skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bingo; or at least $828 short, and as they were frantically contacting people, no one was home.

Lots of apologies later, but that doesn't make a project happen. Bad timing.

There's a bit of discussion on the Colorado IGDA list, which is how I know. I also know Christopher, and he is absolutely serious about making the game.

He was disappointed that so many people from the first KickStarter bailed on the second, though; the first one made it to $100k+.
When in files view, can I sort it by date or or size ?
Programming, Motherf***** Do you speak it?
Because if you put it somewhere in your home, you are not diversifying the geographic risk.

There is a solid argument to be made with backing up your hard drive and shipping it across the country, or to another continent.

If you get hit by a earthquake or a hurricane, you can be sure you have at least 1 copy of your data safe. It's the same advantage to why you would want to do 'cloud backups'.

Except that this doesn't require huge broadband and tying up your connection for days/weeks.

Sneakernet is actually a pretty common technique used by large companies, but they use tapes instead of hard drives (although I am sure many now use hard drives).
The first thing you need to do is identify any legislative/regulatory requirements.

If you are unsure about your industry/jurisdiction maybe update the question with your relevant info.
Love it. Their middle finger to regulators actually makes their rides feel less expensive and more like civil disobedience. Keep it up guys.
You're using "stole" here as, ironically, a "stolen concept." Look it up in an epistemology book.
This only affects the 21.5" model - the 27" model is not affected.
Of course the government's job is to protect it's people. Even the most libertarian-minded people subscribe to that.

The problem is the government has been leaning on that to expand to things that are of questionable "protection".

Does millimeter-wave scanning protect you? The government sure expects you to believe it does.

What about seizure of property? That will surely protect you from drugs.

Why should we need a warrant for things like accessing somebody's email? Terrorists might be sending emails.

In some way, each of these things might increase our safety, but the cost of that protection is intolerable to me and many others. Unfortunately, most people don't seem to realize any price is being paid.
I didn't mean to imply that the political process is purely transactional and that they can just throw money at the problem, but from all of the mainstream coverage I've read on Uber - and all of the quotes attributed to various politicians and regulators contained therein - it's clear that they are currently losing the political war. As you yourself stated, they are clearly in the right, but that's no guarantee of victory. Extensive PR and lobbying, while not a cure all, could go a long way towards rectifying that imbalance.

Regarding the land grab, I really disagree. They already have a handful of domestic competitors cropping up, and I wasn't even aware of that Hailo company that objclxt mentions above, which sounds pretty formidable.

If they sit around doing a bunch of navel gazing on the nature of the political process and civil discourse, they are toast.
haha, ok my bad. Haven't slept in a while (AngelHack)

Your site looks cool. Hadn't seen it before but its a solid concept. I had heard of Obie's one though (3-2-1 launch) so I definitely didn't think our minviable consulting concept was unique.
The uncanny valley refers to the point where something feels almost-but-not-100% realistic, and that evokes a sense of discomfort in people.

Google's search results are now almost-but-not-100% personalized, and that evokes a sense of annoyance in people.

[Disclaimer: Not the OP]
While we're at it, don't bill phone calls like phone calls either.
"I say idea of anonymity because we don't prevent you from using personally identifiable information - but you're free to make up a username (or change it later) and the app doesn't show your exact location, IP address, guid, etc."

I think you should change any mention of anonymity to pseudonimity in order to eliminate any misconceptions.
The unfortunate thing happens when incomplete science is used for political posturing and policy.
Economics is a bit different. When you make economic decisions based on questionable data, people suffer.
I wrote three different comments and deleted them all, really didn't have much to add, except, as a product guy who's never raised money before and doesn't know much about it, these types of posts are incredibly insightful and make me hopeful that a product focus is seen as a positive in the eyes of investors.
There are two linked examples of this in the article:

* http://h43z.koding.com/blog/leaked.html

* http://boomer.neohapsis.com/searchbox/index.html
The tuning range depends on the hardware. See the first table at http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr for details. All have 2.8MHz bandwidth.

A (relatively) simple hardware mod lets you bypass the tuner and pick up 0Hz to 28MHz.

Noise and sensitivity vary. I know at least one person ran a bunch of tests with a spectrum analyzer. (Can't find that link though.)

Performance generally seems to be limited by the poor shielding/filtering and the low quality timing crystal. If you fix the worst flaws, they are rather capable. For example, they've been used for GPS and radio astronomy.

Biggest differences with a more traditional setup is the lack of a transmitter and the questionable build quality.
It's been pointed out in other comments that they were $828 down in the final seconds, and someone pledged $800. It could be that they did reach out to someone for that pledge. Though if that were the case, why didn't that person pledge $828?

This was a rare feat to come so close to the goal and fall short (http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats). 81% of projects that reach 20% are ultimately successful, and only 0.005% of failed projects reach 81%-99% of their goal.

