skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ausserdem habe ich so meine Zweifel ob du mich ploetzlich verstehst nur weil ich ISO 8859-1 verwende. Man kann die fehlenden Zeichen auch umschreiben.

"I also have my doubts whether you understand me suddenly just because I use ISO 8859-1. One can also rewrite the missing characters."

(Provide your own translation to the dominant language or rely on software to do it for you. That was Google's translation service.)
Mozilla Firefox Manifesto [video]
I currently store all my passwords in a KeePass[0] database distributed using SpiderOak[1] (hassling, but only once for each device).

[0] http://www.keepassx.org/
[1] https://spideroak.com/

All my services have gotten 50 char (nice entropy) random passwords, and for ease of use I store them in the browser with an equally difficult master password.

My Fx settings involve flushing all cache and sessions on closing.

Apparently when setting the Fx master password, the local database appears to be using 3DES encryption in CBC mode[0] (nice and slow) which is insanely secure with long and keys. The only password I have to remember is the KeePass database, which in turn is as complicated as I can remember. The when booting up firefox, just paste the master password.

[0] http://luxsci.com/blog/master-password-encryption-in-firefox-and-thunderbird.html

Funny enough, the SpiderOak distribution password is saved in the KeePass db, giving me a sort of chicken-or-egg problem when setting up, I'm toying with the idea of distributing the database publicly, which should be secure enough.

This means that the only password that is stored in my head is for the KeePass db, but I'm planning on replacing it with a key file (perhaps on USB), once I've figured out a usable scheme for it.

I'm just dying for the day when web services can be integrated into a proper keychain, that would spell an end to this bull.
Or perhaps a sneaky bit of javascript to track click events on that link via ajax.
I think he's referring to the absence of a limit on the actual number of repos, which is only bound by the space given. If you can git 1000 repos in there, good for you, he doesn't care.

Granted, something like "2GB private git hosting" might be more accurate.
I'm starting to really dislike Apple for a number of reasons, but I can't switch.

No, not can't, but it would be tough.

Why? Because nobody else cares about design or user experience. Apple is the only company on Earth that can design a user interface, and their products are the only well designed (read: minimal... in industrial design, minimal is a synonym for good) products IMHO.

Everything else is covered by marketing-idiot-driven pimples like the "ThinkVantage" button on ThinkPads, etc., and both Windows and Linux UIs are horrible.

Edit: to clarify, what I'm really pointing out is that Apple has a near-monopoly, and like any near-monopoly they are starting to leverage it in disturbing ways.

Their near-monopoly is on good industrial and UI design.
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Well, define "better domain policy"...?

Due to its ARPANET origins, the Internet namespace was technically property of the United States. Obviously that situation had to change, or the other nearly 200 nations on the planet would have difficulty accepting the Internet as the true global network.

The ICANN is necessarily a compromise between the interests of powerful nations. It's not reasonable to assume that it could be run completely differently from all the other global intergovernmental organizations. Most politicians don't consider Internet policy to be all that special compared to trade, foreign aid, patents and everything else that needs to be similarly balanced and negotiated. Hence, the head of the ICANN is someone who's acceptable to governments foremost.
Check out tarsnap. It's not exactly like dropbox, but it is secure.
1337!

I think 'hacker' has already reached that level of notoriety. Yet, many of us continue to use it. Because really, other than referencing each other, we never introduce ourselves by these titles. "Hello, my name is ____ and I'm a geek" is a little silly.

On the other end, phrases like "I suppose so, for us hackers anyway" would most likely be addressed to to another hacker. For the community, I think, it's unlikely that outside sentiments will affect the terminology that much.
When the filters themselves aren't transparent, it is a major issue.

I would gladly prefer a "pre-filtered" list, as long as I could tweak it. For example, if I'm searching for viewpoints that don't correspond with my political views, it'd be nice to be able to find those by disabling the "political bent" filter based on personalization.

To not do so is to constantly wear rose-tinted glasses... pleasant, but ultimately, dangerous.
http://code.google.com/apis/searchappliance/documentation/61... is a reference for our search appliance, but a lot of parameters are in common. I'm not aware of any other official Google doc available externally, but if you search for [google search url parameters] the top 3-4 results are all quite good.
tldr: Different buyers will value your company differently for different reasons, and understanding what specifically a buyer values will help you negotiate better.

I suspect the members of the HN community who are at the point of selling their businesses understand this fairly well.

