skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They don't say exactly that.

In big red capitals on their front page they say "THE PRIVACY COMPANY".

I couldn't find anything in the 46 point TOS that said explicitly that they can read your files.

On their about page they say "Unlike most of our competitors, we use a state of the art browser based encryption technology where you, not us, control the keys." - that doesn't make it sound like they're telling you they can access your files.

On their "The Privacy Company" page they quote from the universal declaration of human rights,and they say "All files stored on MEGA are encrypted. All data transfers from and to MEGA are encrypted. And while most cloud storage providers can and do claim the same, MEGA is different – unlike the industry norm where the cloud storage provider holds the decryption key, with MEGA, you control the encryption, you hold the keys, and you decide who you grant or deny access to your files, without requiring any risky software installs. It’s all happening in your web browser!" - that doesn't sound like they're telling you that they can read your files.

On their help centre page they say "Because the server can't see filenames, filename collisions have to be dealt with on the client side. With standard settings, if you upload a file that you already seem to have in your account (same target path/filename, same size, same last modification time), it is skipped, but nothing prevents you from keeping multiple files or folders with the same name in the same folder." - which doesn't sound like they're saying they can read your files. They also say "Because our end-to-end encryption model inherently precludes any server-side manipulation of your data, which would be required to implement such a feature." - which also doesn't sound like they're saying they can read your data.

But now we find out that not only can they read your files but a CDN could read your files. Since we know that companies must comply with correctly formed legal requests anything that extends the number of companies that can read the files increases the number of companies that can be leaned on by well funded groups.

> Obviously it's a flaw and they should fix it. But it's not a doom and gloom, "their whole system is a farce" kind of flaw.

Their whole system is cloud storage with encryption - without encryption it's just cloud storage and there's a bunch of other people offering that. Those other providers have the advantage of not having been previously raided by paramilitary police from an aggressive government.

Crypto is hard. It's easy to go wrong. I have no idea what kind of research they did before launching, but to have broken crypto a few days after launch is not a good sign.
This. The last line epitomizes how I feel, the degree provides a certain level of credibility to my career, it is a form of validation in a way.
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Nah, they sell small FM transmitters you hook up to your MP3 in order to get the audio on your car audio system, this is kinda similar I guess (link is down for me at the moment).
Sorta...

In the short term the less intelligent half will be massively unemployed until we get something like Gattaca going and then everyone can basically be researchers (or writers, etc).

The real question is what happens after the singularity.
I would argue that it's not intentional. I will agree they are trying to bring more exposure to a brands by pulling in a related story in a confusing UI way, but I think they could argue that they don't force you to 'like' anything. If you don't like the things pages you 'like' are posting, 'unlike' them. It's that simple. I tested it with a few test accounts and if you 'unlike' the page there will be no posts like this. So, I will keep with my statement that it's not as bad as it seems.

People just need to watch what they 'like' and maybe go back through those 'likes' to do some cleaning. I actually like this, because it puts the full blame on the user to be more responsible on what they 'like', and not to just 'like' everything possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_15_%28FCC_rules%29

Unlicensed broadcasts on the FM broadcast band (88 to 108 MHz) are limited to a field strength of 250 µV/m at a distance of 3 meters from the antenna. This is equivalent to 0.01 microwatts.[2] Emissions must be kept within the 88.0 to 108.0 MHz band under Part 15 rules.
No, but rtlsdr [1] is a classical use-case for raspis.

[1] - http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr
I was in a very similar situation about 5 years ago. I was making a good salary as a web developer but didn't have a degree, with all the pitfalls that this entails.

I went back to school and I double majored in CS and mathematics and took the hardest courses I could. Here's the rub, if you want to go back because you feel like you have some gaps in your knowledge and want to fill them in, college can be great for that. I specifically felt weak in math before I went, so I studied it specifically.

You'll be at a big advantage in a lot of the CS classes because many of your peers are starting with no programming experience, so the more programming heavy ones will probably be comparatively easy for you. So focus on more theoretical stuff if you go.

Also, keep costs in mind. While you're at school your good salary means the opportunity cost is fairly steep. If tuition is high too it's very expensive. I went to an in-state school, though I'm fortunate that the local school has a strong program.

In terms of the opportunities it provides, my previous experience as a web developer meant that I got more interest in that arena than in other areas, but the difference was stark. Maybe the economy changed while I was studying, but it went from sending out a ton of resumes and getting a small handful of nibbles to 'if I send out a resume to a job I'm even reasonably qualified for, I'll get an interview.' It was that stark.

