skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My tactic for winnowing non-technical potential founders who respect what you bring to the table versus those who likely do not is the following. I point out to them I am already engaged in my own company using my extensive technical background to successfully market and sell on my own, and am quite busy and happily successful, but could carve out the 10 or so hours per month to provide my expertise guiding their technical decisions as a board member, even helping them find technical founders who have the time to implement. I give them a quick "taste" by describing what kinds of technologies and APIs someone implementing their idea would need to be involved in, and after some quick Googling, their top 2-3 potential competitors in either the same or adjacent spaces, and key decisions that straddle the business-technical spectrums they will need to make that they haven't thought of yet that can dramatically impact the technical architectural decisions an implementor would have to subsequently make. If some numbers are available, I give them a development budget and time line "rough sketch", and tell them I can work up a set of potential MIRRs for their implemented product/service if they have some available numbers from potential customers. I describe that board members with this much due diligence before board meetings typically receive a 2% stake pre-seed, then step back.

In every case so far, they have gone radio silent, and months later I always find out that their ideas still go unimplemented, which does not surprise me. I believe an authentic counteroffer for a genuine board position (if you already have a track record that aligns with the counteroffer) is a positive and non-combative response. If they genuinely appreciate what you bring to a potential team, they would believe it fair to exchange 2% for that value, or at least they will start dickering. If on the other hand they are just looking for Work For Hire on the cheap, they'll move their pitch onto the next technical persone they run into.
Had the same issue. Put in a 0,1 km walk, came out to 1k+ steps
I agree. The main factor should be whether it's constructive criticism or not. In the case of the Wikipedia redesign thing, the tone of some of the comments might be a bit harsh but they were mostly insightful.

This is the internet, it's how it works, it's how it worked since at least Usenet (and probably before, but I can't testify of that). The social norm is different than regular "face to face" conversation.

It's harsher, but it's also often more honest I think.
Probably the OUYA is a bit too light duty for what you'd like to do. It's primarily an indie games console.
To be honest, I am a pretty negative person sometimes. I hope my cynicism isn't ruining the mood or setting a bad example or anything.

As far as that particular Wikipedia thing: I think a lot of people really liked the design, and most of them clicked the upvote. On the other hand, most of the people who didn't like it couldn't downvote so they left comments instead.

So part of the hostility you notice might just be the fact that they took on Wikipedia and really put themselves out there, so it was a controversial post. And HN needs to fix the downvote thing (there I go being negative again).

One other thing is that you have people with really different backgrounds coming to Hacker News. Some people are like me and have a lot of coding experience including, for example, enterprise(y) application programming. Other people have much more experience in marketing and/or graphic design and/or UX/UI.

This might just be another example of me having a bad life, but there also might actually be a bit of pent up resentment between UX/UI designer people and coders in general. I will be too honest as usual and elaborate.

Basically, what it seems like from my own programmer perspective is that the people doing the software UI design in Photoshop or whatever think that they know better how to build software than me and therefore are placing themselves over me in the project decision making, even though they have written very little (or zero) code. That sort of misplaced disrespect could possibly sometimes make a person feel righteously hostile. Of course, I do realize that UX is its own field with knowledge that isn't automatically absorbed in the process of coding, but that doesn't really change the situation between coders and UX designers.
The fact that you use the abuse you receive to justify dishing out abuse is concerning. Perhaps you should get yourself out of that situation?
Say what?? I, for one, LIKED the submission a lot! The Wikipedia Redefined site is a great way to present a design proposal from an outsider. The redesign had some flaws, like not fully accounting for i18n and accessability issues, but there where some great nuggets in there too. Such as using a stylized W instead of the plain boring W as the favicon.

It is so sad that people instead choose to criticize the flaws and ignoring the good and valuable ideas just so they can be extra critical.
5Degrees' serial recap of The Lean Startup (plus some cool infographics) 7/10
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If you're sending it out to other blogs, avoid the term 'press release'. It may come with bad connotations from bloggers, who could be getting plenty of random PR already.

Pick the most important theme related sites and hand craft a very concise and to the point email without it looking too generic sounding.
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That's not the point. That people need to do a double take to realise the thing wasn't an iPhone is bad enough IMHO. Samsung look to have gone out of their way to actively make the Galaxy S look similar enough to the iPhone that there is confusion. I cannot accept that the near facsimile is through "inspiration" or is coincidental. This document, contrary to what other posters have said, does not resemble a market product analysis. It's an evaluation of what they think they can get away with copying. It's very definately a smoking gun.
Finding your perfect Console Deal
you should totally have recorded your screen while doing all of this, that would be incredibly educational. great stuff!
I would point out that it's unlikely SB's received the same financial terms offered to Mom and Pop vendors who sign up via the website.
People are hostile because it's an awful design.
'Cold fusion' chemist Martin Fleischmann dies
I actually do use Firefox, but don't forget that it basically was a skunworks alternative to the feature creep that was the Netscape suite. And then there's Grendel. Not that Google doesn't have the same issues on a bigger scale, so even though both Rust and Go have some backing, it doesn't mean that both can't be canceled straightaway.

