skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I read the article and knew they banned the app before leaving my comment. I agree with their position and further added why. Should is often used as an agreement with an already taken position.
Voting for a third party candidate who does not have a chance of winning also increases their voter base, which in turn increases their funding for subsequent years.

We might not be able to elect a libertarian, green, constitution, or whig president in 2016, but just as the erosion of our freedoms has taken decades, we'll have to rebuild everything just as slowly. Vote for your preferred candidate this primary. You may not be on "the winning team" today, but you're sending a message that the status quo is not what we want.
hmm.... i have a hard time agreeing with you justin. It's like saying once a thief is in your house, your game is lost anyways, so let's not put a lock on the door.
You might be right on the point about the bad guy taking over the whole account and can do anything they want. But would it be a good thing for users if at least Chrome has strong password protection that makes the bad guy think twice about cracking them?
How to get seed funding in Europe. Not.
Why do you assume that I have saved passwords (or anything else) on my computer to which my wife is not permitted access?
>You can't seriously believe that "Tap-n-Zoom" provides a better browsing experience from a ~4" screen than that provided be a well designed responsive site ... can you?

I very much can. I want the full monty on my mobile phone (and tablet), not what some designer deemed the more important parts with which to "respond" to my screen size.

>I present the HN front page as a prime example. Every time I load it from my phone I groan at the prospect of dragging a small viewport all around the content area in order to read the full titles/comments of submissions. A responsive design with a simple list interface would easily solve this problem.

A custom list interface? That's even worse in the general case than the usual responsive "musical chairs" div game. That's what RSS clients and decicated native apps are for. If I want to visit Hacker News, I want to see Hacker News. And Hacker News as is, is 100% great for mobile navigation -- it's merely a signle column list of links already.

>Furthermore - from what I remember of UX modules at University the whole point of good responsive design is that it presents the same content to the user as they would expect from a desktop interface. You can't cite an example of someone not following a practice as a reason to not to follow that practice.

I've never seen a "responsive design" providing "the same content" and surely not in the same manner to the desktop interface. All actual use and all the examples in design sites I've seen, are all about moving content around, hiding blocks for smaller screens, etc.
One of my favorite startups. I signed up for a single server some time ago to try them out and was amazed when I saw the control panel, API and the ecosystem that has already built up around the service.

To those of you asking what is so special about DO compared to ExyExtraVps.is running stock WHMCS[1] or whatever over at LEB it is that DO are providing the type of features, flexibility and support that Rackspace, AWS and Azure provide but at prices that are close to what the low-end VPS types offer.

If you imagine a Gartner-style quadrant for hosting with price on one axis and then features/support/flexibility on another most providers today sit somewhere along a very straight line - you either have a bunch of features and flexibility and are expensive or you are very rigid and cheap. DO is right up in high features but low price, and it seems so obvious in hindsight (Linode were almost there).

I now have Vagrant setup with Digital Ocean as a provider[2] so setting up a box is as easy as running 'vagrant up --provider=digital_ocean' and then waiting a minute. There are tons of other tools already built up around their API and the ecosystem is thriving. I have another script setup ready to fire up additional instances of web apps.

I'm moving everything I can and that fits from AWS and recommending DO to clients also where it would fit (staging servers, dev servers, backup servers, etc.) There are still some features they need - like load balancing, multiple IP's etc. but this funding means all of that is going to be built sooner.

There is a reason why they are one of the fastest growing hosts ever[3]. These guys are destined to get really really big.

There is also a great effect wherever digital ocean is mentioned online you find a comment thread with dozens of users saying how awesome they are. You can't buy that type of love.

[1] Not to mention that all of that off-the-shelf VPS software running these sites is an absolute security nightmare. The developers rely on hiding their poor code behind ioncube encoding and this has been exposed recently with some big name hacks.

[2] https://github.com/smdahlen/vagrant-digitalocean

[3] Netcraft: The meteoric rise of Digital Ocean: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/06/13/the-meteoric-ri...

edit: forgot to include this earlier, but by way of a disclaimer I introduced Digital Ocean to Crunchfund but don't have a financial stake.
I'm sure there would be much less "interested" parties in other countries, say in South America? Why would we try to force any planes down supposedly carrying him there if we really wanted him to leave Russia? I would think he'd be a lot easier to extract (via Seal team et al) from a poorer South American country than a superpower like Russia.

Also, if the US hadn't waved around words like "treason" maybe he'd be a bit keener on coming back of his own accord.

I think we've screwed up multiple times here on an issue that, in the grand scheme of things, is fairly petty. Now we're digging ourselves deeper.
The problem is the response to that is almost always "Oh you mean like ______?". The answer to that is almost certainly no, but you can't really say or explain why unless you reveal too much about your startup at too early a stage. Then people get the impression you are working on some stupid idea that has already been done.

