skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people get a credit card, and then just get add a fake name to that account. Which is not really a great method of anonymity.

I'm 99% sure it is illegal to get a credit card by supplying false information.
Take your Startup to the next level
Feels very polished, even as a Mac app. Well done. Lion full screen support would be a nice feature to have.
Haha I wondered about that. To be fair, I sort of understand why HN won't link Buzzfeed. I kind of wonder why the same policy doesn't exclude Huff'n Post, Salon, etc.
Quantum-mechanics security firm nabs $5.6M investment
'The _____ left behind' is a phrase with a well established meaning.

The poor parts of Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, as are well as parts of the Ozarks are 'The America Left Behind'. Recently they have been seized upon by the artistic elite and made hip by music like Mumford and Sons and movies like The Hunger Games.

The phrase means a subgroup that is not enjoying the prosperity that the rest of the group enjoys. To use the phrase, the author must believe the opposite of what you read.
Occam's razor, for once, actually supports the conspiracy theory.

It's far more likely that Levison has been bullied into 72 hours of snooping to avoid contempt than that he's suddenly decided, months after shutting down, for no reason at all, to open up a window for users to grab their emails.
Venture for America’s Yang Calls Detroit an Innovation Hub
One in 2000 people may carry infectious prions in the UK
Morgan Stanley Understands How To Leverage Their Big Data
NaCl is only enabled for Chrome app store apps. it's not for web apps. That may change after PNaCl is released.
Cisco projects data center-cloud traffic to triple by 2017
Vincetn, What's the best way to contact you about the paper. I sent you an email today to your EPFL email. Thanks, Robson.
NSA leaks reporter Glenn Greenwald leaving Guardian to launch new site
Maybe it should be difficult? There's usually nothing
more useless than someone who wants to beome a Manager.
What even surprises me more is the amount of people out
there who really don't care about the money; they want
authority. They want a Title in life. They need a title
in life?

I have noticed the one factor that can produce a good
Manager. That one factor is birth order, and it's the
first born. If you're an only child, sorry you are one
of the worst. But the first born has been conditioned
into not abusing power, and just getting the job done.
First read title as: "Categorization of drawings of dog and cat feces"
8+9 year old boxing superstars
Ask HN: Do you need help solving business problems with data?
My company is looking to better understand how businesses use data from disparate sources to inform decision-making. Do you have a business problem you've been wanting to solve with data, but haven't gotten around to? I'd love to work with you and help you through it.

I'm an MIT-trained engineer with a background in data analysis. I'm looking to work with a few people, for free, to get feedback and a better understanding of your process. If you're interested, email me: a.data.analyst@gmail.com.
Getting in to YC
Looks very nice, and the fact that it changes the URL when you click on a link is awesome. I didn't even know that was possible now. I wonder if the server delivers a different page for different URLs (for search engines / older browsers).

Also it feels very snappy, but I wonder how it works under less favorable conditions (slow computer or connection).
You're definitely missing the point of that question.
Oracle Released NetBeans IDE 7.4
Those who are truly paranoid should treat the e-mail as gone forever even if it is accessible for them; better safe than sorry.
this looks awesome.
how does firefox OS deal with all the RADIO stack and video acceleration? are they open?
Looks a lot like "Bank Gothic". I almost expect to see it on a refrigerator... (S M E G)
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/22/twitter-ph...
The curious mind of Ada Lovelace
Yes, but Buzzfeed does have some great content in places like this: http://www.buzzfeed.com/longform

Also, they were the ones who scooped this story, but the rewrite of it from The Verge will be the one that hits HN, not Buzzfeed's.
You'd think so. But we're still in an age of software wizardry. It's easy to write great software if you exist within an organization where software dev. is already a core competency. But if that's not the case and you need to procure high quality software without already having the expertise in house then things get hairy really fast. Not that it's the best example, but look at healthcare.gov, it's a buggy mess at a cost of tens of millions of dollars.

I suspect that Brazil's home grown mail system is also going to be a buggy, low-quality mess at a cost of tens of millions of dollars.
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Nevertheless I still prefer a cabled connection. Wifi is a whole new attack vector because you have data packets floating through air. They might be encrypted, but that doesn't mean they can't be decrypted by untrusted parties.
By the way, I wouldn't contribute to government repos myself because from my observations no one takes other people's pull request or the repo just die.

Many of these government repos are having problems because they're stuck in an old bureaucratic process. Their official process involves a static website with a list of software that has passed a review and release process. A developer will submit a bit of software for release and some other department will publish it on the website (after approval by everyone and their brother). The developer will need to perform this process for each release.

