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> The closest analogy in the physical world is a letter. We have an expectation that won't be opened. Unless educated otherwise, a lot of people transfer that expectation directly.

The closest analogy is a postcard, and that's the analogy that is often used.

> We have an expectation that won't be opened.

But you don't send cash through the mail, because you know that even though there are strict laws in place people do steal cash from mail. We expect that valuable stuff is vulnerable. We send it by courier, with insurance, with tamper-evident seals. Or we put it in a locked case and give it to an employee to take. Or we put it in a diplomatic bag.

People just don't think their letter to Auntie Flo is as valuable as a $10 bill. It's a shame they need to start protecting all their information, but they can't really say they weren't warned.
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I agree wholeheartedly, but that's like saying we should make everyone use condoms all the time to eliminate AIDS. A perfect solution that is unfortunately unfeasible.
I can agree to disagree, though it's worth noting that intellectual property law is currently under review in courts and legislatures worldwide. It follows that the meaning of "intellectual property" is, among other things, a significant political problem right now.
Yeah, I have one of those, and would miss that feature, although I've only really used it seriously once. See above/below, though.
The district 3 miles from my house in Texas believes in open enrollment, at $10,000 per child. Ha.

Look, it's all fine to buy into marketing materials and campaign promises but at a certain point in your life you need to recognize those for what they are...
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> Surely you're not seriously suggesting that the principle of privacy and the arguments for why it is a good thing do not apply in any new context?

No, I'm not suggesting that. What I'm suggesting is that you have to be honest about the argument you're making: we should take some of the principles that applied in the old context and apply it in the new context, based on sociological evidence about the parallels.

> I don't see anyone here claiming that.

But that's what it boils down to. You want to take something that is not, as a matter of fact, private, and have the government treat it as being private. You're begging the question, which is: can you reasonably expect internet communication to be private? At the purely technical level, there are good reasons for answering that question in the negative: how can you reasonably expect communication to be private when you expose it to so many people over a network that's totally not designed to keep it private? Surely mere intention can't be controlling.

When you send an e-mail in plain text over the internet, more people have access to the contents of that message than if you had posted it in a bulletin board in your office. That's the technical reality of how the internet works as a routed system.

Maybe it's the case that you want to accept that technical reality, but for sociological reasons nonetheless indulge the fiction that internet communication is indeed private. That's a perfectly fine argument to make. But you have to acknowledge that this is the argument you're making, not get outraged that the government doesn't take that premise for granted and doesn't automatically indulge that fiction.
Well FFS that makes a lot of sense.

OSX is just like, "Hey guys, if any of you happen to not need your memory sometimes, would you mind kindly letting me know and I'll go ahead and let you go at a convenient time?" Meanwhile Linux goes on a murderous rampage with unpredictable effects.
While I don't like Ryanair, this scenario isn't very likely. There will always be lots of paperwork etc. after declaring an emergency, which ultimately could end up with the pilots losing their license if it was discovered that they were repeatedly doing this.
I guess I qualify for "the monks in their monasteries" group because I'm "complaining" about the "plebeians". It isn't though because of the reasons that the article pointed out. I am annoyed most of the time because now and again the new wanna-be material keeps pushing for stupid things, or merely stupid ideas. And the worst part is when it's based on just political, and not some practical useful reasons. Of course, in time enough information gets its permit from their patience and things get better. We have to admit though - the phenomenon I'm complaining about didn't happened in '70s, '80s, or even '90s. It happened only recently, with the entrance-bar set on low. Overall, the entrance accessibility is a good thing for the industry and humanity, but the "monks" are the ones paying the price. This, I think is the other side of the story that the article is trying to tell.
While content is there, it reads like marketing text.

> Near-term trends and innovations that people can grapple with or adopt today in hopes of being well-positioned tomorrow
> Medium-term rumblings...
> Long-term visions of the future that contextualize today's fashions within the broader strokes...

As someone who is presenting at his first national conference soon, I was hoping to read through this article and get some good insight. Your list of 4 items amounts to advice that can be summed up as:

1. Old lessons applied to new technology.
2. Future-proofing your skill-set.
3. Analyze today's hard problems and share new solutions.
4. Bold, new ideas that we otherwise wouldn't make the time for.

