skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The darker side of this, they can't speak about it because of state secrets, and any other individuals involved in other stuff has to deal with the same problem.

I'd think, people would end up speaking out when they're threatened by the NSA to shut up, but they have nowhere to go for legal advice.

I wonder if the government or the NSA could manage to shut down a class action if there would be one.
I worked it out after about 10 minutes. The guy won a Queens Award for service and appeared on a popular TV show? Seems like a total pratt!
...and faster. Great breakdown of the experience. Thanks Royce.
Privacy advocates need to get their act together and form a single-issue organization. I need to be seeing teenagers coming to my house peddling privacy the way they do for churches and baby seals. The tech industry needs to sack up and realize that their business interests are at stake, and put some serious money in PACs behind the whole effort. It needs to have a focused mission, no getting distracted in related issues (e.g. copyright reform or reform of hacking laws), but be a big tent (don't care what else your other viewpoints are). There needs to be a diversity of messages, targeted at different demographics. There has to be something in it not just for techie yuppies in San Francisco, but also church-going grandmothers in small-town Iowa (any political movement that can't capture at least some old people is dead on arrival). That's a key strength of the NRA: it has vigorous support across a wide diversity of voting demographics.

The EFF and the ACLU are fine for what they are, but they've got too broad of a mandate to have the kind of focused impact you want. You can't be an effective mainstream advocacy organization when you're off defending unsympathetic people for principled purposes. That's an important thing too, but it's a different thing.

For people interested in effecting real political change, I seriously recommend watching this documentary on the Prohibition: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition. One group of people got a nation that until (and during and after!) prohibition drank 140 million gallons of liquor a year to outlaw alcohol. The money wasn't on their side (the government made 1/3 of its revenues from liquor taxes and the beer makers had tremendous power), but they accomplished their goal by masterful politicking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Wheeler.

"Under Wheeler's leadership, the League focused entirely on the goal of achieving Prohibition. It organized at the grass-roots level and worked extensively through churches. It supported or opposed candidates based entirely on their position regarding prohibition, completely disregarding political party affiliation or other issues. Unlike other temperance groups, the Anti-Saloon League worked with the two major parties rather than backing the smaller Prohibition Party."
Involuntary commitment is the reality for many people. Sometimes the delusions recede enough that they recognize they are ill.

I would encourage you to look for a support group for family members. Sometimes it helps to know other people are struggling with the same issues, and see how they cope with those issues when there's not a solution.
It is a surveillance state, the police state follows.
That's what I'm doing, one startup per month - over 12 months. I should have ellaborated really but I don't want to share much at this stag. After six-months I should have proved whether I can do it or not
Really, don't blame it on your age. I knew better at 15. The first employer I had was a guy doing MLM who wanted me to accept a lower wage now for big riches later. He talked a great game, but if he was so sure my work would make him rich later, as the boss it's his job to make the call and make an investment by paying me reasonably from the start. If I miss out on 'big riches' later on, no big whoop. Of course he never made any money because MLM is a scam.

A year later I was 16 and working for his brothers company, a remailing company that actually provided a valuable service and had a solid business model. Guess what, they didn't try to get me to work for almost nothing! Like any real business, they realized the value I would bring and paid me accordingly. I designed their newsletter, wrote an application to track serial numbers on their postage metering machines when the government started requiring that (which was fun because they gave me 24 hours notice that they needed it to comply with federal law, but I think it surprised them too). When they wanted me to make a web-based application for their sales people to work up price quotes for prospective clients I met with the owner and told him this was above and beyond my part-time after-school job duties as 'anything with a computer guy' and proposed doing it as a separate contract, he went for it and I made what was (to teenaged me) a buttload of money on it.

Real businesses understand that salaries are not charity. They're not even something reluctantly handed over in order to get work out of people. They're investments. Of course it requires you to find the right people, and doesn't eliminate any of the challenge or risk out of running a business, but no employer worth a squirt of piss is going to expect their employees to take those risks for the company. Protection from that kind of thing is why people work for companies and aren't just self-employed!
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Good bye all your friends. Good bye your childhood house. Good bye your parents.

And what I think should stands as the most important for people of your country... Good bye America.

Yep, sounds like he sacrificed his life. Sure, he can build a new one. But his last one? Pretty much destroyed.
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I'd expect you to present both and I'd make the decision since it deals with costs. If I expected you to make decisions like that that directly affect the businesses future expenses, you'd be making a lot more money and wouldn't be contracted for 7.5 hours.
Exactly. You really should avoid doing performance optimizations without measurements that show improvement as well as provide some coverage against performance regressions.

