skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing how I own a parent of the comment above I think I can safely state it does. Open Source software has a set of methodologies that provide trust and transparency. Accountability is but one side effect of such a system. It's not a stretch to see that extended to the way corporations deal with content generation.

See Joel at Buffer's post on open salaries for reference.
Suppose we set a goal to build a dirigible the size of a small town that could float up in the air and people could live on it and it would have an expected lifespan of at least 30 years? It would be enormously expensive and I have little doubt that some new technologies would have to be pioneered to produce something so audacious. But at the end of the day, it's still reasonable to ask why that's a goal we should spend so much to achieve, and the fact that we would invent a bunch of cool technology along the way seems insufficient as a response. There are lots and lots of things that we could spend tons of money on that would produce a bunch of spin-off technology -- how would we decide which of these things we should dump truckloads of money into, and which ones we shouldn't?
Unfortunately, I think you're spot on there. Now, the question becomes whether that can be changed, and how?
False. http://www.cellebrite.com/mobile-forensics
As the joker says ' if you are good at something don't offer it free', and I completely agree to that as a business, but as a customer ( and definitely someone who is not early adopter) I would find paying for a service like this a little over the top, and there could be many like me. So the target audience is limited right now for SaneBox unless it shifts to the enterprise segment, that is an area where it can make a bigger dent.
I have an iPhone.

And when I read that the US government tracks mobile phone movements all over the world (generating a ton of other information about people), I turned it off permanently (flight mode) and use it only as a PDA.

Turns out, landline phones combined with email is more than one needs.

If I wouldn't have stopped using the "mobile call feature", my iPhone would have gone straight to ebay, right now.
I play a server-based MMO that effectively ceased to exist over a decade ago. Third-party reimplementations of many MMO servers are thriving.
I worked on Football Heroes, our first iOS application. It's an arcade football games for mobile devices. We're really excited by the progress it's made in the store so far. We currently have over 800,000 downloads and have been in the top 5 overall. We're looking forward to seeing where we will take it in the future!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/football-heroes/id543009156?...
Links to the mobs plz.

Are they paying the woman programmer? Putting money where the mouth is requires money.
Can you provide examples of where this is true? I ask because you seem to think that the US is the only market where subsidised phones exist. I know for a fact that in the UK and France mobile contracts work in a similar way. I'd go as far as suggesting that most, if not all European networks operate in this manner.
LOL... steam and all their holier than thou blog posts about being open and better than Microsoft - That was never anything more than a rant about the Windows 8 built in app market that they were afraid would undercut their profits and dominance (a scheme against competition). They are neither open nor respect rights of ownership. AFAIK, Microsoft themselves have never forcefully removed an app from Windows in this manner.
[Idea MVP] Marketplace to have your idea's software mvp built
think of it as odesk/elance but the only jobs are mvps for peoples ideas. full suite, or basic code to give back to user so they can validate their idea potentially.

Just wondering if i could get some feedback. I figure some folks have ideas but either technically are strained or limited to build a good mvp to test out.

thanks
Something doesn't sit right. Why would he tell them the company had been acquired and $37.7mill had deposited in the escrow account. its not like he can pull real cash out of his ass so he boxed him self in.

It makes zero sense. Something is not right here on both sides.
Which, interestingly, is why one of the head developers who worked on Warhammer: Age of Reckoning (the MMO, that was quite enjoyable) wants the debug dev version cleaned up and release: It removed all the online content, and just let you take a character through the entire world, all offline. He wants to do that, as a way of preserving the world. It might not have the content, but its something, and an interesting take on it!
2013 - Flat vs Realism
My experience is different. I worked for 2 successful startups back then and it never felt that cool. Maybe it was a little cool, but basically it wasn't. The feeling and conversation was much more along the lines of "lol, can you believe what these fools are paying us? this whole thing makes no sense! and look at everyone trying to make work hip by installing ping pong tables and slides in the office. what a joke!" it seems like the big difference is that now a lot more real money has been made, and it seems like less of a joke, and more people have bought into the new office culture.
The arrogance burns. It burns.

Python 3.0 was derailed by arrogance that developers should commit to a one-way transition that would touch every function rather than accept that, in Python 3.0, 'x = u"Hello"' should have been a valid statement. It didn't help that it ran slower, added nothing, and broke tools.

Python 3.3 was the first release that had a prayer, but there are mistakes everywhere. For example, virtualenv was included but broke because pip was not. Libraries like ftfy are required because the encodings break. Explaining the oddities of scoping inside generator expressions creates tricky interview questions. And then, Python 3 didn't fix all the broken.