There actually might be more renewed interest in C++ (in its current C++11 reincarnation) than actually new interest in Go/Rust. (Chances of someone reviving Modula-3 or creating a killer framework for Ada will remain low)
Samsung is sending inspectors to China to investigate underage labor claims
We've recently launched a rebrand of our console bundles comparison. We believe it's one of the best affiliate sites on the market thanks to it's elegant responsive design, decent page speed comprehensive search system and sheer number of deals.

It probably took us around 5-6 weeks to get it right but we'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
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In ship sinkings, "women and children first" seems to be a myth
I think that article was treated so harshly, because it was a genuinely bad fit for the tastes of the HN community. Given this community's preferences, I don't really understand how it got so many upvotes and stayed up on the front page for a while. I thought it was bizarre.
Whenever you do a password reset their is a possibility that it was performed by an attacker. However much you check their identity this will always be a risk. Therefore it makes sense for Apple to try and contact the user via several different methods. Call them on the phone, send a letter etc to inform them of the password reset. It must originate from apple, and be out of band. Having people go to the apple store does not achieve this.
>It is a truly revolting submission.

This is the problem. The MSM is full of hyperbole. One nice thing about HN is that it is rarely rewarded here.

You could have said:

People are hostile to that posting because it talks down to its readers by being a gigantic infographic. It could have been explained in a few paragraphs of text. Also, the idea appears to be made by people with a preference for form over function. Therefore it has little practical merit.

It would have made the same point, without the hostility or hyperbole.

Personally, I found the overall idea unrealistic, but it was interesting to see Wikipedia mocked up in another way. Their schematic using the color bars for languages gave me some ideas.
Check out the wikipedia page for some info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(law)

Ianal, but my understanding is that each side hires lawyers to go through the opposing side's documents. My understanding at this level is that while these lawyers may be working for you, they still owe a duty of care to only produce stuff that's of value to the court case.
Unless your IP somehow involves the other side in some fashion, then that should be safe. But "confidential" documents showing how you modified your own product after a comparison with another product on the market is probably fair game.

What stops discovery escalating like you suppose is that there needs to be a basis for the court case, and that the lawyers looking at your documents have their own reputations to protect.
So was it a test? It disturbed me too.
The initial advantage Square had was “green fields” Most of their customers didn’t accept Credit Cards so they did not have incumbency issues. That’s what makes this win impressive. However, it also highlights just what Square has to go through to win a very large account. SB’s had to agree to tear out and replace their existing POS system. That’s a big risk, headache and cost and customers will use that leverage (and genuine pain) to drive hard bargains.

Also worth noting is that SB’s mentions processing costs will be cheaper. It’s hard for me to imagine that SB was overpaying with their last vendor so I worry about the economics on this deal. Maybe it’s the anchor tenant though that allows for additional enterprise deals to follow so is worth it. I can imagine other large retail organizations that had any interest were on the sidelines saying "It's one thing to service 10,000 food trucks but come on!" They'll stand up and listen now with this.
That sounds like an incredibly idiotic waste of resources when faced with a dominant market leader. Every place I've worked we'd consider how we stacked up with the market leader first, because that's what we'd be compared to.
1) yes, through affiliate links. most marketplaces give you commission on sales.

2) yes better filters/ more infos is on the roadmap. getting data of ~4000 themes is not a task i want to do by hand. and the infos i get by scraping the sites is limited. but as someone said before, the user doesn't care about how its done, the user cares about how it works. so i'm going to think about that. maybe i let mechanical turks look for all that data.

but for now: there is a filter for responsive themes. its the layout-> responsive layout filter. if you select that, you will get all the themes where i definitly knew that they are responsive.
That's about checkout fees, not minimum charge amounts. Minimum charge amounts used to be forbidden by basically every merchant agreement, but thanks to Dodd-Frank and a lot of retailer lobbying, such contact terms are now illegal. Card issuers must allow a restriction on charge amounts (no more than $10 IIRC) if the retailer so desires.
The night drop was not as smooth as planned. The 101st missed the drop zone and found themselves scattered over most of the back yard. Small units formed and conducted raids, where possible, taking the shed and guest house, but the primary objective remained unaccomplished.

