skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These guys are making some serious disruption in a terrible market. Good for them.

I wonder what this lawsuit would look like 10 years from now, when Uber Drivers are replaced by Uber leased "Google Cars" that pick you up?
Show HN: DenisTheBot - A new kind of NLP question-answering chat bot
I suppose I'm not really seeing the benefit here --don't nodejitsu, heroku, and others have the same "always on" policy?

I don't mean to rail against you or the service, but I am genuinely curious to see what I get for $50 a month (which AFAICT is more or less the same as nodejitsu and heroku). As MathewPhillips mentioned in my previous comment, it sounds like nodejs-cloud isn't targeting individual developers so much as it is pursuing small businesses and above.
Well, once could use something like spiped[1], which would add a very large roadblock to any attacker.

[1]: http://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html
What do you have to gain by going onto Hacker News and posting conspiracies theories about DEA disinformation? Are you working for some kind of anti-US gov agency perhaps?

Er
tall tree and a long rope?
The reason they are not willing to say no risk is presumably that if you don't upgrade, then any other security vulnerability that allows an attacker to trigger a network connection with a suitable payload to port 5432 (or any other ports you may have Postgres on) on your hosts could still be harmful.

That means anything that gives local shell as any user that run normal tools, but potentially also a lot of other things.

E.g. any software that can be tricked to try to connect to a local address/port pair and send a suitable string.

That dramatically escalates any minor little hole that might otherwise not be a risk for you.

(That's a reminder to always verify before trusting any hostname/IP a user passes you that it's not a local address or address you have privileged access to, and to also consider internally firewalling connections between your various hosts down to just what you need)
(b0ttler0cket):

This is a good question. I looked at mailboxapp.com and I noticed a few things right away.
1. It's beautiful to look at.

2. It's simple. It's easy to understand. 6 words describes each of it's selling points. This is important from a marketing perspective. It's the difference between marketing a super-specific product targeted especially for hackers and a product that everyone can use and understand. One is more likely to gain popular attention.

3. They did something similar to Groupon, where they created a mechanism that encouraged (in Groupon's cased "forced") people to begin discussing their product in a natural way. In Mailbox' case, they created a reservation list. I'm not sure if this was entirely necessary, but it seems to be talked about a lot, and it has the effect of reassuring potential users that the product is worth it. This is so important, especially for a startup that claims to reinvent an age old system such as email, which has been around since before AOL. When a potential user sees that X users already reserved the app, the user believes he/she has actually stumbled upon something useful, especially when they see also the Y users that will reserve it after them (another feature mailboxapp wisely included). By showing the Y people behind, the app is implying that there are a limited number of spaces. Potential users see X and say "huh, it's worth it" then see Y and say "oh I better get it now." That's how people get enticed to get the app and tell their friends "before it's too late." Besides, "reservations" are always for something important; dinners, Broadway shows. That facet of this mechanism shouldn't be ignored either.

4. Judging by the number of articles that pop up after search, mailboxapp also has good PR. Funny enough, the reservation mechanism is so interesting that most headlines start with how many reservations mailboxapp has. It's an especially good marketing tool when you can break some key marks "half a million," "one million," "two million reservations."

5. I see that it's also been bought by Dropbox. That also creates good publicity, and it may also be a big reason that there's been so much good press about mailboxapp.

:) Hope that helped. I'll keep looking so if I think of or see anything else, I'll make sure to include it. :)

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It worked just fine but seeing as I was wrong I have deleted the post.
$50 is way too much for a small app. I can run a node server with a small mongodb on AWS for $10 a month. Sure, it's likely a bit more management than an integrated service like yours but I could run 5 instances. I'll also admit that it is hard to compare given that there's no info on your site about performance or at least some indication of the type of hardware you're running on.
Imagine a question comes up in conversation like ... "How close did Washington come to being proclaimed the king of the USA?"

Honestly I hate when people end a conversation like this by just looking up the answer on wikipedia. The point of these conversations is quite often NOT actually about getting the right answer - the point is to enjoy the conversation - explore the 'space' around some topic, each participant in the conversation sharing their own perspective & knowledge. The cool thing about conversations like this is all the stuff that comes up which would otherwise be short-circuited by the closed door an "official" answer imposes.
The point is rather than these bodies acting as gatekeepers deciding what they think will work or not, funds should be distributed via a lottery subject to some basic criteria.

In fact, that is rather the point of the matching funds you mentioned - they let the private sector decide the winners and come in on the same times. That said, there's still a checklist of what sectors they will and won't fund - and it so happens that some startups get unreasonably pigeonholed.
Richard Warburton not happy with Java 8's Lambda API
This is an example of a law that, I think, truly benefits the public. There is no reason that Uber should not be barred from discriminating based on pickup location or destination. At the same time, I think the taxi laws are generally in need of reform anyway, so maybe this whole situation will lead to better regulations overall.
The Internet would be a really boring place if we had to prepend "It is my opinion that: " to every sentence.

