skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I see how this is in-keeping with any Unix philosophy I've encountered. "Everything's a file" is good, yes, but this program is needlessly-specific when what it does need not be. This is just a tool for browsing a file hierarchy in which the files happen to be GPG encrypted, right?

Which one thing is this doing and doing well? Merely being command-line and somewhat file-oriented does not make Unix orientation. The utility has numerous sub-commands, many of which are simply wrappers for other commands, like find(1) or tree(1). An encrypted file-system or some other way of encrypting the password hierarchy would seem to be exactly all the value this adds over simply using the extant set of Unix command-line tools. Most of this functionality simply duplicates the shell and cat(1).

It doesn't do one thing and well, it seems to do a small number of very general tasks in needlessly-specialized ways requiring arcane and unfamiliar incantations. The password generation stuff makes a fine stand-alone Unix utility. But git integration in the same program?

This is a front-end which brings with it a considerable number of ideas about policy, rather than simply providing a tool. Most of what it does could be handled much more simply by the filesystem and the extant tools it leverages or reimplements.
Work as waiters and barristas and software developers until their art pays the bills. Just like now.
The right way in my mind is to start over with bootstrap and make this something I can grok. 100's of aspx files are not the way to make this app. Too much premature complexity.
This looks more elegant than the hacked-together system I'm using for my passwords, but I don't see a way to store any metadata about the passwords other than the name.

If you're looking for a command-line interface to a cross-platform password database, there's kpcli for keepassx.

http://kpcli.sourceforge.net/

http://www.keepassx.org/

http://search.cpan.org/~rhandom/File-KeePass-0.03/lib/File/K...
>> The reason you prefer OSX (or almost anything else in your life) is because you've been conditioned to

>> I have introduced younger relatives to computers in mid-2000s using only Ubuntu. After years of daily Gnome 2.x use they find both OSX and Windows incredibly "retarded" and hard to us

You are refuting your own arguments. eg How can your nephews like Linux if they have not had marketing to condition them?
they were saying that it's only been 7 months since it was funded. It's not a year later with no PopSockets.
funny it makes me wonder how much of "php is easy to get started with" actually translates to "php is correctly indexed by google"
The point of pointing out the dates is to demonstrate that it has been less than a year, which contradicts the text of the article.
Agreed. Its too bad kickstarters just can't sell super-minority shares with a nominal face value. So if they are trying to raise 50K, just sell a 1% share of the company for $50K (so each share is a $1 say, and there are 5M shares).

It would make the process much more enticing from the funding side, since you could feel you were perhaps getting in on the ground floor of something significant.

There are other complexities that prevent this however, for instance SEC regs would certainly get in the way (only qualified investors, proper risk disclosure, etc etc).
I've had a lot of success with web games, you can read about it here: http://blog.method.ac/advice/traction.html
Can distributed development be agile?
One of my pet peeves about Kickstarter is that they considered funded projects successful projects and it's difficult to know what percentage of projects are actually successful in the sense that they delivered the goods (or even see a list of them).

That said, I did just buy my first batch of Stack Soap, which was a Kickstarter-funded venture. nifty.
I actually think jail breaking is a bad thing because it enables piracy and diminishes the appeal of less controlling alternatives.

But I also think that it should be legal to do the kind of hacking you do so I support the method if not the results.
Small semi-relevant tip:

The slideshow after "Here's what it looks like" shouldn't alternate directions for the transition animation. You should make the screenshot come in from one direction if you press next and the other direction if you press back. This improves visual feedback for the user.
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I feel like they are counting on projects to fail in protracted collapses, rather than a shocking sudden failure.

I would rather they get much much more proactive about explaining to people what they are signing up for.
Emile, first: this looks great, and congratulations!

As somebody working on an online marketplace-style project in my spare time, I'd be interested to know: do you feel as though two months of sales data is enough to work out whether your growth is sustainable? Was there a specific "Eureka!" moment at which you realised it would be worth taking this full-time? Do you have a good way to predict sales growth over the next few months?
Reddit’s database DOESN'T has only two tables.
Lotta facets of unix philosophy.
It manages passwords and it does that well. "pass -c HN/ralphtinner", and then my password is on the clipboard for 45 seconds. That's nice.

From TFA, the password generation is via pwgen.

Encrypted filesystems often require root privs or SUID helpers and don't have straight-forward ways to do key management and key expiration. This tool relies on gpg's already working agent.
"Here's the thing: Even a completely perfectly managed coal plant does more damage over it's operational lifetime than the nightmare scenario at Fukushima." and "Coal plants worldwide kill half a million people per year from direct effects"

I tried to find some kind of data on this and the estimate is that coal power kills ~13,200 people each year in the US as of 2010. That's about a third of the number of people killed each year in car accidents and a sixth or so of Diabetes deaths.

http://www.catf.us/resources/publications/files/The_Toll_fro...

