skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite unfortunate.

I liked Greplin and it really helped me several times to find 'missing' tweets and FB posts. When they pivoted and changed the name, the search part became below par. So I stopped using it entirely.

I do not know why they changed the previously good generic name and the original focus. I am sure they probably had more info than I do.

As we create more content scattered all over, personal search is becoming more useful. I hope something good comes again.

Best of luck to the team on what ever they do next.
> Q: How do you rate yourself compared to the road?

> A: The road has more users, but our service is better (to put it bluntly).

> [...] We have automated PGP encryption of messages for the members who refuse to send their messages using PGP.

Ouch.
Yes it is true, it would have enabled FBI to listen in to everyone using the service. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487778
> in GIT day to day activities like(commit, push and pull...) is expensive

No.

http://thkoch2001.github.io/whygitisbetter/#git-is-fast

> At the end we have great eco-system for SVN. what about GIT?

Aside from the great command line tools, all the IDEs I've tried have integration for git, and all the bug trackers / project management things
Screenshot? Demo?
cgroups are extremely powerful, but they are fairly complex, it took me some hands on experience to wrap my mind around it. Redhat has done a great job on the intigation side. You can watch a demo @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5QV4LId_c
Honestly I found the sooner one gives up and just uses the command line, the better.
>Intelligence is not a scalar.

It doesn't have to be. But it does vary from person to person (even if non linearly). What would you say affects the intelligence of people with mental retardation?
Way to be condescending about it dude.
I don't see how that's "unspeakable bad, terrible, terrible". Latest versions crash a lot less and if you really need to use UI during long database queries you can run another instance of pgadmin. It's still very useful and powerful tool.
> or stolen

That would be hazardous in my opinion. Now you have two places where you can place the preparator.
I'll second nnq's opinion. Quite a few of C++'s quirks are the way they are because of the C in its name.
The masters qualification is handed out to the top tier workers. It's for people who basically use mturk for a full time job and 'usually' output extremely high quality work.

The masters qualification is supposed to open up the higher paying tasks. They will calculate the cost and if they aren't earning, at minimum, .10c per min or better, they will abandon or return your hits. Keep in mind that probably less than 1% of all turkers have that qualification. It's extremely tough to get.

I mean no offense, but requiring a masters qualification for your (being blunt) junk hits is like requiring a PhD to flip burgers at McDonald's.
I never heard of Pivotal having big data experience before the acquisition announcement.

Their bread-and-butter was providing pairs of Rails programmers and best practices at $500/hr.
The problem with age is, it isn't static. Being in your 20's and being single is a very time limited advantage. And it goes away in some 5-6 years. Then you are in the same boat as the remaining population.

This is also why you, yourself should not pay much importance to your age. Unless you stand to lose more than to gain(Like close years to retirement, and you are making big gambles with your money). Anytime apart from that and you must just go away and do what you want to do.
I didn't mean for normal operations. when we flow a standard workflow in GIT then it becomes expensive.
When does a physical system compute?
Could you perhaps explain what the overall motivations were for not using LXC userspace tools and instead creating an alternative?

Watching the Google Omega talk video linked in the comment above, I am guessing your implementation probably mostly exists to instantiate Google Omega cluster cell-manager specified jobs including intra-google properties of resource shape, constraints and preferences in a local container. I am guessing that part is not released because the current code has too much to do with your internal standards for expressing the above job-related metadata.
Great post from Fogus, but the post he responded to was just wow. That author has simply painted herself as a liability. I don't care how good a developer is, male or female, if they have an attitude like that they are not someone I would ever hire. I also can't imagine how someone so full of rage would be able to control themselves to prevent that attitude from leaking out into their general day-to-day behavior.
If I want to move to GIT, then I should use all the advantages of GIT, I couldn't find single GIT client/plugin that directly supports all the advanced features in GIT including Egit, intellij and others.
The question is - what was the service provided by Silk Road at the end of the day, and what can be decentralized?

The trust and review system, the search engine and the communication platform can all run independently and don't need to happen on the same platform.

The web interface can be provided by an open-source turn-key package, so the next DPRs only need to figure out the hosting.
Stanford Algorithm Analyzes Sentence Sentiment, Advances Machine Learning
What would actually happen is that high-dollar lawyers would not take low-dollar cases. Small fraud would be effectively legalized.
With git, you typically have a single checkout of the repo. But with svn, it's natural to have separate checkouts of each branch you care about, in separate directories. So a typical "switch" in svn is not a switch at all: you just start working on files in a separate directory, or even simultaneously on two separate checkouts (which is more awkward in git).

