skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are that worried about privacy on an app like Pocket, there is an open source alternative (https://www.wallabag.org/) and it has an iOS app. I have yet to try it myself because I didn't really expect privacy from an app like Pocket and therefore use Pocket but its features look equal (if not better) to Pocket.
Sheesh. I worked with their 8-bit chips in an era when using a C compiler was essentially just a nicer syntax for ASM (and you really didn't want to deal with code written by someone who thought differently). In that environment, their easily available good documentation is about as close as you can get to Free. Software complexity was of course on the rise and I figured it was only a matter of time until they "got it" with regards to a Free C compiler etc.

It's sad to hear that they've dug their heels in even further and are now one of the few examples of bad-faith attacking the GPL through contracts. Especially because recently reading their ENC28J60 documentation was a nice break after wading through STM/ARM's stuff.

If I'm ever again in a position where I'm choosing chips for a production design, I'll be verifying what you said for myself (diligence) and then steering clear to less risky alternatives.
Most of them yes. Lots of innocent people are caught up in this too. For example, many women joined the site to try and find out if their husbands were having an affair. Other people had third parties use their pictures and emails used to sign up.

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/08/heres-what-ashley-madison-me...
Console.cat: cat GIFs on your browser console
Possible commercial opportunities to offer services in VR/AR – per roleplayer
Why Startups Condense in America
Standout quote: "People think that confidence follows skills, but it’s usually the other way around where skills follow confidence." This is a fact that really needs to be more widely acknowledged. (It also casts the microagressions that have the effect of chipping away at the confidence of women and minorities in a rather uncomfortable light.)
Hi. I'd like to get in on the VR / AR bandwagon and I'm looking at where I could fit in on the value chain. Potentially from a consultancy perspective...

I've started drawing up list of what services I think each role player in the ecosystem can offer to specific target segments
Yeah. A failure rate by cohort (a "churn rate" of sorts) would be handy.
You can use Paper to access messages if you are willing to install Paper.
I was going to mention seeing this a few times before here, but also that it's one that is interesting to re-read :)
Sorry about all the FUD around YC's success. I'm curious where all this negative sentiment is coming from. Reminds me of this gem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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That was a great article. This paragraph in particular struck me as relevant now just a short time after the reopening of the youth camp on Utøya:

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If the Nuremberg trial of the leading Nazis should never have been undertaken, it does not follow that we should not have punished these men. It would have been consistent with our philosophy and our law to have disposed of such of the defendants as were in the ordinary sense murderers by individual, routine, undramatic, military trials. This was the course proposed in the speeches of the Archbishop of York, Viscount Cecil, Lord Wright, and others in the great debate of March 20, 1945, in the House of Lords. In such trials the evidence and the legal issues would have a stark simplicity and the lesson would be inescapable.
==========

This exactly what Norway did to Breivik, he was treated as the common murderer that he is. No new law, no new tribunal, no grandstanding by the accused or the accusers.
What's the pain for office managers/administrator in newly created startups?
We all know that on new startups the product takes priority and usually all the effort is spent on it. More mature companies knows that that a backbone for innovation is needed.

So, what in your opinion is a great pain in the ass for office managers that if solved would make their lives easier?
> I highly recommend Cal Newport's blog as he writes phenomenal content on "deep work", the importance of focus, and how to maximize your "deep work" output. --> http://calnewport.com/blog/about/

I used to read his blog quite regularly in college - perhaps I should go back and reread some of his stuff again.

I found his piece on deliberate practice also worth a read: http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/11/11/if-youre-busy-youre-do...

> Separate out "deep work" (design, coding, problem solving) from "shallow work" (email, social media). Do as much deep work as possible every day, but then fill in the rest with shallow but necessary work.

That's an interesting thought - in general I've noticed writing email and attending meetings tend to require far less mental strain than focused work.
Our Time in an Accelerator Was a Hero Montage
Pretty sure this is what I'm going when I drink Mountain Dew Throwback when I'm sick. Or late for a deadline. Or stressed.
Right! That's exactly what's great about it.

I guess what I meant to point out is that the convenience of having a server in a data center is probably pretty significant for most people.
from the video description: "So I spent the evening installing this iOS 4 simulator on to my Apple Watch. Pretty hard to use on such a small screen but very cool."
It would obviously send the data out twice; but once would be over the cell network and the other time over WiFi. Doing so would also help with the far more common Cell<>WiFi transition cases. However as the phone still only has once Cell radio set it would not help with transition between communication bands or carriers.

