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Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
It's time for another go at this question; we had interesting ideas the last time. What do you wish someone would build, either for your personal use or for your business?

Edit: fixed typo
So many lies. Google does not "forbid" their OEM partners from using open source Android. What they forbid is that a member of the OHA cannot create a fork of Android that breaks the CTS. If you want to do so then you're free to leave the OHA and create your own version.

As for your search engine theory, well, that's also incorrect. The default search engine on Windows is bing - in fact it's baked into the OS and cannot even be turned off. The default search engine on their browser is also bing. So it would seem people are going out of their way to either download Chrome and use Google as their default search engine or modify the default search engine in Windows to use Google.
I did not mean it was nothing, I was juts seeing if I understood how it works and the risks. But I can see how a collaborative doc would be useful, this would be a good alternative to the shared Gmail account communicate with draft messages option.
I'm excited to be leading this project at Udacity! I'm happy to answer any questions (before boarding this flight). Fire away!

Some helpful links:

1. Join our Slack community to learn about the first crowdsourced challenge: http://nd013.udacity.com

2. We're launching our curriculum in October. Apply to enroll in our first cohort! https://udacity.com/drive
Which is why they started down the path around 5.0 to separate as much in application space from the lower kernel space as they can... the browser is now a separate chrome (preinstalled) instead of built in, etc... so that they can actually update the apps without device maker approval.
I'd guess this is what they were referring to:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wikileaks-dnc-bernie-san...
See in particular something like alt.fan.warlord
There's always static site generators, like Jekyll or Hugo. Set up a template in html, write content in markdown, run it all through Hugo or Jekyll and BAM! Static html and css.

If you don't have anything interactive on the site, you don't need any JS at all.
This seems quite useful. Will you help find/place the right first hire for when companies outgrow you?

That's the critical final selling point for me. Great, you've taken security off my plate in a small business. But now I'm disengaged from the security side of things when it comes time to find the first full time security hire.

Very cool though. Good luck!
FreeCAD fits here as well, I suspect (is it even usable in its current state?).
Dunno. What sounds better? La-TACO-ra hadn't even occurred to me.
It makes me sad to see this, less than 20 years on.

Chris Patten (last governor, and something of a surprise appointment) made a big effort to shape the handover agreement to give democracy the best chance of surviving. He ended up quite popular in HK and deeply disliked in Beijing.

He has often spoken that one of his biggest regrets was he and Britain couldn't have achieved more and complained that British governments haven't criticised China enough since handover (most recently having a pop at George Osbourne last year). You end up with the impression his 5 years there made more impact on him than the rest of his career.
yeah, log is largely just a cute approximation of that stepwise reality.
In my unprofessional opinion you need to know at least two things to get an idea of whether or not you will owe taxes when you exercise: 1) the strike price you pay to exercise your options, 2) the current fair market value (FMV) of the stock

You will only run into this AMT trap if there is a difference between 1 and 2. This could happen if you were granted options a long time ago and your company has since raised new rounds which increased the valuation. This is when the IRS eyes your exercized options as 'income' unlike the normal case with ISOs where the strike price and FMV are pretty close.

EDIT: see this excellent post elsewhere in this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12565340
> Google's actions are illegal though.

Have anything besides anecdotal evidence of that? Paying a company to use your search isn't anti-competitive. Google has competitors that can make the same (or better) offers. Google didn't prevent that behavior (in the way Microsoft did with Windows) because they can't... there are already alternatives.

Google is a monopoly, but it's not anti-competitive without actual evidence. And your personal opinion doesn't qualify.
It's not a matter of connections, it's a matter of how easy it is for the police to plant evidence. And yes it's a problem worldwide.
At the end of 2015 Twitter had 3900 employees [0]. Why would they need close to that? How many could a new owner fire without noticeably affecting the day to day operations?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272140/employees-of-twit...
I read it as later-kora
TBH, I wouldn't even have thought about searching history... also, every change for every window would save history requiring a sync... And for some things, cookies, sessionStorage, localStorage, websql and the like are pretty important too.
This Drone Can Fly Forever Without a Battery
I think you'd need to design your own hardware, since the algorithm is hardcoded into these. And once you're doing that you'd lose the economy of scale that bitmain has.
lata-cora rolls off the tongue easier, imo. (I think i am just hungry)
Wifi mapping is the method by which google has no idea where I am. My roommate moved across the country and moved in with me, and android thinks I'm at his old house whenever I connect to his wifi router, even with GPS enabled, and even having installed OpenWRT and changed the ssid of the router. It's pretty maddening.
I don't agree that only government agencies would care. For example, anyone on open wifi can be easily targeted. So anyone doing something at a university could be targeted. I would imagine that some corporation would be interested in something from a university enough to try this.
That's true. Take the Redox project that's been moving along nicely. Or Haiku, Syllable, MenuetOS, etc. All of them had small teams with external vontributors that got plenty done in terms of a usable OS.

