skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DNS certs would be better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...
You are being downvoted, I assume for your "over the top" tone, but your overall message is very good. User behavior is the largest determinant of battery life.

I run Firefox with NoScript, and my battery usage is always very very good. An additional benefit is that I see few ads, since they invariably rely on third-party javascript.
I used to read heavily on public transport, always carrying 2 or 3 novels in my bag. I would read one book on the way to work and another on the way home.

For personal reasons I no longer do that, so I make time when I get home from work in the evenings to read a chapter. I also deliberately leave books lying around to remind to make time.
I agree. These days the wunderground site drags my 2009 iMac to an almost total standstill. I don't really understand how they screwed it up so bad :-(
If it were done another way, wouldn't it make it hard for the Governments to use NSL-like methods to surreptitiously masquerade as others?
Fascinating. Is the property (cars, houses, etc.) of those put in WITSEC escheated?
By creating large maps/worlds and building an interesting universe, they were always in a position to abandon the narrative that the writers layered on top, to write new stuff or change the pace of content delivery (push some stuff out to the expansions).
This whole ordeal is confusing.

So it looks like Aaron Cheung ripped of Handy's website into multiple clones and is running them separately?
YouTube would dry up and blow away. The vast majority of people use YouTube precisely because it's "free". Google can afford to allow YouTube to remain free.
Rejected and dejected. Our first application. The process was helpful though, so no regrets. Will apply for the next batch, of-course.

But back to work now. Focus is getting the goddamn MVP done and get some real users.

Does this mean, people who haven't received rejection letters, they in all likelihood get invited for the interview? Anyone invited yet?
Some people I know are building this: https://keeptruckin.com
Some of those buildings, and interiors, look like 1950s artist renderings (of what future architecture would look like) brought to life.
Tips on ElasticSearch Configuration for High Performance (2014)
It's a remarkably hard one to break!
Padlet (YC W13) is hiring its first designer
This is a good point. I will definitely be asking for tangibles. My last position actually lied (or somehow thought there was ambiguity in how they could answer "Do you do QA? Do you have a QA team?").
Scott Adam's take on "passion":

http://www.businessinsider.in/Dilbert-creator-Scott-Adams-il...
Since you are here, how do you handle CPU (or code) graphing on distributed systems? In his case, you do not control which nodes and/or when the query will be executed. Any tips?
Thanks mate.

I am trying to find out how I can send you an email but I am a bit lost here. Could you please help me how. Should I provide my email address through the comments area?
Every PC swapped for a Mac saves IBM $270, says Apple
Sounds like Event Sourcing. The idea of giving every integer a unique identity sounds expensive but plausible.
Decentralize the PKI!
You can opt out of some forms of real life "spam."

Info here - http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolicit...
Weird...when I was at Google, very significant engineering effort was expended (we're talking man-years) to prevent exactly this case, and it was a major design constraint on the features we could launch. Something must've changed in the thinking of the higher-ups.

I also wonder why they don't just use pushState, which was proposed as a solution way back in 2010 but didn't have the browser support necessary. Now it's got the browser support:

http://caniuse.com/#search=pushState
Investing or Gambling, What’s the Difference?
> Putting your password in plaintext is unacceptable because...

I know that. :)

dogma1138 said:

> ...given all the other dark magic that is in the URL which can include your client type, version, location and other things (e.g. inter-service referrals if you go there from another google service like Google Maps) i think the original query is the least of your worries.

There are people for whom and situations in which having a search query exposed is utterly disastrous. I asked the question I asked in order to determine if dogma1138 held the opinion that

* "URL's are not implicitly intended to be shared outside of the scope of your application" [0], and therefore any sensitive information in them is 100% okay, because -in his world- noone ever shares hard-to-read URLs anyway

or

* URLs can have potentially disastrously sensitive information in them, as long as it's not username and password

or

some other opinion.

