skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security

My understanding was that some global intelligence organisations can request decryption and that China is doing this actively [see above link].

I also recall reading some time ago that organisations that work exclusively with skype to provide some add-ons can be given access to decrypt.

Further, there was also that techcrunch article - http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/08/skypes-innermost-security-l... - which spoke about this
I figured this would happen. I was going to write a service exactly like Cloud Drive and Google Music, but I knew that as soon as I had more than 10 users I would be inundated with angry RIAA lawyers. I guess I was right.

(I would still like to simply see BMI's catalog blocked. If the services are popular but BMI won't allow Amazon and Google to host their music, then that's BMI's loss rather than Amazon's or Google's.)

Also, the record companies wonder why nobody buys music: this is why.
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It's exaggerated, to be sure, but it's an instructive exaggeration. Showing the noise visible in a 4k still at 8% enlargement isn't going to help a novice understand ISO tradeoffs.
The top 10 torrents for movie The Expendables on thepiratebay.org still have a total of 4595 seeders, 500 leechers. Healthy numbers, I wonder if they'll drop dramatically over the next couple of weeks.
This is something I have been thinking about for a long time -- and I really thought that KNO was going to bring it;

If you're going to offer an open device (meaning you put your own apps on it, its just a regular machine in the traditional sense) to students and think that they will have some magic incentive to pay for that device - that thinking is flawed - as (even as HNers point out) they can spend money they were planning on already spending on a system they have total control over and more choices WRT its features.

However, if you were to partner and build a knowledge/content delivery platform which was the real value of a device - and the hardware was incidentally delivery mechanism, then you could begin to have something of value.

For example, an OS, apps and content designed to be together and be a part of the curriculum.

I think this is where Khan Academy can really make a revolution - especially if they have support from various directions.

Right now, Khan Academy has content organized by subject - and there is the beginning of a teaching/tracking platform which provides tools for tracking a students progress.

This is the idea that needs to be expounded upon and put onto any of these systems-to-students ideas such as the google laptop.

Google is already going after education and enterprise organizations to provide email and apps-for-domains.

They really need to look at Khan Academy as the vector for really getting into this in a meaningful way.

If we take the idea of Meaningful Use from the medical space, and create Meaningful Education and begin to put a lot of great thought into the education platform - we could change the world of education.

We need real platform development that accounts for the content, context and containers in such a way that we really utilize technology in an augmenting way.

Google's approach with this model is bottoms up - where we need more tops down.

There are far too many assumptions that providing technology without contextual content and tools will foster innovation etc. but really we have not seen a real thought-out approach to this problem.
This is sad...but it has a very self-pittyish tone, which makes it come across as annoying. Like the brat at the party that everybody wants to smack.
I sure hope he's been looking at CoffeeScript. How would a shift like this even be accomplished though?
Can we start by killing all the Greek letters and replacing them with Mathematica-esque notation, now that computers have dramatically reduced the convenience of writing symbols rather than words?
Yay! More lock-in! :D
On the other side of the coin, just add "computer programmer" to your resume, send it off to the investment banks, and enjoy your "$100K+ job". It's not a scam when both parties consent.
That is a lot of people... Yeah I don't quite see how you need that many...

Looks like it would be very noisy too, headphones a must.

This is how you typically run a 'sales & marketing' office in NYC, by being open. Just surprised to see devs that are in that mix.
My ISP is a large corporation and can say "poof, I herby revoke your access to the internet" and I'd be pretty screwed. Miss a payment there and suddenly that distance learning class goes away too. Same for if you miss a payment to the university FWIW.

There are pros to this arrangement. Laptops get stolen all the time at universities and students aren't always known to keep great backups. Being able to log-on from anywhere (in one of those disappearing labs, another student's laptop or your smartphone) and having access to your stuff is a big win.

I think it's interesting and while wouldn't want this to be the only option I can definitely see the benefit of it being an option.
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My standard signature includes my name, company, blog, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If I want a phone call or fax or meeting, it'll include phone number, fax, address.

Four lines is not short. Nobody cares about your blog, Twitter, or LinkedIn.

I sign my emails either "--Jon" or "Regards, Jonathan Rockway" depending on who the intended recipient is. If you want to read my blog, just type my name into the nearest search engine.
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Sf is slightly more hipster than PA. More networking events are in SF. Pa has more of a stanford feel.

