skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably, but but what does your startup do that toys ton't? Are you targeting schools or parents, are you selling a product or service, are trying to enhance curriculums or provide something extracurricular? There isn't enough detail in your question to form an opinion really.
I used to work with a guy who built something similar: http://droppages.com/
It depends on the backend workflow, no? If your system pulls in images and does the resizing, including the determination of horizontal vs. vertical, then outputting defined css selectors is straightforward.

However, if you're only in control of the front-end and are just reading from an API of photos where you're given a stream of image urls...how do you determine which css-selector (i.e. '.vert-image' and 'horz-image' with defined h/w dimensions) to put out? You can obviously just restrict everything to a one-size box, but either the vertical or the horizontal images are going to be given short shrift.
Totally agree. This article is pure BS. I especially loved the part where the author says that, by using non-Windows devices, companies would consider switching to Macs for work. Yeah, sounds like the author has never seen how companies buy computers en masse. Usually they go for the cheapest models available. And those aren't Macs.
MS aren't about to disappear anytime soon but MS are no longer capable of dominating markets the way they used to. They are in decline at least in relative terms and I don't see any likelihood of that changing any time soon.

The Windows market is going to get nibbled (not gobbled - at least short term) from tablets in the consumer market and the corporate market is going to be increasingly web based for internal systems which over time will loosen the Windows grip there.

Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL Server can all remain major revenue drivers in the corporate world, they won't go anywhere quickly and they may even grow (I don't know the market well enough). IBM makes enough money in these markets.

Office is the big elephant, Excel is the tool for massive amounts of forecasting and modelling. Many people don't need the power and have alternatives but many do. PowerPoint strikes me as replaceable, most content created with it has a short lifespan. Word is replaceable for individual users but the network effect of people using it and exchanging files gives it hold.

Overall I think MS has a good decade or two of good profits if it wants to take them but the glory days are done.
If you want an easy way to read image metadata, check out the free iPhone App: Photo Investigator
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id571574618?mt=8
Lessons Learned Since Leaving my Job
Really like how this looks and feels. Interested in the blogs section, how are you grabbing that info? Thats the part I would likely use the most, picking out the few hip hop blogs I go to regularly and just getting to the music quicker.
As a person who has worked for a few hardware OEMs in the past in various roles from phone jockey to sustaining engineer, this bothers me greatly.

First, if one part fails (which is not extremely rare) you'll have to replace both parts.

Second, you'll still have to deal with thermal protections like hsfs, thermal paste, etc. You will not have to skip all that hassle and can still damage the CPU.

You're not saving much effort, will have less options when putting the PC together, will likely pay more, and the toughest parts of putting together a PC will still be present.
Its not that its 'more profitable', it is that it 'is profitable' (enough). And, its not only profitbale enough, but it creates a lock-in (people wont move/give up their space) wich reduces turnover. The ideal position for a landlord is protiable tenants that don't turnover. That's why there is more inertia in the system than seems at first blush to be likely.
I'm making baby back ribs on the BBQ next weekend, so I think I'd be a customer of this company.

I look forward to your application to YC regarding this modest proposal with great interest.
The Paypal dispute system is a joke. I had a simliar experience with a $300 laptop. The condition it came in was NOT as described. I tried to get the seller to refund, but he just ignored my messages. Unable to contact the seller, I opened a dispute case and I took photos, documented the entire thing, and even did the dispute message system (and the seller didn't respond once to my complaints within the dispute system).

After 3? weeks of no response, I clicked escalate button to firm up the dispute and push it to Paypal so they could decide. I thought I had a clear cut case -- photos, documentation, 21 days of seller not even trying to defend himself.

Seller, upon getting the final warning, finally replied with a message along the lines of "I offered a refund but buyer never contacted me" with no proof... and Paypal voted in his favor.

Fuck Paypal.
RUN JOHN RUN!!!!!!!!

PS I WANT TO BUY THE MOVIE RIGHTS
Yes, we invested beyond Start Fund. We often invest in "competitive" companies either in present or future. By that, I mean that we invest in companies that are competitive now or unrelated companies that for one reason or another, become competitive. In fact, it's more common for us to see companies that are competitive now diverge just in enough so the end products are not competitive.

We invest in founders, trends and spaces. We have a conflict policy that's based on what Ron has implemented over his 20 year career. I talked about our policy on Quora here: http://b.qr.ae/u8dZQ9.

Here, we are big fans of this trend - new voice services being created and disrupted by software. Thus if we like founders working on this problem, we will be positively inclined. We are huge fans of Jeff at Twilio. We are also big fans of Venky and his team.
We are barely living any differently than we did in 1962 - our vehicles are not any fundamentally different (maybe more fuel efficient / safer due to standards implemented), the way we grow and consume sustenance has not changed (green revolution was mostly in the 40s / 50s), the vast majority of our electricity comes from the same sources (long dead plants), we die of the same things (cancer and heart attacks), our education system is the same (in America), our roads are the same freaking roads from the national highway system in that decade (in the USA).

