skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the privacy boom a foregone conclusion? The Internet has a history of overreactive paranoia when it comes to change.

Example #1: I remember a huge privacy backlash when the first social networking site opened. It was a combination of Facebook and Linkedin, yet it was more private than either of them. People were absolutely livid about the privacy implications. This site, Six Degrees, opened in 1998-fifteen years ago, and shutdown soon thereafter. However, over time, the boogeyman many feared never materialized, and people became more open about sharing online.

Example #2: Later, when the DMCA was proposed, it was claimed that it would be the death of the Internet. The DMCA has been law for more than a decade, and the Internet still lives.

So, based on past examples, I predict that people will stop caring about NSA-type programs when no harm ends up coming to them from wholesale data screening on the part of the government. Once can only be afraid of so many things at a time, and new scares will eventually pop up.
Uploading/Downloading project files of a few GB, where a 300-400 MB can be added in just one additional session, doesn't work very well with iCloud and current BS connections.

So for a lot of people the experience would be subpar (with their 2-20MBps assymetric DSL etc). Not, Apple could only enabled for speedy connections (symmetric, fiber etc), but then tons of users would cry for being excluded.

That's not how Apple usually rolls.

I'd say than when the speeds are mature enough, in 4-5 years, there would be a version of Logic with iCloud support.

For now, they can leave it to third party providers, like Dropbox, so they get all the blame (and/or praise, for those that are content with that).
why is it banned if it's one of the safest?
It doesn't matter what kind of music he does if Logic is what he uses for arrangement and play.
On Teaching Programming With Python 3.0 (2008)
Recently attended a presentation on Appfail (for .NET) by its founders. Liked the product and team: http://appfail.net
I've never been a fan of John Kerry, but it really bugged me that no one took him seriously during the 2004 election, when he said that terrorism is a police matter, not a military one. Terrorism is murder, plain and simple.

You declare war on a country, not a tactic, and you have to fight against an enemy who is capable of eventually saying "I surrender".
His employer didn't realize he was working on Python.

That sounds like a fascinating story, but I'm not quite sure what to search for to find it. Do you have a link, by chance?
Companies with hundreds of billions in cash in the bank do change things.
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You obtain the software through the app store/play store, so I'm assuming that after this week the software will be set at a price >$0.
>Of course he would. Big corporations can buy things and sell things, but they can't legally send out men with guns and dogs to simply take what they decide they need.

No, they can just buy media to influence public opinion or buy politicians and influence policy, and have them send the men with guns.

But I think we mostly agree with that.

Only I don't think the solution is less government (a smaller government is even easier for big corporations to have power on), but more vigilant citizens participating in politics.
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This caught me by surprise too while looking through the midi fx drop down. Got it to repeat the note I play in a nice (not quite musical yet) pattern. Pretty excitig! I'd love to hear ideas for creative uses of this thing apart from making clever arps.
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The real opportunity here is probably in the other direction: companies to feed the U.S. government's insatiable appetite for private data.
I think he's commenting on Snowden's rather purple prose, which is a bit over the top, and distracting from his message.
Couldn't agree more, I always hated tipping even when I worked as a waiter.
There's no tipping in South Korea (and many other places). You will get excellent service, if not better. Nobody leaves a restaurant or cafe feeling confused and staff never feels cheated. Taxi drivers still get you to your destination without any additional tip incentive.

Besides, if I've paid for something already, why should I give an additional, mostly arbitrary amount?
From what I recall reading on earlier HN threads mentioning DDT, it was linked to reproductive harm in birds (softer/weaker shells), and insects started building up a resistance anyway.
According to Wikipedia though, DDT only played a minor role in eliminating Malaria from the US:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Use_in_the_1940s_and_1950s
Guys, pardon my ignorance as I do not have extensive knowledge on US law, I could not see EFF among the plaintiffs. Are they referred to under another name?
There's opportunity here. Exec, Über, Lyft etc get rid of tipping for cleaning, taxis and I love it. I am happy to know total cost upfront.
Matter of time before this is extended to food service.
Citations?

I'm absolutely not an expert but I was under the general impression that DDT is no longer permitted because it's not safe.
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I think you are comparing nuts and bolts. HN and its other popularity-forum colleagues like reddit are not very conductive to network building or long term friendship forging. Your interaction with me, for example, is at most reading this post, maybe reading my comment history (1 in a million) and either replying with your own take on what I wrote, or moving on. There is no commonality there besides the discussion topic and the means of communication, and the dialog ends instantly when you are done posting.

