skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you posted this just for pointing out the irony, or if you really don't know: Retrieving the website from the Google Cache is as easy as searching for "cache:FULL_URL" with Google, there isn't even a results page or anything, you get directly to the cached page.
> there's probably a significant correlation of 37s product users to HN users, but if there's any causation to be found here, it's likely in the direction of explaining why these posts get frontpaged, not in how these frontpaged posts lead to indirect sales.

I think there's causation both ways, but I structured the poll this way to address directly the questionable data on the SvN post.

FWIW, the number of customers claimed by the respondents to this poll already exceeds the number of signups the SvN post states came from HN!
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The really funny thing is that this guy is probably making between $93,00 - $142,000 (paid by us). Look at this job listing for a TSA program analyst: http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/311287200

...with tasks like "You will develop and approve solutions to current and anticipated problems"

I think Blogger Bob is writing some of these job descriptions, too.

Makes me sick.

Here are the benefits Blogger Bob gets:
DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including: health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays. Other benefits may include: flexible work schedules; telework; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers. DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities. For more information, go to www.dhs.gov/careers and select "benefits."
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Downvote for being a shithead.
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Sounds like that's addressed by storing pieces of data from many sources in the non-local part of space monkey storage: even if each source only has a 256K uplink, multiply that by 100 or 1000 and you're in pretty good shape.
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No, they didn't invent it, and for the most part, GUIs are leaps and bounds better than CLIs.

What I'm opposing is the notion that commands and text files are something to be scared of and shun, when there's nothing so hard in it that most regular office workers couldn't pick up the basics on a three day course. And Microsoft pushed that agenda very hard.
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Companies and ISPs already run large caching web proxies, use them!
You mean like Fundageek?
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The author should have used the new data-dojo-type attributes.
So just to be clear, this is only a problem for npm package maintainers/admins right? Regular users of npm wouldn't have registry accounts. The headline reads as if the npm client is the risk.
I see this as a favorable move to OSM. Hopefully the OSM's data would be enriched further considering the huge volume of people who would come in contact with OSM. OSM still lacks in a few places like middle east (Kuwait). But what was surprising was, wikimapia has several orders of magnitude better data for the same region compared to OpenStreetMap or other commercial map providers ( That includes google maps, yahoo maps etc )
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I agree. But what if they made 300K/month off HN, would they be asking HN to upvote posts regardless of merit? The post seems to be a little sour grapey to me but I don't think it's a big deal anyway. Just one more story to ignore on HN's front page.

But I personally find their posts(and many others on HN) lacking in objectiveness and follow the below trend:

1) Find something (eg. sharpening pencils), that most companies/people do.

2) Write an article about how a policy of not doing that immensely helped their company. (save time not sharpening pencils and make a million bucks). "Sharpening Pencils Considered Harmful"

3) Make it sound absolute and generalize it(no company should do this and if they do, they're bureaucratic fools). This may not be explicitly stated, but it's implied.

4) Rake in page views

Then it hits front page of HN(surprising how their posts get immediately on FP, but I don't think it's foul play, maybe it's their Twitter followers?).

Then the inevitable follow up HN comments/blog posts come along "Why 37 Signals is wrong about Pencil Sharpening and how it can work/worked for me/us and we made millions Sharpening Pencils". Full of noise, flamebait comments, back and forth opinionated arguments and even personal attacks that are sometimes totally worthless since the whole argument is very subjective to individual circumstances.

Navigating through this morass for finding the 1% of posts that are actually insightful is an exercise in frustration and usually a waste of time. The big risk is that you'll find a comment which you vehemently disagree with and fall prey to spending ten precious minutes composing a reply ("Look Mom! Somebody is wrong on the internet!") which will lead to a comment tree of arguments.

For reference, look at this very discussion, it will be very similar to what I just stated.

This is repeated ad nauseum on here, not just by 37 Signals but by many other posts. I've slowly learned to ignore the noise generated by this but not always successfully. It's like chewing gum for your brain except you can easily get sucked into a wasteful time sink.
> Are you in favor of government regulation for people researching new designs for nuclear bombs?

The cases are not particularly similar. It doesn't matter that we have crippled nuclear weapons R&D with regulation. It will matter a great deal if we similarly cripple biotech R&D.

