skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FBI followed the Constitutional process of obtaining a warrant for the information of the "one user".

Not a big fan of reading the article, are you? The government's demand was constitutional for one user, and unconstitutional for 399,999 others.
For people positing hypothetical solutions to this problem, consider this exercise. Look at this case: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1254092943969513.... This is a Supreme Court case from 1899. There is a citation to a Sixth Circuit case on page 238 (after "'reserved' cities") that has disappeared in the Google Scholar copy, but appears in Westlaw as: 54 U.S. App. 723, 85 Fed. Rep. 271, 29 C.C.A. 141, 46 L.R.A. 122. Westlaw still happily pulls up this 114 year-old citation to the Federal Reporter. That's the sort of time scale legal documents need to operate on. I'm not really convinced anything on the internet as we know it today can offer permanence comparable to printing out a bunch of copies and shipping them around the country.
"Saying you’re going to do a startup or you want to be a ‘serial entrepreneur’ has about as much meaning as saying ‘I’m going to jump off a plane.'"

I'd actually posit that saying you're going to jump off a plane has a lot more meaning than saying you're a serial entrepreneur. At least most folks have a grasp of what it means to literally jump off of an airplane.
I wouldn't have clicked on a news article six years ago with "Bushighanistan" in the title and I won't do it today when a fundamental human right is derided with such a stupid name.

This country needs to grow up.
Home page not loading completely for me.
NPR interviews startup founders
Did you have a good time? We know where you'll store the memory of it
As in:

There are two routes:

1. Splash page saying what you will do(not effective on HN)
2. Website doing what you say it will.
this doesn't necessarily need to be software powered on the back end. it really depends on what you are working on. if it's a SaaS company for example you could do everything manually and see if it gets any traction before you actually write the code...
Frithjof Bergmann on the Job System
You get your bail back even if you're found guilty. Bail is just to ensure you appear in court, it's not a fine or anything like that.
A Week with Glass
This is why it always feels funky to me for companies to raise money at insanely large valuations. To me it should only be enough money to cover expenses (employees, office space if necessary, business deals, salary for the founders, r&d costs) for just long enough to where you can afford those things without outside money after. For instance, if you do everything by the business plan, and your business plan says you'll be profitable by the end of the year, and that profitability is enough to cover the monthly costs plus some - then don't raise after that year. You're good, right? This is why I think it's good to sell something if you're a business, and not just give free and then bank on ads or an exit later (which then means ads get placed on your product, or it starts being for sale and some other company gets the money for those sales).

Tell me I am or am not crazy in this philosophy.
Sorry, my tone my not have across very well over the internet.

I have no objection to this submission (and if it is useful for others, more the better). I merely thought it was amusing to read a detailed description of how to get something to the front page on HN, after following a link to a FB group from HN.

Best of luck with the group, everyone!
Your reputation for presumption precedes you

Troll much? But I'll bite anyways...

Where did I ever say that you don't need to practice alone? I've been performing on stage for decades. No matter how many hours I put in alone on my instrument, it still won't prepare me for playing with other musicians. No matter how many hours I put in practicing in a rehearsal room with other musicians, it still doesn't prepare me for playing on a stage in front of audience. The only time I notice that I'm getting better at performing on a stage to an audience is when I'm... I mean, for fuck's sake, do I need to continue? What is going on here?

This entire discussion we're having is completely irrelevant.

Back on track:

The author of the article at hand is making a blanket statement of "look, record sales are down, but concert sales are up, so there you go, there's the solution! there's no problem!". I'm countering, using real world experience, that he is completely ignorant as to how the music industry has been functioning, how it is functioning today, and where it is heading.

The music industry is currently in a state of epic dysfunction. There is no point to an art form that was developed for shipping plastic discs around when the industry that led to this art form is being dismantled. Music and musicians will change. The industry and the current art form are dying. New art forms will emerge to deal with the changing landscape of the marketplace and culture.
It would be pointless, everyone knows by now that it is burned.
Do we know campaigns that invested 10-100K seed capital and failed?
While schematics are available, board layout for the Pi is not, and I see precisely no reasons for not distributing it openly. Raspberry Pi has nothing to do with open hardware.