This doesn't translate well to Github. The developer will submit their software for review and another department will post it to Github. They're using Github like the static website that they used before -- there's nothing in the process that keeps the developer tied into the project once it's released. The developer may not actually have permission to their software repos because some process forces them to only release it through another department (they're definitely complaining about this, trust me). This completely breaks pull requests and may be the reason for the lack of response.

It would help the developer if they could point to Github and say: "Look at all of those pull requests we've been ignoring! Our process is broken! We must fix it!".

If external developers feel that the project is dead, or they're being ignored, pull requests will not be made. However, if there are no pull requests, it's tough for the developer to make an argument to change policy. The circle here needs to be broken.

If you've ever worked in government, you'll understand how difficult it would be to get this process updated. It will be updated eventually, but probably not in the near future -- especially for agencies that don't have a larger group of developers.

Having said that, not all government repos ignore pull requests. I manage a few "government repos" and try my best to respond/merge within 24 hours (most of my responses are under an hour -- even on weekends). It helps that we have a ton of developers who constantly push to keep things open. Even then, it was only in the past few weeks that we finally took down our static list-of-software website.

TL;DR, please don't give up on submitting pull requests. It might even help out the developer if you complain a bit to the folks responsible for "review and release" (which will probably consist of multiple departments).
Other: ramnode
How much profit does QA generate? What about internal build/test tools?
That's a good way of thinking about it, as a service. Good call.
"NGINX is now used by 16% of all Web sites"

I wonder how much traffic are generated by this 16%? I would assume the traffic will be more than 16%, probably above 50%.
Other: BuyVM. Very happy with them, and they're doing free upgrades to SSD in the near future.
Foursquare. I'm going to add a field where you can just make a new location on the spot so you can call it anything you want - "Joe's Party" for instance. Whatever would be helpful for you. That'll be at least one of and possibly the only thing in the next update.
Calendaring is actually a pretty difficult problem to solve. It sounds trivial, but the devil is in the details.
It's the exponential reduction in the resources required to accomplish visibility in public actions which is "new". Sure, you could pay someone to follow another person around in public. Now you don't have to, everyone's followed already. The availability of ALPR data to whoever wants to know the last location of a car was one of the more interesting things in the DEFCON presentations around this.
Leaseweb. I like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeaseWeb
I'm not sure that I love that the stock doubles as a shovel... I can only imagine grabbing the barrel of a long arm and pushing the stock hard into the ground as a dangerous experience. (All guns are always loaded; especially when they aren't.)
The govt is closely watching the EB-5 immigrant investor program for fraud
Even the 'onshore' tax haven of Delaware allows anonymous corporations.
Exceptions allow you to leverage value semantics and safe reference semantic abstractions like smart pointers. If you fail to handle them properly you will also discover bugs a lot sooner.
Except that if those 1000 employees joined a small startup, odds are that 920 of them would not even make it to the stage of acqui-hire
That's what I did. I received an offer since. It's way below $500.
I find the limitation of Ubuntu very uncomfortable. With most computers you can boot an ISO of any OS without major hassle but those Chromebooks really limit your movement span.
The Developer to Developer-2 (in Amazon parlance, SDE-I to SDE-II) is VERY limited at Amazon as well. OLR doesn't just hold back managers, it holds back everyone, and it badly hurts their competitiveness in the labor market. After 18 months as an SDE-I there, I received a 4% raise, which was huge, for Amazon (though cost of living in my area went up substantially more during that time). But there was never a chance I was going to be promoted at that time, even though I had been very close to being hired as a II, and if I'd been interviewing then instead of being reviewed, I would have had the II title and compensation. So I left a couple months later (mostly for other reasons, but I won't pretend this wasn't a factor), and got that at my new job. Their loss.
That post you linked to is actually full of some fundamental misunderstandings about GC and JS VMs :) But yes, it is the case that GC isn't a free lunch - it comes with costs and you have to design your applications to avoid the weaknesses of a given GC. It's rough.

I agree that not having to rely on the JIT to figure out how to optimize your code with 'magic' is preferable. I tend to lean towards that where possible in most of the JIT/GC-based environments I use (C#, JavaScript, etc), and it tends to pay off.
How open APIs are disrupting the E-Commerce Biz Model
VirtualBox 4.3 released
Recently switched to Apache largely because of Nginx Plus. I do wish them luck with that project though.
wut.

Occam's razor says he replaced the compromised ssl key (the one the court ordered him to hand over)

Ladar shut down his servers than accept snooping on all his users, I certainly doubt he just decided after all this fighting to just give up.
Seeking Alpha: Who needs an acquisition when we're doing so well?
FAQ: from where can I scan the Internet?
So he is keeping the juicy stuff from the leaks for the new site? I could be interesting what more could be revealed. According to Schneier they have material to publish way into 2014.

