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Did this line bother anyone else?

> If you are a citizen of the UK, Canada, New Zealand, or Australia, you may also be glad, because everything the NSA collects is by default shared with your government

He spends the whole post telling us its okay to trust the US and then completely throws that out the window by saying 4 other countries have all of our data too.
You're right. What I meant was that doing your regular system updates is enough to upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3, there's nothing special you need to do on top of that.
It only conjures up the image of a young guy with slicked back hair in an expensive suit talking about models and bottles because that was the most apt caricature of the investment bankers in, e.g., Manhattan. In SF, though, it's going to start conjuring up images of the coder typing on a Macbook in a coffee shop while casually dressed, talking about his startup ideas.

Those are superficial differences. You know what actually matters? Whether he will defend the reputation of a whistleblower in the face of power. Whether he will fight when he finds out that women are getting paid 15% less in his company. Whether he'll push hard for an environment that prevents managerial abuses. That's the shit that matters, not whether he wears a hoodie vs. a suit.

On the serious moral stuff, the modern incarnation of Silicon Valley is just so fucking conventional and submissive to authority that, as far as I'm concerned, it has forfeit its right to live.
Article aside, this concept of automatically playing videos on page load is really really annoying.
This is trivial - the whole purpose of foreign intelligence is to help the interests of your country while disregarding or actively harming the interests of everyone else. They have no obligation whatsoever to protect (or even refrain from murdering) others, but they do have an obligation to protect their own citizens, so they have restrictions for that.

The only two valid reasons for NSA not to capture all the foreigners email is if (1) it's too costly (and it probably isn't); and (2) the goverment decides that the PR harm is greater than whatever they gain from having all the email (and it probably isn't either).
> one has to think there are useful hard problems to solve rather than just banging out SHA-256 hashes over and over.

I sincerely hope that a truly useful proof-of-work can be discovered. It would be a very big deal.

The problem is, the work has to be reliably verifiable, and easier to verify than just doing the work over again, which is why hashes are a good fit.
Uhh, people totally do defer buying computers because the price per compute is constantly falling. If you are running a large-scale operation, you do not over-provision. You do not buy computers you won't need till next year till next year, because they'll be cheaper and better next year. This is a direct consequence of the deflationary environment created by constantly improving computation. Heck, even normal consumers put off buying a new iPhone X because the iPhone X+1 is launching in 3 months, so why buy the crappier one for more money today?
Wage silent economic war against an opponent long enough, and you won't have to take on their air carrier groups, awesome air forces, or well trained and equipped armies.
I could imagine some sort of organ senses - child has certain hormones (eg testosterone) in salive, and certain receptors on the nipple pick up on these hormones and then tailor the milk.

Note that I have no basis for this claim, but one of the many ways the body communicates is through hormones, so it certainly wouldn't be outside the realms of possibility...
You shouldn't have stopped. I can't blame you, I almost did the same, but if you continue to read it is obvious satire. I don't know about the site in general, but that stuff was intended to be comedic and go along with the silly questions that develop the story. The author is playing the role of a satirized liberal.
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On the contrary, children need their own buses so they can be shuttled to school despite an existing public transportation infrastructure.

These children are paid above median income, espouse libertarian ideals, refuse to participate or share, and require their own shuttle service separate from 'the natives'.

It says something that to draw 'talent', you have to implement a separate transportation system to appease their fragile sensibilities.
I was responding to your concern that all bitcoins are going to vanish.

Regarding fungibility, bitcoins are definitely fungible. They are interchangeable, of equal value, and sub-dividable.

Fungibility does not require that all parts be identical, only of equal value and utility.

By your argument, USD is not fungible because old 100 dollar bills may not be accepted in some places.

From Investopedia: "A good or asset's interchangeability with other individual goods/assets of the same type. Assets possessing this property simplify the exchange/trade process, as interchangeability assumes that everyone values all goods of that class as the same."

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fungibility.asp
You are confusing "reality" with "law". Changing the law is not the biggest problem since 9/11 (though there has been enough of that, see Patriot Act, etc.), it is going around the law and simply ignoring it.

For example, it has always been legal to kill enemies during war (with restrictions). We've just now expanded the definition of what a war is and what an enemy is, or changed the meaning of "torture" etc.

Of course many of these things started before 9/11, but if you can't detect the difference since then, you need to get out of the (law) library more often.
Not that surprising to me personally, but a shitty situation.

The only reason it isn't surprising is that I briefly worked for a company that was creating a digital media service (Technicolor's MGO service, after they acquired the remaining chumby employees), and I remember hearing about how this sort of situation could occur as part of the technical planning and I was just flabbergasted that EULA/TOS or not these media companies would 'sell' a digital movie to a consumer and then ex-post-facto limit their ability to watch it based on various contracts. This example seems especially egregious considering the seasonal aspect of the movie.