Whereas, a fast, standardized browser like Firefox takes a huge company to support it. The complexity is just huge. Plus, the standards and web experience are always moving along. Can't wait for more people to scratch an itch if you want to stay competitive.
To be clear, I do not believe ripgrep is faster than grep because it has fewer features. At least, I've yet to see any evidence to the contrary.

I did try to explain why I think ripgrep is faster in all kinds of gory details though. :-)
Disagree. Of course, secession is not an everyday occurrence.

But Scotland had a referendum 2014 about leaving the UK, and Scottish independence can be openly discussed. Some autonomous regions of Spain enjoy big degrees of autonomy, and might get more.

China is very protective of its integrity, and I'd say even more so than many, if not most countries.

(I wonder, incidentally, how constitutions deal with it.)
If you'd said, say, 50000 times, I might be more swayed, but a thousand seems easy to hit if these are widely used. If they're used daily, just passing two on a commute is enough to go over the limit.
Hey, I'm C.Rogers, the original poster of this thankyou note that's got everyone bashing GIMP against Photoshop... which entirely misses the point of it. People seem hell-bent on comparing GIMP to Photoshop, saying they don't compare. Well, it's easy to say that isn't it? I came from 13+ years of Photoshop experience, with about 7 of those used in the professional world. I've since packed on another near decade using GIMP (at first in conjunction with Photoshop), I have since replaced Photoshop entirely in my professional work, and I use it every day. The biggest thing stopping professionals from using GIMP is the erroneous notion that it can't be used for the same professional tasks as Photoshop. I'm half tempted to start a YouTube channel called GIMP SUCKS, and fill it with screencaptures of my graphics work done entirely in GIMP. That's not just magazine adverts, that's billboards, that's convention booths, it's over 100 new products of my own design, and nearly 20,000 product photos. So please, if you have something specific to complain about, go post a bug report, or a wishlist item like a decent human being. Repeating over and over that GIMP can't replace Photoshop for professional work doesn't make it any more true. Here's some eye-candy for the nay-sayers: https://goo.gl/UwxEGp
I'm not sure if you're missing the point.

Yes, secondary schools used to teach in Chinese and English (more of the former if you chose a Chinese school, more of the latter if you chose an English one), but the Chinese used to be Cantonese.

Now they're teaching even primary schools in Mandarin. The lingua franca is Cantonese, and Mandarin is a foreign language. Obviously, this is problematic. When I was going through the school system, Mandarin instruction (as a separate class, not as a language of instruction) didn't even start until fourth grade. Can you imagine starting your first day of grade one and your teacher starts speaking gibberish to you? That's ridiculous.
It's possible, and there could be motive from competing companies, but frankly it seems a bit far-fetched.
Simple: Facebook Messenger won. End of story.
To the general question, probably. It survived the boomers, who in the 1960s succeeded the socialists and New Dealers of the 1930s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left

Not sure what direction it will take, it would surprise me to see the Newest Left revive Basic Income and other dormant redistribution ideas.
Ask HN: Do you think a CLI-based SaaS would be useful?
The British banned all pro-independence candidates, by not having elections. And by arresting, and occasionally killing protesters, but that's just how colonialism goes. [1]

The British were quite happy to give the people of Hong Kong freedom, when it didn't cost them anything. China's current behavior is not dissimilar. Hong Kong exchanged a colonial overlord ruling from London, with one ruling from Beijing. Neither concerns themselves much with the welfare of the populace.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton%E2%80%93Hong_Kong_strik...
I like tacos, but the latter sounds more like a food truck than a security company.
It's a little worse than that.

The "file" column of the database is a binary plist encrypted with AES128-CBC using the first 16 bytes of SHA1(password||salt) as a key and 0,1,2,...,15 as a salt. So those columns could be used as an oracle to break the password, even if the hash were removed.

The data in the file column doesn't really need to be encrypted. It was unencrypted previously, contains file metadata, and a properly wrapped key for the file.

