skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have seen fraudsters reinstall an app over and over, each time signing up with a new email and a new stolen credit card after their previous account was shut down. A persistent device ID allows our clients to block a new signup from a fraudster that is from the same physical phone the fraudster has used before. (This greatly increases the cost of committing fraud, by forcing the fraudster to root their phone or use a new phone each time.)
The problem is that you've checked the chicken coop AFTER the fox has gotten to the chickens.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcz4_JL5b7c
Then you should consider donating to his campaign. He's mentioned having funding troubles and a competitor:

https://secure.piryx.com/donate/b3y1Ooay/justinamash/2013q2
First because it could be potentially useful if you want to catch terrorists. For example if a suspected terrorist calls person X and person Y also calls X, X may be the terrorist leader and Y may be another terrorist.

Second why would they limit it to one direction? There seems to be little if any legal or practical downside to simply collecting more data.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=scatter+plot+of+number+...

many countries fall above the y=x line in this plot
for example

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mobile+phone+users%2Fpo...
Wow. Read up on him a little, and am duly impressed... even though we don't agree on many policies, if he were in my district I'd vote for him anyway because he seems like he has principles and sticks to them. At this point what those principles are hardly matters because the rest of Congress has so little integrity.
Agreed, and we (superfeedr) have been strong advocates of XML for some problems. We are also tired of hearing: give us JSON or we won't care about RSS.
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It is an amendment to "H.R. 2397: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014" that reads:

Amash-Conyers-Massie-Mulvaney-Polis Amendment:

"None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to collect tangible things (including telephone numbers dialed, telephone numbers of incoming calls, and the duration of calls) pursuant to an order under section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1861) if such things do not pertain to a person who is the subject of an investigation described in such section."

It does not defund the NSA.
CD's left cassette player people behind. I think many folks forget how ridiculously expensive CD players were for home stereos (or computers) when they came out.

Vinyl got left behind by cassettes (for some people at least).

Everything is 'left behind' by whatever replaces it.
"draconian contracts" for me this means unlimeted Data Plans, some carriers only offer that for iPhone - at least this is valid for Romania (last time I checked).
I think you would hash the data in some way to avoid privacy concerns for device ID purposes.
My understanding is that ML and MLM _were_ considered to be legitimate, scientific advancements, and that's why it's just M, ML, and MLM, and why Trotskyism/Stalinism/Hoaxianism/Luxemburgism don't get the full-on status that the top three too. That said, I am not as educated on the topic as I would like to be.

Also, let me just say that I never expected to read a post like yours or type a post like mine into an HN comment box, kudos.
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I moved to San Jose from a small NY town back in 2007. What I quickly realized that is that 30-45 mins away is very wide spread and there are times when driving an hour might not get you very far :-)

If the job is in Mountain View, maybe consider Sunnyvale, Cupertino. Morgan Hill would take you 45-1hr with good traffic. Longer at times. Santa Clara.

There is Fremont/Union City but that is outside 30-45 mins usually, I would say. I dont know about the schools.

Really good schools in Cupertino, but higher rent and house prices for sure.

E-Mail in profile you wanna chat about this.
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You are presumed innocent. That doesn't have to be proven.

In the purely theoretical sense, sure. In actual court, however, the whole purpose of alibis is to prove innocence, which is exactly the context that we are discussion. If you want to simply wax about the presumption of innocence, then the defendant need not provide any contrary evidence, as they have nothing to prove.
Yes, that's bug.n
And even if it's client-side encrypted, unless the client is open source there's no practical way to know whether there are backdoors, or whether a future update adds backdoors.
If they are able to get the UIKit framework up and running, then they will have the killer platform overall.
I can see already the advantages for games that are mostly OpenGL but with UIKit it will be 'game over' :-)
I am not sure that East Palo Alto is a good first place to live for someone. It gets a bad rep for the bad schools, crime rate, etc.
Partial property ownership sounds exciting from a marketing perspective because I feel like it's such a core foundation of the "American dream" (we'll debate whether this was good or bad on another thread in light of the market implosion) to own property.

Also, the first thing that came to my mind was this is real-life Monopoly. Many of us remembered spending hours acquiring real estate and charging rents and collecting more properties.
It does when it's dressing up an actual, valid point.
marshray downthread brings up a great point (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6059864)

Even if you assume a low chance of everyone getting hit in 3 hops from one Kevin Bacon, there of course isn't just one Kevin Bacon. That "terrorist watch list" is pretty damn long.
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This point isn't very relevant though, because the artist wasn't releasing different media for different devices. The cd release still came with a cassette release, etc.
Congrats on getting a project shipped and taking this step to get more people using it. It's something most people never even accomplish.

