skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that your blog? I really don't think you've "caught him out" by saying his first paragraph contradicts his second. One paragraph is the present state of affairs, the other suggests future behaviour that can change the present state of affairs. Snowden doesn't have the luxury of communicating with people who have covered their tracks.

All of your bullet points thereafter merely describe the present state of affairs and do not in any way contradict the concept of using encryption to change them.

It's the defeatist attitude that I find the most defeating about this subject.
Eugenics? Are you high or just incredibly stupid and listen to that nut job Alex Jones?
This is in Denmark, the brand is Paraghurt: http://www.actavis.dk/dk/products/ParaghurtA07FA01.htm

Now that you mention it I haven't ever seen it abroad. Apparently the common alternative is Lactobacillus acidophilus LA-5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_acidophilus

Wikipedia lists Chr. Hansen as the manufacturer, coincidentally also a Danish company: http://www.chr-hansen.com/products/product-areas/probiotics-...
Bethany McLean is the best in business writing. The Smartest Guys in the Room was fantastic.

As for Microsoft: the adage goes that success has many fathers. Failure has even more. It would have been nothing short of amazing if Microsoft was as dominant now as it was in the early days of PCs.
Interesting how they identified the occupants by matching their wounds with the historical record.
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> My suspicion is that Access is too hard for most business people, yet not powerful enough for actual developers to make something unique with.

At our company, we have an Access "thing" (it's not even an application, really) for generating listings of the phone numbers and birthdays of all the employees.

Recently, for no apparent reason, it stopped working. I consider myself moderately competent at getting up to speed with new development tools and reading myself into other people's code if I have to, but Access somehow is completely incomprehensible to me.

Maybe I was just missing something fundamental, but I found Access hugely frustrating and not intuitive at all. The general idea behind it seems actually kind of good, but the Microsoft chose to implement it is not exactly optimal. Also, as usual for MS, the complete lack of a manual made me want to strangle somebody. So, yeah, I totally agree with your statement. :)
Dropbox was revealed as a participant of the PRISM program: anything you store there is searchable. The same is true of Facebook and Google and Yahoo, Apple, all cell phone carriers, all internet carriers and other cloud storage companies including Skydrive/Onedrive.
Dr. A-hole says: Shouldn't the comment on line 283 say "Whom to ping"?

struct sockaddr whereto;/* Who to ping */
No, the reason they dominate marathon running is because prize money is huge (by their standards of living) and has exploded in the last 30 years. Americans and Europeans have gone BACKWARDS since the 80's, as the sport is longer popular.

Here is an actual informative documentary (unlike your article which reads like it's from TMZ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGVSO1sg2Fk

Your article doesn't talk about any top Kenyan runners. The only Kenyans that have been caught doping in recent years (yes they do get tested) are third-tier Kenyans, usually without education, thinking (or being persuaded by doctors) that it will get them to the top level, which it never does.

I don't see any evidence that Kipsang, Kimetto, Mutai, or Makau ever used drugs, or anyone even claiming to be in the know that they used.
It's not just conservatives who are potentially the issue here. Our government as a whole (both sides of the aisle) is responsible for the lame brained response to Ebola. It's not just the conservatives who are against shutting down flights from Africa. As a country I suspect there are every bit as many conservatives worried about Ebola as there are liberals. The problem our government has is one of arrogance: they're supremely confident in our ability to handle any cases of Ebola which occur here. I'm with you that there extremely prudent measure of shutting down flights from Africa is one of the best ways we can proactively avoid the loss of American lives, but I doubt we'll see sanity prevail in our hopelessly inept government.
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Wow, that is messed up. I though Israel as a society was way more aware of such issues. I don't think you'd see something like that in Europe today either.
Never before today no
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Last year I collected, with permission, shy of two dozen recipes from /r/recipes and related subreddits.

Over the last few years, I've built a web site that allows people to create recipe books automatically. The web site (now in beta!) separates recipe content from its presentation.

* https://recipefiddle.com/book/examples/recipefiddle_reddit-r... - book design 1

* https://recipefiddle.com/book/examples/recipefiddle_sweet_tr... - 3x5" card design

* https://recipefiddle.com/book/examples/recipefiddle_reddit-r... - book design 2

I would like to learn what would make it useful for you. The two-minute tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktK_B0uKKUc&hd=1) shows how it works. I look forward to your questions and comments.
Similar for Chinese Jews.
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We saw dramatic increases in performances on the track in the 90's because that's when the African training camps were formed. Instead of one Henry Rono suddenly there were 100. Though I wouldn't deny EPO use was rampant, times didn't slow down either once the EPO tests came out, so I think its effect was exaggerated.
Will do. I was sure yhere were so.e of those left. Thanks for the hint.
What such simplistic studies miss, though, is the reason why those drivers are out there in the first place. They are going to and from different places, doing different things at different times. By treating traffic as a variable to be optimized in a vacuum, the academic and professional urban planners tend to miss the forest for the trees.