Since the accounting that actually matters (to Google) is at the data center and based on the way that peering agreements work, I suspect Google would actually find /incoming/ data to be either unimportant or even a benefit to their overall cost operations based on bringing their usage closer to equal. The consumer would only normally care about the cell min used; unless their local ISPs have zero competition (see 90%+ of America).
You don't need nq for that. Just kick off ./my_lame_analysis in the background whenever you want.
It depends. I'm okay with being in a data center if it's impossible for the data center owners to access my data.
The test series, unfit in our view for production use, will however continue to
be available to the public

Doesn't sound like that will stop companies from picking it up and using it unfortunately.

This is such a shit situation to be in. Hopefully this publicity gains them some traction with the companies and communities who do care about it.
Closing an angel round
So we have a third meeting with a group of investors scheduled for next week. How do we close it and get to the termsheet.
We haven't discussed ROI and other numbers. We haven't had a negotiation on the valuation and equity. How do we prepare for the next meeting, what all number crunching should we do to convince them completely.
Backups are much more practical to encrypt and put in the cloud than the software you're actively using. Though hopefully the software we're actively using can be encrypted too.
Mobile phones that still work when you drop them.

P.S. Do American people call them cell phones or mobile phones now? A few years ago mobile seemed more a British thing to say, but with "mobile" entering the language of the web maybe it is different now.
That was bound to happen :)

Congrats to the Sandstorm team for their awesome work. Looking forward to a huge ecosystem with the market!
30 minutes until first payout. Let the unlawful gambling BEGIN :)

https://etherchain.org/account/0x539f2912831125c9b86451420bc...
Yup. Every single software patent basically boils down to "make the computer do X." Software simply shouldn't be patentable just like any other artwork. I can't patent my short story (because I'd be patenting "using words on paper to tell a story"), why should I be able to patent my program ("using words in a text file, make the computer do something")? The absurdity of American (and other countries') law is just fucking sickening.
I'm going to guess it's the top result from the Google search of the forums for EFI and grsecurity? That or the wind is blowing me the wrong way down the river.
I had actually grown up assuming they were American. Kind of funny.
Yeah, this. I'm not wondering whether it would be a good idea, just whether it would happen.
I am happy so far.
I feel this sort of thing depends from person to person - I enjoy programming and would probably enjoy it even more if I were doing it for myself, but I still can't imagine putting in 80-100 hours a week Elon Musk style.

I guess my stamina is just lower than yours.
I've successfully created a few emails written in leetspeak or using short 3-number keys or 3-letter abbreviations converted to some type of base X system and never have problems with them. I rarely, if ever, receive junk mail, and humans definitely have a lesser chance of using them.
How Wolves Change Rivers
By the title, at first I thought this was ridiculous. Then the more I thought and read about it, it became progressively more genius.
As a percentage of annual budget and or GDP it is a very small amount. And in the grand scheme of is an even smaller amount given the predicted costs of climate change.
The biggest issue with Sandstorm is there is no decent sharing options. You can share by link but not to account. I would love to replace google apps with this, but I need to be able to give people a folder view of all the stuff I've shared with them.
This is such a bummer! I just recently switched over to grsec (on Arch) and I could not be happier with the results; seriously, it has made such a huge increse in security so simple to navigate. The Grsec team does incredible work; that no lawyer is willing to pursue this case saddens me, but that's a secondary issue. The core problem here is the corporations with money have functionally unlimited legal authority. It is so far beyond me that society has allowed this to come to be and continues to do nothing to stop it.

To Brad and the PaX team directly (if you read this): You do incredible work and I sincerely hope this move leads to an inundation of sponsorship so that even more people can benefit from your hard work and innovation. Till then, know that there are those of us that stand behind you 100 percent!
Why do you want an alternative?[0]

Afaik, they haven't been shut down. It's actually even free now.

[0] not that it's a bad thing, but wondering it's more than just "facebook bought it". Funny as it is, I trust that companies will go on when facebook buys them as opposed to google or amazon.
Looks like the site got the HN hug of death.
Mirror: https://archive.is/Ilo1W
Again, appreciate the insight.
I thought of 301 when reading this article. I think there was a billboard stating "Speed Trap Ahead" outside... Starke? Can't remember now. There's no other remotely direct route to my grandmother's place though, so down 301 I go when I visit.
Most media don't carry articles like this anymore even if you do pay. The Atlantic is one of the few exceptions. Up to the 1970s even the gutter press in the UK would print long articles, not generally as temperate as this one of course, but still expecting the reader to spend more than thirty seconds reading it. Now it's mostly either soundbites or recycled (in some case within the same article) with no editing, not even a grammar check. But guess which media outlet gets the most page views, it's not The Atlantic of course but the UK Daily Mail.
This would be really surprising and disappointing. Wind River used to be a/the major FreeBSD sponsor and is now owned by Intel. Intel of course is heavily invested in the Linux and FOSS community.
Where are you getting 30 mintues from? I'm showing ~5 hours
Yes, absolutely, that sounds like a perfect fit for Sandstorm's security model. We are still working on some of the details, but the user will be able to ensure that the app can, say, talk to bankofamerica.com but not any other web site. You could also have each "bank connector plugin" be in a separate grain, so only that grain has outside access, and then a security-paranoid user only needs to review the connector code to make sure it doesn't do anything nasty, rather than reviewing the whole app. The core app would only have permission to talk to the connectors.

