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How The NSA Hacks Your iPhone
Utilitarianism is not the basis for U.S. public policy. If it was, we'd outlaw guns, smoking, soda, fried foods, and apply FAA-levels of scrutiny to automobiles.

The public wants to believe that when they get on an airplane, it will not crash for any reason. That is the problem that the TSA helps to address, along with the FAA, NTSB, and federal air marshals.
What surprises me always is that people act as if Glass was the first of its kind. The tech has been around for ages and actually Glass is very poor in terms of its holographic projection technology.
What is new is that Google is the first company who is really serious about this and has the guts about it flying in the face of negative publicity, not shying away from its weirdness for many people.
I led an AR/VR project at Vodafone using Sony's far superior tech with local startups and the project while technically successful didn't make it past the prototype stage.
All there is: Google has really high innovation reputation, they can shape the market even if it 'feels weird', that is why the article is spot on saying it 'will help grease the wheels for social acceptance'.
Nope. The federal Rate would be much lower. You would be in the 28% tax bracket but your tax rate wouldn't be 28%. [1] Grabbing a random tax calculator on line suggests that at 90K of gross income the highest your federal tax rate could be is about 16.6%.

[1]http://www.calcxml.com/calculators/federal-income-tax-calcul...
I don't seriously think anyone at Google thinks Glass is going anywhere. To me, this looks like Google just trying to cement in the public's head that Google=Futuristic technology. In that regard, and pretty much only that regard, Glass has been a success.
I am sorry, I think your apps are really shitty.
This is one of the reasons the engineers at Tesla work on the factory floor. Take the tour if you can, it is great.
Could just be a plan to lure new customers in...then when they have it for a while think "well for a dollar more I might as well get a HD option"
Lucio Fontana is nothing comparing to Piero Manzoni.

He get through making an artwork featuring 90 tin can filled with 30g of his own shit. Please read the label that said Merda d'artista (artist shit) :

Artist's Shit
Contents 30 gr net
Freshly preserved
Produced and tinned
in May 1961

Quoting Wikipedia : The cans were originally to be valued according to their equivalent weight in gold — $37 each in 1961 — with the price fluctuating according to the market.

But the stuff is today shown in biggest museum, and one can has been sold $160300 in 2008.
the fact that this is "news" at all is embarrassing to all women that managed to become developers, ceos, etc. period.

this shouldn't be here, in two or three front page items. and this shouldn't have even been asked on that interview.
As the author of said article, I'd be keen to hear about these "factual errors". Yes, the calculation makes a lot of assumptions, many of them generous, but these are clearly laid out upfront. And while I agree that you would probably not want to use the exact model laid out ($2k salary plus company profit as dividends) in each country covered, you've got to establish some sort of baseline to be able to sensibly compare them!

I have considered doing a v2 where the starting point would be "$100k sitting in a company account" and the goal would "as much cash as possible in my personal account", but I'm not sure this would be particularly useful or any more realistic. For example, in Singapore the optimal strategy would be to draw zero salary and take out everything as tax-free dividends, but most entrepreneurs can't afford to wait a year to get any money at all.
Quite a few planes have been blown up in midair by bombs either carried on or concealed in checked luggage. TSA defends against this kind of attack as well.
Goes to show that the people who popularize get more recognition than the people who produce.

Snowden was a publisher of the technical work of thousands of NSA staff.
You are under the mistaken impression that the people for which pg is in the business of spending very small amounts of money on in the slim hope that a few of them will be wildly successful and return hundreds of times on that original investment in a relatively short time frame are "hackers". They are not. They might be a very small subset.

I don't know how old you are but if you're willing to rent a room with a bunch of other people and hack on code for peanuts and ramen then I wouldn't be so sure pg that would automatically reject you because of your age or gender.
I have two pieces of advice. First, expand your horizons. Yes, Windows jumping games using a game creator are a great start, but there is so much more. At 12, when I started off, I was writing very similar games, albeit using Python and Pygame rather than JS. Your route is equally valid, with its own unique challenges, and hey, in the end you get the same result. However, from here, the paths begin to branch. While the Windows world you've embraced will lead you to Visual Basic and eventually Visual C++ and C#, you could take another path. At 11, I installed Ubuntu Linux for the first time; at 14, I switched to Arch. This was probably a bad decision, given I knew nothing about the OS and had to essentially re-learn everything. You might be intimidated. Don't be. Learning your way around Unix now will make a world of difference later. By 16, I had written my first compiler, a basic baremetal assembly kernel, and an interpreted language with a decent optimizing compiler and VM. I am still not an amazing programmer, and I still have a lot to learn. Don't doubt yourself because of your age. My second piece of advice ties into the first: don't try to use your age to gain an advantage. Not because it's unfair: because it will bring you more personal validation when people praise you because of the quality of your work rather than how young you are. It's the diffence between making a good program, and making a good program for a teenager. Also, it makes it far easier to find jobs.

