skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those of you wanting to analyze the current evidence yourself, we've got an analysis board up at: https://www.opensynthesis.org/boards/6/what-caused-the-space.... Sabotage by a non-employee is currently the most consistent explanation

Open Synthesis is currently invite-only while we figure out moderation. Send me an email or apply via the form on the homepage.

There's also an instance you can add/edit information to without an invite or providing your email: https://open-synthesis-sandbox.herokuapp.com/boards/6/what-c...
Yes, the financial world offers an interesting variety of ways to blow yourself up if you don't know what you're doing.
That depends on what your goals are. I think you could argue that Google's Android licensing approach produces inferior products.
Wasn't this the patent that stopped FaceTime from being an open standard?

Sad.

Damn patent trolls :(
How do you find customers with problems to fix in software?
I'm a contract developer but I've long been keen to make the leap to starting a software product company, ideally B2B.

I can fund getting an initial release out, but it seems to me the best way to do so is by finding a customer with a problem and a budget who can put a price on what they'd pay for a solution. I've tried doing this without a customer and it's not gone well.

--

This seems straightforwards, but it's escaped me so far. The closest I managed was an NHS (I'm based in the UK) team my wife works in who liked a prototype, passed it up the chain to get budget approval and were told they could have the software if it was developed in-house. I approached some NHS innovation departments for help getting it to other teams, but they said they'd only work with software that other people were already using. Catch 22.

Any tips?
iOS is a luxury brand (remember that carrier subsidies are smaller in the EU and are not allowed in some member states). So, realistically for a lot of people there is only one kind of affordable smartphone and that is an Android phone.

As you mention, AOSP alone does not give you much Android and Google is likely to dictate all kinds of terms to use the Play services, Play Store, etc. So, the question is indeed does AOSP give enough to argue that Google does not fully control the Android market.

Personally, I am not sure this is the most problematic aspect of Android though. If we assume for a moment that Android is a near-monopoly in the EU, the more troubling aspect is that people can only choose between having no smartphone (which is becoming harder) or letting Google suck all kinds of data out of them. In other words, only when you are rich enough, you can afford not to let a company suck up a lot of your private data.
Shrine: File Attachments Toolkit for Ruby Applications
Sorry if this is obvious to others, but just to be clear ...

As it's widely reported that WoSign has taken over StartCom's infrastructure, this implies that StartCom StartSSL Free certificates going forward won't be trusted by Apple either, correct?

It also sounds a little strange to only call out the free certificates. Are they going to allow new paid OV/EV (and what they call 'IV') certificates to remain valid?
I am surprised to see at 8:04 that "Not very responsive service". Oracle charges a lot of money and their support should be better.
> You can hear a distinct and odd metallic noise just before the explosion.

Which would be very consistent with a bursting tank within the rocket.
Reddit thinks it's a bad guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/fitnesscirclejerk/comments/556489/a...
(ignoring the ad hominems there are still a few valid criticisms there)
I don't find your advice to be "crap", but I do think it could be a lot simpler. Run stronglifts, 5x5, or starting strength. All of these involve 3 trips to the gym per week, are very easy to follow, and have well defined progressions.
Retail MUST Die: Of Formlessness, Procreating Ants and Artificial Intelligence
A good post from 2010 (it was already obvious to many Blackberry would fail/go bankrupt then):

http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.ro/2010/10/whats-really-wr...

Blackberry's biggest mistake was blinding itself to the truth with "good financials". It was right there in front them of that they were losing the US and Canadians markets - way back in 2009, if not earlier than that. Those were Blackberry's core markets - the markets in which its brand was the strongest. And it was losing them!

But it refused to see it or accept it because at the time most of the people outside of the U.S. had barely heard of the iPhone, perhaps in a TV news story, and Android was barely a year old and nowhere close to the iPhone sales numbers.

But in those markets Blackberry had some inertia - people had heard of Blackberry from a few years back, and it was growing in popularity thanks to BBM. But the point is this was irrelevant.

Blackberry should've known that if it loses its core markets, where it's loved most, and where people had bought Blackberry phones for years, then it would only be a matter of time before it would lose the newly acquired emerging markets, too, where it's brand wasn't even that strong.

Because of this "success" in other markets, Blackberry dragged its feet when it came to building a solid touchscreen smartphone platform. Perhaps, in its own arrogance, it even thought that the success in the new markets is "confirmation" that Blackberry was here to stay, and those new "touchscreen fads" were irrelevant. But all it had to do is realize that it if it was losing its most loyal market, then the other markets were being built on quicksand.
Google can exert a large amount of control over device makers --- Android without Google Play Services and the Google Play Store is pretty useless. (Unless you have Amazon's scale and can clone all that.)
Glitch Ghost seemed to be the favorite of 2014 https://youtu.be/B-FROP4pYe0?t=17m37s
Google used bits and pieces of various BSD libcs in bionic. It's not definitive, but wiki has a list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_(software)
Read through this and it made me remember Thunderbird :(

The iceweasel Matt bit was neat though.
The neglected history of videogames for the blind
> The contributors own their work and licensed it under one license, and the project wants to change it without doing the Herculean job of getting permission from all.

