skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site was just registered earlier this month (Created Date: 2015-10-08) [0]. I wonder if this is just rebranding or if they sold the data...

[0] http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=flymaids.com
ReadMe (YC W15) is hiring a Node dev interested in developer experiences
Biggest thing is that CC info still being on there. That is grossly irresponsible.

Not that I approve ripping people off, but hard to sympathize with Handy when Handy treats (treated?) its employees and workers poorly.

As for the whole transferring over of assets without any secure certs, that's pretty shady and/or lazy not doing that.

Cue someone from said company posting, "oh sorry we're not ready for public and that accidentally got sent" without mentioning why they even have the author's data or why the author's credit card data was apparently sold off.
I couldn't disagree more. I bet we actually see a service exposed via Bluemix in the not distant future.
Shitty marketing platforms.
Theranos, a much-hyped medical startup, is plagued with doubts
This is interesting, because you're ignoring the fact that the author worked in this exact business for some time and claims that it did once work and doesn't anymore.

Either he was deluded at the time and overcame his delusion without ever realizing he was deluded (which is possible) or there's more to it than you make it seem. Because I think someone who says "this used to work and now it doesn't" may have something profound to say that the person saying "this has never worked" needs to hear.

Perhaps you're right and software outsourcing has never worked, in the sense that from a total cost standpoint it has never been better to contract development of a software project to a third party than to create it in house. I don't agree with this, but we'll accept it for the point of argument. You're still ignoring his point that the change in economics has caused a cultural change in the attitudes of those who lead outsourcing entities.

The article claims that previously, the economics allowed them the luxury of trying to deliver a result to their customers. Now, they are not able to do so because the economics require them to milk their customers for every cent in order to break even.

This may not directly affect you if you have always believed that outsourcing doesn't work and you disagree with his opening statements attempting to rebut that mindset. But it's still an interesting view from the inside.
So hold on... If we can work out how they encoded those activation URLs, or someone intercepts the email then they can get full access to anyone's account?

I have zero sympathy for HomeJoy. They failed, which is something I can gave sympathy for. But they sold all their customer's private data without notifying them of this fact, and caused major security concerns in the process!
Unless I'm misreading your last sentence, I think you vastly overestimate how much it annoys me.

The only issue I described was extraneous noise on the website (most of which has nothing to do with weather). It's just less usable/aesthetically pleasing than the alternatives.

I'm not losing sleep over it or anything. I just use the alternative site instead.
What's the big deal? Homejoy is just hacking startup downfunding... (/s)

I'd like to see some kind of stronger YC influence on ethics in the companies they fund. I realize that YC doesn't have any direct control over the companies, but it could be as simple as including good ethics in the traits they look for in startup founders.

A while back I started compiling a list of YC companies that spammed or otherwise behaved badly. It quickly got back-burnered by other projects, but there was AirBnB from W09, InstallMonetizer and SocialCam from W12, Zenefits from W13, Abacus and GetAirHelp from W14, Gradberry and OmniRef from W15 ... while so far it looks like the majority of YC startups are well-behaved, the trend was looking like there's a few in every batch that are willing to do shady things to meet their growth metrics.

Or, in Homejoy's case, maybe make a little more money while winding down.
Looking at the permissions (Basically everything) - it seems like a good way for Microsoft to get access to both usage statistics and user data in one whole sweep.
I'm pretty sure them having the details Homejoy promised wouldn't be accessible is a much bigger deal, at least for me it is. If they have it, who else does?
The pull-up drawer is nice, but i don't see how it is in any way better than nova launcher. In fact, it seems worse in most ways.
Startup – List of useful sites to entrepreneurs
it's nice, but is it just me, or is anyone else tired of X's "deep learning tutorial"?

I personally write my own notes by looking at the same material over varying sources (it helps me flesh out equations when they have similar but different representations and explanations), but it's almost every week i see another deep learning intro on HN. The author even states:

>> Deep learning. Neural networks. Backpropagation. Over the past year or two, I've heard these buzz words being tossed around a lot...

I'm not trying to disparage the author here, the article is good. But seeing it rehashed weekly instantly makes me believe it's just pandering blogspam.
our HN colleagues think otherwise
I'd also add - your unsubscribe link should work, and work immediately, with no extra effort. There's no reason why it should take 48 hours for the unsubscribe to actually go through, or why I need to jump through 20 hoops after clicking unsubscribe to actually do it, or especially for the unsubscribe to not work at all. If your unsubscribe link is at all tricky, then I'm hitting report spam. Because you are, in fact, spam.