The transports dropped the first wave within sight of the massive compound but the gate loomed shut. The airdrop obviously failed to open a safe passage.

Multiple twisted ankles resulted in 50% casualties but a squad of men reached the gate. A brave private, barely old enough to shave, rang the buzzer and asked "Hey mate, would you mind opening the gate? We have a warrant."

Truly, New Zealand's greatest generation.
>genuinely bad fit for the tastes of the HN community

Suited me just fine. Whether or not I agreed with the design conclusions they came to is not the point. They gave something a try - good on them. Maybe it sparks ideas for someone else.

Failing or succeeding aside, surely the spirit of this whole community is about trying ideas and getting constructive feedback.
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"How many of you would critique that presentation that way (like in the comments) to the designers in person?"

All other things equal I think internet interactions are "weaker" and carry less weight that regular in-person interactions. If I come to your desk and say "good job" or "I think what you did is terribly lame", I'm sure it won't have the same impact that if I wrote it as a comment in some website. I think that's why internet interactions tend to be more polarizing. So I don't think your question is appropriate.

Besides, for many articles linked on HN we don't know whether the creators are ever going to read our comments. I might be a little more gentle and diplomat in a "Show HN" post than in a regular "look what I found in the internet" post.
TSMC Expresses Switching Strategic Investment to Financial in the Future
Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of TSMC, noted that the firm will focus on developing thin-film solar products. TSMC is one of the shareholders of solar cell maker Motech. Chang added that in the future, TSMC will switch investments from strategic to financial.
Just $364? They should have fined it more.
Anyone can already read the laws, though. I'm less sure that reading them specifically via git is a major revolution. it's possible something compelling will be built on top of it, I'll admit.

For the U.S. code, something like Cornell's LII interface, which for a long time has displayed both the current version of the law and, for any section, the history of amendments to that section, seems more user-friendly than a git repo: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text
Localization issue:
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Reverse-sexism undermines and hurts the anti-sexist and female-friendly atmosphere that most of the tech community would like to foster. Gender discrimination and sexism need to be called out and stopped everywhere, but "crying wolf", without reason, weakens the very moral ground we purport to defend.
That cryptographic "login with iPhone" thing has been done, albeit without the biometric dimension you've suggested. http://www.ekaay.com/?lang=en

Unfortunately the SDK is only available for PHP & mysql.
Racist Facebook page labelled 'humour'
There's an interesting post at Cryptome that mentions crypto.cat - http://cryptome.org/2012/07/chile-comments.htm (apparently the Chilean police have some transcripts of conversations, and it's not clear how).
Bank replaces card PIN with fingerprint, triples customer base
Desktop 2.0 and the future of the networked operating system
Android Q2 market share jumps to 68% as iOS drops from 23% to 17%
To play the devil's advocate -- it sounds like he would have surrendered himself to the police if they had just asked.
1. Microsoft is in the ad business.
2. With ad and analytics firms claiming its okay to ignore the DNT header from browsers that default it, I can't think of a better way to kill the spec.
You already let the Barrista tag your coffee with your name at Starbucks. Its only natural that now you get to pay for coffee with your name.
WTF is wrong with Google? It'd be just as easy for them to run the NASA video through their Content ID system to flag all of that as SAFE.
If your wealth is ostentatious and/or you believe you own enough assets to target thieves, I suspect it's not very paranoid at all. For a normal everyday joe, probably.

But while things like this happen, it seems sane if you have the money: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184641/Waterboarded...
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And it wasn't even consistant. They used the same character for the first letter of "Jimmy" and "It". I first thought it was a weird font with a weird I, but then say "Iimmy" and had to re-read.
I don't think this is the case.

Here is how I understand it:

FileVault 2 uses a generated secret key for encryption ; It uses a table that contains for each account the encrypted key, encrypted in turn with a key derived from each user password.
It also generates a "backdoor" key that can recover the encryption key which you can write down or if you want (!) store with Apple.
The issue described here is not related to the actual full-disk encryption and the reason why the password reset does not work when cold-booting is not related at all to missing network drivers (as described in the article.) Rather it shows that the encrypted disk can't possibly decrypted by just reseting you Apple ID, because - if you have not agreed - FileVault has _not_ stored the backdoor key on Apple servers and it can't be used to recover the encryption key.
Why does recovery work when the machine is sleeping? Well, because in that case the encryption key is stored in memory and _can_ be restored if the OS wishes to give it up. It is well known that full-disk encryption only really protects you if the machine has been fully shut down. A dedicated attacker can usually recover the key by removing the battery and cooling the RAM to keep it from losing data.