Source: My own experiences as the 16-year old (breaking my own rule here for the first time) author of the solid programming language.

P.S. I'm not trying to be arrogant. I just don't want you to repeat my mistakes. Don't be afraid to do things that seem difficult: with research and a little elbow grease, you can accomplish anything, and nothing anyone says can take that away from you.
Whew.

1) Yes, the population did elect Bush II. According to the rules of the game, the population picked him. If you want to get all picky over it, you can note that XX% of the population didn't even vote - so technically the population didn't pick any of them! Har har.

2) The alternatives of McCain, Romney, and Gore were also chosen to be the alternatives by the population.

3) I'm not sure what this all has to do with the NSA.

4) You seem to think that net neutrality would be in their interest. Yet they seem to have selected politicians which oppose it. So that would be one (possible) example of the population acting against their own interests (as you see it).
If you actually look at modern warfare vs WWII guns in the hands of private citizens are basically useless for fighting the US military. Bombs can be effective but modern body armor, surveillance, medicine, and tactics mean even a well trained and equipped army is going to lose significantly more people let alone people with effing hand guns. See: Iraq and Afghanistan for examples.

Realistically, freedom of the press and due process are far more important and in far more danger than guns which are basically just a talking point / distraction at this point. Or put another way, if everyone in George Orwell's 1984 had a gun nothing would change.
This whole episode is the first time I have ever picked up on a gender discussion in relation to yc applications. The general feeling here seems to be that some type of affirmative action of quots needs to be applied. But there already is a quota - those with the most promising teams and ideas get to go.

The last thing a successful female founder wants or needs is a quota or lower bar of entry for things like yc. Because once that happens, you're going to have to work twice as hard to get respect, because now you have to prove your place wasn't just because the quota needed to be filled. if you get picked fair and square, then being there is a strong signal that you are worthy.

There are times and places for intentionally creating diversity, but a start up incubator is a bad fit for that type of intervention.
Android 4.3 brought about much improved BLE support [1]. Unfortunately, driver support from manufacturers is still fairly limited, and hasn't been appearing very quickly.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19717902/does-android-kit...
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Tech? I don't want to diminish Snowden's doings a single bit, but I think what he did was only remotely tech-related. It's somehow like nominating a great journalist, who writes about modern research in physics, as a scientist of the year.
I think wearable computing is definitely the future, and Glass is probably a good first stab at it. I don't think anyone thinks glass is the perfect solution, though.
>What's with the almost cult-like reverence for this largely pseudo-intellectual entrepreneur?

Who, pray tell, are the real intellectuals?
Don't agree with most of the article but hey it's cool that I'm in the top picture (second row). Here are a few brief comments

Socially Awkward: I've worn Glass every day since I got it (one of the first ones) and had 2 negative reactions and one of them ended up being a VC that after explaining it to him offered to fund me (I didn't accept). You have to be sympathetic to other people's feelings, if someone is feeling uncomfortable and you aren't using it then just put it on your head/neck and watch them chill out instantly. It's awkward when someone's constantly wondering if you are recording them but too scared to ask, just diffuse the situation and figure out what is making them feel uncomfortable. Once they understand how it works it will clear up any wild ideas they may have. Part of being an early adopter of anything is to explain it to people who are curious (same goes for fitbits, AR drones, etc).

Glass wearers self-segregating: If you act nervous and self aware while you are wearing it, you will make the whole room feel uncomfortable. If you are approachable and having fun with others you'll get a whole night club to stop dancing and want to talk to you (this is in DC, not exactly a bastion of techies like SF/NY). Due to how the Glass invites were distributed it's not "self-segregated" it's "self-selected", you invite your friends which means when you go out you are with your friends. Causation vs correlation man, the former is sensational and the latter isn't even mentioned.