I think the real failure was not making a stronger final push in the last few days of the campaign instead of the last few seconds. They also should have timed the ending better. Saturday night is when people go out. Sunday evening people are online, and Monday morning after the first of the month is good because a lot of people will be online at work right after payday.
It's a very hard problem IMO. Not just finding the words, but everything. For example, before learning linux to a degree where it wasn't a pain to use as a desktop, I thought it made no sense to waste time learning this or that security feature (like email encryption), because an expert would probably be able to fuck me anyway. Now that I have a better understanding, and I can mentally trace the information from end to end, know where it could be compromised, etc, I started caring, secured everything the best I could, and my friends now call me a paranoid (that didn't stop me from installing Thunderbird and Enigmail in their PC's).

So I think someone should explain to the people in a clear way that you don't need 100% security, but you need to understand when and where your information can get compromised, and what you can do about it. Eg:

- Private message on facebook - you are screwed

- Messenger - you are screwed

- Post on a blog - you are screwed, unless you posted anonymously and hidden your IP (which is not that easy, we know of many geeks who were caught even when they were using Thor, because they didn't fully understand the technology - hint: exit nodes)

- Email - you can encrypt it, and you are safe as long as both computers (sender's and receiver's) stay safe (assuming you store your private key there)

- Data on your computer - you are safe unless malware is installed, or someone gets physical access. You can use full disk encryption, but you will probably have to use Linux (personally, I use Ubuntu), so this is a far fetched goal for the regular Joe. There is also truecrypt for windows, but it's not full disk if I recall correctly.

- Etc.

I'll add a recent anecdote here: Just the other day a friend of mine replied to one of my emails, saying that gmail broke the encrypted email (meaning he couldn't read it, not that gmail decrytped it). In his reply, I received the broken email, and four emails from a private conversation he was having with other people. Something happened in gmail, something went wrong, and I got those emails. They came with headers and everything, he didn't copy/paste those (he wouldn't know how to do that). So there's another reason to encrypt emails: mails server can make mistakes apparently.
I'd be interested to know what you think of the Cryptoparty 'movement', rdl? Eric Hughes talked in Amsterdam. Would you get involved?
>As for the numbers, only to be expected in a hype game.
What does that even mean? This is real money that people paid for a product that is being used. If you are hoping for a "replicator" in your bedroom, you're completely right. That doesn't mean it isn't game changing technology in a lot of ways.

Think about something like the parts market for appliances and cars. Something out of date and broken? We don't necessarily have to just throw it in the trash. We can print a one off part to fix that old washer. Or car. Don't have that part in stock? No worries, we'll print one and have it ready this afternoon. Think about how amazing this could be for a company like autozone.

You don't have to have a replicator in your bedroom for this to be game changing. Sure there's plenty of hype, but the technology is getting to the point where it's warranted.
The article did point out that the requirements for declaring something to be "Assembled in USA" are a lot more stringent.
IMHO, this is serious misunderstanding about Uber's business model. If we use the hotel industry as an analogy, Uber is more like Priceline than Airbnb: Airbnb brings hundreds of thousands of spare bedrooms to the market to compete against hotels and these indie bedroom owners are not subject to many regulations that are applicable to hotels. On the contrary, Priceline links existing established hotels to consumers. Uber is just like Priceline in that - unlike lyft and sidecar - it does not introduce new kind of offerings to compete against taxis and limos, or runs over existing regulations; instead, it merely connects existing limos and taxis to existing limo and taxi customers. The cars and drivers are still subject to existing regulations, and customers safety are still protected under exactly the same regulations as that of those who hail a cab in traditional means. All the speculations about "legitimate questions" in parent comment are merely speculations and smell too much like FUD.
The original headline reads "app maker uber hits regulatory snarl" - as in, encountering an obstacle. The HN headline reads "feisty start-up met with regulatory snarl" - as in, the government is snarling at them for being a feisty start-up.

This is just inflammatory, it's not accurate on any construal of the story
You use a previous version of Scala to compile the trunk version. It's turtles all the way down!

Just kidding. The initial Scala compiler was written in Java. After that was working, they rewrote it in Scala using their initial Java compiler, and then it became the process I mentioned.
Ask HN: Has anyone used Amazon's Product Advertising API as a revenue model
If anyone has, please include your experience and whether you think it's a viable and sustainable source of revenue. Thanks.
I don't know how the parent comment isn't rated higher, as I logged in just to say exactly that.

Gzip is basically exactly what the GP wants, and beyond that, whitespace in HTML is still, sadly, significant in places.
Gnome Takes a Step Back To Make A Come Back With “Classic” 3.8
I've actually seen links on hackernews that go to these big data dumps of information. Presumably, you'd check to see if your info was leaked using the browser's find mechanism. A clever enhancement is that as you type, JS on the page actually inserts whatever you're typing into the content of the page. So you won't ever just type the first few characters of your password and see it's not there, you'll always find your info or similar info on the page.

