skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allright, i won't be on the haters and trolls side this time. I'm actually very interested in your product as i was looking for an Amazon S3 replacement.

Pro:
- Servers are located in Europe (WOOOW, fuck spying govs)

Not so good:
- I think you had a great idea, got one (maybe 2,3) developers working on it for some time and rolled out this product. Which obviously is quite unfinished (on the business point of view, i have no hint on how the technical side is working as i never used it).

So, question for you guys:
How the hell invoicing is working? As you could guess most of us work/own companies, we need freaking invoices for every cent we spend. No billing, no invoices, nothing like this in the private area, ideas?
I wouldn't be surprised if they funded themselves to get over the line of Ouya was going to match funds.

If you were only a few thousand off, and Ouya was going to match you would be very tempted.
I never installed Wordpress in production, this is the first time I hear about ESI and in general have almost no relevant experience, but maybe this suggestion has some worth:

ESI sounds like it would couple your web application code to your cache. This sounds negative to my ear. How about modifying the Recent Comments widget to work with an IFRAME or some AJAX? It adds another request to the server, but now both requests can be cached and compressed.
2 times should be enough. 3 if you really want to make it clear. Marketing guys should burn in hell.
I agree with you for the most part, except for your concern about not having a vote on laws that effect you. In America, voting is a placebo. It has been effectively neutered of all potency or threat to the political regime. Do you believe that things would be different if Americans elected John McCain in 2008 or Romney in 2012?

All politicians draw from the same pool of bureaucrats and advisors. They all went to the same schools, mostly in the Northeast United States. Every member of the President's board of economic advisors has been from a school in Cambridge, MA since the turn of the millennium.

Only 2,000 jobs are elected or politically appointed out of a federal bureaucracy numbering over 2.5 million people. We could give the Brits a vote in American elections and it simply wouldn't make any difference. Democracy has been successfully tamed by politicians.
Is there something particularly gendered about these roles that requires a man to play them?

A tendency toward extreme risk-taking and propensity for violence both comes to mind as traits that are more common among men and more common among these roles.
Can we turn this around? For what kind of map product is a Wikipedia layer not a good fit?
If you're OK with the latency to Europe from where you are, Hetzner is great.

I used them quite a bit (and still do), however even with Cloudflare my tests were a bit sluggish here in Perth,AU.
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Last time I checked you still need a data plan to download and load your favorite apps music videos emails etc... Is The web changing? The answer is yes. Is the web Dying. The answer is a vibrant no. We are more connected than never. It is an interesting era for software developers with creativity....
Chrome on a 4 year old desktop. And chrome on a low end 1 year old desktop. Slow for both, not to the point of being unusable, but slow enough to be annoying.

Even on my new i5 laptop, it's not quite as snappy as the old version.
>Interested to hear your justification for declining / delaying vaccine

I'm interested to hear why a five minute old infant is at risk of contracting Hep-B. Our kids will get Hep-B before they start school. Even if one of our kids did contract Hep-B, it is pretty unlikely that they will be able to give it to your children.

Rota-virus vaccine was suspended by the FDA temporarily,[1] We opted to decline this one even after the suspension was lifted considering seriousness of intussusception[2][3] compared the very low incidence of death or serious injury by rota-virus infection in the US. Even though the suspension wasn't related to the earlier intussusception problem, I considered the incident sign of poor QC and/or a lack of respect for the FDA by the manufacturer. We would probably reconsider if we had plans for international travel with the children, even though our oldest has probably been exposed/infected. (a fun story!) (It sure would be nice if antibody testing were cheap and widely available).

Seasonal Influenza - Declined based on personal negative experience and systematic reviews of vaccine efficacy[4][5]. Every single seasonal influenza vaccine I have taken has resulted in a miserable two-week flu-like state. I have never had a case of the flu as that was as unpleasant as my reaction to the vaccine. I understand most people are not affected so negatively by the vaccine. After reading the Cochrane reviews on the subject, I am inclined to believe that the seasonal Influenza vaccine is an unnecessary and rarely useful product.

Not that I need to worry about it yet, but Cervarix and especially Gardasil seem to have low efficacy WRT to the (possible) risks of the vaccine, especially considering the prognosis for those that contract cervical cancer (women rarely die of cervical cancer). I also find Merck's relationship over the matter with my state's idiot Governor particularly aggravating.

So, basically, if the risk of contracting and or having the illness is low, and if it doesn't needlessly endanger others (like MMR refusal for school-aged children) then I am going to take a good hard look at whether we really need the vaccine.

>not considering yourself anti-vaccine.