And how Theo figured that the plan isn't to get approval for the license change from all contributors?
I got -15 karma on this site for saying the same thing.
I'm seeing "Please wait for the host to start this meeting"
It wasn't a VCR with a hard drive, VCR's for the most part used an analogue format unless you had some of the few digital ones that were super expensive and used for productions.

In 1999 making a cost effective DVR couldn't have been that easy, the hardware was pretty puny and storage was expensive.

A ~16 GB hard drive alone in 1999 would cost 250-350$ [0]

A TV tuner card capable of MPEG-2 encoding on chip would cost around 300-400$, at least that was the price in around 2000-2001 when I got a hercules DVR card.
The software ones required an Intel MMX CPU to do encoding and those were both cutting edge and expensive, so the fact that TiVO managed to release a viable consumer product at a reasonable price was pretty f-ning amazing.

[0] http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte | http://www.jcmit.com/diskprice.htm | http://edition.cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/30/harddrives.... | http://www.storagereview.com/articles/9907/990719ataroundup1...

I think people don't realize that in 1999 Pentium II just came out and intel was still producing non-embedded versions of the 486.
Aren't the standard vim motion keys hjkl? I believe he is using the game as a method of learning how to use those characters for navigating.
So if I write any piece of software, even if only one person uses it, I can be forced by anti-trust regulation to make it compatible with any other software or at least release the source code? Do you really think that's what anti-trust regulation implies?
RD-180 was not manufactured specifically for Atlas. The US got involved in the development and testing once they'd picked the RD-180 but the engine predates the program, and is a direct descendant of the RD-170 to boot.
Nice, was on phone only at the time and not able to dig deeper.

Took a couple hours to get it all up and running but indeed it works, and not half badly at that!

This is obviously a way cheaper alternative to https://sightengine.com or http://imagevision.com

Kudos to Yahoo for releasing this!
FWIW I've been using wiredtiger as sqlite replacement and it works great in this context.
"Even with the maximum discount that Oracle can give (70%), we saved million of $$$'s" :D
It's also worth considering that, if Skynet decides she wants a squadron of B61-armed F-16s to play with, there are easier ways to get one. Like, oh, lying to people.

Why do people get so hung up on the idea that a superhuman AI can't gain access to weapons if there are no weapons equipped for direct remote control? Why expect a superhuman AI to have difficulty suborning humans through deceit? I mean, don't get me wrong - I tend to think that whole avenue of existential threat analysis owes much more to science fiction and the seductive nature of apocalypticism than to anything in reality. But if those are your priors, this seems a very odd
oversight.
Just tried to jump on. Host was not on. Will try again. Thanks so much for this. Super helpful.
I think they're starting to get it. Breaking Bad fully executed its ending. Game of Thrones announced their end years in advance. TV producers are finally starting to come on board with the idea of stopping a show even though it's popular.
The seminal languages with static typing had this feature, so I feel it does the field a disservice to say "the best of both worlds": there are a few annoyingly popular statically typed languages which don't have this property, and they should be considered deficient to the extent to which it is not for theoretical type depenence reasons.
The program you link to advises stretching before exercise. As others have pointed out elsewhere in this thread, that is dangerous and can lead to injury.
The Cost of Redistributing Wealth (2015)
I think this assumes that Oracle

- can ship something in time

- and that it will be generally available for developers (looking at how hard Oracle pushes their Java department to invent commercial features they can sell, I'm not sure about that)

Looking at it, I assume that this will go the way of GWT ... not starting from "how can we make Java a good citizen in this new ecosystem?", but "here we have 100% of Java, the JDK and the JVM ... how can we compile this with full fidelity into X?".
Actually, I think the UK is the exception in this regard. Most other countries that shoot their own local TV shows have 6-9 month seasons. Brazil, India, China, Turkey.. etc.

Furthermore I'm not convinced UK's shorter season format is a good thing. I actually think it's a symptom of much smaller budgets.
This script from the post works well: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/556kxj/or...

The books are really short though, like 50pp each.
I don't think the Bing Search option would be sufficient to ward off anti-trust claims, unless you made Bing search the default or did something crazy like make phones flip a coin and then decide which search to default to.
We changed the linkbait title to one of the photo captions (sometimes a good place to look for more neutral descriptions of the content), to which we added 'Oakland' and 'police'.
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Dollhouse was a good idea, worth one season. Another season would have struggled with variations on the theme. This is a problem with high-concept drama; don't wear out the concept. That's also true of Firefly, although it might have gone two or three seasons before being brought to some kind of conclusion.
I get your point about the relative discipline of actual soldiers, but in Iraq it seems likely that at least 100 noncombattants died for every soldier who was killed.
I had no idea Mark Suster was so into Snapchat. He's even blogged about it [1].

