skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. However, I think by differentiating what people "actually want" from what they do, you have made it completely inaccessible. How can we possibly find out what people actually want if it's different from both (1) what they say and (2) what they do? In other words, is there any way you can validate your thesis? I suspect you can't. You will have to fall back to what they say they want.
It appears to me by purchasing this app, you are trading the features of existing products for a slick design. I'm particularly impressed with how they have spun the lack of features as a feature ("simple and elegant", "imposes no system")

For me, inability to coexist with Notational Velocity is a dealbreaker.
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I'd really suggest using sidebar.io as template to show what you're signing up for. Its a leap of faith right now...
At the singularity.
Google Launches Maps Engine API
Sean Parker speaks about wedding scandal
My bank does this to me from time to time, without bothering to notify me. It seems incredibly insecure to me - I do have to call to activate it, but there are no "secret" questions asked during this process, just the last four digits of my social security number, and my zip code (and guess where the card gets sent to?)
I don't see anything about Vesper syncing to the cloud, so there's no way it could ever compete with Evernote for me. My notes have not been tied to any one particular device for several years thanks to EN, and there's no way I'm giving that up.
but in all fairness the original piece was a very casual editorial and not serious reporting

Seems like a cop out. Forget journalistic integrity, what about human integrity? If you're going to hold up someone and say "this guy did something wrong!" then you should have your facts straight. If you don't want to be taken seriously, the first line of your article should be "I didn't bother to check all the facts".

I agree that (as a community) we should be more skeptical of stuff posted online. But that doesn't excuse the author and its neither necessary nor wise to defend him/her.
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Please provide a little more evidence than starting a flame war. Although it could in theory be true, it's a fairly baseless claim until you present a little more evidence.

For my online transactions I use prepaid cards that are easy to dispose of, and this card was used solely for linode.

Couldn't the online card issuer be to blame? How do we know you haven't mistakenly used it for anything else? The fact that you use prepaid cards for online purchases seems fishy to me in the first place (which is just as baseless of a claim on my part as yours is here).

groceries, cheese

How do you use a online generated CC for groceries and cheese??

From Linode:

Credit card numbers in our database are stored in encrypted format, using public and private key encryption. The private key is itself encrypted with passphrase encryption and the complex passphrase is not stored electronically. Along with the encrypted credit card, the last four digits are stored in clear text to assist in lookups and for display on things like your Account tab and payment receipt emails. We have no evidence decrypted credit card numbers were obtained.

https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/

TL;DR - This is unfair to Linode and I think the community (who uses their service quite frequently) would appreciate if you took it up with them first, before you start a smear campaign.
>not the fantasy land of trickle-down economics

The war on straw wages on
This is probably why US bandwidth hasn't increased in ten years. Telecoms didn't want it to, obviously, but more importantly, the US government didn't want it to either, because more bandwidth increases the amount of information they have to store to have a carbon copy of everything.
Fast Evolution
Did a quick followup based on some of these comments. Thanks again, very helpful!

http://joshrotenberg.com/haskell/2013/06/05/follow-up-http-s...
Maybe "ultra-" is a meaningless phrase that makes people feel good, but conveys zero information content, and so it's not worthy of debate.
Snort! My wedding cost less than $100 US. (Now if we had "fuck you money" like the individual in the article, my wife could have possibly spent 6 figures on the honeymoon instead of road tripping and budgeting.)

Two of the most expensive weddings, ($200K+), I've been invite to or a groomsman in, both ended in divorce within 2 years.
Contact by Carl Sagan. I first read it as an adult and it took my breath away. The movie was a fair adaptation.

Also, I like to read Ender's Game once a year or so.
The cost of funding may be your freedom
That link clears a lot up. I can stop wasting my time. yawn
"This is why..."

Are you sure? Can you prove it?

Perhaps the traction is absent because the people are in fact "mindless" about such issues.

And your comment begs the question: Why should I listen to (i.e. read and take seriously) the opinions of someone who consistently belittles his fellow hackers on HN? Or who consistently takes an arrogant tone in every comment he makes, day in and day out, on HN? Or who consistently exhibits a dissmissive attitude toward the opinions of other hackers?

Give it a rest, rayiner. I, as an older hacker unlike most of your targets, am tired of reading your argumentative gibberish.
I do, yes. I try not to do it terribly often, because I don't want a pile of one-off tools to support, especially if they aren't something we're ever going to make into a product and generate revenue from. But sometimes, the needs are just so unique and there just isn't anything else out there that quite fits.

The most notable example for us is FUCIT - Fogbeam Universal Competitive Intelligence Tool. As you might guess, it's our dashboard for locating, exploring, cataloging, and analyzing competitive intelligence. There really wasn't anything out there that met the required combination of: features, functionality, price, license, technology stack, etc. So I cobbled FUCIT together as a Grails app over a week or two.

