skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a lawyer either. I was wondering about this a bit and tried to see if any of the restaurants where Mafia members met in the 70's took any heat because of crimes that had been planned within the establishment and could not find any. (it was the only analogy I could think of which the FBI might use as an example, if there are better ones please add them).

That being said, I would not be surprised if the FBI freely used a 'National Security Letter' [1] to force these guys to turn over data about specific connections. And since, as a service, these guys may be subject to the requirement of giving the FBI a way to wiretap their connections [2] it may be that once they knew the service was being used it was a 'simple' matter of compelling them to provide an unencrypted copy of sessions of interest.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter

[2] http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-05-153...
Every time i read something like this, I think about the fred wilson quote about being someone's bitch. Anyone have that direct link?
Thanks; though I'm unclear what Qi gives me in any of these examples over ML or similar. I really would like to see examples of its specific features (the type system, say).
A quibble: Although I have never doubted the importance of QA in the web development process (it can save your bacon), in most cases I do find it rather absurd and bit of a mockery when those who practice QA in a web environment are allowed to have the word 'engineer' in their job title. Does anyone else agree?
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This result is from a legitimate experimental group. It's much more likely to be experimental error than new physics, though: previous observations of neutrinos coincident with the light emitted by supernova 1987a (much, much farther away) indicate that neutrinos travel at light speed to 1 part in 10^8 [1,2]

[1] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989ARA%26A..27..629A
[2] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/fa...

Also, https://www.xkcd.com/955/
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I suspect it's directly correlated with the number of golf courses.
From the ms blog post:

Steven Sinofsky 22 Sep 2011 4:10 PM #

@Jose Pedro Of course Windows is usable without secure boot -- just like the post stated
The simple answer is that if a vendor provides a technology that can be used to facilitate crime, that vendor emphasizes that they made the technology for some nominally lawful purpose. The record companies asserted that cassette tapes were designed to infringe copyright, the manufacturers stressed that they recorded what-ever and there were lots of non-infringing uses for them. Plausible deniability as a stategy perhaps.
I'm not trying to take anything away from your friends. To the contrary, I am giving them so much credit that I am asking pg if their impression on him has affected YC policy.
What is space exploration? Is it sending robots to take pictures? Or is it sending people who can radio back a message saying how it feels to look at the Earth from afar?

The information gathered through space probes is awesome, but what's the point of knowing something if we are never going to experience it? It's like comparing writing a travel guide from second-hand knowledge with making the journey yourself.

You know NASA's budget is tiny compared to the military. I'd also like to point out the lofty goal of exploring other worlds has the power to unite mankind much better than a couple wars. In 1969, all over the world, people were paying attention to Neil's first steps on another world. For a brief moment, we were one mankind, united around the most extraordinary achievement of the 20th century.
I've been a successful duo-founder (my wife is my business partner) for 3.5 years now. We started in affiliate marketing and have slowly added agency services and now software (we founded a newer company for that with a few business partners).

I've been working for myself full-time ever since we started and income is great. The last two years have been well in to the six figures and growth is excellent, allowing us to live comfortably here in San Diego with a great house. However, there are a few pitfalls to the marketing business...

Primarily, we found that affiliate marketing, while high-margin in theory, is so extremely competitive and dirty that your entire livelihood hangs by a thread. Google can slap your site, search algorithm changes can sandbox you and unscrupulous affiliates can and will copy your entire site wholesale and use it to compete directly with you. Google, the affiliate networks they use and ISP's will do absolutely nothing (one of the reasons for my ire with all of them as far as SEO/PPC goes) which made us resort to retaining legal counsel to slam people as soon as it crops up.

Our entire growth on the affiliate side has been Facebook and Mobile where our margins are often 300-400% as opposed to the slimmer 60-100% margins on AdWords. However, being in such a competitive and bleeding-edge field has meant that our agency clients get the benefit of that experience. We can often muscle a new client into highly a competitive segment and get them profiting quickly; we live the mindset of "if it doesn't make money, don't do it".

We ended up making our newer software company with a few co-founders because our overall growth there is better, margins are great, security is better and we have assets. You can't easily sell an affiliate web site, but you can build a software company that is very appealing to sell.

