skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It´s "Found and forget", I was writting from the Iphone.
I did. Maybe I missed the fine print. It seems like you can dismiss warning and alarms.

"You can wave your hand in front of Protect to dismiss the beeping — essentially, like pressing snooze on an alarm. As long as the situation doesn’t worsen, then your smoke alarms will never sound."

"For severe issues, Protect may opt to bypass the "heads up" warning and simply sound the alarm"

Still it doesn't say that this hand wave feature will stop working in these severe situations.

Ofcourse, I am sure they will iron things like this out before shipping.
Uber for Gift Giving
Buy this and then apply http://blog.zfeldman.com/2013-10-05-setting-up-a-chromebook-... and/or http://afaqdar.blogspot.com/2013/10/5-different-chromebook-d... to solve your needs?
>If being Jewish is defined as genetically descending from the Israelites through the maternal line, then many Ashkenazi Jews fail the test, according to this data.

This assumes that the conversion of long-ago wives were somehow invalid or illegitimate. It's not clear to me why we would make that assumption.
I said I don't see that much difference. Not enough for me to make the indictment you made about the author. That was all I was getting at. Personally, I don't think the author answered either question very well. I saw very little point to the whole post. I was a little disappointed.
Consider donating to https://rally.org/lavabit. Lavabit needs at least 250k to continue fighting in the supreme court.

See his last update on the rally page.
Why do you keep dead batteries, especially somewhere you could confuse them with good batteries?
It's a good question and frankly I was quite surprised to realize, after using my chromebook for a while, that I was subconsciously turning to the chromebook rather than the macbook for browsing because the experience is just better. If you are looking for the least clunky way to browse the Web, it's not the Apple product (that was the surprise). Chrome OS boots faster and feels much lighter without all the icons and menus that you find in a regular OS.

The ARM chromebook also feels nicer because it has no fan. This simple detail makes it feel less like a computer and more like a tablet.

The most astonishing is that these two points give the ARM chromebook the edge over the macbook even despite its very poor screen.

That being said, I do occasionally turn to the macbook for in-browser work, when the low power of the ARM chromebook is too palpable.
This is the first kickstarter HN post that will not cost me any money!

Normally I end up clicking the link, then choosing to pledge :)
If for no other reason than to get it out of your system -- this idea of The Valley as a promised land for entrepreneurs -- then by all means, go for it, and buy that plane ticket.

Just be prepared for the fact that culturally speaking, The Valley might come off as something of a rude surprise compared to Berlin (or just about any major hub in Europe).
Yes. It was a blunder. The post has been updated to reflect this.
Because the 'middle person' is making a profit, and has to share the responsibility to keep this stuff out of landfills. Hence the CRV system.
> "Ultimately, every society lives from the backbone from a strong middle class," said Seitzberg. "If you get just a top level, a small amount of very rich people and a very large piece of very poor people, it leads to social unrest."

The "a small amount of very rich people" is basically Congress, backed up by the various lobbyists who are paid by huge industries, such as the military-industrial complex. They create the laws and, as an example, push the NSA to push mass surveillance, which in turn will help them kill any "Occupy" movements before they even become serious threats to their out-of-proportion wealth. Whenever you communicate, encrypt it.
Actually, they are more like MailLift for consumers :)
Yeah, programmers never do work without getting paid. They would never think of working a job to support themselves financially but also do programming after work just because it's something they're passionate about. Every programmer is a rock star and will either make a billion dollars or go do something else.

Open source and side projects don't exist in this world, of course.
weird, the site actually works fine for me... (australia)
By then we'll have a new generation of cryptocurrency. I hope it will be called Qubitcoin. :)
This is probably going to sound a bit harsh but is adding general PHP support in 2013 newsworthy? Pretty much every 'cloud' provider has provided support for PHP for years now.

Not only that but listing things like "ability to easily read and write files from PHP" and "support for [..] mbstring and mcrypt" as new features makes me less inclined to try App engine for any PHP work as it seems even the most basic things like writing files and mcrypt require App Engine-specific code.

I'd much rather just deploy to Amazon's EC2/Rackspace/generic VPSs than have to add App engine specific changes to my code.
Algorithms are easy, the solutions are all online. Cleaning up code is hard. Give the candidate a project with some failing tests and messed up code. Tell them to clean it up and add a feature or two. Congrats, you just tested someone on what they will actually be doing in their day job.
I use GAE with python a lot. But you can't find forum software not implemented in PHP. I wonder how easy it will be to rewire existing PHD apps for GAE?

