skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the greatest minds of our generation are still working where they always have: in academia, research labs, etc. The people figuring out how to get consumers to click are the top 5-0.5% minds. When I look back at people from my high school, most of the tippy-top people are getting PhD's and figuring out how to do nuclear fusion. It's the next rung down that are working on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, etc.
http://themeforest.net/item/kameleon-premium-business-produc...
I could see that be an issue with that today too (as would extra marital affairs, gambling debts, etc) but I doubt they would care one way or the other if you weren't in the closet.
On the other hand, if your application is being screened by HR at all, you're doing it wrong; you want a hiring manager sponsoring your process before you ever talk to HR.
Where should we ship this to?
There's a decent chance she'll die before then (of old age). Even better.
Oh, I do, that's one of mean reasons I find it remarkable I'm quoting from The Guardian with approval.

And should I mention that yesterday was the 64th anneversary of the publication of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
(http://ygwomanup.org/this-day-64-years-ago-orwell-published-...)? We all know what culture inspired it and The Prisoner.
Yeah that's a great point. Here's a dataset of libraries per capita by state[1] that supposedly includes a map but it's not loading in Chrome...

[1] http://www.statemaster.com/red/graph/edu_pub_lib_tot_lib_per...
http://25.media.tumblr.com/7b17076580461a288bccd99b2118057c/...
> National security" falls under the umbrella of "common Defence" (which appears twice in the Constitution).

Both in reference to the purpose of the Constitution and the scope of purposes supported by Congress taxing power, but neither reference is to a general federal blanket power with regard to "common defense".
But those companies have data centers all over the world. It's not like all data goes through one pipe ...
Sure, that's a valid reason. I guess I should have stated the intent of my question: Am I going down a bad path by trying to make my game with canvas when I could be doing it with a bunch of divs like this page?
Farragut's first command was at age 12. He brought a captured British ship to port.
How much of a trail do prepaid cards leave? (I honestly have no idea.)
Pull the sim card, and smash THAT with a hammer. Don't just smash the whole phone - you're unlikely to destroy the sim card, which is the most incriminating part of your phone.
Sorry to say but you still have to pay by credit card (huge trail), and even if you use bitcoin, you still have to have the phone delivered somewhere, and to someone.
This was 70 years ago, I think we're past it
No, no no! Vote fucking independent in all cases. Fuck republican/democrat. They are a different view of the same database table.
I would add a note about that now so people know it is coming and you don't lose a potential customer because they saw the site today and had the same opinion of the parent comment.
"Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help."

This seems fallacious. Computer-based face recognition would be significantly better than human-based, because computers can remember thousands of faces while humans can only recognize a few hundred at most.
Sounds great! Doesn't a shipping record from BurnerPhone's warehouse to John Doe's address kind of spell things out, though?
Jeff, thanks! I was in analysis paralysis over how to handle some new functionality & this pushed me over the edge toward trying angularJS. So far, so good...

BTW, I bought the two cheapest ebooks in your list. Hope you got a piece! The 'Recipes' one has been the most handy so far.
It seems like your second graf is at odds with your first; you say the degree "separates one from the masses", but go on to talk about how you hire without regard to degrees. I do too, and so does every hiring manager in this field that I know.

Statistically, having a degree sets you up for ~6-7 figures of extra lifetime income, but you have to bear in mind that such figures account for lots of people who would be marginally employable without a degree. People who can reliably write code, test software, or configure complicated systems aren't marginally employable; they are some of the most employable people in the economy.
How does this work? I thought the gov't required identifying information to be gathered when selling a cellular phone?

What are the regulations?

If the gov't wants to track down the owner of a phone, what do you do? Just say that you don't have that information?
Well when processing large amounts of data in limited time which their are many more situations then just scientific/gaming uses. I guess more in a B to B situation then retail programs.
What a dickwad. "I'm going to introduce this thing but I'm worried about the abuses". Then don't introduce it! Of course it will eventually get abused, what law hasn't?
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I would not use that for blanket decision making. The technology, just like much of IBM's entity relationship/NORA stuff that you can download via the IBM customer portal, is mostly declassified stuff that has applicability to fraud detection, pandemic/health outbreaks, and plain ole data analysis. Anyone could work on that stuff.
Where you need people with a clearance is to actually touch the data - which means implementing/deploying the software, training their users with real data, and supporting it.
Indeed. Its funny how HN bashes on him, and then gets enraged about Obama's wiretapping! This man saw it coming and we ridiculed him for his fear - look at where we are now.
I'm occasionally interested in how they make money, but I guess there are enough people who fall for the marketing scam.
Seriously, who would use these guys?
Hi there! Yes, I agree that apathy is a big problem. My hypothesis is that apathy can be driven down once the investment in time/money/education required for self-hosting services is reduced. If it can't be, then more educational campaigns are needed. I'm not really a marketing-type of person, but I would love to have someone on the project that can do this sort of thing, and be more of a conduit for the community. I only have two hands on the project at this point, but hopefully in the future that will change :)
I think instead of trying to fight the increased levels of surveillance by both governments and corporations, we need to focus on increasing the levels of transparency. I personally don't really care that governments and other organizations have information about me. There is always an inevitable paper (or electronic) trail associated with using the internet and various services.