And this can be summed up in 3 steps:

1. Present a problem.
2. Present solutions to the problem.
3. Solve the problem with the solutions.

Or, more concisely:

1. Solve a problem.

Whether the problem is an old or new problem is irrelevant. And whether the solution is old or new is irrelevant. This is essentially covered in the Angular example.

The result of solving a problem is having to describe the problem. And usually that's best done with a story.

1. Tell a story about solving a problem.

This provides context. And, everyone loves a good war story. This helps you connect (as mentioned in the connect portion of the article). Also, by telling a story, and solving a specific or specific problems, you avoid that general overview. You have to dig into specifics, because your problem was specific.

So, the shortest advice I can sum up is: Tell a problem solving story.
Hello HN, we are Musicfellas, an independent music discovery platform. In one line, we are spotify + iTunes for independent music. You can not only discover new music everyday but also support the artists you like by buying their music. Very soon, we have an iPhone app and some premium features coming out. Looking forward to your feedback.

PS: Music startups are hard. We are looking for mentors/advisors/investors/music-enthusiasts who can guide us through. Please feel free to email us [hello AT musicfellas.com]. Cheers!
Wow, just looking at the example card on that makes me realize how ridiculous MTG has gotten in terms of powerful cards. Each edition seems to get closer to a "tap to win game" card.
I stopped going to Quora long ago because the site was just to annoying to use. It felt too dictorial.
Yes I'm aware of that. I never said that one would gain access to all information simply because they have a clearance..
I've been trying to come to Finland to study. I became very interested about Finland after I saw some of the the things happening in Aalto University(Startup Saunna, Venture Garage and such). But my Residence Permit application was rejected last year and it was very frustrating. The rejection letter got lost in the mail and for the last six months my communication with the Finnish Immigration has been futile and I still don't know the reason of rejection.
I understand you might be implying the relative size or budgets of the organizations may have been obvious. But, how are/were their actual budget's obvious?
Don't know about dynamic, but a visual improvement would be to add a few pixels (less than the apparent width of a space) between the labels and input boxes---too crowded. A second improvement would be to even out the count of serif versus sans serif. The whole point of XeLaTeX is fonts of course, so they and their selection (show sample) are important.
It's odd how HN upvotes both articles about learning how to think as well as articles that claim that people are doomed to their financial circumstances because of externalities.

It's a strange schizophrenia in a community pursuing entrepreneurialism.
This is ridiculous. Does the guy running office management at the Indian DMV really need to protect his emails from NSA? Sounds like someone's brother-in-law will be getting a phenomenal IT contract.
What are the true consequences of disabling it though? What happens in the OOM situation? Or does it just not allow allocation?
I really like the design. Your logo is especially nice. There are a lot of buttons, but the interface seems to be well organized.

I got a good selection of music just from the front page. Would you consider adding a radio option that's based on a song or an artist, like Pandora and Spotify do?

Have you considered doing a variable pricing model like Amie Street did back in the day? The more popular a track or album is, the more expensive it gets. I think this is a really good model for selling independent music because it rewards all the right people in the right way. If you get an album for an inexpensive price that means you helped 'discover' that artist and you helped them gain popularity (i.e. their price goes up a little). And if you buy an album for the going market price ($9.99 or whatever) that means a lot of other people have already validated that it's good and you know you're getting a good deal. Just a thought.
The real issue is why did they have human L/P access on their PKI system. Usually unclass systems require PKI regardless of L/P. Even the DOD contracting system requires both.

And if they did not have L/P then the issue is far more concerning in that PKI was compromised.
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I think they may have gotten their data from bing in the past but these days it looks like that isn't the case.

https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/results/sources
I see that those books were published in 1999 and 2004 respectively. Does anybody how much (if any) of the advice in these books is outdated?
A budget was leaked in the 1990s that showed the NSA receiving more dollars and the CIA having a 3 billion dollar budget. I don't understand you guys saying this reversal was in any way obvious. Not only that but the leak indicates that the budgets are in flux now. It's also long been assumed that the NSA isn't running just some "big ass data center", but rather expensive cutting edge technology.
Just for the record: You don't just get a PDF. You get a real e-book too.
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200 person company here. No Exchange, but everyone uses Outlook. You want email on your phone? IT gives you a yourname.ourcompany@gmail.com (with the default password of something like ourcompany1234) and you can get emails forwarded to your phone, and then it looks unprofessional as all hell when you email bobsmith@company.com and bobsmith.company@gmail.com emails you back.