I made most of my current online-friends in video games, mainly WoW, some in rpgs like Neverwinter Nights, some from my emulator days. I think it is the difference between a shared hobby and interest in it you can talk about outside the discussion channels, and the blurred lines between what HN topically discusses - since it is usually all about startups and VC and tech, it is very business driven rather than hobby driven, even when you get a fair bit of hobbyist and OT threads at the top, the culture, expectations, and environment stay the same.
This is an excellent point and something I've been thinking a lot about lately. To be honest the work I do at Martin's probably doesn't have the best ROI in terms of potential impact. But it is something that I get happiness from (never thought that washing dishes for two hours straight would be "pleasure" but once a week it is a great break from staring at a screen).

Something that I would be interested in joining/starting is going to talk to inercity youth about technology and entrepreneurism. Gonna go look into this
> The 20% thing at Google is currently a marketing lie

There was a thread recently where some googlers said the opposite. The main thing I've heard is that you have to actually assert yourself and take the 20% time, it's not going to be set aside for you.

Edit: this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5982333
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Naomi Wolf already made this list a while ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc
Armadillo is also used in pretty well known places: NASA, Siemens, Intel, Boeing, Stanford, CMU, MIT, Schlumberger, Deutsche Bank, US Navy, etc. (source: access logs for Armadillo website).

It's also the basis for the MLPACK machine learning library:
http://mlpack.org/

Additionally, there are Armadillo bindings to Python and the R language:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/armanpy/

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcppArmadillo/
Here's my outsider's analysis of how Heroku works (well, worked in 2011) from a couple years ago: https://www.quora.com/Scalability/How-does-Heroku-work
Impressive Libreoffice clean-up work
>Logic has been $200 for a while. Even though Logic uses Audio Unit plugins, I don't think there is really any substitute for physical hardware.

You may not, but most of the productions, from the Billboard top-100 to independent stuff, are choke full of plugins. And a lot of "physical hardware" can't be told apart when A/B with quality plugins (Waves, UAD etc).

>You can get this to run a project on the cheap, but it's still going to cost you $1000+ for a good mic and +600+ hardware like compressors, limiters, equalizers, monitors, and mixing boards. Plus you have to get cabling, power conditioners and cases to hold and connect everything. My last "Home Studio" ran me nearly $10,000; Logic was the cheapest thing I had to buy and that's when it was around $700.

If you want to record Led Zeppelin, maybe.

For a 4-piece rock band, Logic, a mixing board, a audio interface, a pair of monitors, a few mikes, stands, rack unit etc, will do it for around $3000-$4000.

And for electronic music (including hip-hop), you can just make do with Logic, an audio interface, headphones, monitors, a MIDI keyboard and one-two mikes, for around $1500 total.
Yeah I think that's a relic of their very early Node.js beta. Now they look for package.json (https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs/blob/maste...) and you define the command to start the app in the Procfile.
The problem is not patents per se. It's patents that cover obvious solutions or even the problem itself, like the famous "one click" Amazon patent. The solution would be change the obviousness test.
So perhaps all startups should include in their pricing table a "Direct feed/backdoor" option (*only available to NSA) for millions of dollars?
The majority of troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan were not US Military - predominantly PMCs - so I don't think it's correct to say that corporations do not have the capability to wage real, physical war.
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It's not a question of whether it's easier for programmers to do BD stuff, or BMAs to learn technical details; it's a question of whether you want to waste your highly trained and expensive programmer's time dealing with customers.

Sure you need somebody technical in front of customers, but the whole point of org structures is to delegate roles to increase efficiency. This methodology strikes me as ridiculous - who is going to volunteer for QA work? What if your 'QA guy' gets bored and decides to become lead programmer for an area, but can't really handle it? What if a bunch of programmers get together and find a really interesting technical problem, and get lost in the jungle for 6 months whilst contributing nothing to the project?

I've never heard of PMs or managers as 'empowering' their teams to do work - in the engineering world they're simply considered to act as shields against the crap that flies around at the next level up (contractual and legal shenannigans - do you really want programmers getting into that?), and helpers to get rid of admin problems.
First of all, the name-calling is unnecessary. I don't like O'Rourke either, but it adds nothing to the discussion.

Secondly, as I'm sure you well know, the small-government party line of the Republicans hasn't really meant anything since at least the time of Goldwater. Reagan and Bush Jr. presided over massive expansions of government power and expense, only pulling out "small government" talk in very strategic ways (attacks on PBS, etc).

A rough 95% of our leaders are completely compromised, whether from within or due to outside pressures, in favor of more power both for the state, and the corporations who it really represents. All else is theater.

There is one real issue that we should be putting all our energy into, and that is electoral reform.
That's correct, and moreover, DDT is not even banned if used for things like stopping disease-carrying mosquitos. The Stockholm Convention explicitly allows for that use[1].

