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The plane grounding was very telling, in terms of global distribution & enactment of power.
What's the record on the other major cloud providers?

Not snarky, serious question - my impression is that none of them have been particularly defensive when it comes to resisting warrantless or secret-warrant searches.
You still have the radio firmware, which is closed source and can't be changed. That's where I'd expect snooping back doors to be located.
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You can choose to write eloquently, without swear words.

Or, you can go full bore and write titles and content with actual swear words. You can write "Fuck".

Or you can go a third route, and use the word "freaking", "frigging", etc., and make yourself sound like a tool.

Don't do that.
You're providing innuendo and "exercises for the reader", not an argument. That's pretty weak.

What would such a data set of Redmond be worth to Google? Nothing. Because accessing those networks for industrial espionage (if I read your innuendo right) would be illegal and immoral. It would drag Google's name in the mud, lose them customers, credibility, and most likely a decent chunk of talented employees. The liabilities would be massive. And what's the gain? I don't know what you think it would be, but it'd have to be pretty damn valuable to outweigh the potential costs.

As for monetization... Android is a moat. The way things are going, whoever controls the client operating system controls the default web browser and the default web search. This is an existential threat to Google. Microsoft winning the mobile OS war would soon make Bing the leading search engine. Apple conclusively winning would allow them to charge monopoly rents on access to the users.

It's like Google Toolbar back in the day. It's possible it provided some information about user behavior. But the real value came in that it added a visible Google search box into IE.
I guess we shouldn't think twice when buying proprietary device, even if overpriced...
It's not that they compete on services in Russia (the only service they compete on is ripping you off) but you can always change your SIM card and get full service, data included.

You can buy a SIM card for $5 and have it working in a matter of minutes on any phone.
I mentioned that in a sibling comment and it was pointed out the article has an update at the top due to a related news event.
guarantees that this won't happen again, no matter what - and then go and retrieve Snowden.

Brilliant.
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I know it is out of vogue but make sure you know SQL or you will forever be asking your IT guys to pull data for you.
Could you give an example of something that can be measured absolutely?
But who would buy them for $3500?

If the price of a black market iPhone is higher than that of the legal-market iPhone, with any regularity, it suggests that $920 isn't a problem, let alone the import tax portion of that: supply must be the problem.

And if the price only hit $3500 in a couple rare situations (errors, morons), I'm not sure why they even brought it up as if it were common, as that fact completely undercuts the argument about the iPhone being too expensive.
Back also has the advantage that most browsers will return you to exactly where in the page you'd scrolled to.
They always pick fringe cases that know the public would like, even if it's used for completely different things 99.9% of the time.
RSS mistakes: let's not make them again
http://www.aclu.org/files/FilesPDFs/ALPR/rhode-island/alprpr... haha its ok there are no records of anything anyway, im sure this is the same in other cities/towns
Hey, contgrats man, it's far then most of us have so you should be proud.

Regarding the Email issue - Use Mandrill (http://mandrill.com/ - from the creator of Mailchimp) it's perfect for transactional emails like yours and they allow you to send up to 12,000 emails per month for free :D

Good luck with your venture man.
Can we please not do this:

a) as a top-level comment

b) for people with a spotty comment history

c) as a matter of course for everyone who is hellbanned

I don't want to say this guy deserves it, but he does have negative karma, and his comment adds nothing to the discussion. Looking back, he's only made a few, similarly negative, short, non-constructive comments. Maybe you made a different value judgement than me, but I wanted to point out that the convention isn't to tell everyone who is hell-banned about it, only people you think were wrongly hell-banned.
Amazon often has problems with listing knockoff products under the same SKU as the real thing. The Arduino project has had some serious problems with this in particular - for a while, if you bought an Arduino board, it was a roll of the dice whether you'd end up with a genuine one or a knockoff.

I bet the same thing was happening with the XBox controller adapters.
Care to elaborate why this is THE issue? I don't quite see how that follows from the above. OTOH My gut says you may be right but I'm not convinced. Want to try?
So what happens if these companies release this data without the AGs explicit permission? Why not just ban together with Google et. al. and publish it?
Put all your plants in the bath, add an inch of water, done!
This looks wildly impressive.
People around me link this to official Apple Store opening.

You can now order iPhone there over the internet, carriers can't realistically compete with this because they'll lose money selling for less that Apple Store and sell zero phones selling for more.

(I've never owned nor bought anything from Apple)
Hey-- thanks! It was great to get to preview it a bit with some of the local dev community
>> So you want _yet another_ password between the user and his magical experience or whatever ?

I find this a pretty weak objection. Do you really want to trade all your stored passwords for the convenience of not having to enter 1 additional password ('my Android backup password') once every one or two years when you activate a new or additional device?? I wonder how this objection rhymes with having logins on 20+ different websites?

