skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Classmates.com was sued in 2008 for sending emails claiming former classmates were searching for you. Similar, but Classmates.com was actually requiring a paid subscription before telling you there wasn't actually anyone on the other end.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/03/classmatescom-set...
Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, are startups just business or personal too?
Don't have enough karma for a poll, but I'm interested to see how entrepreneurs see their startups: personal or just business?

Also, please mention whether you're a first time, serial or future entrepreneur
Handle invoiced/wire-transfer payments / verifying.
Trello works in offline mode. Just create cards or edit existing ones and it gets uploaded when you have an Internet connection. Tried it today and it just works.
Elasticluster: on-demand computational clusters on IaaS cloud
Really good article on the pitfalls of a weak random number generator. I think it's been on HN before: http://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.ph...

For me, this was the article that made it crystal clear why you cannot use current time as a seed for a RNG.
That's pretty much Dennet's position.
Gilt Founder Kevin Ryan On Building Billion-Dollar Businesses
> "Is there such a thing as antigravity? Based on free-fall tests so far, we can't say yes or no," Fajans said. "This is the first word, however, not the last."

So they devised an experiment incapable of deciding that question and then someone came along and made a huge conundrum of the fact that such an experiment doesn’t provide conclusive results.

Really, interactions of single atoms with gravity are extremely difficult to measure, as a single photon from basically anywhere can skew the results massively. Even with very many (single) atoms, it is difficult to distinguish the effect of gravity from the background noise in an experiment as theirs.

However, if general relativity is remotely correct, then antimatter will fall down just as matter does. And so far, everything appears to hint at that being the case.
Glad i just deleted Path long time ago. I did it because many reasons, the first one is transfer my entire life to a new place, then find out it can close, sell to another company I don't like. So the fear of wasting resources and time to setup my life in there made me deny this app. The second reason was an old episode with contact data, so I thought they shall make many other "mistakes" in the future. So after this one I feel better I didn't follow this path. Facebook is also dead on my life, I just check it for family messages. Google+ all the way.
Thanks for explaining this :). There had to be a good reason as to why Microsoft would approach IE5 this way and I was wondering why.
Best headline I've seen on HN in years.
Path must really like thos FTC fines.

Here's to hoping the next fine will exceed their cash reserves and we can put an end to this madness.

The post is proof positive that path still uploads phonebooks from the app to their servers right after installing it.
I just noticed, in that apology letter, the line:

"... Your trust matters to us and we want you to feel completely in control of your information on Path. ..."

So they want you to feel in control.
That's what I call a genuine "oh-sh&t" moment.
>Would you hypothetically not use a fast, super-compliant, feature-rich Mosaic out of an irrational bias?

No bias. I've tried to use Opera from time to time. Always stopped because:

1) Awkward UI. The QT theme engine it used (still has?) made it always look and feel off, in both Windows and OS X.

2) Some extra features (mail? download manager?) felt subpar compared to dedicated apps. Why would I need those in a browser anyway? That's why I stopped using Mozilla for Firefox 5-6 years ago.

3) The main operation of any browser, err, browsing web pages, was frequently hit with bugs, incompatibilities etc. I was always left out when browsing the more advanced HTML5 stuff, what with WebGL etc. And I never particularly liked the font rendering.

Some stuff I did like. But an incompatible engine and a bad look & feel didn't really entice me to keep using a browser. Mouse gestures etc, I could not care less, I find them gimmicky anyway.
I work in security and I always cringed when I saw the, "nice job!", "+1", etc., comments on the various team email lists I have been on. I figured if it's a job well done other people will praise us and that there is no need to pat ourselves on the back. Thank you for helping me realize I was wrong.

So much of what security folks do everyday results in push back and delaying tactics that it eventually ends in failure or very small wins. It's easy to get burned out because of the perceived failure and I see the effects of it all around. Celebrating even the tiniest of wins makes complete sense.
Address book access is a permission just like anything else (internet access, for example), so it can fly under the radar. Android has been trying to make things like "send text messages" stand out a tad more than "write to local storage", but they may need to go even further.

This is my personal favorite app permission that you can request: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.perm...
For those with WordPress installs who want to survive an HN frontpage:

1. if you don't have sudo, use the W3 Total Cache plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/
2. if you have sudo:
2a. the easy way: apt-get install memcached, add the pecl memcache extension, and use object-cache.php http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/memcached/trunk/object-cache.php and batcache http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/batcache/
2b. the hard way: varnish https://www.varnish-cache.org/ https://github.com/pkhamre/wp-varnish
Blog is back up! Sorry about that everyone
It reminds of one of Facebook's early growth tactics - as part of the contact import process, they'd send out spam IMs to all your contacts saying you just joined Facebook and ask if they wanted to join. It was very shady.
Advanced Analytics for Extremely Large European Databases
PostgreSQL + Orange
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1461/
They just had to pay a $800,000 fine for that stunt http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/02/path.shtm
I don't understand why this law is needed. If the work is truly orphaned then no one will come after you. Therefore the law is only about the case where it's not really orphaned.

