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http://bufferapp.com/awesome
Oh well, that was 20 years ago...
Scroll down and there is a link to plans: http://bufferapp.com/awesome

$19/month
Norway gets to implement many EU directives, thanks to being part of the European Economic Area.
In Germany companies just like it that way. I don't know why.
Useless comment of the day: I was pretty sure to find all Apple hipster fanboys crying around here. And I was right. You guys are so predictable :D
Some of the worst, stupidest startups ideas I have ever seen, which obviously will never make money and seem pretty easy to recreate in a weekend:

-Waze

-Twitter

-Instagram

-Tumblr

This is why I don't tell people their ideas suck, I'm a terrible judge of it.
erm, isn't this assbackwards?

intelligence agencies, aka spies, exist to spy. that's their entire purpose. now there are some laws to protect their own citizens, at least in the US.

once it's a foreign entity, it's fair game. zero fucks about legality given - see any info ever about clandestine services. so if you store your data in a non-US entity, you're more likely to be monitored.

do you think STUXNET was LEGAL?

the NSA, CIA, MI6, BND, KGB, Mossad all ignore the laws of the countries they are acting in. or what do you think a spy is?
No need to 'prove' it. Just need to make a case it is more likely than not (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_burden_of_proof#Preponde...)
Simple, because if they published for a year they'd have say 10,000 requests, which seems a lot more than 5000 for six months. $4.99 vs $5
Copy right infringement?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboroach
Japanese Robo-Roach from 1997:
http://www.wireheading.com/roboroach/
Paper behind a pay wall:
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4471-15...
I think so with Ableton, but know nothing about the guys at SoundCloud.
I cannot believe that this is not getting more coverage.
For most jobs in the UK I think this will still be the norm. The last application I wrote was exactly like this - Letter with 2-page CV, GitHub and links in the footer.
In that context it is literally a reference to traditional male behavior (that could be expanded as expected male behavior in response to adversity).
AFAIK, IITM had the best speeds even 7 years back!
can you pls invite me .. raghav305@gmail.com
I wish RT would broadcast more stuff about Russia - it's an interesting and under-reported country.

Every time I turn it on, though, they seem to either be slating the United States or peddling conspiracy theories off the internet. It's strange. I'd watch it if they talked about their own country.
Roachus im-PEER-ee-oh!
This Museum Exposes Kids to Thrills, Chills and Trial Lawyers
I reside in Chennai, i get a speed of 70 Mbps at my home,of course you got to pay a small fortune as billing every month
Usability vs. Security in the Context of Apple iOS Mobile Hotspots
Why Usain Bolt is slow, and why it doesn’t matter
I don't think DLD/DRD is conflicting with the statements given in the post, as DLD only concerns itself with metadata (and yes, that can be harmful), and the article talks about the actual data. Both are important, but different, topics.
"After a few minutes the cockroach will stop
responding to the RoboRaoch microstimulation."

Ethically dubious and a waste of money
Click the button in the top right of the search results to turn personal search off. I get Javascript results anyway.
RPython is not a Language: An introduction to the RPython language
"For the sake of argument, let's say that, hypothetically, Apple is doing work for the NSA beyond what they've admitted to."

If this were the case, why bother with end-to-end encryption in iMessage and Facetime (both fairly recent products)? It's not as though Apple trumpeted this aspect when they announced the products even though it's extra engineering effort. I'm not sure that even BBM is properly end-to-end encrypted outside of a corporate environment.
Nobody is talking right? Any one of those security professionals that somehow gets in the know has smartly kept their head down.
This sounds, frankly, appalling. I would report them to the RSPCA in Australia. This sounds like it could make the cockroach suffer.
Building Block for Life Found in Mars Meteorite
As a Norwegian, let me just say:

Yeah, right.

1. The Norwegian security services have a long history of violating Norwegian law (and when, for example, extensive illegal politically motivated surveillance of mostly left wing politicians was uncovered in the 90's they then had the gall to place an MP and member of the committee investigating them under surveillance while he was working on the report about their illegal surveillance), and have always been extremely cosy with the US.

2. Most bandwidth to Norway goes via Sweden. Sweden is not a safe country to pass data through if you want to avoid surveillance. See the FRA law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law ; unless they guarantee that they get their bandwidth via alternative means, this is a risk. Sure, you can encrypt the data, but if you trust that this is sufficient, then hosting your backups in the US should not a problem either. If you think Sweden's neutrality means a shit in this case, consider that Sweden has admitted to having been complicit with renditions of political asylum seekers to the CIA in direct violation of Swedish laws, so clearly they do not worry about cooperating with US intelligence agencies. To hand your data over to the NSA would not even require them to break any laws, and they've already demonstrated they don't have the moral backbone to stand up to far worse requests.

