skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As do I, but my daughter had her first experience of 'library' rot, which was she wanted to re-read a chunk of one of Anne Mccaffrey's series which she had originally checked out from the library only to find they were no longer there, the library had disposed of them to 'free up space' for new material.

We both agreed that the library was failing its primary mission which was to curate to a set of worthwhile volumes from a mix of new material and old material.
It "doesn't do anything behind my back" is exactly the phrase I've been searching for.
That's "iPhone 5s", the plural of "iPhone 5". "iPhone 5S" is the unreleased product.
I can relate. I once saw a quote, maybe from Garrison Keillor?

"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what the hell happened."
> It's not Chrome's fault people can't code external links right.

People shouldn't have to specify which links are external and which aren't, it should be inferred from the URL being accessed. In the rarer cases where the server is saying to open an external link in the current tab or an internal link in a new tab, that should be specified in the HTML. For the people that want specific global behavior. i.e. all new tabs to be opened in current tab, that should be a configuration option in the browser.
Nobody?

What these examples demonstrate is not that C is "hard", but that it's powerful.
Yes, Docker is moving quickly but one barrier to resolving this is philosophical: static IPs and private networks are un-Dockerish. Right now it's not obvious what a clean solution would look like. I'd be keen to see how Flynn's discovery and routing develops, it sounds very promising.
What do you think about biometric Voice fingerprints?
Instead of voice-recognition.

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---going further---

Then just encrypt the home folder's contents on a file-basis & sync it with a privately owned server. This improves the chances of data-recoverability on crashes or on filesystem corruption. Add a kill-switch toggle that erases all important files on the mac on 5 unsuccessful login attempts, and enables surveillance mode permanently using different tracking software (prey-project for example).
Nice! Simple, clean and easy to use. Was just testing it out on this current html game I'm making and works like it should.
There's also http://insightdatascience.com/ . This is a little bit different; it's a program aimed at training postdocs in various fields to be data scientists.
This looks amazing! I wish I could contribute $20 or so, but looks like $1500 is the minimum?
> buying new SIM card is a breeze

The situation is similar in Ukraine with one exception: in Russia, you'll have to let the store scan your passport to buy a SIM card. In Ukraine, you can buy SIM "starter packs" in bulk if you please, completely anonymously.
This looks pretty rad, and the GoInstant guys are awesome (hello from west coast BC!). We run hackdays purely around building multiplayer apps/games, and more tools to make this easier is great.
> Because the precedent is clear: Smith v. Maryland makes it okay to collect phone metadata, done.

I should have brought up Smith. My mistake. My opinion of Smith is basically this: It's at odds with other cases, and its logic rests on a much older picture of the technology. Unfortunately, I don't have time to write a lengthy prediction of how Smith will someday be eroded or overturned. But for now I'll say that I consider Smith to be an outlier with respect to the broader trends in 4th Amendment law I'm attempting to highlight.

> You claim I'm "cherry-pick[ing] a certain definition of 'yours'" but that's precisely what you do when you're characterizing one side of an argument.

Fair enough. My intention in cherry-picking a different definition was to offer an alternative to the one you presented, simply to show that it's not so cut-and-dry. Perhaps I should have been more explicit about my rhetorical intentions there.

> As for plausibility--you cite a dissenting opinion, a concurring opinion, and one of the most handwave-y opinions in the history of the Court (Griswold)

All of which are valid citations. If you were a SCOTUS judge, you'd have the right to take these citations with a grain of salt. But their existence still helps illuminate how the justices think about privacy.

By the way, which one was the dissent? (Not doubting you, just seeking clarification.)

> Finally: U.S. v. Jones was based on meat and potatoes Constitutional law: Scalia's majority opinion focused on the physical intrusion necessary to install the GPS tracker.

Yes it did, which is why I quoted Alito's concurrence as a roadmap for the future.
To make a example as brazillian:

My close family is 4 people (my dad, mom, me, sister).

We have 6 lines from one carrier (we got it in a special package, we use 1 line per person + 2 backup lines for whatever we need, since those lines can call very cheap each other, one use for backup line for example is borrow it to extended family)

Also my dad has one workplace line with another carrier, and a Nextel Android.

And I had for a while a extra line to communicate cheaply with people of the same carrier, thus in total we have 9 mobile phone lines for 4 people.