> it seems like an engineered virus has a better chance of killing off everyone (as opposed to not everyone, which is an extremely important distinction in my view; I'm playing for team humanity)

I am not at all as optimistic as you are about that. It is the way of extinction that what kills the last individual may have nothing to do with the underlying factors that doomed the species. The last passenger pigeon died of old age. In my view, far more likely than a single super-disaster that kills everyone at the same time is a sequence of events where one factor delays progress enough to make us vulnerable to another that kills enough people or causes enough disruption to crash civilization, at which point we can't reboot because all the easily accessible fossil fuel deposits are long gone and there's no way to jump directly from wood-burning stoves to solar panels, leaving the survivors to struggle along until ordinary geological processes finish us off. That's the kind of scenario I'm concerned about.
I think there's probably an element of: "Bob, we need you to write something now about this video everyone is emailing each other" and Bob not having any authority, information or resources to actually address anything.
I swear I was just thinking to myself 2 days before this happened that that clunky old loading bar that was clearly just pumped out by some engineer looks so out of place with Google's new design.

Maybe you like the new design and maybe you hate it, but the fact that Google is clearly now THINKING about design but forgot their loading screen was egregious.
So, why is it again that we don't just run hospitals like any other civil service (police, fire, defense), fund them with taxes, and treat the care as something that a civilized government should provide?

Having given government a monopoly on force, it would seem that we should expect it to heal as well. This is absurd.
And ya' know, that would be a fine answer, "I use resharper and haven't even had to think about that in years". I would also accept "System.Collections" as a reasonable answer. You should here some of the responses I get:

What's a namespace?
Uhmmm, HashTable?
I don't use collections.

Also, if they can't name some namespaces I'll usually ask them what classes they're familiar with for accessing a database or opening a file. If you can't name parts of the framework you use on a daily basis by namespace of class name, you're not going to be a very productive programmer.

If knowing this stuff isn't important, than I'm an expert Java programmer too. I just can't name any of the packages or classes, but I can tell you all about inheritance.
More details about the mystery language can be seen in the referenced source of the article:
http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/667/The_Mystery_of_the_Duq...
Have you tried or considered launching your business until you have customers and are back in black, then make the transition? also - leave as many doors open as possible. Much success!
Not that recommending a "15 inch Macbook Pro 2.4 GHz with a 2.5 GHz CPU, a 256GB Solid State Drive, and the Hi-Res Antiglare Widescreen Display" is particularly straightforward or inspiring.
P2P backup / sync has been done before (allmydata is another example from longer ago). It's that plus the appliance that makes Space Monkey unique, IMO.
>> Can I be sure they won't be shut down and thereby leave me cut of from all my online services?

> Yes, if it syncs to something like Dropbox that has a local copy.

This isn't necessarily true. If Dropbox was legally coerced to do so, they have the technical means to erase any file in your Dropbox from each machine as it connects to the network. I believe they already do a best-effort version of this if someone stops sharing a folder with you. All it would take is a court order to remove a file and all its backups from Dropbox's server, which might happen without even targeting you specifically because Dropbox does deduplication and doesn't encrypt your data.

This may be very unlikely, especially with an encrypted password database unique to you, but it's not impossible. At least we can presume that a general takedown or Dropbox becoming unavailable for whatever reason won't cause this to happen.
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I think Bitcracker has some valid points, someone emailed me that I think might be him.

The concerns were over my "cake recipe" metaphor, rather than evolution itself!
And here I thought it was an actually solid rival to dropbox you could install in your own servers and enjoy the same level of functionaly.

Yes I know there are some hacks around using FTP apps to get a similar experience, but is not the same, is still clunky, sometimes too buggy, and let alone the average dropbox user wouldn't be able to even read the instructions, let alone put it together.
That's the one. Awesome article, awesome ideas.
Ask HN: Startup is Failing, Now What?
Throwaway account.

The startup I joined a few months ago is failing. I don't know what to do.

The writing is on the wall, I know it's coming. It's only a matter of how quickly our cash flow collapses. We are a small team in NYC. Ten people total. We've been cutting back more and more from the day I joined three months ago. It is becoming apparent that things weren't quite as good as I was lead to believe when I was hired.

