skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where on earth is the irony? He wishes he didn't have this competitor.

He doesn't say he thinks what they're doing is illegal or unethical. He doesn't say they should be stopped by anyone. He just wishes they weren't around.

You're thinking he's said things which he hasn't.
Checkout https://segment.com. They are super duper easy to send the data to, and have a ton of integrations.
Yes, but there was a long subthread yesterday dealing with the theoretical aspects of the case: whether it was possible for Apple to ship a phone where compliance with the kind of court order would be impossible.

Lots of people felt (IMHO with poor understandings of the situation) that it was, and that a modern iPhone would never be "hackable" by the government in this way. That turns out not to be the case, for the obvious reason that Apple needs to be able to ship modified firmware for the enclave, and that modified firmware can always contain modifications to emit the encryption keys in a way that the original security metaphor wouldn't have permitted.
Canonical's lawyers OK'd it which is why they are including it.
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"I wish we weren't" != "I wish the world wasn't that way"
> Getting useful people (for many contextual definitions of 'useful') to care about your success could be a direct reason for your success.

That is what it seems like. In the early phases of a company, founders meet a lot of challenges they never could have prepared themselves for. Having a community of people who've gone trough the hurdles give you advice and guide you is what makes startups succeed. The money certainly helps, but it is the condensed knowledge and tried methods of problem solving that really drives YC companies.
Presumably, the ROI on penetrating the world's largest market is significantly higher than the ROI on a marginal increase to their dominant market share in North America.
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Re (2): The answer to that sort of question doesn't even seem clear for other, more widely used Google products. I'm thinking Google Translate or the fonts in their office suite. Both things that most people probably don't think too much about the copyright implications of, but possibly should.
Because you want to start a business that supports itself with profits instead of outside monetary investment.

Because you want to build a great version of some X but don't necessarily want to disrupt or reinvent an industry.

Because you want to be financially secure and not risk your financial future on an idea that isn't guaranteed to work.

Because you like traveling or taking time off or playing around with a lot of different ideas and aren't at the place where you want to commit to working full-time on a company for five years.

etc...

This isn't a knock against YC at all, there are just other ways to grow and scale a business than hyper-growth + raising outside capital, and sometimes even if you have a great idea, bootstrapping can be a better approach for you depending on what kind of person you are and what point of your life you're at.
Don't really have an answer for any of your other points, but at least for 1), have you considered Fortran (90)? The language is built for linear algebra and mathematical computing, and matrix multiplication that makes sense comes out of the box with it.
The opportunity is only as big as the Chinese government will allow. If Uber didn't learn that lesson it soon will, and it will have cost them $1 Billion+

The Chinese market was also big for Google, but once the government makes a decision, that "market" will either infect you (ie obligate you to follow Chinese government rules when it comes to your operations outside of China as well) or make you re-evaluate why you want to be in China at all. Google pulled out. The market isn't as big as people think because it's not actually a market.
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VC backed companies have a built in promise of attempting global scope when they can.

And it's for the same reason why you want visa everywhere. Even if everyone uses unionpay, the travellers want their visa cards to work.
That's good for Netflix + html5, but doesn't help with every site (ex: fox/cw/etc). So it probably isn't a good solution for 'Grandma' since she probably wouldn't have the knowledge to understand why it breaks on non-html5 video sites. Whereas pipelight + user-agent works (currently) for a larger number of sites.
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The GPL doesn't even really prevent it, the only clause is a "derived work" which is quite a stretch that a court would find a module to be such a thing.
If this works on CEOs, then it would work on, say, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, or the heads of other central banks. Predictions gleaned from that data should be much more lucrative.

With higher stakes come greater incentives for counter-measures.
I tried to use the mirror functionality when it was new. I tested booting with one disk missing. Errors all the way. I went into IRC and chatted with btrfs folk about the "bug". Their response?

"Booting without all members of your mirror is unsupported."
Nice cherry-picking.
I do agree Google and FB is largely harmed by the great firewall from the every beginning, they don't even have a chance to compete. But Uber is not really blocked in China at all. They worked really actively with their government and even throw in a DC in China. Yes, Uber's competitor is fierce, but they made it work. Unlike the fact that China still cannot make a smart phone as good as iPhone, or cannot make their own OS like windows, that's they Apple and MS thrived.
Its not about the world - but who has the money.

Ghanan kids prolly wont have the money to even afford Uber.
I think this reading is relevant to this situation and your comment: "The Myth of the Rule of Law."

http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
Aren't they pretty common already? There was a whole hook written about it.
Back when they bought the mobile SoC with the biggest GPU from Samsung, co-designed with Intrinsity, which they then bought under Samsung's feet.

