skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically, this will be a huge amount of new competition for angel investors.

It is unlikely to do any such thing. To argue this, you must believe that there exists a substantial number of accredited investors who are not actively investing in private companies because they haven't received random solicitations to do so.

The reality is that accredited investors come in all shapes and sizes. The vast majority of the ones who are interested in putting their capital to work through investments in young private companies are already the people we call angel investors. In other words, lifting the ban on private solicitation is not likely to produce enough new angel investors to have a meaningful impact on competition for deals.

> I expect to see a small industry of companies assisting founders in this new kind of marketing.

There is already a well-established cottage industry of firms that help private companies raise money from accredited investors.

Obviously, the firms that do this don't do so for free, and some of them demand finder's fees that no savvy founder would ever pay, but there's absolutely no reason to believe that companies unable to raise money on their own will pay less trying to market themselves to investors directly than paying a finder's fee.
5D nano quartz optical memory could provide unlimited storage 1 mil. yrs
I need to support sharding with read/write across multiple database systems.
This is a issue where you pull the plug right now, fix the issue and tell your users about. Otherwise your company just dug its own grave publicity-wise. Privacy is the foremost important issue if you handle people's communication.
Yes, it is easy for a guy sitting in a chair in front of a computer to say, and since those guys are the ones paying for the small chance to one day be murdered by a police officer, it should be easy to say, and should be said confidently.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you left out the step where a judge reviews the request to make sure it's not overly broad or based on flimsy reasoning.

Aside from that I'd say it's a very clear, and it's sad that there seems to be a pervasive inference that these companies are something something beyond what our elected law makers have forced them to do. Why isn't more angst directed at the politicians responsible for this?
ever thought of using https://www.inkfilepicker.com/? or is it too expensive?
Newer features in Java introduced into later C versions?
A Better Google Maps App for Apple and Android Devices
It wasn't clear from the article, so forgive me if this is an ignorant question, but does the site in question distribute the subtitles only, or copies of the entire work with new subtitles added?
A Cold War Hero: Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski
"Decryption" would be my guess. I don't buy the explanation WaPo offers for "Protocol Exploitation" because the name itself is so suggestive...
It is next to "Protocol Exploitation," so it could be anything from "Data" to "Public Key."

What I am wondering at the moment is the "DNI" on the same slide, is this direct neural interface? /tinfoil
Or one's boss is wasting one's time in meetings.
In the first case the value should still be in scope anyway, and in the second, you should check it with pattern matching.
"Also, the struct in C++ is allocated on the heap."
I'm probably misunderstanding what the author wanted to say but this is not correct. Structs are by default allocated on the stack.
Who said this? It seems obviously false. All you would have to do is insert a detector and another emitter that simply replays everything the detector reads.
Edward Snowden: I Didn't Give Secrets to China or Russia
How do you suggest detecting corrupted memory that does not cause the instance to fail entirely, but silently corrupts your data or running processes?

Or your page cache:

https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/attack_of_the_cosmic_...
This is textbook price fixing, which is illegal.
1) The cost of recruitment is an additional pressure to have your employees work long hours. Finding/hiring a 10x'er is hard. If I push my 10x'ers to work full time and yours are working half-time, you need to hire twice as many to match my productivity.

2) On the flip-side, it's interesting to consider if 4 part-timers are more valuable than 2 full-timers. You get twice the brain cells and you'd get more "work-time spillover" (people working/thinking their off-hours). This might be especially true in a smaller company where you often can't afford to hire enough full-timers to get a lot of diverse thinking. I can't tell you how many startups I meet could benefit from a second designer but aren't even close to being able to afford one. Of course, higher headcount means higher communication overhead, too.
They could, but with an OpenSSL channel comes SSL PKI, and CA certs we may not want to trust.

It is possible to use OpenPGP certs with TLS, although I've never seen this done myself.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6091
My company serves thousands of professional photographers (wedding, commercial, fashion, etc.). What you're describing is definitely an issue for photographers but I think getting them to use a tool like you've described would be an uphill battle.

Right now, most of them use Drobos or similar devices. You'd be asking them to add steps to their workflow which is always tough to do.

Also, I think your estimate of 18 mins to upload 6+GB is an order of magnitude off. We have tools that allow people to upload JPEGs and most customers claim it takes longer than that just for 100s of MBs.

My (wild) guess is that Adobe is going to get in this space too. It only makes sense to have your Lightroom catalog in the cloud. Maybe they wont offer an affordable solution for terabytes of data, but I'm not sure photogs want their images in two different "clouds".

