skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't think CISPA is vital or that it will make much of a difference in online security. Part of the reason I think that is that I have (from previous companies) some professional familiarity with how attack data is already shared. It's cumbersome and not very effective but I don't think CISPA fixes it.

The comparison to CFAA is interesting. Long before the drama with Aaron Swartz (drama you and I are probably on the same page about), CISPA was revised to blunt that concern: TOS violations are explicitly exempted from the sharing provisions of the app. So if you're on online music store and someone starts mass-exploiting a vulnerability to take music without paying for it but doesn't threaten the integrity of your actual computers, you can't share that attack information under CISPA. To me, that is a level of specificity and care that is unique to CISPA. Even the Wiretap Act, which exists almost entirely to suppress monitoring of communications, leaves much larger holes for service operators to monitor traffic.

So my response to you on this --- and I recognize that you want to avoid the nitty-gritty details, and that's fine --- is that CISPA is substantially more detailed than other online regulations. It is written more carefully to cover operational security issues than HIPAA is; it's far more specific than Sarbox was; it actually (IMO) narrows what could already be shared under ECPA, and it does this by spelling out in detail what an actual online security attack is.

I am specifically not making the argument that you have to propose a better bill to justify not passing this one! I agree, that is an infuriating objection. I'm saying, your proposed privacy-protecting language would help clarify the concerns you have with CISPA, so that we could be more sure we're debating each other and not past each other.

Finally, we disagree more than we agree about online policy, across the board. So any time this stuff comes up, any time I ask you to clarify something, you can reasonably expect me to follow up with some kind of rebuttal. I appreciate how that feels like being baited, but I'm not doing it in bad faith. Agreement for the sake of decorum is boring, isn't it? Let's just say what we think.
That's absolutely true. I think it's very common in the startup world to tackle fairly big problems with known challenges--armed with a set of hypotheses--only to be later stopped out by those same challenges.

But, how much confidence in our hypotheses is enough when it comes to the key "show-stopper" challenges? How clear should we be on the path before moving forward? Speaking from personal experience and observation of others, I would say that we founders tend to be optimistic when assessing these challenges at times. There's a little hope in there.

I suppose a certain degree of that optimism is necessary, else no one would move forward. It's just a bit painful to fail for all of the reasons you knew beforehand.

Because, testing the proposed solutions can be exceedingly difficult and resource-intensive. I've often wondered if there's a better way to test assumptions than just going all-in. I've found the much-lauded MVP approach to solving this doesn't cut it for me or for a lot of models/founders. For models that require things like network effects, brand credibility, and more advanced functionality to even be usable the "MVP" is, effectively, the full product. And, this doesn't even consider the marketing/PR/etc. that must be put behind it.

Given all of that, you actually did well to move on in only 18 months. Congrats on making a tough choice and freeing yourself up for the next opportunity.
Turning the spotlight on British drone secrets
A year! How did you have the patience to plod on for that long?
Tech City startups voice criticisms over Technology Strategy Board
It took me perseverance. Not that I'm some Lisp god or anything, but I can sure follow 90% of it from reading it. It's like learning Japanese when all you know is English.
Calling their sell-out a "pivot" is a crock. They became a conduit for spam, shilling for the same five Web sites with stories from those sites "voted" to the front page day after day. They deserved their decline into oblivion, and should be shunned perpetually.

Lie to your users, go to hell.
So you're saying that we should either be willing to pay $5/m for an RSS reader service, or $5/m to host the service ourselves?

Someone with a lot of feeds wouldn't be able to fit all of them in the 5 MB that DOM Storage allows. I wouldn't like an offline feed since a big majority of my feeds are videos and podcasts.

As for them being able to yank away at any time, you're right, but there's going to be enough new stuff out there that it wont be a problem, this time we wont have a monopoly.
Agreed. The only reason some people know that EA publishes the Madden games is that it's right in your face when you start ("EA Sports. It's in the game."). Other than that, I doubt many people would even make the connection.

Much of EA's target audience could care less about what they've done to the gaming industry. They don't give a crap about reviews or DRM or always-online gameplay. It's just how their game works.

The SimCity franchise, I'm inclined to believe, is a much smaller, geekier segment of the gaming market, and these broad strokes made from the executives at EA tend to ruffle our feathers considerably more.
> user account vs. household

Profiles are being tested now and will soon be deployed to all customers.
Planes de Entel Tv
That's a good point; I overlooked that context.
Why can't a developer buy a plivo number? I would have been nice to have that as well.
Definitely! Sounds like a perfect entry for the portability prize.
After Rubin, what's next for Android?
Fair enough.

Disclaimer: I work for Netflix.
Closing Google Reader Sucks For Me, But Is Dangerous For Google
Barnes & Noble Loses Bid to Dismiss Alcatel-Lucent Claims
Most of SICP can easily be implemented in Python since SICP focus on computational ideas and not on languages features (it doesn't use lisp macros, for instance).

