skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> censorship

A state should not have the power to veto any information under the pretence of national security. There is no accountability. What I am really advocating is the abolishment of secret secrets, or any secrets that govern public policy, government decisions/workings/connections/longevity, and that all secrets should be made available to the records of history after they go beyond their limited window of opportunity. Hopefully, in time to counter abuses of power while they are still relevant.

> Privacy and secrecy are two names for the same thing.

By private, in the previous context I am referring to the individual.

> Violent nightmare

Examples would be appreciated. I don't understand what this idea of all information being immediately and universally available and the necessary decent into a dystopian nightmare, is based on.
I'm going to take the contrary view here and I'll say that you did fine.

Starting a business, operating it for a while and a successful exit are the whole meal, if you had continued to run it you might have crashed it or you might have been in debt now.

There is no way to know what would have happened in an alternative universe, and it's a pretty good thing on your resume to say that you ran a startup that made you and your investors money. That puts you in the < 5% bracket of the entrepreneurs.

Now you simply need to do that all again, with the lessons learned and your newfound energy, capital and the success story behind you.

You'll do very well indeed if you play your cards right.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't compare with the 'could have been' from the perspective of it could have been more, it could have been a whole lot less too!
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"Leave the opinions to be formed by the people."

Yes, because the average American surely has the time to read 100s of classified documents. The goal of the release is to attain reform, and if drama stokes discussion and catalyzes reform, so be it. What's the problem with drama exactly? The more notorious Assange gets, the harder it will be for the powers that be to get rid of him.

Do you honestly think that drama leads to the downfall of media? Do you remember CNN, Fox, NYTimes in early 2003, when they all claimed that Iraq had WMD? Why do they still have credibility? They do because media has become part of the enterntainment industry, which makes it obvious why WL is necessary.
hmm...
I don't think as an entrepreneur we should seek to optimize these metrics. These rules are ideal for Paul since they reduces his risk for investing, which is necessary as a prudent investor. Y-Combinator would be over the moon if 6 out of ten start-ups were successful. If you were one of those 4 who didn't make it, it would be devastating for you.

Ultimately as the entrepreneur your rules should be gear towards gaining traction. Think about it, you would be over the moon if 6 out of 10 persons sign-up. Gaining customers is your way of reducing risk. Concoct your rules for reducing your risk. I think Eric Reis, Steve Blank and the lean start-up movement are doing a great job at this.

So my advice is don't try to focus on meeting this check list but focus on obtaining traction. Oddly enough, all investors love traction.
I think he misinterpreted the Twitter question. She seemed to be asking whether he would reject a group with an idea as compelling as Twitter if the founders didn't have the right personalities.
Most are privately owned or with historical flights, but some do remain in military service. For instance, the Salvadoran Air Force operates 2 near-original C-47Ds and a few Basler BT-67s and the South African Air Force has 10 C-47TPs (converted to turboprop power with PT-6A engines) which are used in the maritime patrol, light transport and EW roles.
Oh good point. Would it then be 95 printable ASCII characters by 32 (for the effective key size in bytes)? If so, that gives a laughably large number:

1937114844585011541643853683619338993862294591963291168212890625

Another question, and I'm way over my head here (also time for bed), but considering this snippet below, is it possible the NSA or another group would have an undiscovered attack against it?

"NSA was embroiled in some minor controversy concerning its involvement in the creation of the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a standard and public block cipher algorithm used by the U.S. government and banking community. During the development of DES by IBM in the 1970s, NSA recommended changes to some details of the design. There was suspicion that these changes had weakened the algorithm sufficiently to enable the agency to eavesdrop if required, including speculation that a critical component—the so-called S-boxes—had been altered to insert a "backdoor" and that the reduction in key length might have made it feasible for NSA to discover DES keys using massive computing power. It has since been observed that the S-boxes in DES are particularly resilient against differential cryptanalysis, a technique which was not publicly discovered until the late 1980s, but which was known to the IBM DES team. The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reviewed NSA's involvement, and concluded that while the agency had provided some assistance, it had not tampered with the design.[11][12] In late 2009 NSA declassified information stating that NSA worked closely with IBM to strengthen the algorithm against all except brute force attacks and to strengthen substitution tables, called S-boxes. Conversely, NSA tried to convince IBM to reduce the length of the key from 64 to 48 bits. Ultimately they compromised on a 56-bit key.[13]"

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency
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A lot of people don't seem to understand the difference between closures and lambdas, and a lot of people get it backwards as soon as someone points it out to them. Good to know there's one clear demonstration out there.

Actually, if you could pass this on to people when you hear them refer to lambdas as closures, that would be pretty awesome.
What I don't get is why a company like Microsoft - rich and no longer in the lead doesn't setup a couple of well funded skunk works companies. Drop the baggage (ie don't force them to use windows and allow a new culture to emerge) and give each one a target - touch computing or something else and let 'em go.