There are a lot of reasons not to reveal what you are working on exactly, but giving the industry isn't necessarily the best thing to do either. A lot of experienced founders will also do this because they don't want wild rumors flying around about what they are building / working on next from a one-liner that they mentioned without wanting or being able to get into the details about it with some stranger.
No one knows what the future holds. With great value and service there could be a price change or they could be acquired (a la slicehost), but I think it's very hard to depend on some of providers in that price range with poor connectivity and support using that crappy whmcs.
I'm not sure I wholeheartedly agree with this. Giving potential competitors months of lead time to either clone the USP of a startup or make changes to lessen its impact doesn't seem terribly sensible in a lot of situations.
This is Estimote (YC S13) co-founder here. The contextual micro-location based interactions triggered by the presence of Bluetooth Beacons is something called iBeacon and will be part of iOS7 this Fall.
Since it is still under NDA those who have an Apple Developer Account could access sample codes in the Apple SDK.
For those who would like to experiment already and check the possibilities we have also published a blog post explaining how to turn one iOS6 device intro a virtual beacon and use the other to experiment with micro-location: http://blog.estimote.com/post/57087873876/a-simple-way-to-si...
They are assuming all Android devices have GPS. Is it common for tablets to have GPS?

btw, I see com.ansca.corona.CoronaSensorManager in the exception stack trace, suggesting this app was written in Lua using Ansca Corona.
1. Choice of Node, DO has both US and EU location.
2. Scalable, Instantly Scale up to 96GB of Memory.
3. API - Dont think any of those VPS has those.
4. Hourly Billing.

And would you trust your hosting with Millions of VC backed money or a small VPS company? ( No offence, it is all part of perception and marketing )

I think for less then $10 hosting only, Ramnode and many others LEH wins. But if you want sometime in production that needs more power in the future DO have you backed.
Interesting. Thanks for the perspective. I guess I was never privy to the propaganda until recently when it became really blatant and obvious.

Also, relevant username ;).
I laughed at this line: "Work in enterprise world? perhaps you like JRR tolkien? XML is your friend."

Thank you :)
I am away against attacks against the java applet executor, not against Java itself.
Is SMTH available for Google TV?
In one second on the internet...
Sounds arrogant or ignorant to me. You've got your solution so well figured out that you can't bother to talk to people about it and gauge their reaction? Sounds like a path to failure.
It's a free country and you are free to measure productivity however you want. That said, is this slow societal descent into short, insincere, 140 character coke-addict emails with expected instant response times a positive thing? I'm not trying to be nostalgic for the letter-writing days of yonder, but nothing says "I don't give a shit" like those emails you get. You know the ones. 18 people are CCd. People just attach whatever they think is relevant without reading what you're asking. People forward whatever to whomever. This guy to BCC. So and so will arrange. Have a look at my calendar and suggest a time. I attached version 2 Final Revised Signed Real Version Final Final. Blah blah blah.

People were productive long before death by instant email papercuts. It's something worth thinking about as you optimize on response time. I find many insta-responses were preventable with better planning in hindsight.
Yeah but his point is really silly. He's trying to make the argument that by making it impossible to lock the car we won't leave valuables in it.

His argument is that since a person could just smash the windows and open the car that way there's no point in putting locks on the door.

It's just a very myopic and weirdly out of touch position. He seems to think that he's 'training' users to have more secure practices? This isn't the business world. You don't get to blame the user for not being security experts. He should be doing everything in his power to make it inconvenient and difficult to access a user's passwords.
You may be interested in what we've built with React (http://facebook.github.io/react/). We're focused exclusively on rendering and wiring up event handlers and offer a super straightforward, highly performant reactive programming model. There is some particularly interesting technical aspects around how we keep state consistent between React and the browser as well as how we've architected the core (it's a bit like a game!). And it's been proven at scale (both userbase and eng org size) time and time again.
I'm in a very similar situation to the OP, minus the new job with a longer commute. My wife and I have shared a car for quite a few years, and even with a 3-year old who goes to school everybody, we make it work. My job is a short 2.5 mile bike ride, and our day-to-day life fits into a relativelly small radius.

I had thought that the leaf combined with a all wheel drive vehicle would be perfect for our situation. We live in an area that gets snow in winter and close to the mountains, so AWD would be ideal. The leaf would be great for the day-to-day, which usually involves < 20 miles or driving.

We too have an aging corolla, which is a fantastic car for the $$$ and the gas mileage.
A single, cheap server can easily handle thousands of requests per second and come with huge bandwidth allowances etc - https://hivelocity.net/cart/configure/42f42273ea for instance. That's going to be much more cost effective than amazon etc cloud hosting.

