skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comments like this are basically predicated upon the idea that anyone reading it will agree. That is, there's nothing persuasive put forth if I disagree, and no real information offered. They're not very good as conversation starters either.

So why the heck do people post them?

e: I care not for your downvote! Posts like the parent kind of ruin HN for me, so if my opinion is so out of the new norm here I'll know to just stop reading it. :)
It's not really surprising, small population and huge, resource rich landmass. It's like complaining that, outside of Oil, Saudi Arabia doesn't have any international relevant big companies.
I don't think it's either-or. Even if they show up, G+ is by default, an asymmetric model. And G+ isn't just about the "stream". Google would have done something like G+ anyway to unify 40+ services. You might be right that they want more than a niche audience, on the other hand, Google does want to elevate the public square.

Having a segmented by interest social network is a primary benefit. I come to HackerNews not because I'm friends with anyone here, but because I can interact with interesting people here. It's also why I go to G+ every. The level of dialogue on G+ is much better than Facebook on average, and the G+ communities are a lot better than Facebook pages.
the problem is that torrents are descriptions of how to get the content, not the content

For all practical purposes, they have become the same thing. Courts are not obliged to accept carefully worded definitions when the technology involved is a mere instrumentality.

Also, even if we do accept the description argument, you still have to consider that it's a description of how to obtain someone else's property. The first amendment doesn't give you the right to market detailed instructions on how to rob individual branches of a bank, for example, which is loosely analogous to IP infringement (insofar as physical currency is only a representation of a currency abstraction, this is actually a good parallel).
Nothing here that wasn't covered in Wired's story on this, which was discussed here two days ago. [1]

Probably best to continue the discussion on that submission.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6067055
I can't speak for OP, but I suggest that they're highlighting the fact that instead of a broad base of large companies in a variety of industries, Canada's big company wealth is highlighted in a narrow set of verticals.

This means that corporate investment might be more slanted towards that areas, and it also means a narrower set of potential customers for a given application.
It's somewhat worse than just KN, because if you have say, an iOS or Android tablet, then you'll have apps for YouTube, Gmail, Maps, Talk, Picassa, Drive, etc If you had to sign in to every once of those mobile apps the number of devices you own, it would be very very irritating.

As it is now, you add your account to your Android phone, or Chrome single-sign-on and you're done.
Err, did you read the article? It was about all types of crime, not just murders.
Pointless. The court can simply take the evidence under seal, which is how these things are normally done.
Why should cities have more crime than suburban and rural areas, per capita? I know we take it as a given, but I've not heard a particularly good explanation for it (other than the Mother Jones lead article).
Can I see some of the castle listings? I'm curious.

EDIT: Sweet...

http://www.probnb.com/the-most-expensive-airbnb-listings-in-...
I just read this story and its longer follow-up in the print edition. They do mention the lead study.
Let's say a country had a higher than average rate of infant mortality. Let's also say that it was speculated the cause was cultural... due to parents in this imaginary country allowing their babies to sleep in their beds. And although very rare, a story gets out in the news about a baby that suffocates in bed. Thousands of articles come out speculating about how this cultural habit is killing innocent babies.

Let's also say that it turns out babies that sleep in bed with their parents turn out to have a higher survival rate that those that don't, after the first year. These babies do better in school, have much lower suicide rates as teens and are happier in their life. Maybe a higher percent actually make to adulthood than the ones who sleep in cribs even accounting for the rare suffocations.

What would you think if the media ONLY discussed the rare infant deaths and not the other effects? Don't you think it would be a bit unfair and biased? You could even argue it might be harmful.

BTW, the example above is made up and I'm not claiming anything about parenting or Korean culture, good or bad. I'm just saying the media and public usually only look at horrific deaths and ignore everything else. This applies to terrorism, plane accidents, roller coasters, etc.
Angry mobs are not known for their appreciation of nuance or due process.
802.1x Authentication or DirectAccess. Which one should I choose?
is Silicon Valley really something to glamorize and try to replicate?

Silicon Valley has the lowest latency in searches, both for job seekers and for employers. If you're looking for someone with deep experience in 3 disjointed areas of technology, you can find that person in SV. You can't easily find that person anywhere else. You have to train someone into the role, or convince the one matching person in the world to move.

For extremely specialized queries, SV still has a continuous labor market while the rest of the world is discrete. If you're doing the kind of get-big-or-die red-ocean gambit that VCs like to fund, that latency risk is undesirable.

Other than that, I think SV is overrated. There are probably 20 places in the country (many cheaper and with fewer douches) where it's not hard to find generally smart, technical people in large numbers.

