skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple pressured Intel to design the smaller chipsets that made the Macbook Air, and subsequently other ultrabooks, possible. Without Apple's influence, we might not have ultrabooks.

I remember taking a tour of an Iomega production facility when I was in high school. The tour guide explained how Toshiba (or someone) was demanding a Zip drive that was 2mm thinner so they could include it in their latest slim laptops. Sony has been making tiny, powerful, expensive laptops for longer than the Air has existed.

All manufacturers have been pushing for smaller, better, faster, stronger components. If it wasn't Apple, it would have been someone else. Apple was just the best at taking credit.
No problem! Double checked it and it works well for me.
Internet Census 2012: Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices
Probably the author. https://twitter.com/vandelay
I credit backbone with a lot of my success as a front end developer as well. Even though I moved on from the project, the ideas and design decisions have stayed with me.
How is this entitlement? He's rationally comparing total compensation packages and choosing the one that benefits him the best. This is something that even high schoolers working crappy unskilled jobs do. They look at the market and pick the job they feels the best suited for them.

Yes, this particular individual gets well compensated compared to many. So what?
>IDE's makes it somewhat easy for pussies (...) Back to my C++ days I had written utilities and class files represented just by a couple of files reaching between 50-100k long

You were doing it wrong.

Plus, implying that IDEs are for "pussies" (whatever that even means) doesn't give the impression of you being particularly clever.
These are not strawpeople. These are sex jokes.
Today is GNU Screen's 26th birthday
Starting wars is a bad idea: Norman Angell applies to oil
There is prior art for this. I've seen forums that permit turning on notices for all posts by specific users, which in itself looks to satisfy every claim, since they also include a "what's new" feed which is basically just a dumping of posts anywhere on the site into 1 place. They behave like a miniature twitter in that regard.

IRC clients also notify the user when messages targeting them (via your handle, similar to @handle) are received, and I've seen scripts that pull comments from specific users from any open channels, and the opposite (namely blocking users) has been present in countless applications, which indicates the concept of paying special attention to a specific user isn't a new one.

On top of this, I don't feel like there's anything that's innovative at all in this patent. Since when did the innovation step stop being a requirement?
Artifacts from mankind's first expedition to the moon are "junk"? Isn't recovering them meaningful, to help us understand what happened more fully, and by extension to help support interest in space exploration?

I suspect that there are a lot of people who disagree with you about the social value of what they're doing. Judging from the coverage that this is getting.
That logic might be acceptable if the DMCA takedown mentioned the images. It doesn't. It specifically references the trademarks "GoPro" and "Hero".

Their "clarification" isn't.
Exactly. The distinction you missed is that I wasn't trying to credit the inventor of the laptop with being a technological innovator along the lines of DMR.
Email address is the backbone of web identity. Nearly every registration system uses it. If you're having trouble with it, maybe, just maybe, it's on your end?
For a 12-character password, a computer with 2 decent GPUs (16000M hash/sec for MD5) can crack the numeric password in just over a minute. Once that's known, the real password can be recovered in around 25ms.
may I ask what started all this?
The majority of applications don't do a lot of number crunching.

I'd recommend Ruby because it's readable, it has a good tool ecosystem a great community and design decisions that please me. Python and Perl are just not what I'd like to see in a language. I will use them if I have to, but given the chance I'll use Ruby.
DRM Firm Sues Apple After Patent Talks Flop
This will be a huge stretch of the law. It would be doubtful that one could succeed against her even under UK-type laws, to say nothing of American law.

Truth is a defense. Did they not do what she reported them as saying?

(NB: I'm not saying I approve of her behavior, but trying to paint her as legally responsible is out there.)
Thanks for piping in - unfortunately I'm too late to edit my 1.5 comment.

