skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This assumes the thief is techy enough to know that Knock To Unlock is installed, and then know how to use it. Granted, it's not a great situation to be in having your stuff stolen, but thieves doing rip-n-runs aren't typically high tech users.
If Google is able to get browsers provide the UX capability same as or even better than Androd/iOS does, things will be different. I'm a layman of web development. But I think this is something worth noticing. The current UX capability in browsers is definitely not a strong point compared with native apps. Google's strategy seems to take territories of internet through browsers. In the mid/long term, making the gap between web app and native app smaller or close to zero in different aspects(such as UX, product development) will probably be one of its high level focuses.
Sadly it came up after I had already shifted to Python so I lack the experience to talk credibly about Clojure.
one question - does this use the real Mac login screen or some less-secure alternative? a lot of similar apps I've seen used the latter which is a dealbreaker from a security POV, & it would be great if Knock differs in this respect
I work at Google and on Dart, and I have worked with the Angular team on their Dart port. This is not part of any strategy to push Dart. This port exists because teams at Google want to use both Angular and Dart, and the Angular team decided to make it happen.
Not sure of the others, but Dune 2 certainly didn't spontaneously big bang in a vacuum either, it was built on earlier iterations of similar games most notable being Herzog Zwei,whose english translation curiously enough is just 2 letters forward on a single letter, it translates as "Duke 2"

that said, played the shit out of dune 2, what a game!
He is asking how you plan to differentiate when it is ok for the query to be in the url (perhaps it is checked and validated with a regex on the server so it cant be abused) or when its actually capable of doing something malicious the maintainer is not aware of.
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No, I think it's this one http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/c/coffee.txt
sad to hear this, great product. in a perverse way it was also nice to see an article & responses from the team that dodged the usual Valley bullshit.
A JS engine for sequencing HTML5 demos
A simple sequencer written in javascript.

As a sequencer, what it primarily does is to convert the current ms into ticks and beats. You can register scenes that goes from a beat to an other beat.

Basically, you could use it as:
- a demo engine
- a possible starting block for your own visually editable sequencer

The idea came to me when I was thinking about a way to make javascript demos where visuals and sounds are processed through the same engine, to provide a purely synchronized experience between both worlds (remove the "art" from what I've just said).

Then I thought about using a "beat" as the main unit (instead of ms), ticks and bangs for "new beat/tick" for synchronizing effects to the music, or SFX to the visuals... because there's nothing more boring than adjusting your syncs on ms values, or to rely on your player to give the right informations to the visual; Here, everything should be tied together.

In hope some may find any use to this or even want to start anew, following the same main concept.
Also interested in helping out.
/mobile.html is 404.
"backed by Michael Arrington" - what more reason could you want?
definitely an interesting site. looks a little like rebel mouse but for tech in general.

What are your plans with it?
Nothing says you couldn't do that with a zip file.
You have a right to be revolted by peoples' revulsion, which you are presently executing quite well.

I don't have a problem with that, I just think you're loudly complaining about how loud everyone is. ;)
Thanks for the link. We'll check it out and see if there's anything in there we weren't already trying. The note about preregistering each server using plink before trying to connect to it using the hg client isn't one I remember seeing previously; maybe that explains the mystery delays/authorisation problems we've observed.

I don't think your proposal to use SVN instead is very helpful, though. We run a very heterogeneous network, working on a lot of different projects. "Just change your entire development platform" isn't exactly a constructive suggestion. We also routinely use Git on other projects, and we've never had any trouble setting up shared repositories in those cases. While it does rely on installing some UNIXy tools, and that is indeed more hassle than it needs to be, everything pretty much works once you've done that. Moving everyone onto real Linux workstations is a non-starter, because there are way too many professional software packages we use on Windows without anything in the same class available on Linux.
it's a real shame Disrupt carries any weight. the awful hype is one thing, but the fact that it screws over genuinely promising companies due to its grotesquely corrupt nature is a real problem
Everyone who is interested in this subject I recommend the book(s) from Jean Ziegler. He is a former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
careful! comments like this might get you disappeared by the YC positivity-maintenance crew
Soft Layer seems to be as expensive as EC2, if not more expensive, especially when compared to reserved instances.

The 244gb cr1.8xlarge (16 cpus, 240gb ssd) amortized over 3 years costs $659 / month. Softlayer would charge quite a bit more for similar specs ( order of magnitude more).
What walled garden, could you elaborate?

