skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans, a pressure of 1,086 bars (15,750 psi). Yes, I agree there is possible life at crazy pressures in liquid water. Atmosphere of Venus (92 bar), so on earth we have life already documented at near 10x the pressure of venus.

This is consistent with what I was trying to say, may not have been so clear. But on a scale of -200c to +2000c being in a narrowband is water, correcting for temprature/pressure and state condsideration.

That being said, life detections in mariana trench are quite recent. Not likely to be detected by a simple probe of the type sent to mars, etc.[1] Highly specialized equipments. If I was looking for a needle in a haystack, it seems to make sense to find some haystacks first. And then rank-order the haystacks. Having a wider temp band means more haystacks, not neccessarily nore needles. Or easier to find the needles. If I had enough "protein" hospitable haystacks, I might look there first.

[1] The weight of a 1000 bar crush-proof engineering structure, and sophistication of communications and energy systems would be well beyond that curiosity, etc. Curiosity is of course not "simple" in its functionality, for what it does. But it's designed to spec for a unique mission.
Yes, they probably can. Read those actual cases. In particular, in the cases where the scraper/crawler won, read why they won.
I've never heard of this before, from either my lawyer or any of the lawyers for any of the firms I've worked for. And I have asked this question specifically, because in my case, it may take much longer than normal to get a Green Card. But I'll investigate.
Reverse engineering has been applied to all the fields that you cite. The F-35 is a funny example in the sense that if there is one item that would be reverse engineered in its entirety down to the last transistor then it probably would be that plane if one accidentally made its way to China somehow. Nothing motivates more than a perceived gap in weapons systems ability. Reverse engineering of electronics is a solved problem, even though it may be a lot of work.

Is there some proof that someone got a useful idea on how to make an artificial heart out of a patent published about mechanical equipment used in a factory?

If you want to keep something secret, keep it to yourself. Monkey see, monkey do!
This is not a website. This is a massive web of communications, past and present. This is not a wire tap without a permit, this is a permanent archive of every sniffle. Guys with warrants and/or guns get what they want, and Facebook has what they want.

Does Mark Zuckerburg strike you as the kind of fella who will go to prison to fight for your privacy?
Still waiting for RSS functionality.
why? the man loves attention, haven't you seen his twitter account: http://twitter.com/SalmanRushdie
It seems like the OP is a "citizen of convenience" like those in Lebanon who only wanted to make use of their Canadian citizenship when war broke out

How unimaginably selfish of them, trying to avoid death by manipulating poor hardworking taxpayers with their use of "documents" and "citizenship" and other bits of magic paper.
> Nobody, including Google, consistently delivers functional map data to mobile devices every time

Sure, nobody's perfect. There's so much data that problems inevitably slip through.

But Google's maps are at least "good enough" in most important markets. Apple's are not. That is a problem.
I like John Siracusa's perspective on his "Hypercritical" Podcast (He has somewhat of a gaming background) - when he heard Apple claiming to have a Dual Core Processor on one of their iDevices because they had Dual Core GPUs:

"That's not how we measure a GPU"

I.E. The number of cores in GPU is mostly irrelevant compared to its performance, which is much more relevant.

It's like counting the Output pins on the CPU - Let's say you have a 722 Pin micro-PGA package. I guess it's interesting trivia, but isn't anything that tells you much about the processor's power/utility in and of itself.
The Avengers has a 92% on RT. The Godfather, Part 2 has a 98%. The Avengers leads The Godfather 2 on this list.
until their hashes show up on pastebin
They don't need to know the original password, they first check if your supplied password (which can be greater than 16 characters) when hashed matches the hash they have in the database currently, then if it does and it's greater than 16 characters truncate the length of the password you supplied to 16 and then hash that and update the database with it.
Space shuttle takes one final bow
In an alternate universe, I spent five minutes pre-ordering my iPhone and had it by 9:30 a.m. I feel like such a chump. I should have hired a TaskRabbit to do that for me.
So you deduced he is maybe part of the group you perception to have poor quality in work ethics.
So do you think apple plays to that poor professional ethic by providing free and heavily discounted iphone samples to "tech journalists" ? Because they do it, actually they do it to any kind of journalist in Europe and that "offering" isn't available from most other smartphone brands.It saves them a lot of money they would have to spend in more common advertising venus and somehow I don't see it disclosed.
Two arguments. The first is Microsoft doesn't need to know that the hash belongs to a password > 16 chars, it just needs to detect that the user is entering in 17+ characters and has not updated their password since the Hotmail update, and assume that they are submitting a password that is 17+ characters which should now be invalid, validate the old hash upon submission, fail authentication and prompt an "error" and ask for the truncated password, and then calculate a new hash and authenticate against that. Theres absolutely no reason for them to be doing that though, and it doesn't make a lick of sense either.

