skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have ideas, get them out there.

Trial by jury works pretty well. Instead of a public hearing by interested parties, a random bunch of citizens could be tasked with reviewing the process, with a skilled arbitrator (like a judge) ensuring submissions by special interest group are done in a fair way.
Please try this today. It's one main reason The Times uses it on their Crossword product...

This is safe on a public computer or shared device, if you logout.

Persona also has some UI around public versus personal devices.
This is totally going to be cool for use while riding my bike to work. I've been toying with the idea of exploring new paths on my 11 mile commute and this gives me a way to map them all out and the incentive to do so.
Create the future of the Web with Filepicker.io (YC S12)
There’s work, and then there’s your life’s work: to create the things of substance that you go to bed thinking about, to earn the respect of your peers because you built the foundations of the products they use, the frighteningly ambitious ideas. Imagine being one of the creators of HTTP.

We are building a suite of APIs that help developers build the web and mobile applications of the future by making interoperability a first-class citizen and an expectation, not an add-on.

To achieve this, we’re looking for exceptional web engineers, both front-end javascript experts and platform engineers, with an expectation of both depth of expertise and breadth of capability. As a founding employee, you will be one of the people who started it, who shaped the company, who created the movement, rather than someone who just worked there.

What you can expect from us:
- A team that will push you to produce your best possible work, and then some.
- A culture that values personal growth alongside growth of the company. You will wear many hats, work on the problems that excited you, and take on challenges you never dreamed of.
- A company that is passionate about achieving a mission, not an aquihire
- Coworkers that care deeply about your happiness and well-being. We’re in this together.
- Whatever you need to be your most productive. Help relocating to SF, unlimited equipment budget and time off to recharge
- Enough salary to take the concern of money off your mind, and equity measured in percents, not shares

What we expect from you:
- A passion for getting your hands dirty and building things.
- Exceptional programming ability. You should be the person people go to when they have challenges they can't solve. The team is polyglot, and you'll be expected to work across languages and product areas.
- Ownership mentality. You'll be taking your ideas from concept to launch, making and owning the hard decisions along the way. You wouldn't have it any other way
- A personality that strives to constantly improve and thrives on open and direct communication
- A deep-seated and unignorable desire to create the future of the web

If you or someone you know is interested, email me at brett@filepicker.io with a unix command you think is particularly clever, i.e. tee or git bisect
Notch doesn’t hate Windows 8, he’s just confused
Not going to happen imho: how will a self-driving car change the fact that stopping distance increases with speed?

Consideration for (unexpected) pedestrians (children etc) and cyclists seems to the primary motivation for low speed limits on residential side streets. I think that makes sense.
The Lowest Fare? Ask the Crowd
Thankfully, the world does not depend on Google to move decentralized trust for TLS forward; since it's mostly a UX change, and it's confined to a very small part of the TLS stack (the verification of server certificates), it can be retrofit over existing infrastructure with neither changes in server software nor major changes to browsers. We can probably do it via plugins.
very cool, though that Explored Area status bar is probably going to be stuck at 0.001% (or less) for a while... I wonder what surface you "discover" when you're standing in place - I'm guessing around 300 m^2?
I would love to pay $.99 for this, but at $5.49 it's too expensive for me recommend to all my friends.
Plus I would, generally, rather pay somebody to care about something like this; $10/mo gives me an expectation of at least the same class of customer service that a normal telco would - i.e. not particularly effective, but a great improvement on the yawning void of google's support for free products.
> even young teachers are typically state employees with exceptionally high job security and exceptionally low competition

This is definitely no longer true in Austria. For the first couple of years of their career, young teachers are usually hired on a contract basis. If they are not needed the following year, their contract is simply not renewed.

Together with the infamously bad ability by Austrian schools and school administration to estimate demand for the following years, I've heard horror stories of teacher who didn't know at the end of August whether or not they will have a job in September.

That said, at the moment there seems to be a shortage of teachers, caused by the attempts of the last decade or so to steer people away from becoming teachers (because we have too many ...). So with a decent choice of subjects it shouldn't be too hard to find a job.
So, according to you, the problem of drivers regularly doing 50 mph in a 25 mph zone need not be resolved "immediately"?

When should it be resolved?
When playing a rts game, the map is revealed once you discover it. Fog of war refers to not being able to view the game map.
That's what the Perspectives plugin for Firefox (http://perspectives-project.org/) does, but, as with all these things, it probably won't see wide adoption until it's implemented in a browser by default (and it's good enough that it will have very few false positives or negatives).
In fact, I did came up with this idea one year ago.

My idea was to cover the whole world with fog of war, and to make people team up to discover the world. There would be challenges, where you would pay like 0.50$ to participate, and then big reward for the first team achieving the challenge.