Sometimes you see particularly important business people (like a CEO) here walking with 4 or 5 phones on his belt (one of each carrier + 1 for strictly personal stuff)
You have my deepest respect! I wish more people would think the same way.
Color film degrades fairly quickly. It won't last 100 years unless it's constantly climate controlled.
Physics doesn't answer why on anything. For example, why does gravity hold me to my chair? Nobody knows. Physics explains only how gravity affects things.
So, at the time I looked, roughly 500 20-something punks, and roughly 50 of us 40-something geezers.

Dang, odds are that nobody I meet in the old folk's home is going to know anything at all about functional programming or Lean Startups.
I was trying to built something similar, already had a proof of concept ready built on top of components from Dokku. I can't wait to follow this project - I might even pull myself together and learn go!
And already transcribed, awesome.
Just some context:
Student loans outstanding will exceed $1 trillion this year
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/perfi/college/story/201...

The amount universities are charging students is what's 'obscene' to me.
Making 5% profit on "obscene"ly risky loans isn't the cause of the US's student debt problem. This just sounds like populism and pandering.
On the flip side, one thing getting older does is give you perspective about what's really important in life. I definitely am much more attentive to health and relationships, for example.
Ah, thank you. I am using Firefox for so long now that I can't remember when I started and somehow never noticed that the icon was there at some point.
That's effectively what people are doing when they don't let them wander more than 12 inches from themselves in a shopping mall.
> But is it really terrorism at this point? It's a civil war.

Civil war distinguishes context of conflict independent of methods, terrorism distinguishes methods of conflict indepedent of context; they aren't mutually exclusive categories.
No need to belabor the point given the many examples beyond this one. If you want security, you're not going with Android. If you want configurability, you're not going with iOS.

Android: slurping phone numbers, texting behind the scenes on your behalf, etc...

iOS: no access to apps that Apple doesn't approve, no replacement of built-in apps with third-party apps, etc...

These systems were not built exactly with your benefit in mind. Android was built to prevent Apple domination of mobile and thus continue selling ads by providing services. Apple has several services that would be much more useful cross platform but are not: Facetime, iMessage, etc... and that reinforce platform lock-in.
I'm surprised Emacs was not mentioned. It provides a nice cross-platform interface to ... everything. Also everything (including looks) can be customized!
I agree totally here. You cannot price an e-book the same as a textbook. Plus e-books give you a much wider audience so lowering the price is not necessarily a bad thing. Check out Joe Konrath's blog. He is a fiction author but much of what he says cover the span of e-book publishing.
How Easy is Good Management?
A+ for trying to dig your way out of Florence.
So integrating with VPS providers such as Linode and Digital Ocean will be possible? If so, would this be easy to do for end-users?

Never got in to Cloud Foundry because it's overly complex and very limiting. Always went with Heroku, but wished I could have a Heroku-style infrastructure on the above mentioned VPS providers for the benefits of running better hardware, being more affordable, being multi-region, etc, etc.
To Rhizomes point: Yes, it's relatively easy to re-point them to somewhere else.. and if your business can tolerate the interruption that's fine.

Those changes, though, take time to cache out, and depending on your registrar's procedures and whatnot, you could be looking at hours or a couple of days to get things to stabilize back to normal; not to mention finding a new provider and getting things set up. You'll need ot make sure you have the zone data on hand ready to get set up with a new provider, and so on. You could have a procedure in place to do this, sure, with everything tested and validated, but at that point it's much easier to just have a DNS provider of the proper class who can handle these things for you.
And keep in mind, if it's your domain they are trying to shut down, and not your DNS provider specifically, the attack will very likely just follow the change, leaving you in quite a mess.

So the short answer: self-host if it's not revenue impacting.
If there is money at stake, spend a little bit for a top-notch provider.
Another nice terminal emulator for windows is MobaXterm[1]. It comes a single exe and has out of the box support for connecting to remote servers using a number of protocols.

One of the features I like is its builtin support for X-forwarding. I never quite got why Windows didn't (and still does not) come with a full-featured SSH client. On a Mac/Linux host, you can simply type 'ssh -X user@example.org' and be on your way, but not so on Windows. Sigh.

[1] - http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
At least one partial attempt has been made to reverse-engineer the protocol, with an emphasis on analyzing the security claims[1][2].

1: http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/21338-inofficial-protocol-...

2: https://github.com/picosync/workingDraft
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If the two really are indistinguishable experimentally, then might we say that the expansion of space and the changes in mass are just two different ways of describing the same phenomena?
Looks cool, looking forward to trying it out. Good luck!
I can't pretend to speak for Patrick, but I'm guessing that a lot of people asked him for more and more advice. I bet a lot of people wanted to pay him to help them.