At then end of the day, before someone within a buyer organization (which are typically larger, fairly structured companies) will have to put together a business case, and as with any business case, it will need to include financials, multiples, valuations, etc. - the CFO will have to be convinced it is a good deal. (Unless you are Facebook, Groupon, airbnb, etc. of course, but note that the majority of exits are not of this size and so valuations will not be as "frothy" (see slide #4 of Mark Suster’s recent presentation http://www.theequitykicker.com/2011/06/17/mark-suster-gettin... )
Most businesses sold in the US are not anywhere near as sexy as the latest "Tech Crunch reviewed" or YCombinator startup and the reasons for acquisitions tend to be less driven by speculation and therefore financials, multiples etc. will be more examined more carefully. So, understanding the multiples that exist in your industry is very important.

If you are looking to sell your company, one of the best ways to ensure you are getting the best price is by going through a competitive auction process, which are typically led by an M & A firm or Investment Bank. (Boutique firms exist for smaller companies that have not yet achieved the oft desired "2 and 10"). Yes, they will take their cut, but typically you will get a higher price than if you shop it yourself to a few buyers who you think will be interested. Following the "market it yourself" approach may cause you to overlook a buyer who is not obvious to you, but who would be very interested in your business for reasons you never thought of and therefore would be willing to pay what it takes to acquire it. (I have experienced this first hand.)

When all is said and done, your business is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Going through a competitive auction, especially if marketed properly to large buyer audience, will ensure you get the highest price, regardless of the buyer’s motive for the acquisition, (which you could only speculate on anyway.)
I don't have a large codebase to compare with honestly, plus since I'm working alone I don't generally have a lot of diffing/merging. But nothing I've done has had me saying "Boy that was slow," unlike something like Perforce, which is just slow. Always. Forever.
Replace "iPad" with "iPhone", and "tablet" with "smartphone" in this article. Imagine it was written two years ago when Android phones started to release en mass. Then proceed to realize that it's just a silly rant written by someone who has no idea what the difference between product and market is.

> Being the market leader in a fictitious market might look good on a Powerpoint slide, but it just doesn’t pay the bills.

Yeah, I'm sure that's why Samsung and HTC are laughing their way to the bank with the sky-high profits they made from selling Android-backed smartphones. But sure, go on thinking that there isn't a tablet market, just like there wasn't a smartphone market two years ago. And fyi, cherry-picking an app with poor sales on Android its first month doesn't help your argument in the slightest. I could just as easily do the same for a poor-selling iOS game. Doing so just makes you look desperate.
"I really don't see why you are knocking the OP for making something that fits his (and presumably others) needs."

I'm making the case that it doesn't fit his needs, since his reluctance of paying the GitHub price is an example of this:

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps
I wish more people would use this service. I find it very entertaining.
Confirmed with tech support - Network Solutions (DNS) is down - sigh.
In theory, there are two types of corrections, one is blatant, the other is subtle:

- You blatantly correct the conversation by adding additional text to the search: "norway government" versus "norway travel".

- You subtly correct the conversation over time with more government queries/clicks/likes or more travel queries/clicks/likes.

Listening to Matt Cutt's response, it sounds like all of these signals are pretty minor anyway.
That doesn't handle the multi-user authentication/authorisation.
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Kudos! Feedback: Your site needs to be "professionalized". Looks far too amatureish. Also, it has no proper flow.
Both LastPass and 1Password failed to save some generated passwords for me, causing too many trips to forgot password.

LastPass would sometimes post to the wrong login form.

1Password got confused a couple of times between 'Logins' and 'Accounts'.

With 1Password, when I'm away from my computer, I have to use my phone to read my passwords. If my phone dies (fairly common) I have to install the password manager (not always possible).

With LastPass I can access their web interface--but experienced too many of the issues above. Plus I am a little nervous about a 3rd party having that much power.

I'm sure all of this was my fault, but the end result was I discovered many hidden costs and it felt like I was fighting against them.
Is the software pictured at the bottom of the page avail to download?
I might argue that the situation is in part a matter of "like attracts like". I've you're going to get executive types to contribute and to encourage/force their workforces to contribute, you have to present them with an "executive" type interface. (If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck... and plays golf like a duck...)

My thoughts next turn to "hypocrisy". These are supposedly charity endeavors. But much of their activity -- fundraising activity, at least -- is just more status seeking and building and fraternizing.

There, for me, lies the heart of the matter. When in the minds and/or actions of the top level participants, charity work is anything but.

(I'm "on the outside" looking in, and perhaps I'm too cynical. I want to believe that people have more depth than this, and some individual acquaintances who travel in those circles sure seem to. But it makes me wonder.)

No wonder they are not more effective.

I'm not entirely comfortable with my comment, but I'll make it for the sake of the point about "like attracts like".
Yes, same. I love all the effort they've put in to the web front end, but I'm not interested in their pay plans for private repos, which to me, is just too damn expensive. $12 a month for github repos with five collaborators and a piddly disc space limit, whereas I get five collabs and unlimited disk on bitbucket.
Bank robber demands $1 from teller in order to get free healthcare in prison
Whoever designed the OS X Skype UI should have been first against the wall.
Which in turn, incidentally leads back to DDG : ).