I agree that not being able to turn off the option is a bug that should be fixed, but the situation is not as bad as it may sound at first.

TL;DR: FileVault 2 is just as secure as everyone assumed and even Apple can not decrypt your disk if the computer has been shut down. If it is running Apple could always use a backdoor if they wanted and other attackers could always extract data from memory.
I thought the top comment by tptacek was perfectly reasonable and constructive, and didn't find it offensive at all. On the other hand I found the original article to be naive and remarkably arrogant, despite its saccharin use of language.

Be curious to hear pg's thinking on the absence of downvotes for stories. This particular story was of such low quality, that I wonder if people were really upvoting the discussion as opposed to the original story.
Not in Australia. Minimum wage is ~$20/hour +/- $2 (That's about $22US). But you know, income is more equal here, so we don't have the highs. I think $60-$80/hour considering it is freelance.
Errund busies itself with marketplace for small jobs
Maybe, but they wouldn't need to for the deal to be attractive. Square's regular rate is already below wholesale processing for small transactions.
I know it isn't really helpful advice as such, but have a great track record and a great network. I worked for this one, non-technical, guy on a couple of companies (as an employee, not a co-founder), and while I don't know exactly how he did it, he had list of people whom it seemed he could just call up and get a few $100k in investment from whenever he needed it. Of course this was far from his first company, he had years and dozens of companies (of varying degrees of success) behind him.
It is the point legally, though. Copying in itself is not illegal. It takes other elements, such as explicitly violating design patents or making a product that is similar enough to confuse consumers before it becomes illegal. And in this case I have a hard time seeing how phones that have "SAMSUNG" plastered all over the top would confuse consumers...
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Microsoft sticks to its guns, keeps Do Not Track on by default in IE10
Not if your product is lagging so clearly on ridiculously basic stuff that you get a far better ROI on just fixing the glaringly obvious deficiencies you have compared to the market leader.
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The IT world’s love-hate relationship with OpenStack
we are facing this as well just recently. haven't found a work around at this point. Anyone else?
Anything worthwhile takes time.

I'd suggest you find a topic you are passionite about, check out what apps are already available, grab a few and learn from their mistakes.
But that's the fault of the shopper for not policing their information properly, in this case it wasn't Honan's fault that his last 4 leaked. The last 4 still shouldn't be given out over the phone, ever, most companies have a policy of not confirming any card detail on their system on the phone in the UK.
Under the DMCA they're not permitted to just ignore takedown requests. This is hardly the first time stuff like this has happened.
The checkmark he's talking about is only used to bypass the password verification on your mac -- there's no password or passphrase sent to Apple at any point.

What happens when a user tries to log in without Apple ID is the mac sends a request to Apple: "Is this password valid for this apple id?". If Apple replies positively, the login request is accepted and the user is allowed access to the system.

See how this doesn't work for Filevault? Since Filevault encrypts the encryption key with the users' password, and the password itself isn't known to Apple, this checkbox can't be used to decrypt the drive.

The main vulnerability here is that it can allow access to a Filevault-enabled system that still has the decryption key in memory -- as is the case by default for any mac that goes to sleep. Either the checkbox shouldn't disappear if you enable filevault, or they should make the decision to disable AppleID-based authentication when Filevault is enabled (which is probably what they tried to do).

If you want your system to really be secure, you need to disable the RAM-based sleep, so that the RAM contents are written to your Filevaulted disk before shutting down completely.
Google’s New Feature: Data Locking on Spreadsheets and More Effective Search...
There is a great news for the Google Docs users, as editing the file with other in real-time is just so easy that it can be done in minutes.
A presentation about design that shows instead of tells is hardly condescending! This is not an infographic. An infographic is a summary, this is a point-by-point walkthrough of the meaning of each design element.

P.S. Form over function is not evil.
There's a large area of legal philosophy around those kinds of questions. Pragmatism vs. formalism in judging is one split that's sometimes identified, with "formalism" being closer to a view that the law is a precise set of procedures that must be followed mechanically, and "pragmatism" closer to the view that the law is a set of principles that must be applied using common sense to reach equitable outcomes. Lots of other positions as well, around that "what is law, anyway" question.

There are some attempts to formalize something like the pragmatic view, too (oddly enough), in artificial intelligence "legal argumentation" systems, which try to model the back-and-forth of adversarial legal systems, determining when to bring up an argument, how to counter an argument, etc.
Sexting Common Among College Students [Infographics]
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Finished my first node module, what do you think?