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>You're worried about family tree data? Births, marriages, deaths, etc are all public information.

Not databased and internetted they're not. The lion's share of that data on living people (not to mention dead people) is probably only on paper, and to get pieces of it often required a written request.

Not to Godwin too hard here, but that's exactly the information that the Nazis and IBM used to detect Europeans who were descended from Jews but who didn't self-identify as Jewish.
Anyone at all interested could have found out about the company, it's been near the top of Forbes list of largest private companies for years (which is even mentioned in the companies Wikipedia article):

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/21/private-companies-10_lan...

I'm guessing most people haven't heard of half the companies in the top ten, unless you're a consumer business you can be huge and almost no-one will recognize your name.

Here's a little test, how many of these companies do you recognize:

Bazaarvoice, Conduit, Klarna, nicira, Homeaway, Workday, Changyou, ServiceNow, Giant, Guidewire, DealerTrack, SuccessFactors, SourceFire, ArcSight, Popcap, ExactTarget.

They're all tech startups with valuations estimated in the billion+ dollar range. Unless you've used them you'll probably have never come across them.
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Unfortunatly a missing open source bitcoin library in Objective-C is not the reason for the missing Bitcoin client for ios. It seems Apple does not allow Bitcoin clients in the iOS App Store. http://www.bitpak.com/?p=34
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> Using the listening ports of a computer on the network to facilitate the selling of goods/services for commercial reasons.

Sounds about right. We can take it a step further and explicitly state that a customer is prohibited from living on the avails of their residential internet connection, rather than simply "facilitating the selling of goods/services for commercial reasons."

Too many things can be considered "facilitating."
But you can easily turn it off by apt-get remove ... wait ...
100gb a day is ~1% of a 1GB connection and probably completely ok with them. My guess is if your serving up multiple tb of upstream bandwidth they might have an issue but I have yet to hear of anyone doing so.
Yeah I'll go with the "gut" feeling of someone who couldn't possibly have been pressured by anyone to say anything in particular when she goes on a TV show that will be seen internationally.
I am defending certain people convicted under child pornography laws, yes. I am also trying to engage in a serious discussion, ideas from which might reduce harm done to children, but you seem to have no interest in that.

Either way, you can strike "child pornography viewers" from my original comment and replace it with "prostitutes", "on-line gamblers", or any other person guilty of a moral crime. The point is that it's us vs. them because a large number of "us" are at risk of being targeted and incarcerated by "them". I have friends in jail for drug offenses, and it's very possible a lead from an intelligence agency was instrumental in their arrest. My own apartment was raided not that long ago, and I can't help but wonder if it's due to some text messages sent back in my college days, so speak for yourself when you say that they're on "our side".
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because net neutrality is about all packets being treated equally. This is a service agreement.

One is a piece of paper and the other is network technology. Can you guess which is which?
Ok. FWIW,
a) I didn't know this page existed. It was news to me that there's a place where the official details will be (or not). That's kind of interesting right?
b) It's in the title.
This puts you against Thoreau, Gandhi, and King among others. Are you sure you'd like to hold this position?
Apple doesn't ban 100% of apps, Glyph lets you send and receive bitcoins through Coinbase: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gliph/id501269250?mt=8
That literally made me laugh out loud!

I was gonna go with chainsaw.io with the tagline "fast, fun, but can fuck you up", but it was already taken!
I searched a little and apparently the evolution of a specific ability to eat meat is something that people fight about:

http://paleohacks.com/questions/56542/humans-werent-designed...

I'm not sure it's even possible to have a reasonable discussion about it because it seems tied up with the question of whether veganism is righteous or idiotic.
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Well, flash support on mobile is somewhere close to non existent and last time I checked the various flash 3D libraries (Away3d etc) the performance left something to be desired.
Wordpress on any decent shared hosting. It's very easy to set up, requires almost no maintenance, but you're still free to do anything you want to your blog.
The investigator that released the video wrote a good article debunking a lot of the claims out there-
http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/07/14/the-michael-hastings-wreck-...

Although I'd never heard the story about Charles Colson, the Special Counsel to President Nixon ordering to kill Jack Anderson, a pioneer in investigative journalism. They considered dosing his steering wheel with LSD among other things but were stopped when they were arrested for the Watergate burglary-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Anderson_(columnist)#Targe...

In 2008, President Bush gave Mr. Colson the Presidential Citizens Medal for all the good work he did after prison.