The thing I noticed that I would improve upon is simply the blog. It's all about your product and its latest features, but it could be such a better channel for you to reach users and customers.

Open these posts up to all sorts of topics you know something about that your audience is probably also going through. How do I get better at: server monitoring, security, downtime, status communication, setting up DNS, mail, etc.?

Don't neglect helping me get better at being a system admin. If you help me get awesome, you'll have a fan for a long time. I'll be happy to check out products you're selling.

Kathy Sierra has even more on this topic. And it's brilliant:

http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/07/building-the-minimum-b...
I prefer Tarsnap.

cperciva posted why Tarsnap was more secure and cheaper than Duplicity a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459334
That'd be impressive work (auditing all that code in a single lifetime). Could you share your techniques?
Comparing the FBI of J. Edgar Hoover to the DoJ's FBI of 2013 is like comparing the Long Island State Park Commission of Robert Moses to the New York State Office of Parks & Recreation of 2013. Hoover's FBI was a personal fiefdom accountable to nobody, not even the President.

Also, odious as the letter is, it's not exactly forceful. If MLK's civil rights struggle had been shifted forward in time today and he had posted the "I Have A Dream" speech directly to Youtube, he'd have found far worse.
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>They intrinsically cost more than many other smartphones.

that in the eyes of many Russians (like in any status symbol obsessed country) is the main advantage of iPhone :)
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I think most in our industry are perfectionists and seek to create something amazing.

Sometimes it doesn't seem like that, because as you said, there is a lot of "forgettable crap" out there.

When we see something terrible, our brains scream "I could do so much better! How did these guys release this crap! How did they get so much success and attention!".

What I've learned is that most of the people that release crap aren't unaware of the flaws. They are often more aware, they just chose to put it out there anyway.

We forget that it takes a lot of skill to just put something out there and to iterate upon it. Don't undervalue that quality in others and don't forget to cultivate it in yourself.

We all should seek to find a balance between perfection and just getting it out there.

Perfection is a driver but sometimes it drives us down endless roads and dead ends.
I've seen these blimps in NYC, Boston, and Chicago to name a few places that are notably far from Akron and Miami. I've always wondered - I'd love to know if the blimps are flown from their base locations to other cities, or if they're somehow trucked in and inflated on location.

The fact that they're considering zeppelins leads me to believe that the normal procedure is to fly them to events, which seems crazy given how slow they appear to be...
We have something new coming down the pipe for UIKit soon. Stay tuned.
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Wide range of industries pleads for Congressional action on patent trolls
Yes, thank you for your short write up! Really interesting read :)
I can say from experience that as you get older and develop a broader understanding of the world, two things conspire against your focus; old ideas presented as new ideas, and scars of things not done.

In the first case you will find you are presented with some "new idea" which is so revolutionary it has its own set of buzzwords, its own methodology, and its own unique values. Except that it isn't new, its like those folks who drag up popular HN posts from 2 or 3 or 4 years ago and re-post them for the quick karma hit. There is are people who re-wrap old ideas and pass them off like holiday presents at a white elephant gift exchange. The trick there is to spend enough focus points to validate that the idea isn't really all that new, identify where (and if) it varies from what you've already seen/heard/done and then either discard or integrate it into the same slot.

The second is tougher. There was a really funny skit on Saturday Night Live where two psychics meet for their first date. As psychics they foresee all of the events from first date to heady romance to angry bittering to rejection and separation. They decide not to go out. As an experienced entrepreneur it can be really disheartening to be asked to walk down a road you've been down one or more times before where you know there is a pit of pain at the end of it. And then not proceed knowing the probable outcome without risking the possible better outcome. For example, try to find anyone, who did any startup in the 90's. to do a startup where you are selling pet food over the Internet.

Because of these effects I think experience can really have a damaging effect on focus if you don't actively work to avoid it.
* Eliminate sources of undefined behavior
* Remove implicit type casting
* Have a way to check the hardware overflow flag from the language
* Saner syntax for declaring variables (i.e. function pointers)
* get rid of null-terminated strings
* a module system instead of the preprocessor
That’s not my job
Mostly not surprising other than the list of WWE employees...?

There was a "famous" flame and revert war in Wikipedia's early days over the city of Gdansk/Danzig. A Wikipedia archive page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/20...
Apportable looks like a fantastic product. Does anyone know if such a thing exists going in the other direction (Android to iOS)?

Anything to help with making it easier for developers to make reliable cross-platform apps is very valuable to the industry.
I guess they didn't have masking tape in 1984.
Sure. But it's also a phone that will still have lagging issues and receive maybe 1 or 2 updates before being obsolete.