In other words, I believe that to the extent new lane capacity is filled as soon as the construction workers pick up their cones, it is because economically and/or socially useful things are happening. Otherwise, why would any of us drive anywhere at all?
I would start with the slogan "Eat Shit and Live!" and then fine tune the campaign from there.
By alert in the helmet, I wasn't talking about a jarring alarm.

I meant some sort of visual system and/or possibly vibration. This would some how work in coordination with other helmets to be aware of distances and speeds of other helmets. Maybe even something like HUDs in games that have the indicator overlays in the corners or mini map type system for receivers. If we are alerting in our cars of collisions why not the same type of impact on the field? These can be life changing moments, split seconds matter.

The NFL should do some of the other items for safety/health (weight/padding/indicators) if they truly care more about the player on the field than treating them like a child off the field. I think many of the problems with athletes would be solved if they relaxed their harshness off the field and used that on the field. If every lineman that plays gets knee and ankle troubles for life, maybe they should limit weight and require braces and better equipment.
Make a Pot-in-a-Pot Refrigerator
Startup School live video feeds have a long tradition of being horrible, not necessarily because streaming video doesn't work, but more often because Hundreds of Nerds With Wireless Devices means Bad Things for every wireless network within 1000 feet of the conference.

When we did them on JTV, we had more than enough viewing capacity to handle the stream, but the uplink was always horrible, even when we had a "dedicated" network. When you have that many "sophisticated" users (i.e. bandwidth hogs) in one space, you're pretty much going to saturate any upstream bandwidth that hasn't been carefully provisioned for the event.
Yep. That's (literally) life in the big city. You are part of others' lives, whether you like it or not. Often that implies subsidizing their activities.

That does not, of course, mean you're not entitled to your opinions about the relative economic and social values of the things you're required to subsidize.

Threads like this always end up full of people who are absolutely convinced that there is only one truth, one valid perspective, one "right" thing to do. The irony inherent in that point of view goes completely unnoticed.
I won't be getting rid of Dropbox, Google services, or Facebook anytime soon. I disagree with government spying, and would like to see major reform, but (disagreeing with Snowden) I actually have nothing to hide. I'm not excusing the companies that provide data to governments, but I like the services they provide. They solve problems I want solved, so I will continue to use them.

Edit: Why all the down votes? If you disagree, let's talk about it.
Japan court orders Google to remove search results
We started at 5 months for the spices, mild chili coming in at 8 months. By 2 years he was loving raw onions :)
Wikipedia on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator
With Assassin's Apprentice Fitz has all the possible talents in one place but seriously lacks in intelligence and in making rational choices. I spent all her books wishing I could slap Fitz until I just couldn't take it anymore.

I will have to try Liveship traders
Perhaps you can have a cron job run against your local dropbox folder(s) and do an "md5deep" reporting only differences (or sha1deep or whatever, perhaps test which uses least resources, maybe nice it heavily too). Then you could have the output report saved to a folder (not a dropbox one!). Perhaps add another job to email/alert you if the "count" of lines in the report is greater than a certain number? Crude, for sure.
As someone with a Macedonian background, what bothers me most is my father's reaction to this news when I told him about it. I am legitimately excited about this news, and all he could really think of was if the Greeks would claim Philip II as theirs and began ranting about the whole Alexander being Macedonian/Greek debate.

I understand his justification for thinking that way, but it's just sad that the Macedonians and Greeks won't be getting excited about the discovery, but will instead be using it to fuel the existing hatred between the countries.
I love(d) cats, but after reading this [1] back in 2012 again, in The Atlantic, I stay away.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your...
> Am I the only one that finds the MS Windows ping more useful for quick troubleshooting that the Linux/Unix variants?

If you can read the output, or just recognize the difference between successful and unsuccessful lines, it works just as well for this.

> Is this a fundamental design flaw?

It's handy UX, but not the fundamental purpose of ping.
Dropbox is mentioned in the PRISM slide deck as being a desired participant, not an actual participant. I worked at Dropbox when those slides were released, and none of us on the operations team knew what it could possibly be talking about.

Every company that wants to continue to operate in the US has to comply with US government orders, that is just a fact of life. No one in the technology industry is super excited about going to jail or having their equipment seized. But the kind of compliance that PRISM implies is not something that you just sneak in without anyone noticing.

There was an internal accounting of every server and network connection -- it would have required a shadow ops team running shadow datacenters to sneak it by us.
No notes on the office hours? Those were great not only in covering many important points but also showing what to expect in a possible YC interview.
Lately I've been working on Meteor projects in my spare time, so I put together this small scaffolding tool to make my life easier. If you work with a similar file structure, this could save you a few minutes for every project!