I agree that it does seem a touch unlikely to work in the real world. However, I think a scammer with a touch of ingenuity, creativity, and programming knowledge could probably construct a realistic enough scenario to fool many people.
As I paraphrased the article for my parents, "It's like buying a car with the hood welded shut."
So psychiatrists should use marijuana as a means to exacerbate mental illness, so these illnesses can be more quickly identified, and people can receive the correct treatment more quickly?

I don't believe mental illness in the general population to be underdiagnosed, rather the opposite. I believe most people are narcissistic enough that treatment has an effect somewhere between the Hawthorne Effect and Munchhausen Syndrome. Attention and approval are highly addictive, more than caffeine, sometimes more than even heroin -- look at how well interventions work. I believe most psychology and psychiatry academics studied those fields to understand their personal problems, which leads people in those fields to hold a perception bias about the rest of the people on the planet.
Yet, not matter how 'cool' remote working seems, the majority of companies (YC ones included/especially) won't seem to entertain anyone that isn't local.

The number of companies that I find who are willing to allow remote work are the exception, not the norm. The number who will accept remote people on the business side of things are even lower.
From Crossbows to Cryptography: Thwarting the State via Technology
It's too broad in scope for me to be really interested, I think -- meetings more focused on specific problems and solutions to those problems, vs. "the overall concept of cryptography and secure communications" seem more likely to be productive.

There are really no shortage of events like this in the Bay Area. I think "how to help mainstream developers build and operate services securely" would be the only thing I'm really into; end users are too varied and stressful for me. (there are usually a critical number of true tinfoil hat, "I've been marginalized by society and need someone who hack my girlfriend's email" types at open end-user crypto meetings...) At least based on the previous several attempts at this kind of thing (2600, Ian/Len's key signing parties, cypherpunks physical meetings, etc.)
s/worst/best/

I meant worse in the sense of slowest progress. The slowest RSA is going to continue to degrade is pretty much the standard that it has been doing so consistently. Bad wording on my part.
Hi Pekk, I posted this headline, and I copied and pasted it almost verbatim - adding only the "Uber:" label at the beginning for clarity. NYT sometimes changes headlines on stories, and even uses alternate headlines for some links.

If you go to the NYT home page and scroll down to the Technology section below the fold, you should see the link/headline I used.

When I click through to the story, I still see the headline I used and I can't seem to find the one you are referring to, so maybe it customizes the headline based on which link you clicked?
Why some people hate PHP
Matthew W. Daus and his ilk are simply protecting their own power and money. They have sewn up the market and want to keep it that way.
Heh, I probably should have said it's not an endorsement. Just another example of a (dubious) attempt at a distributed social network.
Funnily enough, now that you mentioned it, The Economist did the same for me too. So both my MBA and The Economist completely changed my world view.

One tip is, I actually find the magazines hard to read. Something about the typeface and spacing just screams "dense" to me.

But...what I have done is get the audio version. They are hella long, like 3.5 hours total, but so well produced and VERY nice to consume. Each "article" is about 4 - 7 mins on average, then there are a handful that are 20 minute special reports.

When I think of product/market fit, I think of my addiction to The Economist. I don't think there is a price they could raise it to, that I wouldn't buy it at. And...if I couldn't afford it, I would definitely pirate it :)
The US also has low duties; it's mainly about some other countries, usually in the developing world, which have higher duties and more broken enforcement regimes.

Also the US has weird loopholes with some territories or other treaty countries, so you can do less work to make something "made in USA" in some places and some industries than in others (I think Saipan, American Samoa, Puerto Rico have special status)
You are right, I was reading from the title instead of the header tag, which also contains the pointlessly inflammatory language. Mea culpa (and NYT's)
It may be sensitive, but have you ever tried to put in an FOI request for anything. The entire process is marred by bureaucracy. Wikileaks would have a role to play even if there were no classification system. Don't underestimate how hard it is to get a good historical record :-)
We will NEVER stop them all no matter what petition, but they will NEVER stop us all.

Don't worry, humans will keep the network up no matter what.
> Firefox OS would be the best for the web, and Sailfish for Linux in general.

Agree to this... users do not care about Linux and often has a negative feel among the masses in China; the try to be Windows when you can get the real stuff for 'free'. They care more about access to service and being able to do the same as their friends/colleagues, play games, access to 微信 (weixin, wechat), 微博 (weibo), etc. For this the compatibility layer might come in handy, since without it is hard to find the users.