The whole system cannot function without the GPU as it’s the first component to boot and controls some vital peripherals, and the GPU can only work with a closed-source firmware.

Oh, and before calling this a conspiracy theory, take a look at the sister site of Pi Foundation. That’s right: instead of promoting free, open and royalty-free standards like WebM, the Foundation sells licenses for two proprietary and obsolete video encoders. Also, if you want the Foundation to send more documentation to you, they require you to provide a business model. This has nothing to do with education and everything with marketing.

Fortunately, not Beagle Board nor ODROID-X require GPU drivers (or, for that matter, any proprietary code or binaries at all) for regular operation. You’d only need them for rendering accelerated graphics.

If you are looking to develop truly open hardware, take a look at Milkymist One. It isn’t cheap, but is worth way more than its cost.

If you are looking for a more sane alternative to Pi, consider buying Texas Instruments Beagle Board or Samsung ODROID-X. Both vendors have released complete documentation for the SoC (except for the graphics processor, described above), and are generally more friendly to open-source community than Broadcom.

http://whitequark.org/blog/2012/09/25/why-raspberry-pi-is-un...
Sure. I was responding to "It surprises me that anybody uses Amazon or PayPal when Stripe and Balanced exist.", not attempting to make the argument "It surprises me that anybody uses Stripe or Balanced when Amazon and PayPal exist.". You are welcome to make the choices you want to make, and if Stripe actually manages to accomplish that first bullet point for your use case, that's awesome (seriously). However, treeface was making the argument that the opposite was not true: that working with PayPal and Amazon never made sense due to the offerings of Balanced and Stripe being somehow better; I was explaining (with a "FWIW" even) why companies would want to choose these solutions.
What exactly don't you understand? I find the W3C specs fairly well-written, actually.

You declare a symbol in the defs section of an SVG image and you can instantiate it with use. E.g.

<svg>
<defs>
<symbol id='foo'>
<circle r='5' cx='10' cy='3'/>
</symbol>
</defs>
<use xlink:href='#foo' x='2' y='5'/>
<use xlink:href='#foo' x='10' y='10' fill='red' stroke='blue'/>
</svg>

(does not actually work, because namespaces are missing and the symbol likely is missing things like a viewbox, but just to get the general idea across)
I think the bootstrapping is worth more than getting an initial basefee, since it'll likely bring more players, making it worth it towards the end.
Apple To Hold Event On October 22nd To Talk iPads, OS X & Mac Pro
> Yet there's no shorthand for the "potentially beneficial" scope...

Yes there is. The main word is "light". And also "warmth" or "radio waves".
Huh, that's not even one I considered. I guessed 1/5, so the change was 4x the final value. Either way it's wrong - "dropped by X%" should be calculated as (original - final) / original.
s/a couple of/59
They've come far. They've done a great job. I don't think they've replaced the desktop though. I don't think the average user can go chrome only yet.

At some point an estate agent will send them a word doc and ask them to fill in some details and email it back. You and I can figure out how to get this going in google docs but the intended audience might have trouble. Google docs will encourage them to save it to the cloud and share instead of attaching which will confuse the estate agent. That doesn't mean Google's way is wrong, but in this scenario it does mean its harder and defeats the whole purpose.

Same problem with skype. If your friends/kids use skype, you will not be happy with a computer that can't do skype.

Basically, chrome needs to be compatible with the PC world and the way people are used to doing things. Compromise.
Illegal drugs? Think a tad bit differently, think of states where marijuana is legal but is still illegal on the Federal level.

If you go to surgery you really should tell them about drug usage to make sure they compensate in their drugs, but the Feds might be interested to know as well.
Delayed aging is better investment than cancer, heart disease
thanks, I just found it in a library. Yes, a real library!
Can this be classified as -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice ?

That is, I'm sure he understands that this action might be interfering with an investigation, and that it's reasonable to believe it was a willful act on his part.

