skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is too complicated to answer in a forum post.

The general idea is that no number appears in the code as-is, instead all numbers appear encrypted. You have to have a way to do "encrypted multiplication" - take two encrypted numbers, and get the encryption of their multiplication, without decrypting them in the process. Also for addition. This is called fully homomorphic encryption (finally discovered several years ago, by one of the authors of this paper). This paper builds upon that result.

Edit: also, see here for a simpler technique that seems to work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6160742
Cars generally cycle the batteries far more gently, as their weight and size constraints are far less tight. 10-year-old Priuses have NiMH batteries chugging along just fine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius#Battery_life_cycle), but most 10-year-old gadgets are in pretty bad shape battery-wise.
But surely their should be some dis-incentive for committing a crime?

Supposing their existed a "rehabilitation pill" and taking it instantly prevented someone from committing the same crime again. What if someone then killed your child or partner? Would you be happy for them to take the tablet and be immediately released?
I disagree with your last paragraph and caution anyone reading to think hard about your statement. Working with a co-founder who isn't as committed as you are will be trouble from day one. Ultimately you will end up with disagreements about everything from equity to product direction and it will be difficult. I'd go alone before working with someone I was dragging along.
I think you mean "inevitable discovery."
Is it just me or is the second image ("Happy Birthday Nana") nothing short of amazing? It seems we are crossing the uncanny valley.

This will make it really hard to distinguish manipulated/generated photos in the near future. Wow.
Does this not fall under the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
I think (repeating another comment) you've misread the Reuters story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6160632
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Hopefully, but maybe not:

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=6160671
From what I gather in this explanation, if the DEA has unusable evidence, they can still springboard it to finding evidence that would be admissible in court? Is that true?

So, effectively, despite the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine, there isn't real, persistent transparency going back more than a step or two in the evidence gathering process. It's more like judging immediate evidence on its own, without questioning the steps that lead up to its (otherwise valid) finding?
Robbing a bank physically is different than online fraud.

For one, you're not holding people at gunpoint with the threat of violence.
Most web hosting packages will include an email server, or have it as an option. Some include good anti-spam packages. If you want email @ a domain that you host anyway, it's a decent option with low/no maintenance required on your part.
Cocotron has been at this for a while:

http://www.cocotron.org/

(EDIT: Gave Cocotron an 'a' it didn't deserve!)
I co-founded a startup that lasted for 4 years. Once we wound that down I began doing side projects on my own or with another friend of mine.

In the end I decided that I'm better off going at it alone. Mainly because I had a hard time finding someone else to join me at the same commitment level (and that's with a side project).

So I quit my job and started to bootstrap as a solo founder (this time with a wife, two kids and single income --- mine). I brought on a co-founder about 6 months in to fill out a few gaps that I didn't have the experience or time to do myself. Not having enough revenue to pay them meant equity was the only collateral I could offer.

Fast forward 2 years and I can say that without a doubt, if I was a single founder I'd probably have thrown in the towel by now.

And my co-founder is remote! 1/2 way around the world. So as the post suggests, it's harder but I don't think it's impossible.

Obviously it depends on the individual and the business. All I can say is that the value my co-founder brought to the table was different than what I originally thought. The emotional support greatly outweighed what I thought I was bringing him on board for.

If I had picked the wrong co-founder it would have been much worse than not having one at all.
A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. "You'd be told only, ‘Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle.' And so we'd alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it," the agent said.

I live near a section of a federal highway that is well known to be used for transporting drugs from New York to Vermont. For the past few years, I've been struck by the number of arrests that always seemed to start with a traffic stop. Given the daily traffic volume of 60-25K vehicles per day, I had always wondered how the relatively few officers covering a wide area could be so effective.
You should probably spell check your website...
"awnsers"
Here's why Perl is great: http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol1_1/tpj0101-0002.html
Assuming the document has not since been converted by anything that might have re-compressed the images.
It is currently far more expensive. Currently. Look at the prize to synthesise DNA, which has crashed like there is no tomorrow. If these prizes follow that then in a decade or two this will be cheaper than real meat.
Yes. It's a grey area. I happen to think it's on the black end of the spectrum. But it's not literally black; they're not introducing secret evidence, or even using secret evidence as the probable cause basis to effect searches.
There's something a bit unsettling about the future when you discover that drug offenders have lately been tracked down and charged by the same means used for terrorists. But let's talk about the present. Would you find the scenario below possible in this context and, if so, somewhat worrying:

1. There's nothing that special about drug crimes. It's reasonable to suspect other enforcement agencies are plugged into the NSA databases as well.