Why? Because our incompetent IT director won't allow access to the email server if it's not through a VPN. What is this, 2001?
There's a lot of bad information here on Berlin. For context, I'm a non-EU software developer that lives in Berlin and now has permanent residence, as is my girlfriend.

Germany is actually one of the easiest countries to get an immigrant work visa for. I would recommend skipping seeking asylum. There's a large enough job market in Berlin for developers that the work visa route will almost certainly be the fastest and least painful for you.

If you have a university degree, you should be able to get a Blue Card. In fact, Germany will give you a 6 month visa to visit the country and look for a job. Since you're already working remotely, finding money to support yourself during that time should not be difficult.

The salary requirement that others list here is incorrect for software developers. The typical Blue Card minimum required salary is €46,400/year, however, software development is an in-demand job ("Mangelberuf"), which lowers the minimum to €39,192/year, which is above the standard salary that you'd find for development positions at Berlin startups.

If you go the Blue Card route, you'll be eligible for permanent residence in 3 years.

If you don't have a university degree, you're still in pretty good shape. Then, in practice, what you need is a job offer (with a contract). Your residence permit, prior to getting permanent residence, will be connected to your specific job at a specific company (though in practice this just means you have to go to the foreigner's office to apply for a new visa when you change jobs). This was the old system that I went through (before the Blue Card was introduced, which my girlfriend used). Basically if you have a job offer and a reasonable salary, you're next to guaranteed to be able to get a work permit. I've never heard of a software developer having their request denied.

However, that system is not nearly as streamlined, so you actually usually need to already be in Berlin to apply for it. I would recommend finding any excuse you can to come to Berlin on a visitors' visa (language course, conference, whatever) and stay as long as you can. I think you'd be able to find a job and kick off the work permit stuff in a 2 month timeframe.

Going that route you're able to apply for permanent residence after 5 years, though it's a slightly nicer version of permanent residence than the one you get via the Blue Card route since it's transferable to all EU countries except the UK and Ireland.

Official things in Germany will naturally be mostly in German, but the startup scene functions primarily in English. It's totally normal for job interviews and work meetings / emails / etc. to be in English.

If you have questions on this stuff feel free to drop me a line. My email address is in my profile.
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This is a workaround for the near-total lack of buttons on modern phones.

If phone makers would bring back physical buttons and let users do stuff with them, pressy wouldn't exist. Of course, the trick with putting buttons around a phone is that you have to be careful about which ones you use - I accidentally hit buttons on my Samsung Focus near-constantly because they decided it would be good to include a "camera" button that instantly drops what your doing and jumps you over to the camera app. And a similar "search" face-button.

But really, a pair of unbound L/R shoulder buttons that apps could interpret however they liked (or ignore if it's a portrait-mode app) with no usage on the home-screen? Who wouldn't want that? Would be fantastic for gaming, for camera/AR apps, things like that.

But no, because suddenly everybody think they're Steve Jobs and the phones must have perfectly clean lines, we're left with nothing but hypersensitive capacitive face-buttons and if you want something that actually clicks you have to buy a Nintendo DS.
As an alternative to Bootstrap, check out Foundation (http://zurb.foundation.com)

You can get themes for both Bootstrap and Foundation by searching google, themeforest, github, etc.
Why? What's in it for me?
Ah, I skimmed over the part about asylum conditions. Not allowed to work even when he already has a telejob?
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This is a critical distinction to make. I'm constantly approached by people who want to use our platform for their business. Our platform is pretty much self service (API's,docs, pricing) but they really want to have a call with me to discuss their business and learn more about us. Ok, no problem with that. Then they say "Oh and you'll need to sign our NDA before we can tell you more about our business" Ughh! You want to tell me about your business in depth. I don't want to take on the burden of multi year lock in on data especially when I talk to a lot of startups all the time.
None of what he has released qualifies him as a whistleblower, because it is classified information (which has strictly regulated ways to handle impropriety) and the activities are not illegal (ignoring tenuous Constitution arguments).
If it was the only thing he ever released, I would agree with you. But in the context of what has been shown before, I think it fits for reasons I stated up-thread.
Nope. If I leave my front door open and you walk in off the street, it's still trespassing.

Don't laws about the physical world make a distinction between trespassing and breaking & entering?

if you hit a site once and see personally identifiable information (PII), report it and leave!