You could also put your site / api on a cheap vps at digitalocean or whatever, and just get a server with lots of drives for the actual image serving from someone like Hetzner: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...
Show HN: Omnifocus theme Modernize - Make omnifocus 1 look like OF2
Not if you want to give the user decent affordances in the UI on non-HTML5 browsers.
The 'new' part of Google Glass is likely to be 'being on your face most of the day'.
As we were scaling up our network we ran into a few issues and had to work with our vendors to resolve them.

Quoted metrics for support for ARP and MAC addresses on devices didn't match what we were seeing in production but we were able to get that resolved, so you shouldn't see those issues recurring.
I'm curious how much of the perceived benefit of republic-based democracy is based in logical fallacies and myth.

Voters are irrational and on a long-term scale, growth in state power eventually leads to the circumvention of public involvement, counter to the very definition of a republic: "A republic is a form of government in which affairs of state are a 'public matter', not the private concern of the rulers".

Constitutions were the obvious solution to this problem but they are very rarely considered absolute law in modern times, which almost defeats their purpose. Their influence worn down over decades of tinkering and executive-branch expansions in power.
Agree perhaps, from a psychological standpoint I say stealth all the time because I am plain sick and tired of telling every person whom inevitably asks the question, "so whats your startup working on". I'd rather think of the code I need to write the next day or just talk about macro economy and other things. My life is 24/7 startup already. And may I add: seasoned entrepreneurs don't ask THAT question they either wait for you do talk about it yourself or don't pester you with it because they have all been there too.
You mean the same process of "putting arms beyond reach" that Western governments insist terrorist organisations use, usually before talks begin?

Could be, as long as we also look at Truth and Reconciliation committees too ...

Wow. They have really lost trust of a pretty significant section of society.
This is a conversation that we need to continually have as a nation and I am glad to see it being covered in more "mainstream" press.

What are we giving up to gain our freedom and is it worth it in the long run? The intelligence apparatus our nation has constructed only has value as long as we have fear, they are thereby induced to continually keep us in a state of fear whether real or fabricated. My biggest fear is that many of these recent "terrorist incidents", not 9/11, were in fact created by our own agencies...yes a bit of a tin foil hat scenario to be sure but one that is not all together unreasonable given the current revelations.
I've been guilty of not setting up notifications and pretty error pages too. Thanks for the link. There are some free Saas tools as well: New Relic, Logentries, Honeybadger that can make it easier.
"there was a time when we had no terrorism"

I remember that. I think it may have been a Tuesday.
This is almost exactly me, except I have the 17-inch model.

Also dual-boot Ubuntu/Win8, though Win8 is just for games they don't have for linux. I'm a developer and 95% of time is spent in linux.

I find my 17-inch model is a little too large sometimes--barely fits in a backpack. But it's worth it when I sit down to code.
This reminds me of the hilarious "A day in the life of a startup founder" by jgrahamc [1]. It's the first place I learned about double-stealth mode.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183
50m seems to be an artificially set limit.
Looks nice. Is it limited to 3 minutes? Can I split a video?
i'm surprised that you even answered him ...
Working from home made me a better employee
NewSQL at Cloud Scale – Spring, Hibernate and Amazon Web Services with NuoDB
Agreed.

Most of the times I check invoice emails I am looking for the Tracking Information.

This is what makes it tough to move away from Google. Yes they give the NSA access to my data and border on scary by analyzing all of my usage but they offer some really handy options.
Is the level of immersion likely coming with the Rift going to really challenge parts of our interest in the 'real world'? Get Thalmic's MYO to the stage where two of them are enough to replace a typical game controller, and virtual worlds might be possible that reel us in tight with few physical reminders that it's all not real.

As it is, games, gambling and social networks are sticky enough. I had to drag myself away from Minecraft after trying it, thinking about how I was building a virtual house and garden in a captivating world, while a load of household projects went unfinished in my actual backyard.

Story- or world-driven games like Red Dead Redemption and LA Noire could be incredible.
I think in his keynote or graphics talk this year he mentioned that he didn't think that was the way forward anymore.

Don't quote me on that though because a lot of those talks did go over my head.
Also known as "executive summary"...
Spotsetter Takes On Local Maps Space With Social Search Innovation
> Witnesses in this passage supposedly applies to evidence, not just people witnesses.

Witnesses are the people that are the source of evidence. Testimony is one form of evidence, but physical evidence still comes from people.
Why I chose not to work for the NSA
The Internet of Things: a Market  Landscape
I think you might be evaluating the referent of the word "we" incorrectly.
Omni would be even better.
Anyone else want to create a HN spinoff with me? We can call it "SOCIAL JUSTICE NEWS" or just "SOCIAL J" for short.
The World's First Road-Powered Electric Vehicle Network Is Now Open
BYOD - four letters that bring four security issues
A simple street view overlay + wikipedia filter would be basic AR, and that doesn't seem difficult at all.