By broken, I mean actually broken. We know where its broken: lots of standard libraries like collections.namedtuple which has an argument to print a generated class. Strange cruft like calendar.weekheader() that only helps one developer's program. This code is in the standard library. Handy things like cleaning up Unicode, DSL support, local encodings, security restrictions. Those you add from other libraries.

Also, where's the love? The courage? I would love to see Python seriously consider dropping case and underscore sensitivity in order to speed up developers, an_item = anItem +1 would be a warning. I would like to see language translation support in the language, great packaging that just works, incorporation unit tests into the package system, reforming the dunder mess, anything! Instead I see the mediocrity by arrogance.

Just for fun, they moved the US Pycon conference to Canada. Only little people have troubles with international travel. Arrogance.
Maybe just me, but I kind of feel the 'glasshole' stems from the type of person who wears a bluetooth headset at all times.

I was a bank teller in college right at the height of that technology and nothing irked me more than someone walking up to my window chatting on a bluetooth. I almost preferred they at least have their phone up to their ear if they were going to be rudely belittling me and expecting me to read their minds if I had a question about their transaction. I remember very well countless times someone in the middle of a conversation acting mortified that I would dare interrupt them to clarify something with them. THE HORROR!

Guessing it just has to do with the types of people who have that 'always on' mentality with technology. Put it down and interact with the rest of society
Why 'Are you profitable?' rather than 'Do you have positive cash flow?'

Profit is an accounting term that most people conflate with one or more of:

- cash flow

- gross margin

- operating margin
Maybe not all rights, but pretty close. This is the norm these days. People will pay for temporary use of music, movies, tv shows, and video games until some old guys in a skyscraper somewhere decide otherwise.
I remember a time (2005) when GMail was hailed as the future of easy to use email. However, I must say, this thing has grown into the most convoluted thing I've ever worked with and I'm not really sure why this is...
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Typical combination of: ease of implementation, desire to minimize overhead of security, and the perceived difficulty and low utility of the attack vector.

There are fundamental tradeoffs that happen when you take the VPS / cloud hosting route, and security is definitely one of them. There are reasons why Amazon, for example, doesn't just casually mix in their own services into AWS instances. Security is still a hard problem.
Just go to GoG.com they offer refunds AND they have a wide selection of old and indie games.
One of the best ways to prevent your spending from getting away from you is to set up automatic saving. Most banks and credit unions will let you set up automatic monthly transactions to put some amount into a savings account without you having to think about it. Once it's set up, the "out of sight out of mind" principle kicks in for your benefit.

It's also a good idea to do the same thing for investment. Especially with the amount of taxes you're paying, being sure to take advantage of government tax-advantaged retirement plans is important. You make too much now to do a Roth IRA, but you can still do a traditional IRA. I'd recommend using Vanguard, investing in index funds, and again setting up automatic investments so that you don't have to think about it.

(This is the first time I've read your blog and I know nothing about you, so maybe I'm saying things you already know, but I thought it couldn't hurt to post anyway. As you mention, you're in great shape either way.)
Patents and DRM. It always comes down to that.

If Apple ships any OS X devices with DRM, they would have to have a separate build without the gplv3 bash in it. It would double support costs, maintenance and so on.

And patents. Any patents covering bash would loose value from using a GPLv3 bash. This also include any patent agreement Apple has, which include additional legal overhead.

GPLv2 vs GPLv3 is and always will be Patents and DRM.
I suppose you wouldn't listen to Einstein when he was under 40 too, hmmm?
There are numerous examples of younger, less experienced people being in the right while the older, more experienced are at fault because of one thing or another. Of course, this is the exception, not the rule. However, less experienced people often have an interesting take on things that more experienced people miss. When you're 35 you might be better served reading a brilliant 35 year old's thoughts than a brilliant 55 year old's. In many ways, you may be able to better relate and understand the younger one's thoughts.
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Theoretically, the bitcoin ledger could be used as a decentralized phone-home.
In cases like these you have to evaluate the probability of something bad happening times the magnitude of the harm (essentially the expected value). The NSA can do much more damage (excluding the fact that they can do similar damage even without having this information) than a random lowly criminal, however the likelihood they'll target a boring person such as me is much lower. So for me I'd be more worried about b. Of course, ideally I would rather not have to worry about either.
"Founded a successful web apps company back in the 1990s when that wasn't common, and sold it to Yahoo"

While that is awesome, it is a substantially different game we play nowadays than in the 90's.
Reminds me somewhat of the Minsk- series of indigeneously developed Soviet mainframes -- stack architecture, RISC-like ISA, far ahead of its time. Due to pressure from the higher ups -- or as my parents bluntly put it, "комуняки" (the commies) -- it was abandoned in favour of reverse engineering and cloning the IBM 360 (an enormous feat of engineering) an inferior architecture (my dad called this a setback for Computer Science[1] -- not just in USSR, but in general).