3. Norway is subject to the EU data retention regulations, and otherwise likes to bend over backwards to comply with EU directives despite not being an EU member (we're a member of the EEA, which means we get all the directives, but don't have a say - how anyone thought that was a better alternative is beyond me). In fact, Norway is "best in class" when it comes to implement EU directives - ahead of most EU countries... This doesn't impact this to a great extent, except it means all your communications with this company will be subject to retention laws, and if you consider it important enough to avoid the reach of the NSA for your hopefully encrypted backup data, this is worth keeping in mind too.

In other words: If you encrypt your communications and backup files well enough that you believe it is safe from the NSA in Norway, they'll likely be just as safe from the NSA in the US.
http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/06/09/once-upon-a-time-the-pr...
Its not up to other people to validate your startup. That's your job.

If you cannot get that feedback because you are waiting for them to break the rules of social behaviour, then all the other problems of running a startup are simply going to flatten you.

Here are some ideas I only half-heartedly do myself:

1. Have a website with a mailchimp mailing list on it. Ask them to subscribe. Hell, enter their email in front of them right there and then - then wait. If they confirm, they liked your idea, if not they did not.

2. Have a mock-up online and a description. Email people a link to it, with a unique tracking code. If someone clicks the link, they liked your idea.

3. have a MVP and ask them to use it. email them a username and password. If they use it - they liked it.

Basically, waiting around for other people to give you feedback is like waiting around for them to give you money.
Ask for the sale.
I would use Linux mostly for ideological reasons.

For most of my work, I need a terminal, a text editor and a web browser. Ocassionally some light vector graphics work and a simple sound editor. I can do all this on any Unix-like system. It mostly even works on Windows.

The only technical reason I have to use Linux over OSX is performance. OSX can be a memory hog and it is very much limited by hard drive performance. I more or less solved this with more RAM and an SSD, but having more resources available would be nice.

Thus, it really defeats my purpose to use Linux in a VM. But thank you for suggesting it!
I am curious how you know that cockroaches do not feel pain?
Stay away from the UK - here a judge can throw you in jail for failure to provide keys, even if there's no evidence you still have the keys, and said judge would pretty much be guaranteed to believe that you did not hand over the correct keys if the result is garbage.
ViEmu for Xcode - public beta available
The trouble is that all of the bandwidth available on ads is downstream bandwidth. And what you care about seems to be upstream bandwidth.

Airtel, Reliance and ACT all have approx 1Mbit/s upstream for their most expensive plans.

The last office I worked in skipped a layer & had an MPLS connection to the US premises.
Steve Jobs was never cozy with Washington. There's no evidence that he ever interacted with anyone in Washington. Apple didn't even have any lobbyists until Tim Cook became CEO.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-21/apple-chief-talks-t...
"I have extensive experience working with high-end clientele ...For example, I met Calvin Klein on a job I did for him at his penthouse in New York's west side one day."

This says it all really.
Because the government doesn't tell companies required to provide them information under FISA what the NSA calls their in-house analysis software.
In fact we usually implement them quicker than most EU countries.
Rolling dangerously into off-topicness here, but at the moment in Canada it's one of the traditionally minor parties that is currently the Opposition party. That is to say, the traditional 'two parties' are no longer.

All I'm saying is, keep your head up: things can still change over time!
I'm curious, what possible use does a picture have in the hiring process? Doesn't it open up companies to accusations of discrimination?
Since when has Apple been cozy with Washington?

http://allthingsd.com/20130524/apple-pumping-more-money-into...

(Apple doubling its lobbying budget to $4M for 2013.)

Contrast with, oh, Google:

http://qz.com/90332/google-now-spends-more-on-lobbying-than-...

The whistle was specifically blown on Apple.

So aside from your basic assumptions and reasoning, yeah no doubt. Whatever.
The US has only ever been the gold standard to itself, it's a nice story to tell the kids as you tuck them in for the night, but it's just not true.
In my experience one mans "trash" is another mans "Twitter". Not liking things is highly subjective and such I don't think people should be flat out telling other people they think their ideas are rubbish because lets face it a pitch for a service like Twitter; It's like text messaging, but on the Internet instead — sounds lame when you put it like that, but look at Twitter nowadays, a service that keeps growing and innovating and keeping itself relevant. It was one of quite a few apps that were shot down but succeeded in the end regardless of what others thought.

If someone tells you they're working on an Instagram for cat pictures or an app that will play a random sound at an interval you specify, then yes, tell them it's a horrible idea. But just because an idea sounds simple or has been done before doesn't mean it will fail. It takes more than an idea to succeed.
Xing is still very popular among German speakers, though linked in has been making quick progress.