Microsoft has all the pieces - money , good engineers, marketing etc. but it's not working. They have the financial space to do something radical and disruptive to themselves and jump on that if it pans out.

Either that or just get some strong with real vision at the helm who is capable of turning it around.

Perhaps its much the same thing
This is slightly off topic, but Ballmer has to be crazy to overlook the strengths they have. Microsoft owns Amalga (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Amalga) which is an information retrieval tool for hospitals that ER doctors to reduce the time spent on searching for information.

Now let's take a step back and see what it is.

It's a tool which has the ability to manage 40 TB of data in real time and provide more than 12000 pieces of data for each patient. Can you imagine how rich a resource that is?

Let's say that microsoft invests considerably in a centralized server and continuously mines the data coming in and strips patient data live to the bare minimum the ER doctor needs to see. Moreover, what if they see trends in what is happening in an entire city, before people even realize it and alert the authorities to prepare before some wave hits. Imagine if they could work with people to reduce costs by mining this truckloads of data in real time. Why are they aping Apple? Why?

Microsoft had IBM's "A Smarter Planet" initiative before the latter even dreamed of it, but did they even know about it?

It's the proverbial story; don't look where you can't go or you'll miss the riches below. They have some absolutely amazing gems locked up in the research labs that can change entire industries if leveraged in the right way. Moreover, Microsoft has the might to do it.

They don't need an iPad killer they need a Microsoft Executive Killer(tm).
Anyone have thoughts on what this means for how startups might structure founder and early employee equity differently, given that they are going to take on a lot less capital and give up less of the company?
I think PG is on the right track with his investing strategy.

Lets say his probability of finding the next Google with this rule was a arbitary value of 0.001. I wouldn't know its exact value but I'm assuming it's non-zero.

He would have to invest in 693 companies before he has a 50% chance of hitting a google. I don't think they have gone that far as yet. It's just a matter of time.
They probably won't sue ios developers over this, since they can easily block their apps.
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Both Ellsberg and Assange have claimed that they do believe that there are legitimate secrets (e.g., cyphers, nuclear technology, and the like). Your argument is based on the assumption that WL sees all secrets as being born equal, which is utter nonsense. Do you honestly believe that:

- the Afghan war diaries contain secrets of the same magnitude as, say, U.S. radar tech 70 years ago?

- Pakistan does not know that the U.S. knows that elements of the Pakistani intelligence are collaborating with the Taliban? (of course they are, they know the Taliban will most likely win, and they want to ensure tranquility after the U.S. gets tired, declares "victory", and leaves)

- the enemy does not know it's using heat-seeking missiles against U.S. choppers?

- the enemy does not know the attacks on U.S. forces? They were the ones who carried the attacks out!

Think about it. The release of the documents contains very little the enemy does not know about. Therefore, your entire argument is invalidated. Apples and oranges. The secrets you alluded to do compromise national security. The secrets exposed last weekend by WL only compromise the politicians who lied to the world about how the war was going in order to avoid losing popular support.
I don't think the Chinese or the Norks would adopt that strategy. Nor would India or Pakistan if an intervention was required there. In fact nor would Russia if they decided to step up their activities in Chchnya or Georgia.

Who's to say what the geopolitical situation will be in 10, 20, 50 years? Aircraft flying now will see it...
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That looks more like a choice of some implementation and hopefully not of the language. I would hope for 'Python' that a Python compiler doesn't do that. There is no need to create a closure, when it is never needed. Requiring that for each call of a function with some local functions, closures are created for those, has little to do with 'we have closures', but more with a silly implementation.
I would not have expected such a misunderstanding of the fruits of the knowledge of the human reference sequence from J Craig Venter. Frankly, it sounds like sour grapes. For some reason, I feel inclined to try to explain some of the technical reasons why the public project's approach was necessary for the completion of the human genome.

There is broad agreement (perhaps "universal - 1") that Venter's sequencing approach would never have been able to achieve the level of completeness that we have now thanks to the Human Genome Project. This is because of duplicate DNA in the human genome, and the nature of short read lengths.

Let's try this with colors. Say you have a terrible sequencer that only reads 7bp at a time, max. You come across the following 2 strands of DNA:

GREENgattacaGREEN

REDgattacaRED

They're on 2 entirely different chromosomes, but you don't know this since there exists no reference sequence - you're mapping de novo, remember? Good. So you're get readouts like "GREENgattac" and "gattaca" and "attacaRED" - but you don't have any reads >7bp, so you never see what is on both sides of gattaca at once.

Thus, since you can never span gattaca, you will never know if your DNA in this region should be GREENgattacaRED + REDgattacaGREEN, or REDgattacaRED + GREENgattacaGREEN. For de novo alignment with short reads, this type of shortcoming is deadly.

