skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I keep noticing in all these stories is how the FBI seems to act during these "interrogations." They're like the big bully who runs into the room, barely stops to think, makes a few empty, irrational threats, then leaves the room feeling stupid but refusing to admit it.

It's nothing logical, but it's pretty frustrating that you can't just let them how dumb they are, simply because they have the bigger bureaucratic dicks in the room.
MS opened the door for the chromebook by killing off the netbook market with their silly limitations on the netbook format. People wanted the devices, just not the crippled ones. Chromebook just filled the hole intentionally left.
Which is more ridiculous: that AMC actually called the FBI, or that the FBI actually respond in this way?

What the fuck is wrong with this country?
Flagged - title is editorialized. Correct title is "Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure". Edit: This has been fixed now. Thanks.

This actually seems like a disguised recruitment piece, until the last answer where it plainly is. There are little to no actual technical details about their SOA implementation other than handwaving about splitting their monolithic app into services and the benefits it brings. I guess it's just meant to entice developers with stories of the awesome solutions they will get to maintain as a cog in Twitter.
You couldn't pay me to watch an entire movie recorded off-screen on some dude's Glass.
You almost had me with the "lot of never to use a racial slur..." part. Also, pasty-faced is the equivalent of ashy-faced (for black people) which is also not a racial slur.
Why the FBI and not the local police? I understand that piracy goes through the FBI, but the if you catch someone "in the act" I am sure the police can handle it.
Am I the only one who's pretty convinced by that story that they were not FBI? It seemed like the fellow who went through this has his doubts as well.

I feel doubly bad for him, that's a horrible experience and also that he was so intimidated that he just sat through all that, didn't get any badge numbers or names or even what organization these people were with, "would have been fine with “I’m sorry this happened, please accept our apologies”" and closing it with: "Again, I wish they would have listened when I told them how to verify I did nothing illegal, or at least apologize afterwards, but hey… this is the free country everybody praises. Somewhere else might be even worse."

Everyone isn't going to be one of those "know and exercise your rights" people in the face of authority, but the opposite is very depressing.
Fair enough; I haven't used Haskell but I know intuitively that a Clojure library won't be able to replicate the sophistication of its type system. On the other hand, the dynamic nature of Clojure is what makes REPL-driven game development possible.

I'm willing to give up some type system sophistication in exchange for that, along with access to the JVM, macros, and so on. Carmack may not agree with that trade-off, but like I said, I mentioned him specifically for his endorsement of functional game programming.
I am aware that Marissa Meyer's looks are often spoken of. However, before she was a CEO, she earned degrees from some of the world's most highly ranked universities and did interesting work for another 13 years.

Regarding the article you posted - the advantage that attractive people have in the workplace is not limited to women; attractive men also earn this benefit. In fact, some studies show that if attractive women are applying for typically male-dominated fields, they are rated more negatively than their unattractive counterparts. Attractive males do not experience a noted disadvantage when applying for any job.

Further info on this phenomenon: http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/orsp_shahani-denning_spring03.pdf
isnt this what storify is for?
One other note: I think it's important to say that I'm a HUGE fan of what Backblaze does in terms of open-sourcing their storage box designs and how they accomplish things. I think that's a noble thing to do, and have always thought highly of them for that.
Original Castle in the Sky/architecture blog post: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/new-tweets-per-second-record-a...
You cannot give these companies an inch with stuff like this. In 2014, we're spoiled and for the most part don't realize that our network providers aren't the only potential toll keepers nickel and dimeing us.

I don't know if you are familiar with mainframe or similar computing technologies. When you buy an IBM mainframe (or Power unix box to a lesser extent), you're essentially metered by a CPU budget. You're not permitted to use the full capacity of your system unless you pay.

This case is a little different, but the point stands. Companies should not be allowed to sabotage the competition or hobble the ability of a device capable of doing a task from doing it. The free market works when the stakeholders don't cheat.
I immediately thought of Seinfeld. The Bootleg.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i45IsSYF-PI
Do something for the fun of it and/or the challenge, or to see "what if", without worrying about whether you can monetize it. This is of course assuming you've paid your bills already ;)
Does your phone have a camera on it? What if you decide to take out your phone and check an email, would you want what happened to the guy happen to you? "Don't take out your phone out of your pocket in a theater or other area where filming is prohibited."
Wow. What a gross misuse of a federal agency. I can't believe my tax dollars pay for this. What kind of reach does the movie industry have to make this happen?
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Filming is prohibited. Not cameras.

Now, if they want to make camera's prohibited, they could try that. Leave your smart phones at the door.
Hey, slurs like "retarded" are offensive and you should reconsider your use of them.

edit: Thank you for editing your comment.
Are they white?
Am I the only one who is a bit skeptical of this? Seems incredibly hard to believe, with no hard sources. (Email from Friend of a Friend of a gadget blogger is not where I want to be getting my credible news of law enforcement overreaching)
I never said anything about the glasses themselves.

