skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's neat how you picked an example that doesn't apply to my point.

I fully understand the difficult situation people get "stuck" in. The reason people are "stuck" is many times because no one is telling or showing them that there are ways out. They are simply mailing them a check to hold them over until the next check. But I know more than a handful of people who got out of the ghetto and welfare situations and it wasn't a government program that pulled them out. There was community help, like churches, for instance. But in almost every case they bootstrapped their way out. They started by deciding to be honest. They accepted responsibility. They listened to good advice.

When flat broke, what are you going to lose by moving? What do you have to move? Not much. Try something, anything.

My overarching point is that welfare handouts hurt more people than they help in the long term. They create reliance instead of independence.

EDIT: As I thought about this a bit more, I realized your scenario and my point are not that far apart. The 40 year old woman with a high school diploma and 3 kids in your example may not be able to change her own circumstances that easily but she has three little minds that she can mold day after day about rising above those circumstances. Instead, what we usually see is poverty passed on to the next generation. If she accepts poverty as a way of life she is more likely to pass the mindset on to her kids.
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Wow, just wow,

Mr. "Shill".

I hope that any careful reader notices your entire post actual has no relation at all to the text my post above it (FBI unmentioned, while I'm sure they make unsubstantiated claims, I'm not commenting on the state's claim above, those "Internet forum" apparently exist in your imagination only too, etc). Such a reader might also notice your post follows a rather predicable rhetorical strategy. Perhaps there is an experiment going on.
Agree. Going 64-bits in general can benefit that more instruction sets, more data sets per instruction, memory access at repeating process. What's in this article is just quote by CMO that is a claim without benchmark evidence or whatever.
Leaving GAE is the best thing I ever did.
They do have different networks with different rules. When I was on the Michigan DOD network, we had the Microsoft Document Image Viewer. When I was deployed, the DOD network there did not have the Microsoft Document Image Viewer on the "approved" list and therefore could not be installed. It was such a pain working with TIFFs without it.
"Suppose we build an architecture which you feel is more secure. Then the NSA people say "we have analyzed it, and there's a theoretical information leak. because that information leak exists you have to install our software which will exploit it. but if you'd designed your system better you would have been okay. also, incidentally, you're now legally forbidden from fixing this leak.""

One of the features of a good security system is that there is no single party that can be compromised in a way that violates everyone's security. Basically, your example assumes that the system has a fundamentally risky design.

Even if you need a trusted party in your design, it should be the case that the party only has a limited ability to violate everyone's security. For example, consider an identity-based encryption system, which by its nature requires a trusted party to generate keys. Under the right circumstances, that party can delete the master secret key needed to generate keys; one can imagine setting things up so that the master secret is destroyed periodically, say once per month, so that only keys that were recently issued can be compromised if the authority is compromised (your identity under such a system might include some information about when your key was issued).

"I reject your justification and others which rely on a technical deficiency in Lavabit's implementation to endorse the legality and moral authority of the court's orders."

I think it would be fantastic to have a trustworthy government, but that is orthogonal to the issue here, because the security of a system like Lavabit is not limited to resisting court orders. Suppose the Lavabit have become as big as GMail i.e. big enough that the government might threaten an antitrust investigation if special favors were not performed. Suppose that a foreign government was trying to conduct industrial espionage against Lavabit's users, and surreptitiously installed eavesdropping software or equipment.

For that matter, suppose that you were personally involved in a lawsuit against Ladar. Would you communicate with your lawyer using Lavabit in that situation?

Also consider the reality that laws can change. It might take a massive terrorist attack to cause laws to change for the worse. Maybe a dictator will rise to power. Maybe people will just stop caring. Maybe it will be a combination of things, but the point is that building a system that relies on the law to protect users' rights is a fundamentally bad approach. It was not merely laws that stopped mass surveillance previously; when letters were sent primarily via the postal system, it was the lack of abundant and automatic copying that prevented mass surveillance. Laws are easy to change; widely deployed and widely used technologies are much harder to change (at least in ways that conform to the desires of politicians and governments).
Nobody owns the Internet. If company X stops running their part of it, it will continue to exist. You point is still valid if you consider an entity needs to govern the commons and apply restrictions where it's deemed in the interest of the greater good. I'm just not 100% that's the government.
In fact the actual court decision quoted has everything you would want to know about what was on the web page:

14 Webley, “School Shooter” Video Game to Reenact Columbine, Virginia Tech Killings, Time (Apr. 20, 2011), http://newsfeed.time.com/2011 / 04 / 20 / school - shooter - video - game - reenacts-columbine-virginia-tech-killings. After a Web site that made School Shooter available for download removed it in response to mounting criticism, the developer stated that it may make the game available on its own Web site. Inside the Sick Site of a School Shooter Mod (Mar. 26, 2011), http://ssnat.com.
I will say that the main reason I never applied to any startup was the fear that I'd end up working 60, 80, or more hours a week. I value my free time far too highly.

