skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They employ a million people. The Foxconn suicide rate is around 7-14% the national average at 1.5 per 100,000 employees per year. Taking on 3,000 extra employees means that statistically they'd see an additional death over a 20 year period.

For a reference point heart disease kills around 800 per 100,000 in the US per year.
How is the Apple Store an analogy to Tesla establishing dealerships? As far as I know, Apple Stores are owned and operated directly by Apple and are thus direct sales, while dealerships are third-parties/franchisees that buy from the manufacturer and re-sell to the consumer.
Google should invent a distributed, encrypted email protocol and make that network an option in GMail for storage and message sending. That would be a great PR move - if there is no central server, and no central message pipe, it's a little hard for anyone to think Google wants to be complicit in spying.
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Can information gathered under a FISA warrant be used to get another court to grant an Article III warrant, and can such information be critical to getting an Article III warrant? If a rubber stamp like FISC enables the government to get Article III warrants that it would not otherwise get, then FISC might as well just hand out Article III warrants.
Your new fully charged battery pack, yes. But they degrade. What are you getting from the station? Can you even tell? Pay $40 and end up with a half-capacity battery maybe.

So, use a bigger number than 100, it helps some, but not tremendously.
I can't work on projects outside of work because I work ~12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week and there's no way I can free up the long periods of time needed to create something good. I can't talk up my technical accomplishments in an interview because my job isn't particularly technically demanding or interesting, beyond the company name. I think I'm a good interviewer except when it comes to talking about anything I've actually worked on after college (1 year ago). Any tips on how to get past this?
Well you wouldn't need to pull into the truck to recharge, just dock with some electrodes on the back. Other cars could daisy-chain off of you.

Or even without a truck, if you weren't going as far, you could sell some of your energy to other cars behind you.

WCPGW?
Not necessarily. Just because the government asks for them doesn't mean they exist. I'd be surprised if they were actually deleted though.
Google shouldn't be trusted with everything you have. Between Analytics, Android, Google Search, Documents and E-mail they know what you are thinking and virtually everything you do, online and offline. Even if the current management are saints--I doubt it--the next team will push the envelope to monetize it even more. And then there is the NSA and FBI and the local divorce lawyer. If it's there they will get it.

So try things like blocking analytics at host level, using either gmail or search etc etc. Makes it harder for NSA. Can you imagine yourself in a trial trying to explain why you visited certain sites or searched for certain keywords 3 years ago? Were you really researching what you saw on CSI or were you preparing the perfect murder of your wife?
You don't lose rights to a pre-existing mark, even if someone subsequently registers it. And a challenge is only valid during an opposition period for a registered mark. This mark is not yet registered! So yes, he could challenge it during opposition.

As indicated by the USPTO TESS Database, the mark was filed on April 9, 2013, but it hasn't even been processed, let alone registered by the US PTO [5]. This means that the opposition period hasn't come yet. That means that oh yes sirree, Turner definitely has a chance to oppose this mark! And oppose he will. And win he will. So, nothing lost here. A TM symbol confers no rights to the claimant other than common law rights, which Turner has a pre-existing claim on.

But he wouldn't even need to challenge it - a subsequent registration does not entitle ownership for pre-existing marks. See all the citations below [1-4]

[1] http://www.bitlaw.com/trademark/common.html

[2] http://www.uspto.gov/faq/trademarks.jsp#_Toc275426712

[3] http://tcattorney.typepad.com/ip/2008/06/what-are-common.htm...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Enforcing_rights

[5] http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:jyex1k...
In software its all good.

And that will always be the flaw in this line of reasoning.
Google is spyware.

This has been obvious for a long time.

Most other "free" web services aren't much better.

It's sad that it's taken so long for people to start realizing and caring about this, but better late than never.
Citizen requests info from NSA. NSA replies.
How, in short, is this shit valid under the U.S. Bill of Rights? I’d really like someone to explain that to me. With a straight face. Preferably without making me want to punch them in the process.

Well, he's going to want to punch me, but here's what I think(?) the answer is:

(a) He's not a US person, but instead a well-known citizen of Iceland, living abroad, and is thus not protected by the Fourth Amendment, at least to the extent that anything in the Fourth Amendment conflicts with any interest of the US.

(b) He's a person of interest in the investigation of one of the most significant leaks of national security information in US history.
Wiretapping in this context refers to both getting information on the wire and getting information stored on Google's servers. At this point the distinction between the two is completely pedantic.
S3/EBS at the moment. MogileFS/SMB in the past though mogile and S3 are more properly referred to as object stores.
Technically, though, you are supposed to get informed consent from the subjects. The link from the article:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/114822452/Halikas-Scandal-News-Rep...
They didn't say they keep deleted mail, could be boilerplate warrant language.
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Right, even if someone miscalibrated we can quickly get to the proper calibration. Though, I stress ten as being the creator of said technology. For example, in the case of PHP ten would entail actually being able extend PHP via C/C++. In my experience most people calibrate pretty well initially or after an initial miscalibration.
That would be the antithesis of what Google does - they give away services for free in exchange for access to personal information that they use to sell more precise targeting to advertisers.