2. Let's say that, through complete surveillance of his communications, the Anti-X agency discovers that John Smith has probably committed crime X. However, there is no other way to obtain evidence on the matter.

3. As many people in this country, John Smith also happens to be a drug offender. Anti-X arranges for the DEA to be at precisely the right spot and time where the offense occurs.

4. John Smith is now in jail for interrogation, and there's a search warrant for his home to (also) look for the evidence that Anti-X was missing before.
I think they can use this for game DRM, if the game can contact the vendor's server, and request a confirmation that this customer account purchased the game.

Nowadays, skilled reverse engineers can modify the game code and "skip over" the calling-home part. With obfuscated code, this isn't possible.
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Looking at the GoLang graph : I have to admit that I'm a little surprised to see so much of that interest originating from China (Shenzhen specifically).
I agree with your first statement, yet we have many avenues open to us still before all is lost, but that window is closing fast.
I think your (the author) ability to be a solo founder will probably be a great deal more successful simply because you've been a founder before. That's a huge leveling of the learning curve. I don't think I could recommend going solo to a first-time founder though, unless it's someone who has capital on hand to hire people to fill out the team.

Lack of skills: Don’t work with people that don’t bring unique skills (applicable to a startup) to the table. Having someone like this in your team will down the mood of the other teams members that are providing value. There is one exception to this: Bring on smart people that are willing to learn whatever it takes. Be particularly wary of people that have a certain skillset, but are not motivated to learn new skills relevant to a startup environment.

That's really great advice, but not really a reason to go solo. It's just a reason to pick your partners carefully.
Dealing with competitors without turning your product into Mr. Tumnus
I think zw meant that the Cocoa binaries can't be distributed with Darling. That's not a major problem for users that have a copy of OS X. Darling can allow users to supply their own.

The potential issue you refer to would also prevent implementing the Cocoa API with Qt.
"I think there are plenty of ObjC fans, /but/ ObjC /developers/..."

Note the emphasis.
I think it'll be interesting to see that even if we do get a rethought Apple TV or even an 'iWatch' in the near future, will that actually spur any real change in the way the company is perceived.

A lot of people have said something along these lines so I won't try to quote anyone directly, but there's that saying that when a new product/idea in the same space comes out, it not only has to be as good as existing services but it needs to be significant margin better to really make any noise.

Maybe contract deals are what's holding up a re-released Apple TV but even if were to say include Siri integration would those two things be enough to make it radical. In terms of any watch, Apple is notorious for a slow and small feature set (but obviously very well thought out) so I could really columnists/bloggers yawning at its release too.

Bottom line I'm not even convinced new products will spur any changes to their narrative, I think the author hit the nail on the head that Apple is no longer an 'underdog' in any respect and now they're held to unrealistic standards (despite still being very profitable).
Do you honestly believe that you can find two people with exactly the same level of commitment? You can't pretend like there aren't external factors that affect that - families, other opportunities, etc. One can be 99.9% and one can be 99.8%, but that's still different.

I'm getting downvoted like crazy, but I still hold to that statement. You will never, ever, find the absolutely ideal circumstances, but that doesn't mean you should just give up on working with other people.
> The Stanislaw's comment doesn't invalidate what I said. Other people spending this same hours will not achieve the same as him. Also, I spent many years thinking in algorithms and developing software daily for more than 10 hours straight without having big achievements in the genius sense.

Maybe you're working on the wrong projects? Or maybe you're just complaining about fame (eg person x's achievements rewarded them with more fame than person y's achievements). In any case, you're digressing from your original point which I took objection too.
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A better approach surely would be to wrap inotify/osx fsevents
If they robbed a bank physically they'd have to have visited the U.S. and it's clear what country they committed a crime in. It is not as clear-cut when they have never been to the U.S.
What you think?

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20130730-705372.html

Banks here are breaking their own profit record for several years in a row, while the economy is almost in recession (last year 0.9% in growth, inflation currently 6.7%, also credit card rate is around 450% year.

Last time I had to take a loan with the bank (instead of temporary negative balance) I paid 100% on a 6 month loan.

The negative balance pays 10%/mo of your current balance (thus if you never repays it, you get a rate of 300% year)

EDIT: "what do you think?" is a real question, I don't have data on other countries to know how much loan banks profit there.
I'm not sure why that is a counter argument. The point I'm making is that I can use Foundation's Grid with a minimum of extraneous container divs levels which I prefer. Bootstrap has a minimum of two.

