skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funny thing is that most features that Facebook has rolled out since its release has been controversial. People hated the News Feed when it first came out. Same thing with Timelines, and many others. Yet the platform has 900 million plus users, and more and more people sign up everyday. You have to wonder, if these issues are so serious (and creepy is serious, imo), then why are people still on Facebook? Are they simply making a big deal out of everything because they are bored, or is Facebook a somehow irreplaceable part of everyone's lives?

(I know it's not the latter because I quit FB a year ago and haven't looked back.)
Can't you get around that by just using a real domain name? There's no requirement that the server be accessible externally.
Makes sense. So if the proposition is that a technical co-founder is to work for equity but no salary, perhaps that already shows the non-technical founder has failed the test of bringing in enough money to start the business.
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I find it rather odd someone considers installing Ubuntu a painful process. From time to time I have to install Windows machines for testing and, compared to Ubuntu, it's a slow and involved process. With Ubuntu it's something like boot, answer questions, install (with updates) and boot-to-useful-machine. With Windows it's often install (which takes a long time, with several boots), find, download and install drivers, install updates, reboot, install newer updates, reboot again and so on...

The only situation where a Windows box is less pain than an Ubuntu one is when corporate IT installs it for you and drops it onto your desk.
Technically the market rate is what you can get, not what you'd like to get/give. If a company has a budget of $80k and goes out to the market and tries to get a developer, and fails, then the market has decided that $80k is too low. Otherwise you'd be able to buy the labour at that rate. If companies cannot hire at a rate, then that is by definition below the market rate.

If you can get a job at a rate that seems "too high", then that's the market rate.
Thanks for the tip about updating my profile. Sure, I would be interested in freelance. Like a lot of people have mentioned, it would be a great opportunity to get the exposure and knowledge I need.

I currently work for a non-profit as a "database administrator" which actually translates to MS Access manager, and I do other things like update their website, edit, write, etc. I've been able to use a lot of the skills I learned from my MySQL classes with Access, and web development from doings lots of Google searches about PHP, CSS, etc.
Not all eating is for enjoyment, though, just like not all driving is for enjoyment. People eat fast food which is certainly not as enjoyable as a well-prepared meal because of the convenience. People may like to drive sometimes (nice day, low traffic, they're on vacation - whatever), but it would take an unusual dedication to hedonism to completely set convenience aside for pleasure of driving yourself.

Further, better public transportation isn't a practical substitute for many scenarios in the United States where these driverless cars could make great inroads (no pun intended). It's not at all uncommon for someone to live 20+ miles away from the nearest public transportation in the United States without being "rural." If you're already far enough away from public transportation that it's unusable, you aren't likely to move without at least considering whether a driverless car will ease the pain of your commute.

Further, there are plenty of reasons that public transportation simply isn't a feasible option but a driverless car would rule. Two of my very good friends got married this summer, for instance, and their wives were from extremely rural areas such that plane tickets were ~$700 a piece. Instead of buying ~$3000 worth of plane tickets for my wife and I to attend each wedding, we drove 800 miles to each for far cheaper. If I could tell my car on Saturday night "Take me to Peioria, IL - and I need to be there by 3 PM on Sunday. Pace yourself accordingly." and know that I'd get there on time and safely, I'd absolutely do it.

I think that, within 20 years, driving manually will be seen in a similar vein to how driving a stickshift is seen now, and within 50 years, it'll be unusual for anyone to drive themselves anywhere.
First Porsche that isn't allowed to drive on the german Autobahn!
It's going to shift a lot of capital that's currently tied up in owning and maintaining cars into other uses. Right now, most cars are only in use for about 5% of their lifetimes. When everybody owns their own private car, those cars spend a lot of time sitting parked. If those cars could drive around and be used by other people who need them on demand, you'd need a lot fewer cars, as well as a lot less parking.
Do HFT firms have contracts with larger banks to take their positions with a discount in situations like this, so the stocks are not imidiatly dumped on the market causing havok? Or to insure them against loss?

Sounds like we could segment, rate, and pacakge these contracts up into insured "credit-default-swap" type-of vehicles and make money making/selling/buying/trading them.
Why the downvote? I was just pointing out something that the gov't is sure to latch on to.
I drove behind one yesterday as it returned to Google HQ in Mountain View. It was pretty exciting. It was also rush hour, and people didn't like that it tried so hard to give a safe amount of space in front and behind itself - it ended up being a little bubble of lane-changing space that moved slower than the rest of traffic.

Not that I hold any of this against the car - it was clearly doing the intelligent thing. But people... we are animals.
But Microsoft largely escaped the DOJ antitrust case because of competition with Apple. (MS invested in Apple to retain a competitor.)

