skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I would not have objected to Manning receiving multiple life sentences for his violation of the law, if due process had been respected. But it wasn't.

In his defense of Snowden's decision to flee the country, Daniel Ellsberg elaborates more on what's different between now and when he made the decision not to flee in 1971.
Episode 11: Reverse Proxy
12:33 - still broken for chrome.
Drunk guy on the street
I believe the main interest is not the statistical study itself, but rather the spontaneous explanations people give for returning a lost wallet.
President Obama calls on every American to learn code[video]
> honestly the language of maths too often obfuscates rather than simplifies

This is wrong on so many levels, I don't even know where to begin.

Mathematical formulas and equations are the ultimate tool for simplification and abstraction, the best that humankind could come up with. Explaining mathematical concepts precisely in natural language can be extremely difficult and time-consuming. The only problem is, you have to learn that language, just like any other language. Otherwise, it's like complaining that Japanese "obfuscates" things because you can't read a sentence in Japanese.
What is an awesome founder? Or maybe, what does an awesome founder look like?

This is a serious question. It actually looks easier to gauge the marked than the people..
Scott Adams: Goals vs. Systems
Mattermark is something of little relevance to me but how good is the data? They recently produced a list of the fastest growing startups in my local community and the results were pretty odd. Companies with huge measurable growth beaten by, literally, new starts just a few months old with no revenue and few customers.

Granted I don't know what yard stick they used to come up with the list but to me on the ground in the community the list seemed way off and widely ridiculed.
Point 2 is wrong. Tripura and kerala are more educated(94.05 and 93.65), Delhi is only having 86.3%.
Turn off, as in, turned off location tracking in Google.

I do not believe it is possible to break out of the surveillance state by using technology, unless you want to go the RMS route, which I am not that keen on or even sure if it works 100%. I also consider this to be a problem that is social than technological. If society largely agrees to an invasive level of snooping as a valid trade-off for reasonable security, no amount of cyrpto or anonymization will keep you safe. Privacy is a social contract that is enforced using technology. If the contract is flawed, the technology, as always, will only serve to amplify that flaw.

Meanwhile, Google is only one of the players in the data harvesting world. Starting from the ISP that you are on, everyone captures and sells your data. The only saving grace with Google is that they at least admit to doing this and provide some degree of visibility into it. There are companies out there that the average person has little idea about. For example, some of them are shipped billing data of telcos that get mined and profiled on daily basis. And that is just one company.
Yeah that's a suspicion on my part as well. Same reason we'll never see Oracle on a list like this. In the recent interview with Charlie Rose, Ellison wouldn't even remotely come close to challenging what the NSA was doing (he also pulled a cheap dodge by saying the great thing about living in a democracy is the people can do something about it if they want to).
This is at least a 3rd degree repost.
Reform government surveillance, huh? So we just need better government surveillance then? With checks and balances and all, but how well have those worked in the past?

Did Bradley Manning get his "due process"? No? "-But.. but.. checks.. and balances!".. Who checks the checkers and balances the balancers?

If you put Stalin in power and tell him to make sure he himself behaves well, what can you expect to happen? What about politicians in a democracy? Will/can they watch their peers, or is it more likely they'll just collude in corruption?
> …if other companies (eg, apple, intel) signed off on…

Apple's logo appear at the bottom of "An open letter to Washington".
This only makes the owner of the page with the analytics code on it not see your accesses, it does not in any way prevent Google to see all your accesses. And Google probably gives all their data to the NSA et al, anyway (be it officially or unofficially).

It’s the same misdirection tactics as talking about Facebook privacy controls – none of those controls prevents Facebook from seeing and recording it all. And whatever is recorded is probably passed on to the NSA.
> I think these companies are acting on pretty high principle.

I wouldn't say that. With news spreading about the NSA having access to your Google data, including your Gmail, people start to worry, and more importantly, they start to look towards alternatives. Google is getting a pretty bad reputation these days when it comes to user privacy, and this isn't helping their cause. This obviously affects their bottom line, and so they're looking for change.
Are there any explanations for this phenomenon. I keep experiencing it all the time :)
Wow, felt a little sick when I saw how detailed and accurate it was. Effect of having an Android phone with all the Google location bells and whistles turned on?

Would be nice if I could get the location services features without a comprehensive history of my movements being saved (possibly forever?). It it possible?
I never really considered that I would see in my lifetime two people be persecuted so strongly by the government for doing such a beneficial thing. This seems like more "1950's over-zealous anticommunism".
This is no longer the case, in Scala 2.8 they were replaced with persistent collections based on the work by Phil Bagwell, afaik they are faster than the old implementation.
Didn't the old implementation have issues when you started sharing these maps between threads?
More a Simple Music "Download" App.