Besides the communication revolution as a product of the internet, and the ability to create images and sounds much more effectively using those devices, the average persons life has not changed much.

We have changed in some ways though due to that communication revolution - it has had profound effects on workforce distribution (labor jobs, if any chance exists, are simply deposited where the labor market is cheapest while stable enough not to have large overhead from unstable nations), wealth in the USA has been dramatically concentrated in the richest 0.1% as a result of that globalization due to computerized communication, we are much more involved as a species with each other, etc.

And communication improvements are great. But they are a tiny aspect of life, and they are about the only thing getting noticeably better. A lot of that is due to copyright, patents, and draconian laws holding back self driving cars, stem cell grown replacement limbs, 3d printers in the home, thorium power, and a bunch of other just-out-of-arms-reach revolutions in the way we live our lives outside of that audio / visual space computers vastly improved.
"that means he should be turned over to crooked officials and executed?"

That's a straw man; no, he shouldn't be unjustly executed. My point is that's a risk you take by living in Belize. Or Somalia, another Libertarian Paradise.

If you're so scared of routine police questioning in the murder of your neighbor that you have to go on a McAfee-style trip to Bizarro world; sleeping in ditches and drinking your own urine[1] maybe the alternative of paying taxes isn't the great satan millionaires make it out to be. Or maybe he killed the guy.

"Not to mention he is a revered entrepreneur."

Who made his millions on the back of a society built in no small part on public investments which he is attempting to dodge. Don't let the Death Squad hit you on the way out.

[1] I'm making this up but it matches my general impression of the McAfee fugitive drama.
I tried to sell an expensive camera through eBay and after a month I gave up. Twice the auction completed and the person that won tried to scam me. I decided to go the Craigslist route and sold it in a few days to someone that I met at a local bank and we were both happy.

eBay were not very good, in my case, either. I spent hours on the phone. It was clear that the person that won the auction bid up to insure they won it. I'm pretty certain I had legit buyers at lower bids, and I would have been happy to sell at those bids. The reason I even tried a second time was that I didn't know about the ability to exclude certain buyers. For the second auction I tweaked all the knobs that massively restricted the auction to only the safest buyers. I don't know what happened, but someone with an account that was a few hours old won the auction. I think it was the same person that won it the first time. I called eBay again and they voided the auction after a few days.

It was a really horrible experience and I'll never use eBay to sell anything ever again.
The best thing MSFT could do would be to release a fully compatible, fully functional Office suite for iPad, charge $49.95 and profit for the next several years.
Actually, the very original C&C had that bug, too. I remember trying to play it with a friend of mine and it would often crash with an "sessions are out of sync" error after 10-15 minutes of playing.

Is it sad that I still remember that, or what? :P
Red Stripe turns corner store into one big instrument (Video)
That's like saying your bedroom isn't private because some black-helicopter agency could use radar to look through your roof.

While HTTPS does not confer absolute privacy, and it's theoretically possible for a well-financed nation-state to compromise a targeted individual's privacy despite HTTPS, the fact remains that for the other 99.9999999% percent of society it can be considered unbreakable.

Certainly, encouraging widespread adoption of HTTPS is a good idea when the majority of websites are still transmitting login and session credentials in clear text! Even news.yc doesn't enable a secure connection unless you explicitly type https:// in the location bar, and many websites I log in to don't even have HTTPS support.
I think it's important to separate two things. One is the tablet trend, but along with that you have an OS platform play.

I think it's completely plausible that in the next couple of years Apple and Google will launch add-ons to your average tablet that gives you a big, high-res screen to do work on along with a tablet.

Or maybe apps will be able to show content on other tablets (like AirPlay does to a TV today) so that you will have more space available for the apps you use.

I think there will be an opportunity for iOS and Android to innovate in this space, in a far more profound way than the "no compromise" dual-UI that is the current Windows 8.
Given the answer to "whoa, seriously?" is "yes" in your case, a good faith answer to a bad faith question is also the most effective smackdown; I find arranging things such to be useful where I have such suspicions :)
"His money and assets would all be taken from him, he'd be thrown into a cell and possibly tortured."

He isn't in the backwater of Afghanistan, he's in a democratic country with an independent judiciary. What makes you think he would be tortured, let alone killed?
Add a 'mix' category and I'll pay you if it's done well! New tracks are all well and good, but the continuity of mixes really helps me get in the groove.

