skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's because I am not a keybase user, but can somebody explain this product in human terms? I am not an idiot, and it does sound interesting, but the post is too long and I just want to know what makes it unique compared to dropbox, etc. in one sentence.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11038018
I thought their branding was pretty good before they did this. I find the app icon particularly mystifying.
Implementing API Clients in Two Styles
I don't know if Travis Kalanick smokes pot, but if he does, then yes.

If you thought Yahoo’s weekend charrette between CEO
Marissa Meyer and her design team was scary, try an
extended process of more than a year of a non-
designer CEO micro-managing the process.

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo...
Program Optimization from 1854
I thought it was a new "app is updating" image provided by my phone at first
An interesting point. And in the case of using Google as a search engine, the search query essentially indicates intent. If I search Google for "pirated movies" and some links to web sites to help me get those are returned... then is Google complicit in my attempt to pirate movies? My intent is clearly to pirate movies, I am explicitly telling Google that that is my intent, and they're responding with helpful information...

(not to imply I think what these judges are considering to be good, just some food for thought.)
I blame Mad Men and "The Carousel" for making it more possible to sell companies stuff like this.
Let's be better than they are. On all fronts.

In general: more civil, less prone to rash judgements and manipulative thinking styles, generally.

And unlike them -- never afraid of the truth (even when it is uncomfortable and quite often troubling). Because in the long run, it will always be on our side.
In another recent thread I saw a lot of animosity from people who felt betrayed when a founder sold.

I'm an employee, but just imagining the stress of running a successful business, I honestly can't blame a founder for selling as long as I'm being compensated in a manner I consider fair (ie. fair market rate with minimal/low equity, or meaningful equity with terms that won't screw me).

There's absolutely nothing wrong with cashing out when you think it is the right time. Anyone who did not found the company should understand it is a possibility when they sign on.
Are you talking about the announced file storage service here? Or about the "drudru claims to be foobar on Twitter" service?

The former should be good - that sounds like a smart client in front of a dumb server. The latter is a different problem and as far as I'm aware the service is merely aggregating proves - and can link to those. Verify them?
What you're seeing is the difference between trademarks™ and registered trademarks®. The USPTO lists the latter but not the former. You don't actually have to register a trademark in order to use it, but it's usually a good idea. Which reminds me: now's probably a good time to drop a line to my lawyer…
I'm all for IPFS, but I think you're missing the forest for the trees. Crypto is hard, especially PKI. KeybaseFS is crypto first, global FS second, while IPFS just says "do crypto yourself" - which, as we've seen with email and texting and literally everything else, doesn't work.

I would love for KeybaseFS to work via IPFS instead of their own servers. But pointing at IPFS as a /replacement/ for this crypto+FS project is disingenious.
But what does it cost?
Yeah, there is a pretty sweet blog post and demo videos (just posted) @ https://blog.docker.com/2016/02/docker-engine-1-10-security/
Thanks! (I did all the UI)

It is all custom, and the Learn Enough series is using a variation on our web book layout that we created for the parent platform http://www.softcover.io - which is what is hosting the Rails Tutorial.
Firefox uses Google Safe Browsing, like Opera and Safari.
Google UK tax deal under fire as it emerges figure included share options scheme
35K GBP is an odd number. To be honest, most numbers in the UK are.

In London, with that salary, you will not be able to buy a studio apartment anywhere within commuting distance of the centre. You'd need to triple it to even think about owning an actual home.

In many cities in the north, 35K will get you a home, in cash, in <5 years.

How does that work, then? Do we deport people who fully pay off homes and retire because they're not earning 35K?

Very odd. Frankly, most of the UK's capital/income thresholds are odd for this exact reason. They end up being piffling amounts in the South East and obscene values in the North.
I am so, so confused by Uber's marketing video. I feel like its satirical. I'd love to hear if anyone has the inside scoop of how it was made/ how Uber employees feel about it.
Fits with Google: free consumer services (paid for by advertisers); and Google gets the highest price possible by letting advertisers fight it out in real time (the other advertisers are the bad guys... but Google gets the money).
Yes! He was building a single model to describe reality.
So when exactly will they be making their full mobile location history available as a public feed?
The Moon or Mars? NASA Must Pick 1 Goal for Astronauts, Experts Tell Congress
Wow, that is epic. I'm not sure what the hell to make of it, but it kind of reads like one of those net.kook manifestos about how to create a perpetual motion machine or something like that. But more polished.
Ravens know when they’re being watched
While this is great (although very late) it's biggest issue is that I have to implement this and another service if I care about the other credit card companies. Merchants would be fools to just accept Visa.
I've always been curious about facebook scaled their "people you may know feature". Everything I've read suggests that they use contact list information uploaded by other users to introduce connections in the social graph. What I'm curious about is how they compute the intersection of the large sets that result, for a lot of people, in real time.
Aha! Found more info on this topic at http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/register.jsp if anyone's interested.
A droplet is just a VPS.
"There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything."

https://youtu.be/8XQH-o_KYBI?t=86

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/quotes
Every time that Palantir comes up on HN people go crazy about the overreach and the Palantir "drones" flying around killing everyone, but it seems to me like the military side of Palantir is really just a giant correlation machine...so what's wrong with that?

