skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One could also argue that Sequoia now knows the difference between a doomed-to-fail grocery delivery services and a successful one after experiencing it first-hand.

When did they experience a successful one?

Groceries are incredibly low-margin businesses that don't engender a lot of interest from the end users (mutual funds for the IPO stock), not usually the purview of VCs. But perhaps this $200M grocery investment will be the $200M grocery investment that pays off.
Understanding OpenStack Authentication: Keystone PKI
I am currently working on a team who is replacing the hodgepodge of pay and personnel systems the Air Force uses with a single system.

The old COBOL systems are an absolute nightmare. DFAS is a nightmare. The entrenched bureaucracy is a nightmare.

There was already an effort to integrate these systems for the entire DoD, the idea being that paying a Naval, Air Force, or Army person shouldn't be too different. It completely failed due to stupid decisions made involving bloated enterprise software, but most crucially a lack of leadership at the top to force the various branches of the military to shut the fuck up and accept change.

Now, each service is building an integrated system. I'm happy to say that, so far, the Air Force is doing it right. The Navy is also completely on track, and I can't speak for the Army. I just wish they would have fixed this years ago for the sake of these folks.
The US military did do extensive nation-building in Europe and Japan after WWII. (I have it from my father, a 4-year-old German at war's end, that candy was most definitely involved.) I would argue that the difference is that, then, the military was expected and allowed to win the war first.
I think this could be used by staff that aren't familiar with github/scared of it (this is more common than you think) to manage issues in a simple and familiar way. I think it would certainly be helpful in my organization, but like GP our repos are private.
They have http://ddg.gg/ though.
Ask your local police department for information about their SWAT team. If its not forthcoming or postive write your local officials.
This looks great. Can't wait for Android app.
> The militarization isn't caused by violent crime, because we would expect as rates fall that there would be no call to increase police power at any given time.

The militarization can have been caused by violent crime without being perpetuated by it.
The Dota 2 community is much, much better than the original Dota community, and better than the clones as well.
Searching for an address on ddg shows a map, it's just not a google map. It also has links to investigate the address at Bing, Google, and MapQuest. Also, you can use !gm ADDRESS directly, and it passes your data to google over ssl via DDG's server.

I think a big issue for DDG is this type of exclusivity complaint. And while it's a valid concern for some use cases, I really don't see DDG telling you to stop using other search services - they actively promote it.

I use DDG all the time, but I don't think twice about searching for "!gm ADDRESS" if I know i want to investigate an address via Google Maps. The benefit is that I can easily bounce to whatever service I know will respond to my query best.

If the concern is that DDG should know what service to send me to automatically (Addresses go to google maps, for example), then I think it's just a disconnect with their goal, and probably you should stick with Google - it sounds like it works well for you and the privacy aspect of DDG just isn't compelling. And that's fine.
How exactly does copyright work on fantasy user interfaces? Can someone create an app with the same style of interface as some of these, or is that a violation of something?
The absolute last people who should be left off the Federal payroll are the members of the US armed forces. Outrageous.

At the same time, something tells me that the OMB has no problem paying their employees...
Well, a project could take time because of love and polish or because of internal bickering over small details. There's nothing to say that it couldn't be a bit of both. Without knowing the details of internals, there's no way for us to know. I'm willing to accept your possibility but you have to be willing to accept mine as well.

From my understanding she wasn't just working on the project that eventually went with her. But you do have a point, it's certainly possibly they canned the project because it didn't fit within a new company mission that apparently previously involved the project. I dispute that in any way.

But as I think I said before, I agree that her project may not have been that interesting to Valve, but that's not what I'm really discussing here. I'm talking about the problems within Valve that she claims were part of the reasoning behind all the firings that day, not just her project. It's just that she's been the only one that's somewhat vocal about it.
Here’s a counter-intuitive fact: Chances are all those features you've been adding to your design are hurting your user experience. Every feature that’s squeezed in, in the name of giving your design a competitive edge, has been making your design less competitive.

Some people seem to misunderstand the definition of the word "fact." No, this is NOT a fact. If you have to say "chances are" in the definition of your "fact," you're citing something that can change; it's not a fact, it's an observation (and in this case not even a well-supported one, often verifiable though we might find it).

No, new features do NOT necessarily make your design "less competitive." What that even means varies vastly and indefinably between almost any two given projects. Any given feature may be implementable in ways that do or don't improve usability/competitiveness, or that simply don't affect it, and even those perceived differences are likely to vary from user to user.