And get either ignored or sued.
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Ondo Guber: Politicians in Ondo State have continued to express mixed reactions over Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment which upheld the re-election of Gov. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State.
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Web Design is open to interpretation, and the physical Photoshop designs are merely a guide. Live data, responsive web design, and CSS authoring all play their roles in deconstructing the ideal scenario on which the design was built.
The most strange and extraordinary character in computer.
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↑Here is the strange and extraordinary character I found on PC. This character will cause many strange phenomenon on computer, especially on Windows. Really wired.

1. Copy that and pasta into Google search bar, you will see the text alignment of search bar become right to left.

2. Put it into notepad or any input area on browser. Input blank space before this character, and press backspace, or add some common characters before or after it. Many strange things happen, and you cannot remove it sometime.

Enjoy this ghost-like character!
Perhaps the real value of the leaks was to show how vulnerable the spy agencies are?
These are allocations on the size of multi-billion dollars, it can not give anybody an idea "what sorts of equipment is being bought". And the information that the NSA employs tens of thousands of employees is likewise useless.

No, this should obviously not be classified.
People who "just sign the NDA" typically value ideas over implementation.
And I want a waterproof ebook reader for reading in the bath.
I do not think your IT director is the incompetent one here.
I knew it was sent plaintext across a bunch of networks, some of which I directly paid to carry my traffic.

I did not expect that every single one was slurped and stored by my own government, particularly in cases where it doesn't even cross any national boundaries.
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Date: Friday August 30, 2013 10:08.25 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 6200

him, then shall he eat thereof.

12:45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought
of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone
thereof.

12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the
passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let
him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the
land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger
that sojourneth among you.

12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses
and Aaron, so did they.

12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring
the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 13:2 Sanctify unto me all
the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of
Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
This guy acts like he knows exactly why Facebook succeeded and MySpace failed. And sure, it all seems so predictable in retrospect. But nobody could have predicted the rise of Facebook.

Furthermore, attributing the rise to one cause (Facebook is about sharing) is simplistic and naive. Early Facebook wasn't too different from MySpace. Could have just been luck.
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I understand that if I disable plugins in my browser some pages are going to break, but a friendly warning to whitelist your site would be better than silence and Object #<error> has no method 'play' in the console :)
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Nice. I think your bookmarklet stretched the hacker news comments page.

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David Miranda was carrying password for secret files on piece of paper
> ... they now screenshot the text, blur it ...

I think the blurred text is generic.
Aside from the misleading headline, I think this is largely a symbolic move or a way to show that the government is doing something.
>>low-income people who were primed to think about financial problems performed poorly on a series of cognition tests

Wouldn't highly busy people with a lot of stuff to worry about such as startup entrepreneurs, chief level executives also perform poorly on cognition tests? Doesn't that prove that when your mind is busy at any level of Maslow pyramid, cognition tests and other games become trivia to ignore?

So IMO, these results tell more on attitude towards cognition tests than cognitive power. Au contraire, it can be argued that, people in need focus more on what matters by ignoring noise including tests. So necessity is the mother of positive change and maybe of innovation?
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It's hight time we got one.
Wait, why is it better for part X rather than party Y? both are likely to abuse the data, absent non-naive controls or incentive structures. 'take my word' or 'trust me' etc are not such structures AFAIK.
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This NDA business seems far more prevalent in the US than in Europe. I've only been asked to sign an NDA at one place I worked at for several years. After refusing they just let the idea go and I didn't hear of the NDA ever again.
> But no, because suddenly everybody think they're Steve Jobs and the phones must have perfectly clean lines,

Real buttons are expensive and they fail. Including buttons increases design cost, tooling costs, component cost, build and test cost. It increases the reject rate of the phones. It makes the MTBF worse.

It's a great idea, though. Just two buttons would be awesome, and I can imagine many uses for them.
I have saved enough to live 1-2 years. But how long it takes to get Blue card? I do have an Uni degree and how much I can expect with my around 2.5 years experience. Some of the Berlin startup contacted with me regarding my expectation, as why asking you.

Thanks.
Neither did Mrs Kildall. Just saying ;-)
The line in the background is the function towards which the neural net is expected to converge.
This looks cool! Is there or will there be an API at some point so I could potentially build native clients?
Cryptanalysis of the SIMON Family of Block Ciphers
Appears to be fixed in 10.8.5, the MSF posted doesn't work under 10.8.4 for me either.