Can you describe the easiest way for non-developers to get started with Mezzanine? Is there a way to do it that doesn't involve installing Python, Django, virtualenv, Mezzanine, other apps, etc.?
Part of the problem may be that we've done too good a job of hiding embedded computers in places people don't expect, so people getting their hands on an Arduino or RPi don't even realize they could do those things with their new kit.
Richard Tait, from Microsoft to Cranium to Golazo
This interview is with Richard Tait, co-creator of the board game Cranium, which won the Toy Industry Association’s “Game of the Year” award five times in six years, and sold to Hasbro Toys in 2008. He is currently co-founder and CEO of Golazo energy drinks.
I could not agree with this more. As I've developed larger and larger sites the more I've become frustrated with how hacky and garbage even "solid" WP code is. For crap's sake, if you use child themes you have to make functions with no return values. You have no choice.

Is a rewrite the answer? I dunno, but I sure as heck moved the WP sites to WP Engine rather than risk our servers' health on trying to deal with security and performance.

I still think it's hard to beat when dealing with a lot of content. There's at least a hundred ways to enumerate all the ways the admin sucks, but it is pretty functional compared to say, Joomla, which we migrated from. Joomla is a black box with no particular logic where I have to reach for horrific third party bullcrap to accomplish even the most basic tasks. If you have experience with Joomla, imagine managing 5000 pages with it.
Early Access games on Steam
No. Ember is a fork (conceptually, at least; I'm not sure about common code) of SproutCore:
http://yehudakatz.com/2011/12/12/amber-js-formerly-sproutcor...

Ember was Amber for about 2 days but changed due to a naming collision with another project. I really read too much Hacker News.
Ugh I have been there with Joomla... my marketing guy thought he was creating Yahoo! for the 21st century but in reality he was breaking the site every 3 hours and then calling me for help.
God damn. Can you two keep your fight someplace else?
Mmm. Nothing gets the Men's Rights fanatics frothing like the suggestion that they aren't the most oppressed people of all time (OF. ALL. TIME.). So it might help ease their minds to acknowledge that there are a few significant scenarios in which there is actually gender bias that favors women. The worst one is probably child custody. Who says moms are automatically better single parents? I'd say the other bad one is the draft...we don't have one right now, and maybe now that women are allowed in combat, if we do have a draft again it won't only be men who are conscripted.

But yeah, aside from a few outlying examples, for the most part gender bias favors males, so the excessive whining of the Men's Rights movement is just a big steaming pile of Yeah...No.
It's really not (only) that "benefits matter," but that this kind of comprehensive yet simple calculus is missing when most people consider a startup gig.

Whenever I lost or was on the verge of losing an employee to a startup, it was pretty convincing to walk them through what "hey, you get a whole percent of the company!" really means, even in a nine figure acquisition... and then compare that totally-at-risk, totally unlikely result (as the OP does) to the much better, and not-at-risk, salary + bonus from Large Company.

Difference is of course when you pick that lottery winner and 1% post-dilution is actually something. And that's what everyone's playing, right?
Weird, I have no idea. Thanks for pointing it out...will check into it
This website actually crashes my macbook pro.

No really. I have this bug (verified by genius tech) http://oleb.net/blog/2012/05/15-inch-mbp-mid-2010-crashing-t... which I haven't given to them for repair yet.

The Product button's visual transition repeatedly crashes my box.
Otherwise, looks pretty cool :)
Introducing Early Access
If you have an OS X or Linux machine just use a cron job to do daily google searches. Certainly less than a page of Python.
You can be simultaneously underpaid and making significantly more than your friends ...
Ask HN: What do you use for high fidelity interactive prototypes?
I'm looking for a online service or tool which would allow me to create clickable high fidelity UI prototypes for web apps.

I previously used Keynotopia and liked it for its ease of use. Now I need something possibly based on Bootstrap. So when I'm happy with the prototype it can be immediately used as a front end to build upon.
Question: Do you have to be a lawyer to send a DMCA notice?

