skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is a dirty hack

I disagree.

This is people starting businesses within a reasonable budget. I assume you've tried to purchase a reasonable domain name in the gTLD space. If so, you already know that a name like "filepicker.com" or "forecast.com" is going to cost you in the tens of thousands USD.

I have personally worked for companies where we paid upwards of $200K for a nice, short gTLD domain name. Unless you've got money to burn from the A-list of SV VCs, your startup simply can't afford it.
Hah, there you go. I'll update my filter accordingly.
I just donated to her - a small £2.22 out of my salary means she can buy an iMac to continue her un studies. Maybe if I needed money they could do the same.
Watsi featured in NYT, gets all patients funded
Serial, and just business.
Yeah and to check for false positives I have to go through the spam again.
Ask HN: Hibernation in Linux - Will it ever work?
Will hibernation be supported on Linux in the near future? I've mainly used Ubuntu and Fedora, and I'm afraid to hibernate my laptop on Linux, almost after every second or third time, the system crashes and is unable to resume (Sleep is also not much reliable). Also, it takes longer to boot up from hibernation than a shutdown and restart. When will we be seeing hibernation on Linux, at least on par with Windows, in terms of reliability?
And here is the NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/business/watsi-a-crowdfund...;
Why do you need an iMac? Why would I help you to buy one? You can develop for almost every platform using your Sony Laptop, even for iOS. And why an iMac? The most expensive Apple computer. Why don't you start with a Mac Mini (if you really need a mac)?

I would like to buy a car but I won't ask money to the internet for that.
> "Starting today, Airbnb will require a random 25% of users in the USA to go through the Verified ID process."

Is this for hosts, guests, or both? And does this only apply to new users? I suppose they're measuring the impact of the change by forcing it onto only a random 25% of people in one market.
Hey Trevor,

great second post.

I agree with most of what you say but have to point out that you left out a big technique: search trends.

what you describe is finding apps that are already there and competing against them.

A different approach would be analysing search trends and match against niches with no apps.

For example, I remember discovering that paddling was a huge "industry" (as a sport) with ZERO apps.

For this, you would use services such as SearchManSEO or mobileDevHQ to identify niche "hotness" or the oldschool SEO way using GoogleTrends/Keywords.

hope it helps,
Giacomo
Leaked doc shows Foursquare's big plans for your check-in data
Won't work with black hat email marketers.
We'd see a lot less abusive behavior from startups if investors went to zero when it happened.

As it stands, $800k is a line item equal to only 2% of the money Path has raised. As such, I doubt that anybody who invested in it cares or views this as anything other than a triviality that a few nerds will care about.
that is great! really!

if another dozen of cases like this happen, maybe, just maybe, people will wake up and stop installing apps with ridiculous permissions.

That's one of the reasons i use CyanogenMod. i can disable permissions from apps. For example, i removed internet access from swype. It does crash everytime i reboot my phone, because it's probably trying to check for updates, and i know it will crash if it tries to connect while i'm typing. and i rather that then be in the dark if my data is secure.
Presumably because he's based there.

If he wanted help/sponsorship running SF or Seattle, I'm sure he could find it, though.

I actually think Hawaii or Thailand would work -- you could get a few cheap house rentals on the big island, with minimal distractions, and do it there.
Time to start redacting...
Turns out, airbnb are actually excellent. When they saw my tweet they immediately got in contact with me and have already paid the difference.
Double gold star.
The short answer is because we were living in New York when we started Hacker School.