Read more here: http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/minsk0.htm

I guess "no one got fired for choosing IBM" held true not only under capitalism, but under communism as well.

(In a "small world coincidence", I happened to work with the son of the designer of the Minsk-32 -- the most advanced machine in the series -- at Yahoo. Belarus was one Soviet Union's Silicon Valleys, and incidentally the Belarusian State University Institute's Radio Technical Institute still has an excellent EE/CS program (hint: I think you'll have a lot less competition recruiting there than at Stanford!)

[1] Personally I'm a bit skeptical of stack architectures despite their huge popularity (JVM, CLR, Forth, etc...):I understand the cachet, but (to also quote my dad...) "programs can play chess very well", i.e., register windowing is one of the most well understood and mature algorithms, let the compiler handle that job. LLVM's use of a register-based IR is a good step in that direction.
This is a case where only "aggressive full disclosure" got a company to respond. Which is why I'm generally only willing to go through "responsible disclosure" for companies which have shown themselves to be reasonable in the past, or in exceptional cases where the vulnerability is impossible to end users to mitigate, and/or causes exceptionally grave harm.
not really, WiSee cannot get the position of the person/hand. It rather relies on doppler, so it can only tell if someone (or his hand) is getting closer or further away.

In fact, WiSee is more similar to WiVi (previous work by this group from MIT):
http://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/wivi/
Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2014?
Similar to last year's thread, what is your yearly plan?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985473
I know very well why this hurts Apple fans so much:

It has been Apple's strategy all along to get you to buy literally everything from them. Their USP was to have it all integrated.

Problem is: Once you understand that at least 1 peace of your integrated platform is foul, your whole equipment "looses value" for you, because it's now less integrated.

It's a similar strategy to how banks have been protecting themselves: Be/remain "too big to fail", meaning: Become so big that, when your bottom line is under attack (by whatever market forces), the whole society suffers. Thus, society will protect you, no matter how you behave.
You are correct, and I'm just nitpicking, but I do think it's worth pointing out that in NYC the effective tax rate can get close to 50% even for relatively entry-level salaries (low six-figures). Federal, State, and Local income taxes, plus FICA taxes... it adds up. For top earners, effective rate can definitely reach 50%. Again, I'm just being pedantic; you're absolutely right that in most of the country the effective rates are nowhere near that high. Sadly, most people just don't understand how marginal rates work.
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I would argue that "no returns" is a lot more lenient than someone stealing the stuff you bought from them and not giving you a refund...
Fair enough, thanks for publishing :)
I really think you are misinterpreting what pg said, and I say that as a card-carrying equal opportunity feminist (you can check my HN comment history for proof). He is not saying that women should be not encouraged, he is saying that encouraging women at ycombinator application time is not the solution, and that the solution needs to be applied earlier, because a prerequisite of an ycombinator founder is that they be a hacker, and a hacker needs ten years experience.

It's like getting upset that there are no 5'2 guys playing in the NBA. Although height is not a job requirement, if you don't have it it is highly unlikely that you will get the job, unless you can demonstrate that you have other skills to make up for height (speed, highly accurate shooting, and a 5' vertical jump for example). To bring the analogy back to ycombinator, I'm pretty confident that a woman that shows up with only 6 months experience hacking, but she already has a decent chunk of her product built, that the ycombinator crew will consider her application very seriously, because she would have already demonstrated that her lack if experience was not a handicap to her hacking.
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> Also interesting is that married people in the US of A experience a tax advantage when filing jointly

It's not quite that simple. Filing jointly confers a tax advantage when the couple makes relatively little, but becomes neutral as they earn more, and is actually a tax disadvantage when the couple makes a significant amount.
> The "frat house" is working very well and there is no reason to change what works. Different systems could work, but with different people, and different focus.

Yes. Y Combinator could very well decide that their current process is offputting to women, but that it is so successful that they don't care, and that they're perfectly happy to keep doing what they're doing even if it effectively excludes women.

