it on a single company stock (as opposed to say a down-payment on a house).
Thanks for coming back and replying! Sorry I was a bit late with my question.

Great to hear that there may be routes opening up in the future -- I'll keep my eyes open.
Would you consider having the IRS come after someone because they don't pay their taxes as using force? This is similar.

Islamically, the poor have a right to get money from Zakat; which is paid by the rich. In other words, the rich owe money to the poor. This is a fundamentally different system from what we see today in most countries.
As far as I can tell (I opted out of election cycles), Bernie Sanders is the second leading candidate for the Democrats. Let's not feign surprise that there are people who find him exciting and be respectful.
No app-space multiprocessing on consoles. The OS is extremely minimal. In the PS2 days, there was no OS. Just the BIOS and a few standard libraries to statically link.
A guy wrote an open letter to all the women in his engineering class
No, you want to pay for quality encryption and data safety.
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> At least this helps our economy.

please explain how.
AMP and Incentives
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You wouldn't need any changes to the AVR side to do that, because the bootloader doesn't need anything special other than a reboot to get it into programming mode. However, if you've got an android device, the easiest, most reliable, way to program it would be to get a $3 usb otg dongle and just plugging your arduino into that. There are tons of free apps that will burn a new program on from there.
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A unikernel can be pretty small, the sample one that comes with Xen builds to 230KB.

Some of the OpenMirage builds are around 25MB.
@kdavari: what's a good email to reach you at? Would love to grab coffee and learn more about the PM opening!
We have not undergone a 409A valuation to determine the current strike price of Clef stock.

So basically, what you're saying, is that unless you're guaranteed to strike it rich, it's better to ask for more salary, more vacation time or other tangibles? Greeeeeat.

I would prefer profit sharing to stock options/equity or actual ownership that means something, such as in a co-operative. It's great they want to make sure they're building a company for the future, but cash now is always better and even better is if it's guaranteed cash in the future too (as with profit sharing where you can actually see the increase or with performance bonuses where you can actually see if they're shrinking or growing).
Not all that rare (see: OPM leak, any of the other leaks that happen daily) especially with such an incredibly high value target. If it's a symmetric key style system, then wouldn't all previously encrypted communications be vulnerable if they've been recorded someplace? Email, ecommerce, server logs, everything.
I have only voted twice.

Why: I have a serious medical condition which limits how much I can take on. I spent a lot of years as a military wife and devoted mother, raising two special needs sons. This was just a helluva lot of work, more than most people seem to appreciate. Trying to stay up on The Issues was just not something I could manage. My plate was overly full as is. I saw no reason to vote if my choices were not based on some kind of meaningful information or opinion.

From what I gather, you see higher rates of voting and political activity in older people, precisely because their plate is less full (with launching a career, finding romance, raising kids, etc). It is possible that as I get older and my life works better, I may someday feel able to effectively participate in the process. I haven't made any decisions one way or the other. It wasn't a Stance. It was happenstance.
The article mentions that the "Go spec says the address of a struct’s fields must be naturally aligned", and seems to take for granted that is necessary for speed. A separate question would be whether it actually helps performance.

For modern x64/x86 the answer seems be to "no": http://lemire.me/blog/2012/05/31/data-alignment-for-speed-my...

Would it make sense for the Go spec to drop the alignment requirement? I'd think that a smaller memory footprint would be the better choice, and I'd think that interoperability would be better served by allowing arbitrary alignments.
Wages are typically commensurate though. I'd rather be in the office for 10 more hours than you if I can make almost triple (depending on where you live, the UK for example has shockingly low wages for tech workers).
Does Instagram strip the GPS EXIF data?
It's also full of east asian immigrants, which are less likely to be fat (look up the obesity rate in Korea, for instance - it's almost 0)
Hi Eva,

Do you have any plans to integrate with Google Drive or iCloud drive in the near future?
> A unikernel for AppX will have a completely different attack surface from AppY so most generalized attacks just won't work.

If unikernal systems do become popular, it's very likely this would not be true because AppX and AppY would likely share a popular library that they've both been statically linked against. (Ex: An HTTP library with TLS). Granted, the footprint of exploitable features would be considerably smaller

I agree more with the the latter point that a compromised system would probably offer very little for an attacker to leverage.
I agree with you that there is are a wide variety of ideas about SLS and Orion in NASA, but the official policy (and the basis for this thread) is that SLS will take NASA to Mars. In the article you cited, Bolden is saying that he needs commercial crew to be fully funded to enable research on the ISS, which will allow for the use of SLS on trips to Mars. From the article:

>Bolden said that without the ISS, he would recommend that SLS and Orion be cancelled.

