skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it took anyone a year to notice it had disappeared. Where did you get that information? The report for the first half of 2013 where the original canary appeared wasn't even released as of a year ago. It was released Nov. 5, 2013.

Furthermore, this document (https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/upd-nat-sec-and-law-enf-o...) provides credence to the possibility that the NSA requested information from Apple after the Nov. 5, 2013 release as that Jan 27th, 2014 release directly mentions that it replaces the previous notes.

(speculation ahead)
This, along with the knowledge that the canary is now removed, implies that the NSA requests were the core difference in the numbers, in my opinion. This would place the time of NSA disclosures to sometime in late 2013-very early 2014, I would imagine.
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The more you know this sort of thing the harder it becomes to believe that Apple makes the same things everyone else does but with fancy marketing.
the Lev sounds perfect for me too. Do we need to learn Portugese to use it and are they available anywhere in the US?
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I think all of the trilogy had people using "walkers" on Mars that compressed bodies elastically rather than being pressurized - though they did have normal style helmets.
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Nest doesn't do most of these things.

> White plastic

No.

> CNC machining at scale

I'd be shocked if they CNC machined any piece of the nest. There's no need.

> Laser drilled holes

Nope.

> Molded plastic packaging

I guess they did this. They probably had the experience and money to pull this off.

> No ejector pin marks

Not relevant because there is no exposed plastic.

> 4-color, double-walled, matte boxes + HD foam inserts

Nope.
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this is true - but you're [generally] going to have a batch of candidates for any given position
Q: Before we go-- are there are any areas relevant to either role or your background & experience that we didn't cover? Anything else that you might like to discuss?

This is a good way to wrap up and probe for any areas of concern from candidates. It often yields additional insights.
OK, so they had the canary. Received the warrant. Removed the canary...and re-engineered iOS 8 so that they are no longer technically able to comply with the warrant?

If true, that's quite heroic.
> If I'm handing over my hard earned money to a business, I do expect the business to bend over backward for me.

I find this attitude troubling and fundamentally incompatible with the entire idea of market exchange. In an mutually-agreed exchange, there is no reason a party who is giving money is inherently more entitled to special treatment from the other party beyond the express terms of the exchange. If I am giving my "hard-earned money" in to someone in exchange for the fruits of their labor (whether that's a service or a good, and whether its the direct fruit of their personal labor or that of labor that they have purchased with their "hard-earned money"), I am no more entitled to have them bend over backward for me than the reverse.

Now, admittedly, if the service I am purchasing from them is a servant-like attitude, then, sure, I am entitled to that -- that's what I am buying. But if I want some other good or service, plus a servant-like attitude, I should expect to pay extra for the extra I'm getting. And since I value my hard-earned money -- it being hard-earned and all -- I am unlikely to wish to pay the premium that makes that worthwhile except when it does something particular to enhance the value of the base good or service that it accompanies.
Could this be a good idea worth creating a startup?
I gave credit insofar as language features, hygienic macros and pipe ops are both wins in my book.

Which libraries and tools do you think set Elixir apart? Do you prefer it to erlang (I've seen you in #elixir-lang ;)?
To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail:

"Some theories are still holding strong though, and Cowan jokes that each scientist sees the solution in terms of their own particular area of expertise: the insect biologists think the circles are created by ants or termites, the plant physiologists think it’s grasses, and the chemists think it’s gases. Cowan, a microbial ecologist, proves no exception."
Posts like this make me realize how amateur and inexperienced I am. Seriously.

I've taken it for granted for the past 3 years now that convertible notes were universally regarded as the best and smartest form of fundraising for seed rounds, just based on what I've found and read in various places online (lots of it here on HN, for that matter...)

And here we have Suster laying out clearly the opposite side of the argument in a way that humbles me. This is clearly an area that I have a lot to learn from people much smarter than I.

Most YC companies go on to raise rounds using YC's SAFE, which is an adaptation of convertible notes, right? If so, I'd love to hear a YC partner (or partners) address these points.
how so? forward secrecy is public key crypto, the private key never leaves the oracle so all cloudfare needs to do is refuse requests made with the public key. ideally the oracle would block it as well, but having cloudfare do everything means minimal administration for their clients.
I didn't understand even after minutes of googling. Can you summarize it?
Twilio MMS is 2 cents to send, 1 cent to receive. More pricing info can be found here: https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing
I don't think that was competence, though - the power of Brazil was that systemic incompetence, apathy, and fear won.
The sound got worse when going from tapes to CDs?
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> This is the first time I can recall someone getting this level of access to MMS services within operators (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Would Mogreet qualify? I've used their MMS support for a side project more than a year ago, and found that it works well across carriers in the US.

https://developer.mogreet.com/
I believe strongly in renaming things as an effective marketing and positioning technique. Rebranding the inheritance tax as the death tax is a good example.