Both are very strong, for starting a company.
Apple looking into senate request for DUI checkpoint app removals
They should wait until June 30th and see what happens between Apple and Amazon.
I was similarly unimpressed by how siloed and corporate everything felt during the Q & A sessions.

I watched the Android fireside chat, and there was so much "we don't plan on supporting that" and "that's in the hands of our OEM partners" and "you'd have to talk to another team to get specific on that" or "we may look into that in the future"

Things felt so soul-less and uninspiring. You'd think that the Android team(s) would have no problem promoting excitement and optimism among the people who want to build on top of their work, but it was just lacking. ::sad panda::
one couldn't play more by the rules of the industry than Zediva. Zediva only eliminated some technical inefficiencies. By attacking Zediva the industry clearly shows itself as just a Luddite fighting to defend the inefficiencies that are source of the industry's income.
In 10-20 years it would be just another paragraph here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
I wonder if one could turn this into a dumb site optimizer by running A/B tests with business metrics reported and autoscale the group that is performing the best...
I think the majority of PHP developers could handle Erlang. The core language is small, the syntax maybe at times quirky but it is quite clear, the documentation is good and the community is welcoming. There is perhaps some extra effort in starting a project but with rebar I don't think it's any more onerous than the hoop-jumping involved in using a PHP framework.

If there are any PHP developers reading this who have tried and failed to pickup Erlang I'd be interested to know what got in your way.
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/G12/G12A6.HTM indicates that G12 power on to first shot is in the region of 2.7 seconds. I can turn on my D90 and take a shot in a single continuous move of picking it up and aiming it - http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-cameras/nikon-d90-with-18/45... says it's 0.2 seconds, though with AF added in, I'd say it feels more like 0.9. Somewhere between 15x and 3x faster makes a huge difference in reacting quickly in e.g. a party, or sport. The D90 gets over 4 shots per second continuously, but it seems that the G12 has a hard time getting 2. The sensor is also pretty small (AFAIK it's the same as the one in G11 and S90); that lets it get higher zoom levels at the cost of quality in low light. All that in a pretty bulky package (IMO - it's bigger than the S90, nearly twice the weight, and the S90 isn't exactly small).

What I'm getting at here is that if you're walking about on holiday in a city, something like the S90, or maybe the G11, would make sense (though I think the G11 might be a little too big for comfort, the S90 is already quite a bit). If you're specifically trying to take photos, rather than just bringing a camera along, then you have a lot more freedom with a DSLR.
I just started building something. I had no experience in any of the web friendly languages before. I was looking for suggestions on frameworks and stumbled upon CodeIgniter (PHP based MVC architecture framework). I have been able to get satisfactory results. I think I might have had a similar level of success had I picked Django or some other f/w.
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"If someone finds/steals your iPhone they can with little effort recover the GPS data."

Except that it wasn't GPS data - just a list of cell tower and wifi hotspot pings.
Any reason? Or just a pet-peeve?
The chances that you want to deliberately underexpose or overexpose your photo are lower than the chances that you want to specifically control aperture (for DoF) or shutter speed (depending on how you want to capture motion in your scene). It makes lots of sense to automatically set the ISO while you control the other parameters (while being aware of the quality loss inherent in high ISO, and keeping track of it).
Microsoft's own online office site (docs.com) is underrated. Ironically enough it might become the killer app on Chrome OS.
Yes. Loving it. It's ridiculously fast. Like 1-2 second delivery time. Feels essentially free because pricing is so low.

Absolutely essential that you add SPF/Sender ID DNS TXT record for your domain or everything will go to SPAM. That's not SES specific though.

The throttling system they have worries me a bit, but so far hasn't been an issue.
It's the internet. I won't stop you. But, honestly, are you really calling this online resource of educational videos a bad thing....because they dared call it a university?!

No one is saying, hey future students, good news! You don't need to go to university anymore because of code.google.com/edu!
Off the top of my head:

Know and understand commonly used algorithms and data structures, both what they are good for and what they are bad at. Most of the problems you'll solve reduce to something that's already been done plus maybe a little extra (My roommate loves this book for algorithms: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms.html).

Work on personal projects. They're great practice, very rewarding, help familiarize you with the language(s) used, and show you the practical side of CS.
One of the reasons i keep it to 5 lines mails is that most of the top shots I know are reading their emails on devices like the blackberry. Short and simple, even telegraphic gets you responses.
If I have a digital music player and digital speakers (amp inside the speaker) in my home, playing my owned music, is that a public performance? Of course not.

