skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People improve what they measure. If the measure is "revenue derived from PPC ads," then they'll evolve interfaces to make clicking ads unavoidable.
Two Swedish men arrested for selling drugs on Silk Road
That looks amazingly close to Unity - did he change the layout to move the dock to the left of the screen?

The performance is amazing. :)
13 reasons Washington is failing
Amazon offers their "Subscribe and Save" service on many products (not the one linked above, however). Amazon's subscription service provides a continuous stream of many staples such as paper products, toothpaste, tooth brushes, cat food, etc. to my household. It works great.

Aside: I live in Los Angeles and am trying out Amazon Fresh. If anything, Amazon now offers me an almost-confusing multitude of ways to have products delivered to my house. I can Prime things for receipt in two days. I can subscribe and forget. I can Fresh things for next-day delivery. I'm not an Amazon fan boy—many of their services frustrate me in a variety of ways—but they have delivery pretty much mastered versus everyone else.
The Whole Government Shutdown In One Simple, Beautiful Chart
And what if you decide one day to switch to electric?
Presentable is a side project of mine on which I've spent way too much time. Now that it's done, I find that I'm unable to spend any more time on figuring out how I might actually make some money from it... So I decided to release it for free.

This app scratches a personal itch. When giving presentations, there's often stuff on the web that I'd like to show, but integrating it into a traditional Keynote or PowerPoint slide show is too difficult.

Presentable includes a complete web browser that supports full frame rate video (including Flash). You can scroll and click within the webpage, and there are Crop and Highlight tools for emphasizing elements and removing distracting elements like YouTube comments.

There's also a dual-screen mode, so you have access to your notes and webpage controls while the projector screen shows the pristine web site with no extra browser chrome.

The app also includes Leap Motion gesture controls. It's available for download on the Leap Motion Airspace store as well:
https://airspace.leapmotion.com/apps/presentable/osx

Maybe you have an idea for how to turn this technology into something profitable? Because I can't keep working on it, I decided to sell it on SideProjectors.com -- check it out:

https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/360/presentab...
You're not in a debt crisis, US interest payments on existing debt is about 4% - at most - of the national budget, and your government is shutdown because of a procedural issue.

I strongly suggest you actually lookup the budget figures.
Elon Musk must be super lucky --> .00006^3 = 2.16e-13 (although this calculation assumes the chances are completely independent, which studies have show, they are not)
Language design and tooling - Exploring SCSS
I'm sorry, I have no advice to give however I can relate.

I've forgotten passphrases to a lot of things. I once locked myself out of a set of backups I needed which meant a great deal to me. Photos that can never be restored, writings, etc.

After that event I kicked myself hard for a while for not testing my backups on a regular basis which would have reminded me that my backups were encrypted and I should've maybe written down the phrase somewhere safe.

Time passed and I got over it but the lesson learned changed. Testing backups is still important but I started questioning why I was encrypting my backups at all.

Was I really worried someone would find some old pictures and things I wrote a decade ago? Not really. It would be unlikely for someone to break into my home and then my safe and take my hard drive with backup data on it. Even if that happened, I don't think my first thought would have been "oh no, that thief can see my old photos now". Being honest with myself, I realized I was encrypting because it was cool and techie to do so.

I guess what I'm saying is that encryption is a damn powerful tool. So powerful that it could even reject the owner at some point.

I still use encryption but now I make choices about what I encrypt. Would I prefer greater accessibility or security? For most things, accessibility wins out so I'm very selective about what gets encrypted and I'd say everything I encrypt now can be easily replaced but compromising the data would be either dangerous or embarrassing.

Again, sorry I don't have a real answer. Generally when something is "on the tip of your tongue", relaxing and moving onto something else is the best way to dislodge it. Other than that, I really don't know.
I seriously doubt there are many people with MBAs that prefer using a Chromebook. It's worse in every way except cost.
If you really want to use a cloud effectively, you really need to use DevOps.
Apple's app store is closed, yes; to call it a "flat-out threat to human freedom" is a bit extreme. Restricting some bits isn't an issue of human freedom; buy into a different ecosystem.