SLS and Orion are useless and should be cancelled without respect to what happens with the commercial crew program. SLS or derivatives thereof will not allow for the expoloration or colonization of Mars, the system is already in a cost/scope death spiral, and even if it is completed, it will be too expensive and too unreliable to be used for its intended purpose.

If NASA really wanted to go to Mars, they would propose cancelling SLS, and spending the money on Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Orbital Sciences (and possibly Skylon). BO, SX and OS super-heavy launch systems could be developed for a combined cost lower than SLS', they will have lower specific cost to orbit ($/kg) and they do not have the problems which NASA has with cost and schedule overruns. They could even fund two of the super-heavy launch systems, and use the extra money for launches to do induced low-gravity research, and high-efficiency propulsion research (amongst other things).
Show HN: Sondra – A Different ORM and REST Framework for Flask and RethinkDB
Ask HN: Replacing native call/text Android functionality
I'd like to replace the native call/text functionality in Android. I'd like to build an Android app that will handle incoming/outgoing calls/texts using Twilio. A wifi-only phone of sorts. I've built Android apps in the past so I'm familiar with the process. My knowledge of modifying code on a rooted android device is lacking. What I need help finding is how to override/hack the lock screen to show incoming calls. Incoming text messages can be handled with normal push notifications. Lock screen widgets were removed in Lollipop so I can't go that route. I'm looking for any pointers, helpful info, code examples, or comparable apps. I'd like to make sure this is feasible before committing any amount of significant time to it.
Sure. With the true AI around the horizon if you wait long enough you won't have to figure anything - it will do it for you.
Sorry, I was wrong. Obama delivered. To GOOG/TWTR/YAHO/FB/etc and to Eric Schmidt-backed startup more than to the middle class. My bad.
Wow this is really cool! (kinda creepy too haha) What language are you using?
Author here.

Not all RESTful APIs will fit into a framework like this, and the choice of RethinkDB limits its applicability to a narrower community, but I intend on supporting other document-based DBs in the future. I really like RethinkDB's API and ReQL in particular, and it seems like a solid foundation to build something a little out of the ordinary on.

What makes it different from other ORMs? It's a rethinking of ORM mechanics for a "document-based" backend system.

* JSON documents are validated using JSON-Schema (http://json-schema.org).

* It tries to make the exposure of non-CRUD operations relate as a method to a logical server-side object and have a consistent endpoint syntax. It also uses Python function annotations to generate request and response schemas for methods.

All API endpoints exist within a four-tiered path hierarchy of

* Suite - base level, serves as a collection of applications and repo for basic shared schemas

* Application - a bundle of collections representing a logical set of functionality, methods that bind at this level act like "library functions"

* Collection - a collection of documents sharing a common schema. Methods that bind at this level act like "class methods"

* Document - a single instance of a document schema, representing concrete data. Methods that bind at this level act like "instance methods" in traditional OO programming.

What helper features does it have?

* Reusable apps / collections.

* JWT based sample authentication app, auth.

* Automatically generated help from schema descriptions and python docstrings

* Self-describing schema endpoints for suites, applications, collections, documents, and their methods.

This is pre-release stuff, to be sure. I'm using it on personal projects, but it needs:

* More tests

* More docs for the Python side of things (I'm working on this first)

* A solid example application

* Automatic generation of JS API connectors
We're hiring, by the way: http://thegroundwork.com/jobs/
I've always been curious, what's the rationale for opening luggage? If there is an issue, should the person be summoned before the plane is loaded and boarded? If they think it's explosive, shouldn't the NOT TOUCH IT?
I think the whole colonization angle is widely overblown and it's become embedded in our views about space by a century of genre fiction most of which couldn't break out of the colonial mindset.

Technology is going to destroy birth rates and scarcity and machines will rapidly eclipse our own abilities to do anything and so future man will smartly answer the question of inter-planetary and perhaps interstellar travel with 'machines not people'. Eventually we may leave Earth on some scale but I doubt we'll ever run out of room or resources here and be forced to leave.
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Now, I'm waiting for someone to discover that unikernels can be optimized if they have some sort of way of directly requesting the host operating system to do things for them.

A call to the system, you may say.