skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be because the airplane is already over US territory. Thus, if you smuggle a bomb on board and the plane explodes, it might crash into a US city. Flights going to the States need to travel for quite a few hours before they reach US territory.
There's plenty of ocurrences of unlawful high tech surveillance and political persecution all over the third world too. More often than not even more problematic situations.
Providing an XML feed that lists banned apps does not equate to remote file system access.
That sounds like Email Messie Syndrome (yeah I made that up). Why not just archive all unimportant ones daily?
The reaction to the early adopters of cell phones were similar. They were perceived as yuppies who though themselves as way to important to talk to the people they were actually with at the moment.
Soviet people laid down their lives to win WWII, then, after WWII a lot more Soviet people lost their lives due to the tyrannical rule of a completely insane and evil man. I don't even want to dive into the pros and cons of communism. The only point I am making is that Stalin was an utterly evil fuck head.
This development is pretty damn cool. At Electromagnetic Wave in London earlier this year, I went to a talk held by someone working on similar research, but using wifi signals. At that time, they didn't have the fidelity of this proposed system.

Talking to other attendees of EMW, I voiced my scepticism of the need for this over CCTV image analysis. My instinct was that a reasonable CCTV setup would get you 80% of the way towards your goal. I bumped into someone with professional experience at image & video analysis - turns out that the limitations of video are such that this sort of remote monitoring would actually give better quality data than camera feed analysis, at least if you factor in the relative cost of installing adequate enough cameras.

The biggest use for a system like this probably isn't gaming, home automation, or remote monitoring. Imagine instead knowing not where people are in a shop, but roughly what they are looking at, how they are each moving, tracking it all the way through to what they buy. Whilst there are lots of exciting security uses for systems like this, shopping analytics is where there are clear financial gains to be made (remember that investments to reduce costs typically look for >20% savings, but when increasing revenue 2% can be a lot!)

Of course, the big question here is range, and how many simultaneous targets this can track.

(and as a final note: now shrink this and give me my motion sensor alá Aliens ;) )
As far as I know, you're obliged not to divulge the fact that you're cooperating, including saying that you aren't if you're asked, if that's what you've been doing so far.

I don't think there's any evidence that someone has used an NSA backdoor, but, given how widespread exploits are, I wouldn't be surprised.
> Fun for one at the expense of others is the book definition of an asshole.

No. Find the book that describe this.

> So, yeah, you do not understand the privacy concerns nor do you respect them. You will fit right in with the rest of the Glass crowd.

So the difference between Glass and a cell phone is that holding a cell phone is more apparent and obvious to people so they can avoid being in my recording? Instead of an invisible Glass, the Glass is visible. I hold my phone in my hand a lot. I usually talk while holding my phone and my hands move a lot. How do you know I am not recording you? How do you know I am not an undercover journalist with a hidden camera in my bag walking around BestBuy? If you actually think that's the safe zone to address privacy concern, that is my book definition of trying to feel better when the truth is not.

Look at tourists with DSLR in front of their chest or holding it in their hand. How can you tell they are not creeping on you either? I own a DSLR so I know how little people pay attention to it. I can just walk around like that all day.

When I say respecting your concern meaning I am going to be your best friend to the best of my ability like remove my headset at your request when we share a tight space. You can't guarantee a guy with a cell phone not doing something illegal and horrible to you. So, how can you hold me accountable for something I probably won't commit? And now I am asked DON'T EVER PUT IT ON?

The public space is utilized by all kinds of people and for all kinds of purposes. If you feel uncomfortable with me wearing a GLASS in front of you, tell me to remove it and I probably will (e.g I am taking a picture of my family from the GLASS I probably will wait until you go away or find some place else.)

And paying my respect does not mean I have to agree with you. As long as it is legal and as long as I am not really hurting you (because I am just a random guy you probably won't see me again), I can't be stopped for your concern. You can your right to file a complain. Whereas if your neighbor is playing loud music you probably have a good chance of winning the lawsuit.

So, let's tolerate each other.
So far, I have come across government actions against expressing anti-religious, anti-national, iconoclastic sentiments: all thought-crimes. Given how common jingoism is among my own colleagues, all engineers, I'm convinced that the abuse of power will effectively go unchecked for the foreseeable future.
>Is what he said wrong? Is his history relevant to the actual message he is communicating here? To me, it seems like the answers are "no" and "no".

He didn't say it was wrong. He said it was "absurd coming from X" -- which is different.
I recently read that a desktop app is in the works. I'm sure they are working like crazy on it.
I've always seen "related work" appearing immediately following the introduction. The layout I see most often is:

* Abstract: This is why you should read this paper.