A professional looking portrait photo is essential here in Switzerland, and age based discrimination is legal? and the norm, so not disclosing your age may waste everyone's time.

Here they also send around a cover letter and a bunch of documents from past employers, but they don't seem to expect that from foreigners.
We can put a safety net on the slippery slope by drawing the line at Animalia.
While I'd love to be able to afford to live in Paris (that place is unbelievable), so long as this 'rush back to the city' is because the rich are sick of the beaches, I'll be just as happy!
> If an idea has already been done, lacks market demand
> or is plain crap should we not say something?

Let's invert this: Why are founders so likely to believe that polite throwaway comments from random people validate their business idea?
I'll put this note here.

If you are being angry at Apple, Google, Microsoft and others for being dishonest about managing your data, you are being dishonest yourself.

Apple does not have army of policemen, courts, flying drones, space programs, military operations all over the world and monopoly on finance, education, roads, telecommunications and other important areas.

Government has. Whatever shit government forces other people to do to you is entirely government responsibility. Apple can and will happily operate and be nice to privacy without NSA intrusion. But the nature of NSA is that Apple must comply under threat of violent coercion and also must play whatever game NSA makes them to play (e.g. maintain secrecy of the warrants).

If you are angry, your entire anger should be forwarded towards the government — the monopoly of violence masking itself with a "common good" and "social contract" and making nasty things all over the world at your expense. If you are angry at your fellow citizens because of that kind of shit, you are being manipulated into a civil war by people with power.
What would your bill of rights look like today?
What amendments would you put in a bill of rights to prevent the abuses of government power we have seen recently? The 1st and 4th amendment are obviously good ideas, but they don't have enough teeth.

What would you add or remove?
>> These are two competing claims

Steve Gibson has proposed a scenario that makes both claims credible: that the NSA has installed fiber optic splitters (hence the name "prism") directly upstream from Google, Apple, etc and therefore can sniff all the packets headed to their servers without their knowledge.

Notes from Gibson's podcast: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-408.txt

This scenario would be a large expansion of what Mark Klein testified was being done at AT&T in 2006 (https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/presskit/ATT_onepager...). It would also explain why the NSA slides showed service providers being added gradually: it would take time to carry out these secret installations.

If Gibson's analysis is right, Google et al would have no knowledge of the taps, yet the NSA would have most of their traffic.

Yes, SSL traffic is still impenetrable. However, 1) it can be stored for cracking in the future (perhaps in the Bluffdale facility) and 2) lots of traffic, like email traveling between hosts, is not encrypted.
Ethics is not just about the consequences of an action. Other factors such as motivations are also important.

I think it is sad but ethically acceptable to kill an ant colony in my house, yet I don't think it is OK for children to go in the forest and destroy ant colonies for fun. Or even to dismember one ant for fun, though I may be in a small minority here.

To take a more extreme example, a majority of people seem to find it ethical to have drone strikes in Pakistan despite the civilian casualties. They would certainly not approve of the same drone strikes if they were made for entertainment, even though the physical consequences on the targets would be the same.
Women in STEM scholarships
What are the best scholarships for women in STEM?
Thanks! Opened an issue on our tracker, chime in if you like: https://github.com/tosdr/tosdr-chrome/issues/5
Coined A New Term - BOOL Brain
1. A compiler translates from a higher level language to a lower level language.

2. I disagree. They have the same level of complexity, C# possibly more if you use advanced concepts. And you can write C in Visual Studio...
Hiring lessons (Github)
That's civil compared to what shitbags Kevin Poulsen and Adrian Lamo are.
In some places in Australia kangaroos are such a nuisance that they're actively poisoned and hunted. That doesn't mean one would tolerate sticking electrodes into a living kangaroo's head, except in the most controlled circumstances (in the case of a kangaroo: sedated, sterilized, and fully locked into an apparatus for brain surgery). Hell, they're starting to give kangaroos the right to contraceptives instead of slaughter! [1]

A cockroach is an invertebrate but nevertheless part of the animal kingdom. We should strive to be a species that maintains order (population control for the sake of the overall biome) without acts of cruelty. Killing may be a last resort we have to often take, but this kind of stuff "offends the sensibilities," if you care for such things.

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060906-kanga...
i have no faith in our leader.. (rupert)
"Of course it's inefficient. That's precisely the point."

Sounds like that tech will be replaced by word processing a note using 50 different fonts and colors, printing it out, and then scanning/faxing it.
I think you are conflating the ISA and the microarchitecture. ARMv8 is an ISA, which is implemented by ARM Cortex-A5x series microarchitecture and several others.