Anyway, I can't imagine anyone under 45 willingly living in "Silicon Valley" unless that includes San Francisco. The reason for moving out to the suburbs is to get a cheaper place and more land, but the Valley doesn't have that going for it because even suburban houses with disastrous commutes are expensive.
Besides only searching the files in the working tree, and more easily searching previous revisions, there won't be any speed improvements. Even if a file is stored using deltas, you still need to fully reconstruct it (more processing).
It isn't racism to fill holes left by racism. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Brazil nuts are also good for selenium: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/2/379.long
I think women's fashion could benefit from something like this

There's a startup in the current batch doing Netflix for women's fashion: http://letote.com. It's quite popular among the women who work for YC.
Cutting the wire.
You'll be happy to hear then that their growth continues to be excellent. (And no, unfortunately, I can't give the numbers. But it's the sort of growth you can get only from some underlying wave of change.)
its a 3 month old article, so its good to be reminded mid-next-article
I'm gonna guess the correlation between profitable airbnb and rent control is strong.
Diaspora working on real time chat, may use WebRTC or XMPP
Ugh, what an awful site. I don't even like most of the people they "profile", but jesus, that reads more like a hate site than a movement to promote transparency.
Currently, it takes multiple services and much knowledge to be able to successfully realize an idea into a working concept or product alone or as a team.

Thinkerous provides a creative, social platform to help people network and collaborate as teams to create and realize great projects or products that would otherwise be difficult to do alone. And not only tech related ideas! We aim to answer questions like "What can a chef, medic, and police officer create together to increase high school graduation rate?"

We'd appreciate any and all feedback!
Only for a new cashier, really. It doesn't take long to understand what the customer is doing - once you've had a few "I can't make change for you because I'm out", it all makes sense and cashiers start to like the customers who minimise the change requirements.

I remember talking to someone who had clearly never worked in retail, complaining about their god-given right as a consumer to have change made for them trumping an open-air market vendor's right to have change for the rest of their sales for the day.
> Almost always you'll want to redirect a bare domain like iskettlemanstillopen.com to www.iskettlemanstillopen.com.

I've always read the opposite. That using the www. subdomain was bad form. That it was an anachronism and meant people would need to remember extra chars that had nothing to do with your branding.
Well, the fees do get paid whether they're listed externally or not. If the fees are $250, then the lister is just jacking up the listed price by $250.

The cleaning fees had some wording like "if necessary" or "if damage is done," but it was never returned or communicated nothing would be returned.

(Sidenote: There's also no recourse or discount for "weirdness." The lady whose second bedroom I rented had her non-english-speaking mother stay for two weeks (unannounced, unasked--suddenly there was just someone new living there) whose hobbies included power sanding furniture starting about two hours before daylight and taking up the entire kitchen for five hours a day.)

The response rate things are okay, but there are still tons of people who cannot communicate effectively online (or even form coherent thoughts in person most days). It's a crapshoot. (Kinda like trying to sell things on craigslist -- you never realize how many weirdos are out there until you have something they want. "Yoooooo maaan... will you take some pot for tha xbox? we aint got no monay.")
I think you are mistaken. Dropbox's growth will not be materially affected by an edge case like this. I doubt even one in a hundred people would want to store hundreds of thousands of files in their Dropbox.
Kevin Rose Throwing A Raccoon
Always? Hard drives don't transfer at multi-gigabit speeds. Networks do.
> Maybe blacks and women just don't like computer programming.

Maybe black women have fewer opportunities to learn computer programming.
"The Loneliest Man in the Universe" - Classical Songs About Michael Collins
Getting to the Start Line
An interesting lack of selection bias which I had never considered. I presume that those choosing to be career officers opt-in or at least are chosen based on desire/talent/etc.?
Hey HN, just a heads up: The interface design is still a work in progress! I would say it's about 50% there from the current mockup. If you'd like to refer to it and comment on the UI/UX in prettier form, you're welcome to check out the mockup:
http://thinkerous.businesscatalyst.com/ideas.html
This is awesome! It's like Craigslist for like minded people!
Purely speculation, but I suspect the reason is that it is easier to be poor in the cities, so cities would tend to have more poor people, and poor people are more willing to commit crimes because they are more desperate.
It's totally possible. It doesn't have to be faster, just fast enough.

For everybody's most important app, the browser, local storage is already basically irrelevant. That's trained people to be perfectly fine with little network delays. Things like Google Apps show that data and apps can easily live elsewhere and it's basically fine.

In the long term, I think the only question is whether data+apps will live together with the app provider, like Google Docs, or whether data storage will stay generally separate, as DropBox would surely prefer.

There will still be some of us who keep big local drives because we really want to know where our files are and control their movements. But for everybody else, local storage will just be cache. Which means whether it's spinning rust vs flash vs RAM is an optimization detail. And that decision will mainly be made by hardware product designers, not users.

