skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the people signing up for them are more often "bad guys" than tech professionals looking for privacy -- and they're signing up with stolen payment information

That's a bold claim. Do you have any evidence of that?
Proof of why, as jwz says, stock options are a stupid tax and a lottery.
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Hilarious. But one point of contention.

"It's like twitter. Except we charge people to use it."

App.net seems to be doing fine sans a time machine.
There's no requirement to move to NYC proper. We should make it clearer that we mean the metro area. We have several students commuting from NJ this batch.
confucius say: "he who trades liberty for safety ends up with neither", no wait, that was actually Ben Franklin, right ?
http://www.whatourforefathersthought.com/Quotes.html
I presume you are a founder. There are a lot of people who disagree with you. It would do you well to reflect on why. If these are your thoughts on founders and early employees I can't see you attracting and retaining the best talent.
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You asked for evidence, I gave you evidence.

I'm not sure what you mean by "real world statecraft", but when I hear that I have to think of Larkin's "This Be The Verse":

fools in old-style hats and coats, / Who half the time were soppy-stern / And half at one another's throats.
I've become a real fan of Plex, recently -- run your own media server, which can include both local content and gateways to online services, which does media conversion (format, bandwidth) to clients -- which include iOS and various desktops and devices. Plus, you can locally cache shows on your iPad as well.
They'll probably make a large sum of cash out of it, too, and subscribers definitely won't see a decrease in their bill.

I was rather surprised myself when I priced out wireless service; AT&T came out $20 more expensive than everywhere else and their reps couldn't come up with a way to give me a more competitive price. I went elsewhere (as I was planning to do anyway).

Unfortunately I am stuck with AT&T for my residential internet access; my apartment isn't wired for cable (and refuses to let the cable company wire it), AT&T is the only available phone service, and sonic.net doesn't have a nearby DSL hub. That leaves me with U-Verse, dialup, or something wireless (and therefore laggy).
According to one of the students involved[1], the confrontation wasn't premeditated so they probably weren't really considering how it might look to outside observers.

But there is value in making NSA employees feel bad about what their organization is doing and whether they are personally accountable for it. In fact, this seems like a spontaneous incident of "Haunting" officials from Gene Sharp's list of 198 methods of nonviolent action. I hope others learn from this example and make the jobs of all NSA recruiters difficult everywhere they go.

This incident reminded me of the scene from Good Will Hunting where Will explains why he might not want to work for the NSA after all[2]. Everyone who works for the NSA should be asking themselves that question every single day.

[1] http://mobandmultitude.com/2013/07/02/the-nsa-comes-recruiti...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw
From the Isaacson bio of Steve Jobs:

>>>Two other occasional visitors were high school students Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, who hung out at SAIL [Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory], with an older friend, Allen Baum, who was working at the laboratory during the fall of 1970. Jobs later said that the “vibrations” he felt at SAIL would stay with him his entire life. The bewitched Wozniak rode his bike up to the laboratory from his home in Los Altos, and he later said that his experiences there contributed to his hunger for his own computer.

SAIL was one of the core places of the computing revolution, from which The Mother of All Demos by Doug Engelbart was spawned. That demo happened in 1968, when Jobs was twelve or thirteen, and influenced everything that came afterwards in computing.
I'm curious to understand the varying experiences of a technical vs. non-technical candidate, but I also will offer a hypothesis that many startups simply are very, very poor at managing a recruiting process.

Case in point: It wasn't until I began interviewing for business development roles with startups that a dialogue around high-level employment was simply ended with no follow-up.

I had spoken with one particular five-person shop (with a TechStars pedigree and a new wave of Series A under their belt) for a month or so. I had met the entire team and had an incredibly good rapport with the CEO/Co-Founder. We were down to the point of salary negotiations...

...and then, radio silence. That was eight weeks ago. I even sent two short emails every ten days just to see if there was any other insights or thoughts I could provide to help firm up their decision. The emails were ignored; I even bumped INTO the founder one day, and said founder promised to "follow-up this week". That was three weeks ago.

My time as a recruiter for my consulting firm taught me to treat each candidate with empathy and respect (unless they give you a reason not to do so). Unfortunately, by mishandling the process these startups lose not only a potential future employee, but also a potential user and partner in the instance that you have a leading role elsewhere.
It's getting hard to tell lately. My mistake.
Yeah, if I were a VC, I'd be investing in Plex. It is amazing.