I use and like git, but multiple checkouts is one aspect of the svn workflow that I miss.
I would agree with you, but the netiquette rule is: "whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress"
You are incorrect on your first point. This is an example of the birthday paradox[1].

With 2^512 possible keys (~10^154) even if everyone on earth (~10^9 people) got a billion new IDs every second (~10^18 per person per year) it would be more than a hundred thousand billion billion billion billion billion years (~10^50 year) before there was an even chance of a single ID collision (~10^77 IDs => 50% chance of 1 collision). So I think we can safely assume there will not be a collision.

In fact it is almost always the case in cryptography that there will be some risk of failure but as long as that risk is very small the system is considered secure. This is way way way beyond the normal standards of security (say 10^30 or so).

Many of your other points are a matter of opinion. There will be always tradeoffs between usability and security. This system appears to offer similar or perhaps even improved usability to existing two-factor systems with enhanced security in some respects but similar weaknesses in other respects. I would love to hear the opinions of cryptographers and security experts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack#Mathematics
That's where you need a bond paid into court
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It used too, but they've had a lot of problems. Apparently there were a lot of scammers from India so they (temporarily?) ceased allowing new accounts from outside the US.
Windows Phone climbs to nearly 10% of smartphone sales in Europe
There's no problem with having multiple clones of a git repository on a single machine.
You're making my point for me. In typical Subversion client usage the server's CoW optimisations mean nothing.

If you have to check out each branch you make, using Subversion gets really slow, really quickly.
New Encrypted Email Services Coming From Kim Dotcom's Mega And Newzbin
I wrote a fairly lengthy post on the fundamental flaws within the recruitment industry that perpetrate the shady, substandard behaviour that's so prevalent.

http://hackerjobs.co.uk/blog/2012/6/15/all-that-is-wrong-wit...

The best recruiters out there tend to share a handful of commonalities:

* Specialising in one or a small number of languages

* A decent comprehension of said languages

* Strong connections within the geographic tech scene they work in

* People who are more driven by helping people than by financial reward
> generating random 512 bit keys do not guarantee never having same ID. It's just quite unlikely.

Truly random 512 bit keys will never repeat, ever, under any circumstances. Seriously, they won't.
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> The problem with age is, it isn't static.

That is indeed one of the big problems. However it is not the most critical problem. The critical problem is that it is finite.
I'm not sure I'd use Parse as a point of reference for much of anything, especially not as a shining beacon of software engineering.

After the 4-5 hour outage a few months ago which tanked more than one person's app launch, and their amusing attempts at providing "workarounds" (e.g. see this: https://www.parse.com/questions/unique-fields--2 ) that will obviously not work, I'm just going to pass on this one.
I doubt if any tool can ever support all the advanced features of GIT like its plumbing commands.

Even a feature like rebase is which is fairly understandable on the CLI, becomes difficult to use on a GUI
Having been on the Canadian Dragons' Den[1] to pitch my game Rejection Therapy[2], I can verify a lot of what you said.

To add: the narrative and chronology of the exchange between contestant and the Dragons is sometimes manipulated, either to spice up the drama (let's face it, some contestants are boring) or create a more logical sequence of events or questioning.

That said, there was lots of drama before and during my pitch. I had my ass kicked.

[1]http://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/m/site/
[2]http://rejectiontherapy.com
Lavabits founder fought court orders to break its encryption for U.S. gov’t
Absolutely not.

If you have done embedded programming you would know C standard library is pretty much a bunch of standard utils to do stuff like copy char arrays, print and do some memory related stuff.

That is hardly a framework.
I would assume that being able to work offline and not depend on a central repo is enough of a benefit anyhow
sure, but when people deliberately lie in order to gain millions of dollars, I can't get that upset when they get 6 months stuck in their house

he, and statisticians at his company, knew or should have known what he was doing was wrong. This stuff is covered in the first inferential stats course taken as an undergrad.
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The headline is quite misleading. From the post, the patent appears to be about calculating and showing the traits children are likely to inherit from their parents, not a way to "design" them.
This teething trouble is faced with any tool that needs to be used.

In a short period of time everyone gets up to speed on how things work, and it will all be back to normal. Though this depends on the willingness to embrace the change.
The difference is that FBI this time wanted to install their own equipment inside of his facilities (at the point where everything of every user is decrypted):

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/801182/redacted-pleadi...