Does anyone have any other examples?
How does this compare to kippt?
He probably thought the report missing the canary was published at the end of 2013 given that's the name of the report and the date in the filename. Understandable mistake.

The metadata in the PDF file says it was actually created on August 27th of this year.
One of the most amazing feats in chess history just happened in St. Louis
Gee, thanks for the hat tip...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8334058
No disrespect meant, but from a security perspective the idea of patching security-critical software with a patch from a stranger on the Internet is kind of crazy, isn't it?
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding about the difference between Google Wallet and Apple Pay. Wallet does not need (or even function differently) with the "support" of credit card companies - it is a payment processor unto itself. If you have a Visa, Mastercard, AMEX or Discover logo on your card, it works with Google Wallet.

Put differently, Wallet supports 100% of credit and check cards in the US, whereas Apple supports "many".

Pay, because of the need to generate purchase tokens and "one-time-use" cards, requires integration effort on the side of both Apple and the issuing bank. Pay is not a payment processor, just a gateway.
Make them the laughing stock of the world and nobody will take them serious anymore.

As bad as the things they do are, it can't get anymore classy for a countermeasure. No war on whatever really helps the people, but this hopefully opens some eyes.
not really -- only in that they are both SSL-related.

Free SSL is still in the works. More info soon-ish.
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The lifting body may look more inspiring, but despite what you say, the Dragon 2 has many key innovations that are aimed at what really matters: reducing the cost and increasing the safety of spaceflight. Shroudless launch, 3D printed main engines, integrated LES using the main engines, propulsive landing, full reusability. To draw an equivalence between it and other previous capsule designs that don't have those features is misleading.

Perhaps Dream Chaser was ready to do all those things. I wish it went forward as well. But the technologies in Dragon 2 will make a big difference.
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What are your objections to Bob Mylod?
Regardless whether this is true I also find it very funny.
Ah, yes, I'm familiar with these tools. They're indeed pretty good.

In addition to them, I also use Coverity (they offer free licenses for open source projects) and Coccinelle (although it's a tool to refactor/create semantic patches, can be also used to find defects if you know what you're looking for -- useful if you fix one bug and you're wondering if there are more like it lurking).

Having different opinions about your codebase is often good as the approach in finding defects is usually different between them. For instance, stuff by the PVS people seem pretty good to find copy/paste mistakes, which I've rarely found with other tools.
Years ago, for a period of about 3 months, 2 friends and I would get together after work and play an XBOX fighting game for 4-5 hours (We had literally nothing else to do. No money, no cable, just this one game). Winner plays again and loser waits his turn.

Everyone's style and character picks would constantly evolve during this process. But generally, one friend would lose far more than he would win, and we would tease him mercilessly, as you do.

One day, out of nowhere, he was unbeatable. Winning game after game, to all of our amazement.

My other friend, who I don't think graduated high school and almost certainly never read anything about sleep science or brain development, made the following comment, which struck me as profound at the time:

"JP was dreaming this shit last light. No doubt, dreaming it all night"

Another example of sub/unconscious learning happens in sports. Another pastime of mine is playing pickup basketball.

One of the best ways to get into a hot shooters head is to simply say "You're shooting really well today. What are you doing differently?" the same applies to things like a golf swing.
I'm sure it could be found with a web archive or a quick search, but I personally believe it is irrelevant as it would not make sense to release the 2nd half 2013 report before the 1st half 2013 report. This means the 2nd half 2013 report had to have been released after Nov. 5, 2013, but beyond that, it wouldn't make sense to release the 2013 report before the year is over, would it? This leads me to believe it would be nearly impossible for this canary to have been missing for over a year.

Edit: ugh, hate when people edit after I already responded... It would literally be impossible for this canary missing to be over a year old. The news of the canary's existence didn't even break over a year ago (from my research).... I don't understand why this point is even debatable.
I set up a quick and dirty version of GV with one of their provided Twimlets[1]. All it does is record a message, transcribe it, then send the results to my email address. My wife and I used this, for example, when looking for a mortgage loan (they never. stop. calling.)