Anti-vaccine means you don't allow yourself or your children to be vaccinated. Our children do receive most vaccines at the scheduled time. We have opted to delay or forgo a few vaccines. Lumping people into two opposing factions has had a very negative effect on the debate, as it tends to do in a debate on any subject.

[1] http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedP...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22293889

[3] http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/Questions...

[4] 'Flu vaccine doesn't help elderly' http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20166072

[5] Please read the author's conclusions for this one. 'Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults.' http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20614424
- probably the worst is that they stopped breaking down the conversation in separate chat sessions: now you get a neverending scroll, so there's no easy way to tell when the yesterday's discussion ends and today's begins;

- what's even worse, this scroll loads in small pieces. Before I could open a 800-lines long conversation and Ctrl+F the words I needed - not anymore, now I'd have to scroll through it all;

- the conversations are still separate in the history, but if I click on one, I get to its end, and actually look at the beginning of the next one. If I want to re-read the conversation from the very beginning, I have to either scroll up or actually select previous conversation. No biggie, but still annoying;

- less text fits in the new chat window;

All of this increases their time-on-page numbers.
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In addition to all the great advice here, if you want a bit of a more structured approach, check out Scott Young's MIT challenge: http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/mit-challenge/
I somehow doubt that sabotaging the kid's education would reduce his anarchism and individualism.
The web changes all the time and the market catches up. In the early 1990s, the web was about linked information. Today we have Wikipedia and Google. In the late 1990s, the web became about ecommerce. Today we have Amazon. In the early 2000s, the web became about social interaction. Today we have Facebook and Twitter. In the late 2000s, the web became an app platform (HTML5 + cloud computing). Today we have Google and Apple. It gets bigger every time.

Maybe the browser and HTTP are less visible nowadays, because they are more tightly integrated into the UX, but they have never been more important, and it's still only day one.
You've been hell banned. After all YC is about making money, and guess who decides if you're allowed to make money in this country.
Summary: "NSA can break 1024 RSA/DH keys in a few hours. The problem with Tor is that it still uses 1024 bit keys for much of its crypto, particularly because most people are still using older versions of the software. Only 10% of the servers have upgraded to newer versions."

http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/09/tor-is-still-dhe-1024-nsa-...
But we're not comparing navies. Something like a Navy has an extraordinarily high up-front cost before you get any value at all from it.

People-focused forces (such as the police or an army) don't have the same issue.

Nor do technologies that are relatively cheap, such as the kind of computer hardware that would help a state surveil its own networks.

If anything, America is slipping compared to the rest of the world with regard to the quality of their computer programmers and other computer-focused developers. Even countries like Estonia could certainly find someone to help them develop competent surveillance if necessary.

The only limitation is that they'd probably not be able to attack the underpinnings of cryptology the way the NSA probably can, but we as computer professionals already know that usually the crypto is not the problem, it's the people or the implementation that is, and both of those are within reach of the Estonia state, if they really wish.
I clarified that I mean to refer to those with OpenSSL names that start with "ECDH-" and "DH-", which is not the same as what the shorthand "DH" gives you. As far as I can tell, EDH is an older synonym for DHE.

I like the ssllabs test and I hope this sort of testing gets more common for TLS usage that isn't HTTPS. However, I think a B is still cause for concern. You can only obtain a B if you have a) SSLv2 enabled (which is broken), b) cipher suites enabled with <128 bit symmetric keys, c) a RSA private key with less than 1024 bits or d) if you don't mitigate BEAST. I think only d) is a valid excuse under some circumstances.

On the other hand, a 1024 bit RSA key with SSLv3 and only RC4 will give you an A, but I would not call this very secure anymore.
Wow, I strongly disagree with that.

Different languages have different libraries, different communities, different philosophies, different purposes. Sure, a person who started in C can go and write C-ish code in many other languages. But that's bad code. Good code is idiomatic and takes advantage of the strengths of the language and platform it's written for.
Yeah, but you can't jump to the next lesson - unless you wait until the end of the course and see them all at the time, but then you won't get a certificate because you miss the quiz deadlines.
The proliferation of mobile makes web traffic go up, not down. Mobile is a bigger slice of the pie, but the entire pie is bigger. Desktop web traffic itself appears to be growing, not shrinking.

I've had to correct the distortion of these numbers before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5847337), and I'll do it again. Using Wikimedia as an example, as mobile accounts for a bigger share, overall traffic is growing significantly, and even desktop traffic is growing, not declining:

Wikimedia June 2012: 149,085 M requests - http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2012-06/Squ...

Wikimedia June 2013: 223,725 M requests - http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2013-06/Squ...

As you can see, Windows declined in share from 70.45% to 56.10%, but total number of Windows desktop requests grew from 105,035M to 125,520M. Similar pattern with Mac Desktop.