Google is the greatest machine for data gathering and mining in the history of humanity. (Perhaps the NSA or other 3-letter agency eclipses them, but in the private sector, no one outdoes them) Google's entire purpose for all they do is to get more information so they can show you ads. They have the capability (not the desire, I believe) to censor the Internet in monumental ways. (Imagine shaping search results based on political leanings that my search history suggests) They have a dossier of info on me they can turn over to whom they wish. (Probably won't, but a few public statements doesn't disprove the possibility) Which company, at face value, is "a flat-out threat to human freedom".
Yes, by default the dock is at the bottom but with dconf-editor you can move it in the other edges
>I want to be the customer, not the product being sold

Sorry but this is not either or anymore. They will take your money and you will still be a product being sold. Just because you paid money doesn't mean they won't try to squeeze an extra penny off of your information if they can get away with it.
So, what's the solution, here? It seems reasonable for a court opinion to include a copy of the source, if possible. What about for something like a YouTube video, which could disappear at any time, but can't be represented on paper? How would you agree on a digital format for representing a supreme court opinion?
Competing with Coke and Pepsi, the surest way to make a billion...
Can you explain your choice for the name URX?
I'm kind of surprised. My dad is an over the road truck driver who isn't too tech savvy. The most I've ever been able to teach him to use on a computer is how to browse the web with Google Chrome. When he left to go back over the road, I got him a Samsung Chromebook with the built-in 3G and he loves it.

He plays his online Texas hold'em (flash based), looks up unfamiliar destinations on Google Maps to see the satellite imagery, and checks the weather radar regularly to avoid storms. He's also able to better keep in touch with us now that he can shoot off e-mails whenever he wants.

It's actually a handy, useful tool for him.
I tried all three of their offerings, didn't like any of them. Then I tried Dorco's three blade and love it.
Felix Dennis is such a refreshing and honest break from all the ditzy California "change the world" and "passion" fluff. If I recall correctly he opened up with the following quotation:

"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place."
--Alexander Pope
I've developed something called the smoke detector condom. It is essentially a zip-lock bag with a string tied to it. All you have to do is place the zip-lock over the detector and it prevents bacon in the morning from setting off the alarm. Then the emergency release string can be pulled on unannounced landlord visits.
> People are imprisoned on mere suspicion.

No, actually not. The police can place you in arrest, but only for a limited time. Then a judge has to decide based on various factors whether you can be kept in jail until trial, whether you can get out on bail and how large the sum is, and sure, you get the bail money back if you show up in court, even if your not acquitted. [1] The important factor is that a _judge_ gets to decide that, not a prosecutor or mere policeman.

[1] Please note that if you loaned the money from a bail bondsman, the bondsman gets to keep his fees. This however is a separate transaction.
Wow quite surprised this made hacker news. Glad people find it newsworthy. Want to mention that Dollar Shave Club is hiring for the following positions:

Senior Frontend Engineer

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Our tech stack: RoR, Node.js, Angularjs, Redis, Resque, MySQL, Python, NTLK, AWS

Email todd@dollarshaveclub.com for more information and the full job descriptions.
All you need to know about LXC and Docker metrics
‘Sitting is the new smoking’
Took about an hour to design the phone tree on paper. Another hour to write the flask app and deploy on heroku. All in all it turned out pretty well.

Suggestions and feedback are welcome.
Just about ended my Chrome session, until I killed the tab.
Awesome! Maybe I will try out some SockJS on it! I decided last night to use SockJS for a personal web application for streaming some stock analysis.
Two-laser boron fusion lights the way to radiation-free energy
I think a bayesian approach is more suitable:

P($1B company | you're in SV, $100MM in funding, etc)

Think about a bayesian network and its joint probability.
From 4 believers to $10k MRR
In this post I share the 6-month journey that took me from 4 believers to $10k in monthly recurring revenue. This is not a checklist for success. Just as any of us, I’m vulnerable to the narrative fallacy, and above anything you should build your own checklist to success.
I have had Luna as my main OS on a cheap netbook for a couple of months. I like it a lot. The (G)UI is clean and streamlined. I much prefer it to Ubuntu Unity. It's similar to OSX in many ways, which is not a bad thing.