The cryptography on this is pretty shabby. Much more amateur than the existing / previous stuff surrounding the keybag in the backup (which uses PBKDF2). Not sure what happened here. (Why it was added, and why it wasn't vetted by their more knowledgeable engineers.)
So you pulled it out of thin air?
This is a really great summary of the yc program for everyone, international or not! The main things I want everyone going through yc to achieve are clarity (lesson 1), focus (lesson 2), and boundless potential (lesson 4).
Just started using org mode recently. It is fantastic. I still haven't figured out how to date TODOs and organize them around different org files. The org file fragment you've provided is interesting and has given me some ideas. I've also gotten into the habit of encrypting my org files - it is somewhat annoying having to type in the password every time you launch or save but it's worth it for the peace of mind.
Interesting - it's not an area that I know a lot about. I had just come across a Vancouver company called Copypants (https://www.copypants.com/) that is targeting this issue, (I have no affiliation), and so your comment made me curious.
European court has ruled that time spent traveling to and from work is “work”
I'm in the inside looking out and this whole alt right thing is BS. I'm a minority -- one who would be "hurt" by Trump's "build wall" policies -- and liking a smug Pepe meme or /pol/ meme isn't something one should worry about. All, I get from Luckey is that he thinks memes are funny and he doesn't like HRC; calling him anything else is dumb and inflammatory. This whole election is a joke; hell I'm slowly being motivated to vote for Trump just to add to the mixture of ridiculousness.
> They have maybe four years left at that rate before they run out of cash on hand. The numbers are improving by about 20 percent a year, which, if projected forward, means they'll stop losing money in ... four years.

That's not accidental, that's called burn rate.
Browser engines like WebKit are (with some work) portable to any platform with a C++ compiler: that's how the current Haiku browser is built.
Useful or not, I consider the boldface statement

> we know nothing about the encrypted data you store on our servers

misleading, since they do know some things about the encrypted data.
Google cares because they didn't want the info made public.

The judge cares, and everyone else should care, because revealing confidential information in court should never be tolerated, no matter how trivial that information might seem. If people get away with it, it undermines that principle and makes it more likely to happen in the future.
I put it in quotes because I have a hard time considering it "fair" myself.

The main point here is: this anti-social behaviour of the Hacker was made possible because of his anonymity.

Anonymous towards the legal system but anonymous towards his private life as well.

It is fair to assume he kept his cyberbullying activities to himself because she wouldn't support that.

The hacker's wife was probably more endangered by continuing to be living next to a criminal.
gnuplot has a tikz terminal!
So now you can have a paper with citation links in the figure's keys. Really neat, but too much for most publishers and their publishing software solution.
That seems a bit at-odds with the advice to "be nice to them", does it not?
> They used to teach English in HK schools.

Cantonese was used to teach Chinese if not other subjects in schools. I'm talking about the switch of the medium of instruction from either English or Cantonese to Putonghua. There are even not-so-subtle "not knowing Putonghua" = "treats customers bad" stuff appearing in textbooks.

> HK and Guangzhou are exceptionally similar in culture

I totally agree, but note I said northern China. Guangzhou is facing the same problem to a much larger degree, unfortunately people there have mostly given up.

> Lastly, having left HK and seen the rest of the world, I want to ask "what culture?" Nearly all of HK culture is imported and cheap copies of other cultures such as China, UK, and Japan.

Looks like I have a slightly broader definition of "culture" than yours. Would you say Aussie culture is a cheap copy of America's, for example?
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=be.uhasselt.priv...
Now teachers can include live code demo in OneNote
Yes, we will. We want to be the bridge --- for maybe, I don't know, 9-18 months? --- between "we've reached the point where we think we need a security team" and "we've been doing security long enough as a team that we know what we need for a full-time lead security person".

There's a weird adolescence that happens between those two points where we see people struggling to staff effectively.

We think we can get companies to a point where they've built a solid security program and run it for months before hiring for security --- and that the net result is that you're hiring that role more like how Jason Fried from Basecamp would say you should hire: when you understand the role so well that you know exactly why and how you should hire for it.

We could always be wrong.
Kaggle and TensorFlow labs
I have to switch back and forth between ack and grep all the time. Sometimes I use ack, sometimes I use grep. I wrote ack, but I've never stopped using grep, and ack has never been intended as a replacement for grep.

For most of the common ack flags, they are the same as grep. -i, -l, -v, -w, -A, -B, -C, etc. That was intentional, to minimize that whiplash.

One other suggestion is that you drop ack into your ~/bin directory that you sync between machines. It's a single Perl file, and that portability is a feature. As long as your machine has a Perl on it, you can use ack.
We're _better_ than other fields, but definitely not an exception. I grew up in a formerly upper upper middle class family that didn't have very much money due to medical and mental health issues. I'm only ~5 years out of uni but my success at every point in my education and career so far made it credible to me that credentialism and reliance on personal connections wasn't a significant factor in tech careers (as opposed to merit).

But it's recently become pretty clear to me that all the best opportunities I've ever been exposed to were through connections, and not all of those connections are attributable purely to merit. Had I not had these, I would be doing pretty well on merit, but the fact that I'm doing extraordinarily well is due to the fact that I got opportunities that many others never even had a shot at. About half of these were from family and friends, which has almost nothing to do with revealed merit. The other half was from smart classmates in my CS program, which is a little more correlated with merit. But it's not a coincidence that most of the people in my friend group were somehow similarly upper middle class. I had a really talented, smart friend group, but it's hard to imagine that coming from a similar background didn't have any affect on how easily we got along.
I've always agreed with this, though I've never seen this particular text or seen it stated this way. Linux is a miracle of free software, it shows that a thousand people can come together and make a wonderfully complex system that actually works. But it is not elegant nor is it efficient, nor is there really any vision behind its creation. That's both a good thing (you can customize it and fork it to make it do anything you want) and a bad thing (lack of consistency). I do wish BeOS/Haiku had taken off. How different would the world be?
I think the reason is that you are forced to pay the government worker's wages
The PBKDF2 stuff is still there for the keybag, someone just added additional encryption (of the "file" column in that database - data that was previously unencrypted) with the same password using single iteration sha1.

