skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use cloudprint (link: http://www.google.com/cloudprint), you can already save PDFs or any other URL directly to Google Drive. I use this all the time to save online confirmations, receipts, etc.
First of all, run it under it's own dedicated uid to minimise the damage if it does get compromised. Make it so that that uid doesn't have write access to any of the web space, including the files making up that web application. Stick a web application firewall in front of it, like mod_security for Apache. Always keep it patched up to date, including any plugins. Make sure you follow any relevant RSS based changelogs, blogs, mailing lists or Twitter streams etc so you're informed of any security problems.
Is this essentially a Web 2.0/Bay Area issue? I recently went to a Java User Group meeting on the east coast where the presenter and about 60% of the audience....had grey hair.
I think I may have been the 2nd or 3rd youngest person at the meeting and I'm 30....
I'm the 2nd youngest person at my current place of employment in the finance domain. I'm hoping that means by 40 yrs old there will be lot's of work and I can contract for $150/hr or whatever by then as a lot of the brick and mortars are heavily entrenched in the JEE stack and if this board is any indication there will be a dearth of JEE talent . Even in the Java space I can’t say I’ve seen too many 80yr old developers. But at least your career is not dead at 40.
I’ve developed in Python professionally in the past and am teaching myself RoR now for both personal use and I have to admit I like writing in those languages more. But after reading articles like this and going out to San Francisco seeing the environment first hand I have to be honest when saying that I would be a little tentative jumping out there feet first.
I realise these are at first blush, but:

* Scrolling is way too slow. This isn't nitpicking, this is really very important to me

* I like PEP8 warnings and use them in other editors, but I don't like not being able to pick which style stuff I care about

* I don't like the PEP8 tooltips. They cover up my code and that's the worst possible place to put them. Even if I do plan to "fix" the issue, coming up over the code that I'm typing right now is never okay.

* It's really quite a lot of work through some confusing terminology to get a test run of the IDE going on an existing project. I don't want to move my code into your workspace. I don't want to import my existing project (that sounds scary)

* Some glaring bugs seem to indicate that this is more young than is indicated on the very flashy project site. For instance, if I try to import a project but cancel the "select a directory" popup, I inconsistently get it either removing my previous selection or crashing the whole IDE
How Not to Measure the Value of a Like.
It costs me less than ten cents per hour to power my entire house.

You can do anything with simple math and look like an economist, but the reality is that the guy bought a $10 fork.
Where did you get the stats that majority of successful marketers are not within 18-25 age range?
It seems you made a serious mistake -- you assumed that it is the stop and frisk and invasion of privacy and all these other police practices that lowered the crime rate.

How do you know crime rate hasn't been lowered everywhere because of say, global warming?
I feel that this news is a gross violation of Mr. Williamson's privacy.

In most companies, firings are very confidential affairs, and nobody ever needs to know that you were fired (usually, companies have a policy that they will only confirm the dates of employment of a former employee and nothing else).

I understand that it's public news when a large public corporation fires its CEO or perhaps a C-level executive. But I don't think that someone outside that level needs to relinquish their basic privacy rights over their employment history.
There's one on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDlWk_Z7JPQ
Caltech has a PE requirement.
Yes, as Brian mentioned, most of the team is from argentina, as the windows packager, we already take care of that for the next release.
True, though isn't that a data problem and not necessarily an engineering one? While the product manager for maps should have fought for search and transit features, everyone at Apple knew it wasn't there when they released it. Curious why he would have to take the fall for it; when leadership there is so top down, someone higher up must have OK'ed it. Though obviously I know none of the real context of course.
Unfortunately, you are probably going to be right! Anyone know which regions they are supposed to be available again? Sources?
So I'm not a fan of ageism and I wouldn't ascribe it to pg without evidence...

But given the "startup = growth" essay, where he says that only 1 company per cycle makes any difference to YC's returns, I can see the logic behind ageism.

Young people (I'm not one of them anymore) just have more unpredictable outcomes. They are the Black Swans.

The Black Swan theory is that the outliers shape our world. And that has been true in tech for sure -- Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. are all anomalies. These companies grew enormously quickly and were all started by very young and inexperienced men. The two YC success stories that get pointed to -- AirBNB and DropBox -- were also started by the very young and inexperienced.

Older people are perhaps more likely to be successful. But there is less variance in their outcomes. There's the logic in investing -- once you're making money, you're less valuable. Because people know what you're worth. Before you make any money, people can ascribe crazy valuations to you. It will be wrong a lot of the time, but it doesn't matter because the one Black Swan event is what you're looking for. You only have to be right once.
Living on the edge (OSX ML) or How to install Ruby 2.0pre and Rails 4.0pre
> Sure, Apple Maps was pretty bad relative to Google Maps

But that's not how Apple can afford to look at it. It's not just bad relative to Google Maps, but also bad compared to the previous version of Maps on iOS. The end result is it harmed Apple's credibility. With a single "upgrade," functionality that people came to depend on was gone. Completely removed. And don't for a minute think this is just ranting and raving from the tech crowd. There were signs well ahead of the release from people.

