skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that according to Chris Soghoian from ACLU, last year only 5 out of 180 FISA orders were authorized by 215 - the rest were authorized by other programs.

So this "critical" program represents only like ~3% of the government's surveillance programs. After all we only are talking about "phone records" here. Most records would likely come from Internet communications these days and there are likely programs that include capturing the content as well.

Also:

"McConnell announced that the Senate would return from its break on Sunday, May 31, just a few hours before the midnight deadline. McConnell called it "one more opportunity to act responsibly."

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/senate-usa-freedom-act-fail...

So it's not over until the fat lady sings.
Internally.
They do, usually edge on. Every year they get more focused on what their hardware looks like from the side and seem less concerned with how their software works when you're facing the screen.
> So this is a way of culling your friends and acquaintances to optimize your social relationships.

This is the kind of thing you can only read on HN.
Before social media existed, there wasn't a convenient personal broadcaster that had such a broad reach and social acceptance. So when someone was mentioning their success, it was usually expected in the context (close friends gatherings, reunions).
What I find personally annoying, is when "you" are in a "competetive pond", and then people drags in stuff from outside the pond, into the pond for competetive purposes. That is unedible, and "foul play" in my book. :)
Good article, I really like the insight of how sum types can be used in MVC, and how the OO community is oblivious of this.

Nice short read.
Awesome ... if you can keep this running this will be my de facto movie watching site. No more primewire.ag!
thanks :) If you have any feedback/suggestions you're welcome !
I was just going to down vote you, that's all trolling deserves on HN, but on the off chance that you're just ignorant, and not actually trolling:

1) there are 5 OSes with more than 100million users. Apple makes two of them
2) there are 4 major web browsers out there, apple makes one of them
3) there are 3 major office suites out there, Apple makes one of them

Apple is one of the biggest software companies in the world. I suspect they are second only to Microsoft in that regard, and yes, I do include Google in that assessment.
Kind of a good example of itself, right? There are other communities I'm part of where a statement like that would seem callous and sociopathic. Here, it's currently the top comment, because we've self-organized into a community that values thought-provoking analytical discussion.
Worked next to the FE guys in a startup space and they are certainly hard working guys and know there stuff. Would recommend chatting to as well.
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So the distinction is that Uber handles the money. I see. Since Amazon handles money in a b2b transaction, does that make people putting things up for sale on Amazon ICs or employees?
I'm an investor myself. I have gone the route of industrial property. Still learning as well. Not much multi-family where I am, maybe a few duplexes but they still sell too high for the yield.

So no worries about taking advice!
I've been using BB 10 for over 2 years and none of what you say resonates with me.

Where do you get spam alerts from? I presume you don't mean emails but I don't even get promotional emails from BlackBerry and don't remember opting out ever...

Cut and paste is fantastic - and that's from someone who's used both Android and iPhone extensively in the past. In fact keyboard and multi-tasking are two of the reasons I bought a (touch screen) blackberry...
I get the feeling a lot of people form their phone opinions without actually giving the others a chance. I have an Android tablet (Nexus 7) but my iOS experience is mostly helping my daughter when her iPod starts acting weird. I touched a my father's Windows Phone once. I'm happy with a BB phone, don't like Android phones and see nothing attractive about iPhone's.

Are there people who honestly compare the different OS's regularly? I'm skeptical an honest comparison is even possible at this point.

Blackberry hasn't had a progress bar during boot in years, not since BB 10. Thinking of BB OS 7 maybe?

I rarely use an iOS device but I don't remember cut/paste working different than it does on BB.

I agree with your comment about a launch pad, but that's an Android thing. Blackberry and Apple seem comparable in how they present installed applications. BB is really different about running apps, but honestly BB's approach seems simpler to me.
> After all we only are talking about "phone records" here

Phone records are the most publicized example of Section 215 in use, but the section is worded to apply to any "tangible thing."
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Absolutely not

What's the cost of increasing, let's say, the key size of a webpage serving SSL content. Merely adding SSL has an non-negligible cost for sites with some traffic.

Then you're forgetting all the dedicated hardware that needs to deal with that encryption. Sometimes it's a smartcard, or a security token, sometimes it's a mobile phone.
"If you are serious about software you should make your own hardware."
So Apple not only is software company, they are serious about it.
I agree that "classifying the drivers as contractors is not a reasonable criticism" of Uber. But strictly in terms of the operation of classification, they are in a somewhat grey area. In my opinion, on balance, Uber drivers are more like ICs than they are employees (and by a very wide margin). The problem is the 20 point test is totally ridiculous and doesn't give clear guidelines as to how much to 'weight' each of the criteria and thus gives great leeway for anyone to make a 'strong' claim in either direction by selectively ignoring the points that don't fit their preconceived opinion.
I have friends who are long established investors. They won't buy unless there is an expected 20% return either in yield or flip. They are mostly retired now and don't buy much anymore.
Shhh... facts don't fit with the dystopian narrative.
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> A third solution is to migrate to elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC), which as far as anyone knows today, is much less vulnerable to descent attacks than the original Diffie-Hellman scheme. Alas, there’s been a lot of understandable distrust of ECC after the DUAL_EC_DBRG scandal, in which it came out that the NSA backdoored some of NIST’s elliptic-curve-based pseudorandom generators by choosing particular elliptic curves that it knew how handle.