One serious issue is caching gets. Those rack up your bills in no time unless you memcache stuff.

Interesting stuff though.
They do have a history of that, but AppEngine has a huge footprint right now, and Google is only expanding it's cloud platform with Compute Engine, redoing UI, etc. They're clearly investing a lot here, I don't think they'll close this as easily as Google Checkout or others
Well, I find the FireQuery extension for Firebug (http://firequery.binaryage.com/) very useful. Though it could probably be ported to the native developer tools, it probably won’t be, at least for a while. So Firebug is useful for backwards-compatibility with custom extensions.
Dude... there are MANY kinds of musical art forms... pop songs, concertos, symphonies, ballets, operas, musicals.... our current "music industry" is based completely around the art form known as the "pop song".

I'm sorry I didn't make myself as clear as I thought. I'm now realizing that most people do not have a functional definition for the word "art form".
> Please explain what exactly musicians need significant investment money for? Studio time is a small fraction of what it used to be and simply practicing as a band is really cheap.

How about rent? Also food, gas money to get to shows, merchandise (t-shirts/posters/hoodies/whatever), CDs (yes, you do still need to have these.. telling someone at a show who saw you for the first time ever and wants to hear more to "go look us up on facebook/soundcloud/twitter" isn't gonna cut it), gear (and gear repairs), advertising (including things like printing flyers out to promote shows), etc. Stepping it up a bit, if you're serious about touring, you'll need to bring additional crew besides the band itself, such as sound/lighting/merch people, roadies, etc. all of whom need to be paid, fed, and transported.

Even being able to practice as a band can get pretty expensive, if you consider that many neighborhoods/cities have really strict noise ordinance laws these days. So if you're trying to start even a moderately loud rock band, your options are a) try to practice in someone's house/garage and risk having to deal with $350+ noise violations on a weekly basis every time one of the neighbors gets cranky, or b) rent a practice space somewhere, which most places I know of start at $400/month upwards. Also note that in smaller towns where there isn't an abundance of unused commercial property, these spaces are either non-existent or have waitlists over a year and a half long.

Most musicians/bands out there don't have label support and get by paying for these things out of pocket (to a point, most bands are seriously skimping in one or more of these areas because they simply don't have the money or the manpower to make it happen). Not saying its impossible, but it certainly is extremely difficult to make it to the level of world-class musicians when the majority of your productive hours have to be spent in an unrelated field for the sole purpose of paying the bills.
Bookmarked to read later. Thanks!
One benefit that a lot of commenters here have pointed out is very user-friendly inspection of running code. Kind of a super-REPL. I find that in Python I'm most productive in iPython's browser-based notebook interface (or Mathematica, but I find Mathematica difficult for writing things that go into web-facing applications), which offers similar features.

These notebook interfaces are REPLs, but they're a little more user friendly in the sense that you can edit history in place instead of doing a history completion and then evaluating an additional line.

Has anybody had any experience with these notebook interfaces as well as the smalltalk environment and can give a rundown of the differences?
You seem to be suggesting recycling as a jobs program. That makes me nervous. I would rather have a recycling program that is as efficient as possible and a separate jobs program that is as efficient as possible. This hybrid seems to serve neither well.
There is no bootstrapping problem. Snowden was also able to get journalists to use OTR, without relying on some web interface with questionable security claims. The problem with PGP and S/MIME is that the existing software is too hard to set up. It is hard to tell journalists to go use Thunderbird, get Enigmail set up, and publish a key. The situation is even worse with S/MIME, despite the built-in support in many email clients.

Basically, the problem is that PGP and S/MIME as they exist today are (and I shudder to say it) too security conscious. The reality is that most users are not going to take the time to maintain their public keys, to verify others' public keys, etc., nor are most users going to spend the time to get their keys verified by a CA. We need a "lite" PGP client that is less obnoxious about using untrusted keys, and basically a "newbie" PGP that is more vulnerable to active MITM attacks (which are actually much harder to pull off than one might expect). It would also be nice if public keys could be easily published via QR codes, so that someone can literally hand their public key to another person.

