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Domain knowledge about legal issues is limited to a much smaller subset of people here

This is true, but often times we learn quite a bit from conversations digging into eg IP law. The bigger (and unfortunately) more nebulous area is who writes the laws? That is a question of politics, why discussions have a lot of strong opinions.
Nice idea, but let's clarify, it should be someone in technology, as opposed to politics or entertainment.

I nominate Bret Victor.
Because if there is one thing the US is known for, it is waiting for legal jurisdiction to kill someone.

If they were going to kill anyone ever for anything they didn't like, it would have happened already to a whole lot of people. Life is not a James Bond film.
You can get the page view logs. You can filter out most of the garbage that way.

http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/
I think those values are really skewed...
According to their graph, average monthly net income in Germany is over $4000, I don't know any developer here who earns that much. I guess a lot of folks entered their income before taxes, which is more realistic. If you earn $4000 before taxes in Germany, you get to take home roughly half of that after taxes and the mandatory social security and health insurance payments.
"Fifty years ago, the vigilance of FDA medical officer Dr. Frances Kelsey prevented a public health tragedy of enormous proportion by ensuring that the sedative thalidomide was never approved in the United States."

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A UK based price and product tracking site (http://salr.io)

Almost there, but I've been working on it solo, and development stalled for a bit whilst I struggled with motivational issues and analysis paralysis. Hope to get something MVP-able very soon!
Because you are not using Anaconda...
In Chrome, you can also use Shift-Cmd-C <hover select> <backspace>. Perfect for killing the stupid floating bar at the top of the viewport.
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I nominate Satoshi Nakamoto.
yes but as I quoted, paracetamol is something you can overdose really easily, it's also a medicine everyone around me is using as a trivial thing. I might be surrounded by idiots but I think I'm the only one in my entourage who read the instructions (I've told my friends numerous amount of time "What? You're not suppose to take more than 4g per day!").
My argument is it isn't a parody at all. They reworked the lyric for their product. It's done a lot in advertising ("I'd like to buy the world a coke" vs. "I'd like to teach the world to sing".)

It boils down to this: the Beastie Boys song had more worth than an original song they wrote themselves. In addition to the actual song (which is a snappy professional-grade pop tune) they appeared to be trading on the Beastie Boys name in promoting the video.

With limited exceptions, if you're using the creating works of others for your commercial benefit, you should pay the artist. Full stop.
That's very true. I was planning to revisit the pricing once the product is a little more polished and I remove the beta label. Your suggestions make a lot of sense.

I think the most important focus for now should be to grow the userbase, and I do worry a little about restricting growth with an increased price and also the current usage restrictions on the free tier.

Education as a form of marketing is a great idea, but takes a considerable investment of effort to do well. I'd need to hone my skills at writing and teaching to attract a large audience and it could easily turn into a full time job all by itself. Will give it some thought though.
But Toto is the name of a band and Tata the name of an industrial complex that produces, among other things, cars.
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Firefox OS port to the HTC One: https://github.com/firefoxos-htc-one

Round-based RPG Game written in Java/libGDX: https://github.com/andef4/adventure-game

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All of them are still pre-alpha quality.
my impression is the OP is a bit loose and ambiguous in the some of the terms used like "plain text" and "local" etc; and the TC article makes the confusion worse.

So just for the record, are these all of the actual issues?

- no SSL verification means it's trivial to MITM
- exposure of other player's emails/bio/birthday/location/exif data in pics
- address book data is sent unhashed to the server
- signup emails expose the cleartext password (is this right?)

All important issues, and I'm assuming you've corrected these.

But the way I understand it, there's no reason or way to protect the client from the user him/herself - custom CA install, decompilation, etc are all ways for the user to get to their own data, or their own communication with the server.

So I'm a bit at a loss why the TC article is hammering on the "… and the local file which contained user information did not require any decryption to read."

The OP also mentions the FB tokens being exposed and such - I'm assuming these are only sent over SSL, and other people won't have access to it (with the caveat of the SSL fix), right?
Can you provide a source for the first statement? It seems unlikely to me that a language implementation is going to be fast on text processing which is essentially a aggregate task of what most benchmarks try to profile individually, but I could be missing something less obvious.
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I was the same, and I'm not exactly a morning person at the moment, but I am a lot better. The two main things which are mentioned here are exercise and sleep well.

