skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had nothing but good things to say about my Nest and have no trouble recommending it.
Nested Objects, Arrays, and Variable Variables in PHP
Microsoft authored and controls the standard, so I don't think it is unreasonable to call it Microsoft's CLI, but sure.
Um, there's also the client side of this.

You can lock up your data all you want, but with the NSA deeply embedded in telecoms and mobile device manufacturers, once you try to access said data in a manner consistent with the project's marketing, e.g. on an apple-engineered device running Verizon's comm middleware, the NSA gets your data anyway.

This is the same problem projects like Moxie's silent circle have. It's trivial for the authorities to grab data between the device's interface and the software - they don't need to decrypt a damn thing.
http://vimeo.com/4366695

Great commentary!
Can you describe a good export experience for the average person? Google takeout service is pretty similar (I think, I have not actually in-archived my files to inspect them).

I am genuinely curious because I use my wife as the average person when it comes to technology and she has absoluy no interest in exporting her stuff from Google. I do it because I have grand ideas of a personalized data store with search tha I can just dump stuff into so my grand children's grandchildren can search for stuff and discover their history through our data.
> according to some opaque criteria that I don't get to define or tweak

Exactly this. When I saw the tabbed inbox, my first thought was, "oh, this will be cool", followed shortly by, "wait, I don't get to control or customize this at all?"

Really, why can't I define my own tabs for specific searches/labels? The black box tabs they provide now should just have been defaults within a customizable feature.
Will the symbol ‘Ћ’ replace the word ‘the?’
Ask HN: What are the monitoring tools you use?
I am a newbie, and wanted to add monitoring services. I read about nagios, then later read more and found sensu|sonian was better at it http://www.sonian.com/cloud-monitoring-sensu/

Then there are things like new relic(which appears too complex to me)

I am a new sysadmin, and do not have much experience, though I have googled and read stuff, and done the homework.

I just wanted to ask folks over here, as to what services they use for monitoring their different servers, and what led them to their respective choices?

Thanks for reading the question.
Show HN: Marketplace to sell and buy side projects
Do you have side projects you created in the past, but no longer working on?

We are creating a simple marketplace for developers to sell and buy side projects.

Currently, we are finalizing the last minute details and we will be launching quite soon.

We would love to have you signed up for the early access to get feedback.

Link is here

http://www.sideprojectors.com/project/hello

Thank you.
I work in zhongguancun, it's not the next valley. Beijing just has too many problems with traffic and pollution to be the next tech hotspot, not to mention an over emphasis on SOEs. Given protections from the government that favor home grown champions, there is also a distinct lack of innovation, even most of wechat's features were ripped off from somewhere else.
Here's a clickable link

http://www.sideprojectors.com/project/hello
I fail to see how plug is anti-PRISM.

All your devices need to install plugs software, at which point you provide a login and a password, and bam, you now have full access to your files connected to your plug...

what?

So we go out and contact plugs central server, provide a username and password, and now we have remote access to all our files.

ALL of them. Plug syncs everything.

PRISM, the program that secretly told internet service companies to provide access and tell no one. and plug, the device that makes every single file you have visible on a network connection that they hold the keys to.

Plug is going to have to go a long way to convince me that they can't be compelled to release my credentials to a government authority, even if they said they never would and they really really meant it, that still means they have complete and total access to my life.

Anti-PRISM here isn't meaningless, it's outright wrong. Your product is only anti-PRISM if your product assumes the author can't be trusted in addition to not trusting the lines the data is sent on (At least they did that).
Or perhaps he doesn't choose to but has a mild Asperger's.
Some of the data here is a little suspect. Example "programming languages":

http://wappalyzer.com/categories/programming-languages

It says 90% of the web uses PHP, 8% Java and 2 % other.
Part of the problem with modern financial systems is that as a business, you almost never actually have the money you think you have, guaranteed, just because it's in your bank account. The number of ways that different kinds of transaction can be reversed -- in a compulsory way, by the other party, and possibly with them getting the benefit of the doubt in any dispute process -- is crazy. And that's just the technical measures, before you get into payment services that demand authority to instruct your bank as a business practice and obviously whatever legal remedies a court might order if you litigate a dispute.

I wonder how much more efficient the world would be if we had practical small claims systems in courts that were respected across borders, so there was an official and genuinely independent way to resolve disputes over small amounts of money, and then we did away with chargebacks, reversible transactions (other than in cases of genuine error), etc. While I'm dreaming, we could fix the crazy way that many of these payments are authorised, too. If bad people couldn't sneakily take your money so easily in the first place, you wouldn't need so many protections to get it back, which could then be abused against good people if the bad person is the customer.
No, I think this device is very "anti-PRISM".

