skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if they fed the human-matched addresses back into the OCR system to train it to be better at reading handwriting.
As a best practice you could use a package.json file [1], IMHO.

[1] https://npmjs.org/doc/json.html
Wouldn't it be easier to schedule milestones with payments for work done? It creates a strong feedback loop, spreads the payments for the project out and you can gauge early if they are willing to actually pay.

(Edit: I am a not a designer so I'm not sure how many "stages" you can break a contract into)
Proud owner of pull request #1. Hoping people will make really cool contributions to the game.https://github.com/Continuities/adarkroom/pull/1
>All major gov'ts intercept each other's traffic and do espionage (industrial or intelligence) on each other. It's a kind of gentleman's agreement.

1) What about the no-major gov'ts? Are those OK to be spied on? Like half of Europe's population and most of the rest of the world?

2) And, no, that "all major gov'ts intercept each other's traffic and do espionage" paints a BS naive picture. As if, say, Austria is in the same level with the US on this.

No major country does this at the level the US does or with equal resources. For one, the rest of the "major gov'ts" don't "own" the internet, from ICANN to all the major players (Google, FB, Apple, MS, Amazon). Not to mention most (all?) credit card companies are also American.

And even if they did, they would not know what to do with it. They don't have the diplomatic upper hand or the major interests in almost every field the US has.
Just from looking this over quickly, it looks pretty good.

Will take a deeper plunge later. I like the idea of hand holding through the beginning steps. The sections are well written and seem fun/playful... gotta keep my attention.
Non-compete clauses are very limited and hard to enforce in California (where most Google employees reside.) Assignment-of-invention might apply but if the individual has left the company (rather than building it in their free time while still employed) it would probably be very hard to prove that the original idea happened while they were still in the employ of the company, unless they documented it and shared those docs internally. (i.e. you can't pitch the idea internally, and then if rejected quit and build it yourself.)
When I posted this comment the link was to a completely unrelated page that made no mention of his death. As of right now the link has changed twice.

For whatever reason HN had a snafu and didn't delete it when I hit the delete button. Now the comment is completely incorrect, undeletable, and uncorrectable!
This is exactly what I have been waiting for.
Back in 1996 it was recognized as one of the classic start-up mistakes. It's so old I could only find a PDF:

http://www.yesatyale.org/files/lecture_06.pdf

I think vesting might avoid the problem, but I tend to think one person is probably more invested in the start-up and should take charge. I've seen too many times where "everyone is responsible" leads to "no one is responsible."
Note this is likely due to a Supreme Court decision rather than any particular goodwill from MasterCard.
Instead of some potentially impolite message in place of the logo or some other vital components, just display "This page is a preview for evaluation purposes. It has now expired." or something similar. That way you'll have little risk in case you overlooked it.
If you've never watched the retrospectively-named "Mother of All Demos", it's an extraordinary document of current-day technology that was somehow done in 1968. There are parts that just seem "wrong" — as seemingly-anachronistic as if Don Draper used a PowerPoint. Yet, there it is. http://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCnt...

Edit: link had been to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY but a user below posted this archive.org link which is better. Thanks, mxfh!
There's either a bug or an easter egg with the Mysterious Wanderer / 100 furs.

The rest of the mysterious wanderer encounters have expectation zero. Give 100 wood, 1/3 chance of 300 wood, 2/3 chance of nothing. Same with 500 wood -- 1/3 of getting 1500 back. And 500 furs.

But 100 furs has a 1/2 chance of giving 300 back, making it a good investment.

(events/room.js:361)
The Demo (Doug Engelbart)
None of which is responsive to the question asked above, which was about a letter that was lawfully opened pursuant to a warrant, but which contained a second, sealed letter.
If its an image it suggests that it might be fun to print QR codes on your mail which refer to specific URLs. If the URL is accessed you get a hit on who looked it up. Sort of like putting a 1x1 gif in an email which is loaded from your web site as cheap analytics (pro tip, don't do this if you work at Google, the security guys don't like it :-).

Always interesting if you can get the other side to reveal information by playing on the fact that they are trying to get as much information about you as possible.
at the top in the description: says 4s is required.
FYI-- for those looking to install on Ubuntu, we have a build problem with one of our dependencies for the web UI. We're rebuilding the packages now; this should take about half an hour on Launchpad. I'll update this comment when the new package is available.

Edit: Packages have been uploaded to Launchpad, waiting in queue to build. (12PM PST)
For anyone who is not sure who he was check this out

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
All of these problems can be addressed using inter-process shared memory. Shared memory support is built into multiprocessing [1].

Now I agree it might not be convenient, but that's a matter of libraries. This post would be much more constructive if it was speculation on what such a library could look like, instead of pretending that concurrency "doesn't work" in single-threaded Unix processes.