For the first, I went for resistance training as cardio bores me too much. For the sleep, I just started to eat well (more veg, less pizza) and my body seemed to get into a better rhythm. There were possibly more factors involved, but I guess I'll never know.
I think it's also a hoot that they are in contempt of pink yet all their products feature purples and golds. Every princess color _except_ pink.

http://www.goldieblox.com/collections/products
Satoshi couldn't be person of the year, he hasn't been heard from since '10! /s
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It's like watching a horrible accident occurring and knowing that you can do nothing.
> My dream would be to switch Postgres to main memory or column store mode, but I guess that's not happening very soon :)

If it can be done besides the traditional architecture, be it in a fork or without touching existing code; and if you can at least start the work, it could happen soon.
Senators have to go to the press to try to stop the government from doing what clearly breaks the law -- the Constitution, no less -- using up billions of taxpayer funds and undermines American business for no clear benefit.

Conventional wisdom says the Cold War was between the doctrines of Capitalism and Communism and that the doctrine of Capitalism won.

It doesn't look like that view was right.

The doctrine of the KGB and Stasi is winning over both of them.
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The word "filters" is not in this text

What it actually says is far less inflammatory:

"We have had repeated meetings of the extremism task force—it met again yesterday—setting out a whole series of steps that we will take to counter the extremist narrative, including by blocking online sites."
On average, about 20% of the articles on the front page have been penalized, while 38% of the articles on the second page have been penalized. (The front page rate is lower since penalized articles are less likely to be on the front page, kind of by definition.) There is a lot more penalization going on than you might expect.

==Why there will never be a Flat tax...
US of A is the Best!

Seriously though. There is more to life than how much money you make. Quality of living, nature, clean water, clean air, amount of cars and so on.

I once wanted to work in Silicon Valley, and I have worked there for a while. But considering the politics of USA, like basically you are being watched everywhere, I wouldn't want anymore.
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When I read the FDA press release, it states that 23andMe must cease marketing their product. I don't see where it says that they must stop selling it. If I'm right about that, they're free to continue selling the product but have to stop their public statements about it, until the FDA grants them leave to do so.
There are little to no fees when making a transaction on the bitcoin network. But companies like Coinbase that buy or sell bitcoins are free to charge fees to cover their cost of operations.
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"More verbose"? Just how... you tell me. A line? This no JavaScript/Coffescript land, this is freaking good old C++. Don't tell me about verbosity on this level.

Ah, and you found a gap in the template usage. Something not well thought. Some little case that the standard falls for it. Join the line, son. You got to understand and accept this. If you do you have a wonderful toolbox to architect whatever you want with it. If you don't you are another guy on the internet shouting that "C++ sucks".

Again, the analysis is interesting, but it misses the real deal when trying to make a point. Guy named Robert in the comment section does hit the nail by the head by the way. The real point is that structs are raw data structures while classes are fully featured OOP entities. Don't put they in the same box.
It is not about deserves or don't, it's about influence. Yousafzai influence to the World is negligible in comparison to Snowden.
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The Prime Minister: We have put in place some of the toughest controls that one can possibly have within a democratic Government, and the TPIMs are obviously one part of that. We have had repeated meetings of the extremism task force—it met again yesterday—setting out a whole series of steps that we will take to counter the extremist narrative, including by blocking online sites. Now that I have the opportunity, let me praise Facebook for yesterday reversing the decision it took about the showing of beheading videos online. We will take all these steps and many more to keep our country safe.
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Why not judge by objective metrics, like whether the expert's name is included in one of the oldest and most important protocols in the area of study?
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While many traits are rooted in genetics, the truth is that without enviromental effect genetics differences, probably can't be expressed.

As was evidence by the article on the nature of psychopath psychologist, he didn't commit an act of violence, despite his predisposition of it.

Many, many subtle social effects can contribute to worse performance of subjects.

Likewise I often see 'genetic' argument used to justify the status quo. I.e. the ones in power are in power because they have better genetic material and not just because they are good at exploiting current system or just plain lucky.
theory is very often contrasted to "practice" [...] a Greek term for "doing", which is opposed to theory because pure theory involves no doing apart from itself. [1]

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Is this a HN person, or any person selected by HN? I think the former would be more interesting.
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Probably very little. The feeling in the wind seems to be that copyright should never end. And why should it? Other property rights don't end.
Elon Musk - SpaceX and Tesla have been on HN pretty consistently this year, and it's an inspiring option, too.