There is more to phones that just specs.
No, I don't think you're overthinking it. If anything, you're giving them too much credit.

App albums are totally lame IMO. Just like having apps for a small to medium retail/service business are generally lame. It's not worth the effort for most people to find and download this app.

Look at Bjork's iPhone app reviews. There are 763 ratings. From what I've read, you can multiply ratings x 30 to get a rough estimate of sales [1]. That would put sales at 22,890 units. At $12.99 that's a net (after Apple's cut) of roughly $208K. Maybe that covers Bjork's cost of developing the app, producing all the additional content, and her additional time needed. Maybe. But I'm skeptical.

Even if it was profitable for Bjork or Jay-Z, the problem is smaller artists are going to try and emulate this and it's going to fail miserably for them.

[1] http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/27/estimate-sales-downloads-of-i...
I am :-)... already signup for the free plan, and I can see the Indie plan has the "Advanced framework"

Suggestion: you may want to have somewhere a screencast showing a standard UIKit app demoed, may be the standard Widget catalog demo that's available with Apple SDK.
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Right, I get that. But the whole app ecosystem is very different than that. If you own a turntable, it'll play records. If you own a CD player, it'll play CDs. If you own a tape deck, it'll play tapes. If you own an iPod, it'll play mp3s (and it's relatively trivial to convert digital music files an iPod can't play into music an iPod can play).

But when you own a smartphone, you don't necessarily know if it'll play apps. When I bought my phone, it was the current android release and it had everything I wanted in a phone. Now, it still has everything I want in a phone, but they aren't updating the OS. I could mod it to support android 4.x, but i'll lose some of the functionality of the device. This is not so uncommon, and it's not likely to stop happening any time soon. The solution I tend to get is that I just have to deal with it or buy a new phone. That seems silly to me, but perhaps I seem silly to you.
It looks like 1-4 are flaws that can be mostly attributed to this being alpha/beta software and not fundamental flaws in the product.

I do wonder how they will monetize their final release. Perhaps a monthly backup plan on their own servers.
You're right: Sony, ThinkPad, and Nokia are therefore also systems of slavery.

How hard can it be to manufacture a product with an off-switch?
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http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_m...

Section on "dogs."
"That example of obscene overreach and abuse of a government agency does not count because it is nothing more than an example of obscene overreach and abuse of a government agency."
As I've said time and tim again: Hacks and technological tricks are not the right way to fight civil rights violations. It has to happen through the legal system. If you're just hacking your way around bad laws, you are setting yourself up to get in trouble somewhere down the road.
You read too many of those spy novels.
I think it is mostly that devs often don't have an online presence. Building your online presence and contributing to open source projects really helps recruiters see what you are capable of in the real worl.
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True. It's about foosball tables.
This exact same thing happened during every media transition. When albums stopped being available on tape, people who refused to upgrade to a CD player were left behind.

The same thing is happening to you, here. You're not getting a new phone (you like your current phone just fine), so you're getting left behind.

Don't lose any sleep over it. If you want to "extra" content badly enough, you'll get the right device to play it.
The power hungry and abusive still like to give their actions a veil of legitimacy. Abusive behavior might be impossible to stop entirely, but that is absolutely not a justification for making it legal.
Yes, true. However, even with no regulation at all, you might owe some contract penalty, but you still be able to use that phone with any operator after contract expiry or breaking.

The "zero point" of regulation would mean that any and all device restrictions can be freely legally broken and removed, which currently isn't the case in USA; in unregulated markets there are thriving legal businesses that do, for example, jailbreaks of phones that people bring in from USA, and which were subsidised there.
How are you doing, rfnslyr?
A CEO is carrying 5 phones on his belt so he can save a few pennies using same-carrier free calling? What, does he have those 5 numbers also printed on his business card?
Good advice buried in the article: work for the experience, not for the money. I hear it time and again, someone talking about the equity they got and how "if it takes off..." much money they could make. Then I get to be the wet blanket that explains slim odds, how much 0.5% really is, and dilution.

I do have one quibble with the author, and that's about how options make employees "owners". Eh, not quite. First, they have the option to be part owners. Second, the options you get as a grunt on the front lines are often not the same as the ones founders and VCs get. IOW, you'll get to go to the back of the line when payout time comes.
Agreed that Hoover was a bad actor. Thankfully he had fewer tools at his disposal than today's bad actor would. Even those who feel they've learned nothing else new recently (feeling they'd seen evidence of these programs previously), have now learned there are apparently insufficient controls over individual access to "collecting" (taking off the shelf and looking at) NSA files.