Money wise (at least short term) I'm still behind because of the opportunity cost, but I learned a lot and can pick a better quality job, so for me it was worth it. It's a personal decision though. In your case you can send your resume to Silicon Valley first and see if you get any bites, if that's what is more important to you.
The "How it Works" page doesn't seem to actually explain how it works. I found the Export Guide to be more what I was expecting on the How it Works page.

I was also expecting it to be a bit more seemless than it is. It appears that to sync, I have to manually export my contacts from each source and upload the file to you. Same for syncing. Also, having to use a third party paid tool to sync to Outlook isn't desirable.
I agree, you picked up on a point in the article which said, in summary, Google solved a problem back in 2000. I believe that Google is still solving that problem, and again in 2008, it also attempted to solve the "trending" problem.

I think the trending problem is "solved" by Facebook and Twitter because of their structure, so the next step is to search the structure for data. Google doesn't do this.

So, I agree that nothing is lost, however, we clearly have two modes for searching: an Archival mode, and a Trending mode. They tend to interfere with one another when both results are displayed in the same list (Search Engine says: "You clearly want the most recent stuff, right?") . The next step is to now separate the two result sets so that more relevant information can be found more easily within the context of the search query.
That may be so, but the marriage of "X likes Y (brand)" and a specific story is pretty confusing - it looks more like they liked a specific story than the brand, and just that the wording is bad.

Anecdotally, I had a friend who 'liked' an apartment rental company, and it took me a number of postings to realize that he was not suddenly looking at 7500/mo Beacon Hill palaces on a bartender's wage. At first, I thought he was just clicking like on a beautiful apartment regardless of cost, but as "liked" listing after listing showed up over the course of about two weeks, I realized something was up. It can be that confusing.
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This isn't new or unique for Jobs though.

He was great at portraying the public image of an ambitious hippy and a visionary who seeked innovation. But in reality he was a bad tempered and egotistical attention seeker with a narrow mind and thus had to do everything his own way.

None of his innovations were invented by him. Not even in the early days (Wozniak deserves the real praise there). His hippy attitudes only extended as far as was convenient for him (he claimed that money was never a motive, yet he was one of the most ruthless CEOs who added the highest mark ups on their products than any other company in the technology sector). He didn't even extend his hippy attitudes to his own work force as he was a complete bastard to anyone who wasn't working themselves to death. And then there's the way he treated his own family - absolutely disgraceful.

What Jobs had going for him was his ability to switch on his charisma when he needed to. This is what lead him to recruiting some of the brightest minds; this is what helped inspire them to create the products they did; and this is what helped convince the millions of devoted followers that Apple were anything more than just another 'megacorp'.
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Ask HN: Am I being too hard on the developers I interview?
I'm the CTO at a startup in London, so I'm spending a lot of my time interviewing developers as we try to grow our team. As part of that, I ask each of them to do what I consider to be a very simple programming exercise (See below.)

Yet, the results of this are disappointing. About 10% of candidates will be able to produce a solution in 10 minutes or less, another 30% of candidates will eventually produce something close to a solution in 30 minutes (though often with errors), and 60% of candidates will simply be unable to produce anything close to a solution. These are not junior or graduate developers, but senior, experienced programmers asking for £50k or £60k.

I try to make the candidates as comfortable as possible while doing this, but even so, the inability of 90% of the people I interview to develop a solution to a simple question is astonishing.

Am I being too hard on the candidates in asking them to do this?

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This is, verbatim, the problem sheet I show them:

Pascal’s Triangle

Each element in Pascal’s Triangle is found by adding the two numbers to the right and left of it on the row above it; where these don’t exist, they are assumed to be zero.

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1 1

1 2 1

1 3 3 1

1 4 6 4 1

1 5 10 10 5 1

(This is correctly centered in the actual document.)

Write a function that takes a single integer n as a parameter and returns the nth row of Pascal’s Triangle.

For example:

pascal(1) should return [1]

pascal(4) should return [1, 3, 3, 1]
Inline CSS :o

But nice idea!

"We are constantly working to improve Add and add useful and exciting features."

Do you have a roadmap? (pure curiosity, I don't see what kind of feature you can add)
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The last graph amuses me: http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/01/22/graph_custom-3939...

Even on a log-log graph, the data looks like a shotgun spread. Species of similar mass have lifetimes that vary by up to a factor of 1,000. Species with similar life-spans differ in mass by up to a factor of a trillion.
Thank you! I see the ability to communicate within the file (working assumptions, feedback and priorities) as a real pro. Also; I've tried html/css and as a designer I'm just not fast enough in it. I don't have the time to keep learning design, ui, ux and html/css. Axure looks like it allows me to concentrate on the user, the flow and the ui/design without worrying about the code and all the browser-stuff related to it. The generated prototyes allow for good testing.
I'm a senior in college right now. Don't do it on a whim. You're already in a great situation. Getting a degree won't change too much if you've already got the relevant experience. Remember that passion and drive (as corny as this sounds) are worth much more than the piece of paper itself [0].

