skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not the only one. Every person who spends more than af ew minutes thinking about the issue finds it disturbing. Warrants and oversight will get in place eventually, or this sort of thing will warp society in a bad way.
I think bad_user covers most of it, (although to be fair misses the mark on some things too; there is no 5000-entity limit per query if you use the query as an iterator rather than calling fetch(), which is a much better idea generally) but it's not that deployment itself is difficult--that's the only easy part, frankly.

What's tedious is development, due to all the restrictions and extra concerns necessary. They may make total sense for Google but make zero sense for the rest of the world's applications.

As one simple example, everything you need to be consistent must be handled in a manual transaction but transactions are slow and prone to collisions with insane time-outs (e.g. a request takes 45 seconds because a transaction couldn't commit the first time). Don't even get me started on cross-entity transactions or parent/child relationships, both of which you can use to completely destroy all semblance of performance in an application. Something you take for granted every day on any other platform (transparent, fast consistency guarantees) is of constant consideration and concern on AppEngine--and the APIs presented for it are pedestrian.

These are not intractable problems; none of AppEngine's shortcomings are, really. But the huge number of man-hours spent dealing with its terrible APIs, restrictions, and astounding pre-optimization requirements are hours that could have been spent self-managing a much more user-friendly platform.
The courts intrinsically have a fairly (relatively) high standard of evidence necessary to constitute "probable cause" to issue a warrant. Unless you're referring to FISA Courts/Warrants which are just a larger slap in the face than this.

Also, with that level of snark, I have to ask, what do you propose as an alternative?
I love it too. Good job, guys. Can't wait for my invite.
In his demo video, he shows a metasploit interpreter downloading the address book. He mentioned it was a different payload, but I don't recall if he said it was a different application.

If it was the same app, then does that imply the sandbox for a stockmarket app allows access to the address book?
Non american here, what part of the constitution says they can't track a cars whereabouts?
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People aren't compelled to try a financial service to spend more wisely. They're compelled to try it because it "earns" them more (more interest, cash back, etc). Might be the same thing, fundamentally, but psychologically, it's not. Greed is good.
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they feds would probably charge you for destroying their property.

(only half joking)
Speed is important for a number of factors, mistakes cost less if they can be quickly corrected. So being risky and publishing about your failures becomes useful (no one publishes failures...). Speed also reduces duplicate work.

Peer review is slow because publishing and retracting used to take a long time, now it is instant. And as for the quality of the reviewer, perhaps it would make sense for the journal to employ professional scientists that only review -- they'll be up to date on all the current research (that's their job), can highlight gaps, and can help cross pollinate other disciplines by reviewing 2 or 3 different but related topics.

The idea that a scientist should do everything seems to be more and more inefficient. We need to break down tasks like we do in the commercial world so that experts can move faster.
At some level, anything that's not a perfect use of the resources consumed in producing it is "wasteful" to some extent.

Don't be too down on him: there are many niches where mass production dares not tread (you know this well enough) or the mass produced products are clearly inferior to the handmade ones. Cottage industries have always existed, all that seems to have changed is that they're getting more positive press these days and are now a "Movement."
From http://republicwireless.com/how:

I have DSL at home. Will it work on that or will I have to upgrade to
something faster?

You need about 80kbps both ways to hold a call. The more bandwidth the better
for improved call quality. Don’t forget that streaming video or downloading
large files all use bandwidth, so your mileage may vary if you are trying to
make or receive calls and watch Netflix at the same time.

Sounds like it's more likely that your gaming or Netflix would adversely affect the phone than the other way around, though a router with QoS should fix that easily enough.
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He's doing stock removal rather than forging (buys steel stock, cuts, shapes, and sharpens it).
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How about you focus on publishing diffs to an overview (or so) instead of self-contained articles?
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And worse,there is a good chance his income would be much lower than currently even after he finished his training.

With that said, I used to go to some of the SCA meetings while I was in college. I met more than one excellent craftsmen that did their crafting on the weekend while maintaining a "normal" job during the week. Some made a decent second income off it.

You can do both.
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I've been arguing against this stuff for over 6 years since I got heavily involved in discussions of the Patriot Act and the erosion of the Fourth Amendment in policy debate. This has been going on for a long time in various forms (FISA courts/warrants, National Security Letters, widespread [near universal] wiretapping, etc).