In short, this was an information-gathering question designed to test the bounds of a hypothesis that I was forming, but did not yet have enough information to put any faith into. :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467919
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ThatNeedle is working on it and showing promising results. For now there is only an NLP API for retail.
That's called DANE, and it's already in use by a number of websites and supported by many registries. Unfortunately the major browsers do not support it.[1] There's an extension for Mozilla Firefox that implements it.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...
[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dnssec-valida...
Couldn't you have a browser plugin that would verify your js is being served up from the correct source?
the Netflix Zuul was open sourced before the openstack Zuul was created.

https://github.com/Netflix/zuul/graphs/contributors

https://github.com/openstack-infra/zuul/graphs/contributors
So if you want a Windows Phone why dont you buy one?
I recently listened to the Audiobook called "$2.00 a Day". It described how an extremely impoverished young mother in Chicago worked for a startup cleaning service, and what an unfair, laborious job it was.

From what I've read about Homejoyy the past few days, it sounds like that is where she was working. I don't expect the ex-founder to confirm though.

The audiobook was a heart-rending listen, but I recommend it: http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/200-a-Day-Audiobook/B01...
Isn't the ability to collect and sell data a hedge against the huge percentage of companies that are for all practical purposes worthless?

Kind of like a store selling its shelves as it goes out of business. May as well get money for anything that's not nailed down.
If the heirloom version didn't sell out so quickly I might have bought one. Fortunately for my wallet they were gone fast!

Might be worth laser-cutting a case out of nice wood for one though. Hmm.
No offence, but don't become a detective, and decline any jury service. A lot of people use pseudonyms.

There's a multitude of good reasons why this poster didn't want to use his real name. In all honestly, if I was hiring, or deciding to do business with an individual, if they used their real name, and had a plethora of comments on Twitter; I don't think I would hire, nor trust that individual with information.

(To the HN community. Does HN offer a way to delete comments? I just assumed they did? Maybe they don't? I do know I can delete briefly after I make a comment, but that privilege dies pretty quick. Why?)
It is a national security issue to have cash available for use during a time of war, or general internet failure, or natural disaster. Tying your national security to the health of the internet is unwise.
The Feedback Offer

(I'm not affiliated with YC.)

I would like to try an experiment if I may.

For $40 I will give feedback to any startup that got a YC response email tonight. This applies for startups that got rejected and startups that got invited.

This could be feedback on the main idea, the YC application, beta testing your demo or website, help with writing, or anything else that would help. I expect to spend 30 minutes for every application received.

If at any time you feel my feedback isn't helping, I will refund the full amount. If I don't find time to review your startup, I will also refund the full amount.

I'm doing this partly as an experiment: this could be a startup idea. I want to see if it's possible to earn money giving feedback. I'm also doing it as personal training. I'm not an expert on startups. The more sites and ideas I'm exposed to, the better I can get at finding holes in my work. Charging will likely make you and me more committed to the review.

I want to stay anonymous. I want to see how feasible it is to interpret feedback without knowing who the person giving the feedback is. I believe the way to tell if the feedback you are getting is useful is to pay attention to the explanation you get with it.

Although I can't promise to respond to everyone I will do the best I can to respond to as many people as possible before the November 9th invitation day for YC.

I promise not to share information about your startup.

The email to reach me is in my profile. I'd welcome feedback too on improving the process of giving feedback. Thanks.
The only thing that Instapainting and similar businesses demonstrates is that bad photos don't make good paintings, especially when they're paint-by-numbers copies of bad photos. IMHO most of Instapainting's customers would be better off applying a "painterly" filter in Photoshop to their photos and have them printed to canvas at their nearest Costco.

Paintings of photos look like paintings of photos because they're crippled by the artefacts of the source photo such as unnatural perspective (which is why the "normal" 50mm lens is a thing), inaccurate colours and clipped highlights due to the limited dynamic range of even pro-level DSLRs.

