skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it also then become illegal to program software that would defend against such software rooting your machine and erasing things that goes against its views of fairness?

I'd like see them try to root my Gentoo box.
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If I was a mutant with superhuman powers, and this was my capability, I would ask for a refund.
How do you expect discoverability to improve?

There are thousands of new apps on the market on a daily basis, all of them overlapping with each other and apps that are already on the market to a greater or lesser degree. Who is going to reduce that flood to the "best" of a particular category, worthy of your time and money, and on a regular and timely basis?

Granted, current app stores could be better, but you'd still have the discoverability problem simply due to the volume of apps now on the market.
There are some bits of information we can gather. For example, 60 of the 500+ YC companies have exited, with total exit values of $1.08 billion, according to http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011

Back in 2011, pg estimated the value of the top 21 YC companies at $4.7 billion (http://ycombinator.com/nums.html ).

EDIT: and my post is immediately obsolete, as pg has posted a current estimate in a sister comment.
That's interesting. I feel sorry that someone who seems to be such a talented programmer has to endure exclusion due to his mental condition.

He seems to be aware that he's been shadow banned, although I can't remember enabling "show dead", I may have toggled it by mistake.
Here's the screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/ZFV8gJr.png

I found it using my exit node to request a page returning some network and internal details of their system, and the IP address of my node, along with a parameter stating that my node was "unusable" for some reason.
We've been 'Once a Month Cookers' for almost 8 years now. I swear by it, though my wife is starting to waver.

"eating the same meal a few days in a row" has never come into it. We batch cook 6 different meals by 4 portions = 24 dinners, and mark the calendar so we mix them up but don't have 3 quesadillas left at the end.
Would you expect, then, that a list of phone numbers someone called or sent text messages to would be the kind of information that are not considered private? A list of addresses to which someone sent email? A list of URLs visited or books checked out of the library?
I wonder what university press release lies under the several stories with very similar wording that were published at about the same time last year. I note the submission here is at best a linkbait copy-and-paste of an article that originally appeared in another publication.
what city is that in the background?
If you really want to understand the study, you'll want to go to the unfiltered source, which is here: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982213...

Of course, it costs $31.50 to access it.
I'm sick and tired of being in such a lazy-ass, apathetic society that possesses zero regard to freedom.

Stallman may be a nut, but when you think long and hard about what he says, and think about SOPA, PIPA, and this lobby, in horror, your face twists in fear and you watch, helplessly, as your fellow citizens bend over backwards and let the government have their way.

I don't even know what to do anymore. Nobody will lobby against Hollywood; people already gobble up TMZ and are too obsessed with celebrity pseudo-culture and movies and pop music that they won't do it.

We need more activists. And without them, we are fucked.
I'd almost recommend staying with Coldfusion. If you're good with it, you can spend all of your time shipping apps instead of spending all of your time learning. Still learn on the side, but don't try to learn a bunch of languages and have nothing to show.
From what I have read, Google doesn't operate this way. My understanding is they don't keep everyone from an acquisition. While this seems a bit rude fire someone or make talented engineers re-apply for their own job, it does mean the people they do keep become Google engineers rather than 2 year indentured servants who have no incentive to join the company culture.

All strategies are problematic.
hg-git and Kiln Harmony serve different, though overlapping, purposes.

hg-git allows people who know both Git and Mercurial, but who prefer Mercurial, to work with Git repositories from Mercurial. No effort is made to hide the Git model, and no effort is made to ensure that the Mercurial repository generated from the Git one is idempotent (i.e., a given Git repo will always generate the same Mercurial repo) or can round-trip (i.e., I can trivially craft repos that hg-git can work with just fine, but where pushing to a bare Git repo will result in a different Git repository from the original). The benefit to this model is that the Git users don't need to do anything different, ever, and no one needs to know that you were using Mercurial, ever.

Kiln Harmony does something different: it's designed to let a team use whatever tools they want. This means that Mercurial users don't have to learn the Git model, Git users don't have to learn the Mercurial model, and generally, everything "just works" in that situation. Doing that requires a lot more processing power than hg-git requires, which is part of why we only offer it as a hosted solution for the moment. It also works best when your central repository is a Kiln Harmony repository.

I obviously think that's a fine trade-off, but if part of the main motivation of SQLAlchemy was GitHub, then Kiln Harmony probably isn't a good solution.
Congratulations, that happens to be the classic Agile defense. Namely, if it doesn't work then it must not be Agile.
Guess again. Most woman are emotionally more stable than men, when it comes to stress-resistance. Men are usually shielded much weaker to mentally stressing attacks. That's because men favor thinking logical, but trying to grasp illogical or stupid behavior causes a lot of stress. Could be connected with the amount of "Mirror-Neurons" of men.
Take control of their product and user experience can equally be read destroy other companies and force customers to use their sub-standard interface. There is harm in it. It doesn't seem hugely unreasonable for people to object. Whether Twitter's actions are worthy of legal interference I don't know. And heck, maybe it wasn't even practical for them to keep supporting the protocol. It is on first blush, however, a bit of a dick move.

