skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's not exactly a difficult email address to guess, I would think that in this case (specifically this case) equifax would have a very good claim that it wasn't them that leaked it. If instead you had used a hash or something unguessable then you might have a case, but I could easily go and sign up to my favorite nigerian viagra supplier with all the usual suspects facebook@yourdomain.com, airbnb@yourdomain.com... and you'd go right on blaming the facebook, airbnb, etc.
Thanks for some fantastic feedback. I haven't read the worrydream link yet, but will check it out.
Google has been pretty explicit about the circumstances in which it will hand user data over to governments or law enforcement. Even if it is required to be done in secret (e.g. a NSL or FISA request), it still requires a valid court order or other legal process.

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests

If you think any U.S.-based company is able to do better, I'd love to hear how.
I believe the Group Policy requires Pro though. And this was Windows 8: a full-screen banner would pop up saying the computer would restart in 15 minutes, with no option to permanently dismiss it.
NVidia already has something named Project Shield -- although it has nothing to do with this. Wonder if this is confusing enough for a trademark case.
"In communities which depend almost entirely on a single industry, such as a factory or mine, maintaining economic balance is a challenging problem."

Almost a throwaway line, and of course, propaganda and dated -- but the Silicon Valley arguably has this problem. Is the Bay 'heading into despotism'? What do you think?
I do financial modelling at a Big4 and can easily see the value of this type of visualization tool.

I wonder if/how you are able to visualize INDEX/MATCH type lookups, SUMPRODUCT and array formulas? Obviously, these types of formulas are not in every model, but for my usecase it would be pretty important.

Also, since others have asked but the answer watn't too clear: is any data uploaded?

You mention that you have plans to move to a model where things happen in reverse: models would be defined as flows and the spreadsheet could be generated. What progress (if any) have you made on that front?
You don't need 100% final requirements to start building the system. If nothing else start working though the interfaces with other systems, and try and get as close as possible to a working prototype. Granted funding is often an issue, but even a tiny team given a few months head start can get a lot done.
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I am as big a Linux fanboy as anyone - but Linux doesn't do power management across different set of hardware consistently and when it does it is with mediocre results. In fact you'd be hard pressed to find a PC Laptop running Linux that gives you great battery life. It's largely a miss. So performance yes, great power characteristics no - that's too hard due to sheer number of variables.
Very cool! I've got two bloated excel spreadsheets that need to be ported to a web app and this looks like it would be really helpful. Is this available yet to use or still in the early stages?
Hopefully this project will come with increased openness about Googles complicity in the PRISM scandal. It would be rather ironic if this ends up protecting free speech everywhere except in America.
Yes you're right. It's the only data point I have, so it's what I went with :)

What you're echoing is also correct.
Seems like its just a straight up competitor to Cloudflare.
There doesn't' appear to be any direct revenue gain from this, maybe this is more of a mafia protection kinda thing (as in protecting its interests, the websites hosting its ads).

Does anyone know what it takes to mitigate DDoS, at this kind of scale?
The highly unusual company behind Sriracha, the world’s coolest hot sauce
There is Blue Shield (medical insurance company) in US
This is my application for the upcoming YC batch. I commonly see applications posted postmortem, but don't think I've ever seen one posted prior to the application deadline... so I decided to do just that.

As an added bonus, you can review my application using my application... meta! :)
How do you plan to support links between documents. The place I work at now has a very complex budgeting process where each department sends my office their budget spreadsheets and we link them all into an overview that also does things like calculating benefits payments and taxes. There's a lot that can go wrong in that process, and every time I go back and look at a submitted version I find some mistake someone missed.
Surveillance was never the problem. Asymmetric information is.
They paid a billion dollars for disobeying a direct court order. You phrase that as if they paid a fine for randomly not doing something.

Your suggestion that they are equally vulnerable to the same thing for solving a difficult, market driven technical challenge seems like a stretch to me.
Do you think Firefox OS will have a significant impact on the demand and therefore supply of HTML5 games and other apps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
I'd like to note that the above is the first time I've ever referenced that URL. No links exist to it on my web site.

I just got a visit from the "MJ12Bot" (http://www.majestic12.co.uk/projects/dsearch/mj12bot.php) asking for robots.txt, and then the URL above. So, MJ12bot reads Hacker News, or at least follows as the URLs listed in it.
How much? Breaking the workplace taboo
As a foreigner, I'm shocked and very creeped out whenever I'm in the US and see people directly giving the pledge.

A country should pledge allegiance to it's citizens, not the other way around.
Curiously, most of the bio-researchers I know are women... but apparently we should get them to drop out and start writing Javascript.