As to why we were living in New York, I can only answer for myself, but here you go: I grew up here (city and suburbs), most of my family still lives in the area, my friends live here, and I love the energy of the city. It feels like home.
Yes, although it would be from lowered birth rates, not increased death rates.
Actually we established that the correctly sized/designed ships were contemporaries but the interesting question left was how deep was this body of water then, versus now.
See what makes something trend on HackerNews
71% of Apps Use Open Source Components w/ Severe or Critical Security Flaws
Can you actually prevent an app from using one or more of those permissions? Like can I give it permission to my camera but not to the call log?
I just now tried ctrl+v on imgur homepage
It works. Allows uploading of image from the clipboard. This changes everything. How did I not know about this? (I now see that this option is clearly stated on the upload screen).
The false positives this would generate, in my opinion, outweigh any benefit of having such a filter. I'd rather manually unsubscribe from marketing emails, since, as the author says, the "unsubscribe" functionality is so prevalent.
Path's customer service replied to this article's author on Twitter saying they'd "love to engage."

If you aren't Captain Picard, you're not engaging anything. Shut up and talk human, folks.
"please understand wtf you're doing"
"please read the docs"
sums both articles up ;-)

if you don't get what its doing underneath, you'll never get it right. yes, effort is needed.
> can you get to a point where you can't subdivide anymore, are there absolute elements of experience?

I have no idea. You had previously said:

>...But its endless divisibility seems to indicate that there is no such animal.

From where do you get this conclusion? Earlier, you described that the rod/cone balance in my eye is likely to be different than yours, and that this results in different qualia upon viewing the color red. That's variation -- not divisibility -- and I doubt that it's endless (lest we have infinitely many rods/cones).

'Qualia' is the name given to experience after everything else is stripped away. I view a sunset: I'm aware of it, I have certain emotional and physical reactions, memories are triggered, and so goes that functional account of my experience. Yet, we intuitively feel that there is something above and beyond those aspects of the experience. Dennett wouldn't argue against our intuition for qualia, he'd just say that it's some combination of material/functional phenomenon.

His view is not radical: it conforms to the mainstream scientific account of our world. The minority view is to say, "Wait, no! These qualia are actual. There is something about experience above and beyond the functional correlates of consciousness."
I'd probably break them all down into classes based on function (EasyString, EasyNumber, BuiltIn).

namespace App\Library;
class EasyString {
public static function starts_with();
...
}

and then just use them like this:

use App\Library\EasyString as ES;

along with an autoloader.
The flip-side is now OVH is more secure than they have been in the past. Nothing like a pot of gold to motivate people to try to break your security. This is probably more effective at exposing weakness than paid pen-testing.

Not that you ever want customers to lose money/data/whatever in the process, but it's not all down-side.
A bayesian filter is probably sufficient to do this, and will probably do a better job in terms of false positives.
First true laugh of the day, thanks.
It does seem like there are probably lots of formal and informal ways of getting someone there if they've got the potential and desire. That's really good to know!
This is the route I'm taking at ClinchPad (http://www.clinchpad.com) which is basically Trello for Sales. It was originally inspired by Trello. :)
I think they were referring to the style of writing, down to the headline. FBI "cracked" a plot. "mastermind". The whole description of the oh-too-cool FBI people breaking into a guy's house to get, as the story says, the guy to "own up". Threatening him about pissing her off, all "24" style. Come the hell on.

It's not all Ars fault, the FBI likes to make their mundane bullying look fearsome and cool. That, despite being the FBI and having the full cooperation of Microsoft, they still need to resort to physical violence to get some smalltime idiot blackmailer. Jeez.
It's also a bald-faced lie. If it removes the content, then there is no way for it to come back.
So who exactly started this Exif meme? The legislation doesn't mention exif and I wouldn't consider only looking at exif and not finding any as the end of a diligent search.

It's a lovely bit of framing though, so who came up with it?
Excellent point. There is a lot of data out there for sure. I just wanted to cover in this post how to identify profitable niches.
yeah! finally no more $40 fees on each transfer.
Personally, I think this is great. I'd love to see other marketplaces offer this service (Etsy, eBay, Craigslist) or better yet I'd like to see new startups take this angle as a way to disrupt.