And it's much faster and smoother than Win 8 on the netbook.
As long as you ignore the extra bandwidth from downloading both the non-retina and retina versions with this script, yes, it's pretty easy. Actually serving retina images only for devices that need them, in an efficient and backwards-compatible way is a much harder problem.
MacOS is pretty darn good. I'd like to see them own the high end, and devices like this own the low end, squeezing Windows out of my life entirely. For "low end", this is a pretty darn good machine. And it would mean that everything is a Unix.
Heroku Launches WebSocket Support
Here's a shot in the dark: I have often found that, if there was some particular music that I was listening to at a time in my life, then, even years later, listening to that same music can flood my mind with all sorts of memories from what I first and/or often listened to the music.

Maybe there was some song you listened to a lot when (a) selecting the password, or (b) entering it frequently?
It does! As soon as you move one slider, it mutes all others ;-)
The problem is my last two apartments have had pretty high ceilings, so I've had to bust out the rolling pin/step stool to stab at it. Meanwhile my ears are bleeding out. And then when you have those networked alarms where after a certain amount of ringing, the rest start ringing, it turns into an "oh shit, silence the first one, gogogogo" situation
> - Non-border transfer at LHR (e.g. David Miranda)

No, in this case the authorities would have asked google to seize/snoop on your account ages ago, so they wouldn't need to bother.

ChromeOS may be the right answer in some cases, but secure against authorities it is not - please don't kid yourself.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only man in the world who uses an electric shaver everyday. I don't think I know a single other guy.
Weird, I would hope that for a company which requires me to leave my data on NSA servers.
Don't bet more than 8 Bitcoins because you can never win in your detailed example?
What if hackers everywhere started building an "anarchist cloud" consisting entirely of small mobile nodes only connecting through wifi or wireless broadband? Only nodes whose RSA key has been signed by another trusted key would be allowed to connect. All data would be redundantly stored across several nodes, and as part of normal operation, all devices would immediately brick themselves as soon as their accelerometers registered movement. (Done by overwriting their hard drive encryption key with all 1's then all 0's in both persistent storage and in memory.) To restore the node's operation, it would be required to reinstall the OS and sign its new keys.

The point would be to have network infrastructure that would be very difficult to serve a search warrant on. In many cases, it would be impossible to fill out the address, and even if they did fill the warrant, it wouldn't net the authorities any information. By using point to point encryption, it would also be very difficult to eavesdrop on communications as well.
The Secret Formula For Getting Startup Advice
I wouldn't have interpreted it the way I did, had you written "I have nothing against the kickstarter approach. But when individuals are allowed to collectively donate millions to dollars to ventures without any ownership, it is insane to bar them from funding the same projects and receiving an ownership stake in return."

This retains most of your words, but what you find insane is less ambiguous now.
No one has written the next Photoshop yet, but the apps that need NaCl are using it. The SSH client, for example, which works great and actually lets me get a lot of work done from my Chromebook without even turning on developer mode.
Transparensee -- http://transparensee.com -- New York City, NY.

We are a small startup doing interesting things with search.

We have two full-time developer positions open for a new team building a reusable search platform based on Discovery, our internally built search engine.

Stack involves Ruby/Sinatra/Nginx/Git/AWS on the back end with a heavy emphasis on a modular SOA and REST APIs. We have an existing Python codebase that needs to be integrated. We see ourselves using Go for some things in the future.

Front ends based on jQuery and MVC frameworks, with lots of emphasis on creating elegant, functional search UIs as well as dashboards and analytics front ends.

jobs@transparensee.com
How was it a handwave if it actually worked? And this is the first time I've heard that Hushmail was forced to betray their users, rather than doing it in response to a simple request. Do you have more information on that?
You don't need to spend $1000 on a development computer. Yet if you do want to spend that much, there are better options.