I'm not sure what to do about it, or more importantly how to get people to care. It's like the article a while back (I'll try to find the source on it) that quoted a huge percentage of people as being opposed to government survelliance who only two years earlier had vehemently defended it as necessary for security. It's called a slippery slope for a reason, and every time the Patriot Act it is reauthorized without consideration is a slap in the face to the Founding Fathers who refused to sign the Constitution without a Bill of Rights.

The thing that bothers me the most is the "Conservatives" (who are supposed to be in favor of small, unintrusive government) that hook-and-line fall for the "Patriotism" guise and excuse these government intrusions with, at times, absurd leaps of logic (that often fly in the face of evidence and statistics from the very organizations carrying out these actions).
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Ask HN: What do you want to know about Heroku?
I've started writing more lately about how Heroku works internally, as I've been increasingly having people interested in hearing. No, not the technical under the cover details, much of that is already available at the Heroku site itself and in a detailed response to the question over on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Scalability/How-does-Heroku-work.

I've written about how our teams are structured and we decide which tools we use. Most recently I wrote about Maker's Day, which is a day guaranteed to have no meetings so engineers can get things done. What else are engineers and entrepreneurs interested in knowing about? Hiring, How Product Features are Decided, etc?
Terrorists are the new communists. Merely being accused is a crime.
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Is there a sample dataset?

I think all projects should have sample datasets. It simplifies a lot of things, and in this case stops hundreds of geeks burning through bandwidth before they realize they don't have a clue what they are going to do with the data.
but only shoes with velcro straps, binding bootlaces is complicated.
Sounds eerily similar to the Spanish Inquisition and the Salem Witch hunts.
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Yes, Airfoil works with this app fantastically. I use it for Spotify and VLC also.

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/
You're right, if Arch would not have some advantages, nobody would use it.

Simplicity of use, packaging, configuration, understanding. No default choices as Unity, it's light and fast, a great distro to learn from, great community and documentation, and much more, that make Arch a great distribution widely used.
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It was throwing out the steering wheel and asking "so now how do you drive the car?"

Exactly my point. Let's say it drives by telepathy. The car wouldn't change much: it would still have a driver and be driven on the road. It would still have an engine, passenger seating, storage space and cupholders. It would still at a glance look like any other car. But that apparently small change would result in a profound change in the user experience (and yes, profound engineering challenges for the maker). It's a better car. But it's not an entirely new class of transportation, just a tweak to an existing one, like the automatic transmission and hybrid engines.
I was planning on posting the exact same thing HN.

I've had the same experience, the last email I had was 2 or 3 weeks back, and it only had one job on it. I'm guessing the projects have dried up, I hope only temporarily.

I'd much prefer it if I still got an email saying 'Sorry, nothing this week', the silence is unsettling...
Introduce various independent levels of city, county, state and federal police with special separate forces in charge of major crimes, terrorism, drugs, money laundering etc

Then they will spend all their time and effort fighting each other for funding jurisdiction and media spotlight that they leave the innocent bystanders alone.

Of course they wont catch any criminals - but no plan is perfect.
Both of these run under fedora 15. Try installing from source, I have done this and it has worked fine.
This is an example of one of those situations where it doesn't pay to be 'over clever'.

If you call the bomb squad to report a bomb under your car but as a technology-inclined person/geek know full well it's a GPS receiver then you're committing all sorts of illegality there.
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make it a neural social network where ppl take breaks to meditate together. It'd be an app or a device like Fitbit that measures the frequency or whatever of your energy and takes the aggregate of everyone participating and shows a visualization of it.
No part states it explicitly (such technology didn't exist when it was written). People who are arguing against this practice cite the 4th amendment, which reads as follows:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

People are arguing that putting a tracking device on a car constitutes a search.
Even that equality is too weak. Ideally you want the equality of _risk adjusted returns_ (See 'Sharpe Ratio' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio)
That wasn't very clear, sorry: Try installing AWM and docky from source and run them under a different window manager. It should work fine (XFCE is a great alternative to Gnome 3).
Not the OP, but I have a bank account at Schwab[1], and they refund all ATM fees that other banks charge.

[1] http://www.schwab.com/
You're right - I wasn't referring to all mass produced things. But I do like it when someone buys (or makes) a gift that's unique, but cheap, rather than something generic but expensive.

For example, take toys. There's this store that sells hand made toys around the block from me: http://playing-mantis.com/wooden.htm. Does it make sense for a kid to have 3 plastic toys they'll use for a couple of months and throw away or to buy a handcrafted toy they could keep for life (and even pass on)?