The second argument is that they have been silently truncating passwords to 16 characters forever, which they admit to. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/microsoft-ac...
'Apple makes digital copy of physical clock'
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"Is like cannibals being left to their own devices till they get bored and eat each other."

That escalated quickly.
And why is the user base small? Hint: Circular dependency ;)
Caltrain does not have a monopoly to get from A to B. Soon there will be a BART connection from SF to SJ. So for those traveling the full route, there will be competition via 'tracks'.

For local service there is also overlap with BART on the north end, and with VTA on the south end. So, there is competition.

Plus you could also drive. There are also shuttle services that are competing to move commuters, and not all of those are subsidized by employers.
How about a sitting judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and one of the most respected and cited voices in intellectual property law? Judge Posner
[1] http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/07/15/can-this-le...
DropBox should just buy AeroFS.
Your situation sounds extremely bizarre. There should be no reason to avoid traveling outside the US if you're a Canadian on an H-1B. Except maybe if it's about to expire and you have an application for an extension pending. (My employer's immigration team suggested I not travel under such circumstances.)

FWIW, I've travelled in outside of the US around 20-30 times on TN/H-1B status and never encountered problems. On most of these trips I've re-entered at YYZ (Toronto), and most of the time the border agent doesn't ask me any questions at all. Occasionally they ask me what I do, who I work for, or where I live. One time I was asked about what type of software I write and possibly what my salary was. I've never been asked for any more details than that.

I guess it's possible I just get an easier time than you because of profiling: white, male, well-known employer, typical Canadian/US accent, no trips to strange countries, etc.
1. Knowledge: This may be useful if you have a highly technical product but I have always found it easier to teach someone about a product than to teach them how to sell.

2. Skills: a skill that may be more useful than building a plan would be the ability to close. Assign some leads and see if the person can actually close. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVQPY4LlbJ4

3. Accountability: Often the worst part about great salesmen is that they are great salesmen. They will sell themselves and you on doing as little work as possible. A basic CRM to monitor his progress may provide an equal or better ROI than the salesman himself.

4. If you are short on cash, you can build a sales team on commission only. This book has a few ideas on how to set that up:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ultimate-Sales-Machine-Turbocharge...
What is a "real" name vs. one that is not "real"?

Did you mean legal name? And if so does that exclude legal aliases?

What about Madonna, is that her 'real' name?
There is a 0% chance that Facebook does not record your response to every request.
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The only problem with forcing real names that I've recently encountered are family members who work in prisons. They use a modified name as to make it difficult for an inmate to gain knowledge of them and where they live. Personal and family protection in a way with the ability to still use Facebook to connect with distant friends and family members.

Anyone else run into this instance?
They didn't just take it down - they left no way for anyone to find out what had happened to the project by looking at the Kickstarter site. There's just a page saying the project doesn't exist anymore for some unspecified reason.
They'd love a database full of confirmed names, which advertisers could buy into. With Facebook the '900m users' are all real people not just accounts created.
Facebook brings search history to Activity Log, keeps queries private
Energy Flow and the Organization of Life
>"I am not an American, although Canadians are, last time I checked."

I don't understand this...

>"And anyone can lecture on open borders and minds irrespective of nationality"

Absolutely. But if you're an American, your yelling at me on the internet about immigration is the equivalent of a Facebook "like" campaign to stop hunger in Africa. Plenty of work to do in your own back yard. I assume, with your passion and all, you're all over it.
Also this TED talk by Johanna Blakley, shows how the lack of copyright and patent protection in the fashion industry actually works to benefit both innovation and sales: http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio...
This could be a good way to hasten the departure of users from Facebook. If you get the accounts of all your friends using fake names suspended, they might be more willing to move to Google Plus.
It has been applied, but it's much less practical in those fields than it is in software. I'm just saying people on HN tend to see everything through the lens of software, and other engineering fields aren't the same.
They would disappear briefly, only to reappear as a new shell corporation. That's the whole point for many of them, no real liability. They hide behind false information, then disappear when it's convenient and start over. So I doubt the threat of an automatic negative outcome during litigation would be a deterrent. The law really only intimidates the people playing by the rules, or trying to.
One tip to make life easier after obtaining a visa to work in the US : Apply for Nexus as soon as you can.
Have you read the CL complaint?
It seems like it would be more sensible for them to use modified names inside the prison.

Of course, they probably don't get to choose what name to use in the prison.
That's a good example, but there are countless reasons why people cannot safely use their legal names in places like Facebook.

They can elect not to participate, and Facebook can elect to prohibit them.