Can you get into trouble for doing something like this?
Built to Last: How MapR’s Business Model Supports That Goal
Ripple takes on Western Union with deal to grow payments
While common, and almost arguably a rewrite of their other privacy policy, this phrasing is actually different than what is used on roughly every other maryland .gov site, which all share privacy policies, even where they have forms or other info being submitted.
I can find a very small number of trivial exceptions to this.

So it is at least a little surprising.

The ACA of course, is many thousand pages. I have no idea if they are required to have this.

I'll point out that while it's currently 404'ing, california's "covered california" site had a privacy policy up that said something similar:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Tqicl-X...

"Health care operations: Information may be shared with health plans and government agencies to oversee how the insurance is being provided, for quality assurance, audits, for fraud and abuse prevention programs, and for planning and management purposes;"

"Other limited purposes: Information will be shared for other purposes when we are required by law to do so, such as for workers’ compensation, public health activities and risks, health oversight activities, law enforcement activities, coroners, medical examiners and funeral directors, military and veterans affairs, national security and intelligence activities, protective services for the president and others, and for inmates."
If one factors in the 2-3% YC acceptance rate, and makes the assumption (that I admittedly haven't checked out) that no startups rejected by YC are now billion dollar companies, that closes the difference down to around 100x
Deep Learning Hackers wanted for URX (YC S13)
If you're a product-minded hacker with an interest in how deep learning can change the way people interact with their mobile devices by creating a knowledge graph of deep app content, we'd love to speak with you!

We're building out a real-time bidding platform that will produce a _lot_ of data, which we'll aim to process using state-of-the-art BigData and real-time computation to process. We're a polyglot shop but primarily work in Java, Python, and Javascript, and Ruby.

We've received a great response from early customers, and are excited to continue building out very large-scale systems, taking advantage of deep-learning concepts and massively parallel computation.

Currently, we're working with several top 25 mobile commerce companies, including LivingSocial. We just finished the Summer 2013 YCombinator class and are funded by top Silicon Valley investors.

If this sounds interesting to you, it would be great to hear more about your interests and experience, and see if this would be a good fit for you. We have some one-of-a-kind datasets that we can't wait to hear your thoughts on.

Learn more about our team's philosophy here: http://goo.gl/qqi3hC

- Team URX
jobs@urx.com
Other than the ubuntu phone - I don't. It's hard to find good data as the amount invested to date is not shared.
Ask HN: Uses for Raphael.js and similar
Hey everyone! At work I've been part of a team building floor planning software, using RaphaelJS and the Unity game engine.

I'd really like to learn more and build something in my own time (using Raphael or similar). It would be great if I could fit Unity in somehow to.

Any ideas on what I could build that's not a floor planner?
agreed, it would be particularly disturbing if a govt service were flaunting its blatant disregard for hippa (which, again, would be headline-worthy for that reason alone)
Well how about this then.

foreach(array(1,2,3,4,5) as $x) $i=$i+$x; echo $i;
My favorite online markdown editor https://draftin.com/ seems to work fine with native spell check.
Yes, the Nobel prize is still the creme de la creme of prizes (in physics).

Source: Me, a physics PhD student who has met a few Nobel laureates

P.S. It's amazing how much universities and people like to affiliate with Nobel laureates just because of their award, and not their science. When I was at a university where a professor won the Nobel prize, he gave a talk identical to one held the previous year. Before the prize, about 10 people showed up. After the prize, hundreds showed up and couldn't fit in the room.
If you're still within HTML, is

<img src='triangle.svg'>

really that much harder than

<div class='triangle'></div>?
The Middle
In Buenos Aires, they’re called cartoneros. At around sunset, they roll in from the surrounding (poorer) neighborhoods, and start stacking cardboard in the streets. It’s very surreal. They recently formed a collective and are trying to get official recognition from the government.

http://pulitzercenter.org/articles/argentina-cartoneros-wast...
The order was to supply the key in PEM format.
Absolutely - it's a common misconception that IDEs only generate code for blub programmers. Most IDE functionality, particularly things like refactorings, are not at all language specific and are just as useful in Clojure as in Java. They're a lot harder to implement and it's pretty much impossible to give a guarantee of correctness as you would get in Java or another statically typed language, but it's still very helpful.