When I talked to the store clerk at Playing Mantis, she said most of their toys don't come from the US but from Germany, Austria and Japan because the craftsmanship is good there.

It's not a pipe dream that this could change - companies like kickstarter and etsy are enabling this move towards story-driven, experiential consumption.
After spending over a year on HN, I really have to disagree with assertions about "corporate bullshit" for one reason:

Advertising.

Look at how HN is inundated with "Show HNs" for everyone's new web app. Many of these people bootstrap their own company and can't afford advertising. They're all fighting for attention in a market saturated with novel apps (Instapaper for videos! another iOS photo sharing app!). Many of these apps create wealth, and many won't survive into next June.

Now compare these tiny startups with any larger startup or corporation. Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare have a lot of users, and they need to build out bizdev teams to continue growing (marginal cost and all that). They need HR departments to build out those teams--now we're halfway down the road to internal hierarchies and politics. Ugh, corporate bullshit!

However, these startups can also advertise and market like crazy and watch as their growth charts show exponential behavior.

Traction and user retention are economies of scale. As much as we hate corporate bullshit, that bullshit lets a company grow enough to trivialize all those marketing + bizdev concerns. Otherwise, how can you advertise your wealth creation when consumers are too busy looking at Tumblr or tweeting to pay attention to you?
I suspect the (Bank)Simple guys went down the list like this when deciding on their new domain...
SimpleFinanceTechnologyCorp.com (too long)
SimpleFinanceTechnology.com (long, but register anyway)
SimpleFinanceTech.com (meh)
SimpleFinance.com (already taken)
Simple.com (perfect!)
Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it.
I imported 19 000 songs and started playing a song while still importing and playback only paused once for maybe a second and then everything was smooth. Impressive really.
The system recognizes that two concurrent transactions are trying to update the same record. If the first commits, the second will return an update conflict. The application can then restart the transaction.

These are the same MVCC semantics I used in Rdb/ELN (1984), Interbase (1986), Firebird (1999), and MySQL Falcon (2006). The implementation, however, is wildly different.
As far as facebook likes and profiles, OP is correct. But you're spot on with that being a strong signal of brand loyalty.
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Did anyone else see this in the FAQ?

Who can use Simple?

To be eligible, you must:

- Be a resident of the United States and over the age of 18;
- Have a Social Security number; and
- Own a smartphone (iPhone or Android).

Do I really need to have a smartphone?

Well, you need to have an iOS (version 4.2 or higher) or Android device. Android phones and iPhones are preferable so that you can deposit checks using your smartphone’s camera and receive push notifications when you buy things.

I can't believe you need a smartphone to sign up. That seems absolutely crazy to me. Why can't you just accept scanned checks from a scanner? I would hazard more people have access to a scanner (even the one at work) than own a smartphone.
Arch's advantage is simplicity. That does not, absolutely does not, mean that it's easier.

Also keep in mind that to a large degree these things are a matter of preference. I like Arch's package manager over Debian's. Things like that have pros and cons, but on some level it breaks down to simple preference.
3d linux distro by popularity in the World.
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I used to live in Mountain View, CA and only moved back to Finland quite recently so we have a very strong connection to the Valley. It's no coincidence that we took money from the likes of Joshua, Eghosa, Taher and Jyri who all operate in the Bay Area. And True is obviously based there as well.

Speculating about the future is always dangerous but I think we will end up having a strong engineering presence in Finland. I also think it's very probable that we'll have another office in North America, maybe in the Valley.
that was nice article to read, thanks for sharing info.
I would like to know what you use RabbitMQ for, more detailed info.
Also some insights, what infrastructure improvements are in mind and why(think changing X to Y, because Z). Also some stats would be cool.
From the Simple FAQ:

Q: Are you like Mint?

A: No. ... Also, we hate pie charts.

Couldn't agree more.
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There was a famous case in the UK in the 70s

The security services bugged the HQ of the Communist Party of Great Britain (because the UK doesn't have a bill of rights it's legal to be a commie there). The members found the bug and destroyed it.
They were then prosecuted (succesfully) for destroying government property - even though the government denied planting the bug, and in those days even denied the existence of the security services.

Their case was that the defendants believed it was government property and therefore their intent was to destroy government property.

So if you have a reason to be tracked by the police then it would be a crime to destroy it. But if you have no reason to believe you have done anything wrong then it's more reasonable to believe it's a terrorist bomb and you should call the FBI/DHS/Army etc
>Speed is important for a number of factors, mistakes cost less if they can be quickly corrected. So being risky and publishing about your failures becomes useful (no one publishes failures...). Speed also reduces duplicate work.

