skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since snaps disappear seconds after they are opened, users feel comfortable sending spontaneous and personal messages that they would not want ingrained into digital histories.

I donno but taking a screenshot and posting it on FB isn't very difficult. Do people really believe the images 'disappear'?
Funny coming from unfinishedman.com, which is the blog people go to when they look at The Sharper Image and think "but what do you have that's REALLY frivolous?"

[1] http://www.unfinishedman.com/aviator-wing-desk-inspired-by-w...
[2] http://www.unfinishedman.com/electric-hot-tub-boat-for-ultim...
[3] http://www.unfinishedman.com/mercedes-benz-c63-amg-edition-5...
I'd be very interested in hearing how much training they had to do for people to learn to use Linux and OpenOffice. If German office workers are like the ones I've met in the U.S., any slight change to their computers will result in a lot of questions.

Having tried to use OpenOffice for my office needs, I'd be curious to see how this works out for them. Needless to say, I haven't used OpenOffice in years and have no desire to try again. If I were going with a Linux solution, I'd try to get as many workers using cloud-based apps as possible.

Not every worker could do this, but from my experience with ChromeOS, the majority of general office workers could get their work done with it, and it's a cheap, secure and stable solution. But a lot of governments may not want to touch cloud services and may not know how to develop their own.
It really depends. When you say "no programming ability", does that mean absolutely no programming experience ? Do you understand what is involved in programming ? I am guessing no. If thats the case, you might be looking at it the wrong way. The thing is that there is no quick magic for you to be able to have enough programming skill to be able to judge another developer whether outsourced or not.

Unless you really want to program or are very interested, I suggest you try and find someone reliable who can guide you in finding the right developers. Having said that, you can still learn programming on the side but don't make the assumption that by taking a few classes or learning a few tricks, you will be able to judge the quality of a developer.

PS: Go and try out http://www.codecademy.com.
Looks great, is the Google Dart team working on getting this integrated?
The "Aha" Moment
Some interesting points in Paul Graham's post for sure, some especially relevant.

In reply to your first point, I am speaking to the right people at the moment. However, I am not sure about how to proceed after. Closing the deal so to speak. I have been winging it so far, but some solid advice would be ideal.

Secondly, I suppose, there are actual users. Paul Graham's point of not wanting to get your hands dirty is probably my downfall here. In the most ideal situation someone would come along and love doing all the marketing, copy, emailing clients and maintaining PR. Is the real solution to simply 'brute force' the matter? Spread the word where ever possible? How do I not come across as spammy in such a scenario?
It does have those connotations at first when people use it I believe. It's just one of those things, I'm sure a lot of people use it for naughty behavior but there's not really a way to do know for sure except surveying. It does make it easy, but in my experience it can be used for non-sexting type things. Just a funny hello or capturing emotion of messages back and forth is quite fun.
How Different Languages Can Help in SEO
Can Smart(er) Tech Fix The Banks, Passwords, Privacy & Be Profitable?
There's one way to find out if products like Fuel & Pebble will catch on... It's all or nothing. Either the product soars or sucks. Make it.

Two years ago, IIICTECH quietly produced an entirely new form factor to fix logging into mobile bank apps. Turns out it logs into everything. The first app WINK, takes advantage of BLINK, the interface extension that goes beyond the bounds of the smartphone. It's really a THIRD PARTY PERIPHERAL DEVICE.

TPPDs are the new force multipliers of mobile tech. Apps like WINK are great alone. While it prevents overdrafts using geolocation. (get on the alpha test list @ www.ismorethan.com) magic happens if connected to a third party device. Steve Jobs predicted it.

"Passwords are no longer a problem, Google." IIICTECH solved Googles quest to kill passwords. So stop killing! Don't be evil. So, Mobile banking is bracing the new access & ID technology. Your home/office, desktop & laptop login screens are too.

BLINK seems to promise the world. Did IIICTECH discover an entirely new form of encryption, faster network protocols, voice processing? Dare I suggest a new mobile payment?

New tech should seem like magic. Eliminating overdrafts sounds like an act of god (not to mention if they pull it off. Heck, there's $40Billion up for grabs... US Banks will no longer make that revenue. Reports indicate overdraft fees account for up to 72% of US Banks most lucrative revenue streams). IIICTECH, this isnt going to work, at all. Sorry! BLINK & WINK isn't gonna happen. Nope. By the looks of it... By all accounts, the clouds forming... This isn't GOING to happen. why?

What do you think of BLINK? Can WINK get our feet wet? Have you seen this form factor? Some are saying IIICTECH can make it rain. It isn't going to happen, because it's already happening.
Well first of all Thiel's venture is a company not philantropy…

But hell yeah, more pensions, universal healthcare, maybe more spending on education (talking about public school not 40k$/year colleges) are definitely a better way to spend money than radical innovation of eccentric billionaires.

