skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get why apps and all sorts of other google sites go down a lot, but search never has in my experience. Why is that? Is search just simpler? Does it fail in non-obvious ways? Enormous redundancy/fail-over on search?
> What? Is it because they're a multinational and not a startup?

Hang on. Dove is owned by Unilever, a company that also owns Axe body spray. What kind of ads does Axe run? Well, here's a few:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9tWZB7OUSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpTGaENQNNg

In other words, they're selling the Barbie stereotype with their left hand & selling the anti-Barbie stereotype with their right.

I think it's perfectly acceptable to call bullshit on a company that does both.
PressureNET Live data API: 300,000 measurements per day from Android sensors
Why do you think you shouldn't try? As long as you approach it as a side project unless things take off (don't bet the farm, don't sacrifice family), all you are left with risking is your time.
He got to punch someone dressed up as Janet Reno on national TV!
I'm not familiar with the bill, but based on your description, why does there need to be a bill to share information about attacks with law enforcement and security providers? Why couldn't this happen already? If Yahoo! were sharing data with a security agency about an attack, this would seem pretty reasonable.
Just pushed an update to show inbound and outbound. Thanks for the suggestion! :)
Yes, I read that page before they shut down my account. They sent it to me repeatedly, saying I needed to move everything to Google Apps. Completely ignores the fact that some features in Postini are not available in Apps; that Apps is several times more expensive; and that Apps includes a range of apps that are completely unneeded (if I wanted Apps, I would have signed up for it instead of Postini to begin with).

Edit: I should rephrase: they did not "shut down" my account. They just informed me I would no longer be eligible to renew my account when my subscription expired.
Ideally, you build an audience ahead of time, but establishing some authority and credibility in your field. Publish relevant, valuable content via G+, Facebook, Twitter, a blog, etc., and start building your audience. Then, when you want to publicize your startup, you have people waiting to hear about it, who will - hopefully - become fans and help spread the word further.

Also, by putting legitimately valuable content "out there" you are, in effect, doing what people call "content marketing". You want to draw eyeballs to your site/blog/whatever when people search for keywords related to what you are doing.

See, among other resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permission_marketing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_marketing

http://www.startup-marketing.com/

http://hackermonthly.com/startup-marketing.html
Agreed, one of my favorites. I do this so many times every day:

hg diff -b <filename>

hg commit -m "comments" !$
Review of Google Glass API
Wages for doctors and bankers are even lower in Japan compared to the USA. Wages for food workers and janitors are much higher.

Nevertheless, the top majors at the U of Tokyo are all various forms of Engineering while the top majors at Harvard and its ilk are Economics, Political Science, and Psychology. That tells you a lot about what the smartest young people think is valued in their society.
Given that the coordinated way the two bombs exploded indicates that they probably didn't malfunction, it seems like proximity to the explosion should be a negative indicator, no?
Beliefs don't ruin lives, actions do.
Element Queries: Prollyfilled
SemanticMerge is out Language-aware diff and merge tool
A UUID is first and foremost a 128 bit number, irrespective of its text encoding.

Its 'canonical' form uses HEX-only encoding. A 'Url62' can be another encoding. 'Url62' wouldn't be a canonical encoding, but it's still a 128 bit UUID number.
Wait until Haswell generation of ultrabooks come out
>"1. Post to Hacker News at a strategic time. Be receptive to all feedback and respond to any legitimate concerns."

Only if there is something likely to be relevant to HN'ers. A link to the landing page of "Facebook for Hedgehog Owners" is just spam. A link to a blog post about the struggles of founding "Facebook for Hedgehog Owners," is relevant.

That's not to say that links to landing pages are never relevant - e.g. the landing page for a Github project or the landing page of a programming tool are more likely to be directly relevant to HN's audience.

