skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My complaint is that neither of these things is coming back in a relevant way.

Isn't Light Table essentially an effort to re-create the Smalltalk environment for modern languages?
Intellect and commons sense are not always included in the same package. And a lot of the person's perception is shaped by popular culture anyway.

And made other stupid mistakes all over the place anyway.
There's a dropdown ('Select download') with four options, one of which says 'Mac OSX Installer'. Can you explain what makes it unclear? Thanks in advance!
Apologies for throwing these quotes in, but they just seem so appropriate in this context:

"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."

"After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."

Try the red pill... (And think of turtles rather than rabbits!)
Selective credulity amuses me.
It just feels so juvenile — first he doesn't comply, then he says he'll comply, then he refuses to comply, then he's ordered to show cause and represents himself (!), then he prints out the encryption key in 4-point font in a clearly noncompliant gesture.

Yes, there are privacy issues at stake, but there's a much more mature and reasonable to way to conduct oneself than it seems like he has.
It's sad, I remember greplin had a lot of things going for them.

In general re: shutdowns:

If the economics aren't red ink or a white elephant, why not find a buyer or merge with a frenemy instead of throwing away value and customers?

Most shutdowns appear to me like putting 30 packs of $100 bills on a table, pouring gasoline over them and throwing a lit match while rationalizing "Everybody does it, so it's okay. Look at 'em go!"

For apps, building things that cost basically nothing[0] to run and letting them have sufficient time to grow on their own. Rinse. Lather. Repeat faster.

[0] auto-scaling & revenue covering costs.

--

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Sir F. Bacon
I used to buy print at airports also when I used to fly several years ago… of course, at that time, laptop batteries didn't last even a 2.5hr flight unless you got lucky and found an available plug in the boarding area. Plus laptops were bigger and noisier.

Nowadays you have Air/ultrabooks, iPads with 10hr batteries, and Kindles so one never need actually resort to dead-tree.
There's also a lot of flash out there generated through things like libming that people either can't or won't rewrite to use html5.
Ask HN: Work as a freelancer or through your own company?
I have a company (Delaware C corp) that I had incorporated a few years ago. The company has no employees and a small amount of revenue from various software products.

I'm planning to do some programming work for a different company. The options are to work for them directly as a freelance consultant, or to have my company contract with them as a service provider, and then pay myself out of those earnings.

Any advice on which option is better, from tax and general complications point of view?
Using Our Past Lives To Inspire Blog Posts
I know very little about him but this instantly makes me think he is a decent person at heart.

(and retroactive too, nice detail)
Started to make a maze, seemed like many people joined in.
You're right, the police lying is the magical way that evidence is made up. None of the police have a problem with it, anymore.
Interrogate Your Way Past the iOS 7 Lock Screen
Bill Gates: Microsoft investors reportedly call for co-founder to depart
> These frameworks simply don't scale past the size of a small project.

That is incorrect. From the Django side, see Instagram (http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/wha...) and Disqus (http://blog.disqus.com/post/62187806135/scaling-django-to-8-...).
"because it turns out that hosting email for the criminal class carries real risks and isn't terribly lucrative."

I guess that’s the reason the Post Office is doing so bad.

I have an idea, why not tell the Post Office so send all letters via the FBI so we can check who sent them and to whom.
> My complaint is that neither of these things is coming back in a relevant way.

I think one could make the case that Android shares many design decisions with a "Smalltalk machine". And the same actually goes for iOS, as objective-c is basically Smalltalk bolted on to c.

And then there is javascript that's modelled after Self -- so by extention chrome OS is also similar to a "Smalltalk machine".

Now why all these systems end up with some bastardized crappy programming languages rather than just using Smalltalk -- that I don't know.

The exception might be the one-laptop-per-child project.

So, I think it's wrong to say "it's not coming back" -- even java (for set-top boxes and smart devices) was an attempt at "bringing it back".

If anything, it seems these systems keep being reinvented.
Yip, Right Bottom Corner, a guy even righted HN. This reminds me a lot of the first online Minecraft server, keeping in mind Minecraft was a lot more advance.

The only problem with a canvas like this is griefing.
Why Eye Contact Can Fail To Win People Over
He is strongly opposed to high-frequency/algorithmic stock trading as well. Plus, he is regularly the most-fined owner in the NBA for telling the officials that they blew calls in press conferences.

At the very least, he's certainly entertaining.
From what I can tell, and what I've heard from friends of the company, they shut down Cue the product, not the company.

The team is likely working on a new product.
Yes, it is still being actively developed, at a slowish rate depending on how many other projects are going on at the same time. We release a new build around every two-three weeks, with minor enhancements and bug fixes.

Releasing the source is no big deal, but I would have to spend some time wrapping it up nicely to make it accessible to outsiders.
Why should he?
Isn't it nice to be patent troll in the US.