Sure, there might have been other issues. With cases like this, their usually are. But these issues resulted in Maps.
I loved this. I admit I did not read Dustin's article, but it sounds like it could have been any one of thousands of fawning techno-fetishist blog posts made over the years.

I think an interesting thing that Moxie touches on tangentially, is that life does not go as planned; things break. Everything breaks, in fact. Learning to recover from failure is often more important (and personally rewarding) than learning to use the tool in the first place. You may choose to get better tools, but given time and use, these too will eventually fail.

Operating with the understanding that everything fails, allows us to be more flexible and pragmatic in our decisions and planning. Assuming that something will never fail only ensures that a disaster will eventually happen, and that you will be unequipped to handle it.
Under what definition. Do they need to just run the content, does having [significant] UGC count as being self-run (I'd warrant not [+ what is significant]). Do they have to run it all down to the bare metal or is a managed server environment allowed. What about regular colo'? Does the site have to run it's own DNS.

No man['s website] is an island.
The C3 acquisition provided only the raw data. A lot of sleepless nights were spent turning that data into a major feature of the application.
Map service data quality improves with more users: more problem reports, more implicit data collection, more incentive for points-of-interest to improve their own listings.

So we'll know Apple is prioritizing service data quality above all else when they come out with an Android client, to get the most possible eyes on their data.
14 Tips on How to Crush a Hackathon. (Bonus: video of my pitches)
If forced to decide between Dustin's reality and Moxie's, I think I'd chose Dustin's. A world made up of overly-reviewed, pretentious gadgets slightly edges out a utilitarian, post-apocalyptic, hellscape Bartertown where people scavenge through wreckage looking for makeshift utensils and clothing. I picture oil drum fires.

Thankfully, I am not limited by those choices. I can continue to do what I already do, which is decide the level of attention that things require of me, optimize the ones I choose to, and not spend inordinate amounts of time fretting about the others.
Monkey-Patching iOS with Objective-C: Adding Instance Properties
Darpa finds the best sentry is a man-machine hybrid
Thee "best" and "worst" are subjective. You need to define criteria for what makes something the best. In Dustin's case maybe it was the total blend of style and function. But for many people, that isn't what makes it the best. The best may be the one that has intricate designs and costs a huge amount of money to manufacture. The rarity, design, and expense makes it the best.
Microsoft releases Outlook.com email app for Android, and it sure looks outdated
This story reminds me of Steve Job's take on the difference between a Vice President and a janitor.

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-the-difference-...
Well, they haven't fixed the Play Store. Page currently alternating between "SOLD OUT" and "Add to cart" with subsequent refreshes; clicking the latter just goes to https://play.google.com/store/cart?costatus=INVALID_REQUEST (with an error message).
these blogspot dynamic themes are a pile of turd. they even override some key binds which redirect to other posts. overengineered piece of crap. google groups are barely usable too. haven't used a slower mailing list since I was on dialup. ctrl+click? forget it.
Sold out...
assuming their servers can even handle the load. seems like it takes 30+ mins to sell out (what normally would have sold out in 2) since they can't seem to figure out the scaling problem.
Thanks for the several comments that came in while I was busy with a work project. The author of the submitted commentary article, Harriet Hall, M.D., is a retired military physician. It is reasonable to assume that she has a personal bias toward finding effective treatments for military post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), and perhaps also a personal bias toward finding effective treatments for PTSD after rape.

Contrary to several comments posted while I was busy, the edited group blog Science-Based Medicine is about applying the methods and settled factual conclusions of science to the existing practice of "evidence-based medicine." As the group of authors put it, "Science-Based Medicine is dedicated to evaluating medical treatments and products of interest to the public in a scientific light, and promoting the highest standards and traditions of science in health care."

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/about-science-...

There have been a variety of posts on the site over the years critical of large pharmaceutical companies, and there have been a variety of posts critical of various aspects of current medical practice. The tenor of the site is that everyone involved in treating human patients and guarding their health needs to be truth-seeking, considering prior probabilities and scientific fact when evaluating new treatments. The authors are not a propaganda outlet for any industry, and they have no financial conflicts of interest on the issues they write about.

Dr. Hall correctly points out that "Prolonged exposure therapy is a widely recognized therapy for PTSD. The rationale for using MDMA is to suppress anxiety and allow patients to talk about their traumatic experiences without feeling excessive fear and hyperarousal." Any effort to find a new treatment for PTSD, whether a prescribed drug or a new form of talk therapy, will have to be evaluated against what is already available to treat that tough disorder.

