skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Office Collaboration? Are you kidding. Gdocs is incredibly primitive compared to Office.

GMail isn't bad, but ultimately doesn't have half the features you can get for a SME on Exchange, simple things like stopping people emailing a document outside of the organisation. Very important (often a legal/contractual requirement) are simply not possible.

Cloud Hosting? Amazon and MS are out infront.

The thing they've got sewn up is YouTube, but the oddity about that is how awful the search / navigation on the site is. Like imgur they have a brand that people see embedded, I'm fairly sure people click on Reddit imgur links which they wouldn't for an un-known domain host.

But that doesn't mean a competitor can't come along and destroy them. In the rather profitable (and technically un-challenging) world of Meme Generation, we saw the incumbent cast aside this year, amongst some bad publicity. The same could easily happen to youtube.
I'd wager that google would be very interested, if they already not doing something like that in their data centers.

I wonder about that.

It's usually a lot cheaper to move computation to data, rather than data to computation. The model that Seagate is presenting here strikes me as wrong, because it assumes very fat pipes (or specialized topologies) for any non-trivial app. At the scale Google operates at, I just don't see this happening.

That, and I have a healthy distrust of networks. Instead of having a box with an OSS OS and dumb drives with small(er) closed firmware blobs, now you have the OS, all the network devices and their closed firmware blobs, and drives with large(r) closed firmware blobs, just to access your data. A lot more can go wrong. A lot more byzantine things can go wrong. Drives are dodgy lying sacks of fecal matter as is; this looks like it'll make things much worse.

The model Seagate presents could be useful for data that is rarely accessed, but I'm not really sold on that either.
I guess it depends who "we" are. The average person dont need a new computer, I agree. My mom is still using my old self-assembled desktop from 2008-ish and is perfectly happy with it.

However for those of us that use our computers 8 hours+ every day, I think it makes good sense to upgrade to the newest hardware every 2-3 years.

I just assembled a computer from new parts myself, and its nice now to have a fully encrypted workstation, with zero performance hit. Q87 motherboard with TPM(asus q87m-e) + UEFI bios + UEFI GOP Compliant videocard(EVGA GeForce GTX 770) + M500 SSD + Bitlocker + Win2012R2(or Win8.1) means you can enable the builtin hardware encryption of the M500 SSDs. It gives me a certain peace of mind to know that a burglar wont be able to grab my personal files and source code if my computer was ever stolen. I also imagine the TPM+Secure boot combo will make it harder for a rootkit to go unnoticed.

Not to mention the lower idle power usage resulting from the 22nm haswell and 32nm lynx chipset.

My friends at work seems to think I'm crazy for replacing a 2 year old computer :) Although as I pointed out to one of them, he spent more than twice as much on a new mountain bike, and I'm sure i spend alot more time on my computer than he does on his mountain bike ;)
neat idea. or a proxy on your network.
Usability depends on app.

Take Trello for example, super useful when working with teams and on boards with a lot of activity.
What public tech company should I research for my final project?
I am a final year university student in London and love tech. As part of my degree I need to produce a (massive/100hr) research report on a company, its competitive position, financial promise and ultimately investment case. Since I love tech, I want to do a US or UK tech company. I would love to hear the HN community's views on promising tech public companies that you think would be cool to research. I will happily share the report with the HN community if it would be of interest.

Criteria:
1) US or UK based company
2) Public company (so post IPO)
3) In tech
4) Cool and interesting to research

Any suggestions greatfully received.
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NBC wrongly uses geospatial data and makes the whole of Australia on fire
I'm not sure you can class it as "We are this good at it"... when it's being discussed publicly around the world, and the president is fielding calls from world leaders asking why they are being spied on.

Will all these defences of the NSA be repeated when we discover the Germans returning the favour?
The interesting thing about FCP X is that people HATED IT (with good reason) when it first came out, but they've since added a lot of really good features according to what I've seen and read.
I must be scrambled today because I cannot find it, he "contributed" to their getting the bomb but they also had a lot of help so I overstated his importance. I'll try getting back to you later, it might've been in a biography of his, 'Sun in a Bottle', or one of his interviews where he talks about some meeting with Chinese scientists. Apologies.
Best of it is - less tech-savvy criminals that didn't know about the possibility of printing gun parts before in the UK? Will sure as hell know about doing it now. Nice work BBC and the old bill.
I think he hedged that risk by asking 'what are the top three things that you'd fix in the app' or something like that. Don't remember the exact words.
I hope that the GMP's tests mentioned in the original article prove this. Ideally, the BBC would update their article if this occurred, but I assume they will not (based on previous articles that they have written that have turned out to be incorrect).

