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The thing about isolating the USA was not meant as a real solution, it was just to illustrate my feelings. See also this comment [1] of mine for a clarification.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) [1] contains privacy right in article 12 [3]. The UDHR is not legally binding but the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) [4] is and contains the privacy rights, too. The USA signed and ratified the ICCPR. Maybe someone should just sue all the spying nations.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6643253

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_...

[3] http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Civil...
> And lies are basically bad.

Are all forms of deception bad? If so, then okay. If not, then what forms of deception are bad, and what forms are not, and which class does hypocrisy belong in and why?
I am willing to bet you are in the minority though. :)
I was surprised to read this comment because the post links... to your page. What was the original link?
awww bro, a viggen? Awesome awesome car, definitely wanted to get one at some point.
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You can always buy a USB number pad for data entry tasks, but you can't remove a numpad from an existing keyboard. A 3rd party number pad is probably higher quality anyway.
http://jcutrell.svbtle.com/a-simple-and-flexible-selfquantif...

I've written a response, but I suppose I am hellbanned for new posts. No clue why unfortunately.

The basic idea: prompting is of great importance in this field. You can't get GREAT data through passive measures, but you can get much more consistent data if you consistently prompt. (This is my personal method, at least.)

[edit] It's not so much of a response as it is related - a way to capture data about self. Not so much related to the startup viability discussed in OP's article.
I mean it as "a practical advantage regarding user reach", not a technical or economical advantage.

I agree with you that patent encumbered technologies don't have their place in open standards. The current situation sucks.
I am an average user, not an accountant or anything like that and I like a lot the numpad. For filling forms (Phone, house number, postal code), passwords, basic Excel use, etc.
> In 2013 the Internet traffic I actually do generate is much more secure than the Internet traffic I generated 20 years ago.

For someone to be successful in 1993 to use the Internet, you had to be knowledgable enough to do the things you're talking about. I'd wager roughly 97%+ of the population is not smart enough, which is why Bruce's statements are in effect true.
FAQ[1] implies this is not the case, and that the source will correspond to the binary. The only thing the binary will bring that the source itself will not is the MPEG LA licensing.

> Q. Why is Cisco making both source and binary versions available?

> A: The source code is available so that an implementation of H.264 is available for the community to use across any project, and to leverage the community to make the codec better for all. We will select licensing terms that allow for this code to be used in commercial products as well as open source projects. In order for Cisco to be responsible for the MPEG LA licensing royalties for the module, Cisco must provide the packaging and distribution of this code in a binary module format (think of it like a plug-in, but not using the same APIs as existing plugins), in addition to several other constraints. This gives the community the best of all worlds - a team can choose to use the source code, in which case the team is responsible for paying all applicable license fees, or the team can use the binary module distributed by Cisco, in which case Cisco will cover the MPEG LA licensing fees.

[1] http://www.openh264.org/faq.html
Came to say the exact same thing, I can't upvote this enough. It makes it sound negative, similar to the phrase "black hat".
But there isn't! You might all feel that your government is misrepresenting you, but until serious action is taken, nothing is going to change. What that serious action is, I have no idea. Other countries have dealt with oppressive regimes before, some better than others.
Talent is only one small part of the startup pie. The other parts are ideas and investment. This is where both research universities and VC come in.

I think doing a Bootcamp to increase the skills and level up the talent in your city is a good thing. But if the end goal is to increase startup activity it's probably not going to move the needle much.
I would even let them get away with that argument, but if they do use that argument, that means they should also be pissed off about these revelations, and realize that NSA has gone fully rogue, and they need to drastically rein in on it. At least that's the logical conclusion from their argument.

The problem is they want their cake and eat it, too. They want to get away with it themselves, but also protect NSA and their powers. We should call them out on their hypocrisy, and ask them to restrain NSA's powers if it's really a surprise for them, too.
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While I do not think that the problem is hard in a sense that if you came to me and wanted it solved for you I couldn't do it. I do think that it is a horrible interview question.

I fail to see why one would ask this kind of question and what one would take away from the answer.

How does being able to solve problem like this help make Jack Dorsey richer and more respected? How does it help Twitter users have a better experience? How does it help the interviewer assess whether this dude on the other side will make his life more bearable by not shitting all over the carpet?