(Data source: writing my own code to decrypt the backups about a month ago, or rather adapting my previous implementation to the new backup format.)
No. Look at the citations others have made within this thread. A rule of thumb is generally anywhere from $50 to $200 per head for social network type applications. See also: Facebook, MySpace, Instagram, etc.
How big is the upper-stage cryogenic helium tank? I imagine not very large, and it's not obvious to me exactly where it is placed. The hypothesized saboteur would have to be an amazing shot!
You can say the same about any network. What you are describing is an attack on the WHOLE network (such as what Bruce Shneier recently reported), not a specific file. You can try to bring down the internet, but not a site.
I suggested this exact thing on Schneier's blog to keep security from being an afterthought or too expensive. Great to see a group think of and actually do the same thing.

Good team for this. The prior experience will help them iterate more effectively into a model that works. Then others can copy it. Or they might even franchise it.
Here's an old demo video from BeOS, for those like me who were unaware of its existence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ
But what you're arguing isn't reality. Show me a source article where someone has compromised a backbone router, and then used it for DDoS. This is almost exactly what I was addressing when I said "Unless you use the power of the NSA to target a single pipe." Even in a hypothetical scenario where you have gotten your hands on one: How long do you think companies are going to let their half million dollar router be consumed for a DDoS before they take notice?

I think its pretty obvious you don't understand how internet traffic really flows, when you think "all I have to do is compromise 600 pc's with a Gb connection and I can launch a 600Gbps DDoS."
Well with the rifle there is a problem that bullet would be left on the stage. Not sure whether would it be possible to do it with for example laser.
Yes, that's arguably when they started to be in the same market.
"Coming soon: Latacora Security Academy, graduate and we'll place you at a company with good security already in place."

I would apply.
It does, but that's off-topic.

You sound like you have an axe to grind, and any vaguely-related topic gives you an excuse to do so. It tries to hijack the discussions of those topics, though, which is why the downvotes.
Their annual revenue is about $6 per user [1]. The problem isn't absolute failure to monetize, it's massive costs. If you thought you could run twitter without their ~4000 employees, you might have a chance of pulling some cash out of there.

The problem is, it's hard to simultaneously clamp down on costs and push for growth. In SV, anything other than growth is an admission of failure. If you aren't flinging money into R&D, everyone will assume it's the start of a downward spiral.

[That, and you can't buy twitter without outbidding all the True Believers]

[1] http://www.viewproxy.com/twitter/2016/2/annualreport2015.pdf
Tobii eye tracker adds Windows 10 Hello support
How about bots? Isn't there number of users tainted by bots? I figure theit value is near $0.
To me, the very concept of "hate speech" seems Orwellian.
They host both those things...
Using v2.20 [1] built from http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git I have Gmail working without much hassle using these docs: https://www.sjwrc.com/guides/alpine-and-gmail/ - namely just the IMAP paths.

[1] http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/release/
String usage by DevOps who prefer the terminal for advanced usage or in an automated flow within a CI. Zeit.co is a great example but still early trend. Might be tough to convince your users to have this interface only.
They make money by selling hosting:
https://www.000webhost.com/premium-web-hosting

The actual question should be: how do they afford to give away free hosting? The answer is: the margins on shared hosting are extremely high because you can dump a ton of users on a single server. 2GB of storage and 20GB of bandwidth costs very little, and I'd assume they use the free accounts to intice people to pay for their premium plan once they exceed the limits (wouldn't be hard) HTH.
that creates many more writes to the ssd.
Most Americans think Snowden is "That Wikileaks Guy"... they're ill-informed, think he put so many lives at risk or just don't care.

It's really sad imho.
I'm pretty sure that it was written as part of the legal effort on the case, yes. They're trying to try the case in the press, not just in the courts.

I believe that much more than I believe that a highly-paid and very busy lawyer believed so strongly about the issue that she took some of her scarce personal time to write an editorial that just happened to line up with the position of her client in the case she's litigating.
The media was given the objective of wrecking Sanders' campaign. Our theoretically independent media is, in practice, the propaganda mouthpiece of the powers-that-be in the Democratic Party.
You can look at this: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/orgtutorial_dto.html

That should help you with some of the stuff you just mentioned.
How is that a problem? What about the giant debris field left?