The first 3 chapters should look good in most languages with support for high order functions. It starts to get tricky in chapter 4 since Lisp is homoiconic.

I started writing about learning SICP using python [1]. Maybe I should continue it.

[1] http://pedrokroger.net/2010/08/sicp-in-python-1-1-the-elemen...
Why would I need to write a python, or lisp, parser myself from scratch?
Woo! Will there be a way to disentangle existing watch-instantly histories or to simply reset a profile with a clean one?
There's one thing I've long wondered. How do you perfect the pricing of your product?

Is it really safe to adjust pricing after launching your product (especially with a subscription model)?
Not really. They still come out on 3/14
I kind of got them to say it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4655927

BTW, I'm a big fan of the data analysis that came out of okcupid, is that all your work?
Google+'s, it didn't provide the video's link.
Also there is a free template worth $69 included: http://www.appdesignvault.com/stackmob-gift/
Simple 'rules' but you'd be surprised how many operators can't figure this out.

Most new food truck operators I meet have just bought their first iPhone and are "still trying to figure out this tweetering thing." A lot of techies grossly overestimate the technical capabilities of food truck operators, not to mention performing the due diligence that you mentioned.
The commentator said, "Love. This is the experience every young person needs, in order to grow up useful."

I took this to mean, "Every young person needs to experience love to grow up useful." i.e. a relationship.

I hope nobody who upvoted me felt that hard work is unnecessary.
Facebook Acquiring SF Design Firm Hot Studio
Poll: Is cell phone more ubiquitous than cash?
Okay, a sub-thread in the handshake protocol discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376223) raises an interesting question: is a phone more commonly carried than cash?

Please vote on one of the items below (and also on the main story to land it in the front page, please)
I have cash with me right now but no phone
I have a cell phone with me right now but no cash
I have both cash and cellphone with me right now
Non transitive dice are really fun.

If you want a jumping off point, I wrote some simulations with this set of dice in python. The source [0] is on github.

https://github.com/deltasquared/grime/blob/master/grime.py
Vitoto Video App Shuts Down; Failure Is A Badge Of Honor
That seems to defeat the main advantage (not eating up lots of memory with deep recursion)?
It would be nice if one of the self-hosted server-side apps (Fever, Tiny Tiny RSS) replicated the Reader API. It's not really worth it for me to bother with a self-hosted solution if I have to use a web client.
Well, Phone numbers have a carrier cost. Hence we have tried to make this win-win. We give you the credits which allows you to build most of the needed apps on the cloud.

For the Phone numbers, You can still bring your own phone numbers from free services like ipkall.com and virtualphoneline.com

There are a bunch of more services like these if you google around. :)

Plivo will work with any of these around the globe.
I've actually been putting numbers on this: there are many fans of NewsBlur, apparently, as a replacement for Google Reader, so that's $12 a year; I'm worried about being tied to my Gmail address, so I finally got around to setting up a vanity domain address which forwards to Gmail and that's going to be about $10 a year. So I'm up to $22 a year, and I haven't looked into any free or paid replacements for Google Calendar or Analytics...
On Silos vs An Open Social Web
Microsoft recently filed an amicus brief supporting Oracle's position on API copyright. I wouldn't speculate that this is the motive, but it would be interesting if Microsoft is pressured into using Google APIs
Apple releases OS X 10.8.3
Which is why I said "mostly." I don't think incidental tail calls come up often enough to be a major impediment to debugging. Moreover, often times when non-loop tail calls do come up, I don't want to see the intermediate calls anyway. E.g. proxies or thunks.
B&M?
Burgers and Milkshakes?
You think that's magic? Wait till you learn about "automatic differentiation," in which you can mechanically and exactly take the derivative of a computer program (function) without a kludge like setting dx=0.001. In the "old days" this took the form of a transformation of the (say, Fortran) source code. In dynamic languages it can be almost trivial to implement.

The relevant wikipedia article is here, but it makes the process sound way more complicated than it really is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation

Here's a blog entry about it:
http://nibot-lab.livejournal.com/65962.html?thread=108202
Is this done before or after due diligence?
Running Sentry for Pennies
End to end is the key point, loads of places still use off line terminals that batch the job up at eod.

I wasn't referring to chargeback; I meant stroppy card providers. The sort of thing these guy are fighting (although that was for a security breach rather than too many authorised charges against empty accounts):

http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/march/retail-victim-...
Brick and mortars.
The shapes our sounds make
http://pheedr.net
Discuss it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377198
Sometimes people don't have the luxury of going to see a doctor either.
I'm actually in the middle of evaluating Twilio and Tropo for a client. How does this compare?
Copied from comment on blog:

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Anonymous14 March, 2013 19:55

Obviously a comparison of search results is difficult due to the various signals used to alter search results, but as of 3/14/2013 I get what appear to be 'reasonable' results for both of your example searches:

"sublime text 2" "focus group" : http://i.imgur.com/4LpuUYq.png

cisco "anyclient" : http://i.imgur.com/kptK8HO.png

Again, doesn't necessarily detract from your issue, but just giving search terms isn't reproducible!