How a feature is added to the interface, how the interface is structured, who it's built for and what they expect and are familiar with, whether it's intended to attract people outside of a single strict target demographic, whether all features are available to all users... these are relevant facets that make this "fact" absolute crap.
Harder for the NSA to access.
Rogue employee fired for turning game into Bitcoin mining colony
2k for a cow? Try 60 dollars...http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-resources/cow-calf/price...
How is this similar to or different from PogoPlug? http://pogoplug.com/devices
The site crashes my phone browser.

Dolphin Mini.
HTC Wildfire.
Android 2.2.2

I guess I'll check it out later.
I feel about the same. I recently switched back over to DDG (and Firefox). I'm happier with their privacy conscience philosophy (even if turns out moot because of it's location) and will give it my search queries going forward. Ducking it works for me. A Googleopoly display of local results and products is not always beneficial for me. I agree that adding location in the query is easy enough.
You raise a good question, and it's really annoying to read articles that tease out specific examples and never offer the alternative. However, I'd say you answered your own question. The TV remote really needs to be nothing more than a D pad, select button, and back button (could probably even dispense with that). You then just work on the software which is context aware and presents you the simple 2-3 choices you need within each context.
I ran an outsourced IT helpdesk company for many years, as well as online products. We used to get clients like this all the time. Here's how my staff were trained to handle this situation - the support staff would have asked the lady the name of her site, and the background story. Then patiently gotten to the bottom of the issue. After that would then either submit a support ticket on her behalf, or would call the company and put her in touch with them.

Clients like this are very costly, especially if your business model isn't equipped to deal well with this, but all that said, empathy is about feeling what the other person feels. She clearly wanted a fix, so go fix it.
Regulations aren't binary. Some good, some bad, but not binary.
Reading the article made me so angry I'm having a hard time even expressing my anger in words.

Police officers who behave like this should be in prison and banned from ever getting a job as a cop again. The bosses who authorize and cover for them should be in prison as well. Behavior like this should be absolutely unacceptable. Instead it's encouraged and praised by the people who should be holding them accountable.

I'm sure there are a few cops out there who would never behave this way, but the bad ones seem to be increasing in number rapidly. A lot of it undoubtedly has to do with the fact that their power keeps increasing, and that attracts the wrong sort of person to the job. And peer pressure and isolation from the rest of society due to their us-vs-them mentality doesn't help for the rest of them. When faced with their friends abusing power, it's easier to ignore it and let it slide rather than make waves.
Excellent suggestion.

It is easy to feel powerless, but we have to remember that we have direct access to the most powerful system ever invented for information transfer. Time to use for something other than looking at cats!
Why is iPhone exclusivity still a Thing? With Android holding 70.4% of the current smartphone marketshare to iOS's 17.8%, it's ridiculous to launch a startup and ignore that large of a potential userbase.

Not only that, an app such as this is only going to truly be successful with the network effect. By shunning so many users you're basically guaranteeing that that will never happen.
IANAL but I imagine they just count as works of graphic design or art, so they would be copyrighted like anything else related to a program. People have made interfaces based on the LCARS from Star Trek of course, though, but I assume either with permission from Paramount or not for profit.
That's what I was thinking. The only issue is accessing PogoPlug as a file system. I had to access it as root and create a Samba share, but it's not very reliable. I have one of the older PogoPlugs (pink).
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This has been on my mind, too, for a long time. Many applications don't fit the semantic framework of the WWW anyway; why not call it a day and fork it? This way the web app crowd will be able to do their somethingJS magic without worrying about what the WWW was meant to be, and the people who use WWW for publishing can get a sane platform back on track.
Searching for information should be less than searching for directions/services?

Also, google maps and google are completely different things. I have no trouble going to google for maps and directions and search elsewhere...
Ah, but the transaction here is not between publisher and customer, there are separate and quite different transactions between publisher and distributor as well as distributor and customer (usually with some additional intermediates). In each of them both sides win, but in the latter the customers don't win as much as they could if the first didn't create local monopolies. But publisher and distributor win more, this way.
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> "It will be interesting to see what happens to the internal social cohesion European countries have enjoyed post-WWII as middle eastern immigration continues to rise."

It's already here. Every time there is some discussion of Muslim extremism or immigration we have a few HN members saying things that, in even conservative parts of the US, would leave your jaw hanging.

In the US it's common for the more liberal folks to perceive Europe has some kind of bastion of social enlightenment. This view seems to fall apart once you actually inject some different skin colors into the population.
It is true that ddg gets some content from bing, but also from yandex, wolframalpha, and yahoo. Also, ddg does some indexing themselves. Saying that they are "just a skin for bing" doesn't really describe what they are
I think we need a new word. Kafkaean, because Kafkaesque to me implies "IS LIKE Kafka's nightmares" when I really want to describe it as "IS Kafka's nightmares".