Speaking of ranty complaints, why does the linked page auto-scroll to the top when you click on it? That's lame and annoying.
A Tale of Two Retirements: One for CEOs and One for the Rest of Us
Actually, most fruit is fine even in pretty darn large quantities, due to the fact that the sugar is absorbed slowly, and it is paired with phytonutrients that have anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

Bananas and dates are the main exceptions to this.
I don't think that rathboma was suggesting that you might get fraudulent changes on the card - but any other service that you use which currently has that card on record could now potentially be compromised by anyone who knows your name and has those 4 digits - many customer support systems only need that much to verify your identity and make changes to your account.
REI, Economic Class, and What the Black Friday Backlash Could Mean for Shoppers
Updated Date: 27-oct-2015
Creation Date: 08-oct-2015

They be baffled by the page views they be getting! Would this be considered as "any publicity is good publicity"?
(I'm not the person you are asking, but): People often don't really know how sensitive the barometric pressure data could be, if used for tracking purposes. The barometer in your smartphone can help provide your physical location to within 1 meter, if used for location tracking instead of weather forecasting. If used for weather forecasting, the altitude data is treated as noise and will not be used to find your location.

However, it is now mandated by the FCC that all barometer-carrying smartphones will report your accurate altitude information to 911 emergency response if you make a 911 call from your smartphone. So the location tracking element of the barometer is a very real concern for a lot of people, as it can tell a tracking company what floor of a building you are on at any given moment.

However I think it's quite clear that weather apps, and The Weather Company, are much more interested in the local atmospheric trends than they are about your current floor.

Edit: FCC citation: https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-new-wireless-indoor-...
Flipboard's Fanfare Fades as Executives Exit, Sale Talks Stall
Super alone.

I don't generally use STL so I mean without language extensions. It's easy enough to implement these things with traditional function pointers.
I'd like to see an undercover investigation. This piece ended up being a little too close to propaganda.
Everyone is assuming that the founders sold the company data to Fly Maids, a brand-new company nobody has ever heard of before.

It's also possible one of the founders just spun up the new service themselves and copied over all of the customer records. If so, they may want to prepare to be sued by their previous investors.

It's one thing to fail after giving it the good ol' college try, but it's another entirely to strip the copper out of the walls on your way out.

Speculation aside, they should put out a statement to clarify the relationship between the companies and what's going on with their customers' data.
I'm surprised to see San Diego made this list.

Times are going to get tough for engineers in San Diego. Qualcomm is going to lay off several thousand employees in November. It's going to be bad for 1-2 years as engineers laid off in San Diego move to other cities in order to eat and keep a roof over their heads.

I've been unemployed since November 2014. I have the financial resources to sit this out if need be. I'd rather
be working, but that doesn't seem to be an option at the moment.

Average salaries offered by what few jobs are advertised have dropped like a rock in the past 2-3 months, and the number of job openings has fallen precipitously. What job openings remain are of poor quality, and are swamped with applicants.

San Diego is a great place to live, but housing costs are sky high and with Qualcomm and others not hiring, it's going to be tough going for any unemployed engineers.
Do all of the online services you use also no longer use the last four of that card for authentication purposes over the phone? For instance, you can sometimes use the last four of the card on a GoDaddy account to get a password reset over the phone.
Balloons are made to be carried away by wind. If you want to keep something stationary in the air, better find a aerodynamic shape. One that can keeps its orientation in the air is better yet.
Doesn't matter, it's still confidential information that can be used to verify you or used to social engineer more information about you. "Hi sir, I'm calling in because I lost access to my account, I don't have my current card, but I do have the last 4 of my previous that I used on this service, will that be good enough?"

Like don't reveal unnecessary information if you don't have to. It's low effort, high risk.
Right, I get it, there's no perfect/elegant/ideal/Platonic market anywhere.

But if you really can't tell the difference between "people use car dealerships because they all find them more convenient" vs "people use car dealerships because of a law that says they have to buy this way", then you're generalizing too far from the above point.
NASA Launches Contest for Smartwatch for Astronauts
From micaeked's link;

For the nerds in the audience, here’s what’s wrong:
If a client and server are speaking Diffie-Hellman,
they first need to agree on a large prime number with
a particular form. There seemed to be no reason
why everyone couldn’t just use the same prime, and,
in fact, many applications tend to use standardized
or hard-coded primes. But there was a very
important detail that got lost in translation between
the mathematicians and the practitioners: an
adversary can perform a single enormous
computation to “crack” a particular prime, then easily
break any individual connection that uses that prime.

I'm not an expert by any stretch, but this is my understanding;

For a client and server to communicate securely, they can exchange crypto keys publicly via Diffie-Hellman. D-H relies on a very large prime number and a second smaller prime, both of which can be broadcast publicly. The two clients add their own secret key to the primes, perform an operation, and send the result to each other. They then each perform one more operation on the received number with their secret key. If you compare the two resulting values, and they match, then you've established trust and can communicate using the resulting key.