The general rule applies. If the content is good, and there's some luck, it will get noticed. If it's basically a press release, then HN probably will ignore it.
Antifragility of disk RAID, the fragility of SSDs and what to do about it
Acme has an idea of guide files in each directory which store commands you commonly use in that directory. Acme maps a mouse button to "send this text to sh", so you can edit a command in the guide file, highlight it with a sweep of the mouse while holding down the left button, then release the left button and middle-click to run it in the context of the current directory. Over the years this mechanism has greatly improved my retention and usage of interesting and powerful shell commands, and decreased to near zero the amount of time it takes to construct the command and the number of errors I make while doing so.
No. The UA strips those and puts them in an Auth header.
While every situation is unique, building on the side is a common precursor for failure.
Heap (YC W13) is analytics that captures everything. We’re hiring
Heap is an entirely new approach to analytics: just capture everything, and organize it all after-the-fact. This lets our customers conduct powerful analytics without having to ship code or wait for data.

It works. We're profitable and revenues are growing sharply, just a few weeks after launch.

There are 3 fundamental pillars to our product:

1) Real-time infrastructure. Our problem statement is slightly ridiculous. We need to embed ourselves in every app session, pipe each action up to our servers, slice and dice the data in arbitrary ways, and serve the results in sub-second latencies. All in real-time.

2) Data capture. We automatically capture client-side actions on web. But there are other platforms we can hook into. And other types of data we can capture. We’ve expanded the search space of user data considerably, but there’s far more that needs to be done.

3) Data visualization. With the volume of data Heap consumes, simple pre-generated graphs just don't cut it. There's an exponential increase in the number of ways to organize the data, and a need for proactively separating signal from noise.

We need help on all these fronts. We’re venture-backed and very generous with compensation.

Email jobs@heapanalytics.com for more info.
I have a real hard time with anything that purports to explain the "what's wrong with university in America" Question by dint of blaming the Jews.
With Aereo appeal, broadcasters threaten the foundation of locker services
Termbox works nicely on both linux and windows, plus the api has only 7 functions and very minimal, yet powerful.
One way you could prevent more bomb attacks from happening is by catching the people responsible for this one. Besides that, I am not advocating CCTV everywhere, but downtown, or Subways, places that see extremely high throughput cannot be policed effectively by the police on their own. If you would say that maybe it's a good thing police cannot police everything, then how can you say police are necessary in the first place? They are supposed to be there to police, the cameras do the same thing better.

Somewhere else in this thread people were talking about drones. But that can happen right now, through private surveillance firms that would then sell information to the government. But then you're just lining some CEOs pocketbook instead of having a surplus. How is that a benefit?
How we increased our organic search traffic by 2600%.
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You're right in this specific case, but there are other useful ! arguments, so it's worth learning both.

It's the "Event Designators" in the bash manpage for those who are interested.
Fritzing (FOSS) does single and double sided boards and has an almost child-easy interface and they have a pcb fab service

4pcb, PcbExpress, and many other board houses have their own Windows software they give away, but they usually don't let you export your data.

DipTrace is surprisingly good for the cost, runs in WINE, renders 3D models of your PCB.

gEDA - Get ready to spend years of your life editing PCB files, running scripts, generally being an errand boy for your PC, but you can do amazing things with it after you learn to make it sing. (FOSS), but the price you pay is in the thousands of hours you'll spend.

Kicad - (FOSS) - Recently adopted by CERN, I used to consider it less capable than gEDA, probably worth a second look.
this is completely random. what's the relation here?
Slides from Intel's Tizen talk at IDF2013 Beijing
use vim mode, then j,k.
A 'Whom Do You Hang With?' Map of America
Thanks!

By the sounds of their writeup, the attacks just visited the "highest profile" sites as per the Quora link to obfuscate their real attack.
How else would the server know what to check your response against? If you don't want to give the server a password, try SRP.
Why not just read the bill?
Here are the amendments being debated today:

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-113hrpt41/pdf/CRPT-113hrpt...

The first of them has passed.

The second, limiting the use of CLASSIFIED information to cyber-security activities, has passed.