Snowden is not a bad choice, especially since he'll probably be snubbed by the Times in favor of the politically safe Miley Cyrus, but he's not really in tech. Satoshi Nakamoto should have been the HN POY last year (or next year once BTC goes really mainstream).
Are you supporting Julian Assange?
I used to agree when people would say things like you just said. It sounds so reasonable.

Honestly, if you had NSA-level ethics, and wanted to discredit Assange, how would you do it?
It's bad because this is exactly the kind of thing that many on HN come here to see. I hate sifting through the "YC startup raises $50" news, but I love to see what people are working on, and I'm not alone.
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From the article: ...dividing the average salary by the index of living costs.

Presumably this includes "housing costs". What does "life quality" even mean?
And what about the remaining 7 billion law-abiding souls on the planet? I resonate with the intent of this article but how come protecting only an Americans' privacy be of concern to this voice on NYT? I believe this approach is not only insular (apart from being stupid) but also destined to fail.

If I were to run dragnet, I'd accept protecting the interest and privacy of all Americans back home, but strike a deal with GCHQ or some other Government agency and provide them with all the tools and tech to snoop on my fellow citizens. No legal hassles, no constitutional violation. Cost? Well that could be worked out given the advantage the data gives me to remain in power.
Ron Wyden of Oregon, Mark Udall of Colorado and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, all Democrats, are United States senators.

== Why isn't this adressed to Dianne Feinstein?
except the award isn't "who is the most influential person on the internet", it's supposed to be "the most influential person of the year on the planet".

It's like when you cite raw polling results from the Daily Kos, and say its representative of American opinion. There's a lot of bias that needs to be taken into account.
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The thing about the NSA dragnet is that if the NSA wasn't doing it, then corporations would (are) doing it. You can't stop technology from moving forward. Someone is going to be sniffing your packets now until the end of time.
Michael O Church.
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Edward Snowden definitely, not for only personal acts but as an icon. This year has definitely been a year of surveillance scandals and we can all thank this man for taking the brave step and showing light on what governments really do. Small step for a man, giant leap for mankind, no less.
Satoshi Nakamoto is not a real person.
You can't say that on HN where people rather believe in conspiracy theories.
http://www.aaisp.net/

No filters.
I have friends and family stationed at a US military base in Germany. They really liked the German cars but knew they weren't going to stay. The local dealer has an Americanization option. It basically changes the bumpers, headlights, and pilot lights and the ECU fuel map.

The front bumper requirement explains why American cars don't look as svelte as their european equivalents.
Far from 90% of code written in the numerical world is Fortran/C. And even the code that end up being written in Fortran almost always starts its life in something like MATLAB or Python. Only after all the kinks have been worked out and all the bottle necks identified might some of the code be ported to Fortran or C. And even in those cases it often only makes sense to rewrite the most critical 10%-20% of the code.
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But what would be a reasonable revenue model?
I don't want to buy a subscription to every website someone posts a link to on HN, just so that I can read it.
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It's corrected for cost of living, but when you look at the source for that data (http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.jsp), you may notice that many of the countries that have a very high cost of living are also the ones known for a very high quality of living. Some countries give back considerable more in exchange for those costs.

In places like the UK you should really distinguish between London and the rest of the UK. Or SV and the rest of the US.

Also, more than half of the countries listed are inside the EU, which for developers is definitely a single market with few barriers.
I don't understand what you don't understand, given that you are yourself taking each county/town (not sure what is the atomic unit of judicial division here) as one RV to which you associate a winning rate. There are surely enough of them to get them in bins of winning rate.

Anyway, my point was to highlight that the mean alone is not very informative.
We need to stop create situations that create extremist groups. There is no need for internet censorship.
It's much easier to opt out of corporate sniffing. A Linux laptop with the OS booted from a live-cd comes to mind.. and of course not engaging in all these web-services helps.
Presumably the GPs lover was a young, western woman, and only inconvenienced by the collapse of the Soviet Union in an ideological manner.
We are still free to leave the country (for now...).
Is it just me who thinks this sounds more like an ad for 23andme?
...all claiming that they would have done all the work.