But maybe the right lesson to draw is mod-p groups and elliptic-curve groups both seem to be pretty good for cryptography, but the mod-p groups are way less good if everyone is using the same few prime numbers p, and the elliptic-curve groups are way less good if everyone is using the same few elliptic curves. (A lot of these things do seem pretty predictable with hindsight, but how many did you predict?)

And that's why we need browsers to support curves other than NIST's P-256 and such. I know Chrome intents to, and I imagine Firefox isn't far behind. What's Microsoft's plan for the Edge browser regarding this? I haven't seen them say anything about it in all of their recent Edge-related posts.
I think you're missing that the poster's adjective 'reasonable' is modifying the word criticism, not the word classification.
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It's written by Ken Dilanian, who was accused of being a CIA lackey: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/04/former-l-times..., caught falsifying facts in the CIA's favor and left the LA Times: http://www.nationofchange.org/la-times-reporter-caught-falsi...

Seeing the guy enthusiastically shake his pom-poms for #team-surveillance is a no-brainer.

note: the article at AP, with author credit, is here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/60c0d988801742cf96cf8d725466c... ... AP gives the publisher the right to modify an article. Doing a fold -w 20 -s allows you to diff them and see the changes. Here they are: http://getpostdelete.com/ap-fold-20.txt and http://getpostdelete.com/npr-fold-20.txt
Define 'controlled'. If I hire a plumber to come fix my toilet, I am saying, You are going to fix my toilet, and please do it this way. Does that make the plumber my employee?
Very cool. Requires Yosemite, though.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1120311
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Agreed. Same with the deprecation of HTTP. There's a political agenda and they probably don't know that they are doing it.
Your math does not add up. The analysis highlighted 26,000 people in the UK. There were 12.3 million married people in the UK.

Given those numbers and that Adult Friend Finder is not specifically just for people in bad relationships, I would say that the evidence suggest strongly that we are predominately a monogamous species.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/family-demography/families-and...
Open to VC offers :D:
Same in the UK as well. There are a load of rules, IR35, designed to prevent this sort of thing but they are pretty easy to bypass, and the only real benefit I've seen is accountants can now charge £300+ for a contract "review" to check you are covered.

As an example of how easy it is, a friend of mine is contracting long term for the government. In order to ensure he is covered and classed as a contractor, over his summer holidays he will be sub-contracting out to someone else.
The lack of public awareness about the nature of surveillance troubles me. UK public must wake up to risks of CCTV.
I didn't create the law, I don't think I'm qualified to define anything.

I do however think it's intentionally hazy and open to interpretation.
this is about oil & natural gas reserves. The US has a strong interest to back any country friendly to it's own interest (Vietnam, Japan). I urge you to look at google maps to see how far this place is actually away from China, Japan!

Who really is the rightful owner is hard to say. A total of 48 nations made full claims, and dozens more made preliminary submissions to extend their continental shelf claims in 2009.

Just to illustrate how messed up this is: Tomas Cloma claimed the islands his own [1] as "Freedomland". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Cloma#Free_Territory...
and was later forced to hand them back over to the Philippines for 1 peso.

IMO one of the most potentially explosive topics in politics. Can you imagine any of these countries (China, Japan/US), backing down? I don't! And the Chinese will continue to lock (military & economic) horns with anyone who dares.
If you find yourself telling a plumber which specific way a toilet should be fixed, you are either an employer, or should take some engineer pills.

http://dilbert.com/strip/1990-09-13
In a one man software company, there's often not a great of outgoings.
My problem with local government in the UK is the absolutely dire quality of the candidates.

Most MPs seem to be generally knowledgeable about the world, well educated, qualified and have something to say about what they believe, even if you don't agree with it.

But most local government candidates seem to be retired nobodies with no experience of anything substantial and nothing enlightened to say about anything.

They always come across as the worst kind of petty lower-middle management on a power trip. Very uninspiring.
For a company like Netflix, my guess is, you need to be a world-class expert at some area of scalable backends and/or big data. For example, you need to be a core contributor (in terms of concepts, architecture etc. - not just coding) to projects like Kafka, Cassandra, Spark etc.
I actually stole it. The original quote is 'everyone gets what they want from the financial markets'

Everyone can unpack the statement in different ways, but essentially your financial position is a result of how much effort you put into it. Most people put little effort into it, or even knowingly make bad mistakes like buying new cars on credit, yet shrug their shoulders and do it anyway.