You can threaten 1000's of entities with legal action to extort money, since just defending against the allegation is very expensive. Then when a few of those threats don't stick, all you have to do is "settle for nothing" to avoid an actual trial. Nice.

The patent trolls are just a symptom, the legal system is the problem.

You leave a legal loophole and you'll find some parasitic scum that will exploit it. Personally I find it hard to believe that the people running these companies can sleep at night... But that is a different story.
even for guys who's not considering to use oh-my-zsh it worth to check internals of https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/plugin...
Makeshift — a company I could quit my startup life for
And against patents:

http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/07/my-suggestion-on-patent-l...

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/mark-cubans-awesome-justifi...
There was more than a personal cost. The staff of Lavabit had no idea what was happening as the servers were being shut-down, until they were told to go home.

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showpost.php?p=558661&postco...

I apologize; it was not my intent to mislead (though it appears that I did so inadvertently). I was told that the outage was related to maintenance regarding the storage system

from one of the Lavabit admins.
I agree to a large degree. I just think that the thrill of strangers' adulation is going to wear off after a while, what was new and novel becomes a grind, and people start to ask why, if you're so smart, you're not rich? And so the guy in his garage either gives up and goes back to his day job, sells out, or tries to monetize. You can do mobile apps for the love of the game in your early twenties, but I think there's a definite expiration date on that kind of thing. Maybe the next generation of young suckers will take the place of the old generation, but I think it's more likely that in a few years some other thing will be red hot and the gold rush will have moved on. (And mobile is very much a gold rush mentality, which is, at the root of it, centered around striking it rich.)
For those of us still using bash, "set -o vi" is analagous. I would be interested in hearing about customizing it in ways like this article.
Yes. Lets. Oh... we already do. Why not this time? Should we let 4chan or Reddit define it? Who then? Not every single person in every single department in every single 3-letter org is a corrupt asshole just waiting for their chance to stick it to some innocent.
> I even learned Java before giving C++ a try

I must admin from all the stuff I saw on the internet I am now scared even try to learn C++. I think it is the looks as a least desireable language to learn for me. Which sucks a bit because there is position at a company I wouldn't mind work for.
Sorry to be rude, but did you read that link before posting it?

" In an 8–0 ruling on Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board, the court ruled the law unconstitutional.[5] The majority opinion was that the law was overinclusive, and would have prevented the publication of such works as The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, and even The Confessions of Saint Augustine."
Anyone can donate, this isn't running for political office. It is a legal fund.
Addy - Location, simplified
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For highlighting that you're not in vi insert mode, try using an emoji (e.g. high voltage sign: Unicode: U+26A1, UTF-8: E2 9A A1) instead of [NORMAL].
It works in iTerm2 on Mac OS 10.8. Can't vouch for other OS/terminal combinations.

RPS1="${${KEYMAP/vicmd/⚡}/(main|viins)/}"
From its documentation, it looks more like an attempt to expose the kind of REPL/runtime integration Emacs offers, through an interface which won't scare people off the way Emacs tends to do.
That was always my biggest gripe with Shark Tank and the main reason I would advise people to stay away. I'm glad they finally fixed that.
Of course they are not. That is not how tyranny works. It works by everyone doing there part, asshole or not. The tyranny is ingrained in the system itself so its seems just normal.

And we can all see what is normal in the US today.
Freemium. You could get basic functionality for free, but certain tasks would cost money. I seem to remember thinking that the balance between what was free and what was paid was a bit off.
http://5onwnspjvuk7cwvk.onion

http://sheep5u64fi457aw.onion

Also, if you enjoy the idea of having a space to opt out of government regulation but want the stability of having a place you can settle down, be non-anonymous and set up infrastructure, support:

http://www.seasteading.org/

http://blueseed.co
> JavaServer Pages? That's an interesting choice..

It's a GWT app. Some of the most awesome web tools I've ever used were written in GWT. Far from holding that against it I would see it as a promising sign that's going to be a high quality piece of work.
thats great TV watching you got there
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487042
This is absolutely incredible! If I were going to an open hackathon this weekend, this on top of Firebase seems like such a great place to start.

One small typo, if the Firebase team is reading, "College Park, MA" should be "College Park, MD" (Maryland, not Massachusetts)
Quick + / - analysis:

- "But no two visitors will ever have the same ID". - How is that confirmed, generating random 512 bit keys do not guarantee never having same ID. It's just quite unlikely.

- SQRL lacks strong web-site identification, that's a bad thing. Domain name isn't strong authentication. I would like to include strong site identity with within the QR-key. (Evil website attack, NS spoofing / MITM)

+ No shared secrets is a real bonus. Except, if the attacker has full access to the site already and steals password, they can steal everything else. Therefore if password hashes are stolen, it's major breach of security, and all passwords should be immediately reset. Of course nobody's using same password for separate sites. So, site was breached and thats it anyway.