Google's business relies on them being able to examine your personal data. That's how Gmail is paid for.

Perhaps someone who has a different business model e.g. Samsung, Microsoft, or Apple should do this.
It's not about validating an assertion as much as it is about exploring the truth.
haha I created www account, too.
Just a bunch of todos for the semi-auto-generated stuff, lots of missing information about how the whole thing fits together. Not clear what is core functionality and what is well-maintained extensions for the examples (OBJ loader, etc.)

It's a great library, don't get me wrong--just not the docs I'm looking for. I've been meaning to contribute back to help with this issue.
Just getting the file would not help you for the attack vectors shown in the article for Chrome (need user account's CryptProtectData), IE-pre-10 (need copy of registry keys + CryptProtectData), or IE 10 (need binary on user account).

Firefox would appear to be vulnerable to that approach. Not sure about Opera's wand.dat, probably vulnerable as well.
It sure will be strange a year from now when we have Foxconn Chat, Foxconn Photos, Foxconn Search, Foxconn Social, Foxconn Racing, Foxconn Music...
It's not directly apropos this particular thread, but Google has engineered an email service that is particularly difficult to wiretap. To wit:

(a) They're the Internet's foremost adopter and proponent of DHE ciphersuites, which drastically reduce the impact of losing the RSA key that underpins most site's TLS security, and, just as importantly, forces adversaries to actively MITM every connection in order to decrypt them.

(b) They're a pioneer in key pinning, which bakes the identity of their key into the Chrome browser binary, meaning that when your Chrome browser talks to Google's mail service, it's unlikely to trust any otherwise- valid- looking certificate presented by a MITM attacker.

Google's mail service is better encrypted than most banks.
Hey
Thanks for checking us out :)

At the risk of arguing with you, I am surprised you thought we argued in the previous comment reply. We thought SHOwnsYou was quite thoughtful in his feedback and had gone through the app. And the response was meant to be thoughtful as well. We genuinely found it useful and tried to emote that.

Just read it again and it still didn't read as argumentative.

I am not sure what the line in the sand is, just say 'thank you' I guess. :)

Thank you.
I've been trying to follow docker since I first saw it here on HN and I love the concept. I think I have a fair idea of what it is and how it works, but I think it will take some time for me to really wrap my head around the concept of containers vs VMs, though I think I have a decent grasp of the basics.

I think what will really help, and what I think is sadly missing from this list, is a good series of examples of what I could accomplish with docker, and how I would go about accomplishing those things.

Or, it may be that docker is not necessarily aimed at me, or is currently out of my depth.
I have a vague recollection that Congress actually explicitly prohibited spending money on Guantanamo closure, rather than just neglecting to allocate it. I could be way off, but that would be the difference if so.
How distinctive is the actual video of the "doppelganger"? I'm genuinely curious, since it's now been taken down.

The name alone could easily have been an accidental collision from a concept developed independently; I'm pretty sure I've searched for available around the world in 80... variants as possible name ideas for a travel site, and I'd never seen Turner's site before (I have read Jules Verne though)

It's a shitty excuse for a nonapology even if it was a genuine accident though.
That's an awful lot of Gibson! What tools are you using to design your constructs? I briefly joined the developers of Gibthon (FOSS gibson assembly design software; http://gibthon.org/) last year - they will be thrilled to hear if you use it. In fact, if you would be willing to share some of your experience, no doubt it would be invaluable for improving the design tools. We've also got lots of people in our department doing lots of Gibson assembly. If you ever want to compare notes or anything... my email is in profile.

How are you doing for computational biologists?
Eh, it depends, honestly. HN shouldn't be srs bznz all the time.
Maybe "not trusting Google with your data" would be a better fit.
How long do you usually expect these tests to take? Do you pay for the interviewees time?
This phrase is the Godwin's law of discussing data. :-) As a hiring manager, I don't care about causation; I just want to know what aspects of a resume actually correlate with someone being competent (or not) so I can waste less time on pointless interviews.
Freedom of the press?
It would be interesting to try to work out for certain types of people the cost of powering an Tesla.

When you fill up a petrol / diesel engine you have one option: petrol / diesel.

When you fill up an Tesla (and other electric cars have different possibilities) you have:

- Recharging on your home power, which would cost whatever your home power costs but can only be used when you are OK charging over night
- Recharging at one of those Tesla fast stations, which costs nothing, but takes 40min
- Swapping a battery at a Tesla station, which takes 90 seconds and costs $??