I don't find it strange at all. Given his success with his first video series, I bet he makes a mint on it.

Patrick, if you read this, I very much appreciate your podcasts and articles. I've been working all year to switch from consulting to a product, so your advice is unbelievably well timed.

Cheers,
Travis
For the following reasons:

1) assume that the HN readership satisfactorily correlates to the startup demographic at large

2) the majority of the respondants answered 26-30, as was also the case in the poll that tptacek referenced elsewhere in this thread

3) the longtail is heavily skewed towards the older folks, rather than towards the younger side
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Say, you are deep inside a huge forest with your eyes closed all the time. Then, you blink once. Can you from the information received via that blink deduce if the forest is expanding or shrinking? Did it have a big bang or a small one?
Just asking...
On the other hand given the situation one needs to be extremely delusional and detached from any sense of reality to consider any bang fantasy seriously.
I just checked 3 books out of the library less than 3 hours ago.
Children’s Cancer Center rebrands chemotherapy as “Superformula”
The research here is based on the interesting premise that "the masses of electrons and protons were smaller" in the early universe, leading to different emission spectra that we have thus far interpreted as an expanding universe. I have not read the original research article in detail, but it is my impression that all masses would have to scale at the same rate in order to avoid changes in fundamental physical behaviors. (This seems consistent with the article's premise that the effect comes from some sort of field redefinition in the Lagrangian.)

As a particle physicist, I see this as highly unlikely. The first big obstacle that I see for such a theory to overcome is that electrons and protons get their mass from entirely different sources. As far as we know, electrons are fundamental particles: their mass is a fundamental parameter of the theory (presumably encoded as the electron coupling to the Higgs boson). But although protons are composed of three fundamental particles (two up quarks and a down quark), the quarks' fundamental masses are only a tiny fraction of the total proton mass. Instead, the vast majority of a proton's mass results from complicated non-linear QCD (strong nuclear force) self-interactions that draw on both the fundamental masses and things like the QCD interaction strength. We've had some success at simulating those QCD interactions in recent years, but there's no known way of just reading off the proton mass from a fundamental equation.

So for the idea behind this proposal to work, it seems to me that both the fundamental particle masses and these complicated QCD effective masses would have to scale completely in parallel. I'm not at all clear on whether a field redefinition (as proposed here) would work that way. Maybe it would be more natural than it seems, but that's my first big concern with the proposal.
Mailchimp is great. Easy to use, tons of features, and they have a free plan to get started. I've never had to evaluate the other competitors.
Startup Culture Is Not About Ping-Pong Tables
Wow, what terrible link-bait.

>Microsoft's "Windows monopoly" hasn't been so much destroyed as rendered irrelevant.

> But only 15 years after the government went after Microsoft for anti-trust violations, the idea that the company ever had a "monopoly" on anything is hard to even understand.

It was never disputed that they had a monopoly. Why all of the scare quotes?

> In terms of market value, Microsoft's loss of power has long been visible: The stock is still trading at about half the level it hit at the peak of the tech boom 13 years ago.

Really? Stock price is the indicator? Does it matter that they had a stock split in 2003? Or that they pay dividends now?
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Perhaps you should lay out the obvious analysis : Once you're profitable you won't be in a position of needing their cash. Which means that they'll have to make themselves attractive to you, rather than the other way around - they'll understand quickly that much of their negotiating leverage will soon evaporate (assuming you can confidently predict when you'll get to profitability).
You would.. but the business of being a registrar is bout managing zone records to be served out by the root/regional nameserver infrastructure, which your registrar may not even have much of a part in.

If they run additional business in hosting DNS, websites, email, and so on, as is common - that's really got nothing to do with the setup they need to act as a registrar.
That's a terrible use case for a plugin. UI behavior should be well-defined and declaratively specified. Installing a plugin just to tell the browser what to do with a mouse click is total overkill.
Firefox's was actually pretty good in that you could click it and it made an attempt to format the feed for display and offered you links to subscribe to it using popular Feed Readers.

Chrome, even when it had the icon, by default linked it to the unformatted XML page. I get the sense that Google's heart was never really in RSS.
For TCP connections packet loss will translate into latency... His method of simulation is not good, though. On linux, he could (probably) emulate this properly with NetEm and some virtual interfaces, by limiting rates and introducing actual "propagation delays"
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Thanks! We're experimenting with a new funding model for open source: publish a spec for a project that's useful to (and can save lots of money for) companies and see who will chip in. We don't think there are enough personal donors for a project like this to raise significant cash (and the sponsorship levels are affordable for most companies) so we want to try sponsorship first. Once that market is saturated, we'll experiment with individual donation options, maybe after the MVP ships
Google tests encryption to protect users' Drive files against government demands
65 and still hacking ;)
Startup Culture is Not About Ping-Pong Tables
Mobile fraud detection in iOS 7
There was one about the Libyan rebels too!

