skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now’s an opportune moment to talk about encryption with non-techies
I wonder if there has been a single actual case of that happening - of encryption having made court orders useless in a case of preying on women or children. I'm skeptical.
I originally wrote "implicit affirmation", but edited it out. Hope you didn't downvote the entire comment because of that.
Dave Winer makes a point about how he posts to his own blog and only syndicates his content to medium.com via rss because he wants his content to live on for years.

Ironically when you visit the medium.com version of his post[1], all the links in it were hijacked by ifttt.com and turned into ift.tt shortlinks. So his effort to escape the medium.com content jail landed him right inside the ifttt.com content jail as well. Double jail.

Will those ift.tt shortlinks still load in 5 years? Who knows.

[1] https://medium.com/@davewiner/anywhere-but-medium-5450cb19f2...
I am surprised that you consider a social media opportunity can be bootstrapped (i.e hits point 1). Has there ever been a successful social media company that has not required outside funding?

I think I really need to flesh these checklists out more.
You can get auto-updates and we do a pretty good job of protecting WP sites. But the situation is dire. A survey we did recently showed that 38.9% of respondents (out of over 7000 WP site admins) were hacked within the past 12 months.

https://www.wordfence.com/learn/2015-wordpress-security-surv...
The display was slaved via coax to, I think, four or five CRTs around the site. I don't know if there was a separate amplifier/splitter or not.

It lasted a few years past 1999 - it was still in service for some time after I returned in 2002.
"But obviously the '90s were not sustainable."

Sorry, it's not obvious to me at least. Can you explain why they weren't sustainable?
You're not looking at the whole board. There are other companies that make money off of Android. Qualcomm, for instance.

They've made money off of Android by being the dominant SoC provider in the Android ecosystem (could've gone another way in a hypothetical Android-free world) and because Android pushed the smartphone market to grow faster than the alternatives (Symbian, Windows Mobile, etc) would have.
Yes, it's always worth reiterating that the Federal Circuit's decision is precedent nowhere, not even in the Ninth Circuit where the district court is located.

This is one of the reasons why the FSF, for instance, sided with Google but still urged the Supreme Court not to take the case. They said the GPLed OpenJDK already gave Google the right to the APIs in question, but also noted that there wasn't precedent any court needed to defer to for the Supreme Court to address anyways.
I've dropped AZERTY more than 10 years ago. Nowadays I use QWERTY with "US, international with dead keys" as keyboard layout. It works much better than AZERTY. You don't need to remember where all the accented letters are on the keyboard. You just compose them logically with the `'", characters. It pretty much allows for composing any French (accent) German (umlaut) diacritical. The only difficulty is typing a ç. You need to switch on the third level, assign it to a dead key (such as ALT) and then you can compose it as alt+C. The "third level" does not work out-of-the-box.
Where is Lilli and Loo?
> It also, weirdly, suggests not anything 3.5G or lower. What? Why?

Maybe, but I think maybe not...

My 3G Nexus S "[i]s capable of operating on a long-term evolution network or successor wireless data network communication standards". This is because 3G LTE networks seem to also communicate with 3G, 2G, and 1G radios just fine.
There's nothing in the article to say that the residents were arrested. An arrest is the threshold for controlling someone's legitimate actions: if the police don't have enough evidence to arrest the person, then they shouldn't be limiting their movements. That is the whole point of arrest (and the related burden of proof required to make an arrest).

To restrict someone's actions without legal authority - such as arresting them - is illegal.
I have eaten most of those but I was tempted to pretend I haven't.

My point was a major simplification of how American assimilation happens or I think ideally it should happen. Cultural heritage is important and mixing cultures together is the best version of America in my opinion.

I'm saying that American culture is a tapestry of it's subcultures and it's subcultures are sourced far and wide. The idea isn't to go with direct and hard assimilation the way people talk about French assimilation as was mentioned at other points in this thread where immigrants adopt French mannerisms but that American immigrants adopt some American mannerisms while bringing their own that other Americans adopt. I used really simple and identifiable culture parts like food.
> Why do people continue to start smoking?