But I do care about the fact that the FBI can pull up information about me and I have no knowledge of it. If they collect information to combat terrorism, fine. But the 99.999 percent of innecent people being tracked have a right to be notified (and given a course of action for recourse) when they've been wrongly targeted, for whatever reason.

I know, it's an idealistic dream, but it is more realistic than combating the inevitable surveillance practices that are just now coming to light.
"AngularJS For .Net Developers"

I don't get that. Is HTML different in Microsoft world?
Show HN: CryptoNote is an open source, encrypted, one time view message app
We don't keep these records -- after we ship we destroy it.

The USPS would have records for this sort of thing, of course, but you could also have items shipped to PO Boxes, places that offer greater anonymity, etc.

Furthermore, it's very unlikely that within 30 days of usage you'd be tracked down / monitored and have records queried like that.

It's definitely not a perfect system, but we're working on it :)
Those aren't Stallman's conclusions; they're his immediate actions. His conclusion, at the bottom of the page, is:

> Please let your elected representatives, and your unelected president, know that you don't want your civil liberties to become the terrorists' next victim. Don't wait -- the bills are already being written.

Refusing to be surveilled in the meantime is a temporary measure that Stallman adopts because of his extreme deontological ethics. He does that in the background, to the extent that it doesn't interfere with his work for a large non-profit dedicated to political activism. Remember, he used a computer with non-free software on it until the Lemote Yeeloong was released.
"Comparing what the NSA is currently doing in the USA to what was going on in East Germany is a stretch."

Well, let's try this: which agency, the NSA or the Stasi, does the following describe:

* Keeps records of who talks to whom

* Knows personal details of most citizens' lives

* Monitors the personal, business, and political
communications of large numbers of citizens

* Operates in secrecy

* Has the cooperation of the nation's industry

* Collects more information that it can possibly process

* Claims to be working to protect the public

No, the NSA is not kidnapping people; that's the CIA's job. The NSA is a signals intelligence service. The Stasi's signals intelligence/surveillance system is what is relevant to conversations about the NSA, and there is nothing wrong or stretched about the comparison. Where the Stasi had informants, the NSA has Facebook. Where the Stasi had wiretaps, the NSA has room 641A.
Business owners, what is your biggest daily hassle/problem/pain-point?
Would be interested in hearing what your biggest daily problems/challenges/hassles/pain-points/sticky issues/you-name-it are?

Have you tried whipping up ad-hoc solutions yourselves?

What would it mean to you if your problem could be solved?

How often does the problem recur?

Are you using established tools but they are falling short of meeting your needs?

Ulterior motive: fishing for SaaS ideas :)
That video was rather pretentious.
Whoa, that game is a blast!
Correct -- we literally keep no information here, so it's impossible for us to give information away.
I recommend maybe doing a deal, phone + multiple SIM cards ($x each per SIM)

Then we could order in bulk, use a temporary address, and have enough for a year's anonymous talking without needing to make another order..
Congratulations on the launch, I hope everything goes well.

A list of carriers I think would be useful, or a way to verify that the phone will work in your area (e.g. zip code or phone number lookup).

Also, is it US only? Any support for Canadian carriers?
Clickable: http://www.onewaybits.com&#x2F;

It's nice, but I'm not sure what problem it's solving. I can already email anything smaller than 20MB or send bigger stuff via Dropbox.
Someone at Palantir has just explicitly denied this connection, for what it's worth.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup...

Relevant bit: "Palantir’s Prism platform is completely unrelated to any US government program of the same name. Prism is Palantir’s name for a data integration technology used in the Palantir Metropolis platform (formerly branded as Palantir Finance). This software has been licensed to banks and hedge funds for quantitative analysis and research."
Annoying link-bait title.

Given the iPhone's lack of fully integrated "Google Now" Apple seems notably less likely to be able to provide watchers with structured data that 'knows what you're doing before you do' than, say, an Android phone syncing with Google, or Blackberry phone with RIMM's cloud (in fact, we know RIMM made govt data pipe agreements).

The only mention of "iPhone" in the article is in the headline. Nothing in the article itself singles out Apple.

For today's TLDR crowd, the headline scanning takeaway is "damn, guess I better get any phone that's not an iPhone" when that's not the author's intent at all.