This is usually brought up as a weird rallying point for people with an ax to grind with Silent Spring, nevermind the very real effects of DDT and nevermind the exemptions explicitly dealing with the objections raised.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Restrictions_on_usage
I don't think any service can claim to be 100% secure from NSA spying. Are we forgetting the claims that the submarine USS Jimmy Carter is used to tap into under sea fiber optic cables to intercept traffic from numerous web services and communications? Considering military technology is most likely 5 to 10 years ahead of civilian technology, we can't assume anything is secure or private any more. In computing power years, 5 years is a long time to research, test and refine hardware capable of breaking supposedly secure encryption schemes.

So while some startups might claim to be NSA snooping free, they don't control the traffic while in transit, it's that middle-layer that's free game for the NSA to tap into and store without anyone being any wiser.

Having said that I have seen tonnes of services start to capitalise on the whole NSA fiasco, namely Duck Duck Go and their billboard ads propping themselves up as a secure Google alternative. And while they might not store searches, that doesn't stop the Government from doing it...
It's a morally bad idea, but from a business plan perspective a really good idea if anyone were to do such a thing...
No TOS re-sign here.
> I'm a designer who periodically works with ThemeForest themes for my clients. The problem with most of the themes is that they look good but you realize how badly they really work only when you attempt to adapt a site to them.

Completely agree. They (and themes from other sites, and rather too many open source themes) have been designed with no thought of customising beyond the options on the "Options" page, have badly structured templates and CSS, and rely on graphics in such a way that changing the look of one part has a knock-on effect on others, and needs extensive CSS rewrites.

Rant over. TLDR: themes are great if you use them as-is.
The problem is every little thing is now being escalated on purpose.

Even small local crime, many times police try to escalate it on purpose as much as possible to get more funding.

This is why the TSA and the NSA will never be defunded, they claim they are stopping all the invisible elephants from attacking us and politicians are afraid to say no.

Meanwhile the "security" industry grows to the point where it's too big to fail and the taxpayers have to fund it forever.
you were very hand-wavey and just said "matters"

Affects insulin levels, insulemic effects etc.

The point is that quantity alone is not sufficient consideration, quality also must be taken into account.

I could be arsed to dig up a bunch of references, but frankly I'm not ego-attached to this issue right now. That said:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=effects+of+gastric+emptying+on+ins...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=effects+of+insulin+levels+on+morta...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=effects+of+insulin+levels+on+fat

... might give you some interesting starting points.

What matters when you ingest those 500 calories is what they're allocated to, and there endocrine responses (as well as body store availability) does matter.

500g of carbohydrate dumped in the bloodstream of an individual with depleted skeletal muscle and hepatic glycogen stores will have a different response (glycogen uptake in these tissues) than in an individual whose glycogen stores are already saturated (conversion to triglycerides and storage as fat).

Gastric emptying and rate of release matters as you're consuming roughly 15-25g of carbohydrate hourly in your brain (and a few more grams in other tissues). So that an ingested bolus of 500g cho released over the course of 5 hours is going to _largely_ simply result in uptake to tissues with an existing demand, rather than lipogenesis.

No, you can't say fuck you to thermodynamics, but you can dance the funky chicken around it.
What you describe is a simple man in the middle attack albeit executed in a very complicated manner. With public key encryption using SSL you have end to end security under two assumptions: the NSA cannot break the public key structure and that the NSA cannot fake a public certificate. The latter is resolved with public key pinning and the former is highly unlikely.
Hint: "Will It Blend?"
True. Good or bad, it's the magic of capitalism and America after all.
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No formal rules around Tipping in Australia, but some places of service (cafes, restaurants, etc.) have tip jars as a "donation or gift" rather than the norm.

You work in hospitality, you get a minimum wage, usually $10-$30/hr depending on your position/experience etc. and usually the tips are evenly dispersed to all staff who worked that shift as one customer may tip $20, compared to $2 tips or $0 from other customers. Kinda see it as a end-of-shift bonus if you get $20 worth of tips to take as cash in hand.
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You should validate and understand the errors, if any. Not all of those errors may even need to be fixed though
I personally suspect that there are no strategies that are stable over multiple generations. Otherwise one would have emerged. Basically that there is a kind of political thermodynamics that destroys all nations, no matter how great.

Peter Turchin has developed an interesting family of theories about the rise and fall of great powers. He wrote a popular account, War and Peace and War, which I reviewed here:

http://chester.id.au/2012/05/14/review-war-and-peace-and-war...

As a footnote, I found why he used the term 'Asabiya'. It comes from an earlier historian, Ibn al-Khaldun.
While there may be more opportunity in focusing specifically on privacy, our startup, Gliph, has explored this space quite a bit. We built Cloaked Email [0], which provides privacy over email. We also built a novel system for connecting with people without revealing personal information. [1]

Focusing specifically on data privacy, we currently provide a robust cross-platform secure messaging tool that allows users to turn off password reset.

Another startup to look at is Abine, though their solutions are not focused on encryption.