This one was sent by their "brand manager" called Patrick Hayes. I highly doubt they're a lawyer. Can anyone weight in on if this is lawful?
That rule/principle seems a quick route to Wikipedia's meta-drama. Where things are not about what is true, but what is verifiable, and what is verifiable is about someone's arbitrary standards. Where an argument can be "rebutted" with "WP:NOT WP:SOMETHING WP:NORLY".

Demanding that other people (ahem) discourse with you in a way espoused by the philosophy of your forum software seems, at best, counterproductive, and at worst, openly hostile.

One wonders, would the result have been the same if such "sarcasm" had been used in praise of the library? Would it have been ignored due to "tone", and "not meeting Discourse's goal"?

Speaking of which, what? If I sign up for a support forum, I'm signing up for that. If FormumSoft 1.1's backend engine and developers are all about 'increasing awareness of mung beans', am I somehow at fault because OtherSoftwareDeveloperCo decides to use their engine, whilst I personally have disdain for mung beans?
The "entitlement culture" known as "management" in most organizations has been mind-boggling for decades. One day we may look back and wonder how we resisted the temptation to blow our brains out amid the nonsensical executive meddling. Perhaps we'll even pity the person paid $100 per day to babysit children, previously a high-ranking executive deploying that same skill set.

There's a problem with "entitlement" in business. It's on the other side of the desk.
Scratch the "ish". They also released the android app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Update: Here is the announcement: http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-keepsave-what...
8 Fashion-Related Startups Funded By Y Combinator
Agreed -- this article shows not one data point to back-up their argument, but if you do look users actually opt for social login due to ease of access and use. Hell it's what makes paypal so easy and popular -- you put your data in one trusted service, and it works with minimal pain points across any site that requires payments.
An explanation of propositional vs. implicative working memory
Cumulonimbus is looking for funding, unsuccessfully. How can we move faster?
Hello,

We build pressureNET, the Android barometer network that collects atmosphere data from onboard sensors. We're growing our active user base 40% monthly and are currently receiving about 250,000 measurements per day. Our plan is to grow rapidly and use our data in new methods of weather forecasting, specifically severe weather in the USA. You can view our data visualization and learn more about the project at http://pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca

We've been looking for funding for 1.5 years and have been unsuccessful so far. Our efforts were minimal at first but we've recently accelerated our funding application process and are now waiting on 3 VCs / incubators to get back to us. None have, and one of them has taken two months almost since they initially contacted us. No progress has yet been made in our conversations.

How long does this process normally take? Why are investors who emailed us now ignoring us? How many VCs / funding agencies should we be applying to?

I just left my day job to work on this and so finding funding is very important. We plan to apply to three funding sources per week, every week. Will that be enough?

Edit: To be clear, I have extremely high confidence that we will find funding. It's obvious to me that we need it and that others will be excited by us and want to invest. But since we want to gather springtime and summertime thunderstorm data in the USA, we're running out of time fast.

Thanks.

Jacob
Great post and it certainly brings up a valid point, which is traction trumps all.
And yet you say "alf" instead of "half".
I've just been reading the reasons behind it and it's so, so stupid.
Not me personally but an engineer at my current startup is taking 5 weeks off but the typical "Unlimited Vacation" also mentions as long as you get your work done. So they will be taking 5 weeks off traveling the world, but they are still getting work done (not the typical hours by any means, but getting what needs to be done accomplished).
BTW: If you're doing beta access, I could use this immediately for http://riakon.com .. Currently using something I hacked together w/ warden, but Docker looks like a more elegant solution (and I'd rather be part of a community than using my own one-off hack).
Yahoo has apparently updated its Alert, or they're updating. Their last alert email looked different and updated in design.

You can also grab Bing's RSS feed which will update based on the time criteria you define with the keywords.

I've been noticing a decline with Google Alerts for a while.
I'm going to offer some unsolicited advice. The constructive way to deal with a project that you find interesting but undocumented or otherwise unpolished is to attack. Attack the bugs one by one as you hit them. Go straight to the source and read, read, read.