Bootstrap's grid styles use negative margins and other weirdnesses that make them awkward if not used exactly as they were intended to be. If that's fine for what you're doing great, but I found Foundation's grid easier to use as a result of it's different design.
I agree, and the prospects for a sturdier pipeline between NSA and the DOJ is I think a good reason to ratchet programs like this way back.

(I'm less disquieted by the idea of DEA being at the right place at the right time; if that was the only implication of this program, I might be less bothered by it.)
I just figured I'd throw this out there to see if anyone has any insight on it: Do you think certain personality types are probably better off being solo founders? Maybe loners, or people who aren't people persons. Or maybe ADHD types who have trouble keeping relationships on an even keel? Or maybe the Steve Jobs egomaniac, force-of-will types (although, I know he started w/ a co-founder).

Obviously, it could depend on the nature of the startup, in that it could be strategically important to compensate for one of those "weaknesses".
I would put the RS versions of the 5 & 6 in luxury and probably all the RS sort of qualify as would some of the S models (not the S Line thats just trim)
Android fragmentation - do you want to support 2.3 or not? After that it's about as annoying as responsive design is - possibly less for certain apps.

The challenge is of course backporting an app developed for 4.0 or frontporting an old app in the new API. That is definitely a pain.
One of the principal mechanisms used in the USA to maintain its system of oligarchy / tyranny is distraction of the population via "culture war" issues and identity politics.

As long as people vote based on who they'd rather have a beer with, or based on issues like homosexuality and religion, they will not vote based on issues of social justice, economic well being, or against the politics of corruption.

The culture war and identity politics are a classic divide and conquer technique. It's used because it works.
I had the same experience when I stopped using Opera and didn't have the RSS reader anymore. I do miss reading webcomics regularly, but the productivity gain is nice.
The whole point is that if they physically robbed a local branch of an USA bank, stealing money of USA citizens and say, even killing USA citizens in the process, then they wouldn't be extradited nor prosecuted for USA laws. And, by the way, even armed robbery w. killings (IMHO far worse than any amount of theft/fraud) would still carry less penalty than the 67 years currently requested, barring serious aggravating circumstances.
That's not really the underlying cause. The US has a much higher (as in: an order of magnitude higher) incarceration rate than the Nordic (or some Central European) countries.

But the same cannot be said of crime rates. Crime rates in the US tend to be higher, but not nearly that much higher and not across the board.

What sets the US apart that leads to high incarceration rates is primarily harsh sentencing (longer sentences, fewer suspended sentences, high minimum sentences, a general focus on retribution over rehabilitation, the "felonization" [1] of everything under the sun).

[1] http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.asp... [2]

[2] Yes, the book is a bit sensationalist, but there's plenty of truth to it. See, e.g. the Kiera Wilmot case [3]: What she did wouldn't have even risen to the level of a misdemeanor in most Western European countries.

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/kiera-wilmot-lawyer-hoping-to...
I don't think you should have more than five years for physically robbing a bank (assuming that's the only charge against you) either. Again, that's just my opinion. But I'm being consistent - whether or not it happened online is meaningless to me.
The crimes being committed here by the DEA are equivalent to the following:

- Suspect is detained and harshly interrogated, rights violated, possibly tortured.

- Suspect signs confession

- Suspect is given a drug to wipe his/her memory of the torture/abuses.

- Suspect is convicted of crime he/she committed.

The specific law that is being violated is different, but the effect is the same, since one could argue that if the drug the suspect was given wiped away any memory of the mistreatment, it might as well not have occurred.
> Perl 6 finally has a stable release

Wait, when did this happen?
Almost all of these things apply to marriage as well, minus the bits about exit strategy. If you think committing to the same direction for 2-3 years is difficult, it's not time to get married yet!
Most apps aren't really useful without a data connection of some sort, games might be an exception but then most of them would need advertising revenue to continue development and ads require an internet connection.
"Go to the south side of Chicago"... That makes me laugh, I now live near Guadalajara, Mexico and it's safer here, even with cartel violence, than in Chicago.

Have a look at the majority of these addresses for the 2013 murders in Chicago: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Ak3IIavLYTovdHYxbDI...

Here's a map for the 52 murders in Chicago in just July 2013: http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/date/2013/7/

I'd love to increase cultural ties, however from a risk-assessment standpoint, Chicago is less safe than being a soldier in Afghanistan: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/16/chicago-homicide-ra...
I have looked at the official studies some time ago.

The most recent investigation I looked at was
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report.html which, based on academic studies suggest that 22% of male prisoners have been pressured or forced to have sexual contact against their will while incarcerated.

That report also noted that official figures often massively under-report incidence of abuse.