1. http://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html#module...
Finally, a way to short BTC!
Isn't a schemaless database just a filesystem?
There's an email from Christina (his daughter) on classiccmp cctalk, so I'd be inclined to believe it.

(edited to add that Christina is his daughter, and if you can find a cctalk archive, or subscribe and just missed it, its dated 6:31 and AEK forwarded it onto the list this morning.)
Awesome! So happy to see some common sense being sporadically applied these days. Crossing my fingers that Mastercard stands up to the inevitable "cordial" phonecall from old Biden.
Why Are You Insisting in Keeping Yourself from Being Wealthy?
Two steps forward.

One step back: http://torrentfreak.com/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vp...
Seems like an awesome buy for Samsung, at a bargain too!
Just more detail: seriously, look at the video from one of those Enlace Ciudadano events, and then take any still frame of video, and try to make him look stupid. The worst you can say is that he might look a little too earnest.

He just did one of these at the refinery right outside where I live (about 5 minutes away) - notice his entrance after the video intro, where he joins a folk music band in singing "Bonito Manabi" (name of the province).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VntkFqT7tQ4&feature=c4-overvi...

He's got world-class skills, so he's like a man among boys down here. I'm just worried about who's going to inherit the concentration of executive power that he's built up.
> Anyway, what are you worrying about? Another 9/11?

Yes. Of course. I want NSA to keep horrible things like that from happening.

Yes. There are other ways to die than terrorist attacks. They're also bad? I'm really not sure where you're going with this.

I haven't been noticeably affected by the NSA collecting data on me. I can't think of many ways in which I would be affected. I would probably be affected if I were interested in doing something illegal and needed to communicate with someone about it. I'm ok with that reality.

Seriously, someone chime in if you've been negatively affected by the NSA collecting coms data on you. Everyone acts like its the end of the world but it all seems like hype to me. Just another way to get traffic to a news site. One thing I haven't heard is how it's affecting people. People didn't even know it was happening til some guy decided to tell them. If something can go unnoticed for this long, how horrible could it be? Everyone's just creeped out by it and I guess I don't care.
"software distributed along with the licensed software" is to handle the case of distributing a CD with multiple software packages (shareware CD, or your typical linux install disc).

The GPL says nothing about other software.
Obligatory link to 'The Mother of All Demos':
http://youtu.be/JfIgzSoTMOs
IT Shambles
Some discussion has already been happening on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/1hdvic/jasper_ja...
I think you're making this up, and that the supposed "social class distance" between founders and VCs isn't a significant factor at all.

Also, not sure you're allowed to be indignant about what commenters claim to know about you after saying something like Most often, "took more risk" means "comes from a rich background and had a softer landing".
How close are we to getting superpowers?
If VALITOR processes both Visa and Mastercard aren't they both breaking ranks? Sure, MC has "made clear to VALITOR that it no longer desires to blockade WikiLeaks" but Visa's no response means the same thing. Assuming that the NSA is now going to be tracking everyone that donates to WikiLeaks through VALITOR, at least Visa is not commenting on the situation, rather than sending mixed messages.
Cool. Know of a good contract for sys admins?
The rest bootstrapped for many months, paying themselves virtually nothing, getting deep in debt, before their Series A. Even after raising an A round, they pay themselves subsistence wages, just enough to eat so that they can pay market rate six figure salaries to the engineers on their team.

I actually agree with you that, if they're truly suffering financial hardship (but I'm never impressed by a rich guy taking a $1 salary) they deserve a lot more than the engineers taking full salary.

What about those horrible executive implants installed by investors, though? They also get an order of magnitude more equity and full salary, and that's wrong.
We started this project at the Bitcoin 2013 Conference Hackathon in May and have been working on it since. The idea is to get people started with Bitcoin easily through friends. I'm close to 100% repayment rate on the loans I've made, though not everyone pays back in cash!
Cool stuff. I think this would be great adapted for customer support live chat.
No, because then the collateral damage is everyone misidentified as a "hacker" because prosecutors don't know the difference between criminal actions and not because the internet is confusing to everyone who hasn't spent the last two decades staring at the underbelly. Also, prosecutors default to "criminal" because their job is to deal with criminals all day (c.f. aaronsw).

It's unreasonable for us to expect the legislature to get this right. Nothing here is criminal.
Timely and related talk given today at EuroPython conference about concurrency in Python and why (and when) GIL doesn't matter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9vTUZYmtiE
To elaborate on this:

Ideally, encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data, otherwise known as "noise". Sensor data, radio telescope data and so forth often contain lots of that: it's just a LARGE file of bits that seem uncorrelated. No one can prove that a multi-gigabyte file of recorded data contains that, as opposed to them having renamed super-secret.tar.gz to sensor-logs.tar.gz.