Ain't nobody got time for that?

Ah, but grasshopper, it seems hugely difficult to you because you lack practice. If you get in the habit of attacking code like this, you will get faster and faster at it. And then the next time a project comes along that's cool, bleeding-edge, and undocumented, you'll just pick it up and be working in no time.

Reading is the secret weapon that turns a mediocre programmer into a great programmer. You need to read a lot of other people's source code. And a situation like the one in this post is ideal: you have a specific problem you're trying to solve, and you have access to all the relevant source code.

If you really don't have time because you need to ship yesterday, then why are you trying to use pre-1.0 software? Go use something boring and proven.
Kinect SDK version 1.7 is now ready to make new changes
100% agreed -- anecdotal blog posts should not be up-voted to oblivion simply because the community at HN agrees with them. (Though I find it ironic that such a technical community doesn't consider lack of data in arguments like these an issue.)
I'm a big fan of Walgreens. 24x7, on the web. They seem to have everything I need for my toddler and family and now going green. Way cool.

Jason
I was so shocked by the whole thing, I didn't think of anything clever to say until the next day, and then it was too late. He purged about five people altogether, all ones that had been supported by the former managing editor or had crossed him in some way. Some friends of mine said I should file a grievance, but after that experience I didn't really want to go back.

There had been rumors going around the newsroom that something was going to happen, and I knew I was not one of his favorites, so the day before it happened, I asked my boss, the business editor, if I was doing OK. He said I was doing fine. "I especially like the way you've taken over supervising the layout," he said. He was really embarrassed when he called me in the next day, and I think that's why he came up the the story that I was being transferred. I think it was wishful thinking on his part, or he had pushed for a transfer when they told him, and they said "maybe."
I have browsed the subreddit. It's quite apparent that it's easy to derail actual social progress on controversial issues by a few provocateurs. Yes, there is pendulum, and it does have a tendency to swing.

Your green name suggests that you're attempting to provoke a response, now you have one. Take your thinly veiled ad hominem attack back to reddit.
Anyone can send one. It's a legal document, made under risk of committing perjury (a serious criminal offence that carries jail time) so not getting legal advice before you send one off seems a bit silly.
I have several free (experimental as they call them) deployments with them and I did not receive any email prior to the "maintenance."

Did anyone who paid for the service receive notice?
The difference there was really that the iPhone used Maps and that that needed to be monetized.
I know the point you're making, but let me make clearer the point I'm making:

He thinks he's doing himself a favor and getting what he's "worth", but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Claiming what users like or do not like without metrics is deeply suspicious.
I used the super secret iOS SDK to build out a side project. I think the simple concurrency support is a BFD and a first for iOS.
There's a difference between the type of tech job as well (cushy 9-5'er with few responsibilities or YC 100+ hour job). I don't think he's being very unreasonable for the work hours and dedication involved with getting a startup off the ground actually!
Every thing comes down to risk vs reward. Founders risk it all to found companies and rightfully have the greatest reward. Startup employees haven't risked as much but their risk is compensated with appropriate equity the earlier they join and the more risk they take on in the form of lower salary and benefits. YC definitively reduces risk and increases the potential for reward. It's easier for YC companies to raise funding (allowing them to pay market salary and benefits faster) and they have been vetted so we can assume the idea and team have a better shot at success. If you want to work in startups, working for a YC company is a better risk vs reward scenario as compared to a non-YC company. In regards to the post, just ask for more equity in scenario 1. IMHO the first 10 engineers should roughly own all of the "20%" first round option pool and should be able to get the company to an exit, massive profits or the next round. EDIT: last sentence for clarity.
Seems to be a Facebook thing.
> Those are broken weekly since the release. Seriously.
> Have a look at http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general

Funny you should say that. The latest virtualization-related CVEs there are actually in KVM -- a trio including two host memory corruptions, which usually enables completely owning the host. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/9...