At the same time, I think assuming that these parts were seized while their owner was doing nothing wrong may be naive.
The guns mentioned in this article are not very useful in either one of those 3; at best in the 'peripheral' aspects of the drug business.

Apart from that, the reasons are different for all 3:

- prostitution: grounds for prohibition are based on 2 'prongs' as it were: the moral aspect, it's quite clearly a matter of fact that a large amount of people find prostitution per se morally reprehensible. Secondly there is the argument that many prostitutes are being forced into their work. Empirical evidence shows in countries around the world that legalizing prostitution does not (completely) take away human trafficking and sex slavery. So, the argument is, if we prohibit prostitution, there will be less of that sort of suffering.

- betting: this is based on a protect-people-against-themselves theory. Since betting is addictive to some people, these have been many cases in the past where people were driven to ruin by it. Furthermore, there are many 2nd degree victims - the families and children of gambling addicts, society at large for the damage they do to fund their addiction, etc. So again the reasoning is - let's prohibit gambling, then these will go away.

- drugs: well this is actually similar to betting; its effect might also compromise somebodies' health, but the fundamental reason is protecting people against themselves from something of which they cannot quite assess the effects when they start on it, and are unable to detach themselves from when they get into problems.

Then again, I think you and anybody else with a 'normal' intelligence are/is perfectly capable of coming to these conclusions yourself, and you were just deliberately being obtuse; but just to get this pseudo-anarchistic discussion out of the way before it really gets started, I thought I'd point out the obvious.
actually i have seen a considerable number of hp laptops which also have a trackpoint. not sure they compare to thinkpads on other accounts though. but they didn't look bad..
Wow, that PhD thesis is very interesting. I use grammars to generate music (and other things sometimes), but I would also really like to be able to infer them.

Since you say it's obsolete, do you have any links to papers or software related to successors of the Sequitur algorithm?
I'm using SQL server, Server 2012 R2.

We can't use public cloud. Need our own private hardware for legal reasons.

The load isn't high, we have a high value per client, low client count business model.

The ease at which I can have a private cloud. Data replication and clustering, full Hot-Hot style DR solution, hosting on MS technologies is great.

I can get due diligence sign off from SQL Server which I could not for say Postgre, this would be due to the fact the replication component isn't vetted and considered secure/authoritative by my clients.

Then I do the maths, once bizspark ends, the total cost for all these licenses is going to be about $30k per year. We hope to have revenues of about thirty times that by then.

But better than all that. How long does it take to set up this replicating, elastic cloud, with replicated database? Not even a day.

I couldn't do that with Oracle!

Bizspark means right now that we don't have to worry about the costs compared to going VMware.

Now in the world of startups whom have 100,000 users to make $10, then yes, the cost of these technologies is going to be hard to justify!
There should be a YC startup stock exchange, even if it was with virtual money, just to see what happens.
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I started a company and I hate excel.
Yeah .. and Duct Tape is illegal too, since it can be used for criminal purposes.
It does make sense to properly fund wars, though in worst case situations (WW2?) you need the ability to massively borrow.

The irony of Iraq is there are eminent economists who thought it was worth it.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w12092
'After Merkel's allegations became public, White House press secretary Jay Carney issued a statement that said the US "is not monitoring and will not monitor" the German chancellor's communications.'

Which, of course, was a blatant lie.
Or worse, disabled because of a DMCA request
Yeah they have weekly car bombs now killing all sorts of innocents, totally worth it.
Concerned countries should work together to achieve same goal. Month ago, similar signals came from Brazil.
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The Daily Mail.... ha ha whatever.
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%5 goes to idea maker, i get it. What happens to other %95 ?
Is it evenly distributed, or assemblymade takes a percentage?

I am interested in contributing to projects if it's evenly distrubuted among developers or assemblymade gets a cut no more than %5. Please be clear about it.
IP is not limited to Ethernet.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osi_layer
Ethernet is Layer 1, IP is Layer 3.
I switched from wordpress to Jekyll on AWS S3 last year: http://www.dirktheman.com/tech/2013/05/12/i-switched-my-blog...
I didn't like the smugness of it. "We the entrepreneurial class do what others don't..."

Yes, you have to ask. And do. And put in tons of hard work.
> To be useful the article would have to expand on the person and it's ties to the aweful criminal organization who owns "air rifles" and "BB guns".

While I am not a UK resident, it looks like some "air rifles" and "BB guns" are illegal to own in the UK without a Firearms Certificate [1].

Neither you nor the BBC article have provided any evidence that there is some kind of vendetta against 3D printers or their owners (which your original comment suggested).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gun_laws#United_Kingdom
That actually looks really nice! Thanks for bringing this up, Kelet.