Because the public consortium / Human Genome Project used much longer read lengths and a method involving bacterial artificial chromosomes, they were able to map the more difficult regions of the genome having repeats.

Edit I should have addressed the public consortium's approach more thoroughly, though to be clear I am less familiar with the approach and have never used it myself. Essentially, you chop up the 3 gigabase genome into a bunch of 150 kilobase segments (in this case, bacterial artificial chromosomes). You can map these back to their source chromosomes, of which we already knew we had 23. You then chop these BACs up into smaller pieces and sequence. In the worst case, you might be unsure of where some of your reads from each BAC map within the 150kb window that they come from, but hey, at least you know which chromosome and more or less which portion of the chromosome they come from. In other words, in the situation described above, the RED and the GREEN never co-occur, since they are on different BACs and are not sequenced together. Thus you know that RED/RED and GREEN/GREEN are the right pairings (and you know which belongs on which chromosome).
Finland:

31$/mo. for iPhone4 + 13$/mo. (dur. 2 yrs) for unrestricted 3G data until 1 Gb transferred, after which the speed is capped to 64 kbit/s.

or

26$/mo. (dur. 2 yrs) for HTC Desire including unlimited 3G data with unrestricted speed, free phone calls within the same carrier (covers over 1/2 of all Finns) and 2400 min of free calls/mo. to other domestic carriers.

translates to

44$/mo. for iPhone4 with crappier plan vs. 26$/mo. for HTC Desire with fully loaded plan. The difference is gigantic, but iPhone still sells like hot cakes.

Text messages cost 0,13$ apiece (single unit price for the most expensive carrier, median is lower)

iPad is not available atm.
Python the language or Python the implementation?
I blogged, and I haven't gotten much out of it even though I have over 500 rss subscribers and showed up multiple times on the front page of HN and Reddit.

1. I have not become a better reader. In fact, it made me more impatient because of #2.

2. Writing blog posts did not make me smarter. It made me realize that a blog post's success is a balancing act between being controversial and saying what people want to believe.

I also learned that the average time spent reading even my longest technical articles was around 20 seconds. Yes, even programmers have the attention span of a peanut. And true enough, I often saw comments where someone says "but you didn't do X" when I wrote I did X in the 2nd sentence. So my articles have gotten shorter and shorter, and so has my patience for reading other articles.

3. Anything else that came out of it has not really been a benefit so far. I am not even a quarter of the way through the minimum payout for Google Adsense. Needless to say, it is not even feasible to pay hosting costs this way.
It lists the paper of Joel Moses. Look for 'funarg problem'.
Well, he was not saying anything about "economics driver". I guess his remark "I was not saying this" was about economic part of the claim.
RIM to launch iPad rival in November
"Starting a business, operating it for a while and a successful exit are the whole meal."

Are you serious? You mean that in general, or in this particular case? Frankly, I am shocked by your assertion. Quoting Andy Grove:

"Intel never had an exit strategy. These days, people cobble something together. No capital. No technology. They measure eyeballs and sell advertising. Then they get rid of it. You can't build an empire out of this kind of concoction. You don't even try."

My thoughts exactly, only expressed more eloquently. What do you want? Make a couple of million and spend the next 30 years bored by the pool drinking cocktails? Or do you want to build an empire? Sure, building an empire is hard work, but at the time of my death, I want to know I chose the path of adventure, not the easy way out.

I am by no means advocating taking enormous risks and chasing quasi-impossible dreams. But if one's startup is taking off, why not stick around and try to scale it up? Building a company of a few 100s of people from scratch sure must be a whole lot of fun. You are creating employment, you are creating wealth. If you sell your business as soon as it starts working, then you do the hard work, and someone else gets all the credit and the fun.
Yeah you're right. According to this CNET article from 2007, it has been decided at least to the Federal District level, that investigators are unable to compel encryption keys at this time.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9834495-38.html

edit: maybe not the case, here's an update to the same case from 2009 where, although he was free to keep the key secret, he was ordered to produce the contents of the drive.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10172866-38.html
Would anyone else like to see mandatory random delays added to markets just to put these window-breaking rent seekers out of business?
Austin-based tech firm Digby.com raises $2M in its $3M equity offering
I dunno, I can't think of many things more traditional about online communities than decrying the new version, especially if it changed any UI stuff people are used to. Happened with mainframes, happened on BBSs, happened on the 90s web, happens today...
The blind people could see the sunny weather icon, in the top menu! (I really don't understand the utility of that icon)

Aside from jokes, it basically is just an aesthetics design over the original ATM design. Though it's just a pilot test.

* To increase more confidence in people, as they say, they should rise the semi-transparent panel to cover the shoulders of the ones in front.

