skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the links Daniel. Very helpful! BTW, we're in headquartered in Nova Scotia, and as per your link, we have stricter privacy laws than the rest of Canada. It even goes as far as provincial departments not cooperating with other provinces because their privacy laws are incompatible.

Additionally, at least in Canada, privacy-cautious organizations don't look too favorably on services that store data in US, in part due to the patriot act. We even have US clients who liked the fact their data would be stored in Canada ;O)
Microsoft testing fix for Windows Phone SMS flaw
Ummm.... they're hosting on HEROKU?

In 2011, Tumblr was down for 42 hours.

In 2011, Heroku was down for 76 hours in one incident alone.

And that's all before you get to the hubris of the assumption that your custom coded setup will perform better. A more sensible argument would be to move to a host with a better proven uptime record, such as Blogger (nearly 100%).

Sources:
http://allthingsd.com/20111215/tumblr-had-42-hours-of-downti...
https://status.heroku.com/incident/151
I'll qualify this with the fact that I don't own a car, nor did I have mine washed often when I did, but...

Isn't having your car washed one of those things where portability matters least? It really feels like the ultra-local meme taken too far.

Car washes are abundant and reasonably fast, and a car, in its usual course of being driven, will pass them often.

It just seems like sunglasses for the blind or something ... a product where its benefit is negated by the nature of the problem.
As a developer who fears these kinds of attacks on my own sites, is there anything you are able/allowed to reveal regarding how the attack happened, how it was discovered, and/or how it could be prevented?
Of course I was speaking in generalities because these sites tailor to the tech community. Every single effort helps but the user base here has a lot of coverage already. We really need to get the big tech companies to put the general public out of their comfort zones.
Is Apple's profit margin sufficient different from other tech companies? If so, one might reasonably ask why Apple doesn't use its position to improve worker conditions further.
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We host our servers with IAI (http://www.internetworking-atlantic.com/) and run our own private cloud using proxmox and OpenVZ. The VMs are CentOS 6 and the host drives are all encrypted.
Another option that is out there in beta now is http://trillsy.com. You can use existing themes or your own design, it offers more user features, multiple contributors or posting from the public and also has an post type for events with an event calendar. It is worth checking out, beta keys are going out. In the interest of full disclosure this is my service, sorry about missing that when first posting.
That doesn't mean they're not using a bad (i.e., fast) hashing algorithm.
I don't think it's quite a simply answer like X% uptime.

A lot of the decision is the 'quality' of the downtime. For example:

* Is it generally stable, but only going down in peak load situations (obviously no good if you know peak load occurs when you are doing critical new product release/sales etc, but may be okay if you peak load corresponds to non-critical events).

* How long is the outages? If it goes down for 1 minute each day, that may be more acceptable compared to '100%' uptime except one day when it goes out for 365 minutes.

All of that affects the impact that the downtime has on your venture - it's quite possible you might have 'poor' uptime stats, but it has zero effect on your business, in which case the cost/effort savings from using a 'poorer uptime' hosted service may be worth it.
swindsor, it looks like you were hellbanned 100+ days ago.
What kind of "net worth" do you need to throw off $50k/year?

I ask because a $50k/year pension is not unknown.
I immediately stopped reading when I saw they were interviewing Mason.. Groupon is a public company, and the CEO/founder of course wants to shine a positive light on things. You can't learn much here.
A hand wash at two places near me are $29 and $31. I always seem to show up when there is a ~30 minute wait. If someone can hand wash my car for the same price with no wait while I'm in the office - I'm in. I'm going to try this next week.
> The thread because this is one of the most hateful and ugly threads I've ever seen on HN. A thread like this would be literally unthinkable a year or more ago, and now I'm not even surprised it is here.

I agree with you on this point a thousand times. What is going on with this community? In general I like HN, but there's a real trend brewing when it comes to gender-related articles. And it's not pretty.

HN regularly churns out some of the most biased, vitriolic and short-sighted commentary when it comes to women that I've ever seen in any online community.

Question is, what can we do to counteract it?

[EDIT: as expected, I'm being downvoted. Good riddance, HN.]
Ask HN: Assistance determining seed round equity for advisors/angel investors
I would like to know if there are any spreadsheets I can use which have prefilled cap table calculations to help me determine equity distribution to investors and advisors during the seed round.