That seems like it completely removes any incentive to obey any kind of copyright on photographs. Just use any photograph you want. When asked, claim you did a diligent search and nothing came up. Take the picture down. No punishment.

How is that not a recipe for massively screwing photographers?

Without the law orphaned works are still orphaned and safe to use. If you do a truly diligent search and figure out the work is truly orphaned. But, if your search wasn't diligent enough and the owner finds out you get sued as seems proper.

Why is this law needed?
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Current State of Continuous Deployment and Continuous Integration Tools
The current version of Trello is pretty feature complete as far as I'm concerned. More stuff just creates reason to mess around with Trello instead of doing actual work.
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The Only Way to Get What You Want
Gamification World Congress: Call for Papers
A Q&A-powered book about community products, by Kyle Bragger
New paper describing Google's Omega Cluster Scheduler [pdf]
> I got rid of my car.

I know this is a bit off-topic, but it got me thinking and I figure there's a large Redmond audience here. I'm moving there soon and I'm struggling with whether to ditch my car or not. I'll be living downtown and work is under a mile away.

Anyone care to comment?
Yes, I hope we can avert this situation when we reboot DNS hierarchy. In the meanwhile I don't see tilting against windmills to be a productive approach to the issues related.
You need to strike a balance. I'm not saying you shouldn't make large amounts of sacrifice at something(Not just start ups), but you also need to do move on to something else if despite everything and many attempts things don't work out.

Being stuck in the status quo will eventually make your problem much worse. You will continue much more sacrifices without achieving nothing in the end.
Overall an excellent thesis.

One quibble, though, with this: "Some software development just simply works better with a continuous development process. Maps is a really notable example, all of the data lives outside the product and as the data improves, the product seems to magically improve as well... And this is where Apple is struggling, by viewing software as huge steps with small shuffles in between, they struggle in cases where software development works best as a continuous reasonable walk."

I happened to be traveling in Italy during the last week of iOS 6 beta and the first two weeks of iOS 6 release, and was amazed to see the sudden dramatic improvement in maps on an almost daily basis during that trip. At the start of the trip, we still preferred the original maps on iOS 5, but by the end of the trip, the iOS 6 maps felt superior in most ways.

Apple was clearly updating both the "cloud" map data and the map functionality without a point release to iOS itself, and iterating incredibly fast. Seems to me if the "new maps" journalism had been delayed about three more weeks after iOS 6's release, the "first" impressions would have been markedly improved.

I also believe, based on the types of things that changed, that the iteration was driven by real world mass usage data that Apple just couldn't get from the beta or GM install base who use iPhones differently.
Nice to see the AeroPress as one of the three prep methods. That wee gadget is awesome.
Of course, I was the only one that actually knew better.
And some, like Telia in Sweden, will keep calling until you listen to a certain percentage of the message to helpfully ensure that you've gotten the message. Which is loads of fun if, for example, someone sends you a link with a UUID--you basically have to pull the phone off the hook and let it finish before you stop receiving the calls.

(You can also contact your phone company and ask them to please remove this "feature" - but usually you have to be subjected to it before you know the phone company even does this!)
Have you ever used a REPL?

It is an interactive process. You are build pieces of the application bit by bit.

There is no complete application state where to set breakpoints.
‘First Legal’ Online Gambling Site Launches In The U.S.
I actually got a text from them at around 1am not long ago. A friend opened up an account and they spammed everyone on her contacts list. She is an iOS user. I'm nost against tactics like these, but you have to do this correctly. Or else you alienate your user base and their contacts. I, for one, now tell people to steer clear from path.
Adding six lowercase characters/numbers increases the difficulty by a factor of a billion. So if you look at a typical 8 character rule and go up to 14 random characters you're perfectly safe on md5.
Ad hominems generally are nothing else..
> I realized that all I need for my life can be packed into a carry-on sized suite case

Do you not have any hobbies?
Former Hacker Schooler and also a novice programmer at the time of applying.

Nicholas' edit is true in my experience: HS cares more about your desire to become a better programmer, which is not a function of how good you are now.
>Go compiles so fast you can just pretend there is dynamic eval.

Yes, the Go people keep mentioning that. You might as well eat soy and pretend it's a delicious steak.

For people that have used good REPLs, from Lisp machines to iPython, it's not the same thing at all.

You lose your state, you loose context, you loose good introspection, etc etc. And if you try loading stuff that's big (several packages as dependencies etc), the compile time starts adding up too.
Microsoft's Crazy IllumiRoom: More Details About a Real-Life Holodeck
Can you explain what you mean by verifying? Do you mean reconciliation of invoices?
Smalltalk and Lisp Machines are back!