Professional painters take years to hone their craft and learn the rules of composition that make a painting look good. E.g., one of my favourite painters is the watercolour virtuoso Joseph Zbukvic. Here's a video where he quickly paints an impressionistic Melbourne street scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81w9PBZOmZ8. Because he's not slavishly copying the photo he's free to rearrange the composition and add elements to make it more pleasing. He makes it look easy but that's because he's one of the best.

Buying original paintings from professional artists doesn't have to be that expensive. This past weekend I attended a group art show opening in Melbourne and prices ranged from $450 to $2200 for some very nice original oil & watercolour paintings. If you can afford to live in the Bay area or most other large cities in the developed world, you can afford to occasionally pay that much for a painting.

(Most of the stuff churned out by the "contemporary art" scene can be safely ignored. At the very high end contemporary art isn't art as much as it is an unregulated private currency for the very rich to launder and move around their wealth. Most contemporary art disappears without a trace.)
Sure. He created a Twitter account in 2009 and hasn't tweeted once in 6 years. He was the founder of a YC company and never posted a single submission to Hacker News. He was the founder of of a company that raised $38M+ in venture capital and never once used these two massive audiences to let the world know about his product or his team. That is, to me, astonishing.
And until that happens, why do we expect and significant portion of Symantec's customers to care? And unless they care, why would Symantec?

Apple are using a Symantec ssl cert right now:

"The identity of Apple Inc. at Cupertino, California US has been verified by Symantec Class 3 EV SSL CA - G3. Valid Certificate Transparency information was supplied by the server."

But their level of give-a-shit is clearly demonstrated as well:

"Your connection to www.apple.com is encrypted using an obsolete cipher suite.

The connection uses TLS 1.2."
Show HN: Send password securely to a friend through any IM
For neural nets, consider Bengio's book: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/

For something lighter but insightful, Pedro Domingo's The Master Algorithm is quite fun.

A great number of classes are now available online. I prefer the Stanford classes. http://cs229.stanford.edu/ and http://cs224d.stanford.edu/ are good places to start. There are more.
> This open-source requirement of ours ended up influencing the selection of almost every piece of hardware, including the main CPU, the battery controller, and the Wi-Fi module. For example, we couldn’t use Intel’s x86 microprocessors because they can accept firmware updates that we cannot debug or inspect. Instead we chose an ARM-based Freescale i.MX6 system-on-a-chip, which has no such updatable code embedded. (A system-on-a-chip, or SoC, is similar to a microprocessor except it has more of the supporting hardware, such as memory and peripheral interfaces, needed to make a complete computer.) The i.MX6 does have some code burned into it to coordinate the computer’s boot-up process, but this firmware can’t be changed, and its unencrypted binary code can be read out and analyzed for possible security problems.

I'm confused. They claim the open source requirement prevented them from going with an intel chip, but then they say the reason why was because intel could push firmware updates. Furthermore, the Freescale SoC has firmware built in, but it's not open source.

Is this what we consider open source these days? Sure, a good whitepaper is nice, but it's not open source. Don't get me wrong, this is still nice effort on the open front, but calling this a "laptop with no secrets" seems like a stretch.
FWIW, I found the proof here:

http://kruel.co/math/chainrule.pdf

I'd actually tried to understand it earlier, but I got stuck at the point it says:

We now use these equations to rewrite f (g(x + h)). In
particular, use the first equation to obtain

f(g(x + h)) = f(g(x) + [g′(x) + v]h),

and use the second equation applied to the right-hand-side
with k = [g′(x) + v]h and y = g(x).