I understand there's a place for anonymous transactions. I just think there's an even bigger place for trusted transactions.
An app that lets you brick your phone remotely if it gets stolen maybe? Depends on how it works.
array_intersect_key does not do the same as array_select_keys. You can emulate it using array_intersect_key, but either in a more confusing or slow way.

$array = ['a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3, 'd' => 4];

array_select_keys($array, ['a', 'b']);
array_intersect_key($array, ['a' => '', 'b' => '']); // OR
array_intersect_key($array, array_flip(['a', 'b'])); // OR

Neither are elegant.

In either case, that wasn't the point. This is a basic kind of functionality that doesn't belong to any particular class in most code bases. So in this case, having a class of 'helper' functions like these isn't bad.
Show HN: HackFlowy, open-source WorkFlowy clone
You're publicising a problem with the company and so it has more of an incentive to deal with it quickly.
This is my understanding too. (This is why I said yet).

I am expecting a lot from the forthcoming plugin system. It will be nice to be able to script LT in ClojureScript (the language in which LT is mostly developed).
I'm interested in writing a simple rest API using compojure as a learning exercise. Can anyone experienced give an outline of what a reasonable workflow would be to do this using light table? I see that light table can "connect" to my project.clj...
Even secrecy-minded orgs like the CIA are moving apps to these platforms. Typically a regulation won't say "no cloud", but e.g. FISMA would require an online infrastructure to pass certain third-party assessments.
This is what I get with Ghostery installed: http://imgur.com/RBRny9r
Thanks! Just submitted a fix for this. We will push this into production when things slow down on HN a little bit
I don't get why you're so down on it. Yes, MOOCs have more chance to change the lives of a larger number of people because they scale better, but MOOCs, books, "just do it and see what breaks", formal education, and bootcamps like this all make sense.

You could arrange something like hacker school in your home town too, if you wanted to recreate this.
The central problem here is neglecting to acknowledge that other people and projects may have different needs and workflows. Linus doesn't hold the git truth, that's just how he decided to manage his project. Thankfully, one of git's redeeming features is that it's very flexible and can accommodate different ways of using it.
Submarines do have a large lead-acid battery for emergency power. In fact, the WWII-era boats had bigger and better batteries.

However the battery isn't there to start the Emergency Diesel Generator. Submarine EDGs are air started, for many very good reasons.

We still need the batteries since it's possible to suffer a loss of all AC power while the boat is submerged far beyond feasible snorkel depth, and have to recover from it without broaching.
> "OMG USE bcrypt IT IS THE BESTEST AND WILL BE SECURE FOREVER!"

5000 people in a room all shouting this repeatedly -- pretty much how I envision every Rails dev conference.
What are the reasons that make you so sure, though? To me, it's not clear at all just from the symptoms that it is a bug. It could just as well be a feature they're only testing out on 0.1% of the user base to see how their engagement or whatever improves.
I'm glad Paul wrote this. The work culture in Silicon Valley can be invigorating; but at the same time, it can be poisonous, especially for someone who is naturally inclined to be work-obsessed.

I left 5 years ago, and I'm so glad I did. It's enabled me to think to myself, away from the noise, and at the same time stay in touch with the "real" world, whom, eventually you're really working for anyway.

With all of the opportunities to do things, it can be hard to see that if you just chose to do fewer things, you could be better at the things that you did decide to do. Also, that if you take some time to relax, the quality of your work can be enhanced.
so if i do this, every list server that i subscribe to will be junked because normally have unsubscribe info in them ...
MemSQL Unveils Distributed Version of its In-Memory Database
Exactly. An author of a book may have written chapter 23 before chapter 4, but the reader doesn't care. They want to see a logical progression.
Even GitHub allows this while commenting on issues etc. You can either drag & drop, choose an image, or paste from clipboard.
Nicely done. I really love the mission, driving the payments market to be being brutally efficient. Some nasty brutes[1] on the other side of the fence but they can be contained.