While Amazon is certainly complicit here, I think the article is a bit too hard on them as basically the current system is you play by these rules (set by collusion of the media companies) or you get no access to content.
First I'd like to say any criticism I can offer you is only in the spirit of helping you strengthen your product offering.

With that said I don't really buy into your mobile premise. Quora is great on mobile, it's the only place I use it. I don't think having a simple, and mobile focused design is a competitive advantage, at this stage in the app economy it's a must.

Maybe focusing on the element of short length, quick questions is a better idea. Because quora is definitely notorious of having essay sized questions/answers.

Also is there any type of niche you want to focus on? Who is your main user persona other than someone who's curious?
Is this illegal? Could he somehow go to some authority?

EDIT: Why is it unlikely the FBI will successfully investigate?
If I have to put it into words, there's been a tangible shift from "let's do something interesting together with this cool new thing" to "how can I get rich with this thing?", and that transition makes everyone else feel like a tool for your personal advancement.

Yes, exactly. You're hitting it right on the head in this thread.
Help selling tech in healthcare
I would like some insights on how you would approach selling software to hospitals, clinics, private practices. The software is a telemedicine platform for specialists. Anyone have insights, strategies or experience in this area?

Thanks
It is not the same winner take most dynamic: Most companies in a sector are not competing against one another, often they provide complementary goods and services. Also, small pieces of a big market can still be large.

Putting aside the specific example of computer hardware it is clear that industry and sector macro trends exist:
Consider the DotCom boom when tech VCs made superlative returns.
Probably not, in the sense of computers getting better and scaling up say Pollard-Rho. "Probably" because who knows what computers will look like in 20 years.

But nobody knows what new attacks people will come up with, either against 256 bit ECC or SHA2.
"Smart drugs" mentioned:

- modafinil

- piracetam

- amphetamines

- beta blockers

- ritalin
You don't actually have to do anything if you are already on Wheezy. Just update normally.
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Wow! Great info!
Now I'm curious, how many litecoins would it have generated in two days?
Ask HN:
Other than hackernews, what other sites do you source news from?
That was not the question, and even people who accept that should understand that breast milk is not always an option, for instance for the father I know whose wife died shortly after they had a child.
Best tutorial on plain OO I've seen
Drug prohibition is less a factor in American incarceration than domestic violence is.

And, yes: "young people don't vote" is in fact the reason that drug prohibition is the factor that it is. Sorry. How do you rationalize your way past that? Young people are overwhelmingly outcompeted in the US by old people.
How long is your nap?
I agree it's imprecise. But I'd argue the de facto fees in the existing system are much higher than 2.5%. The biggest cost are all the transactions that should happen but don't. Most merchants/payment companies block payments from dozens if not hundreds of countries due to fears of fraud.
Wish I knew.
or "...with unauthorized account usage on AWS." I get that the unauthorized use was mining, but the mining operation itself isn't unauthorized by Amazon nor by the creator of the currency.
You can (and should) set up an AWS CloudWatch alert on your account that will send you an email or SMS notification when your monthly bill exceeds a set threshold.
Yeah, I've done that now, but it's 'after the horse has bolted'
Customs returns seized property - Update to a previous submission.
I think you're off on both points.

You do not have to use a bank account for USD - you can use safety deposit boxes or other secure locations. This is analogous to how you would store large amounts of bitcoin privately.

I think the incentive to use a bank for BTC will ultimately be greater than for USD, since the risk of theft is less predictable or manageable by the average consumer. Holding a large bitcoin balance is terrifying - any keylogger or other compromise could result in complete loss. With physical USD, at least you know intuitively how to protect it.
"I cant recall the quote but someone once said the best devepopment methodology was to hire a bunch of 10x developers, lock them in a room with a mission statement and leave them to their own devices."

This is why the majority of start ups fail. Developers have a ridgid vision of product, and then they spend 6/7 months building that product and then at the end you find out no one actually wants that product. Even though the product is good, its just solves a problem no ones interested in.

You need have system to actually work discover if you are creating value. You need something to hold yourself accountable.

In reality most successful start ups have a phase of constant learning, just to discover who are their customers, and what they place value on. And they normally have various metrics to hold themselves accountable.