Not to mention the very well-established productivity declines that are associated with prolonged overwork like that.
Twice as many registers?

Registers twice as big? Tagged pointers allowing more classes to be tucked into registers? Actual benchmarks showing significant performance gains? What exactly does it take?
Scala with Akka, and RabbitMQ for scaling across multiple servers. This would be a bit more work up front than a web framework like Django but it would be more maintainable in the long run due to the fact that Akka encourages writing simple loosely coupled code that does one thing (Single Responsibility Principle). Even more important is to get the dev team working using TDD (Test First Development) and provide a proper vision to guide them. Things like Uncle Bob's Clean Code book, and the raw, original Agile manifesto before it got sucked into the Scrum and XP methodology machine. Even though the code is more functional than object-oriented, the SOLID principles still mostly apply.

Some alternate choices that could be OK if you can find at least one good developer to lead the team, are Clojure, or Erlang/Elixir. With the Erlang virtual machine, RabbitMQ would not be necessary, although I like it because it gives you a lot of points where you can measure/monitor the internals of your application. I would also seriously look at adding Apache Camel to the mix even though Akka does not require Camel to integrate actors. But Camel is a thin layer that makes it easier to reconfigure integration points.
This makes me feel like the creators think that all sharing is on Facebook. I know it's not true, but it's still irritating to see useful products locked up in Facebook's walled garden.
Every time I had to work over 40 hours/week it was because management decided to make a poor decision. Promising customers a new feature without consulting the developers first or just mis-management of the project over-all.
To be fair, this is CPM, not CPC. So the click vs view thing is already accounted for.
I think 50,000 concurrent users is actually a fairly reasonable number, given that not all US households are in the market for health insurance on the exchange, and that not everyone will be using the site at the same time.
Nobody seems to be saying this here so I'll just come out and say it...

Qualcomm's knee jerk reaction to press that praises Apple's platform is to point out the obviously premature move to 64 bit mobile chips, since Apple does not buy Qcomm SOCs and competes with Samsung, Qcomm's biggest customer. After a little critical thinking, Qualcomm realizes that it too will shortly be selling 64 bit mobile chips because now Samsung will want to match apple spec for spec, as most Android OEMs typically do.

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As whether the move was a "gimmick" or not:
The move to 64 bit would have been premature if Microsoft or an Android OEM had done it, but Apple made the right call for a few reasons:

(the obvious) - ARM v8 is a new ISA, and porting 32-bit ARM kernel code to the new ISA just to abandon it in a few years would be foolish

(musing)- Apple's OS people now only have to worry about one kernel code base when writing non-assembly, non performance critical code.

(speculation) - Apple may consider switching some of their traditionally x86 lineup to use lower power ARM chips in the intermediate future (2-4 years) and is giving itself that option by getting their kernel ready for ARM 64.

(way out there) - Apple may be planning to use their mobile chips in ultra low power server clusters, and they had to port the kernel to 64 bit before that was an option.
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Even if they could theoretically make a site that can handle every person in the country using it at exactly the same time, it'd still be bottlenecked by the much older systems it relies on at the IRS, SS, VA, DOD, DHS, etc. As the article alluded to, the Healthcare.gov site checks your family size, AGI, social security benefit status, citizenship status, incarceration status, veteran status and enrollment in other government health programs during the signup process to determine what you're eligible for.
Yes, 50,000 pages per second is quite reasonable. But I suspect that's not what the number means here.
I think a lot of the negativity and naysaying might also be spawned by jealousy of the attention the product is getting. You can critique and point out flaws without being negative.
Does anyone know what's behind this?

Is it that people don't buy a lot of cars in Norway? Average income is significantly higher? Different income profile of car buyers specifically? Some kind of social effect, like prestige?
I'm in the same boat as you.

This is exactly what was going through my mind as I traversed what could be aptly described as a flamewar over the product announcement of the Next Protect alarm this morning and after being unable to find any under all of the people claiming to be experts are cooking without setting off their alarm and teaching people how to use existing alarms instead of talking about the device that the comments were supposed to be about.

I'm not saying these comments were off-topic, but they were very distracting to me.
The top seller on the web’s biggest drug marketplace is gone (2012)
Many versions of this story have already been posted:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tesla+norway
> presumed innocence until proven otherwise with evidence.