I think it is mostly a form of geek bullying and intellectual mastrubation for its own sake. I have a message for the people running companies where these kinds of hiring practices are taking place. You have some insane geeks on the loose and you should catch them and lock them into the darkest dungeon as they __will__ ruin your company.
I've also heard anecdotes on HN of people being pushed out when some higher-up learned they didn't have a degree, despite said higher-up singing their praises just weeks before.

Remember that NYC and Boston are burgeoning areas for startups. Rock that Acela.
Sure they can make mistakes... but the existence of multiple numpad-containing laptops, from multiple vendors, over many years is an existence proof of a preference among an important customer group (in addition to your personal testimony).

Even those crappy short screens: since businesses are buying them in preference to alternatives, they must find something about the cost and form acceptable. For business-focused machines, used by non-technical employees in brief spurts with a single full-screen app to get specific things done, a small screen may be preferable! HN commenters and coder/designer bloggers are not the customer.
I should say "dustbin" is second only to "bin" in the UK. "Dustbin" perhaps favoured slightly by the older generations. Interestingly the reason we call it a dustbin is because people were used to being thrifty with their food, especially during the war and post-war years, and almost the only sort of refuse put out for collection was 100% inert dust and the odd animal bone ... people burnt or ate everything else. That all changed with the introduction of American style self service "supermarkets" in the 50s and 60s. Having previously been accustomed to shopping in small stores where produce was handed to them personally by an employee consumers demanded increased and more elaborate packaging to make up for the fact that goods may have been handled by other shoppers. More packaging and more unconsumed food made its way into our dustbins and they lost their dusty nature and became a deal more smelly.
Exactly how many voices do these playbacks include? This couold be limited to just 16 simultaneous piano notes. I'd rather hear it played back on a clean sine synth, where it's possible to distinguish individual notes. I like how Black Midi shares some characteristics with Spectral music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_music), but the implementations are in most cases still crude experiments.
For what it's worth, you have mine. Encouragament that is, not contempt. Although I'm not convinced all Americans are yet aware of the fact that they themselves also are at the wrong end of this gun, I'm sure the number increases daily. And generally I don't think excluding people for what others force on them, or even for their ignorance, or even for their hybris, really leads anywhere. So many Americans have my support and even admiration, and even the ones I do resent (not in a smug way though, I'm under no such delusions I would hope), I would rather argue with, or, at worst, bitch at (but never, ever, "ask nicely" :P), than outright shun. Letting someone simmer in their own sauce can work with individuals, but in nations I think it always strengthens the autocratic and warmongering elements.
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Even worse, the 'lock device' has a built-in battery that is replaceable. Your battery died while you are in that coffee shop? Well, you are just going to have to get a new battery somewhere so you can login to your computer. No, there is no usb port on this device so you couldn't just power it that way.
I'm incredibly surprised by the negativity of the comments here. Taking a medium, in this case a piano midi track, and pushing it far beyond its limits, while still resulting in something resembling music, is just about as close to hacking as you can get.

Also, constraints breed creativity, and this is just another example of that.

It's not the type of music I would listen to generally, but insisting that this should be the case completely misses the point of what's interesting about it.
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Not surprising. A common theme at Startup School this year (and probably a common theme in general) was that those who succeeded tried and failed many times over. There is no single skyrocket to success, OK there probably is, but the norm, if you can call it that is one of trial and error, and making intentional changes and improvements until you succeed.
11% over the speed limit (85mph) is completely average.

Trust me, I'd prefer no person be allowed to drive. It is insanely dangerous and most people are really bad at it. I worked on autonomous cars about five years ago and I cannot wait for the technology to be consumer ready.
Also, it's GCHQ that broke in, no?
It's just designed for search machines, they probably want to sniff user agent instead of generating HTML for every page request.
The end result is, someone was ticketed for speeding-BFD. It inevitably happens to most drivers, and its not the end of the world, especially because if you can afford Glass, you're probably going to be able to afford a ticket. Only on HN do we have people second guessing the entire concept of speed limits, and making all sorts of excuses for something so trivial as a speeding ticket being given out.
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Sorry - should have clarified. My commenting is good to go, but my Submissions are all dead on arrival.
How many numbers do you enter? A numpad is really nice if you have to enter a bunch of numerical data.

I prefer add-on USB numpads, because I'm left handed and etc. But still, numpads are great and you only really appreciate how good they are when you have to type out a stupid list.
Yes, it's like a beautiful perpetual motion machine.