While I don't believe that Google wants to harvest your WiFi passwords (but also don't rule it out), I also don't think it's all that paranoid to assume that Google deliberately chose to not encrypt backups by default, so they can extract useful information from Android device backups. Or do you still believe Android is 'free' because Google is a charity?
I didn't understand this part of the article. We can measure the mass difference because, according to the theory, that is what we are measuring when we see a redshift. Should we not be able to measure the redshift in a laboratory, given equipment of high sensitivity and a large enough time delta for the change to register?

Edit: Looks like Le_SDT beat me to it :)
Simple Language != Simple to use.

C is a small language. C is gussied-up assembly. It is the ballet of programming language.

People who say C is simple really mean that it doesn't do anything behind my back.
Perhaps they weren't officially available right at launch and that high price was seen then. I can't imagine that kind of disparity persisting.

Unless there's something special about them, maybe jail-broken with a few grand worth of apps on it? (Not really buying that, just noodling).
Mood, sleep, steps, and calories burned are tracked using a JawboneUP and pulled down hourly from the JawboneAPI.

Weight, and heart rate are tracked using a Withings Smart Body Analyzer and pulled down hourly from the WithingsAPI
Right, whoever knew about concentration, flow etc.
This seems to be a PR nightmare only in the tech circles. Most likely, nothing will change. Bunch of techies will stop using MS products, which wouldn't make any difference to MS. Bulk of the population will continue using MS products (because either they don't understand, or just don't care - most likely the latter)
Different. Nike+ is more about exercise and sports motivation, Withings is more about the data. I feel inspired to workout with Nike+, Withings just gives me the data I want.
I can see it now: a venture firm with the slogan, "Taking the capital out of venture capital."

Back to reality. Any entrepreneur raising capital from a venture firm should recognize that venture capital returns over the past decade lag all of the major domestic stock indexes by a substantial margin. If you look at returns from even the most successful of funds, there's usually not a lot to be impressed by. In some cases, one or two investments account for most of the returns.

Why does this matter? Simple: it strongly suggests that the value-adds so many of the firms try to differentiate themselves with can only do so much to produce real value. If this wasn't the case, you'd expect all that special sauce of the top firms to ultimately be reflected in their returns, which again are generally unimpressive.

There is an excess of capital in venture capital today, and you have lots and lots of firms chasing deals. The wisest entrepreneurs who need funding will take advantage of this to raise capital on the most advantageous terms they can negotiate. Agreeing to less favorable terms based on the pedigree of the source of the funding is unlikely to confer any benefit.
It's hilarious, because kids don't actually ever get kidnapped in the U.S. (by strangers).

Thank you Anderson Cooper (http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/200...).

> Despite these huge numbers, very few children are victims of the kinds of crimes that so-often lead local and national news reports. According to NCMEC, just 115 children are the victims of what most people think of as "stereotypical" kidnapping, which the center characterizes thusly: "These crimes involve someone the child does not know or someone of slight acquaintance, who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently."

My mom is absolutely freaked out about our wife and I living in the city, because someone might kidnap our daughter. Because a crowded apartment building where hundreds of people can hear a child cry for help is so much less safe than an out-of-the-way suburban house when it comes to a crime that never happens.
Looks very slick! I suggest swapping the colors in the sleep quality circle so the aqua color represents the 72% of the circle, matching the color of the text label inside the circle.
You could in theory salt the primary account password with a new salt, derive a key from it and use that to encrypt the password list (sending the salt alongside it). This of course implies that the plaintext password never hits Google's servers, which it probably does.

In general, I'm not sure this is a valid threat model. If you're not trusting Bob with your Wi-Fi passwords, why are you trusting him with everything else? If anyone compromises Google, there's far more valuable data on your account than the Wi-Fi list. Even if that's all they gain access to, it's pretty hard to exploit remotely. If someone is targeting you at this scale, you have bigger problems to worry about.
Air Force drone crashes and explodes in Florida
Amazon Testing New Clean Retina Look
IPhone 5S hardware specs leak, 4-inch IGZO display
Good luck with that.

It's not happening until someone is likely to lose an election if it does not happen.
This, in addition to Google's demonstrated willingness to hand user data over to the US government means that the government (or a rogue Google employee, or a hacker that gets access to Google's database, or a rogue member of the US government, or ... you get the picture) can hit you with a LAN-based MotM attack pretty much whenever they wish. That means they can own your computer, because your Android phone connected to the same Wifi router. Uh, no thanks.
But those all have specific use cases. QR codes on the other hand are meant to be universal. Imagine the QR codes in a museum all replaced with links to porn sites (two different uses - one is for information and another is for advertising).
Microsoft to Eric Holder: Its our turn to speak
Same reason you raise any type of capital, growth.
I thought the same as you at first. But the "sleep quality" metric I'm using here is provided back from the JawboneAPI. It's yielded from some oddly weighted formula Jawbone uses.
LLVM has high-level support for debug info. (You have to actually generate it, which isn't free, but neither is generating #line directives, so it's arguably a wash.)
Right-o. PushState-supporting users copying URLs and sending them to IE8 and IE9 folks is one thing, as is the opposite direction.