I don't really think we'll every try to make a product out of it, and since the code itself isn't really a source of competitive advantage, I am leaning towards open sourcing it eventually. I'd do it now, but A. I want to fix a few bugs and tweak a few more things first, and B. it just isn't a priority. But if we do ever release it, at least maybe somebody else will get some value from it, and maybe some other people will get involved in helping maintain / improve it over time.
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I realize there's some hyperbole here, but we're hardly "next China."

Reeducation through labor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-education_through_labor

Beijing Olympics Relocation:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02...

Tibet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet#From_1950_to_present
If they love nature as much a they say they do they could've had a measly $1 million wedding and spent the other 3.5 on conservation.
You need something, yes. The purpose of a presentation is to be entertaining enough that your audience will not be bored to tears, and will actually still care about the subject after you're done.

Images work well, because they evoke a more emotional response. Memes are there for a different reason - they are a non-verbal way of saying "hey, we're all part of the same subculture. I'm one of you!".

Yes, presentations are to some extent an exercise in psychology, at least when they're good.

If you just want to convey info, a whitepaper/article is a better choice. Information density is much higher there.
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Never. It's Gruber.
Catch 22 is a fantastic read. I don't think I've read anything else where everything in the book is such a great illustration of its main theme. Plus, it's just plain entertaining.
The Count of Monte Cristo for a great, rousing yarn
I'm not sure I'm understanding the point of this tool. It looks trendy, but it takes notes. No syncing. I mean, this is the guy that wrote NetNewsWire. Wouldn't an app like this be doable in a weekend?

I honestly want to find something new that the app does that is supposed to change my workflow, but there is just nothing. A cynical part of me feels like this exists (especially with the $5 price tag) just to ride the fame coattails of Gruber+Simmons+Wiskus.

I don't condemn them for taking the opportunity of their current notoriety. I'm coming off of week 4 of an app launch that completely failed to garner any reviews or growth, so it does really hurt to see reviews of this app that are nearly 4,000 words long: http://www.macstories.net/reviews/vesper-review-collect-your...
Another simple reason I prefer not to name fallacies is that it leaves an unsupported assertion out there (namely, that whatever it was is in fact a fallacy). I usually engage in a debate mostly for my own benefit, to improve my thinking on something. I find that chasing down and understanding exactly why something does or does not qualify as an instance of a given fallacy is beneficial for that end, and it keeps me from making hasty judgments about what really is a fallacy in a given context.
Great suggestion - added an example to the homepage.
Shouldn't all your servers have different passwords? How do you manage the passwords in case you're not available when the server reboots?
My expectation of privacy covers anything that I protect with a password. Or, to put it another way, anything that is not public is private.

It's really that simple, and that is not a romanticized view of technology. Indeed, I'd argue that this is the (reasonable) assumption that most naive internet users make about their data.
Isn't that a little bit like saying that by buying a Moleskin notebook, you're trading the features of existing products like Trapper Keepers?
I think he covers your points in this post - http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/04/29/frequently-complai...
That's playing a dangerous game, using multiple references to an existing property.

Imagine someone creating "Imperial Studios" that released their new "Luke" and "Darth" apps.
One possible way to validate your point is by asking people if they ever regret their actions. However, I think this isn't robust. Regretting my past action now doesn't mean that I didn't want it then.
Here is Gruber's review of Simplenote from 2009: http://daringfireball.net/2009/07/simplenote
"Let her pay? Nope. Way too much pride for that.

It’s also the most unromantic thing you can do on a first date as a man outside of spitting on her, and I wasn’t about to spoil the evening."

I stopped reading there. WTF is with this brainwashing of men that they need to pay? IMHO this is a symptom of low self worth. This is a disease. Stop watching TV. Stop watching hollywood movies -- they are making you dumber.

You have intrinsic value as a human being regardless of your ability to pay. Show her a good time and she'll be glad to pay -- in fact, she'll want to go out with you again.

Later edit: Finished reading. Some good wisdom in there. Inspiring piece.
Honestly, we are assisting uninsured people see doctors when they are sick at $20/month $20/visit maximum and as little as $15/month and $10/visit.

Instead of driving the point home by asking what you are doing to assist uninsured sick people in need - for all I know you may be a Doctor who takes a sabbatical 6 months of every year to Africa to set up medical clinics, but somehow I doubt it - I will just ask you please go Troll else where as HN seems to be all filled up with your kind, or at least have the courage to not hide behind an anonymous identity while attacking what people do in this world.