In the short term you might have a setback but people with priorities for financial success are able to overcome these and go on to greater heights.

An evidenced in these comments there are some people who want to talk about how the deck is stacked against them and they can't possibly get ahead - yet people from all walks of life achieve financial freedom every day, so this is patently not true. The people who think this way are getting the outcome they want, which is to priories blaming over achievement.
New ideas go through stages of acceptance, both from
within and without. From within, the sequence moves from
“barely seeing” a pattern several times, then noting it but
not perceiving its “cosmic” significance, then using it
operationally in several areas, then comes a “grand
rotation” in which the pattern becomes the center of a
new way of thinking, and finally, it turns into the same
kind of inflexible religion that it originally broke away
from. From without, as Schopenhauer noted, the new idea
is first denounced as the work of the insane, in a few
years it is considered obvious and mundane, and finally
the original denouncers will claim to have invented it.

So true, sadly. I deeply regret that today, many people interviewing for programming jobs get grilled over their knowledge of this particular OO design pattern or that, while neither the interviewer nor the applicant may realize that some of these "patterns" are just dogmas invented to deal with particular language limitations of (older versions of) Java, and entirely different patterns (or even paradigms) are available if only one takes the time to look past the boundaries of one's preferred (or prescribed from above) programming language.

IMO, prospective programmers should be invited to show true creativity and insight, not to just queue up to create the (N+1)-th CORBA framework.

Structured programming, modules, OOP, FP, ever more elaborate type systems, whatever next new thing is going to be seen as the One True Way, I still believe that Socrates will have the last laugh (...or grin)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
Not even for today's date, or for matters that can easily be verified from the public record, like this? That just sounds like counter-nationalism.
>What matters is that the employer has the legal right to control the details of how the services are performed.

You can't just pick one bullet point and imply it's an open & shut case. It's a combination of factors.

If parents contract a painter to paint a mural in a child's bedroom and says specifically:

- I know you prefer acrylic paints but I specifically want latex paint

- I know your website portfolio had examples of light blue but I specifically want Pantone #2945 dark shade of blue

- I know you prefer to work 9-5 but I need you to work onsite from 5pm to 9pm because that's when I'll be home from work and can give live feedback as to how it's done

- I know that if I leave you to your own judgement, you'd prefer to paint Greek & Roman nudes but I need this room to be rated G so if you can paint a depiction of Mickey Mouse fighting Batman, that's what I'm looking for.

- ... and so on...

The homeowner can be excruciatingly specific about how & when the work is exactly performed but most reasonable people will not insist that the painter is an "employee." It takes more factors than just control of the work method.

Maybe Uber's combination of other factors does ultimately mean drivers are employees but your extraction of one IRS guideline is not convincing.
RT (founded as "Russia Today") is a Russian state-funded television network which runs cable and satellite television channels, as well as Internet content...

Look it up!
In the interest of balance:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/...
I've always loved the phrase "Self praise is no praise"
me and chomsky do, i bet you do too.
I'll admit boot time isn't the best, but I never turned my phone off and I've got 3 day battery life on my passport so I've never run out of battery before hitting a charger, so a moot point to me.

Also no idea what you are talking about for services. I'm sure if you didn't use any integrated key features on any OS it would bug you to use them though.

You can also unsubscribe from their newsletter. Copy/Paste doesn't seem that bad.
Your story checks out, how depressing: FISC 5/180[0]

[0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/05/why_the_curre...
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I used the iPhone for a while after a factory reset without entering an Apple ID. It "works", if you don't mind not having access to the App Store at all. I spent a lot of time in Safari.
Yes, true. I was talking about small purchases.

My personal framework is not to worry too much about small purchases (i.e. coffee, eating out, etc) but to consider it when making a larger purchase (i.e. a holiday, car, house, etc).

Before I spend money on a larger purchase, I tend to think: would I rather spend/waste money on this, or have it compound over many years. For each million invested properly, you can get annual gains between 50-100k.
What value do you expect to get out of demanding that people analyze these random situations? Ultimately, it's the government bureaucrats and legal system that make the decisions, so even if someone gives you some relatively definitive answer, it could still turn out to be wrong.

It's also sort of hostile to take the anecdote based on personal experience and characterize it as "the distinction" (when it is just as easy to read as a description of some differences).
I had no idea, that's very eye-opening. When pension funds go underwater like this, what are the options? Do the council (or indeed any organisation) have any ability to renegotiate them if they are as "gold-plated" or outrageous as the Telegraph suggests?
What benefit does securitization bring apart from the ability for a small group of people to turn a quick buck? They add little value to society and offer the potential for gross fraud at, as we have discovered, the expense of the tax payer. Making profit for the sake of profit!
If the cameras / threat of punishment work as a deterrent then simply leaving the cameras in place without someone watching the screens should still have a crime fighting impact.