Its worse than that. They claim that the speculative idea was all of the work, and you're nothing but a thief who stole it and did the easy part of, you know, actually doing stuff.
Great, another patent on abstract math upheld by our court system...
What kind of doctor would write such an irresponsible letter? Oh...

But the alternative is banning all information that anyone could possibly use to evaluate their own health.

stopped reading there.
Almost certainly because she is allergic to common sense.
AAISP are awesome and any self-respecting geek should be using them but they would have no ability to affect filters of this kind, only the optional porn filter, which they do disable.
Not sure if your whole reply is sarcastic. See my reply to gjm11 if what you need is an explanation of what I wrote.
When it comes to what the US considers a security threat, being formally charged would actually be a luxury.
I agree with you on the NSA-level ethics concept. I believe there are people within US intelligence agencies that would stoop this low without a second thought.

But, it's also plausible that Assange is an abusive asshole. Given the circumstances, and the story of the women involved, I'm inclined to believe he's an asshole more than I'm inclined to believe the NSA planted two women into the circle of people supporting him in Sweden. I strongly suspect something would have come out by now to give us some indication if that were true.

I've been involved in activist groups. Including some that have been infiltrated by local, state, and federal agents. It tends to come out. There tend to be clues. It may take years (and we may still find out at some point that these women really were honeypots set by some government), but it usually does reveal itself. It's difficult to maintain a completely artificial life and story for a long period of time. I know that cops, feds, spooks, will do horrible thing...but, there are limits to what they can do without being found out.

Is this one of those cases? I don't know for sure. But, I'm inclined to say no. I could be wrong.
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Don't get rid of $rootScope!!!!

Its an essential tool for all kinda of hackery which maybe is not the best ways to do things but its the fast way.

I ran into a jqeury popup bug and there was no way to get data inside it without crowbaring the rootScope. For some weird reason it would not accept a controller within, or decorating the popup, depending on where the popup HTML was placed within the HTML file.

Note: I never worked out it was a bug or me not understanding jquery properly. The point is $rootScope can allow corners to be cut in emergency situations.
Well, if this is modeled after the Times' POY, then it's perfectly fitting. Former winners include You, The Protester, The American soldier, The Middle Americans, The Computer, etc.
I guess this survey does not have enough data points for all countries? There is no way Spain has a bigger avg salary than France for devs.
Can you justify your claim that a bulk collection of phone records "clearly" violates the Constitution? I don't think the jurisprudence is so obviously on your side there.
You're correct, of course. The problem is that libertarians doesn't agree that "extremely small or entirely absent government" leads to Somalia and suggesting that they move there is thus the purest of straw men. I just attempted to return the favour.
I wouldn't use two women who could, at any time, very publicly expose the conspiracy.
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Bret Victor has been fantastic inspiration for me. I believed no programming video can make my jaw drop any longer, but Bret pulled it off. Hugely recommended: http://vimeo.com/71278954
"Person of the Year" is really "Newsmaker of the Year." It's not an endorsement, just a recognition that they made the most news. Hitler was TIME's "Man of the Year" in 1938.
How is "blocking online sites" different than "filtering"?
> Due to a bug in our third-party network library the certificates were not being verified so a self signed certificate could decrypt the data.

Finally, now the TC article makes sense. Someone told me the guy that found the exploit works for one of your competitors. ;).
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"blocking online sites" implies filter, does it not? Obviously they won't actually put filter in the text, that would be far too direct for a politician.
Thanks, funnily enough I started a tiny Facebook ad campaign to familiarise myself with it just yesterday. Need to put in some work to make the facebook page and ad more attractive before drawing any conclusions about its effectiveness though.

I agree the amount of targeting you can do is very cool.
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This is an excellent point! I hope everyone who cares about this issue is doing their part and voting with their dollars. Yes, donate to EFF, write to your congresscritter/senator, but also reward the business that invests money in causes that you care about. Sure, they are doing it to benefit their bottomline, but they could just as easily have paid that money to make the problem go away like so many other businesses did.

Newegg has been my exclusive source of tech goods since they started standing up to trolls. I intend to keep rewarding them with my repeat business.
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How does booting Linux from a live CD make your packets invulnerable to sniffing? Also, that's not a real solution, even if it did work.
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> "Our first priority is to keep Americans safe from the threat of terrorism."

Uh, no. The first job of a good, decent government is protect the rights of its citizens. It now seems that the first job of a citizen is protect him/herself from the government.