Because tobacco smells and tastes nice (cigarettes mostly don't, but cigarettes are to the tobacco world as McDonald's is to the hamburger world). It stems the appetite and heightens the mind.

Why don't more people start to smoke?
this has been my suspicion that it's a game of hot potatoes where the goal is to pass it to the next sucker for profit. Almost like a Ponzi scheme where the last guy to buy the company bears all the risks, often the public IPO market, while the train of VC and underwriters have already made their money.

The guys who work for VC has to make number of investments and it's not like investing in the stock market, it's far far riskier and uncertain (hence the huge returns). So it makes sense that they would gravitate towards low risk bets by betting on momentum to piggyback on.

This explains why there's crowding towards 'hot & flashy' startups on techcrunch and not as much to individuals focused on technological innovation. This crowding naturally leads to unicorns with unsound valuations that I've been qustioning.

The comments on HN after some hiatus is starkly different than those of 2014 or 2015. In 2014 I said the bubble will pop and I was ridiculed and downvoted to hell. In 2015 more people agreed and now majority of the comments are people ringing alarm bells now.

I think the coming years where unicorns drop left & right, we will also witness the beginning of the end for Twitter & Facebook and towards a decentralized, peer to peer, cryptographic replacement.
>I'm presuming that you're making the assumption that ads delivered to less affluent people are less valuable (otherwise I have no clue what your post is supposed to mean in context).

They are, I don't think you understand how modern ad networks work.

Ad networks work on a bidding system when you access a website with ads the ad network uses the profile they have on you which includes your sex, age, "interests", location and also presumed income and pretty much sell you rather than the spot in the banner.

Ad networks charge much higher fees for iOS users than Android users, Android generates 3 times the ad traffic that iOS does but both iOS and Android have the same revenue share as far the global mobile ad market goes.
This means that the average iOS user is worth 3 times than the average Android user as far as advertisement goes.

http://operamediaworks.com/innovation-and-insights/state-of-...
The Facebook loving farmers of Myanmar
It is, remotely.
Not just the same problems as the New York bill; the wording of the two bills appears to be nearly identical!

Here's the CA bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab...

Here's the NY bill: http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2015/A8093
>"Stop and frisk" and "asset forfeiture" means anything to you?

And I agree that those are unconstitutional. But again it has nothing to do with this case.
As a YC B2B alum, not totally impartial, but also not totally uninformed. I think you may have the wrong take-away from your experience.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience in LA. I agree a lot of the stuff you wrote about that accelerator sounds like unconscionable bullshit. The amazing thing is it is far from the worst I've read about. I'm glad you realize it was crappy.

Yes, there are ways to bootstrap a B2B business: early sales/revenue. The risk is becoming a consultancy, or losing your market to someone who is better funded. I wouldn't say you have to raise (even for consumer), but I also wouldn't say you shouldn't, and in the current market, raising is probably the best choice for someone who fits the scale/size/winner-take-all model, even in B2B.

2.9%? Why does a specific percentage matter? If someone takes 10% and tanks your business, that's bad. If I could get YC level value-add (network, advice, reputation) as a developer tool company focused on startups for 25% of common from a huge value-add investor, I'd seriously consider it. But of course I'd rather take YC for 7% and all the other YC benefits.
I will do a follow up and flesh out the criteria in more depth so that everyone is on the same page. I use this list to judge my (and other people’s) ideas, so I know what each criteria means, but as this thread has showed there must be quite a divergence between my judgement and others.