The best way I have encountered is agile development with experiments to find out what customers actually need. Then metrics to see how people react to changes. If your vision isn't going anywhere, then you need a fundamental rethink which again needs to be tested.
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> For example, how did Kim Jong Il buy all his whiskey? It's outright illegal for a U.S. company to sell to the North Korean government. Okay, so they sell to an overseas distributor who then sells to the North Korean government. Turns out that's illegal as well and the government must take action to not allow the U.S. whiskey maker or the distributor to operate in the U.S. any longer. Okay, so the whiskey make checks out their distributors finds one who doesn't sell to NK, but one of their customers does. Same deal, it's illegal for anybody in that chain to operate in the U.S. After that, the chain becomes so long it's not worth looking into and Kim Jong Il was eventually able to get his whiskey.

He just bought it retail. There was a great interview of Kim Jong-Il's sushi chef awhile back, the way he gets ingredients is the chef makes trips abroad to foreign markets and buys whatever he needs from wherever, presumably paying cash. If you're willing to pay the price premium and take care of packing and shipping yourself, you can buy anything you want to, legally, without anyone else knowing.
Thanks Adam! We really do appreciate it :-).

While we are very much aware that services like Quora do have a mobile presence, our focus has always lied on being focused on short form content. This will remain our main focus as we go along, as it's one of the most important aspects of our service. Inherently, the mobile exclusivity is one of the reasons for us being focused on short form content. We believe that learning should be easy and therefore, that short answers should suffice, as long as they have some substance.

Our niche/target group is frankly, the "every-day-man"; basically, the mom in the grocery store wondering what certain additives do to our bodies; or someone wanting to gain a better understanding of a given history topic; or someone in a nightclub wondering how to approach someone they find interesting. Basically, we are not only focusing on the "non-techy" folks and instead trying to make Quindo a mainstream, all-in-all service for all age groups and topics.
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Sure guess that could have been clearer. Unauthorized account usage used for mining litecoins.
There is no evolutionary equilibrium. The below linked study of e.coli demonstrated that even during periods where morphology is somewhat fixed that the genomic evolution rate does not slow down.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7268/full/nature0...

Their generation time is shorter, but the principle is the same.
Bitcoin doesn't really solve the Byzantine General's Problem, as demonstrated by the March 2012 network split [1], which was later resolved by consensus between users (lead developers and biggest miners) using communication channels outside of the Bitcoin network.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bitcoin#The_fork_of_...
Maybe it's to Bitcoin's benefit that people don't appreciate the ramifications of full reserve. I suspect most people who have grown up with Keynesianism, credit cards, and "free checking" will have no desire to adopt full-reserve banking with its resultant lower velocity of money. Looking at Coinkite specifically, their fees seem crazy high and it seems inevitable (within the market for lemons that is the Bitcoin ecosystem) that a scammy fractional-reserve competitor (perhaps developed by a 17-year-old) will come along with a slick Web site and lower fees.
I don't need that to perform better. I would do it the natural way: maintaining a healthy lifestyle. This means proper sleep, daily exercise and a balanced and varied food.
Even when test scores go up, some cognitive abilities don't
Before you apply for an accelerator, try to meet the people behind it
Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: it is obviously and unambiguously illegal. You can certainly refer this to the FBI computer crimes folks and your local law enforcement. It is unlikely they will successfully investigate.
For anyone that missed the original submission - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6892481
Tell me more about your knowledge of logical fallacies.
There's probably a good chance the placebo effect was holding him back during that month. He was already nervous that he might need the drugs to continue working (otherwise he wouldn't have made the bet) so it follows that he may have tricked himself into believing he needed the drugs to keep working. It's hard to say either way.
How the Internet of things will replace the web
this story smells like PR via the NSA....
I've found that mocking $httpBackend in unit tests is usually an indication that the system could benefit from an abstraction.

In the article's scraping example, a service that works like `Scrape.url('success.com')` could be mocked and sidestep the $http boundary with its flushing messiness. It also would make the system easier to reason about.

For more of this line of thinking take a look at the "Don't mock what you don't own" guideline which I've found very useful.
Writing editor extensions is a totally different set of programming compared to writing applications that will run unattended across terabytes of data for years. A programmer is always sitting in front of a programming environment while your code runs. Therefore, it makes sense to allow things like deep access to the internals (dynamic scope, etc.), because if something goes wrong, it's only because the person currently in front of the computer told it to go wrong. And she's a programmer, so she can fix it.

I guarantee you that if Emacs used a "real" extension language, with lots of OO and state hiding, you'd be yelling obscenities into the computer the first time you wanted to tweak some extension you had. Have you ever seen an Eclipse user tweak one of his extensions? Didn't think so.
Less than the cost of the ec2 instances, though that is still a wide window
I think the Cubietruck has it (along with a SATA port), never used one though: http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cub...
I wonder if the author is going to be on the hook for the bill for this.