In addition, some folks currently like to mount their Backbone.js applications at a root URL that contains a query string, for example:

todolist.com/app?org=nsa#location
It doesn't actually outlaw phone subsidies. There were a Beeline booth selling simple phone with contract for 200 roubles (~$7) at the musical fest I've visited last week.

(Carrier can lock phone; carrier would have to unlock it after the contract ends; but nobody does that on any scale)

It's just the marked shaped itself that everyone first buys phone then decides on carrier; everyone is on prepaid; thus no long-term contracts.

You just dump money into a terminal once or twice per month and use that credit for calls/data/options.
> If you were to encrypt them with the user's Google Accounts password, the device would need to ask for that password on every startup or store the GA password on the device at all times (the latter option is a far greater evil than the current "situation")

If we are just talking about encrypting for backup, then that is not correct. The device would only need to ask for the password before the first backup that includes a wifi password, on the first backup after any wifi password change, and before a restore. Wifi password storage on the device itself can continue to use whatever mechanism it currently uses.

This can actually be cut down to just needing to ask before the first backup and before a restore. Generate a public/private key pair. Ask for the GA password and verify it, and use that to deterministically derive a key to encrypt the private key. Store the public and private keys in the cloud. Cloud data can then be encrypted with the public key before being sent to the cloud.

They only need to ask for the GA password again when they need the private key, such as for restoring the data.
What does this do? Nice looking product, list of features, and "how it works" page, but I'm not clear on what it does for me as a developer.
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>> The program will cost $60,000, which school officials
>> said compares favorably with other professional degree
>> programs. Entry-level data scientists in the San
>> Francisco area can command salaries in the $110,000 to
>> $130,000 range.

$60,000 is laughable.
The justification based on salaries in California is laughable.

Unless a relocation package to California from anywhere there is internet is included in the fee?

Even then......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Kaplan
Chrome 29 Beta: Web Audio and WebRTC in Chrome for Android
Simulating a Slow Internet Connection
Show HN (take 2): A basecamp alternative (private beta)
NOTE: This is a private beta, to create an account use invitation code "hn2" - there is only 100 invitations, so hurry up :)

Hey everyone, thanks for all your feedback on http://www.ubercamp.net/ my basecamp alternative.

Tech stack = angularjs + twitter bootstrap + ruby + postgres + heroku

I have made lots of changes and would love you to take a look and give me some feedback.

Note: click on project title to go to project view (need a better ux/visual indicator)

Some of the changes are:
- improved ux
- better "dashboard" (still lots of work to do here)
- improved milestones view
- better in-app support (click question mark in bottom right and say hello)
- if creating new account, a demo project is created to give you an idea of what is going on.
- several bugs were killed in this release.

Thanks.
Perhaps if I am the CEO of some wealthy company, claiming I got a masters from Berkeley in a hip field might be worth 60,000.
>Whether people choose to read the whole comment, or prefer to see "bla, bla, bla, garbage!" is a different matter.

Interesting that you assume we didn't read the rest of the comment. I assure you most of us do prefer to take things in context. It's OK to look up once instead of looking down all the time.

Purpose is ancillary to art. Art without purpose and merely is as art has been a cornerstone of creative expression since art has existed. The fact that you prefer to inject purpose behind it now has no bearing whatsoever on what people will consider artistic. You're not the arbiter of worth or taste.
By that logic, they shouldn't make the Android OS at all - they don't get any money for it!
No, it's not, because everything useful that happens with your phone happens over a carrier network or the internet, both of which are available to the NSA.

End-to-end encrypted messaging is a good sign, but it doesn't matter how "community made" your endpoints are - the NSA has the network.
Have you ever seen how many stickers for .com's still exist on post signs today? Imagine for every QR code for a movie poster someone slaps a link to their band's website. This would scale a lot better than their band's name with the .com, it would be cheaper to make, just as costly to distribute, less obtrusive, create more attention, and be way more deceptive.
Thank you! Building the site was easy with a template from wrapbootstrap.com that I customized. It only took ~2-3 hours from inception to launch.

I love the picture of the Triborough bridge because its just a short walk from where I am and gives the viewer an instant location for me which is important because one of my advantages is that I am a quick subway ride to Manhattan.