Lenovo is about to release their new line of thinkpads. For the first time, most of them are going to have 1080p IPS screens. Historically, they have supported Linux better than most other manufacturers. Keep an eye out for the T440p, T440s, and the x240, they are all going to be around your price range, and they should be really good machines.

The Macbook Air is another good option, unless you truly do need that much power.

If you are going for power, the Asus N550JV is still a much better option than the HP. It's got a metal chassis, a Quad Core i7 Haswell processor, a 1080p IPS panel, and a Nvidia GT 750M. The best part is that it costs about the same as the one that you were looking at.

If you want something cheaper, I'd keep watching the Lenovo Outlet. I just bought a T430 with 8GB Ram and a 256GB SSD for 448 on the outlet, you just have to be patient.
The Ultimate Git Alias Setup
> I obviously can't see the backend

You can't see what's running at the moment of course, but why shouldn't you expect to be able to see the source? Why are new government IT projects closed source?
When I started using a double-edged safety razor it took me maybe two shaves to get comfortable with it. I don't nick myself any more often than I did when using other razors. It's really not like a straight razor.
Show HN: Delta-dropbox - Hack to mark newly added files in dropbox folder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Columbine_Massacre_RPG!
We need more support for ICANN alternatives, so when something stupid happens its just inconvenient.

http://dot-bit.org/How_To_Browse_Bit_Domains
This headline is just self-serving. The article is about a $1B company, and this headline is simply a strawman to tear down. The rhetorical "synopsis" here is that (1) sucess is impossible; but (2) oh wait, i just did that without breaking a sweat. Here is my 3 step solution to success {...}
> Whoever contemplates the world in the light of an ideal--whether what he seeks be intellect, or art, or love, or simple happiness, or all together--must feel a great sorrow in the evils that men needlessly allow to continue, and--if he be a man of force and vital energy--an urgent desire to lead men to the realization of the good which inspires his creative vision.

"Proposed Roads to Freedom" is my pick for number one.
Reddit has a sub reddit specifically for this, (r/suggestalaptop) which I really liked. You might look at a clevo. I would want more ram, personally, and You don't need a video card that powerful for web development (many people like integrated only for the power savings).
Austin Meet & Geek October 15, 2013 at Banger's
I quit going to /newest once I lost my flagging privileges [0]. I found value in flagging spam, but once I could no longer do that, my contribution to the community was solely voting on stories that had already hit the front page.

[0] You lose flagging privileges permanently if you flag often in a short period of time. There was some major story in which there were 20+ dupes of every story (maybe Snowden's first day or two IIRC). I lost my flagging privileges after flagging too many duplicates.

So be careful about flagging in /newest
Inkpad, vector drawing app for iPad, is now free and open-source
The reason I don't use this is because the "stream" of blades isn't saving me any money, it's costing me more than what a trip to Walmart or Costco will cost (in Canada, at least). For me, this is entirely a cost-based decision. I don't see blades being delivered on a continual basis as a benefit, just puts more pressure on me to use up my existing blades fast (and that's weird).

To each his own, I think this is the ultimate lazy man's service. Get your ass out to the store and when you're back, mow the lawn.
you know, under this kind of racist mindset, I don't know why other races would just sit pretty and accommodate a system that arbitrarily puts caps on their own nature-given superior traits (you would say, strength and charisma) in favor of allowing other races' superior traits (i would say, lack of empathy and greed) dominate.

