skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can tell from the responses who has a real DR plan and who are just winging it. The DR-backed commenters can switch to site B with nary a worry. Everyone else is trying to justify keeping the server room running while something is burning. To them a misplaced backhoe is a bigger problem than you know a server burning.

I love the sanity check part. But really, you're keeping someone on hand to drag your ass out after you pass out while you sniff up toxic fumes.
How to Choose a Typeface
Something I hear from a lot of people is that, when choosing typefaces / fonts, they go straight to the popular ones because it’s a lot simpler for them.
Maybe we need a diy thermal sensor that plugs into an android or iphone device?

Oh wow, it exists:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Thermal-Imaging-Phone-Camera...

http://www.robhopeless.com/search/label/Thermal%20Imaging

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andyrawson/ir-blue-therm...

http://rh-workshop-llc.myshopify.com/

Costs only $150 to make?

Open-source: https://github.com/RHWorkshop/
Why on earth would I participate in an economy with a deflationary currency?

Every day I would have to work harder or be paid less, all the while my economic output would be increasing the wealth of those who are unproductive but happen to possess currency. No thanks.
This is interesting, but I feel the author did not get to the meat of the issue yet. He suggest to relabel the 10x to 1x and 1x to 1/10x. Which to me just leads to a discussion about whether the glass is half empty or half full.

I think the interesting question is, why is it that 1x is generally regarded as default while 10xers are regarded as special.
How does that work? I guess the resulting bitcoins are divided between the people who participate in the pool of there's any success?
You have misunderstood the grandparent post. His point was that since states exist as a matter of fact and want to have their taxes paid, Bitcoin is less useful than currencies which are acceptable legal tender for that purpose. For one thing, you'll have to pay a small conversion premium on top of the debt you're servicing.

I don't expect you to agree, whenever I have noticed any comment from you it has without exception been in strident and shrill defense of the state, but just stating you think differently and using this as evidence for calling your opinion as fact proves precisely nothing.

You're calling me strident and shrill, when you're characterizing all government as violent and extortionate? OK, if it makes you feel better.

Monetary bases that are not government created are essentially worth only their commodity value, because they lack any reliable institutional backing. In practice, this typically makes them rather inconvenient: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Special-Delivery.aspx
Reconstruction Of Visual Images Using Brain Activity Patterns
It isn't obvious? This is a community of entrepreneurs and just in the past 12 months there have been a few suicides and people saying goodbye on HN to those who have killed themselves. Entrepreneurs can be stubborn and blind sighted, if we don't succeed and acheive "Zuckerberg Status" before age 30 we flip the fuck out and want to end it all. To many of us, success is the only way to live. We're very prone to suicide. And because we're stubborn, realistically, you're not going to be able to convince a lot of us out of it. Even after you talk to us about options and give us support if we're going to do, we're going to do it. Might as well make a peaceful and easy for everyone involved rather than bloody and messy.

Because this isn't the last time someone's going to post a suicide notice and goodbye.

And I never said "don't downvote me!" my exact words were "before you downvote...".
Infra red camera!
One is closed source, so you can't even consider it for adoption. Google is now proclaiming its dissatisfaction with webkit, and Gecko is a 20 year old codebase now, and Google likes control.

Though considering how they fund Mozilla in the first place, if they wanted Gecko, they would just buy Mozilla. They keep the lights on anyway.
This has suddenly become very philosophical. My view is that a database of facts should contain things that are believed to be facts. It should be possible to remove facts that are shown to be incorrect, but those things should never have been true.

> I'd also like to take this moment to point out that "you're" is the proper contraction of "you are", since we're getting all semantic.

I know, it annoys me too. By the time I'd realized it was too late to edit. Typos happen.
Coq is also a good choice. Coming from Haskell, though, I think Agda/Idris have a shallower learning curve. It also sits more happily on the theorem proving side of things than the programming side.
"Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme in that everyone is counting on someone else to want them"

Exactly like gold. Yet you don't see people claiming gold is a "pyramid scheme", now do you?

Most of gold's value is dictated purely by speculation and jewelry use (people want it because it is... rare - there is no other underlying reason).