And on the other hand, I don't see any container-related CVEs at all from 2013 in the CVE database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=linux+kernel
(The KVM issues I mentioned don't show up yet either, because they're from today.) What vulnerabilities are you referring to?

Maybe you mean kernel vulnerabilities in general, some of which could be usable by a user inside a container. Everyone should stay on top of kernel updates in any event. If you hate the rebooting, Ksplice is free for Ubuntu (and Fedora.)
Ah ok. Thanks.
Like many other successful venues it can too be co-opted. At times when watching videos there I just left because I knew it was agenda speaking. There are many great videos that currently overshadow the not so great.
Absolutely. Think of a Docker container as a universal build artifact. Your build step can be an arbitrary sequence of unix commands (download dependencies, build libssl, run shell scripts etc.). Docker can freeze the result of that build and guarantee that it will run in a repeatable and self-contained way, no matter where you run it.

So you get clean separation of build and run, which is a hugely important part of reliable deployment.
This is next level stuff, from automatic security updates to automation REST API's built right into the OS. I think I have a new Vagrant Box :)
Queries in MongoDB can return very large result sets, but you access them in batches via a cursor: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/read-operations/#cursor-...
Google Keep now live
The truth is that startups can ask for a disproportionate amount of opportunity risk (compared to market rates) from early employees compared to the potential reward. The more experience you have, the more aware you are of this gap.

You have to decide how much marginal value an engineer can provide. If it cannot pay for an experienced Silicon Valley engineer, there are other options. Personally, I took a steep discount for years for the privilege of working where I chose. (And when my current contract is closer to ending, I may entertain that again.)

However, don't mistake experience for entitlement.
___

As for your other part, is is possible that we will look back and wonder how we ever had it so good. However, that day will have to wait until we're no longer capable of individually generating hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue for our respective companies.
and labeled felons
In case anyone was wondering (like I was), Mozilla Persona is built on BrowserID introduced last year.
It appears that your attempt to be clever failed. I never said that all comments on hacker news were high quality. I only implied that most comments on reddit are not high quality.

Please learn to think.
Not to be pedantic, but what does Twilio help here? Aren't you kind of just Jerryrigging Twilio onto an Asterisk install?

Not that this isn't cool, I just don't understand what benefit you get from having Twilio connected here. It seems like if you want to make a physical phone ring you could take a time machine back to 2004 and achieve the same thing using Asterisk, no?

Can you explain the benefit of integrating with Twilio instead of using just plain ol' Asterisk?

Disclaimer: I work at 2600hz, the open-source cloud telecom company.
wow. github: seletz
Google Keep – Save what’s on your mind
Speaking in public
Wow, my experience and testing was quite different (not a huge site, a few hundred thousand users). When given the choice between creating a new login/password or using Facebook it broke about 70% to a new login/password. Demphasizing facebook login increased conversion rate pretty substantially.

There are obviously hundreds of variables in play here from the content of the site to the fundamental design that may be influencing this.

So really, just a data point:)
Google Keep’s Already Shaky Ground
You just went to the DigitalRev website. What actually happened?
Ah, agreed - congrats on getting out of the rat race and properly compensated yourself
Oh I agree completely. If you have a significant amount of Bitcoin you should do everything you can to make Bitcoin a sucess.
If you honestly believe that, I would claim that you either have no customers or that your customer reside in a very limited sub-section of people.

People do not believe that their email and identity is in any way linked. You and I might believe that, but don't count on your customers sharing your beliefs.
I simply can't fathom how the human brain works...

Look for some popularized science articles (e.g. from arstechnica.com/science) and books (e.g. from Ray Kurzweil) that mention neural networks, fMRI, connectome, cellular automata, etc. There are competing theories, but there's enough accessible information out there to dispel some of the mystery.