You don't have a right to wear a camera into a private establishment just because you mounted them on your prescription glasses. How 'fancy' the rims are is immaterial to the camera you mount on them.
Hopefully the local police were called, and told whoever called them to buzz off and let them deal with more important things.
> You know, to avoid situations like this?

So if an innocent guy gets strip-searched, your advice would be to tell him not to wear clothes?

You know, to avoid situations like this?
Congrats, you have just opened yourself to a DoS for no gain whatsoever. Mind telling me the host and where you usually connect from?
This so much, when it happens its very insulting.
$600 prescription glasses? WTF? Just get a $30 pair and wear those rather than having a camera taped to the side of your head. This isn't surprising in the slightest.
This isn't really a story about the woes of being a google glass user, it's a story about how people don't know their rights and how to apply them.

This man is lucky that he didn't end up accidentally giving the authorities some tiny piece of information to make his life worse. You should absolutely never talk to the authorities even if you think you have nothing to hide and especially when they're actively trying to pin something on you. It is perfectly legal for them to threaten you with harsher legal penalties, and it is perfectly legal for you to say I need to speak with a lawyer before I make any decisions or say anything. This account is a CLEAR illustration of how they ONLY want you to confess to something and once they don't think they can they no longer care about you in the tiniest bit. It's not about justice, it's about catching people.

Also, don't wear a goddamn camera on your head to the movies. The man must certainly own a pair of regular prescription glasses and was being extremely naive.
He makes that clear when he quotes 'federal service'. So, someone is masquerading around as FBI, using local police to harass innocent movie goers at the behest of AMC.
A really nice read and great snippets of each article/blog post. I have read some in the past, and even though I may not always agree on their reason for failure, I can definitely relate to others. At the end of the day, building a startup is hard, and if you're not willing to "pivot" either incrementally or sometimes completely, you will fail.

I truly commend these founders for writing about their failures. It's hard to admit you failed, rather alone letting the world know you dropped the ball. In return, we can learn from them, as to not repeat the mistakes they did, but to make our own mistakes (a bit cliche but true)

At the end of the day:

1) build something people want

2) features != product; features = bloat

3) keep learning, keep moving

The number of times I was about to give up only to realize, "wait a second, I completely missed x" and fixed it, has paid me dividends in the past.

Reflect, correct, and kick ass ;)
The lesson here is "Don't talk to the police". This has been posted here many times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

This should be required viewing especially given the quasi-police state the US is turning into and, more importantly, the arbitrariness of prosecutorial discretion.

As soon as they say it's a "voluntary interview", leave. The only thing you should say is "am I free to go?". If you are, go. If not, ask for a lawyer.

Watch the video for why. You can get yourself in trouble and you are basically strictly better off saying nothing.
Going after the people pointing a camera at the screen is, generally, a pretty accurate way of stopping filming.
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That's what I was about to say.
Please, sir, go through my private photos. I've got nothing to hide!
RubyMine does this for Ruby as well, if you're not against not using emacs/vim/needle&hand
In reality, it doesn't matter what controls you implement in the JS including DOM resident encryption. If your network, your server, or your application is vulnerable a bad guy can simply change the payment script directly or even entirely overwrite the DOM with their code. When it comes to PCI compliance companies are responsible for securing the end to end payment path which includes the security surrounding the delivery of the payment form.
Well, we don't know it was the FBI. The story doesn't say anything other than 'federal service', and even uses the quotes. So, I imagine someone masquerading as FBI, or trying to pull off that impression. Granted, it could just be the FBI being dicks.
"I would suggest that if you're coming up with 'tactics' for SEO you're already on the road to bad SEO."

I would disagree. If you are constructing your site with NO regard to how Google and other search engines would index the content, you're just throwing money away on web development.

If you are not following proper canonical procedures, not giving each page title a unique and descriptive text, and not using rich snippets, you deserve your low search rankings.

There is such a thing as good SEO. It's just being smart and letting people find your page. Just like Disney is as concerned with how people get to their theme park as their experience inside.
From what I recall post-9/11, the FBI do not carry badges, but written identification, like a large social security card.
> it may be my mistake for assuming that if I went and watched movies two times wearing Glass with no incident the third time there won’t be any incident either

> About an hour into the movie (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit)

The cinema could've been under obligation to more strictly enforce anti-IP-theft measures for that particular movie. It was released on the same day in many countries of the world so opening weekend attendance was important for their revenues. I saw it in mainland China before it opened in the US.

