skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of my friends who use IRC as a primary communication channel will stick to invite-only self-hosted SILC IRC networks. These are essentially 1 step above darknet (eg: local IRCd), and are a far cry from the efnets of the IRC-verse.
You're right :) I will add a note on this as well
For those wanting to take FF OS for a spin, load up Firefox and search the add-ons directory for "Firefox OS Simulator".
Understandably so.

For example, a founder asks for help building an iphone app MVP (it's a very simple app, gives you recipies for great coffees for example) - I would probably be looking for 8-12%. This would be on the basis that he has put the legwork in to approach outside investors, has put together a reasonable pitch with backing, etc and may be expecting to sell the app 30,000 times for $0.99 within the first 18 months from launch.

Maybe for a more complex, time consuming and bigger project, I would ask for perhaps 15-18%.

As I say, all depends on the project and it's individual complexities.

Making you sweat yet? :)
Its becoming less of an issue as more and more as software migrates to being "as a service". A webapp is not distributed, so the license doesn't matter at all.
That's why you don't price deferred comp at 1x your rate.
I doubt they can avoid hoovering people, protesters or not. Plus, even if they don't, other government groups may.

I would recommend turning off your phone before heading to a protest. Well before, maybe leave it at home even, as turning off your phone nearby to a protest may be just as noticeable as having your phone there.
Everytime I connect to darknet, I feel like Batman with a secret, underground, Gotham identity. In the rain, on the rooftop, or something like that.

Even when the darknet is nowadays used mostly for spam and child porn.
> so the government doesn't have much leverage to get information from companies

Google, MS, Facebook, twitter and cell phone companies don't have facilities in France?

Here's the manual for the Amuses Eagle product, a French company:
http://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/docs/amesys/99_eagle-glint-ope...
To be fair, I'm not really looking forward to an interview, but thanks! I really think your book is a nice idea, and I'm sure there are plenty of people who could offer far more enlightening information than me. I'll send you some more info by e-mail (it's the one in your profile, right?) to make sure I don't come out as a total dick for not helping you.
It is... very extensive and lots of tangled stuff (there was even Brazil-Italy government spying it seems...)

But you can find most information under the case that was forcibly closed (Operação Satiagraha) and the names of the protected criminal (Daniel Dantas) and the fired chief of investigation (Protógenes Queiroz)
>I once heard that soft (non-informative) car ads are run not to advertise their product, but to make people to recently bought or own that brand feel good about their decision

Interesting concept, but couldn't you make ads that do both? I feel like the "Think small" ad [1] must have worked both for people who were looking to purchase a car at the time and those who'd already bought a Volkswagen.

[1] http://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2013/07/think...
Yes. The idea of giving whole integer percentage points of equity to someone who can't vest makes me nauseous.

There's three problems with your plan:

First, if the high-end of what you'd think of asking is 18%, then it seems likely that even the low end of your ask is in the founder/first-employee range. You're talking about numbers that hired CEOs get.

Second, the stake you're looking to take in these companies practically guarantees conflicts down the road; you're asking for so much that you're going to have to take an intense interest in valuation and dilution concerns. Who involves a contractor in things like that? Who gives a contractor a veto on funding or acquisition? Who funds a company that values 8% of their company so low?

Third, despite having risked virtually none of your own capital (again: evenings and weekends, divided among multiple companies), you're asking for a share comparable to what early employees who dedicate themselves to the company and take reduced salaries get; those employees, by the way, will all vest, unlike you.

I don't think this is a workable plan.

I think there may have been an interesting conversation in the 0.1-0.5% range, although my plan was to explain why it's dumb for both sides to give 0.1-0.5% of a company to someone as direct compensation for a transactional service, and how you could have made more money and made startups more happy by coming up with a clever deferred comp scheme pegged to equity valuations.

But at 8-18%, I'm not sure where to go with this.
Yeah, it's because VZW uses carrier grade NAT for IPv4 traffic, when using IPv6 you get a publicly addressable IP and it's a non-issue.
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Yahoo keeps buying startups that don't make their own apps
Good. I think this place would be better if we all had a more appropriate level of contempt for comments accusing people of being shills.

I'm not offended at someone suggesting I might have worked for NSA. You still don't get it.

(I changed the parent not because I'm uncomfortable with it, but because I wrote it before I saw the comment below that I ended up replying to; either "go fuck yourself" or the response I wrote downthread work for me, but both together seemed pointless).
> Right now the obligations of the government to non-citizens is likely very minimal (IANAL, But I'd love to hear a Constitutionalist's expert opinion on this front).