People aren't really forced to use craigslist. That the vast majority of people choose to search CL isn't good enough. Another company could spend whatever it takes to get people to search their classifieds instead. As long as CL can't or doesn't block that (in contrast to stuff MS was doing that started the DOJ case against them), the competition is viable.
Security traded for convenience, back to square one.
It's called cloaking when a bot gets one version of the site and a normal user gets a different page. This can be done based on user agent or IP.
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That's not really reasonably cost effective for most people.
They could do pre-authorizations on the card to make sure they are valid and match an address on file.
Recovery-Oriented Computing has hit HN before. Instead of surfing the overview page, check out the toplevel with links to a LOT of fantastic and accessible papers and presentations:

http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/

Then, move on to James Hamilton[1]'s "On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services" which is a 10 minute read that's HOWTO on putting Recovery-Oriented Computing into practice:

http://static.usenix.org/event/lisa07/tech/full_papers/hamil...

That paper changed the entire way I design and evolve systems. And I keep seeing the lessons from it come up in less-distilled forms in other places. For example, Zach Holman of Github's recent and great "How To Build A Github"

http://zachholman.com/talk/how-to-build-a-github

[1] Vice President and Distinguished Engineer on the Amazon Web Services team where he is focused on infrastructure efficiency, reliability, and scaling. http://www.mvdirona.com/jrh/work/
That's interesting. I would think that a machine capable of making arbitrary metal parts would very quickly be subjected to heavy government regulations?
Only problem is sample size really. We need 2.9 trillion miles on Google cars with x accidents then.
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Thank You. I'll start with Bartlett and then continue with Duntemann insha-allah.
What I like most about this service is that I doubt they took an out of the box approach towards this problem. The founders seems to have a consulting background and the case studies (http://www.canopylabs.com/casestudies.php) seem to indicate a service oriented approach towards solving the problem.

This is a good approach IMHO instead of overbuilding and solving imaginary problems. Similar to Buddy Media (http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2012/6/19/from-agency...) And fits the "Do Things That Don't Scale" way of growing a business (http://mixergy.com/do-things-that-dont-scale-big-idea-series...)
I think most people are aware that the passwords saved in their browser are, well, saved in their browser, and if someone unkind gains access to the browser they gain access to all the sites with saved passwords.
Agree. Did humans step-in when they noted conditions which they believed the car unable to handle and perhaps prevent the majority of likely accidents?
Thanks and i know :)
What I've heard, and this is almost worse than anecdotal evidence, is that HFT helps stocks converge on their true 'value' or 'equilibrium' much faster.

This could, of course, be utter bullocks, and I have no way of tracking down the source, but it's at least an interesting idea.
Maybe we need much tighter rules around how the trades can be made.

I have no clue at this point what the model should be - but HFT is something that is completely undoable for a human, though it can have impact on humans at large scale and should be thought of more critically before they can be deployed into production.

I say impose a moratorium on all HFT until a determination of their value, impact, risk etc can be done and published and debated widely.
In my personal experience, car sickness is caused by high jerk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_%28physics%29), primarily during deceleration. (This is also commonly known as "bad driving".) I imagine this is something that self-driving cars won't have a problem with.
I'll tell google to stop work because it doesn't help with your daily commute :-)
>we’ve known each other for between four and five years

Probably the most important line for me. This one line wraps up all the jargon about liking, trusting, respecting, etc. No, you don't actually have to know a cofounder for many years, but I do think that it should feel like you're long time friends / colleagues by the time you're making the plunge.
You will not know how safe they are until accidents happen. I would love to see someone with money run an experiment with real drivers vs google cars. Create a worst case scenario course with simulated drunk drivers, blown tires, missing stop signs, etc.. and run this with real and fake drivers. I suspect the average driver would crash 10% of the time, autonomous car would crash 1% of the time, and a professional driver would crash never.

The real safety improvements will come when all cars are autonomous and they talk to each other.
If the Google Car had gotten into 100 accidents over 300 miles, we easily could claim it much worse than most drivers. However, as with most rare events...
That's a good point. If one is passionate about what they do and considers it innate, then I guess the only way to stop progress is by making a conscious decision to quit, or by an unfortunate event.
I see most things in life as a three-step process: first there is (apparent) simplicity, then there is the pain of discovering the real complexity of things, then there is a third step of attaining enlightened simplicity. But this only comes after having been through the complexity. So the goal to strive for is simplicity on the other side of complexity.
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The big gene synthesis companies are all a part of the international gene synthesis consortium, which has loose set of guidelines that include gene sequence screening (eg: every order is screened against a database of known pathogens, toxins, viruses, etc.).

granted this is a hard problem (similar to the difficulty of fingerprinting computer viruses). So while synthesis prices are still relatively high, simple fingerprinting will probably suffice for now. There will probably be a lot of development of more advanced machine learning algorithms to detect dangerous sequences as it becomes more and more of a threat in the future.
Really impressive to see how fast these guys are iterating. Excited to see where this goes.
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Now just imagine putting in an address into the GPS and not missing any turns on the way there cuz your computer-car does everything for you.