At the end it starts to get more agreeable: glass is v1, it's incredibly ambitious of them to have released Glass like they did and it's allowing us to even have these discussions (thanks!), and the status quo (phones) aren't that great either right now. Sure it's not perfect but look where we came from: custom/clunky wearables of the 90's, nothing special for a decade, and now we have something that gets more positive attention than I'd otherwise get. Instead of looking at the first datapoint on a timeline and dumping on it, shouldn't a hip futurist publication (where the author says he gets made fun of...that's probably more telling about what it's like to work at Wired than anything) try to think out a few more steps and not sling link bait like this?﻿

(from my G+ post https://plus.google.com/+BrandynWhite/posts/fRfhgBXej7e)
Definitely agree, however more for the case of someone looking to build a business. I constantly even have to remind myself that with the goal of building a business, writing code or learning new technologies is just not the best investment in time when so much progress can be made towards creating a business by shortcutting the technology upfront.

In fact this is why I happen to disagree a bit with Paul Graham that being a "hacker" is such an essential trait to entrepreneurship. I think a hacker just represents intelligence, which is beneficial to building a business among many other things. For that reason I think PG confuses the trait of being a hacker as having a casual relationship with being likely to succeed as an entrepreneur.

But on the note of paying freelancers, that can get pretty damn expensive if you're just flat out paying for solutions before they're validated as businesses.
Certainly. Discovery of alternative services is vastly different when learning through a friend who had a great experience (unpaid) as opposed to learning about a service through a carefully constructed (paid) marketing plan. Often the marketing plan has significant resources compared to the investment in the product itself. The strength of a marketing effort (including how well it can convince and how well it's targeted) determines the winner. If one learns of an alternative service but the marketing sizzle has confused customers of existing products, then the advantage goes to the stronger marketing team, not the stronger product.
From [2]: "...he mixes high-concept political commentary with the lowest forms of tabloid propaganda in service to a religiously anti-Obama narrative" yea, this person has no idea what Greenwald is about.
According to the 1040 tax tables, 100,000 gets taxed at 21,454, so that is 21.4%. Add on 15% FICA (if self employed), 5% state tax, and you are up to 41.4%. Now if you own a house that the county assessor says is worth $200K, you are talking about 8K a year in property tax (this will vary by area, but is true for where I'm at in the midwest). That leaves $55,546 out of the 100,000 to spend. Ok, now try to spend it -- you will pay 8% in sales taxes, for another $4443.68. So all you have left is a shade over 51k, out of that initial 100K that you earned. So not quite 50% taxation, but close enough (actually, some sales taxes are higher, such as gasoline, etc).
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An individual is not a hive. Law will always have less basis than personal morality. How anyone could think to the contrary is troubling, especially in light of a history replete with oppression and tyranny backed through "law."

The US prison system is a form of torture. This is especially so when used against the hundreds of thousands of benign, nonviolent people. Solve problems, it does not. The physical hurt, torment, and destruction to a person's life and opportunities is far more real than words on paper. Many of the forms of imprisonment that linger on are nothing but a relic of barbarous eras and the sociopathy of it continues in full for those who build careers around it. In no rational, compassionate world would being locked into a cage not be considered a form of torture except possibly in the world of those who are shockingly faithful to following whatever [insert authority] tells them to, through law, and shockingly faithful in assuming the system won't err against oneself.

If a person were to kidnap you off the street and lock you in a cage, placing you into a horrible environment with cutthroat gangs eager for blood where you'll possibly be assaulted at any time and dramatically ruin your prospects if you ever walk free again, you probably wouldn't like it. You'd probably find it quite torturous. Like many, you'd find it a living hell. You'd probably understand that being placed into a cage is a form of torture. That's what prison is to people who disobey immoral laws. I wouldn't wish it for my enemies. This is why always evaluating the ethical basis is more important. Neither "law" nor "just following orders" suffice.

> But if we follow a policy of resolving issues by reference first to the law...

No, I don't enjoy circular reasoning. I only like open discourse. That means anything can be referenced. The philosophical disagreement is far more important to talk about either way. That's unless, of course, one finds oneself trapped in a courtroom of an [arbitrary jurisdiction/nation] where morality is mostly left to rot -- nay those very rare moments where nullification occurs and independent thought triumphs.
scp will always be slow because of some built in limitations. It's not your data anyway, so toss the ecnryption and just use netcat.
The irony here is how you're able to leverage the publications[1] of PG to explain how the arguments in the parent-post are falling short in substantively criticizing the publications by PG.

Head: explode.