I think the key is to do customer development from full-time photographers who aren't hackers. I'd be happy to send out a survey to some clients if you want do more research.
Sure, but it removes that reason for having a car too. In my life, cars are usually used for:
a) Commuting
b) Transportation of goods
c) Travelling (i.e. entertainment)

Generally, that order reflects what I use a car most for (i.e. Most of the time, my car is for commuting.)

Instacart helps remove the need for transporting goods. Amazon helps remove the rest. And I work at a location that makes commuting via bicycle + public transportation extremely easy.

So I don't need a car to commute or to transport goods. So for the few times that I need a car for entertainment, it doesn't make sense to own one. It makes more sense to rent a car from a local Hertz, or to use ZipCar for those one-off situations.

So Instacart is part of the solution, it isn't the entire solution.
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It has nothing to do with the ability of the train to stay on the tracks, it has to do with the ability of the passengers to keep their lunch in their stomachs.
Just curious, what was the point of this ban in the first place? To protect the public from scammers?
I honestly can't remember, since I'm on Instacart Express, and I get free deliveries above a certain dollar amount, I think $35.
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More about Kukliński here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Kukli%C5%84ski
With "Upstream" mentioned in the slide, it doesn't matter what company you use. As long as your data goes trough a cable that's monitored, everything is owned.
I don't see why that would be true. This is classical signal transmitted optically, not quantum cryptography. There is no reason you couldn't splice the cable through a machine that recorded the signal and then recreated it. Or a beam splitter that removed just a small fraction of the signal; the effect would be a slight increase in transmission loss.
According to this: http://top10hell.com/top-10-countries-with-most-bicycles-per... (no idea about veracity of that data), Netherlands claimed 16.5 million cyclists cycling 2.5 km/day on average; compared to US with 100 million bicyclists cycling an average of 0.1 km/day.

So if we assume those numbers are right that gives 200 deaths in Netherlands for 15,000 million km cycled per year (16.5 * 2.5 * 365) ; versus US where there were 677 deaths for 3,650 million km (100 * 0.1 * 365).

This makes cycling in US 25 times a dangerous as Netherlands: Netherlands has 1 death per 75 million km cycled while US has a fatality every 5.3 km.

In comparison, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in... says 1.16 fatalities for cars per 100 million vehicle miles travelled, so one death every 86 million kilometers -- safer than cycling in Netherlands by distance, much safer than cycling.

Another page with similar calculations: http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/734/cycling/cycling-rates-by-c...

shows 5.8 cyclists killed per 100 million km cycled in US, versus 1.1 in Netherlands.
The accredited investor requirements are a little silly and outdated. Good news is that more change is on the way in the form of Title III of the JOBS Act, which was signed into law last year. Removing the ban on general solicitation was Title II of the JOBS Act.
I'm not an expert, but if a few of those engineers pooled their money together into an investment club, wouldn't that club be able to meet the accredited investor requirement?
This is no surprise, the judge is essentially constrained to rule this way, given the evidence.

Some people are arguing about amazon, but again, that is irrelevant legally.

As I wrote 43 days ago here:

"A finding about Amazon will be completely irrelevant to Apple's conduct in this case. The question is whether Apple committed horizontal price fixing. Amazon's possibly illegal conduct is going to be completely irrelevant in that, as horizontal price fixing is still per-se illegal. They could prove Amazon hurt the market a lot. They could prove whatever they like. As long as the DOJ proves they committed horizontal price fixing, it's game over. Now, the supreme court may, in the end, decide horizontal price fixing should be analyzed under the rule of reason instead of being a per-se violation, but that's completely irrelevant to the current state of the law, and in fact, Apple's behavior. SCOTUS is not going to change the doctrine because they think Apple did the right thing here, they will change doctrine because they think the doctrine was wrong in general. However, that doctrine is the current state of the law, and what this case, and the appeal, will be analyzed under."

This is exactly what happened.
From the decision:

"In sum, the Plaintiffs have shown not just by a
preponderance of the evidence, see Herman & MacLean v.
Huddleston, 459 U.S. 375, 390 (1983), but through compelling
direct and circumstantial evidence that Apple participated
in and facilitated a horizontal price-fixing conspiracy. As
a result, they have proven a per se violation of the Sherman
Act."

I think, sadly, there is a good chance the supreme court will change horizontal price fixing to be under the rule of reason, and then we will finally all be screwed (The rule of reason analysis is why you see so much vertical price fixing these days, since it is no longer a per-se violation)

Note that the judge, being prescient, also wrote part of the decision to explain why she believes Apple would also be guilty under the rule of reason (IE if it was not a per-se violation). This portion of the decision takes into account Amazon's conduct.