Anyway, you only have to watch US comedies, including those aimed at young people to see that prison rape is considered a joke, and a tame one at that. That's what I mean by 'cultural acceptance'.
Wait, what? No, it's not like that at all. It's bad for an entirely different reason.
> Sorry. This is the company whose name is the equivalent to the verb "to copy". If plugging in an obscure codec from some place and checking if one picture looks "OK" is their idea of QA then they deserve all the ridicule and lawsuits stemming from this.

You need to put your corporate drone hat on. How many people are involved in making a Xerox copier? How many parts are reused from the previous model? How much software is reused?

My best guess is that a large number of components in a copier are engineered in isolation. The image compression people responsible for implementing JBIG2 probably don't even care about correctness beyond some threshold ("not my problem"). The people responsible for ensuring correct copying may not even know that an image compression exists, and even if they do, may not understand the technical nuances of JBIG2, and also may not even have the right documents to find an instance of such a problem.
The pull request could be done "stupidly", which may fix most problems (your 80% value), and for cases where it wouldn't "just work" the author could just reject the pull request but still be made aware of the problem.
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Building a solid team does not require one or more co-founders. It is entirely possible to start a company on your own, hire employees/contractors and then recruit for key leadership positions.

Mark Suster's Co-Founder Mythology (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/05/09/the-co-founder...) and comments at Startup Grind earlier this year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHgGUFjK3c) are well worth reading/watching.

Of course, if your goal is to have a great team on paper so that an investor will feel comfortable writing you a check, let's call the exercise what it is: building a team that might build a business once it has funding. That's not building a business.
This is admittedly anecdotal but: I made the jump from Perl to Ruby, and I can tell you I miss the quality of CPAN.

Yes you're right that CPAN has older stuff in it compared to say rubygems.org. It also has, as a gross generalization, older programmers with IMHO more mature and thorough approach to how they package reusable code. This is a language adopted first by graybeard Unix sysadmins in the late 80s and early 90s, then by the first generation of "CGI" web programmers, then by what we'd call today "web developers."

So the fact that CPAN contains old code has tons of upsides because the CULTURE of CPAN was set by more seasoned programmers. The documentation, for example, is of generally much higher quality than in Ruby gems, typically involving a nice Synopsis with lots of pertinent examples, documentation of methods/functions that thoroughly lists params and expected output (imagine that!), and that actually discusses edge cases from time to time. There are usually tests that actually run; by default a CPAN install runs a test suite which must pass before proceeding.

Rubygems are great but unlike CPAN which began as a manual system where adding a module involved dealing with judgmental humans it's all automated, making an account takes a few seconds and there are no real standards. The culture is just different. This has benefits, like lower barrier to entry, but downsides too. I am continually appalled at the level of documentation in common gems. I guess people expect you to just look at the code, as "view source" options abound in online docs, but then you end up chasing a code path through many methods and classes just to figure out the basics. And there are often real issues with the code, too; while Ruby has plenty of users, they are disproportionately Rails devs who stay in that little ecosystem, so a general purpose Ruby module tends to have fewer eyes on it. Don't get me wrong there is lots of high quality amazing stuff in Rubygems and I'm grateful for it, but you can't spend much time on Rubygems and NOT end up seeing a general difference in standards vs CPAN.

Anyway my point is older != cruft and older != bad. Older often means "used by many people for many years, with many bugs removed and many useful features added." Here's one small example. Let's say you want to pull a query param out of an HTTP request. You don't know in advance if it is a GET or POST. In Perl the (c 1994) CGI module solves this trivially without you having to drill down into how the requ was made. In ruby there is no method-neutral way to do this, you have to reinvent the wheel, inspecting the req, sniffing method, and (if you're using any of the code suggestions on Stackoverflow) MANUALLY splitting out the params by decoding the query string and splitting on ampersand. No one has solved this problem with a Ruby module (probably because if you're using Rails, as everyone is, there's a helper for this task).

People call Perl a "read only language" but CPAN's "old" culture makes code re-use more easy than even in a more elegant language like Ruby.
I am no lawyer... but I think it doesn't work exactly this way. You just inherit the debts if you decide to accept the inheritance (you have the option to just repudiate it).

http://insolvenciapessoal.com/dividas-para-os-herdeiros/ (in Portuguese)

I live in France, and as far as I know, it works the same way. In Brazil your main residence is even protected (if you live on it)... only my 2c, but in in my opinion, US is still the scariest.
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Curious. That would explain the discrepancy, and indeed, when I look at the source it is as you say. However, when I hover over the links they are identical, including the slash at the end.

Most curious. It seems that FireFox lies.