skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been slowly working on a few things, and hopefully can finish them during the winter:

1) Shared Places

The idea is that you can have public or private lists of locations that can be shared with other people, and would be integrated with mapping software on your phone so it is easy to navigate to them.

Some private lists that may be useful:

a) A family one that keeps track of extended relatives, friends houses, soccer fields, etc

b) A small business that works at, delivers to, or services fixed locations.

Some public ones might be:

a) Places in this area that are related to US Civil War history.

b) Gas stations in this area that have a drive-thru (this sounds silly, but was actually where I got the idea - my sister has small children and it is a pain to get them out of the car and into a store to just pick up a few convenience items, so knowing where she can go that has a drive-thru is really handy)

2) Insomnia Tracker

An app/website to log things related to sleep (beverages consumed, medication taken, notable social situations, what time you try to go to sleep, what time you wake up, etc). Hopefully having it available on a phone will make it easier to keep track of things more fully than if you had to remember to write it down in a paper log, since you usually have your phone with you.

Then this data can be used to find trends such as how, say your coffee consumption affects your sleep, or maybe how stressful arguments at work are keeping you up at night.

I don't have anything up for either of them yet, and I'm not sure either could actually make enough to be more than a hobby, but they are both useful to me and kind of fun to build.
Quattroshapes: A Global Polygon Gazetteer from Foursquare
Your comment is the one that was disingenuous.

tedivm: blaming congress is an easy way out. Congress themselves have complained that the executive branch has been overstepping the boundaries it had set in secret.

you: really? evidence?

logn: here you go. Senators have repeatedly complained that the laws are being deliberately misinterpreted.

you: blargh! laws exist simultaneously in multiple forms, you can't possibly expect them to be applied exactly as they've been phrased!

There's a word for that: apologism. Why are you stooping to that? Stop defending those who don't deserve your efforts to defend them.

You're a highly reputable security expert and founder of a highly reputable security business. You have enormous credibility with the HN crowd and outside of it (hell, you're the top commenter on https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders by karma, by 70'000 points!). But with every one of these comments in which you defend these people for no reason other than wordplay you lose a little bit of that reputation, at least with me.
Check out this veritasium video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y - It goes into a little detail on how the kilogram got it's name, it is also very interesting in it's own right.
Thanks, Phil! Let's make sure to catch up between now and demo day. :)
To be fair the document is well presented and much easier to read than most other privacy statements I've seen. The pledge of privacy is succinct too: https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/privacy
I know!! Have you tried to get an apartment there recently? I swear, there'll be something like 50 couples standing in line to view a rickety, old, drafty, minuscule 1-bedroom, at a price that they can barely afford even if they are working for Google. It's INSANE.
The salt issue is something that's probably already been solved (couldn't find any information on it though). There are underwater science labs, medical rooms at sea, and probably tons of research into how to keep salt out of computers from the US Navy.
We're working on linux support.

- Inky caches your email on your computer and indexes it. We'll continue to improve the performance aspects of this.
- S/Mime and calendar support are on our to-do list.
- Inky lets you create per-account HTML signatures, and a default signature for the others.
http://www.createjs.com/
The issue wasn't with their implementation, it was with sending all our emails through a single company, and a company whose policies border on spam at that.
Read a comment the other day wondering about what if two(or more) programs did this. Would you end up with a chain of proxies between you and the mail server?

From the excellent Old New Thing blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/06/07/42629...
Huge deal, as this will most likely set the stage for a Supreme Court ruling that will define this generation's privacy rights.

The liberal justices voted as a bloc together in CLAPPER, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE,
ET AL. v. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA ET AL. to try to challenge the constitutionality of warrantless wiretaps, and I expect much the same from Kagan, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor in this case.

Of the conservative justices, Roberts, especially given his tendency to try to hit some home-run majority rulings for his legacy of being a "by-the-rules" arbitrator, and his pronouncement of privacy issues as being the paramount constitutional issue would be most likely to flip with the liberals. With that said, his previous defense and work on behalf of Bork, and his theory of a lack of privacy in the Constitution does leave a bad taste.

Justice Kennedy unfortunately cannot be counted on when it comes to privacy issues. His majority opinion on Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives enumerating that the government could violate the privacy rights of railway workers by subjecting them to drug tests due to a "special needs" exemption where the Fourth Amendment could be ignored if it was deemed to be in the overriding interest of public safety is the basis of the NSA's metadata collection program---see: http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/how-justice-...

He's still the second most likely to flip because Scalia, Alito, and Thomas are basically lost causes. Scalia basically called a general right to privacy in the Constitution rubbish, and it's unlikely either of the three will bend their ideological bent that the "national security agencies" know best.