Most importantly the X-gene (which these servers are made of) is afaik not based on ARM IP cores, and are indeed built "from the ground up" for datacenter purposes.
Blowback from the NSA Surveillance
This still doesn't explain why he didn't choose a country with no possibility of extradition like, uh, any of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_United_S...

They may not be technological paradises, but it's pretty hard (nearly impossible) to be extradited to the US from any of them.
As far as I know, that is a police force that police the NSA offices, seeing as there's obvious security concerns about letting police that don't have the right security clearances onto their grounds.
Well, what you say is not correct. First of all the Data Retention Directive have to be valid for you. I work for the Norwegian email provider Runbox and the EU Data Retention Directive is not applicable for us. It is only valid for carriers that own their own infrastructure down to the data center, called "communication providers". We even have it confirmed by both Kripos (FBI-ish) and Post- og Teletilsynet (Norwegian Post and Telecommunication Authority). We have tried to explain a bit why here: http://www.runbox.com/why-runbox/email-privacy-offshore-emai...
State photo-ID databases become troves for police
He did. China is on that list. Hong Kong is China.
Internet for everyone. Google Project Loon
These Are Supposedly The Words That Make The NSA Think You’re A Terrorist
UK to award £1 million for world's biggest problem solution
Neil Barofsky talks about this at length in his book. If you really want to be infuriated, read it to find out how Treasury viewed this program: not as a way to actually help homeowners, but as a way to "foam the runway" for the banks, allowing them to stretch out the period of time over which they could foreclose on all these homes to avoid being overwhelmed by the logistics. Truly disgusting.
I would add a read the bills provision, which would require the full text of any law proposed before congress to be read in it's entirety on the floor before it is passed. Any modifications to the law would require re-reading from the start.

I would craft an amendment for the default expectation of privacy. The US Postal mail is given many privacy expectations that other forms of communication aren't.

I would love an amendment stating that you own your body and the government shall pass no law regulating it (drug use, who I hire as a doctor, who I chose to lease my body or body parts too). I don't think this would be met with wide support and I can't figure out a way to succinctly word it.
Racial discrimination. Huge legal problem.
They are not saying they are bundling them together - they are saying these are requests from law enforcement. It could just be a sloppy PR department, who knows.
I think that you should read this:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ResumeRead.html

I have rewritten my CV according to this and it is working out fine!
I think you may be misreading Apple's statement. The security of iMessage does not derive (solely) from PKI. Instead, the spokesman claims:

> There are certain categories of information which we do not provide to law enforcement or any other group because we choose not to retain it

Now it is up to you whether or not you take this statement at face value. But it's consistent with the other things I know about iMessage, as a person who has studied it in far more detail than your average HN reader, and so I believe it to be true.

If it is true, then Apple would be limited by technology to only provide iMessage dumps that started the date of the tap. If they did at all.

And I would be very surprised if they do at all. You obviously have to comply with a warrant to provide data if you have that data, but it becomes much more difficult, legally speaking, to compel somebody to collect information that they do not have to begin with. The CALEA was conceived to "correct" this "problem" but it only applies to "telecommunications infrastructure" organizations like ISPs, and courts have been reluctant to expand its application to actual internet services. It's something of an open secret that it was easier to simply acquire Skype for $8.5 bn and modify their technology than it was to obtain the necessary ruling under the CALEA that would compel them to modify it themselves.

Now if you are plotting revolutions, by all means, don't use iMessage. But my assessment is that the NSA threat level is lower than any other type of communication an ordinary person would be able to use, such as phone, e-mail, or even SSL.

Just as a point of comparison, DJB et al recently (2013) published a repeated plaintext attack on SSL/TLS that is viable at 2^24 TLS sessions. That sounds high enough to be safe, but if you consider the server case or the cron job case of rapidly opening SSL sessions, not so much. And attacks only get better. History suggests that the NSA is often a good ten or fifteen years ahead of the independent cryptographers, and meanwhile we are at plausible SSL attacks today.
Why is Paris really expensive? Constricted supply and high demand. Why is the supply constricted? Because Paris refuse to build anything in the center. That's because the center is a historical preservation district writ large. If you build anything modern, it would "ruin" the image of Paris.

So, Paris would need to change its policy and start demolishing old buildings, and build higher density buildings. Certainly, the rich will keep buying the most desirable parts of the cities, but the inability for the poor and the middle class to live in the center will be less acute.
The problem with independents is, as was explained to me by the foremost researcher in political science in Australia, they simply can't effect any meaningful change.

What I would LOVE to see is a viable third party. Unfortunately, the Greens are not it.

Maybe Palmer's party? GAG VOMIT
Misread the title as "Stanford's new course on building an airship". Disappointed now.