This is safe since the primes are so large and the computational complexity is so high, it'd be infeasible to break them in the lifetime of the connection. However, to save a bit of time, rather than calculating a new very large prime every time, much software just had "built-in" primes (512-bit and 1024-bit numbers) and relied on the secret keys to provide security.

A recent paper proved that with breakthroughs in algorithms and a huge budget, reusing primes wasn't safe. The authors showed that for a known 512-bit prime, with a week of precomputation on a computing cluster, they could break subsequent connections using that prime in about one minute. Extrapolating their results to 1024-bit primes, they estimated to "break one prime per year" would cost on the order of $200M - $300M in hardware, which is well within the budget of the NSA who spend about 5x that amount annually on crypto programs and more than 50x annually for their entire budget.

They then examined a bunch of public VPN networks and saw that in their estimation, about 66% use one of two 1024-bit primes. So if the NSA had been running their 1024-bit prime-breaker for two years and had precomputed the groups for the two most popular primes, breaking each subsequently 'secure' connection would take about 30 core-days or a matter of seconds for someone with the budget of the NSA.
Aggregate destructive material in the opposition. Use the resources of competitors to blow it all up later?
A language that supports creating functions (and function closures) at runtime. Lambdas are essentially syntactic sugar.

This requires a whole different runtime paradigm. If there were examples of code that compiles doing this, which there might be, it would probably be analogous to this:

int* getVariable() {
int x;
return &x;
}

Implementing functions as first-class types generally requires a garbage collector or at minimum a different mechanic than just an ordinary stack and heap. Otherwise, your stack would start to look like swiss-cheese in any moderately functional program.

Trying to write something simple, like the Y combinator, leads to a mess like this in C++14:

([](auto f) {
return [](int k) {
return ([f](auto g, int i) { return f([g](int j) { return g(g, j); }, i); })(([f](auto g, int i) { return f([g](int j) { return g(g, j); }, i); }), k);
};
})

While you can find workable examples with template coding (and lambdas), you still won't be able to create code like you would in JavaScript for event handlers.
Copy-Pasting URLs from Google Search Can Leak Previous Searches
Reminds me of the start of the movie I am Legend...
> Here's an idea that doesn't cost any money: segregate students by ability so that kids can learn at their own pace.

1. Don't see how you can claim that is a zero cost idea.

2. In practice this just becomes the smart kids, normal kids, idiots. Good luck once you get labelled an idiot.
Stationary relative to the ground but not the air.
Atlanta Mobile App Development Company Looking to Hire
What a Southeast Asian tech boom means for US firms
You're underestimating how far people are willing to go to appear legit. Showing logos of companies who aren't your clients -- or of publications that never mentioned you -- is common. They know most people won't check to verify.
The standard reply is, those industries are among the lowest-paid. And men are among the highest-offenders. So its a straw man.

How about, we use instead any of the other 100 industries where men already hold the best-paid positions? We'll just swap 30 or 40 of them, so as not to cause as much pain to all those poor men.
If the secret sauce of unicorns were mere commodity shovelware, I would agree. There's nothing wrong with outsourcing non-core competency side jobs or commodity shovel work, happens all the time.

Or rephrased, is a tech unicorn not made out of tech?
The surprising truth about personality traits and programming skills
Over unfriendly territory I would expect the rope to be the least of this device's problems. While it seems that normal operating altitude would be out of reach of most rifles [0], every time the aerostat was lowered for maintenance it would be completely destroyed by potshots. b^)

[0] http://www.closefocusresearch.com/maximum-altitude-bullets-f...
"The code is available on Github and here is a blog post explaining how OpenVotes works." There's no link to the blogpost.
The difference is that there are many groups who have publicly declared their intent to blow up Israeli airliners, so it's not as if you're defending against a non-existent threat.
My local Engineering college is 25% women. The education part has begun already, and is picking up steam.

We can do both. No good reason remains to delay corrective pressure in staffing processes.
From the article:
"Owing to various view angles from different parts of the Earth, the most ambitious jet-setting astronomer could have seen a maximum of 59 percent of the surface of our planetary companion. "

If we take into account that fact that Earth is not a point, then epsilon is not so tiny after all, it's around 0.045 times circunference.

This would make the final result 0.455 times circunference.
Ujo solves this problem with software. You look up a song in a database, choose to purchase a streaming license, send money to the song's program, and the program distributes royalties to the individuals who are owed.

http://ujomusic.com/
Manoj Bhargava
I'm not sure it's the email recipient who are clueless here.