Any reader of Hacker News who hasn't seen the link below already should definitely check out LISP hacker (and Google director of research) Peter Norvig's article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation,"

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

which is a great checklist of what to look for in a report of a new research finding. Dr. Hall knows how to evaluate research reports in this framework, and she urges that people (like her) who hope that more effective treatments for PTSD are developed proceed carefully so that the new treatments are truly safe and effective.
Has there been any word on how many have been available each time?
i think this this was more of a fact than a prediction. It seems the nexus is sold out again.
The "Legal Wiki" linked in the legal section is sadly dead but Florian Fader re-uploaded most of the documents on Docracy (that also hosts pretty much all the free funding documents available)
'The Walking Dead,' Like All Zombie Stories... Not About Zombies at All
We don't have tutorials yet, but you could take a look at a couple of videos about Code Completion in NINJA-IDE:

http://youtu.be/xCqiOEXfZd4
http://youtu.be/auVJF44XSnM
http://youtu.be/tA_BJBLdduQ
It's pretty evident from His recent writings. The pg's opinions on the matter used to be more subtle, but I think in the recent few writings it's more overt. At one point, saying "young, unattached people are better than old people at technology startups" went from a What You Can't Say to something you can wink wink nudge nudge we all know it's true.
bzbarsky posted a longish comment on another subthread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838078
Dark Warnings About Future of Internet Access
It's a very good joke, but obviously no. I designed what looked good for 8 years ago. Now I design what looks good for 2012. That's what I actually meant! :D
>No decent networks will advertise on Twicsy due to the adult content.

does the "possibly_sensitive" attribute in the Twitter API help at all? I ask because I'm looking into using it on a project, but I don't have enough source data to be able to tell how accurate it is.
Ga. Tech had one in the olden days when I went there. Survival swimming, which involved things such as swimming the length of the pool underwater with a brick and staying afloat for an hour. I think we had to do another PE course in addition, but that may have just been my choice.
I would rather have developers work on the IDE than make yet another GUI interface for Git. You have the command line for that.
We have some videos about Code Completion in NINJA-IDE:

http://youtu.be/xCqiOEXfZd4
http://youtu.be/auVJF44XSnM
http://youtu.be/tA_BJBLdduQ
High Tops For Girls
US only, sadly. Let's hope Google knows there is demand in the other side of the planet aswell...
"Any reasonable person wouldn’t feel liberated by a $50 fork, but constrained by it. One wouldn’t be able to help but worry: is it being cared for correctly, is my friend going to mess it up when absentmindedly tapping the table with it, is it going to get dropped or stepped on if a dance party erupts in the kitchen? After all, it is the perfect fork, what if something happened to it to make it… not perfect?"

This is why, whenever I get something new and "perfect", I damage it in some slight way (nothing that hurts the functionality or will ultimately destroy the product). Every car I've owned gets a nick in the paint to remind me that it's just a "thing" and not to take it too seriously.
Many SV startups are proxies for being a close knit frat. Hiring for "cultural fit" has gone way off the wacko deep end. (Did google start this? "Oh, you don't have a degree? We won't hire you. Oh, but you do make your own beer and wear funny shoes? Cultural fit! Hired!")

Your job description skills matter, but only if you also are a functional alcoholic who is addicted to playing online games for 30+ hours a week in addition to working 60+ hours a week.*

Startup is Mother. Startup is Father.

* I write this out of bitterness because I don't drink or play video games, which oddly I feel disqualifies me from working many places. "Oh, you don't play xbox? That's okay, I guess. The entire company gets together for six hours on Friday to drink and play marathon games though."
> During the holiday season or on birthdays send a simple, “Happy Thanksgiving from Parse,” or “Happy Birthday. You’re Awesome,” instead of, “Save 15% on everything today only.”

Don't ever do this. I don't feel good because you send me a notification wishing me happy birthday. It doesn't make me feel good about the other notifications you send, it makes me resent you for being overly personable and adding clutter to my notifications.

Notify me of things I need or really want to be notified of. Nothing else.
When you get older, several things work against you to jump into SV culture:

- You are not as easily impressed by or eager to try new technologies. (many of which are new spins on old ideas you've seen before.)

- You fail to see the appeal of the types of technology younger people are using. Or, you see the switching costs as too high to move away from what you are using now.

- Your lack of ignorance leads you to (often correctly) identify that an idea will lead nowhere. The problem is sometimes you are wrong.

I think the best way to fight against ageism is to make an effort to retain an open mind and curiosity. Try new things, even if you think they are going not be worth your time. Try to see the novelty in things that may seem to be a rehash of old ideas. Realize that no matter how stupid an idea sounds, sometimes it's worth trying, because you can't always predict the future, no matter how much you've seen.

