skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about RSA/TrueCrypt... but surely a file ordered: A+B+C+D+E+F+G wouldn't be stored as enc(A)+enc(B)+enc(C)+enc(D)+enc(E)+enc(F)+enc(G). If they are able to access 20GB of the volume, what would stop them from accessing the other 40GB?
Add http://openvolte.org/ and you have a voice network as well.
> I am elitist against people who judge ideas on the scale of which one is most politically correct.

Do you really think this discussion is about political correctness?

> I don't understand how they get anything done in life without giving their brain room to think.

Then think on this. There are many models to building a startup. Most of them don't involve the YCombinator style.
I freelance, and most of these are not really pain points. About half my clients pay on Net 30 terms, so 7-10 days after the invoice is fine with me. Getting a check doesn't bother me either. It's an excuse to get out of the house and walk to the bank, so I actually I sort of prefer it over ACH. Re taxes: it's not that hard to be informed and do it yourself, but in the last year I've switched to an accountant and that's pretty nice too. I think he's saving me more than I'm paying him, even before considering the hours and hours (and mental energy) freed up from doing taxes myself. Re your last point: sure, who wouldn't want the sales process to be easier? But I'm pretty swamped with work as-is.

Here are the pain points I think about:

- How do I take a vacation? At any time I've got one (or two!) 20-hour/week projects, plus 2-3 extended relationships that require 5-20 hours/month. It's hard to spin them all down at once for 1-2 weeks. Seems like a partner would help, or even a relationship with another freelancer I could trust to be on call for emergencies while I'm away.

- Where do I go from here? I'm not sure how much further I can raise my rate for general-purpose web development. I could start doing patio11-style business value contracts instead, but I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet. I'd rather either (1) specialize in Postgres, Chef, Machine Learning, or whatever and double my rate that way, or (2) transition to an "agency" by seeking larger projects and partnering or subcontracting to get them done, or (3) get better at recurring revenue like support contracts.

I think ndcrandall has a nice idea. I could imagine a marketplace around helping freelancers trade clients, or even just help each other with overflow work.
You are attacking a straw man argument. The problem lies not with registration, but with purposeful degradation of content a la expertsexchange, for the purpose of _forcing_ registration just for viewing. I'm _not_ interested in registering into every walled garden out there on the Internet, just for the purpose of reading a result of a web search.

(All right all right, you can do the "but it's technically not content cloaking" quora astroturf dance now; but you know the saying: if it walks like duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...)
Grandparents Develop iPad App to Stay in Touch With Family
I think it's fine to post a comment like this to HN, absolutely we are better for it. However it should also be posted to a blog so it's not lost to the sands of time.
Hands-On With Chromecast: Second Screen Still Act One, Scene One
This implies that every founder is a frontman. That is a false statement and an opinionated interjection by Paul Graham. There are plenty of successful companies that have founders who have pronounced accents.
Anxiety & Panic Attacks Sufering Poem
There is a sign in dropdown form in the upper right.
Since it has a BL-4U removable battery, this will be the phone to get for those of you who are privacy conscious. It's unfortunate it has Bluetooth, but at least no Wi-Fi.

I would have normally written "privacy paranoid" but it's clear that the spectrum has been lowered from paranoid to just conscious due to current realities.
Does this also affect iOS 5 and lower? That would be really annoying, as devices stuck on that version aren't receiving updates anymore...
The Nepotism of Dictators and Managing Directors
I predict that more companies outside the US will start producing products and services that the US can't touch legally. As a result US tech firms would lose out.

It is their interest to band together now as one powerful lobby group and force a change to the legislation.
9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask
Indeed, I'm getting all nostalgic just looking at the artwork. Damn I miss Calvin and Hobbes.
That sounds like a line they'd use to try and cover up the abilities of GCHQ (or whoever) to access such filesystems. If they had the password then what prevented them from accessing the whole volume?
> "The closest analogy is a postcard, and that's the analogy that is often used."

Yes, the closest analogy is a post card. No, I do not believe it was the one used most often. Perhaps now it is, but not in the early days. Sending letters is the most common analogy I've come across and every icon, graphic, etc related to email has reinforced that view (it's even called mail). It's reasonable to assume that non-tech people using email today have based their assumption on a false analogy.

> "People just don't think their letter to Auntie Flo is as valuable as a $10 bill."

Following on from my point above, people have a reasonable expectation that their mail isn't being opened and scanned by default. That's why it's ok to send letter to Auntie Flo complaining about your boss etc. No-one is making value judgements the way you describe every time they hit 'send'.