It was how they got k that tricked me. But then I realise that actually the bit I was missing was that y=g(x), and so as:

f(g(x + h)) = f(g(x) + [g′(x) + v]h)

You can actually make this:

f(y + k) = f(y + [g'(x) + v]h)

Thus k = (g'(x) + v)h
That's indeed a weakness of the system, but it's complicated by the articles sometimes being good despite the clickbait. This is especially so with the publications large enough to employ specialist headline writers who put bait on everything.
1. From http://cleanerconnect.com/, which appears to be connected to your new venture:

> Cleaner Connect is not an employer, but simply connects independent service professionals with customers

Your Homejoy co-founder stated lawsuits over worker misclassification were the "deciding factor" in the decision to wind Homejoy down[1]. Assuming cleanerconnect.com is indeed part of your new venture, the above suggests your "testing" involves the same flawed contracting strategy that contributed to Homejoy's demise.

2. Your email to former Homejoy customers encourages them to use a "partner" service. You fail, however, to disclose that you are actually a principal of the "partner" business. Additionally, your comment suggests that FlyMaids is not actually a partner of a company that is supposedly winding down but rather is the acquirer of certain Homejoy assets.

3. As far as I can tell, neither FlyMaids or Homeaglow were ever featured by Oprah, The New York Times, etc., yet this claim is/was being made on their sites.

4. There are multiple sites (http://www.dazzlingcleaning.com, http://www.homeaglow.com/ and http://www.flymaids.com/) that appear to be connected to your new venture. Each of their terms of service refers to Delaware corporations that don't seem to exist.

Humble advice: you might want to rethink your passion for the home service space. And make sure you have a good attorney on retainer.

[1] http://recode.net/2015/07/17/cleaning-services-startup-homej...
As Warren Buffet said:

"In the short term the market is a popularity contest; in the long term it is a weighing machine."

So to answer the question posed, if you are trying to make money off guesses about who wins the popularity contest - that's gambling. If you are trying to asses which company to be a part owner of, to meet your own particular financial goals (income, growth, etc) - that's investing.
Does it? Or maybe the assumption that children aren't naturally curious beings with agency and emotional life, but just a hard drive to write on (or slate, if you like) is something that borders on absurd.
Intel firmware is obfuscated, closed-source and very low-level which means that it could be running nearly anything -- you don't know what it is.

The SoC has closed-source blobs, but it's all debugging and reversible which is not as good as OSS, but not as bad as opaque blobs from Intel.
The Fine Article explains the calibration process they use very nicely. Good UI too.
China’s craziest English-language propaganda videos are made by one studio
>If AUTOCOMMIT = ON (jdbc driver default), each statement is treated as a complete transaction. When a statement completes changes are automatically committed to the database.
When AUTOCOMMIT = OFF, the transaction continues until manually run COMMIT or ROLLBACK. The locks are kept on objects for transaction duration.

This made me cringe. Whether a series of operations takes place in one transaction or many isn't something you can just turn on and off depending on what looks more expensive!

The article ended up suggesting more transactionality, which is generally good (although the reason given is not the important one, namely "you're less likely to have all your data completely ruined"), but if you make the process distributed and aren't careful about sharding you may end up trading average-case cost in network load for much worse worst-case cost due to lock contention and transaction failures.

Optimizing database access patterns at scale is hard, and blithely making major changes to things that impact correctness is not the way to do it.
> A staged photo of U.S. Marshals protecting a witness

srsly.
"Fully solved" seems like a bit of an exaggeration, considering that mathematical operations on computers often aren't commutative if you look into the details. Consider catastrophic cancellation in floating point and overflow in fixed-point calculations with range checks.

To get a consistent answer, you'd also have to sort the numbers consistently, so instead of a sum this becomes an insert into a sortable list. This is far more expensive than the typical kinds of aggregate operations people want to do at scale - the point of aggregation is not to just save all the original data.
LMGTFY

WTF people, how do you not know this?
But then there is the "grimace index" experiment, where scientists at McGill University in Montreal tortured mice, increasing the amounts of pain to measure facial expressions.

There was a public outcry, but the researchers still got plenty of citations.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100509/full/news.2010.228.ht...
That's essentially a statistics / data analytics question.