Ubuntu/Linux support too which is always nice to see!
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When you are the CEO, you are both empowered and bound. Empowered to take risks, because the buck stops with you, but bound by the outcomes because there is nobody else to blame.

So yes he took a risk. This was one of many. If it didn't pay off, he could take others.
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Because they are young and not yet humbled by bad things happening in life.
He is great to have as a user of your software. He sends excellent bug reports and thoughtful features requests and has a great eye for detail.
Exactly. It's not the logic that's hard, it's the exceptions. If you're not building a new business around the technology, you wind up having to deal with a lot of well-reasoned exceptions and fuzziness that's in people's heads or embedded in hands-on processes.
Mac users should better try iTeX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKaI78K_rgA
No way that's why Google's CPC is down. It's because on mobile it's a lot lower, and people are using mobiles more and more instead of PC's (measured in time spent on them).
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Doesn't that save a version with screwed up formatting though? e.g. logo in the headers missing
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Completely irrelevant to the rest of the discussion at hand, but if you are going run Android as a Netbook OS on stock PC hardware with keyboard and mouse/trackpad, I've found that everything from Jellybean and up is incredibly much better to work with than Android 4.0.

They've done some deep level fixes which just makes everything flow and stick together as one "netbook" user-experience in a much better way.

My experience is mostly from Asus Tarnsformer type devices and not regular X86 laptop hardware, but I suspect the same improvements should be valid in X86 country. You certainly have nothing to lose by trying it [1].

My 2 cents.

[1] http://www.android-x86.org/releases/build-20130725
This seems like a reinvention of Coraid's ATAoE, which has the added benefit of already being in the mainline kernel, good server/target support (vblade), hardware products shipping now, a lack of IP/TCP overhead, and a dead-simple protocol.

http://aoetools.sourceforge.net/
Drone Invaders is surprisingly addictive - the game play has been highly enjoyable. Congratulations on shipping a really fun game!

Just one minor note: I'm left-handed, but the position of the reload button on the bottom left corner means I either have to stop shooting and move my finger down to reload, or else use my comparatively inept right hand to shoot. Again, it's only a small observation but I thought I'd send it your way for consideration.
> What little the Guardian has been allowed to report (outside the D-Notice that covers GCHQ coverage) hasn't seen major coverage.

A D-Notice has no legal power. It carries an implied threat that just maybe some of the stuff covered might be met with a legal challenge, and could you please refrain? But it does not bar publication of anything.
Just install GNU/Linux on VMWare with CPU virtualization enabled and get two OS in a laptop with the minimum of fuss.

And far less battery life.

I often run Ubuntu or Windows on my MBA with VMWare to compile some software. It's one of the best methods to soak your battery empty quickly.
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If its too TL;DR for you to read right now, just read the first page. It's a great introduction to RSA and the use of prime numbers with real examples.
Does Germany produce routers? Firmware? Would it be "airgapped" with the U.S. internet?

Having Merkel's phone monitored must have been a blow.

That said, having a nationally routed Internet makes sense. (edit: article says 90% is already routed nationally)

The article itself says it's not practical, and mostly posturing.

"The only way to change this would be for Germany to require local hosting of websites, a drastic move according to experts that has not yet been pushed by German leaders. Deutsche Telekom declined to say whether it would lobby for such an approach.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, angered by reports that the U.S. spied on her and other Brazilians, is pushing legislation that would force Google, Facebook and other internet companies to store locally gathered or user-generated data inside the country."
I agree with you. Gzip is merely a container format, just like AVI, MKV are for video/audio content. Gzip supports several compression encodings with Deflate being the the most common one I believe.
> Empirical evidence shows in countries around the world that legalizing prostitution does not (completely) take away human trafficking and sex slavery. So, the argument is, if we prohibit prostitution, there will be less of that sort of suffering.

But does legalizing at least reduce human trafficking and sex slavery? If so, then the inverse follows: by allowing prostitution, there is less of that sort of suffering.

Prohibiting gambling: same thing - gambling happens regardless of whether it's legal or not. If it's legal, the government can at least tax it significantly.

Prohibiting drugs: I don't think that the government is smarter than me; cars are dangerous, and scalpels are dangerous, but we don't prohibit them, we simply require people to educate themselves first before they can use them. I think the same could be done with drugs; in fact, it would be better than the current situation where noone really knows what effect drugs have.

> you were just deliberately being obtuse

Well, up until this point I thought your comment was very thoughtful, but here it went from good to terrible; you know, people with "normal" intelligence can disagree as well. Unfortunately I already up-voted you.
Be wary of using case sensitive FS. Many apps simply don't work on case sensitive.

Maybe they've fixed it, but not long ago the whole Adobe suite just wouldn't work on case sensitive EXT FS.