It's funny because when you were in high school and you thought the books you read wouldn't ever apply to life, but now that they do, the thoughts scare the crap outta me.
There's a standard format, OVF, that the relevant players seem to support. The number of deployment targets that support some kind of virtualization software will always be higher than the number that support docker.

Docker: A linux distribution with kernel 3.8 (released in 2013) or newer.

OVF: A linux distribution with kernel 2.6.20 (released in 2007) or newer, or Virtualbox, or Citrix XenServer, or the VMware products, or Microsoft's Hyper-V, etc...

For a "common ancestor", despite docker's awesomeness I don't see anything special it has to offer in this regard. What's appropriate is properly packaged software that lends itself to automated configuration. That can be used for installs on bare metal, generating docker images, and generating images for other platforms via tools like http://www.packer.io and http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:KIWI
Writing new protocol modules for tcpdump isn't difficult.
Cloud Sigma (http://www.cloudsigma.com/) is the best alternative to Amazon I have found. They don't provide services like SQS, but they do have scalable storage.

I suggest you change that aggressive, pouty tone of yours. I was addressing a specific point in your comment, not disagreeing with you.
But one of the beautiful features of TCP is that it has the properties necessary to treat it as a text stream -- you can build text-based protocols on top of it. Since troubleshooting an application-level protocol seldom requires you to delve into the TCP-level, it works very well in practice. The HTTP 2.0 draft not only makes the application-level protocol binary, but it eschews the simpler stream metaphor in favor of replicating a bunch of that TCP-level complexity in the higher layer.

There are reasons for all of this, of course -- it's not being proposed on a lark. But it does have a very real complexity cost.
What's this "we" stuff about? The media cares more about it and that's all that matters. Control the distribution of information and you control the populous.
Typo, I meant virtually every linux server. And mysql still has a larger market share than any other free database. See for example: http://i0.wp.com/blog.jelastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...
I guess we can call that the 90's heritage of Booking.com. Naturally we can't use the same explanation for DDG, which launched less than half a decade ago.
I really wish we as a developer community would better differentiate between "backup" and "preservation". They are both related to storage, but are fundamentally different problems. The article touches on the desire to have photos safe for decades, but doesn't really get into the strategy necessary to make that happen.

If we care about decades, storing the raw NEF or CR2 file is almost certainly the wrong approach. Those files could easily be as difficult to open in fifteen years as a ClarisWorks document is today (just to choose one example - proprietary formats for professional software from the late 90's are all pretty hard to open today). Also, important metadata is kept in the lrcat file. Unless we expect to always be able to open our copies of Lightroom, we need to migrate that data too.

We used to think of "archiving" as putting something on a shelf and forgetting about it, sometimes taking environmental factors like humidity into account. With our digital data, we need a plan for periodically checking it, both for fixity and to make sure at risk file formats are migrated to current best practices. This will require greater awareness for the complexities involved (and the need for open file formats) from everyone from creatives to storage and service providers.

By the way, every creative industry is struggling with this right now. Recording studios have session files created in ProTools 4. Designers have really old Quark files, even though they've been working in InDesign for the past five years. Composers have Finale files. A lot of these file formats depend on plugins to be able to display properly. I don't mean to sound discouraging, I think there's plenty of opportunities for viable businesses here. We just need to start using the right terms.
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>eBooks before Apple's price-fixing are no different than eBooks post-price-fixing

That's not true. Apple eliminated windowing. I.e. pre-Apple some ebooks were being delayed for some time after their print releases. Apple's scheme guaranteed they'd be released at the same time. That's a major difference and a major value-add.
Not much in terms of the open source community, but Oracle forums have some good support for this. Plus, the documentation that comes with the product is pretty decent, and a lot of really large firms use the solution.
> * but human-readability is very useful.*

For who, how often and when exactly? As far as I have understood, we are doing something wrong if we have to deal with debugging protocols which implement an abstraction, rather than just let the abstraction do it's job.

This is like saying that "Well for programmers x86 assembly instruction mnemonics are useful compared to machine code bytes!", to which one could say that for an average programmer that makes no sense.

I didn't quite care about stuff like this until I got introduced to information theory and really started thinking about what it means to send and receive information. The amount of totally unnecessary waste is astounding.
No, this is "an American of no Scottish descent who has never visited Scotland is not a Scotsman merely because he owns a plaid shirt."
Spoiler Alert: http://gizmodo.com/first-video-of-the-navys-x-47b-drone-land...
And yet, no news on the OSX front, even though the Source Engine has worked on Mac even longer than it has on Linux. Really was hoping they'd have at least a Mac beta by the time they started the rolling launch of the Windows version :(
> North Dakota [...] a family of anti-government separatists

Were these the kind of anti-government separatists who are harmless quirky people who confine their anti-government activity to blogs and leaflets, or the kind of anti-government separatists who amass a ton of weapons and declare themselves independent and vow to shoot any government agents who "invade" their sovereign territory?
Giving money to companies is fine by me. The only desire is that a company that provides false data must be held accountable. Also someone running a scam facade, prosecutable, imho.