It will be interesting if they try to influence the midterms.
We'll probably be complaining about the horrible legacy Node.js applications created by scores of mediocre JS developers in a few years, like we do with PHP now.

The classic discourse is: "PHP is not a bad language, it was just designed with one specific purpose in mind and then grew organically. Of course there is some ballast now... Oh well, OK it is a bad language. But the real problem is that it's too easy - everybody thinks they are an elite developer because they can code a bit PHP."

VB -> PHP -> JS ?
Also pocket doesn't know what on earth its dealing with, clearly works though so thats something. Not tested read it later.
Gross market cap lost during a CEO's reign is a poor measure of performance for a variety of reasons:

* stock prices often get de-linked from the underlying value of the business (and the starting point for Ballmer was the height of the stock market bubble)

* percentage drop seems far more important that gross amount dropped - quite a number of CEO's have led their companies to bankruptcy, and therefore a 100% drop in stock price.

* business forces outside of a CEO's control are responsible to a great extent for business performance. I would argue that Leanard Riggio (Barnes and Noble) was one of the top performing 50 CEOs in the last century in the face of very challenging headwinds but you'd never know that from the way the business (and its stock price) performed.

* dividends are another form of value returned to shareholders - and Microsoft has paid some over the years.

Also - it turns out that GE's Jeff Immelt presided over a drop of approximately $350 billion (601 billion Aug 2000 --> 246 billion today), and John Chambers even more (557 billion March 2000 --> $125 billion today)

So if the point of the article is to write about the CEO who presided over the largest market drop in U.S. history, the article should have been about Jeff Immelt or John Chambers.

Note: Intel's market cap also decreased more than MSFT during the same period but had more than 1 CEO.

edit: typo, added mention of John Chambers
Yes, in theory it's just an extension of existing principles, and it will be a fast but gradual process grounded in practices that existed throughout the 20th century or even longer.

Technology changes things, though. A bullet might be considered just a better arrow, and a car a more efficient horse. But that doesn't mean they didn't radically uproot tradition and shared moral convention.
Explaining an astonishing slinky
I was gonna ask about that. Also could you just drive the TiM with the rPi?

I have a TiM board lying around and this looks like a great project to throw up for decoration and motivation. Thanks!
Jor1k – OpenRISC 1000 Platform Emulator in JS, Launches Linux with X or Wayland
I don't want anything to do with objectifying women or hunting elephants for marketing means.

Can anyone suggest a morally sound alternative.

Damn it, it was over priced but worked well, here comes the migration headache.
> 3. Never, ever write any of these passwords down! ;)

Write the master password down until you've learnt it, and write it down in a safe place in case of brain injury.

Treat that piece of paper with the respect it deserves - keep it very safe.

Obviously, don't leave passwords in draws or on post-its near the computer or pinned to the wall.
I liked the slinky one so much I submitted it.
A point some people seem to be missing in this thread which I would like to emphasize is the value of predictable performance.

It is true that a JIT is in principle, capable of all the same things as an AOT compiler. It is true, that improving the speed of a JIT is valuable. However, that all glosses over the fact that a JIT is a black box. If I am working on an application today that has a mysterious slowdown after running for about 80 seconds, the promise that won't happen in next year's browser release is of no use to me whatsoever.

In fact, I would prefer the jit run at the same constant slow speed instead of starting out fast, giving a false sense of performance. I can OPTIMISE for that. I can work with that. I can't work with a JIT that can't decide how fast it's going to run, and why from release to release, from second to second. It's fine for most applications, but if I absolutely positively need to generate a frame at a constant fixed rate, an unpredictable JIT is a huge liability no matter how theoretically fast it can go on benchmarks. Stability trumps raw performance.
I couldn't imagine the government collecting that data on us and using it to change behaviors.
Google Consumer Surveys: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/publishers
It's more of a practical concern.

Migrating the government to Linux and using a free mail infrastructure would be cheaper (saving money in the long term, instead of costing), easier, and way more effective than using a non-standard internal email protocol and keep using Windows everywhere. Why bother when Microsoft still has access to all your data?

About using that proprietary protocol AND migrating to a free software environment, that could be better than just migrating, or worse, depends of the actual quality* of the protocol. But while the government frames it as a XOR option, migrating to an open stack is the only sane option.

* The fact that the protocol isn't public isn't good, the fact that it's Serpro creating it makes this worse - they've already done quite a few bad decisions about security.
I actually didn't get a job at Amazon because my pretty normal base salary requirements were higher than most of the execs in the company.