All it needs is a torrent site and USENET plugin (i.e. I give it a list of shows I like, and it goes out and snatches/caches them on my server for me automagically) to be utterly magic.
Mission statement of Karatbars International GmbH
They have extensively revised the marketing direction, without revising the product. From the moment you get your package delivered to your door step. You will see this very large package, wow, what did l buy, is how you will react; the same way many of us have.
Five at the moment. The personal/side projects (2 of those 5) get worked on whenever I have the free time to. The others, I have dedicated days of the week that I work on and am available to work on them, e.g. one of them gets Mon./Tues., one gets Wed. and one gets Thurs./Fri.

That way I can dedicate enough large blocks of time to the projects to really get some good work done and my clients know exactly when to expect to be able to reach me and when to be getting updates from me.

Of course, every now and then emergencies or major deadlines happen, but for the most part, I try to set a schedule and stick to it.
Kim Dotcom, New Zealand PM spar in spy debate
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Mainstream media fails to communicate vast totalitarian conspiracy; English speaking world remains uninformed, indifferent.
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Associating "introverted" with "immoral"?
No, actually, the purpose of our legal system is to have some fair form of crime and punishment system.

A fair trial is not a purpose, it's a means to an end (punishing people fairly).
It is not even a necessary component. The only reason it exists at all is because of our inability to objectively determine guilt in most cases. The rest are tacked on (IE determinations of what crime has been committed. Even this would be solved if you could objectively determine what occurred)

However, again, if the defendant admits guilt (even if not in public), but still wants a trial, can you explain how the system is served by a fair trial on guilt or innocence for him, rather than a fair sentencing hearing?

In that case, the guilt or innocence is not in question.
The same is true when they only admit guilt to a defense attorney.
Defending the client, and trying to get them off during the trial stage, does not serve the ends of the system.
It may, depending on how formulated, serve some of the means, but that's kind of irrelevant.
you don't seem very constructive - which is my point
That's a really bad way of implementing an opt-out. No account-wide opt-out preventing your data from not leaving AT&T's servers. Instead, cookies set up by a (probably) sleazy brand management company.

If my ISP did this I'd switch in an instant.
That's sarcasm.
Looks like there is a non-trivial opportunity for a VPN service that accepts bitcoins.
CL was originally a mailing list operated from well.sf.ca.us, iirc.
As far as I can recall, I pay ATT an arm and a leg to do business with them and to not be the product being sold. I guess that distinction is out the window. I don't know whether this presents a new interesting market opportunity or just a taste of the unfortunate inevitable future.
That's one theory of change. Unfortunately, the oppressiveness of domestic surveillance could get a lot worse before it gets better. There might even be a point of no return, where the system decays into something like North Korea, rather than bouncing back to a better state.

I doubt the NSA/FBI/DoD/etc are going away anytime soon, so a simplistic strategy of "try to deny them good people, force them to get worse so they eventually collapse" is unlikely to result in either marginal improvements in their behavior, or their wholesale replacement by better institutions. This 'talent boycott' could just mean more acrimony, abuse, and even violence without ultimate remedy.

Some diseases don't get worse before they get better. They get worse before they get fatal.
Well, I don't think they're mutually exclusive. I'm a good bit more liberal than bmelton and I think Wickard v. Filburn is an absolutely awful decision, as are a lot of the decisions than rest on it. I'm baffled that it hasn't been overturned since, though perhaps that's the hubris of someone who enjoys making up con law arguments without having to submit them to an actual court for examination.
Depends upon whether or not they pepper-spray you in the face first.
I wouldn't see the revocation of visa-less travel for US citizens in Europe as hostility

When Austria elected a neofascist Prime Minister (Jörg Haider), do you think it would have been justified to expel Austria from Schengen and the U.S. visa-waiver program? Do you think doing so would have been seen as a hostile move? After all, Austria is a democracy, so why not sanction the Austrian people for their decisions?
I've been thinking about the fact that a data-generation machine would be incredibly destructive to the current intelligence system. Spend a little bit of resources on a system that will manage and nurture online personas and you could render the algorithms watching things useless.

Misdirection: it's been used in magic for a long, long time.

So what happens when a piece of software can be used as a terrorist device? We're going to run into that. Soon.
I used up all my #s on Twitter.
Yes, definitely. It's the truest successor to TA, and in the same spirit. It retains the flux economic model, upgrade-by-building, powerful UI features (building group templates are awesome) and a plethora of options on how to optimise your work.

Plus the whole vast-armies-of-destiny thing. I have very much enjoy games where it devolved down to 16 megaunits vs 150 strategic bombers ...
Thanks. I must not be that perceptive of a reader, because I've actually read that article before, but don't remember that part of it. I agree that it's a great article. Probably time for me to give it another read.
You can't infer anything from VPN use, and it's one of the most ubiquitous communications-security tools already.
Did hearing the President say "I think it’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience" bum you out? Would you like the NSA to go back to the drawing board on providing security and privacy? Are you ashamed that people around the world have lost trust in American institutions, particularly businesses with online presence? Do you wish the greater American population better understood what liberties they are giving up to stop the seemingly unending, spreading threat of terrorism?