Now also imagine if that address isn't up-to-date (I found it on the web!), or there is some other problem with the address.
Many forums give read-only access to Google and other search engines so that they can be indexed without requiring an account, sometimes by UA or IP range.
New York's DFS accuse Standard Chartered of laundering $250 billion with Iran.
You don't have to actually enter your email address, you just have to prove that you know it - and telephones have the full alphanumeric set of characters on the keypad. Use a * or # for special characters, and something like "pavel@lishin.org" could be entered as "72835#547446#674".

Edit: I guess that may not be sufficient to identify you, but it could verify that you are the account holder for other services.
You can't legally be fired for that reason though.
It's a pretty safe bet that no such thing would ever pass a state legislature, but in cases where it can be demonstrated that an officer's behavior is clearly illegal, there need to be provisions for the officer to be held personally liable: no more hiding behind the city or the department.

Again, not that it'd likely ever happen, but hey, petitioning your elected representatives never (okay, rarely) hurt.
Then it might be possible to bypass paywalls by reading from google's cached version.
Not having to own a car opens up more options

Want a big car for a family trip? Just order one and it turns up where you are, ready to take you where you want to go.

A sleeper car for two? A flash sports car for the afternoon? A van for the day?

Pay-as-you-go personal transport from anywhere to anywhere where you can still be productive during the journey... Sounds pretty revolutionary to me.
Assuming the laws are removed at some point, there would still be a huge transition between companies needing truck drivers and not needing truck drivers.
IOS 6 is scalable to 1136x640 display
Somewhat related, the hidden answers on Quora are always visible/indexable in the page source (on occasion that's how I've read answers without signing in and without downloading an extension)
These are solving two different problems.

webRTC.io looks like it does a great job of abstracting webRTC on the client side to make it easier to build your app on top of it.

TokBox is an end-to-end video chat solution that happens to support webRTC. They are abstracting both the client and the server here.
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Either you are in a particularly underpaid/oversupplied field, or DC is the solution to startup hiring. If there are a substantial number of available "senior developers" in anything useful to Silicon Valley in DC for <$75k/yr, it would be worthwhile to set up a Northern Virginia tech center.

The only tech company I know which has a substantial number of cleared people, a presence in DC, and is a startup, is Palantir, and there's no appreciable pay difference between Palo Alto and DC. New grads are effectively capped around $127k, but most take around $80k and more equity. It's also an excellent place to work.
IOS 6 can be scalable to resolution of 640×1136 for   larger screen display.
Ron Weiss at MIT and Adam Arkin from Berkeley are working on a textbook which will ship sometime this year. But yes, there is still a first textbook still to appear for this field
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Great, now it's even easier for people like me with no talent for design to make horrendous UIs.

Edit: For a more helpful comment, they really need some <input type=number> things in there. You now, TSpinEdits (any Delphi users out there?). Number controls.
Worth noting that you can opt out of that.
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Ask HN: Google down?
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google.com

That never happens
In this recent case, NYC officials are refusing to defend a police inspector in lawsuits against him: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/08/03/city-wont-defend-nypd...

However, his union is now paying for his defense.
For a compromise, you can add the correct answer but with a quirk. (that is easier, unless you forget the quirk)

like, put the first name in "Mother's maiden name", or the middle name, or swap their position

And you are right to treat it as a passsword
Shows Aug 7, 2012 for me. Maybe it was fixed?
> conflate

i don't think it means what you think it means...

> 4chan is not just /b/

you are mostly wrong. Although technically right, for obvious reasons. there are other boards, but i'm willing to bet the access is 90% more to /b/. just look at the number of posts per second on /b/ versus the number of posts per day on the rest. it will still be higher.
That's the current problem. If it gets into litigation, whose fault is it?

Currently, the person who is operating the vehicle is responsible for what the car does.
There's actually a lot of really great, interesting content on Quora. I wish I could stop clicking, but when I see them in search results or get their emails, I know that whatever content is on the other side is likely to be good. I actually have a Quora account, too, but I don't understand why I need to log in to read something. Lately my strategy has just been to edit the CSS in the inspector.