My idea was a free app with paying challenges. Uncovering 25% of the world ? $1 challenge, 20k$ reward. It's a really easy win. People tend to like these kind of idea, they would contact their friend abroad to team up with them, then pay to join the challenge, etc.

I finally decided, after 3months of thoughts, not to realize this project. It's currently impossible to rely confidently on geolocalisation data from any mobile device. People could cheat from iPhone dev. simulator, etc.

Well, kudos to people who did it ! Different from my idea, but anyway. Now that it's been done, I can finally explain the idea I had ! :)
The Benefits of a University Education Over Self-education
The Financial Times has great journalism. It costs me $300+/year. I also love The Economist. It costs $100+/year. They could both probably hike rates without a noticeable attrition is readers.

Luckily for me there is a market for premium financial journalism (the recognisable sources cited poll at the lower end of the spectrum in terms of annual cost). For other types of news, however, my willingness to pay for quality is too small a market. In the space left behind we get people cribbing about news aggregators and paywalls.
In strategy games, there is a fog over areas where you have no vision (ie places you dont have any units that can see exactly what is happening at that moment). This introduces uncertainty and allows for more strategy based on positioning and vision.

This is based on a real military concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_of_war
Show HN: I was frustrated with programming interviews, so I made this.
Cool idea, but I think my life will be way longer than the lifetime of this app.

I think I could do something similar in an open format that will still be accessible in 50 years: an image of the world map, with an alpha channel that has pixels where I've been made opaque.
I just finished reading this book: "SSL and TLS: Designing and Building Secure Systems"[1] and I now have a _much_ better understanding of how SSL works, what security it provides, how it provides it, and when and where to use it.

It is a thorough read and not the easiest, but you can always pick and choose what chapters you're interested in. I highly recommend it. You can buy it from Amazon here (not an affiliate link):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201615983/

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201615983/
In (particularly real-time) strategy games the map is often hidden or grayed out at the beginning of a match beneath a "fog of war". As you move your units around the map the area in their vision is revealed. This is particularly important as there may be enemies/objectives in sections of the map which are unexplored.
like AdSense bans are anything new, yet another news about it on HN, coincidence or..?
> Another Python feature that makes upgrades hard is monkeypatching

You can't alter core classes (like str) in Python, and patching classes from other modules is considered a really weird, rare, bad practice.
I believe they do as well. It actually dawned on me while crafting this letter that Forstall has two misses in the last year - Siri and Maps. Then this article came out: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/29/does-apple-have-a-sco...
Aside from pylint which everyone has already mentioned, there's also pyflakes.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyflakes
Interesting. I was thinking the same thing. Everytime I decide to depend on ios4 maps (pre-debacle) for active usage (while driving), I end up getting lost because it was horribly offcourse. Other than offline direction search, I learnt not to depend on it. So technically, other than the Schadenfreude, I dont really have a lot of problem with ios6 maps since I can fireup maps.google.com for maps/directions
I have a TomTom. And the first error I see in their data is 200 feet from my house.

Gargade in, garbage out.
Yes. And I should've added a note at the beginning that instead of a public letter, it should've been internal (like Steve's).
How about posting that on the site? Quite concise, and looks like a good answer to me.
Of course everyone should do things exactly the way that you do. All workplaces, employers, and employees should be identical.

What works for you is great. I am happy for you.
Node JS's domain has expired.
Out of every person I have ever met that uses Dropbox, I don't know of a single person that cares about music encoding or picture resizing.
... you mean a travel agent?
Everybody knows by now that the maps are no good. I think that at this point the rage and anger is about overpromising and knowingly shipping an unfinished product of insufficient quality, something Apple has never (arguably) done before.

As it says in the article, the same could be applied to Siri but Siri came with the "beta" warning label, a lot of people understand that voice recognition and that kind of pseudo-AI is really hard, and it was better than anything competitors had to offer, which, obviously, is not the case with maps.
In case the dev is reading these: typo in bullet 6 at bottom

>It is recommended to use a separate GPS device to record your tracks. This would save beattery life of your iOS device and avoid GPS signal loss when Internet connection is unavailable.

Otherwise, looks batteful.
Among others, tptacek has mentioned in a few threads that providing founders/employees with healthcare is a significant problem for early-stage, small companies, especially for bootstrappers, and for people trying to freelance (it becomes easier if you're large-ish, where you can negotiate a group plan).

Since this discussion is primarily about entrepreneurialism in Europe, I'll note that most, if not all, of the major economies in Europe have socialised healthcare systems. There are also, at least in the UK, various rules that apply to employers in general but have built-in limitations or outright exceptions for businesses with only a small number of people.