I would certainly love to talk to anyone about their ideas if they are meeting 19 off the list! Very impressive.
I should also say the strengthening dollar, partially due to the fed's disinflationary policy, and also due to external effects (OPEC oil activities, which are still priced in dollars) are making the dollar crazy strong relative to foreign currencies. Is disincentivising corporate spending and investment. This can't last. When the relative strength of the dollar starts to erode, take it as a leading indicator. Herding behavior will do the rest.
>QBASIC if it ran in a browser

http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/qbasic.html
While you raise a point, I am not sure that the law in a heavy regulation environment will be that specific. For example, in the area of ham radio encryption is strictly forbidden and has been for years and yet cryptographically secure authentication is still arguably acceptable as long as it does not "obscure the meaning of the communication". I wrote about this in 2004 while I was a student and posted on my blog in 2009 at https://rietta.com/blog/2009/08/17/authentication-without-en....

To my knowledge the idea has not taken hold as the ham radio hobby moves slowly and the need for strong authentication is not typically a felt need of most operators who want to chat broadly and make new friends. It's part of the ham radio culture as a hobby.
Not at all. Pretty much all the code samples won't compile. We still had a runtime at that point. Lots of stuff is very different.
BitFury CEO Valery Vavilov on Increasing the Size of Bitcoin “Blocks”
Return-oriented programming
Now it's not so convincing piece of advice when you say "Never do an accelerator", when you just applied for one and got rejected, is it?
so basically there should be 2 components sold separately - "dumb GSM connectivity module" and "smart OS module" (iPod basically). The latter not having cell phone connectivity wouldn't be subject to that law and thus can have FDE/whatever. The GSM module can just attach to the "iPod" back like external battery.
Might as well try to ban speaking pig latin in public.
How does MS make money from Android? App sales?
I'm not pro-police, I'm just not so absurdly anti police that I think everything they do is an abuse of power. Yes I know there are police that abuse their power. But they didn't do anything wrong in this case. They were just doing their job searching for a missing girl and had strong evidence that her phone was in the house.
I just learnt about this in class. I find this fascinating so Starting a discussion to hear more about it.
The End of Global CSS (2015)
If you're born in a country, you're not an immigrant. These people are sometimes called "second-generation immigrants", but they're not actually immigrants themselves. Australia has plenty of those as well (like any postwar new-world Anglo country does)

Still, I'm interested to see how you'd fiddle with the timeframe to make the results functionally different. Show me how you see it being different.
my point (re: fat margins on mobile advertising) was that anyone who can control the default search engine stands to take a big piece of the profit associated with google ads delivered via those searches
JavaScript module loading landed in WHATWG HTML Spec
Thorough, not thoroughly fabricated: The truth about global temperature data
It is extremely relevant. The reason Android is not a cash cow is that its users primarily live in poor countries where there is very little ad revenue to be had.
That could easily change if there were no more advertisements and "things like Consumer Reports" were the way to buy things. It would be like a Costco or Amazon Prime membership.
>Definitely a trend that socialists talk the most about helping people but conservatives are the ones you'll more likely find getting their hands dirty.

This is an incredibly dubious statement. 99% of americans are literally afraid to touch a homeless person, it's pretty pathetic.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Self-Driving Cars May Get Here Before We’re Ready
I hate to say it, but I was rather unimpressed by this list, and nothing in it surprised me. While I certainly agree that the C preprocessor is a relic, and has not weathered the test of time well, I would suggest that a number of the supposed infelicities mentioned in this article stem from the misleading idea that the preprocessor is an integral part of the C language proper, when it is better thought of as its own language (and one that was traditionally done by a completely separate program). The preprocessor does things differently than the rest of C, because it's not C. It is a text-processing language of convenience, provided specifically for doing things that C itself cannot (or should not) do.
I would hope that the police do have a systematic method of correlating incidents with addresses. Such as, say, a history of reported domestic abuse. Or homes with residents that have been threatened with doxxing or swatting. And information such as whether the resident is a recorded gun-owner.

I would sincerely hope that information such as this would be available to any officer dispatched to an address.
has anyone been able to recover the now removed document?
Why not just insert the exploit into the first email? What do you gain by identifying the client?
Microsoft just made Office apps far more powerful for the iPad Pro
Aereo Founder to Unveil Wireless Internet Access Startup
> Compare this to handwriting and uploading html files, and it seems like we've gone backwards.