Every few months another cop or DMV employee is busted for looking at records they shouldn't. In my book, this problem of collecting the data but not partitioning it from bad actors is one that should be getting more airtime at all levels of government and all levels of security.
Struggling to understand what this post it trying to communicate. I don't use automated tests, but I also can't cobble a workable system together with discrete services that don't exceed 100 lines of code.

Most importantly, I see software as a business enabler, but in response to a business problem, not as an intrinsic business opportunity.

These points strike me as being unrelated, and anti-process. If that's really the point then I have to assume that it targets specific project types (web, for example, because these I can't see these things working with native clients or app servers).
The real civil war, revolution, and turmoil pre-date most of those deaths. Mao killed people during his rule by creating unnecessary turmoil and revolution.

One does not pin civil war deaths on Lincoln. But if Lincoln had led the country into ruin and mass death after the war was over, he would be blamed for those deaths, and rightly so. Thus with Mao. The People's Republic was established in 1949. The civil war at that point was over, no serious external enemies threatened, and the government's control was solid. What followed is not justifiable.

As for Hitler, he was not voted by a majority of Germans. The Nazis peaked at about 1/3rd of the vote. Hitler became chancellor through political maneuvering, not majority support. He did kind of obtain power legitimately, but don't confuse that with being voted in by a majority.
But if the discussion of hops is just a veil then that means it has no bearing to what they are actually doing behind the veil.
I think the argument is that you need more justification to claim that a government agency is engaging in blackmail and extortion than "a once in a century character in a different government agency 50 years ago at the height of a national paranoia not seen since that time sent someone a nasty letter."
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> You'd need a SIM card for each carrier you want and swap them out

There are phone models that support 2-3 SIM's , very useful when travelling so you don't have to swap anything but can call from different networks seamlessly.
This is a good summation of NSA discussion on HN lately: someone asking for a citation gets downvoted. Good job guys!
Additionally:

- Proper arrays with bound checking, which can locally be turned off, if required for performance reasons

- Explicit operation for converting arrays into pointers
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Feel free to extend it, hack it or whatever.
Good suggestion, we'll make sure to include UICatalog
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He's not trolling. He's just saying that the non-flagship iPhone is still expensive compared to new Android phones. Which explains Apple's poor performance in a market which forces consumers to pay the actual price.
They could probably just modify financial various transactions. Even 0.01% of annual transactions would add up pretty nicely. Levy their own tax. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing
Hmm, does sparse bundle work well with TrueCrypt? Any consistency issues when sync'ing with Dropbox?
There is a large market in Russia for premium products; large economic inequality means lots of poor people but also a lot very wealthy people in the major cities.

They definitely have a market for full price iPhones, heck, there is a market for multiple companies selling gold-plated jewel-encrusted iPhones.
The fear is that they are creating tools that would give Hoover an orgasm on the spot, and we don't know that there isn't another Hoover.

We don't need concrete proof of current wrong-doing in order to take lessons from history. That is the value of history.
It's also important to note that a lot of artists don't make money buy simply moving units. Honestly, selling 20,000 copies of a non-pop non-rap album is a pretty big deal.

I disagree that this wouldn't be a good move for smaller artists, though. A mildly technical assistant could get some simple iOS functionality up for a band; maybe not on the scale of bjork's app, but there should never be a reason to stay out of the mobile market. It's too integrated in modern culture to safely ignore.

You want a great million-dollar start-up idea? Be the first company that app-ifies albums.
Ask HN: how should I build my invite beta landing page?
I come from a technical background and have little experience in marketing and internet space. I am currently working on my startup that is ready to launch within few weeks.

I am having difficulties to think about how I am going to launch it. I am thinking of doing a closed beta first and then after few weeks of beta, then open it up.

my question is how do I build my landing page? Should I use a free landing page like launchrock.co, prefinery.com, or build my own?

I think what I want on my landing page are a space for people to ask for an invite by entering their email address (hence I am mining email) and a login link for people who have credentials to login. I would then do manual work by sorting email address and manually send invite to the email addresses that are legit (not spam).

Would that be enough? Should I use free landing page tools like launchrock? Paid like prefinery? or build my own landing page as it's simple enough?

Thank you for your input
Yes. One of these things is not like the others.
Force them on other people how? You mean like when the police decide to occupy your house to spy on your neighbors? Totally reasonable for them to shoot your dogs. If you wanted the dogs to live, you shouldn't have gotten in the way of the police.
17 here. I was introduced to startups when I was 14 or 15 through Diggnation. I guess that lead to finding HN.
I thought it was because I am Dutch, but the blog post is indeed not the way you should talk to Dutch people... :-D

All the best to them anyway.
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