That's exactly the problem. Lawful surveillance is one of the most fundamental means of gathering evidence. If you take away that, then in a lot of cases you take away the ability to prove guilt.

You offer no support for the claim that police would be useful in a world where all telecommunications are impenetrably encrypted with no means for lawful intercept. If "Plain Old Telephone calls" are the only interceptable means of communication by police, then you might as well rename them the "Plain Old Police", since they would be largely ineffective.

I have not argued for rescinding any rights whatsoever. It is you, I would argue, who is arguing for rescinding the police, which are an essential part of a lawful society.

The flaw in your reasoning is that while individuals are protected from self-incrimination, no such right extends to third parties. Nor should it. The 5th amendment does make it harder for police to prosecute people, but with the power to compel other people to testify, to have service providers turn over records and surveil with proper judicial oversight, and so forth, it has been judged over the centuries to be a fair balance of powers.

To block all police power to surveil under any circumstances would substantially cripple their ability to gather evidence.

And so the question remains: If you feel lawful intercept of communications is never justified, how would one go about gathering evidence of a largely communications-based crime such as child pornography or plotting a murder?
That is not impervious: compromise an endpoint. It takes work, but in the course of a serious investigation it can get done. At the limit, Van Eck or similar analog-hole analogues.

Anyway, my position is "no, that should not be illegal", though I am not entirely confident in that.
"The Conservative view of Protect (inherent ideology: fire prevention should be as easy and user-friendly as possible) can be characterised (or caricatured), I think, roughly as follows: [present fire alarms are good enough, nobody needs these fancy doo-dads]"

Conservative ("Null") view: the primary objective of a smoke alarm is to (a) detect and (b) signal the presence of smoke. Nothing, hand waving or not, should compromise this.

Progressive ("Alternate") view: a smoke alarm must also maximise (c) the probability of the signal being heard. This objective is compromised if people, finding their smoke alarms a nuisance, turn them off.

In summary, Null says (a) and (b). Alternate says also (c). Null says adding (c) dilutes (b) and so is harmful. These views not mutually exclusive - not everyone need have the same smoke alarm. The more disciplined may be safer with a traditional smoke alarm. Those of us who just spent a minute searching the ceiling may be better served by the Nest Protect.

"Why not think about it this way: companies like Nest, Apple and Soylent are offering us, no strings attached, brand new propositions for paths to a better future."

Being sceptical of a fire safety product being brought to market is a good response. While I, too, found the tone of the Nest Protect and TouchID conversations combative, I was thoroughly informed by both. Constructive does not have to mean positive.

Disclosure: I am in the Alternate/"Progressive" camp
Chrome OS uses Gentoo's Portage package manager. So to install say, emacs, you simply do # emerge emacs, or whatever you want to install.

Anyhow, there's also plenty of online instructions on how to use Crouton to install Ubuntu onto Chrome OS, the point is that Chrome OS is a full, real Linux distro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v031udlfY5E
Poor man's (unauthenticated!) remote shell:

mkfifo /tmp/buf;
cat /tmp/buf | /bin/sh -i 2>&1 | nc -lp 31337 > /tmp/buf

And then, in another terminal:

nc 127.0.0.1 31337
I hope HN continues to treat great new ideas with muted ambivalence. Reading articles with >10 comments is a waste of time.
Mouhaha. Comparing Nest's HN reaction with the reaction on Soylent is just bad writing and reasoning.

> In every case, we’re given a choice: do we react reflexively, hunting for anything and everything that we can think of to shoot down a new and challenging idea, or do we fight our first reflex, and give the idea a chance?

Yeah, we should be giving a chance to use our brain and reason instead of being fooled but a nice product presentation and a beautiful "NEW!" sticker on it. As for Soylent, this product is an insult to reason and any kind of nutrition studies done before, so let's not put it as the same level as Nest. It's a different story altogether.
I don't think those 3 are any less well-known than other physicists and mathematicians of similar accomplishments. Ramanujan, in particular, because of his romantic story, is far more well known than his influence might suggest. His intellect might well have been the equal of Riemann's, but one can't honestly say his contributions even approach Riemann's. The same goes for the the physicists - Bohr was one of the three or four most important physicists of the last century, and Heisenberg was one of the top 10, probably.
Replace 'major labels' with 'VCs', 'Justin Bieber' types with 'social media apps', and 'file sharing' with 'app store' and you will see the situation is no different with start up's either.

Most start ups that get funding are websites and apps. How many medical electronics, water supply, waste management etc and software of real world value get funding?