The worst thing we can do is lie to people about the security they receive e.g. telling them things like "Lavabit is set up so that nobody but you can read your email!"
I totally think you guys are right about me not having proof either. I think we both can say some people do and some don't, but a lot more younger children are spending time doing things that we once didn't do for those who grew up in the late 80s and 90s - people who grew like from this period of time should had a reasonable access to a machine - be it PC, gameboy or PS1.
I think you are conflating two separate, but related issues:
1) Raising large sums of money, when is it right?
2) Having a business model.

For the business model, yes, you should have one and you should put considerable thought into it. You should always test it's validity given the market at that moment in time or in the foreseeable future. That said, if you are Twitter, you are affecting fundamental changes in communication and your impact is evident on the societal level. At that level of impact, you have the luxury and duty to take time to really work out the kinks from your business model.

Now, if you are not Twitter, raising money during a bubble or looser years and using it wisely could be the difference between life or death (or layoffs) during not so good years.

Having money in the bank is powerful, whether you are putting it there or your investors are. Just be careful not to have such a high burn rate that you cannot hope to cover it with your own revenues should push come to shove.
I'm amazed that everyone is claiming the alarms are installed improperly. Aren't most of you in big cities in small apartments like me? The alarm is going off if anything happens when you live < 800 sq ft.
Well, good thing that within a couple of years from now, we'll have that AI-powered Drone Army on hand to keep them in their place.
You can disable querying OCSP servers by setting the "security.OCSP.enabled" to false. This adds some privacy (otherwise OCSP servers can know and collect what SSL enabled sites you visit). Combined with the Certificate Patrol add-on [0] (to track certificate changes) this must be pretty secure, except when a certificate is being revoked you will not know about it automatically.

[0] - http://patrol.psyced.org
So is the original supplier, and the only reason it is stocked is the person buying it. Perhaps taking some actual personal responsibility would be a good thing instead of legislating it on someone else.
I'm so sick of being sickened. I hate that this is becoming the norm and we can't do anything about it. I hate to spit cliches, but is this where my tax dollars go?

For me, govt and internet should almost be like church and state. Where is the data around foiled terrorist plots? I just can't stomach the obtuse logic that we need to pay our taxes to employ these virtual minders. This is not what the internet is about. It just seems so incredibly difficult to mobilise and take action against this shit ...

Btw, Ladar ... you've been incredible in all of this (tips Stetson)
good question. not sure
That's the payout if you bet above and it beats the prediction, or you bet below and it doesn't meet the prediction.
I supposed, but would you risk your business by locking yourself in to their platform?
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"...We've had to pass on some amazing engineers just because they did not have the rails web, front or back end experience. "

Why would anyone want to work with amazing engineers?
You're right but you're speaking to the title of the article only which is unfortunate because the article is really good but the title itself isn't representative of it. Normally this wouldn't be an issue but with you being you it's the number one comment and now the entire conversation on hacker news is revolving around the title.

The article makes some really great points about solving meaningful problems vs starting a startup for it's own sake. It further makes great points about eliminating luck in the process and offers actionable advice on how to do that. I think that would be the subject of a much better conversation.
And our contribution becomes part of our "permanent record" with the NSA? So glad I'm a US citizen and need not fear about such things.
Troll much? But I'll bite anyways...

No, it's not a troll, you called me an armchair musician when you know nothing about me, that is presumptuous. In your original post you concluded that anyone who disagrees with you "doesn't know what's going on", also presumptuous.

Where did I ever say that you don't need to practice alone?

To quote you verbatim: "Practice does not make you a good stage performer."

I think that statement pretty clearly asserts that practice does not contribute to performance quality. If you want to retract that statement, go ahead, but don't pretend like you didn't just say it.

Practicing in a room, without an audience, does NOT make you good at anything other than practicing in a room without an audience.

Another stellar quote, but ultimately a meaningless tautology intended to downplay the role of technical discipline in favor of experience on the stage. Once again, nobody cares about your stagecraft if you get up on stage to perform Little Brown Jug.

No matter how many hours I put in alone on my instrument, it still won't prepare me for playing with other musicians.

Right... but playing with other musicians will. What is your point? You don't need a record label to practice with your band.

No matter how many hours I put in practicing in a rehearsal room with other musicians, it still doesn't prepare me for playing on a stage in front of audience.

I apologize if English is not your first language, but you need to research the definition of the word "rehearsal" before you argue that many hours of rehearsal with other musicians doesn't prepare you for a live performance. Practicing in preparation for a live performance is the literal definition of rehearsal.