Here's an example, Thrift (as used in Hector, a Cassandra client), had someone make a performance improvement:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-959

The discussion has a lot of "shoulds", and one measurement of latency distributions, but no measurement of typical workloads or bulk inserts. Turns out, that caused at least a 30% performance regression:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1121
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Hey everyone,
I'm working on making the easiest alternative to standing in line at the post office or UPS counter.

I'm curious if the launch page is clear and compelling enough to generate interest. What could I change to improve it?
So you're comparing a major US city of 3.4M people (greater Seattle area) to a small Canadian city of 344K (greater Victoria area)?

I've lived in several major Canadian cities during my lifetime and the homeless problem is huge, particularly in Vancouver. Universal healthcare doesn't do much if the person refuses treatment.
Is there anything planned like a small toolbar or a desktop app where i can select a project/task and say "start" and "stop"? That is what i am missing at most time tracking apps. until now we have not found the perfect solution for tracking time in a marketing agency.
They can be forced to change their code, affecting their endpoints, and acting as a wiretap yes. But in the OP's view he said it was an Open Source protocol, which wouldn't get a lot of "forced/secret patches" because it's too easy to see.
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That's why it would need to be open source and available for any security researcher to go looking around.

The reason I chose Yahoo, was that they have the marketing clout and the brand to pull this off. This needs to be something that really replaces email, and kicks in into obscurity. Otherwise it is just another hacker tool used by a minority of privacy conscious geeks like us.
I think in general "encrypted email" refers to end-to-end encrypted email which of course does not have that problem.
I wish Hacker News had more articles targeting Enterprise software. T

I'm involved w/ enterprise startup and I've found a lot of things like MVP, feeder landing pages, etc. just don't apply for customer acquisition. We have a lot of issues with targeting the software at the users, but needing approval from other people...

But thanks for this article.
This is politics, if you want to win you have to play the game.
What's the use of saml or ws-federation if you can't protect it?
Once you have done this outing and shaming, what do you expect to do? Burn the engineer or contracting agency at the center of the town hall? Have a fifties style whisper campaign where you refuse to go to their cocktail party?

Apart from the fact that it vaguely sounds discriminatory, I don't see what you could achieve on a practical level.
That hasn't worked out so well for the Jabber protocol so far, and its federated. We probably need something simpler with OTR built into it.
If you don't like the conversation then leave.
I've taken a few minutes to update Profiling Atherton with the most recent month's worth of data from Menlo Park, the city just south of Atherton. Lots of confiscated cars, but the ethnic mix is much closer to what you'd expect in Silicon Valley.
You are exaggerating a bit, aren't you? The story is quite directly related to him, so what's wrong with asking about his opinion?
correction: > no matter how many [lawyers] we place around them

A CEO/Chairman hurting a public companies profit via protest against NSA would result in shareholder lawsuits. Another good example of the the legal constructs around corporatism and public stock markets hurting the inherent protectionism from abuse free markets offer society.

Corporatism often prevents large companies from acting morally, whether by being protected from real repercussions for acting maliciously via being a single legal entity (resulting in mass settlements not individual employee liability) or their legal obligations to only care about short-term profits (post-IPO), not long term gains or societal benefit.
Norway is in EEC, and it volunteered to implement the directive, at the bidding of Arbeidspartiet.

(I live in Norway)
Also an Australian, Costco is also a single location here, 20km away. My house travels out there once every ~3 months for everything and spend ~$500

The only things we really buy from the supermarket are week to week things like meat etc.
"Can we call it a police state now?" is a question, and one that by its nature should be asked before the answer is "yes".
Most low-level C++ projects (including Webkit and Gecko) don't use C++ exceptions.
That is weird, chrome on win7 is doing fine, i am gonna install an XP box, thanks for the notice.
Jurassic is just confusing, simply putting 2004 would be a lot more useful.
I upvoted you for the general sentiment and the not-common-enough use of "effecting" as a verb...but I think privacy is too big for any single organization. Keep in mind that the hardest hitters...such as Google, who was instrumental in pushing back against SOPA, are themselves pushing the commercial boundaries of what people are comfortable with in regards to privacy.

I think it's better to treat privacy as a multi-faceted issue worth the time of several organizations. The First Amendment has been defended by various numbers of journalistic and religious organizations as well as the ACLU...There is some overlap, but each organization fights best within their specific domains.
this is a questions asked quite often and i guess there is only one answer: what do you want to achieve? Do you want to make Web Apps, Mobile Apps, Desktop Apps, Games,... there are so many different directions you can go, that you should first answer the questions WHAT and then answer the question HOW and not the other way around.
We're talking about metadata here (who talks to whom), not the content of messages.
Reading the original post and now this, I am making up my mind about NEVER doing anything as a favor.