Moreover what we're talking about here is not turning billionaires into mere millionaires, but taxing people who can afford to donate 95% of their fortune 30% instead of 15%. That still leaves ample room for eccentric innovation. Yours is a false dichotomy.
You write "it creates good behavior within society through induced paranoia toward people who have a mindset toward committing crimes"

I pointed you to stats which showed that people who carry firearms become more belligerent themselves, more likely to escalate an argument (because they know they can defend themselves) more likely to kill themselves or members of their families etc.

Far from "creating good behavior", firearms do the reverse by encouraging people who are weak, unstable, angry, depressed or confused to act out.
With, what, 3 to 6 million Java programmers I think it's going to be very difficult to get 250 000 signatures.
1 and 2 are opt-out while 3 is opt-in, they should all be opt-in.
Some of us (especially in the performance-oriented crowd, or people using large heaps) really have no choice here.
Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private
Seeing that someone took a screenshot will usually deter you from sending more embarrassing photos in the future.
Thanks for posting the direct link to the legislation. Two things I noted:

This right is particularly
relevant, when the data subject has given their consent as a child, when not being fully
aware of the risks involved by the processing, and later wants to remove such personal
data especially on the Internet. However, the further retention of the data should be
allowed where it is necessary for historical, statistical and scientific research purposes,
for reasons of public interest in the area of public health, for exercising the right of
freedom of expression, when required by law or where there is a reason to restrict the
processing of the data instead of erasing them.

So these are the competing interests that I was alluding to. This: when not being fully aware of the risks involved by the processing, and later wants to remove such personal data especially on the Internet -- covers everyone who has ever posted something on the Internet and regretted it.

And this: for reasons of public interest in the area of public health, for exercising the right of freedom of expression -- is not at all a settled definition...freedom of expression lawsuits happen quite frequently. And speaking from the U.S. perspective, the EU's laws on free speech or quite different than the ones in the U.S.
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You've refuted yourself; tens of millions of non citizens are subject to its jurisdiction. Clearly it's not limited to citizens, nor does it say it is. People subject to its jurisdiction seems the more apt interpretation.
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Show HN: Pay-what-you-want for DRM-free, beautifully-illustrated ebook classics
Why bother with a CSS build process?
World trembles in confusion and/or fear at Iran's fiberglass airplane
I can't speak for everyone else, but as somebody who writes a lot of Web software and very little blogs, I can say that I have plenty of grandiose spiritual self-delusion.

I may not be close to the metal, but I write good software.
Yeah they do. It's more of the fact that it alerts the other person when someone does that. If for instance I knew person a's trust in me would be decreased a lot if they knew I tried to save something they didn't want to be saved, then that gives me my own moral I guess gauge as to playing by the rules. If I didn't know the person then obviously the limiting factor my internal gauge might put in is decreased. If a friend trusted me and I let them down and risked a friendship by going around that then the barrier is higher. OF course that doesn't stop me from just being a bad friend, taking something private and making it public either. So there's still risk and trust involved.
Android Galaxy brand recognition analysis: Galaxy catches up
Fast Company seems to jump on all these memes pretty quickly for page views, would be interesting to hear any empirical evidence.

Also, please don't sit in cafes during peak times as that is when they make most of their money and need to turn over tables.

When it's quiet sit near a window to make the cafe look busier.

Ask BEFORE plugging in your laptop charger.

I know these are obvious to most people but I've seen people seemingly oblivious to it and most cafe owners are too nice to throw someone out.
Aaron Swartz: Honest Theft
48th Mersenne prime found
I really need to work from Coffee Shops more often, but I get really self-conscious while sitting there getting on with my work. Further, I tend to skype quite a bit, which puts me off going to the coffee shops in the first place, since i don't want to be disturbing others.
Bayesian Instant Headline Testing
What's up with the lack of contrast on the text?

I blame Apple for the trend, although you could tell apart sites and blogs developed by Mac using developers by that trademark gray on white text.

http://contrastrebellion.com/
What is the best strategy for naming my WordPress and design portfolio?
Atari's tomb: 1M videogames sleeping under desert sands (in spanish)
How Atari buried millions of E.T cartridges in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Funny and interesting.
What do you think my point is? I feel you're misrepresenting me.
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> The native desktop devs who don't think JavaScript is a good choice for a native platform as there's already a big eco system of C/C++ code supporting

Not only that there is a sane language like Python, there is Vala as well. There are already are good binding for both. GNOME should have marketed the hell of out of Vala, I think.

