skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's due to two factors:

First, I still think the FBI (and other such deeply hierarchical organizations) are fundamentally unable to comprehend something like Anonymous on its full scale. They can't fathom the concept of a working collective that defines itself merely by willful association.

Second, this could backfire so fucking hard, even the FBI knows better. Seeing how often they've been embarrassed by Anonymous in the past, I don't think they are willing to take the risk of such an operation, only to have them exposed by the very people they tried to sabotage.
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I used to be a mathematician, and I think your comment is everything that math education in school should aspire to be :-) Another example in the same vein is Terry Tao's airport puzzle (http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/an-airport-inspired...), scroll down to Harald Hanche-Olsen's comment for the best explanation.
The way Android is fragmented changes all of that. If iOS were fragmented the same way Android was, Apple would be doing the same thing.
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Also when I lived under said 1-party regime I have never seen people more politically and socially engaged - and not just in a rebellious way. I live in Canada now and most people are totally indifferent as to what happens in their own community, let alone further afield.

I hope no one is reading my posts thinking "This guy is defending Hitler! Stone him!" For all I know Syria could be far worse then anything I've ever experienced. And in the end we kicked out our president too! (Although no bazookas or AK-47s were involved) So this could just be a natural progression of any authoritative regime.

Okay, I just don't get the reference. From your name, I'm guessing you originally come from ex-Yugoslavia, just like me. Now, the only time I remember the country was truly under 1-party regime was when the Communist Party was in power. However, that didn't end in "kicking out our president". If you're referring to Slobodan Milošević, by that time Yugoslavia (or what was left of it) had multiple parties. True, Slobodan seized the power, but there were other parties opposing him. And the only reason why "no bazookas or AK-47s were involved" was because things didn't have the chance to get there, because the army decided not to support him any more.

The whole point -- and I'm not the first one to point this out in this thread -- is that resistance to dictatorship (or any deprivation of liberty) gradually evolves from peaceful protests to violence.
Sure, but if they're doing their job, by the time you can navigate there, they've already pulled your current data.
We (UK-based, with 2 UK founders) created a US subsidiary with relatively little work - at least compared to the work of actually growing a US part of our business.

We initially created an LLC (Distilled LLC) that was wholly controlled by the UK limited company (Distilled Ltd). We have just recently changed that to a UK holding company that owns the UK trading company and changed the LLC to a wholly-owned US corporation.

So we now have Distilled Group Ltd owning Distilled Ltd and Distilled US Inc. (we weren't allowed Distilled Inc. because of potential confusion with Distilled LLC).

I wasn't personally involved with the paperwork / legal hurdles but I believe the company creation stuff has all been pretty straight-forward - certainly compared to visas for the (2, non-founder) UK employees we sent to the US. They haven't been too troublesome, but they certainly could have been and they did cost us money (in advice).

Sidenote for anyone considering this slightly convoluted process - if you have an EMI options scheme in the UK, you need the US subsidiary to be a corporation as it must have shares (the parent must own "all the shares" (or some such language) in all subsidiaries to qualify for EMI tax protection).
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tl;dr

Want to work on an awesome side project? Know python and django? Live in San Francisco? We are working on a project in the local events space and we'd love to talk to you about joining our team.

Write Andrew -- akitchell@gmail.com

I'd love to know::

1. Two+ fun/creative projects/teams you have worked on.

2. Your resume, portfolio, or something great you've built.

3. One sentence+ about what you love to do outside of work.

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Hi,

My name is Andrew.

I've been a marketer / business developer / hustler / product schemer with two YC teams, have run my own startup, and love big challenges.

Three months ago, my friend and I started developing a project in the local event space (its unique, I promise). My co-founder is a coding machine, who spends his daytime hours writing fantastic code for a very hot SF startup.

Our alpha is live, and 50 friends beta testing it, and we are seeing/hearing great feedback. Surely, we have a long way to go, but the project has huge potential.

Now, we are looking for another programmer proficient in Django and Python to join our team.

In the short term, you should be able to join us on nights and (some) weekends to work on an awesome side project. In the medium term (think 3 months), we will be testing out business models as we launch an exceptional product.

SO: If you are a Python/Django programmer, and are thinking about working on a great side project, we're building something amazing and we'd like you to join us.

Interested? I'd love to take you out for a coffee or a beer and show you what we are working on.<p>Write me for more details: akitchell@gmail.com.

(Know a friend who might be interested? They'd love you for telling them about this!)

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As stated above, I'd love to know:

1. Two+ fun/creative projects/teams you have worked on.

2. Your resume, portfolio, or something great you've built.

3. A little about what you love to do outside of work.

Thanks!

