skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! I'm not quite that old, but I definitely came in to my mall-time on the tail end of that age and that may color my observations.

(on the other hand, I know of two other local malls that are jam packed at all hours of the day, so I don't know what that says)
Hence the checksum.
I guess it's a good year to be writing and selling books on puppet and chef?
I bought a Sony Playstation 3, which could run Linux with Sony's blessing.

Sony later decided not only to discontinue the Linux support in newer models, but to retroactively disable the capability to run Linux on old-model consoles in the wild with a software update that was included with, and required to play, all disc games released after a certain date, and also required for online play.

As a result of these decisions by Sony, I have not bought any Playstation 3 games, or any Sony product, since then. Sony and its developers have lost out on hundreds of my dollars over the past few years. I will completely stay away from Sony in the next console generation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otheros

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5886509
OSX supports `chroot` which could be a target on OSX.
Living outside the bubble
Really? Mine always thought it looked great
This recycling bin is following you
The GP wants to limit the betas to what I will refer to as actual developers, measured by those who have submitted an app, so you both want it to be more restricted than it is.
Has anyone tried this other Go-based Paas? http://globocom.github.io/tsuru/
Whoever does it will be a hero!
Another really common scenario is that the vendor doesn't offer an appealing pricing model based on the anticipated or intended usage of the product. For example, lately I've been talking to videoconferencing system providers. One of them has a really great feature that no one else has, but their only pricing option is per named user at roughly $800/yr. This is completely untenable at a 45,000 person company (even if you only consider the 20,000 of those people who are knowledge workers, or even if you only consider roughly 5,000 of them who might need VC. The problem I have is never knowing exactly who the named users should be.). Another vendor has a similar product, and offers both named user and concurrent user pricing options. A third vendor offers both cloud & in-room-hardware options where we can mix & match, with the advantage that hardware-based VC rooms don't consume a user license at all, so we'd only be paying for desktop/mobile connections. The first vendor lost a 6 figure deal just because they weren't willing to entertain an appealing pricing model.

To expand on Andy's general point, and one josh2600 made earlier, it truly pays to get to know your target's corporate culture and bureaucracy. One of the first questions experienced sales reps ask at the close of the second call (or whenever the first demo is) is something along the lines of "what is your sales process like?" or "how does your department handle budgeting, and what is your fiscal calendar?"

Oooh, before I forget, here's another big turn-off: yes, sales reps hop between companies more than engineers, but for goodness sake PLEASE keep your CRM updated so your target doesn't get repetitive cold calls from other reps at your company. This doesn't happen too often, but I still experience it about once a quarter and it leaves me fuming each time, especially if I already have a contractual relationship with the vendor.
The Australian internet wall is a virtual non-issue compared to the US spy bases here and that we're essentially a lap dog for the US.

Scandinavia. Maybe Slovenia? New Zealand? Slim pickings.
Are you implying there is debate on whether he "leaked" info? It's obvious he did. The real issue is that he revealed what the NSA was doing.
Former NSA Chief Aggressively Attacks The Entire Hacking Community
Chaitin is cool, too.
Your interviewer just sounds inexperienced to me. I'd deflect it: "That sounds like an off-prem kinda question. Maybe one of these days we can meet for a beer after work and swap stories."
There's a lot of cyan on the site, which I think is a significant part of the difference.

Eesh, which reminded me of some MUDs where they went crazy with the colours; cyan and magenta nightmares they were.
It depends very much on the individual, their company, and their role/standing within the company. Anything with too much detail will end up being too specific and not very good general advice (imho).
Apple releases iOS 7 beta 5 to developers
Raygun.io now supports Mozilla Persona login
It takes a long time. Vancouver, BC was very successful with this because they built a new transit system back in the '80s (Skytrain) and then clustered density around the stations. It's been extremely succesful, and there is also a complimentary system of bicycles boulevards for people to ride bikes.

Here in the US, however, the car rules, for better (but mostly) worse. I had an incident on my bike last Monday in Palo Alto with a car where I fell and broke my hand.

Trying to code with a broken hand is rather... interesting.
I'm not sure Amazon will ever make profits.

The general thesis is 'they're the low cost provider, they're going to make a ton a profit'. This thesis is one that often leads Wall Street and investors to tears. Because there's another factor that needs to be taken into account: is there going to be a glut of capacity.

Here's the classic example. One of the managers of Buffett's textile mills came to Buffett and told him they could invest in a new power loom that would double production for the same cost to run. Buffett's response: that's terrible, none of that will stick to our ribs. Buffett could see that everyone in the industry would increase capacity, there'd be a glut of product, and the industry wouldn't capture the profits.