I think GNOME should have played ball better with Ubuntu. Now they sort of got pushed to the back a bit and they are trying to be "cool" again. But as you said, there is only one latest cool platform and that's the browser.

If I want to write a "app" for GNOME I would write it for Ubuntu's Software Store, I wouldn't write it for GNOME desktop.
seems if you use the live preview as suggested above its not rendering the media queries. If you download the zip and open up the index.html file its working fine. Must be a error with their preview engine. Here's a screenshot locally on opera 12.12: http://i.imgur.com/RgIraby.png
Dell going private for $24.4B
Hi HN! OP here. My friend is an artist and I'm into ebooks, so we thought we'd join forces to produce this first effort. This first ebook is something I wanted to see in my own personal ebook library, and I've crafted it with that level of care and attention.

We wanted to experiment with pricing, so we decided to offer our first book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, on a pay-what-you-want basis (including free) for the next week.

If there's enough interest, I'd be happy to write a postmortem to share how things went. I can also answer questions about the general ebook production process.

We already have the art lined up for our next book too. Let us know what you think!
Linux has always had an app marketplace, it just wasn't called a "marketplace" (when everything is free, the marketplace/store analogy isn't appropriate). At least in Debian and derivatives, everything is a one-click install since '98.

How JavaScript fits in this picture, however, is still beyond me.
Amazon launches new ‘Coins’ virtual currency
Dell announces deal to go private
And you can load any .apk you want on non-crippled versions. So where is the wall?
Maybe occasionally. If you spend a lot of time hacking at a ergonomically-poor workstation (which coffee shops pretty much always are), you will suffer as you get older.
This is a tangent, but are domains really considered "private property"?

Are there other types of property where ownership can expire?
No, it is about power. The reasoning goes as follows:

1) When there are two sides, and one side will clearly win by default, choosing to stay neutral becomes de facto support for the 'default' winner.
2) In this case, the 'default' winner is evil.
3) So, in this case neutrality is evil.

Does that make more sense?
Mumble definitely is the best VoIP solution I've used in terms of sound quality.
It depends who you're sharing the idea with and how complex it is.

Certainly the vast majority of ideas require some real specialization and can't be emulated by anybody.

Also, an unproven idea which only "sounds like it could be great" really is a dime a dozen.

You should be more worried about HOW you accomplish your great idea. Maybe you've found a way to pull off some PROVEN product, but using 1/10 the labor, parts, etc. This is a competitive advantage that can pull you from zero to a million in revenue, buying you time to "properly" develop your Version 2 idea from the ground up. This, I have seen people stealing. If this is what you've got, then keep it secret. Sell your prouct by all means but keep that "special sauce" closely guarded.
I would love to see that. Java really deserves to die a death at this point.
Introducing Amazon Coins
The NSA has not only got to be decades ahead of the rest of the world, it has to be completely certain that no-one else in the world will make the same discovery for at least another few decades.

It seems unlikely in the extreme that the NSA is both so far ahead of the rest of the world, and so sure that their discoveries will not be replicated for decades.
Which steps are they taking?
Some kind of animation happens when you resize the window for the main site.
The key here is intention. While of course it's quite possible for images to be reproduced in one way or another, the fact that they must be reproduced, and not simply 'shared' or 're-*ed,' changes the user's relation to the app.

I think this gets to the tone of the article, as communicating this way implies a level of trust and/or intimacy usually reserved for analog methods.

Snapchat is brilliant in this regard. I think we're going to see a lot more communication platforms built on limitations rather than sprawling features.
White House Announces Round Two of the Presidential Innovation Fellows
They might be good people but still be horrible cops. But being horrible cops means they must not be cops.

Would you have such an accepting stance on teachers refusing to turn in a rapist teacher? Betraying a trust must mean you lose your position immediately, but it must also cost enough to make it honestly unattractive.

By not having strong and effective punishments for this we create perverse incentives to betray others.
Having done a bit of Clojure and some server-side Java here and there: what depends on an Oracle JVM? I think I've always used open versions...
Zing? Not that that really stands a chance of becoming the new standard because of licensing costs.
How To Get Traffic To Your Content Without Google
GSK announces support for AllTrials campaign for clinical data transparency
Registrar here (Misk.com). Wanted to share some information on the restore fees discussion. Yes, registries charge hefty restore fees. Using .com as an example (since it can be different for each extension), there is a renewal grace period that can last up to 45 days (we delete at 40 days). Once the name is deleted, the name goes into redemption for 30 days after that. This is where the high fees are hit due to the registry. The thing to note is that some registrars no longer delete names after the renewal grace period ends and pass the name into an auction system. Hence the name never goes into the real redemption period. In those cases the name is still in the renewal grace period and charging higher redemption fees is a business decision by that company. You can tell if this is the case if after a registrar's redemption period, anything happens to the name except becoming available to register by the public (after a 5 day pending delete at the registry). The real redemption period is 30 days and is reflected in the whois record. Domains should still be renewed before expiration since things could change at any level and there is no reason to risk it.