Note: Blackberry and Bada are not really contenders in China. WP maybe, but purely due to the looks of the phone (eg Lumia), but was faced with no store access in China for a long time.
We aren't lawyers and you need to talk with one.
One side affect of this is that Falcon Pro now should be significantly better optimized as a result. The "What's New" log on Google Play reveals this[1]:

v1.0.2
* Optimized the app following @romainguy recommendations. Report back if you feel the butter :)

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jv.falcon....
SHA-1024 Should only take a million square foot datacenter filled with GPUs an hour or so.
He offered to be questioned from the embassy, where he cannot be extradited from. Officials said no.

He offered to go in for questioning under the condition that it was agreed that there would be no extradition. Officials said no.

So he sought asylum in the embassy under the pretense that he would otherwise face torture and death at the hands of the United States. Ecuador agreed that this was a valid concern, so they let him stay.

Seems telling.
How Facebook and Twitter changed disaster relief
Honestly, that's what I was expecting based on the headline.
The article says that they don't have any touch sensitivity -- their app uses the iPhone accelerometer to detect touches. Sounds like a good feature for the app (like as a way to preview what your photos will look like on the e-ink), but it would only work when the app is running, and the indiegogo page doesn't make that clear.
Never heard of 3-2-1 launch before...thanks for the heads-up.

Yeh, I know it's not unique.

I guess it's cool to see competition (it's another form of validation).
And, a hood inaccessible to me wouldn't materially impact my purchase decision of a particular car, since my ability to service my own car is pretty much zero.

For example, I don't even know how one accesses the "engine" of the Teslas but it doesn't bother me one bit that I can't access it.
I admittedly don't have a rational reason for it's use but I really want one of these. I suppose it would be a weird gulf using this kind of high density monitor with Windows though. Has anyone had any experience using such devices for normal usage? (Is there even a comparable device available for someone to have experience with?) I'm curious how far back from this you'd be comfortable sitting.
I haven't used a Sailfish device so I can't say how useful it is or is not. But you are dead wrong about there not being use cases to having information on your homescreen. I'm currently using a WP8 device and "pinning" is very useful there.

Here's an example I used today. I ordered tickets to a movie on Fandango and then pinned the receipt to my homescreen so that when I went I got to the theater I could easily bring up the QR code and print out my tickets.

I also use pinning when I'm traveling and have restaurants, attractions, etc. that I want to check out pinned to the start screen. It's immensely valuable.
Can the downvoter show his face and elaborate? Thanks
This was incredibly helpful - thank you.
I actually supported Wikileaks (and thank god didn't donate!) back when they were publicizing public-but-not-popular information, like about corporate malfeasance, public government documents, etc. Which is partially why I'm so pissed at Julian Assange for hijacking it into a largely anti-US agenda. ("Collateral Murder" had a really obvious spin when released, which was intentional; if they'd just dropped the video without commentary it would have been much more defensible.) Obviously I'm also against the illegal disclosure of any sensitive or classified government data; the correct recourse for someone like PFC Manning is to bring issues up through the chain of command, and if that fails, to the IG, and failing that, to Congress or the judicial system.
But how would that work, exactly? Neither can be made transparent to the other, in their current incarnation.

Seems likely to me that we'll have fast refresh, color e-ink displays before it becomes possible to meld them with LEDs.
I mentioned this in another post, but calling Contendo simply a "intermediary proxy" is disingenuous. It gave SPDY an unfair advantage in my opinion.

But again, feel free to suggest better testing methodologies. I look forward to your results.
:|

I might have fallen for this before. Can't say for sure. Change all the things!
It's just social engineering, but done in a rather slick fashion. Normally one wouldn't expect that a password or credit card number or social security number would ever be typed into a search box for a web page.

Except, what if you posted a page of compromised passwords or other data? Then someone might go to that page and search for their own secret information, to see if it had been leaked. They wouldn't even think twice about this because normally the information in a search box is secure, and known only to the browser. But if a site creates an html based search box that is hooked into ctrl-F then the user might divulge their secret information without even knowing.
I don't know much about cars, but I still:

- check my oil

- replace my windshield washer fluid

- check my coolant

- jumpstart my engine

- (rarely) jumpstart someone else's engine

I know most people on HN have already sold a company for seven or eight figures, but for the rest of us, it's nice to have some flexibility :)
Maybe we should come back to technologies that are not branded. Like email but with votes, short messages, groups etc. Like Wave but without Google.
I am not sure about that. I slept on a regular foam mattress with company, and the experience could be improved.
It would be nice If this didn't actually matter now that RAM is so ridiculously cheap, but I imagine it's an easy resource for Apple to milk the customer for on optional upgrades and will be for a long time.
It used to be called Startup News after all.
After reading a few comments here I'm surprised there's no "Effective Python" book already (given the age of Python itself).

In Java and .NET, that's what we try to do everyday: writing idiomatic Java/C# code (style, architecture, patterns, standard libs, etc).
post jobs apple committee rule combined with their litigious policies towards android are the reason that I'm never giving any money to them again...(and I used to drop a lot of money their way)