Who'd believe that a White House lawyer would order CIA agents to kill a famous journalist if those involved hadn't confessed to it under oath?
None of that has anything to do with the capabilities of Internet connected computers. Regardless of your connection speed or latency, you can communicate with any other computer that is connected to the Internet. That was the vision and thankfully it remains the reality of the Internet (despite the increasing threat).
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>Teach people it's cool to respect their privacy and people will be more careful.

There is no profit in this, and the government makes facebook privacy-encroaching look trivial, so looking to them to regulate it is a non-starter.
If they sell ads, then chances are they pass your information along to others.

Google, Apple, Microsoft, Ubuntu. At least with Ubuntu, you can disable/remove it.

Switch to Debian, or some other alternative. Privacy comes at a cost...Crappy thing with Microsoft is you are paying them to pass your info along.
HTTP Long Polling, while a little bit of a hack, works incredibly well for most cases. Add in WebSockets and WebRTC in more modern browsers, and you're able to do pretty much any realtime thing you can think of (if you design a server to support it).
Then advertise it as such:

"Gigabit Internet, in short bursts, and only if you are using your connection like a consumer (as we define the term)!"

I guess that does not have quite the same ring to it...
The rightful distinction between a political story and a story with politicians involved, yes.

This just feels part-way there, if you get my drift. I fully appreciate the focus on the details given by many here while avoiding the trap.
You need to make sure you mark every single email like this as spam. Eventually, f we all do this, they will be permanently marked as spammers.
It is not under the banner of 'open source'. It IS open source (just ask Amazon, for example).
I believe that they have been using an incremental GC since version 16.
I'm kind of shocked there hasn't been a horrified response from HN Haskell fans.
information creation should be forbidden = no servers allowed
I see a parallel to aspect oriented programming / advice. The "filters" are equivalent to aspects and "registering" them is equivalent to advising a method. The neat thing about an AOP system is that aspects are cross-cutting and can be applied to any method. It seems like this approach requires special setup (the Pipeline object).
Your privacy is our priority! I mean, it's our priority to sell your privacy.
I've read a few stories today about Snapchat mostly around the supposed co-founder suing for a slice of their pie. I swear I've never heard of it before today. And their website is just a picture of two women getting electrocuted while taking a picture of the sun.
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> Because every group you've named has the same overarching goal - to keep people free and safe.

This statement sounds hopelessly naive to me. Sure, those groups say they work to keep people free and save, but their track record with those goals is tragically abysmal. In fact, there is mountainous and credible evidence that their activities are accomplishing the exact opposite of their stated goals (see the history of intelligence activities in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the rest of the Americas and familiarize yourself with the phenomenon of 'blowback').

Additionally, even if we take them at their words, their efforts at secrecy prevent us as citizens from any kind of meaningful oversight.

> Pretending like the intelligence community is some kind of evil monster is a great way to get ignored by the intelligence community, and for good reason.

Given that the intelligence community ignores the questions and objections of the very powerful - our Senators and Represenatives - how is anything I say going to effect who they ignore or pay attention to? Oh noes, they're going to ignore us even harder! What are we going to do?!?!
I had to uninstall updates (the option where disable normally is), and then I could go and disable it, weird. Thanks though, disabled and uses about 1/6 of the space of the updated one :)
Remember the good old days? Maybe they weren't so good.
You can annotate statutes and regs on PlainSite, and you can link them to case dockets:

http://www.plainsite.org/laws
Looks like the company was Tilcon.
Not in the current stage of FxOS, since Gaia (the UI) seems to fail to deliver anything 'new' to a plain consumer.

For FxOS to really stand out in developing countries it would require a lot more than what it is providing now. In my opinion, since we are partly already doing communications for free trough Facebook and Twitter, something like P2P connections between the FxOS devices does sound doable for me, both for text and voice. In addition, if you could implement something like Twilio for actual calls it would strip down costs both for mainland and international calls. For reference, where I live calls trough Twilio are six to sixteen times cheaper than what my carrier can provide. This way, you would also avoid the need to sign a contract with a carrier. I believe that this form of carrierless phone would appeal to the crowd the FxOS is trying to reach.
"Do people at Microsoft ever talk to anyone outside their own groups?"

From friends of mine who have worked at / are working at Microsoft, sadly this is a fairly common question, and the answer is "no" more often than you'd hope. Hopefully the new re-org helps them, because they desperately need to be rowing in sync.
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I disagree that there's no profit potential in it a privacy-focused social network, but a lack of profit potential doesn't mean a social movement is doomed. The anti-smoking campaign wasn't designed to fatten a bottom line, it was designed to create a positive social change, and it worked.
Yes, but you can export iOS and Android apps with Flash. The iOS browser still does not have support for WebGL.
That's not our culture today. That was the culture 29 years ago.

