skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, we use Google Apps for Business at my workplace and our experience has been every bit as bad as yours with Outlook.

Amusingly, our Google services were once again down this morning, making it the second disruption we've had in the month of September.

And let's not even begin to discuss the abysmal multiple account support Google has, especially surrounding their mandatory-to-join G+ nonsense.

There is no decent support. Period. Google shits on support. We all know Google has a well known disdain for support. GAE is no exception. If you cannot find help in old Google Group pages, you will not get help...

Also, here's a kicker:

Google does it's best to enforce Google+ accounts on Enterprise Accounts.

So our employees are all but forced into a PUBLIC social network for our PRIVATE accounts, and because of how much mandatory integration there is with G+, we lose a lot of Google Apps functionality without having G+ accounts. We can't even use Hangouts without a Google+ account, a requirement I found disgusting and offensive.

It sucks to hear that Office365 isn't any better because I have been nothing but let down and disgusted with Google Apps for Business.
Nice! Another shorting opportunity.
I don't know, personally I think 10% growth in the value of a mature company over a year is pretty good.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect all tech companies to gain 20% on the day of the IPO. If they do, that's an indication that existing investors are reliably leaving a ton of value on the table.
yes, and I am kicking myself for not buying it when it was around 16/share. I'm not missing out on twitter if I see similar fluctuations.
Can you say the same for your own life?

Hmm, yes.
Wikipedia defines pulleys as "A pulley is a wheel on an axle that is designed to support movement of a cable or belt along its circumference", though I think the wheel/axle requirement is probably shouldn't be considered a hard requirement.

On the other hand, I don't think I would call the loops that fishing line passes through along the length of a fishing pole "pulleys".

I guess I'd say that block and tackle is not common, and neither are "wheeled pulleys", but "friction pulleys" are.
I have heard this before, and just to inject my own experience while I like House of Cards it took me awhile to get through it. Hemlock Grove though I went on a complete binge, every episode that ended I wanted to watch the next one.
I agree with you 100%.

Don't know why you got downvoted.
Any idea about their valuation? Facebook is now worth more or less what they claimed at the time of their IPO. Is it safe to assume this is will be around the same range (i.e., $100b)?
Meet The PR Firm That Helped Vladimir Putin Troll The Entire Country
He never planned to stay the winter. He was just going to wait another month or two until the river level dropped, then he could just hike out the same way he hiked in.
Save your vitriol for when it finally happens then (my guess: highly unlikely).

There is no slippery slope here. You think Android manufacturers blindly follow where Apple leads? At the very worst Apple will sign iOS's death warrant at that point.
Not sure what you mean, so I guess not.
Not true. I've created a browser extension that inserted a menu item to Facebook's menu for each facebook story. I didn't have to be signed in as a facebook developer to do that.
Brazil's Rousseff targets Internet companies after NSA spying
Great info (although I've not made it all the way through the first one yet). Interesting to learn that, due to laws, tip sharing is not via a restaurant policy but something that only happens organically among the staff.
Not even sure that the number of ways that a genome can be mutated is even finite. Genomes can be mutated not just by the substitution of single base pairs, but also by introducing copies, through deletions, translocations and insertions.

There is even the phenomenon known as Chromothripsis [1], which has the entire genome smashed into thousands or millions of pieces and then randomly put back together.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromothripsis
Great, did they find a way to monetize their service yet?
It's odd that this article (in it's various incarnations) manages to miss one of the more successful Theil startups: Zaption [0]. (Disclaimer: I work for Charlie). We've just launched, have had great success with funding, and are already on our way to profitability. As a bonus, we're helping teachers with tools to better reach kids, instead of the "simplistic SV startups" the author moans about.

