skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deis is designed for running your own PaaS. You can use public or private clouds, but we still require you run your own controller.

If you're looking for a public PaaS solution, we recommend you take a look at dotCloud or Heroku.

With regard to a commercial offering, OpDemand (the company behind Deis) plans on offering paid support and professional services for Deis deployments once the project reaches stability.
The average mechanical key user (i.e. the average non-homeless person) certainly knows that someone can duplicate a key given access to the key. But the average key user doesn't know that a mere picture, much less a picture from hundreds of feet away, is sufficient. When was the last time you saw someone hide a key from view while using it? I've never seen anyone do this. I've never done it myself.
I didn't realize you were speaking. Sadly I missed Vegas this year, first time I've ever had to cancel a talk. Sorry I missed you.

I am of course aware of Lockitron & the competitors in the market, but really appreciate your integration with pre-existing hardware and the point about users who cannot change their hardware out is a great one.

Re: threat model vs. business opportunities, I've been following shoosl and the like closely and despite my background, I absolutely love the idea. Again, you have to choose who you trust with your key, and if a service can engender sufficient trust, you can reap the benefits of those services. Glad you chimed in on this, sorry I missed your talk in Vegas.
It also exists for severe weather situations. Got a tornado warning alert on my phone in June in my area advising to take shelter (had 5 tornadoes touch down in the area that night). I thought it was pretty cool, since I don't watch TV and didn't think to check the weather.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238

Follow-up blog post about a conference call with Xerox: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0806_conference_call_wi...
I've got no business preaching, but my synthesis of HN's general opinion on the matter, phrased as a pithy remark, goes as follows:

If you don't have the funds, you don't need massive marketing.
I got this alert last night, woke me any my wife up and we were irritated and confused. The level of the alert was vastly disproportionate to the relevancy and severity of the issue. It was a very poor implementation of a reasonable idea.
It is a play, yes.

> I didn't mean all themes had to be in one work.

Oh, in that case...I can recommend so much. It'd take way too long.

Here are a few, off the top of my head:

The First Man by Albert Camus (novel)

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (short story)

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (play)

If you want something challenging, try Cervantes' Don Quixote.
That's not funny. This isn't the market where Apple and Samsung compete, it's the market where Apple is a huge Samsung customer, where a few years ago Apple was responsible for an outright majority of Samsung's sales.
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Well said Reichsminister Goebbels.
Great write-up. My big concern is that legal billing goes the way of medical billing where the whole thing becomes a game. Our goal is to get to clean and fair bill where the client is happy to pay for services rendered and the law firm feels well compensated for a job well done.

Not sure if this link is behind a paywall, but this visualization of Profit per Partner for the top 200 law firms show why people may feel legal billing has gotten out of control: http://www.americanlawyer.com/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=120260182...
I'm not saying I don't think people will find it useful, just that I don't get it. Still, it's clean and concise (and readily printable), so thanks!
Citation required for the claim that "almost every" web site is so badly put together that it breaks if you show up without JS.
Gallery of Chinese Propaganda Posters (1925-2006)
Chromium issue: Modify Ctrl+Tab to change to most-recently-used tab
Why does the site not show images until you almost scroll past them? What an awful UX.
AMA: Jesse Noller
Exactly - organizational hierarchy. :-) This is where the "There are no managers" can break down.

Another area that organizations struggle with is spending the time to put the structure in. They may say, "It takes more effort to put in structure, so while we want to be structured, let's just work harder as we go from 150 to 250, we'll solve it later when we're less busy" Then it goes from 250 to 400, then the next thing you know it's a 1600 person mess. :-)
followgen.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided.

(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
At least on Android, you can go to Messaging, open the bottom right menu, then tap "Cell broadcasts."
So you're saying if I believe a state is unnecessary I deserve no freedom. Gotcha.
Create an idea that spreads. Much better to build the marketing into the product than saving marketing as an afterthought.
Thank you, that's a really inspiring story.
Startup idea:

1) crawl HN for links about X with comments like "How does this compare to Y"

2) present it as a knowledge base of technologies with comparison tables
Addendum: Amazingly, this is still the standard explanation given in textbooks for pilots, and the answer you can expect from a pilot (and I've asked).
This article is so slanted I am amazed that its not hawking some kind of retirement product. You'll note that the article cites research by the "National Pension Rights Council", an organization basically only quoted by this article, and an organization likely only interested in preserving its outdated way of dealing with retirement funding (IE: 100% employer funded).

While figuring out what to do with your IRA or 401k may seem daunting, its not, and its certainly better than a pension...
I'd go with NoSQL (any of them, overview of all of them?) or AWS/cloud stuff, because I'm already familiar with Linux administration and RoR. In the enterprise you don't get to work with that sort of technology, so that's where I'd spend my time.
You can basically add as many or as few bytes as you like, by abusing the chunk-extension in chunked encoding:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-3.6.1

So you could make all http responses round into 128 byte chunks, by appending 1 to 128 bytes at the end of every response.