I am kind of involved in a college project. It's not about money but after working on their website for a month or so, these guys had trouble even giving a link back to my portfolio.

Some people really don't have conscience. I hope you get the payments.
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This doesn't negate the fact that Toms makes a shitty product that fall apart easily, especially in the 3rd world.

This actually isn't a fact, it's an opinion. After all, what makes something a "shitty product?" If we are measuring value based solely on build quality, I have to tell you that most designer shirts you pay $70+ for in the mall fail this test, while polyester shirts that go for $14.99 at Wal-Mart will probably last you most of your adult life. While we're at it, try sprinkling a few drops of water on your MacBook keyboard then take it to your local Apple store and see how much they stand by their build quality when it is determined that you will need a new logic board in your $1400 computer.

Quality is a subjective matter. Who can say that somebody who feels good about their purchase of some horribly made shoes shouldn't if they like the way look and the way those shoes make them feel when they take them out of the box and put them on?
There is an public announcment: http://blog.koding.com/2013/08/koding-is-public/
One constant piece of advice I give to people starting out in IT and software development, never work for free.
Sorry, I have to speak up for Mr. Stallman here; that is not correct. Free software is Free as in Freedom with the explicit goal of protecting the users' rights and liberties. FSM is NOT simply an "open source movement".

This is why rms gets up in arms when people describe his views with the phrase "open source".
Reading this is super interesting...ever heard of a Consent to Assume Online Identity Form?
Show HN: Don't just monitor performance. Analyze how it affects sales.
Just in your example there's already a problem. If you don't use something like OAEP padding (PKCS1 v1.5 padding has been proven to have issues) then you're vulnerable to attack (see: Bleichenbacher http://www.bell-labs.com/user/bleichen/papers/pkcs.ps).
I'm not sure if it was a "show" versus "tell", but the biggest insight came at the start. Someone who steals from his last company to create a new one isn't going to treat people well. They're appropriators (or looters) rather than creators. They see value as a zero sum game and try to keep it all to themselves. People rarely sell only half their soul, and one sign of an ethics violation is usually a sign of many.

So while one moral of the story is "Get your equity in writing", another more important one is "Don't do busy with shady people."

All that said, it sounds like the author got good experience and wisdom out of it. Building a foreign technical subsidiary is great for the resume. Learning the pitfalls of dealing with unethical people is great for the next one.
This is silly. If I'm a shareholder in Y!, I don't want them wasting time/money on something like this right now. Honestly, the majority of the population doesn't care about the government email tracking or what-have-you. A very vocal minority seems to care, for now, but your average accountant / builder probably didn't spend 5 minutes caring. If Y! did do something like this, I doubt it would last--just not enough people care to make it profitable.
Serious question: Could they build their IT center on big boats like casinos?

Sure, the traffic would still go through US, but that can be encrypted (with something better than SSL).
The main difference you will probably notice pertains to addressing the computer memory, through pointers and through manual memory allocation/deallocation.

In a broad sense, Java is pretty similar to C. I think if you wanted a perspective-altering experience, learn something like Lisp or Haskell. But I agree that there is value in learning C. You should probably learn both C, and Lisp or Haskell or Scheme or whatever functional-ish language looks interesting.

(This is with the assumed goal of getting an overview of programming language styles. If you have specific application-building demands, then language choice may be more dictated by that, e.g., Objective-C for iOS.)
The US patent office does not care/have the resources/have a clue how to enforce that patents are non-novel and/or obvious. It is an entirely corrupt system driven by a mass of lawyers, all encouraging their clients to build patent portfolios for "defence".

If you want to combat a patent, the best stage to do this is during the application stage, it's far harder to combat it after it's approved.

For those that aren't aware of the StackExchange patents site [0], this is the best site I'm currently aware of for collecting evidence against patent applications. I would encourage you to actively seek out this patent application, start a thread on it and submit evidence against it.

The US needs a cultural change on patents, to make it clear that the patent system is corrupt and companies that file software related/non-original patents as an excuse to not having to innovate any further/at all need to be shunned.

[0] http://patents.stackexchange.com/
It's definitely becoming clear that the US stopped being a suitable country for companies interested in providing such services.
I would join this, and be as militant as the NRA.
Maybe you missed the point where I said I was heavily involved in sales (actually I was both a project manager and a sales engineer). When you work with sales, it's not unusual to have part of your salary tied to those.
I guess desktop apps would be the answer. What do you recommend?
It's a bit of cynical remark, but I'll attempt to answer.