(This is just one more danger of trying to push people towards a subject - you risk alienating the other subjects they would have naturally been attracted to and possibly enjoyed more)
Yes, I've interviewed plenty of people with degrees from very prestigious Universities that evidenced no real programming skills, and a wonderful (truly) grasp of algorithms. Trouble is, the former is necessary on a day to day basis, and the second is always available from some contractor when you need it.
I see big time indirect revenue - with all of a sites actions/users moving through Google, they can gather way more (potentially private) information about a user - all the better to sell targeted ads on. Call me cynical, but that was the first thing I thought of when I saw this.
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Okay, but that's not actually how cysts work if you look it up. They are sacs that can have cancerous tissue inside them, but they can also have fluid or air. The operational definition of benign and malignant tumors that doctors use boils down to rudimentary observation, yes, but in the lab we've really identified many of the key mutations in the transition from benign to malignant. So I guess you could say we have a reasonably good idea of what cancer is and how it works, but it hasn't fully made its way onto the front lines yet, either in terms of assessment or treatment.

I understand your cynical point of view about funding, but I guess I would say two things. First, cynicism is a cancer unto itself (ha), and all academics are faced with the corrupting influence of money. Second, if you go and talk to the cancer researchers in the nearest university you'll probably find a great deal of them really do care about the work; they just might care about a very tiny corner of it rather than a cure-all solution.
So, because of a few dropout students who start ephemeral startups with limited scope and no scalability that are destined to die out in 3 or 4 years until the next big thing comes along, Stanford is now no longer a school but a breeding ground for fresh business intellect?

Give me a break. Stanford's graduation rates have been steadily rising to highs. Its research is still top-notch, and breakthroughs are found every day.

And Knuth... is that enough? Is it? Yes, it is. Sensationalism at its best...
Did you seriously just accuse Google of "a mafia protection kinda thing"? Seriously?
Here's a post that brings out the worst in HN. Start from the top and see how far you get before you find anything positive. Here's what I hope to see i) What people think this means for YHOO. ii) What does this mean for traditional media and people attracted to web properties. iii) What might this service that he's launching look like? iv) Who else might copy/follow suit on this play?

Here's what you get I) Good riddance I hate him (real valuable) ii) Some sort of conspiracy theory about ethics and issues. iii) Character attack/insinuation with some cheesy comment about his hiring manager and Yahoo based content and iv) never forget to work congress and government in there because a guy who does quirky videos on the iPad is only one step away from journalism and government coziness.
Awesome. Love the sketches. Did you use Paper?
On an unrelated note, I had never seen the withgoogle.com domain before and I did some searching and found all these other projects, initiatives, landing pages, and even online courses:

- Chromebook mobile site: http://us.chromebook.withgoogle.com

- Developer Bus: http://developerbus.withgoogle.com

- Full Value of Mobile: http://www.fvm.withgoogle.com

- Google Analytics Academy: https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com

- Google Expert: http://expertbrasil.withgoogle.com

- Google Wallet Instant Request Form: http://getinstantbuy.withgoogle.com

- Mapping: https://mapping.withgoogle.com

- Online Marketing 101: https://onlinemkt101.withgoogle.com/preview

- Royal Baby Congrats Card: https://royalbabycard.withgoogle.com

- Tour Builder: https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com

- Web Accessibility: https://webaccessibility.withgoogle.com

- YouTube Creator Academy: https://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com

- Your Tour (Tour de France): http://yourtour.withgoogle.com

Non-English:

- http://vpered.withgoogle.com

- http://docchinogame.withgoogle.com/pc/

- http://minchizu.withgoogle.com

- http://ennovate.withgoogle.com

- http://brasilfreewifi.withgoogle.com
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So you're implying that you're 50~ years old. Sure, sure :))
Never said it was unrealistic–just meant it wouldn't happen immediately. By the time I have it available (2-3 years), my credit score will be improved too.

Also, our rent is very low here ($2K for a 4bd home on 1/3 acre in a great neighborhood). We just happen to be in an area where buying vs. renting is out of balance.

And your car analogy breaks down real fast. There are many more factors which can/do prevent people from moving to other cities.
So 55 separate goverment contractors trying to integrate incredibly nitpicky set of data and it does not work? I wonder why. Maybe first they should have fixed the process. You can't build nationwide websites same way you build physical things.
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Thanks checking it out right now. I am also looking for a partner in crime if possible.
I would say that developer tools are a terrible market for that reason. Information products (screencasts, books, etc) can be extremely successful in the same market. Examples abound, including patio11's marketing training[1], egghead.io[2] for AngularJS training, Peepcode[3], Railscasts[4], and various other ebooks [5][6][7].

Most developers that I know have two common traits that make info products an easier sell. First, they're innately curious about their field. Second, they have access to a company credit card that will happily pay for training materials.