Just think of the number of people on HN who have posted about how they don't understand Facebook, Twitter, or shoot down some whiz bang new technology. I've done it sometimes myself. Engineers are naturally skeptical, but this skepticism can grow out of control. It's fine in moderation but there's a tendency for this type of perspective to grow with age naturally, and that can ultimately undermine your ability to recognize and execute on genuinely novel, good ideas.

If I could hire someone who had both extensive experience but did not have a chip on their shoulder and lived on the edge of the curve like a 20 year old I'd do it. But it's pretty hard to not have a chip on your shoulder in this industry after a decade or two, and it's hard to continue to adopt the latest technology and not just settle in at some point along the way.
Some kits may be over the $100 mark, but individual radios are usually in the $20-$30 mark.

https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=xbee&what=p...

https://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=adasearch&q...
"And by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."

Attributed to Stephen Colbert.
I got an "Add to Cart" button (with 4-5 weeks to ship notice) once. When I clicked it, I got a cart error. This sucks.
The Future Of Digital - [SLIDE DECK]
Janitors do have very few powers. Yet it turns out to be an awful lot of work to moderate a site as open and popular as 4chan.org. Without janitors, you can be sure that the site would consist of predominantly spam & child porn, and probably couldn't continue to exist, for reasons legal or otherwise. But you're right; creatively speaking, the entity is "run" by Poole and probably a handful of contractors.
I am not convinced that there is something inherently special with the ways young people consume technology that only other young people have mystical insight towards. There are people in their fifties on HN, tweeting away before twitter was cool and avidly using Pinterest. I think it is more about what you find interesting rather than how old you are.

After all, I would think that 80-90% of toys are designed by people who are not between the ages of 3-9. I am fairly certain these toys are profitable.
A 10x reduction in development cost is reasonable for a small company. Large corporations have to float a huge boat just to stay motionless. Another way to say it is that they burn millions of dollars per day just to exist and do nothing else. When you see cost-of-development numbers for large companies they include an element of total-cost-to-just-exist/days-per-project/number-of-current-projects (oversimplification).

A small motivated team without the baggage and overhead can certainly do thing far, far cheaper than a large corporation. In fact, it can put a large corporation to shame in terms of productivity and the ability to pivot and innovate.

Where things get difficult for a startup is when it is time to move to manufacturing. Unlike software projects, making physical products is really capital intensive. The first phase is, of course, the upfront design and DFM work that has to be done. Then comes all of the prototyping and testing. Finally, setup for manufacturing, procurement, manufacturing, packaging and shipping. If a startup isn't well funded it might be able to get through the design phase but not survive to reach manufacturing without an additional influx of funds.
Either it sold out in a record 2 minutes which means that they never had enough to begin with, or it hasn't become available yet.
This is ridiculous. I can put one in my cart but can't check out? If this supply constraint is artificial, it's doing a great job of pissing me off.
Not sold out..Its available.. At least the 16 GB
It's in my cart, but clicking proceed gives an error...

edit: 5 times I've been to the last screen only to press 'Buy' and see another error.
So you have an interview with YC?
Let us have Google Maps back and all is forgiven.
Because web programmers are terrified of native development.

It infuriates me to no end.
Well that's easy then -- enact weapon laws in US instead of frisking random people but only _if_ you think that it is what is making Tokyo safe.
Simple, affordable, monthly flower delivery.
Older people can use it as well. Weve had students as young as 5, 9, 10, and as old as 80. Right now we are focusing on HS, but any beginner can try.
All this is rampant speculation. I'd say it's clearly not because iOS 6 Maps was met with such criticism: as others have pointed out, they've already fired Forstall for that (and other issues).

I'd say it was probably a combination of issues that led them to think that it wasn't a fit.
I think many of the people who are deploying through the app store would be better off deploying through the browser. Mobile web apps are surprisingly capable. I've ported one of my desktop web apps to mobile using appcache for offline support, and it works great. Especially on iOS where a homescreen web app launches chromeless there's almost no difference to a phonegap app except for the hardware / api access, which i didn't need because as pointed out i was porting a web app.
Question: so with this, I can send an attachment and change the file before the recipient opens it? Will they see if it has been modified? Will I see when they have accessed it?
So Nigerians get the jab again.

Dear HN, how do we get rid of this reputation?
I started a message board service for a few years back. The service had 35-40M pv/mo, 10-12M unique/mo, and more than 1.2M users. Also, the site was in the Alexa 1000 for a few months before it was sold.

I was the only engineer on the project. We had 5-10 volunteers to help support our service (general help, technical support, etc). So, to say I ran the service myself would be a lie.
You nailed it with Older people are perhaps more likely to be successful. But there is less variance in their outcomes.