"shall furnish agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, forthwith , all information, facilities, and technical assistance necessary to accomplish the installation and use of the pen/trap device."

Before, they would really demand only the information of the user named in the court order. This time it was "just let us install this thing inside and don't ask."
- Off Topic -

Is just me or do you guys think that's strange Google using github instead his own code hosting infrastructure.
If the founder is strong enough, it should not matter IMO.
Making eye contact doesn't always help your cause
Getting started with PowerShell
> Now why all these systems end up with some bastardized crappy programming languages rather than just using Smalltalk -- that I don't know.

Because Worse is Better[1]. For example Internet and the Web is a bastardized version of Xanadu Project[2]. HTML is a bastardized version of XML or XHTML. Worse is here now, when Better gets here, it's not Better anymore, only marginally more useful. That or it turns out the benefits Better has aren't that important or are highly impractical.

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

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_Project
Smartphone attachment will help you skip your next physical
I will not trust Kim Dotom. This man is a rebel and only wants money. No way. I rather trust Google engineers than Kim Dotcom. Downvote me if you want.
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Note that this is a one way rule. Never seen an American site owner be extradited to a foreign country for not respecting their laws.
Just because you have shorter methods does not mean you would not benefit from Emacs-like power. I use Haskell--which has even shorter functions, often half that length--and yet I still find Emacs exceptionally useful.

Any amount of text is still text, and Emacs excels at text editing.
Freeze their assets, but allow them to use it for defense. If they hire reputable expensive lawyers, let them. If they hire disreputable lawyers, catch those lawyers on using funds for something other than legal expenses and disbar them for it. Once they are found guilty, seize the assets.

There is a known procedure that asserts control over person's or entity's finances without actually destroying their ability to conduct business - namely, bankruptcy. So, it is possible. It can be done also for the case of criminal prosecution - the funds are controlled by independent judge which allows the payments that look like legal expenses or other necessary expenses (e.g. if the defendant doesn't have money to buy food). Of course, this can be abused too, but major cases of abuse would be caught and all involved would be prosecuted, as with any law.

So I don't see the necessity to immediately block all assets for somebody prosecuted for criminal conspiracy. I think it is done with sole purpose of making life easier for law enforcement by denying the defendant the capability to hire expensive lawyers that would insist on making life hard for the prosecution.
Thanks for asking this question. Being a single founder is hard, but doable if you are passionate about what you are building. If you aren't passionate to the extend of being nearly blind with belief, it is impossible to do it alone.

I am guessing that YC may not care that much if you're single or not. I think they evaluate you on your overall chances of success.
> "the database triggers used to redact private data failed to take effect due to a schema incompatibility"

I suppose this is an exception raised but it wasn't properly caught or one of the Python's "except Exception: pass" silence?
It is never fallacious to point out the historical unreliability of a source. It is doubly never fallacious to point out the unreliability of a source, on a given topic, when discussing a new claim, on that topic, from that source, because that information is relevant to how we approach and evaluate the new claim (i.e., claims from historically-unreliable sources should be subjected to greater initial scrutiny).

Also, you've presented no actual rebuttal of whether Gibson's history is relevant to evaluating his present claims. Rather you've merely stated the name of a logical fallacy. Which is, itself...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
It's really odd and kind a funny to me : Investor push toward 1:good product 2:low cost-of-running-company.
This I can understand.

Over the years the cost of building a start-up has gone very low, wich is a very very good for everyone involved (founders, investors, society at large).

In the end, One solo-founder vs two-menbers-founders company egals running-cost of the latter being half priced. To me this is a very very good number for early adopter investors.

So yes my oppinion (as a founder) is that inveTstors for startups should run for those solo-founders : This way, they could invest twice the number of startups for the same amount of money.
opted for "straight privilege" as an alternative to "cisprivilege"that I thought HN people were more likely to understand. I'd have thought it was obvious I wasn't actually talking about orientation
I like the little image that seems to say: "Looking to start a family? Beware, your child might be a redhead! Calculate your risk now!"

(Please, if someone with red hair reads this, no offense :-))
Silk Road: How FBI closed in on suspect Ross Ulbricht
Let's say you don't have an ideal co-founder - one who complements your skills and whom you trust implicitly and deeply (like how it's described in this nice Venturehacks piece - http://venturehacks.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/...).