PRISM means that the (US) government can ask MicroSoft/Google/Apple for your files stored in the cloud without a warrant. So you get no protection against "unreasonable searches" specified in the 4th amendment.

This drive is controlled by you and stored in your house (with no key stored in the cloud). So the 4th amendment applies, and the government can't just look at your files any time it wants.
It's posturing, but it's not adulation seeking. He is calling attention to bad code and bad behavior, highlighting it as an example of what NOT to do. If he had used nice, professional corporate speak, he probably wouldn't have been able to call nearly as much attention to the problems.

Even assholes serve a useful social function sometimes.

Also, let's stop calling it "abuse". If you can't weather a few F-bombs then you wouldn't have survived a typical American schoolyard, let alone a high-intensity workplace where shit has to get done.
Tabs are the same thing conceptually as the filters on the right. I don't see how the tabs improve anything.
Automatic transformation of text to evade these methods seems feasible (google translate back and forth might be the crude first attempt.) Obviously there might exist more refined methods of identification. In case of a book it is probably hard not to ruin it this way but reviews, posts and such do not require such high standards.
In the US you can deduct the cost of a tax preparer or the cost of DIY tax preparation software if you itemize deductions.
Actually, it's more like "pardon implies special exemption", and that's just wrong. Turing was special, but there was nothing special about his legal treatment or the circumstances leading up to it.

An apology has already been issued (as noted in a sibling comment). That apology, though addressed specifically to the case of Alan Turing, was general, and included "many thousands of other gay men who were convicted, as he was convicted, under homophobic laws...". That is a meaningful statement.

And there are classes of pardons and other actions that could "make it didn't happen", but that would absolve Britain (or, more properly in this case, England and Wales) of responsibility for historical wrongs (and they were hardly unique in that). It did happen, and it would be better to note that it did happen, but that things have changed in such a way in the interim that we, collectively, no longer believe that what happened is acceptable.
Just a little recomendation if you like 12 Angry Men, The Man from Earth.

The movie is simular in that there are just some people in a room talking and you get really drawn in.
They are, in fact, doing that - http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/yahoo-email/
Wow, classic case of Batteridges law of headlines.
Very interesting. I have a few projects I may want to unload..
Previous discussion [1]. I didn't think HN allowed duplicate URLs within such a short timeframe (unless posted with a variation to the URL), but good to see it getting a proper airing, as it got modded off the front page in short order yesterday (possibly because the debate got a bit acrimonious).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6071596
>"For the world of design this means there’s high value in simple typefaces, and noise-less, minimalistic design that’s easy to load and create for any device."

I don't think minimalistic design necessarily creates sameness. Hundreds of sites using the same handful of frameworks for ease of load and creation across platforms certainly does.
I Guess The Twitter Doesn't Fall Far From The Twit
Not if there was a clock in the frame with accurate date and time.
he is one third lebanese, a country bordering and in constant war with israel.
At some point, some one, did understand, that the _words_ of Mr. Tolvards on a "hacking" mailing list, did suppose any real treat, or abuse, or purpose of damage, or bad intentions ?

I'm sick of this kind of things. And I'm in groups to support mistreated women. But this kind of accusations, to someone who is focused on work on a project and not in personal damages,I think are bullshit.
The misplaced outrage over Rolling Stone’s Tsarnaev cover
Funny coincidence that this 'outing' happened just as the book was headed for the clearance bin.
9 Founder Habits That Leave a Business Foundering
I think that there are plenty of subjects for which bland web design is completely inappropriate even if it is the dominant trend right now.
They claim the Internet connection between plug and the computer accessing that plug is encrypted.
Not sure if this is related to your issue, but drop down menus in Java seem to have issues with some Linux desktop "themes" (GTK themes, I think). For example, on CentOS the default theme causes the menus in Netbeans to be drawn without any borders. Changing the theme to something else fixes the problem.
I prefer Chrome Sniffer.
It's a valid scenario, but I was starting to think quite unlikely. If I get a a new jrandom@yahoo.com address, I would have to know who that account used to belong to and on which online services it might have been used. If I'm in Boston and the old "jrandom" was in Atlanta, I'd have to first figure that out and then figure out what bank he used, and be lucky enough that he had not updated his email there. And websites like banks and other financial services require more than just an email address to get a password reset. You need to answer some "secret questions" etc.

But I grew up before Facebook and other social networking fads. I still don't use those services. So I sometimes forget how easy it is to get a very good life history on someone by just searching their email address, very possibly including the answers to typical "secret questions" like your pet's name, where you went to elementary school, etc. and maybe I can even get some clues about what bank they use.