The real problem in Clojure is the fact that the syntax is so flexible, which massively complicates symbol resolution and other things. You can't even reliably tell whether the form you're in has a do-body or not!
I see your PHP and raise you this Perl:

http://pastebin.com/7UqSFWz7
> However in my case opening a window meant opening the sliding glass door.

I mean, that's what my window is too.. Bigger than actual windows.
Wait, so you're saying that if I see something as a bad idea I have to propose alternative solutions before I can say anything?

If you see my alternative solutions as a bad idea does the rule apply to you as well? Do you just repeat the idea I say is bad to refute my idea you say is bad? Doesn't seem a good way to debate, just seems a good way to shut down disagreement.
Did he actually use forward secure SSL cipher suites for everything?
Uh, wow, I think they earned that claim. There's so much in here, they even have a cow which fires lasers being dropped from a space shuttle. http://www.oftenpaper.net/img/understandingtheriemannsphere....

seriously going to have to look more closely at this some time, it's fascinating in a "look what you can do with math/programming/mathematica" kind of way.
Are you sure there's no law in Sweden? In Denmark, any store that sells more than a certain number of bottles has to have one of the reverse-vending machines to take them back and repay the deposit.
Sure, if we ignore the existence of things like PGP,
S/MIME, smart cards, and the dozens of other ways we can
have secure email without relying on some trusted third
party like this.

As I understand it Snowden was using Lavabit to communicate with journalists who didn't themselves have/use/understand PGP. Lavabit is technology you can use even if no-one else uses it.

How do PGP and S/MIME solve the bootstrapping problem, where no-one uses them because no-one uses them?
No. This does not affect their ability to use it. This certificate is simply no longer trusted by other parties (rightfully, because it was compromised).
As matter of fact, this may not even be his doing.
You should be able to run any script in Debug mode (Run->Debug instead of Run->Run) and you can also debug your REPL session, although this is very clunky right now. I'll get some documentation up and provide a link here.
The fonts are broken on Google Chrome on Windows 8.1 at 1920x1200. They don't render in a readable manner. They make iOS 7 look readable. t's look like lowercase Ls. Capital Es look like squared-off capital Cs. 4s look like a bent over 7, etc.
In case anyone else is wondering what this is:

http://pastebin.com/weQzr4Kp
When did unconstitutional massive surveillance become justice?
The difference is subtle. Currently, social companies like Facebook offer login/identify services, and different companies like PayPal offer payment. But do consumers trust Facebook for anything other than social (like shopping)?

Conversion is everything for online merchants. Identifying customers early in the shopping experience allows better marketing, better engagement, and higher conversion. Plus, to be able to pay again in 1-click is huge (no additional login, no entering credit cards). So ultimately it means more $$ for merchants.
> So support your local musicians.

Yes, I will.

> Support DRM.

No, I won't.
The Rails-way and bigger projects
There are lots of votes for MVP, but given what I normally see (and in the past I was guilty of myself) an MVP will come with more nitpicking than necessarily useful criticism, so I'd release the MVP to friends and family first, then polish it a bit more, like an mvp++ for Hacker News.
Stalin's Blue Pencil - The Tyrant as Editor
I also find interesting that "secretary general" - the person in charge of the meeting minutes - became the title for the leaders of quite a few organizations.
Perhaps there is some automated robot that uses it that doesn't follow the news headlines.
Blocking Ads is not a solution
Your elevator pitch only needs to accomplish one thing
Yep, because our government basically controls the majority of what goes on the Internet, right?