But a well-engineered coal plant perfectly run in the land of Theory (next to the well-run and well-engineered nuclear plants) sequesters its CO2 and its coal is mined by robots, right?

If nuclear is so safe, why is it impossible to get private insurance for nuclear power plants?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_new_nuclear_power_... (nuclear plants only have a tiny proportion of their liabilities covered by private insurance, they require state guarantees or no-one would ever build one).

No-one knows how bad the downside may be so it's impossible to gauge the risk. If a coal power plant is hit by a tornado, an earthquake, a tsunami, and a wildfire all on the same day the maximum downside is no more coal power plant.

Nuclear plants kill a lot of people from direct/indirect effects too. Uranium doesn't grow on trees and jump into reactors by itself. It's funny how the pro-nuclear crowd likes to wave away (a) legacy plants, (b) geopolitical issues (e.g. uranium mined unsafely in third world countries), (c) proliferation, (d) spent fuel storage, (e) transportation, and so on and so forth, and then tally up lung cancer, people run over by dump trucks at mines, and so on for coal.

"Yes, the damage done by the coal plant is more diffuse. But it is not less than the damage done by Fukushima to the ocean and to eastern japan."

I simply don't know how much damage Fukushima has done and will do in the future. Do you? Wait until we find out what happens to the spent fuel at Fukushima and whether it successfully rolls the dice with aftershocks.
As an aside, which thinkpad did you go with? I bought a macbook air thinking I could easily replace OS X with linux but almost bricked the thing due to EFI issues (rEFIT wasn't any help and actually caused the problem). I'm thinking of going with a thinkpad next time around but not sure which one as I've never had one before. X1 Carbon looked promising but battery life is a bit disappointing.
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This was exactly what I was trying to avoid. I don't want this big behemoth. I want something small and easy and simple. A file for each password. If I want additional data, I can just use multiline. Or, I can establish a .meta convention if I please. Or this, or that, or whatever. It's simple, and can be used in a million different mashups.
Kickstarter projects are different from traditional investments because the absolute best case for consumers is that they get the product they were promised.

If the project succeeds in a big way and spawns a successful company the project creators who reap 100% of the benefit. Whereas for investors failures are balanced out by the successes.
Organizations would not pass the Turing test
The Linux internal APIs are things that can only be used to construct kernel modules & components - derivative works that make the kernel function differently or support more hardware. Windows/Apple 'internal' APIs enable Apple & Microsoft to create applications with features or performance not available to competitors.
So far nuclear power plants cause a big problem with probability ~1 -- we can't reclaim the sites they're built on and we can't safely dispose of the waste. And these problems are going to last longer than any system of government we've ever created has lasted.
Yakuza kill people on a regular basis. Like most well organized criminal organizations they avoid injuring "civilians" only because of the attention it would draw to them.

This past weekend a man was beaten to death in one of the larger clubs in the foreign nightclub area. 10 guys walked into a bar with baseball bats, two minutes later they get into a van and drive away. They will never be caught. http://japandailypress.com/man-beaten-to-death-in-roppongi-c...

To understand how brazen this attack was, its the equivalent to walking into McDonalds in the middle of Times Square with baseball bats and mask and beating someone to death. There are police all over this area. The nearest police station is a 3 minute walk from where this happened.
From the few kickstarter projects I've seen, it seems that there's a lot of people who underestimate the costs of producing hardware and shipping it.

I'm reminded of the story of the guy contracted to write an iOS game. The game itself was trivial to code and he had it up in no time. But then he had to add the menu overlay, high score system, save system, so on and so forth. It's the same with hardware - prototyping is expensive and takes a long time, and you have to think of a ton of corner cases before you make a sample item. Sometimes your plastics or metalworks subcontractor takes weeks or even months to return samples. And if you didn't get it right first time, rinse, repeat.
Please, oh please, list the price in the list pages.
Failing Kickstarter projects reminded me of a blog post by Matt Haughey: "Lessons for Kickstarter creators from the worst project I ever funded on Kickstarter"

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2012/01/lessons-for-kickstart...
I was just recently looking for a simple password manager for Ubuntu, and Seahorse is so close. It unlocks with your login key so if you're logged in you don't have to keep entering a master password each time you need to retrieve a password; it stores everything in one easily-copyable encrypted file; and it's a core part of GNOME. But you can't store any metadata about the password, like a username! And that makes it completely useless as a serious password storage interface. What good is a password if you can't easily store the username along with it?

If only someone would update Seahorse to store optional metadata along with passwords...
That's a million dollar domain you got there.

Tindie, really catchy. I wish you the best.
So it takes Gnome Do and makes it more complex?