Neither party really suffers any material damage, but it does frustrate some decent people.
Imho accountability through CRM works only for large companies. In early stage startups accountability has to be an intrinsic value in the hire. If the founders have to measure accountability through CRM then they have hired the wrong person.
Seems to me that guards using fake names should be a matter of course in prisons.
XMPP has this neat feature that allows you to know what features are supported by a remote client, allowing you to just send social stuff to online clients that want it. Email doesn't have this, but it could be approximated by some clever use of multipart messages. It'd be even better with filters, but you can't count on things like sieve being available.
People balk at Lean Startup because it tends to come off as patronizing, reductionist, and antithetical to innovation. The stereotypical "lean" startup is so tethered to short-term customer feedback that it will produce, at best, an incrementally improved version of whatever product customers were already using. In other words, aiming for what customers will want a 2 months from now, as opposed to 2 years from now.

To some extent I think this criticism is justified, but it's important to remember that even if big bets and profound insights into what customers want turn out to be correct, "non-lean" startups still need to be agile enough to adjust what they're doing on the margins through fast experiments. Getting 95% of the way towards having a product someone will pay for just is not good enough. To use Color Labs as an example, it can also be argued that Color was REALLY close to being successful, they just messed up distribution, and that had they used a small-scale, more iterative roll-out approach things would have been different.
What do you think of the name? :P
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Kid Koala, is a Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and an author of graphic novels. Kid Koala didn’t just release an album this week, he introduced a whole new piece of technology.
Very nice article, worth reading.
Do you remember your first time encountering a 'Hello World' code snippet?
Since the pixel race is on, light sensors on consumer camera / smartphones are bandwidth consuming sewer pipes. It's only watchable if downsampled, I don't see the point. Old 4MP cameras didn't suffer this problem.
"It’s not easy to go against the grain..." but you've got to do it to get attention.

I'm inclined to agree that iOS Maps wouldn't have got past Steve Jobs, because he was fanatical about the smallest details. Apple is, for Christ's sake, outsourcing its data collection! To a company that obliviously claims it is not responsible for the "user experience". Steve would have bought them, cut their throats or both.

The questions now are: Will Tim Cook mobilize the resources needed just to compete with Google in worldwide data acquisition? Can he inspire his Maps team to change the world? The latter is not Cook's forte. If he makes a competitive matrix, they're dead.
I'm not one of those "Firefly is t3h greatest show evar" people but I would still say that, yes, Firefly is better than Citizen Kane. But we would have to define what we mean by "better".

Citizen Kane gets a lot of rightful attention for being historic and groundbreaking in a number of ways, especially by people who have never seen it. Unfortunately, despite often being conflated, "groundbreaking" and "good" are not really the same thing. Now, don't get me wrong, Citizen Kane is a fine film and still worth watching today. But divorce it from its historic role and consider modern audiences. Think about what it would be like if released today. At best it would be critically-acclaimed and lauded by a small audience without ever seeing mainstream appeal, much as Firefly has.

Now, granted, I haven't gone a single shred toward showing that Firefly is actually any better than Citizen Kane though I have gone some way to putting them on roughly the same level. And Firefly has more explosions and space zombies making it more watchable for many people today.

Is Firefly really better than Citizen Kane? It will never be widely thought so by critics but I can definitely see an argument where it is better for modern audiences and I really think that's what matters at the end of the day.
It might hasten the departure of users from Facebook, but if they're leaving because of facebook's real name policy, I doubt they're going to find G+ more attractive.
Enforcing real names has pros and cons. For Facebook as a business, the pros certainly outweigh the value lost when accounts can't be mapped directly to real people. Names are a key part of that mapping.

In general, I prefer an option for pseudonymity, because it is much more inclusive (allowing certain people at the fringes to feel more comfortable joining in -- victims of abuse, political dissidents, etc), and is much less messy than total anonymity (which wouldn't really work for something like Facebook, not that there isn't a place for it elsewhere on the web). That said, pseudonymity can still get messy, so I see why Facebook might want to keep it in check.

One can also make the argument that the level of discourse is much higher on services where people are more personally accountable for what they say, and where confusing or offensive usernames don't get in the way of conversations. But I would say that the actual level of discourse sometimes found on Facebook throws that argument into question.
Further, the reason health care is so expensive is government regulation.

No, healthcare is expensive because there are multiple layers of middlemen, each trying to earn an increasing amount of profit, and because healthcare treatments are performed without regard to efficacy by profit-motivated private medical service providers.

Healthcare costs have increased far more rapidly than the increase in healthcare legislation; indeed, the only metric that has increased alongside costs is profits earned by HMOs and other insurers. By the way, "profits" is just the net revenue the insurers earn, after deducting from income the insane, multi-million dollar yearly bonuses they pay to the C-suite officers and board members.