Though I had not said such before and you read it into my comments, perhaps it is fair to say I have a problem with Obamacare and my problem is that everyone will be insured, because I think a plan for universal healthcare should remove insurance companies entirely because they are responsible for a significant portion of the high cost of healthcare in the US - and we simply do not need a middleman and the associated costs when there is universal healthcare.
Do you think it should be illegal to use unbreakable encryption to secure documents or conversations?
Although I'm no developer I've been in a similar situation, where the boss was bullying a colleague of mine. Situation got so infected because of this that almost everyone in the company stood up to the boss. For the bullied colleague, and the few of us who worked closely to her, it ended up getting us all fired. I consider myself good at what I do and some of the others that were sacked excellent. I didn't have the choice to stay or leave. Being let go, I was afraid my career would take a serious dive. It didn't. Next employer bumped my salary, gave me great conditions and I actually enjoy working nowadays.

In hindsight being let go was the best thing for me. It's hard to realize it when you're in it though. My advice to you is to leave and (try) to never look back.

Considering bad mouthing your previous employer, just don't. You can share such details after you're hired and people have gotten to know you. Mention the work you've done instead during interview.
I had the same deal with Chrome on my OSX Mountain Lion. Here's what fixed it for me:

1. Visiting chrome://flags
2. Scrolling down to Disable WebGL, hitting "Enable", and then "Relaunch now"
3. Repeating steps 1 and 2, but hitting "Disable" rather than "Enable".
If I have that many servers then I can assume I have a large budget for security, right?

I would make a password entering automation system. Ensure that that system is dead-simple and secured to death. It must run no other services, firewalled to death even from the intranet, physically secured in a cage, and must be off most of the time. It is only to be turned on when booting a system, and turning it on not only requires a password but also physically walking to the cage, opening it with a physical key, and pressing the "on" button. All target servers must be configured in such a way that they can obtain network access before mounting the encrypted part.

But I'm not a security expert. Maybe I've overlooked something.
This is Say's Law, and was believed throughout the 19th century until being vigorously challenged by Keynes in his "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". The "General" in the title specifically refers to the fact that the theory goes beyond the "special" conditions in which Say's Law holds. There are still believers in Say's Law but the mainstream economic position is that it is false in general.
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Or, it's the other way around, and the pricing philosophy he's had all along influenced his decision on how to price this:

http://daringfireball.net/2006/11/pinprick

(Where by "or" I mean "no").
Interesting argument, but don't you think the NSA/FBI are just just going to say "we're not collecting/analyzing enough data"?
Wouldn't that also have to hide the Amazon-ness of it to work? (Meaning that FB wouldn't make it a promoted post)
I also use Simple and I've been very happy with their customer support. Not having checks has been a pain in a few cases, but I definitely prefer it over a brick and mortar. I have a few invitations on my account if anyone is interested.
So far as it stands this app isn't very helpful considering it is just people "blacklisting" huge companies in a non-descript manner. I think if you could change the blacklisting process to encourage higher quality responses a la Quora then it might have more use. Otherwise it just seems like a bunch of people hating on companies with little justification.
I always use the chess analogy.

Some people can play chess every day for years and never get past being an advanced beginner. That's over 90% of the population whether it's Chess or programming. It's a very intense mental exercise... even if the author of the article thinks it's just "playing."

To get a job programming you have to be better than a mid-level chess player and demonstrate it by 'winning' projects that are relatively difficult. Even by doing that you still have to jump through tons of hoops to get a decent job. The types of perks and jobs the author is talking about sounds like a fantasy to me when I've worked nothing but soul-sucking .NET corporate jobs, and web contract work where I'm always worried about getting paid on time.

For me it's come to the point where I'd rather work a part-time job (I'm basically a Janitor) and do programming/startups on the side... than have more soul-sucking code-slave work. So it's almost like this guy lives in an alternate universe to me.

I'm trying to make it easier for me though... lately I'm taking a bunch of Nootropics (racetams, fish oil, various amino acids) and I'm getting back on track. I have a friend who takes Adderall every day to keep up with his job. It's great that the author does not have to do these things and everything just falls into place for him... but at least have some perspective that for many people this shit is not easy.
Consistently. I think this is one of the best applications of being able to program -- is solving your problems with it. A recent automation program I wrote will save one of my businesses about 365 hours a year and will boost customer satisfaction. (I automated a process on http://creditcovers.com that would take about an hour a day, but I hated doing it, so I would often put it off and then sporadically batch it, which led to lots of unhappy customers. Now it happens every day at 2am automatically and it is really an incredible improvement to my life.)
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If the OP is looking for a page turner, then Stephenson's Snow Crash is another great recommendation. Anathem was slower to me, and Reamde was good. But if I was to pick up Stephenson's stuff again I go to Snow Crash, then Cryptonomicon as my one, two.
Wouldn't an app like this be doable in a weekend?