(And go for it! I promise you'll never regret writing me to learn a few more details :)
I want it right here and right now

But don't want to contribute to the cost of R&D. You have fallen into the classic fallacy that because something cost nothing to reproduce, it cost nothing to discover or to build for the first time. At the very least, the people who worked on it deserve to be paid for their time. The people who swept the floor and washed the dishes while they did it deserve to be paid too. Or do you work for nothing? Or do you plan to get paid for what you build on their work?
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you realize that was 1 year after the situation started and after he contacted the funnyjunk staff
I would not call iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G "robust": it was more of a disaster than anything. There are obviously strengths to all sides here, and I don't mean to champion that Google's is best or the only way. But I think it's clear what they're doing, and I'd bet they've weighed all possible options and found this to be the most economically sensible one.
With Rubinius, you can use the compile subcommand:

$ bin/rbx compile -A -S -B -e '1 + 1' # A(ST), S(exp), B(ytecode)
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The real danger is that they would still think it, even if they did not have an online venue, and when they feel safe they offer sympathetic support to those that will act on their hatred. The more echo's heard in the echo chamber the more empowered those that will act feel, at some point they will feel that their actions will be accepted or at least not countered, and at some point they will be right. I am not arguing against free speech by any means. The hate is still there even if they cant say it, so limiting speech only serves to treat the symptoms and not the infection. As well limiting speech also has the nasty side affect of limiting the ideas of those that are not in power, even if they have the moral high-ground. Unfortunately the only solution to fixing this infectious thinking is good old fashion education which seems to be a harder and harder thing to do. Willful ignorance is a merit badge now days and we celebrate it as being the epicenter of our culture by idolizing individuals that so predominately display the characteristic.
The problem with logos.
I went to college with Amir and also caught up with him while he was in London. I'm one of the founders of www.distilled.net - we have a US subsidiary (see comment elsewhere on this page) - let me know if you have any questions I can help with.
That's certainly true for some definition of "robust" and "timely". I'm assuming yours doesn't include security and bug fixes.
You can access the Picture/Video library since iOS 4. It does prompt at least once for location access (apparently since they can contain GPS metadata), but it does not mention anything about why it's asking for that location access.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Asset...
In one statement, you say that not all people make a choice about their bodies and in the next you say that people are sometimes sedentary because they work so hard in their field. Well - that's the choice. They choose to spend all of their time working and none of their time exercising.

Working hard at your job is great, but a lot of that is habit and it is easier to do every day than breaking that habit and introducing an exercise routine. The definition of being lazy, to me, is taking the easy way out, thus I personally find this behavior lazy.

Discrimination? Stereotyping? Bias? Yes, yes and yes. I would definitely prefer a healthy person to a non-healthy person in any business or social endeavor. (Unless it was a hot dog eating contest.) Yes, I stereotype obese people to be lazy, over-eaters, inactive and sedentary. I don't see anything wrong with this. I prefer to hold people accountable for their actions. If this upsets them, they can either lose weight or bear my bias. The only win-win is for them to lose weight.
Honest answer: This is the kind of behavior that justifies the expense of writing multiple native versions of an app rather than just developing a single website accessible from any browser but having limited access to data stored on the users' computing device.
Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, basically any app that allows you to "search my address book for friends" will do this.

All these services require either a email or phone number to sign up, so to search for friends who have also signed up for the service, you need to compare two data sets: emails or phone numbers of users you already have, and those in the person's address book.

You obviously wouldn't download your entire database of users contact information to the phone to compare the data sets, so you send the data set up to the server.
This is only tangentially related, but with a title like that I was expecting a brainless regurgitation of a press release, or some kind of extrapolation from a paper that wasn't claiming that meaning at all.

Instead, I see a news article with a clear description, caveats and constraints clearly listed, and a portion of how this relates to the parent company. It's a shame that I find this surprising.
You can use basic auth to protect your scripts from anyone who shouldn't access them. eg

http://user:pass@example.com/script
Agreed. Same sentiment for losing paper: when you re-write your list, you invariably a) think of something important you didn't have before and b) forget something that wasn't important anyway.

For me, at least, the act of list-making is more beneficial than the list itself.
Nope. Turns out Siri was (at least originally, not sure if it still is) vulnerable to the same attack.
Decoupling the browser from the OS is one of the best things that could happen for android security going forward.

