skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://video.fosdem.org/2014/Janson/Sunday/NSA_operation_ORC...

It is a political problem. Technical solutions don't matter when the other side has an effectively unimited budget and manpower.

I strongly recommend watching PHK's recent talk talk on that subject in the link above. Avoiding politics by claiming this is a technical problem is simply forfeiting any goals you may have had to the opposition without a fight. Technical issues don't mean a damn thing against the bad end of rubber hose cryptanalysis or the old Soviet trick of simply "disappearing" people, and the aren't particularly useful against the current game of gag-order-filled "National Security Letters".

THAT SAID

It is also a technical problem. As you say, there will always be people interested in eavesdropping, and the tech needs to be fixed regardless. Maybe now we can finally get some progress on that front - I've taught more people about PubKey encryption and the Web Of Trust in the last year than the previous two "B.S."[1] decades. There's still a huge amount of work to do, unfortunately.

Both aspects - political and technical - are important, and we cannot afford to neglect either.

[1] "B.S." => "Before Snowden"
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I've been a full-stack Web developer since 1993, when I set up one of the first 100 Web sites in the world (http://tech.mit.edu/). I've been working as a consultant since 1995. I have extensive experience with Ruby (and Rails), Python, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, and many other technologies.

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I disagree with your comparison, and I'd argue that there's no comparison to physical retail that really works. If there were we'd probably have sane laws anyway imo.

Making muffins costs you time and money, copying a digital file doesn't (ignoring an upload limit or something). Selling is different to giving away (and a stand giving away muffins is no more comparable for the above reason). Both apply even if you use their recipe.

It goes the other way too. The bakery have to put employee time and ingredients into making every muffin while of course the film company doesn't into every digital copy. For the record I'd never consider a film company a victim of piracy.

Again I don't think the laws are sensible, I don't think the way things work right now is going to continue, it's completely infeasible in the modern world. But I don't think that comparison is a reasonable one to make.
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Yes for sure - the local cuisine is heavy on meat & dairy so you'll have to rely on ethnic and speciality places, which mostly exist in the big metropolitan cities.
I find it funny that neither the original blog post nor the comments here really talks much about "Why Atom can't replace vim".
The reason why Atom can't replace Vim, at least for me, is Atom is painfully slow due to the gigantic DOM tree behind it.
Antibiotics and other drugs have allowed many millions of people with relatively weak immune systems or suppressed metabolisms to live to adulthood and reproduce. This has been going on for a few generations now. I don't think it's a stretch to say various modern epidemics like obesity and cancer could be caught up in this dynamic. Broda Barnes thought this was a major factor back in the 70s. He identified himself as likely genetically defective.
Please don't post job boards here. I recommend downvoting this item.
Pretty sure this goes against the spirit of this monthly post.
> Any "commercially available facial recognition technology" is a pre-Google thing, PittPatt is no more.

I see no reason to believe this. Google certainly had an obligation to honor existing PittPatt agreements after the acquisition. And I see no reason why they wouldn't continue working with the NSA if it was in their interest.

I am very pessimistic about bulk electronic surveillance reform. One of the few points of leverage I can see is publicly making it clear when companies work with the NSA, and avoid them when possible. I would include companies that acquire companies that work with the NSA. For example, I have slowly stopped using services of the PRISM companies, including Google.
This isn't a job posting, it is an advert.
It's funny how this idea exists in every paradigm I can think of.

In video editing, Avid Media Composer has an unparalleled function composition feature. All of the UI depends on it - the alt-keys form related commands, every tool has a semantic that you can't escape. In Avid, you can only edit the keybindings for keys with/without shift pressed. No alt-pressed or alt-shift etc. Semantics of all of these come overloaded out of the box.

Final Cut and Premiere are a completely different thing. Infinitely customisable, you can define any key (or cmd-key or cmd-fn-alt-shift-key) to do any thing. What a redundant idea. Tools don't carry any semantics, so if you're trying to, say, trim 10 frames forward, but you're not in trim mode - error beep. In Avid, the idea of modes is so powerful that each function key has maximum functionality outside that mode.

It's a shame how many UI designers get it wrong.
All: This Prof is awesome.

The last version posted on MIT Open Courseware was from 2006. I'm going to go ahead and guess that video/audio recording/editing resources etc. are limited, and this is not a priority course.

That didn't stop the Prof from posting all lecture notes online [0] and using Github to host assignments [1].

Will check this out later; though I recently started using Go and love it. I was able to recently build the smarts of a distributed back-end application with existing Apache projects, some shell, and a lot more Go than I anticipated; which was excellent.

[0] http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2014/schedule.html

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/15-440/S14/assignments.html
I agree with you. I think it's inevitable that it will go that way, the current system is impractical in the modern world. I agree that artificial scarcity is of no benefit to society. The only thing I disagree with is that there's no possible way for piracy to have a legitimate victim, that feels like too much of a simplification to accept.
We’re hiring for sales and ops at 42Floors
You may be thinking…

Wait! What are you guys doing?! All job posts on Hacker News are supposed to be for hackers.

And you’re kinda right. I know the audience here are hackers. But hackers have friends that are interested in startups. And I bet at least a few of you get asked which startup your job-hunting friend should apply to. And at 42Floors, we like for every person on the team to be from the startup community. So, actually, the single best way for a candidate to get an account management job offer is from a referral from a hacker.

…So consider this one of those posts that you should forward on if you feel it warrants it.

So, since I need to make this compelling enough for you to forward to your smartest, self-motivated, awesome friend, here’s a little about 42Floors and what type of experience one would have as an entry level account manager:

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Our site is blowing up right now with massive demand that we simply can’t keep up with. We’re hiring as many account management specialists and sales people as we can. Over the next year, we need to reach out to virtually every landlord and broker in the U.S. We’re going to build a really big team of people to do it, but right now the account management team has just 5 people on it.