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/diy-weapons-of-th...
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So am I. What's your project?
Yes, there's no reason this can't run on VPS providers. Some have APIs for provisioning, so hooking them up for automated deployment is not complex either.
Sounds like a job for some dynamic DNS. That's exactly the sort of thing it's supposed to solve for.
You wrap the rope around another tree/pulley to change direction, then stand off to the side.

But yes - taking down trees is dangerous, no matter how you do it.
"Good By Lenin" is another fine comedy in which a son trying to maintain the illusion the Berlin Wall hasn't fallen for the sake of his dying mother creates fake TV broadcasts announcing the Coca Cola billboards appearing everywhere are a celebration of Coca Cola's socialist, East German origins.
What happens when you want to navigate to a bookmarked site from the current tab?
And an approximate measure of the gradual deterioration of your body.
Can you give a source for that - I thought WPA2 AES was still quite secure, assuming you use a long random password?
It's probably a pre-receive hook. That's how Dokku works. It's easier to abort the deploy this way.
All of the developers at my startup are 40+. But I've always put a heavy weighting on experience being more valuable than being inexpensive. The indirect costs of younger developers can be, at times, quite high and staggering. Regardless of age/experience, if you can get shit done quickly and correctly then age is not relevant.
What makes the 'Cat poo' coffee (Kopi Luwak) worth drinking?
See, I worry that with 1 you are conflating two "startup demographics" - people who interact on HN are probably interested in startups, but many (most?) of them aren't working for startups.
Shocks "the hell" out of you sounds substandard, but even OEM chargers leak noticeable current. I'll get a bit of a tingle by being in the circuit of HTC Evo 4G charger - phone case - me - laptop case - T60 OEM CE charger running on 120V. And the reason I even have the grounded CE charger for the T60 is because I sent the US one to their engineering department for having way too much leakage.
What's important is that you treat the DNS management aspect of your business as a proper thing to be managed by itself. Whether you host it yourself, or contract it out to a service that specifically does this for you is a matter of risk tolerance and budget.

A common setup is a private nameserver that you host yourself, wherever, that isn't publicly used. You then contract UltraDNS/Neustar or their brethren and set them up as your public servers, doing zone transfers from your private ones. You get the advantages of direct management of your zones, and the global scale infrastructure needed to largely eliminate nameserver issues.
The main criticism here doesn't really apply to any readers that apply the slightest effort in making the subscription process streamlined.

Take https://kouio.com for example (a Google Reader replacement I've built), in kouio you just enter a website's address and it'll discover the feed automagically.
I agree. Socialism assumes production has been "solved".

Perhaps the original poster meant that the "conflict" between (currently-emerging) socialism and (obstructionist) capitalism will not be necessary in the future, since socialist pre-conditions will have been met. Marx touted the same thing; I'm not disagreeing with that.

I'm going to assume (for argument sake) that this "post-scarcity" world is one were labor is unnecessary for the continued production of existing products at existing output scales (ignoring for a moment changing demographics and perhaps the "need" for R&D to solve new problems).

That still leaves land, resource and capital in the production equation. Land: because production (including food production) has to occur somewhere, resource: because the raw materials are not uniformly located in the same locales as the production or the consumption domains (and indeed most are not infinitely collectible even where they are currently located), and capital: to manage the risk and rewards on the uncertainty of the success of any venture to change the status quo (which will alter itself anyway due to resource exhaustion and geolocated "demand/need" changes).

So...what I am saying is that the "problem" of production isn't solvable, any more than entropy (resource exhaustion) can be reversed. There is always natural variability in location and resource (spatially and temporally), that are managed through the risks and rewards of capital investment; risks quantified as loss, rewards quantified as profit.
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> The link doesn't explain why this would happen.

Physics doesn't answer why on anything. Hubble's observations still apply. He didn't try to explain why the observational data is what it is.

> Spacetime isn't an object!

Where was the opposite claimed? I don't see it.

> I think gravity is a great explanation why galaxies don't break apart..

That's fine, but you still have a flatness problem that also needs an explanation. If you don't need your explanation (by obviating the expanding space paradigm) the flatness problem vanishes.