No. I had doubts last year about the wisdom of Canonical starting from scratch with Unity rather than just building on GNOME Do (see http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2011/04/ubuntu-11-04-everything-ol...), but the last couple of releases have put my doubts to rest. Unity is everything GNOME Do is/was, but now with the possibility to extend even further into things like the new HUD (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/HUD), which does to application menu bars what Unity does to application lists.

They get grumpy whenever anything is different at all in which icons are shown and in what order. Their allegations that I broke something weeks after I accidentally left, say, a copy of unzip on their desktop is of course laughable at best

You seem to be under the impression that the Unity desktop can't have icons/files/launchers/etc. on it. It can, mine does. It's accessible via the usual "Desktop" folder in your home directory.

If you know the name of the application, it can find it. But if you don't, it doesn't map keywords to application names. It would be impossible to maintain appropriate keywords for all applications in Debian (and by extension, Ubuntu) so it doesn't.

You're incorrect here too. Unity does support searching by keywords, and all you need to do to hook into it is create a standard freedesktop.org-style .desktop file for the app (http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/a...) and fill in the "Keywords" field inside it. Unity will pick up those keywords and use them when searching in the application lens. Most of the commonly used applications already have the most obvious keywords provided for them.

(Putting the keywords in the desktop entry file means that Ubuntu/Canonical don't have to maintain a master list of keywords for every application; app developers can just provide relevant keywords for their app in the DE file they ship, and users can tune them if needed just by editing the DE file.)

I get the feeling from your complaints that you checked out Unity briefly early in its lifecycle and haven't checked back in on it lately. You should try it again now, you might be pleasantly surprised.
This is a ridiculous assertion.

First of all, "organic farming" doesn't preclude you from treating sick animals with antibiotics, if necessary, nor does it prevent you from vaccinating. (Sick animals are required to be held back for a specified period before entering the food chain.) What it does attempt to prevent is animals being fed prophylactic antibiotics, which is a major cause of antibiotic resistant bacterial strains.

Second, organically raised animals are not festering with disease. My wife and I have hundreds of healthy, organically raised animals on our farm. For example, in the last summer we have grown, processed and sold over 500 chickens which we have lost ZERO to illness.

Animals raised in humane, low stress (and the low stress is key) situations GET SICK VERY INFREQUENTLY. It's in situations where they are concentrated in industrial settings (ie. chicken broiler barns or cattle feed lots) that the stress kicks in, suppresses immune system function and you end up with sick animals that get fed antibiotics to cover up the symptoms.
Both UniVerse and UniData are equally well supported on Windows, Unix and Linux. They have some interesting features that are still reasonably unique in the database world. E.g. Built-in transparent record encryption, including both key & index.
http://2012.nosql-matters.org/cgn/wp-content/uploads/2012/06...
Full disclosure: I'm the product manager for the databases.
If [a Kickstarter] project succeeds in a big way and spawns a successful company, it's the project creators who reap 100% of the benefit.

I'm completely fine with that. Could it be any different? Maybe, but changing the Kickstarter equation may also have the consequence of killing the magic that makes it currently work.
This peripheral is a good example of innovation that was way ahead of the market. There probably was a market opportunity when the Beadazzler was the nation's favorite "As-seen-on-TV" gadget. Even if it were to be released today for the Wii/360/PS3, the R&D costs would likely far exceed the revenues that it would take in.
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When there is an 'obvious' answer, its always useful to ask the question "Hmm, zip ties would have been easier/quicker than knots, do they know something I don't?"

It is the 'curious' response.

If you have used zip ties in adverse conditions you would immediately know they suffer from two huge issues, the first is that under stress the ratchet nib can break and they release, the second is that on a strength to volume and strength to weight ratio they are grossly inferior to any number of threads.

So for something you are sending very far away, and for which you have to put 4.3 ounces of launch system together for every ounce you want to land on the surface, mass and volume add up, and you can't really go out and replace a broken one can you?
Wow, din't know there was a market that sells these kinds of mockups. Thought the guy built it using a 3d printer or some. Thank you for the link. It does look awfully similar to the Mockup #01 from that page.
This seems like such a bad idea... certs exist in repos for very good reasons.
Only a fraction of companies can ever really outgrow the capabilities of a fully tuned RDMS. And only a fraction of those will choose HBase over its competitors. And so only people who have worked for such companies have any real experience with the product... and only a fraction of those are vocal about it on the internet.
Especially given the 'US based have to live in / move to SF' part.

Wasn't this company kicked out of the US because they couldn't sort out visas for the team? If so, why would they require someone to be in SF or any other market if they're not there as an organization? It almost sounds like they're trying to setup a "presence" in SF via a new hire. Given that and the low salary this sounds more like a co-founder role, not an employee.

So on the low end of the scale you're looking at 50k (a salary I can't even imagine for the Bay Area) for full time work plus what, handing out business cards at events?