Of course the next question is: will any user actually understand how to set this up? I think with the powerbox UI, it will actually be quite reasonable. It would look like this:

- User installs the base app, which initially has no permission to talk to the outside world.

- User clicks "add an account", causing the app to make a powerbox request for an object implementing "BankAccountConnector".

- The user doesn't have any of those yet, so Sandstorm would guide the user through finding a matching app on the app market, installing it, and setting it up. It's not hard to imagine a reasonable UI here: You see a list of matches like "Bank of America Connector", "Wells Fargo Connector", etc.

- As part of installing an app, the user will be able to see who the author is, look at reviews, and (if they are so inclined) click through to code.

- Once installed, the connector app prompts for the user's bank credentials and then makes a powerbox request for "access to bankofamerica.com" (or whatever). Sandstorm asks the user if the app may access this site, and the user confirms.

- Everything now resolves and the user is returned to the original app, which now is able to pull data from their bank account.

This is, of course, still very vaporware right now, but that's the vision, and there honestly aren't many open questions about how it will work, just code to write.
How to Build an Events Database Using the ParseHub API, Python and Flask
I think AI researchers and engineers tend to get too carried away with decision making, when the more valuable service is about communication of refined knowledge, which if I'm not mistaken is exactly your point. The problem has nothing to do with "how can a machine guess the right answer" but instead is all about "how can a machine refine all the options based on the intentions expressed thus far".

Anecdotally, if we'd ask a real person "where is a good place to eat" the chance we'd go there without more information is slim. And if we don't even trust people, trusting Siri will be a while.

What we're really doing with these questions is making our hunger known, and starting a conversation. We actually don't care that much about other people's thoughts, and we may not even have anything in mind yet as far as where to eat. We do care about how people feel if they are someone we care about, but the thinking part we love to do ourselves.

So to offer a service that "thinks" is rather misguided, and may even constitute a disservice. We already rejected the talking paperclip in 1996 [0]. It's failure wasn't it's intelligence, but in the value proposition itself. To have a paperclip presume to know better and to tell you what to do was not tempting. It's failure was it's existence.

Is it a glitch in the Matrix or is their pitch for Cortana identical?

> What is Cortana? Cortana is your clever new personal assistant.[1]

--

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/getstarted-wha...
Floppy disk and cd/dvd drives!
When you need to recover files from an old pc and need a Windows XP startup disk.... it's no fun in 2015.

Worse, it was on an IDE Hard drive and I couldn't find an external hard drive case for it so I had to take it to a PC repair store that had an IDE adaptor. Charges $40 to copy any amount of data above 20 Gigabytes.
"Since our lawyer has advised us not to mention the companies by name"

Yeah, uh, they're lawyers, they always say that, it's not a signal with any information in it.

As you said, this company can outspend you, and it's not worth it for you to try litigating. Public shaming is all you have! And, since the primary issue was them claiming their kernel has "grsecurity", public shaming is actually a great solution: try to make the technical community aware that this company's security hardening doesn't deserve the "grsecurity" description. You may even get more business from competitors who want to be able to say they worked with you on their grsecurity integration.
The secret to nuclear fusion is a long tube
Numerical Modeling [pdf]
Yes, but then someone creates a network for cheater spouses that gets in the news cycle because it's "impossible to hack due to futuristic maths" (ie. peer-to-peer). And now suddenly something decentralized and provably private seems very interesting and practical to those who were previously interested in legislative solutions. But I'm an optimist :)
You trade money/favors for discretion from the smallest number of people possible, with the unspoken implication that if they betray you'll spend at least as much on inconveniencing them afterward.
Congrats Qasar!
Issue with Improperly Scaled Apps
> Is it a glitch in the Matrix or is their pitch for Cortana identical?

No, its not a glitch that Siri, Google Now, Cortana, and now M have essentially the same pitch -- they are direct competitors intended to attach people to their respective platforms.
I think the point you're wanting/trying to make is that private market valuations are ridiculously high. But that's not YC's fault. It should enjoy this while it lasts, and hope that as many of its investments as possible get to liquidity before the music stops.