Dart is an open-source project and compiles to JS. Not unlike CoffeeScript or TypeScript. The cool thing that makes me excited about dart2js is that Dart is a much better language than JS itself (not a high bar, but still) and that dart2js as of late is producing more efficient code than hand-coded JS because they leverage Dart's more ubiquitous typing as well as other tricks.
> The worst that happens in reality is you have to wait a couple extra months for someone to release a new build of something you depend on (or heaven forbid, clone the source and build it yourself).

Sure, if the package is activly maintained and/or open-source, this is true. That is not always the case though, and in my experience it usually isn't in the enterprise space.
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Awesome! Would love to feature yours too:

https://webmenu.org/promote
That's the way debian works, to make sure changes are thoroughly tested. It probably doesn't work for gnome 3, as it gets gradually more usable over the years.

Speaking of gnome in debian, I have managed to make gnome 3 tolerable with a couple of changes, one to disable the global mac-style menu, and an extension to completely hide the top and bottom bars, called "Panel Settings".

One thing I quite like is the speed at which I can launch apps with gnome 3 and an ssd, with the first few letters of an apps name.

Although I have just noticed my gedit preferences menu item has disappeared, because the gnome menu that comes up next to 'activities' isn't visible when I hide the panel... Maybe it is time to check out xcfe again, or more likely, tweak my gnome config further to disable that menu placement as well. I'm attached to gnome, I think, because it does things like powering down external drives via the "file manager", (whatever thats called now), which xcfe didn't do when I tried it last year.
One time I hacked chromium to skip the socket and send the HTTP directly to the embedded python wsgi app. In the end we couldn't use it because we needed some 64 bit only code running behind the wsgi and chromium only builds 32 bit on windows. Not that it would really be ideal either. Your app is too easily confused for a legit chromium window.
E-commerce doesn't rely on Javascript cryptography.

You generally don't trust code updates, which is one reason you do them infrequently; every time you update code there's an opportunity for someone who has corrupted the update process to take over your machine.

A Javascript application might need to update itself several times per second across a single execution of itself.
dart2js generates source maps
Google can have Dart if Microsoft can have VBScript back.

j/k. I doubt even Microsoft would want to bring that abomination back.

Or would they??
Cool. I didn't know Bezos worked for DE Shaw. Their research into how we schedule molecular dynamics simulations to gain the maximum information from limited compute resources is going to revolutionize experimental design in the engineering world. http://www.deshawresearch.com/publications.html
That's some great piece of advise.
And here's the thread taking that post apart:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6637915
Perhaps the analyst was wrong...

All this smells like the powers that be have had enough of this new fangled technology. Time to shut it down.
"Disk is cheap"
Which leads to another problem, that "hipster" has more or less lost all meaning. So perhaps another parallel should be drawn.
One of the biggest myth about getting an MBA is that you learn anything at all.

The two primary motivations for getting an MBA are completely unrelated to obtaining an "education":

1. Career transformation (i.e. you're a marketer that wants to go into banking.. basically impossible to get interviews without going to bschool)

2. Obtain a professional network

"Learning" is really a tertiary priority.
Rob Ford's office hired a hacker to destroy the crack tape
Sure, they crash (or do something funny) a lot of time, but that's the problem with these ActiveX controls. If you buy anything from a Korean site you end up with an unknown number of plugins downloaded from everywhere, so how do we know if it's a bug in some plugin, a plugin already infected with virus, or just some malware you downloaded accidentally? (The last one, because you have to hit "OK" all the time: actually recent versions of Windows is being quite reasonable and wants to warn you when you install binaries from random websites, but this is exactly what Koreans are asked to do every day, so Korean bank websites contain these helpful pages showing how to lower Windows' "security level" and override the warnings.)
The blog post and question is somewhat inflammatory (no wonder it gets upvoted so readily). Scala has been in category "adopt" in Thoughtworks Radar for a while now.

http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

It's not only Enterprise ready, but is in production in a large number of enterprises in many different sectors.
There's still a lot of work to be done on code size when using reflection, and teams at Google are definitely interested in incremental updates to cached apps, so that will be worked on too. It's still very early in Dart's lifetime.
Sounds like manufacturing obligation to me. I would be suspicious and slightly insulted.
As a scientist I think you are addressing a very important problem with this book. I've taken two statistics classes, one graduate level, and even I am plagued with doubt as to wether the statistics I've used have all been applied and interpreted "correctly". That said, I think the recent spate of "a majority of science publications are wrong" stories is incredible hyperbole. Is it the raw data that is wrong (fabricated)? The main conclusions? One or two minor side points? What if the broad strokes are right but the statistics are sloppy?