I'm not an expert, but Constitutional Law 101 is that the Constitution generally has territorial scope. It reaches citizens, whether they are on U.S. soil or off U.S. soil, and non-citizens who are on U.S. soil. It makes intuitive sense: non-citizens in say Afghanistan don't have any protections under the Constitution, because the Constitution is an expression of U.S. law and U.S. law has no force in Afghanistan other than to U.S. citizens who are bound to it by virtue of their citizenship.
Yes, because things are easier than ever for people that want to contribute but also for those who want to create new projects. Maybe GitHub could suggest existing projects to contribute on before creating a new repository :)
XSS Defense in Depth (with Rack/Rails demo)
I don't think you generally need to renounce one citizenship for another - I have dual citizenship, for example, and it's never caused anyone a problem.
Into the Dead. After dying 3 times I'll move on to HN.
Why on other worlds? You could start on the same world and get Civiliazation. Also, I think there should be some fog of war in a multi-user version.
> The very best sysadmins are also good coders, and the very best coders are also good sysadmins.

I can agree on the first, but the second while surely true in cases is maybe wrong for people doing something completely different, like are more into the academic areas, in really abstract levels, doing big data stuff in completely managed environment.

Think about planes. Someone who crafts and maintains them and is close to the metal, maybe is a really good pilot too, because he knows planes in and out, but while really good pilots probably know a lot about planes, they may be focusing on stuff that is really, really far away from crafting one. Still they could be among the most excellent pilots.

But then who is who, might depend on whom you ask.

I just really find it funny and that's something that kinda came across in the article, how because sysadmins are frequently good in a field of programming that by programmers is considered a field of masters, which are operating systems and all this low level stuff that many programmers have to get to at some point. In a way sysadmins have to do and shell scripts are pretty high level. But it also really shows how it is a lot of two different mindsets.
>is it possible for you to give constructive criticism for a project without calling people "incompetent"?

You're too focused on the fact that it's an insult. Even though it's rude, there are circumstances where literal incompetence should be pointed out, like software that can be life-or-death. This commit right here https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/commit/7fe56f0ad6a1b4... is either someone coding without paying attention / severely sleep deprived / drunk, or it's someone who is incompetent. And the first option is only a polite way of saying they were 'temporarily incompetent at coding while working on this project'. And that provides no solace to someone who gets hurt.

In short, it is a fact that the cryptography system here was handled in an incompetent way, beyond that of normal implementation errors. Blatantly stating this fact is an effective way of getting people away from the danger.
Please don't embarrass yourself any more and stop comparing the packager cum marketer Steve Jobs to real inventors.
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All it takes is a warrant and a plea bargain, and your private 'darknet' (haha) irc server is now a honeypot collecting all the traffic you thought was private. The more popular an easily controlled solution like private IRC servers become, the greater the advantage for law enforcement and others to control them.

End-to-end encryption is a requirement for secure communication. Anything less is the same as scribbling on paper and tossing it to the recipient, and hoping nobody catches it on the way.
I'm doing my duty right now.
Another domain where you have things like this is embedded systems related to safety, ie, the micro-controller managing pressure equipment.
Or maybe many people around you have actually read up on the success probability and found that nonviolent resistance works twice as well than violent resistance: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/isec.2008.33...
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Ads for computers are often "soft" though, by nature of the fact that many of the buyers won't use hard facts to inform their decision as much as style, buzzwords, and brand imagery. These ads are building Apple's brand imagery which is that of the sort of brand who makes products for the cultivated sort who like high quality things with which they'll do "great things."
Could this be a new way to do startups? Hire someone to build your startup but don't pay them.

If it fails declare bankruptcy. If it succeeds and the developer sues you settle with some of your new found money.

As someone who got stiffed this way I don't know how people who operate like that sleep at night. Didn't Yahoo do due diligence or did they not care?
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I think that statement was more concerned with censorship than privacy.
What kind of "life" would be possible on the Sun? I don't think basic life form - even the rawest form you can think of - can survive at those temperatures. It's hostile even to complex chemistry.

"harsh" environments on Earth, such as the depths of the oceans, are still quite life-friendly compared to places like the Sun, Venus or Jupiter.

Nobody is dismissing the possibility of life on the Sun, Venus or Jupiter... it's just very unlikely. I would personally rate more life-friendly places such as Europa or Titan. The oceans of Europa could be thriving with sea-life and it's so exciting to have that possibility right in our own solar system.
Evolution requires selection pressure, whether natural or otherwise.