"Whoever takes any letter, postal card, or package out of any post office or any authorized depository for mail matter, or from any letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any post office or authorized depository, or in the custody of any letter or mail carrier, before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another, or opens, secretes, embezzles, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both." [1]

[1] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title18/html/USCODE...

> "... but they can't really say they weren't warned."

When were they warned and how? By all those people from the past? Weren't those folks lumped in the same category as alien abductees and conspiracy theorists?
I think all karma systems are flawed :) But I like HN's better than most. It has been tweaked over time to fit the community.
Reading the report at its face, it doesn't say the encrypted data was obtained.

It says:

1. Goode said the hard drive contained around 60 gigabytes of data

2. "of which only 20 have been accessed to date."

3. She said that she had been advised that the hard drive contains "approximately 58,000 UK documents which are highly classified in nature, to the highest level."

4. Goode said the process to decode the material was complex and that "so far only 75 documents have been reconstructed since the property was initially received."

Let's assume (as a possibility) that:

1. It's a 60GB hard drive
2. It has a 40GB Truecrypt partition
3. There are deleted files on the 20GB partition that were not securely erased

This theory does not explain everything, but might it be plausible?
I think the people who need to hear the advice in PP aren't in the startup world. There are a lot of programmers in the world who are not in SV startups.
And better hope you can get to your destination before the battery runs out.
I'd be interested to hear how conflicts are handled with those APIs.
. . . I don't recall mentioning journalists? I also wasn't aware that journalists could unilaterally free convicted felons.

I think the state's own findings are quite sufficient. The trick is to incentivize their use without unduly obstructing other operations of equal importance.
People with children ("familial status") is a federally protected housing class. I don't think it's a protected employment class. Pregnancy is, as is gender.

In California, marital status is also protected.

IANAL of course.
Perhaps the author's arguments about the benefits of graphing calculators are legitimate, but there is no reason that this is specific to TI. TI 8* calculators seem to me to be particularly overpriced and lacking in modern features.
Was on this: http://www.history.com/shows/stan-lees-superhumans/episodes
I see all these posts about X has raised 40m, Y has raised 80m! Pool together money and start lobbying.
You should not forget, that the result depends heavily also on the listener. Probably the hardest to understand English I have ever heard has been spoken by two native Englishmen who I met last year at a hostel in Spain. Similarly in my opinion the most clear English is spoken in Germany and the Nordic countries. It's just a matter of what you are used to.
+1

A "dumbphone that can make calls, send texts, and tether" would be pretty much perfect.
That's a possibility. Google has made WebRTC encrypted by default. However, it uses RSA which still isn't the best of choices (15 years in the future, when the NSA builds a usable quantum computer).
Why Does Everyone Hate Ballmer?
80085

thats my calculator hack
Why I Quit My Job To Go Full Time On My Startup Weekend Venture
Privacy conscious? When you first start any S40 phone, it will connect to Nokia servers and push certain data like your location. You wouldn't know because the OS is proprietary. They say this is for statistics but it could be anything. You can't start the phone before you aggree to this happening or before it actually happened. I have tried, really.
I love Calvin and Hobbes, and respect Bill Watterson but the following just is not true: "Watterson sacrificed millions (probably hundreds of millions) of dollars by never licensing and merchandising Calvin and Hobbes."

Sure, you cannot buy a licensed mug with Hobbes on it like you can with Garfield or Snoopy, but Watterson has surely made millions on the many book collections of his work. And book volumes are certainly merchandising.

Absolutely, he has given up the lucrative money that other cartoonists like Jim Davis have achieved by licensing/merchandising anything/anyhow, and still more by ending the comic after 'only' 10 years, but it's probably an easier decision to forgo the tackiness when the books have done as well as they have.
I see. I started doing almost the exact same thing at one time. My goal was to create autocomplete rules. I think I used the output from the tool's --help or -? rather than manpages, and I would have been using awk and sed, since I never learned Python.