[1]: https://training.kalzumeus.com

[2]: http://egghead.io

[3]: https://peepcode.com

[4]: http://railscasts.com/pro

[5]: http://www.nathanbarry.com/authority

[6]: https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments

[7]: http://www.jstorimer.com/products/working-with-ruby-threads
No, I didn't say #2, I said it's not surprising that the Surface Pro gets poor battery life. My comment about this whole controversy is that you cannot project 1 computer's battery problems to the operating system. My Windows does get poor battery life but we haven't seen any evidence of that. Clearly it can get good battery life as there are real-life computers running Windows that get great battery life.
Infosys Sees Losses from its Hiring Policy
They could get attempt to fight the court orders in a court more open than the FISC? I'm not sure how this could practically be accomplished, but it would be a good first step towards protecting the rights of users, instead of blindly complying with court orders that Google would hopefully have some moral problems with. I always find it so fascinating that tech giants will lobby for increased access to their services worldwide, but not more secure services here at home.
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Amen!
(I'm not even religious)
He was on Nova this week. Ugg, unwatchable, oversimplified on what should have been really interesting subject matter.
>Don't you think that Microsoft should have been reprimanded over their abuse of the OS market to gain control of the browser market?

Absolutely not!
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Not every young adult understand the signs that they are already entering into a corrupt business practice.
> Which of those 5 do I give the short term contract gig to? So you're back to the same problem.

Ideally, all of them. It's not hard to find a couple one-off tasks that you'd like to see done in a day. Or could could proceed sequentially until you find one whose work you like.
Project Shield was the code name, NVidia Shield is the real name.
I do the same thing (using unique email addresses) and over the years several such addresses have been aquired by spammers one way or another. Until recently, it was mainly smaller sites and businesses that this happened with. But I was quite surprised when I started getting spam at the unique address I gave to Dropbox.
That is actually so slick. I wish more web services had designs like this.
I'm not sure if I'm replying to what you're asking, but if you read "How would you move Mount Fuji", the beginning of that book discredits IQ tests.
No they can't. They can fight the court order in FISC, but once the FISC process resolves, they will be required by law to honor the terms of the court order; they could then fight in other courts --- as I understand them to be doing to some extent --- but that would be a post-facto effort.
It is quite ironic how the country that class itself the land of the free, and home of democracy, etc. exudes no fight for freedom within its own borders. Kinda ruins the whole freedom facade, when freedom is only given when it is inline with the government strategic plan.
I can already see the headlines:
"Beginning January 1st 2016 Google will discontinue Project Shield"
Only in the most literal sense :)

Paper: Mixed Media, 5.5inx8.5in notebook by Strathmore

Pens: Uni-ball Vision Micro

Scanned; shading was done after in Photoshop. I tried using Paper, but it was too hard to write longer quotes.
Better watch out, if your post makes too much sense it will make it to the top and no longer make sense.
FYI I think pg frowns on posting these, hence why you don't see them.

Not sure where I saw that, but basically if everyone posted their app for review HN would be taken over.
Please do this. I've dreamed of something like this for a long time.
Beautifully implemented. If it's not too much to ask, please consider making public the source code behind the display and design - really gorgeous way of showing a collection of notes.
Gregory, I think you did an amazing job!
If you want, I can send you some pictures you can use, if you'd like to add them. Let me know.
Isn't it a clear that they set this up to track users to those kinds of sites and feed NSA with that information? Also, they get to control what information they want to let out. Call me paranoid, but I don't trust Google a bit here.
You can't assume the existing alignments will stay in place. I'm thinking of what happens in say Chicago when the current generation of 20-somethings are politically-powerful 30-40-somethings. Homosexuality will be normalized by then, and the most virulent racists in the Republican party will have died off. That will leave the Democratic party a class of educated, urban younger people and a class of older public sector folks. Now, Chicago might have to find an extra $1 billion in its budget starting next year to bring its pension funding up to required levels. What happens when these younger urban folks see their taxes go up just as they start to earn some money, school services cut just as they have kids, etc, all to pay for these retired public sector employees? That coalition is going to fracture, catastrophically.
I think it will affect the supply rather than the demand of HTML5 games initially. Firefox OS has a very small market share in comparison to iOS and Android so while there are more folks playing HTML5 games, it isn't a huge amount. However, big name companies backing HTML5 like Mozilla with Firefox OS and Samsung/Intel with Tizen, they're doing their best to get popular games ported over to HTML5, as well as more new content.

For example, the Tizen App Challenge (https://developer.tizen.org/contests/tizen-app-challenge) is offering some pretty large prizes for HTML5 apps/games.
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Man this website is gorgeous. Great work. follows @gkoberger
We are saying the same thing. My post wasn't meant to contradict yours, just clarify.

> What I was referring to, which I thought was apparent but failed to convey, is that this perception of nobody doing it is a fallacy.