People also need to realize what while the Discussion and Conclusion section of publications may often read like statements of truth, they're usually just a huge lump of spinoff hypotheses in prose form. Despite my frequent frustrations with the ways science could be better, the overall arrow of progress points in the right direction. Science isn't a process where the goal is to ensure that 100% of what gets published is correct, but whereby previous assertions can be refuted and corrected.

Edit:

To be more specific, I think the statement in your Introduction is overly critical: "The problem isn’t fraud but poor statistical education – poor enough that some scientists conclude that most published research findings are probably false". I would change it to say: "conclude that most published research findings contain (significant) errors", or something along those lines.
Where did you buy your dedicated servers ?
Free would be nice - but it's open that's the key (and if you have open, somebody will make a free version anyhow)
I don't understand. When you run Pine from an SSH session, the mail you send is still being sent in plaintext over SMTP.
Fuck it, Doodle, let's go bowling.
Google needs to update their database then: https://www.google.com/search?q=etymology+dude
Even simply as a role, it doesn't even make sense in a dinky company. Chief technology officer? Does the company even have other people in that branch, or are you de-facto "chief" because you are the only one?
Does an MBA inoculate someone from making these judgment errors? If so, I personally know multiple MBA-holders who've made similar errors who should be informed that they deserve their money back or something.

An MBA inoculates somebody from making poor decisions just as much as anybody having expertise in any specific field. As you would agree, nobody is beyond making a poor decision.

Let's also be clear than an MBA is a broadly defined credential, as there are a host of specializations (including Human Resources management, Marketing, Finance, etc) that are often bundled within the "degree". However, from what was described in the Everpix case, I am confident that somebody with the right mix of educational training in early-stage venture management (MBA w/entrepreneurship concentration) and smarts could have added value.
I agree with both of these replies. Lotus Notes was an interesting beast to learn about, back in the day. I suppose it's always been a problem to solve, though: We're not suggesting that before the WWW, there were no online-only services either. But graphical web browsers changed people's expectations. An offline only app that runs in a web browser... has about the same impact, for both the technology architecture and expectations. I look forward to this future and what new frameworks/"cloud" evolve, and I'll have to investigate more in this personally. :)
Well sure!

To be honest, the only reason I stopped using CDs is that for the past several years my computers haven't had optical drives (netbooks, now a chromebook). Otherwise I tend to be rather resistant to change.
Having done a decent bit of testing using Selenium, especially with splinter[1], this is quite a fantastic design pattern. Thanks for posting, I'm going to give it a go.

[1] http://splinter.cobrateam.info
Good point. Does the world champion also have to play through the rounds up to the final match? That could help, having to go through the round of 8/16, so the championship match doesn't end up being the best vs someone who was the best a while ago. Then it'd always be a fun match between the two top. Not to mention drawing to keep your title doesn't seem fun
It makes things a little easier; you can have payments managed by airbnb, bookings, and support
Nobody's shutting anything down. It's just a price adjustment reflecting new information which has lowered expectations.
Fantastic - that's exactly the info I've been looking for. Thanks.
the other aspect is that despite the whole reason for Lavabit's popularity in recent years being NSA stuff etc, their site freely admitted that they couldn't refuse to fulfil legal government data requests, but that users shouldn't be worried because that would only apply in the case of criminal behavior. which bizarrely, is the same justification many NSA-overreach supports use: "if you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about."...

also, I always found it slightly dishonest that the free tier they used to provide featured no special encryption, given that their stated reason for existence is to provide secure communication
So what you're saying is I should make a startup to provide aggregated hotel tax and HOA/local jurisdiction information over JSON based on physical address.

Y Combinator here I come! /s
I see the author of this interesting site is active in this thread. You may already know about this, but for onlookers I will mention that Uri Simonsohn and his colleagues

http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~uws/

have published a lot of interesting papers advising psychology researchers how to avoid statistical errors (and also how to detect statistical errors, up to and including fraud, by using statistical techniques on published data).
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Actually, that's not naive at all. If you don't mind working on multiple projects throughout a year, you're welcome to create a profile on https://Scoutzie.com and you could work with any number of clients you want.

The beauty, you can quite literally work from home in your underwear, at whatever hours you choose. As long as you make it clear to the clients how you work on the projects, you get all the flexibility you want.