Paul Graham, I know you can hear me, and I know this is possible because I know a thing or two about the Javascripts, and so I'm telling you now: the site's banner should strobe clown colors for 5 minutes every time news.arc sees this string.
I'd really like to know more about this from tech and logistics aspect of it! Imagine the challenges!
I suspect it isn't as a fellow WF customer and Linode customer.
There have been 81 official drone flights the last 5 months using the 'Raven' drone. Police are now learning to control the 'Scaneagle'. Amsterdam cops have already broken 2 of their drones... See: http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/05/09/bevestiging-na-kamervrag...
This might be stretching the metaphor a little, but in college I'd take a five-section notebook over a Moleskin any day because of the nifty little pockets that I could keep problem sets and syllabi in.

Similarly, an iOS notes app that doesn't have websync just seems unhelpful for me. The only time I need to record a piece of data and I don't have access to my laptop/paper are usually when I need to remember something for later: and that "later" involves me using my laptop.

(Advantage of note apps vs. note books: the former lends themselves much more to iteration.)
Have two people know all the passwords. Let each of them encrypt this list of passwords with a password only they individually know. Sync passwords each time someone changes something.
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This one actually has techie relevance, but I hear what you're saying. The political links and their duplicates and their duplicates are drowning out the technology posts, even on /classic.
This. I recently paid a small amount to advertise my app (promoted post) on Facebook and while I was pleased at the number of likes, comments and impressions, there were a disproportionate number of comments yelling in all caps for me to stop spamming their newsfeed.
I wish this existed on OS X, and not just iOS, a platform where I'm never particularly interested in taking notes.

What would be especially nice would be if iOS Vesper was a satellite of a desktop Vesper, so that my photos and location information would automatically get pulled into my notes.
But that wouldn't include the link to the advertiser's domain...
I agree with this. "Fiction" is a really broad term and may lead to many different and, probably, meaningless suggestions to the OP. If he can specify wich kind of fictions he likes maybe he will get better recommendations, I've read so many fiction books from different genres that it's really hard to choose one in particular.
So this is easy: the kind of person who prefers a five-section notebook to a Moleskine is not the target audience for this application. Just like those apps that appeal to people who track their jogging times are not targeted towards me, unless they also have pig fat and whiskey features.
But there's still a loser there: the older transportation or retail providers who can no longer sustain their high profit margins. The Pennsylvania Railroad took in profits that used to belong to Erie Canal shippers. Amazon got rich by collecting money that used to go to Barnes & Noble at brick-and-mortar retail. So from where did the profits or money come that make up the HFTs' profit?

From the other responses, it sounds like the real answer is salami slices from lots of other market participants. A large mutual fund buyer pays a slightly worse price because the HFT jumped in ahead of them to arbitrage between the selling market maker and this buyer. So the HFT's profit comes out of the mutual fund's capital. The loss would show up as tracking error for an index fund, for example.
Is this really the case? Growing up, my family did pretty much all of their own plumbing/carpentry/electrical work, so I'm kind of surprised that that's not the norm. Its honestly not that hard to figure out, and its also pretty easy to make sure that messing up doesn't do any long-term damage.

The extreme of this was when we spent a year or so finishing our basement; everything from framing to wiring/plumbing to painting was done on weekends by us. I wouldn't say that I "know" any of those trades, but I know how to look up instructions on the internet or ask someone at Home Depot.
This feels like random speculation. If these alleged backdoors existed, I'm almost certain they would have been exposed by independent researchers by now.

It's more likely that these botnets were taken down by analyzing and tracing network traffic (with the collaboration of larger peering points) and finding the C&C machines and taking those out.
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I'm with you here; but in our world we get a free lunch from the Sun.
There's more info on the appstore:

Collect your thoughts.

Vesper is a simple and elegant tool for collecting notes, ideas, things to do — anything you want to remember. Use tags to group related items into playlist-like collections. Vesper imposes no system; organize and curate your notes whatever way comes naturally to you. Eschewing complications, Vesper's focus is on how it feels to use it.

• Attach photos to notes.

• Use drag-and-drop to reorder items. Move important ones up, inessential ones down.

• When you’re done with an item, swipe it to send it into the archive. Out of sight, but remembered forever.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vesper/id655895325
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Mining hardware hashes SHA256(SHA256()) of the block header. If anybody does that to crack some passwords, they do it at expense of not earning bitcoin. If they want to earn bitcoin, they have to hash block headers instead of passwords.

Intermediate non-valid hashes are thrown away, but all of them hash almost the same data: header with some nonce value.
Given the team that made it (i.e. John Gruber, Brent Simmons, Dave Wiskus), I probably wouldn't expect one any time soon. Not merely referring to their personal preferences, with only one developer on their team I can't imagine they have much resources to go cross-platform.