Yes, perhaps it's output is used at some point when deciding something about a drone strike (although I can't find a source for this), but I'm not sure why the sentiment about this is so incredibly negative?
> ... because it assumes the data is valuable! In reality a significant chunk of it is made up ...

Yes, but made-up data is also valuable. Were this not true, the world of advertising would collapse.

An earnest economic evaluation has to assess the value of data apart from the issue of whether it accurately reflects reality.
Elon Musk refuses to sell Tesla to 'super rude' customer
A video of someone playing a copyrighted game has value separate from the game, and the person producing that video almost certainly has copyright of their own over it, but the video clearly derives from the music, images, and other materials provided by the game. Under most circumstances, the person publishing or streaming the video should be able to defend their usage via fair use; fair use specifically mentions uses like "commentary" and "criticism".

Similarly, people who upload/stream "reaction" videos, where they watch another video and provide commentary, can defend that usage via fair use.

Fair use doesn't mean that the video/stream does not derive from the copyrighted game or other material, but rather that the video/stream may legally use that copyrighted material.
That's why Bitcoin's great! It's an electronic payment system, and the underlying currency.
Neither? Not sure which part you are referring. I really believe that it's the best dev platform, I've tried all of them. Ubuntu can come close, but orders of magnitude less user friendly. In my opinion and the opinions of folks I've discussed this with.
I think parent only wanted to give examples of what direction we should be looking in.
I'm not sure about that either. The weakest link seems to be a national security letter to Keybase where they distribute a backdoored version of the FS driver to Alice, and adds the key of Eve to all messages also encrypted to Bob.

However, Keybase can't just broadcast "Eve on twitter is Bob!" - the client gets that announcement and links you to the tweet that claims it, where you audit the twitter handle, key fingerprint, etc.
I have to disagree - DO's "cloud servers" are equivalent to virtual private servers, which you would never expect to loose in this manner from other providers.

The lack of explanation is what worries me most - it leads me to think this might have been a case of "we forgot to replace a bad drive, then the second in the pair failed".
It was made with bits. And atoms.
I thought it was some sort of chinese new year's thing like in trivia crack.
iRecognition: I am no longer Apple’s Target Market (2012)
Frankly I think a big part of their quality decline is their approach to bug tracking. And maybe their internal bug tracker is just as bad as their external one.

If you want me to bother to help you find bugs in your system, you have to make it easy to file bugs and you have to make me feel like part of the team when I do that. Apple does not.

Before I even get into interface issues, let's just say that Apple's bug reports are like a ginormous black hole. I've filed plenty of bugs that have never been properly closed or even updated, and it makes no sense. In any other system I've seen, you would at least be able to see that your issue had been assigned to someone, and given a priority, etc. Apple has none of that.

The only thing worse than filing a bug that no one responds to is having to spend 20-30 minutes writing it in the first place, and Apple excels there, too.

Their reporting system is too complex (too many fields that should not be necessary, especially the ones that seem to ask the same question twice). It's not automated in any way. It is not integrated with the OS; e.g. why can't I turn on a "developer mode" on my Mac or i-device that lets me instantly do things like "compose new bug report for this OS version" or "compose new bug report for this version of this application", etc.?

Also, despite Apple's attempt to redo the web interface a few years back (because developers had complained endlessly about the even-worse previous bug reporting page), today's web interface is still mostly a repaint to look iPhone-like. It doesn't really address core usability problems. It has created new ones though; for instance, right at the bottom, right where you'd expect to say "submit" and send in your last 20 minutes of writing, is the DELETE BUG AND OBLITERATE FOREVER button!! I once destroyed a bug report that I'd spent a long time writing and I was extremely frustrated. It made me instantly decide that Apple didn't really need to see my bug report after all. And that is a broken system.
I wonder how much of a role Bitcoin played as an impetus for finally coming out with this. Sure, it should have been done way before Bitcoin, but I bet that gave them a reason to put the peddle to the metal.
Do you happen to know/recommend a Python book written in a similar style?
Have you played Destiny? :D
+1. Also easy graphical interface - P4Win/P4V, and easy to understand the system of changelists. It also helps that older changelists mean things submitted in the past, newer in the future - e.g. in contrast with digest/fingerprint schemes like other systems use.
Hi John, mind sharing an invitation?
It might make good "Show HN" when the source is released and people can try it out.
> ... but the problem is that scientists are not accountable.