Pure speculation of course, but since this company was once in TC for not being able to stay in SF asking for SF-based employees only is weird at best.

Also, given that this is a feature company built on Twitter and Facebook I'd say any equity deal is extra risky. It sounds like they haven't run afoul of Twitter's guidelines yet. That doesn't mean Twitter won't change their mind next week.
>So, we believe Qubes OS represents a reasonably secure OS.

>(...) But then again, I'm biased, of course ;)

At least, they are honest heh
I can't get my Gnome2 with Compiz to do focus follows mouse either. How?
Science and scholarship as a whole are creative processes, just like invention is.

>Invention on the other hand is a concept rooted in taking a knowledge base and using it to create something new.

Replace "invention" with "science" and this sentence remains true.

You're drawing a distinction that doesn't exist.
Tell that to the companies that have patented genetic sequences.
To interpret his comment any other way than I did, is to ignore the broader ideological context.

Is more to ignore the rest of the speech. He goes on to say - "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together." - which doesn't sound as though he is claiming that you can't take credit for building a business, just that you can't take all the credit.

Now, I am no fan of Obama (Or roughly 90% of politicians, for that matter), but to try and make out that he was claiming that no-one can take credit for their business, when he clearly states that success comes from individual initiative, is disingenuous at best.
>There are other complexities that prevent this however, for instance SEC regs would certainly get in the way (only qualified investors, proper risk disclosure, etc etc).

Not to mention, as I understand it, there are some pretty strict rules about how you a company is allowed to solicit investments, and the Kickstarter format would be in violation of approximately all of them.
Makes sense. I am trying to pick something for a similar use case and android+tablet hardware at first seem perfect and I thought, "oh, I'll just disable the home button" but unfortunately that is not possible. That would completely mess up the basic use case of Android -- to run mostly isolated apps on a consumer smart phones, allowing any app to lock the screen would kind of break that.

(NOTE: one way to hack it maybe is to encase the tablet in another box and cover the bottom bar, haven't tried that).
FYI, I had a follow up question, but ended up deciding it was best to email you personally, I hope my email finds you well. Thanks again for everything!
Today might have been a good day to go on Hacker News.
Server Side: I plan to copy those that scaled before me, a mixmash of: pinterest http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/5/21/pinterest-architec... , reddit: http://kev.inburke.com/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables... , and instagram: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/16/instagram-architec... architectures.

The previous devs managed to get everything tightly coupled at the design stage, which is why I think their implementation efforts failed.

The plan for now is to seperate the existing code into layers and decide what to do from there.
While I'm no longer a member of the wonderful team at Beanstalk, I can tell you for certain that this comment is appreciated.

Happy to answer any questions about Beanstalk Deployments which is my personal favorite part of the system: http://beanstalkapp.com/features/deployments
I generally just ask friends, I spent 4 years in academia after getting my PhD in applied mathematics, I used to work with equations from magnetohydrodynamics. I got a couple of friends in academia in fields as diverse as oncology, economics, history and physics.

Generally I'm not interested in new papers or new findings, I'm generally just try to master the basis of a new science every couple of months to understand the more stuff complicated stuff and this my friends always can provide.
That issue is solved here using GPG. Presuming you know how GPG works, your golden. Groking GPG is an issue, however -- it's an app that is not exactly user friendly.

For me, I love this, because I can secure passwords using my private key, stored on a GPG card. Of course, there are probably less than 250 people on earth doing that. :)
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Hopefully you're able to fashion pass into storing the data you want? I don't like using my login key as a passphrase; seems flimsy, and I don't like having to use PAM tie-ins and whatnot when I change the system password. GPG has gpg-agent, so that it will keep the key decrypted for a set amount of time (or until logout, if you prefer), so this has pretty much the same function.

Most importantly, a simple GPG file is not an obscure file format.
I'm happy I switched to cars even though horses served my ancestors quite well ;-) Still, I'll agree with you that not all releases are better. Let's hope that Textmate 2 will live up to its potential.
Fabrice Bellard does it again.
Does anyone have any experience with an EEG headset like the one described in the article, that they can recommend? Do they work as audio input devices or are they independent input devices? Do they usually come with open source drivers or libraries in case of the latter? Seems like an interesting thing to tinker with.
Ask HN: Any reason to get WHOISGuard?
All I've found in the past is this makes it a pain in the ass to kill the domain. Any good reason to use this? That is, if you're doing something you don't mind your name attached to.
That's the worlds S L O W E S T website.
Is it worthwhile to have a arbitrary unrelated display ads on the blog of the proprietor of a commercial app? Seems bizarrely off-message. But I guess you could use instapaper to avoid the ad distraction.
I agree -- its even stranger when you consider that the commercial success that Linux has had on the server side doesn't really impact Microsoft. Linux killed commercial UNIX.