[0] http://zaption.com
The last round of funding came in at around a 10B valuation. I would expect the valuation to be much greater this time.
It hasn't been announced but I think 10-20 billion is the expectation.
I was thinking more in terms of 10x to 20x revenue per year as more normal.
$14 billion, rather.
profit? What relevance has profit to tech companies?!
"Your health is unlikely to suffer in any appreciable long-term way working banking hours for a few years in your 20's"

The original article is about an intern who died. So your comment is really quite stupid.
I remember both. Google maps was by far much more enjoyable to use. Just like between Hotmail vs GMail.
It's obvious to most people (regardless of whether you think that free software is in important principle) that the techniques described in that section will result in you making MUCH LESS money, at least in the current context of these people selling their API.
I wonder if we aren't starting to miss the forest for the trees here. Perhaps this is the true, final reason. However, if he'd fallen down the steps on that bus and broken his leg he would most likely be dead. He basically put himself in a position where he had such a small margin for error that it's not all that surprising he didn't make it. I backpacked Central and South America for quite some time pre-internet and pre mobile. There were a lot of people who were removing themselves from their environments and doing some wonderful self discovery. There was also the odd, additional person, who was so completely reckless that it seemed inevitable that something bad would befall them. I've always thought of those people whenever I've bumped into stories on Chris MacCandless.
Same thing at at&t. Glass ceilings for those without degrees; at least in 2001.
Mainly through advertising, like "promoted tweets"
We share the same vision that voice becomes the key human/machine interface, especially for the upcoming generation of wearable devices, home automation, etc.

I don't know if Ask Ziggy is 100% self-service for the developers. That's a key requirement for us.
Anyone know of a good tutorial for revoking and recreating your key as painlessly as possibly?
This is one of those puzzles that just begs you to use Mathematica:

In[20]:= Select[Map[FromDigits, Partition[RealDigits[N[E, 500], 10][[1]], 10, 1]], PrimeQ][[1]]

Out[20]= 7427466391
I think those who held onto it when they bought the initial stock are happy with their gains. If the current price is stable or even growing, that means it was never over-valued. You are thinking too short term.

If you have bought a stock at one price, and it currently has a higher price, that means you have made a good investment, regardless of what happened in between.
Intel makes a bid for Internet of Things with Quark X86 CPU
Other than the 175 jobs?
Beats by Dre: How the headphones company conquered the market.
I should better leave aside my hopes for a conversation.
No surprise. The author, Marcia Hoffman, used to be a Staff Attorney at the EFF and litigated some of their most important civil liberties cases.
AngularJS Video Tutorials
I've used gmvault[1] before, and it works pretty well at preserving labels and playing nice with Gmail's specific idioms not common among other IMAP providers.

[1] - http://gmvault.org/
Actually I think the developer UX is quite different... but you should try both and make your own opinion.
Er, but doesn't regular Facebook fill this need for those interested?
Can somebody explain what extra security they gained by using an RSA-based signature as opposed to a straight-up HMAC (with the secret key burned into the CPU)?
So much pessimism in the comments about the viability of Twitter as a business model. I've heard multiple sources (Chris Sacca, Ron Conway) not only say that Twitter has perhaps the best monetization opportunity of any web 2.0 company but dump as much money as they can into the stock. I've advertised on Twitter for quite a while, and the returns destroy Facebook and Adsense.

Advertising makes a lot of money if the audience is big enough. Twitter's audience is huge, connected, well sorted, and interested.
Hmm, I wonder what other types of otherwise harmless food stuffs can become detrimental given the correct physiological conditions of the consumer? How do we even go about humanely testing that sort of thing?
Matternet
Is there much evidence to suggest that actually brings in value and profit though?

People search google for washing machines, then click on an advert, and buy a washing machine. I can see how that works, and makes google lots of money.