[And now I'm wondering if I could write a Chrome extension to do exactly that, how hard could it be? pseudocode: `$('form').submit(function() { $('textarea').val().split('. ').map(function(){ return "It is my opinion that: " + this; } ); });`]
Use of Weapons is great, but the writing is poorer than the other two.

Heh. Interesting. I'd say exactly the opposite myself. Not that I dislike the other two - PoG is one of my faves of his SF work - but to me UoW is a vastly better work of literature, both in structure and character development. Less full of SFnal goodies than some of his later work, but all the better for that in some ways.
Java: Commons-DBCP broke my app, c3p0 fixed it.
Ask HN: Music startup vs. Audio startup?
I've seen Dalton Caldwell's talk on why starting a music startup is a bad idea, but I'm wondering, is starting an audio startup bad as well? I think not, but I want to know your thoughts.

YouTube, for instance, let's people upload videos and they remove things that are copyright violations.

Why not have the same for audio but remove the stuff that gets reported for DMCA violations? How much of a challenge is there that I'm not seeing?
It would be nice to see some benchmarks against competitors. It would make sense to pay more for a faster service.
Towtruck by MozLabs - Easiest way to collaborate coding stuff up in real-time
7 Ways to Stop Buying Things You Don&#8217;t Need
It seems like you have more of an issue with the Bitcoin evangelists moreso than Bitcoin itself. I bought a few Bitcoin because I find the idea fascinating and like to see how the system works -- more to be a part of an experiment than to do actual business, but anyone who thinks that Bitcoin is ready right now as an alternative to fiat is out of their mind.
Could you repost the link please?
Why Mind-Wandering Robs You of Happiness
This article and the DEA doc is confusing. It seems to mainly be saying that having a warrant to intercept cell communications won't get iMessages because it doesn't go through the cell carrier.

It's implied a bit that it is encrypted end-to-end and that Apple can't get the contents... but it doesn't seem to actually say that anywhere. This comment on StackExchange says the encryption is only from sender to Apple and Apple to recipient, so Apple has the plaintext: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18908/the-inner-...

Also, wouldn't the same issues have come up with BBM?
FYI: You blurred out the names on the image but not on the sentence above it.
I expect that "insolvent governments" refers to the likelihood that a government in financial difficulties will eventually resort to confiscating the assets which its citizens hold in foreign accounts in addition to the confiscation of of domestic accounts, which has already occurred in Argentina in 2001 and in other places. In terms of the rate at which these events happen, I would consider 'once in a lifetime' to be a very high rate given that they can significantly reduce the wealth that you have managed to accumulate from a lifetime of hard work.

People living in countries with poorly managed economies, such as Italy and Spain, should be in the habit of keeping significant portions of their savings in foreign accounts; once the corralito hits, you're already done for.
Thanks for sharing Alex! Are there any other companies you think are worth looking at in terms of email marketing?

I'm personally a fan of how well designed Twitter's re-engagement emails are.
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The sad part is that iMessage's encryption appears to be of dubious quality. Even worse, the protocol is not public, so there's no way to audit it.
Hmmm... Industry disruption met with resistance is solid evidence that you are on the right track. The biggest innovation was the move from Checker Cabs to Prius ! Ha. I was a brand manager at Chevrolet and teamed up with Joe Boxer to run van taxis in NYC with a portion of fare going to charity. Chevy didnt want to go beyond test even though the customers LOVED it. Sort of TOMs of taxis. That could be a next innovation in the space...social give back or "free" Uber rides where the passenger could add on an amount that goes into a pool for low income folks to get to the store, etc. Anyway - NONE of that coming from the traditional taxis....
This is perfectly compatible with Postgres.

However this does not prevent any of your employees or other users of systems with access to use spipped from committing this attack. You still need a client somewhere and the server is still vulnerable.

Allowing remote connections from any IP to your database, like heroku apparently does, sounds kind of crazy to me. I can't believe they do it. But limiting and encrypting that access just limits, and does not eliminate your vulnerability to this bug.