It has been a hell of an experience and I'm considering writing a series about it once we release our new app. Hopefully can bring the benefit of our blood/sweat/tears-and-such to the rest of HN :)
Actually, Linus seems to be saying: we have tested the crap out of this, and the patch broke something, and instead of playing guessing games, revert to the thoroughly tested version and think more closely about the problem before you submit stuff that hasn't been tested on thousands of machines, and will likely break one of them (because you didn't understand the whole problem). This exchange doesn't really cast any light on whether you need less QA. Instead, it seems to say: we rely on past tests to benchmark quality.

I have had my own problems with incompetent QA "engineers," but I do think an excellent QA team helps create an excellent product.
Eventually the US government will sell back the banks and make some income, so its hardly comparable. Sweden in the early nineties did this and they recovered more than half their money.

The bailouts were a necessary step to prevent severe economic crisis - they amounted to just 6% percent of GDP. Clearly worth it, when considering what is at stake here.
"* OP double-protects the SSH key. It means you need the key's passphrase and another factor (Google authenticator) to decrypt the ssh key. Then the ssh key is used to auth with the server.
=> the authentication with the server is still one factor auth, compromising the key at any level still grants access."

This is not correct. You can't decrypt a key with a one time password.

The OP is requiring a the second factor(the OTP) after the key is sent to the server and authenticated.
I love mine (2010 13" version, wouldn't mind the bump to the i5 processor but I get by on the core2duo). Definitely max out the ram (not sure if you even get a choice anymore). I mostly use it for LAMP-style web development; but I do some J2EE as well, and it'll handle running Eclipse or IntelliJ plus Tomcat just fine. Builds take about twice as long as my 3.33 GHz desktop, but again if you get the newer i5/i7 version it'll be a less noticeable speed hit.

If I'm working at a remote location for a week or more, I'll drag along my 27" apple monitor and set it up and use an external keyboard and mouse... currently set up that way, in fact.

I doubt I'll ever go back to a larger laptop, I love the air.
My background is in physics and one of my first programming jobs was writing code for a lab of international importance. At the time, I would engage the other members of the lab in an ongoing debate about Einstein, where I'd take the position that Einstein was wrong (About anything, or everything, whatever the handy topic was.) I was, and am, an Einsteinian skeptic.

I learned a lot in that, and one thing that actually surprised me is that in many cases, I was able to make a good argument that Einstein was wrong, and there was no empirical evidence to support his view on the particular point we were discussing.

The point of that is not that I believe Einstein was wrong. It is that this is not a situation where any single experimental result can show that the theory doesn't hold, or does hold. There are many experiments where his theories do seem to hold (though I enjoyed poking holes in them). If this result is repeatable and turns out to be correct, it will cause many physicists to re-evaluate many theories, and have huge implications.

Einsteins work resulted in many theories, and of course a grand set of them called relativity (and special relativity)... the media simplifies this to "nothing can move faster than the speed of light".

I can see the situation where this causes an adjustment in the specific interpretations of his theories. Or it could turn out that these results are both true, and consistent with his theories. For instance, prior to the understanding of matter there were many theories about mass that are essentially true on the macroscopic scale, though once you understand that matter is made up of atoms you see where they don't hold on the microscopic scale.

This result could reveal a level of reality beyond what Einstein understood, such that he's right from our macroscopic scale, but there's a whole other branch of physics in there.

So, I'm not declaring victory. I think this is good news, though, because it might be the beginning of the revelation of an error in understanding that, when resolved, results in a big jump forward in physics.

PS- I'm not interested in getting into a physics debate. Its been too many years, and I've spoken vaguely because the specifics are not what I'm addressing.
Vanity fair galore... a very interesting at that though :)
I wish more young women knew about Ada Lovelace. She attempted to do something entirely unprecedented and in her very short life understood the implications of computing technology.

What's even cooler is that her program had no bugs.
> * Most developers are horrible at testing and writing unit tests. We have thousands of unit tests and the main thing that they catch is that someone did not update the test after refactoring code.

I wish this were less true, but it's totally spot on. I have definitely been guilty of this sin...
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I think it's something most people would welcome, but only if they could choose what it shown and hidden.

Great line - "On one level, it’s brilliant. On another, it’s undeniably, pervasively creepy, to a level we’ve hitherto been prepared for in human society."
What the author actually said was:

"We simply cannot place enough confidence in intuition to accept it as a source of information."

In other words, the author is saying that not only is intuition not on par with scientific knowledge, but it isn't good for anything.
I keep hearing that they're coming out with a 15" MBA next year. I'm on a 15" MBP now, and while the weight kills my shoulder on longer jaunts, I can't see giving up the screen real estate (I'm a front-end designer/developer and spend a lot of time in CS5 and eclipse).
I think the big thing that confuses people is that at a lot of companies with QA, QA is really "testing and QA" testing can (and IMO should) be done by the developers, and when people have seen QA as primarily being testing, they think they can do without if the developers take on testing.
And when Facebook says to either remove your widget from Google+, or it will be removed from Facebook?