The third, allowing independent contractors to handle cyber-threat information sourced from the USG, has passed.

I am predicting the fourth, which is so unbelievably boring that I refuse to summarize it, is about to pass.
What you say is misleading. You say "allow them to share," when you should say "immunity from prosecution related to damages resulting from them sharing."

Basically, it's open season on surveillance because now companies aren't liable if requests are followed in "good faith," which essentially means "we did whatever the government wanted."
Actually I didn't justify anything, just asked a question. Your explanation makes sense, thanks.
Why Is Japanese-Made Fashion So Expensive?
Oh, sorry. Confused you for djanogo, my bad.
How To Teach JavaScript To Grandmas And Grandpas
exactly. the only service (paid or not) that we can be sure google will not shutdown is adwords.
Homeless in High Tech’s Shadow
Thanks for this! I'm tuning in
It can become a pain to manage from the server side (issuing new ones &c), but technically they're pretty nice. The company I used to work for used them for their api.
To be fair, if your prompt is empty, up/down behavior doesn't change.

I guess I re-run commands fairly often, so for me the history-search-backward thing is very useful; when I just need to use the default up/down binding, I just hit Ctrl-E Ctrl-U (go to end of line, erase everything to beginning of line) and I'm good to go.
It seems to die entirely if custom fonts aren't available, and blocking the font resource doesn't seem to help. This is on Chrome 26.
There are many types of digest authentication - OAuth1.0a and Amazon's and Stormpath's custom schemes are examples. Browser-specific digest authentication wasn't covered however since the article was about REST APIs and most REST clients are not browsers.
I'm not sure how anything you said contradicts anything I said. Service providers are, by the way, not immunized from civil suits if they share information not incident to an actual attack.
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is both hilarious and insightful. Like you said, it's a bit out-of-date, but many of the complaints are still relevant.

That said, I'm guessing most of the authors of it are today running Unix-derived systems.
Angular is "hot", but it's not without it's drawbacks. For example:
https://koglerjs.com/verbiage/angular

The author's point is that there's a fine line between "writing an MVC framework" and "writing a compiler", and the AngularJS authors blew past it without even noticing. And as a result, they now have a pretty crappy compiler. :)
Depends on the UA (curl?)
Why You'll Soon Be Paying Sales Taxes on All of Your Internet Purchases
Bind:

Control-p: history-search-backward
Control-n: history-search-forward
Create interactive infographics online
What Industries Contributed to Google's $37.9 Billion in 2011 Revenues?
So getting an internet connection from a company that has opted in means I have no protection against searches and seizures (almost arbitrarily based on an individual's web habbits).

So what if it's written specifically? People often don't have much of a choice when it comes to their ISPs, and wouldn't be able to just choose another one that doesn't opt in. In the modern world, where people use the internet for every facet of their life, this essentially means law enforcement gets to know every detail about you, without the need for any reasonable suspicion.

I really don't understand how this isn't a violation of the 4th Amendment. Our rights as citizens and as people are being removed by bills like this, and by law enforcement and large service platform based businesses redefining what personal information is ours to control and own.
Full text of bill (only 33 double-spaced pages, not too long):

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr624rh/pdf/BILLS-113h...
Ask HN: Vienna HN meetup?
It'd be cool if we'd organize one. (I'm talking about Vienna, Austria not Vienna, VA.)
Unfortunately history-search-(forward|backward) is not mapped to a combination in most common configurations.

I prefer to map it to esc-p which coincides with the setting in tcsh. Like that:

"\M-p": history-search-backward

So you basically type something and then press esc p to have the shell complete it.
Do we draw a line? Is there a knowledge baseline expected on HN, or would a submission of the Wikipedia article on bubble sort be fair game? I mean, I've seen links to two generals' problem on Wikipedia getting voted up.
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They've had a partnership for a while where Intel provides API security and Mashery provides an API management portal. Not exactly sure how it works, but I know Intel API Expressway has been making some dev evangelism efforts around these products recently.