Her reaction and enjoyment at a later time is immaterial: It's rape (or sexual assault, depending on jurisdiction) to have sex this way.

Rape and sexual assault are something you can pick out before you engage in them.

>it's a fun movie and not a manual for life.

It certainly can be a fun movie and have misguided lessons for people. Many old pieces of art do this, but are still enjoyable in other places. That said, the bad parts should still be pointed out clearly as bad, even if it taints enjoyable experiences of our youth. They aren't harmless. They normalize this crap and convince young fools this type of thing is fun instead of criminal.
If you think that you can set up your own node in a p2p social networking site that keeps your data on your own box and gives you control over who accesses it, and that since it uses negligible bandwidth it would be fine, I think you're wrong. The point of banning servers is to prevent competition with other services. They want you on a business connection because they believe if you are offering data to anyone that you should be monetizing it, and if you are monetizing it, they want to be guaranteed that they can take a percentage of your revenue.

We're facing a very near future where MOST employees could out-compete their employers by going independent and selling their skills online. The ban on servers guarantees this can never happen to any degree that threatens the status quo. If it did grow to that scale, ISPs would just force such people to get business connections, meter their traffic and estimate the persons revenue, and raise their prices so that an independent worker would have the same overhead as a company that has to maintain a physical building, executives, etc, etc.
But how much can others fill in the "blanks" of your shadow profile compared to FB ?
I agree, just pointing out that most people don't think like this. Even people who have read the chapter called "Your Work Is Not Your Worth" from David Burns' classic Feeling Good book about depression can have serious trouble grasping the fundamental fallacy at play in associating the worth of a human with their actions, achievements, and bank account.
Looking at the code for the 0.1.0 release, it looks like you were using parsec as opposed to attoparsec (which typically has better performance). About virtual tables, I'm not exactly sure of what you were trying to do, but the usual solution to having different kind of stuff you want to put in a single collection is to just use a sum type - though it assumes you know in advance what kind of things you want in your collection, or at worst, use existential types. But the FFI question is a good point.
Are these generated on-the-fly or when the image is first uploaded?
" Just don't tell me what I can do with my bandwidth that I bought."

What? They absolutely can do that.
actually, I'm wondering if something like this could fit the bill for a HIPAA compliant medical communication system?
So basically he's concluding, having written some Haskell that he's not confident enough to maintain/improve a large project in the language?

Seems fair enough to me really?
This is one step away from identifying your "pirated" songs and movies, and then sending the data over to RIAA/MPAA, and (if they're really insane) a few steps away from allowing DCMA's on those files, and deleting them from your PC. Then Richard Stallman vision of the future would be complete.

Think it's not possible? They were already blocking TPB links in MSN a year or so ago, but thanks to backlash I think they reverted that.

Oh, and I won't even go into the many ways this data could be given to the NSA - your local data. Plus, your documents now get saved by default in Skydrive.
Given that a large number of founders are engineers, it would make sense that founders want to talk with designers over engineers--it's a critical skill that they may lack and for which they have an immediate need. The remainder of founders likely come from the business category, which would explain the low numbers there.

The article says that they made a best effort to bucket each group based on LinkedIn profile. It's not clear how the overlap between founder status and the other relevant groups was handled. I seems that it would make sense to break the founders group out to a separate category.
You expect people to read?
They did:

"non-commercial purposes"
This is pretty much how my "programming class" goes (it is an junior college intro to microcontrollers course). We usually start with a fresh OS install, Linux, VirtualBox, Windows VM, a bunch of other stuff, lots of hand-holding, step-by-step list. It is sometimes a very annoying disaster. There are always a few do-overs, sometimes from the clever ones, usually though it is the ones who are marking time.

Show them what a file is (look at it with a hex editor). Then work through the first couple chapters of K&R. Some scripted tasks. Try to get them to notice a little bit about what's really going on. Try to get them to understand the work flow (write, compile, test, etc). Show them some common pitfalls with data types, integer division, etc. Then on to "blink" with an Arduino, (working out the bugs of introducing hardware as we go). Work through a few examples, of increasing complexity. Start working on examples with external hardware. Then they propose an individual mini-project. We keep working on Arduino stuff, eventually involving serial comms with the device via Python, or Java (Processing) while coaching them through their mini-project. Also do some, data logging, plotting their data, pushing data out to the web (Pachube/Cosm/Xively).