Here are the expiration policies I could find for GoDaddy, Namecheap, and Misk.com (us):

http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/608/what-is-your-pro...

http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...

https://www.misk.com/kb/domain-expiration-policy
> Can you re-assure me that most developers think like you do? I am genuinely nervous about it bringing someone else to work on the product for this reason alone.

Is the offer a full-ime living wage that is competitive in your area? If so make them sign the typical "Anything you do during company hours is owned by the company". Easy.

If you aren't then you'll need to bring something to the table otherwise you'll have scared away the right 2/3rds of the standard distribution of programmers.

If you're looking to hire cheap with no benefits the only people left interested will be people that just need the money... and you've just increased your chances of having your stuff stolen.
I am not one that checks my daughter's txts every night, but I do educate her that her actions can have farther reaching consequences than a young person might think at the time. Doesn't the false sense of privacy that this app creates give you concern that your daughter and her group of friends might overshare and create problems for themselves or others? The content does not go away, there is no way to prevent that. There have already been several workarounds (hacks) to persist the images being sent and I could think of a few more low tech solutions (second camera to take a photo of the snapchat screen is one that comes to mind).
Well, this is pretty basic stuff, for people interested a little bit more in NumPy I recommend SciPy lectures:
http://scipy-lectures.github.com/intro/numpy/index.html
http://scipy-lectures.github.com/advanced/advanced_numpy/ind...
The Saga Pattern and That Architecture vs. Design Thing
I hope I'm not coming off as a conspiracy nut, but I can't see the US Government being too keen on something like this that's truly untraceable.

IANAL, but it seems to me that every service or software that is used for personal communication is forced by the Feds to allow accessibility for wiretapping circumstances.

Of course, I'm completely against it and I believe the situation is completely untenable for them to persist, but I don't think a social picture app will be the ones to stand tall on user privacy.
Really? I found eclim to be quite slow when I was using it last year. I would wait one to two seconds for an autocomplete menu to pop up.

Fortunately I haven't had to do any Java recently.
Speaking as a developer: I like to build things that are successful and I like building things for passionate people. I'm not a thief, I'm a developer. I love bringing ideas to reality.

The people who are out there making money are doing so because they executed their ideas or helped to execute ideas with someone else. They aren't just sitting around waiting for the next person to screw over, they have better things to do: like work on things. Of course: there are always malicious people out there, but I would be extremely surprised if they were in the majority in this particular example.

Of all of the startups that get featured here, even the multi-million dollar ones, how many times have you heard of someone genuinely "stealing" someone's idea? I mean to the point that someone was put into financial hardship without a way to reconcile? I can only think of a couple off the top of my head, and frankly: the events and legal BS surrounding them are so far above and beyond anything I'd ever want to do in my life. I have a feeling that I'm not alone in that sentiment amongst a profession of reasonably rational and intelligent individuals.
"Why do they spy? To sell us more stuff."

They spy because they can. They spy because the companies involved believe that the data they collect has value. They spy because the companies involved believe that the data they collect might have even more value in the future.

The companies involved aren't in the business of selling you stuff. They sell data about you to others. Sure that might be a retailer of Hello Kitty backpacks with scenes of unicorns shitting rainbows. It might be a presidential campaign. It might be a government - and in that case, the value exchanged might be trade privileges rather than cash.

Large commercial ventures willing to harm many people for the sake of profit are not unknown to history e.g. the East India Company and International Association of the Congo. Likewise, industries adopting standard practices which do so - e.g. tetra-ethyl lead.

I may be wrong. But I don't think that just because I live in the US corporations have any more respect for my human dignity than they do for the citizens of Honduras or Pakistan or Albania.
.net is free and doesn't come bundled with toolbars and crapware
There is a standalone install.
Javascript became the language of the web because it was there, and people adapted. While it may be secured in the web, I think it's a mistake to pick such a, for lack of a better term, horrible language for programming on the desktop.

As a language, javascript feels less complete when compared to other languages (like python). The weak-typing is especially bad, leading to inconsistent results. More time/effort is then required to write a good application, which I think is unacceptable.
Heh, that story is awesome. And remembers me when someone almost conceived politicians to ban "oxide of dihydrogen" from foodstuffs
Thanks for posting this - have it on in the background right now and loving it so far.
Not really, for a few reasons:

1) I'd rather control exactly what I'm pushing out to a remote host

2) rsync.net costs something like $7-8 a month for a geo-redundant backup so it's not much more.

3) Bandwidth is limited.