I just think that in this context the "nobody" you are referring to and the "nobody" he is referring to are not equal sets. Yours is a superset of his, which is why both statements are true (in spirit), while yours is true in fact.
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It took 3 days of customer dev to realize my idea sucked
Already is: https://github.com/gkoberger/startupnotes

(I did it fast; I need to refactor soon. Also, I'll add a license.)

EDIT: Open license added, have fun with it!
I'm assuming the OP was referring to a protection racket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket

>A protection racket is an operation where criminals provide protection to persons and properties, settle disputes and enforce contracts in markets where the police and judicial system cannot be relied upon.

Of course, Google isn't threatening anyone with DDoS, (even assuming that they somehow make money of you).

Otherwise though, it's somewhat of an interesting analogy. This is a form of protection (of online property). And you can't really rely on the police to protect you from DDoS. I suppose it would be more reasonable to just compare it to a security firm though.
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Just put a demo store up here http://magicshopdemo.tumblr.com

You can log in at http://magicshop.io with this demo account:

email: demo@magicshop.io

password: demo
TMI in user interfaces
Absolutely. Generics are too powerful an abstraction to do without in 2013. I can't imagine coding without them. Go is a no-go for me.

Everyone talks down on C++ but it's one of the few languages that gets generics right. The only language with implicit RAII (not explicit like C#/Java). The only language to put into practice 0 cost abstractions.
And battery life is a concern for neither of them...
The article, as the headline states, is about poor requirements dooming the project.
I give everyone earplugs too. Without hearing protection you would get damage. Its 95db outside the scan room. Dunno what it is in the bore, but it is loud.
github needs this.
I assure you, having to spend 75% of your administration time dealing with MongoDB problems, taking you away from other critical tasks, you'll see it's not really a great problem to have.
You are the man. And you just got yourself another twitter follower :)
I went ahead and made a demo for people to check out here, I'll get something mocked up and set up the account for auto-login so people can test it on the site ASAP:

http://magicshopdemo.tumblr.com

email: demo@magicshop.io

password: demo
Refer to patio11's comment in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5903868

He mentions ideas for datasets from data.gov
"I expect that to be the norm in the 70s, 80s, and 90s as it is the norm today and will continue to be in the future, for the same reasons."

Well, I think it's safe to assume that we've always had some amount of idiots in Congress: individuals whose lack of deep intellect and substantive accomplishments in life were offset by their ability to charm others. It seems reasonable that there have been many, many votes in the Senate and House in which the full language of the bills hasn't been read by the people doing the voting.

That said, I don't know if bills as massive as the Patriot Act, TARP bailout, or ACA are just "business as usual" for Congress. If you consider the sheer amount of lobbying that takes place today, along with the ease of cutting-and-pasting huge blocks of text into a document and the level of apathy the general public has these days towards all things political, I bet these bills couldn't have existed in decades past.

I think in the past, the corruption took place one small-to-moderate-sized bill at a time, with regular frequency. Now, it's a feeding frenzy that is shoved through all at once in the hope that nobody reads the fine print.
Facebook is being fucking idiotic here.

Having been criticised for banning images of breast-feeding mothers (because NIPPLES) they then do something weird like allowing these clips.

Available at the usual places are short, easy to post gifs of various gore, including US soldiers being shot in the head. Will Facebook really want to allow people to post those images?

What about happy slapping?
... which is why I said "most".
The currency of upvotes suggests that many readers have appreciated my comment, perhaps because it provided them new information about an important set of issues. That set of issues has been discussed in many of the comments here, and was discussed in the original article.

The currency of actual cash money, which is not provided in our information-sharing environment here on Hacker News, would free up time for me to customize each comment I post more thoroughly. Under current conditions on Hacker News, I will continue to post for free, and I hope some of my comments are worth more than I bill for them.

Thank you for letting me know your opinion.
Thanks! And good call, I just pushed a fix for that.
Yeah it's still quite early stage.
"The next big thing will start out looking like a toy" -- Chris Dixon

http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...
The biggest problem is that Java designers ignored the numerical aspects of language almost completely. The IEEE 754 is an international standard for FPU calculations which is implemented on practically all relevant CPU's for at least some 20 years.

Java designers practically ignored the standard since they obviously didn't understand it or decided that serious computations will never be important for their target group. A lot of people commenting here don't understand it either. OK, a lot of people don't need it. But those that need such calculations simply can't implement decent numerical calculations in Java.

So the next time somebody claims that "Java is comparably fast to C" remember that it can be true only for some of the algorithms.

If you ignore IEEE 754 for Rust you're creating one more language that will not be "as good as C." And here I don't mean "C as defined by language lawyers" but "C as implemented in the compilers to at least minimally support the use of the underlying hardware for those who need that."

And those who need that are the people who use computers for computations. Don't ignore them. Or at least don't be surprised that they stick to old Fortran and C compilers.
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