I believe that all startups will need to take privacy into account and wrote so much in a guest blog entry for TRUSTe titled "Make Privacy a Strategic Asset for your Startup." [2]

[0] http://lifehacker.com/5935180/gliph-creates-disposable-email...

[1] http://blog.gli.ph/2012/05/31/introducing-gliph-app-version-...

[2] http://www.truste.com/blog/2012/06/06/guest-blog-make-privac...
And... serve the US market from servers based in Canada and Mexico?
> Terminology: Dynos are isolated, virtualized Unix containers, that provide the environment required to run an application.

... also known as "process".
I hope you're joking about fan death
Subcontracting your monopoly is still a monopoly.
I would bet it's horizontal migration to "compact" dynos down onto fewer servers during off-hours, so they can terminate some of their EC2 instances. Basically, generational garbage collection performed on VM containers.
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And this is bad why ? :) We don't need more people on this globe, less would be better !
I'm afraid that wouldn't help in this case. The conflict of interest here is the possibility of any appearance of favoritism -- whether you happen to be on the giving or the receiving end of the equation doesn't make much difference.

There are sections in that guidebook about donations to political parties. Gittip forwarding would be a similar, albeit grayer, area -- donating to (say) prominent folks from Microsoft Research would be iffy. More so if you then proceeded to work on any Microsoft-related stories in the future.
You mean - as a Logic user I have to re-buy it?
Check out his talk here, he talks about that and much more:

"Guido van Rossum on the History of Python": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqu10JV7dk
Yep that's right.
>I've been a long time Logic Pro user. Since the updates to Logic slowed to a trickle I've also been using Ableton Live a fair bit.

They never slowed. Logic had like 9 point updates, some with impressive new features (64-bit, OSC, etc).

>Unfortunately it seems Apple has gone in the direction of Garageband-ifiyng Logic; pushing it towards amateurs who want to easily piece together their musical ideas from other people's sounds. The interface is dominated by the flashy new features such as the 'Drummer' and 'Drum Kit Designer' which effectively let you combine a limited set of preset drum sounds with a limited set of preset drumming styles. The result is a similar 'toy' feel to that of Garageband.

No, it's not at all. Actually you never even get to see the "Drummer" and the "Drum Kit Designer" unless you need them. The Drummer is basically nothing more than a kick ass intelligent drum plugin, like Strike (by Digidesign), Studio Drummer (NI), etc.

Logic has all the power of Logic 9 AND tons of new stuff besides. In fact, for recording, playing and adjusting your own ideas, it has more power than ever, with new instruments, new editing functions (the melodyne like thing for one), MIDI mangling, Bass amps, etc.

The "using other people sounds" is such a small part of Logic that what you write doesn't even make sense. A meager few GB library of loops, that were there always.

In fact, if anything, it's the opposite: Live was from the start touted as an easy to use app to mange loops and beats, sampled or bought. It's very core is about mangling loops and keeping them in sync. And it's mostly geared towards electronic music, where "using other people's sounds" is a very big thing. Of course it has since added MIDI and other stuff, but Logic was an is an all around DAW -- and it's the one you see in most professional studios with the exception of Pro Tools (or, sometimes, alongside PT).
The in-app purchase is currently set to $0. At the end of this week it will be set back to whatever it was previously, a few dollars.
It should be noted that 'wearing a suit' is not just wearing your normal thinkgeek t-shirt with a suit jacket over the top.
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Personally I'd like to do that but we have a lot of limitations with the Unity platform and supporting multiple platforms. Every feature needs to be implemented at least 2 times (iOS, Android) and tested.

Perhaps in the future once we get some money coming into the company. Right now we don't have any more funds left for development.
Anecdotal, but I've found the quality of restaurant service in Australia is far below that of the US - there is little incentive for servers to do anything but the absolute minimum. I do think this is because there isn't a tipping culture here.

I frequently eat with someone who orders something like a hamburger with no butter on the roll, and maybe 30% of the time he will receive butter on it anyway, because the servers don't pay much attention. When we holidayed in the US, this didn't happen a single time, and we attributed that to the fact that if a server messes up an order like that, they're risking their tip.
If there are still invitations left, I would appreciate one. My email is in my profile. Thanks!
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Kim Dotcom’s Mega yet.

https://mega.co.nz/#privacycompany
100% time idea can only be possible in a start up company. If you consider any big corporate company, they don't even allow 10% time policy. This makes an engineer just another labor.
I have yet to see one rails app that doesn't leak memory like crazy, this is the easiest way to maintain sanity :)
Happy Birthday, hoodoof - it already exists:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

Actually I just reread the title. We've been doing this since 2001, so we're not a startup.

Never mind.
deeper where? comparison of fan types? a study into which species are the weakest flyers?