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I can now verify that Cisco "Anyclient" is not silently rewritten anymore. Will have to wait and see if they weeded out this particular snag, if they adjusted their fuzzing towards sane or if they just gave me a better bubble (I'd like that I think.).
>Are you upset that a proponent of low carb diets actually knows what he is talking about and doesn't lie?

No, I'm saying that McDonald does not say what you're claiming he does. Low carb diets will not lead to muscle loss simply because they're low carb. McDonald even says as much in the article you linked.

>I’d also note that, as long as protein intake is sufficiently high (e.g. the diet is covering the increased breakdown of protein in the liver and elsewhere), the amount of carbohydrates which are truly required is still zero.

Low carb diets can lead to muscle wasting, but that's the case with any diet -- which is something else McDonald had said.

The only thing I'm taking issue with is the assertion that low carbohydrate intake necessarily causes muscle wasting.

>Your evidence of what bodybuilders did decades ago is that people have started talking about doing it in the last few years?

Again, if you're going to cite McDonald, this is something he covers in the first chapter of his book.

EDIT:

I hadn't even seen the handy chart he includes at the bottom of that article. He recommends 50-100g of carbs per day to avoid muscle loss with no additional intake required to maintain light exercise. Those values are firmly within the low carbohydrate intake range.

Seriously, it's rather uncouth to imply the person you're talking to is lying when you're completely misrepresenting the sources you've cited yourself.
As LinkedIn Passes 1 Billion Profile Endorsements, Has Klout Stagnated?
I just created a poll to find out the statistics among HNers. Please vote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377521
Zencast from zencast.org. Anything by Gil Fronsdal.
Mozilla Launches Open Badges, A Standard to Recognize/Verify Online Learning
Also, an implementation independent test suite would be nice...

I'm sure there are plenty of corner cases where all the new implementations might fall down, or make different decisions than are expected.
I keep wishing someone takes up the frighteningly ambitious idea here: developing a low-friction government approved (through e.g. legal precedent) service for signing data.

After a passport/identiy check it would technically just be a highly available service to cryptographically sign blobs, coupled with a mechanism to handle retractions of signed data in case of compromised keys and a decently advanced notification system for early detection of suspected fraud.

On a societal level however, this would enable anything from frictionless contract signing apps to building a Kickstarter for organizing ad-hoc grass-roots referendums whose results are provably meaningful.
Interestingly, I now unconsciously do this switching back to C:

(printf "%d" i)

Before I forget and switch back. I strongly suspect that the people who can't adapt are having difficulty because they are not programming with the new syntax full time. Practicing at night while the majority of your time is still spent with some other language is not the same thing. This is also true for learning human language and is why immersion programs are so successful.

Further, I absolutely do not buy the claims that people have that they can understand haskell easily but not lisp. Haskell might look more familiar at a casual glance, but its syntax takes a substantial amount of time to really understand.
The JVM is really fast- but to be fair note the JVMs memory usage in that comparison. Also version of Go used in that comparison is Go 1.0.3 and Go 1.1 RC (which is much faster and has better garbage collection) is going to be out next month.

Go is a very young language so while very fast compared to an interpreted language like Ruby, Python, etc by virtue of being compiled, it going to take some time be be on par (in terms of execution speed) with a Java, a JIT language that has had 18 years to mature.

It says a lot for Go that its execution time is on par with C#: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
So we went from websites, to blogs, to 140-character messages, to pictures on instagram to express thoughts. Progress... :-/
It's not just about cause and effect though. If I were a woman I don't think I'd want every potential future jilted boyfriend to be able to Google my name in the future and discover I'd been raped. Not because of embarrassment, but because they could re-victimize just by bringing it back up. But of course, there is the element of embarrassment for many, which just adds to the problem of having it completely public.
Digg to Build RSS reader with 'Best of Google Reader's Features'
Go visit the site right now, there is nothing there but a exactly what the parent post said: a custom google search on the 'blogs' tab.
You are recovering the stack by creating another one.
My wishlist exactly.

For the web UI, I'd actually add 2 features:

1. 1-key shortcut support for a read later service (Instapaper, etc). Most native clients offer this already, so it's just something I'd like on the web view.

2. Keep the same navigation shortcuts as Reader (esp J/K). My fingers are already trained.
Uber isn't a ride-sharing service. Their drivers are just as tracked and identified as normal taxi drivers are. Probably more tracked than a typical limo service is.