This entire discussion we're having is completely irrelevant.

Your central argument is that piracy has made record labels scared to invest in risky music, and this is killing the music industry because the only way to become a good performer is to use an infusion of record label cash to tour till you become good enough to make a profit touring. I rejected this claim as bullshit because any intellectually honest person will admit that the most critical part of a concert is the actual music (you know, the primary product a musician is tasked with producing), something that has zero connection to VC money.
Sorry, but they're crazy if they think halfway decent engineers are going to spend 7.5 hours of their time doing a coding quiz before they even have a personal interview with them.

They seem to be forgetting that potential engineers are interviewing them just as much as they're interviewing the engineers -- and such a crazy up-front time commitment is a sure way to weed out the engineers who have better things to do with their time.

This may be scalable for the company, but it certainly isn't scalable for engineers looking for jobs at multiple companies.
No, but lacking an alternative it's the best we've got. I'm all for not having people rooting through trash to barely eke out a living, but until these people have another choice...
So here's a hypothetical for you. Suppose we build an architecture which you feel is more secure. Then the NSA people say "we have analyzed it, and there's a theoretical information leak. because that information leak exists you have to install our software which will exploit it. but if you'd designed your system better you would have been okay. also, incidentally, you're now legally forbidden from fixing this leak."

Then the legal obligations of the architecture are primary determined by the effectiveness of your security architecture; the existence of defects in the architecture which would preserve security in the absence of their exploitation is the thing matters to the court system.

That sounds tantamount to what you're proposing; is that really the sort of legal framework you think we have / should have? I personally think it's ridiculous, and I reject your justification and others which rely on a technical deficiency in Lavabit's implementation to endorse the legality and moral authority of the court's orders.
PHP On Google App Engine Now Generally Available
How does this compare to Regalii?
I did. You either didn't or read what you wanted to read. The FBI didn't ask for SSL keys right off the bat. They asked for info on Snowden's account. After Lavabit refusing and then agreeing but allegedly dragging it's feet on doing so, a federal judge issued an order for the SSL keys.

See my response above. https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=6517845
That, or drastically changing it's pricing.
I did. I even quoted it here https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=6517845
What a tame list. RAH said it better:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Hey folks - App Engine actually has an explicit deprecation policy spelled out to make sure this can't happen. See https://developers.google.com/appengine/terms
I wonder if archive.org would provide a paid authenticated (notarized) snapshot service, on-demand (i.e. by request and after payment, create a copy and guarantee it's not changed and deleted ever) - maybe they could even make some money out of the thing.
Interesting. Normally we allow users to override "expired."

Was the OCSP server returned "unknown" for the old cert after it expired? One way to check this would be to uncheck the first check box in that dialog box ("Use OCSP"). If you are able to override the cert error for the expired cert then that is a good indication that the server is returning "unknown" for expired certs.

If "unknown" response for the expired cert is the cause, this is the law of unintended consequences at work. Previously, it was very common for a CA's OCSP responder to return "good" for any certificate that it didn't know about; i.e. their OCSP responders returned "revoked" for every certificate that they knew was revoked, but "good" by default. After the DigiNotar incident, we (Mozilla and other browser vendors) pushed CAs to change the default to be "unknown."

However, it is also fair for the CA to "forget" about a certificate as soon as it has expired and/or to revoke it as soon as it has expired. If so, the OCSP responder would return "revoked" or "unknown" for any expired certificate. That would turn a user-overridable error (expired) into a non-user-overridable error (revoked/unknown). This is something we hadn't considered.

Certificate authorities need to be careful that they update their OCSP responders ASAP, preferably BEFORE they give the customer the cert, to avoid this issue in the newly-issued certificate case. Because many CAs have just recently implemented this policy of returning "unknown" for unknown certs, there are still some bugs to sort out, I guess. I will bring this up in the CA/Browser forum to make sure everybody knows it is a real-world issue.
I completely failed at maths just now. I forgot I'd be betting twice. Time to get off the internet, I think.
I especially like the way they present images + source as annotations in their article.
Maybe it works for them, but I don't find any motivation to work on test project that exist only for their own sake. I mean, if the test project is actually a part of the real project that I would be working, then that's okay. But to build something with made up requirements puts me off.
I am having trouble imagining what would cause a two foot arc within a server?

I've never heard of this issue among other high performance server racks. What could the NSA be doing that is consistently causing this issue?
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