Only one problem. Where's node.js?
The recent trend of only offering 1080p screens as the luxury choice and 900p or worse for the standard is depressing. And of course all being 16:9 (since watching TV is totally what the average laptop is used for...)
Humm ... that's strange. It still works in my Firefox 24 and 25.
While I'm rooting for him, it's not clear how much impact, if any, they're actually letting him have. MS is an enormous bureaucracy after all.
An excruciating metric (and the reason I left London for San Francisco :-):

"The European economy is basically the size of the U.S. But last year it saw only $6.2 billion invested in 1,074 deals. And in 2012, 16 European companies backed by venture capital went public, raising 379 million Euros between them... By contrast, the U.S. saw 3,826 venture deals worth $27 billion last year."
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In the past, we've had keynotes including Steve Wozniak, Adam Savage, WikiLeaks, William Binney, and the Yes Men. All bets are off for 2014.
I believe strongly in "win win" solutions; in a broad internationalism that tries (at least in principle) to find solutions that benefit the whole of humanity (perhaps not uniformly, but uniformly enough to make everybody a net winner).

That last phrase really spooks me. "Look to their own interests". Saddens me a bit, too.
I agree that all parties deserve some blame, but spreading the blame around does not excuse the amount of money the government spent on this and other projects such as recovery.gov. For profit private companies are in it to make money so I don’t blame them for taking the money; I blame them for bad design and architecture.
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You're following ideology over reality. You have a one sided point of view, a negative one at that, and where... may I ask is your e-commerce site that's devoid of "cheapening" social buttons? I've got thousands in revenue at my little http://dayonepp.com store.

And why are you so negative and hostile towards something over 1 billion people signed up for?
> for example I can not even imagine any EU country doing something like Guantanamo

By the information that has publicly come out about the "black sites" operated by the US and its allies -- from which prisoners were later transferred to the not-secret facility at Guatanamo where at least a show of adhering to international humanitarian law was made, several EU countries were actively involved in the system, and the UK was not only involved but actually operated prisons in the system.

So, yeah, EU countries have, contemporarily with Guantanamo, done things as much like the worst aspects of the Guantanamo detention as is possible.
I was about to mention An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction, but you've just saved me the trouble of digging up the link. It's a mere 11 pages, but it covers a lot of ground, in small, easy-to-digest pieces, and invites you to follow along and get your hands dirty. Highly recommended.
Yea the only things you can't change are the CPU, the GPU or the RAM. You know the things that I might want to upgrade the most over time.
I'm curious to know what you think about dubstep, then.
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> How many numbers do you enter?

Very few, and if I did, I would get an add-on numpad. Chances are, I wouldn't be continuously entering numbers - there would be times when I needed to enter a lot, and times when I didn't need to enter that many. Having an add-on numpad would let me move it out of the way when I didn't need it.

In fact, even though I'm right-handed, I would try to learn to enter numbers left-handed, because it would be great to be able to put the numpad on the left side of the keyboard, thereby solving the distance-to-mouse problem.

But my basic point is that numpads are not needed by the majority of computer users, as evidenced by the popularity of laptops that don't have numpads (ironically, unlike the linked article suggests, I actually haven't seen that many PC laptops with numpads).
> Now for a dose of realism -- every single country out there that has a foreign policy and interests abroad behaves in this way to one extent or another.

Simply not true. There may be a few large countries trying, but at nowhere near the global capability to lay bare all details of just about any person on the planet, like the US. And that's just comparing to the larger countries. The UK hacked Belgian telecoms, you're going to have to show me some proof that the reverse is also true. That's ridiculous.

The consequences of the Netherlands "behaving in this way to one extent or another" towards the US--yes, even a little bit--would not be very positive for the Netherlands. We do, however, "have a foreign policy and interests abroad".

The fact that the US believes it can get away with this sort of behaviour (and we'll have to see about that), doesn't somehow make it right or justify it in any way.
Interesting that you bring up the demoscene. This music genre shares with it the fact that it takes a platform to its limits in a technically interesting way (just like 4k intros, C64 demos, etc), but in my taste it distinctly lacks aesthetic merit, which is recognized in the scene as an essential component of any good prod.
Since you looked at all the comments, you should have noticed that she was not using the glass, and thought she was in a 75 zone. So I'm at a loss as to what you're implying..
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Good on them! I remember in my Masters program contemplating gesture recognition with sign language. Ultimately I went with proving people are who they are based on their body language; but this was number 2 on the list.

Does anyone know what techniques they are using to accomplish this? I did the changes in Active Appearance Models, converted them into 'sound files', then ran them through Microsoft's HTK Markov Model system to get my stuff.