Diversification is at their pleasure too.
I'm also using it, it's really pretty good.

It's my personal website: http://daltonmatos.com
> you can't trust exploration to the politicians.

All bad things happen when you trust politics to politicians.

Seriously - everyone (and that's not a US problem) should pay much more attention to what the people who is paid to represent them are doing in their name.
There is a difference between QA and testing and that needs to be well established. Devs should develop and QA should QA.
Yep, kernel.org has been down for awhile, talked about here[0]. I hadn't realized how many of our Debian boxes used the kernel.org mirror.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2947578
What needs to go into trusted_keys?
I remember writing about you back in the Industry Standard days. You inspired me to step away from journalism and start developing my own apps (and probably zillions of others).
I could have sworn that FB now lets you choose what's publicly shared and what's only shown to friends?

Given that, how is this a problem?
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Seriously. Two weeks ago, the GRAIL project sent two satellites on a Delta 2 to the moon. To the MOON. The entire mission, soup to nuts, cost 496 million dollars.

To put this in perspective, with this cash, we could have also purchased one of the following:

- Two F-35s

- .07% of the TARP bank bailout

- Half of Groupon's Series D

I'd rather go to the moon.
Hmm, people downvote me because i don't want to share the details?
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I'll agree with outright lying in that a person knowingly lying to another person is wrong. But with the rest I'm not sure I can agree.

Because again the Valley is a kill or be killed environment. The assumption is that others will look out for themselves. So, for example, if someone were to promise me something I'd ask for a contract. If I don't get a contract I'd assume that person was planning to violate that promise some day. Because that's how that environment works.

And I'm not sure it could be any other way. Because the stakes are so high. It is human nature for people to forgive themselves if they feel they're acting for a higher cause. So if that person believes their company will make them billions of dollars and make the world a better place then they're likely to forgive themselves for telling a lie here or there.

It may not be right but it's the way the world works (and honestly it's why I don't live there anymore)
QA is the wrong solution to this particular problem. The problem is that in Java you can call methods on uninitialized objects. If Foo can "foo" and Bar can "bar", Foo can't "bar". But if you have "null", then suddenly it can "foo" and "bar" even though it's not a subtype of anything that can do that, and it doesn't implement those methods itself. Does that sound fucked up? Well, that's because it is.

QA is nice, but it's a finite resource that you should save for things that actually matter, not stupid things that a computer can fix for you in 30 seconds.
The 13" Air (top-end model) is now my primary development machine. I couldn't live without it at this point. Even if a 15" model existed I don't think I would have gone with it. The 13" feels like the perfect sweet spot between portability and performance.
I'll throw my hat into the ring. After a decade of working in the digital agency world, I left a well paying job at an agency in Los Angeles to start my own studio in early 2009. Because I was fortunate enough to have amazing connections I managed to land large projects with UFC, Picnik (now Google), Microsoft, Volcom and others. I was running the studio solo and operating as the creative director while I outsourced various roles. The business was off to a great start financially, but the time required was insane. It was full of 100+ hour weeks and frequent "I know it's Friday, but can you have something ready to show us on Monday?" emails.

During a gap in between two client projects in May 2010 I got an email from a designer at Tumblr asking if I would be interested in selling premium themes on their platform. As an experiment I took a few weeks to design, develop and launch a theme. Instantly I realized this would be a great supplement to the client work. After launching the third theme, it hit me that with just a bit more work it could replace all the income from all the client accounts I had. By October 2010 I officially stopped taking on clients and the theme sales revenue surpassed the client services revenue.

Officially I opened up shop as Style Hatch - http://stylehatch.co. Earlier this year I was able to hire my first full-time employee as a director of customer experience, and now I'm looking to hire a designer and developer. As of right now we still only have Tumblr themes for sale, but we're working on a few new platforms to launch for in the next few month.

For the first time I was able to truly control the amount of time that I wanted to put into the business, as opposed to being controlled by client schedules. With two young kids I have taken advantage of the success by taking plenty of half-days off to go to swim lessons, head to the beach, or just being there. This summer was also the first time that I was able to take a two week vacation and completely unplug from email and work.
That's not the answer.