Since no one can tell the difference, there's a pretty reasonable fear that police could see data related to your hobby (dumping ROMs, analyzing data, etc) and say, "You need to decrypt this so that we can see that it doesn't have $(illegal stuff) in it".
You don't actually agree with that. You said, just downthread, that only 4 such founders actually existed.

As for horrible executive implants --- I've been the "victim" of those, scare quotes included because my victimhood was partially my own damn fault. VC firms don't "implant" executives as a way of soaking their own funds back from companies they've invested in; they do it because (a) they think those executives are going to help and (b) they are dumb. If you accept those people, or if you acknowledge the roles they're supposed to fill should exist but can't recruit your own credible candidate, you're dumb too.

Being in a sticky situation in a board meeting where you acknowledge that you need someone to lead marketing but can't yourself find a viable candidate is, yes indeed, a good reason not to seek venture capital. The VC model requires you to strap yourself to an unguided missile that everyone hopes is aimed somewhere lucrative but is just as likely going to carom off a series of brick walls. Things move fast, because that's the model.

What, exactly, does that have to do with the fairness of equity grants to executives?
You are forgetting that Iraq is the third biggest export of oil in the world, and that the "reserve currency" of the world currently is what people call "petrodollar"

It is not a conpiracy theory, it is simple and obvious, many people outside US saw through the WMD accusation immediately, if everyone switched to buy oil with anything other than USD, US would be unable to print more money to keep getting indebted, and we all know that US currently has no way to sustain its economy without growing its debt.

It is just a matter of pre-emptive defense of domestic issues, the US cannot risk at all, even a minor risk, of other countries not allowing it anymore to generate loads of debt, because it depends deeply on it to sustain all its government spending.

Libya for example had the same kind of "protests" that turned into civil war, EVERY year, the only difference between the year they got a "no-fly" from others, is that Gadaffi also stopped selling oil for USD.

It is VERY CLEAR that US consider this a serious threat (and it is)

From some points of view, the government had no choice but to go to war...
there is a reason why the option to turn JS off has been removed from Firefox 23. Javascript is a big part of todays web. Better spend your time working on your JS powered App rather than to make it work for 1% who have turned it off.
I think you mean latter not later, in:

>In this post, I’m going to focus on the former and save the later for another time.

anyway, best of luck, I hope you find a way to help more people and have fun along the way!
Ok, but when I'm buying an app I look for the minimum requiriments where it's supposed to be and it's like that:

"Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5."

It's a bit misleading don't you think?
> Of course Bitcoin is a "payment instrument," that's the whole point

On the contrary, I found myself having an "a ha" moment when they pointed out that nobody, anywhere, is obligated to give a holder of bitcoin anything.

Reminds me of when Bernanke told Ron Paul that gold is not money. (Presumably for similar reason: it represents stored confidence, not an entity backed guarantee of payment.)
Thank you for posting, this version is much higher quality than the other youtube links.
There is a big difference between "looking into it" and sending someone to jail and facing years of hard time That's the problem here.
I like how you made the heart look like the Angular 'A'. It's the little things that count.
When silly puzzle games have hundreds of MB of assets it is okay, but this is a lot? Users don't seem to care or all of the "lets recompile our flash junk" that eats 500MB+ wouldn't do as well as they are doing. If app size matters it is usually the assets that need to be trimmed first.

What would be nice if in the app stores they showed how much space your app would you and let you sort on that, give some sort of incentive to reduce your size.
The Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart) has already been updated with this link:

http://gigaom.com/2013/07/03/doug-engelbart-american-invento...
I have a D-Link Boxee, and it just got less and less stable over time. I switched to XBMC (openelec) on a Raspberry Pi a while back and haven't looked back.

As a bonus, XBMC interfaces with your TV's remote over hdmi, so you won't even need an extra remote, very wife / gf friendly.
DIE.js detects IE versions and helps unsupported users find a better browser
> Does reality match up to my prejudices?