The votes might be there. It probably hinges on Roberts. But significant positive changes to how the American government deals with privacy issues could happen. Again, the votes might be there, which is better than never discussing the issue at all (or discussing them in dark, dank courtrooms nobody hears about).

Cause for hope goes exponentially up if one of the conservative justices retires and is replaced by a young liberal justice attuned to technology much as Kagan is. If that happens, this likely scenario becomes a most likely scenario.

Wildcard: The Supreme Court actually doesn't know anything or very much at all about technology. They still pass paper briefs among each other instead of email...a strongly written amicus brief in this situation by technology-savvy leaders could well tip the balance.

http://rt.com/usa/supreme-court-kagan-email-758/
Twilio is the SMS/Voice provider so the bias doesn't really apply :) Thats why I kept the SMS/Voice rate the same as twilio. Not trying to make money of SMS/Voice just trying to implement a service over it so its easy to use. Have you tried out ezGAuth? Love to know what you think. I'll probably try to seek out someone from twilio soon for some sort of relationship since it helps their sales too.

There are also the added benefits of doing your 2FA independently. Furhter, should the long run come, we give you full read/delete perms on all the data so you can implement it yourself.
Anyone who knows me knows I don't advise feeling your way through problems.

However, when it comes to ethics, in the vast majority of cases, your gut judgement points in the right direction - at the very least in terms of deciding that there's something bad going on here that should be investigated further.

It is impossible to honestly look at the facts we currently have and declare that the current state of affairs is not seriously fucked up and needing a lot of attention, transparency, and probably purging.
Agreed. The third party to defend against is not only an intruder to LinkedIn, but LinkedIn itself.

If there are "misperceptions" about Intro, let us include LinkedIn's own misperception of how some of us view account security.
Notelab (http://notelab.org) - a way to take synced notes alongside web videos.

It's cool because:

* It's really simple (paste a YouTube URL then take notes and they all sync up).

* At the moment there's no good way to capture, organise, export and share notes relating to online videos. You have to open a text editor next to your browser window, or (gasp) write on paper.

* It solves a pain point I have when teaching, as I often recommend videos as "recommended viewing" to my students, and I like to share my notes on the videos with them, and also see what they are writing.

* It's my first coding project, so I'm learning a lot :-)
On a very off topic, how much do you have to pay for a four letter domain like yours and whats the process like. Did you use something like sedo/godaddy? I've always wondered how difficult is it to acquire one.
My reading of the article suggested to me that "perhaps the best education system in the world" is focussing on the wrong things.

The pressures of an ageing workforce and the demands for recognition elsewhere in the economy will force a correction at some point I suppose.
I don't think much of this was the issue – the issue was "do you trust LinkedIn with something so vital to your identity". I think it was assumed that the feature would be implemented technically competently.
Isn't this amendment unconstitutional? including the secret evidence act?
Hmmmm... not a mention of Graham Dumpleton, who seemed to be the force behind mod_python while I was using it (and mod_wsgi now). Maybe he took over when Grisha burned out?

Anyway, thank-you for your enormous contribution to Python on the web, Graham. And if it was his shoulders you stood on, my thanks to Grisha too.
Supplement to this device:
A 1-watt IR LED beacon that strobes a few times a second, and a fleet of small foam/electric flying wings that will track that beacon from 400 foot altitude at high speed (much cheaper to use CMOS sensors and a beacon than something FLIR could provide for engine heat).

The current arrangement is vulnerable on two fronts - GPS jammers, which could be extremely disruptive to modern society, and jammers on whatever frequency is used to transmit position (GPS itself is a passive receiver technology).
We already have a very good Python apache module in mod_wsgi, https://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/. It's pretty much the default for production Python web deployments.
Does interrogations mean torture? If so, they seem to do just fine with the facilities they have, so why make a floating prison?
I'm seeing a retina favicon on my retina MBP in Chrome.
Video does not exist

Uh oh...
Construct 2 https://www.scirra.com/construct2
Boost.Compute (https://github.com/kylelutz/compute) - A C++ GPU Computing Library for OpenCL

It's cool because it offers C++ developers an easy path to running code on GPUs and multi-core CPUs via an STL-like API. It's similar to NVIDIA's Thrust library but supports all OpenCL compatible devices (including AMD GPUs and Intel CPUs/accelerators).

Documentation is here: http://kylelutz.github.io/compute/

P.S. It's still under active development and we're looking for more contributors with an interest in parallel computing and C++. Send me an e-mail if you're interested!
They do, but sovereign debt in the USA is mitigated by automatic stabilizers in progressive taxes. On the other hand, the structural problems come from the increased ability for multinational corporations (like Amazon) with small margins to disrupt the comparative advantage of LOCAL businesses and thus lower demand for a lot of local human labor. All the working conditions we've been legilating for in the past 100-200 years make our population more expensive to hire, and when you are now able to hire people in areas with a lower cost of living, or automate the jobs, the problems are systemic.

