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Taken to this level, it is a very unstable way to maintain consent of the governed.

Bingo. Even a radical anarcho-capitalist like me is grudgingly willing to accept a minimal amount of government, in the sense that Bastiat described it as no more than "the collective extension to our individual right to self defense." BUT... with a big caveat that said "government" must be accountable to "We The People" and must be subject to our oversight, supervision and - possibly - dismantling if it fails to serve the end it was organized for. But when this entity accumulates and hoards crucial information about the world we live in, it's removed itself from that oversight and supervision.

This is the same reason why - despite the fact that I generally don't advocate "black hat" hacking - I don't really have a problem with people hacking government systems and releasing information contained therein, and why I generally support Bradley Manning. We need to know what our government is doing and how/why it's justifying those decisions, in order to maintain the feeling that the government is serving us.

Not only does it make it impossible for an elected official to take advice, it makes it impossible for voters to make reasoned and educated judgments about the actions of officials. Secrecy corrupts everything it touches. That's why it must be aggressively minimized.

This.
Perhaps it is taking away a "feature" in some senses, but in my view it is taking the logical step not allowing concurrent access to preempt during execution. I often want the current value that has changed after the original context is changed by an asynchronous task (IP addresses of internal servers changing while a script was running came up today).

There is no way preempting access / memory contention is a feature, but Clojure avoids this with somewhat immutable state which can make keeping up to date values painful, although I may not be experienced enough to state much about Clojure.

For web services such as ours where we have values changing underneath us it is elegant that we keep a value the same through a single flow of control (until the stack unwinds). Even if it is incorrect for one part of the task as a whole, it is predictable where the values can change and dealing with errors from pointing to the wrong object / value is trivial compared to most race conditions (yes, node does those before anyone jumps in).

The environment here is key though. Node was built as a single threaded event loop. All the bindings for node / libraries for node expect this. Libgmp's love of aborting threads after a process gives it a wrong value is a good example of where the single threaded environment fights the threaded model, and the same problems of expecting threads is apparent in many programming environments (.Net Http stack I'm looking at you).

So in many ways: Node does not give you something that cannot be done in other environments; but, in other environments there is a lot of existing code that encourages thread usage. Doing something in twisted or the like proved difficult once I needed libraries that had been written expecting threads. The same is true in Node, but I can be confident that good libraries / bindings for Node provide things that expect to work in a single threaded event loop. And I like the command queue / event loop / actor based / reactive / whatever you want to call it. I like it more than anything due to the lack of concurrent edits, but allowing a lot of mutability at the same time.
How could I not include it! I spent hours trying to program it :)
Many stores ask for it. Radioshack I believe is a prime example of this. I've never heard of them hassling you if you refuse however.
The risks from using social engineering to get a person to follow you is precisely equivalent to gaining unauthorized access to all the content that person has shared with his/her friends.

Depending on the victim, this may or may not pose any real concern. Some people probably share their entire profile and activity to their entire network, and probably don't post anything dangerous. However, some people are selective with their friends, and may very well share more private things (e.g. health/employment status, home address, phone number, etc.).

You're probably right that the average Facebook user wouldn't be at risk, since they probably already share with hundreds of quasi-friends and therefore don't post anything too personal or risky. The thing is, that probably applies to most Gmail accounts too, yet everyone recognizes a compromised Gmail account as a bad thing. I don't understand why you're minimizing the potential impact of having a bogus friend on your friends list.
Shortly after I submitted my sample, I got an email that said:

"When the processing of your kit is complete, you will officially be listed on the Be The Match Registry. This process usually takes about two months, but the time can vary depending on the number of new members joining the registry each month."

so there is definitely some lag time involved.
Also, sometimes the vectors themselves, if exposed, would cause diplomatic incidents -- human intelligence (spies), placed within a foreign government, or illegal means of collection (black bag job breakins, tapping undersea cables in national waters, ...).
:)....By improving the signup workflow Amit and others who share the same plight will have a better chance at finding a donor....By taking 23andMe data from consenting 23andMe users this process will become so much better that potentially everyone will find a donor(not just famous people like Amit!)

Yes I am that asshole and the world is forced to become better to accomodate assholes like me...:)...peace!
If you were going to do that, then why would you even bother with the form? You would just be wasting your time and theirs.
Sadly its only interpolating the motion between frames, so you don't get back any new information.