So it really might not be too far-fetched a concern. Still I think it somewhat unlikely that an email account tied to a lot of social networking activity is itself going to be dormant. But it's possible. Maybe the person has the account forwarded to another address and never logs in directly. Would that count as "dormant" ??

Before issuing an account, Yahoo themselves should be sure it's not forwarded, and search for any associated internet content, especially on social media. If an account has not been used in years, AND internet searches for that account turn up nothing, it might be safe to reissue it.
When I saw this, I laughed:

"As an example, if I was proposing to build a website capable of creating an additional $100,000 of profit annually, I would ask the client to make an investment of $40,000 in their website."

Exactly. Leaving aside the sleight of hand of comparing hypothetical/perceived benefit with actual cost, what you've really got here is a consultant offering you $60,000 of benefit this year. If another consultant can do the same job but only charge you $20,000, then they have offered you $80,000 of benefit this year. Assuming both are being honest about the expected benefit and can do work of a similar quality within their quoted budgets, so one really is just pricing higher arbitrarily, who are you going to choose?

Value-based pricing is interesting to discuss, and it's certainly a more rational and business-like way of handling engagements than billing your time out hourly in something not so far from an employment relationship. However, the value added is benefit minus cost. Unless you really are the only game in town, you can't just raise your rates until they are 99% of the value you claim to generate for your client and argue that it's still a good deal for them because they're 1% better off if they use you than if they hadn't. That ignores the third option of using someone else.

That third option is a possibility for almost every client of almost every consultant. If you as a consultant have the sales and marketing skills to find clients who will believe that they don't have that option and convince them that you really are the only sensible choice and they should pay your inflated rates accordingly, then good for you. However, please don't pretend that winning jobs at those inflated rates has anything to do with some natural value proposition rather than simply being better at sales and marketing.
Why not just use pop3/imap or something?
Another option, Lavabit is $16 for 2 years.
Netbeans is formally dropping support for Python and Ruby, isn't it?
Open Source vs. Proprietary Software: There is No Clear Winner
So, Chrome is the new IE huh?

* team wants to use non-standard scripting language: check

* team wants to add completely unrelated features to the browser: check

What's next?
It was all new to me!
Most websites look the same because standards are the same, Usability, UX, Navigation, Typography, Layouts etc .. they all have share common principles. and it is difficult to do a big change without breaking these standards.
Facebook doesn't allow you to change email addresses? Really? REALLY? That seems completely unbelievable.
Its true that its hard to sell an app directly on Google Play compared to the iTunes app store. A lot of devs have switched to in-app purchases or subscriptions as a way to allow their app to be free, allowing users to engage with the app before they decide if they want to buy in (the older style of doing this is a free app and then a premium unlocker app). Ultimately the pay upfront model hasn't really taken off and Android and probably never will for most apps.
> I'm rather surprised at the success so far.

I think their difference is in their client-side software. All existing solutions (dropbox, etc) are single-folder sync-all-the-files.

This solution is more like NFS, but with extra features (keep files locally, keep revisions) and mapping of Document/Video folders between OSes.
In open-source, and even in startups, sometimes the project is a one person project.

Or a 2, 3, 4 or more but without frontend skills.

I don't have front-end skills. I mean, I can "play" with CSS, and layouts, and it may even look fine on my laptop or my 24", but I'm not a professional, neither know all the tricks and corner cases, and tested facts for certain browsers, and, etc... and don't have the time to go in deep with it.

Without going further... I'm playing right now with a personal project.

This is draft "A" (my style from scratch): http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=264961

This is draft "B" (bootstrap): http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=264198

I like more my style, but I know it's going to suck in certain platforms I don't want to own, it's not responsive, etc so there is a high probability that I will use finally "more of the same".
There is always a surge of bringing legal work in-house after a recession, because you've experienced lawyers on the market looking for a job and willing to take a pay-cut to go in-house. It happened as well after the early 1990's recession. I don't know how permanent that phenomenon is, I think other shifts like the move to flat billing are going to be more sticky.

Your friend's characterization of his work seems phat. The first year transactional associates I know are summarizing term sheets, conducting due diligence, etc. It's fairly rote, but it's stuff that's just context-sensitive enough not to be automatable. And as a practical matter, entry-level positions in any field, maybe outside of valley startups, tend to be pretty rote. Some of my friends might sum up their entry-level programming roles by saying that their jobs just involved "changing colors of widgets in the UI in response to support tickets." It's training, work that prepares the associate to do more complex tasks down the road. Speaking broadly, training entry-level people, in any field, is part of the cost of business. In law firms as in any other business, those costs get passed onto consumers.