The deer in headlights wide-eyed look on my recruiter's face (after I had finished all the interviews) when I told him what I currently made in a smaller metro and what I was looking for is something that will be seared into my memory forever.

I can't remember if the word "salary cap" was used or not, but it was definitely implied.

I offered to accept a lower base with alternative compensation options (even vacation days), but it was already too rich for their blood.

I think they gave it some serious thought, but I got a call a week later that they simply couldn't do it.
Can you provide more details? Is there something wrong with Nginx Plus?
No liquidweb listed????
Jees - what a misery guts. Loosen up. He's sharing his thoughts. He's not your psych prof.
I thought the same thing, re-read the essay and am still confused.
Actually, I'm fine with both senses of what I originally wrote.

We need to treat the individuals the same as if they had a problem with alcohol.

We should also plot out drug use on a map, much like the CDC looks at an outbreak of cholera. Look at the factors that may be contributing to increased cases (poverty mainly, but there may be other things), and then start working on those.
Maybe weasel wording on the warrant?

They only ordered him to disclose the old ssl key, maybe it doesn't apply to the new one?
I think the proper question under the formulation you provided is, "Where can I find one that does anything other than produce bugs," since you asserted that bugs are the only result. To which the answer is: any of them.
> Here, we got a node express backend with handlebars as the templating engine, defined grunt tasks, some unit tests and backbone on the client.

JS BINGO!

Sorry, I couldn't resist. I'm something inbetween disgusted and amused by this soup of JS libraries and buzz words. I feel like I'm gonna vomit while laughing.
"Enter bank transactions."

Nope. Customer lost.

Look, I hate Quickbooks and Quickbooks Online. I really, really do, but I will not use a financial product that doesn't connect to my financial institutions. Period.

Do you want to know what MY startup dream is? I want someone to give me money, and then I want to go create a service that kicks the crap out of Yodlee and Intuit's own bank connection system. I want it to use REST APIs when it can, OFX when it should, and intelligent screen scraping when it must.

I want to build a startup based on an open core of specifications for how to connect to every financial system in the world. I want that spec to be executable and available as a simple library with bindings to every language you can think of. If you have a new institution or your bank changes and you can fix it, I want you to be able to fork the library and send us a pull request.

I want end users to be able to go through a "guided login process". "OK, log in now", "OK, click on the accounts list", "OK click on a transaction". "You're done! We've autogenerated a basic scraper for your bank. Thanks for helping us out."

I want to make money off this library by providing a simple, unified REST API behind all this mess that provides the computational resources to handle millions of customers connecting with thousands of institutions.

I want this company to provide push notifications so your app can do clever things when people spend money.

I don't want you to have to sign an NDA and pay thousands of dollars just to get permission to play with it.

I want it to be the Twilio of Banks.

But if you want to take the code and go your own way, you can.

I really don't know why we've let just a few companies keep our collective financial data locked up for so long. Is it because it's so expensive to get it working? Well why not spend it on people who will create an open, scalable system that can still make money?

Instead, we have Mint.com and mvelopes. That's it, really. Have an idea for a personal finance tool that lets you create "virtual subaccounts" for your checking and savings accounts so you can leverage double-entry bookkeeping in your personal finances through a clear metaphor? Great! Now have fun spending 10 minutes every two days copying and pasting stuff from 10 websites into 1.

It's just madness.

You know that "one weird thing" you're passionate about that's not really related to anything else you're passionate about? This is it for me.

P.S.: lubos - this isn't really about you or manager.io. I commend you for making something and getting it out there. This is about the thing that makes every one of these attempts inevitably fail, and it's sad that we're all being held hostage to crappy software because of it. I wish you success, I hope that I'm completely wrong.
I do too. I also started using Wave for Payroll and it's been fantastic.
A couple of beefy servers racked at a local DC, can't beat the price+performance.
It's been a while since I didn't comment on anything on HN, but since you are doing something that is really hard and I have some experience with accounting and banking, may I offer you some tips that you might want to investigate further:

- Regulation: Some countries (and some US States) do have guidelines on how this type of software must be constructed, make sure you are compliant to those regulations if it's the case. Example: IIRC you need permits to even start building a POS solutions in some states.

- Integration: An usable accounting software must include HR or have integration with common HR software used by most companies. HR is one of the most complex parts of accounting. Most clients will have outdated solutions they are comfortable working with and won't change completely to your software, make sure you can integrate with tools they want to continue using. Only fight the old if the option you are offering means task elimination. Don't forget you need to integrate with banks, but that's easy.

- Customization: Human systems are not pretty. There are things that do not make sense to accounting and are often loaded with emotional decisions, human relationships and corporate strategy. Sometimes a software just streamlines the human mess, make sure your software can be customized by your clients to a certain point.