But if this is the case, then their only two options are to lie about it or to stand up in public and say that they don't care about including women. The former has significant risk as a long-term strategy, and the latter is a PR debacle that could negatively impact their ability to attract a significant percentage of male founders -- which is to say, anyone who cares about gender equality.
I recently purchased a game from Steam (Max Payne 3) and after I download the full 30 gig game it tells me "cannot connect to key server". After several emails with their support they inform me that Steam doesn't have enough CD keys, yet they continue selling the game on their website. It has been about a week now and I still cannot even play this game.

Plus, not only does that require a Steam account but you also have to have a Rockstar account. What has PC gaming become?
I can smell a Hollywood movie potential here. "0day the Movie"
How do you know? Take Android for example, I turn off WIFI and it comes back on whenever the phone wants WIFI. One reason I stopped using Android, there's 100s of settings buried in countless menus, maybe half of them are set as default to spy, report back to the manufacturer, report to the carrier, report to Google, the app developer, etc. But cleverly worded to sound cool and harmless. Well of course you want voice search. So we need to listen to you 24/7, duh! Don't worry, we only record your calls and cache everything you say to improve response times and the relevance of the ads. It's getting ridiculous.
Now the talk he gave was interesting, laying out some known and some new facts about the surveillance and automated attack capabilities of the NSA, particularity interesting is the targeting of infrastructure and their traffic injection systems. And he is right to make the point, that its particularly despicable that they actively sabotage infrastructure security, something everyone on this planet has to suffer from.

But.. I don't even know where to begin, its not only that we need to convince a large portion of the US population that living in a dystopian total surveillance state is actually not something to thrive for, we can't even begin to discuss those issues in any meaningful way when people have not the slightest clue whats really going on, even if leaks like this occur that outline frightening and utterly insane surveillance and attack capabilities nobody is going to explain it to them (not that anyone cares anyways).

The NSA developed and deployed a global system that enables them to do DPI on the whole internet traffic, analyze that traffic, inject traffic, attack every system through countless vulnerabilities and backdoors and all of that automated, not only against their “targets” but also against any infrastructure they are interested in.

They have secret laws, can force companies to work with them, force backdoors and not only are the US companies not allowed to talk about those things, they are legally bound to publicly lie about it.

So yeah they can hack every iPhone on this planet, and turn it into a silent listening device, among many many many other things, is that really what we should be talking about?
> Likewise Torvalds refuses to let GPLv3 touch the kernel.

Please don't misrepresent other peoples view points out of context.

If you want to read Linux Torvalds opinion, I suggest that you start with either one of the many articles about it (like http://news.cnet.com/Torvalds-No-GPL-3-for-Linux/2100-7344_3...), or any of the many mails on the mailing list. You will notices that Torvalds criticism is mostly directed at the DRM provisions, since he don't think a copyright license should be able to dictate a political matter such as DRM restrictions on devices.

To quote:

"I also don't necessarily like DRM myself," Torvalds wrote.
"But...I'm an 'Oppenheimer,' and I refuse to play politics with Linux,
and I think you can use Linux for whatever you want to--which very much
includes things I don't necessarily personally approve of."
I know for consumer software things are slowly moving towards centralized-DRM as the norm, but I thought for enterprise applications this kind of self-hosted license server was still the norm. Maybe not?

It seems to depend on the application/software developer. Just about everything serious I've worked with in recent years defaults to needing some sort of phone-home activation in the first instance. Some certainly have alternative options, usually at a significant but not off-the-chart price premium, to have a floating licence server on your own network so you can have up to N machines running at once but it doesn't have to be the same N all the time. And of course various brands are trying to push some popular software suites towards a full-on subscription model anyway: Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite come to mind.

Unfortunately, my businesses currently fall into an awkward middle ground, shared by many start-ups and probably freelancers/contractors/small agencies as well, where you're not really into volume licensing or floating licence server territory, but you still rely on heavyweight professional software to get things done. Basically, we have none of the protections of a consumer because we're operating as a business, but we also lack the natural bargaining power and the in-house legal department a larger business would have.

Sadly, despite recommendations even from a formal review within the legal profession, neither our previous government nor the current one seem keen on fixing this. That leaves many of us in a permanent position of vulnerability to these kinds of Internet-based DRM schemes, where the failure of a key software supplier could quite literally bring down our entire company overnight, even though we have already completely paid for all the software we need. And yes, as a business owner, that does scare the $#!% out of me.