But this isn't apple and oranges; a blog with themes and whatnot is much more sophisticated than the HTML CSS rendering defaults. IMO, a HTML page without any CSS is not that bad looking and you don't really need it. Heck, even a text file written with a little bit of care is perfectly readable.)

And the information overload isn't much of a problem: most people know immediately that static site generators aren't for them.

> Look at medium, and look at instagram. A slightly better publishing experience dominates.

Look at all the blogs using Wordpress, and everything written on Twitter and Facebook.

> And to further that note, how would you self host a photo site for mobile? Is that even possible? How would you begin?

I am not entirely sure what a 'photo site for mobile' is, but I am sure that it has no equivalents from before 2006 or so which you could claim it is harder or more complicated than, and I suspect that you could get 95% of the value from a static HTML page sitting on S3 containing a bunch of <img> tags and a 'viewport' <meta> tag that you copy-pasted from a StackOverflow post you found by googling 'how to make a mobile html page'.
No they would be using a phone that serves some ads.
Google makes money directly from Google play and from having Google Ads as an integrated part of the platform this is a big big difference.

If Google didn't had android they could not access the same revenue stream if there was an alternative OS the only thing they could do is either generate revenue via regular browsing.

Your TV analogy is incorrect because in your case these ads are platform agnostic, a correct analogy would be GE selling smart TV's that allow NBC to display ads outside of it's regular TV broadcasting (which anyone who owns an LG TV knows just how annoying the fuck it is) in this case this capability is platform specific meaning NBC can only display these types of ads on GE smart TV's if some one has a Sony TV NBC can't display these ads hence NBC can't make money on selling those specific advertisements.
Nope, I didn't downvote you. I think the rest of what you wrote is pretty accurate. I also don't think Google will capitulate. I think they're moving to OpenJDK to limit their downside, but I think they're doing it with the idea of fighting it out.
The Future of Facebook Advertising Isn’t in the United States
I assume you plan on raising money? In your case, you would likely get even more than a 6% valuation bump, making YC worth it on that alone.

I think there are some key details missing in this post which make it hard to tell why you were in fact rejected. In addition to the accelerator, you've also been going at it for 3+ years, and are only now hitting 1M For B2B, that is unfortunately on the really slow end of things for growth (read Jason Lemkins quora posts for whay to expect for typical bootstrapped busineeses). The fact that you're a leader already in this market, and growth is that slow, is maybe an indicator the market doesn't have much potential. On the other hand it might also just be that you're in a market that is new, so the potential is there and others just don't see it.
If these large startups with crazy valuations are now in danger of not being able to raise a bigger round to sustain their burn rate, and the crowd mentality of VCs sour, how realistic is it to expect any of these companies built on lack of due diligence in testing out the viability of their ideas to last? For example: startups delivering food. nobody done it before because everyone knew it was dumb unless you owned the entire delivery chain, and even then the margins were razor thin and they convinced bunch of VCs that an Android app was going to fix the broken business model.
Garages cost a whole lot less per square foot than a living room. We put everything we can in our garage to have a bit of space in the house.
Startup Pays Cash to Buy Homes, Flip Them
Maybe private data like BSSIDs shouldn't be used for mapping purposes in the first place.
"While this is technically true it's not exactly the case."

Uhm?

The thing is: Yes, Android enjoys some popularity in rich countries, but from a pure numeric perspective that is entirely irrelevant compared to the number of users in poor countries in Africa and Asia.
Didn't realize the extent to which FB is (or soon will be reliant) on emerging markets. It has a huge established base in the U.S. -- no slouch there. But the growth rates are quite different.