1: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Well that just made my brain explode. This is going to make it that much harder to argue that public clouds take security seriously. I'd love to see an example of what data they think is fine to leak, since that seems to be their performance strategy.
Looks like there is at least one emulation project http://retro-b5500.blogspot.com
> coupled with some physical BIOS chip reader. And the chip reader needs to be cheap enough for us to assemble ourselves; we can't really trust some company to make it for us, because the company could be coerced into subverting it or it could be subverted in transit after we order it. So it seems like we need an open source blueprint of a BIOS chip reader that's cheap and easy enough for anyone to make themselves. (A tall order, to be sure.)

BIOS chips these days are almost invariably SPI serial interface, which means it is not difficult to make a bare-minimal "manual" one with a battery, a couple of LEDs, resistors, and switches. Just key in a read command by hand, then read out each bit as you pulse the clock line. Pretty hard to subvert something as simple as that, but the problem is how long it will take, so maybe you could do this just to verify the bits that comprise a "root of trust" and not the entire BIOS image.
If you were talking about just yourself - I cannot really comment since I don't know you and have no idea what happens to you.

For all I know there are millions of people who don't own a gun at all and don't feel inconvenienced by that at all. If you don't need more than 10 round magazines - just don't buy them. If you decided that 6 rounds or 3 is all you need - just go with that. You know yourself better than anybody on the internet could hope to.

But, please, don't use general "you" when referring to yourself, it's really confusing.
They have published the transcript here:

http://jessicalessin.com/2013/12/31/on-the-information-and-h...
What's up with all the "smart people" references? Seems like a self-aggrandizing attempt to elevate the stature of "THE information" by claiming it's the chosen publication only for those with big brains.
"That isn't premature optimization, you're just guaranteeing that the compiler won't introduce the overhead of a function call."

That's precisely what premature optimization is: Reducing assumed overhead before you've even established where the bottleneck is, if any.
By using a macro, you've traded away all of the benefits of a function. If you had demonstrable need to avoid the function call overhead, you could have declared the function inline static.

Most performance issues can be solved with algorithmic changes. This level of optimization should only be done as a last resort, and profiled extensively to ensure that you really are making a difference for the better. Many "low level" tricks that on the surface look like they'd speed things up can in fact have the opposite effect on modern processors. For example, it's possible that this macro optimization could blow up your cache if some_operation gets called a lot and you tried unrolling loops.
I have Glass. I wore it for about a week when I first got it and then stopped; while cool, it's not very useful. It struck me that it's more of a status symbol right now than a legitimately useful device.

I've changed my mind about this a little bit recently: now I use it as a classier GoPro. There are a lot of times where it isn't appropriate to have a GoPro strapped to your head, but there's still good story potential. In most of those cases, the cool factor of Glass lets you get away with recording it.

My friends and I stitch the footage we collect from the adventures in our lives into a video every now and then, and Glass has added a lot to the storytelling capability.

Maybe wanting to record stuff makes me a narcissistic millennial, but it doesn't harm anyone and the videos we get out of it are awesome. I don't know if that use-case justifies Glass, but it definitely has some value for me, even if it's only used rarely.
I'm not an expert in Rust, and things are moving too fast to keep up, but does anyone know what UI bindings is/will-be available for Rust.

After all, it is intended as a browser development language. I wanted to try it out versus Vala - but am not sure if GTK is going to be the official binding.
I'm not trying to jump on them, I'd love to be able to spend my time on that. It's just that it seems to have significant mindshare, and funding, and usually that means its answering the requirements of somebody.

Maybe they're just here to help diversify the OS world, which in itself is a nice goal.
> You can't point to this as a success of the security measures. First, it implies that there are a significant number of bombers who are either captured or deterred. If the first was true, both the Bush admin and the Obama admin would be touting it as a success. If these "numerous" bombers are being deterred, you can't point to the security measures as the deterrent.

Why not? I'm not saying you're wrong, just that you are making a claim without backing it up.
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His quote was ungrammatical, but it sounds significantly worse when he seems to be talking about the women applying to YCombinator.

His use of venues that have been traditionally hostile to women, conferences and open source, to try to make his group look better is pretty disingenuous too.
If the majority of CEOs do this, then that is the typical compensation of CEOs. So they get away with it because they all do it.
> I have to say that the level of reflexive sexism I've seen in the comments this past week is making me think I should abandon my account.

I've had the same feeling as well, although it really started during "Donglegate". A few misogynist groups joined HN to spread their filth, and the commenters here lapped it up and even joined in on the harassment.

I'll warn you: You will only notice it more and more, to the point where you wince before clicking into a thread because you know the kind of comments people will make. It's... disheartening, to say the least.
For the web browser, is there good support for modern browsers?
I think you're discounting her experience, maybe you don't mean to but it comes off that way.
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