Several times during the semester, students will be given a task, but not given any direction (at least not at first) on how it is to be done. Some students do exceptionally well. Some "A" students wind up with their first "B" or "C" because the format/structure is completely foreign to them. Others fight tooth and nail against the format, and probably against some of the other things I do that they were not prepared for.
I've been thinking a lot about starting a fiber ISP in my hometown and this is a big issue that's come up.

I don't believe in restricting what a customer can do with their connection to internet, but I also don't want to someone to consume more resources than they are reasonably paying for.

In my ideal world, I want to sell a connection to the internet that is as fast as I can reasonably deliver. I don't even want to make the distinction between 100Mbps and 1Gbps. I don't want speed to be factor. Just fast.

Is there a better way to phrase the service offering instead of 'unlimited'?

When I read this back to myself, it sounds like I want to have my cake and eat it to. Lots of contradictions in my mind.
Can you throw an event with 50 people and make money?
Its on GitHub https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js
The slight against "Canadians" is probably that the customary tip is 12% to 15% in Canada, and for whatever reason Americans tend to prefer 20% to 30% for the same thing.

It's absurd that we have tipping at all. Why is this custom rampant in some countries, and totally unknown in others?
Give an example of something that falls in a grey area.
It isn't particularly vague, see jmillikin's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6201215

Also, a moving goalpost isn't really unfair at all in this situation (Assuming it is, in fact, a moving goalpost). They have every right to make changes to their network to ensure good quality service to everyone.

ETA: If you're going to downvote, you should explain yourself.
> "... and he shares it with Facebook, then my friend has violated my privacy... not facebook."

I disagree. Your argument assumes that everyday people are aware of all the things going on with the multiple apps they install and the permissions they ask for. I'd argue that they're largely ignorant of what it means to grant something like Facebook access to your phone (contacts etc). This is because apps from companies like FB/Path/etc make it silky smooth to hand over ongoing access to such data sources and never think about it again.

People don't really understand how 'the machine' works and I'd argue that FB and it's ilk have learned how to exploit that to great effect.
I understand. It was giant corp. saying, "Do this or we drag you through court and lawyer fees." The name of the business was changed after soft launch (to accomodate Intel) but the new name was chosen before hard launch. Considering the founder was very bootstrapped, it was what it was. Not sure I wouldn't do the same in his shoes.
>You didn't really buy 1 Gbit of unlimited-use bandwidth.

Which is why they should be legally forbidden from advertising that they are slling 1 Gbit of unlimited-use bandwidth.

How hard is that? Don't advertise what you're not selling. When you say "unlimited use 1GB synchronous connection" and that's not what you're selling? That's illegal. It's called false advertising. Sure no one gets nailed for it any more, but that doesn't make it right. Advertise that you are actually selling a "restricted 1GBit synchronous connection with limits on what ports you may listen on, limits on upstream use, limits on what applications you may use on the network", etc.
I got the feeling my server was offended when I didn't order wine or a dessert last friday when I went out to a nice restaurant. F- tipping, it makes both sides of the table into jerks.
With Microsoft you can disable it too:

"Fortunately, you can turn this functionality off without much trouble"
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CloudFlare and Free Speech?
I feel that allowing Google Fiber customers to connect their own servers to the network would go against Google own interests. Google business relies on hosting their customers application and data.
No, the EFF appears to have it right:

https://support.google.com/fiber/answer/2659981?hl=en&topic=...

"Unless you have a written agreement with Google Fiber permitting you do so, you should not host any type of server using your Google Fiber connection ..."
But that's a different problem though, it exists outside of email. The meaning of "who you are" changes depending on how high/low you're on the OSI stack: sometimes it's 00:C0:C1:A4:C8:29 or 60.56.228.48 and sometimes it's anon2342foobar@yahoo.com

If they're wiretapping everything, there's no way for you to hide the fact of a communication taking place, but at least you can protect the data itself using client-side encryption.
The first example of a "good" program contains an if statement that should only ever branch in one direction.

I question whether that is a "good" program.
It's of course oversold, anything else would be an incredible waste of network capacity.

But I believe ISPs should be forced to publish in detail what their acceptable use" thresholds and limits are, and ban advertising any connection as "unlimited". Otherwise consumers have no way of accurately comparing the offers. "Unlimited but we can ban you for an unknown amount of heavy use" is designed to avoid competition via confusion.

An ISP I used was very clear about it: 100Mbit max speed, but you are throttled to 5Mbit after 3GB of traffic during 4-8pm each night.