The price then depends on the mix of those three strategies, which is determined by your usage (drive to and from work every day, it's your home power etc)
I'm sorry, but are claiming that the rate of packages being damaged or lost by the USPS is literally 0%? Do you have evidence for this extraordinary claim?
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No, we don't. And, a couple hours. The time commitment we demand from candidates is calibrated to be about the same as you'd demand from a (rigorous) day of on-site interviews. Our on-sites are a half-day thing, not a full-day.
Yes. Definitely pre-sell. Not only does this fund your development efforts, it is the ultimate validation that you have actually come up with a product that people want to buy. There's a big difference between people saying they would buy something--and actually pulling out a credit card.

Offer your "charter members" 10% or 20% off for life in exchange for a 3 or 6 month prepay. Reverse the risk by guaranteeing their money back if they don't love it.

If you can't get clients to pre-pay, then your offer is not compelling enough.
Ah. I'm new to AWS, had not yet explored 'storage' options.

I guess I'd been thinking of AWS as being 'vmware' but more so, without thinking hard about how it could be different.
It would also be an obvious privacy violation for the NSA to install cameras in our bedrooms, even if they promised to never watch the video without a warrant.
Nobody has registered anything. They're claiming it as a Trademark (TM) not as a Registered Trademark (R).
I was under the impression that the D-Notice was very specific. Don't print information that exposes national security secrets, such as the actual documents and excerpts from the documents that are being leaked. I do no think it covers the outright dishonesty by public officials.

"Recently leaked documents show that such and such a politicion/official has outright lied/deceived the citizens of this country. Such and such a person said XXX, but the facts contradict his/her statement. The BBC has been served a D-Notice by Some Government Agency that prohibits us from publishing the leaked documents and excerpts thereof because the documents contain information regarding programs of national security. Concerned citizens are encouraged to seek out the leaked documents from foreign news publications who are at liberty to publish the leaked documents."

I think it is also reasonable to believe that the D-Notice in question is specifically referring to the G20 Summit story and the recent GCHQ story. As such it's reasonable to believe that it does not cover stories in the interest of US national security. The BBC should publish our dirt and we can publish theirs.
The University of Minnesota, if it's like the other "public" universities in the U.S. that I'm familiar with, is officially, more-or-less, when-it-wants-to-be-ish, a branch of the government of the state of Minnesota. "Sovereign immunity" extends to the university.
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It's not a rhetorical question, I don't know the answer to it one way or the other.

As to your second sentence, I think it's very reductionist. I see a FISC warrant as functioning like a subpoena. Say the SEC subpoena's your company's financial records from your accountant, and finds in there evidence that is sufficient to get a proper warrant to get documents from your company's premises. Does that mean there is no protection or purpose to the SEC not just being able to give itself Article III warrants?
How would you implement a secure web interface to distributed encrypted storage? The moment a user wants to view email in their browser, it needs to be decrypted by Google's server (or decrypted by Javscript served from Google's server, which is equivalent from a security perspective).

For users who are willing to give up the web interface, there are many open-source email clients that provide strong encryption (e.g. Thunderbird + GPG).
In this case I don't think a trademark would be possible, being based almost entirely on another popular (possibly trademarked) phrase. Has Adecco actually tried to claim trademark for themselves?
Good developers have always a project that they are working on. Be either an open source project, app, game, little library, whatever. Working on a take home assignment is just a waste of time, where that person could be working on something useful. Or they could be spending that time with their kids, friends, or just relaxing.

The only time it is ok to ask for a take home assignment is when the person is at most a couple of years out of school, and they haven't proven themselves yet.

I personally refuse doing to do take home assignment as I have enough projects in my belt that I can show. It is usually a sign that the other party is not mature enough, and they don't know what they are looking for, and once you join that company they will treat like a junior engineer, when you might be past that.
I'll leave out the details of the two I've done since it's a sore spot on my psyche but I'll talk about them in general.

Maybe yours is different, but I think the first problem is they typically have a lack of clearly defined goals. I know that probably is the idea behind these - to see what someone comes up with - but it can be very intimidating. Especially given the fact that the interviewee is already nervous enough and now they are given something ambiguous. I think that's more nerve-wracking than the interview itself.

Second, I think that code-style tends to get graded on these more than the content. Unless it's completed in some really novel way (which isn't always a positive) there's nothing to do but nit-pick how the code looks.

Third, its disrespectful of the interviewees time, especially relatively large coding assignments. If a candidate has a job, is it fair to expect them to go home and spend a couple hours working on something that is essentially worthless?

Finally, typically the candidate gets no feedback. I had one that was a 'pass' and I never found out why. You are essentially grading me on an assignment and then don't have the decency to tell me what was wrong? This is related to the previous item as a time-waster.