It’s going to be an incredible experience for whoever joins the team right now. Not in 3 months, not in 6 months, but right now when all the fun company building parts are still to be had.

Startups are usually run totally flat and our’s is an extreme example of that. There will definitely be people to support the account management team, but the best employees are those that are not only capable of figuring things out, but prefer it that way.

It doesn’t matter whether a candidate knows about commercial real estate or not. We’ll teach that part. And it doesn’t matter whether they have experience in sales or account management. We can help with that part as well. But they need to love all things startups. They need to be super motivated.

And if you know someone that are those things, tell them to apply to http://42floors.com/jobs.
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We have an otherwise unadvertised full time position (3 month contract to start) open that I think is the coolest job ever: We'd like to hire a Data Evangelist; someone who looks at the reams of data flowing in from websites like Sportsnet.ca, TodaysParent.com, NextIssue.ca and 680News.com and humanizes it by finding two or three key things those brands can act on to better meet their audience's needs.

The candidate would have lived through multiple website projects and would be able to suggest how to further instrument a website with analytics to capture data to help drive growth. They'd also have strong communication skills, as they'd be shifting focus month to month to try to spend time with lots of our brand websites and would meet with senior leaders of those brands to talk over their findings.

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I can second this. It's actually quite easy to test on yourself. Try two kinds of breakfast for a few days each, and compare how much snacking you want to do before lunch:

1. Bagels + scone
2. Eggs + bacon

For me, the second kind undeniably leads to less hunger later in the morning. After a breakfast of 4 scrambled eggs + 4 strips of bacon (so 550-600 cal) I can easily not feel hungry at all until lunch. Couple of small bagels with some cream cheese + scone (also ~550-600 cal) and I feel much less full after a couple of hours.
Apple: Always ‘Late’. Never the Bridesmaid
It absolutely does. This is just spam.
Please stop posting WFH.io here. I recommend downvoting this item.
> It's that fabled saying ...

The origin of this saying is Epigrams in Programming, by Alan Perlis.

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
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We have a beautiful webapp, used every day by hundreds of people at ASOS, Gilt Groupe, Target, Gap and more.
The speed water flows through a pipe makes little difference to the speed of sound in water.
"Dude. It is Andrew McCollum. The co-founder of Facebook."
Well in the last 20 years or so softer and easier GSCE and A levels has been a trend have to keep the schools average up to keep Ofsted happy.

Schools also game the system and put a lot of effort in getting D students to get a C at GCSE level (exams taken at 16) as this is what they are scored on.
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" on Steam
Or thunder vs lightning
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Currently available for freelance web app engineering work. I've been working with Rails and JS for ~7 years now, at all points up and down the stack. Everything from performance work on existing code to bringing up a full-fledged product from wireframes.

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You joke about it, but with the betterment of facial recognition and Facebook, just imagine 1 scenario...

All those folks who share selfies of themselves anonymously online both of them clothed and unclothed, we are starting to see the ability to pinpoint who they are, just because they keep an online facebook.
I think this is not a bad thing actually. Think of the iPod. Lots of devices pre-dated the iPod, in fact I got a Diamond Rio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300) for a wedding present. It was horrible. I had a portable CD player and I much preferred carrying that around and a small pack of CDs than the Diamond Rio which was difficult to use, difficult to load songs onto, and only held about 30min of music (and only at 128kbit/s at that).

Then the iPod came out and it was basically like Apple announcing to the world "OK GUYS HERE'S HOW YOU DO IT PROPERLY"

I think the same thing will happen with the iWatch.

AppleTV may take a while longer to negotiate licensing deals etc... but as Apple showed with music, they can do it. Also they have a head start with relationships in the business and knowledge of how to negotiate these things.
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Indeed. This is not a new development:

"The narrower doctrine may have satisfied the demands of society at
a time when the abuse to be guarded against could rarely have arisen
without violating a contract or a special confidence; but now that
modern devices afford abundant opportunities for the perpetration of
such wrongs without any participation by the injured party, the
protection granted by the law must be placed upon a broader foundation.
While, for instance, the state of the photographic art was such that
one's picture could seldom be taken without his consciously "sitting"
for the purpose, the law of contract or of trust might afford the
prudent man sufficient safeguards against the improper circulation of
his portrait; but since the latest advances in photographic art have
rendered it possible to take pictures surreptitiously, the doctrines of
contract and of trust are inadequate to support the required protection,
and the law of tort must be resorted to. The right of property in its
widest sense, including all possession, including all rights and
privileges, and hence embracing the right to an inviolate personality,
affords alone that broad basis upon which the protection which the
individual demands can be rested."

-- "Right to Privacy" Warren & Brandeis December 15, 1890

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...

[ed: formatting]
Unfortunately the paper seems well hidden away behind Elsevier's paywall. But I noticed there's another 2008 paper by some of the same authors on the same topic:

http://sws.bu.edu/marchant/Dave_FullText_Papers/Kadish_Icaru...
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We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.

You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms. One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.

We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.

Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs/software-engineer and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/

Thanks!
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https://github.com/geekuillaume

guillaume@besson.co
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For comparison, in 1935, the infant mortality rate was 55.7 per 1000 live births (compared to 6 per thousand today). Averaging a decline of 3.1% per year.

http://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/images/mchb_infantmortality_pub...

And it dropped 12% from 2005 to 2011:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db120.pdf
Exactly. And since I recently mapped 'normal' mode to the Caps Lock key, it's even easier. I did this because I was forced to use a keyboard that had no ESC key, but it's been very useful with vim.
they are missing W.O.P.R. from War Games (1983)
http://www.hirerefugees.org
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