If you reqd Stiglitz, he points out how before the great depression 20% of Americans worked in farm related jobs. After -- 2%. Notice the similarity with manyfacturing? This time it's taken longer but it's steadily eroding demand for local labor. Programmers arent hit by this economic phenomenon yet, because we program the machines that "disrupt" industries.
A bookmarking tool that tracks progress of webpages/videos

I've been using this app to bookmark all my webpages: http://alittleapp.com/

It is especially helpful for unfinished long articles and long videos, which I have to come back for. What makes ALittle unique is, it actually saves the play progress of the video (in the case of articles, it saves the scroll position), so that next time you can come back to the exact same spot. No more writing down the time manually. No more time spent trying to remember the spot you left off at.

ALittle makes this possible with a Chrome extension. It adds a cute little button next to your browser's address bar. With just one click, you can save the progress of any webpages. Furthermore, the progress can be synced across computers, as long as you have Chrome browsers.
Wikipedia pilots articles-via-SMS service
It's not stupid. High salaried people in NYC often locate their families in the suburbs in CT and NJ, which are safer and more livable. The commute is just a function of where they determine the salary/lifestyle tradeoff is even. Some people just place a higher utility on their family's lifestyle than their own time.
OT, but you should've at least mentioned the name of the chair rather than hiding it behind a cloaked link. Some people do not like to click on referral links, even when disclosed.
Where do you go to compare health care costs?
Where do you go to compare health care costs? I bet you'd spending several days researching the cost of a new car or TV, why not health care services? Why can't you compare costs for heart surgery or knee replacement?

We have a startup idea to crowd source health care costs and if needed, included doctor and hospital ratings and reviews. Please help us out and complete out survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CDN7W2D
In my experience, I've found that a much quicker test of ethics is using the incredibly powerful subconscious tool that we have evolved with (called our brain)

I'm a little shocked to hear such a remark coming from you. You've historically been thoughtful. I can understand if you're just having a bad day, but there's nothing that could possibly be gained by talking down to someone like that.

which allows us to make pretty quick decisions about issues of right and wrong

Also, this second half is just nonsense. If you believe you're thinking for yourself, but your decisions about ethics are always quick, then you probably aren't. You're probably letting society's moral fashions determine your belief system for you.
Fixing Carbon in Venus's Atmosphere
The thing that you're working on falls within the area of 'truly relevant and important [to our times, etc.] software', IMO. Very nice and interesting indeed.

I didn't notice any mention of an adversary model, do you have one? (cf. e.g. http://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/27/how-does-tors-thre...)

How transport-agnostic is the system aiming to be? Could it be used in combination with Tor/I2P/etc. (as an underlying transport/anonymization mechanism)? (cf. http://syndie.de/)

Overall, this is very interesting indeed.
I just moved to London, less than a month ago.

I decided that I was willing to pay a premium for my <25 minute commute to work (close to Tottenham Court Road). And as long as other people think the same, rent will go up. Pretty standard supply and demand. Everyone works in the center, and nobody likes to waste 2 hours of their day hopping trains and buses.

So this is what you get, take it or leave it, I guess...
I don't see this as being practical anyway. Once word gets out that the police are doing this, you only have to listen for the THUMP of the tracker hitting your car, wait for the police to fall back, pull over, and either pull it off or attach it to another nearby car.
"We've temporarily disabled our app for Facebook. All previous Buffer posts on FB are hidden for now. We'll update again soon. - Carolyn"

Source: https://twitter.com/buffer/status/394182270522646529
>"I have two brothers in the highway patrol and they believe that it's imperative that they chase anyone trying to get away, in order to make sure that anyone in the future knows that they can't run from the police, despite the risks of collateral damage to innocent people."

In my experience (I've worked and lived with local, federal and state cops), this idea what law enforcement is one huge slippery slope that leads directly from status quo to anarchy is a popular one.

It's silly.

>"On the other hand, high speed chases frequently end up causing car accidents with innocent people, sometimes fatally."

If high speed chases only came about in direct response to violent offenses this seeming trade off would be easier to understand.

When they escalate from traffic stops it's recklessness.

>"The question becomes, is there a way to still capture the person trying to escape police without putting innocent people in harms way?"

It would be nice if we had some data on arrests after non-chases, but it's going to be hard to gather as long as the guys in the cruisers insist there's no other option.
Why not talk to Apple or Google and make this a reality in some other way?

Surely it can't be hard for a company like LinkedIn, about as important as Facebook, to ask Apple or Google to provide some way of hooking into a third party application or well documented API?

It might take longer and be a bit more complicated but it must be a better way to go about this than MITM.
That's twice I've hit the flag button this week, I think that's a new record.