More info:
http://cloudsecurity.intel.com/api-management
> "They use it because its a known entity."

I would assume that this is the single reason outdated systems continue to exist. People who are using the old systems and feel confident with them. If you want, you can find for any legacy system a person who would be willing to take the risk to replace it. But that would also mean losing control for the existing maintainers...
That's interesting. I haven't been following Runescape, but the VC purchase makes a lot sense.

I had a lot of fun with the original Ace of Spades. It was an amazingly fun minecraft-like FPS. I was excited when I heard Jagex was picking it up and assumed there was no way they could mess that up. Turns out, they did mess it up. It looks like they added a bit of graphical polish, tacked on some gameplay, and shoved it out the door. Supposedly the new gameplay is less fun than the original and now it costs money. It has a 49 on metacritic: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/ace-of-spades
Upvoting for introducing the platform where this story is written and not the story itself (I didn't read and I don't come here to read non-technical stuff). Seems like narrative.ly is competimg with Medium?
He chose to speak his mind, and I believe his opinion was mean-spirited and unnecessary. Sometimes, employers fire people for that, and that's the way the world works. I don't see it as a problem.
I hope so too =-)

It looked nice from my quick skim, it just brought that classic xkcd to mind!

If this can be put into any page/service, it'd be a huge contribution.
You probably want to start here:

http://intelligence.house.gov/bill/cyber-intelligence-sharin...

This landing page includes links to the amendments.
Stormpath's custom scheme is very similar to Amazon's.

But per the blog article, you'd only want to do this if you are willing to support client libraries/sdks that implement it as well. No one wants to spend the time to implement non-standard custom HMAC algorithms.
> To be fair, if your prompt is empty, up/down behavior doesn't change.

Ok, but what if your prompt is empty and you press up once? Will it still continue to maintain the old behaviour?
OK, how about within the normal "on time" window?
That is a dishonest attack against a short marketing website. Your comment defends CISPA without telling the full story of the bill, just like this website did. You used a short description of what you think are relevant points that support your case, just like this website. Except that the website includes links to analysis by EFF, ACLU, Sunshine Foundation and others to support their arguments.
Tresorit - Secure cloud storage
If I'm guessing correctly (I searched the website but didn't find any definitive answer), they are not hiring cleaners themselves, but are instead outsourcing jobs to cleaners working for themselves.

It's a very common method to avoid all the pesky little taxes and legal liabilities that come with actually employing someone. It's also russian roulette for your company if the IRS decides your outsourcing partners are not actually real companies.

(I think the confusion is because of the term "ficticious self-employment"? I searched for a translation and that was the best I could find. I would welcome anyone to tell me what the actual colloquial term for this is)
Arrays are a really nice feature. As an aside, you can replace this line:

array_to_string(array_agg(projects.name), ','))

with this:

string_agg(projects.name, ',')
Argh company blogs need an easy link back to your website!
You shouldn't ever use username/password pairs for API authentication. If the user ever changed their password, then their API calls would immediately fail!

This is one of many benefits of using multiple (revokable) API Keys.
Final vote is tomorrow. Take 2 minutes and call your House Rep and tell them what you think about CISPA:
https://eff.org/r.5bPw
That may be true, though to be fair KGB poisoning incidents have probably gotten more news (particularly the Alexander Litvinenko polonium poisoning.) Stereotypes are all about perception, so the incidents that get the news shape the stereotypes.
Even Steve Jobs Can't Afford this iPhone
I've helped build a 100 K line single page app in ExtJS, and I can see the value ember would have for building that app (have not looked much into angular so cannot comment on that one). What you need in large-scale single page apps are coping mechanisms for the DOM (or as I know it: the root of all evil). Stuff like automatic and on-demand rendering of content, automatic cleanup and event listener removal, nested layouting solutions, strong eventing and routing mechanisms, data binding and automatic data loading, and so on. Any framework that helps you with those things by necessity will invent its own pseudo-DSL, and require you to live in its world.