According to the linked article, IIS has only 16% market share overall, and less than 11% of the top 1000 websites, so I'd say yes.
Twitter will honor your browser's Do Not Track
Geeky marriage proposal via video game
Humble eBook Bundle II
Are there any plans for Couch-style incrementally-computed aggregates/views in RethinkDB?
Haven't had time to learn AngularJS yet, but it's been on my list of things to learn. Thanks! Now I have a good way to get started :)
I have been working on the Java driver for rethink for a bit now and I will tell you the DB seems like an awesome mix of Mongo and Riak, Mapping objects into the DB is super easy and doing datacenter aware operations is amazingly easy.
Yep, I'll definitely still be in the scene. Those events were really important to me when I was a younger developer, so I'll be continuing to support them into the future
Spin is one of my favorite books of all time; I had been intending to purchase an eBook edition soon.
Link submitter here (first time, too): My apologies, I saw the news via the Computer History Museum's twitter feed ( https://twitter.com/ComputerHistory/status/35248540097302118... ) , and they linked to that page. I googled around for a better link but couldn't find anything, but felt it was worth mentioning as a story to allow for discussion?
I work in the same building as Boxee’s New York HQ, four floors down – now I know why I’ve been seeing such a marked uptick in the amount of Boxee employees out on the sidewalk chatting excitedly, in like the past two weeks… to my upstairs neighbors, I say congrats!
We need an alternative currency to credit cards that is easy to transfer to other people and anonymous. We need....cash.
The open source continues to kill the industry burying the progress under loads of free shit like that.
Top Funniest Video Resumes I've Ever Seen
I'm just going to imagine that he's running in the background with no terminal attached.
Engrade gets $5M from Samsung, Javelin for Education Data Tools
imo Sails is a backend framework to be used with Node, while you can use Ember/Angular/whatever on the frontend side.
One aspect of micro-benchmarks that is most of the time ignored is that they reveal different default settings various systems come with. And unfortunately after seeing the results, not too many dig deeper to figure them out.
Mastercard and Visa start banning VPN providers
Really? So if you have a device that checks your email on gmail this is an invitation to browse any mailboxes stored on gmail? I have such device, you wouldn't mind me reading your gmail mailbox, right? Or would you?
No, but if I can do it from home that works equally as well for me.
I'm somewhat amused by the grammatical error in this headline.
You could do something useful instead.
About EIRs. The most boring feature of a VC firm. [...] If I'd been offered an EIR position at a VC firm, I'd worry about what I'd done wrong

See, you're doing the right thing here. You're ridiculing the welfare-for-rich-people system out there, just as I am. That's a first step. First, you use ridicule and attack prestige; after prestige falls (and mild embarrassment does that job) you hammer away at legitimacy underneath. Then, the corrupt edifice falls away and you can build something new.

High real estate prices and low occupational autonomy are the surest sign of congestion. It means the wrong people are winning and it's up to the rising generation to fix the world.
Wow! That was really interesting. Thanks for sharing those; have you considered submitting one of them as a story?
I work in a European branch of one of the very large tech consultancies, and I know that decisions to this effect have been made in several of the countries we operate in. There's a lot of money that isn't being funneled to Amazon and the like because of this.
hpmor is the only Potter fanfic I have ever read, and I couldn't see any particular affinity to teenage girls. But maybe all others are, I have no idea, so I defer to your expertise here.
Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: Data Checksums
No offense, but that metaphor is still an euphemism.
> "Don't get 140 characters" . . . congratulations! That's glib and dismissive.

Many people don't like the 140 character restriction and I've read many who don't get Twitter. For about two accounts I didn't either and only found it "working" on a third, partly due to the people I was interacting with. That doesn't diminish those who don't like or get it, it just means they don't. Life goes on. I personally prefer G+ for depth. For example, neither your nor my replies would fit into Twitter, so we'd be stuck with glib and dismissive.
Sometimes your roadmap is for sale, it happens (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/04/15/how-to-sell-yo...). But you know when to say yes by having:
1) A vision of what your product is going to become
2) Understanding of your customers and your market

Only when these things intersect do you say yes.
Any of the later (or heck, even the earlier) Infocom text adventures are far from minimalistic. And contemporary interactive fiction written with Inform quite complex. Far more so than this.
"For most of American history, "privacy" meant that what happened in the walls of your home or in the confines of some other private place remained private"

The problem is that today there are very few private places, and it is very hard to get to a private place unnoticed. Private, secluded places are becoming rare as security cameras are installed. Even if you can find such a place, your trip to it might be recorded by security cameras and license plate scanners. Even if records of postal mail had been kept in the past, it would have been very difficult to make use of that data -- but data mining techniques are changing that.

"The internet is really not designed to keep communications over it secret or private in any way, and platforms like Google and Facebook are built on exposing as much private information about users as possible."

I once had this view, but I have come to see that it is flawed. Most people are not making an informed decision about this, and there is almost no effort to teach the background needed to make such an informed choice. What we are seeing are governments and corporations taking advantage of the general population's ignorance. It is not that people do not value privacy, it is that they do not even realize the extent to which they are giving it up.
Michael, the other thing I do right is not bothering to tell myself stories about the injustices of EIR positions. I'm not simply "mocking" them. I'm right about how irrelevant they are, too. Not in some grand-scheme-of-things way, but in their irrelevance to getting companies funded in 2013.
The problem with the US is that is does not have a credible peer, it could have been China but they are about to pop their real estate bubble and the EU is not as strong as it should be, so who is on par?