You're missing the point of scientific publication. The entire point of publication is so others can reproduce your work. Speed doesn't work if you need a billion data points taken over 20 years to prove a long term issue.

>The idea that a scientist should do everything seems to be more and more inefficient. We need to break down tasks like we do in the commercial world so that experts can move faster.

The problem here is that for a lot of cutting edge theoretical research, the experts are the only ones qualified to really vet the paper. And finding experts that: 1. Are capable of understanding everything in the paper and 2. Are willing to put aside their personal research to review the paper is a VERY small set of people.

For example, the P=NP proofs produced over the last few years were only presented to a small group of about 20 very qualified mathematicians to vet. I, with an undergrad CS degree, could barely understand the summary of the proofs. As far as I know, those proofs still have not been completely refuted or accepted. I don't think that this is inefficient, it's simply the fact that there aren't enough people with enough time to really work with extraordinarily complex concepts and ideas.
I don't get it either. I want to know who my bank is. I also don't find checking accounts and credit cards to be all that complicated.

My bank (USAA), for example, is pretty good. The idea of putting a startup between them and me just seems odd.

It all just seems like a glorified IT system for banks.
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I'd hazard a guess that you're wrong. Dedicated scanners became totally obsolete for 99% of users with the switch to digital photography.
Yup, that's worked for me before... but then I'm not using Gnome 3, which I'm growing rather fond of.
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To clarify, in this particular case the connection was stronger than what you state. He bought the SUV from his cousin and the tracking device showed up shortly after he drove his cousin’s wife to Tijuana, I assume with the SUV in question.

While we can debate whether this is sufficient cause for a planted tracking device, the connection between him and his cousin is a lot less casual than what you state.
Only if you have been stupid enough to disturb a potential car bomb to see whats inside.

Back when I worked for a defense company our cars were checked with mirrors on sticks everytime we went to work, we had special police numbers to call if we ever saw any suspicious activity around our cars or received a suspicious package at home.

Although they weren't very understanding when I was away on a trip and my wife opened a package containing a microcontroller I ordered - and started an alert!
He's saying that the main benefit of fair trade to the consumer is a sense of superiority or reduced guilt over those who drink "regular" coffee. That sort of benefit always strikes me as a bit of a "luxury good" as well, in the sense that the benefit isn't about the functionality or quality of the coffee itself.

There is of course a benefit to the producer as well, in the form of a fair price.

I imagine most of the factory workers on "How It's Made" rather like their jobs. They all seem to take pride in what they produce.
No; you're thinking of a group, GP meant a filter (a friend list).
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it's a good idea. but scary to think what govt can't do.
I can't imagine these things have "GPS RECEIVER" stamped on the outside. How are they going to prove you knew it was a GPS?
I don't understand who I call when a problem arises. Do I call you, the anonymous partner bank, or is it simply impossible to call somebody if I have an issue?
re: "if anything his most important contribution was just general hustling."

If you don't have "general hustling" going on your company isn't going anywhere.
I feel you're not speaking to my actual argument, so I want to try to clear something up:

> Actual expertise trumps ignorance and anecdotes, always.

You are not an expert in other peoples experiences, only your own. We have a case here where one guy says "this could never happen". Another guy says "I used to do that all the time". Only one of them can be right, even though we accept both of their experiences as true.

If the first guy simply said "I never saw that happen, and I never heard of it happening, and therefore I doubt that it could happen", then they could both be right, and the evidence matches both of their beliefs.

The mistake is to go from "I never saw that happen, and I never heard of it happening" to "It cannot/did not happen", especially when someone else says it did happen.

That's all I'm arguing. I am not doubting your experience.
Wondered what was going on here, as yesterday it became clear that a few well known names had left the company...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3207470
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PG wouldn't mean that. He knows that

P(becoming rich | working at a startup) != P(worked at a startup | is rich)

I don't want to parse statements here, but it's pretty clear PG suggests that starting up or working at a startup is the best way to become rich. I'd wager that, in practice, people become rich for a variety of reasons, with none being more effective than any other.

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EDIT: Above, I'm trying to point out how the fraction of rich entrepreneurs vs. rich employees provides us with no information by itself.

However, we can develop a distribution of probabilities for becoming rich based on the career you chose, using the careers of those who are already rich. I'd suppose this is PG's real point, and while I can't verify it right now I'd bet entrepreneurs become rich at a higher frequency than non-entrepreneurs.
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