skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's a cop-out to say that the problems are the result of the government's priorities. I think the problems are the result of peoples' priorities.

Okay.

The problems are a result of peoples' priorities, as implemented through the government.

That doesn't make it any less within the power of government to stop causing problems. The things you point to about social ties are why it is not in the interest of the government (and the people who influence it) to correct the problems, not why it is not within the power of government to do so.
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A group of hackers is not physically intimidating in the slightest, so what's to admire? I would have admired him if he had apologized and resigned.
I'm not so sure. I think, JSON falls back to the ecma script standard for specific details. The object initializer semantics seem to force a left to right evaluation order, in the ecma spec around page 65. I'll admit my claim was unfounded when i made it, and I only went to the spec to avoid being wrong :) If I were to implement a JSON parser, I would now feel obligated to eval in order, due to my reading of the spec.

However, I think we wholeheartedly agree, don't rely on this behavior. It is an outright strict mode error.
This isn't a technological issue, it's a political issue. It requires a political solution, since laws can be enacted to make what you're proposing illegal.

The hacker mantra is indeed "There is a key to every lock" but what happens when 1) you unlock a door, 2) they know you unlocked that door, and 3) it's illegal to unlock that door?

Answer: Then they put you in prison.
I use a bluetooth iPad keyboard (the logitech one, with the smart cover magnets) and it made me much more productive on the iPad for emails and note-taking, but the next immediate problem is a near-total lack of inter-application communication. URL Schemes are a blunt, primitive, under-supported tool.

The final problem was round-tripping. i.e. if I work on a slide deck in Keynote for iPad, which is pretty fabulous as a stand-alone, and then take it to the desktop (via many steps as described in the linked article) to edit it, there's a ton of minor differences in the slides that are infuriating to deal with.

Even worse: iPad 3 + logitech smart cover keyboard = thicker & heavier than an 11" MacBook Air.

I expected Apple to fix the IAC issue with remote view controllers, and hoped they'd offer a smart cover keyboard to counter the Surface, but WWDC rolled past without any news.

Apple did expend a lot of effort to solve problems no one actually had but would help guarantee platform lock-in (i.e. SpriteKit). Sigh.
Ah fair enough on the break, I was wrong there.

But if the spec says that keys SHOULD be unique, what's the behaviour when they aren't?
Lexity was a rumoured $30 - 40m (AllThindsD) on $6m in funding with the business remaining active.
Normal sales tax only. No other taxes/fees - they're all included in the basic rate. This is generally true of prepaid plans across all US carriers.
its worse when these guys that burned through $40M+ are going to be backed by their investors again at the expense of more worthy startup founders with less experience fundraising.
Maybe a more useful resolution to this would be to state that while all code is data, no data should be code?

You could, if you were crazy enough, write perfectly valid JSON that passed the values to eval() or a parser or what have you. And while there are encodings in JSON that don't work in javascript (i've broken JS innumerable times trying to get that to work) JS does of course allow you to add closures as an object, or an array, whatever you like, and some forms of valid JSON (if not all) are also valid javascript. So you could indeed use JSON to compute things if you wanted to.
I don't think it was to cloak his arguments with official authority. I think what he was trying to do is use the blackhat conference as an open forum between the technology experts/hackers and the government. He had to have balls to wear that uniform in front of thousands of outraged people. I may not agree with what the NSA is doing, but you have to respect the man for talking at that conference especially in that uniform.
There's a fine line there to be sure. As a society we'd like to find the true culprit in every crime. Yet we'd also like to allow those caught and truly to be able to confess and save on the resources that requiring a full forensic case as well.
You have a point to a certain extent. I think the biggest problem is that when you look into launching your startup, you become more practical and some of the disadvantages of .Net push the advantages out far.

I know a lot of .Net developers that do launch their startup, but they prefer to learn a new framework and platform if it is cheaper to operate. Basically my point is: It is not a type of person that decides to branch out to work in a .net startup, it is about accomplishing a goal without focusing on technology.
They removed the disclosure requirement so it's impossible to find out who is doing what, so it's impossible enforce.

http://nyulocal.com/national/2013/04/15/congress-quietly-rep...

They are really good at loopholes for themselves, really good.
Grabbing all the comments and intelligently displaying them in a terminal would require substantially more work, I suspect.
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I agree that tactile feedback is an advantage to physical typing. I'm not ignoring that aspect when I say that virtual keyboard typing is fine. Virtual keyboard typing is not as fast as physical keyboard typing. I type 80 WPM on a physical keyboard and 50 WPM on my iPad. It's slower... but fine.