Effectively it gives you length hiding at an http layer; Still attackable.
They exist! One maker (who's product didn't last on the market for very long) back in the 70s or 80s, actually had this sort of obfuscation as a feature on the key. Basically, the key was a series of connected sections with small differences between them, they would slide into the lock from the middle of a spring-loaded sheath and then follow an odd path inside the lock, so neither observation of the keyway, the sheathed key, or even likely the unsheathed key, would give you a clear picture of how to reconstruct the interaction between the sections of the key, or where in the lock they interacted.

Sadly I have no patent reference for the lock, only a description in an old newspaper that ran a story on the creator.
About a week ago my phone went bonkers with a weather alert, warning of potential flash floods. I would say this was roughly as distracting as an air raid siren... it wasn't raining and to my knowledge no flash floods actually came to visit destruction upon the Philadelphia region that day.

It seems absurd that there's no setting in iOS to disable this nonsense without calling up the phone company. Can we at least have a graduated system of alert terrifyingness out of which to opt?
ProTip: If you are building anything that you expect users to run themselves, copy/steal FoundationDB's AWS CloudFormation setup. One click and a couple form fields to setup, one click to tear down.

Edit: http://foundationdb.com/documentation/beta1/getting-started-...
one of these can be shortened:
cw - deletes the current word & enters insert mode
Prodigy Data Breach - Millions of Email Accounts Indexed by Google
If a alert sounded like that in Brazil, people would instantly panic and think we are under attack by US.

Using a alert like that for something trivial is VERY, VERY, VERY stupid.

It should be just a normal SMS...
I'm curious to hear how well it scales, and also what the downsides are once they come out. A lack of praise for employees seems like a fairly minor issue.

It's been said Valve is somewhat like high school with their completely flat hierarchy, although this is never mentioned in the many articles praising their management structure (or lack thereof). I'm curious if this type of management system causes similar problems.

That being said, everyone is different and some people (and cultures - Germany, Switzerland) function in a hierarchy very well, while others don't. I think the article alludes a little to this with the comment about individuals who take initiative vs those who don't. IMHO, those individuals who take initiative on their own are drawn to entrepreneurship and small companies, whereas those who don't are drawn to large corporations where others can set goals for them and as they achieve those goals, they move up. As Medium grows, they're inevitably going to attract more of the latter type, and it will be harder to provide meaningful roles for the former type.
I suspect this goes back longer than 7 months ago. I saw a customer site using openx with constant unusually high CPU usage over 1 year ago. It was also running a custom drupal and I didn't get a chance for a close look but I suspect the openx was compromised, as even with low visitor nos to drupal and caching it was using high CPU constantly. Thank goodness the server has now been replaced and the data migrated to another system... In the logs for months after replacing the site I saw odd requests for long openx urls, so it was probably serving up files for someone, and google had over 100,000 urls indexed...
What if you need to use your lock when the power is out?
IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla
Why doesn't 'Y' behave similarly? I've never understood this inconsistency in the default key bindings:

'c$' OR 'C' = change to end of line

'd$' OR 'D' = cut to end of line

'y$' = yank to end of line

'cc' = change entire line

'dd' = cut entire line

'yy' OR 'Y' = yank entire line
Why Abiword? LibreOffice has a nearly identical default interface and would allow her to go deeper without switching programs.
it's funny that this might be Amazon's solution to s similar set of problems that Paul Graham wrote about here: http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html

I wonder if the art market can really be disrupted in this way, or if there's something intrinsic about buying art in a gallery that makes it "unamazonable"... (who orders a $10,000 painting online?)
Inadvertent downvote, I'm sorry! =(
Yep, these kept going off on the (crowded) train this morning, and I thought they were some sort of fire alarm. It didn't help that everyone assumed the noise was not coming from their phone (because they'd never heard it before or found a configuration page for it,) so they mostly just let it go off while looking around for the source. The whole ride was more than a bit surreal.
Seconded. Of all the features this one caught me off-guard a bit. I was expecting a small-ish SSD akin to what a Chromebook sports.

A 120GB SSD would be really nice in this machine.
A solid argument if the average Chrome user is a regular HN reader.
> It feels like OSX will be on Mavericks before the Lion scroll bars are supported in Firefox.

I use Nightly so I've had the new scroll bars for quite a while now, so I'm inclined to believe they'll be landing sooner rather than later.
I am a tad shocked by your reply, and this for several reasons. Let's not even talk about how you inferred Eliott's credentials, or lack thereof, based on his disagreeing with your approach.

You write about "lulling your users into a false sense of security." If that is true, then how do you explain that the 'show' button only appears when clicking a password? In the name of full disclosure, shouldn't you make that option immediately visible?