As a counter-example, I'll offer my own experience as a first year litigator. I spent 75% of my time doing legal or factual research (including researching several issues of first impression), drafting research memos, preparing interview outlines, and summarizing expert testimony.[1] I spent 25% of my time reviewing discovery documents, and that process was heavily automated/outsourced. We were generally only looking at documents that had been marked potentially significant by either a contract attorney ($35/hour in NYC, less in India) or a predictive coding algorithm. The exception was when a batch of documents was too small to be worth dealing with the set-up overhead of putting a contract team together or training the predictive coding software.[2]

[1] Electronic access to case research is of course a big boon to making that sort of work more efficient. However, I should note that at the end of the day, using Lexis/Westlaw saves the client a lot of money. Google Scholar is so spectacularly bad for legal research that it takes much longer to get an answer, and you feel less confident in the answer you get. The limitations of Google Scholar when it comes to legal and scientific research are very telling insight into the limits of automation with existing technology. Google is amazing, but fundamentally its not actually intelligent. It suggests to you what you might want to look at based on what other people looked at. When that popularity heuristic is inapplicable, it becomes really unhelpful.

[2] This is a flip-side to automation technology that gets glossed-over. In a mega-litigation, predictive coding is a huge boon because you might have hundreds of thousands of documents. But in a more run-of-the-mill litigation, the time it takes to train the predictive coding engine might negate any advantage over just having a first year associate look at the documents.
There are a few open source "adversarial stylometry" software projects, check out JStylo/Anonymouth.
They're not, as someone else pointed out, intended for large commercial buildings. I've owned one for about 18 months, and would buy it again.

Snarky remarks like "design doesn't end with the case" are unhelpful, especially when most people, with homes, find the Nest a valuable product. I'm sorry PG was so disappointed, but I'd hope for a more measured reaction.
Nice, but this doesn't help the law firm. They cannot keep a secret. Their clients won't expect their leaked secrets to bring them comparable profits.
You're lucky.

My namesake is a Scottish footballer turned premiership manager - he dominates the first 5-6 pages of google results. I get in there on P6 or so, but it's not even my site (just a popular blog where I authored a couple of posts,) and I can't post links on it to my real identities.

If you want to find me, you have to add at least one more word to my name to find the right me. not ideal.
Right, but they have no control over interception rootkits installed on the client. And all of their marketing material suggests that the client in question will usually be your phone. After the VPN software decrypts the data and before it is emitted from the speaker and/or displayed on the screen, there is a cleartext data stream that could be intercepted by a rootkit that the feds could order your telecom provider to silently install.
Read this and see Steve Blank get sold a bill of goods. Kai Fu Lee and Innovation Works make money by charging western investors for the privilege of funding Chinese clones. This is why they play up the "copy to China" model as if it is some sort of grand innovation. Most HN teams could run circles around these guys with their eyes closed.

Reality is that their terms for financing are hilariously punitive -- real entrepreneurs with traction and revenue won't touch them unless their businesses are profitless sinkholes. But did I fail to mention China's aggregate growth figures and imply that I have anything to do with them? And do YOU want outsized returns and enjoy lightweight blogging platforms and social/mobile html5 games??? Flip. Flip. Flip!
First Ubuntu phone pics surface
He already had an official apology from the prime minister in 2009. Many people want the conviction off the record, and it had to be done through a pardon because he cannot appeal or be tried again, and the law in effect at the time was not violated.

The petition to pardon is here http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/23526
The Nest marketing I've seen compares it to a programmable thermostat. The idea is that instead of just having the heater or AC come on at regular times, it should behave in a more nuanced way. Your own patterns of turning it up and down matter, but so does the weather (it checks) and whether or not anyone is actually home.
I really doubt that Rowling was doing this for the revenue. She seemed to genuinely want to just write under a different name/genre without any of the craziness that comes with a Rowling book launch.
Ubuntu phone to launch July 22nd?
What if this ISP instead cancelled the service of the business to be tapped?
Does this allow anonymous Bitcoin transactions, obviating the Zerocoin project?
I'd love to see a search engine that crawls the source code of sites, so you could find great implementations of frameworks and plugins.
I have four Gmail accounts, and I've indeed seen this, but only two or three times.

Anyone seeing this all the time?
But all the magic is in their client-side software. It's more like having your home directory on NFS, but it allows you to keep some files locally, and it keeps revisions, and it transparently sets up VPNs for you, etc.

So, if you're a techie, it's "just a NAS". But if you're a non-techie, it's 100 times more useful than a NAS.
perhap part of it is because Twitter bootstrap got really popular! Plus the new trend: flat design.

Pardon me but I always feel like flat design is the result of designers got lazy. I don't know why I felt that way too.
Another answer would be, "Yeah, because of Twitter's bootstrap."