But a "promoted tweet", to people who are tweeting gossip, wasting time, etc? There's no intent there. They're not looking for a washing machine, they're wasting time.
I had the same issue with the tutorial. Looks very polished, too. Congrats on launching.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6230582
They have a lot of really sharp talent over there. I'm confident they can make a killer ad platform. Sign me up.
Society isn't evil in and of itself, though it does contain evil. Humans are social creatures, so why is leaving what we need/depend upon heroic?
non sequitur. Why does beauty imply the existence of an intelligent designer?
>Even stranger is that the issus doesn't keep these gears throughout its life cycle. As the adolescent insect grows, it molts half a dozen times, upgrading its exoskeleton (gears included) for larger and larger versions. But after its final molt into adulthood—poof, the gears are gone. The adult syncs its legs by friction like all the other planthoppers.

>Their idea: If one of the gear teeth were to slip and break in an adult, its jumping ability would be hindered forever. With no more molts, it would have no chance to grow more gears.
One thing I'd note is that a potential city that is very racist but with a racially homogeneous population probably would have few reviews that include the word "racist" on Yelp.
I've never seen Docker/LXC as a "virtualization" solution; it's an isolation tool, to firewall off exploited services from their siblings and hosts (which then allows things like PaaS multitenancy.) Used in that sense--where anything that breaks isolation (like host-mounted volumes) is disallowed--Docker does indeed require 12-factor-structured apps, to do anything of use.
Did he eat the seeds raw? This paper suggests it may be possible to reduce the toxin through simple means:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291097-00...

Ordinary cooking and pressure cooking of pre-soaked seeds
were found to be most effective in reducing the levels of
all the natural toxicants examined...

These findings and the high water solubility suggest that
a simple and effective means of detoxifying Lathyrus by
removing this neurotoxic amino acid may be practicable.
You'll need to contact twitter support.

https://twitter.com/about/contact
Or don't even go for 10/8 or 192.168.0.0/16, go straight to 172.16.0.0/12.
Fear of number 13 hurting Mens Wearhouse sales
> dump as much money as they can into the stock

They would say that wouldn't they!
Capitalism is just engaging in free exchange with others.

This is not even wrong. It carries too many unproven, moralizing background assumptions to be wrong or right. It is an attempt to prescribe reality, not describe it.

"Capitalism is defined as a social and economic system in which capital assets are mainly owned and controlled by private persons, labor is purchased for money wages, capital gains accrue to private owners, and the price mechanism is utilized to allocate capital goods between uses."[1] Even this definition carries nasty background assumptions, namely: a class division between the laborer and the capitalist. A laborer who controlled his own means of production would never sell labor alone, he would just produce actual goods or services and sell those.

So you need at least: enforced and exclusive (meaning: no commonly-held property belonging to whole communities) private property in the means of production, enforced private contracts, and some way of separating the population into laborers and capitalists.

The key to that last element is institutionalized debt [2], usually created through outright force. When you can't find enough wage laborers to man your factories, just pass laws enclosing the commons and kicking peasants off their land! Or create a new tax or rent that can only be paid in money and kill those who disobey.

Now you've got capitalism: a laboring class exists who are paid in money wages, and a capitalist class exist who accumulate money as capital by owning the means of production, because on some level the former is created by their enforced compulsion to pay the latter. In fact, once you've got people out of self-sufficient lifestyles, the whole cycle runs itself: laborers require money wages merely to subsist! They're in debt to the Grim Reaper!

(Situations in which the working class are not so deeply in debt to the Grim Reaper are exactly the cause for the rise of consumerism: something has to stop them from saving and accumulating themselves for the whole system to not come tumbling down. Too much money-value being allocated to labor leads to inflation!)

Which then leads the accumulation cycle of capitalism to become self-reinforcing and self-optimizing, giving us the world we see today. To steal a phrase in conclusion: capitalism does not love you, and does not hate you, but your life is made of productive power it can use to accumulate money.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#Economic_elements
[2] - http://isreview.org/issue/84/debts-role-history
Baseball stats app for Google Glass
Not necessarily. Zynga came public at about the same valuation as its last round, so that's not always the case.