Of course, in practice, they can do it - but they're screwing over a lot of people in the process and it's unclear why they should be allowed to other than that they own it. And ownership doesn't make sense to me as a strong-form legal principle when you're talking about things that affect many people. To quote Lord Denning:

'None of you nowadays will remember the trouble we had - when I was called to the Bar - with exemption clauses. They were printed in small print on the back of tickets and order forms and invoices. They were contained in catalogues or timetables. They were held to be binding on any person who took them without objection. No one ever did object. He never read them or knew what was in them. No matter how unreasonable they were, he was bound. All this was done in the name of "freedom of contract." But the freedom was all on the side of the big concern which had the use of the printing press. No freedom for the little man who took the ticket or order form or invoice. The big concern said, "Take it or leave it." The little man had no option but to take it. The big concern could and did exempt itself from liability in its own interest without regard to the little man. It got away with it time after time. When the courts said to the big concern, "You must put it in clear words," the big concern had no hesitation in doing so. It knew well that the little man would never read the exemption clauses or understand them.'

That's kind of why we have laws concerning bargaining power and things like undue influence, and why contracts are - at least in principle - meant to be more or less equally beneficial. I believe you can trace it back to The Wealth of Nations, and probably before - it's not as if Denning had the idea originally. But in terms of illustration of the conclusion of letting people who own a service dictate how it will be used absolutely. The peak of freedom of contract as a guiding legal principle has - at least in all hope - passed.

Silly contracts still get written, mind, that's just taken for granted. I have a contract with my phone provider for a two year plan, for instance, but if it ever came to court I very much doubt that would be upheld - it's far more likely that the court would say that while companies can be reasonably expected to make plans two years in the future I, as an individual (and consequently being far less powerful) can't.
He held an excellent engineering job for twenty nine years while earning well in excess of $100K. Got laid off during the economic downturn. At >50 years of age no doors opened wherever a degree was required. He ended-up going back to school to finish one of the degrees. Regrettably he disappeared while swimming in the ocean and is presumed dead. Rung against the no-degree firewall really did a number on him. Some think he committed suicide. We'll never know.
Finishing is also important for deciding not to finish.

When you believe that you can finish, and you have difficult past experiences to prove it (to yourself most of all) you can more easily walk away from anything that is not worth finishing, without doubting your motivations for doing so.
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Yes, they might as well have thrown "... for the good of mankind..." in for good measure.

On another note, thanks for linking to the source material.
"...there are increasing calls for creating a more permissive environment for active network defense that allows companies not only to stabilize a situation but to take further steps, including actively retrieving stolen information, altering it within the intruder’s networks, or even destroying the information within an unauthorized network."

this is actually way worse than the headline indicates. the crazy bastards want the legal authority to actively exploit other peoples computers and "take back" information from it. they want the ability to re-write the world.

it would be pretty frightening that digital media companies were unaware that you couldn't "retrieve stolen information" from computer systems, except no other company seems to know that this is actually impossible so it's just kind of de regueur.

I want to say that this will of course go nowhere because the legislatures support of far weaker measures (like CISPA) is lukewarm, but then again this is the group that brought us the DMCA. it would be especially ironic if the MPAA was more empowered to use computer hacking to protect popular music from theft, than technology and national defense companies trying to protect national defense information and private consumer information.
>We ourselves don't know the percentage owned by founders.

When one of them goes public, we'll find out how much of that one is founder-owned :)

Thanks for the info.
Excellent. Thanks very much for the thread. I'll pull on it soon, hopefully.
I know it was just a typo (of which you will find lots every day, some crucial to the meaning of the story) but I have saved a screen grab of a headline from a Christmas past where the Herald wrote "Elf diagnosis causing alarm" on a story about Internet self diagnosis.
A BetterPlace is an infrastructure company rather than an IP company. The odds are never good in the first place, and I wondered who'd actually invest in this thing.