This was done so that if the supreme court declares horizontal price fixing to be subject to the rule of reason, they won't need a new trial.
> Amazon was, and is, the monopolist using classic monopolist tactics (lock-in, undercutting prices, etc.) to retain a monopoly.

1. Being a monopoly isn't illegal. You don't say this, but using the word monopolist makes it seem like you think that such a thing alone is criminal enough.

2. Lock-In? What part is the lock in? The fact that I can buy a Kindle and never purchase anything from Amazon? The fact that the DRM used for ebooks from Amazon are optional and decided by the publisher?

3. Undercutting prices? So?
Predicting a Publishers' "inevitable fates" and conveying that you are their only hope, is a scare tactic.

Also, Jobs also stated rampant piracy would be a major issue if attempting to sell E-Books through alternative means.
“The one thing that we got extremely right about the Webvan investment was that there would be huge consumer demand for home delivery of groceries," he says. "It’s just taken time for technology to finally catch up."

I don't understand this at all and would really appreciate any enlightenment.

What has changed in technology in the past 12 years to enable home grocery delivery? Broadband? Cloud storage? HTML5? AJAX? Flat design? Mobile? And if any of these (Mobile being the most likely), how would they affect viability?

I suspect the thing that has changed more is us. We are probably more open to "low tech" evolutions: lack of privacy, increased trust of strangers, crowd sourcing, always being connected. Or maybe some clever hackers figured out a better way of doing something new with the same basic technology.

Frankly, I can't imagine what these 10 programmers would be doing today that couldn't have been done in 2001.
I've read all of those books. They cover the NSA chronologically, so there isn't much overlap. I would recommend all of them. (edited: typo)
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It's totally understandable to make a mistake like this and it's early, but it's scary how you think that's an acceptable solution.
What I'd probably do is split the problem -- confidentiality of messages can be ensured locally, and directory services, persistence, and foiling traffic analysis on a network service. Network service is long-lived and has much more bandwidth. It can do cool stuff like autorespond, format-convert, etc. for you. If it gets compromised, you lose traffic analysis protection, but not message confidentiality (which is end to end). You could self host the server portion or pick from a bunch of different providers.

Do traffic-analysis-resistant wasteful routing among "servers". Run constant-bandwidth from the server to the client to foil traffic analysis if you really care about that (say, messages delivered only every polling window, and every polling window, a communications of the same size/direction. That seems pretty impractical on mobile, though, so maybe use some kind of push protocol for "you have a new chat request" and then foiling traffic analysis within the chat session (when you're actively using the device). Unfortunately if you can monitor all of the network, an attacker could identify a recipient just by initiating a request and watching for a new chat opening. You could also do things like block off known travel times or other times when someone won't be in contact, correlate with message response times, and at least be able to rule in or out certain suspects (it won't help in fishing expeditions, but if you have 10k people it might be, you could probably identify a person in a few months of passive analysis).

In short, low-latency is the enemy of traffic analysis protection. A true surveillance proof system looks more like anonymous remailers and less like Tor. But, people want realtime.
let x = y

is not a lot more complicated than

x <- y
Just like a judge reviewed the request compelling Verizon to turn over the details of every single call being made by everyone to everyone?
Are There Cell-Scale Anatomical Coordinate Systems?
For to accurately and repeatably describe positions, you need to agree on some kind of coordinate system.

Anatomical coordinate systems are tricky, because you're people are deformable and different.

If I wanted to be able to say "drive down this artery 1000 cells, and then go to this cell in the wall." Is there an existing coordinate system that could do this? Are there software libraries?
Don't Study Media, Study Software
Woo, thanks for the shoutout to Ten Megabyte Manifesto [0] again. 20 megabytes is likely a good thing (and I guess I have to update my manifesto a little bit! though I maintain that you can still build quality stuff in under 10MB of html/css/js), and the promise of a better upload interface is great too. I'm hoping you'll choose to/be able to implement directory support but any improvement in the meantime is great. Keep up the good work.

[0] http://10mbmanifesto.neocities.org/
While I agree it's certainly false, your implementation idea would almost certainly introduce detectable delay. All you'd need is a beam splitter. You can manufacture them to only take 1% of the beam.
Yes, file synchronization is really the hard part from an architecture POV.

From everything I've seen so far, Git appears to provide the best solution. It is rather complex though, and it's a big challenge to build an intuitive user experience on top of this that shields non-technical users from a lot of the complexities.
Riak 1.4 Released
http://basho.com/basho-announces-availability-of-riak-1-4/
I'll jump in here and share our current problem and how we are addressing it today. Hopefully it proves useful for whomever tackles this project!