I intend on adding simple generators for routes, collections, and templates, but my main goal is to have a strong default selection of oft-used packages -- for forms, auth, routing, etc.

Let me know what kinds of things you find useful in a scaffolder, or what your go-to tools are for Meteor development!
You left out half a sentence. "Anything you store there is searchable" if the US government has a court order for your data. This has always been the case. Other governments have similar systems for processing data obtained via legal requests, under different names.
No I don't let it outside, that's the point. And I don't eat anything I find in the litter box while changing it.
The syncing with LaTeX sounds nice. What's imagemagick for? If you can copy text I guess it doesn't convert to png like emacs does now?
Pretty cool, reminds me of games like Furcadia and Graal.

In Furcadia, you're allowed to create and upload your own world with your own scripts, as well as upload your own images and avatars for use in the world.

Graal has player worlds and allows almost the same thing.
Sorry about that. My laptop ran out of juice. I was able to grab a bit of charge during the break but I doubt I'll have enough to finish out the day.

I'll be sure to type up my hand written notes and post sometime tomorrow or Monday.
Is this akin to the Entertainment Technology Center¹ as founded by Randy Pausch, and Donald Marinelli?

1: http://www.etc.cmu.edu/
Sure; my point in that example was that his pitch (esp. including his chosen list of interests and potential questions) felt extremely narrow to me; I'm also a white American male and only 10 years older; but the world he seems to be inhabiting (men's fashion! weightlifting!) is not even adjacent to mine.

If we met in a social situation, we could probably find something to talk about; but we'd not be paying either other for that.
Scott makes a variety of Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) devices. Mostly you see them used by fire-fighters, but Scott offers chemical industry and oil and gas variants. Check out their SCBA offerings here: https://www.scottsafety.com/en/us/Pages/ProductSeries.aspx?P...

I'm with you on needing more than that: anecdotally I was once advised to use an air filter plus nose clip in case of any accidental releases. I asked "Uh, like what?" "Oh, ammonia, that sort of thing." Needless to say if ammonia was released and it got to me I'd be blind anyway. :shrug: So based on entirely anecdotal experience I'd say yeah it's to hopefully help you run away. :-)
I don't understand what you are talking about.
"If you have nothing to hide share your credit card info and social security number with the world"
Oh, and 'Exhalation' is a perfect little gem of a story. It's about entropy, the thrill of discovery and understanding and, er, philosophical endings.
Heh... posting Less Wrong at HN is kinda like posting Encyclopedia Dramatica at 4chan.

:)
I use DropBox and Google Drive a lot, but I have scripts to encrypt data into ZIP files for anything that needs to be protected. It really is not much of a hassle.

I have a SpiderOak account, but don't use it as often.

Speaking of protecting data: I am surprised at how many companies seem to keep their software in private repositories on github and bitbucket. That seems like a security hole, if software if the core of your business.
While that is an excellent talk, it seems worth pointing out that it's speculative fiction, these things aren't necessarily happening (though it is quite plausible).
I guess we'll be adding another founder then. Do you believe the problem will persist, however, considering one of the founders wouldn't have met the other two?
I'm not high or stupid. Eugenics has earned a very poor reputation, but its advocacy is still going strong under other names. Bill Gates and his family have a long history of promoting it, unfortunately.
Wouldn't it be more sensible to put that into the appliance itself? Detecting at the endpoint seems more reliable (since it's not mixed with other devices, and can be calibrated to the specific model) and private, and while it requires some redundancy in sensors, it avoids the need for a complex monitoring network.
How should I understand that?
I'm using a mouse and I had the same experience as parent. I had to like barely move the scroll wheel in order to not scroll all the way down to the bottom.
I can't say for sure about the Indian government, but the US government employs a lot of programmers. So not necessarily not programmers, either.
put a webcam in your bedroom, it will be just as revealing.
"Even with that encryption, he said law enforcement officials can still ask for warrants that will give them complete access to a suspect’s phone, which will include the key to the encrypted data."

What, pray tell, is the mechanism by which the key will be obtained? Snowden is bloviating here.
This is great stuff. Obviously, reproducible research is one of the keys, if not the linchpin, to scientific advancement.

Where I think knitr/pandoc really fills a void is increasing the chances a citizen scientist can have real impact. If some Joe Schmo off the street publishes original research, it's likely to be dismissed by the establishment. However, if Joe's research is easily testable, his/her proposed advancements are more likely to be entered into the world's body of knowledge.

In the end all of us will benefit, and at a faster rate.
erm, yes :)
Apple stopped selling it on their website. I heard they've stopped producing it and what you see in stores now is the remaining stock - what's your source that they're still making it?