Statisticians (et. al) are well versed at receiving a whole bunch of messy data and figuring out the value that they want to observe.

From a rough perspective, I think it would look something like this:

1) There will be a large concentration of people reporting pressures that are on the low side, this is the true outside pressure.

2) There will be clusters of people reporting high pressures, and that will be inside buildings.

3) To ignore funny circumstances where large amounts of people are reporting lower pressures than the true outside pressure (I'm not sure why this might be, but this is not my domain of expertise) you can compare it to the pressure that people are seeing around that area, and to official pressure readings.
I don't see it as Google policing, but more so the industry self-policing.

Google relies on certificates being accurate as much as we do, it's in everyone's interest for this to be happening.

Though I do admit I can see a slippery slope argument with Google's power.
> Convergence was the perfect replacement, but it never gained any traction.

It's really not.

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain/blob/master/docs/Compa...
Lean and Powerful Customer Support
So good to see companies that weren't 'OSS first' playing catchup and doing so effectively
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Elite Proxies API
Segal's analysis is disingenuous. REED v. TOWN OF GILBERT, ARIZONA has nothing to do with any handheld communication; it only addresses fixed, unattended signs. Similarly, "freedom of speech" does not apply the same for a recorded rant on a loudspeaker vs a personal rant from atop a soapbox.
It's not a laptop with no secrets or fully open-sourced. There's the hardware components internal operation, the FPGA tools, and so on that need to be open. Incidentally, the things with the biggest risk, too. Freescale operates DOD-certified fabs in U.S. on top of it with major sales to U.S. govt. Whatever subversion risk Intel poses we must assume Freescale does as well.

It's actually a laptop for FPGA hackers with incremental steps in the direction of an open-source laptop. That's great. That they made FPGA development a bit easier plus made a more open laptop is extra great. So, let's give them props they deserve while acknowledging it's still untrustworthy hardware and there's plenty of ways to go.
To be fair that's a pretty common tactic even here in the US. T-Mobile's cheaper "unlimited data" plans are 5GB of 3G/4G with aggressive traffic shaping afterwards that basically dings you down to 2G-ish speeds unless you're browsing at 3AM or something. Do these companies just not disclose that though?
Let me know if you have questions about DataDuck. I made DataDuck to get data into Amazon Redshift. Why might you want a data warehouse? Here's some reasons why: http://dataducketl.com/blog/every-tech-company-needs-a-data-...
LMGTFY

was that so hard?
>throwing PCI compliance and SSL encryption out the window

If they were using Stripe or similar, then they don't have access to your credit cards. Only the last four digits and expiration.
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> As consumers, we can choose where to shop based on what stores do and do not stock. If you don't like what Apple stocks, don't shop in its store, and don't buy their devices.

You're right, but I hate this line of reasoning. At the end of the day, I like using an Apple product and I don't have a problem with 99% of the things they do. So simply telling someone to 'stop buying the product' when they disagree with a relatively minor issue, is silly, and it kills the discussion immediately.

It's like congress passes a law I don't like and you suggest to 'leave the country', instead of focusing on the fact it's a bad law that could be changed without having to do something so drastic as leave the country.

Debate like this can help, calling them out for things that aren't very sensible is okay and it doesn't have to immediately be met with the obvious 'under the law they can do what they want so your only recourse is to simply never use their product ever again, end of discussion'.

Let's also not forget when Apple changed its mind. For example, remember the iPhone 4? It introduced the LED flashlight for its camera, a feature none of the iPhones before had. Immediately flashlight apps were made, and rejected by Apple. Later it changed its mind and they're now a staple in every app store, and later even became an integral part of the OS requiring no app at all, without any changes to the hardware. And it didn't happen because people suddenly sold their iPhone 4 and people stopped buying iPhone 4s because they couldn't get the flashlight app, that'd never have happened. On big features, yeah, not on small stuff.