What type of content have you seen from Mark?

[1]: Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks https://bothsidesofthetable.com/snapchat-101-for-vcs-and-old...
This is a great question and one where you can find the answer across the internet. Your go to resource at this point should be heading over to invision app and playing around with their user testing tools they just launched.

It looks like you have google analytics installed. Excellent. That's a great start, but what else can you do? Well, this is how I typically structure my projects in a manner that allows me to get immediate and ongoing feedback from users.

First, define what the exact problem is that you are solving. You then have a better understanding of why your users

Once you have a better understanding of the problem you are trying to solve, determine what your goals for the app are.

My process then is as follows:

Step 2 - Current Site Review (Metrics)
Heat maps, user testing, user feedback, click maps, user video, etc., are all great tools to understand the current user and interface limitations. Sumome is a great tool that has many, if not all of these in one app. Check it out.

Step 3 - Kick Ass
A combination of luck and tried and true methods:

- Synthesize data findings
- Current / forward looking trends currently used across
- Revisit your goals and objectives

Step 4: Design Implementation

- Wireframes
- Mockups

Step 5:

- Ship

Step 6:

- Test

Step 7:

- Iterate

Obviously, there is a lot more to it than that. I would start with understanding the problem and who your users are. Then add sumome or an option to share on social media. This way you can monitor what people are saying about your app - good and bad. Just from quickly glancing at your home page, I have no idea what the product does. Your current users may know, but new users won't unless they were directly referred by someone who is a current user.

Keep it up!
Dollhouse was a misfire IMHO. I watched both seasons on Netflix and it never really found a groove. I was really annoyed that they more or less sidestepped the obvious ethical and moral issues and instead ended the show with outright supervilliany. It was just so dumb by the end that I felt kind of embarrassed to keep watching.
Or that building muscle necessarily means "being fit" and that it's the go-to thing to do if you want to "exercise".

Looking fit ≠≠≠ being fit.
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> This is called a margin account. It's interesting that they don't call it that.

This is just my guess but the phrase "buying on margin" probably doesn't test well among barely financially literate people like me. Without a formal education in economics, one of the things I've read is that buying on margin during the roaring twenties magnified the effect of the great depression (if it wasn't one of the causes outright). I am not affiliated with Robinhood. This is just a guess.
Thanks for the advice, I think we'll fill out an application and see what happens :)
I like the idea of a TEMPORARY city wide footage, say everything not part of an active investigation expunged after a month. It should in no way by indexed by the individuals or objects within it, but instead just the location and time.

If you are solving a crime, a human finding the suspects from the area, and tracking them out through the footage should be worth the results. If you aren't willing to spend that effort than it surely isn't a truly important thing you wanted to get from that data.
Earth's CO2 levels just crossed a really scary threshold – and it's permanent
Yeah... except it's not. It's about a single bug that's already been fixed upstream. Not a "design decision".

Hopefully people will stop trolling like this. And hopefully I'll stop reading and relying to them -- like it will make a difference.
Boeing and Lockheed were the main companies providing launch services, but merged both of their space launch divisions into a joint venture, ULA. Effectively becoming the only player and not having to competitively bid against each other anymore.

And because of that, space launch contracts tended to not be competitively bid. For about a decade, where ULA was the only game in town and they could and did quote any price they could justify with a straight face. One such occasion is what brought SpaceX to sue under antitrust laws. They also had to be certified to take part in the bidding process, but the lawsuit was to force the contracts to get competitively bid in the first place instead of simply being rubber stamped to ULA.
Here is a video with some audio analysis

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JHhF3QNC8o8&feature=youtu.be
Tarantool 1.7.2 beta released (new heavily write optimized LSM engine inside)
The parent comment was making a statement about quality to which I responded.

And if the proprietary software has been an industry standard and deployed in millions of cases before I would have no problem taking the closed source variant. It would be nice to have the source but in most cases I wouldn't know what to do with it anyway as it requires specialist knowledge, so I'd be relying on the community vetting it vs. legal requirements for approval by the regulatory agencies, I mean it would still be better to have the source but I could live without it.

Anyway my point isn't even related to preference, I'm just saying that the conditions for successful OSS software are limited to one of the models under which it makes sense commercially for the companies using it (most often IT giants), some sort of commercial support/free software deal or in rare cases it's a labor of love for geeks. Most of the software written out there doesn't fall nicely in to those categories and so OSS is not viable in those areas.
Nutanix’s eye-popping post-IPO pop is largest of the year
What line of reasoning? I didn't advance one, only questioned an assumption in someone else's.
I use Gmail but a common (and at the very least reasonable) complaint is that they must do at least some level of data collection to give personalized Gmail ads.
Californa to ban “Autopilot” marketing under truth-in-advertising
Maybe some kind of focused energy thing (aka laser) instead of kinetic?

