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Well, I don't know what you will take for a valid measure or observation, but for most film directors, their best movies are often considered to be their first few. The few last movies from Ridley Scott are pure crap compared to his first one. Same for Spielberg, Milos Forman, and so many others. They did their best work when they were hungry, starving to make a place for themselves. And let's not mention George Lucas, no, let's not.

It's certainly very close to be a "rule". Have you ever heard of the concept "Art from Adversity" ? This idea says that people give their best when they are challenged by others and their environment. They day they "get there" and make it big, they become lazy and stop fighting and end up having their way no matter what crap they produce.

PS: As for Samuel Jackson, I don't really like the guy because he's just too much into money and wants to put his face on every movie possible out there, but he can play very well some types of characters, just like the one you mentioned in Pulp Fiction. He's great when shouting and swearing. It was just very poor casting to put S. Jackson as a Jedi Master because he certainly lacks all the composure to pass as a calm, wise Jedi.
"People who tweeted this also bought..."?
Dude, you're probably hanging out too much in SF area.
At least the issue is being discussed in public and litigated in the courts.
Are you going to be doing graphic/web design stuff yourself?

If Yes ----> Buy a 15" rMBP

If NO -----> Go to a store, look at a 13" laptop.

Is it too small?

If Yes ----> Buy a 15" rMBP

if NO ----> Buy a 13" rMBP
> From what I understand, there hasn't been a client that's truly taken its place.

For myself and my brother, Transmission has handily replaced uTorrent. Simple, downloads torrents, lets me make new ones to send files between friends, and that's it. Perfect!
Umm, the 11" and 13" use the same keyboard -> http://blog.timecenter.com/content/uploads/2010/08/macbook-a...
Amongst the big players, Twitter is the one who cares the most about Open Source and transparency. I wouldn't want to see them being swallowed by Google, or anyone else for that matter.
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Weren't there mails exchanged between Youtube founders at the time that were going like "let us ignore those legal worries until someone big buy us, then we tell them" ? So Google didn't really get the full problem until it got its hands on it (hard to believe, maybe they bought Youtube despite that ? Can't remember).
I won't respond to all of that but I think we can both agree the business of news is interesting. Also I'm fascinated by the PR world and no, I don't have much experience in that area. My perspective is more pageviews & software oriented. How the New York Times operates, how the editors make decisions, it would be fun to be a fly on the wall there. I bet they're ripping out their hair trying to keep up with the pace of the Internet.

Anyway, you made me look it up because I wasn't sure exactly what happened. As far as I can tell, this is what started the Chick-fil-a controversy. I believe this is the full text - http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=38271

In particular, near the end of the interview:

"We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that."

Which I suppose is why you think they need ongoing PR help in the New York Times. My first wife, we won't talk about her! LOL.
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I appreciate your indulging my pedantic nature!
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uhh.... So what's wrong with doing the exact same thing with arrow keys? isn't that more natural and convenient?
I wonder how the cars will deal with inevitable accidents - what does the self driving car prioritise? If there is no choice but to hit one of two different cars does it pick the one with the fewest occupants? Is there calculation of likely injuries (eg bounce off two cars causing less severe injuries to both than hitting one harder). Avoid all other vehicles resulting in more severe injuries to the occupant?

Cars can't stop instantly and the energy has to go somewhere.
The neuroscience community in general has had mixed reactions to the Brain initiative during the period where we haven't had much information. It was initially announced as something much larger, then pared back, and it wasn't clear whether it would come from existing funds or from newly allocated funds, which was the main question most researchers had.
[Do you not know who Michael Arrington is?]

The argument is that Google+ is unsuccessful, and Twitter is, on the other hand. Twitter is booming with growth and is a prime target for Google if their goal is really to own a social network with a high amount of usage and and public knowledge. Google+ is not.

Arrington presents that it would be akin to Google purchasing YouTube even when it had Google Video gaining moderate traction over a slower period of time. Twitter is to YouTube as Google+ is to Google Video.
that's not particularly relevant here. All of this investment and technology is based on reading out motor cortical activity intended for controlling muscles. We're FAR away from decoding thoughts, whatever that even means.
Where are you located? If you live in the Silicon Valley or you wouldn't mind moving there, contact me (my email is in my profile). I would love to chat.
Apple should buy Twitter just to delete Arrington's account.
And hope the DNA of your potato strain isn't GMO.
You don't need tap-hold to go back now that the tab bar is always present at the button. Just hit the tab and it goes back to the timeline.
I'm not sure I follow, the only preconceived ideas I have about the French relate to food and music. If the French want to tick off the USGovt, I have no quarrel.
I heard that Airlines do not like you shopping around for prices from someone who did this research. They log you when you first come on their site. If you come back 2-3 days later, they will jack up the price, presumably to scare you into buying tickets.
It's interesting that the two strongest practical arguments EFF is making (based on how people will react to an adverse decision) are also the two that probably the least persuasive from a legal standpoint (based on laws and court precedents).