Arguable, but if they don't have to release their data, then very true -- they aren't accountable. By requiring scientists to release their data, we make them accountable for any shenanigans that might otherwise be concealed.
>> I think that the emotional-value aspect slows down the disruption cycle in consumer markets, but it doesn't stop it.

That may be true.

But in the context of iOS vs Android:

1. Most features come from apps - both have strong app ecosystems, and iOS probably has the stronger app ecosystem because it serves wealthier people. To a certain extent that applies to reliability.

2. Some features are native to the OS. So you see a competition, and Android is certainly faster there, via the rooting community, competition between OEM's , etc. But Apple usually respond - at least when things appeal to the mainstream , and don't negate their strategy.As for the question of reliability - i'm not sure Android is viewed as more reliable(think security vulnerabilities like stagefright). But yes, maybe Google can lead Apple here ,because they seem stronger technologically. The only question will they do this permanently or will it just buy them some time and would it be enough ?

Also , let's not forget the network effect embedded in iOS via iMessage(which many users say it prevents them from moving to Android).

>> the shift from reliability to branding & maintenance reflects how you're perceived for choosing the product.

I'm not sure that's true. it all depends on how psychologically important that product is to you, versus how important is the features/reliability differential.
When I watched this video yesterday I thought they are trying too hard to explain what their new logo means because no one will see the connection between the strange new logo and the Uber we already know.

Also - complete marketing wank.
This is yet another reason to push forward the idea of static websites/webapps. There is no single argument to support the idea of using a database to power a 5-6 page website. Not even a blog with daily posts. How many sites out there have less than 10 pages, are updated maybe once per month, sport a contact form or newsletter subscription box? 90%? And how many of them use an insecure behemonth like WP or Joomla?

My new model: client wants a pretty responsive theme, I get the HTML version of it. Turn into a template I can use to spit out a static site (from my homebrewed CMS). I tell clients your monthly support charges are $0. If you ever need updates I charge hourly (most never call in months). Some clients want "a list of something" say products. If small and won't grow: a static csv file that also gets munched by the homebrewed CMS. Large list? A BAAS service with API.

I really don't care if the servers are gone/hacked/ransomware. Git clone, go.
I was going with Pacman, now middle-aged, eating square dots for fiber.
Valentine's Day Style
I love you Michael Hartl!
It's pretty simple: focus on the flaws of the EFF instead of the problems the EFF points out. If you want to be against the establishment, you have to be perfect in pedigree, politics, and poise. Your arguments must not only be factually correct on every level (which by itself would be fine to point out) but must also be in obeisance to the status quo by explicitly recognizing the good intentions of the establishment.

All of this will be prefaced with "I'm no fan of the TPP, but..."

Here's how you write as an establishment equivocator:

---

There are certainly parts of the TPP which overreach. But the EFF is well known for taking things out of proportion [ignoring the absurd proportions of the actual situation]. Here we see another example: [point out something from the current EFF statement that is alarmist or not quite relevant to the TPP specifically, for instance...] a lot of what the EFF describes about copyright is specific to US law and copyright. The EFF is really just hitting its usual talking points and very little of this relates to the TPP; the TPP is just an excuse to talk about what they always talk about.
Please do consider medical physics. We have a former string theorist in our team who does great Monte Carlo simulations of medical linacs. I myself have an experimental physics background and use my knowledge in product development in the radiation oncology field in Palo Alto. APS has a local link service in which you can meetup with local physicists in Bay Area and talk to them about industrial positions.
This can't be real... right? God the advertising industry is so much worse than I thought.
In regards to interactivity, it depends. It's true enough for chess surely which is a bazillion years old and basically just a set of rules, but a modern game's entertainment value is also the content to a varying degree and not just the interactivity.
Blog post announcing new developer initiative https://community.developer.visa.com/t5/Blogs/Hello-World/ba...
The app icon is horrible. It replaces something recognizable with a completely corporate looking image of nothingness. The brand is bland!
Jogging in the rain: that's what I thought the article was about before I clicked. I love to jog in the rain, as long as it's not too cold and not raining too hard. It's lovely.
Don't forget BLT sandwiches! And moms.
I feel advertising a private beta is against HN guidelines.
Any more invites? k e n c o o p at g m a i l . c o m Thanks!
Tacky nonsense aside, the weird neurotic insistence on "human stuff" just reminds me of Blade Runner's Tyrell Corporation.