(People say that gold has value because it has industrial uses, but these uses only justify a small fraction of its price, which is in most parts a result of pure speculation and jewelry use).
I think the best one right now is http://housing.co.in/
NSA use FPGAs. Even they can't afford ASICs unless its a supercomputer CPU I.e IBM power and they aren't all that quick compared to an FPGA.
> Although old browsers don't support HSTS, they still respect the "secure" flag in cookies. So if an old browser ever requests an insecure resource, no cookies are sent with it, so the bad guys can MITM your connection all day long and no harm will be done.

Not true. Once a MITM hijacks the victim's communication with the server, she can do whatever she wants, including stripping the "secure" flag from session cookies. She may not be able to compromise a previous secure cookie, but she can hijack a brand new session, wait for the user to authenticate, and gain access that way. The communication from the victim to the MITM will be plain-text with insecure session cookies; the communication from the MITM to the server can be SSL with secure cookies.

And if we're talking just about an insecure resource (not a page, but, for example, a JavaScript file), the MITM can simply inject malicious code into it and hijack the browser that way.
It is a really useful term when used in its original context, rather than the way the term is commonly used now.
Apart from the populistic BS that the magazines blow all things neuroscience up to, the machine learning technique behind these kinds of studies are actually very clever (and a lot more robust than most "traditional" fMRI findings that produce headlines like "scientists discovered brain area causing teenage angst". If you want a former neuroscientist ranting about bad fMRI research for a page or so, let me know :)
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the issues that the author had with Bitinstant. The API error indicated that the service - allegedly one of the largest and most reputable Bitcoin sellers in the US - had a total of $16.48 in its possession at the time and could not deliver his order. His experience is not unique - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128314.2660

My guess is that the next big Bitcoin implosion story will be about Bitinstant. Something is rotten over there.
It could have easily killed a number of innocent others.

A rough childhood is not an excuse, if you're old enough to have a driving license then you're old enough to think through the consequences of slamming on your brakes at highway speeds.
Ask HN: Strategies for converting 1M line Enterprise system to new language.
We have a million+ line system (Accounts, order, stock, etc) that's written in a programming language that's creaking a bit at the edges. I mean, it's old. Every time we consider rewriting it in a new language, the scale of the task puts us right off. As a consequence, we're still coding using a programming language from the 1980's and new features take four to five times longer than they should to develop. It's hugely frustrating.<p>What strategies, stories and advice do people on Hacker News have for coping with this increasingly difficult situation? How did you reboot? Anyone been through the same and come out the other side stronger?<p>#I've not identified the language we're using because it's a small community and I don't want to be identified.
That seems a bit illogical though as it's the people with jobs that have the money that advertisers are gunning for.
My understanding is that the Series A Crunch exists because the number of companies at the seed stage is growing at an even faster rate, so over time there are more and more seed stage companies competing for Series A funding.
Looks like this concept is out there. FRP (Functional reactive programming), or as I like to call it FAP (functional adaptive programming ;P), is the idea that values (return values even) can change over time and therefore all statements depending on those values will re-evaluate. I like this concept. It's almost like all values can be streams of values. I like how Elm (programming language/DSL) calls them signals because they're almost like streams, but hold a value at any given time (I suppose). I really wish JS had this implementation.
IR/thermal imaging cameras are SO USEFUL. I had a fire (bathroom fan caught fire due to being 45y old, knocked it down and extinguished it myself, but was worried about extension in the ceiling/duct).

Oakland FD came out and used their IR camera to check the heat from the ceilings nearby. Hilariously they found a hot water pipe (running between bathroom and kitchen) and almost axed the ceiling open (turning $1500 in damage into $3k+), but their captain was smart and figured it out from another angle.

Really tempted to hack an EOS 5Dm3 into an IR camera next. Not so much for fires as night vision, but it would be useful for fires too. I'm not sure how useful an IR camera is at detecting heat, since things which aren't yet on fire are not quite so infrared, though.

I usually use a Fluke IR temp meter when cooking and to find hot wires/etc. in the datacenter, though.
Recent Android versions include the ability to disable built-in applications. I've got an S3, and I've successfully disabled all of the bundled stuff I don't want as well as most of TouchWiz. There are some Samsung services I can't disable, but they're bits that are non-UI or are hot-swapable and that would break the phone if disabled but not replaced. The stock keyboard and the TouchWiz launcher fall into this category, neither of which I see unless I go out of my way to re-enable them.