DeusEx's question boils down to, ``why does the company claim to serve law-breakers (here: citizens breaking censorship), but as soon as law enforcement knocked on their doors, they gave all the info away''. Which is a fair question to ask.

Somehow, the company claims to serve only ethical law breakers, and they want do the judging on ethics.
@freemarketteddy, mine is just a one man shop doing inhouse internet only projects not a consultancy.
That's an interesting perspective, assuming you're alluding to private vs. government funding.

However, can anyone provide evidence that private funding can accomplish anything near the scale of what NASA accomplished? I'm asking that as an honest question.

I don't love government spending or bureaucracy, by any means. Who would, except perhaps government workers? However, I fail to see any major advancements that have happened without the scale of funding that only governments can provide.

I really want to believe that the private sector can do it. I just don't see a lot of historical evidence that it can.
Wow, vintage rhetoric. I'm guessing 1954.
This is cool. I'd also like to point out the PAM module:
http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/browse/...
Its amazing to see what impacts a great educator can make on you... I have never met Gerald, but can tell you that there are these gems of educators out there that have single handedly impacted the lives of so many.

I will never forget how my economics professor at my small state college kept a WSJ out for me every day so I could learn about the world outside of our town in Missouri. Every week he would meet with me and would ask me what I learned from it. At a college where 80% students were first generation college students, it was him that really got a lot of people excited about the world...

His name is Dr. Viran Kharadia
I guess to them "censorship" is something only other countries do, not their own. I notice a lot of companies, and even the Government itself, want to fight against censorship in other countries, but when it happens in US, they're more than happy to comply, and sometimes they do it with just one phone call, like in Amazon or Paypal's case with Wikileaks.
And you should not underestimate the propaganda value. Generations were inspired by the Apollo program. The shuttle is a beautiful machine, but it really doesn't go anywhere interesting.
+ port knocking via knockd and running sshd on a diff port is good.
Back in 2003, the source code for Half Life 2 was leaked by somebody in Germany.

The hacker eventually contacted Valve himself, and expressed interest in working for the company. Valve then staged a fake job interview, and tried to trick him in to coming to Seattle. There, they waited with FBI agents, and prepared to arrest him.

Fortunately, he was detained in Germany.

That story, combined with this story, raises my eyebrows, especially because Valve is trying to show off "The Valve Way".

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/11/valve-tricked-h/
My SWAG: the relativist effect of time being slowed down in Earth's gravity was not taken into account. (Time is slowed down, therefore neutrinos appear to arrive 60ns "early".)

They spent a lot of time triple checking the accuracy of their instruments without seemingly thinking about higher level factors such as the Theory of relativity...
http://static.arxiv.org/pdf/1109.4897.pdf Of course there are 99% chances I am wrong, but just throwing this out there :)
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Most people will "friend" almost anyone who asks, or random people they meet at parties, or coworkers, etc. Lots of people are my "friends" on Facebook that would make this creepy.
I don't know what else a company can say than we choose to comply with court orders rather than face the consequence of not complying. The comment about bypassing censorship doesn't seem to have any value other than to placate users of the service.
I believe this comes from how FTP protocol works which do it to some extent and the reason why it do not work trough firewalls well without using passive mode.
A different site covering this same story mentions that the methodology used actually involves the computer scanning something like 18 million youtube videos, simulating what areas in the brain each of these videos would be likely to affect, and comparing that to what was recorded during the subjects' fMRI sessions. So the watermark-like words are coming from the youtube clips, not from the subjects' brains themselves.
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I do it now. 13 inch air is a most wonderful tool. Fast small light, what more can you ask for. I do lots of dev on the bus actually. I am running the lowest end 13 inch model. dual core i5 4gb ram 128gb ssd. Its excellent.
Another great post Luc. It's really been bumming me out that more people aren't talking about statecharts and web app development (especially with Sproutcore). After developing web apps for over a decade, watching Erich Ocean's course on statecharts with Sproutcore was a eureka moment for me. It was like, "Finally, a sane, testable, non-hacky-feeling way to build responsive web front-ends!"
I agree with, But it also means that in this industry you have to have a backup plan of some sort. He knew the character of Sean Parker and his antics. The man is a player and always will be.The industry is a relentless field of battle. Doesn't excuse leading someone on though.

i know to well of having a business partner lead me on while he worked other projects.

But i dont think Facebook as a company should take all the blame for that one person.
13" is just too small for me. I'm on a 15" MBP and love it. Yeah, would love it more if it was lighter.