/ Out-of-band authentication, well, in some cases yes, in some cases no. I wouldn't call this true out of band solution. Especially when using mobile browser, or shared WLAN connection. Fact that authentication data is also routed on same internet route at the server end sounds quite likely. Of course this can be fixed by service provider if they really want to do it.

+ No third-party, that's the only way to go. In anycase when there's a third-party, the solution already sucks badly. That's one of the main reasons why I hate most of SSO solutions. (Single Sign On)

- Mobile (nor desktop) devices aren't secure, having keys in mobile device isn't considered to be secure and those can be extracted. Default mobile device protection isn't good enough for password / identity protection. Most of people aren't even using simple 4 digit pin. Real + would come form completely separate authentication device.

- Using long password with mobile is horrible. My GPG private key password is 20+ chars including tons of special chars. Try typing that with mobile, repeatedly. If shorter passphrases / keys are used, not enough entropy is included.

- "A password lockout system". Eh? Same method should prevent any web-site password hacks too. ;) Anyway, with proper password, guessing should still be futile, read my statement about password earlier. If the password got even 128+ bits of entryopy, it's going to be long guessing marathon. I don't really care even if you try to guess 1 or 10000 pwd/seconds.

/ "such as a personal safe deposit box" - Is not truly secure, what a joke stament.

- Document doesn't describe how identity authentication is linked to the actual client logging in. Basically this would mean that there has to be cookie version of cryptoraphic challenge, or some other data linked to that, which has to be stored for a while at web-servers end. Could this be used to create resource consumption DDoS attack on the service? That's one of the reasons why I don't like solutions which require web-server to maintain state for non-logged in users.
Please compare the effects of prolonged use of crystal meth or heroin to prolonged use of nicotine...
mark cuban, obviously not a traditional VC. and that is a good thing.
2012 Thiel fellow working in science here.

I definitely don't see the fellowship as a substitute for a proper academic training in the sciences. A solid training is important; I have benefited greatly from my academic roots and support (Harvard).

In that context, the fellowship represents a supplement to my academic training, exploring the translational science that lies between basic research and commercialization.

I'm taking a detour from the traditional course of study primarily so that I can spend some of my time working in the aspects of translation that extend beyond the lab. In my biomedical field, that is everything from medical workflow to regulatory affairs to product pipelines to validation studies.

More broadly, I'm doing this exploration in the context of a tractable project that has involved both research and commercialization. It's at the intersection of my scientific interests, and is fueled by a desire to help people in a tangible way. The timing is such that it makes sense for me to dive into it full-time with my existing training.

I'm still learning many things, some in academic research settings and others in commercial settings. The fellowship simply serves to focus my limited time to the intersection of those two areas.

You bet I'll be back in academia after this, but in the meantime, taking a small bite out of cancer seems a worthy detour.

Feel free to shoot me a mail (email in profile) if you're curious.
I love this. Never knew this was a clause...glad he pushed for this.

Mark really does seem like a stand up guy.

Shark Tank sounds kinda 'fluffy' and I never paid it much attention for the first few seasons - but then I heard about a company that pitched and I was intrigued so I was searching through the episodes of one of the earlier seasons and I realized how awesome the show is.

It is amazing to watch and see how quick the Sharks can sniff out vagaries of a deal - e.g. if an entrepreneur raised money before at some crazy price, or the cap table looks very weird, or the company was loaded up with debt. They always seem to get to that pretty quickly.

I wonder if that is because they (the show) do due diligence on each company before they reach the sharks and the sharks have notes about what to ask for.

Either way, I am always surprised by the quality of the pitches shown. Some are lame, but some are surprisingly good with solid business and likely solid growth prospects.

As a general rule, their instincts tend to be pretty spot-on - it seems.
I like to think design-first and if possible in the most minimal fashion that captures the interface, but I certainly see (and share) the appeal of writing working code. In many cases like that (including APIs that are already implemented in code), generating a clean RAML spec from the code is a good way of capturing the interface itself, in a very readable way that shows the structure. Thanks for these links -- very interesting!
Whoops, thanks. Will push out a change soon!
True, and the next Silk Road owner will certainly take that point into account.

Obviously, the disappearance of such a site leaves a gaping hole on the Web:

Silk Road has proven that the demand/market is there, that people are willing to use the Web to acquire those goods, that they are willing to pay, that the whole transaction works and that this leads to a massive amount of cash.