For example, say you determined to give out 15% equity for your seed funding but you are obtaining the total amount of funding from multiple investors, what can I use to assist me in making sure that I do not give up too much equity to each investor.
No biggie, I can temporary move our blog to another host with a simple DNS change and pulling the static site from our repo. Ah, the power of jekyll!
Exactly. I'd never let anybody like this wash my car. It's just too easy to cause damage. (Not a ferarri, but still a fairly nice german car)
A fair point. I was really just attempting to illustrate how $1.2M is not that difficult to acquire.

I admit, I come with a biased perspective. Everyone I know born in the 40s were farmers. They all pretty much lived a life of poverty, putting all their income into appreciating assets. They're now all sitting on multi-million dollar fortunes.

Assuming you are in the mid-to-high end earning range of the 99%ers, if you want to live a life of poverty, there's a good chance you'll make the 1% list someday too.

That's the problem with blanket statements. I would think someone who made their millions through questionable banking tricks is quite a bit different to the poor dirt farmer who sold his farm at retirement, no?
$100k/year for teachers is somewhat rare.

However, $50k/year pensions for teachers is not all that rare and lots of retired police and fire folk do as well or better.

How much "net worth" does it take to throw off $50k/year guaranteed by taxpayers?
Looks really good, and it's a very nice way to view the photos. I like that you also implemented a way to like and comment on the photos. Very engaging and fun.

I also like the design a lot.

Doesn't Facebook have a policy against "alternative ways to view Facebook" type applications? Didn't I see a conversation on HN the other day about a guy who got blacklisted for life for making an ads free version of Facebook or something like that?

Anyways, good job
Are there blog hosting services that one can use in a subfolder? AFAIK, both tumblr and posterous only supports subdomains but not folders.
The quoted down time for Tumblr is site wide. Sites are often down for non site wide times. I know from experience. Don't host on Tumblr unless you're MG Siegler and Tumblr will put you on a priority pool that goes down much less.
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thanks! definitely inspired by fb, but with some streamlined tweaks.

I don't think facebook policy directly states that, it's more about not misleading users into thinking something is made by facebook. And definitely anything that circumvents ads is against policy.
All I can say is if your startup doesn't work out (which I hope it does, I love the idea) you could probably get a mint for the cherry.com domain name.
I spent 1/2 a day building a blog (including RSS support). I wanted an integrated visual experience that stayed up to date as the website changed (which it is doing a lot right now) and took advantage of the same underlying db and hosting infrastructure. Trying to do that with a different blog engine would have meant tweaking the blog every day, which would be far more effort.
I think that's another way of saying "our business does not operate on a tipping model".
Don't forget that that same prime minister was brutally assassinated when she tried to return to her country. And she was kicked out forcibly, had to live in exile for many years. A remarkable woman. The movie "Bhutto" about her life is well worth seeing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto
So what is a generally accepted blog back-end if you're self hosting?
>entrenched, culturally underaccomplished, fascistic, and depraved aristocracy of indolent, manipulative parasites

The article specifically mentions the "financial services or banking industry" in this context so that's who I assume you're talking about. Now, this sounds great when you use a vague sound bite, but are you really prepared to say that society should strive to "get rid of" anyone who makes a lot of money in the financial sector?
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The point I was trying to make is not that Apple is bad at designing these things. My point is that they seem to consistently miss the fact that communication is a platform agnostic need. To give an exaggerated example, would you buy an iPhone if it only let you make phone calls to other iPhones, despite it's super super design? Would you buy a Mac that only let you send emails to other macs?
Agreed. Even here in the good old Bay Area there are quite a few trust fund kids with zero work ethic, little motivation and no desire to ever work because their parents will let them ride the money indefinitely. Very sad.
Screenshots?

I don't have a Facebook account..
Ask HN: Please review my project, bazinga.in
Hi Everyone,

This is the first time I am posting anything here, but I read HN a lot.

I have just launched a product, and would really love your feedback -
http://www.bazinga.in

Bazinga is an Easy Way to get the best from your Twitter Timeline. It converts your Twitter Stream into an Easy to read News Journal

Part of the motivation behind this project has been the way information is presented in your Twitter Stream, and how it becomes hard to "Follow your Interests" when about half of your Twitter Stream is web links. I have tried to create a new way of consuming articles and news stories on Twitter through Bazinga.

It will be great to know your views about my product.

Thanks,
Anirudh
So if you are a single person making $160K, you are the 1%. If, later, you get married to someone making $30K you become the 99%, even though the paired earnings haven't changed.