/s
What if the 3rd party the FBI wanted to intercept via this Cert has now been 1) notified that there is a problem and 2) can no longer be intercepted (unless their browser does no CRL or OCSP checks on the domain's cert)?
? What does fisa have to do with lavabit?
EFF Explains: How The NSA Deploys Malware
In addition to making plug-ins "click to play" (in Chrome:

Settings => Show Advanced Settings => Privacy => Content Settings => Plug-ins => Click to play)

be sure to look at your Manage Exceptions. I had a number of sites that had special "Allow" privileges that I no longer think are warranted.
A Cloud Service for Managing iOS, Android, & BlackBerry
If you're more comfortable with it, that's great. To someone who's not already comfortable with it, points="0,10 20,10 10,0" is a lot more obvious than d='M0,20h20L10,0'
Chromebooks are convenient if you fall on the lightweight side of the "power user" spectrum. With the help of Crouton, a chrooted "traditional" Linux environment is easy to set up. If all you need is Emacs, your command line utilities, and 10 gb of disk space for active development, then you would be surprised at how capable chromebooks are as lightweight development machines.
High school students hack away free iPad usage restrictions
They'd have to go after GoDaddy to do that:

$ curl http://crl.godaddy.com/gds1-64.crl |
> openssl crl -text -noout -inform DER |
> grep -A 6 2771FD5D73A8BB
Serial Number: 2771FD5D73A8BB
Revocation Date: Oct 3 22:57:44 2013 GMT
CRL entry extensions:
X509v3 CRL Reason Code:
Key Compromise
Invalidity Date:
Feb 16 07:00:00 2012 GMT
HowTo for exotic birds in the Valley?
Hi,

I am searching for maximum exposure to people of technology/startup background.

The thing is: As a soon to be PhD in Chemistry with experience in biotechnology I am a rather exotic bird in the business. I am a self taught python programmer, and had plenty of different jobs as side projects. Chance got me involved with the startup world and gave me some steep learning curve in the field with two failed projects (gastronomy point of sales system, luxury goods marketing and distribution company) in Berlin, Germany.

Unfortunately, getting in touch with the right people is the biggest problem: It is hard to assemble the right team in Germany, as most graduates with technical skills make a run for the large companies of the well paying industrial sector. Also, the city of Berlin, the so called "Silicon Valley" of Germany, is not the super shiny place it seems. There is a lot going on there in terms of startups, but it is mostly on-line marketing/sales/media/advertisement, a territory discovered long ago.

I am not afraid to get my hands dirty and "wet" - on the contrary, I love science, and love the stuff companies like mc10 inc do. However, I am well aware of the advantages of IT based products over chem/bio/medical products when it comes to development, risk and initial investment.

I can think, work hard, communicate, I love technology. So, where do I have to go to get the maximum exposure and build a good startup raft? Is the Valley something for me? Shall I buy a ticket and just fly there, like I did it with Berlin? Is there any place in Europe that could be compared to it?

I would be grateful for any directions, contacts, hubs etc, that could speed up my search.

Regards,

piotr

pioja at gmx dot net
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In my above average suburban community with no deposit fees on aluminum cans, curbside recycling is a cash cow for the city. The revenue from the recyclables pays for the garbage collection resulting in a more or less zero cost to gather both. They hope to turn a profit once they start collecting commercial recycling.

I can only imagine how profitable it is in places with a can deposit.
I'm quite interested whether they add touch id to the iPads. Also will the ipad mini become the main focal point now somewhat like the 5c is to the 5s.
1. Separate folding and addition.

2. ?

3. Profit.
Hopefully if such a robot really cares about security, it is checking for revoked certificates. Although this is admittedly a pain to set up.
Will having the private key allow the decryption of ciphertext that was previously intercepted (while the service was active) and stored? Lavabit was already shut down, so this revocation is equally useless for user security. :(
I grew up poor as well. Thankfully, my mother's work paid off by the time I was a teenager and we moved up to middle-class.

I'm sure you're harboring legitimate resentment, but your rant against armchair philanthropists seems equally self-righteous, as though poverty is a badge of honor. I don't say that to be mean or white-knight you, it's just how it comes across. It makes it worse that you challenge people to down vote you.
Too late, and she brought JavaScript too...