In theory, they might be doing a similar thing.
If I had a heroku API key stored with CircleCI, should I assume all of my app's production config variables have been compromised?
Here he is on video discussing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgV_Z6V_llk

I guess I wasn't actually there in person to witness it so I can't confirm he wasn't one of those Tupac holograms[1].

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGbrFmPBV0Y
Yes, that is what I use.
That all sounds very impressive, but in the end it didn't work and all our emails are belong to them.
> So who wins? Which type of power dominates in the coming decades?

Institutional power will win in the coming decades, but fringe power in the coming centuries as humans colonize the solar system. Each planet/moon will eventually have control of its technical infrastructure. In the coming millenia, as humans journey out to the stars, it will be almost impossible for one star system to control another. Thank God for the Speed of Light!

> Medieval feudalism evolved into a more balanced relationship in which lords had responsibilities as well as rights.

I'm not sure "evolve" is the best word. Diseases killed many surfs in both Europe and China, often many all at once (e.g. Black Death) which gave the survivors more power suddenly.
I would. Although you can see some of that info here: https://github.com/settings/security

Edit: There are also logs for your organization in https://github.com/organizations/<your_organization>/setting...
I feel exactly the same. But there are some cool projects around that do thinner the layers between software and hardware. Look for example Extempore (http://extempore.moso.com.au/) or Hylas-Lisp (https://github.com/eudoxia0/Hylas-Lisp).
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1) YOU are NOT the average customer. You're one of us, you're immune to most of the social media marketing that consumers pay attention to.

2) It's FREE. Create a facebook page for your business, upload a photo, copy paste the like box code and call it a day. Jesus Christ what do you have to lose?
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Do not trust that your internal networks are secure. Any links carrying business or customer data should be encrypted.

I remember over a decade ago talking with the security head of a university where I was working, about a new system design. I made some comment like "well this is all on the machine room network" and his response was "I wouldn't trust the machine room network." Pretty eye-opening since he was the person responsible for its security.
As you say, even futuristic bioengineering will never be like electrical engineering, but it does have parallels with software development.

It feels somewhat similar to declarative programming - our genes contain a large bunch of code that, in effect, says 'if you're seeing chemical X (which should mean that you're on the edge of a limb bud, then produce chemical Y/grow differently/become a skin cell'. And a bug in some other, far-away code can make an embryo grow, for example, a sixth toe, by invoking already existing code that will connect it to your foot and add toenails.

And we have some idea on how to work with such code - sure, it's far away from what we'd call well engineered or intelligently designed code, it's a big horrible pile of buggy spaghetti code that mostly works in most conditions if we discount the large portion of cases where the egg doesn't even develop into a valid embryo. And there's 'bug parity' where fixing a single-item bug is likely to create another bug elsewhere because it relied on the first part being always buggy. And, of course, it's undocumented obfuscated 'assembly code'. But the advantage is that it's only a singe codebase (although even larger than healthcare.gov) with no 'completely new and different' releases coming, so all of us together have to learn it once, and it is almost the same codebase that we'd also use to alter our corn, cows, flu and mosquitoes.
I fail to see the point. What value does GDS add? All of the functions mentioned on that page can already be done through services that are made for those purposes, without needing to tie into a giant monolithic OS. Overall, it really sounds like a Google App Engine or AppScale clone.

Unless I am mistaken about the way that you're using the term "self-hosted". If you actually mean that the users are going to be installing self-hosted apps on their own GDS instances, then this is much more unique.
Ouch -- Amazing how there is this ripple effect happening now that everone is using the cloud and there are so many middle men or service APIs.

> In order to protect your data and users, we strongly urge you to secure each of these systems:

> SSH keys uploaded to CircleCI
> API tokens stored in CircleCI env vars
> API/SSH key stored in a GitHub repo accessible from your CircleCI

Interesting to note that Stripe and Kickstarter are customers. This is a little scary to think their source code could have been exposed, given the $$$ flowing through their systems. So, someone could have used these keys to have much wider access!
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> the time/energy i would save by having to move my hand a shorter distance to the mouse, is no where near the amount of time/energy i save by not having to look at the keyboard and find each individual number.

This isn't true for the vast majority of people, because they don't enter enough numbers for it to make sense. Moreover, if you learn how to touchtype the number keys above the letter keys, it's actually not that much slower than using the numpad.
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