Nice work.
All new employees are assigned support tickets - incredibly effective
For me, it's more personal than anything. I hate DRM, so I try and come up with a solution, which I want to turn into a startup. Also, I'm a first time/future entrepreneur.
If you decide to stash your life savings into your local swimming pool's locker, don't be surprised when they are taken away.

For $40~$100/month, OVH offers adequate securit for your regular daily deals site or micro-SaaS. If you expect the level of security that comes with PCI/HIPAA compliance, expect to pay two orders of magnitude more. At some point, someone in the Bittcoin community will bite the bullet and pay the price, and that will be a huge competitive advantage.
Growth hackers also wear black hats.
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Does MIT even use Scheme for their intro CS courses anymore? Harvey's article makes it sound like they switched to Python when they went from a "curriculum organized around topics" to a "curriculum organized around applications" - it seems to be the trend everywhere.
A few years back, my wife and I reset our lives: left our jobs, sold everything, were down to two bags each, and moved to India for a year. Since then we have kept things simple, and has made life more flexible and less stressful.
Chrome does not compensate properly on the linked page. Firefox does. I've written a short article about the issues with this implementation of fixed headers here: http://gist.io/4950242
I hoped ST3 would replace Emacs, but Light Table seems more like it now...
Regardless of Trello's pricing plan, I think you should and have the opportunity to charge.

1) even though everyone on HN seems to, not everyone in the world knows about Trello.

2) Trello isn't your only competitor. The most popular online project management tool in the traditional, offline world is probably Basecamp. They charge (and make a killing).

3) many people who do know about Trello don't want to use it for one reason or another. Before today the biggest reason I saw was their lack of a monetization strategy, but there are still likely a good number of folks on HN who want something similar but aren't satisfied with Trello.

One potential route for you to take, that I've noticed any time Trello comes up here, is to offer customers installation of ThetaBoard on their own servers.
I have had poor experiences with Reddit advertising as well, although with similarly small sample sets.

My ad ran site-wide for 2 days last December (total $40) and saw 331,901 impressions but only 148 clicks (CTR of 0.044%). Since it was advertising a free app which itself makes money through advertising, each of those clicks (and the far fewer conversions) were worth a lot less than what I paid for them.

I bet Reddit advertising works great for expensive physical goods (like watches, Amazon affiliate links, and Not Safe for Wallet links I see advertised a lot) where you can afford to spend a few dollars per conversion in advertising, but it does not seem to be a very good choice for apps.
Great point - I didn't even think of this. To add, I would reply to them once or twice a day, in one condensed email that addresses all of their emails.
Also - I use Gmail for my business account so I can easily click on the 'Move To.." -> "Label" button, effectively archiving and organizing it at the same time.
Of course it was a bug. It seems clear to me they were experimenting with some texting functionality where Path would notify users of things, it made it to production with bugs, and some subset of users got this terrible behaviour.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
It will be interesting to see how google regulates these when there are all sorts of gLTDs up for grabs.
A Drug War Informer in No Man’s Land
A few years ago Adobe open sourced flex http://flex.apache.org/

This is an "write once, deploy many" that has a bit different offering then html5, specifically, it deploys natively, allows offline usage, can be set up to use native ui elements, has a gpu accelerated animated vector engine available, etc.
Yeah, I agree. I think Apple is moving towards this kind of development, but it's just not in their present DNA. I wonder how much of the rapid map improvements were the very public bad press and the apology by the CEO putting a laser focus on the problem vs. something that would have happened organically? Looking at the glacial pace of Siri improvement and the low prioritizing of the iTunes recommendation engine, I can't help but wonder.

In other words, I don't think Apple really wants to move to a more continuous software development model, but market forces are simply forcing it to do so. It is surprising that they aren't investing more of their piles of cash into expanding and improving their software development practices.
In Residence concept is a throwback to the bad old days of exclusionary education.

considering Hacker School is free, I find this claim pretty indefensible.
Almost certainly not; there's nothing in common beyond being spheres, and they're not particularly close to each other.
Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors
The most useful didactic feature I've found in ML-like languages--Haskell for me, but they're all somewhat similar--was pattern matching. Honestly, pattern matching is what really got me to understand recursion. It also makes the language feel much more declarative than using `if` and `cond` statements.
This is awesome! Way to go LT.
At least BT do this for texts to landlines in the UK. When it was first launched, they used Tom Baker's voice. It was an amazing few weeks.
"script execution cache" - perhaps something like APC that would cache the PHP opcodes and make a random function less random.
git reflog will save you from any amount of rebase-induced chaos. Pick the last good point, reset --hard, and carry on.
I'm also leaving Opera for good now.
Amy, this is great. Thank you!