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Just to be really clear: Say your corporate blog stores it’s data in your main Postgres instance. As blogging engines tend to, it has a bug, and hackers succeed in using that to get access to your blog’s server. Even if you are using spiped to connect the 2 boxes they still have the ability to mess with your main database, on some other, probably much better secured, box. This bug is ugly.
Because they are private banking records - some of the account info released is from private citizens doing nothing illegal (offshore banking is explicitly legal in many countries)

One way to look at it is: how would you like it if it was discovered that a drug lord was using the same bank as you to launder money, and therefore your bank account balances and recent transfers were released to the public, even though you had nothing to do with the drug lord other than storing your money at the same bank?
I am definitely not justifying it—just saying that people are paying something for it, thus would probably be willing to pay for a service that offers similar functionality as well.

It is absolutely jumping the turnstile. No doubt about it. I have no legal or moral justification for this other than it is achieving a really high quality experience that you can't get any other way.
Wasn't so bad, it's just bad if you didn't live through that era of angelfire/tripod/geocities.

Seeing a site like this would be quite a relief for me. No crazy frames, or bad graphics, clean, functional, to the point.
Founder postmortem on Vitoto (video startup)
L4D2 is the only other game series that came as close.

SoF2 is still the bloodiest game I can recall playing, and not really in a fun way--kind of disturbing, actually.
I'm shocked over the choice of mercurial over git for version control.
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It certainly seems feasible with the use of VPC and Security Groups.

At the very least I think they should offer an option that only you to restrict access so only your dynos have access to the postgres port.
eBook pricing advice aside (long story short: probably too low if that is your first product), I'd recommend everybody internalize the advice of "The current thing I am working on is not the last event in my career, and I should probably purposely work on this with the eventual goal on building upon it later."

This is true regardless of whether your main career goals are running a business, working for funded startups, or just getting a stable job at BigCo, by the way.
Paint Pigment Transformed To Work Wonders
this is cooool!
waiting for iOS app :D
If  you  already  know  the  answer,  don't  just  blurt  it  out -MIT class
[not gp post, but this is a normal situation]

Because some folks need to go through a long, drawn out process to upgrade internal software and might already have some place in the pipeline to put the upgrade so it will get tested with everything else.

If its a security issue for your current installation, you go now and hope, but if it can wait for a release then you do that.
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> 1. It would be insulting to do that.

It's also insulting to not give a conversation your full attention, for some of us. If I'm trying to talk with you about something (as opposed to talking to you), I'm going to be insulted if you're checking your phone and otherwise broadcasting through body language and your inattention that "what you're saying to me right now is unimportant, and I would rather be doing other things."

Whether you are capable of paying full attention to our conversation while doing other things is immaterial; it's about perception. If I feel like you're not interested in the conversation, I'm just going to shut up and move on.
Congrats, it looks great.

So, if I understand correctly, it let people crowdsource any kind of structured and descriptive data ?
My understanding is the messages app seamlessly transitions to using iMessage to send messages over a data connection where available.

Assuming this to be the case, you wouldn't normally choose to use iMessage. It just happens if it can.

If further penalty were to be considered, I expect the prosecutor would have to prove that the user intentionally took action to ensure iMessage was used for the delivery of messages instead of SMS. I suspect that would be hard to demonstrate.
With --tui there's no syntax highlighting or vim shortcuts. That's enough for me to prefer cgdb over gdb --tui.
Update: I see it has scrollable gdb history, great feature!
Hard to not see facts like this. Here at Brazil, i guess it´s even worse. People tend to share the best moments of their lives just to show how cool or amazing they are. And it´s not only pics. Sometimes small texts like "i´m going to USA, wanna come with me?" and nonsense things like that. Just to say: "hey loser, i´m going to the USA and you are not!". But, LOOK AROUND you. Are not we doing this all day long, even out of the internet? You see, internet, cloud and social networks are just extensions of the real world. Basically, what we do on internet are thing we do on real life. When we get an shine new car for example and invite friends to our home to see it. Or when we got some new gadget and wanna show it to our coworkers. I guess the point is that internet gives more power to those who wants to act like that, but it´s not internet´s fault, it´s a human behavior that needs to be.
The Unfix Bug in Facebook OAuth
Here is our official response from Heroku Postgres – https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2013/4/4/postgres_secu...
Yep, I agree. Plex integrates with Netflix nicely and provides many options. When I can go through Netflix, I definitely do—but it is not providing instant new releases when they air.

And their interface is ugly and near unusable. It's a testament to the value of the service that people love it despite its disorganized interface, just because they can easily watch about 30% of the content they really want.
Flat Web Design: Trend Or Revolution?
Dear criminals,

Please use iMessage more, we promise we definitely can't read your messages.