If he originally received this note from amazon, it makes me also wonder if amazon knew about the fraud while it was happening. I sense that they probably monitor the launch of many of the XXL servers more closely than others.
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Except they've been used in most every modern war / police engagement / embargo. Only the most land locked areas or conflicts were neither side (not any interested allies) had a carrier.
Oh yeah. Duda.IO totally rocks!
Used it, love it!

Psst: There are very nice improvements coming to that project …
It's not like 'performing better' is binary. I'm sure that you would perform even better if you took nootropics.
The first paragraph of this article makes this author's political tendencies eminently clear:

>somewhere in Washington, DC, there are a bunch of rich men with white hair, white skin, and black hearts screaming and stomping around in their suits because they don't want poor people to have affordable healthcare

Leaving aside the fact that the author assumes that Republicans harbor the most sinister motives possible, while Democrats are purely altruistic; income is not a good predictor of party affiliation, (and vice-versa,) and the same is true for race.[1]

This tirade makes me doubt the value of the article as a whole, though I largely agree with the conclusion.

[1] http://www.people-press.org/2009/05/21/section-1-party-affil...
Awful. I worked for a marketing/search company once and they loved to exlpoit the image loading hack to track users and validate email addresses. I don't know why Google would turn this on. There are just too many downsides for a user. Privacy, bandwidth, security and fishing are my top issues (in no specific order). Google/gmail should simply prompt a user that they have the ability to turn this on. The user can opt in or not to this. It only needs to be done once. I don't use the web interface but I will have to go and disable this in case I decide to use it in the future. Again, someone sends you an image containing malicious code, illegal content or whatever and then opening by default? Bad idea. We realized this was bad a near Internet eternity ago.
Anybody knows if the kernel version was bumped?
One discrete tit for each tot? Beyond that, who knows. I'd love to see this phrase turn up in an academic journal somewhere.
"In my day, we lived and loved with so much more depth of feeling. Not like these kids today with their [x]'s and their [y]'s."
How has no one mentioned this video yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLwML2PagbY

Mercedes discovered this property of chickens a while back, and made a great commercial out of it.
I'm not sure that the assumptions I've made are fallacious. I read the examples on the fallacy of composition and they are things like "if one runner runs faster they can win. so if all runners run faster, all can win" but I didn't say that.

The original author made a very blanket, not at all specific statement about how "this leads to that" without any qualifications whatsoever. I have provided a specific counter-claim to that statement and asked for help reconciling. You can't just wave your hand and say "a whole economy is different than every other unit of organization in the world" just because.

It's not as though my not spending money causes the economy to halt. The more I save the more bank deposits are available for banks to lend and spur further growth. This is one of the feedback cycles you've mentioned. This works at all scales so as anyone or everyone is not spending two things are happening in parallel:

1. bank deposits pile up which all things being equal will push the interest rate down

2. real resources (oil, steel, timber, etc) pile up or are not being actively consumed, thus making them available for use

Then as the money loaned in 1 makes its way into the economy via loans, the real resources in 2 are readily available for those who secured the loans to make use of. I've just shown a situation where "deflation" leads to increased investment and growth rather than decreased.

EDIT:

If one person saves money, they can save money. Therefore if all people save money, all people can save money. That's the fallacy of composition I've supposedly made.

There's a difference between "saving money" and "not spending any money at all, whatsoever" This is because even the most ardent saver would still have rent/mortgage, utilities, food, gas, insurance, clothing, etc. The necessities make up a large portion of what makes the world go 'round; nobody would stop eating for 6 months because they could buy twice as much bread in the summer for the same price.

Furthermore bitcoin deflation isn't something that's guaranteed to happen forever, always no matter what. Many people are speculating in bitcoin right now the same way that investors speculate on a growing company, but that company's stock won't go up forever just because. At some point the exchange rate between bitcoin and the real economy will reach some kind of equilibrium and the price will level out.
I thought it was disappointing that no mention of a distributed denial of service attack or a cyber warfare angle was really developed in the story.
> (in Potrero ,Lower Nob not Tender-Nob. Hell no! Not Tender-Nob. If you think it is a cesspool now, you should have seen it back then).

>When they say that we should be "more involved in city life", what they really mean is that you should fork over more of your hard earned dollars to preserve the culturally attractive blight and color of the city, so that they could continue to make merry, uninterrupted while we sit on the outside, looking in, but never really welcomed or accepted.

I find it hard to believe such opinion-havers are faced with a hard time fitting in with the people they interact with whose prime objective isn't 'networking to make more money.'
I don't see why Capitol or Pentagon make any difference in the context of the support of 'The War Against Terror' agenda.