* Introduction: What the problem is that we're trying to solve and a claim to having solved it better.

* Related work: How other people have solved the same problem (and why we don't like their solutions).

* One or more sections go here here describing how we solved the problem.

* Experimental results: Look at the awesome results our solution provides. (Not always applicable depending on the paper.)

* Future work: Here's some ideas we haven't worked out fully -- they may appear in future papers but we're putting them here so we can claim to have published them first if someone else writes a paper about them before we do.

* Conclusions: Everything in the Introduction, except written in the past tense.

* References: Everything your potential referees have written which might conceivably be relevant.
You are absolutely right on both comments! And additional comments:

1) I am not a developer, but I believe having an idea -> finding a developer is the wrong flow. It should be like this: 1. Have the idea. 2. Get customers who give you real money to build this idea. 3. Get a developer by telling "I already have paying customers".

2) Absolutely agree. When I say "I should build that", in fact what I wanted to say was something like "I should have looked for more X prospects that would pay for what they wanted, get their money and then build that".
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If a company was on the ball they should have an info pack which goes to all job applicants which cover that sort of question I.E. leave allowance how sick leave /pensions etc is handled etc.
I disagree, for the most part. Perhaps a focus on vacation policy is not preferred, but if you have multiple employers competing for your attention, then pay and conditions ought naturally to be the deciding factor.

Asking about pay and conditions is therefore a very important and relevant signal.

If an employer doesn't want to tell you openly about conditions and acts like it's a bad taste question, you might consider that an important signal for you as well.
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I don't really care about what was said and what wasn't. PG was probably misquoted. Whatever.

What bothers me more is that damaging PG's public image is seemingly what it takes for him to prioritize writing an article about female founders.

I don't think YC needs to have affirmative action for gender; it would neither be fair or that effective. However, I think they're in the perfect position to inspire younger generations to start hacking. And this must specifically include girls.

My cofounder is a woman, who was contributing to Debian at age 15. Our first employee is a woman, with a MS from the operating systems group at MIT CSAIL.

There are lots of women hackers out there, but none of them are partners at YC. This press is disappointing, but not unexpected.
Thanks, I did it by hand. Emacs+Amarok. While I worked on this, I Googled for transcription software, but couldn't find any packages or readily available POSIX pipelines that I could use from Ubuntu, let alone web services that don't require a credit card. Maybe I didn't look very carefully. Took two days to complete, though. This is something that should be easily doable now, so here's my personal RFS: fix transcription software. A user should be able to either upload an audio file directly, use a Dropbox folder, or provide a link to an s/OGG/MP3/whatever, and get a text file in return. They can then listen to the audio while they make whatever edits that they need.
I'm not a linguist but in my mind there's very little wrong with the original sentence as pg said it. Compare e.g. with this one:

"These apples are bad because they have been laying in the sun for two days."

There is no reference to anything outside the sentence; "these" and "they" are sort of referring to each other, tying the sentence together.

So to me this is the most shocking revelation:

> Mr. Graham has since said the “these” referred to women who aren’t programmers. In our opinion, he didn’t say that to us.

That's the equivalent of editing down the above sentence to say,

"Apples are bad because they have been laying in the sun for two days.",

and then start claiming that the interviewee is a schizophrenic because he's making general claims about all apples. :/
Robert Scoble is references in the article. I actually believe this picture helps counteract the "asshole" meme. He really does not come through as a person who takes himself too seriously here.

It does nothing to counteract the the dweeb meme though.
Seems someone already did it, thank you.
He also gave Communism a bad name, and, by proxy, Socialism. These systems of government did not have all of the answers, however we now have free market economics everywhere with anything vaguely socialist being absolutely taboo.

We have not a lot of diversity in government, government is nowadays about managing a country rather than anything ideological. Some diversity is better even if other systems are not how one would want to live.
Lesson N+1: Hacker News can break your blog's webserver. That's one you only learn through experience.

[ETA: which is sad, because I want to read it!]
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It's a little non-standard, and some would argue that it deviates from the philosophy of "standing on the shoulders of giants", but I think it's acceptable.

Note that you should still "cite relevant work in passing".
Apparently GabeN commented on the forum a couple of years back that they would remove the DRM if Valve goes under & that they tested the patching already. I can't seem to find a good source for that though.
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It's also useful to remember that until you have an actual product, the company really does not need a sales person, because there is nothing to sell. A startup does need a lot of things besides a developer, like customer development. But customer development is not the same as straight sales! I have seen some teams flame out because there's a sales person there with nothing to sell feeling useless, and the rest of the team feeling like they are dead weight, and meanwhile real priorities aren't getting dealt with.
Damn Bluehost, hehe. I wish I knew how to fix it, but a few refreshes seems to go through.
> i really wish there was something like sqlalchemy for java.