An interesting thing to think about in this context is how the long-term costs of storage are falling. In the last 20 years, RAM is ~4 orders of magnitude cheaper:

http://www.jcmit.com/mem2013.htm

Flash is an order of magnitude still cheaper for now. But if networks keep getting better and services like Dropbox get more solid, that may not matter. If you assume trends continue, then putting half a terabyte of RAM in a device may be cheap enough that the added complexity of flash just isn't worth it.
I strongly contest that Chrome is the 'world's best browser'.
If their long-term goal is to become the filesystem for all your devices, then I think you're mistaken. However, I'm sure Dropbox will be able to resolve this issue before it becomes more commonplace.
Offer HN: Build iPhone apps
Hi I'm Lorenzo and I live in Brazil.
I've done a lot of online courses and read a fair number of books about programming and, of course, about iOS development.
I've done a few little projects that I'll not send to the store. I'm building an application that will be released and as I make progress I can see that I'm ready to do some small or medium applications.
My offer is to build your iPhone idea for $100
I saw a person who did the same thing, and I think that's a wonderful ideia, but since I don't have any app on the store yet I can't charge more than $100.
Why I'm doing this: I recently learned iOS development and am looking to get more practice / build up my iOS portfolio.Why $100? I don't have any apps in the store yet.I don't have any apps on the store yet because the first project that I'm building is a little big and since it's my first app I'm going slow to learn everything.How it works:
1. Once i'm ready to start we can have a skype video call (my english is not the best, but it's fine) after that we'll keep in touch via email , I'd like to have a good communication so your app works exactly like you imagined.
2. Payment: $50 up front, $50 on completion.
3. Design: If you have a design ready to go, I'll implement it. Otherwise I'll be using the native UI components (maybe some minors change to the desing, but nothing big and I don't guarantee). You'll need to provide the app store icon and loading screens.
4. Because of the price I'll not do anything big, but you can email me, and if it's too bigger we can talk about a higher price to implement whatever you want.
5. You own the code.
7. I have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.<p>Let me know if you have any other questions, and I'll answer them in the comments.

Contact: lorenzopicoli@me.com or @lorenzopicoli
Where do I complain about the false advertising going on over at http://time.travel/ ?
That's quite unfortunate. The size of the salt doesn't really matter much, so long as it can't be pre-computed before the DB leak. Once the DB is leaked, the salt could be a hundred characters and it wouldn't help much more than a ten character one.
The sharing economy is great for anyone who thinks bankruptcy is a cool idea. If you share your home with someone, they can sue you for arbitrarily reasons. If you share your car with someone, and they get into an accident, the victims (or "victims") can sue you for arbitrary reasons.

(Yes the services provide liability insurance, but the caps are well below awards that are commonly made in accident cases. Just trawl some websites of ambulance chaser lawyers to see what I mean)

EDIT: NO this cannot be solved with "boilerplate waivers". YES it's a shame. Try to find a lawyer who is willing to share his car over the Internet. You can't. Because they know.

EDIT: As for jurisdictions, I'm referring to the US. California is probably close to worst case.
Ask HN: How does Etsy / eBay refund transactions?
In a case where a buyer pays through credit card and the customer requests a refund, how do they get the money?

From what I understand, buyers pay the seller directly and etsy or eBay just asks for a certain amount to be paid at the end of the month. So if the seller has the money, how does etsy or ebay refund it to the buyer?
Do this today with Johnny-Five: https://github.com/rwldrn/johnny-five
Oh MIT, it's worse to keep the file secret. The public will only speculate about what happened. I'm fine with keeping the names removed, but the public should know what happened.
As a homeowner, I can tell you with all sincerity that I'd rather post a "room for rent" sign at my local university than let random strangers with random problems I'm not used to dealing with come crash at my place for a fee.

Airbnb seems very cool as a user of the service, but I'd almost never even think of being a host.
If you have a rent controlled tenant, catching them subletting is a dream come true.
It almost certainly doesn't matter for branding. Normal people look past the www because it's so common. Putting your site on a subdomain gives you the distinct advantage of being able to CNAME to whatever you want, since CNAMEs don't work well on a bare domain. Putting a redirect in place means that your branding and marketing can just have "example.com" and it'll just automatically work.
Encfs is pretty opaque -- afaik modifying a file will at least change an entire block, possibly the entire file. Two identical files will look completely different (per file IVs) -- so no deduplicaton is possible.

But adding and removing files works as expected, so adding a few files to the encfs system, should translate to the same number of files added to the underlying folder.
How do we reach you? I didn't see your email in your HN profile.
New to Android Development (and Design)?
M.T.A. Considers Selling Rights to Name Subway Stations
I'm trying to also build a marketplace - who are you using as the payment gateway?
Couldn't this be solved with simple boilerplate waivers?

It really is a shame that litigiousness has become so bad. My folks had to stop letting neighbor kids use their zip-line when they learned they could be sued and lose everything if anyone hurt themselves.
Leftover Swap
I'm sure if you wanted to find examples of systematic bias in the media and public perception you wouldn't have to look far.