Investors are going to put their money in places where they think they would get quick returns. Not the ones that are good for the world.

And this is not that difficult to understand.
Curious where the evidence is that advice and money are becoming separate. The boards I've seen are very full of VC's, who have both invested and give plenty of advice.

Sam, if you're reading would love to hear your thoughts.
Firefox uses the same high-quality scaler for upscaling now too, starting in Firefox 22: http://bugzil.la/795376 (The results on this page were from Firefox 7 and Firefox 20.)

The problem with scaling multiple copies of the same image on a single page is http://bugzil.la/795072
Feels like there's a fine line between having a negative attitude about a new product and exposing real weaknesses - whether those are weaknesses in the product itself, or the market within which it falls. Probably nothing wrong with exposing weaknesses, as long as its done in the context of "here's what's wrong, and my idea of how it could be fixed or improved."

I agree with your assessment though, the Nest post this morning really was quite 'over the top' so to say, as far as negativity goes.
High taxes on gas fueled cars make Tesla afordable.
Because in many cases hiring competent staff (aka civil servants) requires an act of congress.
> But surely we can all agree there exist circumstances under which some lawful intercepts are justified: child pornographers, terrorists actively planning murders, missing persons, etc.

Oh come on, don't be so naive.

> child pornographers

As defined by which country? Is that 16 years old, or 18? Maybe even 21. Just because something is illegal where you are, does not make it illegal in my country/culture.

> terrorists actively planning murders

And now we know the US Govt actively murders it's own citizens without trial, surely we'd have to count them as terrorists, wouldn't we? (let alone what they do it non-citizens)

> missing persons

How long does someone have to be "missing" for that to justify the government having unlimited power? Surely they should just kick down everyone's door until they find what they want [1]

For every example you come up with, it's trivial to point out that it's an extremely slippery slope.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOvHuojEB4 (etc.)
The standard 8 hour / 5 day work week in Europe did not happen after some day the rich and powerful decided it, far from it. Strong labor unions were the key into making it a reality. While they might be impeding financial growth and make some things more bureaucratic, the increase in living conditions makes them worth it.
Brudgers comment is at top because community thought it was worthy. Brudgers comment garnered 120 posts, meaning it sparked interest and posters contributed to that discussion. This is the underlying message of HN. Discussing.

"But why not focus on the underlying idea – if we could make eating and nutrition easier, how? If we could make phones more customisable and modular, how? Where could this lead? The possibilities, once you start thinking along these lines, are endless."

To me, that brudgers discussion does directly and tangentially hint at making things better and benefits of existing solutions. And moreover, some people are good at fine combing ideas and not propose some new. Criticising people because they are being "negative" amounts to living in a bubble.

Btw ironic, considering OP's comments on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6464120
"The problem here is Lavabit was specifically designed to disallow lawful intercepts of individuals."

You say that as though that's the only possible explanation for why the service was designed the way it is.

Tarsnap is also - arguably - designed in much the same way. What do you think Colin's response ought to be if the FBI/NSA come to him saying "we think one of your users might be doing $bad_thing, so we want your private keys so we can impersonate you, decrypt anything any of your users have backed up using tarsnap, and undermine the very basis of the business you've built." (note: this is a bit more difficult to execute - they'd need to have some good reason to update the tarsnap software on all end user's machines, since Colin doesn't have the private key my backups are encrypted with…)

You say "it's designed to disallow law enforcement certain abilities", I say "it's designed with best-practice modern digital privacy techniques, and is _entirely_ legal, legitimate, and a perfectly good premise to base a business on - and which the government _doesn't_ have the right to claim is 'unlawful', the same as building doorlocks without government skeleton keys, or banksafes without hidden vulnerabilities that the FBI or NSA know about, is also not 'unlawful'".

If you want to make privacy illegal - take it to the polls and ask the public if they agree. Until then - designing, deploying, and using well engineered systems to protect your privacy is every citizen's right should they choose to use it. Sure " … some lawful intercepts are justified", but that _doesn't_ imply all systems must be designed in a way that lawful intercepts are possible, and it doesn't give the government the right to coerce people not suspected of illegal acts into destroying their businesses and livelihoods just because they " … didn't trust him to act as a spy on their behalf". That's just _so_ wrong. So _very_ wrong.
Apple store down. Product refresh coming?
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This seemed like fan boi crap to me.

Build something. Do something. Don't hang with someone who did that long ago and post about it. Post about the cool thing you did. Kids these days have huge skills and do really cool things. Be one of those kids.

No disrespect to Woz, I live close to him and respect him, I suspect he'd feel the same. Just go do something.