My response to taude still stands. If you constantly need to concentrate on the act of typing then you need to train your muscle memory.
I totally understand. I'm the kind of person who keeps a diary inside an encrypted true-crypt folder, so security and privacy have been my primary concern from day one. The main reason I'm deploying this as a web-service rather than a downloadable app is so that you can track things from anywhere (without having to be technical enough to manage your own servers). It's much harder to do that with excel or true-crypt, even if you use it with things like google-docs or dropbox.
Yet another company I've only heard of because they're shutting down. This seems to be a recurring theme on HN and I think such companies should be a kind of cautionary tale to the rest of us. If people are only hearing of you because you're closing up shop, there was something wrong with your marketing plan. At least on HN, nobody was talking about them with sufficient frequency.[-1] [0]

In my humble opinion, this shouldn't be the last month for them. They should correct what's deficient in their marketing and business plans, and keep the show going even as a side project until it can sustain them and their families. To quote Tim Gunn: make it work.

Second point, it's really hard to get to their main site from their blog. There's no clear link and this is going to almost certainly profoundly negatively impact conversions. Visitors are lazy; don't make them work.

Lastly, to the founders of Work For Pie, I'm terribly sorry you're closing down and I truly wish you well. If this is Work For Pie's final month, I genuinely hope you go on to found new, vastly more successful businesses in the future and can look back on this as an amazing learning experience.

[-1] http://i.imgur.com/UDPouuM.png

[0] http://i.imgur.com/UHaEGRu.png
Reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011013
Issues like this are one of the reasons that (some) people get really worked up about giving the government more power. If there were literally no abuses like this, ever, many wouldn't care so much. But given that things like this do happen people are right to be skittish.

You have to wonder how many abuses go unreported and unresolved. It's scary to think about.
Ah, I was that guy. Doing affiliate marketing, cashing $20k checks per month in my 20s, not saving a penny & partying endlessly. I was in the online meds industry. When someone's site went down you didn't know if it was a network issue or a raid by the DEA. In one example I had a series of spam sites that represented 0.5% of all pages index by Google. Google announced they indexed 1B pages & 50M of those were mine. You could throw a dart & hit those crappy affiliate links. Pretty funny looking back on it. Those were some sleazy fun times.
I gotta say, am I the only one who see's the numbers and then immediately goes to the Bitcoinx calculator to see how much "money" I could make in a day if I bought one of these rigs? On paper it seems like some of these things could pay for themselves in relatively short order if you could actually get your hands on one and run it day and night...and liquidate your mined coins asap at the current prices. A lot of ifs. Has anybody met somebody who's managed to pay off a big rig in short order? I'd really like to see a "success story" with Bitcoin mining.
Well, to be fair, it's a bit of a pain with UEFI.

But this is really amazing. I'd love to see how it could be extended to other OSes, if possible?
I'm confused by this, because there doesn't seem to be a clear "do this, to achieve this" message anywhere on the page.
Good points all, but at least the "aiding the enemy" charge didn't stick, perhaps for the obvious reason you cite. Now if the judge weren't too dense to understand "wget and IE are both web clients, with only superficial differences", the whole affair wouldn't have been quite such a travesty. Although IMHO locking someone up in solitary, incommunicado, without trial, for years (much of that time without clothing) is so damaging that a defendant must be assumed to have been left in no condition to vigorously defend himself, and all verdicts should have been "not guilty" for that alone.

O/T: when I typed "aiding the enemy" into G, the word it suggested next was "pokemon". LOL.
>they could also just program the browser with a secret NSA certificate authority.

I strongly suspect that NSA don't have to do that kind of stuff that can be easily noticed. They just ask nicely from Symantec/Verisign to give them valid certificate. Or they already have common root certificates.
Nice use of imageLens! I like this a lot. Seems like somebody should add an intelligent lazyload to timelineJS or jerusalem_maps at some point. Your project really tests the limits on that front.
While stupidity isn't a crime, people like Serge manage to find their way around that obstacle.

It's pretty obvious he didn't have any malicious or illegal intent, but he definitely followed the checklist of 'things not to do when leaving a job'. Emailing yourself code? Seriously?

The whole thing is a travesty, but he walked right into it.
IIRC, I read elsewhere that they can only store data for the last 24 hours. Simply, because so much data comes through the pipes.

So, unless they already had decided to keep an eye on you, your traffic would probably have gone unnoticed. Switching to a VPN now or something would keep you relatively anonymous.
Rockmelt has (had) a very strong leadership team (founders were very successful in the 90s), and a number of strong engineers.

It seems clear that this is an acquisition for talent, since they're shutting the product down with less than 30 days' notice.

For <$70MM, that could be a relatively cheap acquisition of talent that has proven their ability to make things (if not necessarily proven their ability to make a product that people want to buy - which is where Yahoo's responsibility and vision come into play).
>Wow, how kind of them. How about we stop politely asking our Manufacturer Overlords to stop their destructive activity in 4 years and instead get legislators do their job and ban their use immediately?