I'd consider this headline actually harmful because it's not the device that's doing anything to you or with your data. It's not Apple, it's not Android, and it's not even Google Now software, no matter how potentially scary that big data insight might be.

It's the corporations, the "all American alliance" he describes, that you sign ToS with, and the senators and representatives we elect to oversee the agencies that oversee them. Put the spotlight where it belongs. Put that in the headline.
There won't be a revolution unless the US institutes a draft. Anything else will be hated, debated and fought against but it won't go to the level of an actual revolution.

The issue isn't to get everybody or even a majority of the population to act, 10% would be enough. 30 million people marching from all over the country on DC to converge on the lawn of the White House would force the government to give in to their protests; 30 million people is far too many to remove using riot police and even you are prepared to shoot at them do they wouldn't have enough bullets to get them all (or even a significant chunk).

The problem is that you have to get 30 million people to act at the same time, together. I can't see anything but a massive draft that would galvernize that many people around one course.
Well, you're not likely to get show in Brazil or South Africa either but it's best to just not live in such places because if it actually happens, it's too late to react. The PATRIOT act may not have had the worst possible consequences yet (as far as we know) but it's still in effect. It's like a standing reverse lottery of misery.
There have been reports that removing VESA from the kernel allowed suspend/resume to work fully for the KMS stuff. Not sure if that's applicable to your setup.
Palantir was funded by In-Q-Tel. In-Q-Tel is the CIAs VC arm. It's a non-profit VC for the intelligence community. So, they don't even care if their investment makes money, they just want spy tech at whatever their budget can afford.

Not conspiracy theory or speculation, all public info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publicat...;

It's absolutely a spook shop. Many people working there don't seem to realize they're spooks though. They highly target a lot of young, naive, fresh grads.
> Github is a business, and I think they're fairly entitled to have some closed source components

No one debates that. However, it doesn't mean it's good for you. Even Github has vendor lock-in (Github is more than just git).
Powers under the Constitution are generally read to be complete within a particular domain except to the extent they are counter-balanced by affirmative rights. See Gibbons v. Ogden ("If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of Congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects...").
Thanks for the thorough response. I really appreciate it.
>I think the focus shouldn't be on the unavoidable "information radiation wake" you give off as you move through the world living your life, but on the ways people utilize this information. The government, and private entities, need to be constrained in how this information can be legally used, not in the collection of it, which I think is impossible.

You clearly describe two options: preventing collection, and limiting utilization. I agree that preventing collection is impossible, but I don't think simply limiting utilization is enough. I think limiting utilization and retention is key. As long as the data exist, it can be utilized in the future.
About the whole "machines can think" debate, I love this quote by EWD:

"Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."

(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...)

Let's not fall prey to the temptation of thinking:

Turing believes machines think
Society acted terribly towards Turing
Therefore machines do think.

EDIT: formatting.
No I didn't think you accused us of that. I merely responded what we would do as a rent seeker :)

As for the original accusations, "develop a thick skin" is my attitude, so you saw I never bothered to respond.
Agreed with your first point, and additionally we should be voting with our money(where we can) on services that have privacy and plausible deniability built into them from the ground up. There are unfortunately few examples of this out there, Mega being the only one I can conjure up at the moment(if it even works and is as secure as they claim).
I am not the poster who becomes enraged about vaccine-deniers, in case you've got that mixed up. Though I generally find that vaccine-deniers are people such that they have little interest in becoming better informed or having their opinion changed so discussion is fruitless. (Though I hope to meet some that are otherwise one day!)

Not vaccinating people and thus allowing a disease to run rampant in the population, drive up infant mortality, and be present and breeding and thus mutating is not in any way shape or form the same thing as the over-use, mis-use, or inevitable decline in effectiveness of antibiotics. The moral and scientific issues are very, very different. That was what I was taking issue with in my original response.

I find nothing of what you wrote and quoted in the above comment to disagree with.
Blushproof
When you say "free thinkers", I think you're mainly referring to some civil libertarians or some sort.

It's more than "some civil libertarians." Totalitarian regimes commonly victimize academics as a threat to the homogeneity they seek to impose.
If there were some sort of a dead man's switch in your service ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man's_switch ), this would be a lot more believable.
Emails between Leslie Kaufman(NYT) and Andrew Sullivan on Glenn Greenwald
Palantir Denies Its 'Prism' Software Is The NSA's 'PRISM' Surveillance System
One of the things I find most disturbing is how the law has been twisted in such a way as to make hiding this program not only legal, but any action that might bring it to light seems to have been classified as _illegal_. Maybe I'm just naive, but this seems just nutty to me.
Big Data Surveillance Is Real Purpose of Huge NSA Phone Record Sweep
It's always been like this. I left the US a decade ago and couldn't believe how different the news was once I was outside.
This is how you build a personal brand
Duh? Ease of access.
It is legal, in the State of California, to drink alcohol as an adult. That does not mean I have to do it, as I follow a personal moral code rather than do whatever is allowed by the law.