I'm talking about service providers moving their operations to more privacy-friendly jurisdictions, and improving protocols with e.g. perfect forward secrecy to make this sort of attack impractical.

So everyone suffers under an adverse decision in this case:

The US economy suffers because businesses seriously concerned about privacy choose to locate elsewhere

Law enforcement suffers because those businesses are no longer reachable when they have a legitimate reason to obtain the communications of spies, terrorists, or plain old criminals, and get a narrow warrant that properly protects the privacy of innocent bystanders.

Individual liberty suffers because a precedent will make it easier for people who don't care about privacy and use domestic providers subject to these overbroad warrants to be caught up in a surveillance dragnet

That being said, Congress, not the courts, is the proper venue to address those practical arguments. Will anyone care outside of technophile bubbles like HN? Unfortunately, I think we all know the answer.
That's correct.

RSA (like everything else) is a deterministic encryption. That is why we must do one of the two:

1. Use a random padding
2. or always encrypt a random number.

the former is PKCS#5, the latter is what https does.
Some of these ideas are pretty good. I'll be visiting this site often for inspiration. Or maybe even to steal. I wonder how agile the process is vs. an independent team also building the same thing while having the benefit of monitoring the project's progress, ideas, discussion, etc. However, Assembly does have the advantage of getting their first customers.
The first thing people in power do, is make sure they stay in power. They can't have anyone changing anything that would cause waves and disruptions.
Excuse me while I puke a little.
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Google only bought Motorola a year ago - it's far too early to judge the value of that acquisition. Plus, in terms of patents it seems like the patent wars of the past few years have pretty well calmed down.

A better example would be YouTube, which I think most people would consider to be a good acquisition (I think it's profitable now?).

That being said, I don't see where the money is to be made on Twitter. Anecdotally, as someone outside the bay area (24, M, Western Australia), I do not know anyone (really, not one!) who has a Twitter account which they actively tweet from [1], though a few (including me) have one which is used as a Twitter feed reader.

[1] As additional context for this, I know only a couple of people my age do not have Facebook, and I have plenty of friends on Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, a few on Tumblr and even a couple on G+
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count me in:
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But you can do this too easily and be make sure yourself! Do it yourself with GPG, then calculate SHA of the binaries, compare with his text. he published the checksums with which he worked in more points of his analysis.
Why isn't The Magazine free with ads? Volume.
Problem is, whatever I read from Arrington, does not make me feel, that he really believes, he could be wrong.

And that is my problem with most so called tech-journalists (or celebrities). They oftentimes seem to make a great show of learning. At least, this is what it seems to me.
So if we just get the pointer of where that message is contained in the number and then calculate the number up to that pointer then we'll have ourselves the message.

As others have pointed out, the pointer would be longer than the original text in many cases.

It's very easy to express in layman's terms why perfect compression does not exist. If you had a compression algorithm that compressed every piece of data, it would introduce non-determinism. Say you had 4 bits (16 possibilities) and always compressed to fewer than 4 bits (8 possibilities), then one or more compressed datapoints would map to multiple uncompressed datapoints. Or in other words, you would lose information.

For a nice, format description, see Shannon's original paper:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948...
I do. Does that improve the quality of the article?

Your argument is assuming that Twitter and G+ are comparable products which they are not (unlike YT/Google video). So it's debatable whether Twitter has the same value to Google as a more successful version of G+.

Regardless, is he really expecting that after reading this article, the people who the deciding power at Google will fall to their knees and exclaim "How could we have been so blind? It's so obvious and so genius!"?
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I think noone should buy twitter,certainly not big corporations like google.they got already too much power.
Those who can't, blog.
On the contrary, this is the kind of situation a self-driving car can (eventually) handle quite smoothly, by closely monitoring the speed of all the vehicles approaching from behind, estimate how likely each driver is paying attention (by drawing a graph of speed/position in, say, 15 seconds), and if collision is likely, either accelerate away or flash break light rapidly to warn the driver behind.

All these things are near impossible to an average human driver, but there's no reason why an AI would have more trouble looking behind than forward.

* If there are enough self-driving cars, it will also (hopefully) teach those drivers who feel entitled to go 90mph at 3am that tailgating is no longer a working strategy.
That's the key phrase with Michael Arrington in general. That guy is not worth anyone's time.
Actually, their F.A.Q.[1] says that they do support this feature:

>Is Cover compatible with a security code? (passcode, pattern, etc.)?