Well if the digital music player is now 1000 miles away from my speakers, how is that any different?
If the language wasn't dead and there were lots of jobs available you'd have to compete with everybody else to hire the programmers.
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I think the poster needs to get out more. I watched the Honeycomb overview and while there was nervousness (Hello galaxy!), it was as good as the other I/Os I've seen.
So wait, my friend has a copy of your movie. I offer to pay YOU so I can watch his copy of the movie. And that's not okay because...?
There are also lots of great indie artists thriving on http://bandcamp.com.
Doesn't it require Silverlight? I doubt you can easily install Moonlight on Chrome OS.

EDIT: I just saw that they provide a crx version of the plugin, so it should be possible.
The biggest were about Preview Day, where we introduce the startups early to a few top investors. We did it too late in the cycle, didn't give startups long enough to present, and some of the investors were lame. We're not sure if we'll even keep doing it.

There were also complaints about the food. It's getting better but it's still not that great.

It's getting crowded in the room after Demo Day. That will be partly alleviated by a 2x bigger room this summer, and we'll also probably write some software to let investors register their interest in a startup instead of assuming they'll connect afterward.

Some of the speakers were boring. There are always a few.
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Isn't there some US case law that discredits presenting IP addresses as evidence of identity? Anyone know?
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It's hard to motivate people to work in terrible old languages that won't contribute to their market value in the future. But I can believe that people make exceptions for languages that they love and wish weren't dead.
Google (correctly) sees attitudes like that as a threat against the free web they need to run their business and are routing around it. They don't care about "enterprise credibility" or whether they allow some companies to restrict what their users can do.
Most job sites do this, including LinkedIn, Dice, Monster, etc., and they charge a lot for it. $1,000/month to start in the case of Dice and about half that for a limited search on LinkedIn. Makes sense from a recruiting standpoint in one sense--if the candidates are truly $100K+ material--but my suspicion in this case is that candidates are more likely folks who want to make $100K+, think there may be an easy way to do it, and are willing to pay for it.
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I started with CodeIgniter for PHP project , works fine but I stumbled in debugging. Dont have easy way to debug.
We experimented once with not making a startup move, and on Demo Day they seemed about where the other startups had been at week 2.
On top stay motivated and keep working dont worry about end result.
That's just for facebook. With a live account cou can office web apps tied with hotmail/skydrive.
You'd be surprised. I know photographers that make a decent living selling PS actions, templates and Lightroom presets. Usually more than they make actually taking pictures.

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What is the difference to grooveshark?
This kind of stance is further proof of their impending irrelevancy.

You know what would be cool? If publishing organizations strove to outdo the hardcore curators out there, to invent a more detailed form of musical notation beyond MIDI, open source the whole shit, and become the de facto standards barer of musical transcription. I'd like to see detailed engineering notes as well, and all the samples and full tracks, with all effects broken out, and timed to the nanosecond, in a zip FLAC file.

If they can achieve technical excellence like that, and give it away for free, I'd sign whatever paper they put in front in me.
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I don't think I'll be giving Wired my IP. The lawsuit probably has a 'guilty conscience' clause and I'll be added just for thinking that I might be involved.
Here: http://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-not-a-person-bittorrent-c...
We know we have to be missing a few every time, but I would not say many.
Yeah, I remember the hullabaloo about some shitty movie about bomb squads in Iraq last year as well. 5000 in that case. Funnily enough, I did dl that one and noticed it shares one major fact with the Expendables -- shitty movie suing pirates. Like someone said earlier, this is turning into a pretty nice biz model, considering how many must lose their shit and settle for whatever outrageous fee on receiving the scary letter in the mail.
The documented evidence is from a case in 1996. According to the article:

Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set.

I'm not so sure that this is still a common practice for modern phones.
I think there are 7 alumni doing YC again this summer.
This is an european phenomenon. I remember reading about one seed fund in europe that took like 50% equity of your equity.
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GvR mentioned today at Google I/O that the Go runtime was championed by another group within Google. Apparently, the same thing happened with the Java runtime before it was brought into the App Engine team. He expected the same thing to happen with the Go runtime. So one would expect new features to come to the Go runtime slightly after the other "first class" runtimes (Python and Java).
Bloomberg - I used to work there. If you can get into internal systems or any group really, they pay very well and it's an easy job.
Pretty easy job to get too.
My point is that, for people who don't know how aperture, ss, and iso affect exposure, the 2.5 second difference in startup time and the 2 fps difference in burst probably isn't going to make a big difference in their user experience.