Also optical flow really doesn't handle occlusions very well, so if one thing obscures another you'll get lots of artifacts.
How you vote/flag is weighted in a number of ways.

I've certainly noticed that my own karma isn't strictly related to the number of upvotes/downvotes I get in a certain time period, (a day for example). Moreover is seems that posts that are heavily upvoted may not reflect on my karma for a day or two - in fact my karma seemed to be increasing due to a post I made about a week ago, even though I hadn't posted in the meantime.

I always figured that was some sort of anti-spam fuzzing (similar to what Reddit does) in calculating karma, but it's even better (IMO) if what you wrote is correct.
It's called an echo chamber. Zuck has never been out of it.
But isn't that what the Kissinger story was about? Getting the breadth of view, the knowledge, leads almost inevitably to (arguably) terrible arrogance about what you (the cleared) know vs what everyone else knows, and what you (the cleared) get to do about it.
Cash flow != profitability

:)
what about successful startups?
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Gupta is the English equivalent of Smith in India..
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I hear you man. For me, a 4-5 hour ride on the highway on some beautiful country is better than a week's vacation. Some good noise-isolating headphones (I had a loud bike), relaxing music, and some nice breaks at cheap gas stations for a drink here & there --- that's just perfect.
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Curious about incoming email. Not even a price comparison, just a list of companies.
I finally sent my kit in today, took about five minutes, plus another five to walk it to the post office. It sat on my desk for two weeks :(
The fact that Apple is selling more iPads than Dell is selling PCs in a quarter was the most striking fact from this article.

Apple really is creating the future of the industry rather than just trying to keep up with the trends it sees, and that's what makes the company so valuable.
I got an early sign-up to the timeline layout and I still my profile working with timeline...but only other early adopters get to see my profile with the new layout, everybody else (about 99% of my facebook friends) still see my page with the classic layout... at least it looks cool to me.
It's hard to argue that they've forgone more profitable business models, as they are in the top 10 most profitable companies in the US, and are the most valuable company.
> Do you really want the donation pool potentially contaminated by the HIV virus?

This is FUD. Gender of partner as an HIV risk factor is now much less predictive than a number of other risk factors that they do not check for; it is especially insulting to monogamous couples whose HIV risk is negligible. (The Red Cross is especially odious in this regard, as they are still asking this question not as "in the past 5 years", but iirc "since 1978", which is absurd.)
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The main constraint is budgetary authority; it's easier to create a new secret program than to fund it. Ultimately all funding authority comes from the US Congress, although there are layers of obfuscation.

The ability to create new Special Access Programs is usually delegated to the level in an organization that actually does this routinely; definitely below Department level, above Combatant Command level.

On the Army side, check out AR 380-381, and legally, 32cfr159a. Basically someone more operational creates it, and then gets approval from above, but the authority to create the program is closer to the action than the ability to finance it.

They deconflict on names at one level, usually per department (e.g. Army, Navy). I think this is done by pre-assigning names in batches to be used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_cryptonym is an interesting article.
This could really be titled "University of Utah is the number one University in US for spinning off startups."

It's a good article, but I prefer my HN de-linkbaited. (NB: the linkbait worked, and I clicked on the link).
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Theoretically, yes. In practice, repealing a law is harder than passing its inverse (no idea why), so it would never happen. Once a law is passed, your best hope is the courts (edit to add: which have a poor track record on handling the 'terrorism' excuse).
So the advantages you describe for non-profits are exactly the same as for any limited-liability corporation, except for the tax-free revenue bit. And the revenue Mozilla gets is in fact taxed, since it's revenue of a for-profit corporation.

_You_'re feeling trolled? Pardon me, but as far as I can tell you're doing the trolling....
Good to know, thanks for the info! Hopefully Float64Array will be added soon.

I'm surprised it is much slower than Firefox and Chrome, though. Apple recently enabled the new JSC JIT on all platforms, I thought, which should be quite fast. Maybe typed arrays have not been specifically optimized yet or something like that.
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An average of 89 people apply to every job opening (for professional-level positions) and 144 people apply to entry-level jobs.

does anyone know if these numbers are true for tech? I don't have any empirical evidence but 89 people seems high from my experience on both sides of the transaction. It seems to me that if that where the case it would be much more difficult to get a job in the industry. Meanwhile I generally have received an offer for good percentage of the job I have interviewed for. Off the top pf my head I would say it has to be somewhere near 70%. Now I am a good developer but that certainly can't account for that rate of hiring. Even of only 10% where as strong of candidates as me that would still be a 1 in 9 chance, which still would not account for a nearly 70% success rate. If it does then I think I should probably go into interview tutorials, but I tend to believe that it is not me but rather the market is more constrained than 89 applicants per tech job, if it is not then the H1B proponents arguments rings even more hollow.
One thing I've always wondered about was what the President's clearance consists of. Are there things he doesn't have access to? Does he know he doesn't have access? Can he see a list of every secret program, but perhaps not get details? Does he have totally unfettered access to everything the US does?