The "tough on crime" crowd overlaps the "starve the beast" crowd, an interesting tension.
I'd guess that the median down payment is more like 5%.
Ask HN: Should we open the API of our smart object?
Our startup is making a smart object. You connect to it via Android or iOS, and use the smartphone to control it (e.g adjust the temperature of it via the app)
We were wondering if it would be a good idea to go "open" with our smart object API and allow any developer to write an app that connect to it.

On the upside : looks cool on marketing, and we could focus more on the product and less on the apps if someone made better apps that us

On the downside : I feel that there has to be one (competitors could use their app to control our product etc) but can't think of anything harmful

What's your experience on that ? Do you know any company that opened their api with success or failure ?

NB : Im talking about communication between our bluetooth product and a smartphone, nothing related to servers

Thanks !
The sad fact is, they are watching inventors and freedom-activists.

They watched MLK and Einstein. Poe and Hemmingway.

They watched Bruce Lee and Jimmy Hendrix.

They watched 2pac and native american leaders.

They watch the people oppose the IRS and animal rights activists.

They watch Ron Paul and Alex Jones.

They watched Bill Cooper.

They watch mothers who complain about autistic children and vaccines

They watch people who post about alternative treatments for cancer on forums

They watch me because I made a 9/11 DVD
> There's a political agenda and they probably don't know that they are doing it.

Ah, the old good FUD. Anything done on Mozilla's scale has political agenda as complex problems include multiple stakeholders and conflicting interests.

Perhaps you'll be able to shed some light on the negative externalities of Mozilla's agenda?

And could you name the people who know what they are doing?
I did not. I wanted to show him he could earn more (maybe not directly tell him I was making 3x), but he already got sort of annoyed/hostile when I brought up he could probably charge more, so I left it at that.

I brought up it's usually more about value and trust than it is about the price of things. When a real estate broker sells a house for $500k, they (tend to) get 2.5% of the purchase price. That's a lot of money for basically showing people around, in most cases. But they do deliver significant value to the seller.

Another example: I regularly work with a lawyer. He charges like a professional. We've worked together frequently on something during a 2 year period, and there's a trust relationship. He bills properly, like any professional would, but his billables are reasonable and he doesn't charge me as much as he does his other clients. Could I find someone cheaper to do the job? Absolutely. Will I go looking for someone else? Hell no, he's awesome at what he does and we work well together. We can also relate, since I have an interest in his area of the law and he has an interest in IT, which in turn leads to interesting conversations.

Once you're past a certain price point, it's not about price, it's about value and trust. Too bad I couldn't show him that.
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Five Big Banks Plead Guilty to Rigging Currency Markets and No One Goes to Jail
Perhaps I should have been more clear as to have prevented assumptions. I do not think that ride sharing drivers are employees. The IRS's definitions are not clear, objective or definite. They're open to interpretation and abuse.
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I'm sorry, which one of those contributors has a vested interest in extension of Section 215?
A bond is a contract to make payments. So they list the properties in the contract (this might not be exactly correct, but I guess it is a good enough model of what is going on).

The problems in 2008 weren't directly a result of such securitization, the problem was that the risk of the underlying mortgages was not at all correctly estimated, and the way the bonds were traded depended on the pretense that the risk had been estimated nearly perfectly.

These bonds can do things like list historical occupancy and on time payment rates of the properties, so they don't need to be anywhere as murky as bonds backed by mortgages that were handed out to whoever walked in the door.
Also just confirmed on google:

Orson Welles

Charlie Chaplin

John Lennon

Marilyn Monroe

Albert Einstein

Helen Keller

Jesse Jackson

Steve Jobs

probably bill gates as well...
Disagree. The point is to get the child to internalize the value of savings and investing. Silent accumulation of wealth (the point of investing as a adult) is useless from an educational point of view (the point the parent is making for their child). It also teaches the value of speaking up for what is due. Hats-off to matb for it, IMO.

We give our kids an allowance of sorts for chores above the basics. We also allow them to blow this money on "stupid crap". We once let them split a pack of candy at an ice rink, but they didn't have the money yet (we were traveling). Once everyone agreed that they'd buy it with their allowance, I bought it with them understanding that they needed to pay me back.

Later that weekend, it came time to pay their allowance. We could have easily paid them $2 each (the net), but it was far more effective to pay them $3 each and then make them physically pay us back the $1 each, even though it resulted in significant frustration and a more than a few tears now that the candy was gone.

That's education, not a mind game.