(I also do not believe that the ride sharing services are particularly risky.)
"Oops, Sorry there's been an error. We are digging into it." on signup :( Maybe the + I used in the email address?
Google Breaks Up Mapping and Commerce Unit, Jeff Huber moving to Google X
You shut up about Google Reader!
I am not one to comment on them but if you are considering them you will want to consider Plivo as well…
Mike
mdl@plivo.com
> $120 to fill up the truck’s enormous tank

That's like, 30 gallons. Not that big.
Maybe they took it down; now I want to see this video of awesomeness but can't find it!
AppScale 1.6.8 Released
Space Exploration Pictures
sometimes its important that you can configure your living room pretty much any way you want, and you get obsessive compulsive about cleaning up every last detail, re-skinning all the icons and changing the underlying structure. editing systemui.apk is like getting a secret door in your living room.
Could the people without cash elaborate? I'd love to have no cash and no wallet, just a phone. I have cash for buying small things like a coffe - do you just pay with credit cards for those kind of things, too?
Facebook unfriends CISPA cybersecurity bill over 'privacy'
pobox.com (http://pobox.com/pricing) is a fairly stable domain for email with lifetime hosting for as low as $20/yr (forwarding only) or $50/yr (hosting)
DNNs can be thought of a stacked Restricted Boltzmann Machines. Their structure and training is very different to traditional MLPs. They derive in some ways from convolutional neural nets.

I describe some of the key differences between DNNs and MLPs in the webinar. Also, the webinar explains how recent advances go far beyond just applications to speech recognition - in particular I focus on a case study in chemoinformatics.
Smartphones Are Reinventing—And Ditching—the Keyboard
Hm, I'm not seeing any chart like I would expect, e.g. a bar chart or line chart. I see a table filled with text. Did something fail to load? I tried reloading a couple times.
That is fascinating in the context of camp/travestites - when men dress as women they often adopt a stylized, over-the-top presentation of femininity. same thing applies online.
Even Potato Champion serves some niche foods though, with Poutine and their fancy ketchups/aiolis. I think you're probably right, though, in that Potato Champion seems to have hit the sweet spot between niche/broad appeal in their market.

It also probably helps that potatoes are cheap.
All I know is that I will be on whatever reeder supports. So basically whoever makes that thing is going to be deciding my fate. I hope they choose wisely.
Show HN: Calculate your PIrthdays, Countdown for PI-Baby
Ha! Don't get me started on that.

While social media does help with hype and reach, most trucks nowadays are figuring out that a good location will trump a tweet 9x out of 10. Some seem to think that tweeting out a special is enough (because its all they've heard about), and fail to realize that SM is just one part of a comprehensive marketing plan.
I don't support naming victims of any crimes, certainly including rape (unless the victims consent or their identity is unavoidably public).

That said, I'd like to see some numbers about reporting of stranger-rape. I know that acquaintance-rape is heavily underreported, and as a very large amount of rape is acquaintance-rape, that means that rape is underreported. I'm ignorant about the reporting rate of stranger-rape.
Please, as an advice to general HN posters, please avoid posting marco.org links here on HN, because his sole intention is to sell his readers out more than focusing on writing. That's a fairly grande accusation, but it's justified.

Do you know why is he writing about Google Reader now? Go to your HN homepage right now, as of writing this comment, the Google reader announcement has about 1700 upvotes. Ouch, that's a lot of views for someone to let go of. Hence, if someone writes something that compliments this announcement, common sense tells me that they would get more page views.

There's nothing wrong in having ads on your blog/website, people do it all the time. What's wrong is trying to create an impression to your readers that your sole intention is to write quality content, while you care just about pageviews. Please, realize that marco.org is no different from Techcrunch!

Marco isn't innocent, if you've been following him closely. Also, I think it would help if you take a look at this page where he just blatantly sells us, his readers like some piece of junk commodity.
http://www.marco.org/sponsorship
Lists can be charts too, as used in accounting "Chart of Accounts" and in medicine
I'm using 35 as the midpoint to 70, the rough point at which, if you're doing the wrong thing, you can't kid yourself anymore. For some people it's 25, for some 40, for some it never ever happens and they just live out their lives. The number IS arabitary +-10 years, but you won't have your midlife crisis when you're 5, nor when you're 90.
Well, I am not the one to comment on them but if you are considering them you will want to consider Plivo as well…

Drop us a note at hello@plivo.com and we will help you with it!
I don't do food trucks a lot, but when I do I don't have a problem with the price, because. . . my favorites are truly better than the middle-of-the-road traditional restaurants in their (less traditional) niche. . .they are still cheaper than the above-average traditional restaurants in their niche. . .and they are more convenient to my office than their traditional counterparts.
Hmmm do I know you?
Well done. This site was worth the work, even if it will be a short lived project.

I voted for feedly. Those guys also promised a smooth transition once google reader shuts down. Not sure what else you could want.