The content in this example is not streamed.
Excellent design, Here are a few bugs logged for bestmedicareprice.com by 99tests

http://app.99tests.com/openbugs/?company=best-medicare-price
It's not down for me
Linux.Darlloz is a nasty new worm
No. For example, Microsoft put out a public press release touting it.
We're a way off 90% but it's already started.

Me, I'd be fine with sites that blocked users that don't display ads, like me. Then I could make the choice whether it's important enough to me that I would put up with them. It's unlikely I would but at least at that point we're on a level playing field.

I'd actually support some sort of request header that (unlike the utterly useless DoNotTrack) says something like WillNotDisplayAdvertising.
> Who checks the checkers and balances the balancers?

The Appeals Courts, the Supreme Court, the executive (can pardon), and the people's ability to riot in the streets until we get our way. We certainly aren't hopeless, we just have to try a little harder.
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How can we check that the letter and the page were actually signed by these companies? What if it's all fake?

Update:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/dec13/12-08co...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/technology/tech-giants-iss...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-surveillanc...
Someone really need to speed up with their Maps app for places outside US. I am in Indian subcontinent and other alternatives are nowhere near as good as Google.

Google, what have you become? Reading lot of Ayn Rand lately?
Spot on. This and APR make stuff a lot simpler. Have used pool allocation on a number of projects.
Seems in line with a few published results that I've run into recently:

- For one VC, market size was the main predictor of whether a company would get a term sheet. (http://iterativepath.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/how-vcs-decide...)

- A survey showed that angels and VCs care about the management team more than anything, although market characteristics and the product rank highly, too. (http://www.go4funding.com/Articles/Angel-Investors/Angel-Inv...)
You should look at the intro to David Mackay's information theory book. It had something akin to what you're saying...
i am actually not so sure about this.
If you compare the recently released Haswell Dell XPS 15 to an 15" rMBP you will find a price difference of EUR 500 (in Germany) in favor of the Dell with very comparable specs. The Dell doesn't have PCIE SSD Storage (it has a mSATA SSD of the same size) but has a higher resolution QHD screen.

13 inch models aren't as easily comparable as the Dells don't offer a QHD display but feature a touchscreen. Also the SSDs seems to max out at 128GB, but still the Dells remain quite a bit cheaper.

Thinkpad/Elitebooks are usually lacking in cutting edge hardware in favor of stability and i think the MBP should be compared to premium consumer laptops like the XPS and HP Envy instead of thinkpads/elitebooks.

Dont get me wrong, id still favour Macbooks for various reasons, but you still seem to get more for less elsewhere.
Run-ahead transfer prediction in the Mill CPU architecture
Completely agree - first question that came to my mind too.

As others alluded to, much of investing is intuition. No one can predict the future, otherwise they'd be billionaires hand over fist. So they use their intuition and available data to get as confident as they can about an investment.

I feel for them - what data do you have on a founder, especially a first timer? Maybe pedigree, relevant experience, or a portfolio of past projects for a hacker, but outside of that, seems to be a fuzzy haze of gut feeling...confident, had "good" answers to questions, etc.
> Now the megacorps are trying to defend our personal liberty and privacy from governments that have gotten too powerful (albeit mostly because it would improve sales)! That's... unexpected.

Don't be too quick about it. Once the megacorps win the war, it's interesting to see who will defend our personal liberty and privacy from them.
>> The Appeals Courts, the Supreme Court, the executive (can pardon)

So basically you're saying the watchers watch themselves? But this is exactly the problem I was pointing out. It's just not going to work, ever, and the US is excellent proof of that. Started with a minimal government and a strong constitution, but then.. an Empire happened.

>> We certainly aren't hopeless, we just have to try a little harder.

Not through political means though. Writing to your representatives doesn't work all that well either. Neither does voting.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6866822.
I wish I knew how to build such thing. In any event, your project would be immensely popular. Hopefully financially rewarding too!
Before the revelations appeared, these companies did little to fight it. There are ways of acting against it proactively without breaking any NDA's and laws.

Only when confidence in their business declines because people found out exactly how complicit they'd been, they decide to do something about it.

We know where the priorities really are. In this case it's a publicity thing. They've been caught with their pants down.