[1] Various established payment processors who would have you believe that if you aren't related by marriage to the CEOs of the big banks on Wall Street you will be killed.
Little Data Remains Important in Healthcare IT
Oh, is this a recent change? The last time I tried, it had a message along the lines of 'connection down, changes you make now may not be saved'

And then some of the changes were not saved, I tested.
Or they're trying to not help the amazon's of the world that just fork their product and remove the monetizing bits of it, and replace it with their own monetizing bits.
I completely agree with you on "If your company can't exist without being shitty, your company shouldn't exist.". However, here in VC-stanm the behavior like this is considered "hacking the growth" and something which is not considered a bad thing. So unfortunately, you cannot play the game here (ok, you can play but no big money will bet on you) if you not ready to do things like this.
I got rid of my car when I moved to San Francisco. I haven't missed it.
Really depends on your definition of getting rid of. For me, the cost of getting rid of something has to be less than the cost of keeping it. If you're controlled by your possessions, they're poisoning you, so you're best to just drop them like a bad habit. Sell it, donate it, do whatever is fast and easy.

No offense whatsoever, but taking three years to rid yourself of uneccessary material possessions is WAY too long!

It should take you 5 seconds to decide if you need something in your life. If not, it should take 5 more seconds to decide how to get rid of it.
Then the fines are obviously not high enough.
Now I have only one hobby - photography. I used to have many more but I realized that I only need one and be good at it so that I can truly appreciate it and enjoy it. Luckily the one I pick doesn't require a lot of storage space.
You're not exactly nailing the history there yourself. The very first specification of TLDs listed five of what we now call gTLDs (.com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .org) and also stipulated that every two-letter ISO country code would also be a TLD. ccTLDs have been around from the very beginning of the DNS.
Great to see another product in this space (https://www.scigit.com/ launched not too long ago). As far as writing papers, my old-fashioned P.I. will probably never budge from Microsoft Word, so Google Docs is the best solution at the moment. The fact that they have "Google Scholar" integration for inserting citations into the editor makes it pretty much a no brainer for writing a draft.
This way you're going to receive only the real spam (that doesn't give a damn about any CAN-SPAM act) and stop all the legitimate newsletters you could easily unsubscribe from... not to mention false positives that just talk about "unsubscribe" for any reason.
Perhaps something they were using to seed the random number generator was being cached, leading to the same set of "random" numbers?
Finally Google Search for iOS Updated with Google Now
Slightly ignorant question: What is the technical argument against getting rid of any form of syntax for domains and simply allowing any ASCII string? Or even any UTF-8 string?
Hi raffenet,

We have used gitlab components & also contributed back to gitlab. Its a great project, but I can assure you we have an entirely different product. Were just leveraging OSS projects like any other startup
I think there are plenty of workflows that make sure everything is accounted for, without cluttering things up with unimportant information.

For example, have a central repo that is the source of immutable history, and have every developer clean up their history into a small linear set of commits before they merge into that. You still have just as much accountability -- nothing can get into master without a developer looking at it and tagging it with a commit message. It's just that the commit message comes from a developer looking at and curating the work he just did on a feature or bugfix, instead of the vague assumptions and notions he was working with during development.

If you think people looking back on their recent work will be better at summarizing their motives and achievements than they were while working and experimenting, as I do, then rewriting local history makes a lot of sense. If you don't trust people, and think they are likely to lose relevant information by haphazardly rebasing with messages like "squash for pushing to master, bug #1933" then you might not.

All in all, I think that, for example, 2 clean messages from 2 developers (even relatively uninformative ones) are better to look at than 1 commit from one developer and 13 from the other with messages like "first stab at xyz" and "Oops, forgot to also change the name here".
There's a variant of 6.001 that's taught in January IAP sessions:

http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.S184/
Identity is a basic problem for any online transaction. For instance, Paypal's biggest innovations were around fraud prevention.

Jumio is a great solution to bridge online transactions and offline verification (physical IDs, passports, credit cards).