I don't think any extra IP protection measures will help revenues for that particular movie, though. It was the only time I've ever been the only person in a cinema hall in China watching a movie.
I've seen bootlegged movies from camcorders in theaters. Those are bad enough. The thought of something recorded from some guy's headmounted camera, with thousands of tiny movements, breathing, twitching, slouching, eating and more makes me wonder who on earth would even think a recording made that way would be valuable.
In the simplest case, an order book is generated from all outstanding buy and sell limit orders, assuming none have crossed (if they have, the matching engine will immediately transact those orders). The price is discretized, so there is a minimum tick size, and each price has a FIFO queue of orders.

HFT provides liquidity to all other traders, including other HFT. They are paid in either the bid-ask spread (in the case that HFT is passive) or arbitrating bid-ask spreads between different exchanges, e.g. they aggress and take out an offer on exchange A which is below the bid on exchange B, providing liquidity to the standing offer on exchange A immediately instead of letting the prices disjoin.

The answer to the last two lines are the same -- there is no meaningful difference between a buy and a sell. The net effect is more liquidity than without any short term market making, for both market and limit orders (IMO market orders should simply not exist, but that's a small aside).
> If services like Stripe accepted already-encrypted credit card numbers, couldn't someone just steal the already-encrypted credit card numbers and run them through Stripe?

OK then encrypt the credit card number + merchant ID

> Also, resting the security of the payment infrastructure on a single keypair (per network) seems a bit risky. You'd probably want a more sophisticated infrastructure which individually identifies players and allows for revocation, ala chip & pin.

Then perhaps Mastercard could have a separate public/private key pair for each merchant. Although even a single key pair for each card network would still be better than the status quo, wouldn't it?
>I have done my bit to put the MPAA and RIAA out of business: I don't watch movies, and I don't listen to music.

No try to stop eating food and taking drugs. There goes the food industry and big pharma too!
> DOS-Windows/QuickTime/IndeoVideo5.zip

A large number of bad memories just flooded back
Filming is against the law, it is often company policy to not allow people to mount cameras onto their shoulders as to reduce the number of people breaking the law by filming.

Acceptable: Having phone in pocket.

Unacceptable: Holding phone out with the camera facing the projector screen a vast majority of the time.

Dude, no: Rigging up a telecine machine with your phone in the projector booth to make a more direct copy during off-hours.
Sorry, wasn't thinking. I changed it.
True, but that's just a question of density. There are books written in English that are so dense that they too need to be decoded.
Don't know about exploration, but SpaceX runs Linux for all it's rocket firmware and I imagine Dragon capsules will as well.
'the customer is always right'

While not judging this particular situation with the following: No the customer is not always right, sometimes the customer needs to be told to fuck off/fired.

In fact people that use that phrase tend to be the perfect assholes of the world that need to be put in their place instead of placating and encouraging the behavior.
I can't speak for "Mr Egalitarian", as you put it, but I can confidently say yes to all of those things (or more precisely, I wouldn't assume any of those things any less or more than if I saw an Asian man). Knowing the probability of a tech person being a certain race or gender doesn't mean one is forced to apply that knowledge, particularly when one is aware of the human cost of that kind of stereotyping/pidgeonholing. It sounds like you're just projecting a lot of racial and/or gender issues that you have onto the author of the parent comment.
you appear as a little angry about the whole thing...
I love the blog format. Article about a somewhat distressing abuse of power by authorities, followed by "Other articles that you will enjoy"...
Please don't light a bright back-lit screen in a theater for something like email. The focus break ruins the experience people pay the ticket price for. Emergencies only.
That is just one example, but the point is that there are a LOT of people in this country that could work but simply don't want to. So the egalitarian whining is just that, whining.

> I have no clue where this pernicious "there's jobs in the Dakotas" meme comes from, but it needs to die right quick.

This is an attempt to replace a rational debate with intimidation. I often see people try to replace it with emotion, but intimidation? Really? I can only assume it wasn't intentional.
It's all about the _cloud_, my friend: with superresolution techniques, each glass user can contribute pixel blocks that get re-synthesized into the original.
>Back in the 90s macs had a serious virus problem.

Yes, as did Amigas and Ataris. And they had 1/30 the market share OS X has had the last 10 years, and 1/50 the share of early Windows/DOS at the time.

Which goes to show that all those people claiming OS X didn't have viruses because "it had too few users" compared to XP so writers weren't interested were full of crap.

It didn't have viruses because it made it more difficult than Mac OS/Amiga/Atari to have viruses, with those UNIX permissions et al (basic as they are).
i like to donate as much as anybody but i'd like to see the exact way the money is spent when i do. Too bad most projects don't document that at all.
> Have you ever had a reason to read just part of a book?