This whole 99/1% label thing is silly.
Not at this time. Sorry.
Internet marketing is more effective and powerful medium of Music Publishing
Internet marketing is more effective and powerful medium of Music Publishing among masses. The people often visit these websites to know about various music artists and their music albums. The subject of the song needs to be based on some popular and catchy topic so that it attracts the attention of general masses.
Can someone educated me why this is so "awesome"?

the first problem I've found is that it has no indication or hint how to navigate prev/next in zoomed in mode.
http://cl.ly/2I2Y062q000Q1w0e3z1P
No hyperbole in the title at all. Moore's law would be smashed if this was ready to release. By the time it is, this will be just another dip to be averaged over.

Sometime, I really wish I had a job where I got to play with individual atoms.
Stupid question: wouldn't the ND ("You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.") part of the license basically mean that you can't use these colour schemes?
right left arrows... and soon swipe on ipad

I'll definitely add a tutorial / help section for ya
One less obnoxious TED save-the-world talk to not look forward to by the sounds of it.
To add to point 2:

If this service becomes wildly popular, then the cities it operates in are going to have hell of a cleanup job. Yes, they say they use "eco-friendly solutions," which I take to mean biodegradable soap, but that soap has to degrade before it becomes harmless, which isn't going to happen overnight. (Storm drains on streets usually aren't filtered before their contents are dumped into a nearby creek or ocean.)
use a PO box? unless there are some downsides, like ssl cert issuers not issuing for PO box?

this looks easy enough: https://poboxes.usps.com/poboxonline/search/landingPage.do

I'd assume other countries provide something similar?
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Free trial... wait, I need a beta key? Where are the plans/prices?
Capitalization tables are commonly used for VC deals, ie: Series A, B, etc. What I am looking for is something similar that would be suited for an initial seed funding round.
Well put. I do marketing work on a few projects that have commercial blogs. In mose cases, we're able to get 1K+ Tumblr followers in < 3 months (not counting "regular" RSS subscribers). (And none of the projects are famous/have famous founders/services/products) To get the same amount of regular RSS subscribers is much more difficult.

Tumblr is comparable to Twitter in that it's a common place to meet your readers/customers. Unlike a self-hosted blog, you don't have to ask visitors to leave where they are to visit you. So you're likely to get a bit more foot traffic/interaction, not to mention people passing it on/sharing it out (via reblogs).

Now if you're an already established service/otherwise famous, you might have no problem getting people to check you out. But even then, Tumblr has its benefits.

I don't think the choice is necessarily all or nothing between self-hosted or Tumblr. Many companies with "real" blogs also have Tumblrs. In many cases companies have multiple Tumblrs. (Not unlike Twitter, it's becoming common to have a separate Tumblr for different events/products/branches/divisions. IBM has at least 3. NBC has at least 4...)

I won't disagree that Tumblr has horrible performance issues. But it's still worth it. Twitter 3 years ago had bad performance issues, but it was/is still definitely investing in. No social site is forever, but they're great tools as long as you're aware of costs + benefits.
Okay, why not. :)

I've recently left grad school (mathematics) and been looking for an intern or junior position in the tech industry. I'm proficient with Python and somewhat skilled with C. Ideally, I'd like to be using my math skills on the job.

I'm open to relocation anywhere in the country. My contact info is in my profile.
Maybe an API is an overkill in this case. Instead, a simple web service with a twist: Zappos has a private key and LastPass has the corresponding public key. Now, if Zappos.com is compromised and the breached is discovered and fixed, their CEO/CTO/head security guy grabs the private key and authenticates to LastPass, telling them that he is in fact who he says he is, and finally triggers the massive automatic password reset. Obviously, this will not work if the private key is compromised, but then again, our whole web security paradigm is "trust that the website owner knows what s/he is doing", so this is already a step up.

Or, as I mentioned, let's do away with passwords. Anyone can have your public key so long as your private key stays private.
Link that is working: http://www.design-seeds.com/

http://design-seeds.com/ is failing for me now.
the question is...what is included in the "wash"

is it just a spray from a hose or do they also wax the car
I'm glad you brought this up.

The only way to really excel as engineer or scientist is to move out of the role into a position that is people oriented, like manager. Even if you choose the entrepreneurial route, it is not the engineering that pays the bills, it is the interacting with other people. If you want your business to be successful, you will have to eventually delegate out the engineering so that you can focus on building the business.