One of the criticisms of SarBox is that companies go public much later in their maturity, so public investors miss out on much of the market cap growth.
FB is 15% above its IPO;
LNKD is 2.6x above IPO;
TSLA 8.2x above IPO.
I hope they make a cool stock certificates. People were upset that facebook didn't do this.
So I have a GPG key. I used it a couple of times. Currently, it's most useful to me to sign my own Debian package repository. However, I can't seem to figure out how to get into the whole Web of Trust thing. Nobody I know has their own GPG/PGP key that they use and have signed by others and tools like BigLumber and other places where I looked for key signing parties have not turned up any results. I not spending all my free time looking for GPG users, but I have spent what I feel is more than a casual amount of time looking for people to exchange key signatures with. What do y'all do for this? Any advice?

Edit: I am located in the North Eastern part of the US.

Edit 2: perhaps we need a geolocation aware social network a la Square but just for notifying you of other nearby PGP users...
Simulating tiny worlds for fun and profit
Advertising makes money when the audience has intent.

People search google for "Best washing machine". Google shows them adverts for washing machines, customer buys washing machine.

Where is the intent on twitter? To gossip? I just don't see it.

If someone is about to buy something, they're likely to go to google and search. They're not likely to go to twitter. Google gets them at the crucial point before they buy something.
Quantitative easing floats all boats...
Sure, you can look at it as Ron Conway pulling a long con by investing in a stock and lying about its monetization potential. Or you can look at it as Ron Conway putting his money where his mouth is.
My experience with setting thresholds for e.g. performance measurements is that it goes like this:

1. Works fine.

2. Fails once every 25th time. You're very close to the threshold, but it is not clear what broke it. Any of the previous N commits are suspicious. Or have their been any change in the environment (overall network traffic, security updates, etc.) that could have performance implications?

3. Now you must take immediate action in figuring out what decreased performance. Too often, no one thinks their changes could possibly have decreased performance. If it is environment changes that cause the ThresholdTest to fail on occasion, it is very easy to blame it too often, and not spend the time necessary to really understand what changed.

4. Dev team doesn't have the time right now => bump ThresholdTest in the wrong direction temporarily, often turning into permanent.

Because of this, I think it is very important to keep ThresholdTests very repeatable and not let them depend on anything that could fluctuate over time. And you should of course log every test result to some database and graph it, interesting finds in both directions are to be found!
These are all easily solvable issues. But to get back to the point of this thread: Google has done nothing to help secure peoples email.

The fact that you can't identify any ways in which they could, or refuse to acknowledge them, or think they're too difficult for a multi-billion dollar company makes no difference to the point under discussion.
Not sure about the value, or how much money it brings in. According to Twitter "Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets purchased by advertisers who want to reach a wider group of users or to spark engagement from their existing followers." Advertisers pay Twitter to tweet, Twitter finds a specific group of people to show this tweet to.
What exactly is a "fraudulent order" anyway? Someone has a credit card, pays you and you send the product. Where is the fraud? Isn't it external to the company or service? If someone steals a credit card and makes an online purchase, isn't that the responsibility of the card company in securing its account proxy more fully?
Only if you've redefined "capitalism" to mean "any economic system including individual/institutional holdings and trade", in which case you've successfully and retroactively redefined all economies ever as having been capitalistic. A net that catches every fish names none.
I'd imagine the process works something like this:

* Generate the new key
* Sign the new key with the old key
* Generate the revocation cert for the old key
* Push the revocation publicly with a reason of "Superseded by (fingerprint of new key)" or similar
* Push the new key
* Try to get your new key signed by everyone that signed your old key for authenticity's sake

I'm not too sure how the community of GPG users out there sees key revocation socially, so you may or may not want to bother with that bit. Perhaps hold off on pushing the revocation until the new key has been in use for a while?
I think I did !

edit: Since no one had answered I simply edited the post with the "solution" :) (seems like this got me 3 beans).
I'm sure the man page for gpg can tell you the command line incantation, but I use https://gpgtools.org/ for mac which just has "make key" and "revoke key" buttons.