So, make no mistake, the next Silk Road creator is certainly out there, probably technically more astute and careful, and already building.
Vertu launches $6600 leather-backed Android phone
Why the case against “Dread Pirate Roberts” will fall flat
online there are many markdown editors, like dillinger.io.

the best standalone offline tool is multimarkdown composer.
for versatility, visit marked2app.com for an app that gives
on-the-fly display of a markdown file as you edit it with
any other text-editor, a mighty clever idea, well-executed.

even if you stick with your own tool, you will get lots of
ideas for functionality by examining these other executions.

-bowerbird
A lot of statisticians tend to be so.
This is really cool. With companies like Firebase, Layer, Parse (and many more that I can't remember right now), it is becoming incredibly easy to build awesome (complex) services in a matter of hours. Now imagine all this as the base and it will be really interesting to see what people are going to come up with.

Great job!
I think it's also because the pitches are actually much longer than what goes on TV - cutting a few hours down to 10 mins or so, while still trying to make it flow well.
I can understand the intent: showing exactly which parts of the document match up with the section descriptions. That itself is not a bad idea.

But making all of it dark gray (so, intended to be not-visible) by default is really silly.
I do not think it makes sense for the Fellowship to supplant research at big universities, or even compete with it. Flawless these are not, but there is much good derived from academic, basic science.

I do think that the Fellowship can be an interesting venue for young scientists to explore the cracks between basic science and industrial progress. A grounded student with a clever project can make good use of the fellowship understanding what it takes to bring that project closer to the real world.

Translational science can seem rather opaque, and being thrust into that world without a ramp to learn is hard.
after reading around a bit [1], I get the impression that while the situation isn't great, it isn't a hopeless disaster, either. Apparently there's Linux drivers but only x64, and not in a Ubuntu-friendly format. Hopefully this will change. I'll play around with it a bit, to see how bad it really is first hand :-)

thanks

[1] http://mhr3.blogspot.ie/2013/06/opencl-on-ubuntu-1304.html

Edit: apparently the drivers that are available for Linux don't support HD or Iris GPUs.
Most apps running on Google servers are aware that they're running in a shared environment, so they don't need the overhead of virtualized network interfaces. So I doubt that there will be any specific support for network namespaces.

And you can approximate mount namespaces with chroots and bind mounts. (In some ways that's better, since it's a bit easier for a process outside the container to interact with the container's filesystem).
What was the age of oldest person you accepted as founder? What is the preferred age group?

Do you accept husband-wife as founding team? Have you accepted any such teams in the past?

What if the founders don't need money? They only want to be part of the program for experience, expertise, and networking?
Strategically Ladar's fight seems like a good thing for all of us, but in general I am bothered by the focus on "the American people", and the idea of political fixes based on the US constitution. I hope that HN type people are thinking strategically about the big picture and not seeking to promote the rights of a minority, potentially at the expense of the rest of us. I can't really tell though.
I've read interviews before where it was indicated they know nothing (and want to know nothing) until they walk through the doors to make their pitch. The extensive due diligence is done after the show, which is why deals struck on the show often fall through later on. For example, some of the companies that pitch indicate that they have patents, but of course the validity and defensibility of such patents is something that has to be researched, not something you can take their word for. So on the show they're like, "Do you have a patent?" and they reply, "Yes (or no)" and that's the end of that line of questioning because it has to be researched independently.

The reason they seem to get to the crux of the issues so quickly, is because like most reality shows, it is heavily edited. A five or ten minute segment on the show reflects sometimes hours of questioning and discussion. From what I understand they have VERY long days (much longer than 8 hours, more like 12-14 hours a day) so it's almost an endurance thing for the sharks, because they spend so much time fleshing out the issues (and why wouldn't they since they're investing real money).

Personally I love the show also. Also check out Dragon's Den, which has both a Canadian and a British version (same format though, 5 investors all competing), and more recently CNBC's show The Profit where Marcus Lemonis (who was on the Secret Millionaire) by himself goes to failing businesses and invests a hundred K or two and takes over management for a week to turn things around.

I love this new era of entrepreneurship-themed TV, beats the hell out of Survivor or Lost. =)
Well the meetings are heavily cut, I remember reading that typically each of the pitches is atleast a couple of hours. The sharks have no information on the companies pitching before they walk in to the room, but I'm sure the producers do some home work to only let in entrepreneurs that will make for good TV. The sharks are all smart people so they know what to ask but its no where near a ten minute affair.

All the due diligence is done after the show ends. The deal you see on TV is only tentative until after the due diligence. Quite a few of the deals on the show have actually fallen through after some shady things have been uncovered
What do you expect when increasing next year's budget over this year's by five percent instead of ten percent counts as a five percent cut..?
The Beautiful Code
The founders of lanyrd were a husband/wife pair who recently had a really interesting blog post about their startup on the hn frontpage. http://blog.natbat.net/post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-...
Don't Believe Your Stories
Measurements or it didn't happen.
Many of these questions are already answered :

http://ycombinator.com/faq.html