Furthermore, contrary to what was posted here, I believe that you encrypt passwords when storing them. On Windows, you would use the user's password as a "master password" in fact. So, kudos for that. But, wait, isn't this a case of using a master password to lull the user... etc? (because, you know, things such as Ophcrak do not exist?)

I am not going to re-iterate what was already written about the cable guy being able to lift your password in 10 seconds, it's simply a scenario you cannot dismiss and it seems strange to me as I would expect you guys to do some persona-based design rather than deal in hypotheticals (cf. "trivially recoverable")

So, yes, Chrome is an excellent product. And yes, from an absolute standpoint, you make valid points. I simply do not believe that you are the only one here doing so, and if you are willing to post comment on HN, then hopefully you are also ready to acknowledge that things are not as clearcut as you make them to be.
Prodigy Email Vulnerability Puts Millions of Accounts at Risk
> It seems absurd that there's no setting in iOS to disable this nonsense without calling up the phone company

There is: Settings > Notifications > Government Alerts (at the bottom)
Many of the companies interested in using Deis want a private cloud deployment, so we have intentionally avoided tying ourselves exclusively to AWS/EC2. That said, we can certainly make the installation process a bit easier in future releases. CloudFormation could be part of that.
These "managementless" companies will be "managementless" for about 5 minutes before power structures start to emerge naturally within the group.
The Semco story is fascinating. I wish I knew some folks that worked there. The wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler) doesn't tell much but from what I remember of the book, they cut organizations free when they reach a certain size.
So they claim that the fine print warns about character substitution. But they still are willing to label the option with that problem "normal quality" and suggest using "high quality" to get strictly image compression applied with no OCR. They don't seem to understand that a photocopier should in its normal operating mode never do post-processing that creates such surprising and misleading artifacts - better illegible and obviously so than legible but incorrect.

Don't get me wrong - using OCR is a great compression technique, but if it isn't reliable enough, it shouldn't be the default or "normal" setting.
Thanks Colin, really helpful and thoughtful response.
I like your thinking! We believe that billing should be fixed, not just reduced.

We're starting on the side where we have the most experience and have been able to get the most traction. We see providing evidence-based billing as an important part of the move to flat fee billing (or alternative fee arrangement).

Our end goal is to fix the process. We want to make sure legal billing doesn't become the joke that is medical billing.
Bangladesh government has denied plans to take over Grameen Bank.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/06/bangladesh-denies-pl...
Yeah it woke me up at 2 AM despite my do not disturb being set during that time.
I am disappointed too.

Although it's not a deal breaker for me (I am savvy enough to use about:config, NoScript, etc), I think this is bad for users in general. Many of them are not tech-savvy enough to dig into hidden configuration options. Though they certainly deserve better security when they browse the web.
I think it is still discoverable because adding random data leads to the following two distributions:

Attacker gets secret wrong, page is size: original page + (zero to fifty) + length of incorrect secret
Attacker gets secret right, page is size: original page + (zero to fifty)

With a sufficiently high number of observations the attack with the right secret has a mean value that is lower than the attack with the incorrect secret.

At least that's what it appears to me. I could be wrong.
Doppler shift. One of the simplest and most deeply useful physics principles. Things you learned in high school that are actually useful way down the road. Basic trigonometry (Sohcahtoa) falls in the same category for me.
AFAIK feeding meters has been illegal for a while, but I have yet to hear of anyone being cited for it. This is nuts! Maybe if the meters were more reasonable people wouldn't do stuff like this...
Iconical Changes Icons On Your iOS Homescreen, No Jailbreak Required
Battery backups, or even locks which are primarily battery-powered - this is typical for locks that are actually part of the door, rather than strikes installed in the doorframe.

Either way, the owner almost always has a key that can mechanically override the electronics and open the door, but this is kept in a safe, rarely used, and will set off the "door forced" alarm.
I doubt the patents for this are going to end up in a standard that forces Samsung to license them under FRAND terms.
The only actual point this article makes is that its hard to save up enough money to live off of for 20-30 years. You can't trash 401(k)s without providing an alternative that is better. It's hard to save for retirement. That's a fact of life. 401(k)s are one of the easiest ways to do it though.
Why is truth() faster than bool() in Python?
Sad to think of the implications for the NSA.
Sorry I missed you too, I am a huge fan of your work!

I was in the Wireless Village (their speaker schedule was submitted a bit too late to make the program.) The second half of my talk was on the radio/encryption side of things along with various attacks when handling electronic keys. DaKahuna (the facilitator) should be posting slides soon.
Their "unikernels" paper was one of the most brilliant I've read in months.
To borrow a line from Christine Keeler well he woudl say that what he what does the Espionage Act (1917) have to do with the Intelligence Identities Protection Act which is what he was charged with?