With that, if you are only driven by financial gains (as opposed to the love of doing), why would anyone bother with the science/engineering step when you can put all of your focus on people-oriented jobs from the start?
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3457841
Cool result, major bad title. 1) Moore's law is about transistor size, this is about storing bits. 2) As the article does mention, this doesn't work at room temperature, as the bits are too unreliable. The article says this will work at 150 atoms, which sounds about right, but isn't really substantiated by the actual experiment.

I'd also note that while this is a very cool experiment, the fact that it was performed using a scanning tunneling microscope means it's not exactly a practical device :) But as a proof of principle of storing a bit in a few number of atoms, this is a very neat result.
Eric Drexler's lecture at Russian Polytechnic Museum
Somehow, this website has left Google DNS and AT&T DNS. IP address: http://205.186.154.115/
I sympathize with you, but this has less to do with Kobo and more to do with the book publishers. Kobo, Amazon, B&N, and all the other retailers only do what is required from the publishers, and DRM is at the top of the list.
Do you know what hash was used, if the passwords were salted and if so, if the salt is secure?
Wrong, I make a clear example of the copy() function being broken, give a demonstration of fuzzing it to break it, and show how to do it yourself. And, if you think the copy() function is valid, then you also think strcpy() function is valid, and therefore you don't know what you're talking about. Everyone who is aware of secure C coding knows strcpy() is buggy and the cause of most buffer overflows.
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Am I the only one horrified by both the technology, and the general apathy to the moral implications of military tech in the comment thread.
I didn't downvote but will say the comment is dumb. In fact, we can learn a lot from successful public company CEOs like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Marc Beniof and Andrew Mason.
... and the problem I have with Occupy's "tax the rich" and similar sloganeering is this:

Given the immense political connections of the financial class, it is a virtual certainty that any attempt to "level the playing field" would end up falling not on them but on the more productive rich and the upper middle class. In other words, the burden will fall on the people who actually earned it. If anything, the financial elites will find a way to benefit from it at the expense of the "lower rich."

It's not the haves vs. the have-nots. It's the connecteds vs. the connected-nots. The connected-nots with high net worth are just peasants in fancy suits.

Really... doctors, lawyers, engineers, business owners, and executives in productive industries ought to be marching in the streets too. This is not the 99% vs. the 1%. This is about a sophisticated, complex, deeply embedded system of financial con artistry vs. everyone else on the planet. What we have here is a worthless parasite class -- a decadent nobility -- that has buried itself into our civilization like a tick.
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And here I was thinking Moore's Law was related to transistors and not storage...
That's a really good point. However, it is easier to create the protocol in a homogenous environment than to backfill a heterogeneous one. Case in point: FaceTime. I wouldn't buy an iPhone if it could only talk to iPhones, because the precedent has been set before. I don't have a problem with FaceTime being Apple-only, because 1) there is no precedent and 2) Apple can potentially make FaceTime better by limiting the platforms they worry about.

There may come a time where a competitor has all the features of FaceTime (especially its ease of use) and have platform agnosticism. Then the decision might change.
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I totally had this idea for a business in Austin. I was thinking about $20 for a basic car wash. Other tiers would be $30-$40. Washers would qualify to do the other car wash tiers based on their previous performance and reviews. Every washer would start out at tier one and have to earn the ability to wash in tiers above it. Hope it works out for Cherry!
Thanks for the moderation efforts. You've saved me a lot of misery by convincing me to read no further.
Not in a physical sense -- we're not to guillotine territory yet -- but seriously... how much value do these people actually create vs., say, engineers, doctors, good executives in productive industries, skilled craftsmen, etc.

People get all bent out of shape about pro athletes making too much, but it seems like the financial elite are by far the most overpaid people on Earth. Many of them seem to create negative value -- the systems that they run are liabilities.
I agree with this notion. I would never use a 3rd party blog engine with it's own branding/UI and use that for my own site which has naturally a different branding/UI.

It's like having an @aol.com email address rather than your own domain. It looks unprofessional at best.
Yes would love to learn more about Penn tech events (for current students and alums). I'm an M&T grad.

In NYC, I just learned about the Penn NY Tech meetup (http://www.meetup.com/Penn-NY-Tech) which maybe worth checking out. (note: I'm not an organizer/affiliated)
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If you're using Jekyll, why not just host with S3/Cloudfront?