Yes. Cover is compatible with both PIN codes and security patterns. When you have a security code set, Cover’s “peek” feature is disabled. The app icons will slide across the screen, the security code screen will appear, and then the app will launch. In order to use peek, we recommend that you configure your security code not to take effect immediately. For example, if you set it to a 1-minute or 5-minute timeout, you’ll be able to use peek without sacrificing much security.

[1]: https://www.coverscreen.com/faq
Ask HN: Mental Health Startup
We are trying to create an analytics platform that correlates online/mobile behavior to mental health wellness. Our first product is for parents to use with their children because a lot of issues that happen when young can manifest into clinical conditions as an adult (example: being bullied, obsession with violence etc). Am looking at different ways to market/get distribution/get the word out. My motivation is that a friend of mine committed suicide when I was young and I believe that we should be able to catch suicide ideation early since its never a single data point but a pattern of behavior before it happens. The site is www.mevoked.com, would love to hear what the HN community thinks. Thanks!
If nobody seems to be "excited" about this new "opportunity", there is only one explanation possible: bitcoin does all of that and more and better ;-)
is mozilla a big player?
I get the impression that one of the biggest threats to a patent troll is publicity.
The thing that really is frustrating is the phenomenon of nostalgia that tends to unfairly poison reboots or even continuations of treasured classics. Admittedly, sometimes the film makers work hard to ruin it themselves (Jar-Jar, CG monkeys, etc.), but it's hard to make a movie that will feel as good as those originals on first run. I think a key will be big action, sparse drama/politics, and lots of 'fan service' in the form of old character cameos that will almost force a smile onto our faces. Those three things are what made the Star Trek reboot so sucsseful IMHO.
The 'three things' she suggested aren't exactly ones that inspire confidence in her abilities either. "What are three things you'd fix?" "Oh...the logo and, uh, all of it, really. And the ratings system".
Nice. I think the CEO already knew his app sucked, so she didn't have to convince him of that, but obviously she convinced him she was the best person to fix it, and that's great.
The deliberate balkanization of all finance in fiat money will backfire big time. The dinosaurs are simply herding everybody in the direction of bitcoin, and there will be no turning back ;-)
I wouldn't say absurd... just different. I mean, if you have been using windows for 14 years and are used to teh Maximize button, and then you use MacOS and click the box button beside the x and.. something COMPLETELY different happens. does that make MacOS absurd? or does that make windows absurd to Mac users? (while proponents of both OS would tell you YES it DOES make it absurd, but they are both WRONG aren't they?) Different isn't necessarily a bad design.
Twitter has NEVER made a profit. They can barely monetize their products.
If you are American, your cost of flying and driving is already quite low compared to the rest of the world, what's being "milked?" Since you used motorways and might be from the UK, I don't know what your situation is. Transportation infrastructure is one of those monopolies that the government is the best choice to take care of.
Or maybe it'll be better. Microsoft has a history of alternating good and bad products. XP, Vista, win7, Win8... just one example
Every time I read an article about the death of the PC and the ascension of mobile, I wonder how much carrier subsidies distort the relative demand for PCs vs mobile devices.

I'm inclined to believe that mobile sales are "artificially" inflated by these subsidies to a large degree.

Of course, if this business model is sustainable over the long term I guess it doesn't matter for mobile h/w manufacturers.

But for s/w developers the fact that people upgrade h/w every 2 years because of subsidies doesn't mean that those h/w sales are translating into a greater user base.
If you can't make it to the rally, consider chipping in a few bucks for a t-shirt to help us cover the overtime pay we're going to owe the stage and sound crew when the rally runs long: http://igg.me/at/stopwatchingus
I think he presented an argument other than "it would be cool". The post is unlikely to influence the decision makers much if at all. But I don't see any downside to the post. You could write your thing about Uber (which is kind of lame) and I don't think anyone would care.
One way to tell if they are still doing it. Give them honeypots, hook them and wheel them in.
Just an off topic question as it was a while ago since I left the world of torrenting. Back in the day, it was mainly music and movies that most folks were trying to get. What else are being torrented these days?
Thanks.