At the time almost all SoCs had anemic GPUs, and Android was betting on a software rendering pipeline.
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Weirdest downvotes I've ever gotten.
Or having botox injections
"I wish the world wasn't that way" looks like its being applied to "unprofitable in every city they exist in, but they're buying up market share" not "We have a fierce competitor" as opposed to if he had said [I wish we didn't] or [I wish they didn't]

making it about the "the world" pushes it into an ethical or moral opine.
in addition to the flask documentation

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/

the snippets page is really helpful

http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/

also, I've some boilerplate

https://github.com/ransomw/catalog-flask

even though it hasn't gotten attn in a while
I reacted at

> If he implements a class Calc with two methods as Add and Subtract, then give him 5 points, if he just writes another method then zero points.

Sorry for misunderstanding your whole point (no sarcasm, my english is not ideal)
"And zfs.ko, as a self-contained file system module, is clearly not a derivative work of the Linux kernel but rather quite obviously a derivative work of OpenZFS and OpenSolaris. Equivalent exceptions have existed for many years, for various other stand alone, self-contained, non-GPL and even proprietary (hi, nvidia.ko) kernel modules."
Could it be possible that the government want to lose in this case(and in the media) - creating a strong illusion that the iPhone is 100% safe from spying ? How valuable such an illusion would be ?
Heck, it's a national security issue for Uber to have info about what American politicians went where and when:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682132
Exactly what I thought.
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The photograph in the article is of an office for Uber in Hong Kong. Is there any reliable data available about how the company is doing there? Uber is ideal for places with inefficient public transportation; Hong Kong has easily one of the most efficient public transportation systems in the world. Subway, tram, light-bus and easy walkability make Uber seem redundant.
What is the point of being this pedantic? He said: in my experience, most of the homeless are not looking for help to find jobs and/or contribute to society in manner that will lead them out of "homelessness."

Let's look again: in my experience, most of the homeless are not looking for help to find jobs

And again: in my experience

In case you missed it: IN MY EXPERIENCE

He then goes on to explain his experience! It's called an anecdote. It doesn't mean it's generalizable. It means it's a data point, like saying a cheeseburger is "good." I don't preface every subjective, anecdotal statement with, "In my personal experience, but without citation or empirical data to back it up." He said all he needed, to where if you're asking for citation, you either lack reading comprehension skills or are just being a dick.
Well, ultimately all I can say is that my personal experience is it's easier for me to build software to the level of quality I want using an explicit error handling regime (like Go) than an implicit, exception-throwing regime (which I've used with Python and C++). YMMV.
I would undoubtedly do YC again if I start another company in my lifetime even though many of the listed benefits last for life after you are in once. The value wasn't as crystal clear to me when applying as it was after going through. I can't speak for others, but I would imagine a very high % of founders who have gone through YC would agree.
Hmm, it almost seems like the recent brouhaha lit a fire under GitHub...
It didn't strike me how common concealed carry was until a friend was giving me a ride in his Jag to pickup my car at the shop. I had to move his carry permit off the seat and it occurred to me that after knowing him for 15 years, he had never mentioned guns a single time.

You're right: most people simply don't mention it. In most of the US, guns are simply not a big deal.
he's not wishing about "they", he's wishing about "the world"
I'd also like to suggest the addition of the Co-Operative Bank (they're not dead yet!) and/or Smile. I have a Smile account.
I don't think it's about opposing the government, the line in Apple's letter that symbolises for me the importance of their argument is "because we believe the contents of your iPhone are none of our business." – for many other companies, the contents of your device is absolutely their business, it's how they maintain revenue.

If Facebook can't read your data, then they can't sell your eyeballs to advertisers.
> On the other hand, Zenefits might not have bothered with certification since it wouldn't have been legally required, or the requirements might have been less silly if certified professionals had to compete with non-certified.

You have to prove this. Also, you have to consider a problem in the way the market works. Insurance brokers are paid by insurance companies through referral fees, not by the final user. If you know something about economy, this should ring a bell: "moral hazard." Or we change the way the market works, but there could be unintended consequences or external regulation is required to ensure the market is fair.
ZFS filesystem will be built into Ubuntu 16.04 LTS by default
It also really depends on what is meant by HTTP. If we are including Websockets and HTTP2/SPDY than yeah I might see HTTP as more viable choice over AMQP, Thrift, custom sockets, etc.