Not sure how feasible that would be though.
>AOSP has been a dead dream for a while now due to carriers locking down phones

That's only in the US.

Let's be honest here, AOSP is a dead dream because porting and maintaining AOSP for a device is kinda complicated. Many people do it for free, but you can't rely on that.
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In broad terms, the CEO typically does fundraising and marketing. Realistically, both people will be working on many aspects of the business -- it's not always prudent to silo duties early in a business.

Based on other replies, equity and control may be issues that concern you. Spolsky's post on this matter is widely cited as a response to this question. There are also quite a few posts that dispute his thesis. These are relatively easy to google. This is one example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2493356

Here is a list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4941933

Note that there can be issues that 50/50 doesn't appear cover cleanly -- supplying cash, full time versus part time, building, selling, contacts/network, etc.

Some would say that all of these other things, if they lead to something other than 50/50, may suggest the business is doomed from the start. While I will remain neutral on that question in this reply, it's certainly a good thought exercise.

Most of all, I wonder if you would choose to marry your potential cofounder. If your response is not "hell yeah!", you may want to reconsider. You will effectively be married to this person for quite a while, and any weaknesses in your relationship will be amplified.

Best of luck!

(Edit: answered the original question)
It's turtles all the way down
the info to root your device is free on the internet
Google Said to Tap Lazard to Review Potential Bid for Twitter
The way I recall it is that I was the one who changed. Of course, I haven't gone back to check, so I may be wrong about that.
Why is this interesting? What is the net efficiency being achieved here? Will this gold be cheaper due to reduced settlement costs, or is blockchain just the buzzword du jour that increases your VC funding.
That's like saying that you can't be mad about someone not repaying you a loan because you haven't written up a legal contract defining the conditions. Or like saying it's hypocritical to defend free speech and criticize someone for what they've said.

Just because you don't agree with an action doesn't mean you must find it ethical to use the Force of Law to punish it.
There's nothing stopping you from using an amend-commit and just adding every change as you go, as long as you never push to other people. That's the exact veneer that gitless provides, albeit it renames what some of the commands do.
No, they "aren't" iOS, iOS is the operating system that manages them. You clearly don't know how this tech work, and should avoid commenting as if you do.
This is a symptom of offering an option to perform an incomplete commit. Word processors don't have this problem because they don't make you specify which paragraphs are important enough to save.

I commit the workspace. If I'm not happy with some of the workspace, I fix it (or stash it for later when chaos happens).
I love the specs (and the price) except one: that CPU.

I bought a computer like six years ago that had an Intel Q9400, which was mid- to high-range then. Since then the computer has gotten old and I stopped using it three years ago. The main slow components are the HDD and CPU. It wasn't even a high-range CPU to begin with, just slightly above average. Yet that Q9400 has a Passmark benchmark score twice as high as this AMD A10-Micro. That is a dealbreaker.

I expect passive cooling is the reason for the underpowered CPU. While passive cooling is nice, having a smartphone-grade CPU is not worth it.
Google pays more to Apple to have their search as default than Yahoo pays Mozilla and Oracle.

Btw, can you point towards Yahoo paying for crapware to be installed?
Israel and the Saudis are pretty close allies. To the extent that the two have plotted out air corridors by which Israel jets could fly through to bomb Iran.
The second comment makes very little sense, RD-180 is already being used as a political football (Russia made noise towards forbidding military payload uplifted with RD-180s, and Congress temporarily banned their use over Crimea in 2015) and USAF and ULA have started investigating replacement engines.
>>it is elitist, full of posturing, or of people that are mean / demeaning to others

I think this reputation comes from people like Thomas Ptacek.

He keeps been relentlessly unprofessional and unfair to people like Nadim Kobeissi and others.

However Walter you seemed quite the opposite of this from reading your article, I hope others will take the cue.
Internal forks are not subject to the GPL requirements anyway, so that can't be an argument against it.
My summary of the whole discussion:

genius_level = talent_genes * hard_work * know_how

talent_genes - natural ability to be good at something

hard_work - amount of practice, willingness to practice hard is determined by genes, but can be also artificially increased by the demanding parents or trainers

know_how - knowledge of discipline secrets by coaches or teachers
> I can't tell if making it a different color so you don't notice it's there is intentional (...)

These sneaky bastards! Putting it below the footer. This looks like a pretty dark pattern, and it's effective. I absolutely missed that before you called it out!
Yes, and forced them to move from a P2P architecture to proxying through their servers instead.