I've thought long and hard about building something more complicated but I was always sort of stopped by the lack of MMS and my (apparently faulty) understanding of how their Caller ID works[2]. Not anymore!

[1]: https://www.twilio.com/labs/twimlets/voicemail

[2]: Previously I had thought you could only set registered numbers as caller ID, but turns out if you dial out while processing an incoming call you can set the caller ID as the incoming number. See here: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/twiml/dial#attributes-caller...
For what it's worth, most engineers want absolutely nothing to do with the loudness wars. These are people who've made a career on developing their ears, and the harmonic distortion from limiting the fuck out of a recording sounds even worse to them than it does to the general public.

The problem is that record labels have bought into the idea that a record needs to be outrageously loud in order to compete on radio. And the labels are the ones paying the mastering engineers.
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Well, they sort of do, in the form of instance variables.
You can send to any number, with just the phone number.

When developing an application for the general public, none of the services you suggest come close to solving that problem.
The question is about truths, not about opinions. Just because you have an oddball notion that most people disagree with, doesn't mean you're the keeper of secret wisdom.
Mogreet only does short codes for MMS, though. I've been looking for a service that has MMS support for long codes/full phone numbers for a while so seeing this news today was pretty exciting for me!
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... (of course, one can always debate about the wages of these labors)

Yes, if you ignore the part of the employment/"contract work" relationship being criticized, it doesn't sound bad at all. There are upsides and downside to everything, and passing judgment on a labor relationship (or anything) does not require being at one end of the spectrum or the other.

The 1099 runaround has been around for ages. Just because it's relatively new (at least publicly) for the bay area tech startup scene, that probably isn't going to change society's views on the practice (though I'm sure we'll get some delicious "stifling innovation" rants trying anyway).
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Why would I install those things when my MMS client is built into my phone, I don't have to find someone's contact info because I already have their phone numbers, etc.?
Several web services in production right now.
There are so many acronyms in this article that aren't defined. Maybe I'm not the intended audience for this article, but it's pretty hard to understand when you don't know what CM, CNC, or BOM mean. Is it really so hard to use the <abbr> tag?
Are you saying "morals are not universal" or "morals are universal"?
If your origin server can be found on the internet, it can be DDoS'd/attacked, and your (dynamic) site will go down. This is true of all CDNs. The way to avoid this is to either have the CDN host your app servers or provide a private connection from your origin to the CDN.

I guess technically the TLS-secured static content would now be at more risk than it was before, when the cached content would have been served. But existing session tickets would probably be honored, so only new clients would get rejected. Still, it's a tradeoff some people would probably be fine with.
Yes, that's what I understood. That } after return matches to the function opening {. So it's correct syntactically, but is wrong according to intention.
> World-renowned security experts Jon Callas and Phil Zimmermann support CloudFlare's latest announcement sharing, “One of the core principles of computer security is to limit access to cryptographic keys to as few parties as possible, ideally only the endpoints. Application such as PGP, Silent Circle, and now Keyless SSL implement this principle and are correspondingly more secure.”

Ehh... I'd say Keyless SSL implements the opposite of that principle: encryption terminates with CloudFlare but authentication terminates in some bank.
Did you knew about the “$0” operator in chrome console?
This is exactly the contrary of what Berlusconi once proposed: "let's brand all Fiat cars as Ferrari and their sales will soar".
The Lev is a rebranded/reworked Bookeen Odissey Frontlight which you can learn more here https://www.bookeen.com/en/cybook-odyssey-frontlight looking at the pics, I think there are some cosmetical changes in the software side. You can probably get it on the U.S. :-)

PS: I don't know how far the differences go. The Lev might just be the exact same thing but translated or there might be some software differences. Looking at the screenshots I can see that the menu has different borders which in itself doesn't mean anything
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Even Banks thought that humans weren't really nice enough to form something like the Culture. On the other hand, he also makes it clear the organic inhabitants are as engineered as the drones and Minds - everything from the way their bodies work through the language they speak has been had thousands of years of engineering.

Of course, all SF "cheats" in some respects - and clearly a lot of aspects of the Culture technology are effectively unexplained magic - but that doesn't bother me. Having always been fascinated by strong artificial intelligence (real artificial minds) and I think the Culture novels do a very entertaining and optimistic job of raising questions about what a society made up of artificial intelligences and organic inhabitants might be like.