I've listened to the Essential Mixes, and follow a bunch of podcasts/dj radio shows, but there's got to be stuff from non-DI.fm/Sirius-XM stuff. Sheepymixes on youtube would be a good example.
A bad seller (or buyer) could avoid negative feedback just by never leaving feedback, meaning the buyer (or seller) would never be able to publish theirs.
The rise of the "sapling round" in technology startups
"Is your mind clouded by any kind of expensive leadership or self-help course, at the end of which you get to 'walk on fire' to test your renewed self-esteem?"

Yes -> run.

"Do you believe in any form of magical thought? Do you believe that Steve Jobs Himself watches over you from a cloud, without judgement, gently supporting each and every decision you make?"

Yes -> run faster, screaming.

True Story Bro.
Except perl 5.17.6! (I suspect the hash randomization feature will cause a lot of disturbance)
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Microsoft Is Disappearing Before Our Very Eyes
This is their console.
Perhaps they are talking about the X-Originating-IP header? "Revealed" is a pretty loaded term, either way.
Interesting idea, but it still wouldn't have helped in the case of the post-transaction chargeback, as described in the article. The scammer would likely still get a positive review (because the seller had been paid) only to discover the scam weeks after the fact.
'Britain to Australia in four hours' with new engine
This is fantastic. The UI is wonderful, site design is responsive, and from what I've found so far it has great content. Kudos for you for committing the time to building such a major project and finally shipping.

Initial feedback (major to minor):

- Please add a button to let me add songs in my feed to a queue rather than cutting off the current song.

- There's a bug where, for some reason, the modal popup that I used to sign up / add artists is still capturing mouse events even though it is now invisible. It's taking away my ability to click in the middle of the screen, which is very frustrating cause I can't use search. Not sure why this is happening. It's Z-index is 201 and opacity set to 0 via CSS, if that helps, and I logged in with Facebook.

- My screen is small (11" Air), and some parts of the site are cut off height-wise. For example, the left nav bar's "find friends" button.

- When I click on a new song, the artist in the top bar updates immediately, but the title takes a few seconds.

- All of the letters in the colored boxes next to song names are too far to the right by one pixel.

Again, congratulations on shipping! I'd be happy to provide more feedback if you're interested.
Getting Medieval on Infosec: A Response to Schneier
wouldn't it be funny if you not responding and you responding had the exact same effect because you don't add anything to the conversation?

its like it doesn't even matter if you shut up or not.
> Thank you for your helpful response.

You're welcome, that was what I was hoping for.

> I'm sorry that I had the reaction that I did.

Reacted emotionally because of care for your family and then did your best to be more logical about it when given a chance to do so? I'm not sorry, and I'd anticipate their not being sorry either.

(a slightly gratuitous additional reframing perhaps, but one I think deserves to be given voice)
I'm particularly impressed with the responsive design. Did you use one of the responsive frameworks out there, serve different stylesheets, or something else?
> "So you're saying: "It's very complicated, you won't understand my arguments.""

I don't read that from his comment at all. What he said was that the issue is complex and demands more than a pithy one=liner.

I don't see any reason to invent a straw man, particularly an ad hominem one at that (by painting danso as some kind of arrogant elitist). Is there another reason why you're being condescending?
Looking back, I think many of the big initial successes for Microsoft were propelled by missteps from their competitors. Apple, Lotus, Word Perfect, Novell, the list is long.

This time, their two biggest competitors haven't made many mistakes at all, and that is their big problem.
I think you are defending the quality of a companies products by passing blame to it's suppliers. Apple chose it's suppliers, decided the product met their standards and shipped it.

I've got 3 computers in front of me now. An 11" air, 26" iMac and 12.5 Lenovo. None of the screens have ghosting issues, I'm sure some of the screens are produced by LG or Samsung. None are retinal displays, but that was Apple's decision to sell retina MBPs. If the quality wasn't there, they should have made the decision to tell the suppliers that they needed to meet xyz standards, and not manufacture the devices until that time.

Selling a sub-par product and then trying to pass the blame on to suppliers doesn't make your product any less-sub-par, and does just as much to ruin your companies reputation.
I don't have to be 'proficient' to pop out a slotted part and put in a new one. If something can be made easy-to-service with next to no trade-off, like RAM, it should be. I haven't had the motivation to look at microwave accessibility, because microwaves are cheap and all do the same thing. But if I was looking at the upgrade option that could make it cook twice as fast as easily as replacing a light bulb, and it was $400 to have the factory install a $50 part, I think I would 'have the time'.
The article is a very big stretch. Just because companies are buying iPhones and iPads, does not mean that their workers are moving away from PCs. My employer has issued iOS devices to a lot of workers--but they all still have a PC on their desk too. And those mobile devices all tie back into the corporate Exchange server and Active Directory.
I disagree with the voting ring comment. That's pretty harsh.