So we are an ecommerce company and we do our own photography for products -- and we do a lot of it. We average about 2-3 photoshoots per month, and each photoshoot can be upwards of 40GB before any processing. We shoot raw images and are starting to experiment more and more with video. After we do the post-processing work and start the video editing we can push 70GB a shoot easily.

Our current workflow is like this:

Shoot tethered to a laptop each day (typically each shoot lasts two days). At the end of the day, we upload the files up to our local NAS (Netgear ReadyNAS, just shy of 3TB) which is redundant.

At the end of the shoot, we load a copy of the entire shoot on the local computers that will be editing so that they don't have to work directly from the NAS. Over the next few weeks while they edit the files, they will push the new files up to the NAS into specific folders.

(This is where it gets hairy)
We also have an offsite NAS that is located in the business owner's house (about 6TB, but this one is not redundant). We used to attempt to upload files each night from the local NAS to an offsite NAS via rsync, but the pipe was just way too small. It would take days to upload a photoshoot, and everyone in the office suffered from slow internet while that happened. Now what we do is bring the offsite NAS onsite every few weeks and do a manual sync! Locally the sync only takes a few hours and then that night it goes back home with the business owner.

Now since the local NAS is less than 3TB, we can't store all of our shoots on there forever. When we get close to full on the local NAS, we grab an external hard drive and archive old shoots (typically 2+ years old) to it, and then store that in our massive safe (on-site though). If we need access to just one or two files, we can retrieve them from the offsite NAS, but if we need access to quite a few of them, we can dig them out of the safe.

So that's our workflow. Probably not bullet proof, but it has been serving us well for the last few years. If someone came up with a better solution, we would be all over it!
I like his books quite a lot, his characters always show a huge amount of acceptance and compassion. Pretty much just the inverse amount that he appears to show in reality.

I've never been a fanatic about any author/artist, I separate the creation from the creator and that's how I intend to continue living. Just as I wouldn't lose my shit if I saw Card, or Morgan Freeman, or Britney Spears in a coffee shop. I'd give a polite nod and move along.
Why is nobody mentioning digital ocean ?

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing

$80/month

8GB Memory
4 Cores
80GB SSD Disk
5TB Transfer
I'm pretty sure there was some name collisions or something the first day. I think it's been fixed since then
Designing a Network Protocol
Yes? That seems unrelated. Amazon didn't get to their position via M&A and the DoJ not approving certain M&A doesn't mean monopolies are illegal.

The government certainly doesn't like monopolies, but as long as they are achieved in the prescribed ways and not abused, they are perfectly legal.
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Ryan Germick leads the Google Doodle Team. This is his ol' portfolio website.
Tree.io used to be called Hardtree and our company Giteso, we renamed both to Tree.io
Part of the idea is that some people would still output as much at part time as what others do at full time. The overhead of communication is a bigger deal.
If you list more than 10 languages, all on equal footing, and you have no portfolio or explanation for all of them to back it up, I assume you're full of shit and your resume goes in the trash. These people generally have no cover letter or explanation for why they're even applying for the job in the first place either.
This is such a great and thorough explanation. Thank you!
This is where my mind jumped to as well. Especially with regards to the images being comprised of vector graphics, which has always been a pain in the ass to get standard among difference office suites.

Also, if you look between the two versions, you'll see that the Guardian's failed to render the transparency behind the PRISM logo. This definitely points towards rendering mishaps, rather than some sort of editing on their part.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...
That's exactly what I'm doing on my latest side project. I'm the type of guy that keeps attempting side projects. I'm passionate at first and then all at once I lose interest and stop. Or I realize I should rewrite and lose interest in the middle of the rewrite. This time I'm doing it differently. Ever since I've started I try to work on as little as possible but I work on it every day. So far so good. I have the urge to restart using cooler technology but I've been resisting.

I'm a little concerned though because I'm about to go on a trip where I won't be able to work on it for 5 days. I hope I don't come back from the trip and lose all interest.
Meet the New Middle Class: Who They Are, What They Want, and What They Fear
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people" -Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
Not sure how that's "published here for the first time" as I had seen that slide a few weeks back... though I do not recall from where..
> "The cop has no idea who may be behind a door when they knock"

The cop also has no idea what's waiting for them in a vehicle they've just pulled over on the highway. Some of them have been murdered in exactly that situation.

But should they all suit up before writing traffic tickets?
In my experience, there tends to be very few people working part time. This cliche, is it common in Silicon Valley? It is new to me