Edit: the corollary is, "how many people have access to everything?" or alternatively, "if the president doesn't, does anyone have access to everything?"
>"CarrierIQ provides a valuable service for all us. They relay data that optimizes carrier networks, so that we can call, text, get data, etc more reliably."
Considering how crappy call quality and SMS (which was designed to be used to send control messages to phones) reliability are and how expensive data is, it seems like they're doing a pretty bad job of it. Also, there is no reason to do this client-side since this can all be done at the carrier infrastructure level -- and already is.

>"The problem this thread highlights is poor marketing and transparency. No one at CarrierIQ gives a damn what we text."
Warrantless wiretapping is illegal. I'm not sure what more to say here.

>"Breaking those basic privacy tenants would destroy their business, which seems to be going nicely if their software is on >100M devices."
unless you can't [as a non-techie] remove their software or opt out, which you can't.

>"The company just does a crappy job explaining what their technology does and how it helps consumers. Uncertainty around our private information spooks people, which leads to distrust and conspiracy theories."
http://www.echelon2.org/wiki/Palantir OK. I don't believe you since there are lots of documented reasons to not trust anyone with data like this. Also, why did they send a CnD letter to the guy and threaten him if they're not doing anything bad?

>"Let this be a valuable lesson for entrepreneurs who touch consumer data, even B2B solutions."
Yes, installing rootkits on hundreds of millions of devices without user consent, then trying to gag the security researcher who outs you is pretty damn bad form.

>"CarrierIQ clearly needs to address these issues. Let's call on them to do that. In the meantime, take a moment to imagine how much more we'd hate carriers if reception was even spottier (cough...AT&T iphone...)"
No, people already hate carriers, and there is no explanation that will make installing keyloggers on hundreds of millions of cellphones acceptable, ever. As I already said, carriers have had the power to gather the data they need to improve their networks at the infrastructure level (towers record MEIDs / EIDs / IMEIs already and this data would be easier to collect there) for years, and they already do use that to "improve" their networks.

Not to spout conspiracy theories everywhere here, but have you /seen/ the FCC press release about the ATT / T-Mobile merger and how badly ATT misrepresented facts? http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/30/2599466/fcc-report-att-pr... give this a read and then honestly tell me you think that carriers have all the best intentions.

Companies are supposed to make profits for shareholders, not protect your privacy or be nice to you. If they can make money by selling your personal data, they will and they're probably doing just that right now.
None of those technologies worked very well though. WiFi direct and bluetooth have the problem of being too long range. How does the transmitter determine who the receiver is, for example? This is why they made "bump" apps, because it was a useful kludge to solve the hand-shake / setup problem. And IR never worked very well and was far from ubiquitous, and hasn't been present on modern smartphones regardless.

NFC's advantage is that it just plain works. We'll see if it catches on, but it does cover a set of use cases that is fairly meaningful and has yet to be served by a truly robust and seamless technology.
I had a "Secret" clearance twice upon a time. Absolutely nothing I saw while I had that clearance was of the slightest interest. In fact, everything that I knew that was classified ended up appearing in Aviation Week. And no, I wasn't the leaker.

But I regard that as a symptom of over-classification, and speaks directly to the "fifteen or twenty" clearances Kissinger was about to get that were above a Top Secret.

Ultimately, there's only a few "national security" secrets, but there's mega boatloads of career-ending blunders, minor and major wastes of time and money, graft and corruption. Over-classification and compartmentalization solves all of those problems by covering them up.
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I am from the sub-continent. What you said is actually a good thing. There are lots of Guptas (and Vermas and Sharmas and other north-indian surnames).

In India Guptas marry other Guptas (or Sharmas or Vermas or other surnames, BUT there is marriage within the community).