It didn't take long and it looks like the Israel Corp - who owns 28% - is a government run VC http://www.israelcorp.com/AboutUs/HISTORY.aspx who decided to bet on a "green" venture. If you take a look at their holdings, they are big into plants and overseas expansion. IC Power builds power generation facilities in third world countries, IC Chemicals is apparently #1 in magnesium.
From the report:

> there are increasing calls for [...] that allows companies [...] actively retrieving stolen information

They are still living in the last century, and think that if somebody steals something from them they can take it back. They have yet to grasp what this 'digital media' is.
I'd like to - but I doubt ever will - see the full distribution of their 511 valuations.
DRM lobby must have started smoking some heavy stuff. It's not enough that they insist that breaking DRM is illegal, now they want to make spyware DRM to be legal. True intentions revealed. The next - they must be deploying the Watchbirds.
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I really like this. It's a nice simple idea and looks really good.

Since they came out with the latest version of the SDK I've been trying to think of some good stuff to play around with for the extended set of features they've given access to.

Any plans on adding support for the accelerometer to this? (for stuff like star jump reps or whatever)
I totally agree, and they have the ability to give him the money. All they would have to do is ask for a parent to represent him.
It's PyPI, PyPy is a different (unrelated) project.
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No company being on the other end of a "flip" (i.e. an acquirer) will mistake rapid growth and short term virality for long term health.
This is not going to go where they think it will go.

Right now their enemies are just pirates wanting to watch Game Of Thrones for free. A business threat, certainly, but one they're generally handling well.

But start infecting people's computers, and a portion of them are going to fight back. Then the entertainment industry has enemies actively trying to destroy their systems.

A whole different level of conflict, and one which I am certain they are not prepared for.

Never go for an escalation you don't need and will hurt you more than it hurts them.
Take it from someone who has lost a lot of money in the market - unless you love trading, do not trade. It's like playing poker or any other game of risk: you will pay to learn. That said, there are two ways to play. Buy and hold, or the poker game. The trouble is, unlike poker, you don't have an easy way to calculate the odds, and you are surely wrong as a beginner. Thus, unless you want to be a student of the game, you will lose (even if completely random choices, you will lose from psychological and transactional factors).

My advice for someone who defines his goals to be a fixed stable income is to buy blue chip dividend payers when valuations are reasonable (do research on this... ps it's not now). Then hold forever. Do not buy stocks you have to spend mental energy on (all but blue chips).
The movie and music publishing businesses are tiny compared to the telecom industry. It amazes me that they are able to get such proposals taken seriously.

This is beyond wacky in light of serious security threats from both organized crime and foreign governments. The same machines they want to root to check on your music and movies are used for serious work in industry and government.
There are certain protections that apply to libraries as public institutions. I wouldn't expect any of the others to be private. The rationale for why the postal "metadata" is not private is simple: no one can reasonably expect anything they write on the outside of an envelope and then drop in a box for potentially dozens of people to handle to be private. That same reasoning can be applied to phone numbers, text messages, e-mail addresses, and URL's. If I'm disclosing to Google what URL's I'm visiting by typing them into Chrome, I can't complain if the government can access them too.

There is this idea among hackers that you should be able to trust Google, etc, to keep information private from the government. But that's not what privacy means in the context of the 4th amendment.

The 4th amendment starts with: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects..."

It's clearly referring to things that are truly private: things you keep in your house or on your person, not things you voluntarily share with potentially hundreds of people at AT&T, Google, Apple, Akamai, etc.
I'd expect the real founders to be in for no less than 1 / (num founders * 2). But in this context for taking a below market salary (as opposed to forgoing salary entirely), I think he's trying to convey >5%, as opposed to the standard SV lure of around 1-2% for an engineer they want to work for peanuts.

Now that I've said that, hopefully someone more knowledgeable will jump in to correct these numbers.
That's PyPI[1], the Python Package Index, not PyPy[2].

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi

[2] http://pypy.org/
Ha. Black ICE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_Countermeasures_Elect...
There are a number of telling examples though. Zynga and OMGPOP, for one.
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Every subtlety in Path's product is a conscious decision. Of course they intended you to accidentally message all of your contacts - but in this post I was trying to shed light on the the real victims of the spam: other app developers
Seems to me the banding might be caused by bad rendering, and not a deficiency of 24-bit colours. On my MBP the gradient is indiscernable.
I have no idea if this study has any weight at all but I do know that I have a high degree of focus. When I was a kid I would focus so deeply sometimes my dad had to physically shake me to get my attention.

Never had my IQ tested though so no idea if I exhibit the correlation or not.
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Don't forget

h) calling someone a Nazi
Strong DRM means inherently weak security. DRM in your TPM means the weakest link in your system security is the low bidder on an MPAA RFP.
You do realize its his local town police holding him and not the FBI right?
And your answer is Stallman?