You should use a convention for your filenames anyway. Eg in Python you always use lower case.
It's about showing that YC startups success rate it much higher than the none YC startups. Several statistics support this claim, such as the average seed round for YC company (see: https://angel.co/valuations)
svbtle and medium: link-baiting so you don't have to
Not only YC, but still: secondmarket.com
Something to consider: Xcode's UI, particularly for editing Interface Builder stuff, really benefits from a larger screen.

On a smaller screen (13" or 11"), you'll find yourself constantly toggling panels on/off so that you can see what you're working on.
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It's because they hate our freedoms - sadly.

This only going to result in a giant leap backwards in time to 30 years ago when there was a patchwork of networks (with universities providing the main internet backbone) but now the networks will be segmented by country - much, much more convenient for governments at the expense of everything and everyone else.
No. It is interesting as a concept though.
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I think it's just a ploy for Telekom and some large companies make a buck.

Any sane person shouldn't trust the German government and Telcos more than foreign ones. I certainly don't.
Look up vitamin K2 as well. There's a growing body of evidence suggesting that K is crucial, and especially when supplementing with D, and that most of us don't get enough in our daily diet. I currently take MK-7 alongside my daily 5000 IU of D.
NBC are just ahead of their time. The PM of Australia considers one of the worst fires, occurring at one of the earliest times in the fire season, totally unrelated to climate change.

He considers it as nothing more that part of the Australian fire season.

But the true reality is, in the last decade Australia has experienced four or five of the worst fire events in the countries history.

So is that enough to scare the country into action? No.

But give it a decade or two and that fire map may well turn out to be factual.

We are only into early/late spring and NSW is well and truly on fire. Summer is still months away and if the heat continues to rise and the rain continues to go missing, only god can help us!

Our PM will most certainly not be in a position to help. For him he sees it as just another God delivered natural event.
Whois data is public in any case, so there's no harm to re-posting it.
The Soviets did enter Norway towards the end of world war II, in order to defeat the German forces in the North. They then voluntarily withdrew, to the surprise of a lot of people, but seemingly without much US interference.

(The Norwegian response was rather disgusting: Remains of fallen Soviet soldiers were dug up from burial grounds all over the place and sent up the coast to be reburied closer to the border, in order to not have to let Soviet officers further into the country for memorial services etc. out of fear of spying..)

And you are right, our expectations might be different. But that does not mean that it is any more acceptable and that it will not affect the way people will deal with US diplomats and officials in the future:

Now we know that giving US officials phone numbers means those numbers will get monitored. So any government official wishing to give US officials a number now, will think twice, and then probably hand them numbers set aside exclusively for communications with the US, and will be reminded every time that the reason for doing this is that we can't trust US officials, because the US government does not trust us enough to not monitor us.
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Why incredible? Don't anthropomorphize countries, there is absolutely no obligation for a country to behave in a way that's consistent with it's behavior a few years back; countries are not individuals, please stop attaching human values to countries.
> That said, having a nationally routed Internet makes sense.

In general, it probably does. But in the case of Germany, it's just plain ridiculous since they have US military and spy bases within their territory (and the politicians who run around like headless chicken currently have been defending those and limiting citizens' rights near them - the bases themselves are US territory, but just showing up nearby gets you in trouble).
You complain about meaningless statistics and in the next breath introduce one of your own.

The median outcome of asking someone out, applying for a job, learning an instrument, starting a side project, writing a novel, picking up a sport, learning a language and any other of the thousands of things that make life interesting are all negative.

You fail, yielding zero value, and you could have done something safer with your time instead. But that's not a reason to not take chances.

If your startup fails, you can always go back to that cushy job at Microsoft. You're out 6-12 months - who cares?

Do you believe that the median YC graduate regrets their decision to enter the program?
That shows that no engineer has any say in what linkedin does. I can't imagine any tech security aware individual would take such responsibility upon himself.

How did the C-people even found out such thing is possible? Some intern who just found out how mail works probably was flapping his jaw too much.
>Does Germany produce routers? Firmware?

They have Siemens amongst other companies, so they feasibly could produce all their own routers if needed. They already produce mobile telecoms gear for many (most?) other countries. Doesn't make this proposal any more likely IMO.
Just Install Firefox (or Chromium, not Chrome) and install some extension and you have the same from a much more trustworthy source.
Not disagreeing with your overall concern about locked down platforms...

mainly that the most popular handheld devices (iOS) are _locked down_

With a 80% market-share[1] I think it's safe to safe Android is by far the most popular handheld platform, with iOS being for the niche market.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/07/android-nears-80-market-sha...
I would have said "Dropbox" however looking at 2) i'd say Twitter would be nice, i would love to read a report on it