Crazy good stuff has been going on with DDG the latest couple of months, I'm just glad I've finally found a search provider who takes these issues seriously!
linode is expensive, you can find some cheap vps for less than 10$
They single out the drug companies in this video, but really it's C corporations as a whole that can game the system. And the system is designed to be gamed. The US tax code is a rabbit's warren of incentives that accountants and tax lawyers get paid well to navigate. Meanwhile, most S corps and LLC's, with their pass through tax structures, bear the full load.
Why I joined Strobe
Video: PhoneGap Build - cross-platform app development in the cloud
I don't think so - I think the guy is just wired on caffeine :-)

Watch his hand movements when he's on screen - pretty frenetic IMO
Ha! http://www.michielovertoom.com/pictures/y-combinator-shirt.j...
Awesome, and thanks :)

Also, see my other comment below for a suggestion re filtering out crappy posts.
I think Scroogle hits Google from a relatively small set of IP addresses. Be aware that Google is probably trying to localize for those IP addresses, so your results could be less relevant (in the same way that if you searched through a proxy in Germany, you'd be more likely to get results with a German emphasis).

Personally, if I have a search that feels a bit sensitive, I just hop into incognito mode in Chrome. Control-shift-N is an easy shortcut to open an incognito window in Chrome. And don't forget that you can use https://encrypted.google.com/ to do a search via SSL as well, which provides an encrypted tunnel between your browser and Google.
Or was never an issue in the first place.
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RHEL is fully Free

No it's not, the brand Red Hat is protected by trademarks and there's a license involved if you want to use software branded as Red Hat, a license for which you have to pay for. You also cannot redistribute RHEL, having many restrictions one would expect from proprietary software.

Also, only Red Hat, the company, gets to make releases of RHEL and only that company gets to decide what to include in that release. RHEL is commercial software and it makes no guarantees on whether you'll end up using only free software or not (unless you're paying close attention), although the process itself for the RHEL snapshot is fairly transparent and you can inspect what goes in and out of such a release.

What sets Red Hat apart from others in regards to open-source is their handling of in-house developments - they are one of the biggest contributors to Linux and they are giving back both through up-stream and through Fedora, not to mention they aren't very upset about CentOS.

Chrome to RHEL and Fedora to Chromium couldn't be more analogous, although I have to agree, Google doesn't play very well with upstream (but that's not a political issue, Google engineers are just stubborn).

Who said I was endorsing Mac OS X?

Indeed, who said you were?
Application devlopment or Low level system programming.
I know a bit of stand alone application devlopment using c++,c etc.
I have got 2 new offers one is the same application dev using c++,sql and it would be web based (and the money is good)and the other job offer is firmware devlopment from a chip making company(money is not so good).
I am unable to deceide which one to go for, as both seem's to be attractive in terms of learning curve.
I need some expert advice which will help me choose a better option , which will help me secure my future in terms of both nice work and good money :).
I have confidence which ever I will choose I will do good in that.
But help me to choose one.
Slightly nervous about this, as I've just moved 15 domains over to Zerigo after reading @stammy's endorsement of them…
>"no one going to secure you out of death"
Maybe some translation showing, but this is a very insightful observation. People want all the security they can get, but the inevitable is true for all of us, so better make the most of what you have.
Why spend money with things like Bit Bucket around? It's a mercurial repo with free private hosting for up to 5 users.
IF you use the web-interface consistently. If you don't use the web interface much, or use it for simple text diffs, bitbucket is perfectly viable.

One funny thing about github is they put so much effort in to being able to diff images and other files, yet their space limits are too low for private repos, if you are versioning anything other than just text files.
Reciprocity networks
This is also what I noticed immediately.
A smile goes a long way to determining "beauty".

Perhaps this is because a smile indicates a positive/friendly demeanor?

I always had the best impression of women with whom I worked/studied with were the ones who were warm to me.

Perhaps beauty does come from the inside?
No. You're misguessing the user's intentions.

Look, scrolling needs to have a purpose. Either (a) it's because you want to read more text than is visible, or (2) it's because you want to view more photos that are not currently visible. It's never both at the same time, in your case, simply because multiple photos cannot exist on the same screen as an overflowing text box.

In the case where no text box is being shown, the intention (1) does not exist, because there is nothing to scroll. So when viewing photo A1 (being the first photo in series A), by sliding horizontally I am expressing the intention: "Let me view photo A2". When viewing photo A2, which does show any text box yet, by sliding vertically I am expressing the intention: "Let me view photo B1".