The tricky bit is just to get your friends to sign your new one, you'll have to re-do all of that work
An interesting thing to note about 4096bit RSA openPGP keys, that's what Snowden was using. His PGP Key was a 4096bit RSA signing key with a 4096bit RSA encryption subkey.
Dell to go Private, Twitter to go Public
Yes, but why on HN?
Events are effectively delegates
Nightclubs in Houston try to keep minorities out because white people will call a place "ghetto" if it has a lot of blacks or Hispanics. It's not hard to figure out. Growing up in Houston I saw countless venues quickly disappear as soon as word spread that they were "ghetto." What basically happens is the young white women feel uncomfortable around "ghetto" men, so they go elsewhere. Young men go where the young women are.

You can blame the patrons, not the owners. The owners are behaving rationally, sadly.
Certainly, we see some some traits that arise independently in different populations in different places with similar traits and are preserved and develop in similar ways, but the fact that a feature that contributes to fitness arises uniquely in one place is far from surprising.

I grant you all but a feature that contributes to fitness arises uniquely in one place is far from surprising. First, I'm not a biologist and have not studied evolution/evolutionary processes as much as I would like to, but it's hard to agree with that statement. Why exactly is it not surprising? In the over one-million insect species estimated to exist[1], of which some percentage (won't even try to guess) have some evolutionary jumping mechanism, it seems at least mildly surprising that we've never observed at least similarly structured creatures.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect#Distribution_and_diversi...
I think Twitter probably saw this as a good time to file.
Did you read my linked expansion on the topic? Some people need crutches, temporarily; others need wheelchairs, permanently; and others don't need, but function more optimally with, glasses. There are chemical imbalances that resemble all of these states. (I have ADD myself, which is quite solidly in the third group.)
"I just bought a #WashingMachine from @SomeWebshop for #cheap, #omg!!111#one~!", where @SomeWebshop paid Twitter to have positive-sounding tweets for SomeWebshop appear more prominently on the #washingmachine hashtag and elsewhere.

(disclaimer: I don't know twitter and never got into it.)
I'm bullish on TWTR(?), and will definitely buy into the company at some point (likely after their first lockup expiration), but I am, for one, not the least bit surprised that two people who have a ton of money on the line say they think Twitter has a solid business model, and that of course you should buy their stock.
And how's that working out? It's feasible, yes, but not in the consumer market. Bug Labs is for prototyping.
This is a matter of your investing preference and whether you are a buy-hold investor or a day-trader type who wants to get in at the lowest price. I simply wanted to point out I was skeptical and that FB stock tanked after IPO. I am by no means an expert on the stock market or IPOs :)
This warning was also recently added to the Wikipedia Page for Hedysarum alpinum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hedysarum_alpinum&...

There's even a bit of back and forth as people argued about mentioning McCandless in the page :)
YELP at 4x above IPO
I think the problem might be that you are secretly 'forced' to use it. What if NSA / govt tells apple to start harvesting all fingerprints of all users
Engineering beauty.

Like a Saturn V rocket, or an AC induction motor.

Things that make you proud to be an engineer.
/shrug. My FB stock is up 80% since purchase.
we migrated recently (last week) using the new mongo2toku bridge. it was relatively painless.
Advertising makes more money when the audience has intent. That's why a google click for someone who is searching for "mesothelioma" costs $130, and why Google makes money faster than it can spend it.

But what if no one is looking for you? What if you are trying to gain new audiences? There's still plenty of money to be made there. Maybe not Google money, but enough to build a company that's worth tens or perhaps eventually hundreds of billions of dollars. Reputable sources (http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2013/03/27/report-twit...) have Twitter's estimated revenue to be at $1 Billion next year. And the monetization is just getting started.
Um, why do you think you can't brute force a fingerprint?

The phone is covered with them, just copy one and use it.