So, those are my reasons. Just my two cents.
The author doesn't anywhere claim to be a US citizen, so it probably isn't his government.
For what reason(s) should/would the NSA spy on so many politicians?

I agree that this is another problem with his story; cui bono? This would be an extremely high-profile, probably criminal overreach by the NSA, of a person who had nothing resembling the public profile he has today, to what benefit?
Except this would then:
A) Only apply to small "startups"
B) Be horribly inefficient.

This doesn't scale, but I'm glad for your startup it works. You like it because you don't have to pay unemployment/benefits for someone that you end up firing, probably, so of course you are going to support something like this (being the one hiring).
Google's business model is to tap your communications and use the profile they create of you to target advertising.

They are constantly pushing for access to more of your personal information, not less.
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Wow. This sounds like it makes the whole "which companies give data to the NSA" almost irrelevant.
There should definitely be an algorithm to group stories by tags.. so NSA(7) stories, Steve jobs(8).. kind of like how facebook groups stories ("aka 3 more friends posted about this").

This way, the top stories or homepage will have more diversity and content.
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" ;)

Edit: Sorry, couldn't resist. Here's a little more meat for the comment: http://corporatevisions.com/blog/2007/06/11/no-one-ever-got-...
Does the "national defense" label render all other laws irrelevant? They certainly seem to get away with it a lot: "We know it's illegal normally, but this time it's for national defense, so it's okay". That seems to have been the mentality of the government since 9/11.
So locally running malware only needs to keylog your master 1Password password to decrypt your 1Password data file?
Good call. Just assumed it was, my bad.
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No, it's like targeting your house for frequent drive-bys because your blinds are drawn.

You're presupposing that capturing data you have flowing over the internet is something that requires a warrant, and the NSA's position is predicated on the idea that it generally does not.
Ask HN: Any HNers in SF want to grab coffee/couchhost a Stanford entrepreneur?
I just created this:

http://astartupsummer.com/

And received my first email offering an hour ago (thank you Carl!)

I'm a computer science student originally from Australia, trying to launch a bunch of prototypes and work on a mentorship program of mine this summer.

Check out more info here:
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If you have any interest in hosting or even just grabbing a coffee, shoot me an email:

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Also: any suggestions of things for me to do this summer?
Good luck with the project!

I hope we will soon see these pathetic Facebook like buttons replaced with good old JavaScript guest counters (only half-joking).
No it's not zero percent, and no one will tell you what it actually is. I was simply suggesting that package Insurance is a HUGE profit center. And the only way for it to be a profit center is if in reality packages don't get lost / damaged.
Was this written by a robot?
There's something novel about this? I recall an application back in the Eclair days that did this. Hell, pretty sure there are physical cameras that had a "burst mode" type deal that would either take 10frames in burst if you tap the shutter button or 5 seconds of video if you held the button
I wasn't trying to sound paranoid or cowardly. I was just curious what opinions people had on the level of involvement with Wikileaks that would be enough to get the governments attention.
How about "not trusting 3rd party with your (unencrypted) data"?
It's both. If you are going to use a cloud service, you have to trust both the provider and the government where they operate.

(With the exception of things like tarsnap).
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The web is simply not designed with privacy in mind. People should stop using webmail.
It would be interesting to compare your ranking to that obtained by simply sorting by the number of alumni with their own wikipedia articles.
Expect that Google wants to read what you wrote on the email and to whom. Of course to help you see more ads, er better ads. Cause you're just dying for another dozen ads.

Imagine a Google Glass wearer and a NSA order to record everything he sees?
Let's assume for the sake of argument that we are running code on both a Windows machine and an OS X machine, and trying to steal someone's browser passwords.

While it is undeniable that the OSX keychain adds a roadblock to the theft, many average users would happily enter their password if the box was displayed when they ran up their browser (even if the browser wasn't the originating process) and likely also fall for a fake keychain prompt.

I think the keychain is a good thing (just as it is in Android). Just wanted to make the point that the keychain for your average non-power user is a minor roadblock in theft, rather than a "real" security feature.
Hey Zikes, did you read this tutorial?
> http://www.slideshare.net/julienbarbier42/building-a-saas-us...

It gives you an example of what you can do with it
> www.memcachedasaservice.com

and explains you everything step by step.
The source code is also available on gitHub here:
> https://github.com/jbarbier/SaaS_Memcached
Why are you trying to deflect attention away from Google?
The bottle can be tipped to its side, and the bug can hop over the lid.
>(With the exception of things like tarsnap).

The chain of trust still extends to them. You're trusting that they're actually doing everything they say they're doing.

If you don't own the hardware and the building where the hardware is, you have to trust that they're doing everything you want them to be doing.