i guess what I'm trying to say is that it'd be fun seeing you try to stand tall and pontificate about the importance of institutionalizing all sorts of unfounded, intuitionist beliefs about race- nevermind the fact that race is hard to determine in a large number of cases- to the detriment of individuals if society didn't put an arbitrary limitation on their exploitation of strength for personal gain

no i guess what i'm trying to say is that usually racists are dweeby ugly little people that stand proud on the shoulders of the achievements of those who they perceive to be 'kin' (nevermind jewish/irish/italian/slav/etc. divisions from yesteryear), and that i wouldn't mind seeing you publicly made fun of and/or beat up because of it.
http://www.ashwinp.com/about-contact-me/
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Education: IIM, Ahmedabad
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_bank
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This information might shed some light on his opinions. His explanations instantly reminded me of sharia banking, kind of interesting he kept this hidden.
There's a max limit of 1 BTC, if anyone accidentally bets more, the bet is refunded (without the house fee). There's also a min limit of 0.01 BTC.
Go ahead and switch! The razor blades are a sunk cost.
STATIC site content. Not the part being hammered by people signing up. People keep confusing the two.
Actually we have 0 smoke alarms in our house exactly because they are so annoying. On the day we moved in, they went off 6 times while we were making dinner. They were all off the ceiling later that evening.
How's the battery backup?

Low battery time(even after using laptop-tools) is the thing I hate about ubuntu(and linux) on laptop.

Windows 8 is amazingly energy efficient.
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You probably will want to look for funded startups that have their senior team in place.
From an expected value perspective, being kept awake by a smoke alarm has robbed me of more of my life than [chance of fire]×[chance of death]×[crappiness of dying]
Now's as good a time as any to refer to Timothy Berners-Lee's 1998 essay, "Cool URIs don't change": http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
Interesting idea. If you go bust, your intellectual property gets turned over to everyone like so much piñata candy.
What is the average latency for the service?

From my benchmarks, there is a measurable difference between cloud VPS WebSocket latency/bandwidth and dedicated server WebSocket latency/bandwidth.
Unless he actually used properly implemented forward secure SSL for every connection, which I doubt all of either his customers browsers or the SMTP servers he talked to supported, didn't his choices actually put his customers in more danger?

He could have complied with one of the several valid court orders that requested he give the FBI data on a specific account but stopped short if installing FBI code or devices on his system or handing over the keys. Had he done so, it would have stop there.

Instead, it escalated to the point where he actually was forced to expose all his users. Anyone who has transcripts of those connections (e.g the NSA), can now read them, get the passwords, and decrypt any mail they got form the server. It seems like a boneheaded move unless his only goal was to protect Snowden at all costs.
Interesting you mention that. I saw this the other day, and was debating whether or not it was (at least the frontend of) the actual running site:

https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov
Verbs and resources ARE REST. By definition.
Gompers et al published a paper in 2006 [1] which studied a database of "firms that have obtained venture capital financing" between 1976 and 2000.

Defining "'success' as going public or filing to go public by December 9 2003, "they find the overall success rate on first time ventures is 25.3%. Not surprisingly, serial entrepreneurs have an above-average success rate of 36.9% on their first ventures: venture capitalists are more likely to be more enthusiastic about financing a successful entrepreneur than one who has previously failed. It is more interesting that in their subsequent ventures they have a significantly higher success rate (29.0%) than do first time entrepreneurs (25.3%)."

Note that the 99th percentile of valuations in this data set was $131.5 million. Additionally, the data comes from a period of lower competition for "doing a startup". Finally, one must account for survivorship bias that would be present in a 1976-2000 data set of venture capital financing.

[1] http://businessinnovation.berkeley.edu/WilliamsonSeminar/sch...
Build awareness of the importance of the permanence of URIs and what they mean to Hypertext. The only full solution is a cultural one, not a technological one.
I don't know enough about STATs to get the XKCD comic. Anyone care to explain?

Something about how P < 0.05 still doesn't mean there is a link between green Jelly Beans and acne?
Right, that's just a prior. His probability is much higher given that he had two prior exits, is incredibly intelligent, his network is vast and resourceful, etc.

Very much off-topic, but he's an anomaly in many ways...eg, I was incredibly amazed to learn that he and his former wife had twins and triplets. Wonder what the chances of that are. :)