Bash autocomplete specifications are messy, but you can sidestep a lot of the mess. You're allowed to run an arbitrary command to generate the completion list. I was envisioning some kind of standard option grammar that the autocomplete program would interpret for a given tool. The grammar would be partly generated automatically, but would likely need hand-tuning.
In the Chemistry department, some of the classes taught large discussions. Perhaps a way of solving the problem while keeping 170 students, you could just have the TA's teach 2 discussions, maybe in the evening and just have it be in a large room. It might be impersonal but it keeps everyone without having to be anal about it.
This sounds way more impressive spec-wise than the original iPhone, which was called a smartphone. I think the definition of a smart/feature/dumb phones changes constantly.
Kobo Aura HD is pretty good too - high resolution ~8" screen
It's not just pitching in English. It's both listening and pitching, in both English and techspeak.

http://www.strategicmessaging.com/fluency/2013/08/30/
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"There is no need in American civilian life for these weapons of war." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine)

The next time they come for the gun owners (well, that would be yesterday: http://www.pagunblog.com/2013/08/29/obama-issues-executive-o...) you might want to consider that this set of rights is indivisible.
Getting around on the streets is no problem, everybody in sweden speaks quite good english, even paperwork from bank/government can some times be found in english. Finding a job is possible but you only have 5% of the job market that natives do (95% of all statistics are made up on the spot), and that's assuming you are looking for a position that requires higher education. Finding a basic job such as being a waitress without native language is hard.
Nice work.

FYI the flash blocker in chrome doesn't register that there's flash content on the site. I had to click around quite a bit in order to get an option to enable flash.

Better yet, you should use the Web Audio API and fallback to flash for unsupported browsers :)

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webaudio/intro/
I think this is a unique observation that doesn't really scale to other platforms: Facebook is a giant sea of rubbish apps, and the goal is to snatch attention from someone scrolling through a whole pile of their friends' updates. In this case it makes sense to post something as appealing and specific as possible to the timeline, to better appeal to a random passerby. App discovery on mobile is not drive-by: none of these apps will ever hit a leaderboard (splitting them up fragments the userbase), and they'll look bad in search results because of few downloads, few reviews, and a seemingly over-specific purpose.

That's not to mention the fact that Apple won't let you publish 200,000 apps from one account. This is like an article recommending that everyone become a bounty hunter because it was a good way to make money in the Old West: it takes advantage of a single market at a specific point in time. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook starts cracking down on this sort of spam as well soon.
Yup. Get the same plan as the Nokia user, and then use free Wi-Fi, applications, etc...
Great article. I used to ask girls for phone numbers and such by borrowing their calculators and writing a small program. For my biggest crush I wrote her a program that spit out nice quotes whenever she ran it, what a blast.

My response to the article though is that kids today have iPads and other tablets and they will delve into those they way we embraced the TI-83.
(Disclaimer: I am the author of the article)

I disagree - I believe people have an intimate enough relationship with certain meetup groups that they work as a micro-social network. To that end, it would make logical sense to have an independent application for those groups.

With that said, this strategy would not be an alternative to having a central Meetup.com application - this strategy would work in conjunction primarily to leverage the additional app store SEO boost from having thousands of unique titles. Each individual application would link right back to Meetup.com's primary application and people would have to sign up for a Meetup.com account in order to use it.

With that said, there are shortcomings to this approach. This empowers group organizers a little more than Meetup.com would ideally like and might work better for companies that white-label their services.

I still don't doubt that it will greatly increase raw traffic numbers - but maybe thats not what their priority is at the moment.
These don't seem to make use of http://openbadges.org/ unfortunately.
Is that news? For how long now do they "suggest friends on that picture"? I'm off facebook now for at least one and a half years, even before they "deactivated" (made it invisible) for EU users. Anyone thought there are facebook moderators suggesting friends in just milliseconds while uploading? I personally was shocked it suggested me standing aside in the far background - I didn't recognize myself that fast!
A drink a day keeps the sadness away?
Read: Have a you considered a dead corpse?
Anyone ever play "Dope Hunter"? Actually I forgot what it was called exactly, but it was like a Legend of the Red Dragon type game, except you were a drug dealer, and it worked on TI-81s.

I agree with the OP that iPads currently restrict most users to being consumers, rather than programmers...but I'll admit, I didn't know many people who finagled around with creating or modifying TI programs...we mostly just distributed programs, downloaded from the Internet (or BBSes) among ourselves. However, the interface of a calculator was (understandably) pretty painful, so I think some of the more industrious of us did hack our own routines for common calculations. Even that kind of rudimentary programming/problem-solving isn't possible from the iPad or its more popular educational apps.
You're right, and the reason why you're right is pretty interesting. Meetup.com's business model is built around charging meetup organizers and building the relationships between organizers and participants. So Meetup's interest is to form a lasting relationship with it's users with the aim of converting them to organizers; and single purpose distribution of apps for individual meetups doesn't help that.

I would say that the OP is looking at the wrong metric for meetup's business model; it's not mobile traffic that counts, it's contacts per user per month[1] that tells meetup whether they're succeeding at building lasting relationships.