Does it then make sense to bring on board a sub-optimal co-founder, one whose skill sets may be similar to yours, and who may not share that close a friendship or history with you, and whom you cannot blindly trust?
Thanks for taking the time to write that! You presented your ideas extremely well. (And I love this kind of debate.)

So I'll accept both premises. And for premise 1, let's imagine the system we use to quantify beauty measures pronouncement of cheekbones and thickness of lips, etc. Premise 2 remains untouched. Here's the problem: Angelina Jolie would score well, but so would Jocelyn Wildenstein (Google image search that), and Emma Watson would score poorly. We would come to wrong individual conclusions based on correlations made from larger sample sizes. In fact, Jocelyn Wildenstein might come away with the title of "the most beautiful person ever." (And if you think I'm joking, listen to any interview with a man named Chris Langan.)

Since intelligence is qualitative, like beauty or flavors of ice cream, it's about the mix of ingredients. It's about "character". So that while you can make good correlations on large sample sizes, it's that individual mix that defines "beauty", "tasty", etc. Alan Kay was wrong: point of view isn't worth 80 IQ points -- 80 IQ points is worth a better point of view. That point of view is the end result, the character that determines your intelligence.

Again, the most beautiful woman, say, may not have the combined biggest lips and highest cheekbones, but an especially good mix. If you look at Einstein and every other great thinker, the people we consider the smartest, they won't have the highest IQ scores, but they had the best intellectual character.
No, under the pretext of a "single user" FBI wanted to install their own equipment inside of his facilities (at the point where everything of every user is decrypted):

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/801182/redacted-pleadi...

"shall furnish agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, forthwith , all information, facilities, and technical assistance necessary to accomplish the installation and use of the pen/trap device."
About women in tech
4 barrels at absolute minimum. 5 at a practical minimum, depending on how tightly packed.

- Volume: ~ 74 L (19.6 gal) -

6.5e7 [$] * (0.06943 [in^3/bill] / 100 [$/bill]) = 45129.5 in^3 ~ 195.366 gallons or 739.54 L

195.366 [gal] / 55 [gal/barrel] = 3.5 [barrels]

Rule-of-thumb: 1.1 L (0.3 gal) / Mega$

- Weight: ~ 650 kg (1433 lbs) -

A $100 bill weighs exactly 1.00 gram, so $65M (MM) weighs 650 kg (1433 lbs).

The money in each barrel would weigh at most 183 kg (360 lbs), so a water barrel will work since water would weigh about 45 kg (100 lbs) more. Therefore, sealed money barrels float.

Rule-of-thumb: 10 kg (22 lbs) / Mega$

- Other Hazards -

Mold, insects (silverfish, etc), mudslides, ground-penetrating radar and federal agents
It was not for giving access to "the data of one user" but to all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487778
Bitscup - Reinventing Google Analytics?
So, guys try bitscup.com free, write some feedback, vote for Obama )
Apparently the Galaxy S3 is notorious for GPS issues, and those issues have an easy fix: Tighten the screws on the back.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201668
Apart from the fact that until February this year it was impossible to keep PepperFlash disabled [1], we've so far had:

- Frequent crashes when acquiring video camera [2]

- Recorded sound being choppy and broken (still not fixed for Red5) [3]

- Audio delays and broken echo cancellation in Speex [4]

- Microphone sound levels not reported, breaking apps like ours which check if a microphone worked properly. (resolved together with [3])

- Sound stopping to record after a few minutes [5]

- Inability to give camera access on retina displays [6]

- Rushed fix for a click-jacking attack introduces horrible UX that gets into an unrecoverable state by default [7]

All in all I can personally confirm that Chrome has not been good for people doing video recording on the web.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150596
[2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140831
[3] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136624
[4] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=144554
[4] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152314
[4] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140724
[5] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=168859
[6] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=177621
[7] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=155437
Other have commented that this is a very thin API on top of the already existing LCX system. This worries me - maybe this is a move from Google to be able to switch away from Linux (their last GPL component in Android).
Youtube versus Searal
I think "Read it later" was too good of a brand.

And because of how it is worded, it doesn't sound like a brand at all. I believe it has much less cognitive overload than "pocket".

Edit: to add, I see many of the most well-remembered services tend to become verbs at one point or another. So a verb, like "read it later", will probably be more easily successful among all the noun brands which are usually favored.
Valid point. But to act as the Devil's Advocate here, who is likely to create a service that is impervious to spying - a shady character who has a grudge & point to prove against the US Govt/NSA, or a respected US company that cannot afford to antagonize the US Govt?