If I had to speculate, I suspect Jumio gets disrupted by products that attack the root problem by no longer needing verification - more specifically, virtual currencies. But that feels like a distant prospect right now.
We've been working on www.kanbanpad.com for a while (before Trello). If you're looking for an alternative check us out. We are free.
I was considering joining path with 4, 5 of my closest friends to have some kind of 'private facebook'. I don't really like sharing stuff on twitter/facebook so path seemed like a good alternative to share stuff with people i definately know will be interested.

After reading this I don't think I will join anytime soon. I don't really get the reasoning behind this. Path is marketed for the use case I had in mind. Sharing stuff with only a handful of people you know well. Why on earth are they trying to lure all of your contacts in. This would make sense for facebook, not for path.

Anyone knows an alternative to path using my data more responsibly?
This is awesome, congrats on the release.

I'm very excited with the Python integration. I'm going to try doing some web development with Light Table now. One thing that would be very handy would be support for virtualenvs or requirements files to integrate into workspaces so that we can work on projects without installing all dependancies globally.
This is why I like an open console like the OUYA (which I should be receiving any day now).
How is this a failure of html?
No problem, the firehose that is HN is definitely exciting. Hope you guys are getting good traffic :)
I'm not aware of any serious objections to the proposal.

The only objections that I've ever heard about are astronomers who are annoyed that this piece of traditional authority is being taken from them. My obviously unsympathetic attitude is that they used to serve an important role, but their once critical role in precision timekeeping has been obsolete since the development of the atomic clock. It is time to recognize that.
Domain names! Let me know if anyone is in the market for a premium domain.
The next step in software metrics research
Well, they could work harder on the 2nd part and relaxing the first.

Prisions have a LOT of wrong things with them, which vary from country to country.

In my country there's so much overcrowding that Human Rights people aren't exactly clamoring for Internet access - there was an atrocious fire a while back which killed a lot of inmates, there simply aren't enough prisions.
Thanks for pointing out scigit, Im a big fan of what they are doing. We dont support Word yet, but I do recognize that older P.I. / professors wont leave Word easily/ever. We have some solutions on the way for that.
Well, since you threw that out there...

...I can't believe that people use Clojure-the-language over CL-the-language. It seems to have no reason to exist except as a "I hate parens" Lisp-1. The interesting parts of Clojure (i.e., the sequence abstraction design) are replicatable in CL as a library. Extant issues (e.g., cl's map not mapping over vectors)* can be abstracted over with other tools.

While the JVM interop is compelling, I don't understand why the libraries and macros to create similarly compelling interop over ABCL weren't developed instead.

Bluntly, I don't know why Clojure was created as a new language instead of an advanced library over Common Lisp. I appreciate the interest it's been able to drum up in the Lisp family, and I deeply appreciate the libraries people have written for it.

*: I was wrong: map goes over a variety of types: mapcar, mapcan, etc, are common and only operate on lists. Ignorance uncovered and filled in by knowledge.
One expects spheres to be roughly spherical. These are not.
If antimatter fell "up" wouldn't it be forced away from black holes and annihilating itself when contacting normal matter being sucked in?
mine has been reliable on a sony vaio vpceb23fm and on another sony vaio i don't recall the model number for.

seems quite hardware dependent.
Look in a closet, and get rid of one thing.

Then do it again. Then do it in other places. It's a long term thing.

But getting rid of a single thing you don't need is the start.
Publicity. He writes a blog "Path fired me for not breaking the oath" and then communities like this one will rally around that whistle-blower.
This is awesome. If I had a room to rent on AirBnB I'd probably require this.

What I'd really like is a way to make an Airbnb listing "friends only" -- i.e. FB friends or FB friends of friends, alums from my school, YC people, fellow members of SAF, etc. Any number of filters. Or have price differentials for them.
That is just a planning board...how do you deal with everything else like time tracking and client management...or you just use other apps for each specific role