Our CEO just came out of his office and then left. I think he has been crying. He keeps trying to reassure us that things are going to be ok, but people are losing faith.

Anyone have any insights on:

-Does it reflect poorly when I'm interviewing that I'm trying to jump ship? I wasn't a founder and don't want to be perceived as a quitter.

-Should I just ride it out?

-Any great blog posts already written on this subject?

Thanks.
How is €5000 per founder (max €15000/team) for 8% equity, compared to other accelerators?
Ah. From what I've read now, only some models of the Lenovo X200t ever shipped with PVA in a laptop (some were IPS, some were PVA). I guess different qualities of TN make a difference.

It all makes the IPS panels in the iPads even more impressive. From what I've read the IPS panel yield goes down with DPI, too, so the panel in the iPad (Early 2012) is amazing.
I created a dumb little script using this technique that lets you read hacker news in the terminal then opens up the story in your browser.

https://github.com/prestonparris/node-hackernews
NB that the article is not about "doing your best" but about "doing what you are best at doing."
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Why should you use Unchecked exceptions over Checked exceptions in Java
Chrome and Firefox both have builds that support it. Also, I believe it gracefully degrades to HTTP if the client does not support it.
Good security comes in layers. You are right that you can't control all the layers, but you can make the layers you do control stronger. In today's world (which isn't ideal) that means good password management.
Startup scene in Estonia:

http://siimteller.com/2012/02/more-accelerators-than-startup...
nginx support is in the works and I'm hoping we'll see something public in first half of this year. The apache module also got a lot of love recently, so definitely check it out.

Dev wise, probably the biggest hurdle for most people today is simply installing the latest SSL builds for NPN support (usually entails recompiling your favorite language against it as well).
To bring a 1 kg object to the ISS is $18,000 dollars. The plush weighs in at 0.2668 ounces so it cost $4082.40 to bring the plush into orbit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle_...
http://nokogiri.org/

Perfectly fine use of css selectors and more
This is amazing. I think the quantified self movement is going to be huge. With more personal tracking gadgets (fitbit, jawbone, nike fuel), measurements are going to become more and more seamless, passive, and complete. Not only will you get historical insights into your blind habits, but you can finally have an objective feedback loop on your behavior, and make necessary adjustments.

But one of the biggest challenges is going to be privacy...
Excellent study, but why does the picture show someone burning a DS AceKard?
Interesting results:

http://responsive.is/responsive.is/responsive.is/responsive....
Given Apple's usual attention to detail, I was surprised to find missing Unicode characters in the font used to render city names (the missing character here is "ə"): http://i.imgur.com/pFZ5s.png
I'm sorry to hear this - it's certainly going to be a tough few weeks for all of you and especially the founder. If there's no way to pivot or salvage anything, I think interviewing is smart and any recruiter would understand why you're looking for a new job! Best of luck.
Has Hacker News been reduced to postings that are relevant to startups?

I believe a lot of what they have to say is at least interesting to the hacker crowd at large, and as such, they have a place.
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For my area, Apple has several zoom levels of detail less than the others. It shows the small streets but not their names. Google and OSM zoom to the same level, but OSM shows more details like walking paths and power-line rights of way. So I'd use OSM if walking or biking, Google if driving, Apple never.
I built a game a bit like this last year at a local Facebook Camp Hackathon event, drawing inspiration from a satellite orbiter game at the San Francisco Exploratorium. In fact, our code name for it was "Angry Spaceships". We didn't get too far in 24 hours, but it was enough to know that we were on to something that could be a lot of fun. It was really amazing to watch the path of a projectile as it pulled figure-eights around a multi-planet stage. I really reget not continuing on with that project...

Ah well, I'm glad someone's doing it. Rovio makes a pretty solid game - I'm excited to see what they come up with!
If anything, the video supports the use of the TSA's active screening technologies (backscatter and millimeter wave devices). The scanner being used is neither of these, it is an entirely passive device - see: http://www.thruvision.com/Products/TS4_Sub_Pages/TS4_Product... for a brief explanation of their technology. While ThruVision's scanner is arguably safer, it is clearly deficient in detecting threats.

And it isn't being used by the TSA. In fact, ThruVision's website does not cite a single instance of their scanner being used anywhere in the world for passenger screening.