Yes, there's a certain amount of credibility to go with the degree. Yes, it might help you get a better job. If you really do feel like you've hit a ceiling, then you might just want to get that CS degree.

I think colleges can be great [1]. Joel also gives some excellent advice to CS majors who actually want to program [2] (one of the great misconceptions about CS is that it's closely related to development like you're doing).

[0] Ironically it's college that gave me that drive.

[1] http://recoding.blogspot.com/2013/01/college-heck-yes.html

[2] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CollegeAdvice.html
Well, I don't think the author understood the paper.

Make sure you correctly read a paper before spreading wrong conclusions. The article is about the relationship between death, birth and mass (which are obviously connected, the paper is about that relationship). Time is just the scope there.
everyone judges.. if potential employees, bullies, potential clients find the guy in something like this there's damage already...
I rarely jump into HN comments any more. There's little more than snide in them these days. For what it's worth, I think yours is the only original comment in here thus far.
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I don't argue you at all on the confusion. It definitely is a confusing presentation. There is no doubt about that. I guess I'm just annoyed because people are getting upset thinking that Facebook auto 'liked' a post on their behalf and that is not the case.
Normal build, < 30 seconds. Build for production, about 2 minutes. Build from scratch, that includes building and populating the database, 20 minutes.

No tests yet. I really need to fix that...
Do you really want to keep working for others or is it really that you want the money and grandeur of those big brand-name employees? With your skills, perhaps you should think about planning and creating products of your own.
This advice is reasonable for most types of startup though not particularly those in media where advertising is still a leading and viable form of monetization (principally because most media companies start from and focus on the question: how do we serve advertising efficiently and profitably? It's not a side project.)

Slapping ads on a regular webapp will rarely yield much income without high amounts of traffic, but savvy media companies who can target and deliver high impact advertising aren't crazy to lean on it as their primary form of income (although diversifying into subscriptions and products ASAP is a good idea, nonetheless).
There is nothing new about the observation that body mass is correlated with lifespan, at the level of species - why should we be at all surprised that the correlation is described by some power law? There are compelling metabolic explanations for these patterns going back more than a century. What really excites modern biologists – and what the article completely fails to discuss (even to the point of claiming "this rule seems to govern all life") – are the numerous and dramatic exceptions to the rule: naked role rats, tardigrades, certain cnidarians ("immortal" jellyfish & hydra) and planarians, various lichens... In some of these cases, metabolic rate is divorced from body size through a well-characterized, indefinite hibernation 'mode', but more efficient DNA protection, repair and telomere length preservation systems are also important. And there is a substantial literature that explains unusually prolonged life-cycles using Evolutionary Stable Strategy modeling. All of which provide useful perspectives in aging research. Much more interesting would have been an article about how these violations of nature's "death formula" tell us how we might avoid death.
Thanks for your reply. :) I'm the one built it. Could you try another pages to test whether it works? If you still have problems , please send me the details by mail. Thank you. hustgock#gmail.com.
I may be wrong, however when Nokia entered into agreements with Microsoft it seems to me they had the expectation they would be their flagship phone provider. And yet when Windows 8 phones were made available Nokia was still stuck on the older platform for their most current phones. Exclusivity would have made Nokia the main source for Windows phones. The other companies such as LG and Samsung used both Windows phones and Android phones so they never had this issue.
When I first started (without my degree) I was making $40k. At six months I was making $50k. A year after that I was making $80k. At that point I felt like I had basically plateaued without the degree. You certainly don't need one to do well in this field though.

As I mentioned in my other post, you'll get more value out of a degree if you study something else _in addition to_ computer science. If you're in CS courses and you feel like it's easy (The more introductory courses will be very easy; you may be able to test out) it'll feel like a waste of time. It is up to you what kind of value you want to get out of it.
I was being totally sarcastic there. You have every right to ask people for their email addresses, especially because it looks like you've put a ton of work into producing this ebook.
Hi impostervt,

Yep, agree with you - we by no means are all the way there yet and there's still lots to do. Syncing is seamless, but at the moment you do need to export your current contacts and upload them to us. We are working on fixing that. Outlook is an issue because of its lack of support for CardDAV and is an issue I'm looking at as we would love to have better support or at least a free plugin.