Of course you're going to have more freedom with a DSLR. That's the whole point. But, if you can't figure out what the aperture dial does, the freedom is probably going to be lost on you, along with the extra $400 you're going to spend.

I'm not anti-DSLR or anything. I've probably bought and sold $50k worth of gear in the last 5 years. DSLRs are awesome and they keep getting better. But, compact cameras have gotten pretty damn good in the last couple of years. For many people, and many different applications, they will fit the bill. If you're a sports shooter, they certainly won't.
Agreed. Debugging is a PITA in CI.
If you find yourself having trouble reconciling this with the real world(1), remember that lawyer world is a little different. You might be looking at a version of the "Chewbacca defense" writ large. A solid legal case can be completely illogical in the real world but entirely internally consistent (and effective) in the legal one.

Think of it from their perspective. BMI is essentially an organization of lawyers. This is what they do. If it is possible to twiddle the levers on the legal-political complex and stymie your competitors, why ever wouldn't you? This isn't some dastardly new plot to kill teh intertubes, its the same thing they've been doing since 1940, it just looks really bizarre when done in the 21st century. Kind of like showing up in your 1942 swimming costume for this year's spring break at Daytona Beach.

1) But its my music, on my storage, played on my device! How can that be...
Internet Explorer is not supported. There's a feature detection running at the start page which blocks off browsers who don't support all feature. No released IE supports background gradient's - so they are all blocked. IE 10 will support them, and by the speed browsers iterate nowadays (thanks to Chrome starting that trend) I have hopes that it's release won't take too long.
That's not very accurate or descriptive, unless I know you and what you were doing.
If you talk to individuals they'll almost always tell you something along these lines. I've heard "the public doesn't want to know what it takes to keep America safe" a couple of times now from agents in different federal law enforcement/intel agencies.
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The easiest hack: just clear your browser cache when you close your browser.

I've read way more than 20 articles in the past 2 days, all of them accessed from the NYT homepage itself. Whatever it is that they're "doing", it clearly can't overcome privacy settings that prevent permanent cookies.
Sure enough. But way technical people look at the world in absence of detailed data is based on statistics. And most of the times when someone claims that he is great at something he is either not good at all, or good but ready to say things that he doesn't believe in.

Either way you should be cautious around that guy. That's why (IMHO) intelligent people don't really like self promotion in other people and by extension do self promote themselves.

Generalists usually can't learn if someone is actually good or not at the thing he claims he's good at so they don't have the same statistics about the world as specialists.

And they don't look down on self promotion and proudly self promote themselves because if they see nothing bad about it only positive sides of self promotion remain.

My argument is not about what is true and who can self promote without lying, but about how minds work statistically and why specialists distrust self promotion while generalists (like managers who generally know what they employees do but specifically they have no idea) think.
All comes to the same end: random guy, jealous colleague, nosy employer or landlord snatches your phone while you're not looking and it only takes a few minutes to upload a very thorough archive of "places stephen_g's iPhone has been".
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They know your IP just by visiting their site.
Push for open source technologies. Because these tools are so well tested and very flexible they can help u do stuff that would otherwise take 10 times as long.

If something can be done with python then don't use C++ just because everyone else does.

It takes a little bit of courage to do this but you'll be going home at 5pm while others are slaving away trying to link their executables.

The better your tools, the easier your job.
> The lack of utility offline is very non-trivial.

So the question is, does $20 / month get you connectivity as well? Fingers crossed it includes a data plan sufficient for most student's use, in which case it could be a very economical way for them to get a good mobile data connection without a prohibitive contract.
That's pretty pie in the sky too barring an entire reform of our economic system. How about we take steps to get everyone using strong client-side encryption?
When someone see your facebook profile page the questions you have answered will be visible to everyone. There is no problem with persons they don't care what they have answered and how others feel about him. But the people who cares some privacy need to have hide their answered questions. For example you might have answered for the question "Have you had sex with someone ever before marriage?". This answer will be visible to everyone unless you have hide your questions and may affect you in future. Hiding your unnecessary answered question will be wise to keep your privacy information well and good