Another classic example: fiber optic. Read a research report from the late 90's on the fiber industry if you can get your hands on one. Lot's of comments on what a great investment Global Crossing would be because 'low cost provider wins'. Of course 'low cost provider' went bankrupt because there was a glut of capacity.

So bringing it back to Amazon, is there a glut of capacity? I'd say probably. What's Amazon's fundamental purpose? Matching buyers and sellers (which they do much much better than a mall). A computer basically has infinite capacity to match buyers and sellers. The warehouses are nice but when I look at the forest I question whether the profits are ever going to materialize. I see a glut of capacity and no reason why that would lessen. It's getting easier to start an internet company, not harder. The competition isn't going to cede the field either. They'll continue to put a ceiling on prices until the bitter end.
I looked at it but it seems overly complicated, I got ShipBuilder up and running in a flash
It's either to be able to sue a rival in the event it scoops their features or to exercise power over their serfs.
Interesting non-technical, non-fiction books?
It all depends on the level of inappropriateness, how it benefits you, and your personal comfort level with it. If you're applying for a super great job, it might be in your self-interest to casually accept a few probing questions like that if you think that it gives you a better opportunity to get the job.

If you're the litigious or confrontational type, you might be able to spin this type of incident into a lawsuit or threaten them in some sly way to guarantee the job. I wouldn't do it that way or recommend doing that, but that's certainly an option for aggressive personality types.
Patent Case Has Potential to Give Apple the Upper Hand
Would you trust it more if it required JavaScript instead of Java?

Why or why not?

Would it matter if the JavaScript code was un-obfuscated and open source?

Java is now owned by Oracle, which has always been and will always be evil.

But there are multiple JavaScript implementations available, so it would be harder for the code to be compromised by a back door in the VM.

And the people developing JavaScript interpreters are generally not as shady and untrustworthy as Oracle. (Although one of them is known to be inexplicably homophobic...)
It's not public in the sense that applies to law enforcement. By that I mean, Noisebridge is a private community that happens to be rather open in terms of membership. "Public space" is more like the sidewalk or a government building.

Note: I'm not a lawyer, but that's my understanding
“information that is independently developed by You without the use of any Apple Confidential Information”

I imagine there has to be some provision for being allowed to tell other developers about bugs in their apps (does it have to be on Apple’s official forums?), but I think Apple makes developers agree to NDAs exactly to keep dumbass CS students from trying to impress their friends by telling them how many bugs they’ve found and how crappy the prerelease builds are. I’ve never had a paid developer account, but my impression is that people used to take the NDA a lot more seriously several years ago; I’m not sure if it’s because Apple dropped the price from $500 to $99 or because I spend a lot more time around CS students, or maybe because so many more people have iPhones now, but it seems like even a lot of non-developers are finding it worth $99 a year to get prerelease iOS builds, and everyone is wildly violating the NDA.
The vast majority of Linux distros have also also never had a lot of casual desktop users outside of developers and server admins. Expanding consumer mindshare costs money, and it that has been Ubuntu's main priority since day one. Debian on the other hand has long prioritized stability/reliability as a good workhorse OS. Neither are bad goals, but it's disingenuous to imply that they are the same and should thus take the same paths to accomplishing them.
Pretty sure we are going to be into at least two or three presidents trying to hang Snowden from the flagpole. They will never pardon him because of their fear of the next sysadmin exposing crimes of the state.
> will "contain" before sending encrypted version back to your server - in short it means forcing to implement backdoor.

Oh sure, definitely, that seems like that is within the scope of the currently claimed power. As far as I know though the operator has the option of closing up shop however and therefore is not being forced to work against their will, but not a fun choice though.

I am interested in any case law that disallows the operator the option of shutting down rather then implement a back door or anything similar.
is this chroot or root, because, in my experience, don't you NOT want apps running as root? I suppose with containers having sub-level access it would be a difficult decision to choose which was more secure, giving docker full access to everything, or it not having control. It's a shame that its such a difficult place to change it, or that you can't select it at install.
Silent Circle follows Lavabit, shuts down email service
I think a big part of the reason is that they don’t want random people posting on the internet about all the bugs they encountered with prerelease software and how much it sucks, because it can taint people’s opinions of the final product.
I just realized I've replied to about a half dozen replies to this post. I spend an awful lot of my work week talking with potential vendors, and have for several years. As the guy responsible for deciding whether to build or buy apps & related systems at a large enterprise, it's just part of the job.

I would be extremely happy to help any of you who would like some insight into how the purchasing process works, and to answer questions about selling to big companies. If you'd like to chat, to practice your spiel or demos, or anything else, please contact me. There's nothing I'd like more than to help develop software sales skills!! :-)

Work: elliot.tally@sanmina.com
Personal: https://plus.google.com/u/0/110215565182616777712/posts
Realizing where you are in terms of funding stages is important. If your site has a steady revenue stream then you are way past the angel stage as your proof of concept and revenue model has been shown to take at least some traction.