As far as I'm concerned, if a company or group is emailing me, and it's not related to a specific purchase I've made with them, then it's spam, and I mark it as such. I don't care if you tricked me into opting-in through some fine print somewhere or I missed the opt-out button on a form one time or that you don't think it's spam or whatever.

Unless I've very explicitly taken an action to get your email, OR it's a receipt, order information, etc. then it's spam.

If it's inconvenient for the person sending the email, good.
Have you made any decisions about Bryana's responsibilities that were motivated by her gender, rather than her personal strengths?

Putting your only female dev in the position of representing your company at conferences suggests that she's taken on the role of "token female". If this is coincidental, and she just happens to be the best spoken developer with the least stagefright, then clearly there is no problem. However, if you deliberately chose her because she is female, then you are doing her no long-term favors, and are engaged in sexist business practices yourself.

new_corp_dev put it better than I could: "If the industry sees a glut of women speakers who are there only because they are women, then the industry will have no choice but to acknowledge their token status."
We've built our straw effigies from the same bale, mine just happens to burn more cleanly.
Well we visited both the factory style places as well as the small studios. We also talked to individual artists privately. I'm not sure what you're hoping for here.
Measuring the Leakage of Onion at the Root
“A measurement of Tor’s .onion pseudo-top-level domain
in the global domain name system”

[https://www.petsymposium.org/2014/papers/Thomas.pdf]
it was mentioned in the article as well. My thinking was this; these aerostats have been proposed as part of the southern border program, the powerlines between Hoover Dam and LA typically are carrying 1,100 MW of power. Shorting them out is one of the events which can bring down the western US grid (so a pretty big deal). The distance between the Arizona/Mexico border to Lake Mead is further of course (230 miles, Mexicali => Las Vegas, 80 miles from Aberdeen to Cook County). So probably not a huge threat directly but one of those wierd things I think about.
IBM Watson at Jeopardy (2011) [video]
Not sure if nervous is the right word. Excited perhaps. YC is just one path which might lead to whatever goal you have.

Am not expecting much, but would be pleasantly surprised should I have the chance to meet the partners for an interview. Otherwise it's heads down making things happen!
The sort of person who outsources will say whatever is most profitable for them at any moment in time.

Right now he'll be hoping to profit by bringing things back in-house so they can be outsourced again later.
Because it would be done inside the space shuttles
I believe it is not. There is a user behavior and a data flow that go together to get traction. Marketing is probably the most important part. Luck being the 2nd. Tech may be way down there, alongside carbon paper.
Moonmen, please.
Well, I have saw it too many times to believe in errors. Common targets are Snowden related URLs and First Look website.

Don't believe me, just remember that the next time you see it.
A reaction to all the poorly configured unsubscribe landing pages. I click unsubscribe, wait 15 seconds for a page to load offering me to "review my subscription settings" filled with 99 checkboxes I have to tick individually, followed by having to enter my email address again "to confirm", and then half the time getting a 500 error.

So I've been trained to just hit the spam button, it's a lot easier and simpler way to ensure I won't see that crap again.
On the other hand, being forced to settle for whatever car is currently available sounds very soviet as well. A real capitalist would much rather have their expensive new depreciating asset assembled to their exact specifications and handed over with 0 miles on the odometer.
Yes, but only in French I'm afraid.

I don't understand why it never took of (elsewhere than in France) for relational data modeling. It's a really vast and complex method if you want to apply everything, but most devs here use only the part that make database modeling easy.

I should stress that it's purely for relational data, NoSQL didn't exist when they invented Merise and it would have probably been frown upon ;-)
So I guess it's not really interesting in most startups environment were NoSQL seems the norm.
The irony of the left - they want to treat people differently based on their gender and skin colour.

In the UK, white British make up 40% of medical doctors.

Would you support quotas and biased hiring to increase the number of white British doctors? It would make it more representative of the population.

What about primary school teachers? If 9 females and 1 male go for a job, should the male always get preference?
They bought the Weather Company minus the TV channel side of the business. So I would assume The Weather Channel will remain an independent company just without the digital assets.
So what? What harm is there in showcasing female workers? There's nothing about being a 'token' that precludes competence.
Whomever is responsible for this should be blacklisted from receiving funding in the future.

This is a really scummy move, and the person behind it should be publicly humiliated so that they understand the error of their ways.
To add to your tip about standard frame size, you can also add a mat to make a piece fit into a standard frame.
The software, called Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing, or CARACAS...

They have a sickness, in the military. b^)
> every time the aerostat was lowered for maintenance it would be completely destroyed by potshots

Which has got to mean this device isn't such a great idea in it's current form. These things were designed to be overseas in combat areas guarding against inbound missile strikes on FOB's and the like.