And there's still selection pressure from so many sources. Partial list: Some people die before they reach breeding age, some people refuse to have children, some people are born unable to have children, some people have children with dead-beat spouses, some people are simply incapable of caring properly for kids, some people are prohibitively undesirable as mates, and so on.
That would work, though the devil is in the details. The contractor would need to structure this as a loan with an interest level proportional to risk (i.e. high).

Or, if he wants some of the upside, structure it as a convertible loan. That actually may be a better idea for both parties, rather than a straight up shares for work trade.
I used to be an avid runner in high school and enjoyed the same benefits as you describe, until junior and senior year when I developed a dull aching pain in my lower legs whenever I ran. I began taking a lot of OTC anti-inflammatories to counter it, which worked for a while.

After seeing a few doctors, it was eventually diagnosed as chronic compartment syndrome. I've been debating whether to go forward with the surgical cure. It's a tough decision, because the condition doesn't present itself outside of long-distance running, and the surgery is rather invasive.

I seriously miss running. For those of you who can run, I strongly recommend it. It can be an immensely enjoyable way to stay in shape.
I had little issues like that, as well. Prior to 2010, I hadn't ever run a full marathon because I couldn't train enough. It hurt too much, basically. I was never injured, but just persistent pain and little issues while running.

So, as you're probably sick to death of hearing about, I switched to flat shoes. Mizuno Wave Universe 3, specifically, which is a racing flat made for 1,000 to I'd say 5,000 meter racing.

Changed everything. Changed my running form, I should say, but "everything" fell in line right behind that. All those issues melted away and have, to this day, never recurred, and now I'm able to run as much as I want, train as hard as I want, and so forth, with no pain. It's amazing really. It's personal success stories like this which have made it such a trend. For good reason, in my case. For me, there's no going back, it's not even a question.
Ask HN: Good online games
I am looking for some interesting, fun web based games. to play a maximum of 10 min ~ 15 min everyday.
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Well, let's do this then. :-P
Watching IP addresses allocated to routers from a pool for the current session?
AFAICT Last Chance to See is still in print? (In the US I can get a new paperback from amazon for $10)

I still have a very tattered version of it from when it was first published, though. :)
arkos.io does this.
> I could be in the minority, but to me, our society has become very desensitized by sharing with Facebook leading the charge.

There's a difference between people voluntarily sharing information with a third-party, and having that information forcibly gathered without your knowledge. There has to be a line.
Still? I bought the game from Square a few months ago, and it works perfectly without internet connection. I don't know about this Steam version though.
That's why it needs bat man.
"If I'm told that evolution is a fact instead of a theory, I transmit that as ordered, punishing deviants who resist what I have been told to tell them to think."

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I don't think that most people who think about it believe that the NSA is evil. But what it is doing for ostensibly good reasons are actions that can be labeled as evil.

But the truth is, it does those activities because the White House says it should, and Congress is ok with it. The NSA will never not obey politicians.

You want change, write to your Congressional representatives. Write to the major party Committees, and tell them that you will only support and donate to candidates that explicitly seek to change the surveillance of Americans. Find your local party headquarters and your convention delegates, and have respect for privacy added to the party platform.

Protesting the NSA is good because it organizes people, but then they need to be targeted where they will have an effect. But any real change will come from the political process. The NSA doesn't object. The NSA also isn't going to change anything because of the protests.
terseness is not a feature Go is striving for. That being said, it's still more terse than most other statically typed languages, simply due to type inference. You do have to write out some loops that other languages provide syntactic sugar for... people from those languages call that verbosity. Gophers call it clarity :)
Thank you, this is the information I was looking for. They won't have my money, then.

Why is it so difficult to do GOG-like releases? I would buy things like this with my eyes closed.
To me, long-distance running also has the effects you describe, but you and I are lucky to have bodies that allow it. Cycling is great in similar ways but can be a lot easier on the knees, for example.

I've found other higher level psychological effects of exercise, too. For example, having a group that meets for a run every week at a given time and goes out no matter what the conditions (snow, rainstorm, heat wave, tornado warning...) was incredibly inspiring and liberating. Exploring the neighborhoods of my city on different routes made me happy in ways that a treadmill never could. And hard self-defense workouts always gave me the best stress relief and a sense of perspective (especially when we took a moment to meditate, too).
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I think this is very much true considering Samsung's most (?) successful campaign lately has been focusing on the exact opposite message (Apple fanboys not knowing what's happening outside their world)
You mean kind of like http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html ?
This is great. Step back from the Apple-specific nature of it and just read it as a "how-to" guide for writing content. Look at that Tesco ad! Really! I'm serious! I really mean it! The worst!