Beside, I consider what they have done to be against the 4th amendment of the United States Constitution, and, in their shoes, I would have resigned my position rather than compromise my integrity and violate my oath of office to uphold the Constitution.

Come to think of it, this is one of the reasons I never sought a career in government.
Good lord! Moving to Canada?

I grew up in Canada and the amount of political apathy there is astounding. The US might have a lot of crappy laws and politicians, but Americans seem much more politically involved than.
That's correct -- it's definitely not perfect, but we're working on it.

One of the things to keep in mind, however, is that even if you order this phone and use it, it's highly unlikely that any organization will be able to track your phone within a 30 day period -- and even if they do, and they realize the phone is a BurnerPhone (unlikely), if they come talk to us we have no records of which phone was sent where, or even where things are shipped.

They'd have to query the USPS, and then they'd have to speculate as to which phone went to the person in question.
His method of hiding his activity was saving drafts in gmail... roughly on par with what I'd expect most people to do to maintain "privacy".
Well, modern consoles _could_ still be extensible; but their hardware is already so general purpose that there's not much point.

Best you could do w/ current gen technolgy is bundle a dongle w/ the game, where the user plugs in some kind of co-processor through USB.

So far I haven't really seen anything like that -- the only USB dongles I've seen bundled w/ games are for games like RockBand and they're just RF receivers.

Aside from bandwidth concerns, and the poor sales of previous attempts (for e.g the SEGA's whole 32x/CD addon), there's nothing preventing a disc-based from having an external co-processor.
Since this kind of negative can't be quantified, it has to be defined by how much you can do. The fewer the fences, the greater the freedom.
Laws of Information Theory Say A One Time Pad Is Unhackable. It Is
+1 to you sir.

When people ask who I voted for they make funny faces. I vote across parties lines because I don't think either party has my allegiance. I disagree with individuals and subscribe to cross cutting concerns of which neither party wholly captures.
FreeBSD works fine on my laptops, m610 and studio 1555. The 1555 is a win 7 dual boot. I did have to replace the crappy wifi nic in it though to something better and something FBSD would recognize.

> Personally, I can't live without the GNU tools, so I've never switched.

Do you mean a GNU userland or toolchain? FreeBSD definitely has GNU toolchain although the ones in base are being deprecated. Still available in ports though. And I'd take the BSD userland over the clusterF GNU's is any day.
I'd ask a different question. When we vote for our leaders the way we do, are we creating a system that requires a marketing campaign to win against an opponent with a marketing campaign?

Or another question, why did the person I replied to earlier imply that marketing is inherently bad? Is it?
Thanks for the comment!

It's all US only right now, we're going to include a coverage chart shortly (we didn't expect so many visitors).

We piggyback off many US carriers, so our coverage is excellent.
Privacy and security
I don't think this is true at all. At my school (CMU), Palantir was one of the big companies that students wanted to work for, along with Facebook and Google. I think they're just really good at recruiting and creating a brand.
Whenever Thiel talks about Palantir, I get a bit confused.

I wonder if he suffers from cognitive dissonance.

One of his most successful companies is a company that does big data analysis for the DOD (likely the Intelligence Community)...yet he is stridently libertarian - to the point where he is a Seasteader.

So I can't quite reconcile the two.
Time to read some Bernard Williams:

http://books.google.com/books?id=J0w3ER2fWv4C&pg=PA93
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~cjreg/ethicsModule4.htm
Very true. At least prior to the cloud model (back when companies sold proprietary executables), a software industry limited to F/OSS applications would have meant innovation only came either from personal projects or from trickling down from a big patron who had financial incentive to release the software to the community (e.g. Sun and Red Hat). With proprietary software, innovation was much more market driven and, therefore, more common. You have to weigh that gain in innovation with all the problems it brought or intensified (proprietary file formats, the greatly increased potential for spyware/rootkits, DRM, patent trolling, etc.)
But we have to take your word for that, right? How do we know you're not a front for an NSA sting operation? (Feel free to treat that as a rhetorical question :-)
Aye. I need to stop posting before having my coffee...
This is really interesting -- looking into this now.
The Hypocrisy of Big News Sites on State Surveillance in 7 Images
If you do not deny the science behind vaccines then you probably have a moral responsibility to make sure you and your children are vaccinated. I know how bad it is to have vaccinated people in the population but you only believe or suspect that the people producing that vaccines are part of an evil cabal of elites looking to destroy society.

I think you have to go with the certainty on that one, don't you?