Yes, he is a nut. In the sense of "no one will ever take him seriously, especially anyone involved in mainstream decision-making, who has ever read anything he has written," which is in this case the most relevant metric. Stallman is never going to be any help here, nor is anyone like him, because any "normal" person -- that is, one that other people won't ignore out of hand -- will ignore him out of hand. This includes politicians, to whom said "normal" people are the all-important majority.

"We need more activists" is bullshit. You think we need more activists? More of those outliers that get lampooned in every media outlet for railing against the status quo? Because that's what activists are to most people: Nuts and/or malcontents.

Of course, my real problem with this statement is exactly the same reason I'm not making it. You think we don't have enough activists? GO BE ONE. If you think they can do any good and you believe that "we are fucked" without them, stop posting on HN, get off your ass, and DO SOMETHING.

Otherwise get back on the bench with the rest of us, because all your whining about mass media and celebrity culture is just that. You can gripe all you want that people aren't doing anything, but as soon as you start telling people what they SHOULD be doing, either you'd better be doing it yourself or you'll have to excuse those of us -- everyone -- who will not take you seriously.

In the event that you actually are interested in backing up your hollow rhetoric: The only way to work this system is from the inside. So start campaigning, or start schmoozing, because while real change is essentially impossible, the only way to mitigate damage is by convincing the relevant politicians that it's in their best interests to do so.
I doubt your info is correct. IIRC, CloudKick had 10 employees and little revenue. $40M seems like a steep price.

If Cloudkick's product was generating material revenue, they wouldn't have shut it down recently.

My arm chair quaterbacking puts the deal closer to $10M for investors, and maybe a nice bit of earnout.
Part of that was sunk costs. Presumably he was gambling on Powerset being a much higher exit. This store and the "I left $300k for github" are two sides to the question of what do you do when you are facing a soft landing rather than launching into orbit.

If the bonus had come in the form of a more lucrative cash buyout, it likely would have ended up being short term capital gains as options were cashed out, so there isn't even a tax difference.
Irrespective of individual publications, the pay to publish model is trying to take down the huge publishers charging outrageous fees to subscribers and should not be immediately taken to be an indication of low quality.
Toronto it seems like.
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DRM by definition implies weakened security and privacy for the end user. DRM was never about security, it was always about satisfying their bottomless desire for control. DRM already has a history of using rootkits and etc. These lunatics just want to make it legal in order to create another protective legal wall around DRM (with current being DMCA).
See the web.

The way people find websites has advanced far beyond the link directories of the 90s.
In the last 2 years, I have seen 100's of such on paypal/ebay.

Just to name a few, http://www.xssed.com/search?key=paypal.com
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Off topic: http://xkcd.com/859/
Gaming is a tricky example, with gaming being a hit driven business: hits only last in the short term.

I don't believe Zynga was mislead by a viral product in Draw Something. They saw a fascinatingly simple game built by a great team, and I hope that's what they intended on purchasing, instead of yesterday's hit.
https://www.quora.com/How-much-was-Cloudkick-acquired-for

$30-50mm seems to be the consensus in this and some other places.

$30MM cash was in the 10-K filing.
> Then the entertainment industry has enemies actively trying to destroy their systems.

so to be fair this is actually where we are today, if you remember the efforts of anonymous and sony, etc...
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This blog post is almost 6 months old. The author quit his job. The app is free and it looks like it's been . So what's the result? There's some basic advice here about starting and building something. We've all read that sort of simple "just build something" advice. Is their story unique or worth reading about? Any revenue or even a business model?
Then "The Simpsons" would be right about the one true religion being a mix of an amazon tribe belief and Mormons... and we are all going to hell...
This kind of thing really makes me worried about the coming conflict between government and an "open" web
I am fine them not advertising it much. They seem to be confident about their technical superiority over hype created purely by marketing.

(In other words, I consider Google technology company, Apple a marketing one.)
Of course the R18 Etron is a Flywheel based system, which has little relevance to road cars. it's Also caped at 500Kj of energy that can be stored and released per braking.
Frankly, this might be the sort of kick in the ass people need to start writing more secure software. Who wants their software to be known as the MPAA's attack vector?

On the other hand, I suspect that the MPAA would be in for a world of hurt if they did this. They would not only be dealing with file sharing, but also a coordinated campaign by blackhats to take down their systems, boycotts organized by the EFF and the like, lawsuits from companies whose employees brought rootkit infected machines on the corporate network, etc.
Or you can google a bit more and get a copy off the PI's research group's website.

http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/Duje/papers/13_Melnick_I...
How do those apply in Germany? Do all subsidiaries in all countries have to follow FLSA? I assume Paypal's German subsidiary is only responsible for following German employment law.
> blackhats to take down their systems

I'm pretty sure something like this would get the greys and whites involved too.