Ebean[1], perhaps? I've only used it for a project in Play 2.0 that was built on Java (it's built into Play 2.0), but it was far less painful compared to other Java ORM libaries like Hibernate.

[1] http://www.avaje.org/ebean/getstarted_props.html
> 1) General advice to non-technical founders, not specific to this post: If sales is one of your primary skill sets, and you cannot sell one developer on working for you, you may want to have a brief heart-to-heart with yourself on whether you are sufficiently skilled at selling to build a company which will live or die based on your sales ability.

But I think "selling" the product to a developer is a difficult sell: harder than selling a product which exists and solves a pain point to a company who has money and is looking to solve their pain point.

If "selling" means getting the developer to work for no cash (only e.g. equity). A good developer has a job, and has lots of job offers, all offering them real money now. I'm not sure it'd be possible to persuade most of them to work for no cash.
There are a lot of things I'm interested in but would not pay for online, but good failed startup stories like this is not one of them.

Seriously, if somebody could cull 2 or 3 of these a day and deliver in a weekly or monthly format? It'd be worth a subscription.

Thanks for the article!
Once you know the truth, you re-evaluate your decision to join the company, taking the lying into account.
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Don't you need some kind of a cracked version of the game for that? I don't know if you can play on private servers with a Steam version of a game anyway.
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The only solution is to throw money at it until it gets better, isn't it? Or to wait it out. I remember when the word "Slashdot" became a verb, back when "Reddit" was a joke about a frog and a library book and DOS was what Windows ran on. The problem hasn't improved, as far as I know. So no biggie; it's not your fault. Ride it out and you'll be fine. Meanwhile, I'm mostly commenting so I can find your article again later and get to actually read it!
I think for first time bootstrappers, investing some time in a quality blog on a particular field you would like to build products for is really really useful. Apart from having a good audience to launch your first product, it helps you interact with people before you have something to sell to them. You learn more about their problems, the existing market, competition and so on.
this is a great point when arguing with the "nothing to hide" people
> support for Postgresql JSON types,

This. Finally :) I know I was searching this a few months ago and there was a long due ticket for this to be added. Thank you whoever did this patch.

A side note. I personally use Pyramid (I use Pyramid more, however) and Flask. For Flask project I never use flask-sqlalchemy because mitsuhiko doesn't seem to update the repository as often as he should. A lot of outstanding tickets and pull requests. Some are merged but they are never closed. So I always end up bringing up SQLAlchemy myself into Flask because I just don't trust the library. Is that how people feel too? For Pyramid, SQLAclemy is the "standard" ORM to use and with ini file it is supposed easy to integrate SA into Pyramid app.
Why? Perhaps because he's a sociopath, perhaps because it was a case of irrational escalation of commitment, perhaps because he was a childish idiot. Lots of possible reasons. Why is it so difficult to consider the possibilities? :-)
Seems a somewhat low barrier for entry, if a 'design concept' consists of putting an action button on a notification.
"We tend to miss this because the bloated copies of Microsoft Word we use do not seem faster than 20 years ago." - person obviously not familiar with Office 365.

"Even the Chinese must fear the robots." - especially them IMHO (world's manufacturing outsourcing center).
I am waiting for a real GNU phone. The original free software spirit is not there yet.
> He told me that the day-to-day processes are ancient.

It's a basic tenet of air safety that everything can be done by hand when equipment fails.

For example, it's a requirement that you should be able to do vector calculations to account for wind: using only pen-and-paper tools.

Although licensed pilots are allowed to use technology to assist, you shouldn't imagine that the ancient day-to-day processes will change.
OP, your biggest mistake is not taking the time out to learn how to code yourself. You said it went on for 2 years, that was plenty of time.
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Cash or no cash, I believe the key for a developer is working on an interesting problem + having impact. If you have real companies offering real money for a product that don't even exist, at least the developer can be convinced that his/her work will have impact.
Angry Birds – One of the world’s most successful applications
Who could imagine that some flying birds fighting pigs could work so well, This is one of Android games most famous World: the Angry Birds...
with anything vaguely socialist being absolutely taboo

This is not true, at least not in Europe. Most countries have some form of universal health care, and there are benefits for people who do not work, etc. That is more than vaguely socialist, and is definitely not taboo.
When you go flat
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I am a strong advocate of this method.

However, I have to issue a statement of warning that when an idea doesn't pan out like written out, people will go to great lengths to fulfill their agenda (e.g., put undue pressure on their students to come up with the "correct" result). For computer science and mathematics, it may be more difficult to fudge results. But in experimental work or data analysis, I've seen students suddenly come up with a solution that fits their advisor's expectation.