This isn't to say I like Quora. I can't wait for someone to come along and fucking destroy them, and take their excellent userbase with them.
How to generate caves like minecraft?
Excited to see where this goes - the team is spot on that

"The current web design process is broken. People use image editing tools for creation, share screenshots/flat exports over email, and spend more time than necessary manually translating the design into a working product."

Certainly the future of application design should be with tools that understand the medium and the process.
I didn't say it is unethical, just implied that it's possible to have the idea that it's unethical. Maybe accepting money from less technologically capable people feels like unfair manipulation to some. Maybe the idea was planted as unwitting sabotage by intimidated, less technologically capable people trying to counteract a feeling of inferiority.
May be true of the valley, but the numbers here are about right for full-time work in London. If you want cheap tech talent, come to the UK!
This is a revelation to me. I would have never thought of that. Thanks HN!

Joking aside, is there a contextual search engine for apps (binaries and/or web apps) by context and usage? For instance how would I search for apps by what a SME would use?
Back when cell phones weren't ubiquitous, I once worked at a start-up where one of the really rich technical leads thought it was unfair that he got charged when people called him on his cell phone. I guess he thought that the peons who could only afford land lines were supposed to subsidize him. Which I could have forgiven as plain old selfishness, but he also constantly complained about how unfair society was to the poor.

That specific combination of attributes still bugs me.
HN has really turned into anti {government, Hollywood, big music, Facebook, Google, Craigslist, anything-else-that-is-large-and makes-a-bunch-of-money} lately so this isn't surprising.
Off Topic indeed it would appear.
Tell HN: Happy to test out your product but fix your emails
Email me without a 1-click unsubscribe, long enough after I tried out your product to forget it (6 to 8 weeks), or an email that I absolutely cannot read without downloading the images, and I'm going to mark it as spam.

Don't cut corners here.
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"It's not just you! http://google.com looks down from here."

Interesting. It's certainly not down for me, though.
We have our email in couple of places but mostly people send feedback via the form. Also Twitter is pretty popular but there it's mostly about questions, not that much about feedback/complements/rants.

Personally I like to keep the feedback one on one as there's no change for trolling etc. Also public feedback boards might turn against the product if small amount of users want a feature that isn't relevant for products roadmap. This is also the reason why I'm not fan of Uservoice's widget.
Nothing can prevent human error. But systems can be set up in such a way that limits the risk of that human error causing failure. If the agent has to actually enter the answers before being able to issue a temporary password, then (assuming the author is correct) this particular problem wouldn't have happened.
Too much space is taken up by navigation in this scheme. There's a reason Wikipedia's design is dominated by text.
I like the use of colors in the redefined design, but will it work for people with color-blindness?
I'm still surprised. Every single year, magazines & websites rank the top college majors by starting salary, and computer scientists/engineers always are always near the top of the list with numbers in the $55,000 - $70,000 range.

Of course there are below average programmers, and perhaps they deserve a below average salary, but $30,000 less than average? I'm surprised.
While I was going over some of their goals I immediately started thinking about erlang.

* Isolation and Redundancy: Processes are isolated. If some component crases it won't affect the rest of the system.

* Design for high modularity, measurability, and restartability: You write erlang otp apps which you then combine (modularity). You can easily get a live shell to any erlang system so you can measure various parameters (measurability). Using erlang/otp libraries you implement supervisors
such that when a component of your system crashes you can just restart it without any interference with the rest of the system. (restartability)

I'm not even close to being proficient in erlang but weren't these some of the issues erlang was designed to solve in the first place?
Privacy and civil liberties are immensely important to the technology entrepreneur. We need to be aware of the legal pitfalls of technology, and be sensitive to the privacy risks we can create. I find this story very relevant to HN.

For example, if you are creating an app that records sound or images, you would want to be aware of the risks to camera users. Especially if that camera is less obvious than the camera used by the photographer in this story. The law seems to be on the side of the photographer but the realities are complex.

This is covered under the HN guidelines, as the intersection between technology, privacy, and civil liberties is definitely an interesting new and ongoing phenomenon.
We haven't really thought about this. I think we and users get most out of the discussion if user has actually tried the app.

There are times went people email us or tweet to us before trying the app.
Adding the extra row for apps isn't revolutionary or surprising. And that's fine. I don't think Apple is going to try to sell this larger sized screen as either.

Rather, I think it's going to be what Apple decides to do with this extra space that has the potential to be a big reveal. These extra pixels, when running previous resolution apps, is the talk of the town right now. And if Apple can find a new and interesting way to deal with this extra space, alleviating designer/developer headache while providing extra value to the user, then we'll have something noteworthy.

This new alone is kinda boring.
What site was used for searching the picture of the camera?