If there's no source code or it's"cloud" based then I refuse to do business now.
They do collect, they just don't show it to you.
They are probably not explicitly lying about what information they retain. If they say they deleted it, well, it's probably at least inaccessible to production systems.
0 results for me.
Reminds me of Marc's post from 2007, asserting market is biggest factor.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee204/ProductMarketFit.html
Ask HN: What are shitty markets?
Everybody talks about being in the right market. Investing in the right market. Markets that are big and or will encounter rapid growth.

So maybe there are many small, stagnant markets that are ignored by investors and entrpreneurs?

Any ideas what examples of those shitty markets are?
After all, government is prevented by the rule of law from arbitrarily throw you in jail

In the uk and the us at least this is no longer true. I they call you a terrorist (with or without proof) the normal laws don't apply. They are also collecting everything we do and storing it for as long as technically possible, quite soon that will be forever.

Government agencies are the bigger problem at the present moment in time, not corporations.
When I read about the NSA tracking mobile phones worldwide, I decided to put my mobile "phone" in flight mode - permanently.

It's a PDA now. All you need to do is tell your people to call you on your landline. Like we did a few years back. (Reminder: it was actually possible to live like that - plus, you're not on an electronic leash anymore, it feels really good.)
Never had a CPU go on me.

RAM yes, PROMs yes, CMOS batteries yes, PSUs yes, drives yes.

They're probably the most reliable bit of a computer.
https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/settings
Wallet is not a good testing device. It's a common sense in a lot of people that if you see a wallet lying around on the ground, you should never pick that up. If you do, there will be a bunch of thugs showing up from nowhere, claiming it's their wallet (it is) and there used to be 1000 dollars in that wallet (there's not). It's one of the oldest tricks.
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my dashboard is also almost empty. This basically means you need to get out of the house more, hangout at restaurants, coffee shops etc!
Measuring public-facing growth is cool, but it doesn't seem particularly useful for measuring investor performance. It's like measuring someone's driving ability using the shininess of their car collection as a proxy.
If you're super paranoid and don't use the Play store, you can also install the full featured version from F-Droid[0], the Android FOSS store. I'd suggest buying the plus version or donating to OsmAnd though, if you like it.

[0] https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=osmand&fdid=...
What makes you think government couldn't make this problem go away?
Agree with you. I'm actually unclear what exactly this is a decision tree for because its steps are so subjective.

Definitely isn't the decision tree from first contact to investment - that would be much deeper. It would also have to factor in how much heat there is behind the deal already - which for most seed firms is probably the most important signal! Seems accurate as a decision tree to take a meeting with someone though.

As an exercise, try running some of their portfolio companies through that decision tree and see what kind of results you get.
Mobile cellphone = tracking device. Most mobile devices don't connect to any telco.
I was surprised to not find SICM on the list:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...
California law, like most states, does not provide for the recall of Federal officeholders.
This seems a bit toothless to me. I can't help but feel this is more about PR. There aren't any calls to action! Just a page of opinions.
This seems like an edgy way to attract traffic. If there were some more specifics behind how these rankings were determined, I'd be more inclined to care.
As anecdotic and not rigorous this is, I fully expected Madrid (or any Spanish city) to be one of the last :(.
Except in honest cities with few thugs...
If you trust Google when they say they won't collect it, you can just disable the location history (settings panel on that page). If you don't, you probably shouldn't use an Android device at all, with or without Location services.
I wonder if they've thought through what this intimidation is likely to bring about. The way I see it, if they hit the Guardian or its staff with charges, the leaks will just go somewhere governments have demonstrably been unable to get at them, i.e. Wikileaks or similar. From a government perspective, this is dreadful compared with the conservative publishing approach taken by the Guardian.

Besides, the government wouldn't mind being watched if they didn't have anything to hide.

Edit: I'll just make clear the last sentence was mostly in jest.
You can have multiple git repositories within each other so you could just `git init` in the directory you want private, add it to the parent repo's .gitignore and point it to a different remote.
> So basically you're saying the watchers watch themselves?

No, because judges don't hear appeals to their decisions. Of course if you think the entire system is broken, then there's not much I can do to convince you.
16 cities, 16*12=192. The first, 18th and 19th slides did not refer to any city.
Ask HN: How do you look for houses to rent for several months in Silicon Valley?
Hi HN,

We are a startup from the Philippines and are staying in SV for 3 months for an immersion. For our lodgings we are left to our own devices. I've been looking at Trulia, Airbnb and Zillow for houses to rent but I don't have any idea if the prices are fair or are the location strategic or convenient. We are planning to rent a car. Our immersion host is at Sunnyvale (Plug N Play). Any help would be much appreciated.
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The "like" button is currently a catch-all. Adding a "sympathize" button will end up with a bunch of unintended hilarity.
Cashing out of BitCoin
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This is a very important question and I believe that companies need to pay more attention to mobile device management.
China Mobile will begin accepting orders for Apple’s new iPhones
I once had an awkward experience because of having Google Latitude enabled and shared with contacts. I was supposed to be at a wedding but I didn't go, then a friend caught me near the event. Since then I keep location, search history etc. turned off. I have learned that the underlying technology might be cool, but it is not essential.
Thanks for the overwhelming reponse guys
I'm likely to get downvoted for this.