This is not true for Smiths in any part of the world.
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What is it about ZeroCater that provides better services than competing caterers in the area?
Strikes me more as an equivalent to "first hits free" where the hidden cost is as you scale you'll just end up paying more.

But that makes more sense thanks, I don't normally deal with Microsoft products in that fashion.
Considering Facebook has ignored the explicit privacy settings in the past exposing 'private' information, I think it's more a question of them being untrustworthy than having poor security.
It doesn't even need to be top secret. There are "special access" projects at secret level as well.
I love startups that blur the line between online and offline. Startups like ZeroCater that are able to offer an online experience that is not purely online or social like many others is an interesting space that I do not think is explored enough. I wish them the best of luck! Nice work guys!
Yep sorry wrong reply, i'll nuke my comment sorry, dont' think its adding much where it is to be honest.
The guy did complete the registration. If he wants to complain about the design of the site and the fact that it's unclear why they want certain information, that's legitimate because it actually could be an impediment to people signing up, despite your disapproval. Is it appropriate on HN comments instead of actually sending an email to the guys who run the website? Probably not.
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I second that. At dotCloud we had to pull away from Zookeeper because of the poor quality of the Python (and therefore C) bindings.
Only one is used for computation (afaik), the rest are used to toss I/O onto. gevent/eventlet in Python do the same, as do other languages. Nothing unique there.
They've said repeatedly that they do not collect that data. This is a common attitude on HN threads: the idea that the only facts for us to discuss are the ones in the article itself or in other comments on the thread. There are more facts just a Google search away for you.

Their own words are not dispositive; I'm not suggesting that they are. But here you're trying to interpret their words in a way that contradicts their own direct statement. Your interpretation is possibly accurate, but implausible.
I would strongly suggest that they have the courtesy of stating their intention when asking for all that information. It's not difficult.

People are showing up to help and are then subjected to what seems like an interrogation. Even the most helpful soul would raise her eyebrows a few times.

I'm not saying that the information is irrelevant, but each question is there for a reason, why not just state what it is? You were able to do it in a couple of lines, why can't they do the same in the form.

"Disclaimer: Some of the secondary questions in this form might seem intrusive, but we need to make sure that if you're a match we have multiple ways of finding you.

Also, the analysis is lengthy and costly, we use the additional information to filter out samples that are more likely to match our current needs, which helps to speed up this process.

We are aware of the sensitivity of the information you're providing to us and we take your privacy and your confidence to heart. For the same reasons the password you're setting to access your file should be more stringent"
Hence the tendency for them to be oversimplified ;)
Since their business model is based around selling data collected without user knowledge/consent, I feel like digging into their financial would reveal a pretty strong case against them.
Chill out. Just because signing up is important doesn't justify the website going out of its way to make it obnoxious and hard to do so. The parent got a kit, others may not.
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I am a bit curious. How exactly is the procedure of marrow transplant carried out?
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So I guess this explains why ram prices have completely crashed, and SSDs are dropping pretty fast as well.

Good deal, IMO. What's funny about this situation is that Apple charges $200 to upgrade a MacBook Pro to 8gb. I just bought a new 15", and instead of giving that to Apple, I went and grabbed 8gb of ram from a local shop for $40.
It is unfortunately a point that the contradicts the thread narrative that casts a hapless, poorly-marketed analytics company as Big Brother incarnate, so nobody's going to pay attention to it.
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I agree with you that the policy is wrong, but it comes from the FDA, not individual organizations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSM_blood_donor_controversy#Uni...
I can understand your reasoning, but you need to remember that the key to bone marrow donation is getting as many people as possible on the register. That means making it easy to sign up. The simpler the process, the better.

Making a web form complicated, demanding, or asking for too much information is a mistake people make right across the internet all the time, and it's shown to cost them customers. I've definitely seen articles about how slightly tweaking the wording of forms increases sign ups by some percent. Why would giving bone marrow be any different?

Criticism of the bone-marrow donor sign up process should be welcomed. The user stated that they did eventually get through the process, so your criticism of them is unfounded. Would the world really be better if people didn't criticise processes because they were somehow linked to charitable good?

It's not petty and disgusting to criticise a flawed process, whatever it's for. If this was someone's startup and it had that kind of convoluted signup process, would anyone complain about criticism? No. Surely a process that could result in saved lives is more important to get right than someone's start up.
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"perhaps you guys are arguing semantics."

I think that's a given, since they're arguing about the semantics of a programming language.
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