A more interesting observation is that two companies account for over half of the $65 billion. Airbnb's most recent valuation was reportedly $25 billion, and Dropbox's was reportedly $10 billion. These companies are not likely to go away overnight a la Homejoy, but their valuations are going to be hard to sustain. Dropbox in particular would be a very tough sell to the public markets at its private market valuation given its comp[1].

Making analysis even more difficult is that today's big money, late-stage deals have lots of strings attached, so these valuations are hard to assess without knowing all of the details.

Final comment: despite the constant suggestions to the contrary, YC's portfolio appears to live in the very same power law reality as most early-stage investment portfolios in Silicon Valley.

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/dropbox-valuation-bubble/
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> I'm still in school and work full time

That sounds incredibly stressful. Out of curiosity, how many hours do you typically put in at school (attending classes, studying, working on assignments, etc.)? What sort of work do you do?

I've thought about studying for a Master's degree while I work here - always wanted to experience a 'real' education since my undergrad was really disappointing as far as academics were concerned. A top school from a developing country still doesn't come close to an average school in North America or Europe unfortunately :(
When Tragedy Dictates Software User Experience
In TXR Lisp, from system prompt:

# simple quasiliteral, denoted by backticks
$ txr -p '(let ((x "Bob")) `Hello, @{x -10}`)'
"Hello, Bob"

# word-quasiliteral (breaks into list on spaces)
# denoted by hash-backtick:
$ txr -p '#`@(+ 2 2) @(+ 1 2) a b c`'
("4" "3" "a" "b" "c")

# op-argument references in quasiliteral
# ret produces a function whose arguments depend
# on the uses of @1, @2. ... and @rest in the
# expression. The value of the expression is returned.
# These references can emanate from a quasistring:

$ txr -p "(mapcar (ret \`@1--@2--@rest\`) '(1 2 3) '(a b c) '(x y z)))"
("1--a--x" "2--b--y" "3--c--z")

# Very basic indexing, slicing and field adjustment:
$ txr -p '`foo @{(list 1 2 3) [0]} bar`'
"foo 1 bar"
$ txr -p '`foo @{(list 1 2 3) [2]} bar`'
"foo 3 bar"
$ txr -p '`foo @{(list 1 2 3) [1..:]} bar`'
"foo 2 3 bar"
$ txr -p '`foo @{(list 1 2 3) [1..:] 20} bar`'
"foo 2 3 bar"
$ txr -p '`foo @{(list 1 2 3) [1..:] -20} bar`'
"foo 2 3 bar"

Interpolation into quasi-literals is very useful and expressive; I use it all the time. Doing trivial things should look trivial in the code.

Oh, right: referencing splices and unquotes is possible from inside a quasistring:

$ txr -p '(let ((a 42) (b (range 1 5)))
^(list `hey @,a @(list ,*b)`))'
(list (sys:quasi "hey "
@42 " " @(list 1 2 3 4 5)))

$ txr -p '(eval (let ((a 42) (b (range 1 5)))
^(list `hey @,a @(list ,*b)`)))'
("hey 42 1 2 3 4 5")

Safe to say, that one's not coming to a Python near you.
Is this similar to systemd?
Did you have a pre-existing device, or did you buy a new one.

Most people I've talked to with pre-existing devices have had varying degrees of problems.
Verizon Hum released, offering ‘smart’ features to legacy vehicles
Socialist or not, I'll gladly take him over the various fascists (Clinton, half of the Republicans) and theocrats (the other half of the Republicans, save for Paul and Trump). Yeah, I'm a bit leary of the single-payer system he's advocating (I know they're great in Europe and all, but that's a pretty big jump, and I don't know if Americans are ready for it), but I'm otherwise more-or-less in agreement with most of his stances, and I certainly swing farther toward capitalist than socialist in my own stances.
I think that is normal. 300/X?
Is Mike Keneally living in poverty or something? And are you honestly suggesting there aren't many many artists who make a living independently via their web presence?
Fascinating. If this holds up and is well publicized this has the potentially to change the nature of a revelation that someone had signed up for AM. The "honey, I signed up in a moment of weakness, but look, nothing happened" argument gets a lot more plausible if their really were no women on the site.
That's a semantic argument more than anything. A small furry mammal with four legs, a long tail, whiskers, and pointy ears is what we'd call a cat, no matter what word you assign to it.
URL on the link is broken. The correct link is:
http://paulgraham.com/america.html

It looks like the link is there, but then an editorial comment got interpreted as part of the link, when it was not intended to be.
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Ashley Madison looks like it was always a big sad scam