I have gotten good clients from referrals from family and from people I meet at parties and in bars. Sometimes you have to do it Ricky Roma style, but with ethics.

Here in NYC there exists a cornucopia of entrepreneurs with revenue that absolutely need someone who can guide them through a world of technology that they desperately need but do not understand.

Watch Glengarry GlenRoss, internalize the essence of Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin's characters, then throw out all of their manipulation and abuse and apply idealistic hacker ethics. Be a good person, but realize that this business is for closers only.

Some of my best clients though are from Hacker News Freelancer threads, but theres nothing like the thrill of closing a contract with someone you just met at a bar.

My best advice to you if you go this way is to have multiple clients that need ~10 hours per week of work, or always have short projects in the pipeline. This way you are less needy for the client and your income is diversified. I believe that there are a lot more businesses that would benefit from ~10 solid hours of a smart developers time per week than there are that need something brand new built from scratch. This also makes you more affordable.

Clients are running businesses and are busy and this way when they get caught up with stuff and can't get back to you for a couple days you just work on another clients stuff or your own side projects.

I love working this way, but I might be taking a short term on-site contract soon because it's a chance to work with very cool, very smart people in a great environment and collaborate.
I don't get the impression that anyone is accusing you of something as bad as kicking puppies or punching nuns. It's just a bit nicer if you explicitly declare referral links every time you use them.

I'm surprised that someone who has been online for as long as you have is not aware of the antipathy there is towards referral links. Some people really don't like them.
Exactly the press seems to be overly happy to bash MS for this when pretty much every online property has complied with such requests.
>The teams with the most deserving algorithms will then have a short video interview with Brilliant staff, which will qualify them to compete in the final game.

Strange; why not a tournament style? Prejudging based on something other than survival is a strange choice.
What about astronomical objects that are distorted by gravitational lensing? Even if the mass of everything is increasing, couldn't we still note any otherwise-anomalous universal change in the presentation of many such systems?
Sadly, the cycle has looped again, and there is once again someone in the "lab" looking at all your pictures, unless you eschew all modern conveniences like Apple's photo stream or Dropbox's autouploadapalooza.

Which is basically, in terms of relative convenience, the equivalent of developing your own film in the 1990s...
I became extremely fascinated by null cosmology, which explains red shift as the result of light losing energy to [background] radiation as it travels. That [background] radiation becomes essential in the cosmological cycle involving the endless birth and death of galaxies via black holes.

While the theory seems to be collecting dust, I've not found anything to fully discredit it.

http://www.nullphysics.com/pages_cosmology.php

Update: I'm writing from my iPhone and haven't looked into this in a while. When I said radiation I was referring to low energy cosmic microwave background, which is easily scattered. Read the FAQ if you have questions. I do not claim to fully represent the theory in the above paragraph.
Is it possible to difereciate between a expanding universe due to the big bang?, or an expanding universe due to this part of universe coming out of a more compressed stream (like coming out of a 3d venturi tube). I don't know if that makes sense.
And if red shifted light is not red due to the expansion, but due to some kind interaction with dark matter?.
I suppose this questions are dumb, and surely they have been discarded and replyied lotsof times, but never found that info. Does any body know a place were this kind of thinks are explained?
memsql is doing the same thing with SQL.

harder than it looks.
this hardly sounds like an "aerial hijack" http://audioboo.fm/boos/1482009-bolivia-air-force-fuerza-aer...
Things non-technical users don’t understand about your software
@OP

a) How about buying an external Fingerprint reader that's close to your thumb or wearable?
There are tools that automatically find windows with input fields.

b) OR, instead of dictating a password, you could hire someone to write software that extracts a fingerprint from your VOICE's characteristics. You would have to train it to diferent types of voices you have (morning voice/tired voice/hoarse voice etc.)

Every person's voice has characteristics that make it unique and cannot be reproduced by another human. Only a computer could do that and that would require a lot of effort to break the unknown algorithm used in your computer first

c) use existing software like this: http://demo.authentify.com/biometric/ or similar. I just googled for voice authentication/fingerprint.
I'm told our office (Twisted Oak Studios) is the old GoInstant office. We're both companies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. There is also Compilr, toplog and a few others around here. Jevon of GoInstant also does the the http://startupnorth.ca blog.

Can't wait to see what people start building with the tech; looks neat.
You should. This was common with PSU supplies back in the 90s - there were those so called Chinese firecrackers that just blew up and had a concrete brick to give the feeling of weight inside.

Then the market matured a bit and now you have gems like Seasonic and a stable manufacturers like Fortron that in the 2003-5 were with extreme performance for their price.

Don't pay the apple, samsung, MS and whomever tax if you can avoid it. It is unhealthy for the market and for the wallet. Just do a simple research that you are getting a kosher device.