There certainly are hurdles to taking on new staff here, but often it's more about getting rid of employees rather than day-to-day overheads while they're employed. In particular, the difficulty of firing even someone who is severely underperforming is notorious in many of these economies, which makes the risk of taking someone on in the first place proportionately greater.
Fosrtall is the kind of guy who would sell you a used car and hit on your wife.
> Even when the system is fully supported without fallbacks,
> hacking person's email account will grant the attacker
> ability to log into all websites as the victim?

With or without Persona/BrowserID, your email account(s) is the key for logging into a whole bunch of other Web services, since it is already used for resetting passwords and such. Persona/BrowserID does not solve this problem.

The big picture is that it makes distributed identity easy for the average user to grok.
"Apple is not a bullet list company."

You do realize that I copied Steve's MobileMe letter... and replaced MobileMe with Maps? I think Steve knows what kind of company Apple is and he used bullets.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2008/08/steve-jobs-on-mobileme-...
As someone who screens a lot of resumes; it's a good short overview and it's relevant. Github/open source projects/online qualifications don't show all there is to experience. Sure if someone started a bunch of projects to try to right the wrongs in the software world then this is a good sign. But if that person doesn't have or believes he/she doesn't need a resume then that's not a good sign. A resume is often a first line of defense; there will be a stack of them and those are screened pretty quickly at most companies. Something needs to attract enough attention to even check out your github and online qualifications. Your github account right there in your list mobile/email/skype/github is a pre, even if it's empty though :)
"The problem is that I have no idea how to tell employers that those (SO, GH, etc) are the places to look if they want an accurate description of what I can do."

So you are looking for a concise and centralized resource for listing your qualifications for a job. And you are asking if a resume is still relevant? It seems like the way to tell employers about your github, SO, udacity, etc, profiles is to list them on your resume.
500 words is good, 750 words is better:

http://750words.com (Love this site, love maintaining a streak and earning badges)

Even better would be 10,000 words a day...

http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-i-went-from-... (This post inspired me to write my first novel)

I haven't reached 10,000 words a day, but I was able to sustain 4,000 words a day long enough to finish my first novel:

http://www.syncingdreams.com/2012/06/dragon-master-post-mort...

Now I'm supposed to be doing the next one. So I'll go do that now.
just to add that perspectives also has a chrome alpha - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lnppfgdnjafeikakad...

[kinda frustrating that the solution to many of these issues is sitting here at the bottom of the thread!]
Depends on what stack you're working with, and the associated broad engineering culture. I haven't hired anyone who didn't have a Github repo in 2 years, out of 18+ FTEs and contractors - but we're a Rails/Scala/node shop building fancy web apps for startups. Not having a huge OSS track record is fine, but not having a Github account at all would be kinda weird these days. If we were doing embedded systems stuff or financial modeling software or game development, probably a lot less relevant. The "show us your Github, not your resume" line in a lot of job posts is more about the specific engineering culture in a particular kind of startup development, not a hard and fast rule for every software firm everywhere.

That said, if you're a Rails developer and you don't have a Github account, I'm still probably not going to read your resume.
Just out of curiosity, would you be willing to say what your hourly wage is?
Scott Forstall, the Sorcerer's Apprentice at Apple (October 2011)
Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics
Why not port your landline to Google Voice and then forward for free?
>Instead of spending hours writing code for each company that you're interviewing with, you can just write code that you're actually interested in and throw it online.

Maybe, but I bet you'll still have to spend hours writing to code in order to prove that you wrote and understand the code, rather than copying it.
Oh, thanks, I looked for that on the site but didn't spot it.
Some of the most interesting developers can't talk about what they've done.

You'll never see the flight computer system of an F-16, but it's probably a much cooler project to work on than an iPhone app. Or nuclear reactor engineering.

Is a resume relevant in this day and age? As a device to portray the best of what you've accomplished yes. For a few people, the answer will be no, that's best done through portfolios like github and open source projects.

In the end, everything old will be new again but with a twist.
Are we hypocrites when it comes to free speech?
I agree with the commenters on SE that say "Thomas Pornin will have the best answer". While I absolutely understand the utility of SE's competition to produce the best message, I find it destroys any interest I have in contributing to the site.
I told my dad to get that magic jack plus.
I am actually a fan of well written resumes. The problem is that a resume is not a CV or even a listing of all skills/qualifications of an applicant. A resume should be a highlight reel of the skills/experience/qualifications of the applicant THAT PERTAIN TO THE JOB BEING APPLIED FOR. The cover letter then explains how those skills go together and what the applicant is looking for. Github, open source projects, web sites, examples, etc. are supporting evidence once they've gone from an unqualified lead to a qualified lead. But that's the difference that people seem to forget, a large majority of job positions are filled from unqualified leads and spending 20 minutes per applicant with nothing indicating they even have the minimal skills necessary.
I think that lawyers are paid to cover all the bases, and most of those bases don't need covering in the first 9 months of a tech company's life.