In other words, the video has NOTHING to do with current screening technology.
It's worth noting that Hacker News seems to temporarily block IP addresses if too many requests are made. I'm not sure if it's requests per minute, or within an hour. But my IP was blocked 3 times when playing around with a similar script.
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I submit that you're probably screwed anyway in those countries and/or jurisdictions, whether or not you have someone else's unreadable contraband. :)

In fact, here's an exercise. The following data represents a base64-encoded encrypted image:

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Is it pr0n? Is it an image of US gov't classified data? Is it hate speech? Who knows, but now it's on your computer. There are a lot of other ways someone could get data onto your computer without you knowing if it has a particular meaning.
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Ask HN: Planning on selling statup, what do you think it is worth?
Hello Fellow HN,

Last year myself and two other partners got together to work on our startup. We got an offer from one of the YC competitors for 40K seed money. We turned down the offer because one of the founder was expecting a baby 2 months later and one founder was in process of re-location.

Fast-forwarding to today, we kept on working on the idea and bootstrapped it. We all are making 100K plus salaries so did not feel the need to quit our jobs for 40K.

We are at the stage where we now think that it is better to spin off the startup as we can no longer contribute our time to it due to personal commitments.

What do you think something is worth which had 40K seed offer and has a working product?

Note: we have not launched the application yet to public. It was only shared with Friends and family and few investors and got good feedback.
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If Steve Jobs were still alive, he'd probably be pledging to deplete every last dollar of Apple's billions to run this stolen product into the ground. Who does OpenStreetMap think they are, anyway?

;)
I think ElliotH knows that. His point is that OSM is probably going to be more effective publicly welcoming and reminding than throwing a hissyfit, even though they'd be justified in doing so.
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One of the greatest companies that I ever worked for trained every employee to use Access and to solution for themselves, we had a system that monitored level of usage of an access solution as well as how much revenue it was responsible for. At a certain threshold the solution was deemed business critical and the access solution was used as a prototype for the developers to implement on a more robust solution. It was like working requirements and the whole thing ran very smoothly, needless to say it fundamentally changed my view of stakeholders solutioning for themselves. I also started to see the issue as a management problem and not a technical one, with the proper processes in place, people are empowered.
I know its not going to impact the vast majority of their users, so they don't have to care. For my uses, they're all pretty big. That's why I'm so happy to see a new product that may fit into those situations better. Not every computer is on a SOHO network, or a network with many properties of the same.

The network I'm on most of the time is huge which means its heavily subnetted and no one user gets great throughput. My apartment has the aforementioned cap. My old man's place has no internet connection at all, just wifi for getting files to the media computer connected to the TV. By building a product that can serve these users, they'll have a product that can better serve users on ideal connections too!
My 1password additionally makes periodic local backups of the file.
A government-run system has the same problem. When the government is running the system, if it's terrible, you have nowhere to go. Private care most likely won't be available to you either, unless you are extremely rich.

I also have a problem with the government getting even more involved in my life.
Septics? You should see a doctor about that.
I agree, if for example you were using this to make date selections far in the past or future there's a LOT of clicking. Unless there's some way to skip years in larger amounts that I just couldn't find in which case there's a discoverability problem.
I like it. 37Signals has made a point throughout the years to speak their mind.

The MUCH BETTER news is that HN is not an easily manipulated marketing tool, thus its content stays relevant, rather than "optimized" for sales.
Evolution is systematic change in allele frequencies.

The combination of natural selection and sexual reproduction tends to produce organisms which "fit to" their environments (hence "fitness"). It does so reliably enough that it might as well be the goal.

"AI systems" are not like people and they don't need people to be around to work, they do not function on the basis of ongoing intelligence from people. If the people die and there is nobody around to care, the same mechanisms do what they always did according to the natural law of the universe. They are just mechanisms which get things done. And so is evolution. And it is irrelevant that no person designed evolution to be that way.
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Can't forget the sad reality that they can pretty much bill you whenever they want. We've received healthcare bills as much as six months later!
I suppose it is to do with the previously coined #estonianmafia hashtag by Dave McClure as per my TechCrunch post in 2011 http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/11/startup-sauna-puts-estonian...