My phone didn't come with Facebook installed, although it did have a link in the accounts section to install the application.
You won't be paid less. The money you'll be paid would worth the same, numbers don't matter. Also, your savings would increase in value as everyone else's.

I find it very common even here on HN that many people fall for this fallacy that money == value.
thanks, will take a look at CDN77

any idea whether Google Cloud Storage is suitable for such task?
Debian/Ubuntu repositories have pdftk, which has been good enough for all my PDF merge/split/etc needs.

E.g. 'pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf'; 'pdftk -h' has more examples
Are you sure about that? There have definitely been times in the past when the NSA rented fab capacity from Intel.
"Bitcoin is unknown territory. It draws praise from Silicon Valley fixture Paul Graham and simultaneous dismissal from Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. "

No, No, nO!! There is no Nobel Price in economics, period.

There is a "Nobel MEMORIAL price" made by a central bank to propagate their propaganda as scientific, huge difference.
I don't think you're thinking this through properly. The same loss of value will happen no matter how they spend or invest their money, so a rational wealthy person should conclude that it was never really "worth" the face value in the first place. (What good is money that only holds its value if you never spend it?) So that's not an incentive against spending.
The Series A crunch isn't caused by a decrease of Series A rounds, from various studies (from cbinsights and others) Series A investment is actually relatively stable.

What's changed is that you're getting far more companies who have raised money at the seed level. So the percentage of companies getting on follow-on investment at Series A is dropping while the absolute number isn't.

Also doing it over a 30 day period probably isn't long enough to take into account the vagaries of randomness (rounds may happen erratically, there's typically a delay before round gets added to crunchbase, etc.) - probably makes more sense to do it from start of year.
WebKit devs on Blink fork: 'Two can play that game'
I hear you. Good luck finding users with Vim compiled with lua support, though.
Yeah, I often see technology: news tickers, desktop widget, live tiles, full-screen apps, etc; that seem to assume that I'll be spending some significant amount of staring at a device waiting for it to ambiently present me information at a snails pace, while I just stand there doing nothing.

Even when I'm using social features of my app, my focus is - "I'll see what my friends are up to while I wait for coffee"; "I'll post something to keep in touch with people". I'm never going to get my phone out of my pocket, turn on the screen, and just stand there hoping that if I wait long enough it might tell me something interesting.
You have to have inflation via devaluation of currency to
fuel investment.

Incorrect assertion presented as fact. Why does anyone invest in hyperdeflating computer power, which rises exponentially in value relative to the fiat dollar? Inflation disincentivizes investment in the asset losing value in real terms, namely dollars. People are flooding into bitcoins because they have the opposite trend from dollars. And yet they will spend on things they need, rather than things they want, just like people still spend on computers. Hyperdeflation followed by moderate steady deflation means the death of the 30 year mortgage, the student loan, and all the other mechanisms of debt slavery. Deflation incentivizes production over consumption, savings over debt. These concepts are alien to the America of 2013 but weren't always so.
Give you some credit. If you had to design a programming language, you'll end with something. You'll have to learn a lot of stuff in the way.
Maybe the result won't be awesome, but it will be something, not just 0 ;-)
Libraries to store all UK web content
Wow. It's like the, what, fifth time Facebook destroys any notion of privacy?
Neutralizing a 51% attack on bitcoin
"You consider it a feature of a currency that there is a violent extortionate power engaged in parasitism of the monetary base."

If by that you mean a democratic government empowered to stabilise the currency via a variety of means, including supply inflation...

Hell yes that's a feature.
It's not excessively volatile. Relative to its market capitalization, its volatility is quite low:

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3338/how-does-bit...

As for being deflationary, that hasn't stopped the rapid growth in the number of transactions per day:

http://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions

I posted this elsewhere, but it applies here:

A gradual rate of deflation didn't stop world markets when they used an international gold standard.

Very few people forgo buying something they need because they could get 2% one year later if they hold on to the currency.

I think deflation IS economically inefficient, but the negative effect of slight deflation has been exaggerated in the popular economic literature.

For a peer-to-peer currency network, a fixed money supply could even be beneficial by creating an incentive for bitcoin holders to invest in the technology.

Bitcoin is working, has created the most powerful distributed supercomputer in the world, and is processing an increasing number of instant global transactions every month.

