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I would love to see a curriculum from this place. It would be interesting to see what types of things they learn. Does every team get the same project? If not, is every team tested on the same skillset (ie, could you have a team building a compiler and another building a web framework)?

Are these algorithms just reverse engineered from pokemon ROMs found online?

Pretty cool nonetheless.

The features look nice, but they don't really say WHAT they do or how they do it. Could someone fill me in?

You're honestly asking why someone would rather take the quick and much more anonymous way out instead of registering? It makes perfect sense to me.

Are there laws that prevent legal entities from trademarking commonly-used words? I mean, if you invent some word for your product, you have the right to copy it. But "startup"? What would stop people from trademarking "the" and "computer"? I may be missing the point or interpreting the law incorrectly though - please correct me.

I'm from Canada, and there are attack ads everywhere. I can't stand them. Instead of using your money, your time and your effort trying to destroy another candidate, tell me why you're better. I think it's by and large one of the major reasons I have little faith or interest in the politics of my country.

Movie premiers streamed through the internet and delivered in home. Movie theaters would be second class citizens with people getting larger and more powerful entertainment systems in their houses.

This looks awesome. Personally, I would have gone with a Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta for the logo though.

Pretty cool idea, but I would love to see the actual back of the product I'm reading. It would be much more immersive, I think.

Alcohol is a drug which has measurable health impacts on children if they drink at a young age. I have yet to see a non-biased scientific study which deems porn (not just the rapey kind) as physically and psychologically damaging to children.

If porn was found to be - without a doubt - bad for a certain age group, then yes I would get behind something where the government would limit its access to minors. This law, however, further stigmatizes porn instead of embracing it as just another weird thing humans do for entertainment.

(I want to make it clear that I'm not referring to illegal pornography. "Porn" where people get raped or that deal with minors is illegal)

Why does government or industry have to intervene in your personal life? If you don't want to view pornographic material, don't search for it. Stay away from sites where you might see something like it. If you're a parent, educate your kid.

This is a waste of time and money. Plain and simple.

Not always. Several new security-oriented email providers boast diskless email servers and end-to-end encryption.

It doesn't matter, the information is there. He mentions building a profile. While the machines might have built it, there's nothing stopping a real person (forced or otherwise) from browsing those profiles.

Some people host websites/projects on Github pages. They definitely suffer when Github is out cold and might want to move to fallback.

Interesting story, but I don't see what it has to do with HN topics.

If the author's goal was to make a parallel between using less technology and being mature and peaceful, I would have to disagree. The Amish are an interesting people, but thinking that their way of living should be the norm is a romantic response to how society uses technology in the wrong ways. I firmly believe that we can only grow by increasing the technology we use across all walks of life (education, resource management, communication, labour, etc.)

This is also something I never understood. Who cares if I submit tons of (non-duplicate) links from my own domain. If the community doesn't like them, they won't get upvoted and will disappear. Same goes for the opposite.

If you're buying phones from junkies, you should either expect it to be stolen (in which case, you aren't helping by buying stolen goods and you're just as bad as the thief) or wipe the whole thing.

That was beautiful.

I'm new to the Android world and this is the first update I've seen. When should I expect an update pushed to my phone? What does it depend on? I have the Galaxy S4 so I assume Samsung has to make some modifications to the version to support some stuff?

Fastmail is nice, but I don't see how it removes the right to complain that Gmail is sneaking ads in as email without warning its users first.

That's actually really cool. I hadn't thought of it that way.

Cool, thanks.

Is there a way to disable this?

Ah, that makes sense. Don't know how I feel about being uniquely identified though. I thought they were just gathering things like movements and gender.

I wonder why they're using WiFi signals instead of just analyzing the video feeds from their surveillance systems. It would probably glean the same information.

Either way, I don't have a problem with this as long as they aren't intercepting communications or anything private like my name and recognizing me every time I enter the store. If it's information that they can obtain without identifying me, there isn't much I can complain about. It's their store and as long as my rights are intact I'm cool with it.

Do they actually still use polygraphs in government?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph#Validity

1GB per 1B of hidden data. Let's see how fast we can fill their storage.

Yeah, probably.

Alternatively, we could set up a mesh of dropbox/cloud accounts. People would connect in pairs and generate their own huge files of garbage. Then they would copy it into each of their dropbox directories and it would propagate n times. If everyone does this every day (write a script to generate random data), there will be a continuous stream of randomly encrypted files across the network. When your cloud drive fills up, delete older files.

Make a quick website (hosted on Github or whatever), with a bunch of torrent links to a bunch of huge encrypted files.

Then spread the word and give them something to spy on.

Would it be illegal to house Snowden for, let's say 24 hours, if you don't live in the US?