But not all of what the NSA is doing is bad.

I think the phone records program is good. These records are not secret by any means (the phone company owns them, not you) and its a minimally intrusive way using amounts to pattern matching to find some people who might want to hurt me and my countrymen not for who we as individuals are, but simply because we're Americans based on their Call Detail Records history.

Having spent the majority of my career working in the Telecom industry, these records are accessed with surprising ease - anyone with any sort of access to the billing system usually has full access to them (Both at a Major ITSP and one of the major wireless carriers in North America) I had actually presumed the government did too - perhaps not in real time, but anytime they wanted on demand.

I don't consider it a private thing whom I talked to - I consider the contents of those calls protected, but not the fact I made them. For what its worth, because of the structure of our telephone network, it virtually impossibly to monitor the contents of every call - You'd have to have a recording device or special service trunks to every end point everywhere in the nation. Billing records on the other hand, are generally forwarded to a central collection point for processing into your telephone bill (as well as storage and analysis for traffic planning purposes).

For what its worth - I don't think the government has a right to access mobile telephone geolocation data without a warrant - that to me is so clearly protected as it - ought to be - to be a breach of privacy if collected without a warrant.

These are simply my opinions, others clearly feel differently - IMO there really is no wrong answer here, it's all about what feels right and just to you, and where your line of privacy is.
Why water pipes always burst the way they do
Yeah, because government excess has given corporate data slurping a bad name.....
I've turned location history off three times now, I want to know why Google think they have the right to silently turn it back on again without asking me.
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Still, it's not racism, just the way the human visual system works. What do you think is racist about it? "People don't even care enough to remember the name"? That is not what is going on at all. If they wouldn't care, why would they talk to them at all?

Who knows, perhaps they even have an advantage because people actually remember them. They only get their names mixed up sometimes - other people are simply forgotten completely. How often do you forget the name of people you have just been introduced to?
I don't see how this contradicts what I said. There are tons of jobs in the software industry that don't require anything so advanced that you'd need a degree for. The JS hipsterisms are a prime example of those, but they aren't necessarily the only ones.
I wasn't aware that Twitter was working with the US Government to put immense pressure on foreign governments to give up their civil rights protections on privacy.

Can you cite examples?
There is nothing more reviled by people who were born during the cold war than a criminal who defects first to china and then to russia. No amount of tech industry pr can facilitate a comeback from that. Almost half of the people in this country will always see Snowden as a traitor.

Government surveillance has become a political wedge issue, similar to abortion. No one likes it or encourages it but people have strong emotions on both sides. Snowden is deserving of credit, he may have helped to spark another enduring and polarizing american social debate. It's unfortunate that he won't be around for the resulting legal process.

It's worth noting that the modern surveillance state didn't begin when Edward Snowden stepped in front of a camera for the first time. Where were these responsible tech giants five or ten years ago? When everyone in the country was flipping the heck out over 9/11, some of these companies went along with the crowd and gave the government access to everything. Their points are very valid, more government transparency and accountability is always good. But courage is about doing the thing when it's hard, not when it's easy. It's good to see movement in the right direction but it would have been nice if things had gotten to this point sooner. Then maybe Snowden would still be sleeping in his own bed.
AngelList should be in this ranking. Especially because FundersClub, a direct competitor, is at the top.

Yes there is a slight difference. FundersClub is a curated platform while AngelList is open. But curation alone does not a VC make. If one brokerage is on there, the other should be too.
My most frequently visited places are stop lights. Thanks, Google.
For example, solids are "solid" largely because of the Pauli exclusion principle, which says that two fermions (such as electronics) can't occupy the same state at the same time. These effects are so familiar, and we explain them with simple words like "solid," that we forget that quantum mechanics makes it work. Without quantum mechanics, we'd fall through the floor.
Yep, and it's the only company that allows you to turn it off.
It's plain, I'll give you that. And it gives you an idea. But it's not an explanation as I think it already lost meaning. The explanation is closer to o(n^2) (small o) or maybe Theta(n^2) but still lost the important aspect of only being bound asymptotically.
that's a nonsense phrase.