I'd say you are at the seed or accelerator stage.

I found this infographic very valuable:

http://fundersandfounders.com/how-funding-works-splitting-eq...

Do you think you could push the growth faster if you worked on it full time? I recently took this step and haven't looked back since. Investors will see your leap of faith and be more inclined to back you from my personal experience.
Amazon is nowhere near the size of Walmart.

Walmart does ~500B in rev. Amazon did 61B in rev in '12 and is on pace for 72B-ish in '13.
From the article:

"No one has willfully or knowingly disobeyed the law or tried to invade your civil liberties or privacies," he said. "There were no mistakes like that at all."

... then why did they lie about it to congress?
Encrypted email service used by Snowden mysteriously shuts down
>Androind could eat away at Apple. Google's search could in theory be disrupted. Facebook seems more vulnerable by the day. Microsoft is a dead man walking.

>Microsoft is a dead man walking.

Why is the company with arguably the most diverse sources of income the one that is a dead man walking?
it's actually hard to read blinking text - it's missing from the screen half the time!
Top 6 Things you can do to negotiate better terms from Banks
Rust does have a lot of potential, but don't underestimate how much change it has undergone lately, and will likely be undergoing in the future.

The large amount and rapidity of change makes it difficult to use it seriously. It's nowhere near as stable as other newer languages like Go and Scala are, for instance.

Some experimental programs I wrote a mere 8 months ago are now basically unusable with recent versions of Rust due to language, syntax and standard library changes.

Unless you can constantly track Rust's development on a daily basis, and update your code accordingly, I'd be very hesitant to suggest using it for anything but throw-away code at this point.
I'm torn between oculus and glass games on who's going to win the war with gamers. Opinions?
My concern exactly; I prepared a response regarding this, which I just posted here, although I'm skeptical of a timely response.
Majoring in Philosophy
A wider variety of topics also occasionally spurs an HN denizen to start implementing a solution, even a startup around the 'non-hacker' stuff.
I learned something interesting from a comment on the post:

"I was a neuro tech for a long time, doing tests for epilepsy. A 1Hz blink can trigger a seizure, but only in a vanishingly small number of epileptics and only if it's sustained - photosensitive epileptics (far from all epileptics) usually need at least 8-10Hz strobing before epileptic activity rises. The common range is ~12-16.

All this being said, have a 3:1 duty cycle is better UX anyway - the blink off works as the attention-grabbing highlight, and the longer duration on allows what's highlighted to be more easily read."

Looks like you don't need to worry :-D
Richard Branson and Elon Musk on fear, failure, and reinventing the future
I, too, think Rust is going to be revolutionary in the video game industry. Were I a game programmer I would start learning now. In two years at least 51% of all new video game code will be in Rust.
Does anyone else hate when a website tries not to let you read it when you have javascript disabled? This one is so lame I had to view the source.
You might enjoy Last Chance to See, from Douglas Adams.

It is a tells how he traveled searching for near extinct species. It is non-technical and non-fiction, but it is a Douglas Adams book, so he explains a lot of things and makes up stories a long the way. That is his style.
Ever since I learned that TOMS (the store) and TOMS Shoes (the charity) were 100% separate I started to feel a weird vibe from the company.

I have no problem with a for-profit having a separate charitable entity. But they clearly make it seem as if they are all one giant non-profit org.

Add that to the fact that they make absolutely terrible shoes. The copycat shoes that Keds make are much better and about 1/3 of the price.
I started porting one of my side projects (written in C++11) to Rust because I thought it looked promising - I still think it does, but I filed two bug reports before I even got argument parsing working, and the documentation is still rather sparse. I don't want to dissuade you, it's a great project, and I hope it's the next C++, but it's very much not production-ready, so don't build anything critical in it yet.
Perhaps consider the open-closed principle and whether it should be a setting or a third-party extension.
Perhaps. Not sure I like the 'vaporizes in a week' thing. Point to point is good, and clearly something in the middle has to be designed in such a way that traffic analysis of the middle doesn't help. And like Lavabits you have to be careful that if your server infrastructure could be modified to break security, it can be compelled to be modified with an NSL and that is why I expect anything that is solved will only be solved with a server you "own" in your residence (at least in the US) to require the whole warrant process to get access to it.
The "Development Drawbacks" of JavaScript Web Applications
Dining with the Walking Dead
I guess safari has already removed support for this tag? I get no blinking cursor on this page :o(
Today, HN has been full of stories that make me sad about being a software guy. Maybe the only way is to work in early stage startups, moving on after the managers roll in and your day is full of meetings about new reorganization.
Lean Startup: Pivot, Persevere or Portfolio?
We just discovered ShipBuilder yesterday, yet already I have a very good feeling about it. We're planning on trying it out on a disposable AWS instance this weekend.
What do you call the lead developer's offsider?
I just realised that my resume needs to be updated, because the project I've been working on has hit a major milestone. An amateur computer programmer done good, I'm a subcontractor for one of the big guys. Basically I'm the principal contractor's (who is lead developer, primary project manager and domain expert) offsider. How should I describe that in less than 5 words in my resume?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6183352
To be fair I don't think this is a blocker for Go to implement GGC and CGC. .NET supports interior pointers too, for example. You just have to design your allocator right to allow the card marking to work.