But (for once) we're not talking about that. Gladwell based his chapter largely on the conclusions of official investigations.
NodeBots - the Rise of JS Robotics
That Fan Death article really cuts into his credibility. There's a lot of rationalizing going on there. Especially when he rhetorically asks something like:

> Does getting the cause for Fan Death wrong mean Koreans live without critical thinking?

Who was making that accusation?! (Answer: basically nobody)
Well, you could probably set up a sudoers file that allowed launching your daemon but blocked everything else. A hacky solution, but it does not involve giving up all the keys.

I seem to recall reading ages ago how Hurd was going to solve issues like this, and make privileges into something else, tweakable by restarting some user mode process. But I guess there may be something to the other reply about "worse is better" - workable with some hacks is better than ideological purity and non working. (Not to say your daemon doesn't work, I am angling more towards a kernel that doesn't have that arbitrary low-port check.)
But you can do password recovery on every service they've ever used with that email and get any private info from that service.
Yahoo should define "dormant" as an email that hasn't RECEIVED email in over X years. Also they should lock the dormant email addresses for 5 years before releasing them to new users.
My memory these days is terrible. But I have very high recall of certain events from when I was very very young. I remember describing my earliest memory to my family a few years ago, and they commented that it was impossible that I remember that as I wasn't even walking or even out of a crib at that time. It's not a continuous set of memories, just small snips here and there.

Those memories are also rather weird since I have them from a time in my life when I had almost no life to reference them against...hard to explain.
What surprises me is my fairly recent discovery that larger-than-life people like Pauling could be "gullible." (Though I'm sure there's a better word for it.) As I'm reading about Pauling and the common cold and cancer and then "every disease known to man", I realized that intelligence alone does not make one immune to self-delusion. I started reading Walter Isaacson's biography on Jobs a few days ago and it's the same realization.

I guess I myself was deluded to think that these "titans" are some how superior in every way to "the rest of us."
I have to disagree with Terry's sentiment.

It's impudent to Vancouver's culture--and more generally the world--to insinuate that we're "blindly [competing] to build the next Silicon Valley". We're not. Canada's not. Vancouver's liberal lifestyle is innate, not superficial, not a failed attempt to clone Silicon Valley. And our immigration policy is definitely not to "bring immigrant entrepreneurs together"; it's the result of a small population, the demand for skilled workers[1], and the correction of a historically xenophobic foreign policy. This creates a large influx* of liberal and skilled immigrants--known risk takers. Hence the entrepreneurial honeypot (our social programs help). It's necessity that's bred Vancouver as a technological center, not ambition. Thus, similarities to Silicon Valley are purely coincidental, or are the result of correlated effects rising from the increasingly entrepreneurial working force.

As for investors? I don't know enough to comment.

[1]: http://www.engineerscanada.ca/files/w_Engineering_Labour_Mar...
[2]: http://www.gamedevmap.com/index.php?query=Vancouver

*: Immigration levels have been relatively low, recently
Hm. I forgot to put on the text :P. lorenzopicoli@me.com or twitter @lorenzopicoli
"This site is running only on the world's best browser", the new "Well it runs fine on my computer so...".

Other than that, nice piece of work!
New Windows 8 ads in unknown Asian langauge
> The systems that do not use systemd can implement their own cgroup managers. [...] Other managers could also reimplement the systemd dbus API for managing the cgroups.

True, except that the systemd developers are in charge of defining this API and have no reason to consult with other cgroups manager developers when defining it. This is, to make an analogy, equivalent to allowing Microsoft to unilaterally define all web standards from now on. The competitors are always going to be playing catch-up, and there's going to be tons of edge cases where the competitors don't quite work the same.
Sure. I'm not endorsing the theory, merely stating it more directly (or so I think - I might be wrong).
That's a bit harsh. The article was by Virginia Hughes, who seems a reasonable science writer, who has written for Nature, etc. Fundamentally, that's what science writers do. They learn about new discoveries, figure out what they mean, and explain them to us. There is a lot of bad science writing out there, but I didn't find it to be an example of that.

She has a degree in neuroscience from Brown, so she's not an "English major".
Already done: http://vanillaforums.org/
Yep, that's the same reason I recommend VLC. It's definitely improved since the days of 2005 or so when I used it to stream dvds over a lan to a machine that didn't have a DVD drive. I wonder if anyone has screenshots of it over the years...
Then I find it dismaying that they know of it but intentionally refrained from mentioning it in the online edition. More dismaying, honestly, as they are specifically championing a panopticon solution to crime here and saying that increased police expenditure and profiling has resulted in lower crime rates.
do you not get the Victorias Secret catalog?
> "Well it runs fine on my computer so...".

You mean this? https://www.dropbox.com/s/o9wb9k0bbqfc2bw/IMG_20130718_17103...