Mobile means more web traffic, not less, and desktop web traffic is also growing.
Yes it's meant to be billion. I'll update the chart. I didn't invent this, it comes from KPCB[1]: http://www.kpcb.com/insights/2012-internet-trends-update

[1] http://www.kpcb.com/
It would be interesting to see statistics on desktop vs mobile in terms of actual hours used. It's probably to be expected that mobile devices will outsell PCs as they tend to be cheaper and people get a "free" smartphone every couple of years as part of their plan anyway.

OTOH I spend 8+ hours a day in front of a PC generally and significantly less time browsing on a phone unless I am in transit or something.
Can Web of Trust/PGP be applied/adapted to client-server communication such as that handled by HTTP? Conceptually, HTTPS built on PGP? Would new products or services help the adoption of this (like a social network for PGP keys)?

Although it wouldn't solve all of the NSA techniques (social engineering, acquiring pre-encrypted data) it would certainly be harder to track down (i.e. steal, crack, coerce, subpoena, etc) tens of millions of keys rather than tens of thousands.
Ad blocking will not be a major problem until it becomes the default on a widely used browser. It takes about 30 seconds to block ads in a modern browser, and the majority of people don't do it.
[citation needed]

I know it's the prevailing wisdom, but I've never seen any study that actually supports that.
Twitter UK boss leaves role after trolling scandal
Thanks for the clarification. I misread your post above and thought this was based on one of the Snowden Powerpoint slides. However, I think part of the confusion here is over the US persons term.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, that term refers to citizens and green card holders, plus associations/corporations made up largely of those two groups. A tourist or someone on a temporary visa, for example, is not a US person. therefore, any activities they engage in are by definition those of a forieng person. I stand by my argument that 'foreign/domestic' is a function of the people involved and the scope of their activities, not of geography.
I've tried quite a few and https://mullvad.net/en/ worked best for me. I'm getting 3.3 MB/s torrent downloads, low ping, stable connection. Plus they accept BitCoin and cash.
Sedimentary? Oh, you mean like a golem, right?
In time, mobile devices will reach the heights of current desktop computers. While held back by the batteries, it seems inevitable to me that in 3-5 years, the performance difference between the web & native mobile won't be distinguishable (except for games!). After that (or before), it seems natural that a popular or up an coming OS will open up its native APIs to web sites, if the user wishes to. It might be Firefox OS, and Ubuntu OS. Whichever OS does it, will receive a huge market share boost. That's my vision.
>> Hetzner is provider without direct ties to the US/UK

Which also makes them a bad choice if you're trying to watch US TV channels or something while you're visiting abroad.
Anonymous domain registration, no about us page, total lack of info about who's behind it = deal breaker

BTW: websites hosted by Germans are required to have an imprint ("Impressum") with full contact data incl. phone number.
No it is not dying.

The web is much more than browsers, which should never have been more than a way to display documents online.

It is everything than can be reached by network protocols, IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP(S), SMTP, IM, Jabber, you name it.
Yes.

Mobile apps offer a superior experience. Reading on mobile is better (e-readers) and that was the main thing that pushed the web forward. Apps are also superior, not just the speed/polish, web will get that too, but because of the limited screen space, apps are forced to become more utilitarian, and hence better for the user.

Here's a talk explaining this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjE_Or4VIlU

Mobile, expecially tablets, bring back many of the superior experiences, like books, 90s style cd-rom apps, physical newspapers, that the browser pushed aside for many people. 'Long form' longer attention span activities will predominate.

The losers in this - aggregators such as search engines (google - replaced by wikipedia app etc.) and private social networks (facebook - replaced by peer to peer mobile apps)

the winners - creators - writers, artists, productiviy software developers, and game developers

A new type of app - hybrid between book-documentary-game-todolist, will become particularly important (a gamification of work).
The motherboard shown on lilliputing.com looks good - but at $80 for the motherboard, and once you add $75 for the case and power supply and fan, plus SSD ($80) and RAM ($40), the total's quickly going to close to what we've already priced our unit at. :-/

We did quite a bit of research - this was really the lowest we could price it at given our volume and the BOM (cost of raw materials.)
This is a weird one. I got shingles about two years ago (when I was 37). It was pretty horrible. My boss who sat in the next office from me got it within two weeks of when I got it, which is a pretty odd coincidence.

When I talked to my doctor about all of this, her hypothesis was that there was probably some other virus which weakened our immune systems to the point where the dormant chicken pox virus could get out and travel up the nerve endings and break out. Her thinking was that as a result of kids getting vaccinated, we're actually not exposed to the virus a lot any more. She felt that as a result shingles was becoming more prevalent in adults because you're not generating as many antibodies.