Join us, this 4th of July! The Restore the Fourth movement is holding a peaceful protest in San Francisco. We plan to meet at UN Plaza at 11. Bring water and patriotism. Hopefully together we can raise awareness for the issue.

Feel free to contact me, I'm sure I forgot a bunch of stuff. See you on the streets!
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This is smoke and mirrors. The NSA intercepts ALL communications outside the USA. The British Commonwealth intercepts ALL communications inside the USA in exchange for access to the NSA's data relevant to the UK.
CCP uses twisted on stackless to be 100% clear.
Plastic firearms are harmless.
Great idea, love the pain-free signup.

However, your site breaks the back button for me which is a huge annoyance.
> I have to imagine their recruiting is going to suffer greatly due to the recent revelations.

On the contrary, it might improve. The Snowden sympathisers won't waste their time applying and the Snowden opponents will rush to the NSA's assistance.

> Very few smart people are going to want to join an organization that spies on their fellow citizens.

Smart people may realize that we're on the edge of an abyss with little way out, and that abyss involves complete control over everybody's lives -- this appeals to some people. What you can control cannot hurt you, and I think that feeling resonates with everybody that has a sense of self-preservation.
What's next for Egypt's entrepreneurs?
Several all ready do. The issue is that getting bit coins for the average web users is a non trivial exercise.
Doesn't Verizon also have a data-sharing program that it's too late to opt out of?
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Kim Dotcom vs PM John Key - GCSB Bill Select Committee Hearing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWjdVVNML-M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QM-tUmGHY
I think it would be nice to require color coding of the news by a fact-checking editor. Basically, anything that is a confirmed fact is highlighted in green. Anything considered fact, but hasn't been confirmed is highlighted yellow. And anything that is opinion or has no basis in reality is red. With that, just let users toggle things on and off in the article.
Democracy, you can't handle democracy, Are some cultures incapable of handling democracy? I am so disappointed.
Bitcoin is going to be more popular but we still have to fight for it.
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Sounds like Google noticing people actually read your blog and now playing a game of CYA (cover your ass).

Some tech managers can be horrible people though, because some of them, (definitely not all, or even most) take their promotion to mean they're the next coming of Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg and are now allowed to step all over, manipulate, and lie to whoever works under them to get ahead.

I've worked for guys like this and management turns a blind eye to it because they too start to buy into that manager's fantasy.

Good on you for both pointing this bad guy out and getting a public apology from the company Michael.
Also, don't use a laser printer that applies tracking dots.

https://www.eff.org/issues/printers
It is pretty damn well grounded in reality.

Another familiar talking point: working at our startup will be a massive learning opportunity; your twenties and thirties should really be spent learning as much as possible. You can start earning money in your forties.

(

I wonder if this is designed to attract that demographic who went to school primarily to take hard courses because they literally feel like they are not learning unless an external factor challenges them.

)
First link is a short edited news item. Second link looks like it's the full thing, but the sound is terrible.
I spoke to a friend that owns and operates a VPN service and he says it is only iPredator at the moment, and that is conveniently left out of the torrentfreak article. To me it looks like MasterCard is just targeting the pirate bay peeps.
I don't think the points you highlighted above matter fundamentally: they don't handle memory management for you, and that's the difficulty, especially at the language boundary. What is interesting for me in Lua is the stack-based argument passing and the GC: it avoids leaking the reference counting and the binary representation of objects (I think, I am rather clueless when it comes to Lua).

Wrapping things like crypto, file format and co is relatively trivial, because not much crosses the language barrier. Now, when you need to handle non native object life cycle, that's another matter, and I don't see how cffi makes it any easier than cython
Type Safety, Representable States and Erlang
Agreed AspensMonster, we need to support politicians who support our liberties.
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And... this is the second thread where the "down vote" ability has been abused. A user (with enough "karma" to allow them multiple negative "down votes" has nuked my content, and not bothered to respond to any of it). Hmm, and I naively imagined HN was "moderated" (spoiler: it is, just not how you think it is, and no, I'm really not that naive to imagine a scaled populist voting system isn't gamed to the max - we did this in voting polls in the 1950's).

Now, you might have noticed I'm not naive, but it does show one thing: Whoever is using their "precious HN karma" to down vote my comments, without ever bothering to argue with them, proves the model doesn't work. [It was logged - the same user mass-spammed the "down vote" on all of my posts in this thread within 72 seconds, much like they did in the last one]

Predators: you're being run by autistic ((blinkered)) agents who don't even realize the #1 rule of Agitprop: The Streisand effect[1].