Lots of love,

Feds

xxx
I imagine they justify it with hand-waves to law enforcement, war on drugs/terror, national security, etc.
I like this story because it does not end with some explicit or implied "and then I hit it big time (as a reward for my love)" as if loving what you do and sticking with it is some sort of super-secret method for guaranteed success. OP made it work for him in the present and enriched his life by doing so, it seems it even paid off later too. Great! His "win" was right there. There are a lot of ways to be successful and loving what you do can certainly help but it won't give you much of an edge on folks who are "just" doing an outstanding job for the money. The most perfectly and enthusiastic and welcoming bar can go belly-up for no reason but people's taste suddenly changed or the financial crisis hits hard and nobody has money to go out anymore.

If you are radically doing what you love for the love of doing it and you laugh about money, good for you. But don't blindly hope or subconsciously count on some miracle future success just because you loved your work so much. The people who completely bombed doing what they love(d) hardly ever share their crushing stories.

You cannot control all the things that can greatly influence your success and loving what you do won't shield you against it either. Keep that in mind. Get something out of it now, always get some sort of return for yourself and NOW, if that is "just" money and you consciously made that decision then that is ok. If it means really good connections and a technological playground you love playing/working in, then that is also ok. If it is a great opportunity to learn and grow it into a career even if the pay is horrible, well that is ok too. There are industries where this is pretty-much the norm and if you ever want to be anybody in those industries, you got to pay your dues. Luckily in IT, you are mostly shielded from that and can always expect at least not half bad compensation, given you can sit in a comfy and cool office and hit a few keys and get the chance to do 99% of your clicks over if you screwed up.
> If they don't like the answer, they drive off.

A simple fix for this issue is lying.
Manufacturing Luck
I'm not a Scala guy, but I think Scala allows one to write less complex code than is typically written in Java (1.7 or lower). Let's not confuse the complexity of the language itself, with the typical complexity of idiomatic code written in the language.

Ruby is about as complex of a language as there is, the syntax and formal language spec are nothing short of baroque, but its flexibility and expressiveness allows you to write succinct, drop-dead simple code in it, that could only be expressed with pages of boilerplate in Java.

Adding functional features to Java will make its spec and implementation more complex, but it can make actual Java code less complex.
Does anyone had a withdrawal request processed by Mt.Gox during the last days?

I requested 2 withdrawals more than a week ago and didnt receive any funds nor do the requests show up in my account history...
Except that they still use all of the technologies that they are open sourcing! They benefit from any fixes & features.
Google’s WebKit fork, Blink, is great for the web
> how can they justify to give money to criminals ?

Easy: they're both criminals.
Mobclix owes thousands to indie app developers
Just when I thought I was the exception, it seems a lot of indie developers are fighting to get their payments from Mobclix.

This has been going on for months.

Some revealing links:

This forum thread started June 2012 and is still quite active:
http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/business-legal-app-store/105160-mobclix-payments-so-late-this-month.html

A class action suit. Almost $100k is owed just to the people who have commented:
http://www.iwebss.com/iphone-ipad/478-class-action-suit-possible-against-mobclix-not-paying-indie-developers

http://www.imgrind.com/mobclix-not-paying-app-developers-allegedly/
No, pg_hba.conf is not sufficient. I'll work on adding that to the FAQ.
Component Pascal
We're waiting for Stripe to integrate Bitcoin and then we will. Until then, we are happy to take the more old-school American dollar :)
As someone who is running a business whose main occupation is to help the government give money to tech companies and startups, I actually disagree with this.

I think most startups don't need money (and they typically don't get any, because most government funding is match funding, and so you have to spend to get, and very early startups don't spend anything). Or rather, they need money, but probably not from investors, and certainly not from the government. They need money from customers.

My thoughts on why money is toxic to most entrepreneurs are pretty well summarised in this article: http://swombat.com/2011/12/8/investment-cushion-springboard

Growing companies that have figured out how to make their own money already do need money, but the reason they can make good use of it is also the reason why they don't need it as much as the cash-starved early startups.

To a functioning company, money is lifeblood, and more money can help make the company a bigger success than it already is (or make it more competitive against other companies in the same space).

To an early startup, money is a toxic sludge that will slow it down, cause weird and unpredictable mutations, and possibly kill it when it might have lived.

Disclaimer: I'm talking about startups operating outside of the Magical Land of Silicon Bubbles, who have to actually create a viable business rather than just build something popular that makes no money and then sell it for a billion dollars.
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I agree. The author identifies a near universal human behavior and his reaction is to condemn it as tearing apart human society. I don't think so. More like it speaks to something deeply ingrained in our nature, something we evolved because it was beneficial to survival.
Clickable links:

http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/business-legal-app-store/10516...

http://www.iwebss.com/iphone-ipad/478-class-action-suit-poss...

http://www.imgrind.com/mobclix-not-paying-app-developers-all...
I would love to have Heroku add this web interface to the default PostgreSQL package: http://teampostgresql.herokuapp.com