I don't see the lottery as analogous to putting money into companies. Whether the lottery is good or not is a separate issue.
> I think something like this (flying a UAV, since CBP doesn't actually fly drones) should require a search warrant, but this is a totally reasonable use of resources IMHO.

The Supreme Court decided in 1986 that aerial surveillance of a person's backyard did not require a warrant. Then again, the search was conducted by a human only using his "naked eye". See California v. Ciraolo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Ciraolo
SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/06/25/ssl-intercepted...
A new way to measure continued progress of existence and events.
There's a lower bound price where it's just not worth making and selling a computer of that price point because your per-unit price won't justify the inventory costs, design effort, risk and support costs. Right now, it seems like that price is ~$350 for PCs and $250 for Chromebooks. That may be the real innovation of ChromeOS: Windows usability without Windows licensing fees, plus lower support costs. Plus, you don't have to worry as much about inventory becoming obsolete, because the OS will update as soon as they connect anyway.
You might be right that is the nature of the game. I played DotA for the thrill of having a powerful character exerting his dominance over other players. It just doesn't happen if your team isn't performing. Plus, DotA has incredible death penalties.

The fact that you are launched into a game where your fun depends on the performance of a bunch of strangers in a fast -paced, hostile environment that penalizes mistakes heavily with only short bursts of text to communicate is a recipe for vile players.

The weird thing is that the stakes are largely only whether the game will meet the player's expectations.

Also, humans are generous when judging their own abilities and are miserly when judging a stranger's abilities.
Blizzard has Mac OS support, I don't see it being too much work for Linux native. The main problem is the massive amount of Linux distros. But they could support ubuntu and their offsets fairly easily.
Social enlightenment is easy when your major cities aren't majority-minority and almost perfectly geographically segregated by race/ethnicity. From someone who lived in Chicago for several years: it's hard to empathize with people who look different than you, have dramatically different family backgrounds, etc. It's harder still to empathize with them when they're separated by a river.
I agree. HTTP with chunking is already way beyond the human-emulatable-via-telnet threshold.
The duck logo is pretty cool as well.

I also like the red...not because I think it's beautiful (it's not imo but that's subjective) but because it's very distinct and associateable with search
>Also, once again the scope creep of the word "terrorist" ("terroristic") is deeply disturbing.

No kidding. I'm trying to figure out who the real "terrorists" are anymore. I mean, are there any real terrorists left in the War on Terror? Because there's a lot of stuff being justified for that "cause" but we aren't hearing a lot about the actual terrorists any more.

And, yeah, I know someone will say it's because we're stopping them all in secret with our super-duper advanced stealth techniques. It's all so neat and tidy.

But, this is exactly what happens when you define a "war" on a concept vs. a specific nation or group. The scope can creep almost infinitely.
I've torrented a bunch of things I own. Ripping videos especially can be a waste of time.

Also think about how awkward it is to record free broadcast television on a computer compared to letting someone else package it.
Not a site critique, but nice business idea. Posted it /r/gamedev subreddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1i1amy/marketing_fo...
Google is retiring Latitude
It surprised me to see how DDG actually succeeded in getting noticed by mainstream media and millions of users despite operating on a very small footprint in an extremely difficult market dominated by Google, arguably by making a few right business / ethic choices. That may be encouraging for people who'd like to keep developing for the web, but found too many interesting areas already well-covered by industry behemoths (with weaknesses?).
http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=96877
I doubt the customer failed to understand that the customer support rep thought that the issue wasn't their fault; the customer was getting angry because they thought the rep was wrong.

Analogies don't convince and are often seen as condescending or evasive: "I asked for help, and I get word games"
Emergency services have to put their own safety above the public safety. It's how they're trained, and it's necessary. If you sacrifice an officer of the emergency service for a member of the public, you now have one more member of the public... well, actually you don't because the officer is also a member of the public... and you have also lost a trained officer, who can't respond to future requests for help, so the future service to the public suffers. And not all areas find it easy to recruit for the emergency services.
I didn't think I could ever get off the Google habit, but I for one welcome our new DDG overlord! I use it for 100 percent of my searches now.

Data point: unlike some, I love the name and branding.