And BTW Libby should be doing 20-Life for burning a cia officer for petty party political gain

I would agree that adding computer misuse charges against Bradly manning was pointless and stupid.
because you wouldn't use anything from him because he isn't OpenBSD

My sarcasm detector must be malfunctioning. Who said I don't want to use his software or install anything linked on HN because they're new? I've checked out and installed plenty of things linked on HN, not because they're new, but because they're interesting. But lax procedures like the root shell install aren't good indicators.

In fact, I was just going over his install script to see whether it's worth installing and test, but seeing things like this :

# The umask is ridiculous, or mkdir does not conform to POSIX,
# or it failed possibly due to a race condition. Create the
# directory the slow way, step by step, checking for races as we go.

case $dstdir in
/*) prefix='/';;
-*) prefix='./';;
*) prefix='';;
esac

Is what makes me nervous.
What You Can Learn From My Rookie Mistakes
If you want to hear more about Holacracy, there is a webinar this afternoon at 1:30 PST: http://holacracy.org/events/intro-to-holacracy-free-webinar-... - Disclaimer: I work with HolacracyOne, the company behind the model. I'd love to address several comments I see on this thread (and will later), but I'd recommend the webinar for anyone genuinely interested in a comprehensive understanding. It's hard to discuss a 'part' in any depth without understanding the whole.
Foo Camp
33% might be a bit generous for humans.
The Snap n Go thing looked weird to me, but its definitely an option (and I believe it's cheaper, too). Getting the baby out the car without them waking up is key, so we got one of those stroller+car seat+crib thingie combos.
"that reason predates "tech hipsters" by 40+ years"

"it IS a culture, and that culture doesn't take self-censorship and puritan values very well..."

These days, the title of 'hacker' is akin to the title 'patriot': everybody knows what a real one looks like and they're all too happy to monkey patch their own arbitrary components into the definition. Last I heard, there is no general stance regarding self-censorship in the hacker community.

Also, I think its an impressive type conversion for you to cast what is commonly described as overzealous liberalism to puritanical religiosity. There is nothing puritanical about respecting the sensitivities of sexual assault victims.
I read that. But why?

What's the point in using this if you're going to have nginx in front?
He doesn't need to - it's pretty obvious. Go find a different idea.
There's a lot of app-fanatics out there who spend a good chunk of their discussing new apps on Twitter, this seems right on those types' wheelhouse.
I'm not sure what the visualization is supposed to demonstrate. PPP is a function of supply, demand, and leverage.

As an economic matter, billing methodology cannot have an impact on the overall profits of law firms as a group. At the end of the day, the clients pay for a service--hours are just an imprecise way to allocate "scope of work" risk between the client and the service provider.

If your software says that one firm is charging 10% too many hours relative to the other comparable firm that also does work for you, that can save you money in that instance. But it cannot save you money if it says every firm is charging 10% "too much." Then that's just the market price of the service--if you cut down those hours, hourly rates will just increase to achieve the same price, at least in the long-term equilibrium.

In economic terms, the real value of your service is reducing transaction cost inefficiencies by offering better information and allowing clients to better allocate "scope of work" risk between themselves and outside counsel. But real reductions in legal bills, not achieved through finding efficiencies in the billing process, must be rooted in supply and demand: either increasing effective supply by considering a broader range of law firms for work, or reducing demand by bringing work in house.

The reference to medical billing is interesting, but I don't think your explanation is economically sound there either. Medical bills are not high because hospitals charge $200 for an asprin. That's an artifact, not a root cause. Medical bills are high because supply is limited and demand is high and inelastic. Software that checked medical bills for high-priced pills would not reduce bills--the prices would just rise in other parts of the bill. Because at the end of the day the customer is not paying for the pill or for a stent, he's paying for an overall result and the price of that result is dictated by economics, not the specific costs of specific billing items.
Congrats! A bit of meta-advice:

- as you may have already found out there is no shortage of opinions and advice, so the challenge is picking out the right advice

- what worked for my family was to ID role model parents, e.g. parents that we knew who seemed happy, and sought our their advice. We actually interviewed a couple and took notes via laptop, and that served as our blueprint.

- we also identified anti-role models, e.g. parents that seemed to be beaten down by the process or were overly paranoid, and disregarded their advice or decide to not be like them.

- resist the urge to buy a bunch of stuff, instead get a free subscription to amazon prime (via the amazon mom promotion) and get what you need on a JIT basis.
This title should have been, "How I killed an entire gamer customer base"
I disabled the alerts on iPhone by going into Notifications settings, scrolling to the bottom and toggling the Amber Alerts and Emergency Alerts off. This is on an AT&T phone, not sure if it's carrier-specific.

A friend of mine experienced a similar thing before my phone had the capability. His phone went crazy with a "blizzard warning", even though there were no storms around, and I don't believe the NWS has ever issued a blizzard warning for this area.