So when I started the job, I had this idea in my head of what the company was going to be, and what my role should be. It is that idealistic vision that I was attracted to - and when reality didn't fit the idealistic vision that's when I became upset.

Did I sabotage the company from the inside? Possibly - if you could call it that - for only a month or so. I didn't want my friends to see me like that, that's not my nature. So I quit. It was his choice to then force me to stay for three months - but you have to consider that I went looking for my own replacement, I trained him, I trained thrity staff, I learnt the language, I made friends, I improved the company, I was proud of what I had built.

I could not, in all good faith, put the things I care about at risk.

I must confess though, that initially I did want to learn about the magic and courage involved in starting your own company. And I learnt very quickly that John was not the best mentor.

As a final note, eight year have now passed, and during that time I have, in my career, become well known for taking on other peoples problems, championing their ideas. I think being treated unfairly makes a person more ethical and empathic towards the struggles of others.

So my point is, you couldn't be further from the truth.
"it's significant that the NSA's massive XKeyscore program runs on a Linux cluster."

Is there an option in Creative Commons or GPL to exclude government use?
Governance by Algorithm
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The real numbers have no relevance to calculus? Is there a way of doing calculus without real numbers that is simpler? What are you talking about?
> And they very consciously divorce the idea of employee compensation from the value of the work an employee does.

And that right there is my problem with management people. Most see people are "resources", and that too equal resources. What they fail to understand is that everyone is different and some people will be better than others.

I'm still in college but the mindset here seems like any company. All students are treated similarly and have same rules. These rules are designed to get an average output. People who are lower than average get a bit of benefit because of this but people who are above average get dragged down in the process!
How do you power the data centre?
We're on the verge of running a Selenium Grid server with a ~1000 Selenium nodes connected to it.

I'd like to see how their offering stands up to that.

(Actually, I don't know how Selenium will stand up to that... maybe I should have left this comment until I've got the results!)
Most governments already control alcohol and tobacco sales "to protect the children". It seems like the UK government thinks they can make the argument that pornography falls in the same category. TV, movies, and YouTube already restrict pornographic content as well, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of strong arguments against that.
The problem here isn't updateCachedWidth(), which indeed modifies a member variable, but deviceScaleFactor(), which doesn't. Since LLVM doesn't infer that deviceScaleFactor() leaves m_cachedWidth unmodified, it forces a reload of m_cachedWidth after the function call in case the value changed.
i can see the advantage over having to set up my own vm or os install... but by targetting an os which, to a very close approximation nobody uses, I can't help but wonder what their target audience really is.

nobody who wants to make software for a living i'd imagine... although i guess it could work really well for web hosting type stuff where the crippling choice of OS is irrelevant?
This is one metric of many. Entrepreneurship is just one path out of business school. And it's a tough one considering that most MBA students have a lot of debt, so unless they get traction and funding while in school, they're stuck on the other side. Or they go to already funded startups.

I would like to see entrepreneurship positioned as an alternative career path to consulting, banking and marketing, but to call it the primary metric is just as silly as counting how many alums go into any other individual field.
Ha - yeah. I had a wtf! moment and started searching online. Turns out there IS a Yahoo OMS

Sadly its a Online Marketing Summit:
http://www.onlinemarketingsummit.com/blog/
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I wish I could say something in defense to all of you Snowden-zealots who would kiss his feet when in eyesight - but I am affraid of getting karma-killed again.

Don't be this naive, please.
Choosing to be formidable: Seth Godin expands on PG's idea
Yes! I hereby call on the author to at least mention weighing the strengths of various hex colors while designing the web layout.
> A multi-million dollar industry has sprung up around the OMS concepts.

Several million dollars would be a drop in the bucket of Yahoo's annual revenue.
What happens when the people you're trying to shame simply do not care about your opinion, or the opinions of anyone else?
I saw something quite similar to minimize to desktop in one of those super light linux WMs that lack a task bar.
Just out of interest, how are you compensated for this? Do you get paid a salary by Techstars, or do you get equity in the companies you help, or something else?
CQRS: Yes that's it.

OT is operational transform; the set of algorithms behind google wave/docs. A modern take is http://sharejs.org/
You have a distinction between legislative and executive in principle.

In practice, however, the tail wags the dog.
I disagree with the premise that the large scale systematic privacy violations and surveillance by on the worlds most powerful corporations is the minor threat.

In my opinion, this is the greater threat to our society, and individual criminals compromising individual email accounts is just minor criminal activity, which has always existed in one form or the other.

I believe you mistake immediacy for relevance.
Talking to people in SV, it's actually pretty common that the business people try to dump the techies right before they vest or a good deal comes in. Sometimes the person dumped has even been CTO or the only technical person and built the entire technical solution.