In practice I think that the biggest problems are compiler related and affect both Go and Rust. Go and Rust both use conservative GC on the stack and as a result they take a lot of shortcuts. For example, LLVM (and GCC as far as I'm aware, though someone like DannyBee may correct me here) loses the distinction between integers and pointers by the time they get to the machine instruction level, which makes a lot of optimizations easier to implement but also making it impossible to generate precise stack maps. Fixing this would be a lot of hard work. It's probably easier in the Plan 9 compilers, of course, though I suspect it's still going to be a lot of hard work.
Docker itself requires root privileges to place processes in different namespaces, manipulate their control groups etc.

However, you can very easily drop the privileges of the application running inside each container, with "docker run -u <USER>". This is definitely recommended for several use cases, for example running untrusted code on shared hardware.
I am an HN regular, and a forensic psychiatrist. Every day I work with mentally ill people who have been charged with crimes. I don't have much to add here except to say thanks for taking an interest.

The mentally ill and the incarcerated are two of the most deeply marginalized groups in our society. It's nice that someone outside of our world is thinking about them.
Well, most people driving in DC actually live and vote in VA and MD. For DC, it's an easy way to "tax" commuters and get a nice revenue stream
Because they are the good guys, so it's ok for them to lie to the congress. For you it is a felony, but for them it's not even a mistake.
Can you share? I could really use that.
Someone needs to hold a funeral for it. One of those funerals where people throw a party.
Why do you have to say it in less than 5 words? I'm in the same boat. I clearly say i'm an independent contractor(and a lead engineer). And i clearly say what i do/did.

Eg. http://www.linkedin.com/in/sidmitra
Does this mean that the antivirus industry is nothing but a scam?
Walmart is huge in uk (asda) and china and Mexico. Amazon still is only really operating in a handful of European countries and just got into India.

Walmart is actually investing in startup ecommerce plays in brazil (where it has been established 40 years)
You had me dangling by a thread, I was still sort of with you... then you declare that disallowing public nudity is tyranny?

My friend, overstatement is a quick & easy way to lose support.
I think they are pretty open, now, if you are a US citizen (I am). Although there is a federal police force "guarding" them, so they could be closed instantly. If it looks like that might happen, I'll have to leave, or risk staying. Right now, that doesn't seem likely to happen in the immediate future.
We're already suspects, we might as well have the encryption too.

Privacy is a basic human right and cannot be granted or taken away. But you need to defend it all the same.
ab -n 100 -c 5 http://api.genderize.io/\?name\=Cameron

Total: 636 1373 157.7 1304 1664

ab -n 100 -c 5 http://genderizer.herokuapp.com/\?name\=Cameron

Total: 77 141 70.1 115 383

Heroku's free tier, not nearly as overloaded right now, but still. Source here: https://github.com/rajington/genderizer
Well, not exactly.

HushMail strongly suggested that when given a court order and the targeted user was using the client-side Java applet, that Hushmail sent a backdoored applet. That technically could be detecting by checking hashes, but in practice...

It's an open question whether companies can be forced to build backdoor, but that sure looks like what happened to Hushmail and Lavabits.

(just noting that I'm the author of this more than 5 year old story).
> Isn't corporate income taxed regardless of whether it's put into the bank or reinvested into new ventures?

No, in addition to regular business expenses being deductible, there's all kinds of special deductions and credits for specific kinds of reinvestment.
Warrant for the account of a Lavabit customer
"Pitch the top line, not the bottom line ... Almost no products can cut costs by 5-10%".

This is a very odd statement that is in odds with how most B2B software is positioned. I would wager if you go into any company and look at the software installed, almost 95%+ will have a use case of reducing costs. Whether is automating your workforce, reducing inventory, optimizing product spend etc. Even software which touches the topline (like salesforce/CRM/SFA), at the end is about reducing the cost of sales not increasing revenue directly.
Because most profits actually come from two cash flows that were in a much stronger position before
Presumably the two-man rule would have caught him before he could leak anything.
Hmm, I just started designing something quite like this.

https://github.com/jaekwon/gourami/wiki/Protocol-Overview

I should take a look at pond. Thanks.