The way I see it, it's all a matter of what you're optimizing for. If you expect to run at most 2000 lines of code in a single page, then backbone is excellent for that. If you expect to run at least 20.000 lines of code in a single page, then something like ember or ext is needed. You can build those in backbone ofcourse, but you'll probably end up rebuilding much of the infrastructure the bigger frameworks give you out of the box.

Ofcourse, this is separate from the whole debate on whether a pure client-side approach makes sense on that scale. I still think it does, but I think the mixed model is equally valid (different trade-offs in each case). You're right that the mixed model blends poorly with these frameworks.
What could you get from an OS written in Go that an OS written in C doesn't already provide? If you were writing a new OS then it might be easier to write it mostly in Go, but I don't think there is any kind of fundamental difference like there is between Linux and Squeak or a Lisp Machine.
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This is a killer feature of emacs and M-x shell for me.

Now my command history is searchable, just like any other file or buffer I have open.

I use the same idea for any repl, R,python,ruby,node,clojure. Bash is just another repl.

The major advantage of the emacs buffer method is that a lot of tasks I do on the computer span many commands. I can search for one command I remember executing 3 months ago, and then review the series of steps I took before and after, along with the output.

Typically finding a single command I've executed before doesn't help a whole lot. I need context.
On the plus side, there seems to be a dearth of ideas for the not rich that can be equally lucrative, so perhaps it's a leg up toward building the killer app that really helps a lot of people.
Some of the most interesting, candid and thought provoking posts and comments are from anonymous users. I can easily see why the OP wants to remain anonymous, and I think we should respect that.

Here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937430
Interestingly enough, there is talk that manufacturing in the US is rebounding... to the point that some people are referring to it as a boom. The reasons why it's happening are varied, but it's an interesting phenomenon to observe. I'll be interested to see if it holds up over time...

For more on this idea, see:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-inso...

http://business.time.com/2013/03/28/is-the-u-s-manufacturing...
I also wasn't a big fan of how the quotes looked. I struggled to find the delete option, was not expecting it among the share options at all.
Almost certainly going to help the nice folks at Bluehost out.
I think we should start to seriously challenge the overhype of "fail fast, failure is fine".

Ever since the adoption of "Lean startup" methodology, "failure" suddenly becomes a no big deal to entrepreneur. Making decision is like throwing a Hail Mary that you don't really care too much about the outcome. Yeah I failed. So what? Let's try it again. Let's try 100 more times and we may hit a home run.

If you can put a A-class work in front of people, why do you even want to settle on B/C/D-class stuff? The world doesn't, and shouldn't, work in this way. Failure is bad for your reputation, at anytime, anywhere, in front of anyone. There is a reason why nowadays, acq-hire is more and more popular, because it give others impression that, hey, I didn't fail, I sold my business because it's a good deal. Sure, 1 out of 10 cases is like this. But for the other 9? it just helps to cover your ass and avoid putting the tag "failure" on you in your future career.

Is failure end of world? Of course not. Does it mean you shouldn't set a high bar, think carefully, plan comprehensively, put as much effort as possible to maximize the outcome? Hell no. Remember, you can only control what you can control. So, whenever you do something you can control, you better do it right.

Sometimes you just don't get second chance.
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By "opt-in", surely you mean I'll be asked before data hosted in my accounts or pertaining to me is shared? If that's the case then I don't see anything wrong with CISPA.
The 80:20 rule (Pareto principle) fits into this as well. You can make easy inroads into each individual project if things are divided up - getting any of them to a viable state however starts to bog down.

Productivity isn't linear. Especially when you mix in Tuckman's group dynamics.
Maybe FFTF can tell us how many people hit their signup sheet, versus the number of people who click through to the background information.

Maybe you could point out the call to action I must have missed on this site, urging readers to learn more about the bill before signing up with FFTF.