There is no text box yet. Therefore, by scrolling down the app cannot possible perceive my action as intending to scroll the text. And yet your app decides that's what it means, and shows the text box out of the blue. It's simple causality. If vertical scrolling is to fullfill the intention "Let me view more text than is currently on screen", then the text box needs to be visible at all times. Simple as that.

Your scrolling thing is still equally broken for the other reason I stated in the previous comment.
Also, it isn't clear landing on that page what EasyBCD does. I had to click around a bit to find out. Make a good first impression, and tell us what it is.
I run a services company. I am near my limit for 125 private projects with mega plan.

I have 100+ private repositories,with about 100 collaborators(many are my clients) and consume just 2.3 gb and pay 100$/month, about 15-20 of the projects are live/active, others are projects which have been delivered or on hold.

Organization as a concept was brought pretty recently on github, my account dates 2008, charging double for just that is not attractive.

I love github, they are coming with awesome features, but in terms of certain features many service firms need, a way to archive the project not counting them for active projects. github is lacking. instead of doubling the service plan every 6-9 months I am willing to give the competing git hosting services a try
Just so everyone knows, Game of Thrones is based off of the first book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire

So if you like the tv show you'll probably love the books.
If AVM is trying to stop Cybits from reusing the code from AVM that was under GPL in their own stuff, fat chance at that lawsuit.

If AVM is trying to stop Cybits from running modified versions of the GPL code on AVM hardware, then it's not really illegal directly for Cybits to do, but AVM could enforce code signing DRM requirements in their hardware (like TIVO does) to prevent anyone with fiddling with it.

Really AVM could just give up warranty and support for customers that change their software to run Cybits, or if it really bothers them, put signing requirements in their firmware.
Linux ARM support: What a mess
Interesting. Do you know of any alternatives? One of the things I really like about JungleDisk is it uses _my_ S3 bucket. I have apps that use the data in my S3 bucket and it is also nice to be able to access it using JungleDisk.
Why Google shut down its translation API
Yes, 1Password is especially bad at not saving generated passwords to the specific account you are trying to update. However, by changing your settings, you can get a history of all generated passwords, sorted by website. It's a pain, but you can grab that password from the history, and update the login record for the website in question.
http://kittyrescueandadoption.org/how_to_help.html

"The shelter depends entirely on the generosity of others to sustain our efforts. There are no paid personnel and all monies/donations are used to care for our cats. KRA is a non-profit 501 (C3) corporation and donations are tax-deductible."
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I don't think that is as damning as you seem to. Once a company reaches more than a handful of people, knowing all the tools inside and out (especially in the divide between development and support, which this particular case highlighted) becomes impossible.

However, regardless of whether I feel like the previous event said anything about DropBox's development capabilities, I do feel like this event does.

I'm responsible for the authentication code for my company. I can't imagine having a default "YES" in any circumstance, and that DropBox did shakes my faith in them and their ability to protect my information significantly.
We use powerline networking at home, and it's pretty decent - nowhere near the speed of actual ethernet, but a good 70Mbit or so.

I'm always surprised how few people know it exists (well, at least in the UK). You can even get nice combination hubs-and-powerstrips - getting six power sockets and three ethernet sockets off of one main plug is quite handy.
Moral of the story: Universal Health Care is cheaper than incarceration.
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Password validation bug in some implementations of bcrypt
This seems just obscenely convenient. Is there any other PAAS product out there that offers abstractions this sugary-sweet yet so powerful?
Forget fatbooth. Make this an iPhone app and you would be a millionaire!
Netflix sued by deaf group over lack of subtitles
There are 100,000 people on online dating sites that would pay $20 each for this.
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Contains just about everything, so I don't have to come up with a specific justification for the comparison. ;-)
Could you expand on your position regarding the relative cost of developing a native vs. flash application?

Is it simply constrained supply? The limited number of Objective-C developers, or that native development requires a higher skill level, thus constraining the number of suitable developers, or ...?

(I'm not actually a firm believer in the above, I'm just throwing some brainstorming ideas out there -- I'm even ready to believe it costs less to produce a polished native app than trying to polish a webapp).
Minor correction, it's dash r:

pip install -r requirements.txt
As the name suggests, it's all about politics.

I tried reading the book, and by the end of the preview on my Kindle app, I hadn't yet managed to care about any of it.

I tried the TV series and liked it even less.

And I -wanted- to like it. All my friends like it. I just can't.
From a purely marketing perspective, non-standard top-level domains (heretofore referred to NG AOL keywords) are a problem. If I see an ad for http://cameras.canon, I'm not sure I recognize that as a URL.

If your email address is joe@sony.electronics, I'm not sure people are going to understand it. Oddly, if it were just three character gTLDs, I think people would be fine by it.

Still, I want .local. That way I can break every Mac on the planet all at once.