I hadn't paid any attention to the words in those Apple ads, and now I know why.
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considering that they've laid off a huge fraction of their veteran programmers and have been outsourcing development overseas, this doesn't surprise me in the least.
Yeah, or, just 3x or 4x your rate. No need to think about "interest rates".
I think Github is my go to, kind of relaxing to browse around and read about different projects.
Are they not one and the same? Take a look at Edward Snowden.
I´m european and the natural way for me is period for thousands and commas for decimals, although I´m aware of the imperial way, with commas for thousands and periods for decimals.

Another important difference is that in Europe we understand a billion as a million of millions (10^12), not a thousand of millions (10^9). For us, a 10^9 is a miliard. Luckily I´m also aware of the use of billions for 10^12 and whenever I read it on a US or UK text I understand correctly. Otherwise, saying that there are 7 billion people on Earth would be an extreme exageration...
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> And that is okay for most software, but not cryptography.

I'd be fine with it if they just slapped big red letters across the top saying "WARNING - EXPERIMENTAL". Why? Because people do need to experiment with topics and that doesn't hurt.

What's upsetting is they're basically claiming their product is on the same level as lots of products that have been heavily tested and verified by groups of people when it's an amateur experiment in the topic.

That might be fine for most kinds of software, but is irresponsible in crypto, embedded safety systems, etc.
A much more simple explanation of the NSA statement is that press organizations asked for a statement in relation to the protests planned for today (one of which I will attend, as I have mentioned in recent Hacker News comments) and the NSA's press officers provided a statement. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. Yes, NSA officers, like all officers of the federal government, take oaths to uphold the United States Constitution. Most take those oaths very seriously and cherish the constitutional system of the United States. I will be out protesting in public this evening (and I don't care who knows that, as I am not afraid to express my opinions on public policy) to indicate my family's support for the Bill of Rights and desire that all NSA programs be overseen effectively by Congress and fully in accord with the law. That said, I don't begrudge the thousands of NSA employees the opportunity to join me in saying that all Americans have the right of peaceful protest and that is a right we can all cherish as Americans.

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Not really. As the USSR was collapsing and the Baltic countries broke free, Western countries rushed to re-recognise them (as most have de jure not recognised the occupation of the Baltic states). It did not take 24 hours after Iceland recognised the Baltic states, that Denmark did as well.

Furthermore, Denmark, along with Sweden and Norway spend the years following the dissolution of the USSR financially helping the Baltic states, something Iceland did not do (although, in their defence, they probably could not afford it either at that time).

Here is an amusing piece of history that President Bush did not want to recognise the Baltic states just yet: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-08-27/news/910303099...
I managed to track down version 2.0.2 of Hancock, circa Nov. 2010. Haven't a chance to even quickly glance through it, but here's a GitHub mirror for those so inclined: https://github.com/mqudsi/hancock

I'm more interested in why it's vanished from the web.
You're offended because of the suggestion that your comment about the extent of free speech we have with respect to protesting the NSA might be motivated by your own previous work experience with the NSA.

Even if true, I wouldn't say this indicated you were a shill, because shills are generally paid to push propaganda.

People are naturally biased by their experiences in positive or negative ways. You made what could be construed as a pro-NSA comment in an environment dominated by anti-NSA sentiment, and somebody made an assumption that maybe you had a good experience working at the NSA and wanted to clarify it.

For what it's worth, it never occurred to me that you were a shill or a former employee, the suggestion is absurd and totally out of left-field.
> With cryptographic software a small, subtle, hard to find bug could render the product pointless

Exactly, cryptography is science and not engineering. That's why the cryptocat response makes them seem even worse to me.

They are clearly still approaching the problem as if they can iterate on it and incrementally improve things. That's the wrong approach when things are so much closer to a binary right/wrong situation than in other types of software development.
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It's working fine now for me.
Well, it's not so much syntactic sugar as having the power to abstract them away via generic functions like map, which I'd argue are both more clear and less error prone.
I guess you failed to read the part where I was responding to somebody who basically said Syrians are too inferior to use computers, and that cryptography was only used by criminals.

You are exactly the kind of CS professor I'm glad I never had. You failed to read everything and care more about politics than quality of code and safety of users (k now im just trolling, sorry but read the actual replies)