The problem is internal communication and (especially micro-service where you might have many hops)... latency is often a serious concern. Often the best technology to reduce latency is not HTTP. In fact its best you don't rely too much on the protocol (ie be agnostic). Since you brought up Twitter see Twitter Finagle: Most of Finagle’s code is protocol agnostic, simplifying the implementation of new protocols.

And that leads to the previous segue that perhaps Hoverfly should be written in a protocol agnostic way. I'm not sure if it is (ie how coupled it is at the assumption of HTTP 1.1).

Otherwise I see Hoverfly as just a HTTP proxy tool.. of which I have used similar tools such as TCPTrace and ProxyTrace for ole school SOAP (oh the pain).
Uh, well if you base your GlusterFS experience on that, no wonder you have a bad view on the technology. I can only assume that your setup only used two nodes, which is not really supported, and of course will cause split-brain problems. And two bricks, really? GlusterFS is best aimed for scale both on the server and client side, two bricks is not really scale.
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I agree, it's incredible. But be warned, this made me sicker than just about anything I've done with the Oculus Rift.
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Obviously, the arctic is heating up more because heat rises.

Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all night.
This is incorrect - the Secure Enclave is a separate CPU, but the rate limiter is still software, and its firmware can (currently) be updated without erasing keys:

http://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/02/17/apple-can-comply-with...
Why does that matter? He didn't explicitly state that, is not expressing your sympathy towards the homeless reprehensible now?
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> What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks is that it's the only company that stores the data in way that Apple itself cannot read it

In an smartphone with encryption. If the data is on iCloud they can read it

Ups, the same case than Google
I would relish that data being dumped by someone.
> might meet with your advisor once every three weeks or so.

Only if your advisor is fairly senior (ie. Not pre-tenure)!
I'm not surprised that you have good experience with this setup.
I can only speak for myself. Here's why I never applied:

- In its beginnings ZeroTier was a one-man band for several reasons (some circumstantial, some historical). PG has explicitly written against single founder ventures, so I decided I had near zero likelihood of being admitted for that reason alone. Add to that the fact that my degree is from a Midwestern state school and I have not "worked at Google," etc., and I figured the lack of impressive credentials coupled with single founder status reduced the likelihood of admission to the point that I'd be better off spending the time to purchase a PowerBall lotto ticket.

- I am older, have kids, and am not rich. The Bay Area's real estate costs are simply too high, and I can't relocate on a whim because I would have to uproot family. It would make no sense to move there unless it were a permanent move, and YC's stipend is not sufficient to support a family in the Bay for even one year. Post-YC, being in the bay would cause our burn rate to be unacceptably high. (Almost 2X by my estimations.)

- At the time ZeroTier already had 10% month/month user base and active device count growth and I already had clear ideas about how to grow further and monetize, etc. I didn't feel like I needed that much hand-holding and already had some idea of the advice I'd get, etc.

By the time I became a we and this became a full time venture with everything it needed, we were too far along and YC fails cost/benefit analysis. At this point we'd have a chance of getting in but we don't need to get in.

There's one more point that didn't factor specifically into not applying to YC but is relevant:

I think there's a perspective advantage to not being in The Valley. It's very faddish up there and we'd be much more likely to end up in a situation where everything we build and our entire marketing pipeline is optimized for selling to other startups and Valley companies and that's not a good place to be in when that industry is extremely cyclic.

Our product is very useful to a lot of less faddish, trendy enterprise users and institutions like universities, etc., and we do not need to be in the Valley to reach these customers.

SoCal is underrated IMHO. It has a great talent pool minus the completely flat out insane real estate costs and is about two hours by plane from SF/SV.

I can't stress enough how crazy the RE costs up there are, especially when compared with what you get. First time I visited SV and toured a $3000/mo apartment with a lobby that smelled like dog urine I called it "perhaps the world's only six figure slum." Manhattan is that expensive but you're in Manhattan, not a crap vanilla apartment in a boring suburb. You have to spend over $5000/month there if you have a family to get an acceptable place to live. We currently spend under $2000/month for a clean, modern, nice place and are 20 minutes from this:

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/04/a5/d7/5a/c...
I worked with mortgage brokers for a while. They had a big exam, all complicated and they were supposed to be able to advise.

What they actually did was put 5 figures into a computer and pick the mortgage nearish the top with the biggest commission.