I can hear the Uber voiceover woman saying: "Do you like our owl?"
Did he download the law enforcement app and agree to share his location with them?
Isn't it against HN guidelines to advertise a private beta?
Jetlag
Holy hell, obviously where critical data is concerned, redundancy is something you should insist on, but this definitely sucks. Seems ridiculous that all you got from DigitalOcean is a $15 credit though. I'd have expected something like 6 months of paid backups comped.
Perhaps this makes it slightly easier to compete with Stripe or Square in providing an all-in-one service.
What cable do I buy to connect my Nexus 5 to an HDMI port? I feel that should be mentioned on the website. Will this do it:

http://www.amazon.com/Fosmon-Slimport-Micro-Female-Adapter/d...
Why is Facebook confusing the EVERYBODY connected within X steps with AVERAGE connection distance?

Are they deliberately lying, or incompetent?

6 degrees hasn't shrunk. Facebook is merely counting something else. Why doesn't anyone point this out? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Well I can audit the source code of my client and be assured that it will only rekey when it sees proof (posted via twitter) that the person the data was encrypted for has joined.

Keybase doesn't have my private key (only I do), so they can't re-encrypt the contents.

(sorry if I misunderstood your question)
> That frame says “self-driving cars.” Their business plan appears to include firing all of their drivers.

Well, yes. I believe the CEO of Uber came out and said this a year or two ago. Once self-driving cars become a reality, that's basically what Uber is going to turn into. A fleet of autonomous vehicles that take you wherever you need to go, that won't cancel on you if a better fare pops up, and that will most likely not get into too many (or any) accidents. From a technology, efficiency, and public safety perspective...this seems like a better way to go.
Very well worded haha. Given my background, I should throw in an exception for INFOSEC. If it's high security, you want as many experts as you can get to review various aspects for pitfalls and possible suggestions. Just too much to worry about for one master and good amateurs as complexity grows. Still leave final decision and priorities on any of that to the leader who was a master or an expert that's a cut above the rest in wise decision-making. That should filter BS and committee-think while getting review benefits.

That's actually been my recommendation for a while for high assurance. What you think of it?
For the life of me I don't understand why Google+ didn't just target professional use cases and kill these guys. The bar is just soooo low and makes such strategically obvious sense. Actually, they could still probably do it - if anyone wants to put me in charge of Google+ for the next 3 years, all your LinkedIn problems will be over.
Complex and seemingly pretentious design pitches are actually a good way to explain to a company the way a design or design metaphor might subconsciously impact or impress its users. There are two problems here though: 1) the pitch is inane, for the reasons pointed out in the linked post, and 2) even if the idea weren't dumb, spelling it out explicitly for the customer is a great way to ruin the magic. (Fedex doesn't tell everyone to look for the arrow in their logo, and Gmail's slogan isn't "The envelope is also an M for mail!") Good design is often subtle of even invisible, and not just logos.
You're not "leaving them"; making the ROI for an ad 30% lower (given a 30% Chrome install-base) is usually enough to make the advertiser give up on that ad, because they could instead be running an ad that converts ~90% as well and not losing 30% of their impressions in the process.

Now, the advertisers who only run these mal-ads will stick around and continue running them. They're also the ones who would fight tooth-and-nail to make their mal-ads more clever, instead of giving up and switching to regular ads; so they're exactly the ones Google will have a hard time discouraging at the ad-network level.

My hope for those is that other browsers simply copy Google's strategy here. If Chrome, Firefox, and IE all do this, there's pretty much no point in running these ads any more.
please, I just want fewer bugs after creating/destroying a few hundred containers on a host.
From their "Things to Know" page[1]:

"Visa Checkout currently supports Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover"

So it seems like they're trying to position themselves as a sort of Square competitor?

[1] https://developer.visa.com/products/visa_checkout/thingstokn...
Wow.

I'd loved to have seen this presentation, and in particular a recording of the Pepsi exec's faces as they decide it's safer to go with the consensus of the group rather than to speak up.
Disclaimer: I work for Docker

For the security enthusiasts out there, Docker 1.10 comes with some really cool Security focused additions. In particular:

- Seccomp filtering: you can now use bpf to filter exactly what system calls the processes inside of your containers can use.

- Default Seccomp Profile: Using the newly added Seccomp filtering capabilities we added a default Seccomp profile that will help keep reduce the surface exposed by your kernel. For example, last month's use-after-free vuln in join_session_keyring was blocked by our current default profile.

- User Namespaces: root inside of the container isn't root outside of the container (opt-in, for now).

- Authorization Plugins: you can now write plugins for allowing or denying API requests to the daemon. For example, you could block anyone from using --privileged.

- Content Addressed Images: The new manifest format in Docker 1.10 is a full Merkle DAG, and all the downloaded content is finally content addressable.

- Support for TUF Delegations: Docker now has support for read/write TUF delegations, and as soon as notary 0.2 comes out, you will be able to use delegations to provide signing capabilities to a team of developers with no shared keys.

These are just a few of the things we've been working on, and we think these are super cool.

Checkout more details here: http://blog.docker.com/2016/02/docker-engine-1-10-security/ or me know if you have any questions.