Decoupling everything but the most rudimentary services is the best way forward for both security and user satisfaction. Despite the laser focus on the underlying operating system version by so many, tens of millions of Android users, across makes, models, and carriers, are seeing endless updates of mapping and navigation, the search functionality, the mail applications, the Android market, and so on. Decoupling the browser adds it into the bin of "no longer need to care about the underlying OS much", and goes a long way to make the fragmentation issue a non-issue.
> PayPal charges more than working with credit card companies directly

You'd think so, but in the general case that's untrue. Most MOTO merchant accounts advertise better rates but the effective rate the merchants pay is more than PayPal's 1.9-2.9%. PayPal's rate is flat, but anywhere else it's not. Virtually all credit cards (all rewards/points/cashback cards, all business cards, etc) are downgraded to a higher fee schedule -- plus AVS fees, auth misuse fees, batch settlement fees, statement fees, customer service fees, PCI compliance fees (virtually everyone added at least $100 a year in PCI fees in the past 2 years), chargeback fees, etc. And these are all variable and will generally be raised, one piece at a time, every month you have your account open.

I've worked with 3 direct merchant accounts and my effective rate is between 4% and 8% of transaction volume. At PayPal it's less than 4% including the fixed ($0.30) portion of the fee. A company with the expected volume of Etsy can probably negotiate a contract with fixed rates for some number of years, but the other 99% of small businesses accepting credit cards online (card-not-present transactions) are not beating PayPal's rates.
Presumably Apple could demand the ability to change the certificate an app validated against for testing purposes, if Apple cared enough to do that.
We are currently using UnittWebSocketClient in our iOS app to communicate with a Tornado server:

http://code.google.com/p/unitt/wiki/UnittWebSocketClient

It has worked well so far, but I'm glad to see more activity in this area.
Well, since you only ever only submit the compiled application binary to Apple, it'd be pretty darn hard for them to detect behaviour like this. Especially if the code to do so is obfuscated, and/or the data is smuggled out via SSL (or worse, steganography-style piggy-backed on to other data).

Sometimes it's tempting to speculate whether the real purpose of the app store review team is just to ensure developers aren't trying to access Private Frameworks (i.e. non-public APIs) or try to upsell the customer while bypassing the 30% Apple tax?
So by using a custom compiler someone speeded up an unspecified benchmark by 20%. Is this news?
It's a shame that this has only been released for Android 4.0. My hope is that use of Chrome for Android becomes commonplace. SVG support has been lacking in the Android stock browser in all releases up to Gingerbread - Android 4.0 (and 3.0) already have SVG support, earlier release could really benefit.
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Too bad they've already used the name "Google Goggles"
FWIW, if you have a rooted Android phone, you can install an app called "LBE Privacy Guard". It lets you install apps which require permission to send SMS, make calls, read contacts, access the network and a bunch of other things, but then prompts you when an app tries to do any of these things and lets you block/allow it temporarily/permanently.
A browser with that many permissions? what good is sandboxing and everything if the browser can access 100% of my device, including microphone?

i'm thankful this is not available for my ancient, 11mo old, nexus one.
What are the key differences between "Normals" and tech early adopters?
I'm interested in hearing about this too. Support can be one of the most time consuming parts of a web app. Maybe because your apps are simple they have less support requirements?
How do you propose to check them client side? :) You still have to send each contact over to the server...
Totally agree. Salon, The Atlantic, and New Yorker always have very good content. I never read the print version of Atlantic, but ever since they did a complete transformation to web, I've realized the quality of their journalist is really quite outstanding.
I love interacting with early users who says "Wow, Imagine what I could do with this!"
The Connexions platform has been around for a while now, and as I recall students whose classes used it were happy with it, from both a price and usability standpoint. Glad to see that the program is getting more ambitious -- the move ties in nicely with the backlash against Elsevier. The rise of open-source competitors to academic content providers seems like a huge win for students and institutions alike.
It would be nice to go a single week without seeing how utterly complete the notion of privacy has been destroyed.
It all depends on how much you value your own time.
It never takes just 5 min. And over the course of a year it migh easily take hour(s) of development time that is better spent on improving you product.

Heroku does the same thing for example. They are quite expensive if you compare them to running on raw ec2, but when you factor in the time that you need to spend to build and maintain your own infrastructure Heroku "suddenly" looks like a very good deal.
I sure hope they have implemented proper ACL for the REST api.
I've seen #1 before but never remember it so I want to include it. And #2.. that's one that's new to me. Yay for Ruby things :-)
Dave Morin, Path's CEO just responded in a comment:
http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-...