It would be extremely difficult. It would use a lot of processing power to examine the camera input and attempt to extrapolate positioning for overlayed elements. I'm not sure Glass has that power.
You have been asked for more details because "different visions", without an explanation, is the kind of safe answer people give when they want to hide messy breakups.

So, in my opinion, an ideal answer would be like "I thought the product would be better marketed as a SaaS for physicians, but my partner wanted to emphasize ease of use and sell directly to patients on the App Market."
Solr as an Analytics Platform
Code Fellows Kicks-Off Code Camp for At-Risk Youth & Women
I like it, maybe will use it some day.

I'm having some kind of problem with ":)", it shows quotes with a square inside.
I love learning new pieces of music history, and I'd swear that track was made by a time traveler. I've taken a number of music history classes (I originally wanted to major in music education) in jazz history, classical history, world history, and American history, and have never heard that track. Really appreciate it.
Here's another one: http://gitklout.herokuapp.com/
Lose 100 Deals: The First Year Plan of an Enterprise Startup
Encryption Keys and Surveillance
Sorry for the poor choice of word on my part, I admit I was using "disingenuous" incorrectly there. I just thought the description of sublime/emacs/vim having "great" support for TypeScript might give someone the impression that something beyond syntax highlighting was supported.

I don't doubt that it's more work to support more than syntax highlighting, but that doesn't change the fact that the support in those editors is sub-par when compared with lots of other languages. For example I can install SublimeLinter and have basic error reporting for python code, or SublimeJEDI and have code completion and go to definition.
I agree there are most likely big business/defense interests behind a lot of this.

But any intelligent person would see that our reaction to terrorism (bombing countries in the Middle East) is only going to create more terrorists. For every terrorist we kill, there are others we kill who are not...what if we kill someone's child? Or even if we kill a child's dog? This is the kind of ill-will that harbors "terrorism" and makes people our supposed enemies.

Of course people are going to hate us if we're bombing them all the time.

So on one end we're trying to stop terrorism by killing every last one of them (heh, good luck) and in reality are trying to provoke more attacks so our government can gain more power in the hopes of "stopping" terrorism. The cycle continues, the contractors win, the government wins, the citizens lose, the terrorists keep fighting.
This is exactly my feeling too. Justin seems too smart by half.

His attitude is very much like an ivory tower academic who is befuddled that people don't follow best practices.

I also get the feeling he's not used to having to admit he's wrong. I guess you don't make it to 'head of security' at Google by having a little humility but his responses are really not very encouraging.
Excellent starting point: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Ecology-Spirituality-Evolution-Edi...
...and every one may be stored and used against you in the future...

More seriously, I hope this actually outlines to people how important email still is and that walled gardens with no interoperability apart from a narrow API is not the way to build communication platforms.

Great visualisation by the way.
Great Now they can accelerate their long list of needed improvement.

1. Private Back End Network.
2. Auto Provision Droplet/Instance on different hardware by default
3. IPv6
4. DC in Asia
5. Something Similar to Amazon Elastic IP.

Things i would like
Node balancer
More Powerful CPU
Higher Quality Network ( Although it has gotten a lot better in recent months )
Again, war is a huge business. (And this of course includes the so-called "war" on terrorism.)

I believe that's the main reason (if not the only reason) why it is being kept alive (today by using the cheap manipulation technique of fear).
You might have interest in watching Ladri di biciclette. It's a fantastic movie that explores this issue of what it means to steal.
The Listserve - A daily blast-email lottery
Definitely. Getting feedback on ideas is one of my aim. Kickoffboost will feel much more complete within weeks. This launch was to validate that there is a need for this kind of product, and I think I have the green signal to now make it awesome :)
The same story has been submitted multiple times, from several sources. For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6165708 (much discussion)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6167331

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6171813 (moderate discussion)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6171979
Please, one of the most annoying aspects of TechCrunch was the incessant stream of vapourware marketing. I love the lack of this type of posting on HN almost as much as I love the insightful community and lack of drama; but as much as I love hacking with Go this type of post is a real turn off.
Honestly, I think they would be better off doing their hardware development here in Dallas.[1] This area is much less expensive than Irvine, already has a strong hardware development presence with supporting companies, and a decent second-tier university whose EE department has a strong semiconductor/telecom/signal processing focus.

[1] I say this out of enlightened self-interest. :)
Cash ain't King.
Nice!

You could go through all the show HN and maybe find several projects in limbo. I have some. How do people evaluate the project to sell? Just guess a number or someone on your side helps with that?
Bumper Sticker Philosophy - My Love-Hate Relationship with YAGNI
Far too many people buy their own heat sinks because that is what guides or other people tell them they need to have for best performance. There are those who buy it so they are part of the clique.

Its not like manufacturer applied heat sinks are fully reliable. I have had more than one go bad in my day, even better my Samsung DLP was the worst of them because its heat sink glue failure was on visible on the screen as white dots.