I believe Assembly has a competitive advantage as the first mover and more importantly the open development approach where anyone in the world can participate...for example in only the last 40 hours, already over 83 people have signed-up to build support-foo...a not-perfect but relevant comparison: Zendesk (largest competitor to product) has an engineering team of only ~50 including designers, QA, & devops.
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It was a sarcastic suggestion to suggest that you could take the combination of any large company and any startup and write an article "$LARGE_COMPANY should buy $STARTUP".
Why does no-one ever factor in the costs of transferring systems in this upgrade process? It's not trivial to set up a new system and bring your stuff over.
The book The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton was an interesting story about an experiment in deep brain stimulation.
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Using prepared statements is necessary condition (of secure) for any application independent of language. Almost all databases (and their drivers) support prepared statements.
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> which is why it's even more important to make sure we're actually talking about the same things.

To some extent, but it is also impossible to do so perfectly.

> Semantics matter.

Semantic agreement is limited to the actual parties to the communication, and by location, place, time, and social context. You wouldn't explain something to a 5 year old the way you would a 25 year old and the same basic problems occur when you cross cultural or temporal boundaries.

When linguists discuss language, they usually start by pointing out that human language is defined by usage, not by prescriptions regarding definitions or grammar. This is a critical difference between natural languages and computer languages. Computer languages rigidly conform to specifications. Natural languages only approximate the rules we use to describe them.

So I think you are expecting too much from human communications.
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Oh, man, this one ultimately was the last straw that broke my old XP box's back. I accidentally clicked through the set-up, and I didn't really have the sysadmin chops to fix it at that point. Whatever hitched a ride on search protect slowed that machine to a crawl. I ultimately ended up installing linux on it, but it's just not the same anymore.
The technical details:

https://developers.seagate.com/display/KV/Kinetic+Open+Stora...

The important, actual TLDR: "Kinetic Open Storage is a drive architecture in which the drive is a key/value server with Ethernet connectivity."
Ask HN: How did you find your current cofounder?
How did you find your cofounder? Did you find them at meetups? Or College friends? Or Co-workers? What would you say in your experience is the most effective way to find a good cofounder?
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Do you know Barak Obama, Miley Cyrus or Oprah? Just checking, because they use Twitter.

By "active on Google+, sharing things in private" are you referring to Gmail?

I think it's fairly non-controversial that Twitter is more considerable on a cultural level than Google+.
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> until viable competitors to Office come along

I don't think this will happen so soon. OO still looks&feels like from 90-ies, has only basic functionality, and MS Office's data formats are sufficiently complex (and probably also intermingled with implementation details) that I don't see a 100%-compatible importer being developed anytime soon.
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> Transportation infrastructure is one of those monopolies that the government is the best choice to take care of.

There are many countries around the world where the government has no money to take care of the infrastructure and you need private ventures to step in.
I guess it's a person to person thing. I am still on win7 and i usually have a lot of windows open, and i rarely ever browse through the start menu. What i usually do is press the windows button, and start typing the name of the program i wanna use. OR I press win+D to get straight to the desktop (a full screen menu consisting of things i frequently use) and choose from there.

So for someone like me, isn't the Metro Start menu good design? It has both the type-to-search thing and a full screen menu of icons i usually use.

Look i admit it seemed a little intimidating when i first saw it. Heck we have been using the start menu for more than a decade! It's almost part of our DNA now, so seeing the entire screen change in place of a menu is.... unexpected. But is it really that bad? Do you REALLY still browse through the start menu?
Being a German I only care for Mrs. Merkels privacy because that was the first (and only) moment, when she got upset.

Having her 80 million citizens spied upon by the NSA was no reason to issue a statement. Or to do her job and protect the German people from harm, as it is stated clearly in our constitution as the job of our leaders.

On the contrary. Before anything was really on the table, they declared the topic closed.

So the moment she herself is being spied upon is the moment she (at last) wakes up? Well, really? That does seem quite a little bit egoistic to me, doesn't it.

Isn't every citizen of this country worth the same? Has the same rights to be protected from arbitrary spying?

Well the Germans reelected her with great majority. And the NSA spying is really no big deal for most of my fellow citizens. They just don't care. So the answer to my question above is probably "No".

They just have this "I have nothing to hide, so who cares" mentality, that is so dangerous, so dumb and sheep-like.
OK, so head 'sploding a little... this is basically a hardware implementation of a Redis/MongoDb key/value store yes?
If so, wow... yes... the world needs more of this, I think.
Wonder if you could get it to conform to AWS S3 interface too?
I find myself doing poor pattern recognition at times (eg always choosing the wrong key for a particular door), and realizing just after that a machine learning library could well make the mistake I just did. This isn't a new insight, but it still feels like an epiphany when you realize it as it happens.
>they're minimally invasive in the sense that it doesn't actually disturb or destroy any brain tissue since the motor cortex is accessible from the outer surface.

There's a slogan, "you're never the same after the air hits your brain". Is that hyperbole then?