>Arun, thanks for pointing this out. We actually think this is an important conversation and take this very seriously. We upload the address book to our servers in order to help the user find and connect to their friends and family on Path quickly and effeciently as well as to notify them when friends and family join Path. Nothing more.

>We believe that this type of friend finding & matching is important to the industry and that it is important that users clearly understand it, so we proactively rolled out an opt-in for this on our Android client a few weeks ago and are rolling out the opt-in for this in 2.0.6 of our iOS Client, pending App Store approval.

edit: Morin responds to a response
http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-...

To the suggestion that they just hash the addressbook entries:

> 1. This is a good alternative solution which we'll look into. Thanks for the idea.
That is a very nice explanation. It shows why intuitively we expect (a+1)/(b+1) to be greater. But note that there are some unstated assumptions. Namely that both a, b > 0. And so we see that intuition at times carries unstated assumptions that can be a trap in a generalized situation.

Tokenadult and codehotter didn't mention the case when a or b < 0.
Dave Morin's (Path CEO) response:

Arun, thanks for pointing this out. We actually think this is an important conversation and take this very seriously. We upload the address book to our servers in order to help the user find and connect to their friends and family on Path quickly and effeciently as well as to notify them when friends and family join Path. Nothing more.

We believe that this type of friend finding & matching is important to the industry and that it is important that users clearly understand it, so we proactively rolled out an opt-in for this on our Android client a few weeks ago and are rolling out the opt-in for this in 2.0.6 of our iOS Client, pending App Store approval.

Dave Morin
Co-Founder and CEO of Path
They could do the same thing this guy did in an automated way (seed the device with unique data, sniff traffic for that that data), but as you said there are many ways to obfuscate it.
I'm at a loss as to how this is surprising anyone. How did people think that these apps found other users you know? This is built to support: A) finding existing people on the service and B) so they can (theoretically) send you notifications if a friend joins. If you want those features (and it seems that users do), this is the only way to do it. Admittedly, most apps are more explicit about it with a "find friends from address book," but if you want to lower the friction as much as possible, this is the way to do it.
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Go Rice! This has been a long time in coming. Lots of undergraduate classes will be hugely benefited by this sort of effort.
It's using 4.0 APIs, according to Matt Seigler's story and interview with Google SVP of Chrome Sundar Pichai:

"Back to the bad news: some of the more advanced features of Chrome for Android require APIs found only in Ice Cream Sandwich, so the team made the call to make it only available for Android 4.0 and beyond. Again, this means only 1% of current Android users out there can actually get and use the browser right now."
- http://parislemon.com/post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-th...
However:

17.1 Apps cannot transmit data about a user without obtaining the user's prior permission and providing the user with access to information about how and where the data will be used

It's likely that this app will be pulled from the App Store within the next few hours.
Looks fantastic! I just wish you guys had launched 12 months ago; we've had a pretty tough time integrating with another partner due to their limited API. What is the timetable for international role out?
You really don't need to upload address book for that.
Sending just hash sum of each of phone, address, name, and email would be enough to make the matching.
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If all they care about is matching users up, couldn't they just use hashes of the relevant data?

EDIT: possibly even better, they could use a Bloom filter, similarly to how Chrome uses them to filter malicious websites without sharing your entire browsing history with Google.
Oh yeah? Let me know when I can get Siri on an iPhone 4 without resorting to some sketchy hacks.
I'm sure if the Path guys had thought of that, they would be in a less bad place right now :)
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Just thought I'd try it. Nothing I've tried on chromeexperiments.com has worked using a galaxy nexus.
"Building stuff that's considered to be hard are actually the things I learned when starting out with programming."

Maybe it's not harder than other things on the list, but the author is saying that this order is the most common progression for programmers in his experience.
One-way hashing the phone numbers and emails would at least be a good solution to alleviate the privacy concerns, while still allowing you connect with your friends on Path.
They'll do what any self-respecting, old-money hegemony would do: take some senators out for golf and steaks and write a big campaign check.

They will lobby to implement more regulations with regards to "money transmitters" in the hopes of increasing their costs enough that they have to raise fees.

See: http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/Posts/In-Fifty-Days-Pay...
Certainly. An even easier way is to have the app call home to a web service that returns "stealUserData: false" until the app is approved, after which you switch the web service response over to "stealUserData: true"....
If it works in Germany, why not in Austria?
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If that was all it was then no.

However, what they did was demonstrate a novel way of making use of two different processing cores that exist on the chip (namely using both the CPU and an integrated GPU) to improve the performance of their benchmark - which certainly is both interesting and news.

Of course, a proof of concept is a long long way from it being of practical benefit!
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