Just for fun, here are the posts jgc makes by domain:

http://imgur.com/BKCaW

And here are the posts of the blog.jgc.org domain by poster:

http://imgur.com/xqpEF
The example page (Tindie) is slow and chunky-scrolling on latest Firefox with my machine (16 gigs of RAM and quad Xeon)... It eats CPU. Something wrong with it. Doesn't happen in Chrome.

I like the typography on the blog, though.
Cool idea. Homepage needs tweaked for iPad. Content pushed to absolute edges with 0 margin.
I agree on several of your points. CPAN is kind of meh right now, since Python/Ruby/node.js are quickly catching up (or have passed it, even). You can quite easily find libraries existing in other languages and not in CPAN.

For me it now boils down to: sunk cost (if you're already familiar with Perl, it makes sense to keep doing it in Perl) and some features that Perl currently really excels at (variable scoping, regex integration, Unicode).
This looks really nice.

What technology do you use? Where are the songs playing from? Looks like all soundcloud?
The solution should be pretty simple. Apply same damages rules currently used in IP infringement for any false claim that tries to apply ownership over someone else work.

So if a false DMCA is made over a news article or review, then who ever did it will have to pay damages as if he took exclusive ownership over the news article, and thus pay what ever the sell price is for complete transfer of copyright. If buying complete exclusive rights to a news article cost say, $1 mil, than that's the damages to be payed.

After all, that would just follow the same concept being pursued in court cases by the same companies filing those false DMCA's.
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https://harp.io/ is doing something similar as well.
> This "writer" needs to be fired.

Why? The pageviews just keep coming in!
He went straight to his credit card and they took his side.

Took his side as far as the chargeback, OK, I can see that. It's not very encouraging, but I can see it.

But took his side as far as keeping the item and getting his money back? That I don't see at all. How is that possible? And how would PayPal, and eBay for that matter, not expect a return?
Google Drive recently announced a feature similar to this: http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/11/announcing-g...
Naivety? He probably thinks that professors care about creating effective and fair anti-cheating schemes and therefore would never have gone with this one.
Just read Parts I and II of that article. Really interesting perspective. I've been talking to some recent YC "grads" in the valley and the amount of brainwashing they seem to have undergone is just shocking. And yet, so many more keep flocking to them year after year like lambs to the slaughter. Amazing.
CloudFlare actually does do SSL for your domain without warnings or SNI. They essentially have a large pool of shared certificates with lots of SANs, so your domain ends up as a SAN on one of their shared certificates with half a dozen other CloudFlare customers.
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Some more explanation is needed in some cases. For example, when I look at the "Housewares page" (http://packstore.anvil.net/collections/housewares), I am confused about what I'm actually looking at. Maybe half of the items have non-descriptive names and I can't tell what they are by the picture either.

Koubachi: Looks kind of like an upside-down golf club. Not sure.

Beacon: It's a black... thing.

FLPR: Acronymy goodness. And it attaches to the dock connector.

Re: Yet Another iPhone Dongle

What if there were a short description on each:

Koubachi - Plant Care Helper

FLPR - Universal A/V Remote
I have an iphone 3gs I stopped using this summer just due to the battery dying off. Wasn't going to pay the absurd rates Apple charges to get new batteries, especially when I could just get an iPhone 4 if I really wanted to for like $30 more.

I still try to use the thing as a groupon screen. The Android groupon app requires a persistent network connection to maintain the barcode, the iphone version downloads the page entirely and you can keep reopening it without a connection just fine.

One day I charged it for 6 hours from complete dead battery (I just let the battery die now rather than let it eat up electricity for no reason, I rarely use it) turn it on, put it in standby once I have the groupon loaded, and by the time I whip it out 3 hours later to show the barcode the screen blips on before the thing shuts off due to critical low battery. Had to sit in the parking lot for 15 minutes with a car charger to get the thing to hold the screen long enough to scan it.

The phone is only 3 years old, and the battery doesn't last 3 hours in standby anymore.
oDesk gets around this by having a time limit on when feedback can be left. If one party fails to enter feedback, then it posts the other's feedback anyway.

Parties can lobby to have the other person change the feedback, but only if they lobbied party wants to. Seems like a workable system to me and allows each to be honest without consequences like eBay's original system.
Guerrilla tactics for data analytics
hey congrats on the hard work, but this really seems like a clone of ex.fm (http://ex.fm) and a remarkably similar clone at that - what is different about 2u.fm?
I've done this ages ago. The big TV in the living room was always hooked up to a console and a PC. It was always a good combination.

Now the PC part is getting even easier to use. Great.