> cortisol is required to rise to the "stress" of every day living

So stress seems impossible to avoid completely right? There's going to be some amount of it. When an email comes in about some snafu in the thing I'm making I can't avoid a spike in cortisol right?

What's the smartest approach to managing it? I seem to do typical things like working out, etc. But I also love working. Should I be somehow measuring cortisol and when it gets above X level, I need to take some action to reduce it? This seems like a hard thing to do right, if I'm just going by gut instinct to check where I'm at.
You can set the environment variables in windows 7 by right clicking Computer then click on properties > Advances system settings (on the left), and then click on Environment Variables. Scroll down in the System Variables box, and edit Path. Add ;C:\<path to python> at the very end.
Damn Kids! Get off my TLD Lawn!
I'm in the summer batch. I put in my notice yesterday at work and saved for many months to have enough money to live in NYC and not starve.

Attending hackerschool is not solely a matter of circumstance but intention. If you want something enough you'll do what you need to do in order to get it.
Even if that's true, it's a pretty awful bug. I'm not aware of FB or Google ever doing something like this.
Optimism Dims for U.S. Middle Class
Have you read any of David Chalmers' work? He attempts to provide a framework for thinking analytically about qualia in "The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory." [1]

Nearly all of his papers are accessible via his website. [2]

[1] http://consc.net/books/tcm/

[2] http://consc.net/papers.html
Org is my favorite markup too (mostly because of emacs' org-mode). I certainly hope it picks adoption in the future. One of the downside, however, is its syntax for verbatim paragraph is a bit awkward (requires a colon at the start of each line).
Map your startup
"Up In the Air" didn't promote the simplified life; it basically tore it apart.
On iOS, Apple made it so the app has to get permission to access the phone book. (Interestingly, Google Image search turned up this for a query of "ios address book permission": http://i.stack.imgur.com/MHF0p.jpg)

Did OP give this permission? I'm not defending Path (at all!), just trying to get full details. I've in fact accidentally given address book permission to apps by tapping too fast.

Update: OP is using Android, which is different.
It is one reason. But e.g. in my field (theoretical physics) I am not afraid of theft (well, if someone is smart enough to understand and polish a half-written paper, then (s)he can write much better stuff) but of things that "as of now makes sense only to me" or "there are half-written" (e.g. in some places I changed indices i to i+1, but not in all, making it both frustrating and useless to read) or may simply be false and I don't want to publish it before checking (e.g. plots may be completely wrong because of a typo).

Anyway, a time limit is a good idea.

And anyway, when there are timestamps, it's harder to steal an idea. It actually may encourage people to write notes on things to do, share some partial proofs, etc
I assume you mean Redmond to Seattle (if not please ignore). I currently live in Queen Anne and can pretty much walk everywhere I need to go, and hardly use my car at all. The times that I need my car is when I am driving out of town or don't feel like walking. BUT I could probably replace the car with a bike for all my in city travel. I also get my groceries delivered via Amazon Fresh or Safeway. If you can get rid of car, and don't plan on leaving the Seattle area (Suburbs) where a bus can take you, You'll do just fine!
I've tried to get into Opera every year for over the past decade. While I admit that they introduced many innovative features, they could never get them "right" and their UI was always ugly and unpleasant to work with. If anything Opera should be suing this guy for that.
This is really great! WANT!
As someone that has used for years but never in a team settings it amazes me what I don't know about using git to its fullest. Were would one start to learn about proper use of git in a team setting... just in case I it ever happens.
You're welcome. You might also enjoy Rich Hickey's interview, as I did. http://www.codequarterly.com/2011/rich-hickey/

"And, once there [writing only code that matters], you are able to achieve a very high degree of focus, such as you would when playing Go, or playing a musical instrument, or meditating. And then, as with those activities, there can be a feeling of elation that accompanies that mental state of focus."
Where flat UI fails
Congrats, this looks great! Some of the buttons are a little off (http://i.imgur.com/9CRvFQj.png) Mac OS X, Chrome 26.0.1410.65.

I'm very excited to tell people that github for science is now a thing. I'll be signing up for sure.
I'd held off uninstalling Path because it was well-designed and I always liked checking out their new UI enhancements when they'd roll out an update. Though, apparently they've already got my address book - the app is no longer on my device. Enough.
"oles" is Octave Klaba, the CEO of OVH. I'm quite impressed by how transparent they are in dealing with this issue, and the degree of technical details they are willing to provide.
I was talking about for a single chip. There was a lot of interest in Cell in the HPC market, but it also died.

For applications that can tolerate the latency, offloading computation to the GPUs is such a multiplier in performance that they have to put up with manually managing the hierarchy - but even there, it's a rather coarse memory management.
I got one of these texts from a friend of mine. Path didn't ring a bell so I figured he'd gotten hacked and ignored the text message.