Hint: this reaction was priced into the effort to reply to HN. As a predator, if I got the reaction, it was a trigger to say: "Prey". If you ain't seeing the obvious yet, you ain't playing the Game. [And, no doubt - I'd imagine that within X hours my account will be unable to post, either through "negative karma" or "hell banning". While you can read it, work out the politics of it].

Be Seeing You. (Amateurs). And seriously: if your ability to run Propaganda is limited to a "down vote" button, you're not in the running. But, feel free: KONY2012! You might recognize this model from other parts of the web. (And yes: We See You Down Voting).

Bottom line: if you're "down voting" my content, you're either a mark or an extremely naive bottom rung player. Enjoy working out which one you are. Top tip: the real players don't give a flying fuck if you know what they're doing, they just don't care, as long as you can't provide evidence of individual crimes. You. Just. Do. Not. Matter. To. The. Higher. Meat. Eaters. Fucking deal with it. (Down Vote if you think you do!!11!11! Please, I need +1 likes on Face Book!!).

Be Seeing You. Rule #1: Life is cheap - the myth of America is that 300,000,000 of you are precious. Spoiler: 295,000,000 of you ain't. Cry me a fucking river, you're food. (And if you think that's harsh, look around a little. Sorry, it's true.)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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You can't really criticize a language for not being supported by a vendors proprietary compiler framework, especially when it targets native. Also, what is wrong with llvm + the rustc?
3d printed guns are one of the few things I can think of that will make air travel even more inconvenient than it is now. This is going to be bad.
It's not merely "the same content", it is content automatically sourced from Craigslist, and while that may seem like a picayune distinction, it is not.
Not being familiar with his work, is it a known satire or assumed to be an actual exchange?

I'm having a hard time verifying its authenticity. There are at least a few claims (unsurprisingly, by the other party in the exchange) that the entire thing is fake.
2000 AD has been DRM-free for a while now -- http://shop.2000adonline.com/categories/digital
Anyone you know from FB who is unemployed probably isn't eligible to work at the NSA. We aren't talking about WPA jobs after all. I understand your point, lots of people can't be choosy about where they work. But those aren't the people we're talking about here. We're talking about people who currently work at the NSA and I assure you they have skills that are highly sought after in many industries. They definitely don't need their NSA jobs to feed their families.
Didn't they start this in 2006, with NSA as the customer? Oh, but that wasn't anonymized. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/05/mark_klein_docu/
Lucida Console, but I secretly long to use Ransom Note.
Or they got burned on charge back rates the same way porn sites did in the 90's. In which case, any payment system that offers charge backs likely would make the same call. Now digital currencies(which don't have charge backs typically), would solve that problem, but the lack of a main stream one of those is not clearly the result of a monopoly.

It makes little sense that the US gov had these guys banned because they were anonymous since they aren't. Mounting trafic coloration attacks against a VPN is trivial if you see everything going in and out ( same for Tor). Maybe the RIAA and MPAA had enough clout to do it, but why not usenet providers as well?
> As there is nothing remotely illegal or even nefarious about using a VPN

There's a reason every risk scoring tool for e-commerce highly weighs whether the connection is from a VPN or other type of proxy. Using a VPN is not illegal or nefarious, but public anonymizing VPNs (as opposed to private VPN-into-the-company-network VPNs) are used for illegal and nefarious purposes to a huge degree. The volume of fraud occurring through them is measured in billions of dollars a year.
I think built is support for units is a bit to specific. Support for cheap type alias'es would work, and be far more general. What I mean is something like:

type Inch = int
type Centimeter = int

And then have the compiler enforce these as different types (as opposed to alias'es), so if you want to use an Inch, where the function decalares it expects a Centimeter, you would be force to cast it (or have the compiler auto cast using your conversion function).

This doesn't get you support for multidimensional units (IE, define a function that goes from arbitary unit u to u^2), which would require a much more complicated addition to the type system.
I don't get the impression that there are a lot of jobs out there for pure mathematicians. The conventional wisdom, at least, is that you have three options: tenured professor, NSA, or abandon pure math entirely. And it's not too easy to get a tenured professorship.
> Their choice to not release the GIL during their operations is not necessairly a limitation of Python.

Um, what? They do not hold on to the GIL when doing compute intensive operations.
Yes. I am not saying "therefore it was okay", just pre-empting certain unproductive lines of discussion and outrage. If you feel the actions were nonetheless inappropriate, you (and others) have every right to be outraged for real reasons; in fact, I encourage it.
Its really not bold at all.

If you drink that koolaid, Sounds like you would also believe megaupload was used 'primarily for non infringing use'