There has to be some mechanism to guard against this; the most common answer is the moral character and integrity of the scientist, but psychologists and economists will quickly point out that there are gray areas where people are willing to cheat just enough to get their reward while preserving their conscience.
It probably depends on the game and how they store server information. For instance, if they hostname for the server that broadcasts available game servers is sitting in a .ini file, you don't need a crack. If it was a hardcoded string in the binary, then you would. Of course some games may also employ other mechanisms to restrict what/where you can connect to, but in a lot of cases I've seen it is a matter of pointing to an IP with a server running.

As an example, Counter Strike: Source stored the servers in a human readable file and you could add alternative servers in the config file without a problem.
I actually apply this to my hacking these days. The statement you often realize that problems are more interesting once you sit down and analyse them I have found to be particularly true.

When I'm faced with a design problem I write a "white paper" setting out the problem, framing the desired properties of any solution then as systematically as possible setting out the alternatives and justifying why a particular solution has been chosen.

I usually find that in going through this process I am forced to change my initial design decisions, often ones that seemed obviously, even trivially, correct to begin with.
This one is similar:

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
It seemed to automatically dismiss after tapping "Send".
INDEED! In fact I started. Did One Month Rails (a couple of months ago). My github (please don't laugh, but do give out advice): https://github.com/sergioschuler/
Government wouldn't even limit real estate ownership to one per person...
In 2007, at least, you could play WoW on a private server merely by changing your config file to point at that server; no crack was necessary. It probably was not worth Blizzard's time to shut down this configurability.
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To me it seems like recruiting of a developer worth anything, from scratch and without an existing team to help you to recruit or lure, must be much more difficult than getting an amazing idea or selling said amazing idea. Is that just because I never tried selling anything?

Does anybody have examples of successful startups that proceeded in the way Sergio describes and became successful -- starting out with a business person/team, selling the goods first, then manage to find developer(s) to build it? (It's not rhetorical, I'd love to hear such examples -- the usual stories seem to be revolving around a gang of programmers, or at least a programmer co-founder.)
Humble ->Indie<- Bundle. There are Humble Bundles with DRM.
Here's why Glass users are assholes, and why that won't always be true: because "iPod" is a verb.

"To iPod" is to change a particular technology so much that you create a permanent mark in everyone's calendar. Before Apple invented the first iPod, music players were clunky and irritating, and it was like nobody in the business knew the first thing about user interface design. After the iPod, music players were iPods, clones of iPods, or nothing. And carrying music around with you is so ubiquitous that the commuters on the bus who don't have earbuds in their ears look weird.

Glass hasn't been iPodded yet. That means it's intrusive, ugly, and it threatens people -- a bit like the way people felt uncomfortable sitting on the bus with someone who had headphones on. It's rude, it's anti-social, and it's a clear sign that someone is maladjusted.

But one day, someone -- almost certainly not Google -- will create a wearable camera/HUD/computer that is to Google Glass what the iPod is to the Sony Walkman. And after that, it will be normal for people to be documenting their whole lives, and the hostility will disappear quite quickly.

But that day is not today. Today, if you use Glass in public, you are an asshole. Accept it peacefully and look forward to the iPodding.
And people can't wait until they get OS-level DRM like in Windows 8 and Chromebooks, just to play Netflix in "HTML5", even though it plays just fine now in Silverlight, and TPM in their hardware?

I don't think they really know what they're asking for. Once the Pandora's box is open, you can't put the evil back inside. You'll regret ever wanting that "safety" or "convenience" feature, when it will make your computer a lot less safe (from the vendors themselves, government censorship, etc) and a lot less convenient (when everything you want to use has frustrating OS-level DRM enabled).

Wake up and smell the coffee. If it can be abused, it will be abused.
The majority of users will still feel like they are switching apps, because the messages app is shown here as taking over the entire screen.

A better solution would be to have something like the existing Facebook or Twitter dialogs for posting (basically a big UIAlertView/modal dialog with a text field as its primary view) for entering your reply because you can still remain within your current app.
Of course you have the right to say these extremely depressive things.

But if this is really what you think, then you should not put any children on this planet - they don't deserve the mess you/we're about to accept/create for future generations.

On a brighter note: think about people like Applebaum, Snowden, Assange, Manning, etc. They fight and keep fighting. Each of them accepts that we have to sacrifice something personal/important to get back a life that is worth living. If they can, why can't you?

PS, if you feel depressed (many people do, especially with these horrible recent news), it might be a good idea to get a professional opinion on that, maybe there's more to it.