Interesting perspective. To me, a major benefit of consulting a lawyer is often that they can give me an informed opinion of when I need to care about which legal matters. Put another way, I'd say a lawyer who is covering all the bases even when some of them don't need covering now and missing them out won't create serious problems for later probably is a bad lawyer.
Strange, I was using this the other day for the TI Launchpad-based project I'm working on.
Interesting, I'll look into it!
There's an hour long video discussing the measures taken to protect the user's privacy, given by Ben Adida, one of the developers. It's 12 months old, but I believe the protocol hasn't changed enough to make the information out of date.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDSh3osE4GQ

Also, see this blog post:

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7899984443/privacy-and-brow...
Well I guess I explained the history too briefly. Our neighbors don't drive down the hill too fast. Unfortunately, the new gated community that was built recently has a primary exit at the top of our street. The fastest way for these SUV drivers to get to the freeway is through our neighborhood. Our street is no longer a dead-end for our neighbors. Its now the primary traffic route for an entire community. So I'm "acting" like people just started driving fast down our hill in the last few years because, yes, that is true. In 2005 they did not. In 2008 they did.

Now, there is another route, along a major roadway, with a higher speed limit and more lanes. But its not a direct route and is 0.8 miles longer. I doubt that the quality of life of this new community would be severely impacted if they were "encouraged" to take this existing route.
Yep, I just looked at the pinouts on the larger one and its very likely that they kept the same out-of-spec spacing as the Arduino Uno.
Source? And what makes your circle of friends/family any more reliable than mine?
This looks really nice. I recently switched to Android (which, in my mind, with version 4.1 finally is able to compete with iOS in smoothness/stability while vastly surpassing it in features and usability), so I'm hopeful for an Android version.

An Android version would also bring added benefits of smarter/less battery intensive background operation which could make this run all the time. Constant GPS-monitoring like Latitude or this seems to run way better on Android for some reason.
This is neat, I wish Google Latitude had it. For that matter, I wish Google Latitude had any useful visual representation of the 2+ years' worth of location data I've been feeding it. =|
Just FYI us VCs aren't sitting around just hoping some rube will come by who is not incorporated so we know we can take advantage of him in a negotiation.

Our model isn't leveraged around finding naive people to take advantage of. No price is cheap enough for a bad team or deal...
When I used to live in SF, I would always go on walks and explore the city. I found that it would take several visits before I could fully remember the details of a new route or area, but once I knew that place I would move onto a new area. This was enjoyable and I got to see the innards of a beautiful city.

Now this? Congratulations, you have turned a peaceful and enjoyable experience into a slot machine. Now rather than enjoying where I am, I can enjoy hearing my phone go DING! You will lose all connection to the places you go. Rather than rely on my own memory, which takes a few trips, I will just go to a neighborhood once, cross it off my checklist and probably never go back. Because going back wont give me the exp I need to level up and release endorphins.

Gamifaction is the public relations term for addiction.

Anyway, get off my lawn, yada yada...
1) Was the staff fire or not. That would be pretty easy to check. You instead of saying this is a rumor would have made a better argument by actually checking then coming back and posting "yeah well actually it was exactly 40% that was fired not 50% like he mentioned".

2) see 1)
> "news is ... at a fast and furious pace, without a lot of context, and largely filled with what companies want to get out instead of what they don’t want to get out."

High-quality news with high-quality context and interpretation can only really be generated by highly-paid, extremely educated and learned journalists. And it takes time to research and write -- you can't get quality analysis and context 2 hours after an event.

The best example of quality reporting that comes to mind for weekly news is The Economist. Although there is also some excellent long-form journalism in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, etc. And if we're talking about online, for me the whole point of Instapaper is to bookmark these articles to read later.

And I really don't see how crowd-sourced content is the future for news. Most good Wikipedia articles take months if not years to build up. I just don't see how approaching the quality level of The Economist is possible with crowd-sourcing. The kind of people who have the kind of extreme skills and education to write at that level, do it for a living, not for fun on the Internet.
>Sorry, I don't have any smoking gun emails from Ballmer, just years of observation and common sense. If you want to attribute Microsoft's motives to pure altruism you're free to do so.

No, I was just wondering if a store or OS can be kept free of malware etc. without needing all those certification rules and fees.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/75603/steam-greenlight-adds...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-31-valve-bans-stea...