Of course I have. Any time I've picked up a reference book, textbook, or anthology.

books != novels
They wouldn't be doing this if they didn't think more people are interested in Windows 7 than Windows 8. That would be a pretty silly reason to "get their name in the news", otherwise.
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They do. But in Russia or China with tripod and proper camera. This was just bullshit.
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Yes! Anybody who has been victimized by the security apparatus automatically should have known better and spent any sum of money to avoid targeting.

Nobody could possibly expect businesses or sworn officers of the law to treat innocent citizens like human beings, to know anything about technology that is directly relevant to their jobs, or to think for five seconds.
"I can't help but wonder how much more successful he might have been..."

I just. Wow. Jobs was maybe more successful than anyone else in the history of the industry, ever, plus there was that movie studio thing.
Reminds me of the old Maxis Sim* series. Could they enforce someone else releasing a game called SimSomething? Or Apple using lowercase i's as prefixes.
Of course, the whole point of "literate programming" is to provide hints and structure for the human reader. This is done not by creating some structure in the code that makes sense to the compiler and a human, but by breaking up a program into pieces that are put together later.

I feel that this is really nothing that a good compiler couldn't do with a higher level language today. However, in doing so I would wind up with a heavily polluted namespace of helper methods and such that really don't help me understand what I was trying to do.

So, in the vein of reading code. I've only read a few sections of "The Stanford Graphbase," as I just got it a couple of weeks ago, but I can already tell this would have been a much better introduction to a few graph algorithms than I had in my undergrad.

Further, all of the "literate" programs I have written have been much easier for me to jump back into. Precisely because I have much of my "decoding" notes. So, code isn't literature, because we don't write it with a narrative for humans in mind. But, there is no real reason we couldn't.
WhatsApp, Now With 430M Users, Has No Plans For Disappearing Photos
I actually do occasionally. Genius can make a pretty good mix from just some random song from years ago. iTunes radio isn't available here, but one of my buddies uses Grooveshark all the time.
Who needs a national id number when you have the NSA?
Funny, I was under the impression that they're installing Windows 7 because Win8 sucked.
Out of interest, could you enlighten me as to why the word "retard" is a slur but "dumb" isn't?

Putting colloquial use aside, both are valid words that describe conditions, so if one is a slur, isn't the other? Where is the line?
This comment is such a mark of the times.
Hooray for you, Mr. Colorblind, that you don't care about her looks, race, or gender. Unfortunately, women and black people (in the US at least) don't get to breezily dismiss it. The fact that you are apparently unaware of this leads me to think that you are exactly the kind of person who could do with a privilege audit.
Pmarchive - Why not to do a startup
Yup! Just last week I helped a friend clean up his computer after he tried to watch such a bootleg and downloaded some questionable software in the process.
Why is there no mention of having a prescription medical device taken without consequence? I wonder if, had anything gone south, being deprived of a medical device during questioning could have been used to get evidence thrown out.
No, I believe they have your position right, insofar as it's deeply flawed. Please go enjoy any one of several thousand books at your local library.
I have a friend/college classmate who got a job directly after graduating working on a satellite that would dock with a broken/out-of-control satellite in mid-space and pull it down into orbit to burn it up (basically a garbageman satellite). Really cool project, they had it working in simulations.

He quit after a few years and now works at Spotify since it pays way better and is more fun.
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A deftly concealed take-down of today's online media and what it means for future attention spans. Great read.
Quite the use of police resources too, going so far out of their way to take on someone who might've been (but wasn't) making a copy (but not stealing an original) of something digital.
I fear for you if this is what you inferred.
Note that the authorities did tell him they were going to cause him more problems if he didn't cooperate.

So, that makes the choice of telling them nothing pretty hard.
If I were AMD, I'd just start calling my processor GenuineIntel. (Or maybe make it user programmable, and then absolve myself of any knowledge of what users are setting it to.) When the judge asks why, I'd say because those are the magic words to make certain binaries run faster, and I wanted to run a viable processor business.

This is not an acceptable use of trademarks.
you don't even get edge when you're in the middle of nowhere in Australia, much less LTE.

e.g:
http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/coverage-networks/ou...
Your average Ohio gadget lover who likely doesn't actually want himself ID'd in the news, nor does he know who to reach out to in the mainstream media. Seems believable, but not yet credible, due to the lack of verification.
And Australia is a country with an overwhelmingly higher cost of living than almost everywhere in the US.
I don't think "socially unproven" should excuse the behaviour written up in this story.

As the writer noted, they could have demonstrated very quickly that they weren't filming anything if the police weren't willing to take their word for it.
Once again, Google has no method for weeding things out, so everything gets tossed out.

It would be funny if everyone used nofollow for every link. Google would find itself in a pickle.
Why Barack Obama?
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2319B

In case anyone is wondering, that's the us federal law. Most States have individual laws that change the punishment.