The debate isn't new, and this blog post doesn't say anything that hundreds/thousands of other blog posts haven't already discussed. HN itself has had its regular round-table on open-plan offices for eons now. The only difference here is that this blog post descends into ad hominem right in the subject line.

I've worked in a terrible open plan space, I've also worked in a remarkably productive one. I've seen some of the horrible ways it can fail, I've also seem some of the ways it can be great.

The debate is worth having, but not if it's "everyone who doesn't agree with me is a blithering idiot".
Buffer is handling this exceptionally well; I'm impressed and it isn't easy. We've caught bugs that lead to this sort of exploitation in the past, so if anyone from Buffer is reading this: we're happy to help you out and offer a few free months of website security scanning while you figure out exactly what happened. Just email me at borski@tinfoilsecurity.com
I'd revoke access to the app on Twitter also, and reauthorize it back when its fixed. http://mypermissions.org/
Those were not really tattered in the same sense though were they? I am aware of the response early air strikes caused, but even then there were usually (always?) between countries that were at war. The number of drone strike that occur in countries that there is no war with is disturbingly high, and the civilian death rate is classified. How can anyone justify the program when the so called collateral damage isn't allowed to be discussed? Its hard to call the program moral when we don't understand the damage it is doing.
>switching email providers

I kind of agree with you here. Especially if it's tied to your identification personally. If you have an X@gmail.com or Y@yahoo.com then you're essentially at their mercy. But if you just buy a domain for 10 bucks a year, you can go to your registrar's page and forward mails from catchalls @FNLN.com to your secret X@gmail.com. If you don't like them, download it to outlook and move on to Y@yahoo.com and change the setting at your host record page. That is literally it. Your cost here to switch is the time it takes to download messages to your computer and close the account, sign up for a new account and redirect your alias to the new account. I would ideally automate step 1 as soon as I have opened an account.

You are not 'locked-in' to one provider as your custom domain name becomes an abstraction between your identity to the real world and your storage space/identity to servers. You can change the latter without changing the former. Of course, if you were early enough you could've snagged a Google Apps account, or if you're just entering the scene, you can get a Live Domains account. The only down side is that they don't have catch-alls, so you can have an on the fly email address like hn@FNLN.com for signing up at different websites.
Agreed. At the same time though, it's annoying to have to categorize every change. I think it would be better to maybe split the service between blog writers / screen writers / novel writers, since each would have their own preference. I think novelists would prefer having a versioning system for broad changes rather than tiny ones.. And not have to categorize them.
Superb demo video and product. Your MVP is solid, business proposition is strong, and UI is terrific. You've got a home run on your hands.
My only guess would be cost. Any idea how much are the savings of open space office vs. private office?
kind of realized on review that my OP was pretty dull. :)

I'm going on my own. I have a friend who has been there for three years, and I was there briefly in the spring to sort of get a feel for things. Initially I will be working with computers at a few existing sites.

Basically, there's this really common phenomenon where western donors will give things like computers or e-readers to a school or other worthy organization in a country like zambia, but will not be prepared to do the sort of sustained support work involved in actually seeing that those resources work. My sort of general idea is to try to make use of those resources that are now mostly sitting unused.

I guess my go-to anecdote was a visit I made last year to a computer lab that had been set up and funded by the british council[0]. They'd done a really considered job, involving creating a full-time support/sysadmin position at the school, sending that person to nairobi for special training seminars, and just generally working pretty hard to avoid the kinds of pitfalls I'd seen in other places. When I visited the room, two of the ten computers (the only ten computers with internet access in basically a public school board serving 300k kids) were in use, and they were in use by teachers. The admin, whose job is keeping a computer lab running, had never heard of wikipedia. Etcetera.

So I'm going to go live there for five months, bring some freelance work (I do iOS stuff, a bit) and see if I can't show some kids some of the neat things they can do with computers.

0: http://www.britishcouncil.org/

edit: their/there =[
you know. That little endian big endian story was meant to be a warning, not a guide.

Zero works. One works. Zero works too.
> Currently working on an open source implementation of Minecraft

Nice.

Are you aiming to implement a thread-safe plugin API, perchance? The current problem with bukkit (and with vanilla minecraft server, of course) afaik is that whenever a plugin needs access to global state, it uses an API that does not do any locks of any sort; which means that usually, whenever one needs to e.g. write to global state, one dumps these critical parts onto the main thread. Solving this is nontrivial but rather important, I think.
but have you ever worked in a terrible private office set up?
military drones, a projection of American power that won’t risk American lives.

Yet burning some Muslim books places Americans at risk?

I'd say that the collateral damage caused by "Signature Strikes" is as an effective terrorist recruiting agent as is burning some old religious books.