* Also from a security point of view, doesn't change anything. It's still vulnerable to existing attacks.
> Microsoft has all the pieces - money , good engineers, marketing etc.

They don't have the most important thing. Leadership. Everything about Ballmer reminds me of a salesperson who is trying over-hype a product in to selling it to you. With very little knowledge as to what the product actually does.

Like Ballmer, Steve Jobs is also not a tech nerd (in the sense that they are not developers/programmers or engineers), but Steve always seems to have a more in-depth knowledge about Apple products and knows it inside out.

On the other hand the top three guys at Google are hackers.

Leadership matters.
In general I don't like the idea of credit checks before employment, but there's a few obvious cases where it's useful.

If I'm hiring an employee who will be handling cash, or who will control purchasing decisions, or who will have access to information my competitors want, it's important to me to know that my employee won't ever be in desperate enough financial circumstances that they feel compelled to steal or accept a bribe.
500 -- Internal Server Error? I wish that would get graphic designers working...
cost/data, so surely you mean a <DIVIDE BY NAN ERROR> because data would be infinite?
Yeah, the iPhone contract seems like gouging. I brought our unlocked phones in from Australia and just pay an off the shelf Elisa/Saunalahti unlimited data plan. Cheap, works great, including tethering.
So does I.R.C.
> In 2006 I got an e-mail from Michael Arrington who wanted to write about Feed Digest for TechCrunch (yes, one of the biggest and most influential tech blogs in the world). Being a closet perfectionist, I asked if I could hold until the magical version 2 was released.

Man, I hate perfectionism. I've done a similarly stupid thing or two. This is something worth striving against.
heh heh - that was what I was trying to say. I think I need more coffee this morning....
The screen and joystick are certainly inferior to a touch screen for web browsing. However, I love the keyboard, and can't see how you could have a keyboard that good with a large touch screen. (QWERTY sliders are all right, but you can't use them one-handed, and the form factor just seems less natural.)

So I would agree that if web browsing is more important to you than typing, the E71 is not an ideal device. I do a lot of both, and find it's a great balance.
Ask HN: How many projects do you work on at any given time?
I was wondering how many projects you guys work on concurrently. I myself am working on 1 personal project and 3 client projects. Is this common?
I am not against testing.

I am against testing on users in pseudo environments such as mockups, wireframes, designed but death screens and even most types of prototyping.

Getting someone from the outsides opinion is nothing more than that. An opinion. But it is often taken as gospel and have way to large effect on the actual development of the product/service.

And in my experience whether that is government, large and small organizations and startups. The problem persists.

Don't test something that isn't real on end users.

But ya my views are a little extreme.
Is this really that new and innovative? The way you describe is exactly how it's always been in the Netherlands.

I think 90% of our machines are just there to get money, not deposit it, so maybe we had more chance to come up with a streamlined and simplified process.
How much of the observed vitamin-D deficiency is caused by known Vit-D-associated genetic variants? You can measure heritability without knowing what alleles in particular code a trait, right?
By default goto-line is mapped to M-g M-g which I find quite convenient already. I mention this because I used to have it bound to C-x g before discovering it was already bound elsewhere, default was good so C-x g got the boot to be available for something else someday.

Here's some of mine (full config @ http://github.com/cycojesus/emacs )

(global-set-key (kbd "C-z") 'undo)
(global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)
(global-set-key [kp-delete] 'delete-char)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b") 'browse-url)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c c") 'calendar)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c h") 'calc) ;; 'h' for 'h'P-48
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c l") 'linum-mode)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c w") 'whitespace-mode)
(global-set-key [(control mouse-4)] (lambda () (interactive)
(text-scale-increase 1)))
(global-set-key [(control mouse-5)] (lambda () (interactive)
(text-scale-decrease 1)))
(define-key global-map (kbd "RET") 'newline-and-indent)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-;") 'shrink-window)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-.") 'enlarge-window)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-/") 'hippie-expand)

;; scrollwheel on the modeline to navigate buffers
(global-set-key [mode-line mouse-4] 'next-buffer)
(global-set-key [mode-line mouse-5] 'previous-buffer)
>It feels like I'm watching someone try to act out the part of a character in a spy novel.

In that case we should be able to figure out his key and decrypt the file. The key in the spy novels is always something you feel like you should have seen coming, something predictable.
For most of us, yes it is common. Currently, I am working in two blogs, consulting business (two active clients) and a full-time job as well.
As for the plausibility of the decoy, how do you interpret the output of the Python interpreter in the great-grandparent comment?

If I had to build a compile-and-run sandbox, I'd also look into SELinux or AppArmor. However, blocking reads to /etc/passwd will disable getpwent(), which innocent programs may occasionally use, and with shadow passwords, /etc/passwd should not be sensitive anyway.