>The point is that APAC and other “emerging markets” like India, Brazil and parts of Africa are growing a lot quicker for Facebook than the U.S. or Europe. In the first three quarters of 2015, Facebook added 73 million users in APAC; it added just 23 million across the U.S., Canada and all of Europe combined. Fast forward five, 10 or 15 years down the road and it’s possible (probable?) that those emerging markets — the areas of the world where millions of people are coming to the Internet for the very first time on mobile phones — will be Facebook’s most important markets.
> Is this really a problem specifically with Howard, or more a problem with CS curriculum in general? I ask this leaving the likes of CMU, Stanford, MIT, out of the equation - I'm thinking more about the "non-elite" CS programs, of which there are many, many more.

You shouldn't leave the elite programs out of the equation. I've helped to interview a good handful of people who went to elite institutions and had done difficult, important work, but couldn't answer our interview questions correctly. We don't even use hard interview questions, just three that expect you to know some tricks-of-the-trade for systems programming and basic processor architecture.
This is the game. There will never be a "Prohibiting Encryption and Preventing Privacy Act." It will always be a ostensible act of patriotism and protection. Combatting terrorists, child molesters, sex traffickers, drug cartels, money launderers, and other easy-to-demonize scary folk.
Google Paid Apple $1B to Keep Search Bar on iPhone
Funny thing about the "Big Lie", it only works if it's repeated enough successfully.

James Clapper was able to repeat the big lie long enough to avoid charges of lying to congress. Ms. May has her own rodeo to deal with now. let's see how she ends up.
Not sure that I would agree there. What if the "excess" production funds a cure for cancer? What if that cure requires additional resources?

The world isn't static.
> The reason Amazon hires any worker, homeless or not, is to extract a profit from their work.

This arguments are getting ridiculous. Why is it always the employers exploiting the employees? Why not the other way round? The way I see it, if the people could generate more value self-employed, they would do it! The only reason they take jobs is because they can, gasp, exploit the employer by producing more value than they would otherwise, and getting paid more!

In a free society, exploitation goes both ways!
If I were them, I would try a non-technical (or at least mitigation) strategy: put a sign in their yard or on their front door that says "Sorry, we don't have your iPhone" and a description of the problem and screengrabs/URLs of articles like this.
Honestly, I don't think a checkbox question is enough for equipment used to handle top-secret information. The government should have demanded and audited the source code before buying it.
A US/UK ad impression is worth 10x more than an ad impression in Indonesia. It is that simple.
Are you actually writing an implementation of Java? No? Then it shouldn't affect you.
There's nothing to infer from a denial of a petition for certiorari, and there's certainly no precedential weight to it. And there's actually precedential weight to the fact that a denial has none :)

It is true that they implicitly affirmed the decision in this particular case, but as to the larger question of copyrightability of APIs, as I mention above, the reasoning for denial could just as easily be they didn't think this case would be a good test for that question for whatever reason.

Wikipedia cites a few cases in which the Supreme Court has explicitly stated this in [1] (see paragraph starting with "Conversely...")

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certiorari#Federal_courts
Who hires people to work in theorem provers, or using languages allowing proofs alongside code? I've always wanted to use them as a tool alongside unit tests or randomized testing, but they require dedicated language support so I haven't had the chance to test it on any 'real' code[1].

Is there a good language with the simplicity, portability, and control of C together with theorem-proving features? Like if I'm writing a memory allocator or something, I'd want to keep cache in mind, control when I ask the kernel for more pages, try not to fragment the heap, compile to simple assembly code so that there aren't expensive context switches, etc. But it'd also be nice to carry along a proof that the heap doesn't get fragmented in a certain way.

[1] An example of 'unreal' code would be me spending a weekend trying to write Goodstein's Theorem in Coq. 'Real' code would be a web app written in Perl.
I don't understand why would you choose Rust over Go for backend stuff.
From what I see here on HN, Rust doesn't target backend app?
Can't you do that just by changing the image at the url it points to?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
Thanks so much for weighing in. I'm sure the details vary by country, but it's still great insight into the business.