I understand that won't give you a 100% security of having a full-time job, but part-time you could actually make more money than if you were to take on a full-time gig. The harder you work, the more money you make, it's that simple.
Thanks for the offer of help, but we're OK with the web server side of things. I was just suggesting that one possible reason for Git's popularity compared to Hg's is that it isn't a walk in the park to set up a common repo for a team with Hg. If you've got someone who's familiar with setting up a web server anyway, you'll be OK, but with Git you don't need to do anything like that at all.
can they preload http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGStrom?
This is illegal in many parts of North America and the world, and certainly against nearly all rental contracts...

With news like this getting out with increasing regularity, I don't think it's going to last long...
Even so, how many people would implement their "private Lavabit" on AWS or Linode, utterly defeating the purpose?
_Your dark troll side has spoken_. I'm not even sure that that's technically correct, it's probably not possible to get the same kernel by compiling Darwin. I would be surprised if Apple kept pushing new feature into the open source kernel.
Truth is, there aren't as many people like you and me who would pay $20 a month to Everpix. So many people are just not worried about their data until something bad happens to them.

I kept telling every single friend every time I see them post data loss grief status update on Facebook - use Dropbox, use CrashPlan, use iCloud, etc etc. And yet it seems like they either think that their data is not worth $5 a month, or that once accident happens to them it can't happen for the second time.

What the world really needs is an education of how important it is to backup our data.
Speaking as a member of Generation X, having a computer and getting on the Internet early made ownership of a car far less interesting. I did have a motorcycle for a while and occasionally I find myself thinking about a car, but it's an awful lot of money for something I don't really enjoy using.
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Actually everything says you can't do that with a zip. Custom background images and layouts are folder properties not supported by a zipped directory (or really any directory that isn't a DMG's top-level dir)
Do you believe the old mozilla suite had more code than FF does today?

Complexity isn't easy, but it's not that black and white. Just because the first time round it didn't work out so well doesn't mean it won't this time; especially since the circumstances are so very different.

In any case, things like personas are supported, but most of the complexity isn't in the browser; new functionality doesn't need to be tightly coupled to the browser - just exposed.

I actually think the problem isn't so much on the software side, it's organizational: trying to do too many things at once means making sacrifices.
I bet a lot of people here, myself included, learned about Everpix through DF.
A brilliant idea, beautifully executed.
If you have ssh access to the machine, then you can push or pull from a repo in that machine. It is that simple.

Unfortunately, as I've been discussing with others elsewhere in this thread, it's not really that simple at all in some cases. I'm typing this on a Windows machine that has Hg installed, and I routinely SSH from this machine into various Linux servers that also have Hg installed, yet for reasons we've yet to determine, trying to access any sort of ssh:// repo using the hg command line client fails.
Can you add a feature to get your password hash and hint sent to your email?
If he is serious about actually working and making a living, oDesk is not the right place to work. I wrote about it a few days ago - https://medium.com/startup-shenanigans/66896bbf21da - cheap labor and sup-par clients, yeah, oDesk is definitely not the place.
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Yeah, it said "Younger developer" but they presumably read this thread and changed it.
What's the bad news they're getting out before somebody else outs it?
As an employer who sometimes work with part-time developer, it's just hard to find projects that fit in this kind of schedule. Unless you're in a different time zone, there's little opportunities to meet and coordinate (I like to spend time with my family in the evenings :-/ ) and progress is inevitably slow. For a freelance gig I'd be open to it, (or as a temporary solution to test the water before going full time), but not as a long term solution.
I'm not a professional developer but I would be very interested even in low-salary junior developer job in Ruby. But most jobs posting I see require excellent knowledge of virtually every technology out there.

I wonder how many developers are excellent at:

* UNIX admin (setting up sql + nginx + unicorn on BSD/Linux)
Rails/JS/CSS3/HTML5
* TDD
* Excellent Closure and/or Scala
* Virtualisatin/scaling/concurrency (put another dozens of varying subjects here... and you're spot on).

I mean, I do linux/unix setup/admin writing firewall rules, setting services for FUN at home since 2000 and there's nothing I can't do given a little bit of time some documentation and a guy to ask a few questions if I get into serious trouble.

But saying I or everyone else is a master in all these things, seriously?

My gut tells me that most companies want the miracle-man or don't know what they are looking for. Hope I'm wrong.
I am another very, very satisfied Everpix user who is sad to see them go. They did such a perfect job of increasing visibility on old photos and I've been sharing pictures like I never did with Facebook or any other social network. Such a shame.

I'm Currently looking at loom.com as a replacement, though they don't have the same cool Flashback feature that I loved.
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