This is very much just the start. Thank you for your comments though.
Tortoises were the first to come to mind for me. Later in the article, it does state that it's not just size but metabolism that figures into this correlation.

That being said. The article states that this relationship governs "all life" but only gives data for plants. Even there, "some variation, but not a lot" is an extremely generous representation. For the same mass, a difference in mortality rate could be 10^3 or more if I'm reading the graph correctly. While the relationship might roughly follow a trend, I wouldn't call that "not a lot" of variation. It's interesting, but I think the authors are overselling the relationship.
People don't just come in when you can serve more of them.

McDonalds are working with a certain flow of customers mostly based on location, time, etc, not on "ability to serve".

Now, if they start throwing people off because they are just too many to serve, that's another thing...
one of the things keeping me on ubuntu right now is that 3rd party linux software (be it proprietary or open source stuff that's not in the repositories for some reason, or perhaps that canonical has screwed around with) is today almost always packaged for ubuntu. i imagine that's going to be much harder when there isn't a specific release that those 3rd parties can aim for.

i actually thought ubuntu hit a nice sweet spot with their 6-month release cycle. it was one of the many things they got right in the early years that gave them the leadership position they still have today, even if a lot of us are less fond of what it's become.
If other economic sectors were as free from regulation as the computer industry, business would be mostly booming in those sectors as well. One of the things those businesses would want is more technical employees.

In that predominantly free market, anti-poaching agreements wouldn't be effective, because it isn't possible for any single enterprise to forge agreements of this kind with more than a handfull of its peers at a time.

Don't believe me? Banking and medicine are two of the most heavily regulated industries in the US. And it's why, given the choice of working for Kaiser Permanente, Bank of America, Apple, or Google, any one of us would choose Apple or Google over the other two.
Agreed. Also, at least on the original site I can read what is just text without a Javascript requirement.
I think your product is a step in the right direction. But contacts are such a private matter that I think it doesn't go far enough.

People that don't trust Google are not likely to trust you.

Contacts is something you want to / should have on a computer that is totally under your control.

Given the low traffic and speed requirements, im my ideal world this world sit in a Raspberry PI like mini computer next to my router (or on my always on smartphone)
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You can be great at eating dirt, doesn't mean you should do it.

Especially with the 'financial resources' comment, he was being politely reassured that the recruitment is purely in Palm's technology interests, and Jobs comes back with a 'we're doing better than you' remark.

How some people think he's a saint (or for some a deity in his own right) is truly beyond me.
Visual inspection also suggests a rather low R^2 on that regression. It looks much more like a loose correlation than a formula to me.
this is the twitter account of the original author https://twitter.com/individeweal
The best thing you can do would be to either call the respective tax authorities (here in the UK that's HMRC) or seek professional advice. You situation likely isn't that complicated or hard to sort out but you don't want to screw up based on the advice of an anonymous HN user.

If you ring up the tax man asking to pay tax I'm pretty sure they will be able to help :) If you think you can save money by reorganising finances then get an accountant.
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Here is my take on it.

For me, it's either use something like Google Contacts, or use something like add. They both have several features:

* Stores your contacts

* Synchronize across multiple devices

* Works on all my mobile devices as well as web (I'm giving add the benefit of the doubt here)

* Respects my privacy (Google has a good reputation here)

* Allows me to export my data

Google contacts has several advantages out of the starting gate:

* They are MUCH more likely to still be here in 5 years

* They're free

So if you want to beat Google contacts, you have to offer something they don't. Here are a few examples:

* Better structures for additional data. Like tracking relationships so I can store an address or some notes for a family or married couple instead of typing it in only one of them.

* Better tools for managing large numbers of contacts.

* Automatic updates to addresses, phone, etc. (Fed from somewhere... where would that be?)

* Automatic linking to external sources. (If it recognizes the name, propose a possible address for my friends, culled from other public or private databases.)

Basically, in order to compete with big, reliable, and free you have to offer something special that the big guy doesn't. There is LOTS of space for innovation in contact storage, and I'm willing to pay $3/month for such a service. And ubiquitous access to that (even integrated into my phone OS) and a way to avoid lock-in (so I can move my data if I want) is the minimal level needed to play. Now you need to take it further before you can attract me as a customer.
I didn't think so but the BBC iPlayer's page about requiring a TV license claims so.

If you are using the live rewind function to either restart the current live programme or to rewind any live stream for up to 2 hours, a television license is required as you are still accessing the live simulcasts.

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/...
> The money goes towards radio and television that is free from political influence [...]

The public TV stations depend more on politicians than any commercial media company, because it's the politicians that write the laws that dictate how much money they get, or if they should even receive any money in the first place.