1. This would actually be a weighted moving average of the last three months and another of the past year. Obviously, not the only metric in play.
Here's a workaround until Apple updates sudo, add the following to you /etc/sudoers file:

Defaults timestamp_timeout=0
So, in short, spam the app stores? ;)
Yeah. Thinking of something is the easy part. The devil is in the implementation.
Exactly because it's dangerous, private enterprise would be a better fit: large organizations (esp. governmental) are highly risk-averse...
if it's not about political correctness, then we need a new word for signaling one's own righteousness by being quick to take offense
The books that shaped successful entrepreneurs the most
I found the local libraries to be disappointing (Raleigh, Charlotte, Austin) in that they focus on romance and children's books. They have no interest in older sci-fi paperbacks, and certainly not in acquiring 4 cubic yards of them.

In tech towns like Raleigh, Austin, the Bay Area, I would think there'd be a market for a sci-fi/fantasy specific lending library, but I don't know if it'd pay to run it as a business.
Watterson has surely made millions on the many book collections of his work.

Sure, but that hardly invalidates the fact that merchandising can bring in an order of magnitude more money. It may be salient to point out that Watterson made plenty of money, but I have no doubt that he had the opportunity to make Schulzean levels of money, easily. Hell, I hate merchandising and even I would have bought a stuffed Hobbes.
"sprint slowly"

I must not understand what sprinting is.
The poor do tend to acquire cell-phones. They're necessary for survival and appearing that you aren't a lost cause.

So this would help many many struggling folk who do have access to the tech.

The prices for cellular service are still very high, though, and that's the biggest barrier. The poor who can't make the payments. But its not a bad idea that would help many people trying to move out and away from poverty
I think it was called Drug Wars.
Nice. The inadvertent jump to another branch can be disorienting though.

Suppose my tree structure is as so:

* a
** b
*** c
* d
** e
*** f
*** g
*** h

Gingko lays it out like this:

a b c
d e f
g
h

If I'm in the far right column, let's say I've highlighted item g and go up to item f. However, I hold the arrow key down a little too long and overshoot to item c. This causes everything to the left to suddenly jump around and disorient me.

A related issue, the layout suggests that c-f-g-h is an intended list when it isn't. It can cause readers to become confused if they're reading normally in one column and don't fully realize they've jumped to a different branch in between c and f.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugwars

I always knew it as Dope Wars, but I believe this is the game you were referencing.
Miller columns for text with a natural outline structure! I like.
The shortcuts help a lot. Thanks! Now I'm starting to get the hang of it.
I'd love to do something like this, but ideally for a shorter time (with a team), or more informally (with more people).

Renting a house in Hawaii (ideally one set up for startups; with some extra cars, high speed Internet, printer, whiteboards, etc. all set up) for a month might be a good way to do a 2-3 week project kickoff, followed by a week long vacation for friends/family.

I'd still love to find a group of (security? infrastructure? bitcoin?) startups which have a reason to be in non-USA which move to a place like NZ/HK/CH/IS/EE and operate. One of the advantages of SFBA is you can switch companies very easily. Moving for a single company to a place like Costa Rica doesn't do that.

3 months is in the range where it is long enough to feel permanent, but too short to really set things up properly, unless you have a yearly cycle among 4 different locations or something.
> He could have just said something like 'founders who cannot communicate well'

He could have, yes. But its certainly possible that such a statement would have been lying. "Communicates well" can be a hard trait to pin down. It is contingent on a lot of factors, and may vary widely between listeners. Meanwhile, "strong foreign accents", while somewhat subjective, is something that him and his colleagues can easily agree upon.

Since "strong foreign accent" is so much easier to measure, that's the trend they noticed - and thus the one he mentioned. His actual statement was clear enough that, without removing context, it is completely clear that it was not xenophobia.
http://goo.gl/TjeDJq
I don't think he necessarily argued it is specific to TI, rather just used as an example. As someone who started first coding on a TI-83+, I have to agree. The ease of tinkering is not matched by lot of modern tech products.
No. Book volumes are not certainly merchandising. Book volumes are selling his work, which was amazing.

His argument against the licensing (as I understand it) was that letting other people license it and create derivative works (e.g. mugs, shirts, and other merchandise) would dilute the integrity of Calvin and Hobbes by removing them from their context in his work.

This was something he had to fight for and I'm glad he did, because his work maintains the same potency and impact it had originally, having not been diluted by cheap merchandising over time.

This is truly remarkable. Unlike almost every other cartoon or comic character ever, there are no "good old days" or "golden years" with Calvin and Hobbes. There's just Calvin and Hobbes. 10 years of amazing work, and nothing else.