Through all of this, my daughter who was three at the time, also broke out in slight bumps on her legs. She had been vaccinated against the chicken pox, so the bumps went away and never developed into anything like a full blown case. I remember when I was a kid and got the chicken pox it was pretty horrible.

My point is really that there are side effects to everything. I haven't seen a study of whether shingles is on the rise, so I don't know if my boss and I were just unlucky. My preference is to still vaccinate, but really I'd love to see that particular virus wiped off of the planet.
In enterprise software land, now everyone brings their own device, web applications are more important than ever.

A company selling SaaS might hope to support HTML, Android, and IOS, but not Windows Phone / 8 / 8 RT, nor Mozilla Phone, and oh wow, different form factors for each device.

So if you are a bank, and you want to write an expense program for your field people, and don't buy a SaaS because politics, you will be writing in in HTML. This won't change for a decade.
KeePass is open source. There are ports for every major OS. I used it on my android devices, for instance.
Yes, I'm being flippant with the terminology. I know that to be true but strongly disagree that we should have no reasonable expectation of privacy for emails. Telephone calls go through a third party and they are covered.
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Sleepsort of course

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> diet and exercise should be sufficient most of the time, but not always.

Why do you assume most?

Just because that's the prevailing wisdom, doesn't mean it's true.
But as long as that sabotage severely curtails his future, do they care?
Oh, big whoop, some experimental evidence, huh! There's a Wikipedia article about the subject, so that blesses the contents of this book now, does it?
The power of the web is that there's a single name for every resource in the world, and anyone can link to it.

Mobile apps break the second part, which seems inconsequential to those that grew up in it, but it's a large part of why the web has become as ubiquitous as it is, why the web has become as useful as it is, and why the web has the freedom to create is it has become.
Well, the anarchy could have been forgiven, but individualism? Put him up against the wall!

I've looked at the blog in question ( http://hampsteadtrash.blogspot.co.uk/ ) - and it's obvious that the real problem was about his being critical of the school administration.

His petty thug of a headteacher seems perfectly deserving of every bit of the attention he is about to receive.
Somewhere in the vicinity of incidents like this one. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/so-thi...
The Lords of Vendorbation
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My own country had a dictatorship until 1974.

I am old enough to have gotten the last bits of it, as we learned to move to democracy, so I would call our secret services anything but inept.
I like mine (cryptoseal.com) obviously, but I don't think there's a single best VPN for all uses right now. It really depends on how you want to use it:

1) Travel? Travel to China? -- then worry about what VPNs are blocked

2) Need strong anonymity against the US government? You're probably out of luck, but Tor might be a good technology to use for now. Really, you want something which is message-based, not streams, and can have mix-net style latency, not onion routing. Other than email (mixmaster/mixminion, both too small in deployment to be safe, now), you're out of luck. Stay tuned, though. (You also probably need more than just the network -- incognito mode, some kind of filtering proxy, etc.)

3) QoS/etc. evasion on e.g. Comcast for torrenting? I'd probably go with the torrentfreak recommendations. (http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymit...) Generally I think a seedbox is a far better solution for torrenting than a VPN, though.

4) Great Mac support? That is GetCloak's focus.

5) Mobile? The PPTP/L2TP stuff built in is the best, although the security is weaker than SSL or IPsec VPNs.

6) Price? AnchorFree is free. The others range from (generally) $3-20/mo/user.

7) Need to tie in with your existing on-premises networks, AWS VPC, or support multiple clients, or do DLP, etc? That's what cryptoseal's business product tries to do, or you could use a conventional on-premises vpn hardware appliance from Juniper, Cisco, etc.

8) etc.

There isn't one best choice.
What exactly are you doing with the data that I am giving you while using this app?
1. Please don't criticise people's grammar, spelling, etc. here. We're here to comment on and critique people's work, not their comments.

2. Android Browser isn't modern, it usually has lagging support for web standards.
Can we Trust Google? Company Speeding up Strong Encryption Program
Chrome at over 40% marketshare? Everything else I've read puts it around the same level as FireFox, both browsers somewhere between 17 and 25% depending on the source.
Because land and presumably electricity are cheap there?
"What you see as laziness just might be depression."

Man, I've been there, and that was exactly what I was feeling when I read the article. The hopelessness. It's a vicious, killing cycle.

Just about everything in this kid's environment and experience was negative. Yes, we can rise above, but it's really hard to see that there's even somewhere to go when you haven't seen it in your life.

Unemployment of 16.3 percent. Does that mean that "they" are lazy? Or are there other more fundamental factors?