As he said to an interview about the Minds:

Is this what gods would actually be like?” Banks answered, “If we’re lucky.”
There's a huge difference between passively tapping a fiber optic cable and infiltrating a network to inject malicious traffic. All we've ever seen evidence of is NSA's passive tapping of Google & others.
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I've been trying to read up on bitcoin price predictions, but most of predictions I can find make no logical sense to me.
Indeed.

Imagine an internet user who uses online banking with one of these banks; registered his domains with Namecheap; keeps some bitcoins at Coinbase; pseudonymously frequents Reddit; and posts anonymously at 4chan every now and then.

By merely passively eavesdropping on all traffic from and to your IP address, Cloudflare can build a profile that links your real world identity to all your Reddit posts you thought were anonymous; to the naughty threads you visited on 4chan; to the amount of money in your bank account; and to the domains and bitcoin addresses you own.

This is something that neither your ISP or any of those individual site owners could ever do, and which might even make the NSA a bit jealous. Now consider what Cloudflare could do on your behalf (and make it look like it was you) if, say, a disgruntled employee was actively out to get you.

I'm not at all saying that there is any reason to distrust Cloudflare, but is it not an enormous amount of power to place in the hands of one entity? Even more so than we do with parties like Google or Facebook, which get immensely more scrutinized over it?
Perhaps, though "check out my slow, non-functional slabs of Apple tech"...

Apple abandons devices from OS upgrades and compatibility, batteries lose their charge. It'll very quickly (in terms of "collectibles") become a gold bar with a black rectangle in the middle.
> If you are going to make a product and you think that your product is going to be as revolutionary as Apple was at the beginning, then don't worry. You will be good to go.

I would disagree with this, but keep quiet, if you removed "you think". As it is, the advice just seems irresponsible.

If you think your product is going to be as revolutionary as Apple was at the beginning, you are probably wrong, and you should adjust your expectations accordingly.
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It's (positive) propaganda, and propaganda is effectively a social hack. A part of the social hack is its technical impact , but it's interesting independent of it. (And I'd love to see more analysis of the impact and stickiness of the hack). Thanks for posting it.
I believe this is an example of Simpson's Paradox mentioned in the article.
Really? Moving the car to a separate space for drying is more expensive than holding up the line?
The website was right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-circuit_evaluation
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All open source software is made up of patches from strangers on the internet.
Apple will no longer unlock iPhones for police, even with search warrants
I like this is a story about failures and how hard it is to start something.
I've asked this before to no avail, but what can the NSA possibly do if Apple refuses?

Fine them? Sure, they have billions.

They can't arrest the company... Is Cook going to jail? What is the actual threat here? You could argue that Apple has more power than many governments.
haha lol does this work with other whois websites?
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Clever. I didn't get it at first.

Never trust user input.

Edit: See http://www.dnswatch.info/dns/dnslookup?la=en&host=jamiehanki... for the actual code.
Also, Daesh is a homophone with a french slang word for semen.
And with $1 you get the previous element.
Everything has its pros and cons, and he's pointing out that if you have a note with a high cap and then can't raise the next round above the cap, or if you have multiple notes outstanding, then it might mess with the mathematics of the cap table in a bad way when you raise a priced round.

The truth is that notes and YC's SAFE are still the way to go. Why? If the startup is taking off, then you're going to blow past your cap (which you should set fairly) and everyone's happy. If the startup isn't headed anywhere, well, why the hell are you raising more anyway? Consider selling or shutting it down. The problems he's pointing out apply in this case, and frankly you can always in such a situation consider re-negotiating prior deals if you have to. In other words, these are theoretical objections at best.

Most 'traditional' investors used to have it good in the (good, according to them) old days. They had the leverage, so they forced terms that were good for them. This meant lower valuations in general compared to today, and control in the form of board seats, which you generally had to have once you had different classes of equity. Those days are long gone, and this strikes me as a lament for the way things used to be.
Wow, someone had time and motivation to write all of that boilerplate there. Yet e.g. the license parsing is very naive: compare https://github.com/npm/npm-www/blob/99020b5b3e21607dab24cd69... and https://github.com/rickbergfalk/npm-postgres-mashup/blob/56d...
I don't remember the exact spot, but I think that this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NUI07y1SlQ has explanation for why loading clojure programs takes so long.
Cool, thanks guys, I'm going to check all that :)
The same way they do it with Admob. They might send you a postcard with a PIN on it and you have to enter that PIN in an online form somewhere later.