Furthermore, the virgin mobile link you gave is for no contract - but locked phone. While it's not comparable to $200-with-a-2-year-contract, it is also not comparable to an unlocked phone.
>from all the information I've read they claim the relevant foreign interests cooperated with them //

The law they claim to have used requires that the requesting country act as if the computer being searched is in their own company, all protections that would apply domestically must be applied in order to request the search lawfully.

If they needed a warrant to get the local search done (eg in Pennsylvannia) then they needed one in order to use the 2001 Convention on Cybercrime to request that Sweden perform a search (and imaging) for them.

This appears to be a hole in the FBI argument - as you say, they're claiming they didn't need a warrant or to provide protections that would normally be applied if the server were in the USA. But the Convention used - by my reading at least (see my other post for links) - contradicts that specifically demanding that the normal domestic protections and procedures be applied.
Even if you have nothing to hide, the ability to control that much information about you is a great power over you. The abuse of you personally might not be happening now, but the potential is certainly there. What happens when the abuse of that power comes to you? (abuse of that power is already happening)

I would very much rather have my own email server running local software to read that email and have something like a social network served much like email or through user-owned micro-servers. But software like that doesn't exist in high quality because it needs to be free and you can't get venture capital to make free things (and can't make money off non-cloud free services)
for a lot of them, it is not "the crown jewels" that they put there.
Ari Meisel's Less Doing podcast devoted one episode to an interview with an expert in this procedure:

Podcast #59 Glenn Taylor - Fecal Microbiota Transplants

>For more info visit http://lessdoing.com/ Ari's book http://www.lessdoingbook.com In this episode Ari talks with Glenn Taylor of the Taymount Clinic. Glenn specializes in applying Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) techniques to a broad range of gut conditions. FMT restores normal gut microbiota by implanting Standardized Gut Flora from tested and optimized sources. Listen to how Glenn has seen patients literally cured from debilitating illness such as Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis, IBS, Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and other disease simply by restoring their gut bacteria to a normal balance.

http://podbay.fm/show/605938952/e/1397717818
Lets not turn this into a Greek vs Macedonian thing.

Anyone that can read and think has already figured that out by now...
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Companies also further constrain themselves by not allowing remote work.
I firmly agree with you, these services can seem scary, and we're half way down that slippery slope. But it's hard for myself (the consumer) to leave a service (like dropbox) that makes my life easier. I can manage my own private dropbox like service, but I don't trust myself. Maybe that's even scarier.
If a key is stored on your phone, it can be obtained the same way any other data is obtained. If the key is password protected, a key logger would yield the password.

Edit: I forgot to check to whom I replied; "lern_to_spel" shows up on all of the Snowden threads.
I don't think WPF has been successful in replacing winforms, more that it was a hard sell to management to use winforms after WPF was announced.
Weight limit football is a thing in college: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_football
Ask HN: Solving a founder dispute in a successful bootstrapped startup?
I bootstrapped a startup in a very current and attractive field. We have a leading hardware product with a major edge and lots of technology, repeat customers, amazing reviews and cooperation opportunities from very significant companies lined up. We sell high $xx,000 a month at the moment, after a very short time on the market.
The venture was primarily developed by me, with a cofounder which worked on this part time while keeping his day job (he's a minority shareholder). We've hired some brilliant people, we're financially balanced and we've still taken no external investment. I'm very proud of what we've achieved.

Recently I've had some harsh arguments with my cofounder, which, to put it mildly, revolve around our differing perceptions of reality. These arguments got to a personal level and I have absolutely no doubt that our vectors are on a major collision course that will end in tears.
This situation has to be resolved immediately, without bringing the company down and as amicably and on the best terms possible.

The only way forward that I see is to bring in an external investment, which will buy his shares for an appealing sum and he'll be out of the company. We held off getting an investment until we have a product and revenue, which we do now. Ideally I'd wait a bit more (our second product is going to be a heavy hitter), but this situation calls for an immediate action before the stakes become even higher.

What are your thoughts on this situation? Have you seen similar situations resolved without destroying the entire company? What would investors think of this? Any special structuring we should do?

Building this business has been such a crazy uphill battle, and now this. I should be working on the product now, and not dealing with this crap. Ugh. It really stresses me. At least I feel better sharing this here.
If someone wants to take this discussion private, then mail me at disapproval2@gmail.com
You exaggerate , Greeks dont hate you. Some angry, some frustrated , some don't care. As a Greek myself, I don't like to say to other countries what they should name themselves but there is an entire area in Greece already that is called Macedonia that is even more ancient than Alexander himself. So at best case scenario the name is at least an inconvenience for us. Its like France deciding to name itself London, how you think English people would feel ?