Sadly, this solution is probably far quicker than an adversarial legislative one. It would be very difficult to get that legislation passed without overwhelming evidence of harm to combat the organization's lobbying dollars.

>A local or state politician in the Great Lakes area should have no interest in protecting a manufacturer of these products who is likely in another state or country.

Can they mail a check? If so, he/she has plenty of interest in protecting the manufacturer. The way it works every day, sadly.
I plug my original iPad into other USB devices that put out 5W and it still charges. The iPad says it's not charging but it does, slowly.
One of Microsoft's biggest failures is that the keyboard is useless unless you're sitting at a table. I wanted a surface pro, until the keyboard covers were revealed.

I suspect that most people who really wanted a hardware keyboard (lots of people don't even want them) for a mobile device will agree with me when I say that if your keyboard case requires a table in order to be used, then you may as well not even have bothered to try.

I purchased a Clamcase Pro for my Ipad, and it's absolutely amazing. I have fairly large hands, but I can still type on the device in a manner that's completely natural and comfortable, at about 90wpm. I've used several different netbooks, and they all felt cramped in comparison. So far, I've completed dozens of essays and reports on the device. I even use it for some light web development. The best part, however, is that the case can actually be used like a normal laptop.

If IOS had better productivity apps, a decent multitasking system, a file system, and sublime text, it would be the best computer I've ever owned.
.Net is amazing, you really should check it out more. But I do agree, the dependency on windows is really killing it. And mono is definitely not an adequate substitute in the current state of things.

I would to see Xamarin push for .Net on the server more, than just Mobile and Mac. Maybe that is something we should do, as our product is full .Net in the server space.
You can't legislate social cohesion. San Francisco, for example, tried. They made it so school assignments were heavily randomized and living in a wealthy neighborhood was no guarantee of your kid going to the local school. And it was a miserable failure of a policy. Instead of taking the chance of little Timmy going to school with 50% Chinese immigrants, families just left the city for the suburbs as soon as they had kids. They abandoned the policy just a couple of years ago.
You can click the logo, but in this case that doesn't make sense as the "header" is much larger then the logo. But it's still standard practice for a logo to get you to the homepage.
These are interesting points. I think the crowd that wasn't on the web in the mid 90's may not understand just how influential Carmack was on so many of us.
I'm the OP, happy to answer any questions or chat with any B2B startup founders out there!
The commercial espionage laws might justify bringing it into a criminal case, although (and I'm only on page 7 here) it doesn't seem like they proved, or even attempted to, that the removal of the code was in the interest of using it in his new endeavor. From the sounds of it he was primarily interested in bringing out some modified libraries. So while incidentally bringing out the proprietary code might well qualify him for the civil case, the commercial espionage accusation seems pretty damned weak, especially since the laws are designed to protect trade secrets (the formula for new coke anyone?) as opposed to this blatantly more mundane potential piece of IP. Also depending on the licenses of the open source stuff (as hinted at in a prior comment), it may not have been within the guy's legal authority to hand over IP rights to GS for some of the code.
Have they acquired any companies that were 100% bootstrapped?
Infographic: Private Cloud, IaaS & Virtualization. Interesting trends.
Do you think this comic is offensive to Axe users or is it just a well intentioned art project?

http://jubilantmeandering.thecomicseries.com/comics/43
License costs are definitely an issue -- at the enterprise level and in regards to internal development, there are strong institutional biases towards MSFT for a variety of reasons (the key driver being that all your employees have Windows desktops, so adding Windows servers, SQL Server, SharePoint, etc. isn't much of a leap).

Second, .NET is generally seen as a heavyweight technology that slows development (the MySpace guys are still flogging that dead horse). Anyone who experienced multi-megabyte pagestate data with ASP.NET is probably going to be extremely gun-shy, especially since everyone these days starts out trying to build "web-scale" apps before they get their first ten customers. But Stack Overflow proves that you can build huge, responsive, hyper-trafficked sites on MVC.

Having said that, C# is an absolute beaut of a language; the library support infrastructure is top-notch; NuGet has filled most though not all of the roles performed by Maven, &c.; the MVC* frameworks are a joy to work with; and MSFT initiatives like SignalR are fantastic. As long as your pet technologies haven't been EOL'd by Server & Tools (cough Silverlight cough), then there's no technical reason not to use MSFT. (For me, there's definitely a productivity value -- whenever I have to drop back to pure Java from Scala or C# I feel like I'm trying to run through waist-deep mud.)

The licensing costs are still a significant problem for any startup (especially since MSFT is crippling lower-priced versions of SQL Server these days), but if you're a startup the BizSpark program goes a long way to ameliorating costs for a few years. Perhaps more serious is the fact that many of the key infrastructure projects such as NoSQL data stores treat their Windows forks and .NET bindings as second-class citizens at best, and running them on Windows always feels a bit ... precarious to me.
I think some hard drives like some Seagates has a serial console in the firmware that provides low level access that data recovery companies for example use.
Don't be ridiculous. Bitcoin is little else than a reliable and decentralized transaction network, and a currency.