It works in practice, as a medium of exchange, and that is a better argument for it working as a currency than theories about how deflation affects economies.
How much of that volume is ASIC purchases, which are essentially a form of speculation on the future price of Bitcoin themselves?
On the surface it sounds like an reasonable way to prioritize things -- every day do 1 big thing, 3 medium things, and 5 small tasks -- but why should such a division of your time necessarily reflect your priorities? What if the best use of your time at the present moment was to just focus on the single most important thing (for example)?

(Note, this is just from thinking it through in the abstract, and I know that practical experience with things can show you sides of them that weren't obvious in the abstract. So if anyone does have practical experience with it and can comment, I'd be interested to hear it).
I think a16z is dominant because while there are specific other VCs who may be on different lists of "best networking investor" or "best security investor" or "best travel site for cats investor..." or whatever, but a16z is basically on every list, at or near the top, for every niche I care about. (EDIT: oops, this was a reply to the other comment on the page)
Chart of Submarine Cable History
First 3 months of my "not so romantic" entrepreneurial journey
No one knows the future. They could be, and that's a pretty amazing prospect.
If I put on my tinfoil hat tight enough to cut off my circulation, then
a rumor/myth of a "Series A Crunch" which makes funding seem dear is in
the best interest of the VC's providing such funding. Though I don't
know any of them, I'm sure must be at least some VC's with the integrity
to say that from their perspective, they don't see a crunch. But it
would be equally fair for them to say that they see a whole lot more
startups happening recently, so competition between startups resulting
in price/terms pressure does exist even if the subjective term "crunch"
is a bit overstated.

Since I don't try to keep up with every new startup that is
created, my perspective might be wrong, and my assertion of there being
more startups now days could also be wrong. None the less, it sure seems
that way to me from my casual reading.
Would you be interested in trading services? I can teach you how to code, in exchange for flight instruction. I'm in SF.
Yep! Add yourself to the event, recording will be posted up there.
No, there's not. It's b2b specific and all it talks about is pipelines. It's got nothing to do with startups.

Bad title, bad article, bad server.
I always loved Ebert's re-appraisal of The Big Lebowski in 2010:

"If a man has a roof over his head, fresh half-and-half for his White Russians, a little weed and his bowling buddies, what more, really, does he need?"

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20...
Up to 2008, 100% sure. AFAIK, they were doing primarily mixed mode analogue as this stuff is harder to do inside an FPGA. I worked for one of their nefarious suppliers for a bit.
I think it really is bad news for Apple... if more such stuff starts coming exclusively on Android, then it is bad for Apple. And very good for Google. (posting this to get some insight, not to initiate ugly debate among Apple/Google fan-boys)
Good point. That was Matter, I think?
You never heard of B2B startups? I'm a founder in one, and I found the article very relevant.
http://www.jetsuite.com/careers

http://www.surfair.com/career_pilot.html

Your passengers would all be Silicon Valley investors/founders and you'd have a PA system to pitch them with :-)
If you can get your employer to give you fixed salary in a deflation, your spending power goes up. If the employer adjusts down, your net buying power doesn't decrease if prices adjust to increased value of money.

Those who by and large run the world right now sit on their laurels letting their money (albeit, in "risky" investments rather than a box growing in value) make them even richer. While their money might be productive, they more or less aren't contributing anything else, and they do it in self-interest.

I'm not trying to argue for deflation, and I do think the design of BTC as a finite monetary supply is fundamentally flawed, but deflation and inflation respectively benefit someone - deflation those who hoard, and inflation economic growth. But both depend on people who have the money in the first place.
So what your saying is, "we're startups, we don't do sales, we get investment". Well maybe some people are interested in a profitable business. And anyone who has done any sales would be able to adapt this guys advice to any startup, not just B2B.
You miss my main point - that the rewards of any economic growth produced by those doing productive work in a BTC economy is enjoyed by those hoarding, not by those producing. Work performed in the past is valued higher than work performed in the present.

As a result anyone with enough old money can parasitise on productive society forever, to the nth generation. And instead of doing so by (at the very least) stimulating the economy through investment, they can do it just by sitting on their mattress full of cash.

Again, why would I participate in an economy where my hard work is of direct benefit to people just sitting on cash?