If government were the driving force behind healthcare increases, the rest of the world would spend significantly greater sums of their GDP on healthcare than we do, yet they spend far less--and have comparatively better results for the amounts they do spend.

The worst thing to happen to healthcare wasn't government; it was the corporatization of health care.
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Please, relocate the save button(s) somewhere, maybe to the top of the page. I needed to scroll the page to find them, which almost ruined otherwise very nice impression :)
Something about this exchange reminds me of the old Monty Python "Motor Insurance" sketch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO2R_DDZPCM

Well, Reverend Morrison, in your policy… [pause to remove wadded-up document from the inside pocket of an old tweed jacket] …in your policy it states quite clearly that no claim you make will be paid. You see, you unfortunately plumped for our "never-pay" policy, which if you never claim is very worthwhile!

(Incidentally, it's fun how well this sketch holds up today if you imagine that Michael Palin's character is playing the role of the Internet.)

Anyway, the point is that it's not buying the insurance that's hard: It's ensuring that you can collect when the emergency happens. The same is true for backups. When you try to restore the backup, and you can't find the guy who set it up in the first place, and the second guy you hire for $20 from eLance tells you that the first guy messed up the Unicorn settings or whatever, or that his script broke four months ago and nobody noticed, now you're screwed, and you don't even know which of your two $20 minions made the mistake.

How much will someone pay, as a monthly retainer, to avoid that nightmare? Well, how much is their data worth? How quickly will they want to restore it when disaster strikes, and do they already have a full-time employee with a pager who knows how to perform the restore?
I supported Makerbot because of their commitment to the open source software and hardware community. If that changes then they will lose me as a customer. I actually paid a premium for their Replicator printer because I believed in their philosophy. Now that they are funded by a VC it seems they have strayed from that path. Let's hope they can bring it back. If not I'll go with the cheaper and more capable alternatives to the Makerbot printers.
You shouldn’t need a computer science degree to write a mobile app
> For heaven's sake, extension of copyright terms comes at the behest of the publishing industry.

This is known as regulatory capture, and is what is to be expected once the government starts to grant monopolies: instead of competing and innovating, corporations dedicate themselves to much more lucrative rent-seeking.

When the government is the one who decides who can do business and how, it becomes much more lucrative to put your energy in lobbying the government for rules favorable to you, than to put the energy in competing and pleasing consumers.

Without patents the only thing that matters is execution: pleasing consumers, with patents all that matters is how you can milk the system and use it to crush your competitors that might have more competitive products.
Right, that was my understanding. 70% of 99c is ~70c. 70% of 70c is ~49c. 70% of 70% nets the developer 49% of the 99c selling price; just under half.
If you want a browser extension go ahead and write it but this definitely should not be a feature of the site itself.
IANAL, but my understanding is that in Europe, waivers of moral rights are non-enforcable.
This doesn't make sense to me. Are you saying that, without patents, ARM couldn't license it's designs to Samsung? Why not?

Or are you saying ARM wouldn't be able to stay in business because Samsung would just steal their designs? I don't think that is true, for the exact "expert" reasons you mention: ARM is great at designing processors. If Samsung wants reasonable updates to stay competitive with other manufacturers, they would need to pay for those experts.
I'm generally a seller of the whole "social discovery" web application movement, but for things like movies, I have one or two friends whom I depend upon heavily for "social discovery" (I'll usually email them about what I'm looking for) in having great movies recommended to me personally :).
T-mobile is hurting pretty bad at the moment. Due to the whole AT&T attempted takeover they "optimised" many parts of the business. That included consolidating call centres and making call centre employees also have sales and similar quotas. They reduced own store staffing to absolute minimum levels. The corporate owner (DT) doesn't have much interest in T-Mobile, certainly not enough to invest or pay much attention to management.

Eventually the AT&T thing collapsed and tmobile sank to the bottom of various satisfaction ratings (from usually being at the top). There is much debate as to what the cause of the malaise is, and how to get out of it. Some think this is purely a lack of iPhone issue, while others have pointed to phone selection, customer service, coverage, management, marketing, sales and who knows what else. None of these things are easily fixed, although they are addressing the iPhone issue by changing frequency usage around to the more common ones used by AT&T and others.

There is a new CEO, and he has done the usual rallying the troops ra-ra stuff. As you noticed it didn't really help.
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I always found it slightly rotten when businesses use an "open" model to, in essence, get their fans and customers to build their product and market it for them, and then close it off for maximum profit once it reaches a certain level of maturity.

It feels like bait and switch.