Banks are connections between customers that have deficits and customers that have surpluses, ie: credit and lending. There are also investment structures that people use, ie: stocks and bonds.

In addition to consumer banking and investment banking, there is also insurance functions.

There are companies that meet individual needs (ie: companies that do only insurance) but many consumers still prefer to utilize "one-stop shop" banking institutions that accommodate a variety of needs.
If every judge appointed in the USA over the next 20 years turns out to be an anarchist, it will be a good start. Don't underestimate the depth of the hole we've dug for ourselves.
Did you ever make a movie? I think you should give it another try if you never did.
You can't legislate social cohesion.

Singapore does. I don't know enough about Singapore to know how well that is working out, though.
USA, where people are afraid to heckle.
> Is it executable? Is it turing complete?

It represents groups of more-less arbitrary tokens as trees, therefore it's a natural format for code representation as it's equivalent to an AST, therefore it's trivial to attach a basic execution context with if and lambda defined, and now it's executable and turing-complete.
Imagine if the navigational system of the web could be improved to the point where most users could easily find what they were looking for... so much so, that there was little room for middlemen ("affiliates").

Imagine further that the "calf-cow" model of the web could be replaced with something more decentralized, e.g. a "content-centric" network instead of a "source-centric" one... such that there would be little room for "selling" traffic.
How very refreshing :)
For <$70MM (and for a company that raised $40MM), that could be a relatively cheap acquisition

How much money Rockmelt raised says little about how good of a deal Yahoo received. The reverse may be true: Yahoo may have had to pay way more than the real value simply to ensure a return to the investors, not because it valued the company at the price paid.
I'm not sure about the other controllers, but if this one has a Cortex M3, then anything that runs on an M3 could hypothetically be ported.

One of the SE sites assembled a list. Shockingly, the question isn't closed yet!

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/27594/what-op...
Pipes is nice too, though it has no business model whatsoever.
But if you swap batteries, then when you get to an outlet, you either need a special charger for the spare battery, or you need to swap batteries while charging.
I'm also curious to see how SpaceX makes the transition to producing man-rated production vehicles. When someone at NASA says "prove this is safe", that forces a lot of the structure and painstaking process back in.
I haven’t tried it, but there is generally no need for interfaces to be intuitive, as long as we use these interfaces in the long term. On the contrary, it is often preferable to have a less intuitive but more powerful interface which lets you get your stuff done quickly rather than an intuitive interface that forces you to spend longer on trivial tasks; especially if the ‘interface’ in question is the phone you use daily for 2+ years.

Of course, this implies that Ubuntu for phones actually lets you get stuff done quickly (after a while of getting used to it), rather than being unintuitive and useless.
I think USB 3.0 does provide more power but most smartphones and tablets don't support it.
Miranda should attach immediately upon any interaction with the police. You shouldn't be able to confess until you've had the benefit of legal counsel, regardless of whether you assert the right.

I recognize that sounds extreme, but I have seen so many force/falsified confessions during police investigations that I believe it has become the norm rather than the exception in many jurisdictions.
That's probably true. The nested format would be a challenge at the very least.
It's an extremely monolog, and he tends to follow connections in his thinking between the various topic areas, so it's difficult to index.

And honestly, I'd say only 20% of the talk is directly about gaming. Most of it is about what he thinks the future will be like in terms of programming and hardware.
Where is the obligatory link to download all my data in CSV, JSON and text format?
That's an incredibly hyperbolic and slanted headline. Believing any of that article will make you dumber not smarter.
> Can you think of a solution?

Honestly, I can't. I've recently been on a tour of the Delaware Valley for job-related purposes, and visited Camden, Trenton, etc. And I don't know what can be done. Ending the drug war would probably help, but I think we've got Iraq-scale rebuilding to do in some of our cities...
It took me quite a bit to find the link to their homepage. I made two misclicks and then moused over every link in the header to try find the correct link. There was no such link. I eventually had to edit the URL to get to their main site (no visitor should ever have to do that!), but went back to their blog to figure out whether there even was a link to their homepage! That's when I saw the hyperlinked logo in the left sidebar — completely unintuitive.

Getting from the blog to the main site should be one of the easiest actions a visitor can make. It should be so very obvious how to do it with one rapid error-free click.
Then the author should say that. "You should never read comments" just doesn't make sense in HN when comments are the entire point of why I'm here.

Right now, I don't see why I should use this tool when I can just use elinks.
If Marissa gave $70M to HN for acquisitions for Yahoo, who all would you guys acquire and why?