I have no idea how complicated health insurance is in the US as I'm from the UK but I'm willing to bet £100 that's what 90% of health insurer brokers do too.
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If there are no ads and no corporate sponsorships then how do they make money?
Dart support please! Since there is a vm debug protocol in Dart - seems doable.
> It's your choice to continue working at such places.

To some degree. The problem is every place you talk to there is a "well there could be crunch times when we're busy and you'll have to put in extra hours but those won't be frequent" conversation which seems okay at first. Then you join and you find out they're fighting fires almost every week and depending on the fire management may get compensated whereas developers do not.

It's not always an easy thing to avoid. I've seen it at big companies and start-ups. Start-ups typically seem the worst with this type of thing in fact, at least in my experience.
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Hashing is considered one-way encryption, no?
You are creating a double bind for yourself and others by posting these types of comments. Your comment indicates you want the experience making things with it which would be amazing, but you are also speculating (based on historical evidence) that Google may "take away" the amazing thing from you later.

> I'm not trying to pick on Google for shutting things down

People usually say what they are thinking. In this case, I can certainly appreciate and respect questioning what Google's actions will be in the future, but the problem at hand is that none of us can tell the future. By attempting to do so, and creating a situation where we literally believe two conflicting things at once, we get mired down in illogical arguments that end up making zero sense. Worse, when we post those illogical arguments, others get dragged into the dissonance and end up making similar arguments that make no sense and the result of that is others get lost in the mess we made. For example:

> I think Google understands how big this could be (well, why else do they do anything I suppose?)

Do we really know Google understands how big this could be, or is that just us wishing they wouldn't "shut it down later"? Both thoughts are speculative, at best.

As for me, I have no way to know if I can trust Google will leave these APIs up for as long as I need them or will not change the methods in the APIs at some point breaking my code I've written to talk to it. The latter happens to me all the time!

I realize this comment may stir some emotional responses. All I would ask is that we consider alternative ways of thinking about these illogically binding "feelings" and expand our awareness to the fact that what we really want is our software, regardless of who wrote it, to be open, transparent, trustworthy and capable of running wherever and whenever we want it, regardless of when that is.

Obviously we have a long ways to go before that statement can be a reality. One can hope though!
Extrapolating that the guy doesn't care about people from 1 quote < extrapolating that he cares about safety from 3 quotes.

As the quantity of cherry picking approaches the number of possible quotes in an article, the conveyed meaning approaches the meaning the article as a whole.
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Well, if you have an opinion on what IDF could do differently to lower the amount of civilian casualties, I'm all ears.
this could easily be the time tracking tool i have been waiting for! thanks
Totally fascinating! Why on earth would anyone care what someone else does with their home/car?
Duly noted; thanks for clarifying.

I do get the impression UAF is targeted mostly as a biometric authentication system — which I indeed dislike, so I do see your point. Perhaps the confusion stems from the UAF/U2F split and the examples shown.
> but it appears that even Secure Enclave phones are vulnerable

What proof is there of this ?

Even reports I've heard from people at the White House believe the newer phones are simply not possible for Apple to compromise.
I am hopeful that HN will have a useful and productive discussion about climate change this time. Your comment is not helpful to that end. Please consider how important this issue is and refrain from jokes about the catastrophic destruction of our environment and its stability.
Just playing around with analogies here...

If a company sells bank-vaults, can the US government have the authority to force them to blowtorch into one of their own products that was bought by a suspect? Can the government force them to include a master skeleton key for every single vault they manufacture?

... Also, remember how encryption was once blocked from export as a kind of weapon? How about we hoist them in their own petard? Let's talk about guns:

Does the US government have the authority to force a gun-manufacturer to include a "remote off-switch", so that police can point a transmitter at a suspect and disable anything they may be carrying?
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The iPhone in question was his (government) work phone and they already found a bunch of their other 'burner' phones in a trash bin, which they got access to. I find it unlikely he used his work phone for planning when they purposefully ditched other devices. Additionally, I doubt he knew the iPhone encryption would block investigators from accessing the data, so the fact they can't access it is most likely just coincidental that the device's battery was dead.

But this is just speculation...

I'm definitely in the camp that believes this is a legal stunt by the FBI to set a precedent using a highly publicized terrorism case which the public will support. A previous All Writs Act claim in 2014 by the FBI for a credit card fraud case involving an encrypted iPhone didn't change Apple's position on the matter, so they are trying again with a higher stakes case.
I like how Github is taking note about the lack of innovation, and doing the right thing; but I'd like to see the blog post announcements AFTER the feature is implemented. It's like saying "Oh, you're thirsty? I'm going to give you a glass of water, but not yet, next week"